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Prompt: Write an a cappella cover of a Philip Glass song in Simlish.

ChatGPT-4:

Creating an a cappella cover of a Philip Glass song in Simlish presents an interesting challenge. Philip Glass is known for his minimalist compositions that often consist of repetitive structures, and Simlish is a nonsensical language. Since Glass's compositions are largely instrumental, I will create an a cappella adaptation inspired by his musical style while using Simlish-like sounds.

Verse 1:

Doo doo zib, doo doo zib, doo doo zib, doo doo zib,
Bada bada zoob, bada bada zoob, bada bada zoob, bada bada zoob,
Glarbni glarbni glarb, glarbni glarbni glarb, glarbni glarbni glarb, glarbni glarbni glarb,
Sul sul sul, sul sul sul, sul sul sul, sul sul sul.

Chorus:

Froodle froodle, zibba zibba,
Dag dag, drib drib, yibbs yibbs,
Slooble slooble, wib wib, dor dor,
Lerpna lerpna, gort gort, zor zor.

Verse 2:

Doo doo zib, doo doo zib, doo doo zib, doo doo zib,
Bada bada zoob, bada bada zoob, bada bada zoob, bada bada zoob,
Glarbni glarbni glarb, glarbni glarbni glarb, glarbni glarbni glarb, glarbni glarbni glarb,
Sul sul sul, sul sul sul, sul sul sul, sul sul sul.

Chorus:

Froodle froodle, zibba zibba,
Dag dag, drib drib, yibbs yibbs,
Slooble slooble, wib wib, dor dor,
Lerpna lerpna, gort gort, zor zor.

Remember, this adaptation is meant to be playful and fun, as it doesn't have any real meaning or convey any specific message. The focus here is on capturing the essence of Philip Glass's minimalist compositions using Simlish-like sounds in an a cappella context.
I don't see where these Quest devices have gone to though, who and where is the market? Because even though I run around the tech circles where people are eager to be early adopters, own multiple tech gadgets, etc. I still don't see a single home with a Quest device. I see multiple Xbox and Playstation devices but no Quest.

How can that be more popular than Xbox? Where are those 20 million devices in use? Do people hide them?
Same. Except for the new “For You” tab, my feed is almost 100% the same.
A simpler solution might be to use a smart plug to monitor the current being drawn by the appliance and then just notify and turn off when it is done. I do variations of this kind of thing (using sonoff S31's flashed with tasmota) and it works quite well.
The standards for medical malpractice are super nuanced and variable but the general idea is the "man on the street" concept, or in this case "the average doctor" concept.

As the parent poster put it, it's only a problem if the average doc won't detect it. If it's truly a 1 in 10-million thing, an extreme edge or corner case, malpractice courts may not have a problem with you missing it -- as they say "if you hear hooves, do you think of horses or zebras?". 99% of the time a different diagnosis is the right one, and even at five-nines you're letting someone through eventually.
This discussion is fascinating, anthropologically speaking. Some observations:

* Many commenters seem to be holding to this weird idea that if you don't believe God will smite you, you will not be able to behave responsibly, give your word in a trustworthy manner, etc. If there's not a supernatural enforcer then there are no consequences to lying/breaking your oath. Interestingly, it looks to me that even atheists are endorsing this false idea here!

* An understanding of symbolism and its nuances is also lacking. Perhaps this isn't a surprise, as Enlightenment thinking and literalist Protestant thought have largely erased cultural understanding of symbolism. Thus we have confusion in two ways: many folks swear on the Bible out of convention or lack of critical thought, rather than belief, but will rationalize if pressed, and then folks who are very thoughtful may choose the Bible (looking "normal") or something else (looking "different"). The document chosen, if there is a conscious choice made, symbolizes something about their approach to the ceremony and the position. It is not necessarily a magical choice. (A magical approach takes symbolism a step further and imbues the symbolic object with supernatural power. Contrary to popular belief, this is not a universal approach vis a vis the Bible. Remember that the Christian church and Christian faith and practice existed before the Bible was written, easy to forget in a "sola scriptura" cultural milieu!)

* Amusingly, some really Bible-believing folks will not swear, on a Bible or on anything else, due to Matthew 5:34-37. This intellectual consistency is lost of course when we reduce swearing on the Bible to either convention or magic.

Human rituals cannot be usefully be interpreted as legal acts or as declarations of intellectual belief in a set of propositions. They are symbols. The intellectual incoherency of commonly swearing on a book that says not to swear alone ought to tip you off. I sympathize, folks! I grew up quite literal-minded and so have had quite a struggle coming to terms with the Protestantism I grew up with. Learning the intellectual history of thought and religion and understanding the ways different cultures engage with the divine/supernatural/morality has been very helpful -- and some of that learning must be experiential. Taking part in physical rituals taps into a very different part of the human experience than reading philosophy.
The problem is it's not clearly advertised. Apple has had the longest support life historically, but I most recently bought an Android, since Apple does not commit to any particular timeline forward-looking.

Most of the other vendors also don't clearly indicate how long a new device will be supported for.
The Problem of Abundance
No. Linux. ROS was too big for edge device processing.
Jetbrains/IntelliJ does the same. It's great.
It is not the first time the FBI has warned about this (see [0] for example, or do a Google search with date filters).

This is the Denver field office maximizing Twitter engagement by repeating themselves. (Maybe that is not a fair way to view it, maybe the FBI should repeat advisories often.)

[0]: https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/portland/news/p...
I think it's fair to say there's a conversation to be had about this in general, not coming down on it either way... but there's zero reason to throw that particular grenade here.
It could happen to every one of us...
Farm equipment != smartphone. No one is throwing away high dollar farm equipment.
It seems crazy to me that Amazon laid off a lot of the Alexa and robotics teams.

You'd think if anything they'd want to invest in that more now that LLMs could be used in combination to produce a much more natural home assistant experience.

That said, whilst I think VR doesn't have a huge amount of potential (the equipment is expensive and awkward), I think there is still a lot of space for making it easier to meet and communicate with people virtually. There's still a huge amount of friction where nowadays almost every service has limited public messaging and comments, etc., and online communities are fractured across dozens of Discord or Matrix servers. I think one of the main parts of Tiktok's success has been that it makes it easy to speak to new people either via public comments or video replies, etc.
Tupperware warns it could go bust without emergency funding
Plex' lifetime pass is iirc tied to major versioning. You'll have lifetime for as long as 2.x is the version they're on, but if they ever release 3.x, it's time to open your wallet again. No promises were made at the time on if you can stay on 2.x forever.

Extremely scummy move, they changed those terms in 2017 if I recall and got a ton of flak for it.
We’ll get to see! With Europe, Biden and some states on one side; and more-reticent states on the other.

As HBR put it,

“Will manufacturers follow a margin strategy and raise new product prices to capitalize on easier repair? Will manufacturers follow a volume strategy and cut new product prices to lure consumers into replacing instead of repairing a glitchy product?”

Or, in places without it, will farmers resort to crudely deleting emissions-control because it interferes in the long-term?
I don't disagree that the company is "sketchy as heck", but the fundamental bet was that the main computer interface display device would move from being a monitor (and also perhaps the smartphone display) to being VR. And yes, there were people skeptical about that, but I don't think that idea in and of itself (that is, taking Facebook's nefariousness out of the equation) was that outlandish a couple years ago, despite my personal disdain for the idea.
ROS runs on Linux but I'm glad to hear you aren't shipping ROS in production.
Six years of updates is also too short, in my book. PCs regularly last for over a decade.
yep, very hard to tell if someone is already burnt or if i'm burnt.
That depends on the modules you use.

For example, many people keep each function in a separate file, instead of merging them into psm1 during build. That will speed it up A LOT.

You can have different profiles and load them when you need them, even when you enter specific folder.

There are ways around it. You complain that you want everything everything everything loaded in advance for your wizardry but are u really a wizard if you can't solve this? So if you buy a porche and then put a house on top of it, shop in cart in the back of it, tires for every season, and so on, and then complain its slow, then guess what...
If you want to run concurrent io requests, don't you still need to use an async framework and all the fork/join logic? I suppose the slow and naive way is now easier to let limp along as you won't run out of threads?
I was assuming the metaverse was an extension/improvement on doing things remotely, rather than a pre-requisite for it to work at all. Meaning you would have to believe remote is a solid concept to start with. And, there's the obvious contradiction that working remote seems fine for a lot of the senior leadership.
> As long as conversion between representations is well-defined and not hugely surprising, what does it matter?

In Javascript:

let a = '0';
a == !a; // True. Why?
let b = !a;
(a == b) == (!a == !b) // False. Why?

None of the coercions involved is particularly surprising, but the result most definitely is.
Many religious books are shit. I think high school kids can write better stories tbh
The race of media, ad, and other companies for one's attention and data is brutal. Especially when one is stuck in a seat for hours and only has a back of another seat in front of their face.
Rafal Olbinski
Perhaps the biggest reason for me for the lifetime license (I also have a Leanpub one) is to have less invoices [0] - the reason I also prefer 12month subscription options. One thing I hate about being a freelancer is grabbing all invoices for my accountant.

[0] Also everyone please name the invoice file YYMMDD-<company>-<no>.pdf ;-) and send them via email, don't make me log in
Stop assuming malice of someone who willfully misled investors, her own employees, and even consumers who thought they were getting medical analysis? I'm all for second chances, but she expunged all of hers during her time at Theranos.
Not a white collar criminal. Agree that this is really fishy. But different problem.
University of Helsinki provides free courses on Python, Java, Data Analysis and so on: https://www.mooc.fi/en/
That’s mostly because there’s no universal definition of the various software developer titles and their roles. 10 years ago, I was a principle developer. Now I’m a senior developer. Why? I’m at a different company who didn’t have anything above Sr when I joined.

Plus, you tend to reset titles when you swap jobs. Staff, principal et.al. tend to be reserved for internal promotions.
My general belief is that anyone with a subscription service who offers a “lifetime license” will probably eventually welsh, so I never spend my money on them. Doesn’t excuse it but this is an example.
Yes. I had a similar experience. The answer would come to me before I even finished reading the prompt, but I never felt like I was actually learning the info. Just memorizing the pattern.

I surmised that it was a result of my deck being too small. It may be different with a larger deck and a greater variety of cards, but I never got my deck to that point.
> This seems like a bit of 20/20 hindsight.

I dunno about you, but I and basically everyone in my circles at the time agreed that it was most likely a terrible idea.

Until and unless there's a truly convenient piece of hardware to get one into a virtual space—I'm talking weight and bulk comparable to prescription eyeglasses, no wires going beyond your body (ie, maybe a pack at the belt/pocket/something like that), and some form of extremely intuitive UI—you're not going to get people interested in regular interactions in a VR/AR space.

Frankly, even once we do have something like that, I think it unlikely that many people would choose to do things like meetings in a virtual space over something simpler like Zoom, even if they did already own the hardware.

And none of these views have changed over the past few years.

No; I think Zuck has been far too isolated and out of touch with how regular people operate for too long, and when faced with, as you say, the fact that Facebook was only running on other people's platforms—and it became clear that no one was interested in making Facebook their platform, like by buying a Facebook phone—he convinced himself that this was The Next Big Thing based on sheer desperation.
I'v been wondering about the implications of free wifis within airports or such - how much that would be of a worry given you connect only to TLS secured services (and hopefully the phone does it too for every service it connects to in background)
> Regarding SBF I’m still appalled how he’s treated with so much leeway, lesser people would be treated quite differently. I still feel like there is really different prison systems for the rich and poor. Maybe I’m wrong.

He's still innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

What is the the justification for locking him up unless he's convicted?

Is there a risk he'll start another fraudulent crypto exchange or hedge fund?
That’s all the same. Then the code the programmer is writing is wrong because the programmer’s assumptions are wrong. Potato, potahto.
Lol, thanks, I'm an idiot, it was the brain fart that kept going.
Covid Death Rates by Partisan Lean and Vaccination Rate (With Bivalent Booster)
In my opinion: not nearly painful enough. He still behaves as though he hasn't learned a thing, in spite of this interview. The worst part is that he not only destroyed a useful resource but managed to make it much harder for a lot of people who actually depended on Twitter to keep moving. This collateral damage is one very important reason why I think that we should never fall into the silo-as-a-messaging-service trap again because it is just setting us up for a repeat performance. Even if it is managed perfectly as long as it is in private hands it can be sold and you never know who the next owner will be.
>I'm still waiting to see a QI charger than just pumps 100W of power straight through any piece of metal above it

A charger so good it's the last time you'll need to charge
> Centeral banks turned everything like a Ponzi scheme. How the heck borrowing and spending is a better option than saving.

Central banks are just playing a larger game, they aren't causing it, the game is: ever increasing growth capitalism. Borrowing and spending creates "growth", saving doesn't. While we exist in this system we can try to pinpoint the blame at different actors but they aren't the cause of it, they are just playing along.

The incentives for growth don't align with what's best for society, they align with making people indebted so companies can grow their revenues.
You certainly can do somewhat useful AR on a phone. See e.g. some of the ML photo and sound identification tools (e.g. Merlin, Google Lens) that have very quietly gotten quite useful.

But AR that is really a killer app almost certainly needs a fashionable, light, easy to use headset and that's a hardware problem to a significant degree that probably doesn't have a quick fix. Yes, you can do something that's effectively a prototype that's more like a "headset" but that's almost certainly not a mass market device that most people will walk around wearing.

(There's also the social glasshole issue but my guess is that goes away with a useful enough device even if some people hate the idea.)
Matthew 5:37 records that Jesus said something similar during his 'Sermon on the Mount' (which predates the Epistle of James): "All you need to say is simply “Yes,” or “No”; anything beyond this comes from the evil one."

I also read a 20th century book which made the interpretation that "thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain" of the Ten Commandments is an instruction not to swear oaths on the Bible, since everyone is fallible and so can't guarantee them anyway. I can't remember off-hand which book it was though.
People must be held accountable for their actions; if it cannot be through self-governance, their reputation must meet needs.
Why Janet?
Making unethical business decisions that negatively impact customers is a bit different from jaywalking.
We once used a large SaaS company with very bad service and very bad customer support. They changed their name and we joked they only did it so people googling them would not find the old stuff.
You missed that the thread OP was trolling.
Webhook Forwarding in the GitHub CLI
Perhaps a good case study here is/will be Affinity. They produce graphics software competing directly with Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, and their core differentiator is that they don't do subscriptions - you pay up front, and get a regular, perpetual license in return. Few months ago, they released version 2 of their software suite. There are some new features and a host of UI and performance improvements, but otherwise, the software is substantially the same as version 1. It would be interesting to learn what their current breakdown of {new users, users who upgraded to v2, users who stuck to v1} is.

Myself, I upgraded only Affinity Photo to v2, because I wanted to play with non-destructive workflow that's enabled by some of the new features. I studied their product page extensively, and couldn't find anything else particularly compelling, at least not for my limited (and non-professional) use cases. v1 is still a fine product.

(OK, I admit, 50% of the reason I upgraded, and 100% of the reason I bought the whole v1 suite in the first place, is because it's nice to do business with someone who isn't abusing their customers with subscriptions for a change.)
In what situation does the entire financial system shut down, and we still all have reliable electricity and Internet to use crypto with?

Also most market cap isn't in those "more efficient" and "more decentralized" coins.
She lost the privilege of not being attributed malice when she pulled a scam of a decade.
That's not title case - you don't capitalize words such as a, the, of, etc. unless they are at the beginning of the title.
The code interpreter and browse mode things don't work like other plugins. You can't install them alongside plugins (probably for the best given prompt injection risks) - you can pick one of "Plugins" mode or "Browse" mode or "Code Interpreter" mode.
Are meetings making you less productive?
It looks like the ELF standard itself says the hash table uses 32 bit values:

> A hash table of Elf32_Word objects supports symbol table access.

https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/elf/gabi4+/ch5.dynamic....
Indeed, you really shouldn't. "Roughly" may well mean that it isn't losing 100's of millions any more but only tens of millions and for Musk that may well qualify as 'roughly breaking even' but without the numbers to go with it this is a meaningless statement.
Meant our own version of it. (But not ROS yes.)
> My current favorite business model is the "You're buying the current version and [years] of updates." Then typically you'll get some discount to renew your "[years] more of updates."

Fully agree, I think this fair for the customer as well as the supplier.

I know enterprise customers demand guarantees for [years] of updates, but I think in the B2C world "You're buying the current version and updates as long as we provide them." is also a fair alternative. A good example for this kind of offering is the Reaper DAW.

This model is not as good for the customer as your version but as an indy developer I'd rather not promise [years] of support even if it is highly likely that I will provide it.
Justice

https://pll.harvard.edu/course/justice?delta=0
Visicom really pumped the ManyCam lifetime upsells. I found 15 emails over an 18 month period in 2020-2021 with them pitching lifetime (which I eventually bought). An example email text they used is:

> Upgrade now to ManyCam Studio Lifetime for only $39 and get access to all the future versions and updates, forever!

What they presented to the user was unequivocal. In a just world, the company who sold ManyCam (Visicom Media) should not be able to get away with this.
Thank you for the feedback. As we scale and further iterate, we hope to make it cheaper but hardware is hard, and building something new is expensive. At present, this is the model that allows us to stay in business. Thank you.
Depending on what is in your cache, Maven will satisfy dependencies differently. You can go out of your way to nail down your dependencies (analogous to a Javascript lock file) but it goes against the grain of how Maven is designed. Maven encourages pretty sloppy dependency resolution by default, and that's what you'll see if you look inside the artifacts you depend on.

There may be other issues as well, because this was an issue that affected Maven throughout my years of using it, in contrast to SBT, which in my experience had this issue much less often (though it definitely did from time to time.)
Your right, I jumped the gun slightly on this, exploration is good.

The inevitable four thousand startups trying to monetize shoving a LLM into everything when the technology is excessively wasteful and unwarranted, that's going to be the bad bit.
Metroid Prime Engineer Calls Out Nintendo, Says Not Crediting OG Devs Is Petty
If you have a zero day takeover via usb/lightning why would you waste it on public charging infrastructure? That seems ridiculous.
> Does anyone know whether bookshop.org or any of the other networks ship to the EU without customs issues?

Ehrm… you are required to pay import duty and VAT for any imported goods into the EU (there are no low value exceptions anymore as of a few years ago). There’s no way to circumvent that.
NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
On the commercial level at least AI-personalized interaction. You'll actually be able to have a 2-way relationship with Justin Bieber, and he'll chat with you and comment on your goofy pictures, and message you late at night when he can't sleep. Or rather when the AI has estimated that him sending you a message about not being able to sleep because he's anxious because of the album release will increase the chances of you buying that album.

What will be the term? It's no longer just parasocial. Augmented Relationship?

I believe you're spot on with regards to it being easier to get positive social interactions from a robot. I don't think that's a bad thing either. Many social dynamics are close to winner takes all, and especially among teens often work by singling out someone and mercilessly attacking them to induce group cohesion. Opting out of that hell and having a nice chat with a bot instead? That'll be an improvement for the victims at the very least. The same goes for loneliness, I'd rather people talk to robots than to not communicate at all when they have a desire to interact with others but no means to.
The problem with vr is it is extremely good for cyberpunk raves but very so so at everything else