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> So they've decided to degrade the baseline UX because they want to optimize for people who don't keep their system up to date? As someone who has no problem keeping my system fresh, this isn't a use-case I want prioritized in my package manager.

So, they decided that the update path is always defined, from any state to the latest, without having to update the packages in specific order, where some steps needed may disappear. You know, being robust.

If the year of linux desktop has to happen, not borking the system during updates is a requirement. You don't have a problem with daily updates? Congratulation, but your grandma probably has.

> mmutable systems can be a nightmare to actually use. Wrote your own software? Copying to /usr/local/bin is no longer an option, hope you like packaging up your one-off tool!

Immutable system does not prevent writable /usr/local/bin. Your one-off tool has no business messing with /usr/bin or /usr/lib.

Immutable systems are also minimal; they don't care about your additional software, as it is separated from the base system. You can update your software at any pace you want; nightlies if you want. It just cannot touch anything in /usr (with /usr/local being exception).
Yes. But at this point in time, no one is looking at a river or valley and using the noun “cradle” to categorize it. I’m not saying it could never become a literalism—only that it remains metaphorical, as a way to invoke the idea of a birthplace.
I’ve heard Safari doesn’t allow performance regressions. And they currently have the fastest browser.
To reiterate what others have said, one doesn’t just “learn blender”, it’s way too complicated a software with too many parts for different roles/jobs. Instead focus on a goal. Have a project in mind and pursue the learnings to complete the project. Start small like “I want to model and render a small room” to get the feel for sculpting and modeling, materials and lighting.
I think another advantage of using the framework is that one does not need to learn CSS in depth and in detail.

I have learned CSS and absolutely love the cascade. If I hadn't, and was on the clock, I'd consider something more shortcut-like, even if it's less precise.

If I was using React, writing components in the way SPAs require, Tailwind could make more sense. SPAs fragment code into such little pieces, that thinking about CSS as a whole becomes less necessary.

But, I do know CSS, I have adopted the ITCSS code structure, I do have the Tailwind colors in my SCSS codebase, use the Utopia fluid typography and spacing scales, and with grid, container queries, flexbox, gap etc. life is good. CSS is fun.
Also to add. Fedora has a 6 month release cycle for versions and a version is supported for about 13 months I think.

But during this time they regularly update packages. My kernel is always the latest version.

But I trust it because Fedora has a massive testing automated update and testing system. Every package is thoroughly tested for regressions and other things.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/ to look for yourself.

It is also integrated into their bug and other systems so it's a very well oiled machine.

It's been rock solid stable for me and I've been running it since 35. And upgrades are super easy.

There is also COPR which is their AUR/PPA hybrid system that lets them provide a way for users to setup their own repos but build using Fedoras learnings and systems. It's pretty cool.
"The Network Block Device is a Linux-originated lightweight block access protocol that allows one to export a block device to a client."
I don't think you'd have to pass the context into an await? Await is a Rust construct, not a tokio one. Unless I'm making a complete fool of myself...

Maybe I'm just jaded from writing too much C, but it doesn't seem like a big deal to me to change sleep(duration) to sleep(ctx, duration). Three letters to be correct, transparent, and not have global state? Look at what a complete mess the C standard library is from where they used global state like that.

I'm sure there are lots of other ways you could do it, like make the context it's own struct and call a sleep impl for the struct or something?
I struggled mightily with the borrow checker and lifetimes when I first got started until I got some good advice to just use the heap. String, Vec, .clone(), etc. Just write the code you want and don't worry about allocations. You can fix that all up later when you're more comfortable. It was kind of a cognitive game-changer for me. And now I love Rust and I've gotten better at it.
Why would anyone use this as opposed to using Postgres? The value prop of run-anywhere applies to Postgres as well. I see column store and index advisor as the two features but if I don't need these, is there any reason?
But is schooling from 7am-4pm sitting a classroom trying to memorize information essential? There are probably much more enjoyable and engaging ways to teach children what they need to know to live in a society.
Yes, but in the case of Linux laptop companies using Clevo it’s much closer to a rebadge. They’re all built around the same off-the-shelf designs, which means they share flaws in common, which was my whole point: there’s a serious lack of choice in Linux laptops if those quirks of Clevo designs are dealbreakers for you.
Aesthetics are always in the eye of the beholder.

Personally, as a 2012 Volt owner I certainly wish the Bolt looked like a regular sedan. It's an ugly modern American "cross-over" (they like the weird ugly "EUV" term in marketing) that isn't a proper sedan in any classic sense but also doesn't commit enough to being a proper hatchback or a light truck enough to make sense for why it is so "cross-over" looking. To me it is a very ugly duckling with no true home in car fashion.

I like the "dolphin tricycle" look of the Aptera. But I suppose I also like retro-futurism and science experiments and in general cars that look like they would take off for the sky if not caged to the ground.
>First of all, there is no such thing as an average user. Also, it is not relevant to the discussion. I care about what I want in a system, not what some imaginary users want.

In which case I hope you are prepared for software to get many times worse, because the software industry doesn't give a tuppeny fuck what you want in a system, they care what sells to the lowest common denominator. And that means slow, bloated electron web sites shoehorned into the desktop because the pool of mediocre JavaScript developers that can extrude a minimum viable product is huge compared to the pool of native developers of any language.

And it will continue this way for as long as it's accepted. So, forever basically, because the average user you claim doesn't exist will put up with anything placed in front of them without significant enough complaint to impact profits.
Why is this assumed to be an issue of intentionally 'injecting ads into Bing Chat', and not just a side effect of parsing Bing search results that may include advertisements that have always been there? The later seems much more likely, and they are even explicitly marking info coming from ads as such.
I think that's why "average" is felt as a tyranny.

Sure these vehicles make sense in a cost vs aerodynamics for a base set of functionality. But taking a step back, not everyone want the same base functionalities, nor have the same need or desire of cost vs aerodynamics.

At an extreme some people want a golf cart that have some trunk capacity and is road legal. At another extreme some want a practical but "fun" to drive car. Others want a mid-sized car that can somewhat fit two mountain bikes without being too much a trouble to use as a daily commuting car.

These could all have optimized, wildly different designs, but it's more cost effective to cut off the minority cases and aim for an average that somewhat pays lip services to each specific case. And the more the cost effective average option is prioritized, the costlier it becomes to have a custom design for a niche use case, creating a vicious circle.

To take another industry, we're seeing that in laptop computers: Macbooks nail the average with perfection, and that also means there's no way to get a big screen low power laptop from Apple, for instance. In comparison smaller makers have more niche models, Lenovo or Asus have wild models that are probably commercially possible because they don't try to catter to everyone with a single laptop line in the first place.
0. Seems there are a half dozen other SMBHs also close to the theoretical limit. What's novel about this discovery?

1. Is the Great Attractor a SMBH > 1e10 M(.)?
Exact same way I “learned” audacity.
Child care. For my 2yo and 2mo. It's similar to optimally dealing with adults (NVC and such), but consistently over-melodramatic adults with developmental issues.

The "How to talk so kids will listen" is a great series of books.
Isn't Prusa one of the few open-source companies/printers? I thought they were expensive because they used high-quality parts.
> They never claimed their own employees didn't have access to the data. They claimed that access to the data was controlled and it was stored in data centres not subject to China's jurisdiction[0]:

That is a clear denial by TikTok since they were already under investigation at the time and denied having such access to US data overseas, then the leak demonstrated that they can (and already did) have access to that data. Showing me a 2019 newsroom post already tells they haven't learned their lesson about overseas data access.

> The actions of TikTok don't appear to be that of a bad faith actor. They responded to concerns about data privacy by moving customer data from their own data centres to those of an American cloud provider and have shown that they're working to restrict access to that data further.

So making it possible for them TO access non-public US user data overseas after saying they couldn't? (and admittedly they already did). Which they did again, when employees accessed the data to trace the source leaks on US journalists and reporters overseas. [0]

With such access overseas also explains why those employees at ByteDance got fired, confirming that ByteDance is able to do it regardless.

> What regulation did TikTok break?

US privacy regulations, like they already have done years before [0]. They are no stranger to getting fined by the FTC, as with Facebook who already faced and paid a massive multi-billion dollar fine.

> Facebook wasn't fined for allowing internal employees in other countries access to internal data. They were fined for spunking that data all over anyone that winked at them. In the absence of a data breach, I'm not aware of which US law TikTok would have been breaking by allowing specific employees access to internal data.

Both cases are unprecedented with the way that user data was handled and accessed. TikTok's case alone is worthy of an extensive investigation by the FTC, since not only they have denied this and then later found to have lied after the leak, it even more deservedly should receive a multi-billion dollar fine with this case as with Facebook has done.

There are no hiding places or defences left for TikTok to fall on. If they can't pay, well they can exit the US market themselves.

[0] https://www.engadget.com/bytedance-tiktok-employees-us-user-...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/02/27/us-gove...
Everything has changed. You can’t look at one thing in isolation. Todays teens are not the teens of the Boomer generation. Was t that long enough that many were married by the time they hit 20.
I'd recommend a highly-rated book if you are starting from 0.
Or simply just self host actions?
I think I'm failing to communicate my point here.

It's the wrong bussiness model. The power of these chats is integration. To have the chat suggest a travel plan -and- book all the underlying steps. To integrate 3rd party services on the fly based on your specific requirements while rolling it up in a single transaction.

That only works if the chat is representing my interests. Not just from a user perspective, but also from a regulatory and anti-trust perspective.

ChatGPT is positioned to be a platform of apps that are integrated. Bing is positioned to be a search engine, making money on ads.

The whole point is to never leave the chat. To have it all come to you on your terms.

I want to do every transaction that I do online today from my chat. I don't care if you have a website or an app. If I can't order/subscribe from the chat your product might as well not exist.

Examples:

- I want a peperroni pizza from the highest rated place that doesn't also sell kebab that can deliver within 30 minutes.

- Send a neutral professional Christmas gift to every customer in our EMEA region that generates at least 50k revenue for us

At no point would I accept the product choices to be decided by who pays Microsoft more. Nor do I care who makes it happen. I don't want a link. I don't want to engage.

But I'm perfectly fine with a neutral chat taking 5-30% cut on the transaction.
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Hey. Yeah, I'd be happy to, time allowing.

I really enjoyed the results of NixOS with flakes but a couple of things were a little more challenging than I have time for to switch it into my daily driver.

It was that steep curve that stopped me going back to date; I liked everything about it, the community was very welcoming and helpful, the declarative nature, and ability to define my machines' states in Git, the documentation, no complaints except the time I'd need to feel as proficient as I am elsewhere.
Good ideas can sometimes be generated via play, without proper justification for them. There is chance involved, but if you test them and they hold up then they become meaningful.
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hey me too!! The video that finally helped me get going was this one from Imphenzia on YT: https://youtu.be/1jHUY3qoBu8

all his other stuff is great, like building and rigging a low-poly character. Instead of having to follow tutorials and make stuff I didn’t want to, he shows you how to use the tools to make what’s in your imagination!
Armadillos. Now we use armadillos as our unit of measurement.
Didn't know that was an option! Thank you! If I only had a time machine to 3 weeks ago. Oh well. Thanks anyways. I'll try that again in a couple of years.
A standard library without widespread adoption is just a library. Adoption is the hard part.
Just like divorce rates in some ways. It’s because it wasn’t really an option for many (typically women) until recently. The social and financial repercussions were too severe.
This unassailable conviction that everything can always be chalked up to "more diagnosis" for every mental health trend is a thought terminating cliche. What can't be explained away by "oh, it's because diagnosis is easier and/or people are more open about their problems", regardless of whether that's the primary cause?
It's hilarious how every Tailwind thread ends up looking the same somehow. Use it if you want. It's just a (very good!) tool which some people find useful.

Thanks Adam and all the Tailwind contributors for your work!
It was a rhetorical statement.
I am keeping a glossary page for this reason, maybe this can help others: https://daily.ginger-t.link/glossary

I am trying to be very selective about what to add in there and as concise as possible, but I would welcome any suggestions for format and additional content.
I ran Manjaro on my gaming desktop for a couple of years but I hated KDE, it felt so clunky, always misbehaving compared to Gnome where I've had relatively few issues.
It is not about the interpreter. You just can't express performant code in these languages.

JIT compilation makes Javascript faster, but it is not by any metric "fast".
We've seen a guy create thousands of spam NPM packages for is-even, is-odd, is-red, etc. I don't doubt we'll see many people try to "contribute" to many projects via AI to make a name for himself.
How Design Is Governance
thank you!! The difference between a conversation with a command-based assistant and a conversational assistant backed by a LLM is subtly significant — you don't expect to have real conversations with the former and you actually engage with the latter.
Nvidia's Grace chip is also a 144-Core die (rather 2x72), it will be very interesting to compare the two once they're on the market.
Ok, a global wikipedia article. Is there any example in the US of fraud existing at a scale that once audited could have changed the outcome on an election?
What an awful title. It's not like they just discovered a random new shape. There are obviously an infinite number of "shapes".

The point is that it's an aperiodic monotile, which (horribly simplified) means that it's a tiling shape that creates a tiling pattern that does not repeat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_problem
Did anyone look at the case histories? Was there a second opinion on the diagnosis?
Maybe big pharma trying to push even more medication may be part of the problem. Interesting that the no one is mentioning this possibility...
I'm straying a bit off topic, but while agree on some of the premises, I reach a different conclusion.

I agree with you, and probably more broadly that studying systems which aren't fully isolatable is particularly challenging, but I think there is more than a single simple explanation for this. One we need to get out of the way is that there are things under the psychology umbrella that are science and ones that aren't and what is and isn't science isn't simply topic-based, it's approach-based.

For example, reaction-time is a psychological measurement. Is reaction time scientific? I think that's an ill-posed question. It's, like you mentioned, an epistomological question: specifically an ontological question[1]. In the sense that reaction-time is measurable and largely repeatable with respect to specific stimulus, yes, measuring it and analyzing the results can be a step in the scientific path toward knowledge. I'd find it surprising if most people disagreed with this.

Let's take a more difficult example, is behavioral psychology science? Again, an ill-posed question. Can we ask scientific question of behavioral psychology? Sure; Does the intervention of CBT in anxiety-diagnosed subjects (as opposed to a non-intervention control) result in lower post-treatment hospital admittance? That's a valid scientific question. Does it say anything about how CBT works? No. It relates a treatment to a result, and if we want to be more specific, a treatment at a point in time, for a specific group.

Anticipating the test-retest issue you mentioned above, it's being loose with assumptions and isolation. These things can either be controlled for, or assumed. We should be honest with ourselves that far too many times, they haven't been in practice, but let's not conclude from that that psychology has an essential characteristic of not being scientific. It has a social problem instead.

I think we can all be more transparent about assumptions, conditions, and generalization, but I think that's a benefit, not a disadvantage. It enables us to be more precise in our ideas, concepts, and language and that's a good thing.

Specifically regarding the fixed-point framing. It's an assumption of time-invariance. I'm not exactly an expert on the philosophy of science, but I'd be surprised not to find stronger and weaker versions of that assumption and that's a reasonable thing to be transparent about when communicating validity.

1. As an aside, it's funny that "Is reaction time scientific?" is itself not a scientific question.
The X1 carbon does have fwupdates on Linux, no need for Windows
He's acknowledged some of the short-comings of the most recent iteration of the doughnut tutorial on twitter before. Blender 4.0 should be coming out later this year and he's stated he'll be releasing a new version then: https://twitter.com/andrewpprice/status/1631529825717604353
I like the teal iMac G3, assuming that is the computer you are referring to. Computer colors are so boring usually. Beige, grey, black, white.

(Sent from my green M1 iMac)
While possible, a normal racing drone isn't going to be able to carry more than 1lb. without major changes.

The picture in the link looks like a DJI M300 RTK (I believe), which has a payload capacity ~ 8-11 lbs, and is their major new industrial drone.
For comparison, the nearest star \{Sol} is about 4 light years away.

I'm completely confused by this sentence.
> but instead we have an electronic voting system

We don't. As said, every electronic vote has a physical backup that is audited.
Yes that's true, in fact they can freeze some of your untainted money pending trial in order to preserve it for forfeiture. I just don't think the lawyer would get in trouble for it and in the worst case would have to give back some of the money. If you read the Blair decision it is way different than this case because he was laundering money on behalf of his narcotics trafficking clients through real estate.
Plot twist: Musk is the leaker.
Thoughts on Async Closures
While I agree there is no statistical proof in the article, it's a very strong hypothesis: we somehow only 'listen' to the mental problems of female teens, who see geometric increases in self harm, suicide and various disorders, twice or three times the pre-social media levels. Yet other categories see linear or token increases.

Could it be just a coincidence that young females are exactly the demographic that is constrained by a gender role where aesthetic appeal and social interactions are the most valuable assets? And those are exactly the type of things that social networks exploited, monetized and massively gamified in the last decade?

What's more likely: a rapid change of the cultural norms and roles associated with growing up as a woman or of those related to recognizing and treating mental health issues (all in a single decade!); OR: a purely technical revolution that put interactive screens in the hands of each kid and made the former much more effective in harming their development and leading to the latter?

At least for the young female demographic, I think there is a massive burden of proof for anyone claiming the epidemics is not social-media induced.
A billion is three groups of three zeroes. So for visualizing I would think of a cubic meter compared to a cubic millimeter.

A grain of sand serves for a cubic millimeter. For the cubic meter you can either visualize a cube that size, or four oil drums, or a small hot tub.

Now for the 30 out front, That’s about 27 which is 3^3 so let’s just size a smaller grain of sand which is only 1/3mm on a side. Maybe table salt would be good.

So a grain of table salt in a small hot tub.

If you perform this thought experiment with actual solar masses, use sufficiently long tongs and wear eye protection.
Linking a podcast isn't very good sourcing. I'm very intrigued to hear how the cuddling that's happening college campuses isn't happening, since anyone can see it in real time.
Why does everyone need to be in the room? I have a groomed backlog and can talk to people async as needed. We also record meetings if you missed them and depending on the context of the meeting or importance, we'll hold timezone friendly meetings for everyone as required.
Apparently people do eat mammoth meat from time to time when remains are found in arctic permafrost