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> Firstly, it's difficult to talk about this because discussing anything the media wilfully chooses to ignore sounds like a conspiracy theory

Then just stick to the facts.

> Secondly just because something reflects badly on the Democrat party doesn't mean it's a "right-wing narrative"

It’s a narrative precisely because the story you presented is ahead of the facts. You’re telling the story you want to tell and backfilling it in with facts as necessary when they become available, making omissions as necessary. The problem with this is you’ll keep telling this story like the facts support it even if they never come.

> One of Hunter Biden's business partners confirmed Joe Biden was the "Big Guy".

I wasn’t aware this was confirmed, but unfortunately all this proves is that someone was trying to gain access to Joe Biden. Not exactly surprising. Showing Joe Biden was receptive to the overture is much harder to prove.

> Trump is not relevant to whether Joe Biden is corrupt is or not.

One thing I have said and I will keep saying is that if Hunter did something wrong he should be investigated and prosecuted. If Joe Biden did something wrong he should be investigated and prosecuted as well. I haven’t met a single left leaning person who disagrees with me there. (And believe me, I’m no fan of Joe Biden, he was like my 6th choice). In that sense you’re right, it doesn’t matter what Trump has done.

But not all corruption is equal, and Republicans have spent the last 7 years excusing and equivocating some of the most egregious examples of corruption I’ve ever seen.

So now they are out there saying we should all be very concerned about Joe Biden’s corruption. Their problem is that we can pull up any number of sound bytes from the same people excusing Trump’s corruption.

Hell, we just have to use Trump’s own impeachment argument against them: if the executive believes what he is doing is for the benefit of the country, then his motives cannot be corrupt, even in the case of extorting a bribe as Trump did. Republicans bought that argument and in doing so set a precedent.

To me, this shows the outrage is all just political theatre, on the order of Benghazi, election denial, Whitewater/Clinton impeachment, or the Hillary Clinton emails.

> Need to get away from this idea that the Dems can do whatever they want "because Trump".

I believe in equal justice under the law, one of the foundational pillars of democracy. If Trump can get away with crimes but Biden is prosecuted for the same, this is actually a miscarriage of justice and a danger to democracy. Either the law is applied equally to everyone, or it is applied to no one.
This example really drives Ben's point home. If you already know the answer you can get chatGPT to give it to you, but if you naively ask a question it can be extremely difficult to figure out if it's right or not. Honestly with the spread of disinformation training students to use resources in a zero trust way seems super valuable. I know that a lot of fake news spreads because people want to confirm their biases, but by training people to spot well worded falsehoods perhaps they will be more likely to spot it in other instances.
Looking at https://www.pcbenchmarks.net/os-marketshare.html, Windows 11 seems to be gaining adoption at the expected rate, at least among the enthusiast crowd (who will run such tests). As with all previous versions, people aren't going to be in any rush to upgrade their OS no matter the feature set. It will naturally gain market share when people throw away their devices and buy new ones.
This is correct, people above L7 aren't considered part of regular performance management.
This is an entertaining snapshot of ChatGPT a week odd in.

It suffers from what I have found a recurring issue on Stratechery, a failure to account for the cognitive error around our collective inability to project non-linearly from current state.

Think back to the grotesque comical and unsettling errors in the output of the first widely disseminated DALL-E level prompt to image generators.

Now compare MidJourney v4b, today's baseline.

There is no certainty that any particular aspect of ChatGPT will evolve with similar speed.

But there is no certainty that some many or most of its shortcomings will similarly be chipped relentlessly away, over a comparable timescale, i.e. something reasonably measured in months.

I don't know if this is the case, but I know enough to consider the possibility, which I would describe myself as a likelihood,

and to infer that when we think about the impacts tools like this are going to have on knowledge-inquiry and yes, homework,

it's a mistake to think, "ah, this is a new tool, that like Google web search, will undergo modest improvements but provide more or less the same value proposition for the next oh decade."

We're in a different moment with these technologies, and getting closes to what mechanically looks like singularity, their ability to make suggestions as to how better improve them.

Not too close. But closer than we think.

Let's not make assertions or spend too much speculating about modest, linear extrapolations.

We should be focused on the more troubling bewildering and hard to reason about non-linear ones.
> Point is, it's still essential with CRDTs to have a schema and a validation/resolution process. That or you use completely custom CRDTs that encodes into their resolution process the validation of the schema.

I'm surprised that MS's concurrent revisions [1] haven't taken off because this is what they do by default: you specify a custom merge function for any versioned data type so you can resolve conflicts using any computable strategy.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/concurrent-...
Making homework more secure seems like the wrong approach. The whole purpose of a grade is to certify fitness for the next course/year/job. Homework is exceptionally poor at that task even without AI, and overloading it with grades almost invariably makes it worse at its primary task of better educating the student. Larger projects will still need to reckon with AI somehow, but would it not make more sense to just push grading back to a more controlled environment (e.g., ~6 tests in a semester where you can drop the lowest grade so that you can reduce the variance induced by not understanding what a particular professor is looking for and from life issues or test anxiety)?

That'd have the added benefits of not wasting time giving individualized feedback for assignments where students know they half-assed it, not having to constrain assignments to those problems which can be fairly evaluated, not causing additional scheduling overhead and stress as students figure out how to hit so many minor deadlines with all-or-nothing impacts on each assignment, ....
Most people I know just want carplay - or said another way, they want their car to cede control to their phone.
Pfizer boss refuses to testify to EU Parliament Covid panel – again
Speed far above the limit and we'll take your car, Austria says
Obsidian 1.1 adds Canvas, an infinite canvas for laying out notes and ideas
One can argue all sorts of bizarre (and frankly, very insulting: slavery? Really?) things, but that doesn't make them worth considering.
>> I am blown away by Copilot's capabilities (haven't tried ChatGPT yet, it's down right now), but I can only operate it because I have written tons of code beforehand. I am getting the best results from it by writing prompts in a language that sometimes includes domain-specific language ("accounts", etc.) but still heavily leans on programming constructs ("write a map with a tuple of integers as a key, and a string as a value")

Hmm, this is a good point. I get incredible results from Copilot but I realized just now it's primarily because I have a fairly deep understanding of computer science as it pertains to the domain of code I'm writing in, and thus my comments that prompt the AI are quite accurate, fleshed out, and detailed.

If I didn't know any of the underpinning of the algorithms and data structures (like a new graduate from a code bootcamp for example), it might be much tougher to make hay out of Copilot's AI.

Never thought of it like that.
> all it does is determine the incentives

You say that like it's not a HUGE thing. Incentives will determine the entire transport ratios of a region.

Biking on freeways is for misfits and weirdos :)
They would also sneak it on in flasks... So presumably they'd be compelled by police for a breathalyzer or comparable blood test at the destination terminal if they consume all of the drink.
I did Windows Me, Vista and 8 already, I can't put myself through another cycle. MacOS it is!
There's a few edge cases that you'd probably need to handle (like adding the same word with two different definitions), but probably few enough that you could do them ad-hoc and punt to the user. ("Hey, merging these two sets failed, here's the conflict, which do you want to keep?")

Something fancy like Operational Transforms or CRDT might make your life easier if you find a library that's ergonomic for your use case, but it's definitely not necessary.
> the answer is very simple: "It has an image of a star on the top of the ID".

Or an American Flag somewhere on the ID (mine is randomly next to my photo), for the few states that only issue Real ID-compatible IDs in the form of EDL/EIDs. Looking at you, Washington.

And the star can be:

> gold or black star, a white star in a gold or black circle, a white star in a gold bear in the case of California, or a white star in a gold state map in the case of Maine.

It's so absurdly complicated. As someone else said it'd be fantastic parody if it weren't real life.
Sherlock, I've forgotten about this beautiful software and how it opened the internet for me.
Exactly, that's why my offline/off-site backups are all zfs, well and encryption and compression (zstd-19), at least i know that something is damaged an can (or not) get it from another backup.
How come they don't update the scheduler in Windows 10 to support Intel's processors? Also, from what I have read the biggest changes are UI based and some new features like DirectStorage which don't seem like they would require an entirely new operating system. Is there some backwards compatibility issue with the new features? And is there a complete changelist from Microsoft?
I am a primary care physician, so ear wax is something I deal with every day (or every other day).

Medical advice is tailored to meet the needs of everyone, erring on the side of extreme caution.

Do I trust myself to insert a q-tip into my ear and not rupture my eardrum? Yes. Do I trust most highly intelligent hacker news readers? Probably.

Do I trust the bottom 10% of the general population (in IQ, dexterity, and good judgement)? Hell no.

Our medical system is a "no-miss" culture that has extreme life altering penalties for physicians that give medical care that leads to harm. Is rupturing an ear drum a big deal? I'm not so sure, but I bet you can find a plaintiff's attorney hungry enough to sue over it.

Don't go to medical school.
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> Is ZSA's build known to have latency issues compared to QMK?

ZSA is using a patched QMK - they even let you download the exact source for each firmware build they make for you. At the time when I switched to vanilla QMK (that was already some years ago), ZSA were veeery far behind master; running the latest QMK release fixed a couple of issues for me (like hotplugging the halves), so I guess there could be other improvements? No idea really.

> Would a faster microprocessor help

In the MCU world, latency and clock speed can have a very linear relationship - until they suddenly don't. The microcontroller's job is very simple really: scan the key matrix at a certain frequency, perform key debouncing, compare the current state with the previous, and craft a USB HID packet with key press/release events.

So having twice the clock speed could theoretically let you scan twice as often, so it might let you cut the latency in half. Except we have those pesky physics getting in our way! For simplicity let's assume we don't have split halves (where there's an extra serial connection slowing things down); I'm no EE so I only grasp these concepts at the surface level, but signals take time to propagate, and long traces on the PCB (and cables too) have a tiny bit of their own capacitance. (Capacitors are like really fast, really tiny batteries - but they still take a tiny amount of time to charge and discharge, which does all sorts of interesting things to high-frequency signals.)

On top of that, the electrical connection that the pieces of metal are making inside the switch, are never perfect at the exact instant the switch is supposed to (de)register: a couple electrons might start jumping over the air even before contact is made, and the physical connection is subject to normal wear, amplifying the "edge case" effect over its lifetime - which all together means we have to actually spend a certain amount of time "looking" at the state of the switch, to let it settle and make sure we got it right.

We end up spending so much time letting physics do its job that in a trivial firmware, the MCU is actually spending a significant amount of time... just sleeping. Which means we were later able to cram all sorts of madness like individual RGB lightning or status displays, and never decreased the poll rate.

Where would these 40ms come from then? Well I wouldn't get near the problem without an oscilloscope, and unfortunately I don't have one.

> I'm just starting to get into custom keyboards.

Then I recommend studying the original ErgoDox firmware & build instructions! It's extremely straightforward compared to a beast like QMK, which actually uses a whole RTOS.

https://www.ergodox.io/; https://github.com/benblazak/ergodox-firmware
Twelve entire hours sounds like plenty of time for bacteria on the inside to grow.
Toeclips? Which year is it over there?

The kids these days are using clipless pedals (stupid name to distinguish them from toe-clips) which connect to a cleat on the bottom of your cycling shoes. Once practised, a twist of your ankle is all that's required to get your foot free. When not practised, you see a cyclist falling over slowly to the side when they forget to unclip at a traffic light.
None of this sounds right based on my experience.

Wondering which model you have? Is it fanless? I’ve never used until o got my 2022 m2 air. It’s the best computer I’ve ever used.

Before that, 10 years of Mac Pro, and they’ve all been old (2010 models) and fast.
> Anecdata but the more "official" covid subreddits /r/coronavirus and then /r/covid19 brought started off pretty free speech but then began bringing in more and more moderation (...)

Aren't you talking about the growth in conspiracy nuts fabricating all sorts of conspiracy theories and assorted loony claims, such as the infamous "covid is caused by 5G" idiot fest, which were flooding covid-related forums?

Are we now expected to turn a blind eye to all the sadly avoidable deaths that conspiracy nuts and antivaxxers with their bullshit claims brought upon the world in the last couple of years? I mean, countless people ended up queuing veterinarian supply stores to gargle on horse dewormer thanks to these morons. Depicting these loonies as innocent truth-seekers that just asked questions and fought conspiracies is intellectually dishonest.
Despite writing tomes of scathing bitching about Windows 11, I have to say that the direction it's going in is the correct one.

All they have to do is kill off the mandatory cloud sign in everywhere, the telemetry, the crapware bundled with it, fix the S3 sleep problems, actually do some QA for a change, make the onboarding experience smooth as butter, deal with the buggity hellscape that is Windows Hello, fix all the stupid HiDPI weirdness, clean up at least 50% of the legacy shite hiding behind it and start respecting customers again and they will have a product.

Oh and fucking stick to one UI for a bit.

Edit: honestly I would love to use Windows on a daily basis. I lived through the glory days of Windows 2000 and it was consistent and dependable back then. Every step forward since has been two steps backwards.
I'm curious why you consider this an American thing.

I'm American, and I'm pretty careful about those details.
There's a paywall on nytimes so I can't confirm if it's the same topic, but see also https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...

The screw-up the title refers to is that the medical definition of the droplet/aerosol threshold has been wrong for most of a century, and the source only just tracked down in late 2020/early 2021.

Also buried in there is an interesting tidbit that experts resist aerosol spread in general because it's too similar to the long-discredited miasma theory, so each virus has had to individually be proven in a lab to have aerosol spread before it's acceptable to say so.
> I do wonder why the Microsoft / Windows folk keep reinventing their UI.

There's a trend in the general tech zeitgeist where people think anything older than a couple years is decaying old cruft and needs to be redone. Whether that's UI/UX, programming languages, architectures, etc.

Any software shop that fancies itself as a cool, move-fast-and-break-things environment for hip young Silicon Valley-types needs to always be following the latest trends lest the stubborn organization and its red tape turn us into the next BlackBerry.

I blame Google. After having enough products of theirs that I used and liked ripped away from me and replaced with something worse, and having to adapt to a new Android UI with every annual OS update (their favorite place to rearrange is the quick settings/notification shade - I don't know if a year went by where they didn't redesign it), I finally swore off using any new services they come out with, de-Googling where I can, and bought myself an iPhone. I won't say Apple is perfect for not doing stupid UI redesigns, but at least the texting app looks pretty much identical to what Steve Jobs demoed in 2007.
Sure, but it was self-fulfilling. It wasn't a brilliant analysis, it was a demonstration that a large group of loosely coordinated individual investors can move markets by collective action.
I'd definitely add https://www.ponoko.com/ there.
They know most users don't have a choice and will upgrade when their current OS goes EOL or they buy a new computer. If it were for me I would have kept the Windows 7 shell and upgraded the operating system under the hood. Why change someone's workflow with a worse version of what you previously had. Like the awful search in Windows 10 that looks stuff up in Bing before searching the hard drive. Who thought that was a good idea? IT WORKED JUST FINE IN WINDOWS 7.
> So all he's actually complaining about is the lack of nuance in the expression of the conclusions.

That's not what happened, though. The article claims that public health authorities, as well as random doctors, were denouncing these studies, and were claiming that they were a myth. Not just that they disagreed with conclusions. (And even then, merely disagreeing with conclusions sounds pretty dishonest.)

I think it's fair to say something like: "Yes, some researchers have drawn conclusions that smoking can help protect you from COVID infection. However, the health risks associated with smoking can be much worse than a COVID infection, and there are many other ways you can safely reduce your risk of COVID infection."

But instead, they said: "Research? Yeah, that research is garbage and the people involved are completely wrong." If the article here is to be believed, that's a flat-out lie.

> You're just going to end up convincing certain people to start smoking

I get it, but I think the cat was already out of that bag. I'm sure some people did start smoking based on these studies, regardless of what public health orgs said. And yes, maybe more people might have done the same if they'd acknowledged the potential correctness of the studies, but still urged people not to smoke. But I think that's an outcome we just have to accept; lying about scientific evidence hurts the credibility of these organizations in a way much worse than a possible increase of smoking-related health problems. And, personally, if I was in on one of those decision-making meetings, I wouldn't be comfortable lying to the public in that way. I would hope I'd have the stones to resign rather than do that.
Even if it ended up being true, and it caused more trouble at terminals, that's still better. Airports already have security, and security in an airport is already able to easily move around the airport. It would take fewer security officers per-flight to secure unruly travelers at the gate than in the air.
I was going to say this is a great idea but totally unfeasible due to the amount of cooperation required, enough people simply won't do it, but parts of it are kind of happening by default. e.g. with BS news stories and whatnot. Also I suppose a lot of it could be automated - fighting fire with fire in a way. I'm sure that would lead to a cat-and-mouse game of creating code for detecting and ignoring intentionally obfuscating content, then the other side coding their way around those detection systems, and then back and forth like that forever, similar to the pattern of: finding exploit -> patching exploit -> finding new exploit -> patching new exploit -> etc.
The reason why hydrogen hype will not die, and in fact will massively increase going forward, because those claims are simply wrong. It is nearly as efficiency as the lithium-based solution, while being drastically less dependent on rare resources.

People are starting to realize that most of the criticisms are literally just made-up bullshit from EV fanatics and were never true. The most notable example is the safety issue. Hydrogen is straight-up safer to deal with than lithium in a car. EV fans were just lying about this subject the entire time, and in fact you want a hydrogen car because it is outright a safer type of car.
We have a Thinkpad running W11. It's my son's and I didn't really think much about the OS until he started having issues (with things like the Windows Hello security system that automatically logs you in through webcam face recognition...supposedly).

It used to be that Windows had it's own quirks, but the UI and functional interfaces were generally roughly equatable with what you'd get on a popular Linux distro, or OSX. Now, though, while you can still get under the hood easily, Microsoft has messed with the UI/UX so much that it feels more like trying to use an XBOX for productivity than a desktop computer OS.

If it wasn't for the fact that you can generally assume reverse compatibility and drivers for literally everything from MSFT, I think they'd have lost huge marketshare with this release. It's a Vista for a new generation.
Looking over this, I cannot help but ask: “how much of this codebase could be generated by ChatGPT”?
Would it not be possible to limit the number of drinks people could have in the terminal?

I guess that might make people drink before they go to the airport, but public intoxication is already an offense, which could be identified at security screening.
Chickens in the US are not vaccinated against salmonella as they are in Europe. https://medium.com/@westwise/why-hasnt-a-vaccine-stopped-sal...
You just need one or two of those methods, not all. I personally would keep one copy in a secured physical location and the other with my lawyer in your situation.
Once, after watching a video of a giant earwax plug being removed, I realized I probably had quite a bit stuck in there.

I very gently slid a q-tip into my ear, and all it did was push some earwax to a funny angle in my ear canal. It was quite painful. I went to the doctor and they used pressurized water to get the earwax out.

Unfortunately, they dumped the bin before I could see how much came out.