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Other than the compositing thing, which I have not encountered, I disagree with all this advice.

I've had good luck with tigervnc in the past. My raspberry pi 4 had trouble pulling 4k video, but whatever.

Most of the vnc latency comes from unoptimized compression (like not using SSE for jpeg, etc), or poor default settings.

There are also remote desktop protocols that rely on GPU accelerated compression (mostly for gaming and 3d work). Those are mostly fine for light 3d shooters, etc. Sometimes I even watch YouTube videos over them with a 10-20mbit, 40ms internet connection. (I didn't bother measuring network usage for that; 20mbit is an upper bound.)
> since you cannot load more than one C library in a single process

You actually can, and there are even some benighted corner cases where you need to (eg, providing a fake glibc to a DRM/anticheat system or other such malware while your plugins use a different one). It's not properly supported and making it work is !!fun!! in the Dwarf Fortress sense.
Gnome 42 in Ubuntu 22.04 uses RDP, otherwise use X11vnc and GPU acceleration.

https://linuxhint.com/enable-remote-desktop-ubuntu-access-fr...
Ah, jailbreaking. You mean that thing that you can now, and have always been able to do, without anyone interfering?

Having trouble seeing which tiny sliver of a point you have left.
> And where would the AGI get the funds to keep running itself on Ethereum?

Well, perhaps Ethereum is too concrete. I meant, imagine that the AGI algorithm itself was something akin to the proof-of-work, and so individual nodes were incentivized to keep it running (as they are with BTC/ETH now). Then we wouldn't be able to just "switch it off", the same way we're not able to switch off these blockchain networks. And that's how SkyNet was born.

15 years ago I would have thought it was pretty far-fetched too. But seeing how the Bitcoin network can consume ~ever-increasing amounts of energy for ~no real economic purpose, and yet we can't just switch it off, has gotten me to think about how this could very well be the case for an AGI, and not that far in the future. It just has to be decentralized (and therefore transnational) and its mechanism bound up with economic incentive, and it will be just as unstoppable as Bitcoin.

I feel kind of bad even just planting this seed of a thought on the internet, to be honest :(
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Sorry to hear about your leg!!

Me fear of them just increased dramatically. I thought I was immune but may just have been lucky, as you said.
Who is this train for? If I'm in business and need to fly between la and sf it's a $100 non stop 1 hour flight. Or $50 in gas (and wear and tear).

If I'm not well off (or have a family) I'm probably driving because once I get there I still need a car (because la has terrible public transportation and car rentals are pretty expensive these days. ) And it's not bad. 6 hours or so.

What they should have done was spend the money to invest in robust and extensive fast public transportation in Los Angeles that would immediately benefit millions of people every single day.

As it stands it takes 45 minutes on the metro from Santa Monica to downtown (~10 miles) because they designed it with one rail each direction. So it has to hit every stop (no express lane). It's the same as sitting in traffic.

If you are not directly along the metro lines in LA and headed to a place that's also on the lines ( and the entire westside is a desert) you are driving.

I would love to take the train from la to San Diego. But it would take me an hour to drive to the train station (over an hour on the bus) and then a 2 hour train ride which still costs $40. What's the point? I see the same for this high speed rail. Who are the customers and how can anyone justify the cost?
That's also because the shortest path is basically a tunnel.

They're now building the Chuo maglev, which does take the shortest path and is currently projected at $65 billion and climbing.
Since trains were invented and the seasons kept cycling? The largest migrations of people are seasonal agricultural workers around the world.

Until gen z gets their polyculture garden cities with a large variety of crops for each season, I don't see that changing
I'm aware of the Scheme chips. I chose machine language because it doesn't need many names for code, and thus was suitable as a starting point for my work on textless programming.

I've not reached out to John Cowan but think I might, despite my dislike of Unicode. I'll also look into this Ronin Institute. I'll keep the book in mind. I appreciate the help.

As I explain in the last linked article, a lot of these artificial languages retard language work, rather than help it. I expect to target real languages with most of my time now.

Think of Elision like MIDI, but for human language. Text is stored uniformly as indices into a dictionary, rather than as a sequence of characters with interspersed control codes.
Well, nobody relies heavily on trains for their commute in this region because the train hasn’t been built yet.

Also, a vast majority of the people who work in agriculture aren’t “farmers” who walk out of their house and till their own land. They are laborers, who often live far away from their work sites, which shift with the seasons.
You are experience circular thinking.

California is living with sprawl therefore you can never do anything to fix sprawl. That the worst possible thing you can do for LITERALLY every metric, water use, energy use, noise pollution, living cost, housing cost and the list goes on and on.

You will not fix any of the problems if you continue to use that excuse. And despite what people seem to think, you can actually fix city design and sprawl. Having a decent train-station that connects you to other places is a good start. From the there you have trams and buses going out. And then you do higher density infill development along all those routes.

This has been argued by city planners for 30+ years and its not that difficult.
Because they are a member of the public, and companies operate under the laws that the public deliberate upon.
> Your issue is "what if someone owns huge chunks of land and doesn't try to make any money off it?"

That really has nothing to do with my issue.

My issue is that, under the proposed system, two people who each own half of Los Angeles will pay a lot of property taxes, because the other half of Los Angeles adds taxable value to their half, even if their half is unimproved.

But one person who owns the entirety of Los Angeles will pay no property taxes, because the unimproved land is worthless. This system guarantees that there will be a small number of people who own vast quantities of land, because that ownership structure minimizes the total tax burden. Sale of land would vanish to nearly nothing, because not only would the land have a very low cost of ownership - selling some of your land would raise the taxes you have to pay on the rest of it, the part that you keep!

The total amount of tax owed is different depending on the structure of who owns the land. Why does that make sense?
It’s certainly not the “string of pearls” route that urban planning school told me was ideal for HSR (with Japan having some good examples of routes with big cities at relatively short intervals).

As an aside, I work for one of the main consultants on this project (wrote the state EIR, design criteria, program delivery, etc)… and I’m really glad my work has nothing to do with this project!
I'm not even sure if using pirated music for this purpose would count as infringement?
It looks more like ubuntus logo for me.
When the beer glass app got started every app required a jailbreak because officially there were only Apple apps, the App Store did not exist.
I think it was a premium-rate number you had to call. When it became an app, it eventually had an ad-supported version with a paid, premium version "Shazam Encore" that was ad-free.
My earliest surviving digital photos were from this camera. Made a satisfying sound when it wrote to disk, too.
His reply to this tweet is that he didn't want to spend $20million of his own money on this venture. When you have the option to throw 20m on projects, you can spend it reasonably quickly.
It's not clear if you're saying mass transit within the metros or also to other metros. It sounds like you're trying to imply the later by a way of using the former as a reason. The distances in the US between major population centers are vast, far more than what the average person from other regions of the world would likely imagine them to be.
> The last thing the world needs...

Why do you say that?
I believe it is impossible for an RDP app to rely on "more synchronous behavior" as you put it.

Remote X11 worked well in the past. It's possible to latency-optimize software for it, but it's not common anymore.
Here are my expected turn around times during regular business hours and excluding weekends holidays, and out of office replies. This is also the order in which I escalate communications...

* Email: Within 24 hours

* Instant Message/Chat: Immediately, Within 2 hours.

* Phone: Immediately, return a voice mail within 4 hours.

* Scheduled meeting: Give at least 24 hour notice.

If you really need a response, pick up the phone, multiple times if necessary. You could also schedule a meeting with the person. For some people/situations I know I will need to include someone else on their team, sometimes a supervisor, to get any traction.

You should escalate on the third non-response by including their supervisor on an email, group chat, or meeting. Include previous communications with dates. Take this advice with a grain of salt and take into account previous interactions with the person of course.

If you have a ticketing system, copy and document each communication into the system. In some situations you may want to start with the ticketing system even if you could send the request directly to the person to begin with.
They were fine for the generation of websites optimized for 800*600
Just in time for the state to declare bankruptcy again!
SunRail is high speed rail? Something tells me your claim of the Chinese system is just as credible as the SunRail one...
I thought the dock thing was related to excessively sending pause frames to switches that didn't know to not forward them.
Vox basically did exactly this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0dSm_ClcSw

tl;dr: US regulation makes it too easy for individuals to sue and stall megaprojects like this into nonstop litigation
yes, the LA metro area is roughly 18.5M people (nearly half of CA; the bay area is about half of this at ~9.5M) and the 2nd densest metro area in the country (though that density is pretty unevenly distributed).

improving the LA metro would have provided better bang for buck, but it doesn't spread the wealth nearly as much, and we're already building metro rail here as part of the run up to the '28 olympics (but not nearly enough, given that the LA region extends roughly 100 miles along the main axes).

the main problem with this HSR is that it doesn't beat air for time or price between LA/SF, and that accounts for the majority of the projected trips (and purported benefit) of this rail line. i've done the air trip many times, and door-to-door times are about 4-5 hours, while this train will take that long without the door-to-door part (though city center to city center is nice, if they ever complete that part).
A literal luddite in the classical sense on Hacker News?

May I suggest you read Anthem, it's only a couple hours read and well worth your time.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1250/1250-h/1250-h.htm
and maybe it can help stem asinine "System Design" interviews like "Design netflix"

I call them asinine because these kinds of architectures aren't written out in one day (let alone 60 minutes) and it's silly to not build an evolving setup (unless you are replacing a legacy system in a company with scale, but then again you have more than 60 minutes...). I wish system design interviews would not just think about if you know how to write high scale designs, but if you know how to build tiny designs that minimize footprint before scale and give maximum flexibility for scaling when its indicated ...
Or just remember that, on the timescale of the universe, 50 years is almost as brief as five minutes.

Soon you'll be dead, and everyone you love, everyone you know. And everyone who knows them, and everyone who knows them, and so on on down the line. And not just dead. Forgotten. Completely.

Does that change your priorities in life at all?

I take two things away from this exercise.

1. Try to be happy in the moment.

2. Try to build things that will outlast you. Nobody remembers the names of the architects of the Roman aqueducts, but people in Italy still benefit from their work today.
I'm not sure at all if that's what's being proposed. I think both are being advocated and that's why that makes no sense since as the OP suggested there are vast voids in between dense metros in the US.
I use BNC connectors almost daily, and that have been around for almost 80 years.
I believe this changed as of Monterey.
The lowest price on eBay right now is $200, with prices ranging from $200-$238.

Looks like you got lucky.
How does this compares to some existing simulators like Everycircuit or Voltsim?
Is this purely breadboard based as shown in preview?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fallenbug....
Why do they think it's a good idea to cover half the screen with "spider research"?

Can't even read this too distracting.
Everyone is “neurodiverse”, no?
The oven at my house has a sabbath mode where you can preschedule it to turn on to a certain temperature and turn off after several hours. I hadn’t ever heard of the elevators or other sabbath devices before that.
There is an excellent and ultra high-performance remote desktop server for Linux. It's called xorgxrdp:

https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xorgxrdp

I love it. It only works with X11, not with Wayland. Wayland refuses to add a protocol command for "blit this image to this surface" (would be ~20 bytes). That is the critical feature your protocol must have in order to get good RDP performance. Windows GDI has it.

To get good, responsive RDP you need to be able to send an image across the network once, and then be able to blit it to on-screen surfaces without having to upload the whole image again.

Windows GDI has this. X11 has this. That's why they're fast.
What makes humans special though? AI will be born on Earth so we will share that common trait with it, but perhaps one should have humility to accept that future doesn’t belong to a weak species like humans.
here is the ongoing saga
https://www.cityofsanmateo.org/2279/Train-Horn-Noise
Legislators can pass laws which make lawsuits easier or harder.
Consider a stylized company town - there's one major employer in the town, they provide a stable population base (their employees, plus family members) which demands various goods and services, and so a town exists.

If the employer leaves, the town will be unable to sustain itself, everyone will leave, and the land will return to the wild.

Given this setup, under Georgism, what is the amount of property tax the major employer should pay? The correct amount of tax would appear to be negative.
Google Workspace seems to be better than Zoho. I use it now.
People hate to hear this but noone has a right to live somewhere indefinitely.

Logically, this doesn't even work. Lets say everyone in LA wants to live there with their children and their children's children and so on forever. Extrapolate this a few generations and eventually you will have a solid mass of humans 1000 ft tall. (This is a hyperbolic joke, you get the point)
X certainly does do that, the protocol is called XDMCP and it's been around since the 80's.

"I can pretty much always run the graphical program locally instead"

Then why do you need a remote desktop? This is a really strange comment, because you shouldn't ever care whether the window manager is local or remote (as with XDMCP) - the only thing that should matter is whether the apps are local or remote. Whatever it is you're doing with apps on a remote desktop can be done better by simply displaying the app remotely on your own desktop.

What exactly is the use case for needing to run a second window manager remotely? It's such a strange thing to say that you need.
you're coloring outside the lines and making a mess you should grab a different coloring book this ones not for you.
Would you be able to share a resume and a summary of your previous jobs as well as those you were rejected for?
Yep, 50p a go from memory. Charged to your phone bill.

I used Shazam in London when it launched. I left the UK in 2003 so I reckon it was literally just as it launched. Presumably I saw billboards or a Wired article or something?
I can punch myself in the dick but I don't
(+ $249k, but with delays)
Just because one shot you in value doesn’t mean anyone else will ever want or bother to buy anything there again.

But it can be worked around.
... or you accept that the widow argument was a bogus special interest ploy to begin with and have people who genuinely need a prop 13 style exemption apply for an exception - rather than have it apply to everyone. From what I understand, Seattle does it this way.
The official documentation is here: https://www.caldigit.com/the-usb-c-pro-dock-takes-down-my-ne...
We were all senior. We all got along well. We split into smaller two or three people project teams and worked siloed from everyone else.

Nobody knew what anyone was doing. The lead was stretched too thin. One project would flounder while he focused on managing the others. It was just a mess.

It didn't help there was some low performers on the team constantly slacking off but that was part of the problem room lead wasn't seeing these problems.
Ok, but central valley cities are all very car-oriented. If you take the train to Bakersfield you'll be in Bakersfield without a car. I've never been there to say for sure, but I suspect that's a bad time and you'd want to rent a car or take Uber when you arrive. Both of those aren't convenient, which is a problem for passenger rail in the US in general. You end up in a big parking lot by a strip mall near nothing walkable.
It shouldn’t be confounding. It seems clear:

Apple views the Mac as an iPad with an attached keyboard and optionally cooling.

There will be touch on the Mac very soon and they are preemptively getting the Apps ready. The whole Apple Silicon migration is to facilitate this merge of macOS and iPadOS. As soon as the 3 year migration to Apple Silicon is complete and most developers have stopped relying on Rosetta, Macs will have touch and there will be no longer two OSs.
See also Claude Shannon's trifecta of compression, error correcting codes, and cryptography, which also came out of the study of telecommunications.

Compression removes redundancy from your message. Error correcting codes introduces carefully controlled redundancies, so your message survives transmission errors, so your recipient can read it. And cryptography deals with 'scrambling' your message, so that no one else can read it (and also deal with authentication etc).
Maybe "absolutist" would have been the better word, but yes - it is always down to context, which was my point: the language the person I was replying to, sounded to me like there is good tech and bad tech independent from context.

"And I truly believe all this mindset of "you can do your project in ANY tech and it won't make a difference" "

But this sounds a bit like strawman, I never heard anyone ever making that claim.

Of course it makes all the difference which tech you choose for the job.

Rust is supposed to be good, but no (sane) person would try to script a website with it.
I mean you can use it and compile it to wasm and for big web applications that might even make sense - but for a really simple website I also would not even use typescript, but plain ugly javascript. No complex toolchain, no compiling, no transpiling - and allmost anyone can understand immmediately, what is going on and how to change something.

But sure, if you put stupid people in charge, they will use "simple javascript" where it is just too simple and make everything harder as a result, but this is hardly the fault of javascript.

(oh btw. today I learned that the James Webb Telescope runs javascript internally as a scripting language .. but without details, I will not judge here)
I've been following this project off and on. There are various Youtube videos about it. Lots has been written. It's interesting because it's really a failure on almost every level but most especially political. Some examples:

- Proposal 1A, the voter amendment that was passed to build the project, specified the speed of 220mph. This was really a mistake. It's greatly added to the cost;

- California's notorious environment impact review for a project of this scale require about the same planning, time and budget as the JWST. This is only a slight exaggeration. This article refers to the northern section (SF to the Central Valley). The southern section (Central Valley to LA) is, I believe, still in review. California has started to rollback some of these onerous review processes (eg CEQA) as its become apparent they're largely weaponized by NIMBYs to delay or derail (pun intended) pretty much anything;

- They're still securing land parcels through the Central Valley. Why this wasn't a textbook case for eminent domain for farmland (which is usally WAY cheaper than any kind of residential, industrial or commercial land) is beyond me. I'm sure there's a reason but it seems crazy;

- Counties along the route have managed to extract concessions for not blocking the project that greatly add to cost and travel time. For example, instead of running down the I5 through the west side of the Central Valley, it runs through regaional towns like Bakersfield on the east side. This is greater tack length ()ie more cost and overall travel time) and more stops (ie even more travel time);

- The Sacramento spur originally had a plan where I believe it went through Oakland rather than along the Caltrain line. IIRC this was overruled for political reasons;

- LA is huge. Acquiring land for this is going to be a massive and expensive undertaking.

So I'm a fan of a robust public transit infrastructure but the likely $100b+ price tag for this just seems insane to me. I actually think it probably would've been better to build a LA to Las Vegas line first. There is a ton of demand for this. Yes you have to cross some mountains (but less than the HSR does) but you're also dealing with desert on the Nevada side, so acquiring land gets a whole lot less problematic. It's also shorter.

The Brightline West route from LA to Las Vegas seems like it's going ahead. But it has different design constraints (eg 180mp speed vs 220). You should really design all these systems with the same design constraints and the same rolling stock.

Whenever I see projects like the HSR and even the NY 2nd Ave Subway with their truly massive price tags for very little my mind always goes to Crossrail in the UK. It might've been late but really not that much and to me it seems to be a stunning success. To build that much new tunnel under london (which is essentially a ruin/graveyard with 2000+ years of accumulation) is, to me, an astounding feat.

The comparison to China is always made. Well, that's central planning for you. It may have its benefits but it also has its costs.
It's ironic how you were being condescending when you used the term hotlink ("if I need to spell it out...") and yet used the term incorrectly
problem is who knows who is "unsavoury".