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The whole adtech making as money as it makes is just insane when you think about it... How come advertising makes so much money?

I understand Amazon and Microsoft or even Netflix. They provide services or massive logistics or just software. But Google and Facebook and so on is just strange, do they really add so much value to world?
Would be nice to have this explanation for what this is somewhere on the site.
Hi, thanks for checking it out! You bring up some great points.

When it comes to SWEs doing ML, our goal to bring together a bunch of apps that get people most of the way to something they can bring into production.

I appreciate your skepticism of online IDEs, and it’s unlikely we’ll ever completely replace notebooks or whatever IDEs people prefer hacking on locally. Instead, we’d like to take a hybrid approach, in which our online IDE is sufficient for making minor tweaks to a model after its in production, but the brunt of development can still happen locally, in which changes would be pushed to Git and synced with our online IDE.

It’s true that SWEs can deploy their own APIs, but that feels like an unnecessary annoyance to take for granted. At a high level you’re just setting up an API, but really you’re also going to setup some versioning system and a Docker file and monitoring, and all of that adds up to a lot of cognitive overhead.

BTW - the Jupyter-like cell execution can be turned on by clicking the “Interactive Mode” button on the bottom right corner of the IDE.
I am not going to blatantly support piracy of video games (Most of us work in the software industry, and most of us want to get paid for our work. Video games should be no different.), but I think it's clear that game preservation has some issues in its current state, and Nintendo is one of the worst offenders. Nintendo is a lot like Apple in this way. They see things in one way, and assume all consumers will happily conform to that standard. They are stubborn and perhaps less willing to listen to the consumer than any other major video game company. And we all know that gamers are some of the most vocal, opinionated fans out there.

In my opinion, if you own a game (digitally or physically), there are absolutely zero moral qualms, and there should be zero legal issues, with playing a copy of that game on an emulator. Emulation is 100% legal and should be encouraged. ESPECIALLY because Nintendo makes it such a challenge to legally acquire old games, I understand why people turn to piracy and emulators.

I think Nintendo is within their rights to not want people showing videos of how to explicitly download pirated games and emulate them, but I don't see any way they can prevent people from simply showing an emulated game.
Nope. It's been common practice for years now on any major site that every user submitted link is instantly web scraped.
Anything downloaded from the Switch e-shop will continue to work locally on that Switch, and all the mainstream games can be bought as a cartridge if desired. It's not fundamentally different than dragging out my old N64 to play my old games from the 90s. I don't consider that "renting", and I can't remember the last time I had the desire to play one of my decade+ old games anyway. Very few of them aged well compared to their modern versions.

I'm sure there are some people out there that are passionate about this but I can't imagine it being anything more than a small minority of video game buyers. There are certainly other ways the Steam Deck could be disruptive though.
The oldest latency numbers were based on actual hardware Google had on hand at the time. Most of them came from microbenchmarks checked into google3. Occasionally an engineer would announce they had found an old parameter tuned for pentium and cranking it up got another 1-2% performance gain on important metrics.

Many of the newer numbers could be based on existing google hardware; for example, Google deployed SSDs in 2008 (custom designed and manufactured even before then) because hard drive latency wasn't getting any better. That opened up a bunch of new opportunities. I worked on a project that wanted to store a bunch of data, Jeff literally came to me with a code that he said "compressed the data enough to justify storing it all on flash, which should help query latency" (this led to a patent!).
I understand it is no pleasure for you and you have no wish to embrace the devil. But in the absence of a helping hand, lonely people rehearse the worst of their history. You can be the one who lends an ear. What would have helped me would have been someone who analyzes the docs with me, to balance what is true from what is not, and who acknowledges the true parts.

Here’s my side. I’m seen as Quanon in my former groups of friends despite not being it. The last drop with one is when one died of cancer, and no-one went to see him. He was leftist, of a leftist family with left-to-extreme-left friends from generation to generation, with supposedly human values top to bottom; and if not for me, he would have died almost alone, we wouldn’t have found the “point on the visual keyboard” trick to communicate, he wouldn’t have had the wifi or tv for his last 6 months, etc. I was there the last night, totally randomly (well, I was there 3 times a week) playing him his last song, one he had written with me, and I hadn’t realized the commie died the most beautiful death, going to sleep on his own song, surrounded with his friends. And this guy is not the only example. My daughter has been raped (France, by a migrant of 2nd generation, by the ethnicity everyone is racist about), my cousin killed, they regularly kill gays on the central place of my city, they drag girls for 800m until their bowels are spread on the road, and judges release them every single time: I am right to believe what I believe. At the time I had helped in a lot of charities, I’ve donated 3-5% of my revenue, but my observation is that leftists will hate us no matter what we do to help the poor, and even if I were “part of them” (the progressists), they would have left me die alone like they did for their friend. I’ve left every single group who had these traits, so I’ve left all of them, and my friends are now Quanon-type.

You see, from the right, the center-left seem like atrocious people. But I’m genuinely sure you didn’t intend to. I’m sure it’s just ignorance on your side, and I know you say the same thing about me ;) We had the same values at the core, and life just slapped us in different ways. Maybe your mother didn’t actually tell you her history, and/or maybe she needs a punching ball for all she failed at life.

It’s hard, really hard to accept being someone’s punching ball. The rational decision would be to refuse, and you’d be right 100% of the times.

Or, if you think that diversity is strength, you could get acquainted to her, and maintain the speech despite hating the contents, and accompany her for her last years.

I’m not saying I would do it.

If you caricature what I’m saying, you could even interview your mother in order to write her biography. You may throw it away if it’s bad, and/or some key events may surface.

Again, I’m not saying I would do it.
Nothing stops you from using Brave as just a web browser (whatever that means! Are Google Apps 'just a browser', or an app with a browser client?).
Starting a meeting generates a random URL which you can share with others. It's more analogous to a Zoom call than a direct user-to-user call.
OF COURSE!!!
… and the Saint Peter equivalent will check that your torque wrench calibration was still valid before letting you into heaven.
I was a diehard FF user from the early 2000s to 2019. One of my users emailed me to ask if my browser plugin worked on Brave. I tried it and was shocked at how fast it was.

I dearly miss Tree Style Tabs (and make do with a Chrome extension that mostly works, but is annoyingly in a separate window), I can't go back to FF. The speed difference is too great. YMMV, I'm on a 2017 MBP, base model, and I typically have dozens of tabs open across several windows.
Yes, ICMP ping. I don't have any long established sockets anyhow so i don't know how useful my set of those stats would be.
I think a major reason for this stagnation in games and movies is that limitation breeds creativity. When you have a very restricted computer, your creative brain feels challenged and inspired, but when the world is at your fingertips, you have to work a lot harder to find inspiration.

Combine that with high budgets and big teams (high price of failure) and you have a recipe for stagnation.
Yeah, but the faster speed of light through vacuum can still be enough to make up for the longer path.

Back-of-the-envelope calculation: at an altitude of 550km and minimum elevation of 25 degrees above the horizon, a single Starlink hop could cover a maximum of 1880km of distance along the earth's surface, with a ground-satellite-ground length of 2068km.

So the total distance traveled through space is about 10% farther, but the signal goes 50% faster than through fiber, which is enough to cut your round-trip time from about 19ms to 14ms (plus any extra latency introduced by routers). That's nothing to sneeze at.
The eventuality of money being transferred is almost all done on credit. The idea that the money can be transferred sometime in the future.

During periods of uncertainty and credit/trust dries up, this has been is an area where central banks have been partially stepping in by loosening credit access to spur continued trade and tradelines between financial institutions. This just keeps the credit line going, not settling the money itself. The parties always have the opportunity to try to settle it all.
Did you return to the school as a teacher?
There are some cases like free-software where you wouldn't need the app store.
I'm a little confused by this. I'm on the last Ubuntu LTS version (20.04) and the default GCC version appears to be 9.3, with 10.3 available as an option. So why are they stuck on 6?
I was never an Amiga guy. I remember seeing one at an acquaintances house and being bothered by the bad "iconography".

In case I missed something, I recently checked out a few web pages that captured images of the original Amiga "desktop" and it confirmed to me that the UI truly was, IMHO, rather poor.

That still is remarkable to me. Susan Kare deserves the accolades, but I'm surprised there no one on the Amiga team that could make as good a UI.

For that matter, the Raspbian OS I've been playing with on the Raspberry Pi has some pretty ugly stuff. Just to use an obvious example, is Thonny's icon for real?

I'll stop ranting about stuff I know nothing about now.
I like the idea of AppleScript, but every, single, time, I try to use it I walk away frustrated. I can never accomplish the goal I set out to do. Instead I end up wasting hours and hours fiddling around with this language.

The syntax is just odd, since it has this conversational style ("tell app to do this") I constantly fall into the trap of trying to write out something that I think should work, but it does not. This happens all the time.

The other day I wanted to automate something on my new M1 Mac. SURPRISE! The latest version of the app I was trying to use no longer supports Apple Script!

Trying to automate stuff on Mac is so frustrating.

Don't even get me started on Automator!

I tried playing around with the new Shortcuts app, but that thing is also difficult.
you mean andreesen's constant?
> It's basically just ungoogled chromium with a bunch of extensions preinstalled.

That's not true. It has, in an easy-to-access UI many privacy protections, including fingerprinting and tracking, and even disabling JavaScript per site (EDIT: Among other things, including a crypto payment system, IPFS, and more.)
(The reason this is significant is because the manylinux infrastructure is responsible for approximately 100% of the binary Python extension builds provided as wheels)
This could be a really great visualization and really interesting but I literally nad to look at he comments here to figure out how to read it and use it. For example, you can edit the year text box.

I would suggest adding graphs to show how different things have changed over time.

it is interesting that the only major improvement over the last 15+ years seems to have been the invention of SSDs.
Why wouldn't the drug approved for treating narcolepsy help with narcolepsy? The answer is yes, it helps, but I'm super confused why you asked.
This. The friction must be enormous. The corpse plus the coffin. And all that surface area.
attendance is how funding is determined. Most won't show up to the zoom and then the school can't mark them as present.
"Packet roundtrip CA to Netherlands"
The problem is not that climate change will hurt everybody. Many areas will be just fine.

But many others won't, and the people that lived there will need somewhere else to live, and productivity resources in that area are gone. That's going to be a lot of refugees needing a place in the world that's already struggling to provide for all of us.

All this will make the world a lot more unstable politically and economically. And just look at the news today to see how well we're getting along before any of this really kicked in...
Remote workers are a burden when working from office is the status quo, though. No two ways around it. It sounds like that because that's what it is. Disliking it doesn't make it untrue.
I find Brave useful when a website requires Chrome. Also, Brave has a built-in Tor client.
> Your compensation is not absolute dollars

Well, actually it is.
I had Turbo Pascal first, later THINK Pascal and then THINK C.
Related: A documentary[0] about Daniel Tammet[1] who also has synesthesia and set the European record for reciting pi from memory by recounting to 22,514 digits in five hours and nine minutes.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPySn3slfXI

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Tammet
> Children are resources to be processed by the state via their factory-like schools into products to be consumed by corporations, government, etc.

I see that claim often, but never any evidence of it. I do see a lot of evidence of imposing political and/or religious views on the students. Everybody wants to shape the students into their own image. Hence all the fights over the curriculum.
Assorted thoughts:

- My wife's aunt was buried in a gravesite where multiple coffins were stacked (at least three deep, maybe four). That allows for more efficient use of space than does this screw-in design.

- Historically in Europe, you would only be buried long enough for the flesh to decompose and then bones would be removed to an ossuary. There are assorted "bone chapels" that show the artistic uses the bones were put to.

- Culturally, at least in the west, there is a desire to make it look like the dead person is asleep (although things always end up looking a bit off because, well, they're dead. At the last funeral I attended, for a high school friend, his skin had a distinct greenish tint to it).

For these reasons and countless others that I'm not going to come up with, I would expect sales of the screw-in coffin to total in the middle two digits. Maybe fewer.
Sounds like a company that is synonyms with a rainforest.
I am from eastern Europe so I might be biased. This is Ukraine position which I agree with:

https://war.ukraine.ua/why/

Blaming West is overthinking the situation IMHO. The most simple explanation is that Russia is controlled by corrupt hierarchy with psycho on top of it. The psycho feels nostalgia for imperialism and soviet era. The psycho values hectares of land over the lives of peaceful civilians.
The rate of cremation has been skyrocketing and is currently over 50%. The problem is solving itself.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/251702/cremation-rate-in...
This guy knows about Numberblocks .. BBC show for kids
Strings with string concatenation form a monoid [1] (natural numbers with addition form a commutative monoid, and integers with addition form an abelian group). Incidentally, that was literally the topic of the first class in my first CS semester. :)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoid
Make 'true' a truthy value for window.open boolean features
I wonder whose gun is pointed at the officer
Brave's whole "thing" seems to be being a one-stop Google replacement for everything you could do online, but just having to trust them instead of Google. Through that lens, I can see why they're constantly adding more "route your data through us instead" already-features instead of focusing on making a good, standalone web browser.
You have to pay extra for the N64 titles. And just a reminder that they've yet to have their retro game collection on the Switch reach half of the games that were available on their Wii Virtual Console service, which ended with approx. 400 games, including some from Sega and SNK consoles.

Most of the titles also ran better and had lower input latency than what's available on the Switch.

The service was completely discontinued in 2019 with no way of transferring the titles over to the Switch or having the proof of purchase even linked to your account. In terms of preserving their old titles Nintendo is awful, they'd rather continually rerelease the popular ones and have you pay yet again for the (temporary) access.
> Somewhere else I remember reading this would also cut your salary by 10%.

It totally depends on where you're living. It could even be a salary increase if you were previously working in a lower CoL office but have since moved to a high CoL region -- in that case your salary would increase. There's definitely no blanket single figure that applies (in either direction) to people who go fully remote.

E.g. my grand-boss is a fully remote worker based out of Manhattan. He's getting the highest pay tier.
Both aspects are still there when you incinerate the body (arguably ashes will stay longer there than when they’re taken away in the soil)
The quality of life issues in the Soviet Union are well known. All you need to do is read the Wikipedia page on the fall of the Soviet Union.
This was a doc handed to incoming Google engineers (along with Jeff's resume) to help assimilate them. MOst if not all of these came up at some point in the development of google.com and making decisions about (for example) whether to send an intercontinental RPC or look something up locally, or to put some part of the web index in RAM/disk.

Don't read it as "you should have known this", read it as "you should know this" to be a more effective programmer. These sorts of guidelines have been invaluable for making arch decisions throughout my career.
Super interesting! Some questions:

If someone repeats a "tasty" word a couple times, could that make you want to eat a meal with that taste?

Also: are there "disgusting" words? Does the word "vomit" taste like it, or like something totally different?
The "manylinux" platform tag definition means GNU libc. musl libc systems are not within the "manylinux" Python platform, they are a separate "musllinux" platform tag.

See: PEP 600, PEP 656.

While the manylinux infrastructure project may use Alpine to produce "musllinux" binaries, Alpine will never be usable to produce "manylinux" binaries. So Alpine would only be useful in addition to another distro, not instead of another distro.
I assume you meant half a terabyte of ram
do you have a rooted or jailbroken phone?

Some apps will attempt to detect this and then implement restrictions on accounts associated with jailbroken devices.
Hard disagree.

Gifted kids are a myth. Overwhelmingly, these kids are just privileged.

Privileged to grow up in an educated family, privileged to not have to help out at home, privileged to not have to take a job in high school to support a struggling family, privileged to be afforded extra tutoring specifically designed to jump through all the hoops in the system. (which don't measure talent or giftedness, just familiarity with and ability to jump through the hoops) (if you can even call tutoring a privilege - I know I would prefer if kids were allowed to be kids and not shut into a room with a tutor when they're already done with school for the day)

etc etc

and before anyone starts to reply "aKsHullY..." YES of course there's the odd legitimately GIFTED child out there, but they're a rare exception and even in the proposed system, if they're not from the right family, they wouldn't be picked up - other, rich, ungifted kids would take their place. Let alone that if you look at biographies of legitimately GIFTED kids, they often don't do well in or take well to school in the first place.

Basically to me this whole thing reeks of disingenuous masking of privilege as "giftedness" and completely misguided and mistaken ideas about actually gifted kids.

EDIT I should add that to really bring progress across the board, the focus should be on the bringing the bulk of the kids to the highest possible levels, and the most support focused on the kids who struggle the most. Privileged kids already have privilege - they will develop anyway don't need public support. Non-privileged kids do.
The point with hypersonic missiles is that they can manoeuvrer until the terminal part of their trajectory, this in contrast to ballistic missiles which are on a set course past the boost phase. This makes it harder to shield against hypersonic missiles which is useful both for first-strike - more of your missiles will hit their targets - as well as when executing a counterstrike.
No, but I found the best job of my career through "Who's hiring?"
It's not just for crazy people. It's a good way to survive a tornado in regions that don't typically build basements.
>>Nobody knows if it's even possible to get Microsoft Game Pass running on it

What do you mean nobody knows? Just install windows on it, and play your Gamepass games? Same with the Epic launcher.

>>It's as if someone posted "Here's how you get Netflix for free", and Netflix filed a DMCA request against it.

That's not even remotely comparable. May I remind you that in US Sony has lost the legal battle against Blem! Emulator, for this exact reason, and the court was explicit in its ruling - the games that you own can be played on other systems using emulators and Sony doesn't get to have a say in it.

>>You just don't have a right to enjoy theirs without paying the entry fee.

No one said anything about playing games without paying for them. That's your own interpretation.

>>Compare this to a Nintendo switch, it's a small game console for me to play Smash Bros and Advance Wars. It's a vastly more polished experience.

Literally no one is making you get rid of your switch. Enjoy the system and the experiences on it.
> How are my calls with Brave Talk encrypted? (...) Assuming no malevolence, neither Brave nor its partner, 8x8, have this key by default.

I'm sorry, when did we start to take security measures assuming no malevolence?
So use a different name. Really.

As for the thread, I expect that you could buy one on ebay ;)
I might not have said this clearly enough - I'm not saying that conditioning on "did we have a nuclear war" will change the probability to be less. I'm saying that the event "did we have a nuclear war in year n" is not independent from "did we have a nuclear war in year n+1" "n+2", ... because there are shared factors influencing them. Therefore the model of independent probabilities multiplying year over year and seeming to imply that nuclear war is inevitable because (1-p)^n goes to 0 as n grows doesn't make sense mathematically speaking.
If you'd prefer hard copies of these watercolors, there's a recent apple "opus" that came out that includes 1400 of them: https://www.jakkawpress.com/. It's a six volume set, currently marked down to $150. I'm tempted.
Ben Sasse covers this extensively in “the Vanishing American Adult.” In particular the artificiality of the highly age-segregated nature of modern schools. Kids have always hung out with kids, but those kids had a wide range of ages and older kids taught younger kids.