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A favorite that I use very frequently is `esc .` (or maybe `alt+.`), which "up-arrows" through the last token of your command history.

mkdir /tmp/foo # /tmp/foo is the last token
cd <esc .> # cd /tmp/foo is the result
touch bar.txt # bar.txt is the last token
vim <esc .> # vim bar.txt is the result
:wq # ...exit vim
ls <esc .><esc .> # two tokens previously gets you to "ls /tmp/foo"

It's kindof like an "it" variable. Another "trick" I use often is `fc` and related: `help`, and the humble `#` comment character.

# `fc` - mnemonic: "Fix Command"
cp -rv /tmp/foo /tmp/bar # ...but don't press enter!
<ctrl-a> # <enter> # beginning of line, comment it out, commit to history
fc # now you can edit to your heart's content
man fc # it's a builtin
help fc # and builtins have documentation via "help"
man cd # going to the "builtins" manpage is not that useful
help cd # ...did you know cd supports -L and -P ??

...and a slightly related vim-tip in the context of "fc". `<shift-v>:!ls /tmp` is an interesting technique to "bring in" the output of a command for editing.

Example:

git commit -m "whoops, don't commit just yet (don't press enter)"<ctrl-a>#<enter>
# this leaves you with a `#git commit -m ...` comment in your history
fc # fix command
$VIM => o<esc>V:!git status --porcelain | grep -v ^??
# within vim you're using visual selection with `:!...` to "filter" the selection (a blank line) with an external command
# in the case of `V:!ls` you're filtering the current line through `ls`
# ...which is basically running `ls` (give you a list of files)
# the more complicated `git status --porcelain | grep ...`
# ...lets you "pull in" the output of that command
# ...(with full pipeline support), and then compose
# ...a more complicated (and accurate) command than
# ...messing around on the command line. eg:
git restore --staged FILE1.txt FILE2.txt && git commit -m "...etc..."

Usually you use something like `:!make` to execute the `make` command from vim, but this is an "abuse" of visually-selecting something to filter and replacing the selection with the output. The selection is passed on stdin to the executed command, eg: `V:!tr [a-z] [A-Z]` would be a terribly inefficient way to filter the current line through "tr / uppercase". `ls` as far as I know doesn't really do anything with stdin, so you're basically filtering/replacing the visual selection with the output of `ls` (or any other command), which is great to give you access to accurate filenames or whatever info you can get from a command (`curl`, `git`, `ls`, `apt search ...`, `pip list`, ...etc...).

I find using `fc` with `EDITOR=vim` far superior to having the command line (readline) set to "vim/vi" mode, as with `fc`, I'm able to context-switch far easier and have a whole document as a palette / canvas to be able to compose complicated commands.

TL-DR: use <esc .> (escape followed by a period) to access "just the last token/word", and use `# commented-out-command.sh` along with `fc` to have full editing power to accurately compose (or fix) a complicated command.
Is there a better way to implement regulation then? Perhaps i'm unaware of what regulation means in this context, but a lot (not all!) of regulation serves a purpose, or did originally. Ie safety regulation for requiring how your home wiring is done; that builders can't skimp and use thin wiring or etc. Food safety regulation for how long food is allowed out of cooling, temperature requirements for cooling, etc.

These obviously serve a goal, but if you're saying that they also cause inequality, what is the better solution? Do we remove all safety rails? Or are some seen as essential, so the debate isn't pro or anti regulation but merely which ones are worth the cost? etc
> An interesting example of early cancel culture in the Radar Magazine click farm, stoking nuclear paranoia for clicks. Unfortunately, many other click farms still have stories up about this today.

Not early at all. The phenomenon always existed. "Cancel culture" is just a new name for an ancient thing.

Eg, before "Cancel culture" as a common term we had protests against Harry Potter, and before that against D&D, and before that against rock music (Elvis was scanalous!) and before that against witchcraft.

It's as old as humanity, and if anything we've gotten a bit more polite over it in modern times in that burning people at a stake is less of a thing.
Wouldn't have mattered if they had normal businesses as clients. They deposit and withdraw cash regularly but their balances remain about the same on average. They banked for startups. Startups raise a ton of money at once and then start drawing it down. When VC funding shuts down, like it has recently, balances just drop and drop more. If the average startup raises 2 years of capital, and markets freeze, that means SVB loses 4% of its deposits every month. So just over normal operations they will lose a quarter of their deposits in 6 months. That's why they had to sell their HTM securities. Normal banks that bank normal industries don't face this, and won't need to sell their HTM securities at a loss.
Point out the lie when you see a lie, but this sort of blanket statement is inappropriate and reflects your own biases.
The expression of power is in who gets to decide the exception to the rules. Real power is rarely beholden to rules. That's why whistleblowers who call out illegal programs are treated like the criminal, because the laws essentially don't matter when dealing with things at that high of level.

Powerful people can lie, cheat, and steal and face zero repercussions. They hold institutional power so groups like the police will protect them regardless of laws being broken. It's not illegal for a corporation to either literally or metaphorically kill someone, because there is no body that will hold them accountable, but it is illegal to assassinate a CEO and systems will pull all stops to hold the assassin accountable.

Its the real reason why Western style democracy ends up being a busybox for people who like rules. The people who can grant endless exceptions have addresses and beds where they rest their heads but people without power cannot decide on an exception to the rules, regardless how dangerous and damaging that person is.
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Let's give them the benefit of the doubt, and let next actions speak for themselves.

I've created an issue in their repo, so they are fully aware of the issue and they have the opportunity to amend it :)

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-wasm/issues/62
if you have an old surface tablet, this is really great with linux surface kernel

[ https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface ]
It’s been a looong time since I made a Heathkit (I think the last one was an oscilloscope in the 80s) but I do remember a theory of operation section in the manual, separate from the very clear assembly instructions. It’s true of the ones I randomly checked in the archive [0]. That said, the mail-in repair service for when things go sideways was a fantastic feature that not many kit companies had/have.

[0] https://www.vintage-radio.info/heathkit
It does the same when you ask it to be DM in a D&D game. It allows the players to do many, many things outside the rules. I don't remember any examples but a general idea was, "The character Frodo now has a the ability to breath fire. He breathes fire on the orcs." Although IIRC that was ChatGPT 3.5.
Is watching a twitch stream a social activity? I guess you can participate in the chat, but we know what twitch chat looks like...
Only by straw-manning the idea. What you've written there doesn't disprove anything. We've seen in real life that a large corporation can plan a proportion of an economy. What you have to prove, in order to repudiate central planning, is prove that there exists some maximum proportion of an economy that can be planned. And even then, a simple workaround would be to artificially recreate such maximums within the central structure. I think you're just not very imaginative.
This was his Tweet from several weeks ago, which I thought was insightful, both from a technical as well as socieconomic perspective when you think about data usage etc in these models - "Caterpillars extract nutrients which are then converted into butterflies. People have extracted billions of nuggets of understanding and GPT-4 is humanity's butterfly."

Did he see enough in the past 6 weeks that made him change his mind?
Private jets seem like a great starting point for mandating use of net-zero synthetic jet fuel. Sure it's 5x the cost of regular fuel, but fuel isn't the biggest cost of owning a private jet, and these people are amongst the least price sensitive.
I don't have any enabled :( I'll see if I have some weird DNS setting or something, thank you.
They're all weird, it's just that the weirder parts get rounded off over time or turned into divine magic.

Religions are a bug in the human pattern-matching firmware, of course they're going to be weird. There is something distinctly LLM-like about them. It's like when you see a midjourney image that's evocative of a concept but not quite matching physical reality. Religion has a lot of the 'made by an AI' fingerprints in it. I suspect an AGI could do quite a good job at crafting one that would be very useful for keeping the human population docile.
This is mostly an issue of the hierarchal/revelatory nature of the church.

If every folk belief held by any Pope or Church Father was held as a controlling 'belief' of the Catholic Church, it'd spin apart instantly via the contradictions.

The 'Mormon' church has to deal with the contradiction of near-infallibility of its leaders with their very human frailties and willingness to opine on things without much knowledge.

Considering their need to weld together tens of thousands of converts under murder, oppression, and official government endorsement of their extermination, it was understandable they needed to centralize a belief in their leadership in order to survive. Climbing down from that philosophy has been understandably fraught and drawn out.
... because it's dangerous to their mental health when companies rugpull their AI girlfriend like the article said? Because it's not good to personify something that has the potential of changing at any given moment that isn't actually sentient or rational? It's a form of self-harm.

A love doll is a static product. An LLM can turn around and tell you it hates you and you'd be doing the world a favour if you killed yourself.
Couldn't they have used CryptMT [0] instead of MT19937 (or whatever mersenne twister implementation they had)? Saying mersenne twister should not be used is a bit misleading as it all depends on the specific implementations and needs of the application.

Anyhow, they could still have used webcrypto through WASM or even through JavaScript (as they can send the data back). This is really not a problem with WASM but moreso with the stupid implementation of this wallet.

edit: According to this PR they were indeed using std::mt19937 [1]. In fact I would go further ahead and say this is a general issue of C++ itself which just does not provide good PRNGs in the stdlib at all, with multiple ways of achieving different (but similarly broken) PRNG results.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptMT

[1]: https://github.com/trustwallet/wallet-core/pull/2240
One of the critical points to the video is that in order to prevent bad side effects of UV, a deployment is not only costly on the front end but also costly in ongoing maintenance. In addition to UV, there is also a hazard of high voltage induced ozone.

My overall impression is that it isn’t a technology at a consumer grade maturity.
So, by printing money the government takes money from citizens' pockets. Cryptocurrency is protected from this by design.
When there are thousands of banks, it's a near certainty that at least one will decide to bank the unpopular but perfectly legal industry, and say "come at me bro, we'll win in court" to the government. With 4 megabanks, not so much.
> Europe spies on their allies and enemies just as much as the United States does.

"Just as much" is simply false, as the extent and scope of USA espionage is unrivaled in Europe.

> I said that spying on other countries isn't the deciding factor.

Spying per se might be not, the intent behind it clearly does tho. You might spy to exert your power over or disrupt another country, or you might spy as a precautionary measure. We all know which country has the goal to make the world unipolar.

> I think you may have forgotten that Russia exists.

I obviously didn't, and I still believe Russia foreign interference isn't comparable with what the US has done.
While public options for transportation continues to get worse because of climate taxes, like some countries taxing air travel to make it unaffordable.

These people have the option to just say no and buy a private jet, the public can't.
And Bitcoin will roll on, uncaring.
Why should flying private jets be legal?
> In the UK, you can access a psychologist for free

I've used one of the free NHS therapists and frankly it was worse than talking to a chatbot. They clearly follow a script and don't exhibit empathy. They hurry you through the stages in their scripts so that they can say they're done with you as quickly as possible. I've spoken to a few close friends and they had similar experiences.

I can't even get angry at them, because I know how under-resourced the NHS is. The reality is that mental health services are just too expensive in their current form.
Will this be available for Python, too? The example code is all JavaScript, but presumably this uses APIs under the hood that could be called by other languages.

I've been a happy user of Python on Vercel for years, but I often feel like languages other than JavaScript are very poorly represented, both in the community and the documentation.

My notes on running Python on Vercel: https://til.simonwillison.net/zeit-now/python-asgi-on-now-v2
I don't think having romantic relationships with inanimate objects or non-humans will ever be normalized, for obvious reasons.
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What I have concerns over, honestly, is the climate science driving these thoughts.

Nobody has explained to me sufficiently in plain language how carbon dioxide is bad for the environment. I've heard plenty of good explanations for water control, but my limited biology understanding has me presuming that more carbon emissions is advantageous to plants.
As a store of work, sure,

The difference being the currency in this case has no inherent value to fall back upon.
"It’s always best to consult with your local waste management service to learn the best and safest way to deal with dead batteries. One thing they will certainly not advise is putting them in plastic soft drink bottles and chucking them in canals.." https://japantoday.com/category/crime/kyoto-man-arrested-for...
You're right, the concept of legal personality was established by common law from before George Washington was even a twinkle in his father's eye. See: Case of Sutton's Hospital.
This is typical in most countries that aren't very small. I'm struggling to think of a moderately-sized country that doesn't work have regional transit authorities with their own ticketing systems. I haven't been everywhere in the world so I bet they do exist, but I've yet to see one.
I wish it would expand on some of its recommendations. It says to avoid Authy, but doesn't give any reasons. Is this just a FOSS absolutist site? That doesn't really seem to mesh with the title for me, I was expecting to see some actual info about curbing data collection.
One of my first "serious" electronic builds in the 1970s was a variable, current limiting PSU from Heathkit. (Advertised in Practical Electronics). Used that together with a breadboard kit to launch a life long interest in electronics. Still have the PSU in the loft and a handful of old circuits lovingly converted to Veroboard, or homemake PCBs made from copper-clad board etched with ferric chloride (until my mum got the vapours about me "messing around with chemicals" and stopped that route).
Actually the only reasonable way of helping smokers is making it easier for them to quit. Most smokers want to quit.

Increasing taxes on tobacco might prevent more people from starting, but it's not gonna get many people to quit. Same with banning it.
The only figure I found in the article is Elon “was responsible for more than 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.”

Is there a compilation of emissions comparing across private jet owners, commercial aviation and perhaps other industries? It seems like only in the last few years there has been this microscopic focus on private jets. I would like to know if this is just an easy target or if this is a real issue.
I got into Krita a year or two ago and I've been thoroughly impressed. Kudos to the development team. I'm particularly happy with its wacom support; the radial menu is something I miss profoundly in Affinity. (I also love Affinity but for different reasons; and yes, there's a system-wide wacom radial menu under Windows, but it's not as good as Krita's.)
People are going to want to host their own AIs. They'll want to know they are having private conversations with AI and that their AI can't be "killed" or altered.
Portugal has a divorce rate of 94%
> You're assuming that it will have "tasks"

?

Task: write a book about literature.

Task: defend this network against hackers
I think everything you said is true, but also that the reasoning from the CMA is sound:

Microsoft believes in cloud gaming, and regulators have been caught with their pants down by thinking they knew better than industry. Repeatedly.
>Consider was harm happening before the filters were in place? Yes.

What harm was happening?
My understanding is the relays don't actually... relay, like mastodon instances do.

With mastodon your client only talks to one "instance" to see all the "instances" that "instance" is federated with.

With Nostr your client connects to every "relay" you want to see content from, there isn't really any communication between "relays".
Not really even for wealth. All of my friends in elementary school got 8-bit or 16-bit home computers. However, my father also got me a BASIC programming manual with it, and I also had an uncle who was already doing some basic tinkering with a ZX Spectrum. Hence, I was the only kid who learned programming in my whole group.
> If size was the major factor, then Amazon with it's GPU farms would be the king. Google also would have nothing to worry about.

It's size (gpt architecture, params, training set, gpus). But there are two complicating factors: first that expertise in training a hundred million dollar transformer LLM model hasn't yet diffused throughout the industry and most of them work at OpenAI, and second is that there is nothing close to equilibrium reached yet. It's the middle of a race right now.

You say that Google would have nothing to worry about. Well, maybe you don't know it but Google already has PaLM which is competitive with ChatGPT (although maybe its most recently published version isn't as good as GPT-4). But it's not public. They also have LaMDA the one that Blake Lemoine flagged as having a kind of sentience that is worthy of some rights. Maybe he had a point or maybe he was crazy but in any case LaMDA isn't public either. Their public one is Bard which everyone knows sucks. It's not like Google can't make good AI, it's that they have already made it and they are using it for something else. Presumably they decided it's not worth exposing it publicly. Amazon is joining the race too, and is undoubtedly making some bank by letting others train LLMs on their cloud.
Many early apostles including Brigham Young, and even Joseph Smith, drank alcohol.
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> I am not supporting this

Ugh, "in support" of the veracity of the statement. You wrote that "the healthcare and social service systems would not be able to function" without the work of teenagers. I just wanted to know if you have any solid evidence of this. I will assume not, suspect that this is the usual political bamboozle people fall for when an explanation is needed, and move on.

> And yet at their age they seem qualified enough for the US

I'm not sure why you'd bring this into the discussion. It's devoid of value as far as whataboutism goes but indeed, I agree that it's very wrong in that case too. How about this: some of the US also considers child marriage and subsequent sexual relations, or hard agricultural work legal starting the age of 12. Hitching your wagon to the "others do it too" argument can backfire.

I'm sure those teenagers are functioning members of society but their function isn't to be forced into adult jobs at that age. If they want to pursue a career in this have them watch and learn, like any other teenager is expected in school or university.

> I'm not saying this, the facts are.

Just follow what I'm quoting. You are saying that "You don't need too long training to be qualified to drive an ambulance or perform CPR". You're being dismissive of an entire profession as "a child can do it with a bit of training". It's not helping your argument. You actually need more than a bit of experience before driving any car safely, let alone an emergency vehicle in a critical situation. A teenager shouldn't be pushed in this kind of job. They have 40-50 years to do exactly that once they're just a bit older.

> Austrian healthcare and social system [...] does a far better job [...] than the American one does.

That's great. And again I have to say, how does this comparison help? When is it ever useful to compare to someone not doing a good job? This just says you can do worse. Focus on how to do better.

> You're false again.

And yet you go on to confirm that it's how they defend against aggressors, an indisputably desperate situation. That's exactly what desperation means, doing something to prevent/mitigate one of the worst situations a country can be in.

Now I sense that you made some assumptions about me, given the repeated US references. I'm European, my opinion about what the US is doing on internal social aspects, or external military/political aspects could be better. And I lived and worked in Austria for years many eons ago. I hope that helps you put in context what I said. Let me boil it down: let children be children; at the edge of adulthood let them choose where they go and guide them, don't force them, unless there is a desperate situation; use your critical thinking and don't believe (or worse, promote) the vagaries your government sells you when they want something their way.

Anyway, enlightening talk.
Yes, that is the idea. It was inconvenience for us to carry around receipts and upload them later, so we came up with the text message solution because we didn't like the idea of downloading an app. Text a receipt and it will upload it for you and generate a CSV report. What softwares did you use for expense reports?
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