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> I have my entire life in my phone...

And that is precisely why you need control of your device, and not hand it over to some third-party, especially a corporate who has a vested interest to make as much money as possible from you, with the very data that you seek to protect! Would you really even be happy if some other third-party, like your government, took over this role of acting as your device's protectorate and let them decide on locking / controlling your device to "protect" you?

This argument of "it's for your own good, because people are stupid" is quite weak even if we ignore how this so called "high security" offered by locking down hasn't prevented new jailbreaking techniques to keep surfacing. If you understand security concepts and attack surfaces, then you do know there are technical ways to lock down a device and still give complete control over this to the user.

Apple today has the ability to remote delete and wipe out all your personal data and lock you out of your device. There are no laws or regulations to prevent this. How is that in any way acceptable?
2385! You're crazy, no sooner than 2500.
Or how about accept a key associated with the iCloud account linked to the phone?

This basically prevents any user friendly third party app store, but also allows users to, you know, use the device like they own it.

But I thought there was some ability to load apps without a developer account? Am I wrong? I've always just purchased the account because I was getting paid and wanted to show some professionalism but I thought there was a workaround.
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The Internet is an easy target for blame, but in fact in the past month I found a number of people whose thinking (at least on some specific topic) was near to mine through Reddit discussions (and now you, it seems):

https://www.github.com/kaveh808

https://gitlab.com/flatwhatson/guile-prescheme

If you are interested in the nature of machine code and assembly language I would recommend at least looking at Scheme86:

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6042

It's like a Scheme interpreter running on hardware, and the latest successor to Steele/Sussman's Scheme-on-a-chip--I'm working on microcoding it with my inferior S-assembly. :) I didn't think you were being insulting--my last refuge in an increasingly humorless world appears to be self-deprecating humor.

Have you reached out to John Cowan, who is working on the R7RS Large Scheme standard, and is interested in topics like auxiliary human language as well as computer language and their representation? I'm not serious enough, I'm afraid, for the Scheme community (see above)--but they might take you more seriously:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Cowan

Another Scheme person, Jonathan Rees, was (or still may be) at a forward-thinking institute called "Ronin Institute"--I'm not sure what their process is for onboarding scholars but they might be interested in your work:

https://ronininstitute.org

Elmer Hanks wrote a forward thinking book many years ago called "Enterprises of Great Pith and Moment: A Proposal for a Universal Human Language" (my Shakespeare quote), about his machine readable, sign-language friendly, auxiliary language, and is worth a look in your domain of study.

I have been meaning to re-install Whitaker's Words which I used frequently in my own study of Latin, but lost when I upgraded my OS. You might have heard of Ido, an auxiliary language designed by Louis Couturat, a French logician, and the successor to Esperanto. It's almost completely regular, and I thought it might be a start for a more human-language neutral Scheme implementation (it is a Eurocentric language, so not completely neutral, unfortunately). My middle-school English teacher in 1981 pointed at the Esperanto booth in the language arts faire we took a field trip to and said, "I don't know why that booth is always so disappointingly unattended." I guess "ain't much changed", right?

I recommend "Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare" if you haven't read it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimov%27s_Guide_to_Shakespear...

and maybe we should both just continue to choose "to be" rather than "not to be".

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I was talking this over with my wife, and after reading your links, I still don't completely understand the overall advantage of coding word stems rather than characters. It did remind me of the first computer I owned, a Sinclair ZX-81 I built from a kit. Its Basic keywords, FOR, GOSUB, RETURN were each represented as a bytecode--and I think you could enter with a special key modifier with one key-chord. Is this like what you are saying?
The route could be significantly improved by dropping Palmdale and routing HSR through Tejon Pass instead. Going over Altamont instead of Pacheco is a harder sell because it means bypassing San Jose but would also be an improvement IMO.

Skipping all the Central Valley cities and running out along I-5 is kind of pointless though.
the main problem with the alignment is palmdale/pacheco, which are going to cripple the project operationally and add a lot of unnecessary travel time. running through the downtown's is comparatively less of a shitshow (still a giant shitshow though). nobody runs HSR at full speed through downtowns.
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If they raise them in an environment where they have to hunt/forage for food, I don't see it being a big problem. You'd want to establish a population in a sanctuary for several generations before attempting it of course. Dogs and cats both can become feral pretty easily, and these occupied a similar niche despite being so distantly related.
200MP is worthless behind bad lenses. You will see high resolution blur...
You can't picture a meeting where relevant stakeholders decide that there's a glut and it would be better if there are fewer, better apps? Dev relations would say that their contacts believe it's hard to get noticed amongst so many apps. Reviewers would want to see more quality, etc. I can see how it happens.

FWIW, I think OP's app looks very decent and would have no issue in approving.
The major of my city is a proven liar. She was elected nonetheless. The president of my country seems to be somehow more or less losely involved in fraud at enourmous scales. He was elected nonetheless. I feel like people stopped caring long ago. And by now we seem to have only the choice between different liars and fraudsters at the voting bill. Maybe this was always like this. But I often wonder: How did we get such beautiful democratic systems (in some european countries at least, and yes I know it's not perfect) if not by much more competent and ethically intact politicians? I try to understand, but I have a hard time.
Because mass transit is most useful when it connects transportation hubs. It would be insane for major high speed rail not to connect to airports.
According to the map on this page, stations are planned right in Fresno and Bakersfield https://www.buildhsr.com/
Sending pixels is not necessarily a show-stopper for a remote desktop that feels "snappy".

Case in point - scrcpy, remote "desktop" to access Android from Linux/Mac/PC. Very responsive, including during fancy animations, playing video, games, etc.

https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
I guess a few advanced software developers may also be able to apply such a complex algorithm to a couple of integers.
Why would you connect the two airports if the point is supposed to be that you don’t have to use the airports?

What? That sounded pretty hinky to me so I looked at the wiki page. The only airport included in Phase 1 is Burbank. Phase 2 includes proposed station at San Diego and Ontario airports. Soooo no, there's no direct service to any Bay Area airport or LAX. Being able to stop right in the heart of the destination city is one of the key advantages of rail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail#Pha...

There are, however, stations in downtown San Francisco, San Jose, and Los Angeles.

Edit: And just to throw a bone to the anti-HSR folks: the downtown SF situation is still a clusterfuck the net result of which is a billion dollar bus station and a poorly connected (4th/King) rail station. There's a ton of related stuff that needs to be fixed, but needs to be fixed is still better than never going to happen.
Well now this is an argument for free (as in speech) software on the phone, not sure any closed source system will be able to satisfy what you're looking for (and that's a good thing, but it's a much stronger claim).
Not buying it. You thing people just use their computer to play solitaire and nothing else?
> the huge "integrating" transformer step

why always transformer step?
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I consider myself an optimist
> What is inherently fragile in HVDC compared to conventional transmission?

Nothing? The point is transmission is extremely fragile. To physical conditions (weather, accidents, faults). To market effects (massive price gouging during those failures due to lack of buffer). And to market failures (harmful monopolies always form around private utilities and neoliberals always privatize utilities).

Then if the oceans are involved, cost becomes a non-starter.
Scientists haven't managed to find a sasquatch yet, and those are even bigger.
yes, indicative of past breakthrough )
I've just tried this on my Pixel 6 and it sounded an alarm, started a count down and opened a UI I had never seen before. I explored it a little more and am shocked at how much "hidden" functionality exists on my phone, it has the ability to start emergency sharing my location with emergency contacts, record videos and upload this to Drive, call the police with some type of automated voice stating my location incase I cannot talk. In addition it has a safety check up feature, which periodically checks if I'm okay (e.g I walk back late at night from the station), a lack of a check-in from my end would initiate emergency location sharing.

The Android team does a great job of introducing features, I just wish they were better advertised, as I am sure there are so many people who (unfortunately at some point) would benefit from these features.
Given that Sam is one of Tether's biggest customers, plus his US campaign donations and efforts to deregulate derivatives markets (when has that ever been a bad idea?), I consider him far more dangerous than Mark Cuban could ever be.
That would be what Caltrain electrification and better ops and planning should do. The peninsula has the problem of the commerical spaces being away from the line.
As long as 'growth at any cost' is the only edict that matters in the global economy, everything will tend towards advertisements and ever more aggressive tactics.

It's a race to the bottom, and it's disgusting and a humiliation for the entire human race that this is what society chooses to prioritize over its own survival.
I disagree. The route has major problems and is a big reason why the project will take so long and be so expensive to complete. The most reasonable to approach would have been to more or less follow I-5. Instead, to get Central Valley politicians on board with the project, they chose an easterly route that hits a number of cities in the Central Valley.

Unfortunately this decision has a lot of bad consequences for the main corridor. First, the easterly direction that the train has to take after it gets out of the south bay adds around 20 minutes to the overall trip, which is a substantial fraction of the SF-LA travel time.

The bigger issue is that coming out of Bakersfield, the route is now too far east to make it through the Grapevine. Instead they will have to build a 15 mile tunnel through the San Gabriel mountains which will add more time to the route and cost tens of billions of dollars.

In effect, the choice of route added 25 minutes of travel time at a cost of tens of billions of dollars.

I do believe that Central Valley cities should have rail service, but the main SF-LA route should have been built out first and then spurs or additional lines could have been added to that core.
The AGI could just exploit security holes to take over compute resources around the world in order to make itself more performant & resilient.
I’ve suggested this, but the person in question has done enough reading of the mailing lists that I trust their judgement when they say they don’t want to get involved. (Sorry for being so vague here; not being an OpenBSD user myself I don’t really know the details.)
So, do there exist other "quantum-safe" crypto algorithms still considered to be reliable?
So, what would be the observable, empirical consequences of the kind of causal understanding and generalization of inference you're describing?
Irony is biggest reason most products fail is the lack of sales.
It was the right choice in the end though IMO, it avoids an even harder to pass set of mountains and serves yet another high population town (175k people) and provides a potential transfer station for getting to Las Vegas bypassing LA for people in Northern California once Brightline West comes down I-15, only needing to build a branch line between Palmdale and Victorville.
A few people have asked via Discord why I chose to use `DeviceOrientationEvent`. As far as I can tell, it's the most supported accelerometer API. A cursory [Can I Use](https://caniuse.com/?search=DeviceOrientation) search is misleading because a few search entries combine `DeviceOrientation` and `DeviceMotion` APIs and because earlier versions of the API also have entries. If you search for [DeviceOrientationEvent](https://caniuse.com/?search=DeviceOrientationEvent) itself, you will see it's quite well supported. Mobile Firefox doesn't work, but I haven't been able to get any accelerometer API working on Firefox. The only issues I've really run into is that many Androids you'd expect to have accelerometers don't and that there isn't a canonical "up" for Android landscape like there is on iPhone (lock button is up). I was able to get the top negative reviewer up and running after realizing that he just had to turn his phone the other way around.
Why will this have more impact than CalTrain?

Before you say "fewer stops" (or its equivalent), remember that if you don't stop someplace, someone who wants to get to/from that place has to find an alternative, and that alternative may well involve 101.
I know of one serious movie about Army camels, Southwest Passage (1954), and two comedies, One Little Indian (1973) and Hawmps! (1976).

One of the most interesting bits of folklore is the story of the Red Ghost of Arizona. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Ghost_(folklore))
> SMP

It’s funny how more than a few programmers that I’ve talked to seemed to firmly associate threads (and processes) with the perceived need in multiple CPU cores to be able to run them. Preemptive multitasking on a single core simply did not look natural to them, to the point that some did not realize that it’s even possible. (One of them was also astonished to see, and to hear, a mechanical watch as he did not know such things existed.)
I have the Korg Nanokey 2 and I really like it. But my goto controller is the Arturia KeyStep 37. I love pretty much everything made by Arturia, never unhappy with a purchase.
You are arguing completely beside the original point. Gato was just meant as one surprising example out of many to show how much more the architectures we already have today are capable of. Whether you believe how the scaling curve for this very particular model will work in detail is totally irrelevant to me or anyone else and I'm not trying to convince you of anything. I was just pointing out that there is a clear direction for future research and if you think people like Carmack are on the wrong path - so be it. You don't have to pursue it as well. But I don't care and he certainly doesn't either.
Dithering modulates the least significant bit of the audio signal, so at normal listening levels it should be inaudible. Of course, one can amplify the silence by 120dB or so and hear the noise.

Sources: http://www.dspguide.com/ch3/1.htm

https://www.bruce.audio/post/2022/05/26/dithering/
I love how my free time and how I use it are just the ultimate analog resource to you.
I believe the point of the entire series was to point out that the Spartan culture that is romanticized contemporarily is based on myth.
It's a tough market now. Rejections are the default, and everyone hiring will be looking for a discount deal.

As compared to last year, I felt like a champion trying to find jobs; nearly every major company in the country would approach me.

So it could just be bad timing. I saw some stats that people who graduate right after the 2008 recession never catch up to the career growth of their peers.
It's hard to believe in 2022, Google, Amazon, FB etc .. all use Linux, all CDN use Linux as well, and some services serve even more traffic than Netflix ( Youtube ). BSD faster than Linux is a myth, the fact that 99% of those run on Linux means more people worked on those problems means it's most likely always faster.

The funny thing is the rest of Netflix runs on Ubuntu, only those edge CDN runs on BSD.
That's kind of arguing against yourself though.

here's a more cynical take:

- "only google can do these huge experiments, and we've blessed the world by sharing our discoveries, so we can have confidence that our proposals are validated with real world experience."

- "That thing we standardized and got a bunch of other people to implement? yeah, i know we said it was really useful, but we meant it seemed really useful. We actually never found a use for it."

can't have it both ways
So first Google (Chrome team) foobar'd HTTP (and HTML and CSS and ...) into overengineered crap to replace TCP with vague promises of pushed resources and multiplexing only necessary to handle absurdly bloated CSS, images, and fonts there for CDNs by Google et al to sensor your traffic and visit data in the first place, then they admitted server push, as the other touted advantage, being not well thought out after all. The effect being to derail most F/OSS HTTP libs, web servers, and TCP/IP stacks due to sheer complexity and conflicting goals. Wish we'd call Google's destructive efforts towards the web as what they are.
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That's already happening. Caltrain's finished electrifying their route and is currently conducting clearance testing of the electric rolling stock. Electric revenue service is expected is by Autumn 2024. The other big upgrade Caltrain got out of HSR is that a number (all?) of the at-grade crossings were removed. That's a huge win.
That person was arrested.
The crime on bay area transit is rapidly getting worse. This is a huge issue to overcome regardless of how fast or slow the train is going

https://www.ktvu.com/news/bart-passenger-nearly-raped-physic...
The Millbrae stop is a very short transfer to SFO.
Your comment has strong “well, actually …” energy. We’re talking about faulty blocks from physical abrasions and the two common error mechanisms (skipping or repeating). They were both “weird, ugly, uncomfortable, and nasty.”
Still money-good now, but if higher rates push down prices and owners go underwater and default in large numbers, maybe not so money-good later.
Ideally the people who gleefully work on such random selection algorithms are the ones who get selected.
Very little of iOS is FOSS, so whether or not Apple actually protects your privacy boils down to "just take our word for it".

Transparency is a dependency of trust. Apple is not transparent, and therefore I trust an iDevice about as far as I can throw it.
LA to SF is not a "dense metro area". It's inter-city.
Is there an updated 2022 version of this talk?
Yea, this is why we only are planning on providing baskets that are around 10 tokens. Providing too many tokens provides a whole world of new problems.
> What I am saying about pumped hydro is that it is deeply mature technology, with no surprises in store. All the equipment is essentially unchanged for decades, except for control-system electronics. All that is new is reservoirs not fed by watersheds.

And I can attach a washing machine motor to my water tank. If it produces basically nothing and costs double the alternative, it's not relevant to the discussion.

> There are actually dozens of shallow reservoirs behind earthen dams way high up in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range, many almost a century old, constructed with bulldozers that used pulleys instead of hydraulics, hauled up there on fantastically bad cart-track roads. The reservoirs feed penstocks down to Pelton wheels thousands of feet below. For storage, they just attached pumps to the penstocks to push water back up.

So there are no new projects which not destroying an ecosystem that are on cost parity with batteries then?

Also as an aside, how pathetic is capitalism as an organizational system that we can't achieve the types of things that were done with horses and carts and pulley bulldozers in the past?
If he decision to kick off this project took a bill in the California legislature, then why didn’t they save tens of billions by tacking on a “CEQA does not apply to HSR” sentence to the end?
> groundbreaking invention

Since when is a task list ground breaking.
Actually, the first version in 2002 worked by listening to a phone call. There were no apps really at the time, at least not in the iPhone sense (because it didn’t exist).
"I have a better but politically infeasible idea" is just sort of silly. This isn't Sim City. You need the voters.
Honestly this is the weirdest infrastructure project in the world.

Reminder that the initial plan was 130 miles of track laid by 2018. They are at 0.0 miles. The initial intended section they planned to finish wasn't even touching SF or LA, its in between with two fairly small cities (Merced to Bakersfield, populations 84K and 380K).

Is it even needed, for all this money? High speed rail between SF and LA would be neat for a bunch of upper-middle class people, but I would think > 90% of inhabitants would be better served simply by having better intra-metro-area rail. In other words it seems like LA would be better served by spending the billions on strong hub and spoke public transport in the ~20-40 mile area around LA far more than it needs a faster way to get to San Francisco.

But I'm far away on the outside looking in, maybe there's something crushlingly obvious to locals that I'm not seeing for why this is actually a great idea.
Cool. Keep up the good work!
Yes, that is a lot of data that needs to be stored on consumer flash storage and SD cards.
The manufacturers of those will certainly like this trend... I wonder who they are /s
I agree 100% with the usefulness of libraries but the definition of library has to change.

> a building or room containing collections of books, periodicals, and sometimes films and recorded music for people to read, borrow, or refer to.

That defintion of library is arguably no longer needed (well, maybe as an archive). The average person today can access all of recorded music, most films, and most books of any importants from their phone or computer. They no longer need to go to some building to get access to those things.

You asked for things like pay bills, get healthcare, communicate with government agencies and a place to work on your laptop. None of those fit the defintion of "library".

Arguably we should change their charter and possibly their names to have more of the stuff we do need and less of the stuff we no longer need. Maybe we need more public computers for those that can't afford them. Maybe we need less bookshelves and more desks for places to work. Maybe we need access to other equipment (laser cutter?, 3d printer?). Maybe we need more librarians where their new charter is to help people with these new things, not to organize books on shelves.