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> All Microsoft seems to be doing is, bump up Windows version number whenever Apple bumps up MacOS version number, and make some minor changes (even if it makes the product worse) to justify the new version number.

Spot on. I'm surprised I haven't seen this talked about more. First Microsoft skipped 9 so that they could be at the same number as Apple (X/10), called it the "last version of Windows ever" (probably because, at the time, Mac OS X was seen as the last "version" of Mac OS, and would just be dot releases until the end of time). When Apple finally bumped up from X to 11, you could almost feel Microsoft go "B-b-but 11 is one more than 10! We can't let Apple have the higher number!" And in the same breath they: Apple-ified their window corners and (some of their) icons, nerfed the Start menu, showed a complete misunderstanding of the difference between a dock and taskbar by trying their damndest to turn the latter into the former, and around the same time even offered a Spotlight-esque file search in the form of PowerToys (no complaints about PowerToys, though, it's great).

Everything I listed there paints a clear picture of Microsoft having zero vision for Windows (that's nothing new, I suppose) and simply following Apple's lead, but doing it worse.

It's really unfortunate, because, while Windows is certainly my least favorite OS, I do appreciate it for what it is and want to see it succeed. Windows 10's design language had finally matured -- it sucks to see them all but throw in the towel on ever having a clear, singular vision for Windows.
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Looks like they get their color names from <https://www.npmjs.com/package/color-name-list>, they're partially crowd-sourced.
Just sharing for general interest / awareness, not as a "gotcha".

Though I will point out...

> only that it does not matter

... that this isn't true! MEV can destabilize consensus. There's been research around this in the Bitcoin/Lightning ecosystem, and it's been an active discussion in Ethereum for quite a while.
> why not just be a bank serving all types of customers

Yes, when will we finally get a bank like that.

Is the 20,000 existing banks that do that not enough for you?
It's not too early, there are already cracks appearing in Twitter.
Owning gold/silver is legal. It's also regulated - it's not legal tender.

Investing in a business is legal. It also means sending money, which is regulated by KYC/AML and you're still responsible for taxes.
The part where you wrote something and it would run on any c64 exactly the same way. A few hacks aside, you could get some work done and it was done! Today the update circus feels like jenga.
I worked at WineSpectator.com in 2012-2013. I'll say this in their favor: the wine tastings were blind. A bunch of interns would set up the wine tasting, pouring the wine into glasses and then hiding the bottles. Only after everything was setup were the editors allowed into the room. So when the editors drank the wine, they had no idea if they were drinking a $9 bottle or a $900 bottle. They had to focus on the taste and balance, and write their report. Only afterwards were they told which wine they had tasted.

Having said that, I'll also mention, the way the editors struggled for new adjectives did sometimes make me laugh:

"a vast, hearty body, notes of blue and a hint of graphite steel"

"a radiance similar to the sun at dawn, a strong body, notes of orange"
I tend think the problem is that the world is under-stressed.

Personal tragedy used to be unbelievably common for humans. Just consider the sheer number of childhood deaths before the year 1800.

If you are a generation that has been raised in a world with few diseases, famines, foreign invasions, and even fewer things like verbal abuse or bullying - by the time you reach adulthood you are probably much, much more sensitive to any sort of negative emotion anywhere.

It's like growing up in a zero-G environment and coming back down to Earth - you have no emotional muscles.
Because the doritos and beer ads are so much better?
You don't know their motivation yet you know it's not altruistic? Thems bold claims cotton.
Nintendo 64 archiving, modding and homebrew game development. Check out n64brew, there's a discord server too. Plenty of work to be done documenting hardware protocols or making developer libs/tools.
we already have this. it's called a car.
THIS! Isn't this part of the circular economy? If not, then it should be. This right here is what we shold all be doing!
Well, function implies form in this universe to some degree. The more functions we want to put into a machine the more it's form is constrained. If we want something that does all what birds do .. we need to build a bird.

That said we already have drones. We can add a charging station, an artificial beak, a speaker and it can do bird stuff pretty well :)

What we suck at is building self-replicators.

Cats are considered better vermin hunters than simple machines, like rat traps, because they have a lot of extra benefits of being household pets. (Which rat traps don't do well. Also usually dogs are used to hunt vermin. [I wanted to find that video where dogs hunt on the field as a tractor plows it, but only found this about minks :o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB1I7UixASY ].)

Fish tank cleaning is also a very specific problem. It's basically a niche. If we look at it as an engineering challenge it's a hard problem. Small space, hard to reach spaces, mostly mechanical work is needed (as fish tank life is very sensitive to water quality), etc. And there's also cost. It's very possible that if we were to spend a few billion dollars on the problem we could come up with a fish tank cleaner, but ... snails are provided by evolution for free.
To be fair, in during a downturn it actually helps US Citizens. Any laid off H1b who doesn't find a job soon will end up deported. This will prevent a large glut of labor considerably bringing US down wages.
Thank you! Yes, we are very keen on adding better email support over time!
My two cents: 1) only pursue what you’re naturally interested in, you’ve got a long career ahead of you, and 2) build, build, build. What problems do you face in life? Fix them yourself with code and suddenly you’ve found motivation to learn.
Regulatory risk is a spectrum and banks can definitely decide where they want to be on that spectrum.
A Nespresso OL machine and some Audeze headphones (LCD-X). The latter never seems to be on sale however so my wait might be futile.
you guys are truly pathetic

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/15/white-house-requests-37point...

'direct funding for the government' - paying for salaries comes under this.
"It is absolutely worth considering as data has shown that there are drastic shortages of STEM workers in the U.S."

Really? Still going with this? Especially the S and M?
Curious how you "fixed" your cognition and energy levels?
Did you already have Polygon and a wallet (e.g. metamask)? If you didn't have that, I could see it being a pain too much of a pain to deal with.

It only took me a minute to use Polymarket, but I already had the prerequisites above.
> There are currently over 100 rocket companies in the US.

Zero of which are currently capable of putting a human around the Moon.
It seems that a challenge in BSP is going to be artifacts, when a surface, particularly a textured one, is chopped into pieces by several planes. If this is not done very carefully, the cuts might show, due to edge artifacts caused by the separate scan conversion of the fragments. Certain shading tricks like Phong may be difficult to apply in such a way that the result looks as if the original undivided polygon had been rendered.
Source code says it uses https://github.com/gorhill/Javascript-Voronoi
For efficiency, a form of short-hand may be faster. But, if what you write needs to be legible to others, a printed form can be beneficial for this. Cursive is not always as legible to others. James Pickering used to have some pages describing his use of italics based on the teachings of Bennardino Cataneo. I like it and used it some when I was more active in writing with fountain pens (a whole 'nother topic). Since most of my writing is with a keyboard, I never practiced enough to write quickly. His site is no longer active, but it can be found in the archive. Here is one page describing this italics.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190728053426/http://jp29.org/i...
Very cool. Asides from geography, how does this differ in implementation to something like Betfair (or Betfair Exchange) and the UK-based bookies who allow you to bet on things like political outcomes, who wins a reality TV show, etc?
It's not just Wikipedia. People still believe that Saddam Hussein had mobile chemical/biological weapons labs. And that helped justify a war. So in perspective, I'm OK with people being ignorant of the inventor of the toaster for a while.
> $30 to somewhere between $110 and $130
Why on earth do both lawngreen and chartreuse exist? I can barely if at all tell the difference on my phone screen.

Regardless, I love this, and love using named colors when prototyping.
you guys are pathetic.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/15/white-house-requests-37point...

'direct funding for government' - what do you think that covers? salaries for one.
I tried just one medicine at different dose levels for a few months and then stopped. Never figured out a long-term solution because I didn't take it long-term.
No matter where I move my cursor, it ends up sounding like an opening theme for a light-hearted anime series. Impressed at how melodic it sounds even though I don't know what I'm doing.

Also please fix the mouse jacking. I was only able to regain control of my mouse after exiting the tab :(
Sports betting was legalized directly because the supreme court ruled it was a game of skill, so it's funny you say this.
So more small businesses by people living in the area would be encouraged (think small mom-and-pop shops) rather than multinational chain restaurants. It’s a good thing.
You need to hold in your mind two completing concepts. One is that you might have a condition, and that condition may not be fully understood by medical science, and need some self-experimentation (for example, meditation, diet, blood tests, psychotherapy, drugs). The other concept is that it might blow over with rest, time or a change in thinking patterns and there is nothing to fix. Since you can't know which is true, both need to be nurtured!
I've spent three years on a TN visa, 6 on an H1-B, and I have not a single complaint about how I was treated by my employer, relative to my peers.

The problem isn't at FANG, the problem is at shitty third-tier headshops.
Most people do not live around the clock in an office. Many people spend entire days at their homes because there is nowhere else to go.

None of this goes to suggest that the bad aspects of offices are better.
I am no wine guru but I do know one thing for sure. There is definitely such a thing as bad wine. If paying a little more would guarantee not having a terrible bottle, that would make me pretty happy. In the real world I've not found that to be true though.
> The purpose of markets is to transfer those risks from people that bear them and need to offload them (hedgers) to people that have appetite for them (speculators).

Considering how Capitalist governments behave in financial crashes, you mean:

"offload them to people who have appetite for slanted bets, or in case of significant losses, to the public who has no appetite for it."
> First, Project Loom was announced in late 2017 [1]. So I don't really understand where you get that decade from?

I might've been mixing them up with value types. Or I may have been thinking of an earlier effort that was then subsumed into Project Loom.

> Second, it is available as a preview feature in latest JDK. Why would people adopt a preview feature in their production systems?

Exactly my point. If someone is arguing "I don't need Scala's support for lightweight concurrency because modern Java has that" - well, it sort of does, but they're not actually production ready.

> A lot of frameworks have already added support or as a minimum started working on support for virtual threads. I'm sure all major frameworks will support them once they are out of preview.

This is purely speculative, but I think there are going to be a lot of unforseen bugs and edge cases when people start actually using them. So I think it's really important to be clear that they're not in actual production use at the moment.
I don't want to discount that you're largely content with the the suburbs as they're built today - that's fine and there's nothing wrong with enjoying it. I do want to point out that from my point of view living in a really dense area, some of the reasoning is contradictory.

> I walk for exercise in my neighborhood

> Public transit will never work for me ... I hate wasting my time traveling and cars are the only things fast enough to make going anywhere vaguely tolerable

The suburban model doesn't allow people to live close to any of the places they go. I too dislike wasting my time traveling, but I don't have to: I can walk five or ten minutes to the grocery store, dentist, park, restaurants, etc. I end up walking a lot over the course of a week, and personally I also bike to further destinations (a lot more people would here too if there were protected bike lanes like you mentioned you want). My travel time _is_ my exercise time - no need to spend time on extra walks to accomplish that, and there's interesting things around me when I go from place to place. The subway or commuter rail can take me further away faster than a car when I need to go somewhere distant.

But I'm lucky I can afford to live in a part of Chicago that hasn't been totally disinvested in over the last half century, like a lot of the city has. The state didn't pave a highway through the middle of it like they did to other - mostly black and brown - parts of the city to convenience suburban drivers.

The suburban model that works just fine for you comes at a cost to society. We need to reckon with that and build more places where people aren't forced to drive for their day-to-day necessities and desires.
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Seems like those decisions were more business based and they simply took advantage of some nice PR, since the "anti-woke" bank obviously didn't make money.
> None of these techniques is relevant anymore given that all the hardware has Z buffers

Not true if you consider transparent objects. Rendering with order-independent transparency is still a hot topic without a clearly winning solution on GPU.

Web browsers have lots of semi-transparent rectangles, which can be transformed under "preserve3d" context. This is a classic case of effective BSP that is actual. (background: implementing BSP in WebRender a few years ago).

https://github.com/servo/plane-split
If the supply goes down as a response to falling demand that's not going to help anybody's wages...
So much fun. Hanging out on Undernet in channels like #zeraw, exchanging hacked corporate FTP servers where people had uploaded disk images.

My friend was way further (better?) at the scene then I ever was but we'd pool our resources. I.e. he'd get access to an FTP and share it with me. I'd download disks 1 - 10 and he'd grab 11 - 20. We'd then use a direct dial program with our modems to share the remaining disks with each other (using ZModem!) overnight. Double our bandwidth!
I just like to know what words mean.
No and it doesn't. There is a shared printer available to all faculty (by network from their workstations) in a locked room. So you go there to collect your print outs and usually they are between colleagues' print outs that were sent at around the same time.

So that doesn't fix the issue and is already much more annoying than a small printer (other room, lock, finding your print out). Add any further hassle like id cards on top and nobody will use it.
George Lucas has answered in interviews what his plan for the sequels had been. Here's one source:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/06/george-lucas-reveals-...

That link editorializes in its URL that the plan was awful, but you can read it yourself.

(I felt it pretty easy to speculate that its quality might not be great in reading George Lucas' book adaptation of A New Hope, personally, and guessed at some of the answers he later gave in interviews. Though it would have been a fun spectacle/drug trip.)
Without standardization, I have to rely on specific compilers. That's not great, either.
I'd say "caring only about money" is the complete absence of ideology since it just chases personal benefits. Just operating on basic instincts using more sophisticated mental skills. There are some who claim that they engage in such behavior because profit-maximization is for the moral good or whatever, but I wouldn't make that as the default assumption.

As for the "weirdness" you refer to, the company was arguing that banks indeed do not care only about money, but impose costly political agendas too. Hence the supposed value proposition.
Related: note also that tailscale's tailnet 100.* subnet is som form of CGNAT public ip block. I think Tailscale thought long and hard about this, and landed on it because it was a path of lesser resistance to break fewer things. And if you squint they fit the stated purpose.

But even if browsers now implement PNA the tailnet itself is public address space, so that vector still exists. I wonder if browsers (and eventually standards) will be pressured to treat those blocks as private.
The beauty of the BSP tree is that it used recursion. When first approached this is a challenge to wrap your head around- very similar to the quicksort algorithm. Great read.

These days octtrees more or less replaced BSP trees i guess. They are easier to handle and work better with more polygons.
That is embarassing. I didn't know this till now.

Thank you!!
I used to have a job that required a daily commute, but didn't require any travel.

I now have a remote job that I do at home, with an extremely modest amount of travel -- I see my teammates 2-3 times a year at conferences or meetups.

It turns out that flying, even very occasionally, is worse for the environment than driving, and that my "eco-friendly" remote job leaves a bigger carbon footprint than my commuting job. A single person's share of a single cross-country flight once a year can emit more carbon than an ENTIRE YEAR of car commuting.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/sunday-review/the-biggest...
As soon as the initial mandate was met, politicians did their thing and corrupted the space program to prioritize jobs (and thus votes) over space exploration.
Yes, I have pretty similar history to yours (30+ years in my case) and pretty much feel exactly as you do.
Several platforms are hosted either partially or entirely in California and some of the headquarters may be in Cali. Does this mean some of the social platforms will have to adjust their machine learning to eradicate anything that deviates from a particular source of truth? What source of truth will all the platforms be required to learn from or will humans be manually fact-checking? Will the human fact checkers be licensed medical professionals?

Here is the bill [1] if anyone wishes to skip the article. It is at least nice to see that the bill appears to be written in easy to understand wording.

[1] - https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...
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Yes, because it acted more like a bank than an exchange :

https://jorgevelez.substack.com/p/ftx

One that seemingly failed to be properly regulated despite doing business in the USA, and where supposedly sophisticated investors seemingly failed to do due diligence.

"Crypto" is being blamed a lot for FTX, but it's starts to feel more like it's a scapegoat at this point.

(And/or an excuse for everyone to just look away from how the sausage is being made while the numbers were going up : see also : the complicated math behind the subprime morgages in the 2008 crisis.)

Surely if those US regulators and those huge investor companies felt incompetent about "crypto", they could just have hired specialists ??

(And it's starting to look that not even this was needed, simply sending your average accountant might have uncovered FTX' lack of... accountability ?!)
Citation needed. Granted I’m a U.S. citizen, but this doesn’t match anything I’ve heard from my many friends on visas at Meta.
Even on Google-flavored Android devices, you don't have to use the Play Store if you don't want to. You don't have to use Google Maps if you don't want to. You don't have to send your location to Google if you don't want to. iOS is strictly worse than all the other alternatives I know of.
Except this company is trying to make it easier to keep these people here to depress wages during a downturn.
Yes, but at 51 to 75 it does get a bit tedious with the frequent algorithmic misses :-)
https://github.com/LAC-Tech/new-wave/blob/master/type.ml

Looks like my last attempt failed when I got bogged down prototyping a type system in Ocaml then trying to port that to Zig.

So in my case - it's not because I use them and they suck, it's because I find stuff like implementing type systems and GC very hard, and usually more practical things start wanting my attention more.
I maintain a LLVM backend for the 6502: https://godbolt.org/z/6EWEb6c5E, https://llvm-mos.org

I love compilers, and I work on LLVM full time at my day job. I love bringing modern tooling and techniques to an older environment where they very much don't belong; the juxtaposition of the two is very satisfying to me.
IMO Mastodon is unlikely to become the "new Twitter". It's just a different platform and will lead to different behavior, which is fine. Twitter will likely keep it's cultural cachet until it collapses (unlikely), or Musk encourages the douchebags enough that it becomes a social disaster (much more likely).

Mastodon seems to have a lot of mind-share in the German-speaking world, so I'm not going to be surprised if a lot of the early adopters end up being German companies.
It could easily be a way to drum up business. They're offering their services to businesses looking to hire. If those businesses get the legal work done for free on their first H1B hire, they may decide to do more of it, and then this firm is a known quantity to them and a safe choice.
Scott Alexander did a post on it too: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/mantic-monday-81522
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> You ever talk on 4chan?

Why would I do that?

> You could be talking to 20x people, but they're all Bob who is just obsessed with proving

If Bob goes full Pessoa and creates 20 different heteronomies I'm all for it, but unfortunately that never quite happens and you get the gist of Bob1, Bob2... Bob20 being all the same person pretty fast.

> and other such issues is at minimum for discussion on today's internet.

This place seems to function decently well, at least for now, and I didn't even have to give them my email address.
> Oh, and they've added in-game rollback netplay using a Dolphin fork :)

Holy smokes!
SLS is incapable of doing so too.