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> Product managing is also this: I have to know what works and what doesn't.

You can't use a blunt usage metric to tell whether a feature works or not. It only tells you that the feature is popular for some reason. That reason might be that it works, but often the reason people use a feature a lot is it's shoved down their throats.

It's a vicious cycle. Say you are Product Manager for Feature X. Your bonus/promotion/career progression depends on some vanity usage metric for feature X. The more monthly actives or new users for feature X, the better it is for you. So, naturally, you're going to do whatever you can to funnel users at that feature. Stick it prominently on the main screen. Highlight it in flashing red. Spam the user with notifications begging them to use it. Make competing features low-contrast gray on gray. Whatever you can get away with. Then the next monthly metrics report is in: The feature is now being used by +15% of users since last month! Incredible! Your bonus buys you a Tesla. Management's conclusion is: "This feature really works and users must really like this feature." So, the product focuses more on developing that feature.

Now scale the above out to every feature in the app, each with their own competitive and motivated Product Manager. This is how we get apps that are all-telemetry dumpster fires and with more and more flashy features fighting each other to grab your attention and fewer and fewer useful 1%-features.

I've personally witnessed meetings with multiple furious product owners literally shouting at each other about where their feature's button gets placed on the home screen because that placement made the difference between 5% feature usage and 25% feature usage. Where was the end user in all these discussions? Not present. End users are to be milked for metrics gains.
One of the issues I've had is using custom extensions on aws lambda with python. Even if you build them properly it really doesn't like to load extra native code.
troyhunt answers this very question: https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-why-your-static-website-needs...
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If you are specifically trying to test Unicode support, then you might want to try multiple formulations for the same glyph. E.g. you can make é either directly with 00e9 or with a combining mark 0065 0301. You can't tell the difference in a string literal, but escape codes will make it clear.
Unpopular Opinion: Godot should make JavaScript/Typescript its scripting languages.
Even this one appears to leak memory on failed `realloc()`.
Automotive companies have vast R&D budgets and they've been researching (and improving) EV's for decades. Many auto manufacturers have been involved in Formula E racing, keeping up the tradition of developing technology on the race track and then moving it into production for the consumer market.

Now that there's been a spike in consumer interest in EV's these companies would like to recoup that R&D, not to mention they want to be recognized as leaders in the automotive world. I wouldn't want to start a business to take on Mercedes, BMW, Renault, Audi, Volkswagen, Porsche, Lexus - no way. Those guys will crush you.

The SUV and truck market is a different story, however and I think it's smart for Rivian to focus on that segment. They still have stiff competition from the likes of Ford, GM, Toyota and Honda but Toyota and Honda haven't been as active in EV's as the other world-class automotive manufacturers so you stand a better chance competing with them. GM and Ford have a history of failures in responding to rapidly shifting market demands (think of their disasters in the 70's and even into the 80's with producing cars achieving good fuel economy and lower emissions). Now is the time to compete against Ford and GM. Of all the upstart EV makers I think Rivian is best positioned to really stand out and make a name for themselves. As long as they stay away from cars.
A lot of people just use their quest to play beat saber. I only play two games on mine (FitXR and Beat Saber), but that’s enough for 40m-1h a day.

I don’t think I would ever game on my quest, however.
> Only 1% of mobile phone users need 911 regularly. Lets remove that feature.0

If this is the type of PM you are accustomed to, fire them. Because that's a dumb argument.
What is your point? That moderation issues or bias fights in some articles are equivalent to the concept of Wikipedia being proprietary?
> I'll file this under something interesting to revisit in a year or two.

That's fine to do if you're only interested in "is this a thing I can use now" (no, not yet). But if you care about how the feature is designed and are worried that they might get it wrong, now is the time to read the proposal and speak up!
I wonder how big of an effort it would be for Apple to take some engineers and make Mac OS support kernel namespaces/cgroups that would bridge the gap between all of these cool container features Linux has that requires a virtual machine to recreate on Mac.
It's sort of like Storyboard layout constraints in MacOS app development?
To answer my own question, the numbers suggest COGS-per-vehicle has increased since last quarter, not dropped. Rivian is burning a lot of money every time they product another vehicle.
Pivot isn't quite the same as shutting down and -- ostensibly -- returning the remaining capital, no? Pivot implies you keep the money and keep trying to find some path to profitability.
Really hope Lucid succeeds. Their cars are just incredible pieces of engineering and design - at the high end obviously the market is limited, though, so hope they're able to make the mass market transition at some point.
You can actually run the kubelet in standalone mode without etcd, controller-manager, scheduler or api-server. Simply drop any static pods manifests into /etc/kubernetes/manifests and the kubelet will launch pods for you. Remove them and kubelet will too. Fun fact this is how kubeadm bootstraps a control plane from "scratch"
> Eventually, he said the band will let the wearer use a virtual keyboard and type at the same words per minute as what mobile phones allow.

Why wouldn't this allow the same WPM as typing on a physical keyboard? Typing at mobile speed is not a good goal
Blue means they’re spending $10 a month or whatever it is. No fraudster is gonna buy a VCC for Twitter Blue and pay $10 an account when there are a million other sites they could target for $0.
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> Modern EVs are also much more lightweight and aerodynamic than ICE vehicles

It's probably worth noting, just in case anyone is accidentally misled here, EVs are vastly heavier than ICE equivalents, but most of the delta is the battery, and the frame and supporting structures are often lighter.
On the one hand, the GPT3 model is not Turing complete because run-time of each invocation is linear in the input size (number of tokens). There is no input that will generate an infinite output, for example.

On the other hand, if you run each invocation on the output of the previous invocation, it seems plausible that you could give it a prompt with a description of a Turing machine and have it simulate indefinitely. In this way of looking at it, GPT3 only encodes a transition table of a Turing machine. we only have to believe that one can code arbitrary transition tables inside GPT3, be it through an initial prompt or through manual adjustment of the internal weights.
Core Values Exercise: A Scientific Method for Achieving Life Goals
Framing it as “stop an atrocity by uttering a racial slur” is totally imbalanced though. This undercover agent would’ve had to say a thousand racial slurs in lower leverage situations to even get the point of stopping a terrorist attack by saying something naughty. I think it’s a bit childish to over index on it. Since chat GPT can’t save someone on a railroad track one way or the other but can be screenshotted saying naughty things it makes perfect sense to me that the model would be tuned to avoid the real practical risks (look how many stories there are about Sydney saying crazy stuff) & just try to steer clear of anything offensive.
A company I was interviewing had a document they shared with applicants with interviewing guidance. One tip was to look directly into the camera when speaking so the interviewer feels you are present and attentive. Imagine two people looking at a camera instead of each other in an absurd attempt to make video chat more natural.
> As I'm about to start my first larger Godot project, I was initially waiting

You were waiting for Godot?
Maybe a NSFW tag would be appropriate.
I tried out the agent on a testing VM. I really like the product direction and overall concept.

It is weirdly satisfying seeing the pie chart of packages in use fill up as you use the machine and the scanner picks up the used software.

Nice work!
Surely anyone familiar with software engineering knows that the finish line is reached when the finish line is reached. And no sooner.

Physicists at the beginning of the 20th century also thought that the finish line of physics was in sight and all that remained was tightening a few constants. Look how that turned out.
As someone with a C/C++ background considering a move in this direction career-wise, would you still recommend it?
I am impressed with LLMs but I think their inability to produce an honest "I don't know" instead of hallucinating is an issue.
British scientist Kristian Anderson changed his view after NIH funding
> I don’t think I would ever game on my quest, however.

Why is that?
You'd be surprised how many top websites (e.g. Amazon, eBay) don't even implement HSTS, let alone HSTS Preload. Here's some naming-and-shaming:

https://blog.majid.info/hsts-preload/
Free and open source software is not a solution to privacy violating telemetry BS. Example: Firefox
Hey, you're not french so it's espresso for you ;-)
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For anybody tempted to skim or not read the article, the title [ps. "quit" is a bit less awkward - imo, natch :) ] is a bit misleading; the main takeaway at the end is the rather more positive:

Looking back, working in infosec was such a great experience and I recommend it to anyone who wants to jump in!

The reflections generally about knowing when to move on are more field-agnostic.
I'm loving the dadgum renaissance here. He had so many great articles.
Note that the Director of the FBI is generally someone who has been in law enforcement long enough to have internalized the fact that everyone lies when their own freedom is at risk. Which a virologist's would be in the face of having their acceptable research avenues cut down.

So take the "prior experience" with a grain of salt, and remember you're dealing with people at the end of the day here. The image of the "noble, selfless, untarnished scientist" frequently falls short of mark in reality.
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Not for want of trying:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/23/republicans-ta...

"In North Dakota, conservative lawmakers have introduced at least eight laws targeting LGBTQ+ communities, many of which target transgender people.

One bill, rejected on Friday, mandated people affiliated with schools or institutions receiving public funding having to pay a $1,500 fine for using gender pronouns other than those assigned at birth for themselves or others"
At the moment I don't see it as big advantage, but one must admit that new Edge is better than IE (I mean, it is Chromium based). And not they are releasing Bing with AI for computers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34979251). So I think that people will get used to it. And then they will expect such features/behavior all around.

Not many people worry about vendor lock-ins. Especially not Windows users.

So, Bing chat will for sure help Bing and maybe Edge and Bing will be used for more that going to Google and downloading Chrome.
They should enable nested virtualization on M1/M2 first. As it stands now it's impossible to do anything with KVM without dual booting Asahi
The highlight stream is over an hour away from now: perhaps the release is still happening now?
I hope some of the "startups" stick around because the Polestar 2 we bought last year is the best car I've ever owned, and when we go to replace our second car it will be a Polestar 3.
You could try Orion[0] which is based on Safari. It fixes a lot of issues I have with Safari. It's also available for iOS and does even support uBlock Origin on iOS.

[0] https://browser.kagi.com/
What makes BeeRef unique compared to PureRef? What features does it offer that PureRef doesn't?
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I think I just don't enjoy chess, so maybe all advice is wasted on me and I should give up on it for this lifetime but I appreciate your sentiment.

Periodically I try to learn, and I know some openings out to a handful of moves and have done a bunch of end game puzzles and read about some concepts, but that middle area feels like a dark forest with no obvious path.

I either make the blunder that sets me up to lose, watch my opponent make their blunder, or we survive.

I think a more structured approach to the midgame would help me develop some of the sensibilities the grandparent poster is talking about. Does that even exist?
So far in computing history, nobody has ever gone broke by underestimating the average consumer's disregard for their own data privacy...

It's sad if Meta doesn't see a need to internally reform on this front, though. Regardless of the financial bottom line, the company culture must evolve beyond defaulting to solutions that ultimately boil down to "everything that goes through our servers is fair game for us". I thought Zuck's E2E encryption promises a couple years ago were somewhat earnest at the time, but that may be all past.
Large sales of hardware without large sales of software is a problem though, and one Meta speak to in the leak.

These headsets, like consoles, are most certainly subsidized with some expectations of game sales. Meta say they’re not seeing long lasting engagement.

That would make each headset some form of loss.

Regarding graphics…I think comparing VR graphics to regular console graphics is a mistake. The immersiveness goes a long way to making things feel more realistic than they are. It doesn’t mean they actually look better, but the brain is better at filling in the gaps.
Well, if you ask me, the ability to play chess well is the sign of someone who knows how to make the most of their free time!
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Well, they phased out visual scripting in 3.x because it was too low-level, but I do hope it will come back in a 4.x with a higher degree of abstraction because for folk with no coding expertise and for simple object scripts, Blueprints are just way easier (and so was Bolt on Unity, which my kids used with great success until I got them to shift to Godot 3.x and learn GDScript).
Naw, it’s standard to call such tricks “bitwise” even when including a multiply. Remember you’re multiplying into a specific bit range and then shifting down (dividing by a power of 2) to capture the bits you want, it’s bitwise in a very literal sense. Probably quite fair to call any expression “bitwise” if any single operation in the expression is bitwise, regardless of the other operators & functions, no? What part is hand-wavy? Variations of this technique are in standard widespread usage in the compilers we use.
I think it was Cromenco that had a setup where you had a 'master' S-100 CP/M CPU board that managed mass storage, printers and other things, and 'subordinate' S-100 cards that had CPU, memory and SIO. Each user would be dedicated a sub card and terminal, running their own full version of CP/M, and the master mediated access to shared resources. Very popular in small office settings for a while.
Applications should arguably form a swarm over a PAN and use an OT/CRDT to be kept in sync with each other. The device boundary needs to disappear completely.
Agree with the second half as well. I think the issue for the Quest 2 is that it is a great product with no actual killer, daily app. Combine this with it being a modal experience that requires your full attention you get a lot of sitting Quest 2s. I had this issue. Great product that wowed me every time I used it...but utterly lacking most reasons TO use it. So, it sat.
And yet my point stands.
Why dangerous?
> If I close my eyes and put earplugs in when an ad is playing is that piracy?

There’s certainly a not unreasonable argument that it is if you agreed to watch ads in exchange for getting something. If you do a project for me and I agree to pay you after I receive your invoice and then stop accepting mail, refuse all emails, ignore all phone calls, run away from you when I see you in person and otherwise do everything possible to prevent myself from receiving your invoice, wouldn’t you consider that theft of services?

That isn’t to say I think all ad blocking is theft of services, nor to say that something like broadcasting with ads constitutes an agreement or even that abuse of ads in such an agreement wouldn’t justify blocking ads. Just that the argument is not unreasonable
Microsoft will be fine regardless.

Not even VR/AR can substitute laptops and desktops. And they are dominant in the sector.

Big screens and local computing aren’t going anywhere.

It’s more likely that AR/VR will take the place of mobile platforms
A hyporthetical question: if you're going to contribute to an open source game engine, which one would it be and why? Godot? Bevy? Others?
Microsoft, historically, has not had much competitive pressure to be reliable. For decades, they've had a lock on the PC OS market, and there basically is no larg2 business that doesn't rely on MS. Even world governments rely on MS.

Now even in the few areas where MS actually does have this pressure (e.g. Azure) they're struggling to make it part of the culture.
I don't follow Godot too close, but wasn't the big change also from 3.x to 4.x also migration from OpenGL to Vulkan? That's a rewrite of the rendering engine, which is a big part of a game engine, that most likely also affect a lot of other aspects of the engine.
TBH in this case I think PlutoTV (who I assume issued the DMCA takedown) effectively shot themselves in the foot. The problem here is that if you were to take down a bunch of episodes of a TV show, those episodes would theoretically be ~500mb a piece which means re-hosting them would be non-trivial. However when you're talking about a 50kb text file that can be shared literally anywhere, far more people now know that this is possible and can find the list with any amount of digging.

If PlutoTV was smart about this, they would have kept their lawyers out of it and had their engineers quietly patch this.
Thanks. There are studies with different conclusion.

https://zenodo.org/record/4477081

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fviro.2022.8348...

https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/absolute-proof-the-gp-120-se...

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Evidence-which-Sug...

Also, virologist who tried to discredit the lab leak theory was once a ‘partner’ to EcoHealth Alliance (study you posted above):
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/anti-lab-leak-virologist-...
A named individual has to "sign" both a DMCA notice and a counter notice.
Not a bad article, but he omits the huge cost of running everything as lots of cloud services (or worse still, functions) instead of putting a single monolith into a VPS for a few tens of dollars a month[1].

[1] Yes yes yes, assuming you're not running Google.
Edit: ignore, misread "conversions" as "conversations"
Akien does a great job managing the PRs. They have a decent system to enable them to review quickly and the core team does a ton of code reviews. Once you start contributing to Godot, it's pretty addicting.
I just freshly reimaged a Surface with a Windows 11 ISO that had no drivers for the Surface, so I had no wifi during setup... an offline account is definitely still possible.

The Windows 11 Settings UI does everything it can to hide it from you. But you can use the old "Local Users and Groups" applet to manage them. (Run the condescendingly named "lusrmgr.msc"...)
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Oh, hey!!! Did you know that RHEL, CentOS Stream, & Fedora has been providing an image builder for a couple of years? All of these links below demonstrate functionality that you can do with CentOS Stream & Fedora, and even with the no-cost developer subscription for RHEL which unlocks 16 RHEL subs with tons of extra functionality. Many links below to help you easily learn to use it. We are actually using this tooling internally to beging building all of the image artifacts for all three of these linux distros. Eating our own dogfood; this is the future.

Also, below are links and some screenshots of the wicked cool new customizations that just landed in CentOS Stream and should come to RHEL 9.2 and Fedora soon.

- Install in your local Fedora/CentOS Stream box

dnf install -y osbuild-composer composer-cli cockpit-composer bash-completion
systemctl enable --now osbuild-composer.socket
systemctl enable --now cockpit.socketfirewall-cmd --add-service=cockpit && firewall-cmd --add-service=cockpit --permanent
source /etc/bash_completion.d/composer-cli

- RHEL Image Builder | Into the Terminal 53 youtube podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-mv_WLmQdA
- Blog: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/using-no-cost-developer-subsc...
- Blog: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/announcing-full-support-new-r...
- Upstream docs https://www.osbuild.org/guides/blueprint-reference/blueprint...
- RHEL 9 docs https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

Screenshots
- https://github.com/tabowling/Fedora-Virt-Lab/blob/master/cs9...
- https://github.com/tabowling/Fedora-Virt-Lab/blob/master/cs9...

Please give us feedback, feature requests, tell us how you're using it, pull requests at our upstream project https://github.com/osbuild
Happy building!
Move fast and break things ... /s
Not for the same type of graphical work, but a great program for the analysis of scientific image data is ImageJ https://imagej.net/ij/docs/concepts.html
What I find funny and unexplainable is that this class of problem was solved decades ago with distribution mirrors. It's not really clear to me why, within the last decade or so, we collectively decided to centralize hosting on one specific cloud service whose downtime now affects builds across nearly every company.

What's perhaps even more surprising to me is that, after a repeated track history of severe and frequent Microsoft-Github outages in the last three years, it is still a hard dependency for so much of the modern software stack.
Wait really? How does Docker macOS work on M1/M2? Or does it not?