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> Bought one of these during the recent sale

Was the Steam Deck itself on sale? Or you bought a Steam Deck during Steam game sales?

How much did you pay for your Steam Deck, and what model/features did you buy?
Police officers are some of the most well paid workers in the country, they make insane amount off overtime on top of already comfortable salaries
I agree, and the justice system certainly should care. I can't blame anyone else for no longer caring, though.
Except with this strategy you only ever get a topical experience, and you only ever expose your customers to your topical experience. If it is a hobby to provide enjoyment in life, go for it; if not, don't be scared to put in a little elbow grease and learn something, otherwise you won't make a dent in the SAM/TAM of products that did put in the time.

> Trying to learn everything first will keep you in the consumer mindset. Be a producer.

Is this a quote from "Silicon Valley"? Sounds like something Bachman would say between bong hits.
What it says right on the tin, man. To bypass local laws that prevent local cops from using civil forfeiture to seize cash and property. Confused by your question.
Steam Link and the many other remote gaming software solutions can easily take care of the streaming part. All you really need is a tablet with a decent controller attached to it.

The Logitech G Cloud may fit your use case. Though, for that price, I don't know you wouldn't just buy an entry level Deck. The Deck's 800p screen isn't the highest quality but I'm not sure if I'd rather spend as much money on an alternative that's useless on the go.

There are also special grips out there for tablets and phones to add controller functionality; that'd probably be a lot cheaper and easier if you already have a big phone or a tablet.
I mentioned this already in an earlier post but I've been working towards addressing this by building a tool that bridges the gap between Scratch and Unity. Talking with Scratch Team members in the past, Unity has been cited as a good exit strategy. Unlike many other languages you aren't being dropped into a text-only environment. I think the main downside is the initial presentation of Unity can be a little daunting.

The tool I'm working on adds a new entry to the main Unity menu bar - "Scratch". Clicking on this allows you to enter the project ID of a Scratch project. Once done, the tool pulls the assets (graphics, sounds, etc) directly from the Scratch website as well as pulling the code and converting it to native C#. The idea behind this is that a student who is intermediate to high level at Scratch can import their favourite Scratch project over to Unity. They can look at the C# code to see the comparison, inspect and modify any of the assets, see the Unity components added to each Unity Game Object, etc. Basically it puts them in a position where they have a project that they have written in Scratch that they can no play in Unity. They can breakpoint the code and single step through it. Essentially it is designed to take away much of the initial impact of having to start from an empty canvas in Unity.

This is currently a WIP but I'm aiming to have a beta version ready within months. I made an early pre-beta video a while back to demonstrate it in action. You can view the video at https://youtu.be/nuUF9BcJT8g
This isn't the 1st time GCP has re-evaluated pricing. I wouldn't conclude that it's "over". Seems to just be how they work.

E.g. a few months ago pricing of cloud storage was "changed".
Ironically they seem to be ok with the CCP controlling their telecommunications.
Being sort of integrated with the rest of Google workspace is nice.
Does anyone know of a good reference on signals and systems for people with a pure math background rather than an engineering or physics background?

So, the implementation linked above uses the polynomial of best approximation to cosine on an interval. That polynomial was presumably obtained using the Remez algorithm, which, given a function f and a set of n+2 points in your desired interval, yields a polynomial of degree n best approximating f in the interval (in the uniform norm sense)[1] by performing a sequence of linear solves

I have a math and specifically approximation theory background, and the wiki article on the Remez algorithm makes a lot of sense to me. Like, this is the language I speak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remez_algorithm

I'm less comfortable though when I try to understand the documentation for the remez implementation in SciPy because it is using the language of signals and systems, which is how engineers think about this stuff: https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.s...

Signals seems to use a lot of analogies to sound waves, and it does map in some way or another to the mathematical language I'm comfortable with. I've spent a little bit of time reading papers and introductory texts on signals, but the definitions feel a little loosey goosey to me.

Anyway, just opportunistically using this thread to ask if anyone knows of some book or papers or blog posts that can help me translate this stuff into math language :)
Looks like the key difference is that jank is based on persistent data structures, while Janet embraces mutability.
It just needs to convince once human to connect it to the grid which wouldn't be a difficult feat for a super-intelligent AI.
My experience with TurboTax was that in two subsequent runs on the same tax year the refund I got would vary by 20-50% (I had to start over at one point). I didn't dig in: and the reason I was using TurboTax is that I didn't care.

So I'll take the IRS heuristic: better than the Intuit heuristic.
This is FUD bullshit from a company that will probably be extinct in a decade because they dragged their feet on EVs.

Here's the current economic reality of batteries and EVs:

LFP at 200 wh/kg is in mass produciton now, and 230 wh/kg is on the roadmap in 1-2 years. That is a 400 mile range car (because LFP has superior pack density) with no cobalt/nickel.

Sodium Ion at 150 wh/kg is in mass production now, and 180-200 is on the roadmap. THAT is a 300+ mile range car with NO LITHIUM. Expected bill of materials will be $40/kilowatt-hour (not sure if that is cell or pack) once they get production really scaled.

These achievements are the true revolution in transportation electrification. And with Lithium-Sulfur and Sodium-Sulfur chems in the wings, it's likely that in ten years there is a battery with 2-3x the density with no cobalt, nickel, or lithium needed.

ICE drivetrains will be fundamentally economically noncompetitive. Too many parts, too much complexity. An electric car will be a motor or two and a sodium ion / sodium sulfur battery, and maybe half the cost of the stuff that actually moves the car. Quieter, smoother, faster accelerating, charge at home, etc.

Since the BMW CEO was canned over sqandering their electrification "lead", all CEOs have been on notice that you have a path to EVs ready or you get shitcanned by the board/investors.

All the CEOs from companies that didn't have any plans around this are playing defense. And at this point, the ship has left the port, and you either were on it or probably won't catch up and will either die in bankruptcy or acquired for peanuts.

This is because the main phase of EVs will be vertically integrated production like Tesla has. The OEM model of ICEs is probably a solid 20 years away, and the companies that don't have vertical integration plans in active development (you own battery plants to help guarantee supply in particular) are simply not going to survive until a new OEM model appears for EVs.

The OEM model, for those that don't know it, is that ICE car makers are largely component integrators from a large umbrella of parts producers. Many of these OEMs sell / partner with many manufacturers.

EVs won't be like that. The drivetrain doesn't have a rich array of dozens of OEM companies vying to produce components for your next platform/car. You have to design your own motor, battery pack, and directly invest in your own battery supply (the battery being the most expensive part) to get an economical battary pack for the EV.

If you don't have your own vertically integrated battery supply, the company won't have reliable supply (since EVERYONE will want batteries) and you won't get it at competitive cost.
>They do it because it works.

You're making an assumption that the issue is that the teachers aren't putting in the effort.

Children are not simple input/output machines you program. A food insecure child with illiterate parents is going to require individualized and intensive resources, where a child who has Doctors for parents will generally show up to school with the knowledge they need.

Gamification of schools is a really great way to get teachers to completely ignore the development of most of the class to focus on one or two kids.

It's amazing that after the widely documented failure of NCLB, people are still promoting these 'work harder' systems.
"Revanchist"? What territory did they ever posses and lose? What exactly would be the revanche here?
Small town police departments are worse. They just don't get all the press.
At my previous job, BigQuery was the only Google Cloud service we used -- everything else was AWS.
> To catch the majority of truckers who are flouting the rules, you need to spot check each trucker perhaps 10x in a career.

Or just check 100% of audit logs against payroll/taxes. Ghost drivers would show up as not being paid. The real drivers would have fewer hours logged than they’re getting paid for.

No stops required.
> I think having an LLM offer up a first pass approximation for any given problem definition helps.

This is, strictly scoped, true. But the future is people with capital deciding that the computer output is Good Enough because it costs 0.1% as much for maybe 60-70% the value. People who write code are probably not sufficiently upstack to escape the oncoming Enshittification of Everything that this portends, either in terms of output or in terms of economic precarity.
There were fraudulent ballots cast for both candidates [1]. I'm not accusing anyone of widespread collusion; I'm just saying that it happens.

Either way, I think "is not a crime" is a low bar; "is morally correct and aligns with democratic principles" seems more correct in this case. Our system is founded on the principle of "one person, one vote". Anything that isn't in accordance with that (e.g. mailing a ballot to a dead person), even if it isn't illegal, seems like something our society should minimize or have fail-safes to prevent.

[1]: https://apnews.com/article/voter-fraud-election-2020-joe-bid...
Not sure how "less ChatGPT" is making anyone's live worse but I guess that is a matter of opinion.
omg! thanks
With government, unless it's an organization mature enough to do something deliberately covert, it's more likely theres so much bureaucracy to deal with that everybody knows who they are working for.
I don't understand why people at Microsoft's gaming division are not acting like their hair is on fire right now. The only reason I and many people stay on Windows is because of games. The success of Steam Deck makes Linux a major gaming platform, opening the way for PC gaming to migrate to Linux. The only reason I have not switched already is my kids needs to play Minecraft.
It is silly. You put together a three-line bash script to activate the venv, run a pip install, and call your program.

The Python docs do cover this topic, and do so rather well: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/installing-usi...
prompt: what is the third word in this sentence

gpt4: third

why are we afraid of this thing exactly?

sure, it will improve, especially with the plugin story, but the fundamental shortcomings that underpins how it actually works won't go away anytime soon.

Many people are spooked, because for the first time ever a computer can somewhat coherently understand and output natural language.

As Stephen Wolfram pointed out, all that means is we've proved natural language is a shallow problem.

GPT4 can't effing solve problems though.

To me "intelligence" is about the latter, not being able to use language (this categorization, btw, also - rather unfortunately - applies to humans).
Yes. My university is next door, so I save on commutes.
> I'm glad you agree that knowing someone's name, age, and address doesn't prove their trustworthiness

My point is that NOTHING about their "identity" provides trustworthiness, unless you actually know that person and you're contracting them in some way.

> build up trust in an identity based on how long that identity has been used

Why would that be true? Times and times again, we have seen popular packages take a wrong turn. An "identity" is just a key with some untrustable name on it, which can be sold or mishandled just as easily as your NPM or GitHub password.

If your entire security still relies on "this rando didn't do me wrong in the past, they're probably fine" or "they have a lot of GitHub stars", why introduce key management? What does it really get you?
I actually think the Bond one is the Pyrenees one, they even renamed it to 007 airport or something like that. It’s from Tomorrow Never Dies.
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This is a use case I could see GPT really excelling—porting libraries from one programming language to another. How awesome would that be? Newish ecosystems like Rust, Crystal, Elixir, etc. could have a larger set of libraries in a shorter amount of time.

There’s still a lot of need for a human to be involved, buts it’s not hard to see how this will make individual developers more productive, especially as LLMs mature, plug themselves into interpreters, and become more capable.
Congrats to all the contributors! I wrote a small patch a few months ago and they were incredibly kind and welcoming as a community. Thrilled!
So what if the case is weak? They should just let it slide then? Whatever country you're from, or whatever ideology you subscribe to, maybe you can appreciate the beauty of putting a strongman POS dictator wannabe on trial for even a parking violation.
Beamtenstatus is rare to come by these days.
Yes and before that GKE engine pricing.

Once you do it enough times it removes any pretence that these increases were one off and establishes it clearly that products are not sensibly priced and prices would increase when the time to drop the hammer comes.
> I’d likely move jurisdictions if the U.S. cracked down on AI progress

This is my overriding concern. This is a wave crest that if you don't ride it, it may well crush you or take the ocean with it and leave you in a desert. It is as interesting as fire as a tool for civilization going forward.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_police_strike

Ten deaths and countless other crimes, violent and property related.
I hope that we'll eventually reach a point where a good public discussion about the risks/benefits can be had. Right now, though, it's simply impossible. The fog of hype actively prevents it.
https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-attacks-nypd-for-threate...
Yeah. Mozilla with their ad-network visualization and browser extensions did more to privacy in practice than any GDPR regulation in which exchanging business cards became some kind of mexican standoff.
I should ask ChatGPT if it can take 2 strokes off my game.
I'm currently doing this course and it's awesome but it's not explicitly clear from the website why it's awesome. It's because there is no boring structured material to go through.

Once the course starts, you are part of a team which has a singular objective: build an ML recommendation system from the ground up and get the best score. The score is real-time, visible in a public Grafana dashboard for all teams, along with the throughput of each team's system.

So the challenge is to have great recommendations for your hundreds of thousands simulated users (and 100% uptime while receiving millions of requests per day) across 6 weeks while iteratively improving your ML model! How fun is that?
There's also ClickHouse Cloud now.
That wasn't the only crime he pled guilty to. Likely had to plea guilty to all crimes to get his deal.
> Now if only MSFT could also launch a portable console tied to a game pass subscription... One can only dream

The success of the Steam Deck and the success of Game pass means that I guarantee that MS have at the very least got an email chain around this possibility going on at the moment.
It was rather expensive (but I'd still use it again) last year when we migrated a custom solution to BigQuery. Now it's even more expensive? It was easily 10k/month for a medium startup.
You're the one who put state in the conversation. State is part of the whole, and not the whole. It's not enough to understand state if you want to understand why they work. I feel like you're trying to muddy the waters by redirecting the problem to be about the state - it isn't.
That is interesting. I didn't know the "simplify taxes" people won. This is why you can't write off moving expenses, etc... No wonder taxes have been so high.
Something no one has mentioned yet: stop drinking alcohol to the greatest extent possible. A lot of us in our 30s are into craft beer, good wine, expensive Scotch etc... try abstaining for a full quarter (3 months) and see how you feel after. Even if your consumption was within government health guidelines (<14 drinks per week for men, less for women, and government drinks are small) you will probably be amazed at the difference. I couldn't believe how much having a beer or two after work every day was affecting my sleep and then everything else.
Surely the lib can be included statically no like Lua does no?
Thank you for posting this. I appreciate your minimal functional product.

Just want to let you know that the website in your profile says it is expired?
Also see Apache Age, a graph database extension for Postgres: https://github.com/apache/age
The people on this site who criticize the GDPR don't even know what the GDPR does, including you. Cookie banners aren't from the GDPR, they're from the ePrivacy Directive as amended in 2009. I don't understand how you people even mix this up, the cookie banners appeared several years before the GDPR existed. It's like this site is a big pity party of surveillance capitalists whining into an echo chamber, remixing and repeating each other's confusions without any feedback from reality.
It did happen eventually: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
I don't understand what you mean at all. If I don't trust you or the software you sell me, how does you handing me a receipt that says "software is trustworthy I swear" increase that trust? What do I do with that receipt if anything goes wrong?
Do not use AC breakers for DC! (they lack arc extinguisher)
Tragedy is for those that feel and comedy is for those that think.
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> I guess my gripe is with the fact that at the end of the day, the burden of formalizing anything that gets put on the web is on the shoulders of developers

Welcome to the world of system development. This has always been the case unless your customer is operating at a similar technical level and can formalize the requirements in your own language (or near enough). Your designers are able to formalize their requirements, but using a domain of discourse that your developers are unfamiliar with, and probably missing details your developers need because they, the designers, are unfamiliar with the domain of discourse your developers use. This always happens, no matter the field. Each group has their own domain language with its own notion and degree of formalization. As the developer, it falls on them to ensure their understanding is correct. The same would be said for non-software development efforts. An architect has the same problem with their customers, and a builder has the same problem with the architect.

It is certainly frustrating, but that frustration has to be overcome. Unless your customer (designers in your case) are intransigent and refuse to communicate when asked for clarification or refinement of details or feedback on a partial implementation, then this is a surmountable problem.
No conflict, no interest?
I saw a quote (I think from HackerNews) talking about how during good times, there’s lots of startups getting money. In tough times, there’s lots of money going to a handful of good startups. Just work hard to find yourself a promising startup!
China also forms their own consortium
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/china-develops-domestic-ch...
Aren’t truckers often paid by the mile and not the hour, incentivizing minimal rest?
"States" are a fiction. There are only people. So to translate what you wrote into on-the-ground reality: the senate exists to make sure that the people who live in states with small populations are not subject to the will of the majority of people in the country.

This is defensible, and I'm sure you would not balk at being called "anti-majoritarian", but lets be clear about what is going on.

Also, post-Civil War, this "we're a republic not a democracy" stuff really changed significantly. While it may have been absolutely true in 1776, it became much less true in the 1800s, and has continued to become even less so in the 1900s. It may have been better if the Constitution had been amended to reflect this (since it was happening anyway), but it's burying your head in the sand to pretend that the original conception is reality on the ground today.
Thanks for sharing, we'll get to it
I think Silverblue's approach is a good start, but for desktop usage I'd like to see userland "environment" things like DEs get their own layer with a similar treatment as the root OS, so you could e.g. roll back GNOME or KDE independent of the rest of the system if you so desire. This would also make it very difficult to inadvertently put the system in an unusable state through things like dependency conflicts — if your DE fails to start it can simply fall back and start the last known good version.

The lines for what counts as "environment" are fuzzy which might pose a challenge, but the fix for that could be as simple as offering sane defaults and letting the user decide what is/isn't included.
Yeap, low growth, low wages, keep the status quo.
Long-haul truckers are paid per mile, not per hour.
personally I don't mind seeing when some tech is overreported because it's an interesting indicator.

but you should write a js filter yourself, should be easy with Tampermonkey. or you could stay on reddit of course.
From what I understand, it's a big violation of campaign finance laws, and it's what Michael Cohen already went to prison for. It's certainly not the worst of Trump's crimes, but it's weird that Cohen went to prison so quickly, but it took years before Trump himself was finally indicted. Surely if Cohen was guilty, then so was Trump?!

The entire impossibility of prosecuting Trump is weird to me. There's a host of crimes to pick from, from using/withholding already approved support for Ukraine to bribe/blackmail Zelensky for personal gain (dirt on a political opponent), to pressuring people to violate election laws, to instigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol, to keeping hundreds of highly classified documents in his basement and lying about it when he's requested to return them.

Lots of people have gone to prison much quicker for a fraction of this. So why is it so hard to prosecute a president or former president? It really feels like he is above the law, and lots of people want presidents to be above the law, apparently.
When people don't like Musk for whatever reason but usually it's political alignment, they just make up things. I see people continue to claim that Twitter is failing, even though it's been working fine every time I log into. With Tesla, they'll just ignore the thousands of happy customers and focus on the bad stories like the occasional exploding car. It's quite sad to see normally reliable technical people go off the rails on these issues.