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Public transit is politically toxic in the US, in part because the middle and upper classes view it as "handouts to the poor" and don't want to use transit services with poor/homeless people on them, because "they smell" or are loud or what have you (to be fair, public transit can get pretty loud and smelly). These are problems that can be solved with sufficient funding and infrastructure, but instead US public transit services cut service coverage, remove benches from stops, raise ticket prices, and fail to do necessary maintenance.

Plus in most areas NIMBYs also block expansion. When I was in my teens attending community college back home, it was regularly discussed how there was work ongoing to expand our local public transit rail so it would reach the campus. At the time it was 3 hours on the bus (w/transfers) to reach campus so I had to get a ride or drive myself (~20 mins) to get there. ~10 years later the expansion still hadn't happened because people were fighting hard to block it.
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Reminds me of the Expert Beginner: How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-th...
We could even have planes flying fully autonomous. And that is airliners. Still we don't for relatively rare cases.

Actually I'm most doubtful about ships being autonomous. As they have big and complex machinery inside, with higher maintenance burden than any other type of transport. You can check plane after each flight and risk scenarios for cars and trains are not that critical. Send an other unit to pick broken one down. But ships spend weeks on seas, and everyone should work automatically? Seems bit dubious
> (actually, the difference is that they inflicted it on other countries)
No difference there. Soviet communism was all about exportation.
do you mean 'the subscription model' where giant profit-seeking firms retain full ownership of tech, and who can therefore jack up the price of 'service'/usage at any time?

yeah fuck that. i live in an apartment block where i pay €3 for every wash. that's a fucking ripoff.

the solution is modular open source hardware and software.

seriously, why are you so people to give up all their power?

we need to start thinking outside the boundaries of the capitalist profit-motive.

to see the devastating impacts of planned obsolescence (e.g. the disgusting amount of e-waste shipped to African countries) and then think we should give more power to corporations is a bit of a mindfuck to me.

> Stripped of the class jargon

easy to frame or dismiss something as jargon if you're benefitting from the status quo, eh?
Or OP might have been considering the theory that "Fascism is Colonialism turned inward" and the impacts of that that the Dutch themselves later felt.
Good thing that Giuseppe Colombo wasn't a politician!
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Swings, maybe. There's room for forecasting at larger or smaller intervals, even if swings are unforecastable. That said, I don't think most big financial events are
black swan events in some sense but not others.

Financial black swans don't tend to be random, real world events. We're living through a major real world event now, and the financial markets haven't collapse... though a lot of weird stuff is happening. The 2008 crisis and many others had not real world. Real world links were gradual and fairly financial in nature, an accumulation of debt/risk/leverage/lies/fragility or whatnot over time.

These are more like bugs, design flaws or fail conditions, IMO.

From a financial analyst's perspective they're "black swans" because they are events with a >0% likelihood that (by definition) are not priced into security prices or financial systems.

From a forecasting model POV... who knows.

In any case, forecasting the future of the economy is probably very very hard. If it's possible, it probably has epic sci-fi level consequences.
Thanks.

Note that share of handsets carried by consumers is very different from total and share of wallet spent on platform in U.K. too.

Put another way, when iOS was carried by 20% of consumers, it accounted for 80% of mobile app spend. As a paid app dev, the second number is important. As an ad-ware app dev, the first number matters more. For advertising conversions… it depends.
> I believe what you’re doing is describing something that might be considered an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively…

Yes, it might be seen as combative since it amounts to saying "you guys seem to be clueless". When proven in experiments, it means that the combativeness was justified.

Imo, the language in this quote is almost unacceptable. It's a roundabout way of saying "stand back little peon, you are not important enough to be thinking about problems that concern us."

It's inevitable that when people overestimate their competence and judgement, the moment when humility is forced on them is experienced as painful. Adjust prejudices and move on.
I once had to explain to a Mexican why Speedy Gonzales can't be shown on American TV anymore. He was aghast that his beloved character had to be censored out of existence.
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It's probably not the incentive for most billionaires, but there are stuffs that legitimately cost billions. Creating your own space company, wanting to invest in research like nuclear fusion or vaccines, owning a sport team, influencing politics, ...

It's certainly arguable whether this is good or not, but I can see the appeal for a rich football fan to buy his own team and the best players and play fantasy football, but in real life. I am sure a lot of people here, if given billions, would try to tackle their own pet issue. Having billions available makes having a noticeable impact on the world much easier, if that's what you want to do, you need billions.

> What is the point of having 10 super cars or a 100 room mansion?

What's the point of having 10 pairs of shoes? You could say that some are better in some specific circumstances, but you probably don't really need all of them. How many people here have a 64-core CPU that is almost never fully used? Or people that have an offroad vehicle that will never see dirt? Your examples are the same behaviour, just at a different scale.
I find the opposite; YouTube is on a constant mission to pull me into the world of right-wing videos with angry titles and antivax propaganda.

If you browse YouTube with cookies disabled or within a cookie fence, you can see that such manipulation is the default behavior. For a significant percentage of videos, the very first set of suggestions is manipulative. For the others, perhaps the first set of suggestions is not problematic but the suggestions for those videos are where the manipulation starts.

It's nice that you found a way out of it but I'm guessing that's rare.
Well one thing's for sure: the original AmigaOS UI theme in 3.2 has aged a lot better than the 4.1 neo-chrome theme which makes it look like a late-90's Linux distro (don't know though if 4.2 is themable, or whether this look is hardwired).
The crazy thing is that unlike a weather forecast, if people start to trust your economic forecast, then their actions will likely throw it off again, so your new forecast then needs to include the reactions to the first forecast (and other forecasts) and so on, sorta like solving coupled differential equations (or the plot of Dune, with "levels" of prescience). Hopefully you'll get some fix point at the end, e.g. via a Nash equilibrium, where a new forecast doesn't change anybody's reaction any more.
We certainly do here in Australia. I ordered an item from a store less than 10km from my house and it's taken over two weeks to arrive.
> 'KineticLensman', is this of the directed energetic chemical decomposition variety?

Ha!

Actually, since you ask, the ICD delivers enough energy to launch a tomato 40m into the air (assuming I have done my unit conversions correctly, and ignoring the effects of air resistance).
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This resonates heavily with me. It's an intuitively interesting idea. I do have one issue though (emphasis mine):

"a living system maintaining both a higher level of internal cooperation and a lower level of internal conflict than either its components or any larger systems of which it is a component."

So say there exists some form of higher-level individual that where we can be considered as components. Does its existence suddenly revoke our individual-ness? I don't see why that should be, why it has to be exclusive. The flatworm and the neoblasts can be individuals at the same time.

...But then the definition is meaningless. It'd be great to make it weaker without breaking it, so to say
I am doubtful about the refreshrate. I have been using their readers since ever. The Nova, Max1, Max2, Note pro, etc have all been advertised to do this either by HDMI or wlan connectivity, but they all suffer from issues with keeping up with typing or terribly ghosted. I have been looking at this on taobao for some time, but so far mild positive response. Holding off for now.
Golang is a good alternative and it doesn't need docker as it's statically linked.
Facebook are spending a lot of money on engineering around this (they call it Community Integrity I think) to try and figure some of these problems out. Not sure how well it's going, but they're certainly spending lots of money.
> But most people prefer to sit in their own cabin

Public transport can come in very different forms. If there's demand, PT operators can build private compartments, seats with increased comfort, etc.
Looks like they fixed the mistake, and improved the description a lot.

The description could still be improved, and I started commenting on how it could, but I realize this would warrant its own blog post.
> Why should the nose work different?

why would it?

AFAIK a lot of proteins are specialised wrt the many bio-chemical reactions of the body.
Exactly , in this case it’s like the Tower of Babel except you’re not addressing why the people started building a tower in the first place . Eventually , once they get their shit together, another tower will be built.
imho the only way it would be beneficial is something like:

- personal cars are banned (at least from cities)

- infrastructures are completely redesigned for autonomous vehicles

- governments create fleets of public transportation autonomous vehicles you can summon at any point (from 1 seat vehicle to bigger vans)

I don't believe in the cohabitation between autonomous and human driven cars on the existing infrastructure
> If "usually" PRs result in code style or architecture discussions, I'd suggest you have a team problem, not a process one. Start with the humans.

+1

> Not mentioned is one of the other big benefits of PRs (which applies no matter if you pair or are a solo project): it enforces some good discipline.

I found that pairing and frequent rotations result in a much more uniform adoption of good coding practices, following working agreements, etc... It just happens much more frictionlessly since people learn faster by doing. Again, frequent rotations and ensuring that people mix as much as possible is key. (one company I worked for adopted a so called "promiscuity table" to keep track of that)

Also, to quote someone more experienced than me "I've never seen a +300LOC PR that didn't look good!"
There's a tipping point in population density where current modes of public transportation are not the appropriate solution. Buses, trains, subways and even cabs barely work in most suburbs and don't work at all outside of that.

Autonomous vehicles would provide a mechanism to extend the range of these services by reducing the costs of dwell time between rides and deadheading for pickups.
They aren't storm troopers on the death star; that's just silly. IF THEY'RE DEMONS IN HELL THEN THEY WON'T CHANGE SATAN'S MIND!

Come on.
HGV driving for long periods demands machine-like levels of concentration and wages for truck drivers in a post-Brexit economic environment have risen to over £50,000. I wouldn't call that a non-existent problem - of course the costs get passed on from the merchants and then to the consumer.

The concept of new technology eroding the job market isn't new either. Unemployment levels in the UK are so significantly low currently, you would not seriously suggest that the introduction of factories or computers had permanently eliminated the requirement for human labour on a massive scale. Why would autonomous vehicles pose a more serious threat?
"Three body problem" let's hope the residents of this planet arn't trying to take over earth
Indeed, the whole article is worthless and designed to elevate its author who presumably has all of these "communication skills" and a reasonably good looking picture.

He might even get hired because managers love this kind of incoherent drivel. He is still wrong though.
Your Mac has the more expensive Thunderbolt; Thunderbolt capablities go beyond USB-C.

For computers with USB-C only the situation is more complicated.
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whoa! that's a kick to the ticker.
Facebook was actually pretty good when it just showed me my friends posts and nothing else. But when they moved to their 'timeline' and started fiddling with algorithms that try to decide what I want to see, they got it all wrong and it became a chore to wade through it all.

I don't understand how they think an algorithm can decide better what I want to see than me myself (by adding friend and blocking the ones that irritate me). In the end they lost me as a customer(or... Product :) ) altogether and I assume that's not their end-goal.
That Aonic TWS is pretty interesring! It's almost exactly what I'm looking for. It'd be nice to also have the mic used for calls also be able to pump in sound from the outside. I like IEMs, but I don't want to wear something at work that I have to pull out all of the time.
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Re: delivery drones, energy efficiency comes to mind. Now when I order lunch with delivery service, there's 1-2 tons of metal and plastic on wheels moving around with dino oil power, piloted by 80 kg of meat, to bring me a 0.5 kg delivery.

Even if the delivery vehicle ran on wheels on the roads, I'm sure it could be much lighter and energy efficient if it didn't need safely carry the driver around.
Cultural issues are almost always tied to performance evaluations at a company, so it is highly relevant.

If this wasn't the problem then their manager would have reprimanded them for posting such nonsense. But either these objections were made by the manager or the manager agrees with them. Why would a manager who is fine with such bullshit still have his job? Because it goes all the way up the chain, otherwise someone would have cut it off a long time ago.
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I did close mine. But yeah it happens a lot.
> personal cars are banned (at least from cities)

That's already done in some European countries. IMO, it's right direction. I'm not for banning personal transport entirely, but i think that maintenance of public roads should be done mostly from transport taxes(so tax increase is good).
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They have more competent people with better ideas but I think they are not serious to resolve the problem.
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This is very cool! Reminds me of https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database..., which is similarly cool project.
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"Firstly, it is not an obvious way to declare an enum if you are at all familiar with their use in other languages."

It's the same way C does it, other than saying "const" instead of "enum". Explicitly casting int -> enum is "recommended" but not required or enforced.
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Acrylic is much lighter than glass (something like 1-1.2 g/cm^3 vs 2.2-2.5) so I would expect them to separate if melted.
But there's usually a lot of other orders in that delivery vehicle. I assume that if drone would have similar storage capacity it would consume even more electricity.
If you take your post and replace "autonomous vehicles" with "household appliances" (Dishwashers, washing machines, tumble dryers, ...) it might be enlightening as this is something we all already got used to.

I'd say most of the "problems" you point at are not related at all to "autonomous vehicles", but to automation as a whole.

Economic disruption by automation does exist, but mostly due to our insistence of tying in the "right to live" with "participation in the economy".

There are real problems with autonomous vehicles. Primarily the amplification of existing negative externalizes of physical transport (Space, noise pollution, energy, waste, ...). Autonomous vehicles will cause an explosion in the (already insane) consumption of transportation.
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You can turn off all of your radios as far as the soft toggle switches in your Settings app allow you to do, but if Apple decides that your radio antennas should still be active and responding to beacons, they will. And the user won't be aware.
Not sure if iPhones will do this if you've explicitly disabled bluetooth, but they will send data around even when "turned off". Likewise, to actually disable bluetooth, you have to click on the toggle button in the draw-down settings screen 2 times.
How is mocking services impractical? You have to do it anyway for tests.

How is having their source code impractical? You should have downloaded it anyway.

The only one that might seem extreme is downloading the SO dbs. I have done this because I stay offline so I can better focus. Not everyone (probably very few) will reach that point.

I think you're overblowing how recent the information you require is tbh. You can get a lot done with months old information.
As any ideology does, but soviet communism an oppose to radical free market was also self inflicted.

Which begs a question, if neoliberals believe in what they preach then why they only export it?
One problem is if you can train your ML correctly and not on garbage data. To predict the world you need a giant input and a ton of data.

And you also have chaos, a little input divergence can cause a big output difference, I am not an ML-ANN dev but chaos feels to me impossible to approximate/interpolate with ANN, I would love to know if I am wrong and you can do any meaningful stuff on chaotic systems.
I am no expert, but I think it is very likely most of these craters are from very early life of the planet, before there was life on Earth. Orbit of Mercury is very well cleaned of any other bodies and must have been like this for billions of years.

Because there is no erosion mechanism on Mercury (except for crumbling due to temperature changes) these craters were preserved perfectly.
Pwnagotchi [0] is quite cool. It's kind of like tamagotchi, but you need to feed it Wi-Fi handshakes. It's using Raspberry Pi Zero and E-Ink display module.

[0] https://pwnagotchi.ai/
I’m no astrophysicist but centrifugal force seems like a plausible explanation.
Well... DeepMind is focused on very abstract research and publication. There aren't many projects of this scale operating with these goals.

Waymo's goals, for example, probably focus less on abstract research and publication. They exist to build a thing and make it a business eventually. Whatever AI research they do exists to support that. Waymo are really big, so that can still be a lot.

Most AI projects google have are probably smaller, and/or less publication focused. Also newer. Deepmind is >10 years old.

Google bought Deepmind when they already had impressively successful results. Once the bought the company, they started to apply stuff from Alphago to anything they could think of with Google level access to computing resources. Within a few years they started having successes in some of these areas. This is basically a project coming to fruition.

I think the project has a very "make it more general" orientation and their approach yields a "hey look, it works for this now" success story at regular intervals.

Start to worry when intervals hit the ohm frequency and deep thought pops into existence asking for a sandwich .
Imho, mvnd is a step in the right direction.

Next is how to make maven cache work more reliably and aggressively, as maven is still too slow at incremental build: A zero-change build can take seconds, while Bazel finishes almost instantly.
From my experience, it's probably tens of bugs where each of them happened to less than 0.01% of customers, and requires a overly detailed explanation for anyone who didn't have first-hand experience with it.
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I tihnk I generally agree with this, but also wonder what the alternative is.

If you step outside your own industry, do you want plumbers that have a hobbiest appreciation of the intricacies of fluid dynamics, or do you want someone to come and unblock your toilet in the middle of the night?

There's possibly a middle ground where the geniuses invent toilet technology in such a way that it is easy to install and maintain, and "normal" people do all the other boring bits, like stocking warehouses, transporting it, selling the house it sits in, answering the phone etc. It feels like we've generally got there in both plumbing and in software and is that a bad thing overall?
I find it striking that a decent modern laptop would have been a supercomputer 20 years ago, when people used Office 97 that was feature complete already IMO. I can't help this constant cognitive dissonance with modern software; do we really need supercomputers to move Windows out of the box?
Except colonizing Mercury is of relatively little value because of how little surface of it is usable, impossibility of terraforming the planet, how difficult it is to get there or back and that it does not help to reach any other interesting place in our system or outside of it.
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Hehe, this title is brilliant, I really hope this turns out to be true.
How do you secure a streamlit app?
I want to make it https rather than http
How is “bankruptcy without bailouts” making markets less free ?
OMG - look at NJ, that's what one gets after decades of 'waste management'.
Thanks. Search wasn't turning that up for me at all.
> The "complaining developer" produced a proof of concept in just two weekends...

That developer also was rather brusque in the github issue and could use a bit more humility and emotional intelligence. Which, by the way, isn't on the OP blog post's chart of a "programmers lifecycle". The same could be said of the MS side.

Instead of both sides asserting (or "proving") that they're "right" could they not have collaborated to put together an improvement in Windows Terminal? Wouldn't that have been better for everyone?

FWIW, I do use windows terminal and it's "fine". Much better than the old one (conhost?).
Okay. It's absolutely true that neither of us knows. But considering, as you say, that the affected minority probably won't ever step forward with a unified opinion, what is the appropriate course of action? Should we stay away from using any words that someone else might possibly have interpretive precedence over?

I find this all incredibly hard to navigate. I also feel that language in general and naming things in particular would suffer from strictly not being able to reuse concepts or names from cultures we are not part of.