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Delta has been more than fine with me. Granted, I'm a Diamond class member now, but even on the way up they were reasonable and provided mostly good service.

United is awful. American isn't much better.
Ok this is a lot so I can't tackle all of it but let's see

(1) The wave functions are vectors in a Hilbert space. Functions can form a vector space. The domain of these functions you might as well think of a bit like an index, but continuous. If I have a 2 component vector that's used to represent spin, it can be indexed like psi_0, psi_1. I have psi, you give me 0 or 1, you get a complex number corresponding to the probability amplitude. If I have an infinite-component vector I'm using to represent the position of a particle, you can index it with psi(x=something). I have a psi, you give me a something, I give you a complex number.

(2) Any time you have a question about QM, ask the CM question first. Where is the color of the bouncing ball I'm modeling incorporated? Well, it's not being modeled, so we needn't incorporate it. Ultimately if you have multiple properties you want to represent, you can take the tensor product of the hilbert spaces that model those properties. I have a hilbert space for the position space, and I have a hilbert space for the spin. You just stick them together with the tensor product.

(3) That's the theory and it works in the lab. I don't have a much better answer for you here.

(5) The point of superposition is that h indeed is a valid state of the system, to say nothing of how you'd actually construct it. I don't know how to say what you want "in general." All you've done is make _some_ new state.

(6) I can't figure out what this means -- I think it's not even wrong. You can never know the wavefunction of a system without having several copies available or having some strong constraints on it.

(7) When you detect at f you've collapsed the path of the electron to the path along which you've detected it traveled. If you know you've sent the electron and you get no click on g, then you know it's on path f.

(8) The wavefunction is basically in your head (according to my religion.) It doesn't really "propagate" so much as help you predict what will happen. If you like -- yes, causality propagates at the speed of light. Really we should say light propagates at the speed of causality, and the wavefunction behaves the same. In the end, once all participants are brought together to compare answers, both QM and relativity ensure their answers are consistent.
For all of its faults, I do not believe the Obama administration came up with the Tea Party Movement or Birtherism.
New iPad Mini could be a year away
Read only - for following while remaining anonymous.
One of mine: sometimes (50% of the times?) turning on my MacBook Pro for the first time leads to the Dock using very high CPU and making switching between desktops abnormally slow. The fix is to force-kill the Dock app, and make it restart again by itself.
When I say this:

> especially if the project has many files to load at runtime for interpretation. I bet it's spending a lot of time on require().

I am talking about tsc itself. If there are hundreds/thousands of modules to load, node will spend time on that. coffeescript is a much smaller transpiler, with just a handful of source files.

EDIT - looks like tsc might get distributed as a single file, which helps here. However, it is a 7mb source file :)

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/TypeScript/main/...

When I execute it locally, with no arguments, it finishes instantly as far as I can tell. So maybe tsc itself is indeed super slow for just an empty file.
Do these paywalls really work? I either click the comment with the link to bypass it or just skip the article all together.
This is where technology goes from being disruptive in a positive sense, to being disruptive in a negative one.

I understand the relentless need to innovate, do cool stuff, etc., but somewhere along the way a line was crossed.

A good time to throw in the term exnovation.. there's a reason you rarely hear it, but there's a reason somebody came up with it.
Absolutely love Borg, have been using it for several years. Cross-platform (macOS and Linux) backups, deduplication, encryption and compression, FUSE mounting, backing up over SSH (works great in combination with Tailscale and can be interrupted/resumed). Pruning backups with rules is also easy, and sometimes I accidentally back up really large folders in which case Borg lets you delete it from all the backups.
I'll wait for Mountain Ventura
The Postel's suggestion works because it's profitable for the device makers.

Be strict at what you send, as much as you can. This maximizes the probability of your widget working with everything else. Be lenient in what you accept, and your widget will likely work with everyone else's widgets, even if everything else's ideas of the correct protocol slightly diverge.

Following the two approaches makes your widget more compatible than a strictly-adherent, inflexible widget your competitor might produce.

The more compatible your widget is, the fewer unhappy customers you have: it fails to work in fewer cases that a strictly-adherent widget would. It may not work ideally in every case, but it may work well enough for the customer to keep it, or even for you to deny a refund.

With low-price items like cables, it again plays into the cable maker's hand: all the various cables are okay because they demonstrably work (not "broken"), but now you can differentiate between very cheap cables that can do little but suffice in simple cases, and premium cables that offer high speed, high power, etc. You can put a cheap cable into a toy as a charging-only low-power cable and save the all-important few cents. You can charge $29.99 for a cable that can do it all™, for customers annoyed by cheap underperforming cables (which they also bought from you!), who decide to finally splurge on the real thing.

A world where there'd be one and only maximalist format, and where the smallest deviation from it would render a device / cable useless, would be (even) more painful for the customer, more expensive, and with some more preice-sensitive segments underserved. The variability that follows from the "be lenient to what you receive" corresponds to the need to serve many varied market segments.

Sorry!
You don't see how that's an appeal to authority, I don't see how my comment violated the site guidelines. I wasn't name-calling or swiping at anyone, I was merely refuting the parents appeal to authority.
I was making a joke, but I guess I forgot what site I'm on.
The truly funny thing about that is it is a real food menu item and description I cherry picked from a local restaurant. No creativity on my end required.
I don’t understand why Apple doesn’t invest more in testing and bug-fixing. It is not as if they can’t afford it. Bugs lead to unhappy users, which in turn leads to brand damage. You’d think it would make business sense to spend more on improving quality and hence preventing further such damage, possibly even reversing some of the damage already done-convince people “Apple is different now”, some people will forget their past bad experiences
If I had a dollar for every action movie or thriller/spy movie that has somebody standing indoors using an Iridium handset with built-in antenna...
I take your point. However, to drill down, people arguing for others to die were prioritizing their own quality over anyone else's quantity/quality, as opposed to anyone prioritizing their own quality/quantity towards self-euthanasia.
I've tried so many browsers in the past on Windows, Mac and Linux and I realized that none of them fit 100% my needs and taste. On top that, I'm still not so sure if I should give it a try on less-known browsers because you never know where they send data and what do they do with it.

However, 3 out of 4 must-have for my browser are met by edge (in order):

1. uBlock origin

2. Read aloud with proper voice

3. Translate websites that don't suck (more or less)

3. Vertical tabs (broken in full screen on Mac, but I can live with it.)

However, Firefox is a close second with the exception of point 2. The problem with Firefox is the death by thousand cuts I get, specially with the picture-in-picture feature, which works some of the time at random and some other small details.
Yeah, they just made up. :/
Yes, because these people will permanently settle where they’re stuck, no doubt.
>Edit: what’s with the downvotes?

You're pushing a baseless conspiracy theory. There is no evidence that Saudi authorities were involved in 9/11.
Bush comes from a dynasty of establishment bureaucrats, is a neocon, neoliberal and started a war under the false pretense of the presence of WMD in Iraq.

Trump is isolationist (but didn't push through his policies), didn't start a war and would probably have prevented the Ukraine war had he still been president. Yes, without further loss of territories!

There are no similarities at all. But no-more-mean-tweets is all that matters for the $250,000 per year SV chickenhawks. Others will go to war for them.
Or use credit card charge back and let them fight for you.
So the history is interesting, that's what so what.
Just today I tried to look for how to switch to using the discrete GPU on my 2019 Intel MBP, but I couldn’t find a setting for it. Is it gone?
This is really amazing looking.
I think the issue is not about tools for thoughts but how to apply tools for thoughts where the burden of signal vs noise of ideas or knowledge a seeker hopes to find in "somebody's vault of knowledge/ thoughts and not slip into a rabbit hole(time-sink) of "noisy conspiracy theories". a layer or a search engine to qualify the knowledge vault worth the time to invest to check out the signal most likely to fit or add to the area being explored by the seeker. Just like a bot scanning galaxies for matching m class planets as candidates for exploration, a bot to scan accessible vaults of knowledge or threads of thoughts. For application in case laws, it would be a valuable citation tool.
If you tell me you don't see how "You've completely missed the mark" breaks the site guidelines, I guess I can see how that's borderline. But "you have no clue whatsoever"? That's a straightforward attack/swipe of exactly the sort you're asked not to post here!
"recycling" is mostly an illusion
Depending on your definition of "civilization", indeed what existed in Australia for thousands of years probably does not qualify.
Superdeterminism is hardly the only one to pose problems for some definitions of free will. It's also not a problem for others, i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism
There literally are, there's very good declassified evidence that has leaked out periodically in small pieces since the mid 1980s that some of what the NSA has are very large satellites with big unfolding umbrella-like antennas aimed directly down at the ground. For SIGINT collection and analysis. Or possibly some combination overlap between the black budget parts of the NRO and NSA.

Same size satellite bus as the largest class of things you would see in geostationary orbit (approx 6500 kg and the size of a school bus) but in high inclination orbits around 600 km.
Very fun game, good job
Define long-term? I think that, as you expand the time horizon, you'll first reach the point at which the landfill gets buried, effectively sequestering the plastics and the carbon within.
> They don't want you to [...] start anti-national propaganda outlets

Distinguish between not wanting people to do something, and not wanting people to be allowed to do something. Isn't a more common position "I wish anti-national propaganda outlets would go away, but I don't think the government should make them go away, since an intact First Amendment is way more important"?
Yep, T500 with the highest (stock) resolution display, with original T60 keyboards (not the Lenovo T500 keyboards that flex too much).

(While deciding what to move to after T60, I tried a T400, T400S, T420, T520, T420S, T500, and some others, until I decided I wanted Coreboot, and liked the T500 display aspect ratio.)

I'm good for high-res T500 displays, but if/when I upgrade to a slightly newer ThinkPad platform, I'm targeting 1920x1080, and I'll probably have to screen-swap those, because that res. is a stock option, but rare.
But that's what passports are for. They even have fingerprints nowdays, so you can always check that passport issued in a given name actually matches a person who presented it. Once you are confident in a name, you can run all kinds of checks on the person. And no, it doesn't work for reverse search that good -- you store fingerprints, you scan fingerprints and you match fingerprints stored in a passport to ones scanned by the device.

What they probably want is getting fingerprints for a specific person in automated way. Getting fingerprints per police request is kinda reasonable, but as far as I remember, European law on this stuff limits gathering biometrics for a specific reason -- document issuance. I doubt even police of the same European country would have automated unrestricted access to this database for investigation purposes.

For identification purposes and when permitted by a judge -- maybe.
Apples solution is in SOS emergency situations only. It is extremely limited in what you can transmit—which near as I can tell is just a well defined message format.
Airlines seem to run their systems at very close to 100% capacity at nearly all times which is sort of the worst approach for resilience in the face of large disasters.
Could you link to some examples of your cards? Your usage sounds cool, but I have a hard time picturing what cards I'd actually want to make.
Ignore crypto. 98% of it is bullshit and fraud, and you (and I) aren’t smart enough to pick out the 2% that isn’t.
> PS: Was reading some Thiel approved Girard today, he mentioned something about the nihilism in society in which the secret of success being all about signaling success.

I'm curious to know the source/reference. Thanks!
That makes sense. I was hoping I could find an online course or workshop that’s worth the money. Unfortunately, it seems like the conferences are really not worth the money.
That's very interesting, but I think there's also an element of "democratization" here that you aren't touching on. In the past, the number of employees in the org that would use a secretary or graphics team was low as a percentage.

Like, today a junior dev can be called on to do a demo to another team, and he can easily throw some slides together. It's not like 50 years ago he would have had the in-house design team on hand to do slides, he'd just not be presenting.
> If they leave this world today, I will be devastated, but happy that my present self is doing the best it can to be with them.

Yeah, this is what's bothering me, just turning 30. Even moreso in that if something were to happen where they were to leave the world tomorrow, I don't know if I'd be able to make it because of the way flights work overseas. It's a lot to think about, honestly, though I feel it'll at least be 2024 before I come back as there's a masters programme I want to do I think I'll always regret if I don't. Then maybe a PhD. Maybe getting a remote job would be the best, or just returning to teaching here. Thanks for your input!
Especially when you outsource it to the lowest bidding WITCH shop you can find. Incredible that the US is still pumping out MBAs that see IT as a cost center. If you are of a sufficient size and depend on software to function, you are a software company and need to allocate your resources accordingly.
Still, the fact that Apple has figured out the weird RF voodoo already makes it seem like a less ridiculous proposition.
I was common amongst a portion of the general population in the 90s when people didn't have a clue and couldn't google things.
The idea that pure water then frozen and kept sufficiently cold could be a functional transistor seems improbable, but because of that, someone will eventually get gain out of a water transistor.
Semantic Segmentation of Websites
I’ve been using AirTags for this since they came out. It’s nice to see my bag made it with the plane. :)
ISED: Release RSS 248 Issue 2 for Wi Fi 6e and Wi Fi 7
> Most of these frankly seem like small beer and to be expected in an early release of an OS.

This is not a beta OS. It’s been out for months. Having things randomly freeze because you decided to connect an external drive is not really OK.

> I also am not sure how a Git Tower issue is a Ventura problem.

Presumably it used to work, which means AppKit broke something.
I’m sorry, I forgot the lives of people over 75 aren’t worth anything.
The thought of a business as big as Southwest having to do a hard reboot is wild to me.
Have you looked into what it is doing during that time?
Ventura also broke DNS-over-TLS support and reliable blocking of domains using /etc/hosts. Some browsers are no longer able to use either on Ventura while other browsers do.
Some people value information and are willing to pay for reliable news.

I’m sure the pool of people willing to pay $100/month for a single website is pretty small, though.

Edit: https://archive.vn/7jm09
>While the article makes some good points I still prefer having a laptop with a decent desktop setup

The article is stupid, because in the mind of the article's writer, docking stations do not exist. He talks about things like nice mechanical keyboards, multiple monitors, how bad laptop ergonomics are, etc. But none of those are issues when you have a good docking station; it's exactly like having a desktop, though possibly with a higher price tag (but not higher than having a desktop + a laptop). The writer seems to not even know about the very existence of docking stations, or else he would have said something about them.

>I only need to manage a single machine (I have little time or patience to look after a flock of computers) and when I do need to travel I just unplug the laptop and off I go.

These are the exact reasons I now refuse to own or use a desktop PC. My docking station setup with dual 27" monitors and mechanical keyboard is fantastic, but if I need to go somewhere, it's trivial to just unplug the single Thunderbolt cable and go (just make sure not to forget the travel power adapter!).
That literally is the solution they landed on: they hired helpers, i.e. extra personnel.

The critical difference is that they did not need to hire more welders, buy more welding equipment, set up more welding stations.

I don't care if the story came right out of Aesop's fables, because it's a good story and it makes a good point.
Krugman is the guy who believed that the impact of the internet wouldn't be much greater than that of the fax machine, right
Something else that's odd is it will sometimes mix up icons in the force quit menu. But this was around prior to ventura

At the same time, there's so much stuff going on in macos that there's a very wide surface area for random things like this. I wonder how many people work on it, if I had to guess it would be in the hundreds
So, just like the article writer, you seem to have never heard of this handy thing called a "docking station".
The large number of elites who were shown by the Epstein scandal to participate in pedophile rings, concerns about which are now equated in most of the public's mind with wild ARG apophenia.
> If you live on an interstate, and don't want to, the best course of action is to move.

Sometimes you don't live on an interstate, but the interstate moves next to you anyways[1].

Other times, you live in a beautiful residential neighborhood (like I do), but 18-wheelers drive through your neighborhood and idle next to the public schools because there's no enforcement and it's convenient.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Bronx_Expressway
There are affordable plans in Canada. It's just that they aren't really advertised. I have unlimited Canadian talk+text + 2GB for $35/month. Without the data (just unlimited domestic text+voice) it's $20/month. This plan isn't public...for some reason my wife got emailed about it and she got signed up. They allowed me to sign up too, even though they hadn't notified me about it.

I think these plans are used to entice people on PAYG onto a plan, so they don't advertise them to everyone.

For roaming data+voice I use a BNEsim e-sim, which works very well.
Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall
Just browsing the comments so far I can't believe no one has asked: What is it you want to do? It's not at all clear from your post what you are trying to achieve. Do you want to do all of these things equally? It sounds like you're talented at a wide array of things and should do the warren buffet prioritization exercise in which you write down all the things you want to do, order them from most want to least, and then take everything but the top 2 and never do them.
You’re on Hackernews.
Well, if you'd permit not getting into details, I'm not exactly a total non-expert.
On the surface, a pretty good read. lots of percentages (I'm reminded of "how to lie with statistics", but not thinking the author is lying, maybe just strange).

Look at [1] where flu deaths are tallied against, well, flu deaths by age. Seems like the old farts account for more than 50% of all flu-related deaths; the author never mentioned that.

I'm thinking, right or wrong, that this piece feels like yet another anti-vaccination rant. There are just too many libertarian (damn the responsibilities) concepts lurking in the piece.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1127698/influenza-us-dea...
Those cables have one decent use. Charging while out and about with only an unknown USB outlet available. Perhaps something like the USB port on your airplane entertainment system. No data means no virus risk.
What’s wrong with the existing signal? This is not a sarcastic question. I’m actually curious what the privacy concern over signal is and what is meant by “the facebookified version” and what the privacy concern therein is. The new “stories” functionality I’m guessing? I haven’t used it so I’m interested what observations there are there…
>This is just bureaucracy...

I don't think so. Software-powered decisions do share a feature with any bureaucracy: the inscrutability of it. Both the IRS and the Google datacenter are black boxes that are enormously powerful, automated, and dangerous. The ham-handed way in which they behave can sometimes be traced to the virtue of simplicity: do it the same way every time, without regard to context. Any programmer recognizes this as the simplest possible program! And if you decide to build in more "policy wiggle room", this often has a perverse effect of being immediately and ruthlessly exploited in ways that are difficult or impossible to enforce.

The new thing with software decisions is the unaccountably for responsible humans. It's like the corporate veil, but much worse. This one is..real, physical. A human can say not only didn't they perform the action (the same is true using a human underling) but now they can say a) I didn't set the policy, It did, and b) I don't know where It runs, or how to change It or stop It. I imagine it will be quite the fashion for hyper wealthy c-suite to delegate to an AI, enjoy life and the continued high remuneration and decrease of accountability and liability.

The other thing is that, in general, software accelerates complexity and never reduces it. We live in a truly science-fiction era where we have problems that our society can cheaply reproduce devices (chips) with 10^10 microscopic states, and we forbid each other from looking, or even knowing, what those states are. We buy and sell these tiny machines, and we don't really know what's inside them. We connect them to the internet! There is just so much space for things to hide, it's frightening. Now consider a typical bureaucracy tends to do more poorly the more complex its inner workings; now add thousands, millions of computers, with 10 generations of programmers blood soaked code (note: programmer generations are like 5 years long).