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>>That applies basically to all successful CEOs.

Worth remembering that it also applies to all(or most) unsuccessful CEOs too, and there are a lot more of those.

>>Nonetheless he currently has a Teitter poll up if he should step down as a head of Twitter (and the majority voted Yes) and says he will do it if yes wins

I personally hope the poll votes NO, purely to make him stick with it and continue this circus for a while longer without an easy excuse of "the poll voted yes so I'm resigning". I'm seeing plenty of articles already claiming he will appoint a new CEO within the next 24 hours though.
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It’s pretty obvious you can’t trust Twitter if someone else buys it either. It can always be bought by an idiot and run into the ground (again).
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I feel like there’s a HTTPS client-cert-based solution out there waiting to be discovered.
No. This was inertial confinement fusion, like in a bomb. The reaction could not have continued under any circumstance. The only hope would be to run this test repeatedly, like ten times a second, and somehow pull put power. But this machine has no hope of even attempting that.
>A million users is insignificant

True, however high profile account contents matter to both advertisers and other twitter uses.

>Stephen Fry, who last week tweeted an image of Scrabble letters spelling out ‘goodbye’, and abandoned his 12.5 million followers!

Stephen Fry quits Twitter following Elon Musk’s takeover : https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/tv/stephen-fry-quits-twitter-...
> What most surprised me about NIF's ignition announcement was that this was even news. I'd assumed for years that most if not all tokamaks and stellerators could already achieve at least some brief fusion, just not to a useful degree.

I think they've done fusion in tokomaks and stellerators before, it's just that the energy applied to the plasma is greater than the additional energy that's created by fusion. It's not that no fusion is happening at all in the most powerful magnetic confinement devices yet built, it's that there isn't very much of it happening.

That's my layperson's understanding anyways.
Yes. He definitely did “paid” his way into a role at Tesla… Freud would be proud.

The Tesla roadster was shipping to customers before Musk became CEO.
Dark Towers was amazing and often quite creepy. My mother was in a few episodes about a boy that gets kidnapped (she played a kidnapper in it). I was about 7 at the time and I remember being really freaked out when they dyed his hair in a public toilet so he wouldn't be recognised. Seemed crazy they were giving kidnappers ideas!

Actually - maybe it wasn't Dark Towers, but it was a kids reading TV show. Will see if I can find it
For me, personally, it's not just the rule changes, but also the experience itself getting progressively worse and worse, especially on Android.

For instance, Twitter Spaces has always bugged out for me on my Android app(even pre-Elon). It just feels like a second-class citizen...
Unrelated, but how does one get a job at NATO?
Incentivise is by way of a carbon tax. Ask the question: How much carbon is this house going to use to heat and run over the next 10 years?

Base this on bedrooms, location, offset pre-installed solar and ASHP/GSHP and bingo, you have an incentive to design and build green.
In that case, I can't understand why so many EVs are ugly-ass crossovers.

Who the hell has said to themselves well, the Ford Mustang is great, but it would be much more fun if instead of being a 2-door convertible, it was a practical family car and had 4 doors so you can help little Khaleesi into her car seat?

Who are these car designers saying the Lotus Elise is an iconic 2-seater roadster with a very low driving position, but you know what would be even more fun? A 4-door crossover with a much higher driving position, so our elderly and overweight customers can get in and out without straining their knees?
Protocols like oauth do just fine, and accomplish the same sorts of goals:

- I click "Follow."

- Servers talk to each other.

- I get redirected to a URL with a unique hash on the other server. It tells me what I'm agreeing to and I agree.

- I get redirected back to a URL with a unique hash on the original server.

There are a lot of other protocols possible. This one doesn't rely on CSRF or other features, so it should continue working even with security features of future browsers.
See the youtube channel Not Just Bikes[1], specifically videos like

- "Why the Dutch wait less at traffic lights" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knbVWXzL4-4 argues that American traffic engineering is optimised for car movement, at the expense of pedestrians and bikes, whereas Dutch traffic engineering is to minimise conflict between vehicles and maximise movement of people overall. Leading to more complex but more efficient intersections.

- "The Dutch solution for safer sidewalks - continuous sidewalks" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OfBpQgLXUc has crossings at junctions where cars and people intersect designed so the cars visibly have to travel over the sidewalk through the people's area, instead of designed so the people have to visibly travel over the road, through the car's area.

- "Crossing the street shouldn't be dangerous, but it is" [in North America] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ByEBjf9ktY talking about length of crossings on wide road, traffic signals, priorities, etc.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes/videos
Are you claiming that offering someone a lifetime license will increase the conversion rate by x 5? if so, that seems incredibly unlikely.
> So the problem may just as much be on the OS side, rather than the monitor and the E-DID protocol.

Yeah. And the DM must adapt to the new resolution, redraw stuff, maybe adjust the refresh rate.
That's why I think stating "I want it on immediately" is a bit naive and assuming.
That’s annoying, but there is a browser extension for that. On the other hand, most people find people to follow organically through conversation, boosts etc, and none of that requires the extra step.
That's implying that the doesn't want the poll to vote yes, and I don't think that's true. There are already journalists claiming that he has a new CEO in mind and was going to step down within the next day or two because of how much shitshow this is - a twitter poll is a perfect easy excuse "hey guys I really didn't want to step down but you voted yes so I'm doing it, look how great and honest I am, keeping my word".
Admittedly without being American, or looking into the 20s much, is it potentially an oversimplification to say "problems back then, problems now, they're all the same, so we're all good"? Is the vastly different technology stage, and global economic scene not critical to the current issues?
LinkedIn and other medias are not at all distracting, if your job is on those platforms. Or you get your traffic through those platforms.
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The assumed issue wasn't eating (consuming) but advertising. More fitting is wearing a McDonald's t-shirt in a restaurant or telling people McDonalds is better while the restaurant owner is a self-proclaimed free-speach advocate.
EU accuses Meta of antitrust breaches with classified ads
The subscription model is a business answer to a recurrent problem in tech: how do you make your revenue streams more reliable?

If you build the perfect product, and everybody buys the first version, then you'll have no revenue stream left after everybody who wanted to purchase it has purchased it.

And that's where the subscription model steps in.

It's also a way of slowing down innovation (and therefore risk) while remaining profitable. In a world where your revenue is based only on how many new copies of your product you sell, you are forced to innovate and keep selling, or your sales will drop and competition will eat your plate. If you already have a user base of subscribed users instead, it's much harder to attack your bottom line.

So yes, it's a great model from a business perspective, but it's an absolute nightmare from a user perspective.

I personally started paying between $300-400 a month just in subscriptions at its peak (about 3 years ago), and we're talking just of 8-9 services. I decided that it was not sustainable, and that I had to fight back.

Today I reward news outlets that let me pay for content "on the go" over those that put the "subscribe now" paywall in front of my eyes. I am very happy (and proud) to scrape and pirate those services without feeling an inch of guilt. If in order to read a single article I have to start a subscription that involves cumbersome interactions with your customer service just to terminate it, then you deserve piracy.

And, when it comes to other services, I started self-hosting everything. There's plenty of open-source alternatives to literally every paid service that you can run yourself. A Celeron minipc in my house with a few TB of storage connected cost me about $350. After 1-2 months running Nextcloud, Miniflux, Wallabag, Matrix, Ubooquity, wger, Bitwarden etc. on it, it already paid its own price back in terms of subscription savings.
I don't disagree. But I also don't thing predictable tyranny is inherently better than unpredictable tyranny.
10 openings x3 races with some openings being hard counters to others.

Is chess boring because there’s 20 opening moves? It’s all about the mid-late game.
I am not sure if it can get much deeper into the ground anymore, since it makes people already turn away.

But it is true that it depends on the buyer. But there is new hope at least, if the ownership changes.
There is no energy harvesting system yet, next prototype will be include that. I like their "fast" (relatively speaking, of course) prototyping process.
>At best, any NN is probably only going to approach a toddler until such time as we figure out how to make the things suffer. As it is primarily through suffering that children and adults alike are conditioned to in general avoid patterns of behavior that even remotely minimize perpetuation of suffering.

Following this line of reasoning....

This is why certain prolific HN commenters regularly link-spam garbage that doesn't support their point while pretending it does. There's simply no downside. Do that in the real world and people will quickly realize you're an idiot.
>> Definitely yes. It was a miracle when in started, it changed everything.

Just because it “changed everything” doesn’t mean it was a benefit to humanity. In what ways would you say it has been beneficial for humanity? We already have plenty of communication tools for keeping in touch with friends.
horrible typo: mouth should of course be mother :)
"And all this started because we prodded them to become NATO member."

When you say this in this way you're taking agency out of Ukraine. They wanted nato membership to be protected from Russian influence, they were being harrased since they became free. Of course NATO would probe them, just like a salesman will try to sell you a car if you walk in a dealership. There is existing interest.
I wonder what kind of growth Mastodon saw over the last 24hrs.
There’s a lot of people who use Twitter as their primary resource for marketing.

It’s especially useful for furry artists, to use an example I’m familiar with. Dedicated sites exist, but only hardcore furries go to them. Twitter is large enough that they can reach dabbling furries (or people who don’t realize they’re into furry stuff but The Algorithm has deduced this from their habits) in addition to their core audience.

The only other website that suits this audience right now is Tumblr, which seems to slowly be reanimating.
thanks, i never got to the bottom part of page.
Have you ever merged onto an expressway behind someone doing 20mpg? It's terrifying.

Acceleration makes merging onto expressways safer.
The rule cited in the HOA letter doesn't ban SUVs or minivans. It does explicitly ban trucks.
Just a note on the first sentence under "What does a prompt look like?", it seems like there's a continuity error from the above paragraph.
While this article doesn’t have it, I especially like his subtitles which are essentially a 1-line TL;DR of the content. As a recent example:

Title: Instead of a C++ template parlor trick, why not just add support based on whether the header file has already been included?

Subtitle: Header file inclusion order dependencies
EVs don’t normally have a transmission to break. just reduction gears which are beefy.
There's evidence of brutal violence between human tribes going far back into hunter-gatherer days as well. Even our closest primate cousins, the chimps, engage in brutal violence between each other: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
I'm not sure if it's true or not exactly, but I don't see how the NIF experiment would be any different from that if that were true, and in that case it wouldn't be news at all. It's not like they didn't use absurd amounts of laser power to get a tiny poof.
"You shouldn't use gets(), it's dangerous and deprecated".

Heh.

No, I realize the code is from 1989 and gets() was not on the hitlist by then.

What is not so clear is if the first the author wrote after studying the posted code for a week, looked the same? I mean even in 1989 this must have been a bit controversial/extreme[1], but there is no mention of those aspects. I'm not sure what is being communicated, really.

[1] I don't think I had started writing C for real by then but if this was Basic code I would have screamed at it. :)
I understand, but twice the expectation, double the disappointment, at least for me and in this specific case.
Just a few weeks ago he said he was a "free speech absolutist" and that "any speech that is legal should be allowed", and criticizing the former leadership for straying from that.

Going from that to "don't post links to other sites" and as much of a 180 as you can go
The spglobal link connects to a product (global database + updating tools) that S&P acquired from it's source here in Western Australia, between here and the Toronto TSX you'll find the vast weight of companies and capital that form the bulk of global transnational mining (sans Russia and China, although they are threaded in and tracked also).

> Because mines take 10 years to open on average from minerals found to minerals being moved out of the ground.

Bear in mind that "minerals being found" is when they first become "resources" (see JORC terminology which has become standard across the global mineral industry) .. when minerals have been proven (tightly estimated by volume and density) and had an Economic Feasibility Technical Report completed and filed they become "reserves" .. known amounts with a costing to extract.

Also bear in mind that mines can open much faster when there is a demand .. mines generally don't open faster unless there is a demand, now that past global supply issues and ramping production of end goods upwards you'll see mines open on proven reserves and more resources being advanced toward reserve status.

I agree with your general point about general EV resources (there's a looming Copper issue and with the processing of rare earths in general) .. but your argument here WRT lithium is overly simplified, there are political issues that weigh more on mid future lithium extraction more than known reserve issues.
> won't read my private messages

I heard other folks who're more in the security mindset explain it that you shouldn't just trust your particular fediverse/mastodon instance not to read your private messages. If you have something truly private, exchange contact details for some other secure thing and have that conversation there. For instance, Signal.
Mining for lithium is destroying the environment much less than mining for oil is. But yes, going without a car completely is better than driving an electric car.
> If someone sends me their profile link that's not on my instance, I can't actually reply to it. Instead, I need to go to my Mastodon instance and then search for that link in order to actually have an interactable version of that "tweet".

Actually, you have options:

https://mstdn.social/@feditips/109507990803168318

> And I have no idea if I chose the right Mastodon instance with the right hall admins that won't read my private messages and ban me for having the wrong opinion.

I'm working on that.

https://github.com/soatok/mastodon-e2ee-specification
I wouldn't say so. I only have 2 subscriptions so I don't mind. If I had many, it would give me some itching but 2 are fine, IMHO (perhaps I can get rid of Netflix soon too).

Besides that, I can't imagine how else this could be - I mean, how would someone keep operating without revenue from subscriptions? You may say "ads" and I'd say I totally prefer paying a subscription to watching ads.
I have a friend that went of rails (schizophrenia) a couple of years back. One day he threw out all his light bulbs because they were listening devices for "the others". Or deleted all the files on his computer that contained the letter X, because it is "the unknown". Paranoia was a LARGE part of his life, in every decision he took.

My friend was experiencing a lot of stress in his life at the time, which the doctors says most likely induced the schizophrenia.

It looked a lot like what is happening with Musk now.
Is it OK to add a new story in the current sprint? (2017)
Ha nice, well it was free on PC so I guess at least I didn't lose any money trying it out there. I just recently picked up a PS5 and it seems both Nioh titles are available there, so once I've made my way thru Demons Souls remake I'll potentially give it a go :D
"Data locked up in some software" in practice means strictly SaaS with cloud storage.

If you have the data locally, you can always migrate it - whether manually, through the software that made it (e.g. if the app isn't supporting your new OS, then run it in a VM with an older OS to export to a more forward-compatible format), or through third-party converters. If enough people are in this position, someone will write a solution.

If your data resides in the cloud, however, it's up to the vendor whether or not you'll be able to access it or export it, and how much of it. If they're just sunsetting the product, you probably, maybe, will be able to get some data back (which is almost definitely in some unknown ad-hoc format, quite likely a database dump in form of JSON, so you'll need a converter anyway). If they terminate your account because of $random reason, you won't even have a chance.

Or, to borrow a cliché, "not your files, not your data".
You only lose when you've failed to learn.

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Ye. Soylent Green would work better as an analogy for horrible uneseccesary euthanasia, not bad elderly care.
> Has social media been a benefit for humanity?

I think there's countless people that didn't come from big cities or tech circles that managed to make friends across the world and get better paying jobs and move out from their home country thanks to social media. I even have friends that started businesses together after meeting on social media

So yes it's been a benefit for humanity!
> 15 for "sequel-light", 1 for "S-Q-L-light". 430 left to check.

It has to be pronounced in the French fashion: Liberté, Fraternité and Sequalité
Dead on arrival. I’m still waiting to see the first good Mastodon post
I'd let Europe solve it's own problems and not intentionally provoke Japan and then leave myself open to attack at Pearl Harbor despite intercepting messages that it would be attacked like Roosevelt did.
It is. To the other responders, you have to find people to follow, it is not served up on a plate.

So if you feel like it is dead, or only football, spend a while looking for things and people that interest you.

To follow people from other instances, just search or follow the link through the instance you are already logged into, and all you have to do is click a follow button.

I would recommend looking for an instance that has some sort of similarity with what you are interested in. For example, I joined the Irish instance mastodon.ie so I know there will always be a stream of slightly humourous shite talk in the local time line. But there is also a good infosec instance, and a good quantum research instance.

But look, I never liked twitter in the first place, so maybe, yes for twitter people, Mastodon just won't scratch that itch!
My understanding is that what you're referring to as a "fusion" stage is really a fusion-enhanced fission stage. All the stages of normal "H-bombs" are fission stages, using a small fusion core to generate a flood of neutrons, which results in the fission fuel combusting more completely.

Pure fission bombs tend to disintegrate long before enough neutrons have been generated to achieve complete combustion. The inclusion of a small core of lithium deuteride results in a much more efficient fission bomb.

I suppose these NIF tests are tiny pure fusion explosions; but I'm not aware of any practical weapon that generated energy mainly from fusion.
I'm not sure if it's theoretically impossible. But it's certainly an incredible challenge to build a high efficiency laser system that can consistently generate many pulses per second without degrading either the laser head itself or any associated micro-focussing optics.

Can we stop pretending this isn't about nuclear weapons research and - basically - continued funding?

LLNL is at least a decade behind its initial predictions of ignition. The current lasers may be inefficient but they've been fine-tuned very precisely for optical quality. There's no guarantee more efficient lasers would have the same characteristics and could be focussed in the same way.

I'm sure LLNL know the maximum theoretical fusion gain for a realistic pellet design, and it's worth nothing that that number hasn't been mentioned anywhere. Clearly there's only so much energy available for each cycle. If that energy is on the wrong side of what's needed to release it even after efficiency improvements, the entire system isn't workable, no matter how it's re-engineered.
My "NEWCARE HDMI 2.0b Switch 3 in 1 Out" switcher is that fast.
What that that paragraph means is that things that do not exist will cost money to bring into existence. A significant amount. It's not a critique. This is not new. This is not a fusion problem. There is an initial cost and development to any new technology. This technology is particularly difficult, however. It's also sustainable real renewable energy. You have to worry about actually being able to invent something before you can worry about saving money on that thing. Look up how much the Manhattan Project cost! This shit is not software engineering; It's really really fucking complicated it will cost a load of money.

We don't really know what path fusion research will lead to. It's science. We don't know what we could find out tomorrow that could apply this research. But even the promises of commercial power generation alone should be enough to keep funding the project whether it will happen in 50 years or 100 years. It's not like they aren't making progress. You can't rush research and also under fund them.
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I moved. UX is not as bad as expected. All info/people i am interested in have also moved except a few who switched to substack instead.

Twitter is still quite a show but i suspect people will grow tired.
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1.0.0 has been released.
To late. Already deleted an account with thousands of followers. Engagement was low, so no big loss.

It's probably best we just focus on our own platforms/websites. Haha
It's a little disingenuous to expect regular security updates and not be willing to fund ongoing development. If you don't need regular security updates you need to get back to 2000s, your Delorian is stuck in the 1900s.