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> Heinlein has a quote in one of his works that goes like this:

>> A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

“For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.” - Karl Marx
These are great, but beware if you have little kids. Those keys pull of and get lost very easily.
Why should a developer of a free and open-source application, provided free of charge and without any guarantees, have any obligations to package and even test their software on random, thirdparty distributions?

If a distro wants to include their application they have every right in the world to do so. So its up to them to do what ever is necessary to enhance their product with the freely available product of the unpaid developer who created it.
I’d like to hear more about this. What could be the meaningfulness of a life spent on videogames, porn and marijuana, if we were to change society’s perceptions about it?
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anecdotally, a technique I have seen spreading quickly is asking the AI to simulate a conversation between multiple characters of different types (an oxford professor talking to an ambitious student) on a particular topic you want to ask it about. It lets it question itself a lot better, including sometimes going down one thought process then deciding to go in another direction.
One can make parallels to other eras, sure, but the current convergence to an "average" is unprecedented in scale and speed. Various eras had a distinctive style that everything revolved around, but at least there was variety (cultural and corporate).

Nowadays I can't shake off this weird feeling of sameness emanating from every design. I can hardly distinguish brands any more, I can't tell cultures apart and that's a shame because there's never been an era with such abundance of products and expression mediums as the current one
Glad you have something sorted out.

Just interested: why not Debian? i.e. still deb based distro?

I'm guessing the poster above you wants recent package versions as they went to Arch.
if you zag when the world zigs, you're getting zapped
It's definitely useful, but IMO it's not 5x or 10x and of course not x1000 force multiplier. More like a very good and useful tool.
I don't personally need a lot of pressure to keep me focused on delivering business value...but I think that's how I ended up managing people who do. Finding that "motivation without urgency" balance is both difficult and necessary.
again: this is not the norm and not recommended practice. so you are reiterating the exceptional, pathological outlier corner case of medical malpractice.

and you do that in a context which uses this strawman to "justify" hindering and prohibiting well established treatment for severe and medically diagnosed adolescent gender dysphoria, specifically puberty blockers and after a sufficient period of time also cross gender hormones.

and adolescents can consent to that, yes.

why do you argue against this medical best practice like you do?
Yeah that's precisely what it is at the end of the day
Its weird to have a half a worldview on employment status relations and the other half strictly race related. What specifically were the roles that were passed on?
Lex has many recent interviews which are disappointing/cringy. I don't know if he's always been so over-the-top with the love/empathy schtick, but he was particularly bad with Sam Harris and Aella. Which surprised me because I thought both of those would be great.
Also completely missing the part of the population who likes async communication with friends and family via any sort of messenger or text, and deliberately not anything interactive like video. But ok, we might be a minority.
The spec authors should be looking at the popularity of Tailwind and be thinking of how to enhance the style attribute. Then Tailwind really could mostly be a bunch of CSS variables and inline styles.
I cut out eating people years ago
Do you have any good literature on Aspirin and LC? Not a doubter, actually I have LC myself.
> Commutes are extremely predictable, it's the same every day.

Tell that to my colleague, who due to an accident near a major junction, took over an hour to travel a key couple of miles on his commute home from work yesterday.

Some journeys are "predictably unpredictable" during rush hour.
That's what I'm wondering. Is there any idea of how much of say, Bitcoin, is held in cold storage? I saw some estimate a while back that said as high as 70% and that seems high to me for some reason. If true, it definitely speaks volumes about paranoia around exchanges.
Just to be clear, Canonical are often the first ones with a solution to a problem (Unity, Mir, Upstart, Snap, LXD predate alternatives trying to solve the same problems existing in existing software), they just usually use the ensuing "war" for adoption due to varying degrees of bad strategy, Red Hat being more popular, poor technical choices or just bad luck.
x86_64 ELF (SYSV) is a pretty good lingua franca, why pollute my machine with some crappy pauper?
Investment in information technology helps companies maximize innovation
> riling up your voter base

But where did you get that this happened in italy . I didn't see that in the bbc article.
When you say “quite literally” you seem to mean “figuratively.” A river is not a cradle.
The very good book "The Color of Law" doesn't pull its punches about how much stuff FDR did that was harmful to black people: https://www.epi.org/publication/the-color-of-law-a-forgotten.... But with FDR, at least you had a traditional coalition. Black people and white segregationists voted together because--even with redlining, etc.--both groups benefited from federal investment into what was at the time a very poor south. George Wallace was a pro-labor, New Deal Democrat.

That coalition politics is still powerful. Joe Biden is president because Jim Clyburn rallied black southern voters in the Democratic Primary. But to a great degree, the minority politics has been co-opted by white liberals in academia, the media, NGOs, and corporations. Any minority voices in the mix are either hand-picked by white liberals (e.g. professors at prestigious universities) or depend on white liberal donors (e.g. NGOs). Advocacy is coded as "black" or "Muslim" or "Asian" even if it has no meaningful support from black, Muslim, or Asian voters. That advocacy reflects what white liberals already wanted, whether or not it has any nexus to what people in those minority groups want. It also reflects trade-offs in terms tone, willingness to compromise, etc., that reflects the attitudes of affluent white people with no skin in the game.

And often, those efforts are downright self-serving--diversifying the ranks of corporate executives and board members, while continuing to ship the lower-skilled jobs disproportionately held by minorities, to the benefit of overwhelmingly white shareholders.
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Machine generated content cannot be copyrighted so I doubt companies will switch to AI generated voices for big games for that reason.

Voices can't be copyrighted either, so I don't see how a license for a generated voice would even work.
It's disputed which is longest. There's a note about it on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_River#cite_note-longest...
The most immediate - yet mostly overlooked - positive impact software and software engineering has on combating climate change is anything that enables remote work or that does away with pointless busywork through automation.

It never ceases to amaze that hardly anyone seems to even want to talk about the daily commute as one of the main reasons for climate change.

Ultimately, it doesn't matter if you're using an EV, a combustion engine, or even public transport to get to office every day. Not having to commute at all is what can make a difference, though.
Let's see how economy will do... If things get very tight I think there might be hope that corporations will focus on more important things. Like good products and making profit.
You are right regarding Yahgan being an agglutinative language and that words like 'mamihlapinatapai' is a result of that. But -- apologies for being nit-picky -- your example does not fit that category. The German word 'Kugelschreiber' is just a compound (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)).

The fact that compounds are typically written as a single word, as opposed to English, does not make German an agglutinative language; that is mostly a merely orthographic convention. German is considered a fusional (or inflected) language.
If “climate” is so important to the people of California, and they agree that the ICE vehicle is vastly inferior for all the claimed reasons, I imagine ICE vehicles as a product would just flop. Why ban it, unless it’s all just political theater?
The answer is all of them except maybe Bitcoin and Ethereum.

The legality of all this isn’t confusing to anyone it’s just that they don’t like that answer.
I didn’t say anything about regulation. But this seems to be another comment that boils down to making things easier for megacorps.
> There have been plenty of cases in trad-fi where a positive audit was followed by collapse, and sometimes evidence of criminality.

I mean, audits should trigger a collapse... I assume once people inside realize the audit passed, they'll be more blatant and likely to blow up their scheme.
I remember reading how MS Word formatting is such an utter PITA because of required backward compatibility going back to the first version(s) that were just done terribly. I wonder if it might be this way in all their apps
I would argue there are -1x developers because regular developers have to go back and fix/refactor/rewrite the code later, thus create a net negative.

I've always been curious what people feel the baseline of a 10x is (i.e. 1x). Is it a fresh developer out of college or what?
It's as if you'd never heard of ad hominem arguments. They can be highly effective in the rough and tumble of politicized conflict. If Monsanto tried to defend itself on its merits, all its arguments could be dismissed by saying they're bad and you can't trust anything they say.
ChatGPT will turn your day into spending 90% of your time reviewing code...
Hello auth is Windows only by design. Fingerprint readers work just fine.
You assert your opinion "exactness is most valuable in clocks" to prove your argument. Someone with the opposite opinion can just as well prove the opposite.
5 over 1 is the result of regulations of various kinds converging resulting in economic pressures dictating that building format.

Also unless land is just atrociously expensive, the marginal cost of adding floors doesn't go down. In fact it really goes up at some point. I've still never actually worked out how sewage works in supertall buildings.
I'll add that programmers don't produce code. They produce business guarantees. And their main tool to do so are:

* Understanding the value proposition as a human, often as through a conversation; often with hidden criteria that you'll have to uncover

* Making sure the code respects the value proposition. As reading other people's code takes more time than writing it, ChatGPT won't help that much here.

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One development to this story I'm anticipating for though is connecting ChatGPT to formal proof systems, and making sure it has sufficient coverage with 'internal thoughts' that are logic-verified (by opposition to killing the problem big-data-style). Sort of like the internal monologue that we have sometimes.

I say short and medium term we're sort of ok; but I don't know about 10 years from now.
It surely didn't happen spontaneously. It may have in your recollection, but the fact that it took 11 years means that you accumulated 11 years of neuromuscular training first.
> Tl;dr: The people who are freaked out about AI are the people who are bound to lose the most by it.

And some probably used ML assistance to contribute to the draft:

> "At some point, it may be important to get independent review before starting to train future systems, and for the most advanced efforts to agree to limit the rate of growth of compute used for creating new models." We agree. That point is now.

This would lead to emphasis on algorithmic compute efficiency, quickly decreasing reliance on mega-actor cooperation! Hah!
I didn't get to check this out yesterday so a bit late to respond. While it is a very interesting product, the privacy policy is a little concerning. You mention collecting cookies and say they are commonly used as anonymous unique identifiers. However, they are also commonly used to store your login session, and would mean you can use them to impersonate the user too. Which is no good. Definitely don't want any third party collecting them. Especially with hooks in to a lot of personal stuff.

The tool looks awesome, but why do you need anything on your end? Opt-in telemetry might be reasonable, to see what domains (not full URLs) people are using it for. But what exactly is done server side? If I could use it 100% locally, or self hosted, I would be all over this. I would still be willing to support development, in some way, but really don't want third party servers involved. Have you looked at the way Obsidian handles pricing? I wonder if something similar could be viable.
I completely agree. Same goes for websites, fashion ... and even the way people think. It's too sad
This article can be described as the age of cherry picked samples. Most people really want silver cars (but since they want to comply with crash tests and most people want high efficiency cars you get the same designs). AirBnBs won’t sell if it doesn’t look like every modernist interior design and asking many people to output a work of art will basically look like if you take stable diffusion with some boring parameters…

If you want to see exciting cars you have to pay for it. If you want to see fun skylines you have to go to unique places (I am spoiled by Chicago). If you want a cool place to stay at you really shouldn’t do Airbnb . Unfortunately using services that are cheap or don’t have must history then everything looks the same.
Define “efficient at writing code”. I find that for many people this means something primitive and absurd like typing faster or remembering things better.

Being efficient in the perspective of writing new automation so you don’t have to do the same manual things again can easily make someone a 10x (or greater) engineer. This typically means writing your own tools and not hoping some third party package or framework will do it for you.

Conversely the same is true. If a 10x engineer is in an environment where they are prohibited from writing original tools they will just be average or much worse when their motivation is destroyed.
There's no eyesight risk for children; the 13 year old restriction is for compliance with childrens' online privacy and marketing legal restrictions.
Haha, I adore basmati rice! Truly. Don't you like it?

I did exaggerate though: I don't like brown rice much... I can eat it, I just don't love it.
IMO, the problem is that it doesn't work. It could introduce other bugs, make incorrect changes, or mess up the code. If a good developer does this, it converges, with GPT I am not so sure.

We need to find a way for the system to iterate, debug, write unit tests, and repeat the loop. In theory it's doable, but we are yet to see the system which does this.
> it's just your damn ego.

It's really not. First, those technical problems are real problems that will create user-visible problems, ex. forced updates. Second, it has problems that are already user-facing, ex. startup times.
I know, and I almost wished they did use AI for that segment because it was pretty jarring (especially the TOS recordings).

There's still a huge difference between "reusing the work the studio paid for" and "recreating your voice forever after doing a single project".
I also prefer the rubberized carbon shells to bare aluminum, but let's not swallow their marketing pitch whole - what you're touching is in fact a rubberized plastic. Carbon fibers are (almost) always encased in a resin, which would be shiny and slick unless the manufacturer paints it in that grippy rubbery stuff. My old XPS had a similar coating on its carbon fiber, and even my old shitty HTC phone had a similar coating on its plain plastic back.
Just look up the Hadza tribe's gut microbiome.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36238714/
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms4654

That's probably as close as you are going to get to truly paleo diets... not paleo-bros that eat only bacon, butter and meats.
Beyond “Grey’s Anatomy”: What We Learned About UNOS
if you want a vision of the future, winston, imagine a half-wit shipping generated code they are incapable of understanding, modifiying or debugging into production, forever
There seems to be a lot of dissenting opinion on how these tools will affect software engineering jobs.

Those of us that have deep architectural skills, are able to deal with ambiguous requirements, balance UX with technical limitations, etc, will be safe for a good while.

Those of us that were trained in bootcamps to crank out MEAN/MERN/etc apps might be in a bit of trouble.

I say this not to disparage the latter group--many are great engineers who do great, reliable work. But it's ultimately rote work, something LLMs excel at.

There is a huge tranche of SWEs who are going to become redundant soon. Lots of them gave up careers as teachers etc for a more lucrative career in tech. It's unfortunate.
Ehh, pearl clutching over homogeneity in art and architecture is par for the course. What the writer needs to do is expand their horizons, and possibly, their vertices. There's tons of options out there if you take a minute to look outside of -/checks notes/- ... AirBnB? Really? Is AirBnB a good place to find a representative sample of interior design diversity?

Also, homogeneity is great when properly deployed. Imagine going to a city and not having to think about how the street numbering system works, or how to navigate the metro, or how to find an ATM because of a human-centered design aesthetic that is built around routines of daily life, instead of the 9-5 commute.
AI Explainer: Foundation models and the next era of AI
In a way, this seems like sour grapes to me. I bet if it was their own company/institution that released gpt-4, they wouldn't be calling for this pause.
This also holds true for pesky things like displaylink, docs, USB hubs that may need a firmware update to resolve issues with linux. Also I think some Lenovo laptops need an update to Intel ME, which for a long time and depending on your hw was only packaged as a Windows .exe
Perhaps we try to do the same as others (wear the same clothes, pose the same way, buy the same things, etc.) so as not to be an alien too much?
>>because people are generally resistant to learning these things if you call them "incompetent hacks".

Therefore we should hide the truth?

Sorry, it doesn't matter what field you are in, if you can only build stuff but you lack at least a solid familiarity with the tools and techniques of your trade that enable you to improve the performance of your product/service, you are simply not yet fully competent.

Period. Full stop.

If you can write code that compiles and runs, and even do it at large scale, that's nice. But have some humility and recognize that while this is definitely far better than nothing, it is NOT the end, it is merely the beginning, and you are not yet anything special.

Same applies for any field. It is really great go from nothing to being able to build functioning stuff, but it is only the beginning.

Sadly, many people get one year of experience 20 times over, and then get all full of themselves thinking this is the same as 20 years of of digging deep into the technology. Saving them the hard assessment does no one any good.
> Long-term tasty tomatos are a good thing but what about impossibility to breed my own tomato seeds if GMO will win 100% of the market?

That is a great question and a very valid concern.

Because there are two things at odds with each other:

- We don't really want GMO plants (or even animals and fish) to interbreed with non-GMP plants/animals because wide-spread effects on the ecosystem could be disastrous. We've lived through a few of those with natural plants and animals as invasive species, and boy do we not want a pest-and-herbicide-resistant strain of tomatoes to take over the planet [1]

- And yet we do want to let people (both hobbyists and farmers) to raise their own plants and animals. At the very least to preserve local varieties.

I don't have a good solution for that. I think what may work if implemented correctly is for governments to maintain a stock of non-GMO seeds or even mandate that X% of the market must be given over to non-GMO products.

[1] We already have the giant hogweed to deal with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_mantegazzianum. Imagine that but even more resistant to everything * shudder *
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Yeah, I once managed to foolishly induce this while taking too much aspirin over a too long period to deal with tooth pain. I'll never forget the sensation: out of nowhere it sounded like someone was crinkling paper inside my head for about a second, and then quite loud and constant tinnitus with regular sounds becoming muffled. Was quite frightening.

It thankfully went away after a day or so after I (immediately) stopped and I don't seem to have suffered any permanent damage that I know of, but it taught me to not fuck around with NSAIDs.
Happened to me a few months ago (whenever that big SSL 0-day was announced).

I use a 3rd party repo for ZFS drivers, which gets checked for compatibility with each new kernel release by the maintainers, so ZFS frequently stops me from upgrading, and crucially it stops me after I've already fetched the new package databases.

Running pacman -Sy and then installing an individual package isn't supported and it's understandable why.

Running pacman -Syu and having it break sticks you into this limbo where if you install anything before finishing the upgrade, you risk shooting yourself in the foot.
to be clear, they are far right because they are fascists.
I really believe that would start an actual war in the US. Would not advise attempting this.
An interesting perspective on "user generated content all being the same" is the research "Time-lapse Mining from Internet Photos" where time-lapse videos are reconstructed from the variations in the pictures of the same scenery being extracted to show the actual changes made over time. Even if changes in content may seem minute, it still does communicate samples of the underlying information distribution and its changes over time.

https://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/timelapse/
I see, yes.

But could we not care and try to use this native language as it was designed instead of short-circuiting it by slapping costly dependencies on top of it? Wouldn't it be a better approach considering, among other things, the coming ressource optimization in HTTP3?