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Brilliant and lovely, well done.

I think the applicability of techniques go both ways. Similar to what Sarah's dad said, I see research in ML now which rehashes expertise from many decades ago. Conversely, I see the demoscene implementing ideas on old hardware that, as you said, it would have been amazing if the technique was known at the time, but it simply wasn't conceivable then. It's only with advances in tech and lowering of technical barriers that new ideas are explored.

In any case, it's compelling to see people's expertise applied wherever.
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This is exactly what I was concerned about in my comment yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35641876

They may well be able to justify the lack of diverter/deluge from an engineering prototype perspective, I'm all for moving quickly. But the lack of foresight of what a massive dust cloud does politically is going to cause so many issues going forward.
My house alone makes 12-14kWh of electricity a day. Do that to some land near an airport and it will be almost free.
It's particular ironic in China, where >50% of their domestic energy production is apparently from coal. That being said, it could improve metro air quality a large degree because I'm guessing coal power plants aren't built in downtown Beijing.
And yet we claim to live in a science based society.

I mean, there are a million things, that do not need universal standards, but standards are imposed anyway.

But where one standard would be really helpful, like scientific values, we have many. And some people would rather go to prison, than adopt. (I think that happened in the UK, after they force switched to metric)
https://defold.com/
This gets thrown out quite a bit but I don't really buy it. If it is not designed for alcohol, it probably isn't going to work. Alcohol has too many weird interactions with stuff like aluminum.
Nothing. The ease with which Flash allowed one to create all these web experiences, with little to no programming, is still unmatched to this day.
Except in none of your examples does the government handout money.
*nix applications also can alter thier output based on where it's going, e.g. to a pipe or to a file.
They could, but there are also many people that just prefer native applications. I'll take Inkscape on Linux or Affinity Designer on macOS any day over a web application. They have native widgets, standard shortcuts, I can easily script them with Automator or Shortcuts, they work with the native OS accessibility options, can have integration (like drawing with Apple Pencil on an iPad on a Mac), they are more performant (can directly use native Vulkan/Metal APIs), are generally more privacy-friendly, don't consume huge amounts of memory/CPU, etc.

There is a place/market for both.
I suspect that some places—e.g., with expansive bureaucracies and lacking motivation to reform & automate—could see LLMs fit in certain low-responsibility roles quite naturally. Bureaucratic resistance to revamping a process to get rid of %role% might be higher than resistance to putting an LLM in that %role% while maintaining the same process otherwise.

That said, no civil service should use OpenAI’s commercial products out of privacy and ethical concerns if nothing else.
To me it's scary how all of these things progress. Looking at where we are I think I can imagine now how totalitarian regimes were born and how they came into power. It starts with virtuous ideas and is followed with more and more restrictions what can be criticized. Eventually any criticism is act of courage. Majority of the people stop expressing their perspective. They disconnect and become silent.

The force behind (regardless whether it is organized or not) will always have ridiculous excuses. They even will tell you it's all based on science. But when you look closer it's not science but some shitty subjective report from Gartner without available data etc.

They will advocate they're introducing fearless culture, but instead it becomes fearful. They will advocate they're introducing inclusive culture, but it becomes exclusive. They will advocate they're introducing equality of opportunities, but it becomes equality of outcome.

After seeing all of this for several years I now have strong opinion that whenever somebody wants to make world more fair it almost always lead to less fair one.
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Hmm. On my current system I have 32 packages installed that depend on libgtk2.0-0; 217 packages that depend on libgtk-3-0 and 62 that depend on libgtk-4-1.

Will I sound like too much of a grumpy user if I express dismay at yet another protracted migration?
Airlines spend about 1/4 of their expenses of fuel alone. If they can reduce that, it will go a long way.
Here's the actual SWF, in case anyone else wants to watch it in actual Flash instead of emulated flash, for the symbolism of it.

https://uploads.ungrounded.net/881000/881533_bc81682038934.s...
There's at least one OSS app that can pair/read them but I don't remember what it's called.

ED I think it was xdrip https://xdrip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
This site is extraordinary...
Not great, even uh, sub-prime jobs are just ghosting.

I blame the recruiters. I think a lot of them were let go in the first wave of layoffs. Good riddance IMHO, they seem to have turned the whole get a job thing into a 'Got Talent' contest or worse. Hopefully someone will devise a fitting process for hiring recruiters, and they can taste their own medicine.

On a side note this whole ghost culture just makes me want to smack someone. I tried installing xcode on an older macbook running Monterey today. The installer at least pops up 'requires mac os Ventura', but of course with no option to install an older version of Xcode. So I then go to upgrade to Ventura, and it's simply not an option, anywhere. Googling, the macbook is too old. I mean just say so, instead of leading me on a merry dance to google the fact, and then try to find an old xcode version that will work etc, etc. And Xcode itself, when I go to apple, and click Xcode downloads it gives me page with 'No OS found' or something.
Good job google, now do search.
You can visualise many FSMs automatically - see this project of mine for an example: https://github.com/jbreckmckye/robot3-viz
That’s not the point they were trying to make. The point (as I saw it) was that cars have relied on computing for quite a while. Aside from the infotainment/nav systems, cars have required on board computers for decades. And I think many of those chips are general purpose chips with specialized firmware. So, it’s been fair to think of them as computers (or rather a network of computers) for quite a while.
QML is a good fit for fullscreen touch interfaces or video displays. Also simple game - complex ones are probably better off not using Qt at all.

QWidget is the "old" desktop UI toolkit that is good for desktop UIs.
IIRC Arsdigita took on VC money, forced out the original management, decided to rewrite ACS in the language du jour (Java), which as a side effect pretty much ended Arsdigita involvement in OpenACS.

AOLserver and OpenACS both being stranded on their own little tech island, it's not surprising the rest of the world eventually caught up and surpassed them.

My own career took a different path, so I haven't kept up with the fortunes of OpenACS. Impressive it's still being developed.
Well I've tried asking for lists of words that satisfy certain simple constraints, like a theme and a given number of syllables.
Almost no word satisfied the constraint, despite my many tries.
So if you can have a conversation that goes "give me a list of 3 syllables word", you get a list and then you ask for each word "how many syllables is that word?" and get answers like 2, 4, 5, sometimes 3. You can ask the question again and still get the same words with wrong numbers of syllables. Despite a very obvious logical implication of facts here.

This sounds quite similar to Bing famously explaining to a user that 2022 is in the future while we are in 2023.

It's something you would expect maybe a child to do (it reminds of "Patrick Star's Wallet" meme), but to me that clearly fails the notion of intelligence in a very fundamental way. What would be the counter-argument?
How would you deal with spare parts, then? If every spare part you swap on your car is able to check and sign messages, then this defeats the purpose. If every spare part needed to be programmed with the private keys, this significantly increases the cost of maintenance and prohibits non-dealers from making such changes. Besides, are the private keys really private when dealers can access them?

ECUs are already tightly paired with immobilizers and dashboards, so they already need to be swapped together. Let's not do this with other parts which frequently break such as lights, locks and windows, please.
But are those migrations actually happening? I still see many GNOME packages still depend on libgtk-3-0!
It depends on what the goal is. If the goal is to make human-like AI, then that's a valid criticism. But if we want AI to be a useful tool, then bullshit isn't helpful.

Why hold AIs to the same standards as humans. We already have humans, and can't really change them. Let's apply standards to AIs that make them useful tools.
Considering how sluggish web applications are, please no.

If you really want to, you can run Inkscape in the browser the same way Figma runs in the browser: compile it to WASM.
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On one hand people are in awe at this, on the other they complain how bloated browsers are and how much functionality is crammed in them and how they wish for a simple "document only web".

Pick one.
> massive tax on poor people (ICE bans)

Don't blame EV and or the environment for this. Car culture in the US created unsustainable cities and destroyed public transportation.

Car ownership itself has always been a regressive tax.
Minor pet peeve:

Energy density is energy per volume (in GJ/m^3, for example, or Wh/litre, or whatever).

-> "X density" = X per volume

What's discussed here is specific energy, ie energy per mass (in Wh/kg, or whatever).

-> "specific X" = X per mass

The latter is particularly relevant for aviation, needless to say.
You can also check out the company blog, which my team contributes to.

Guidepointsecurity.com/blog
They could just as easily show ads in answers, the advertisers wouldn’t care. In fact, I can see how a major advertiser would rather prefer that an ad is shown in Google’s own trusted UI rather than on some random website next to who knows what sort of content (that motivation is behind YouTube’s “demonetization”).
More like the entire car is the rack. Console in the middle, TOR switch up top, controllable indicators in left and right, storage services down below…
"At the one-time expense of having to learn to recognize letters and words both ways"

That is a very expensive expense, though. And the result might still be worse.

I can quickread a page in a couple of seconds, because my brain memorized the shape of the words and even sentences. It took me years of lots of reading to achieve that.
I am not sure if my brain could handle the double amount of shapes, because this is in effect what would be needed.
And eye movement is very quick. But feel free to give the experiment a shot and share results.

(it should be trivial to write a script that rearranges text that way)
> It's a fascinating technique that I think has no true analog in western music.

Closest thing I could think of would be pieces like Piano Phase by Steve Reich.
It's still a problem today even if you have trained yourself to not notice it.
Wow, so brave, such useful. So it's a phone fixed in spot (in a shirt pocket etc.), with a terrible monochrome display with a very low resolution fixed in a space and requiring to hold your hand awkwardly extended in front without option to rest it, and operated via voice commands which nobody ever uses outside of some enthusiasts and people who bought a spyware from Amazon or Apple for the fist few days. I can already see gigantic unfulfilled market for this innovation. 10 billion size at minimum, for sure. Just dear VC investor, pwease gib money!
Any way to run this kind of thing outside the browser? Chrome hasn't enabled WebGPU on Linux yet.
Flash literally changed my life. I wouldn't be who I am without it. I owe everything to it.

Without Flash, I wouldn't have most of my friends who I met via the VKontakte app developer community. My career would have been vastly different because I was later hired to that same VKontakte thanks to my previous participation in Flash app developer contests. I got quite a bit of my programming skills from ActionScript as well. Flash decompilers taught me reverse engineering.

I sincerely hope that at some point in the future Flash will see a resurgence. Ruffle in particular brings that moment closer. There is still no good open-source Flash authoring software though. I may try to fix that myself when I'm done with the rest of my project ideas.
How the hell a Chevy Cruze gets 31mpg with a diesel??? A VW Passat TDI will easily get 60+ imperial MPG, I've had it get close to 70 on long runs(that's 50 and 58 American MPG respectively).

Are American diesels this inefficient?? Looking at pictures online the Chevy cruze doesn't seem like a bigger/heavier car than a Passat, so what gives??
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This reasoning unfortunately just invites the same sort of silly American exceptionalism that we see everywhere else.
> 13.2 km/l

For diesel, this is really really bad. Most gasoline cars will run more economic than this, let alone diesel.
If your diesel runs less then 17 to 18 km/l something is wrong.

(my opinion is based on how things are in .nl, other parts of the world can and will be different of course)
Adobe Animate.
Null Island is one of the most visited places on Earth, and it doesn’t exist
Figma works pretty well to be honest.
It's a good start. One might populate a lot more database from Wikipedia. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brawndo&redirect=...
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I haven't made hard apple cider that way, but I have made apple cider vinegar that way -- press the apples and put the juice in a jar covered in cheesecloth, to let the oxygen in, and wait a month. The wild yeast converts sugar to alcohol, and the wild acetobacter converts alcohol to vinegar. For alcohol, everything else is either about improving the flavor, or reducing the risk of infection.

Personally I wouldn't risk the DEA either; but a lot of people would -- particularly if it seemed like "everyone else" was doing it too.
No, they segment between _vehicles_ using AP vs not (still Tesla), not segmenting by miles. https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
1200wh/kg is when it will get really interesting to me. Half the weight and double the range would be great. Plus, electrified ultralight "aircraft" start to have numerous advantages over the traditional 2 stoke engines.
Nice, this annoys me quite often.
Of Rockets, Shuttles and Planes (Star Raker Project)
You might be interested in this youtube channel:

Rishabh Bhowmick https://www.youtube.com/@RishabhB/videos

"How to Listen to Indian Classical Music" is a common subject discussed on that channel
Modern software embedding an entire web browser is absolutely & undeniably a problem.
Sure, desktop CRUD apps have been obsolete for 25 years, but I meant a desktop application in tk. Also, an example application like Northwinds, not a framework.

Not exactly what I’m thinking either, but look at how concise pgaccess (for postgresql) was.
You can just hop into any diesel Golf/Passat and you'll get 50+ mpg without even trying. No need for third parties.
Though that makes me think that hybrids have a real future. Or hydrogen fuel cells.

Anything that doesn't require charging directly from the grid all the time, because although parts of the USA and Norway are ready for that, it's very tricky to get right globally.

Maybe hybrids like the Prius get to be so efficient that such cars will have a truly negligible impact on global warming.
Tawal acquires European tower assets from United Group
TAWAL, a leading Saudi Arabian tower company and a subsidiary of Saudi Telecom Company (stc), has announced a landmark deal to acquire tower infrastructure worth 1.22 billion euros ($1.34 billion) from United Group, a leading provider of telecoms and media services in South East Europe.

The deal, which is subject to regulatory approvals, will see TAWAL acquire more than 6,000 towers across six countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and North Macedonia. The transaction will also include a long-term partnership agreement between TAWAL and United Group to provide tower services to United Group's operating companies in these markets.
Gregory Casamento needs to build a GNUStep PPA for Ubuntu based distros, it would work great on libre derivatives such as Trisquel. Parabola has badly maintained repos for it, lacking even Gorm and ProjectCenter.

We need a DE for legacy devices as XFCE's development is not a sure thing with further GTK+ releases tied to Gnome and Red Hat.
> And our property tax can be staggering in high-cost areas, and is obviously passed on even to renters. Mine is in the neighborhood of $8,500 a year.

The high band of property tax is €300/yr and I've never heard it passed on to renters here.

> Also does Ireland have a "standard deduction"? This is just an amount that everybody gets to subtract before even using the brackets to compute, so our brackets don't really start taxing at dollar #1 like they appear to.

Yes, there's a minimum standard deduction of €3550 (€1775 for single person, plus €1775 for being an employee), that is effectively deducted from the tax bill at the final step, and others may replace these with larger amounts for different categories of workers, life circumstances on top of that.
Suppose you've already done it before and know how to do it, I bet you wouldn't need help
Have you ever tried negotiating with someone stealing your wallet at gunpoint?
Yes. The US has decent cars, but terrible SUVs/trucks, because the SUVs and trucks have more lenient emissions regulations.
As a VAG diesel owner, they don’t get close to the marketing figures. Knock 15-20% off for all practical driving.
The best corruption ALWAYS involves the giving the government money, not taking it. All the greatest empires are built on paying $1 for a billion $ of value.
It's been well over a decade-- so no contact now. I did talk about it enough that I was pretty convinced that they thought they were innocent of the charges. It's can be much harder to understand someone's position when you're not under the pressures yourself, I surely didn't at the time though I was aware but being aware doesn't mean getting it.

I think at the time I perceived him as being kind of glib about it, bragging that they didn't give the person a worse conviction. In hindsight, he may have been feeling bad and looking for validation or an escape from his doubts. But I couldn't be too helpful then because I didn't get it. Maybe I get it a little more now, or at least I'm less prone to think that individuals doing the "right" thing (though they should!) is a meaningful fix for systemic problems. ... and a lot less enamored with the idea that anyone should be rushing into making trouble for themselves out of some principle.

That jurors take their role seriously and make their best effort as they understand it is all we can fairly ask of anyone.

Thank you for stepping up to mention your experience and for your service. Had you not been in seat it would have been someone else, perhaps someone who'd suffer the same regrets you've suffered (so you spared them), or someone who would have taken it less seriously and suffered no lingering regrets (unfair to accused, their victims, and the public-- regardless of the outcome).
Whoa so… 100kwh is 40mg! 3grains of sand to run a Tesla

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=100kwh%2F%282.5+gwh%2Fk...
Usually line noise like that is quickly followed by a "Remote disconnected..." message and I have to dial in again.
Honda has had two systems, the earlier “IMA” system which is a mild parallel hybrid. And the current “E-drive” system which is primarily a series hybrid. Series hybrids are actually pretty old tech — it’s how diesel locomotives works. The Chevy Volt also works just about the same way.
I love how this makes the usage of screen real-estate very efficient. You can some entire articles without having to scroll the page. I also love how landscape images fit neatly in this configuration.

It is very tempting to try to make a website that uses this configuration for english text.

Also, even though it is the very first time I see this script, I can tell that the website is very well done (well, it's the website of the president of the country, but still).
Weirdly I am now seeing it again. I don't know what happened :-S
True, understanding failure is a Darwinion project-management learning process.

Experience tells one when it is time for a change.

It has also been my experience, no amount of compensation/background can make someone care about a project. =)
"Arguably they fell apart because they picked up so many scripts and cultural and religious influences the different types of Mongols could no longer communicate or tolerate one another. "

Interesting thought and it certainly had influence, but I would argue that the trope that one strong ruler conquers a big kingdom, but it doesn't stay united, because his heirs cannot settle on the next great king, is a quite common and often repeated one.
I am not sure what is harder: learn separate characters for words or learn the correct spelling for words? Especially with English where there is a big gap between spelling and pronouciation, learning the correct spelling for words takes a lot of memorization effort.

The fact that many adult cannot spell 100% correctly, proves that spelling is difficult.

Writing a language is always harder than reading. Many people rely on muscle memory when writing words. It might be that this works better for writing chinese characters than for words, which is more likely to fail when words contain multiple instances of characters.

It might also be the case that the number of strokes needed to write an average characters is about the same as writing an average word.
I do a yearly subscription. An issue to watch out for asides billing is monitoring that your customers aren't leaving you, but you don't know about it.
That comparison holds up better if you imagine a world without knives or sharp objects of any kind. Now you can suddenly do tremendous harm by wielding a pointy stick. I don't think it's reaching to point out the dangers you just introduced.

With great power comes .... ? Profit?
Check PangZero of Frozen Bubble.