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Like so many others here, I keep a personal blog.

https://biotinker.dev/

I like to write up neat projects that I do. The first post on the site actually helped me get my current job. Occasionally I'll also write up other things that cross my mind that I find interesting, such as the most recent climate post.

Working on another one describing the process of automating a greenhouse.
Pair it with GPU acceleration for smooth and low CPU overhead playback for livestreams:

mpv -vo=gpu --hwdec=vaapi --gpu-context=wayland https://www.twitch.tv/gorgc
Niobium superconducts at 9.3K, so that would be a pretty cold household!
Old friends? As if I had any of those. I agree with you hits home. Father of 3, between work and family it is hard to connect with anyone. I have no father, mother, grandparents, uncles aunts etc. Alone is the new normal it seems. My local church has male gatherings but I am the only one under 60. Fun!
Their support is easily the best among all SaaS and FaaS vendors I've used. Can't stress this enough, it's the main reason I would never go to Azure or GCP. I've had many maddening experiences with Google's and Microsoft's support.
> Musk’s lawyers would like to make this case into a complicated factual dispute over spam bots. A complicated factual dispute will take longer;... Taking longer is to Musk’s advantage. ... Musk’s financing commitments expire in April 2023; if he can push the conclusion of this case past then, then he won’t have financing, so he — arguably — can’t be forced to close the deal.

This one's new for me.
Happy to see that vulnerability names keep going deeper into the metal space: they seem to be making small steps from dad-heavy-metal into the territory of black and doom, corresponding to sometime in the 1970s.

I, of course, will continue to advocate for full-on grindcore. “Putrid Air Carries Pestilent Waves of Betrayal and Decay” or gtfo.
> The data on whether this works in general is very, very muddy.

My spouse, with about a decade of teaching experience at the time, once had a former student drop out of high school and start working at as a gas station clerk at a major chain.

The student was making almost as much as my spouse, and if she stuck with it she'd be out-earning my spouse in a year or two. Total comp, benefits included, not talking just wages (school worker benefits are not and have not for some time been that good, really, and at least in my area are now pretty poor compared to offerings in the private sector). Clerking at a gas station. As a high-school dropout.

I'm pretty confident teacher pay is so bad that this "raising pay will draw worse candidates" (where the fuck is that hand-wringing when CEO pay comes up at board meetings? Any pro sports teams worrying they might pay too much to attract good players?) thing is not a real effect worth worrying about, if we're talking pay increases for teachers that are anywhere in a remotely plausible range.

> Really, any job that lots of people are drawn to by the love of it gets crap compensation by default. It affects the supply curve too much.

Sure, and as is typical you get some good people who are semi-retired from a better-earning career or have a much higher-earning spouse, who don't really need the salary at all. You don't get the trust-fund kids as much, as in other careers that are similarly pro-social or artistic, since teacher social status is somewhere under the floor, but otherwise it's similar.

But that's not enough, and I don't think paying teachers 50-75% of what any decent teacher could make doing something else with a teaching degree—not even assuming some entirely different life-path—is a great way to get a good candidate pool. Enough bodies, based solely on some idealistic drive (check in again in 5 years, let alone 10, on how well that's doing sustaining them, and for the ones who do need the money, which is most of them, on how their financial situation is adding to the stress that's driving them out of teaching) sure, but not enough good candidates. And it's not enough to keep the good ones around.
This is a philosophical assumption, and one that should be open to challenge, despite how intuitively sensible it seems.

For instance, I could equally well argue that when somebody undergoes deep general anesthesia and all measurable activity in their brain stops, that person is "dead". The person who awakens from anesthesia is a different conscious individual, who happens to share the memories and personality of the original.

If it's not necessarily true that anesthesia is death, why should it be necessarily true that mind uploading is death?
It can also use SDL or DRM to render video on the console. I use this for viewing video and images (even pdfs, with imagemagick) without a graphical environment.
the docs/paper for roaring bitmap says it's to be used for large datasets, but I must have missed where "large" is defined. In practice, how large does a set have to be to take advantage of roaring bitmaps?
Very cool. How does it work? AFAIK there's no Apple API's for this(?)
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Very. It's extremely tourist-friendly. With the exception of grocery store cashiers, everyone I interacted with spoke at least some English.
> It's ok for a culture to suck at something.

I completely agree with the pricinple.

But British comedy in particular has the same reputation as British rock music. It's universally considered one of the best in the world, and your opinion on this matter seems like a very weird outlier.
"It's not like this is back alley drug dealing."

Honestly, I feel the more you delve into the pharma business, the less it seems to differ from back alley drug dealing, apart from the marketing & lobbying budgets.
I loved blogs, I loved the vibe (like newsletters today) and I loved RSS (way better than email for receiving information. IN fact I am creating a project, and It will have updates by RSS. Why? Because I f**ing love it.
Anyone have an elevator pitch of the dithering technique? Is it consistent across mip levels and camera angles? Does it take samples or is it just math?
Then unionize and/or quit. The company is not going change otherwise.
My friend and I implemented this a couple of years ago. It is no longer maintained but the general ideas still apply. Very few social media sites use standard text areas which makes maintaining compatibility a total PITA.

https://github.com/XCF-Babble/babble

There is another group that fully supports an E2EE Facebook https://github.com/DimensionDev/Maskbook
RSS has been alive this whole time. Blogs usually have it by default, the big news organizations have it.

The only thing I'm not satisfied with reading news on RSS, is that news organizations push too many articles, to the point that reading the headlines alone takes quite some time. There's nearly 100 articles per day per source sometimes. Unlike a newspaper, which has a natural structure of priority and hierarchy, in an RSS reader, every head line has the same salience, and it's a pain to weed out what's important.

I kinda hope news organizations would make a separate "weekly digest feed", 30 or so articles per week.
I drink that in a year. No big difference from start to finish.
In the UK, certainly England (not sure if different in Northern Ireland), by law abortion is not 'on demand' and carrying one out as such (on demand without meeting legal criteria) is technically a criminal offense, though in practice this does not seem to be really enforced.

I believe that the law states that abortion can be carried out for specific "health or social reasons".

Edit, legal framework: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_the_United_Kingdom

So it seems in general they are using a 'fudge' by invoking risk to "mother's mental health" but again legally there is no "on demand" abortion in the UK.

Edit 2: I find it odd that people seem to be displeased by a statement of, I think, important facts. If anything, people in favour of "on demand" abortion should lobby for a law change in the UK because at it stands a woman can legally be denied an abortion and a doctor carrying an abortion can be charged with a criminal offense (in a country that prides itself of having the "rule of law".)

I invite you to Google about decriminalisation of abortion in the UK to see that this is an active issue because, indeed it is not currently decriminalised.
I use every opportunity I can find to shill for Bret Devereaux's blog, I think its one of the most wonderful things on the internet. He discussed and challenged that common adage that is often portrayed in films.

https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...
The problem with this argument is that some people obviously don’t care about the philosophical problem, and so they will use the mind uploader.

Sure, many people will think “it’s not _me_ that lives on”. And the rest of the normal people will see their loved ones apparently (from the outside) living on in digital form, and ignore the philosophical questions entirely.

Even if only .1% of people upload their minds, that still produces a massive sociological shift.
Psychics and Tarot Readers Are Under Siege by Instagram Scammers
Which creates at strong incentive not to tell anyone you're close to AGI. And to even actively say you aren't when you are.
In fact, mid range "fancy" resteraunts often have a "boyfriend special" cheapo burger and fries, with nothing fancy or special about it, for when you don't have the taste, or wallet, for overproduced, overpriced "we cut this normal food into weird shapes" meals.
Set up a Redis pub-sub: https://redis.io/docs/manual/pubsub/

The code for the websocket subscribes to Redis. The webhook will publish to Redis.

The sequence of actions is now that you send the client to the PSP, which will hit the webhook, that publishes to Redis, that the server side of the websocket is receiving, that realizes it should send the message to the client, that receives the message from the websocket, that then tells the client to redirect.
> Would you rather that head be a Human or a God?

I think we can agree that even at the absolute height of the power of the Catholic Church, the head has always been a human.
Yes, it's possible to set custom domain name (email me using at the email in my profile) - it's a manual process for now.

Not possible for now to change default name though! You can either create new site with new name and delete this one (or again, email me).

Agree about FAQ! I started making FAQ https://docs.montaigne.io/faq but didn't finish it yet.
https://vimeo.com/44235657

The perfect abstract does not exist and one that can do everything is the one that doesn’t have the abstraction to begin with. I.E. use the underlying API directly
The first clause says you can't misrepresent ownership.
> 8chan/8kun has been linked to white supremacism, neo-Nazism, antisemitism, multiple mass shootings, and is known for hosting child pornography.

While I do not doubt that some of the discussions were legitimate political speech, it sounds like there was a lot more going on.
These kinds of things assume critical importance in the design of an aircraft cockpit.

For example, the lever that controls the landing gear has a little tire for the knob. The flap controls have a knob shaped like a flap. All so you know what the control is without needing to look (or the cockpit is filled with smoke).

The common theme with all these designs is they are driven by accidents. For some strange reason, humans are pretty bad at creating intuitive designs. It's only usage that makes it clear, and it always seems obvious in hindsight.

For example, aviation has standardized phrases for things, to avoid confusion. For decades, the maximum power setting on the engines was "takeoff power". I kid you not. This was fixed after a crash caused by the pilot yelling "take off power" to do a go-round, and the copilot idled the engines. This was in civil aviation. The Air Force had to undergo a crash as well to change "takeoff power".

The lead Boeing cockpit designer of the 757 explained to me that every intuitive cockpit feature was paid for in blood.
This comment is recklessly dismissive of subsidiarity. Public libraries would have been set back decades, at least, without 'bored rich guys' making huge strides to spread the concept and build many libraries. Hospitals and universities are likewise benefeciaries of 'bored rich guys'.

There is a large public resource in question, the public school. All US Americans should be more or less familiar with public schools that make very poor use of those resources as suggested by our top-in-class spending per pupil and middling achievement levels. In this case a school had a great resource, a 'bored rich guy' with the requisite background and focus, and they recognized and took advantage of this fact.

In plenty of other circumstances in life, power struggles or many other flavors of bureaucracy would have prevented this outcome. In the linked story, this effort was allowed to flourish and supported, which is to the great credit of the school and probably the wider community. Consequently, a significant group of students are receiving phenomenal educations that extend far beyond the narrow scope of high school math curricula, and they are doing it seemingly all under the tutelage of a single teacher.
… and that’s not a bad thing!

I don’t know what the opposite of “Not Invented Here Syndrome” is. But these days I swear all anyone wants to do is MacGyver together three dozens layers and frameworks and pray the spit holds it together.

If you know what you want, and no tools does it, then just roll your own. Inventing Things Here is criminally underrated.
Agreed -- and, even worse, in my experience they don't even know about more than 20% of the opportunities.
heh that's interesting to think about. Imagine the executioner leaves the room and then comes back. How would they know which version of you to kill?
Then at that point, you might as well use Gemini or not render the document to HTML. I would expect to see more use of ASCII art and box model drawing from the Unicode blocks. The thing is this “hacker aesthetic” via Markdown from the GitHub RENDERME.md—because you can rarely read the plaintext anymore—is now percolating the use of the unsemantic elements to the general internet. I’m seeing misuse of blockquotes in the wild. I’m seeing manual table of content management in Markdown. The list continues. Because the context is HTML, one should probably try to follow the spec because this matters to screen readers and alternate browsers like the TUI as well as just general parsability for upstream and downstream tools.
You’re correct that the average American non-saver can afford less house with high interest rates. This would be good news for savers however.
This "my particular country doesn't import most of its cattle from Brazil" doesn't mean that you're not creating demand and perhaps also influencing the market in a way that someone's beef is. (Collectively, obviously.) The argument sounds similar to "but my country isn't polluting, it's China where we order all our stuff!" And, yeah, animal feed like others already said. It's all not quite as simple as "source? I don't believe I'm part of the problem by creating demand for meat here" coming from the country where the average person contributes the most to global warming
On monetization it's not even close afaik. Some YouTubers make seven figures, and I don't know that blogging can get there. Although if some bloggers are making seven figures I'd be intrigued. Several YouTubers voluntarily discuss their numbers.
I think feedly has features to help filter less popular articles
I like it quite strong. Just under a kilo a week approximately. I start to drink it in the morning and stop around 14.00 I drink tea after that.
My policy is to just ignore these. There's so much content out there it's not hard to find other (proper) podcasts to listen to.
But the reality is that gas is used to generate electricity in Germany. That gas is supposed to be used elsewhere in places where it cannot easily be substituted. Instead of relying on nuclear for that energy production Habek is all about coal, which is - no matter how you twist it - worse than nuclear.
Hum... We inhabit that temperature exactly because it allows for a wide range of chemical reactions in a controlled fashion.

The Anthropic Principle is not luck.

We are lucky that those interesting things are possible. We are also unlucky that many interesting things are not possible. But given that they are possible, it was almost inevitable that most of them would be possible around us.
Marcan is quite the talented reverse engineer and low level engineer. From watching him on YouTube, and a small bit of research into his past (Wii/PS3 pwning), he figures out ways to creatively solve problems, and provide himself with fast feedback on the tough problems he works on. M1n1 is case and point.
Yes, it makes me feel more like a person, even if nobody reads it. It turns my personal investigations into random things into permanent writing, which makes me feel like I'm building something instead of fruitlessly spinning my wheels in solitude.
> I agree, but we have a whole lot of data that indicates that raising comp often has perverse effects.

Better tell waves hands at the entire private sector. They don't seem to have gotten that message. Seems like an opportunity to start a company paying 30% under your competition, so you can out-compete them by getting better workers.
I know that Krebs can be pretty polarizing to a lot of people, but let's look at what actually happened here.

>On Sunday, July 10, KrebsOnSecurity contacted Psychz Networks, a hosting provider in Los Angeles, to see if they were aware that they were the sole Internet lifeline for 8kun et. al. Psychz confirmed that in response to a report from KrebsOnSecurity, VanwaTech was removed from its network around the time of the Jan. 6 hearing on Tuesday.

So, he called and asked something to the effect of, "Hey, did you know that you're the only provider for 8kun? Any comment for my report?" and we're to take that as Krebs "[deciding] that political speech is a security threat to the Internet, and he is actively working to further the censorship"?

I'm not quite sure that I can make that leap as easily as you can.
Why not import from CSVs? I use hledger and I import CSVs all the time to do my transactions. Without it, I think it would be impossible for me to stay on top of my finances. GNUCash does support CSV imports IIRC.
While congratulations are in order for the team I don't know by what standards the writer judges them to be the "greatest". I have not heard of "Mu Alpha Theta" until reading this article. The standard (as in "most participated") math competition sequence is AMC 10/12, AIME, USA(J)MO, IMO. For teams Math Count (for middle schoolers) and ARML are also popular. The winners at these events are so exceptional it is hard to see a formula to their success other than extraordinary talents and efforts. That being said I did observe that in my son's public high school the math team members very much teach and inspire each other.
100%. I used to think I loved it. I did. I just didnt love it so much that I was willing to be broke my entire life. I had other options. I took one which lead me to a career I enjoy a lot.

I know folks from when I was performing a lot who are still doing it and doing it at a high level. Almost every single one of them didnt have other options. I mean they COULD have done something else but they would jump off a building before going into an office 5 days a week.
My impression is that those trade/tech "expos" in the 19th century were really a massive acceleration force of innovation and industrialization. To the point that I could imagine that the lack of such expositions might be an explaining factor why the Roman empire never experienced an industrial revolution. Nowadays they're less important because they've been replaced by conferences (which are the same idea dialed up to 11, I'd argue, and no less important in driving innovation). Maybe I'm going completely off here, but would be interesting to read an analysis.
Here are some of the original papers for the technique. Although I believe there have been some updates and improvements since.

https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01824773/file/HPN2018.pdf
https://www.jcgt.org/published/0008/04/02/paper.pdf
My friend once asked the workers at ColdStone to mix some lasagna into an ice cream. It was disgusting.

Not directed at you, more at the zeitgeist of boutique places mixing seemingly absurd things: Putting random shit together doesn't make you "unique" or "special" or "creative", sometimes it just means you didn't put much thought into something.
I shipped a .NET Core product on a handful of Raspberry Pi's running whatever the current version of Debian was at the time. That's cross platform enough for me.
Apple has had a lead on using TSMC's latest process. However the lead in iGPU performance and perf/watt is a fair bit larger than you'd expect from the process differences.

I'm still puzzled why during a long GPU shortage where supply was short and prices insane that nobody in the x86-64 world managed a > 128 bit wide memory interface to benefit of an iGPU. Apple desktops and laptops have options for 256, 512, and even 1024 bit (on the studio) wide memory systems.
I like my M1 Macbook Air, it's powerful enough to do heavy duty stuff but great on battery life
If it has a range then it's not a fact.
I think you missed the biggest reason this doesn't do much for servers - they already run at low frequencies & voltages.

For example take the Epyc 7742, at 225W it sounds super power hungry. But the 64-core chip only boosts to 3.4ghz max (2.25ghz base). That's less than the base clock of almost any of the Ryzen consumer CPUs. And if you look at the lower frequency end of https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16214/PerCore-1-5950X.png there's not a whole heck of a lot of efficiency gains likely to be had below that ~3-3.4ghz mark. They're already basically sipping power at something like 3w per CPU core or less. 225w / 64c = 3.5w/c, but the IO uncore isn't exactly cheap to run and iirc sits more like in the 50-70w range. So subtract that out and you're at more like 2.5-2.7w/c. I don't think throwing cooling at this is really going to get you much of a gain.
I took a class with Donald Norman and did a work study internship with him. At the time I had no idea who he was and wasn't particularly interested in the class. I was working in neuroscience lab at the time and I thought that would be my career direction. He was the head of the Cognitive Science department.

The most amazing thing was the way he taught. It was almost all stories and anecdotes. He didn't start with the theory he started with a problem or a situation, often a case study. He used the example as a way to explain the theory or the issue at hand. Ultimately you did read a lot of research or theoretical papers but because you started from a real world problem it was never boring.

At the time it was just a class that surprised me by being much more interesting than I expected. Ultimately it was about the most useful class I ever took.
You can still actively cool socketed RAM.
I tried Azure 1 year ago and I was really shocked to see failures to deploy basic things like VMs or AKS, failures that required to contact support to get fixed. And support took several days to answer... WOW
Could imagine that Minecraft servers are very good candidates for later upgrades.
I feel like words have lost all meaning when we're calling removing a date from a blog article "hostile." It's only so for non-evergreen content, anyway. There's plenty of technical content that is just as relevant today even though it was written 2, 5, 10 years ago.

Edit for clarification: By no means am I saying that it's bad to have dates, or that we shouldn't have them. They make sense a lot of times, it's just kind of silly to call it hostile to the reader.