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This brings me back to my childhood and building web pages when JavaScript elements to add whimsy and whatnot to the page.

Was it particularly attractive? No. Was there much function (except for a few screen types and maybe cursor styles, not really). Was it fun and did it make the internet feel exciting and like a truly new and unique medium? Hell yes.

Love seeing this stuff preserved.

And add me to the list of people that now misses skeuomorphism from the aughts and the Delicious Generation of Mac apps. Lickable icons and interfaces. I still love them, mostly because it reminds me of when software had personality.

That’s the thing about the late-90s to early 2000s web aesthetic: it had personality.

I love stark and clean Swiss-influenced designs as much any anyone else. But software, websites, and hardware was always best when it had personality.
What the parent proposed doesn't require different math.

Just a species that hears out current slightly offset divisions in 12-tet as perfect, as opposed to only hearing integral ratios as perfect.
It's a dense book, but it's absolutely fascinating. I've been reading about the war for years, but this book upended my perspective.
Not to give credence to this space, but NFT art shows presenting Pixel Chill Monkey #9491 made with a coked-out doll dress-up game is a seemingly much lower bar
> not trusting that the food being served is what they said it was

Chinese folks being weary of restaurants with swapping ingredients for lower tier is not comparable to assuming chicken being swapped for cat, which is a tired joke. Usually reserved for pricer seafood, hence pick your victim tanks. Many restaurants do similar type of substitute shenangians, like I'm pretty sure the hipster burger joing is not serving genuine kobe beef patty for $15, but they're also not serving ground chihuahua either. Like even in PRC you're worried about things like gutter oil at a hole in a wall joint versus slightly cheaper grade of sea cucumber at a fancy restaurant. Even during the pork crisis, no one was particularly concerned that restaurants were feeding them cat/dogs instead.

E: relate back to your parent comment, there's somethigns like cultural appropriation that most (especially older gen) Chinese don't care about, i.e. they thumbs up for white girls wearing qipao.
My understanding is the argument is not whether to use someone's fatness as a measure of health if there's a much better, specific metric besides being fat (ie. resting insulin levels) to prescribe exercise and diet over.

I don't think it'll reduce stigma or whatever of fat people, but I do agree that if someone is fat but their insulin is normal maybe a doctor can pay attention to something else like if they came in for an allergy test or something they may not need the diet/exercise spiel. Similarly if someone's thin but their insulin is crazy its time to talk diet/exercise.
I'm reading this book right now.

The Americans wanted to start with an invasion of France right in 1942. No messing about. The British had to convince them that it was ridiculous.

Then the Americans got an easy start in North Africa where they could learn from their mistakes and become the juggernaut they are known to be.

An Army At Dawn is a really good book filled with interesting anecdotes. It's perhaps a bit of a tough read because the good guys keep blundering. If you want a curbstomp battle, that's not it.
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I think there is a third category - companies that have heard of DevOps, think it means that the development team and operations team talk to one another, which they already do (!) and shut down conversations after that.

I've come across this archetype in several contracting gigs and I find it to be especially pernicious as it gives the incumbents (who usually have more weight in the org) ammo to effectively do nothing.
I actively want people to NOT change constant to c. I want the language to be a predictable shared base, not something I have to relearn and customize for every project.

I'm not a language designer. That's hard. That takes time and effort. And I don't do anything that can't be done in Python or Dart or whatever. Customizing the language is time not spent on the project, and batteries included stuff already has everything I need.

I think lisp is good for people who "think inside their heads", as in, they think "I want to do this, oh, I could do it this way, then I'd need this resource, let's build it".

If you think "Interactively" as in "I want to do this, what does Google tell me others are doing, oh yeah, this was made almost exactly the same use case, I'll start with this resource, now I'll adapt my design to fit it", you might not have any ideas for language tweaks to make in the first place.

I basically never code and think "I wish I could do that in this language" aside from minor syntactic sugar and library features. New abstractions and ideas don't just pop up in my mind, what the common mainstream languages have is the entirity of what programs are made of, as far as I'm concerned.
You also get the western[1] chromatic scale if you go up by a fifth (which is pleasant sounding for many reasons) ad infinitum.

C -> G -> D -> A -> E -> B -> F# -> C# -> G# -> D# -> A# -> E# -> B#(C)

Of course the B# you end up with at the end is 531441/4096 which is 1.3% higher frequency than 7 octaves above the starting C. If you want to generate flats as well, by traveling in the opposite direction, you end up with different notes for the flats. 12-TET is just the modern way of using a constant frequency ratio to divide the octave to match the 12 notes used by Pythagoras. The ancient greeks were unlikely to come up with it due to the reliance on irrational numbers.

1: Pythagoras is often credited with this scale, China also independently invented this scale and it's not clear which came first (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C3%AD-%C3%A8r-l%C7%9C)
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The incarceration rate of the US in 1960 was about 225/100K, and in China it's currently around 120/100K, so China is doing a little better than we were 60 years ago.

Of course our incarceration rate now has nearly tripled to 640/100K, so thank God they're not following us.
There are many double blind studies on this. On a 2+ year time horizon, the huge majority of obese people who follow a "eat less exercise more" regime lose weight and then gain it back. This happens because the people never stop being hungry due to the disruption that obesity puts on their endocrine system. There are a number of medicines (saxenda, liraglutide, ozempic, mounjaro, wegovy) that produce reliable robust weight loss on a 2+ year time horizon. These medicines work best with a change in diet and exercise habits, but reliable weight loss on a population wide scale is not something you treat with "diet and exercise" advice.
My memory is that this still existed in modern macOS not too long ago, as an accessibility option.
1960s? Try the 1990s. The Blockbuster version of Bad Lieutenant had almost 30 min removed. Blockbuster was silently editing many of their VHS rentals before DVD took over.

Yes, not government censorship, but it’s almost worse when a private, unaccountable, entity is imposing its own moral values, especially when they reach the size that Blockbuster did during its heyday.
This ends up making the situation worse. Legalization substantially increases demand far beyond what can be produced legally and ironically the value actually goes up and results in even more of the illegal product being produced. Furthermore it now becomes very difficult to distinguish between the legal and illegal product, providing criminals with an easy cover to launder the product.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w22314

Statistics Canada has reported that after the legalization of weed, the black market has actually grown quite substantially (in absolute terms).

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-medica...

At any rate, the point is that making things legal or available can often paradoxically significantly increase demand for the illegal product and in the process make it much easier for the black market to operate.

And just to add in some controversy to the discussion, the same is true of prostitution. Almost all places that have legalized prostitution also have significantly higher rates of human trafficking including underage prostitutes.
I’m not really sure we have a large enough corpus of (known) societies, but even ignoring that, were any pre-Middle Ages or non-Western European societies nearly as tight-lipped about sex? And just how tight-lipped actually was medieval Europe, when even Sleeping Beauty was awoken by being fucked? Finally, to which degree is stability of the social order desirable? Medieval Europe, sakoku Japan and zastoj USSR were all (meta)stable to some degree, but they were also hellholes of varying depth.

I don’t actually think the answers to these questions disprove your statement, because I have a painful lack of knowledge as to what those answers actually are. But I do feel that those answers need to be given before an argument such as yours can make sense.

(Granted, a trait that promotes societal stability can become common even if stability isn’t actually good, so the last question is not as important as the others. A dystopian equilibrium is still an equilibrium.)
In what context? HPC and certain code bases have been effectively leveraging heterogenous CPU GPU workloads for a variety of applications for quite awhile. I know of some doing so in at least 2009 and know plenty of prior art was already there by that point, it's just a specific time I happen to remember.
First one I clicked on had auto-play music. No thank you, I'm glad that trend died and it's a shame if it's coming back.
This is why Plaid is so successful, it allows banks/fintech companies to validate that the information on the counterparty account matches what you claim, that it has sufficient amount, name and email matches.
The bank can also decide if he wants to deny an ACH debit or do a manual review of it, for example above a specific amount of if its the 1st ach debit.
Also the clearing days (when you will see money in your bank) will be different depending on different risk factors.
You can read more here about how to mitigate ACH fraud with tools such as Plaid - https://guides.unit.co/fraud-and-disputes/
disclaimer - I am an engineer at Unit.
There are valid use cases for both types of transactions: those that require an option for chargeback as well as those that must be settled with finality.

The difference is that while crypto can do both, the legacy finance system cannot.
At training time they sure are. The only thing more expensive than fancy GPUs are the ML engineers whose productivity that are improving.
I'm not an expert but I think some people believe (me included) that even if people become lazy because they have UBI, it's not a big deal, because the money the're "earning" will flow into the economy anyway (because they'll be buying food, Xbox games, etc...). The utopian idea is that they'll be inspired to do work to earn beyond UBI because of motivation (maybe it's because they want to help people, maybe it's to buy a fancy car).
>I don't really have enough money to hire lawyers and I'm not sure what police could do and besides I'd be broke.

You would call your bank and they would reverse it. You would have your money back in a business day or two. That's why ACH isn't "abused".

What would be more worrying if some multinational company accidentally debited your account. That would be harder because your bank would likely just side with the multinational who inadvertently stole your money. However, I don't think that is a weakness that exists solely with ACH.
Exploring mouse options for something else and stumbled upon a reminder there is an in box feature for it. It's off-by-default and the changes that Power Tool makes are: switch from single Left Ctrl to double Left Ctrl, and switches from classic Windows "wave of rings" visual (it expands a bunch of rings out from the pointer as a very simple animation) to the "Spotlight" mechanic that dims the screen except for a circle around the pointer.
The most obvious factor can be observed by any amateur at the SLS photo - it looks like two long white thingies strapped to the sides of the rocket :) . Joking aside - Space Shuttle was deemed about as safe as 1 in 60 flights by two different commissions. This SLS uses exact same hardware in general, and can't be much safer than an inherently unsafe Shuttle. That's unfortunate fact of life. I sincerely hope that no crew would be harmed flying this thing.
> Even if it dries up, and the aqueduct pulling water from the Central Valley and Eastern Sierra breaks - that really only impacts LA.

Again, you seem to be dismissive that California is about to destroy the economy of two other states in a quest for cheap water.

The CRC:

>Extreme shortage. The most severe shortage considered in the interim guidelines is when the level of Lake Mead drops below 1,025 feet (312 m), in which event 7,000,000 acre-feet (8.6 km3) per year will be delivered to the Lower Basin states: 4,400,000 acre-feet (5.4 km3) to California, 2,320,000 acre-feet (2.86 km3) to Arizona, and 280,000 acre-feet (0.35 km3) to Nevada.

90% of the water in Las Vegas comes from Lake Mead. In the event of Lake Mead drying up, the entire state of Nevada gets less than 0.5% of the volume of the Colorado. While I guess it's nice to know that SoCal has other options when the water runs out, we're talking about a humanitarian disaster for a Las Vegas that has no other options.

If desalination is really unnecessary, California should stop blocking efforts to revise the Compact.
I agree that one major contributor to these problems that he doesn't (fully) address in the talk are the unit economics and market forces that help along these decisions.

He does allude to it about faster software (slow being equated with buggy), and I think there are market indications that for specific markets, fast (efficient software) does win--though it is the exception seemingly, rather than the rule. The rule seems to be quick-to-market software wins.

However, I think his point has a wider scope, and I don't think it's irrelevant. Yes, in the short term, market forces push us to put software in front of people quickly, even if it's buggy. But is that beneficial in the long term? What would be the consequences of making short term optimal choices here?

Would we (as a society) forget how to build the things we rely upon in our society because the complexity is too overwhelming, and at every step, we never went back to clean things up and focus on transferring inter-generational knowledge, because we were too busy putting out features?

Just like in the Innovator's Dilemma, the incumbent at every step makes the optimal decision, but ends up getting trounced because a series of local optimized choices is not a globally optimized choice. And Blow here is saying (strongly), that we're doing something similar with how we build software.

And I'm inclined to agree with him, even though I fully recognize the market forces as being strong. Would we keep making short-term optimal choices because we have no choice? Or is there a way out?

Alan Kay has talked about this in some of his talks. He has some neat ideas, wrapped up in unintelligible slides. I've always thought he needs a graphic designer for his slides. Anyway, his thesis is that we build software today much like how Egyptians built buildings: stacking things wide in order to build high--evident by code bases millions of lines long. We have very few equivalent of arches in software. Once we had arches, we could build higher with less materials.

So perhaps there's a way out. We've been searching for it for a long time (in software years, but we're still a young field), ever since before the Mythical Man Month. And Blow, I think, is saying, there are real consequences to this software mess we find ourselves in, the worst of which is the collapse of civ itself, esp if we don't find a way to reign in the complexity and the bugginess.

Or we can pray for AGI to get done and do it all for us. finger guns
Personally, I think that my phone should be convenient for me to use.

I'm well aware of different ways to swipe pages. The reason why the hardware volume buttons are so convenient for reading is because you just put your thumb on the volume/page down button, and you no longer have to move it at all - only press down slightly every now and then. It's much more ergonomic for long-term reading than having to raise the thumb every time, even to tap.
The author obviously has never been to the UK. Nothing happens without tea. Sure, coffee is commonplace, even dominant in some realms, but tea is life.

Have a plumber in to fix a leak, or an electrician to look at a wonky switch? Without the offer and supply of copious cuppas, you'll be lucky if you don't drown/get electrocuted after the job is "done".
Which browser are you using? If I remember correctly, the audio on iOS devices requires iOS >= 14.5
> Null values, famously dubbed the billion dollar mistake. I want my money back Tony Hoare.

A world with golang and no nil values would be a dream.
I think all design trends point to us having passed the peak of “flat” design.

For example I think iOS is a big trendsetter and it’s less flat and boring than a few years ago (however still too white and boring).
I wouldn't think it surprising if they had at least customs around sex (whatever about taboos). Without contraception sex can cause a lot of trouble. People, even animals, will kill for mating rights.
Because limiting the growth of silicon is in the interest of national security due to AI takeoff risk.
the threat model is my phone; when stolen is as hostile as possible if you use it normally, there is little to gain and every chance i can drum up for the location and environment to be made available. [honeypot]
But who says the creatures need to perceive sound in such a way that the harmonic series has sensory significance? To be honest I’ve never seen a compelling evolutionary explanation for why “hearing the harmonic series” developed in the first place. It obviously seems useful to be able to perceive sounds generated by (roughly) harmonic oscillators, since those occur naturally for various reasons, but why octave equivalence?
> (I have the mandatory account to activate the phone, but all my mail is via fastmail).

Interesting, I don't have a google account associated with my phone. It means the google app store doesn't work, but everything else works fine AFAIK. I use FDroid or just download apks directly.
That still doesn't beat the Japanese officer who learned that the Americans had boats devoted to making ice cream. That would be a tough one to live down.

I remember from The Forgotten Soldier that German soldiers noticed that new recruits had worse and worse uniforms, with worse materials and lower quality dyes.

At some point Germany's new jet fighters were dragged by horses because fuel was so scarce.
Those other landers are pure fantasy as of right now and are not remotely financed at all.

If anything so far its a purely political move so NASA can tell congress 'sure we do sort of still pretend to have multiple landers'.
Standard subscription. I doubt the dynamic range is because of non-HDR, because it's flat compared to other non-HDR content. Or maybe they compress non-HDR on purpose so that HDR content looks better in comparison?
I mean random person in the veil of ignorance sense. If I was a random person in Pakistan, would my life be better or worse because access to the broader social web was cut off? It seems plain to see that it would be worse for most, and on the average.
Evaluating five years of pro-Western covert influence operations [pdf]
Those are companies, not nationalities.
Is this more or less saying there's no definitive link between obesity and mortality risk?
Impression is one thing, that is for me now, not that important as meaning, story, message... Especially nowadays, when generating beautiful impressive images is easy and overdone (waving on Instagram).
Been happening since the bronze age
To be clear, you can use CockroachDB if you're a service.

What is prohibited, however, is you can't take CockroachDB and try and offer a hosted CockroachDB-as-a-Service to external organizations.

But if your organization has a DB-as-a-Service offering internally, you can totally add crdb to the mix (this is pretty common, as a matter of fact). If your org offers a service and its backed by crdb, you can totally do that, too.
I've never used any of those apps. But McDonald's particularly? I know those other apps are popular, but who actually installs the app for a fast food restaurant? I thought this was something these companies wasted money on because they wanted to feel techy and trendy, I didn't think anybody actually fell for it though.

Just walk up to the counter and say "I'll have number whatever"
Trademark filings point to ‘Reality’ branding for Apple’s mixed reality headset
This is a fantasy story. Hence being under "No Sleep" subreddit.

It would be pretty awesome as a short movie. But still, it's fiction, and I hope everyone that sees it realizes that, since short fiction doesn't get posted here all that often.
Ah, yes, sorry, my mistake.
TS-Pattern is a cool library I found on Github and happily use for various personal projects. As the repository just reached over 3k stars, its creator posted a nice summary on Twitter about the main features it offers.
>use their platform to distribute

I'm not a fan of this phrasing because it absolves Google of responsibility. If the CSAM is on a Google server then Google is possessing and distributing CSAM. You can say they're doing it unwittingly or unintentionally but that doesn't change the fact that they're doing it.
That's not really circular, though. It does start from the assumption that 4ths and 5ths sound pleasant, but uses that to build possible scales, some of which are more compatible with 4ths and 5ths than others.
My desk is at the warmest place in the building - it's at an upper corner of the building, south facing and at the end of a room. I had to come up with some metric and this is the first year that it got so bad that I had to bailout and I sent everyone else home too, so I've set 30C at my desk as a first threshold. I'll probably lower it.

I am the H&S bod, and shortly I'll be first aid accredited (again). Mind you I've done first aid for sailing and skiing back in the day too, so I know what you are supposed to do when hit by an avalanche ("swim" and pray, or soil yourself and pray - which is more likely) and how to treat or at least mitigate hypothermia.

For some reason we have had loads of practice in working from home recently. I'm an expert in VPNs and all my staff have home phones virtually wired up to our PBX.
The way I see it, generally every new data point (on which the production model inference gets run once) becomes part of the data set which then gets used in training every next model, processing the same data point many more times in training, thus training unavoidably taking more effort than inference.

Perhaps I'm a bit biased towards all kinds of self-supervised or human-in-the-loop or semi-supervised models, but the notion of discarding large amounts of good domain-specific data that get processed only for inference and not used for training afterward feels a bit foreign to me, because you usually can extract an advantage from it. But perhaps that's the difference between data-starved domains and overwhelming-data domains?
>I wouldn't consider most workplaces I've been in totalitarian

Where did you work where you could vote for the CEO?
This gives me an idea. Maybe redirect to some old big corp website -- HP, Oracle, IBM? -- where the page they're being redirected to also redirects several times?
Also true of self-driving. You train a perception model for a week and then log millions of vehicle-hours on inference.