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>I think people don't understand just how profitable municipal broadband can be.

Operating the network might be profitable. Recouping installation costs are not, when Comcast and other coaxial cable internet providers are sitting there ready to undercut you the second you enter the market. Unfortunately, sufficient customers are not willing to pay more for a reliable symmetric fiber connection yet over whatever the cable company is offering with meager upload.

Also, I assume you mean fiber when you wrote “municipal broadband”. I thought municipal broadband refers to taxpayer funded internet networks, where there would be no profit required (and hence is the only alternative to getting a better internet connection than the cable company).
A reminder you alive.
Goldman Sachs CEO D-Sol’s struggles to right his Marcus consumer banking unit
I don't think so. There has to be a plausible survivor for survivorship bias. Living forever is advantageous to being a member of a survival cohort, and yet survivorship bias hasn't discovered any immortal people. Is there a plausible reason for things to exist that would explain why existence survived as an outcome?
I love LineageOS and have used microG services for so long but forks like this strike me as sad as needing to assimilate to the look and feel of iOS. It comes off as cheap and unoriginal. Now this is harsh criticism I understand but I do appreciate how much effort it must have taken to make all of these app forks. I only wish the effort was spent building something more interesting.
Yup, apple association file is Apple's method of proving ownership to a domain.
A 10 minute conversation can be had outside of a stand-up meeting, and without wasting the time of the people who don't need to be part of it.
>So long as we operate from a theory of geometry, we can’t define nothingness as anything less than a space of zero-dimensionality.

>This leaves us with a point.

That's still not nothing.
You should first ask if they are OK with you naming them as customer at all.
I think there's a story in the news today about Taco Bell doing the same thing.

More relevant to tech -- Automattic, Klaviyo and probably a lot of other companies require people in certain positions to do customer service rotations. Including C-level execs.

I haven't heard of a version of that for coding, though.
I don't think the GP is saying that Meta should have ignored a lawful order. I think they're saying that they shouldn't have put themselves in the position of being able to render that information, and only have done so because it's profitable for them to do so.
I use equations and images, code blocks can be used, and I don't find useful applications for video files.
Most of what we have given Ukraine is weapons that were already paid for.
That discussion is among the largest cans of worms.
It's all about averages though. Some people will be cheap to connect, while others will be expensive to connect. And the subsidies are most likely written in a way, such that the ISPs can't only go for the low-hanging fruit.

Same with Starlink on a bigger scale. Some ground station will have more people near them than others (absent satellite to satellite comms). Some orbits will be used by more people than others..
> They get pulled away by the lure of money into an environment that causes them to stagnate in their skill and career development

Microsoft is in an insane number of markets, far more than Amazon. While at Microsoft I did everything from compilers to robots to wearables, and if I talk to 10 Microsoft alumni they will have a job history of working on a completely disparate set of amazing technologies.

If you are bored at Microsoft change teams. You can find teams writing assembly, or C++, or C#, or Rust, or JavaScript, or Typescript. You can find teams working on browser engines, on ISO standards, or consumer tech.

Get bored with all of that, go work on video games for awhile.
/e/ has partnerships with Fairphone and Teraphone to sell versions of their phones with /e/ preloaded. /e/'s sister company Murena produced its own phone (the Murena One) and they also sell refurbished Galaxy S9/S9+ phones preloaded with /e/:

https://murena.com/products/smartphones/

No terminal/ADB needed, and in my experience, /e/ is not crashy.
Isn't it the opposite of what you suggest? If there was nothing, there would be nothing to investigate; but now that we now the universe exists, it does make sense to ask why is that something exists rather than nothing.
I know I can work on my social skills. The compounding factor that ruins my chances is that I also am not physically attractive. So I get very few chances to practice my social skills.
This whole getting few chances in the first place is what is making me unhappy and making me feel lonely.
And before you ask, I do put a lot of effort into meeting new people.
Thanks for the book suggestion, anyway.
MDN docs for Content Security Policy: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP (for anyone unfamiliar with that browser feature that should in theory disallow injection for websites you control).
The line is a bit blurry there. from a webview-based apps to just in-app browsers that opens when you tap a link in an app.
It has value to a single person - the person running the meeting. Everyone else zones out until it's their time to speak.
This is such an embarrassment for these two... Aren't YOU the CEO of your company? Didn't YOU approve hiring plans and corporate goals? If there's not enough work, why don't you find something for them to work on, or replace your managers with folks that will. Instead, it's the employee's fault for being so unproductive.
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I noticed this with GPT3 as well, its output is extremely sterile. Interestingly, DALLE Mini (craiyon) doesn't shy away from crazy stuff in the training data so you can end up with stuff like this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/weirddalle/comments/v8bsvo/gender_r...
> The point here is that in semantic web there're supposed to be lots and lots of different ontologies/schemas by design, often describing the same data.

This is incredibly problematic for many reasons. Not the least of which is the inevitable promulgation of bad data/schemas. I remember one ontology for scientific instruments and I, a former chemist, identified multiple catastrophically incorrect classifications (I forget the details, but something like classifying NMR as a kind of chromatography. Clear indicators the owl author didn't know the domain).

The only thing worse than a bad schema is multiple bad schemas of varying badness, and not knowing which to pick. Especially if there is disjoint aspects of each which are (in)correct.

There may have been advancements in the few years since I was in the space, but as of then, any kind of probabilistic/doxastic ontology was unviable.
I don't think they claim that Facebook messages are end to end encrypted. They say WhatsApp are but not ones sent via Facebook.
in AD 700 one would absolutely have been able to explain an outbreak with a miasma-based model, and the explanation absolutely would have become consensus among the best and brightest. you can't apply what we know now to what was known at a given point in the past

> we can explain why things fall down

that's pretty new too! and it's not semantically correct, but was considered so for quite a while. this is a pretty good analogy for why i'm skeptical of dark matter
It should be reported as a vulnerability. To Apple. Yes they made a decision for this as well but a decision can still be reported as a vulnerability.
We often equate success with problem solving. I think people underestimate how much and how often worry plays a role in problem solving. We lionize the people who win the lottery by realizing that chocolate and peanut butter taste great together, but most of the rest is a slog, overcoming adversity and pushing through internal and external resistance. We don’t seem to connect that there are reasons things advance so much during wartime. More worry, less resistance.

Driven people aren’t happy. Sometimes they aren’t even sad. They’re just driven. How are you going to fix problems if you look around and see no problems?
To be honest, I do not think I have a big ego. If anything I have very low self esteem.
Or, a prior universe collapsing in a "big crunch" and then re-exploding back into existence. Or two objects colliding. But those theories just push the moment of creation back farther in time and the question is still relevant where those objects came from.
So, there's some known correlation between IQ and creativity/divergent thinking ability. This article: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.0025...

Seems to indicate that the threshold hypothesis (IQ helps creativity/divergent thinking up to a point, then levels out in correlation) is largely correct
There’s still a country mile between what gp is suggesting and what Comcast gets away with because of their monopoly position.

Anecdotally, I replaced a router they gave me because it would randomly crap out (probably neighbors using the xfinity Wi-Fi feature I couldn’t turn off), and they kept trying to charge me a monthly rental fee for their router. Every time I would call with confirmation it had been returned, the charge would be removed for just that month and back again the next - this is just the most recent example of a long line of infuriating time wasting schemes I have dealt with from them.
It’s not obvious but it is reasonable.
> It is infuriating that I can't browse certain Reddit pages because they want me to "use the app so they know I'm over 18".

Nothing's stopping you. There is no such message on old.reddit.com.
You are supposed to.

Generally its better to ask. If theyre already a customer, there is a good chance someone is going to go to your site and see it.

Sometimes it gets wierd, we had a large fast food logo on our site. We had only sold to 5 or so franchises in our area... So it was true but only kindof.
In probably 99.9% of cases, at least in the US, the answer is yes. Forget about getting sued, you want the logos in your homepage to be a good reference to future customers. Like you don't put references in your resume without talking to them first... Same idea. But also the legal aspect... some companies will bar you from using their logo, (they could even negotiate a discount if they become "referencable"). The underlying reason is that some companies will not want anyone to know they use vendor X for purpose Y (e.g. Apple). But as I said, forget about the legal aspect, if a prospect sees a logo, they might ask you to setup a reference call (mostly for B2B / Enterprise, but not limited)
CNN, please post an article, don't waste my time with a video.

Given what little the text says I agree--a lot of people try to shame people for enjoying sex. Hey, it's built to be enjoyed! It's far more about holding a couple together long enough to raise a child than it is about reproduction.
The collapse of CryptoKitties, the first big blockchain game
That was one of the most disappointing parts of DALL-E 2 -- not only is its domain space limited (justifiable IMO) but they then severely limited the outputs and coupled it with a very opaque abuse policy. Their press releases are all "we're gonna revolutionize art" but what they sell is in every way targeted towards the visual equivalent of elevator music.

With DALL-E mini, the classic opening sentence of the dark tower "the man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed" produces evocative (if abstract) artwork. With DALL-E 2? You get a message that your prompt is inappropriate and your account will be reviewed for termination if you continue. So they don't want guns, okay whatever.

But it eventually impacts pretty much any concept you want to try. I was exploring scifi art and wanted to see what it would do if I tried to get a stylistic fusion of old-school soviet spacecraft aesthetics (exposed structures with bulbous pressure vessels housing the controls [among other things]) with western equivalents. Fusing disparate design philosophies in a way that actually feels creative is a task at which DALL-E 2 occasionally performs superbly and I was really looking forward to playing with the concept -- dreaming through the machine of a long-lost potential future.

Nope! Turns out "Soviet", "USSR", and IIRC now "Russia" are straight up banned words. I burned up quite a few prompts before figuring out that was the trigger.

And then there's the cost. During the closed beta they gave us what's now several hundred dollars a month in access. That translated to less than an hour a day of exploring DALL-E. It felt inadequate when it was free, and now they're asking for hundreds of dollars a month for it? No.

The pricing model makes sense if you're trying to generate bland corporate artwork for some random webpage but as a creative tool it just ensures that the only people really engaging with it have substantial financial backing for producing exclusively milquetoast ``artwork.''
Anecdotally, corn has the supermarket has been really expensive this year compared to the past few years. Like 3x the usual price.
I’m glad it seems more and more people are looking into rendering vector graphics on the GPU.

Has anyone done any image comparisons between CPU vs GPU rendering. I would be worried about potential quality and rendering issues of a GPU rendered image vs a CPU rendered reference image.
I would answer that there is surely a single supreme nothingness, such as Wuji[0], which would contain all sets of nothingness.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuji_%28philosophy%29
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The main principle of all political institutions of the Roman Republic, applied during several centuries, was that in any executive function 2 or more people must be elected and a single one can be accepted only temporarily, during emergencies like wars or other calamities.

There are a lot of modern countries who claim to be republics and even USA has a "Republican" party, but all these modern uses of the word "republic" are wrong, because none of them uses this principle of filling all executive positions with multiple people, so that none of them will have all the power of those positions.

The modern states which use the word "republic" justify their claim by having elected leaders, but that was not something specific to the Roman Republic. There were plenty of ancient states with elected leaders and with various other lesser public functions filled by elections.

What distinguished the Roman Republic from all others was the requirement of electing multiple people for all positions, including for the supreme executive function, for which they had 2 consuls, and not 1 president.
While this is true, it's also true that Julia currently brings more into ram than it should (and brings stuff in earlier than it should). The best example of this is that we currently allocate buffers ahead of time for matrix multiplication temporaries (even if matrix multiplication is never performed in the program). We do need to fix that type of thing eventually.
I’m definitely trying the horizontal, PVC-based setup when I have a more permanent place. I’m moving out of my current house by the end of the year so having something modular that I can disassemble and put inside of a bucket made sense to me
Keep reading, you might be missing the point, the paragraph continues on after that sentence
"What's depressing is the continued sleepwalking (by society at large, and geeky sub-groups in particular)..."

RMS isn't the most lovable person around but he's pretty much always been factual and on message. Why people - especially those 'in the know' - cannot separate their dislike of a person from his/her message is something that I don't quite understand.

Discarding a message on the grounds of disliking the messenger is illogical and it makes me wince whenever I see it in those who ought to know better. The truly worrying and troubling aspect of this is that I've never considered myself the most level headed or logical person in the world (the volume control on my amygdala is broken and I often can't turn its 'noise' down). So when I see techies behaving more illogically than me I have grave concerns for the world.

I experience cognitive dissonance regularly (it's difficult not to in this day and age), however I'm not only aware of the fact but also I'm continually fighting and reasoning with the conundrums it raises. Again, it's somewhat of a mystery to me why many of those who are of a technical and logical bent aren't similarly conflicted.

You're right, it's very depressing when many of the intelligentsia are asleep at the wheel and or refuse responsibly. The consequences are that it's not only the OEMs we have to worry about but also those authoritarians who'll take charge in the intelligentsia's absence.

Without ongoing logical and reasoned debate a dystopian future is almost certainly assured.
This seems similar to Cognex's spreadsheet programming model in their industrial smart cameras.
It would be nice to work in a relaxed environment like that

I'm stuck in the agency life - I have to log seven hours a day and I'm at roughly 80% billable hours on average a week (to clients)
So being able to work longer and focus harder than what would normally be physically possible is not the definition of “smarter” even if it’s temporary?
And do to the abysmal winner takes all used in most states, the might be change in voting habits brining either side to actually vote as their votes wouldn't be stolen by other side.
Right, this is about the negative Pell's equation, x^2 - dy^2 = -1 (rather than +1). The question is for which d this has a solution. (For the usual +1 case, which is what you're talking about, there are solutions for every d, and indeed continued fractions can be used.)

There are no solutions when d has any factor that is 3 mod 4, and the result mentioned in the article (Stevenhagen's conjecture, now proved by Koymans and Pagano) is that there are solutions for about 58% of the rest, specifically
1 - product_{j odd}(1 - 1/2^j) ≈ 0.580577558…. The first couple of pages of the paper (linked from the article) are actually very readable without much background: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.13424.pdf
> I'm using Pinephone as a daily driver

What OS? Does MMS work out of the box for you?
I've been in many different companies and the majority of all processes are not well run. That just means things are being badly run, not that you shouldn't do the right things and run them well.

And no, email processes cannot be well done. You may think your's are, but that doesn't mean everyone else does.

If I had my druthers I would ban email for all in-house communication and do everything verbally, via chat apps, or workflow management tools. Anything that needs more thorough elaboration should be written down as a thoughtfully articulated memo. If you feel the need to record the contents of a 20 minute group conversation to search it later that probably means you need to focus and take better notes.

I will say it is truly a wild claim to assert that an intramural basketball game is more conducive to team productivity than a stand-up meeting though.
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“The observations do contradict GR” and “the observations are at odds with GR under the assumption that the universe is made of ordinary matter” are two very different statements, and the latter does not imply the former.

You could also say that deviations in Uranus’s orbit contradict GR under the assumption that Neptune doesn’t exist. But Neptune does exist, so this isn’t really a statement about GR at all.
> I can't find any other place that it comes from other than disappointment from those that didn't or can't pass those interviews.

Oh, the macro is that these companies are oligopolies. About 15–20 years ago one of them realized that poaching entire teams from the others to enter new LOBs was cheaper than competing. So headcount grew.

Outside of strategic hires it doesn’t really matter who they pick up. E.g. LinkedIn isn’t going to go out of biz if they don’t find productive places for their army of level 3.5 software engineers or whatever. LinkedIn doesn’t have any competition.
As a philosopher, I recommend that anyone read up on ontological anti-realism before they get too invested in the answer to questions like these.

Carnap and Quine (to say nothing of Kant) wrote extensively about the problems that arise when treating metaphysical "existence" as a predicate.

There are strong reasons to adopt ontological anti-realism. I'm amused when folks muse extensively in the ontological mode without addressing the elephant in the room—most of it is likely nonsense.
An IRL meeting with 100 participants, you can't tell who is there or not. You can audit online meeting attendees.

> as they were sometimes taking time out in a day for personal work.

People have been going to the dentist during work hours since forever. I used to have a dentist down the street from my office for just this reason. Now I have a dentist just down the street from my house, for the exact same reason.

Heck Microsoft used to encourage people to go to the gym during the work day, a shuttle would come by, pick you up, and take you to the gym! Possibly something about all those research studies showing high levels improvement in mental tasks for hours after exercise.
> "Bagless" vacuums like the popular Dyson are a joke compared to either.

The Dyson weighs considerably less. Turns out there's tradeoffs in different engineering solutions.
This comes across as victim blaming.

Users are given the choice to accept risks that are buried on page 7 of privacy policies only a lawyer could understand the tricks in.

Services knowingly endangering unknowing users for money should be like cigarettes and be forced to say on the signup page in big bold text they can and will sell user data to anyone, including law enforcement.

Users largely think free services are like public libraries and do not default to expecting they are being exploited for money. Element, Wikipedia, and duckduckgo exist for free without selling user data so it is not a given that exploitation is always present in free services.
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