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> It was purely decorative, but ugly decoration that only appealed to other brutalist architects, meant to trick people into thinking it was some "raw" construction element sticking out.

That's really funny, because I've seen websites that tries to appeal to "hacker"/"minimalist" aesthetics doing the same thing.

An example: the file-hosting service https://0x0.st. When you try to visit a link to a non-existing file, it will crash with a trace message that exposes the offending code block from fhost.c.

Wow, so RAW and BRUTAL. It's even written in C, so hacker-ish! Until you find out that the error message is fake: https://git.0x0.st/mia/0x0/src/branch/master/templates/404.h...

The server is actually written in Python and it generates a randomized, fake C-looking trace message for its 404 page.
Maybe a naive question, but could that help explain why your sense of smell adjusts? If there is a finite number of receptors and they require excitation to trigger the sense of smell, it stands to reason that saturation would dull the sense of smell.
The paper says it makes a connection between human experimentation and foreign policy but I don't really see it. Scientists were interested in how these chemicals or biological agents worked and I don't think it would have made a difference to them whether they worked for the military, or a civilian health agency, or a corporation. Similarly for nuclear materials post WW2 the thinking at the time was that nuclear energy was going to become widespread and so there was plenty of reason to study the effect of nuclear material on the human body without taking into consideration anything foreign policy related.
>Instead of aiming for the same target as other musicians—trying to out-sing or out-play them—Springsteen instead doubled down on the quality that made him unique: His ability to write song lyrics.

No, the ability to write song lyrics does not make Bruce Springsteen unique. He didn't exploit some weird angle that no other performer had considered. And it's worth noting his breakout hit, "Born in the USA" was popular because few people actually listened to the lyrics. It sounds like a patriotic song until you actually listen to what he says.
So kinda like a "Suckless" Web Design Guide
The previous thread about this incident was incredibly frustrating to read, with many more or less openly saying that Mullvad was lying or somehow secretly cooperating with authorities in order to keep their hardware. Hopefully this post can convince these people that what happened isn’t as incredible and unrealistic as they seem to assume.
This. Proper investigative journalism is the only kind of reporting you can't just replace with an LLM/AI, and your only differentiator in an internet filled with copy and paste stories.

Any outlet that neglects it for the usual opinion pieces and soft news coverage is competing with every clickbait content farm out there, without the low operating costs to make it worth it.
Ford did similar things... "The Ford Motor Company's interest in employee loyalty went far beyond the shop floor workers. Ford owned a great deal of land near Detroit and established a land development subsidiary explicitly for the purpose of erecting middle-class housing for managers and supervisors. These homes in Dearborn were completed in 1919."
It's fun but not necessarily accurate.

Scary part is I don't know enough about the subject to tell apart truth from falshood because they are stated in exactly the same confident manner. Also most things are true with falsehoods sprinkled in between
Absolutely, a minor change to Julia base broke the CSV package for weeks. But that's like 1 of hundreds of examples. I don't think non package developers realize how much effort package maintainers and drive-by contributors do to keep that language alive.
Any API for this yet ?
I'm going with "washed out by snot"
Why the downvotes? Shouldn’t those committing armed robbery and property theft be punished?
Well, to accomplish something like that, they'd have to have hundreds of (past, present, and future) employees, dotted over dozens of institutions (media, regulatory and political).

They'd need the tacit permission of the other industries their owners are invested in.

And, they'd need tremendous amounts of capital. Plus a history of grand collusion and unethical behavior. And leverage against anyone that might call them out.

So... I've got nothing. I will say that failing to investigate this possibility seems naive; as would expecting a genuine investigation.
go read "The Creature From Jekyll Island" -- great book with lots of information about how we got where we are with American "banking"
Greens might have been fighting coal, but were fighting harder against nuclear, which in the end led to the proliferation of coal.

> You often try to see the debate being steered towards being about coal versus nuclear while the reality is nuclear + fossil fuels versus renewables

Just the opposite! One often sees the debate steered towards nuclear + fossil fuels vs renewables (just like you did here!), while the reality is coal vs nuclear.
This thread grew out of someone claiming blocking entire countries is a good anti-spam technique because they just "know" those people have nothing to say to their users. This is bigotry pure and simple, no need to go any further, they hold strong opinions that can't be objectively verified about large parts of the human population based on national origin.

As someone who was on the receiving end of the "Romanian users have nothing to say to my users and postmastars there can't even RFC" blackholes, trying to get legitimate email delivered while respecting all the rules of the internet, I can only say that whomever thinks like that is an idiot and a bigot. Unfortunately, there are many such idiots on the internet at large, and the aggregate effect is that only large sites like Gmail can maintain good deliverability, which was the subject all along.
And even then with CRUD apps isn't main work to define what you CRUD. And what is the involved rules. The writing is mostly busy work that should actually be standardized already.

For average episodic TV show, yeah. Just pull things from hat and fill the holes, later that could be done by pretty cheap writers already.
I think in this case they're probably right - it's not merely user posted content but they're actively building a list of recommendations so instead of stumbling upon such content they're pushing for viewers which IMO changes their (YouTube's) responsibility, a curator if you will.
In the exact example you provide I agree that “bananas for scale” can make sense, but I still claim that it scales very badly when talking about larger amounts of radiation.
Ah, I mentioned in another comment that we had a woodpecker do this at our house, a log home but it went after the metal gutters. That explanation makes a lot of sense.
That’s hardly effective and those cars belong to other citizens, who would just then hate you and never support your ‘cause’. Tantrums don’t get rewarded.
Which is the same as what humans do? How would you tell anybody what you are „actually“ thinking? People are not very good at understanding their own motivations, thought processes, ulterior motives and on top of that we routinely fabricate or alter our own memories. We compensate for that by building social systems to collectively error collect, plan and model the world. That’s what AI will probably end up doing as well.
I put together the Heathkit HW-101 SSB/CW ham radio transceiver in the summer of 1977. It was one of the happiest times of my life. Now that I think about it, that probably explains a lot about me.
It is a direct reference to Jef Raskin's work, which he called the Humane Interface.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface

He is namechecked right there in the story as a pointer. You're on the WWW. If you don't recognise the name, the idea is that you Google it and find out. That's how this stuff works. It's not 1993; you don't need to try to guess what they meant...
So you think the liberalism in sf is helping these people and we need more of it? Or do you think the liberalism in sf we have now is not the right variant?
I think somewhere down the rabbit hole we lost perspective of what neural nets are doing and how we got to the post-GPT world. Remember deep neural-networks? The idea is that each layer _deeper_ the software encodes more _hidden_ relationships from the training data. That's where this "magic" is embedded. At certain depths the neural-net stores relationships that go beyond our human reasoning and conscious understanding, and the software results generated from these depths are unsettling and tend to startle us. Interesting enough, these are things we are perfectly capable of doing but unable to actually query in our heads as we, just like ChatGPT, do not posses the ability to physically examine our own neural-net content.
It's an incredibly basic algorithm. What do you expect? A soul?

The fact that these incredibly stupid machines are beginning to even show signs of human-like ability is IMO reason for concern. These things are comparable to the first steam engines or the first combustion engines, maybe even worse.
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Are there really software jobs where managers are the ones making decisions like whether or not to use ORMs? Some of these comments make me feel like I've had a truly blessed career.
Ford is not the only one, there are many examples (google the wiki page for company town for a basic example list). Almost all failed eventually due to changing economic instances or company malice and the end result is either incorporation into an existing town (the good outcome) or decline and eventual devastation. Wile less evident than the real town examples, we have here lots of smaller end 19th, early 20th century "communities" which have the same result. There is a name for the type of houses: Arbeiderswoningen (laborer housing). Eventually the government took over over from private or corporate initiatives and a rent system was created which was far less tied to the actual place of employment.
It's an API for a specific hypermedia client, i.e, a web browser. It's not obvious that it's the best hypermedia API for a different client, for example, a JavaScript application that happens to be running in a web browser.
More than half the community feels that way the other half are either sycophants or don't care. It's not like it's one person either, it's the language maintainers general attitude. It's been called out in the past but it sure hasn't changed because there's a product to sell.
Hint: providing an obviously false and/or one-sided narrative isn't a great way to dampen down conspiracy theories, rather quite the opposite.
> This is just going to make the banking system more concentrated

More concentrated.

More highly regulated.

Closer to being absorbed by the state.

I'm not saying that's necessarily going to happen someday. But that is the direction it is (and has been) moving.
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I wasn't talking about TV ads, I was talking about YouTube ads. And I understand that the creators only.get paid if the ads play. My question was whether the poster believed that there was also a moral obligation to stay in the room and watch the ads, and where that chain of obligation ends.

But thanks for answering, you made it clear that you believe putting eyeballs on the ads that play is the only moral path, which is what I was asking.

Do you also believe that if you REALLY like the content you also purchase one of the advertised items? Because again, if no one acts on the ads then the advertising will eventually stop.
There's a difference between "I can afford it", "I must haggle" and just outright trying to rip you off.

The example I often quote was me, a blonde European, in Cuba, just walking down the street. Someone with a rikshaw stopping next to me and going like "City tour! 20$" or something without me making eye contact or anything, just out of the blue. I shake my head, "15$!" and when I turn away because the person apparently doesn't want to accept any no, it's "10$!" - so apparently the actual tourist price would have been 10 but the opened with 20, without me even showing interest. [ofc it wasn't $ but you get the gist of the numbers]
While I agree, yes, you should opt to use physical buttons when possible, I'm not going to disparage solutions to any issues.

But also, to your suggested solution, having a button need to be interacted with in VR and a physical button is error prone and annoying. I know I use a button like that daily. I would rather just reach over and stab most of these buttons.
> Which is also the base for nazifascism.

Indeed. The propagation of neo-Nazi ideology in the modern context depends on such ignorance.

Ignorance and naivete are key ingredients in the modern neo-Nazi recipe.

Shine the light of truth, they scurry. Give them a fortress protected by National Security Letters - they thrive.
I've found that LLMs give good results for really basic stuff, and are increasingly fantastical as you head towards the tail of the distribution.

If you just need the beginner's gist or are completely unfamiliar with something, they're not bad. Getting specific answers to corner cases is often a waste of time.
> Would you care if I told you I held a world record in the 98m sprint? .. unless you are lucky enough to have a weirdness that resonates with people, you are just an outcast.

Maybe living an enjoyable life isn't about making a name for yourself. The point isn't to do something that other people find interesting. Its to do something you find interesting.

One of my old friends from grade school is an international coffee judge. Every year he goes to some big coffee event where he meets a lot of the growers of coffee from all over the world. He drinks a lot of coffee, judges which beans are the best that year and places a bunch of orders on behalf of multinational coffee companies for coffee beans from farmers. Do I care about coffee? No. Is he famous? No. But he seems to be having a great time. He's not an outcast. The opposite - he's found his people.

I'm kind of the same. I've been working on collaborative editing systems for the last decade. Why? I don't really know. They're just full of nice puzzles that are fun to solve. I've written some systems in my niche which have been world firsts. And some hold world records for performance. I don't do it because you - or anyone else cares. I do it because I care. Because I enjoy this kind of work. There's maybe about 50 people in the world who work on this stuff. Thats more than enough community for me.

Maybe we are all oddballs. Ok by me. The alternative sounds boring.
> The Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science (AMCS)

I feel like the real news would be if The Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science said that we shouldn't study consciousness.
Also closer to absorbing the state.

I'm not a tin foil hat person, but corporations growing larger than nation states just doesn't seem remotely far fetched. Which corporation will be first to sit at the UN table?
Honestly, give me the company town, the job for life, the fat pension, the regular promotions, the company schools, the company scholarships to send your kids to university and I will live next door to whoever you want.
> No idea if that is still a thing nowadays.

Yes very much so. Not just trains, buses, ships and so on.
I am talking about not watching YouTube ads. Not comparing TV to YouTubre. As I asked another poster, is there also an obligation to buy the advertised product? After all, if no one acts on the ads the advertising will eventually stop.
If "chaining some simple API calls" is "a large part of your work", I can see it being incredibly useful. I already used it in this way a few times and it saved me some time indeed. However, as a software developer I feel like it's actually a tiny minority of my work; most of it is "doing some thinking" and slowly unfolding the inner parts of systems in order to understand how they work and how to fix them or make them do what I want, for which GPT is at best useful as a rubber duck to speak to.
Remember circa 2008 how "leader" after "leader" said that eight big banks was too few and that seven was a step in the wrong direction?

Remember that? Apparently, no one remembers. Or it was simply more political / leadership theatre of tell the proles one thing while doing the opposite. Perhaps both.

People complain about "the democracy" and they often falsely name names. It easy to blame a symptom when you don't understand the problem. And yet those same people are silent about the banks, power, cronie capitalism, etc.

Many are in denial. Others are able to control the narrative. In either case you can't solve root problems when you're not even willing to address them.
A different UI for ChatGPT programming conversations [prototype]
> modules are worst

I think the opposite, modules are vastly superior to typeclasses in regards to, well, modularity.

> In Haskell, the type class database is global and there is no duplication.

That's not a bug, but a feature of module system.

> This lets you naturally compose implementations: for example, you can make it so that if a type A implements the equality type class Eq, and a type B also implements Eq, then the tuple (A, B) implements Eq in the obvious way.

Unless you want a totally different ordering for A, which happens a lot in programming and even in math, where you can define many groups for the same set.

https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/modules-mat...
All those regulations which make drug development so slow and expensive and makes training a doctor so slow and expensive are there exactly against that kind of stuff.

These things are quite rare in the "medical establishment". The moment you step outside of the "medical establishment" you start observing what actually happens when there is no establishment. Scams and all kind of dangerous products lurk in the grey area of unregulated. They promise to make you strong, thin person with erection made of stone and cure your cancer and mental illnesses. Prime spam consumers too.

I'm really not on board with this rhetoric of the evil big Pharma enslaved the population together with the government. Every now and then some conspiracy theory comes to be right but those nuts tell hundreds of BS, with no logical cohesion whatsoever. Even when they are right they are never right for the right reasons.

Those who seek to bring down the establishment need first to be on the cutting edge of the establishment, spraying claims is not the same as the understanding the status quo and disagree with it.

In other words, those who are about to expose the chemtrail program will need to have to have solid understanding of chemistry, avionics and government structure. If a study comes out saying that the exhaust of planes have psychedelic effect, I still won't be concluding that the conspiracy theorist were right.
Well, I think we've discovered banking is a "public utility" -- things which are too big to fail.
Some ideas:

* You can select a board with not fully supported peripheral Examples RISC-V or Loongson boards with incomplete or missing drivers.

* or create a higher abstractions over the SPI for a A/D or D/A or pwm chip. The module offers a /dev/ file that hides the SPI communication or the motor position and encoding...
I have the opposite feeling on RDBMS, based on my limited experience. I think you need a good reason to deviate from it, which is often very large scale. I'd say 99% of applications written are no where near this scale.
I think you are missing the point. The question of house pricing comes mainly from too many people not able to afford proper living condition, despite the better opportunities.

Of course will a house in the middle of nowhere cheaper than those in better environments. But what worth has the better environment, when most people can't utilize it? At the end, this situation will lead to multiple other problems, like people avoiding overpriced areas, and instead travelling long distances to their workplace in those overpriced areas, which means they waste energy and pollute the environment, have less time for their family & socializing, and so on...

So it doesn't matter for what reason a city might exists or not. The question is which burden it puts on society and to which future it leads.
I think your attitude exemplifies the difference in values that was brought to the surface during covid. When you embrace extremist claims that "the bases of civilization [were] at risk" you can justify anything. There is no moral line you would not cross if the alternative is the very collapse of civilization itself.

This kind of thinking is not healthy and not compatible with the kind of free society we should strive towards.
As much as I am a big endian fanboy by nurture, the important thing is that the order is documented.

Also, I don't know if this is apocryphal, but as a wee lad I was told the tale that network routers worked faster because they could do coarse addressing faster thanks to seeing IPv4 addresses in big-endian, when the bytes trickled in one-by-one.
America needs a leader who can inspire people to work with each other even when they don't agree on everything. I am quite sure you can build a significant coalition around financial issues, maybe even bigger than a super majority. But somehow people are not willing to work with each other unless they pass each other's purity tests. Thus, nothing changes and the status quo wins every time.
> "Born in the USA" was popular because few people actually listened to the lyrics. It sounds like a patriotic song until you actually listen to the lyrics.

That actually is a neat trick. Make a catchy tune that sounds like it says what dumb people like, but have a subtleties in the text, which dumb people won't notice, that turn the things around and let smart people like it for subversiveness.

Then you capture all of the audience. Provided that the tune is really catchy.
Occupy Wall Street was the beginning of that but the media and their allies in the government decided to push for a race war in the 2012 election. It’s not a coincidence the oppression Olympics were turned up to 11 at that time.

That’s not to say that there aren’t issues with race in America but they pale in comparison to the socioeconomic ones. A nation obsessed over race and culture has little time to confront other issues.
Cool to see them featured! Those where developed in our lab (disclosure: I am the lab lead, below the Prof, but only tangentially involved in this research) mostly by one of my colleagues, who is just finishing his PhD. I can tell you that it was quite a journey to get this thing out.

See the website which links the research paper for more info: https://open-earable.teco.edu/

Cool thing is e.g. the sensing of the in ear canal pressure, what you can use for cool interactions:

https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000133751