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> I think this can be generalized to, “when you lose the ability to create a certain Form, you also lose some of your ability to imagine new types of that Form, and instead just rely on shuffling existing versions of it around to generate novelty.”

And it has a very serious consequence: "when you lose the ability to write, you lose the ability to create new content on which future LLMs are going to be trained".

One guy has been exposed for producing one computer programming book per week, for six months or a year straight, all with 5 stars reviews.

How many people like him are gaming, for their own benefits, the system?

It's all too obvious on GitHub and StackOverflow already: people gaming the system with automatically generated code that just, to reuse you words, "rely on shuffling existing versions".

How can this LLM-generated content possibly be used to created a better LLM?

Basically: how do we train future LLMs using content produced by those among the humans whom didn't lose their ability to think?
There's something quite unsettling about this, in that the epaper panel is potentially a very useful second monitor designed in the same style as the main monitor, and it could be detachable, freely re-orientable, etc.

But in fact it's totally integrated, following the current anti-modular, if not anti-user philosophy in most consumer hardware, and ends up being a bit of a frankenstein.

Surely the market for each separate monitor. especially the epaper sidekick, would be greater than this weird integrated combo?
Laravel lets you run tasks in the background. You just queue up those notifications and then some other task you wrote will come along and start sending them. Apache isn't involved.
The best examples are the subscriptions advertised on podcasts, which are invariably venture backed and remarkably shitty. How are the hosts so excited to get their memtal health records leaked!? (€£¥$)
i'm not sure about that statement. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
Sure, there's lots of room for improvement. IIRC, rebalancing might be a WIP, finally?

But credit where credit is due: for a long time, ZFS has been the only fit for purpose filesystem, if you care about the integrity of your data.
Note I said lots of options, not no options. Also, especially electrical trades is quite skilled these days and might not be for everyone either.

I talked to someone running a warehouse a couple of years ago. They got containers packed with cans from abroad. The cans had to be put on pallets so the warehouse robots could store them.

So they had one guy who's sole job was to pack the individual cans from the containers and pack them on pallets. The guy doing it loved it. He put on his music and packed those cans, not having to interact with anyone for most of the day. The mindless job left him free to ponder (he read lots of academic articles at home). So, great for him that he found that job.

However, the warehouse robot means there's like 10 people working that giant warehouse instead of several dozen...
Whenever there's coverage of this in US/western media (a relatively rare phenomenon considering the hundreds of cases like this in just the past decade), the reaction is usually minimal. At best, a few outraged centre-left will say it's a shame that the people responsible were never prosecuted. But this sidesteps the fact that this issue is systemic, the US culture and legal system allows this to happen over and over, and the entire government is criminal.
The part about macOS and Windows 11's auto-hide scrollbars is quite interesting to me. Scrollbar auto-hide on Windows 11 is actually not that bad: I still see a thin line to the right of the scroll column that expands into the full scrollbar when I hover over. Meanwhile, if macOS really makes the scrollbar entirely disappear as demonstrated that is going to be another reason why I don't like the OS.
Agreed, it has the connotation that one can’t really leave entirely, they’re always in some dormant state. I think it probably reflects what families (especially parents) wish to be true.
Ruby, Clojure, Go, Kotlin, Rust.
How exactly are Julia releases broken?
> These are RW btrfs-style snapshots

There's a word for 'RW snapshots': clones. E.g.

* https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/task_admin_clone_data.ht...

* http://doc.isilon.com/onefs/9.4.0/help/en-us/ifs_t_clone_a_f...

* https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/8/zfs-clone.8.htm...

* http://www.voleg.info/lvm2-clone-logical-volume.html

In every other implementation I've come across the word "snapshot" is about read-only copies. I'm not sure why btrfs (and now bcachefs?) thinks it needs to muddy the nomenclature waters.
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I just bought a 4a for 150 CAD and also plan to use it for as long as I can.
> If someone's still hating on PHP in 2023 it makes me wonder if they've been focused on more exotic technology because they were looking to pad their resume with more expensive skills, build science projects for their own amusement vs. what the business needed, etc. etc. Red flag.

I get that you are arguing from personal experiences, people you met and worked with. But this statement lacks context and nuance.

There are developers who don't like PHP because of outdated reasons and possibly because they are snobs. Sure, that's a red flag.

But there are many who have so many battle scars and war stories with the language and its ecosystem that they decided it's just not worth the pain anymore. Even though PHP has evolved (with regular breaking changes...) and tries its best to put something useful on top of a shaky foundation: The effort required to make PHP work with you, in comparison to other languages, becomes too large and painful. I'm not talking about superficial things here, nor do I have the tendency to overengineer stuff, quite the contrary. I'm talking about writing simple, robust and efficient code.

However I would say there are three very good reasons why you should use or at least consider the language:

- You want to quickly hack together something useful with minimal fuss, AKA its original purpose.

- Buy-in of the OO, code generation, IoC/DI, magic framework stuff that Laravel/Symphony provide.

- You have to.
I would say that there are at least two good reasons. A4 is not a relevant standard in the biggest market (USA) and A4 proportions are objectively not great for reading (too elongated).
Well most people live and work with dim screens and it's fine-ish if you also work in dim environments with shades on your windows or don't get much sun. I think 90% of PC displays sold don't go above 300 nits.

I also only had such displays growing up but now I need more since my current apartment is hella bright from all the sun exposure.
It’s weird that I didn’t realize this for long. Chances are you are probably in market for presumably irrelevant products, it’s only that a lot of us don’t find those topics entertaining.

I wouldn’t mind a nice representative calmly onboarding me with an exciting new middle eastern investment opportunities, I might even enjoy listening to those with a glass of tap water on one hand. That of course is because it is an extremely relevant topic to me /s
> That arrived this year as consumers fell in love with ChatGPT, along with the idea of talking to software in ordinary language, and getting a direct response.

Some 20 years ago there was chatbot who you could talk to for hours.
It was not used to write propaganda though.
> The biggest benefit is not being subjected to ads anymore

Until they have reached a critical mass of subscribed users, and they start serving ads to paid users too (à la Netflix)
Facebook ads have certainly been used to deliver malware in the recent past.
I'd say PHP is great to get started, Go is for when you need more control, more mechanical sympathy.

I did write a REST/JSON API in PHP 5.2 (two years ago, I'm aware there's newer versions out there but they aren't easily available in RHEL 6/7 used at our customers at the time - it was a slow moving industry); it's doable, and using best practices learned from other languages makes it look maintainable at least.

Did run into some issue with large datasets though, but that was an implementation problem; the original author would read a CSV, convert it to XML using concatenation, then parse the XML to convert it into JSON because at some point a decade ago he found out that the X in XHR was no longer (and never was) the norm, all in memory. That broke when there were more than a few thousand rows in the CSV.
>detachable and wireless.
Let me deepen this: there's no reason for eink to be attached to LED monitor at all. It's obviously more practical to have separate reader, all is needed is a possibilty to quickly share content to it.
Just look at the ratio of lurkers to posters on any forum. Most people are read only.
This whole debt ceiling debacle is a symptom not the problem. Government spending far exceeds tax revenue. The fiscal deficit gap needs to be smaller or either: (1) the debt burden will ballon (2) protracted high inflation.

We run trillion dollar deficits… me and my kids will be burdened with this debt!

At the same time we hand out tremendous benefits to the elderly through SS. We should be spending more on children than the elderly.
And how good do you hear in a silent environment? I'm asking because I feel a bit reflected in your description (always had problem following conversations in a noisy environment) but in a calm one I can hear very faint noises/voices (while others cannot, for example).
But TBH I don't know if my noisy envs experience is "normal" or it is just me.
> PHP has matured and has been a nice language for a decade now.

And how did it manage that? Python forced people to deal with encodings properly and the result was a lot of pain. You're claiming PHP somehow invisibly fixed the numerous problems of the language without anybody noticing? That "fractal of bad design" blog post, everything described in it has been fixed?

If so I want to learn how they did it. That's some heavy duty language evolution work.
I would like to see filesystems benchmarked for robustness.

Specifically, robustness to everything around them not performing as required. For example, imagine an evil SSD which had a 1% chance of rolling a sector back to a previous version, a 1% chance of saying a write failed when it didn't, a 1% chance of writing data to the wrong sector number, a 1% chance of flipping some bits in the written data, and a 1% chance of disconnecting and reconnecting a few seconds later.

Real SSD's have bugs that make them do all of these things.

Given this evil SSD, I want to know how long the filesystem can keep going serving the users usecase.
Pythons breakages have also been security centric. I'm not a big fan of it, but yea Julia isn't 30 yrs old and it's done things like this every minor release without anouncement. To be clear though I'm not talking about a conscious researchable decision to drop support after 5 years. I'm talking about bugs that pop up over night. Anyway has Julia ever been audited for security? Most of the netstack was written by a single person... Makes ya wonder...
> [ZFS is] only great due to the lack of competitors in the checksummed-CoW-raid category.

You forgot robust native encryption, network transparent dump/restore (ZFS send/receive) - and broad platform support (not so much anymore).

For a while you could have a solid FS with encryption support for your USB hd that could be safely used with Linux, *BSD, Windows, Open/FOSS Solaris and MacOS.
i’m an edge case: my computers are amnesiac: if i wanted to watch YT Premium, i’d have to log in again every morning. i have an old Google account, but it was setup with 2FA (TOTP) and Google’s made that login method as burdensome as they can to push users to prefer their apps. even if it were easy to login, i prefer to be logged out so that i don’t get sucked into those godawful YT comment arguments.

i watch a couple 5-minute YT videos each day: sure, i’d happily pay 10x whatever they make from me in ads, but there’s no way they could implement that in a way which doesn’t worsen my experience overall. not to mention the whole angle of providing Google with my undeniable legal name.
You realize the concept of cheap political jokes exists in all parties, right?

Or is "let's go Brandon" not a cheap joke used by "rightists"?
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I have some ordinary Dell monitors at work, at the display is set to 50% brightness.

Is the issue that offices tend not to have screens in direct sunlight, but homes often aren't designed like this?
Have a look at Bretton Woods system and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
I think we need something similar
DIN 476 does use the same indicators. Of course that's just the original German standard that ISO 216 was based on and defines the exact same sizes, so it really doesn't matter. (Also it is superseded by DIN EN ISO 216, which is just ISO 216 backported.)
Thousands at Railsconf or Clojure Conj would disagree, I'm sure but these languages are kinda special.
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Compared to staring directly at the LED panel?
Not at the moment unfortunately — this is a new focus area/capability for us as a team so we're looking for more experience to start.
Would it be worth having a conversation about thirdroom and Open Brush integration? Our community is always looking to find ways to get their creations onto a social platform and we have a three.js add-on that should make it pretty easy to add our custom shaders to thirdroom.
Totally agree, I also pay for api access and I am still trying to figure out how I can benefit from using it when it gives me blatantly incorrect commands or wrong answers.

I can see it guide me in the right direction if I have a more generic question but even then, if I am not specific enough I fear I might go down a rabbit hole that ends no where.

It may be better than google in finding something but when I manage to find something on google the information is usually correct and not totally wrong. Especially technical problem that someone wrote somewhere on a forum regarding a specific device.

Finding the things I am looking for on google allows me to judge the correctness of the data. When I find answers in what is clearly blog spam I know that the info is probably wrong. Which ChatGPT I have no idea how it arrived at the conclusion it gives me.

A good example is if I want to know the max current rating for a chip. If I search google and find the manufacturers datasheet, I know the information is correct. If however the same information is on stack overflow or some forum I may not take it as a fact but more as a guidance.

ChatGPT would be 100 times more useful is it cited a source. Like "The max rating of chip ... is ... according to the manufactures datasheet dated ... which you can find here ...". I guess Bing and Google are trying to do something like that.
>Whenever there's coverage of this in US/western media (a relatively rare phenomenon considering the hundreds of cases like this in just the past decade), the reaction is usually minimal.

I feel exactly opposite, the relatively minor fuckups or even mishaps are way overblown, while it's being equated into tens of millions yearly deaths caused by enemy dictatorships.
Laravel gets over 2000 requests per second in PHP 8.1

https://kinsta.com/blog/php-benchmarks/
I hope you're nobody's boss. Talent doesn't come from mild mannered yes men and doesn't look like plastering over decrepit slop.
> What the hell is the point then?

You assume that there is one.
This seems to share the same irritating factor with a number of similar problems where the author muddies the waters with disinformation and nudges the goalposts and then acts as if there has been some grand unveiling. The subjective probability as perceived by a hypothetical amnesiac Sleeping Beauty as expressed through sampled data over time is not interesting or meaningful information.

What matters is what the coin did in an objective reference frame, and fundamentally that's it. We can cloud the field by introducing lots of distractions but at the end of the day a coin was flipped exactly once.
Look at the backlog of issues in their GitHub for backports. You'll see detailed lists of reported and fixed breakages. The lists aren't small... Now go on to imagine the ones people don't report and instead patch and fix them locally. We aren't even talking about Julia code fixes, often these involve the C that creates it and are a nightmare to diagnose. I can't reply to your post unfortunately the thread is too long.
Plot twist: the content is actually not ad-free. (sponsored sections aren't removed from the videos)
Read (or skimmed) the article and I'm not an English native speaker but... TIL that "hair" can be used also for hearing related things? I thought that hair was just "any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of humans, mammals, and some other animals."
If people are really freezing to death because they can't afford a relatively small exess expense I'd conclude that we need to improve the social safety net. Perhaps raise taxes and subsidize heating for the poor and vulnerable. Not decrease energy prices overall, mainly benefiting large manufacturing industries, while simultaneously causing climate change. But that's not a conclusion you'll read in the economist...
And don't get me started with all the points where the syntax pretends to consume an expression but it's actually just the parser looking for a very specific pattern that will be read as if it was an expression, but other forms won't be accepted.

Sure, it's perfectly possible to grow numb to those pains and some will even pat themselves on the back, claiming pragmatism over principles, but wow, if you're not used to that level of make-believe in computer languages you'll be paralyzed by disbelief. An endless series of "this can't be true!"
Why didn't antirez start his own Redis Labs? Seems like they're exploiting his technical genius for their own good
I’m skeptical that the same patterns we saw in the early 2000s are going to play out again.

Last time, tech was in its infancy. There was a small universe of people who understood baseline concepts like getting to product market fit, how to measure and implement growth patterns, etc etc.

Today these are practically household concepts, and they have been for years. There aren’t a few hundred other people in SV you are competing against, it’s the rest of the world.

On top of that, there’s a tried and true playbook that large tech companies quickly put to use to capture any remotely adjacent areas of product market fit.

I’m not saying there won’t be startups - there are today of course - but it also seems like there’s a lot of wishful thinking going on. (Among founders, VCs, and billionaires who made their money in the early 2000s too. It shocks me that many of them haven’t realized that the playbook that made them money in 2008 doesn’t make them special in 2023.)

Tech has been professionalized and nothing is nearly as easy as it once was.
I used to use this when I was just starting out on the web and the internet was still new. I used it quite frequently over the years initially but not for a long time.

I feel a bit sad, it represented the hacker culture of the early web which unfortunately is long gone. A different time.
Afaik true rebalancing isn't in the works. Some limited add-device and remove-vdev features are in progress but AIUI they come with additional overhead and aren't as flexible.

btrfs and bcachefs rebalance leave your pool as if you had created it from scratch with the existing data and the new layout.
Since e-ink tablets already understand PDF, the easiest way of doing this is to write a printer driver that picks a tablet as the target, and a daemon on the tablet that accepts the incoming PDF and makes it the new document being displayed.
> I don't understand how anyone in the tech world thinks they can make a single demand of anyone else.

Ultimately, yes you're right, no-one can make actual "demands" of anyone else. My language above is demanding, certainly, but ultimately I'm just arguing opinion. I cannot control any outcomes of what Bluesky or any other enterprise choose to pursue.

> What is it about this specific area of the web that attracts these idealogical zealots?

I think it stems from the unprecedented success of such zealots in the 1980s, which have differentiated the technological landscape of software technologies from previous areas of engineering by making them more approachable, accessible, interoperable and ultimately democratised. That's largely been the result of people arguing passionately on the internet to advocate for that level of openness, collab & interop.
Yes, and what about using it to actually feed hungry people and build shelter for those that have none.

I feel like the cynicism is coming from the bullshit we can all see before our eyes. We just don't know how to change it because we're all so entrenched in capitalism and corporations.
Seeing that this product is not targeted at the US and might never even make it there, I'm not sure that's relevant. A4 documents will either be cut off or squished into a smaller space to fit all, so the proportions of the screen are also not really relevant when that's the proportions of the document.
The small silver lining is that there are arguably more people who have access to literature, and who like to read, write, and do math, because generally those things have become more accessible to the wider world.

But when the going gets really tough, those people may try to band together and secede[^1].

One thing I have to add though, as somebody who loves to write, is that I couldn't do it without our modern digital tools. Because I'm not a native speaker, I tend to bungle prepositions and semantics, and it's only with great effort and many Google searches and ChatGPTs and grammar checkers that I dare to afflict[^2] the world with my words.

[^1]: I found this idea in "Homo Deus," blame Dr. Harari!

[^2]: "Afflict": To the point, I used thesaurus.com here to find a suitable synonym of "torment".
Yes. Since 2015.
Microsoft does pay bonuses and stock refreshers, but outside of one-time “Special stock awards” (which I’ve heard is mainly reserved for retention of people likely to jump ship), the refreshers aren’t very significant until you reach level 65 (principal). At least compared to refreshers at other major tech companies.

It depends on the exact level and how well the employee negotiated their sign-on RSUs, but most employees are going to face a compensation cliff of some sort at the 4 year mark.
I agree. I'd say this offers two good things though:

First off, it very directly informs you by interrupting your workflow. The secret doesn't go out and nothing happens - your dang git push doesn't work for some reason. This means you notice the leak earlier.

And additionally, it limits the exposure of the secret, which buys you time for the rotation. If you find some important credential in a public repository on the internet a few days or weeks after it was exposed, it's time to scramble to rotate the secret and spend the next few days picking up the pieces and putting systems back together.

If the secret has been exposed to a somewhat reputable entity or an entity you have a business relationship with, you can most likely take a day to plan the rotation and executed it. We've had this a few times during on-prem maintenance of customer systems or support calls with customers. Copy the wrong thing, paste the wrong thing, whoops we have the password for the superuser of your database cluster. It certainly enforces a rotation of that password, but with the business relationship there, it doesn't have to happen head over heels.