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> It’s too bad guix went full hardcore FOSS and refuses to support macs,

This is either a misunderstanding or misrepresentation of the issue. We don't refuse to support Macs. Consider this:

- the value of Guix is in building up a package graph all the way from the very bottom (a tiny binary seed without parallel in other distros); this uses glibc.
- glibc doesn't support Darwin
- the only way to build software on a mac is to sign an EULA and use proprietary software (Xcode and the SDK).

It's easier to build software for Windows than for a Mac. If it was about "full hardcore FOSS" (what a weirdly judgmental term!) then we wouldn't support building for WSL or cross-compilation to mingw64, but we do.

Personally, I have no interest in working my ass off to get a subpar implementation of the package graph grafted on top of a huge binary blob (Xcode and the SDK) just to elevate a highly restrictive proprietary platform.

Until Apple commissions this kind of work it is still preferable to just use Guix in a virtualized GNU system.
I hope that ChatGPT and derivatives are the Google killer. I guess you cannot be too big to fail.
This logic was so pervasive during the 90s dotcom bubble. "All we need is mindshare, eyeballs = profit."
Wtf is a reliable source? It’s not 1990 anymore
If your engine doesn't have oil pressure before it's even finished starting, either it's a bit faulty or you're using a grossly incorrect grade of oil.
> I have 128 GB of non-ecc memory in my notebook, never detected a single error

How would you know?
Beautiful post, which I had not seen. Many thanks for (re-)posting. I often use the "seems critical now" vs "will be important in the future" test and marvel at how crazy different these are. As I get older, I seem to be getting better at telling the difference. The consequence of this attitude is that you have to get used to taking a lot of immediate flack for ignoring transitory bullshit.

I love the reference to children and their helpfulness in bullshit-shedding. I am reminded of one of my favorite quotes, from a somewhat sick bird who nonetheless really got the value of both time with children and avoiding bullshit:

"A man's maturity consists in his finding, once again, the seriousness that he had as a child at play" -Friedrich Nietzsche
> Yet there are ~ 0 caseless phones out there.

Maybe in your social circles, but I can only think of a few friends that use cases. Screen protectors are more common I think, but you can’t see that at a glance.
Completely agree with this.

A few years back I built a fairly simple little python/flask app to solve and integration problem. It's been sitting there handling 5000 or so requests an hour. Nothing major. I set up an ansible script which pushed out the distro (Debian) provided flask and other deps and fired it up in uwsgi. There was about 200 lines of python and about 50 lines of ansible config for it over our base image. This was pushed out to a t2.tiny instance in AWS which was behind an nginx instance on a t2.small instance which was already doing ancillary crap. To deploy this, you literally had to "aws sso login" then "make" and it was done. I added a simple AWS CloudWatch canary to check it was alive still.

Along comes someone and rewrites it using docker because, well you know this has to go in the Kubernetes stack (bollocks it does - there is no ROI for changing it). So after a week of "devops engineering time" which consists of getting it running in a container, setting up the kubernetes manifests, setting up a github pipeline etc etc. So I look at this later and we burned $4500 dev time on it and increased the yearly spend, as it needs a multi-region redundant ALB and node push to EKS to $2250 from the RI cost of $220 a year.

That's progress apparently.

I'm going to buy a canal boat and forget this industry exists ASAP.
Since having kids, always. I’m not particularly fussed about my comfort, but I really don’t want to have to walk a couple miles carrying an underdressed two-year-old (or leave them in the car).
I agree. We have some advocates that really want to say we deploy on Friday, but even they don’t seem super pushy about a Friday deployment when they have weekend plans, and the org as a whole isn’t keen either. It’s high risk and low reward. I’ve also burned myself on this more than once.
Citation needed? There are tradeoffs to both, one is not always better than the other.
You should change your gearbox oil.
> Look at all Musks companies now undergoing heavy auditing since he messed with the FBIs twitter.

Can you point to examples of this? I hope you’re not referring to things like the earlier investigation of Tesla’s FSD claims when that’s been underway for years and so widely predicted.
The problem with developing a new antibiotic is that doctors from third world countries will prescribe them like candy - so the bacteria become resistant to it fast.

In fact Im very scared when I read that there are plans to use antibiotics "borrowed" from ants, or bees, because probably the antibiotic will be dumped by tons and become useless after 2-3 years, while all the ants or bees in the world die out.

Apart from third world countries giving antibiotics like candy, other problem are farmers, who also feed the livestock by the bucket. That's how we get bacteria resistant to everything.

The brutal reality is that new antibiotics cannot be sent to some countries, but that is very difficult to do.
I mean, what you've written is basically the subtext of my comment.

I want them in, hence the open gate. You find more 5th edition "audience members" than DMs, players, or even readers/collectors.. Which is notable because it's a new class of D&D nerd that didn't, couldn't, really exist before 4th.

Not everyone at the improv show needs to get up on stage, but there's also nothing stopping them from trying but fear and some prep work.

All edition wars are dumb.
What make you think human inspiration doesn't work the same way as image diffusers? To a degree we know we are compressing input features into our own latent space and conjuring them when producing our own works. The math may not be exactly the same, but the principles are eerily similar.
Unfortunately my example was based on real-world frustration.

That conversation was just maddening to read. One person arguing for the end user’s experience and the other one (apparently winning) tunnel-visioned on “pixel perfect”, “well defined”, “guarantees to developers” and “relevant specifications”. Meanwhile, for the last at least five years, I can turn on my Mac, drag windows from one hidpi display to a low dpi display, and everything just works and window sizes and fonts behave sensibly.

The ability to make tough technical compromises in favor of the average end user, over technical purity and developer comfort, is what distinguishes a polished, finished product from a science project.
The mobile is maybe the most important device ever invented. The inventors and first movers got more than plenty rewards for their accumen. Its time it becomes a tool for a better society. Less junky, less wasteful, both in hardware and software terms. If the "market" wont deliver in its existing rails, thats why democratic govs legislate new and more appropriate rails.

I am sure talented engineers will fix any of the purported drawbacks of replaceable batteries if thats what they get instructed to do.

As for the EU, what can I say. Derided, badmouthed and undermined continuously both from within and from outside, its the only major entity that consistently provides a sense that there is hope.
> I could see a similar chain being used by trustworthy organization

There's the fatal flaw. As COVID has shown, trust in institutions can easily degrade. The blockchain doesn't add anything to the trustworthiness of the institutions' assessment of the facts: if the institution is trusted, then it's assessment is trusted regardless of what the blockchain says, and if it's not trusted, then the blockchain won't convince you of anything.
But the idea is that if you can get 1, you can find your 2nd, then 4th, 8th, 16th, 32nd, 64th, 128th, 256th, 512th and finally your 1k.

Things don't always scale like that. It's called the logistic curve. At some it becomes harder to keep growing at the same rate as before.
The EU won’t be mandating on-the-fly replaceable batteries, like where you can simply remove the back cover like with old phones. It’s about making it easy to replace at home with a screwdriver and maybe a suction cup, and no glued-in batteries like those annoying strips used in iPhones.
I saw a Dr the other week (to rule out Covid and strep) and despite testing negative for both and telling me I just had a cold she offered me antibiotics. I declined, not wanting to be part of this problem, but was taken aback that she would basically try to push them on me.
If you have a USB OTG dongle, try plugging in a USB mouse and/or keyboard and accepting the ADB keys / enabling USB debugging that way. I have successfully recovered damaged phones for family members that way.
Abstract algebra has a strong crossover into type theory, it you think of types as sets. Maybe not strictly useful while bashing out python code but it's nice to have an elegant mental model
> for example allowing to specify environment variables in manifest.scm files.

Just use setenv in the manifest:

(setenv "MAMA" "MIA")
(specifications->manifest (list "hello"))

Then `guix shell -m this-file.scm` enters a shell session where "hello" exists and the env var MAMA is set to "MIA".
I never use Caps Lock. I'd move it to the area of the Pause/Break/Scroll-lock/SysReq keys if I were a keyboard designer (I wouldn't mind if these keys were removed even).

However, give me some easily accessible Copy/Paste and Undo/Redo buttons.
To take your parenthetical further, I'm sure they'll get to that. It was only 5 years ago that searching Google for "how old is the Earth" said 6000 years because only the young Earth creationists put such a huge stake into SEO for their pages.

https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/70mdfj/recently_go...
Fairly experienced guitarist and pianist here. No that does not sound good. It sounds less than bad but not good.
2M year old DNA demonstrates Greenland was 12 degrees warmer than today
Ubuntu has not been user-friendly for many years. It's unstable while being stale. And you points soundsore like your issue is with Gnome.
This cannot be true since most of the newly printed money goes towards big corporations (e.g. via big government contracts) or through loans to individuals and companies (based on collateral). Who has collateral? It's not the poor! The other way money enters the system is through interest paid out by reserve banks on deposits... Again, it's not the poor who hold huge deposits at the Fed.
The idea that money printing helps the poor is a narrative fabricated to serve the rich and could not be further from the truth. Maybe if/when UBI is implemented, a case could be made but now there's nothing backing that narrative.

Currently, all the newly printed money only serves to subsidize the operations of the rich; allowing them to reduce their margins down to 0 which creates insane anti-competitive moats.
Initiative also covers cars :)
The problem with ChatGPT as a replacement for Google is that it was not designed to produce accurate facts, and it shows. This model cut its teeth writing articles about the discovery of unicorns in the Andes[0] for goodness sake! It's a language model, and a very impressive one at that, but language is used to express falsehoods and fiction just as regularly as it is used to express truth.

This doesn't mean that it can't produce accurate facts, most of the time it does! But when it does produce nonsense, it does it in exactly the same tone of authority, so if you don't already know the answer you may well walk away believing an AI hallucination.

And the trouble is it doesn't really matter if everyone here thinks "well, I would follow up each request with research to verify the answer", because most people won't! This is like the Google answer extracts, which fairly frequently mislead by extracting out-of-context quotes, except that there's no way to get the original context and there may in fact be no original context! This makes follow-up research much more complicated than with Google and therefore unlikely to happen. If ChatGPT replaces Google, the amount of nonsense on the internet will get even worse, which is something that until 2022 I never thought was possible.

[0] https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-3-experiments/blob/master/e...
Welcome to survivorship bias. For every person who succeeds there are many who fail but you never hear about them.
A forum post speculating on why Tolkien didn't think highly of Dune
A lot of people at the top are those who are the most manipulative which is a very restricted form of intelligence. General intelligence was not a barrier for them up to now. Those kinds of people will continue not to share.
Project Veritas he uses as a source is far right organization that fakes documents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O%27Keefe

Reality is here and it's not like that at all. Reality is watered down and muddy.

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-says-grantee-fai...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02903-x

https://www.bbc.com/news/57932699
Use `setenv` inside the manifest.

(setenv "MAMA" "MIA")
(specifications->manifest (list "hello"))
There is no analytical justification for Bitcoin's price drops solely based on historical price movements. The biggest drops were directly associated with the unprecedented (by most) failure of crypto projects like Terra Luna and Celsius.
As a paying user, I totally agree.

They have been coasting for years. There are some serious bugs they never addressed.

I wish I could export my "password history" in some way
Not totally sure of the distinction. We have versioned weekly releases and they roll out to prod on Friday.
I make high speed water pump from a microwave transformer
Another way to slow the pace is to not get infected in the first place.

When I was a kid, cleaning oneself and your environment was emphasised. Scrub your nails, use hot water snd soap. You would smell lysol/dettol often. And bleach. Also, iodine and phisohex.

Now, not so much. Even the phisohex you buy today has no hexachlorophene in it. It's triclosan like ever other damn thing - due to a California law I believe.

I just don't believe these new green clothes and dishwashing liquids are as effective either.

I suppose I'm saying "an ounce of protection is worth a pound of cure"

and get off my lawn
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Whenever I read about "green hydrogen" I'm always suspicious that's it's a bait and switch by the fossil fuel industry. Say green hydrogen enough times, people will start thinking all hydrogen is green. Meanwhile industry just keeps making most hydrogen from fossil fuels.
If Slack isn't apart of your day-one onboarding, you're using Slack wrong.
Those are what I've gotten in the US for sinus infections.
Zeihan is a quack who is blinded by nationalism. Capital will always chase cheap labor since shipping is cheap.
As far as I know, yes, it should. But I haven't tested it so I can't say for sure.
Will it make it to Moab Ep2
What’s different about AI? People are cheap. Anyone who wants to do this can already do it just with mechanical Turk or just hiring writers in low income countries.
> Tech jobs at FAANG no longer look attractive or stable. Google hits the final nail in the coffin (not necessarily involving the layoffs)

This is already happening. FAANGs no longer pay the top dollars according to levels.fyi report: https://www.levels.fyi/2022

> and culture which more resemble 90s than 2020s

What was the culture like in 90s? Any articles/books I can read?
But I’d say at least readers of a random HN comment are naturally skeptic of it. Are ChatGPT users on average having the same stance? My worry is when these tools get just good enough such that due diligence is dropped out of convenience.
I compare it all to using Github Copilot in my daily work. Before, I needed to Google many problems to find answers, curate the answers, scroll down websites, read downvoted comments on StackOverflow, copy/paste code, refactor it, turn code into TypeScript, etc.

Now, I just tell Copilot what I need to do, and I simply curate multiple solutions.

ChatGPT also understands what I need to do and changes things based on human instructions. It gets things right much more quickly.
Requiring proof of humanity does not necessitate deanonymizing users to anyone except the platform itself; they can still be anonymous to other users and onlookers.
It tried to convince me that one event can happen before another event even if the time of the event is after the time of the other event. It had a notion that events happen in some order, and that time is ordered, and that events are associated with times, but not that the two orders need to be consistent. And I wasn’t able to convince it otherwise.
Facebook founding premise wasn't what made it big - 100% easy onboarding to good features (chronological friends & family posts, and flash games) is what lead their biggest growth years.
i imagine openAI will do anything to keep it public for now. But i wouldn't pay for a version that is basically crippled to kindergarten level
> The thing to remember is AI literally copies the originals. While it mashes them together in a way that makes the lines hard to see that is in fact what it is doing.

As another commenter already pointed out, this is literally not possible. The model size for Stable Diffusion isn't nearly big enough to contain all its training data. Understanding the concepts (at least on some abstract level) of the artwork it's trained on is the only possible way a 6 GB[0] model can be based on such a massive data-set.

In conclusion, the important thing to remember is that AI does not just copy and paste the originals. It's simply not possible.

[0]: https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-1/tree...
I don't think focusing on hitting Ctrl on one side or the other is the problem -- it's the awkward contortion your hand has to make to hit the key, pinky or otherwise. It's in the same bad position on either side on a standard IBM PC 101 and later keyboard layouts. You'll just end up hurting both your hands if you alternate.

Caps Lock as Ctrl will serve most Emacs users for quite a long time, and it's traditionally where the key was before IBM in their infinite wisdom moved it in 1986.
“Linux Culture” is also similarly full of these sorts of “no true Scotsman” arguments, as well as deferring blame to other projects, and “oh you just simply need to use [package] Instead”.

These are all things that make Linux on the desktop inaccessible. The moment you start talking about weird cultural minutiae like this, the whole thing is already incredibly inaccessible in my eyes.
Why do you need to do that? Just don't buy EU-versions of phones if you feel this strongly against it.
Like many slow moving disasters, it doesn't feel like one while you live through it.

An example: gonorrhea has no golden standard cure anymore. 40 years ago a single large dose of oral antibiotics was an effective cure. It made controlling it relatively easy. In the 90s, resistance to most of the common oral antibiotics became prevalent. Through the 2010s, a single dose of an intramuscular cephalosporin was effective. Now resistance to that is also common. Gonorrhea remains curable in almost all cases, but cultures and strain-specific targeting and second-line antibiotics in combination may be needed. Repeat testing to be sure it worked is necessary.

From one pill cure in 99%+ of cases, to something requiring multiple clinic visits and lots of lab work and possibly IV infusion antibiotics. The complications for public health, in terms of patient compliance, containing spread, as well as just the labour hours and case management complexity, are awful.
Your implications of the effects of the industrial revolution are tenuous at best, and that's being generous.

People are great at rationalizing why some people deserve more than others. Your perfectly equal society will probably never happen.
I know that I never detected them. Also it never crashed nor malfunctioned in any way (thanks in part to Linux), so any undetected error didn't caused any problem.
I don’t have a google/gmail account (never have, to my recollection), and this pop up is on nearly every page I visit. I can’t get rid of it because I don’t have an account to change the settings on. It’s made me despise google more than I previously did, which I didn’t think was possible.

Thank you DDG for recognizing this infuriating issue. I don’t care if the search results are suboptimal. I love you anyway.
> A good monitoring system, well-organized repository, fault-tolerance workloads and automation mechanisms are the basis of any architecture.

Monitoring/alarming, and knowing what to monitor. Also, properly instrument your services or whatever it is you have. Take time to reflect on what are the signals that tell you operational health. An error metric alone is useless if you don’t know the denominator. Also be careful to avoid adding noisy metrics that cause panic for no reason.

I’m not sure what fault tolerance means in this context. Very handwavy statement. I think if you have dependencies, have a plan and understanding of which ones tipping over will bring down your service or how you can build resiliency. For example, some feature on your page requires talking to a recommendations service. If the service goes down, can you call back to a generic list of hard coded recommendations or some static asset?

As for automation: yeah, have test workflows built into your CI/CD harness. And avoid manual steps there requiring human intervention. Use canaries to test certain functions are up and running as expected, etc
Idling all day comes with its own issues too.
You could always tell your kids you're a live-streamer since you would be on camera: http://thetenthwatch.com/feed/
This is tough to give general advice for, because you'll want to tap your personal strengths. Here's a great talk by Jason Cohen, if you're trying to design a bootstrapped business. He even mentions the 1,000 true fans goal as being unrealistic compared to a handful of high-paying customers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otbnC2zE2rw

Happy to brainstorm though. Here's a few questions to get the ball rolling:

What're 2-3 things that people have come to you to learn?
What are the 3 problems that are top-of-mind for the person who signs your paychecks?
What are the top 3 sources of revenue for your current employer? How much is from expansion revenue (existing customers paying more over time) vs. new logos?
Besides the all-in cost of personnel (salary, payroll taxes, health insurance, etc), what are the top expenses of your current employer?

Follow the money! Once you start digging into how a company earns and spends money, you'll find ways to add revenue or reduce spend w/ software.
Rat: Network Address Translator(NAT) written in pure Ruby
Powernap? You mean S0idle? If it is advertised it is used -- tested on Thinkpad Yoga L15 Gen...3? .
The bigger question is, will MIT's administrators support this too?

And an even bigger question is, will professors and administrators at other elite schools follow MIT's example?
I was able to use adb to enter my pin and unlock my first or second generation pixel device when I replaced the broken screen on it with a knockoff that wouldn't register touch support. No idea if this still works.
Can't beat the build quality and performance of the Macbook Air M1 for the price and size in my opinion so I'm sticking with it for laptop. But as for "Desktop" I've almost fully switched over to Mint and very happy with it. Windows + WSL2 for work so I guess I turn up in all metrics on the surveys :)
> This means that there is likely no longer sufficient constant increase in standards of living to keep the populace happy with the Party.

Yep

Not like some country where switching a figure head every 4 years can keep the peons happy