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Samsara [1][2], from 2011, is a more recent take on the same theme, directed by Koyaanisqatsi’s cinematographer, Ron Fricke. Shot on 70mm film over the course of 5 years in 25 countries, it’s every bit as awe inspiring and chilling as the earlier film.

[1]: https://youtu.be/iQzpExpsezI

[2]: https://youtu.be/HCkEILshUyU
At even moderate traffic levels car speeds fall dramatically and often below speeds offered by trains. Trains have much higher capacities and so don’t fall victim to congestion as easily. And even commuter trains have higher speeds than cars.
Thanks. I hate how every article I read had neither a picture or video of the robot.
I really feel that Google is such a brittle empire. From the endless canceled services, the apparently useless layers of complexity in their various dashboards to stories such as this one, I have the impression that Google is always one or two missteps away from losing its dominant position. I very well might be reading too much into these stories, but still, I can't shake this feeling.
As per the pawn thing, welcome to the club. I’m writing from neighboring Romania, we lost some part of our territory to you guys when we were the pawns and you were part of an imperial entity that was doing its thing, I’m talking about the USSR, of course.

It sucks, but you have to manage expectations, i.e. that barring some unexpected event the smaller political entity will always have a lot more to lose in a battle against an imperial-like entity. Again, we, Romanians, had to learn that the hard way ever since the 1400s, when the Ottomans came around this part of the world.
> This is my problem with de facto utilities that are not regulated like utilities.

No, this is your problem with monopolies. The fix is anti-trust enforcement, not slapping the word "utility" around.
But you can install your own OS. You can't disable this tool via another OS.

Particularly now that heterogeneous computing is making it big, video decoding can easily just be made not to work unless this tech stack okays it--regardless of the OS.

This chip could all out disable other operating systems if they don't provide the spyware telemetry that Microsoft requires.
the East Australian Current?
Gimme some shell bro!
I guess to me I see that as isomorphic; you're still qualifying the output, even if there's an intermediate step involved. The path towards qualifying the output of the sophisticated compiler may be more indirect, but you're still doing it.
With VNC and RDP you have to mess with IP addresses, network configuration, quality/bandwidth settings, etc., which is a tall hurdle for general remote tech support. With TV, the other person simply shares a code, and the connection is much more stable.
Of course they would have an income source. They would sell space on their pages to Google Ads or any competitors, like most websites or media companies (newspaper, tv).
Indeed that's a recent impression. I wasn't looking for Canal+ when I watched (many of) those older films.
Absolutely agree with all of this. I think a person trying to dip their toe into cooking could easily get the impression online that it's way more precious and difficult than it really is.
Yes. Good thing to ground them, but it also shows these vehicles are not ready. Even if its an act of sabotoge, like someone shooting at the battery. It would not happen with a regular diesel bus.
If you're in the US there are not really any truly banned books. There are books that are banned from certain libraries (mostly school libraries).

But, imagine that a school adopts the DRM processes described in the article and requires this study level of control even on personal devices that are used for school. Suddenly those book bans can be enforced digitally by the school and will totally cut off access to certain books that the school chooses.

You might say that it's within the school's rights to do this for a device that is used for school and if you don't like it then use a different device. Now that's a system where there is a class-divide on the information that one is physically able to consume on their devices.

You might think Mein Kampf is ban-worthy, but the whole point is actually that you should not ban any book at all, because once you start banning books it becomes far too easy for more books to be banned. All it will take is one regime change in a school district's PTA for new books, that you maybe think should not be banned, to be added to the list.

It's worth considering the most banned books in America. His Dark Materials. A fantastic young adult fantasy novel that pokes harder at religion than some Christians can bear.
you can use their web version if you are in a pinch and have rusdesk client running at your home/office machine. since you know the password, you can get access quickly...

this is like vnc but better. RDP is another beast altogether. i use rustdesk and RDP on a daily basis and they are for different things.
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So I agree that transferring of value and for payments is where the usefulness is, but I think there are two reasons why the adoption is lagging:

1. Most people only care about speculation, and don't care at all what cryptocurrencies are or what they can do. And Monero doesn't do much for these people.

2. Monero is more inconvenient to use than Bitcoin is. SPV wallets aren't possible, so you need to rescan all outputs since you last opened your wallet which is very time consuming. Also you need to wait 10 blocks (~20 min) before you can spend an input, but with other cryptos you can spend a 0-conf transfer immediately.

It's unfortunate because Monero really is a better Bitcoin.
I posted down below as well, but I think wind is going to be a big issue for them. A 170km long, 500m tall wall is about the least aerodynamic thing I can think of. I would anticipate that wind issues will be substantial.

My napkin math said that if peak wind speeds hit it dead on, the wind will impart a force of 156N/m^2. A 1 meter wide slice will have to absorb roughly the force of 3 Tesla Model S' pushing on it at full throttle. Across the entire wall, the force is roughly equal to that generated by 381 Saturn V rockets at lift-off.

The other problem is price; they're almost certainly off by at least a couple orders of magnitude. The Burj Rafal is 308m tall with a 20,000m^2 base, and cost $320m, which comes out to $520/m^3. $500bn for this comes out to $29.41/m^3. That price for the Burj Rafal probably doesn't include public infrastructure (electricity generation, water cleaning, sewers, etc), and Neom will be way too big to piggyback on an existing system.

It's a neat idea, I agree I hope they build it, but I hope they do so cautiously. Build a kilometer or three and then revisit the design and costs. Starting with a 170km version of it almost assures that it never actually gets finished.
I had an acquaintance who spent a week or so learning about ethereum and NFTs, threw together a quick NFT site, generated some images and make nearly 500k in a weekend selling these to suckers.

I think he did believe in it, but that's independent of the fact that acting quick on this made him a good chunk of cash with very little effort.

Is that sustainable? of course not. It's also not my particular cup of tea as far as making money goes, but I would hardly say he's "not smart" for getting involved when he did and turning a quick buck.
As I mentioned in several other threads over the past months. Companies will do whatever it takes to protect their stock price. Googlers will soon be presented to the chopping block.

Top execs are compensated in stock. Almost all turn around and cash out like a revolving door. They will cause hell to protect their upside over the short term.
I'm putting the finishing touches on my own[1] wiki/personal knowledge base and eventually decided against any categorization whatsoever.

The main reason being that I don't want to be caught up wasting time _curating_ my notes. Which all other note-keeping software seems to encourage or require. My notes are a tool that I depend on simply to function adequately and are neither hobby nor art. I don't want to answer the same questions over and over like:

* Which category does this page fit into?

* If there are two categories, which is more important?

* Which set of tags most accurately describes the content of this page?

* And will those change when I edit it later?

I find all of my content in three ways:

1. Most articles have one obvious title, e.g. "Python" or "Proxmox". I have a shortcut set up in my browser so that when I go to the URL bar, I type "w python" and it will take me to the page in my notes about Python.

2. The wiki has a very good search engine, which can search page titles and page bodies. Similar to the above, I type "ws python" to get search results of all pages that mention "python" somewhere in them.

3. Very occasionally, I will click on a link on one page to go to another page.

And what would be the point of categorizing all my notes? Every single time I go to my wiki, it's to either write down something specific or search for something specific. I have _never_ wanted to see a list of all of my pages about programming languages for example. Or every page tagged "bash".

I think as software engineers building our own tools, we sometimes build features because they sound interesting and we know how to do it, or because the project doesn't "feel" complete without them. Not because we'll ever actually use them.

When I _do_ want to break up a large subject (e.g. Python) into multiple pages, I just create one "Python" page and link to all of the others from that page.

The one concession I've made to categorization/organization is that I've added a feature where two pages can be marked as "related" to one another. This is mainly to avoid having a manually-edited "See Also" section on pages that touch upon topics covered on other pages.

[1]: https://github.com/cu/silicon
That's the path the FCC is going down, with starting to implement "Know Your Customer" rules similar to banks that require them to gather enough information to prevent easily setting up fake accounts.
But you could work around it at the software level.

With this tech stack, you wouldn't be able to.
I share most of these sentiments, but I also don't know how much of this is my own wistful "those were the days..." sentimentality and how much of it is based on a those old Us being actually easier to use in practice.

As far as usability, I do think computers have become easier for non-experts to use, especially for basic tasks. I definitely remember helping some very confused people being completely overwhelmed by what to click on, what deeply nested menu was needed, etc., when just trying to browse the web or check their email. Those basic workflows have gotten better.

In many ways I think modern interfaces are more about mobile first, touch based influences, and moving away from keyboard and multi-button mouse based interfaces. Stripping things down to the very basics is almost required now, given the devices people use. You can't "middle click to paste" on an iPad.
You can pay a college art student to replicate the Mona Lisa, but the value will be nowhere close to the original.

Artificial scarcity is merely a signal/status booster in a virtual world where post-abundance is present.

If you are in a VR world and want to mingle with other fellow “tribe members”, what signal do you go off of that’s hard to replicate?
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe Review
So, you didn't notice that video playback in Firefox isn't hardware accelerated and stutters a lot? (Firefox' sandbox prevents itself from creating the OpenGL context needed for hardware accelerated video playback).
As mentioned in another comment, I'm from India. $150 translates to about Rs 12000. That's indeed enough to cover rent (the place is more than fit for 2 people), food, maid service, etc. This wouldn't work in a bigger city (which was one of the reasons I left one) and I could further cut down expenses if I moved to a smaller town. Internet is via mobile, cheap and connection issues are rare (in fact, it has been better than broadband I had earlier).
Apparently it has also been banned in places for Fatphobia among other progressive reasons[0].

[0] When It Comes to Banning Books, Both Right and Left Are Guilty | Opinion: https://www.newsweek.com/when-it-comes-banning-books-both-ri...
I look forward to "Freedom Dressing"
I'll point out that you're still doing the thing where you equate "software" with "apps".

But even so, that doesn't seem informative. Ask any user how many "Qualcomm apps" they use, or "Meta apps", or "Intel apps". No one knows where this stuff comes from. They buy a phone with a label on the box and then download stuff from an app store.

That's not a statement about how the software is produced, it's just how the market presents products to consumers. People don't know where the gas that goes into their cars comes from either, but that's not an argument that petroleum distillation technology is a failure.
Games market themselves as simulations, but in the end of the day a game needs to be fun, and overly accurate or complex simulations easily get in the way of that.
The old trick is to find a house where the owner is on a long vacation or not around and mail it there. Of course you could lose your package, so adjust risk appropriately.
Considering the precipitous decline in Oscar viewership over the last decade, it's safe to say Hollywood's death grip on American film and television is all but broken these days. The jump in the most recent Oscars viewership has more to do with tabloid antics (i.e. "the slap") than anything else, and even then it was still the second worst year on record.
Strategy is working perfectly fine. Just escalate issue to Hacker News. Google wins again
I don't know where you're from but I view this sort of argument as basically american parochialism. The numbers don't mean anything, noticing square laws exist doesn't really have any affect on this domain. The dozens or hundreds of practical accommodations due to climate, culture, history, funding, aesthetics etc etc add up to much greater than "range ^ 2" or whatever.

Other configurations do work, in different ways and to varying degrees, all over the world. The people there aren't meaningfully less free because of the transit structure around them, and in fact the cars-only model is the absolute most restricting one you can have, given the obvious fact that not everyone can drive at all stages of their lives.

American society is structured around the idea that all gains outside the most private spheres rightfully belong to the corporate entities that can control them. But that isn't a given either; many places don't work that like and it's not necessary that we do.
I would agree that the "ROI" of hosting your own blog is super high. Writing for other sites or working with a marketing agency that specializes in tech content like Fixate.io, is a great way to get your content on existing commercial and non-commercial blogs. And sometimes get paid. This often is even better for your resume because it is higher visibility.
I think avatar data is stored in a cache file, so banning modified clients won't necessarily prevent rips.
Some friends in the US are really non-ironically worried about the country coming apart within the next few years.
Well, maybe it’s time for rural states to pull themselves up as they’re often fond of saying.
Is SRE just Ops with a new name?
Because the language has a rather unique selling point.

And its not unique to include the language name. Say, for which program is .el? And that extension is commonly included in projects. Not a jab at Emacs as its same with vim projects but they start with vim instead.

(I actually find it useful as its descriptive.)
Some companies did work on NFTs because they believe in the space and think it's the next big thing. Some do it for marketing to say "look, we have an NFT story!" If you did it for marketing, there's no reason to advertise you spun down that initiative.
A different kind of replication crisis.
I love Galeev threads - but he is sometimes a bit slopy. In this tread the quote

"Submit, Cherkes! Both West and East,
May soon share your fate,
When the time comes, you'll say arrogantly:
Yes, I'm a slave but a slave of the Tsar of the World!"

he attributes to Pushkin is from "Ismail Bey" by Lermontov.
Microsoft 365 business basic
It's actually for the perceived safety of the community. By exchanging your own privacy you also remove your own safety (you're more open to targeted theft, assault or stalking for instance).
> So the government will clearly help out here.

The government is probably part of the driving factor in building this system.

The government probably doesn't want Wikileaks type material to be rendered. There are _so_ many ways the government likely wants to abuse this.
There is plenty of anecdotal evidence in these threads about how friendly Googlers used to assist with these issues before management prevented it.
Wayland should be superior on external monitors when compared to Xorg, what kind of issues?
If only an incestuous relationship with Western intelligence agencies also made a source "shady"..
Editing costs is the bulk. I dont edit the episodes myself. The rest is mostly tooling cost (zoom, youtube, podcast hosting services).
I highly recommend the book "Your Head is a Houseboat" to anyone who wants to start journaling but doesn't really know how to get into it. It is a very approachable, almost child-like introduction to your brain and the voices in your head.
The utility from which I buy electricity charges me per kWh consumed. They earn more revenue when I use more electricity. If they charged a flat $100 per month like my ISP, they would, like my ISP, cap my usage.
"Officers, I just saw a mugging. Can you please send someone?"
> Monero are not seeing wide adoption
Because it us marketed with an actual use and not as a way to make money
But I could put my weather station and TPMS readings on the internet, for free?
Think we're going to see another Trump run for public office again?
I have subtitles enabled by default. I don't know whether to place the blame on the acoustics of my room, the mixing of the source, or my hardware... but _I just can't hear the dialogue_.

My setup is wildly unmatched in that I have a cheap Yamaha RX-V683BL AV receiver (which needs to be replaced, but high cost of HDMI 2.1 makes this hard) and a 5.0 arrangement with two KEF LS50's serving as L/R and one more LS50 serving as the center. Now certainly the receiver and speakers should be paired better. However, even if I'm not driving them correctly my setup is magnitudes better quality than the average soundbar I see most people buying up.

Most of the stuff I'm watching is Blu-ray so the quality of the source isn't to blame here. So the question remains, is my equipment that poorly matched, is the mixing terrible, or do I just have hearing loss in the vocal frequency range?
What I'm trying to say is: it's a bad idea to hire extra smart individual contributors as a solution to managing complexity, because nobody is smart enough. The cult of genius makes the workplace dysfunctional and inefficient.

That extra intelligence is mostly irrelevant, and sometimes negative.

Managing complexity is done with hierarchy, specialisation and careful organisation of work from accountable managers. You want this organisation to work well, and then you want to hire people who can do an acceptable job and function well within that organisation. And if you are still finding yourself in a chaos of unmanageable complexity, the organisation of the team is to blame.

The hierarchy, specialisation and organisation of the work is not done well enough, and must be fixed. You don't need more horsepower when the steering of your car has broken, that's just going to get you in the ditch faster.
I've been working with Google Ads and Adsense for 15 years. They've done a lot to reduce scammers running rampant, but as you point out it's made it really difficult for legitimate small businesses to get anywhere with them.

There is a huge advantage to aged/existing accounts on both ends. You can get away with a lot more with an older Adwords/Adsense account that will get you insta-suspended than with a new accounts. This creates a huge moat and competitive advantage for older advertisers and publishers.

Making it worse, it is also easy for existing bad actors to shut down competitors by having bot networks click ads and create various other suspicious activity to protect their moat.

New accounts are automatically broad-sweep targeted to remove bad actors. It's pretty difficult to get new Adsense/Ads accounts approved, and they will very quickly get suspended or limited for anything that looks abnormal or suspect to their filters.

Additionally, there is huge separation. Even though Ads/Adsense are the same side of the coin, they're run like completely separate businesses that have no relationship. The same policy runs within each business as well. Customer service and policy enforcement are completely separate. Google Adsense customer service, even for high level publishers, has no direct recourse to dealing with the policy team - and publishers have no direct person contact. It's all done through the form. There's no overriding recourse or secret access. Even if you hire a lawyer to send a letter, you will only get a canned response from customer service.

There is an important security aspect of it, but it's also incredibly frustrating and opaque. Imagine your buddy in customer service could override policy decisions or influence getting competitors banned. It could literally be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Google does have to be very careful about dealing with security issues both within and outside the company.
They could, but not with the new Pluton stuff. That would be enforced with secure boot, which has been around for a while already. Again, the capabilities already exist. The barrier for a would-be censor is political not technological.
I'm hoping they choose a competing advertising agency, even if they lose the bulk of their ad revenue by doing so. Something is better than nothing, so I'm hoping that's the case because Google needs real competition in this space badly.
In the early 90s I was working on AppleTalk-PC interoperability SW, which included "ATP", the AppleTalk Transaction Protocol, which is kind of a guaranteed delivery protocol. It even had "at least once" and "exactly once" options to make sure state wouldn't get messed up in client-server applications: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/ma...

I was kind of sad to see that things like this fell by the wayside in favor of streaming protocols but of course it's way more efficient to not handle each transaction individually.

The problem of users implementing TCP++ on top of TCP is a real problem, I think.
Not really. This is the type of statement that would make the stock of the company drop further for the simple reason of being honest, transparent, and truthful.
The whole complex comes in at about 34 km^2 which puts the population density at about 10 times the density of Manhattan. The water and energy needs alone will require several key innovations before this becomes even a pipe dream. Household and public space water usage could be a billion gallons of fresh water a day.