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Ma family is from very sunny French Provence, and my brother married a girl from very not sunny Bretagne. The definition of "sunny" and "rainy" is.. up in the air.

Examples:
- is a sunny day a day during which you see the sun once for 4 mins, or during which you mostly see the sun, during which you don't see a cloud at all, during which you see some clouds with no chance of rain, ....
- is a rainy day a day during which you see some heavy clouds and rain is so probable you should not plan a picnic, it may rain at any moment, it rains some, it never stops raining ...
- can the same day be both rainy and cloudy ?
-when we say "rainy", do we mean lots of mm of water, lots of days w/ rain, lots of days w/o sun. My previous county (in the Cévennes) had bth France's dryest spot, and its wettest. But not its sunniest nor its rainiest.
- when I went to Bretagne, what shocked me was not so much the amount of rain, but the amount of clouds, and the speed of weather change, and the facts that very few days were pure rain or pure sun. In my Provence, I can usually tell 1 day in advance when it's gonna rain, sometimes 2 days, always on the same day. In Bretagne ? You can't know if it's gonna rain 2 hrs on.

In the end, in Provence a rainy day is when we get one drop of rain. In Bretagne, a sunny day is when they get one ray of sun. We're right, and they're wrong ^^
I wouldn’t call secure email snake oil: it meets some of the characteristics, but not all. “Snake oil” implies at least in part inefficacy and deceptive marketing; yet secure email is possible, though there are typically rather severe caveats (mostly around the question of which parts are being encrypted, and usability).

What is actually snake oil, and distressingly rarely realised as such, is first-party end-to-end encryption. That’s what sodality2 is actually talking about. And when you stop and consider it in this light, you realise that the significant majority of stuff that’s advertised as having E2EE is first-party and thus, to put it mildly, not robust.

In the context of email, here’s Fastmail’s take on it: https://fastmail.blog/advanced/why-we-dont-offer-pgp/.
yeah, their internal web crawler/indexing engine are only for posture. It seems this main founder was maintaining a toxic work culture in order to keep this internal software mostly useless and keep funneling money to microsoft advertisement company (cf duckduckgo) and creating trafic for bing.

Well, that was how it looked at the time. As I said, I dunno how it ended, if it did.
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NFT bag holders may actually believe what they’re saying in which case they aren’t scamming. I think to scam you must be operating under nefarious intentions.
What an unbelievable scam. Is this just money laundering? Lost money ain't taxed the same.
Not surprisingly given the nature of crypto markets in general, NFTs have been financialized to various degrees. You can, for example, put a popular NFT into a pool where individual NFTs are traded back and forth and you receive a slice of the trading fees. See https://nftx.io/
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I remember he mentioned something about his role to that effect in one of his handmade hero streams. Can't remember which exactly, but he did mention he did a bunch of code contributions to the engine. Possible I am misremembering.

In any case, he has experience in working on and shipping actual 3D game engine code.
They don't. Star Trek is mentioned because of holograms. Nowhere FTL-comms are mentioned.
I actually did. I analysed as much as I could with major exams over my head. I am planning to try the os later. Also I would love if you could contact me at arpan@hackersreboot.tech for some talk.
You linked to a south park clip that is about the banking system not cryptocurrency.
I get your point though, it is a funny bit.
I had this happen before and I was asked a bunch of obscure questions such as the month the acct was opened. They restored access but it took a few months.
> It also estimated $1.7 million in revenues for the city from the increased license fees.

Are they going to use that money to install EV charging stations?
We build them all the time. The difficulty is measuring the right regions of the plasma with the right precision. The plasma is pretty sensitive to perturbations so you can't always just stick a probe in them. This often restricts us to using noninvasive measurements like laser diagnostics, but because the plasma is quite rarified, it can be difficult to get a good signal to noise ratio. Additionally, the laser diagnostics can be restricted in what frequencies (spatially or temporally) they can measure, depending on the technique employed. Lastly, even if we fully understood the process, modeling it would remain a challenge (for all the same reasons that turbulence modeling is, despite the fact that turbulence is much better understood)
I'd be interested to see how you did this? Is the code available anywhere?
That's one of the things the upcoming Digital Markets Act is trying to tackle.
north-eastern corner need not be the same as the northernmost point.

Basque country has the same problem, you cant drive further north without leaving, but you can drive further east without leaving.

You can go further east from Basque country, than you can travel north from Catalonia.
> It’s not measuring usage in data-centers or as development or cloud virtual machines.

Big caveat.
This article is 3+ years old
Well yeah. I know he has been right on a couple of occasions. Still, how does this make me unwise for laughing at him? What went worse because I did so?

To be fair, his position was interesting in the 1980s. But he’s been hopelessly out of touch with the vast majority of computer users since the 1990s. He can keep harping on about the GPL and keep watching the world pass by.
This feels more like embezzlement
It's not a very good OS. I just use it because I dislike Windows 1*s more.
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The counter argument to that justification of sanctions is that financial interdependence also discourages war. I mean, if North Korea gets nukes they can still shoot them and cause a lot of trouble, and we pretty much have no additional leverage aside from direct military intervention or taking the people one step further from poor -> dead.

With Russia sanctions are doing some damage right now, even if it hasn’t stopped the war. With North Korea we’ve blown our load and the main casualty is just a destitute population over there.
That's assuming each episode doesn't take him any preparation time.
Are memristors still 5 years away or did HP bury those for business reasons?
Defi and dex mixers to privacy coins or projects like secret is or will be doable.
It's 3.1 or newer, full speed device.

Why normal people should care about the spec version is weird to me.

The spec does specify the connectors for using the USB logo and claiming compliance. But if you don't care about compliance then use whatever connector you wish!
Infraspace is not a citybuilder that allow organic growth.

I am talking more about a potential game where cities would grow like in real life, with people moving in voluntarily, and building stuff voluntarily, and the government focused more on building infrastructure. As far as I know there are no major game like that.

Closest to it in a sense is a space game (Distant Worlds, where you build the military ships and colonize planets, but the population builds commercial stations and mining operations, and the population have their own civilian ships for immigration and tourism)
If most of the USB 3.1 spec is just USB 3.0, and you only need to refer to the USB 3.0 parts to build your device, then why not just build your device solely according to the USB 3.0 spec, and call it a USB 3.0 device?

Compare/contrast: the 802.11 specification series. Each successive specification only lays out the unique new modes; with the expectation that devices support multiple specifications, where each specification lays out its own supported modes. So if you e.g. build a device that can only do 802.11n things, and not 802.11ac things, then you’ve built an 802.11n device. But 802.11ac peers — which are really “802.11ac + 802.11n” peers — will still be able to talk to it in 802.11n mode — but they do this according to the 802.11n spec that they also support; not according to the 802.11ac spec.

> People outside hardware developers aren’t expected to know USB 3.O vs 3.1

Why not? How else should you know whether your device can go at its full advertised speed?
>"To me, the only purpose of it is to make money."

Understandable, but a wide variety of things exist for the sole purpose of making money. That fact doesn't invalidate cryptocurrency. Without launching into the tried and true "what is money" pontification that crypto advocates usually bring up, it does have use cases for many people and even if those use cases are only valid when they interact with other crypto true-believers, it still has utility for those folks nonetheless.
Miladys feel like a necessary anarchic balance to BAYC.
I would be interested in knowing which country you live in? Can you elaborate what makes you say cars are better?
No. Hall thrusters are low temperature plasma devices, and operate in a completely different plasma regime than fusion devices. The ions dont get that fast, only a few tens of thousands of meters/second. The electrons only reach 10-100 eV, a far cry from the hundreds of thousands of eV in fusion devices.
Go the other way. Charge the spammers more for delivering their trash.

No, this won't eliminate it. It will give you less of it, though, and give the USPS more money. Win/win, even if we don't win as much as we would like.

Bulk mail currently gets a discount compared to individual letters. Eliminate that, and we'd see less bulk mail.
CA has a similar law allowing online cancellation, and is a larger market that is hard to ignore
This tweet addresses your question, at least in part https://twitter.com/lougrims/status/1516013558475235335
But in theory, a decentralized framework consisting of smart contracts and NFT’s could work. In such a framework, the NFT would be providing real utility (unlike scammy JPEG NFT’s)
> a 900 page freshman neuroscience textbook

Which one, and would you recommend it?

59 here, and with an autistic 16 year old who has great difficulty with communication. We're trying speech therapy, ABA therapy, but it seems to be both practical and parental to try to engage more deeply... with whatever is left of my fluid (vs. crystallized) intelligence.
I would not compare anything that happened in the West to what happened in the USSR. I don't recall anyone in the West being sent to a work camp or shot because someone accused them of something they were not.
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About building a coup: it doesn’t have to be rocket science. Especially not if you are doing something small.

Lots of online plans, e.g.

https://morningchores.com/chicken-coop-plans/#free-plans

Ours was something like this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180118072607/http://www.freshe...

A wood frame base. A PVC frame on top of it. Plastic netting covering it all.

Sleeping quarters inside was a small wooden doghouse (with liftable roof) that had comfortable roosting beams attached inside.

Newspaper on floor of doghouse to replace every once in a while to clean.
I still prefer strongly two monitors over one big for work and programming but! The content must be one. It's either result in one screen and code in other or reference email in one and code in other etc. Two monitors is a way to go, if the content is the same.

No messengers/YouTubes or anything unrelated open in any screens constantly. Phone behind monitor or somewhere away where I can't see it.
No practical purpose EXCEPT for the ability to easily take assets across borders to leave authoritarian regimes, bringing a form of storing assets to the 2 billion or so unbanked individuals of the world, and comparatively cheap remittances for people sending money back to their families in another country. These are just a few of the incredibly practical use cases that quite literally change people's lives.
> But Apple's M1 based computers are terrible console-like things that can't do what's expected of a computer.

I understand that in an abstract context, and I guess it depends on your day-to-day needs. For me, I was incredibly excited to get an M1, and that lasted about a day until I realized that it was just doing everything I was doing on my Intel Mac and lot faster. It doesn't even occur to me that I'm using an M1 because I have had zero speed bumps. The only time I've even been reminded of having an M1 was when the computer told me I needed to install Rosetta to run a program.

My M1 does everything I expect a computer to do. So much so that it's disappeared and I'm just back to "is there a Mac Native version?" for x.

I wonder if the comments were the same back when transitioning from the 68k to the PPC.
Still using Ubuntu here, it's become the boring choice I guess (especially as I'm using ubuntu-mate) - but I need it that way to get my work done. A lot of the froth around linux is enthusiasts distro-hopping and whatever is fashionable at the time. Bit unsure about the move to snaps as I've experienced performance and permissions issues, but that isn't a deal-breaker, and the benefits of having recent builds of apps on LTS is not to be overlooked either.
1. "Gated community" is centralized by default.

2. Literally no new thing has come out of this

3. Not to mention use cases where you wouldn't want to advertise your membership in a "gated community"
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> luck has nothing to do with being wise.

Ok, let me reframe it. Do you have any example of anything being adversely affected by the fact that anybody ever laughed at RMS? Sure, he sound profound and far seeing, but his rhetoric is anything but subtle. He’s been way off for about 30 years now.

> And very few of those laughing at him have ever asked for forgiveness for laughing at him or recognize that we owe to him some of the benefits of living in the modern computer era.

I know what we owe him, but his contribution is long passed now. It does not turn him into a kind of universal genius. He’s outlived his usefulness as far as software freedoms are concerned. These day he’s more of a boogeyman than someone to take seriously, and he’s got only himself to blame.

> that's why kids have neck beard parents to care (by law) about their future and safety.

Do you remember what you did when you were in this situation? Personally, I mostly told my parents to fuck off and did whatever I wanted on my side, which was mostly what they did not want me to do. A condescending tone when you tell them what they ought to care about is not going to cut it. And I am saying that as a neck beard father.
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"closure" in the kinetics to fluid model context refers to a closed expression for the heat flux or anisotropic pressure in terms of the lower order fluid variables. You aren't really looking at a turbulence closure in the sense you're getting at in this context--for these hyperbolic models it's more about the transport than about energy partition.
If I understand correctly, SHAKEN/STIR is supposed to be this.
In statistical modeling the equivalent of synthetic data is heavily used, but not for training the actual model on.

Building a generative model allows you to sample observations from a known distribution and confirm that your approach to learn is even able to recover the correct parameters. It's used as a basic sanity checking tool.

Synthetic data is great for this purpose. Before setting out on a complex and expensive modeling task, at least verify that in the best case (i.e. your model is literally the data generating process) you could even learn the specific problem. It's surprisingly easy to define models that are fundamentally not learnable.

However the idea that you could learn from synthetic data doesn't make sense, as you could just literally use the model that generates the data in the first place. If you're just learning known parameters, why waste the time training when you already have the answer?

Using real data that has been heavily anonymized and stripped of PII (perturbing dates, hashing strings etc) makes some sense, assuming that PII contains no information (which is unlikely). But the more clever you're trying to be with synthetically generating features the more your are essentially just manually building a model of how the world works with obviates the need to learn a model anyway.
the source code means nothing. its the network that does. there are always many twitter clones.
A similar thing happened with an Ethereum smart contract that was exploited several years ago. The "code is law" principle didn't apply there either, since the developers forked the Ethereum block chain and reversed the offending smart contract transactions. The original Ethereum chain still exists today (known as Ethereum Classic) but it's not worth nearly as much as the forked Eth chain is.
Is there any site somewhere that lists the running total of all publicly acknowledged cryptocurrency heists? $650 million here and $182 million there, and at some point you're talking about real money...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver

At first, it seems like a magic shortcut to math. Instead of doing difficult logic stuff, just turn your problem into a binary Turing machine with n states where it halts if it finds a counterexample. Then look up BB(n,2), run it for that many steps, and if it hasn't halted by then, you've proved there's no counterexamples. Goldbach's conjecture has an n of 43, maybe even just 27.

There's just two problems. One, per Wikipedia, "There is not enough computational capacity in the known part of the universe to have performed even [BB(6,2)] operations directly." And second, in order to know BB(27,2) for example, you'd have to prove which 27-state binary Turing machines halt and which ones don't. That means if Goldbach's conjecture has a 27-state representation, then you'd have to have already resolved it one way or the other to get BB(27,2). So it only lets you prove what you already know.
When your AI models operate on a vectorized space, then yes. Pipelines from real-to-vectorspace and synthetic-to-vectorspace can be extremely indistinguishable from each other. Basically a video game. This makes training on synthetic data extremely effective, if not for real inference, at the very least for transfer and curriculum learning.
NFTs aren't even the best option for pure financial speculation, stocks are much better. At least there the money being gambled can be put towards something productive. Plus it's much better for the gambler. Random stocks don't routinely lose 99.999% of their value in a matter of months.
If a state like North Korea, that brutally represses its population, is able to use a censorship resistant technology to escape US sanctions, the US should not respond by instituting highly repressive laws to contain that censorship resistant technology. This is totally counter-productive to the larger policy objective, of advancing the values of liberal democracy, like individual liberty, privacy and respect for human rights, that motivates opposition to the North Korean state.

If sanctions cannot be effectively enforced without repressing decentralized platforms, then the US should look to other tools of statecraft to combat problematic states like North Korea.
Huh, interesting. I always thought it was because, like me, D&D nerds were the ones in charge of naming things, so their gaming vocabulary trickled into their working vocabulary.

I'm not sure if this is more or less nerdy than my believed version, TBH.

EDIT: Forgot a very important word.... I need to have some caffeine =)
Apologies. Yes it seems a bit strong, but going by the understanding of field-data variability - I and few others in the area, feel that it would take nothing short of an absolute miracle to get to human-level error rate in diagnostic medicine. Hence, the confidence for the near future (5-10 years) and a disclaimer against the false notion of improving ML based outcomes. Sometimes negative results paint much truer pictures than amazing ones. Maybe if the paradigm changes for how we design generator networks, perhaps one day this presumption will be invalidated as you correctly pointed.

The whole craze about my application i.e. dermatology successes in ML spurred from the 2017 Nature paper, where skin cancer was detected as good or better than dermatologists. But technically, such experiments have design problems: We had apriori knowledge of the dataset (White N American Melanoma data) & hence we could ascertain the model performance. Real world data is much more variable. Further, later it was revealed that ML model latched on to the little marking physicians made rather than generalizing on lesions. 3 years later my experiments could model reliably only on 10 very common diseases & of a very uniform skin type and ethnicity. Those results were nowhere close to perfect.

The proposal to keep Human-in-the-loop is a much fairer alternative in ML aided medicine, than end to end machine learning. Most direction of research is headed that way. Physician assistance is much more reliable than potential replacement.

The trouble with synthetic data is that it doesn't address the extended variability in real population & generalization will always suffer. Also, doctors take multi-path decision, choice by elimination, past cases - based on several diagnostic inputs & even gut intuition. At that scale of input multimodality, Type I & II errors are at a scale higher than correct identifications. And we don't know how to teach intuition or imagination to machine models well enough. Those fall back to rule based methods & edge cases.
How can you know someone is cheating if you don't have anti-cheat software? How can you tell it's not simply a very very good player?

Also what if I don't have friends who play the same game and I'm not interested in making any?
Red-green issues are a benefit against most camouflage. It took me a *long* time to understand what the nature programs were saying about animals hiding in situations where they were totally obvious to me. How can you say that tiger is hiding in the grass???
"Get eggs while you're at the store!"

He's still there to this day...
This is also known as "privatized profits", "socialized risks".

The same thing happened after the financial crash of 2008. Banks demanded to be bailed out because of the systemic risk to the American financial system. But when people started to demand that banks claw back the bonuses paid out, the banks said no. They claimed that would be government overreach.

Ah, the irony....
> How else should you know whether your device can go at its full advertised speed?

Just say what speed it supports using which technology. SuperSpeed at X Gbps, SuperSpeed+ at Y Gbps, high speed at 480 Mbps. You can only use a speed both support.
The American socialist worldview is just broken
Except for the ability to easily take assets across borders to leave authoritarian regimes, bringing a form of storing assets to the 2 billion or so unbanked individuals of the world, and comparatively cheap remittances for people sending money back to their families in another country. These are just a few worth mentioning that quite literally change people's lives.