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PHP is amazing, yes the syntax is a little awkward.
I love working with it.

Especially with libraries/ framework that are 10+ years old Their documentation is extremely detailed.

So you have more confidence that you'll deliver a working product. Instead of reading github issues to fix an obscure error message.

Old does not always mean outdated.
Tobii's tech is used in Sony's PSVR2 for eye tracking and it works wonderfully with foveated rendering or to point at menu elements with your eyes
> But sure, Tesla batteries never catch fire.

Stop that. I did not say never. Gasoline cars explode too, I saw it in a blues brothers movie. Same as you, I've also seen a car fire in real life with the trucks and sirens and everything. Fires are a thing, the night is dark and full of terrors.

Sometimes civilian planes drop out of the sky or even get shot down. Even humans on occasion "spontaneously combust". I can link you news stories demonstrating such events, yet here you are in the day to day not paralyzed by fear of it happening to you. I assume.

> Also, socialists don't call each other "comrade."

Astute. I am not a socialist, amigo. Myself, I was actually thinking of good natured, how you say, Humor[*].

> Sure. Every singleton I see in the HOV lane really has a dog and two kids stuffed in the trunk. I just can't see them.

Never said that either. I said you can't fit that stuff into a little Fiat 500, it is not the same vehicle category. This isn't an opinion. It literally isn't.

> But you're crazy if you say it's cheaper than a $4k used ICE vehicle,

Never said that either!

> It's also crazy to say a $75k+ luxury car has a lower TCO than a $40k 2023 Camry.

Nor that.

Is this a reading comprehension issue or just a relentless insistence on throwing shade?

Once again: If you actually want to compare used ICE vehicles like a Camry to a Tesla, you'd compare to a comparable used Tesla model not a brand new $75,000+ one. Used Toyotas are extremely reliable and affordable, it is a great option! May very well be the best option depending on what is available in your location at a given moment.

A new model 3 can now be had for ~$39,900 vs a new Camry for ~$29,900. (https://www.tesla.com/model3/design#overview)

Most people don't buy new, you might not want/need to, that is a separate discussion. Depending how much you drive, as fuel is expensive, eventually you'll break even - maybe around 10 years / 100k miles, you can look it up and do the calculation yourself.

It may or may not be the right option for somebody but surely has nothing to do with the completely different category of $75,000+ cars.

* Worldly socialists are often unfamiliar with the concept. Ymmv.
I'm not sure what you mean by "on the side". All cores have equal access to the RAM, flash, and peripherals.

The 32 bit E907 is hart 0 and runs the initial boot code, but once it sets an initial execution address for the C906 (hart 1), turns on its clock, and resets it you can run code on just the C906, or on both, or whatever you want. Both cores have full access to everything.
Shouldn't you have mentioned this in your article? The way the article is written makes it sound like the MNT Reform is flawed in a way this clarifies it is not.
Abled is the correct term, yeah. Sometimes we call them pre-disabled if we're being cheeky or trying to make a point.
That's something I was genuinely wondering, how bad was the win10 task bar codebase because as i understand it the win11 is a completely new program so they have to keep reimplementing features they already had.
I find it weird that no one even spoke of understanding linguistic determinism and how using one or the other language influences how you think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_determinism

As someone who learned English as a second language, I very much experienced this.
> I also believe language is necessary for thinking.

I suspect that different people think verbally to different degrees. I mean, everyone uses words in their head to manipulate ideas, to some extent; but some people use pictures more than others, and some people are very abstract, and despite being super-bright, aren't very good at translating their ideas into clear language.
> If you're a monolingual American born English speaker and you learn Chinese and go live in China for a year, you're going to come back with a much different understanding of Chinese culture and its people.

Less obvious, and IMNHO more significant is that you'll come back with a new perspective on culture; and as a result a new perspective on your own culture (now having a point of comparison).
> Luxembourg come to mind as natural bi- or multilinguals.

Speaking from experience with Luxembourg, their school results (PISA) are average despite sky high teacher salaries and a ton of investment into education. Especially STEM results. The more languages Luxembourg adds the worse results become (Portuguese immigrants fare worse than locals).
If I am not mistaken, all Passkeys implementations allow keys to be synced between multiple devices. This means it is by definition possible for them to be stolen or leaked.

Webauthn keys are only secure against stealing & leaking if they are backed by a proper separate token like a Yubikey, but it seems the People That Be want us to get rid of those ASAP.
I try really hard to prompt it to replace it with something else. It acknowledges and agree to it. Did it maybe once or twice, then reverted back to the old “As a AI model”

IIRC, I was trying to see if it could replace by “as a LLM”.
Not sure what you're referring to. As I state in the article:

>Therefore, it is impossible to ever replace the HDMI blob used by this device. The device could be used without this blob, but you then forego use of the HDMI (or DisplayPort) functionality.

If you use the MNT Reform without the blob you can never use certain features of the device, namely the external HDMI port, so it's not as though the MNT Reform is without flaws. In any case the article is about the i.MX8M, not any specific device.
chatbot like chatGPT, which when I tried it just now, has been showing three blinking dots as a reply to a short question for some minutes now.
LAION, a high school teacher’s free image database, powers AI unicorns
Does anyone use Neeva? I have been for a few years, and pay for it. Loving it so far.

I was a heavy user of Google way back when, then moved to DDG for many, many years. Settling on Neeva.

However, I will check out Kagi now, maybe I will move again.
There are pre-paid credit cards you can buy in Safeway and such for a small premium. I'm not sure how to use them for paying online though (i.e. how to provide name/address/phone that match).
Ah, that's unfortunate, I've applied to get access to that a while ago but never heard back, while getting access to API GPT4 just took a day or something. Oh well, at least it does exist after all :)
Hey thanks, however the naming is intentional. I really dislike Google and I'm not afraid to be petty about that xd

I might change it last minute though and Herald would be a good choice tbh.
So I assume you do not consider, say, your Github or Google account to be high-value? Plenty of tech companies have simply started to refuse recovery if you lose all your 2FA keys.
I understood it but I would definitely want at least one physical SIM on my phone. It has served me well many times (and not limited to remote areas) when my phone is unusable and I can use my SIM on another phone with the lock PIN.
this is not an example of a "workflow they’re proposing"

(also, afaik https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai allows you to eliminate the animation completely)
It would be awesome to hear/see more about the system you built to auto-generate and submit evidence. This is a huge pain for many companies which an open source tool could solve.
Yes, both are very thin indeed, Mars has 6-10 millibars vs 1013 millibars at Earth sea level.
I am aware of that. I like to think that millenials/gen-z at least knew a little how to sift through the fake information, and the gullible people were the elders.
But now with such obscene amounts of fake info at every corner, I think the internet and all source of information (even printed! - because printed at least would require significant effort) will loose credibility. Science will be the last bastion, and even that can easily be influenced by money.
You seem to be answering your own questions :)

Of course, "abstraction lead[s] to less fine control" - at the the lowest (assembly) level, you can do almost anything - and make all the mistakes imaginable. Sometimes you want to genuinely maximise performance, or do things otherwise difficult - fine, use assembly and hit the hardware. But most of the time, software is made to be read, to be trouble free, to build on other's work, and to be written easily - that's when abstraction is valuable.
The licensing costs you list are tiny and irrelevant as a revenue stream, and seem just like something in the ballpark to cover the overhead (legal, etc) of that licensing and distribution. For a manufacturer making a million devices, a literal 1 cent per device is not a major change, and on Hollywood scale collecting a five-figure amount per manufacturer isn't meaningful either.
That was the 70's.
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But the original comment said Youtube can replace school.

> They can literally leave school and already be professionally competent. I think we’ll see them leapfrogging millennials on the career ladder because they had a youth where they could spend their entire time learning literally everything there is to know about their passion for free.
> And, then you get 30% more money for your business. It will be quite popular just for the cost savings.

You are speaking of licensing agreements to get access to the Apple SDKs, not to distribution. These are different things. Side loading on its own does not mean an end to contractual agreements to give Apple a revenue cut.
The Rust Foundation's bad draft trademark policy
I can't tell what this actually is. Is it like git with syncthing?
The transition from logins to cryptographic passkeys is getting messy
The Geomagnetic Storm Continues
> this is therefore like a regular old password

Well that's part of the problem, isn't it? It is being treated as if it is 2FA, but in practice it is barely more secure than a cloud-synced password.
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Only after it was dropped from an even higher altitude.
You could also do it with a rock.
It's discoverable at least and I can look past it given tiktok does a bunch of other stuff so much better than it's competitors.
What's a lot less forgivable is how undiscoverable your actual watch history is in case you do want to go back to that one vid.
Litterally have to search for * or the like.
World Bank actually incentivizes originating capital project loans (for infrastructure in developing countries and the like) in a similar fashion.
HDCP is broken so thoroughly that keys don't matter any more, and revoking them would break hardware on a scale that would put the F00F bug remediation cost to shame.
The text file example is pretty flawed. There are quite a few benefits to using databases over text files aside from being a place to store data. Structuring, availability, race conditions, etc. Including and using a NoSQL database is hardly the bottleneck in producing a production-level app/website/whatever.
> Mutexes are very cheap in the uncontended case

It was a while ago I was deep into this mess so forgive any ignorance–but–iirc the thread-mutex dogma[1] has many pitfalls despite being so widely used. Primarily they’re easy to misuse (deadlocks, holding a lock across a suspend point), and have unpredictable performance because they span so far into compiler, OS and CPU territory (instruction reordering, cache line invalidation, mode switches etc). Also on Arm it’s unclear if mutices are as cheap because of the relaxed memory order(?). Finally code with mutices are hard to test exhaustively, and are prone to heisenbugs.

Now, many if not most of the above apply to anything with atomics, so lock-free/wait-free won’t help either. There’s a reason why a lot of concurrency is ~phd level on the theoretical side, as well as deeply coupled with the gritty realities of hardware/compilers/os on the engineering side.

That said, I still think there’s room for a slightly expanded concurrency toolbox for mortals. For instance, a well implemented concurrent queue can be a significant improvement for many workflows, perhaps even with native OS support (io_uring style)?. Another exciting example is concurrency permutation test frameworks[2] for atomics that reorder operations in order to synthetically trigger rare logical race conditions. I’ve also personally had great experience with the Golang race detector. I hope we see some convergence on some of this stuff within a few years. Concurrency is still incredibly hard to get right.

[1]: I say this only because CS degrees has preached mutices to as the silver bullet for decades.

[2]: https://github.com/tokio-rs/loom
on 3, the convention could have just as easily gone a different way i.e. it could have converged to model "fitting" using the statistical parlance or the sklearn convention. Further if you take the math seriously most of these models are "just" fitting probability distributions to data.

Also, in part it depends greatly on the objective function used. In GPT style models the objective is to precisely copy from input to output, token by token. I think its extremely bad-faith to argue that this has any relationship to human learning or learning objectives.

you shouldn't take the math seriously and I'm not being dismissive with the word "just" in scare quotes. However the community somehow wants to have its cake an eat it too.
Yeah why would you pay them a huge fee if you then have to manually deal with fraud
> I do believe that over the last year words "disinformation" and "propaganda" lost 90% of meaning and turned into generic insults.

That’s because we are seeing a lot more disinformation and propaganda in the past year, it’s a major part of Russias strategy to destabilise the west.

Their website literally publishes anti western pro authoritarian propaganda.

But if you want to just believe anything the Russian and other authoritarian regimes say go head.

> Do you think this wiki article is written in a neutral manner?

Yes.
> Now, I'm in the Netherlands and need to learn another language, but this one is proving slow to learn.

I've heard people that speak many languages fluently claim that it gets easier after the fifth language - so keep at it.

One tip; try as much as possible to stick to switching only between your mother tongue and the new(est) language you're learning - or at least have as many full days as you can where you avoid switching to other foreign languages.

Until you become fluent in the new language (say about a year if living/working in the new language).
It allows for pseudonymous internet access on devices and does not tie you to any carrier for any length of time
Banks are starting to do that but it doesn’t cost 30%.
I switched to using a glue stick for mailing letters.
You explicitly mention the MNT Reform and the Librem 5, which use this chip. I agree that you never say that any given device can't work around this, but that is what I understood from the way this was presented. I was vaguely familiar with the MNT Reform and went looking for that converter chip because I thought they had a solution to this, which they do.

Perhaps if the last bullet point in the article said something about not being able to use HDMI or displayport without a converter chip, it would have been clearer to me.
Having watched the discussion here for the past couple of days, I agree with frozenwind's comment. I wrote my own reflection here (the last comment):

https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/a-misleading-open-letter-a...

Regarding impacts upon academia, I wrote two comments here:

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/04/12/guest-post-gp...

I'd also like to emphasize that it is not only about open source LLMs. I haven't followed the situation myself, but some sources say that LLMs are being developed also in the dark web, and who knows what kind of content the criminals there possess? (Borderline cases like NoiseGPT are already done openly.) Given the current geopolitical situation, the same goes for nation states. Fun times ahead indeed.
Because then someone else comes along and builds to the implementation and now that simple change becomes a mess of a refactor.

An interface isn't just a type construct, it communicates the intent of the systems design.
Rebranding or Not
Hey guys, I have recently launched a simple diary app and got a blog up with over 60 pages, over 500 downloads and around 50 active users, The app ist currently called memoiri, but I was thinking to rename it to something more search friendly, like dialy diary, or morning diary. What do you think? Should I rebrand in favor of Search optmization?
Well that’s fine, but it falls short of the original claim that YT can replace a college education.

> They can literally leave school and already be professionally competent. I think we’ll see them leapfrogging millennials on the career ladder because they had a youth where they could spend their entire time learning literally everything there is to know about their passion for free.

I think he’s right in theory, but in reality kids just watch what’s entertaining.
That would be a shallow argument. Manufacturing cars, at scale, is a very complex problem that even manufacturers that have jumped over the "moat" in getting a vehicle approved by regulators like Tesla struggle a lot with. Also, car safety and pollution regulations are extremely important given the prevalence of cars so it's not like it's useless regulations just for the sake of it.
Most of this advice applies to non-managers too. Even "staying on the critical path" is not entirely manager-specific. Line employees also sometimes stay on the critical path when they shouldn't.
A danish electronics store tried to generate translations using GPT: https://www.proshop.fi/?s=as+an+ai+model

"Sorry, as an AI language model, I cannot translate random letter and number combinations like "HD29HLVx" into Finnish or any other language."
You won't be able to afford a dog walker and three F150 pickups, but you won't need to.
This post suggest to main rules:
Rule 1: Never mix workloads
Rule 2: Apply guardrails

Applying those two rules help to decompose a monolith into smaller components to get the benefits of monolith and avoid the problem with microservices.
If you are a serious manager, you should be able to articulate your opinion regarding someone's performance in terms of qualifications, experience, role fit, hard skills, soft skills, specific situations, etc. It's not just an intuition, feeling or belief. It's management, not astrology.

If you have not met a person and "believe" they have bad performance, that's discrimination. If you make up or mischaracterize situations as a part of your evaluation, that's defamation.

Your employer has degrees of freedom with regards to setting up a path to you, sure. But that employer operates in a territory where there's legislation, which will often include defamation laws. Your employer cannot do whatever they want.
Question.

Why does this also affect Display Port? Is the document elsewhere stating that both are intertwined?

It is depressing how “intellectual property” damaged computing. Just imaging a critical bug needs fixed in 15 years and the key signing utility is not available because ${RANDOM_CORP} disappeared. Don’t say that couldn’t happen: Nokia, Sun, DEC, Apple (nearly bankrupt 1998), 3DFX, Aureal and so on. And this lists only the ones where the employees are no longer available. Other just cancel support. Broadcom - which I know avoid - doesn’t care anymore about their BLE 4.0 chips and the (security) issues.

Seeing how Netflix and others succeeded with a flatrate model - which is the actual solution - this is completely unnecessary. The authorities missed to create institutional ways for creators to collect money, just awkward unfair taxes on harddisks and VHS-Tapes. Which streaming did?
It wasn't really like that AIUI. Using a stack introduced hardware complexity while also serialising instruction processing (because you only work from the top of the stack, unlike a register set where you can access any part of it at any time) which caused the chip not to be the raging speed demon the designers thought it was going to be.

I'd very much like to understood what was going through the sparc designers minds when they did that. Looking back on it with my own current understanding of CPU designs and all that, they seem to have made some incredibly basic mistakes, including designing the hardware without talking to the compiler writers (a cockup the Alpha designers very definitely didn't make). It's all very odd.

Another mistake they made was apparently deciding to leave out instructions based on counting them in the code – if an instruction didn't appear very often they omitted it. Sounds reasonable but that meant they left out the multiply instruction initially, which might not have been so common in the code was actually executed quite often (e.g. in array lookups) and there were complaints about the new Sparc stations with their new superior chip, that they were slower than the 68000-based CPU that preceded it. Hardware multiply was later added.
I specified which section of your comment I objected to. You were welcome to ignore it or focus on it.

Brown just wasn't charismatic and he made some critical political timing errors. You can have one but you can't have both and he deserved to lose the election.

With the economy, however, he played a blinder and it's under-appreciated. The subsequent clowns have proven that. Brown's mistake was his desire to be PM.
Small taskbar still missing. It makes no sense having such a large taskbar (in terms of height).
Spotify both acquires new customers because of their iPhone app and directly _through_ their app via in-app purchases. That is the value that Apple intended to charge them for, and Spotify has continued to begrudgingly think that value is worth the headaches.
You are completely disregarding fairness of judgement based on noted output. Roger was called a parrot because it repeated things apparently without checking; humans are not necessarily parrots, as some do not do that and reflect as expected.
I suspect this is overblown. Clearly a Spaniard and a Swedish don't automatically start thinking like an Australian just because they are communicating in English.

What is more likely to happen is that when a Spaniard and a Swedish learn English they will over time be exposed to the culture of other English speakers. This will for the time being be dominated by American culture, but as English continues to be the lingua franca of the world, the balance will slowly shift and include more cultural elements from places with large populations like India.

Language barriers prevent the sharing of culture and being able to communicate with a wide array of people is something to celebrate.
>Nothing like that happened yet.

Feels like we're only one paper away now that the context window has absolutely ballooned.
I can’t tell what the use case is, or how it varies from git/git push.
> Videos of travel have a lot of value. I was stuck behind a desk for 4 years at my programming job. The last 7 months of travel has done so much for the rest of my entire human experience that I could never get from a textbook.

The last 7 months of real travel, or watching YouTube videos of travel? Feel like you’re making a big leap here.
I'm not sure about "most people", but I for one never stored 2FA tokens on the same device as my passwords. My password manager is only on my desktop/laptop, and my 2FA tokens only live on my smartphone/Yubikey.

Storing both on one device sounds like a pretty stupid thing to do. Sure, it's convenient, but you are putting a looooot of trust into the assumption that your single device will never be compromised.