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I run Conduit as my main. It’s still behind on features but is active and very usable. No complaints.
The point of comparison was targeting the web.
No, it isn't. I've been doing it for the last decade or more. Just say no.
You're absolutely correct. Of course this phenomenon applies to exactly the framework and platform musical chairs that the industry plays. Politics is human and exists in all areas of life. Many things on the technical side have absolute reason to exist, because it would be impossible to build a complex system without them. Some things are BS. On the flip side, some things on the management side are absolutely essential to the profitable functioning of a company, but there is also a huge amount of room for BS to thrive. It's possible for profitable companies to exist basically due to the law of large numbers, but this is not possible on the technical side unless you are training ML models.
Thanks for the feedback. We agree that speed is incredibly important, and we're working on making searches much faster. We'll be iterating on the UI/UX as well, as we think that we can definitely do better and be more efficient with space.

I'd love to hear more about what you mean by "informationally dense" -- some search engines simply show more information on the results page, but that doesn't make results inherently better in my opinion because it frequently simply increases noise relative to signal.

Our current approach is to provide only the most relevant answers/code snippets and nothing else (high signal with low noise) as opposed to cramming in every Stack Overflow answer we can find. We realize we still have a long way to go to make it magical for every search, but we're working on it.
I posit there is a small positive non-lethal speed. Where are the MythBusters… :)
This is nothing but a meaningless amalgamation of buzzwords.

And what‘s that about the metaverse? Will they offer some kind of Lego VR experience in an existing application like VRChat or Horizon Worlds? Will they offer their own Lego focused online multiplayer sandbox application/game? Will they sell Lego stuff as NFT?

Am I going crazy, or does nothing here make any sense?
Except this kind of system (significant nepotism, open corruption, a government that people mostly don't have faith in, strongly charged with religious fervor and rhetoric) Is pretty much exactly what the more aggressive parts of the American Right are literally trying to make happen.

Oh, and they are succeeding spectacularly.
Goddamit I cringed so hard. I just had flashback from my previous job.
Of course it happens. I didn’t say, “it never happens.” I’m saying most dentists don’t behave that way.
Ding ding ding. This is the exact issue that a vocal minority are whingeing over github copilot for. It's automatically pasting results from websites without embedding the necessary attribution - so if you copy entire functions from this search engine (which may be coming from stack overflow for which attribution is required), then you're guilty of the same thing.

So I only see one of two outcomes:

1. Courts rule copilot is fair use in which case your search engine becomes largely superfluous

2. Courts rule copilot is infringement in which case all of these types of applications cannot be used commercially
The irony being that they then made the M1 Pro and M1 Max/Ultra that support more displays. In fact, I would be okay with it running dual displays like the mac mini where the internal display is disabled when two externals are connected. The M2, made after the M1 Pro still does not support multiple displays. It's an odd omission.
Didn't block it for me, and I also use Firefox (with several addons and tracking protection). Only blocks the YouTube video. Neat stuff btw!
Unless you want some special UI, No.

One example of "special UI" would be using methods from the "Progressive Web Apps" toolkit to make a local copy of a web site you could use offline. You should be able to introduce that into a site which is otherwise pretty ordinary.
It's the link that's created by Microsoft for their promo codes. Linking to the app's page itself would have been a problem because it's not free. It's only free with the promo code.

In another comment on this thread I added a link to the app's page, and the promo code as a self standing code so you can use it by yourself.

The login page is AFAIK a page to log in to your Microsoft account to use the code. But as mentioned above - see another comment of mine with the details of how to do it manually.
iOS has APIs for VPNs and “content blockers”. But as far as I know, such a filter has no access to know which process/application is trying to make a connection. Little Snitch on macOS has to install code into kernel space. (Or at least it used to; I have not reinstalled in a long time.)

The Android app you link to seems to have the functionality I think should exist as a built-in. It needs to be built-in so that non-geeks can use it.

Just as users are asked the first time an application attempts to use the microphone and are able to prevent it before it starts, they should be able to limit network access and revoke it at any time.

(I don’t think users should be necessarily be forced to approve Internet access for every app install. Just make it possible to revoke in the global Settings widget and encourage users to think about personal data and Internet access being mutually exclusive.)
Yeah, if you NEED to do a non web UI in BEAM land, there's basically this, scenic[1], or java bindings.

[1] https://github.com/boydm/scenic
Not worth complicating the UX to address such a minor issue.
If you have rights to keep your own DNA private, doesn't that practically require restrictions on relatives rights to publish their DNA?
True, but that's because history as a discipline has incredibly low standard of evidence. They collectively decided that since reliable evidence is often very difficult to produce, they will settle for what they can get. A lot of antique or even medieval historical figures are known from a single sentence in some chronicle written 100 years after their death.
Amazing work. Don't miss his previous video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_rzYnXEQlE
> The internet added<canvas />, but the internet stopped being one.

Wow, well stated. I particularly miss just seeing more original content written by people's personal experiences. Now, it seems like any Google search results in bloat-ware sites with a ton of journalistic fluff around a few data points that came out on a news wire.

I personally have some hope in the Gemini protocol returning some value to this space. It doesn't quite fit the "internet as a canvas" model, being text based with only links to images, but I think there is a lot of potential to bring more interesting content to the forefront again.
Also the scraped snippet appears at the top of the results a couple seconds after the results load and it causes all the results below it to suddenly jerk lower on the page
I think the other comment was right to call them out on hypocrisy. There really are people out there who put their beliefs before their own comfort and even productivity (see: Richard Stallman). Now, that doesn't make them right, but if you're going to defend an opinion, you may as well go all the way. Personally, seeing petty behavior like this doesn't exactly fill me with confidence for whatever product they maintain. I wish I could get paid to maintain random OSS projects too, but the lights gotta stay on and $3 GitHub donations only take you so far. There's nothing evil about working at a company like Facebook unless you're an evil person.
(I helped make the case internally at Shopify.) The key points we emphasized are in the Ruby Shield announcement, but to summarize:

- Attacks on supply chains are way up

- Use of open-source software is way up

- Shopify is already contributing engineering time to bundler and rubygems.org

- And there is additional shovel-ready work that Ruby Central could execute on with a financial contribution.

Proactive security work now reduces the chances of a successful supply chain attack and the costs associated with recovery, investigation, and mitigation in addition to reputational damage.

There are secondary benefits, too: when we're confident in the supply chain, we can more confidently update our dependencies in a timely fashion, meaning our developers have access to the newest library features; and we're able to patch known vulnerabilities faster. We invest a lot in feedback loops internally, and this is just another facet of that build/measure/learn cycle.
Is Human Intelligence Simple? Part 3: Disambiguating Types of Simplicity
I’m of the view that the completely illogical nature of their entire business and the absence of any meaningful security are deeply interwoven.

Rather than think of their primary business as securing digital assets, think of their primary business as convincing people that a perpetual money machine in the shape of a video game is possible. The valuable digital assets are just a narrative tool — and so it follows that they wouldn’t have the expertise in securing digital assets.

Nobody capable of building a secure system for digital assets would waste their time working for a company like Axie, after all, the entire premise of their business is flawed so people with the critical thinking skills necessary to build a secure system would apply that critical thinking to the viability of the company — and, of course, conclude it’s destined for failure and not hitch their wagon to it.
I remember reading about a country doing DNA collection of every single person born, since the 80s or something like that, leading to that country now sitting on the most extensive DNA database of its kind. I can't remember which country it was though. Searching for "most extensive DNA database" and similar just leads me to various voluntary databases from the US, but I think this database I'm thinking about was involuntary, and every single person in the country is basically registered in it.
10% of global turnover seems pretty substantial.

20% for repeat offenders.

I can't imagine any company in the world that will shrug that off.
It would be a good idea to enable this before going though any border controls. Doubly so for countries that require apps to be installed before entry/upon entry/after entry.

ArriveCAN (Canada), Mobile Passport Control (USA), WeChat (China), and other mandatory government apps would be perfect vectors to stage highly targeted attacks.
My understanding is that the optimizations haven't been implemented yet in the VM, but that this initial step is to enable the new bytecodes. Could be wrong.
Last I heard a Mac is a PC. Hey even phones are PCs. They're all personal computers. In fact I would say mac's are more often PC then windows machines. Windows machines are often not personal and are used my many people in big orgs in a shared corporate fashion.
Well, WUFFS the library is C code, but that's because in practice the language implementation is a Go program which emits C rather than machine code. There's no reason you can't compile WUFFS the language into, say, Rust, or PowerPC assembler, or a long series of letters to Princess Celestia [the FiM++ programming language], except that nobody did all that hard work.
No, they aren't, any more than an OS claiming "military grade encrypted boot drive" means they have a military.
Pretty sure it is actually a statement that comes from the "python is a scripting language" school, and not because the huge horde of programmers that craves concurrency when they write a script to reformat a log file to csv keeps being put off by the python multiprocessing story.
Perhaps you in fact forgot how to count lower than 50.
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Stunned by UFOs, ‘exasperated’ fighter pilots get little help from Pentagon
Find someone from [communications department], and ask them after the meeting - hey, can I pick your brain? Tell them you don’t understand and ask them to teach you. When they use high level buzzwords, ask “can you login to that system and show me?”. From my experience, they will be excited to teach you about their field and super interesting things can come of it.
Non-genetic descent is actually much stronger than that even.

When genes are sexually recombined, they don't recombine randomly per-base pair, they're cut and recombined in big strips. The chromosomes actually only 'snip' in a small number of places.

This means that after a relatively small number of generations, it's quite easy to have no genes at all from one of your ancestors.

I don't recall the exact numbers but it's something like 8-12 generations where you start having serious numbers of ancestors with no genetic connection.
There’s a Nasty Security Hole in the Apache Webserver
Something about that test rubbed me the wrong way. Like that the Package was pulling more watts than stated or some sort of bad firmware allowing for extreme temps. It's so odd to come from the M1 with nearly unused fans to being able to downright overheat the CPU so aggressively. Even the hottest tests on the M1 13inch MBP never ran the fans that high at all.
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Why leak it more than once, though? At this point, the facts are already well-established. It's just that we as a society apparently just don't care enough to hold our rulers accountable (with torches and pitchforks if necessary).
You can't which is why one person shouldn't have access to more than one.
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Not like that. The idea is antithetical to Apple, who have said during keynotes that they've tried to avoid doing so, because what they really want is a world where the concept of "mobile data" is not limiting.
They already run cloud VMs sharing CPU, the sharing already happens so why would it be somehow magically cheaper?

And how do you think they make money? Every second of a serverless architecture is probably 100s or 1000s times more expensive than a second of a traditional server.

Use your brain for 10 seconds, it's obviously going to be ridiculously overpriced for the compute you actually get. That's how they make money. And on top of that they have to do so much more orchestration and overhead to run it.

And bonus points, you're now locked into their architecture too!

If you have enough load to have a dedicated machine running at 10% CPU load on average, it'll be cheaper running a dedicated machine than anything else, you probably looking at old school VMs costing 2x more, cloud servers 10x more expensive and serverless would probably be at a minimum 20x more expensive.

We're not luddites, you're just a sucker.
I've got a good quote to add to the list:

"Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness"
- Werner Herzog

This article is pandering to the fears of wealthy investors who are confused and overloaded by the rapid changes occurring throughout the world right now. They know it's quite likely that some of them will lose their money and it's mostly about money with these people. Identity is wrapped up with money. Never fear, SK Ventures is here ("Subcritical Society" makes it sound mysterious and powerful.)

Like many people I am not worried because I don't have a lot to lose. Change is normal. Sometimes it happens fast, sometimes it happens slow. I am also confident in the belief that life will continue on planet Earth with or without humans and I live in a country where the chances of starving to death are slim to none, so my time on Earth is fairly secure.
I'd previously thought about using a Turing Pi board for this but never got around to it. Plus of course your limitation of not using ARM makes that a non-starter at the moment (and the official compute modules do not reach this level of performance but the Turing modules get close).

Nice write-up and cool looking end result!
I mean, I hope they'd at least vouch for you in a GoFundMe
Try this: think about what you do, then abstract it up into a named thing with inputs and outputs, and add a measure of how it changes over time.

A thermostat takes measurements and sends signals to the furnace and fans to optimize for a given temperature, and that temperature is a commitment to a habitable and comfortable home. That's what a manager does. They are thermostats.

The meeting you've described is a bunch of thermostats talking to each other about the temperature they affect, and the furnace and fans looking at each other and asking "wtf? just say more or less and past a point I need more fuel or electricity."

They're using abstractions to talk about relationships and power. What affects it, who has it, what the factors are. A channel is a category of potential customers with some common way to relate to them. A brand is a category of feelings strangers associate with your company and products. mono-/multi-/omni- means, "one, some, or all."

Managing something means extracting value from it. If you are an individual contributor who does work, at best you are managing things from which you extract value and pass it to your team. Managing people means extracting value from the work the team does and passing it along as commitments and outcomes to your execs. Managing relationships means extracting value from the interplay between different desires, needs, opportunities and possibilities as they change over time. Managing money means extracting value from assets that produce money.

Strategic anything means doing things that influence the balance or equillibrium of the things you manage. Multiple things happening at once is called a "dynamic." As a category, all management is extracting value from a dynamic. All dynamics are the relative equillibria of stuff that changes, and managing them requires sustaining the equillibrium of a dynamic - or influencing it without disrupting it so as to cause it to yield its value in a particular way.

Very few people are actually dumb, but most average people can manage, because it's a knack for a very specific human ability to play things off each other. Writing code and building things is not managing, but running code and services is. Building doesn't scale well, but managing dynamics scales almost infinitely.

The reason managers usually earn more money is because they extract value from more sophisticated dynamics of things than an individual simply solving problems and operating on things. Further, sometimes solving problems reduces their ability to be leveraged in a larger dynamic, and solving problems can even destroy value.

This is why I often tell clients in large organizations, their stuff isn't broken, you just can't see who it is working for.
I stayed at a hotel that used this. It's a very nice, efficient system. Much better than everybody cramming into the next elevator that arrives and selecting a bunch of floors.
This is exciting news! What's also exciting is that it's not just C++ that can run on this supercomputer; there is also good (currently unofficial) support for programming those GPUs from Julia, via the AMDGPU.jl library (note: I am the author/maintainer of this library). Some of our users have been able to run AMDGPU.jl's testsuite on the Crusher test system (which is an attached testing system with the same hardware configuration as Frontier), as well as their own domain-specific programs that use AMDGPU.jl.

What's nice about programming GPUs in Julia is that you can write code once and execute it on multiple kinds of GPUs, with excellent performance. The KernelAbstractions.jl library makes this possible for compute kernels by acting as a frontend to AMDGPU.jl, CUDA.jl, and soon Metal.jl and oneAPI.jl, allowing a single piece of code to be portable to AMD, NVIDIA, Intel, and Apple GPUs, and also CPUs. Similarly, the GPUArrays.jl library allows the same behavior for idiomatic array operations, and will automatically dispatch calls to BLAS, FFT, RNG, linear solver, and DNN vendor-provided libraries when appropriate.

I'm personally looking forward to helping researchers get their Julia code up and running on Frontier so that we can push scientific computing to the max!

Library link: <https://github.com/JuliaGPU/AMDGPU.jl>
I can't even get out of bed for less than 3 peer bonuses!
I have observed that even when all parties know someone is full of BS, it can still be quite difficult to fight against it. It takes much more energy to debunk than lie. Lies, once spoken take on a weird truth of their own.
At first, you're ignorant. Then, dogmatic. And then you learn what to apply and when.

Due to the average age of programmers, a lot of people fall into the first two categories.
Will Buy-Now-Pay-Later Businesses Ever Make Money (spreadsheet)?
How do I go about deselecting other people's choices, if that's my specific goal? I can get whatever I want in Jira, but nothing in elevators. It's fucked.
>> - Configuration profiles cannot be installed, and the device cannot enroll into mobile device management (MDM), while Lockdown Mode is turned on.

> HMM ... there are hardening settings only available through Configurator or MDM profiles. Will those be defaulted on as well?

Reading between the lines here - on lockdown mode, you can't install a profile, or enroll in MDM. What it doesn't say, is that you can't enable lockdown mode with a profile installed, or if enrolled in MDM.

I take this to mean, with lockdown turned on, I can't install profiles or enroll in MDM (but presumably could uninstall profiles or unenroll from MDM).
France's EDF says hot summer could hit nuclear output
Thanks, this is actually for an academic setting, so a good match.

I like the "as much ram as you can get" recommendation, and will probably aim for ~512GB which is a cost-effective maximum.

The thought of splitting it into multiple machines has occurred to me, but I'm discouraged by anything that creates distributed problems.

There is MPI, but it's cumbersome and performance depends highly on the network (I guess I'll have 10G).

Batch management such as slurm works, but also has quite some overhead.
Some things are near impossible to distribute, i.e. some algorithms with large matrices. That's why a single e.g. 64 core machine seems more attractive.

But I'll take to heart all the recommendations for rack-mount - seems this is a way to prevent a lot of headaches.
Not sure I understand your point, can you clarify? Python is used across many different domains, being able to really take advantage of multiple cores would be a big deal.

I'd really appreciate if python included concurrency or parallelism capabilities that didn't disappoint and frustrate me.

If you've tried using the thread module, multiprocessing module, or async function coloring feature, you probably can relate. They can sort of work but are about as appealing as being probed internally in a medical setting.
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Air also lacks far more ports, MiniLED, 120Hz, the M1 Pro's GPU, 8GB of ram, and cooling. I would expect the M1 Pro's Ram to be faster as well. Finally the M1 Pro supports dual display out while the M2 does not. That $500 still goes pretty far.
I'm sorry I had forgotten at the time. I almost got to work with him at Google. I agree he's a net positive for humanity (I used numeric heavily back in the day)
How is this different than Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft handed over control of Azure in China to a Chinese company years ago.
I have enhanced tracking protection on and the images loaded OK for me, FWIW.
It is quite simple, as it pertains to the matter phase as being of solid, gaseous, liquid, or supercritical (sometimes plasma) state.

As with any attempt at delta measurement of energy, you need that starting reference point being used by your test instrument and that method of measurement is likely not to be the same one for different matter phases: Heisenburg uncertainty principle comes to mind here.