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vomstruse

1. a kind of sexual intercourse at which semen has been ejaculated, typically by an ovum, while semen remains unharmed

"I heard one woman say she had gone through the vomstruse after one night of sex"

https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/4fFH
> The length has the same size as an address, the fat pointer being a pair of addresses is technically equivalent but has worse performance in practice so you should make it an (address, length) pair instead of course.

Is it worse though? Serious question, I’ve been wondering for quite a bit. IME processing a string from the start is easier with a (start, end) pair (one operation instead of two when you chop off things from the start). You can’t use those in standard C because it reserves the right to blow up on pointer subtraction essentially randomly (ptrdiff_t overflow is UB, and the only requirement for ptrdiff_t is that it hold 2^15-1; C89 doesn’t even tell you what the maximum allowed value is), but that’s not a performance problem, and not a problem at all in a different language.
> above a certain income threshold, your tax return becomes exponentially more complex

For some people. A person working a single job as a programmer earning $300k in straight W-2 income (no RSUs, etc.) does not have more complex taxes than a person earning $100k from a combination of their podcast + a few rental properties. There's no logic to means-testing this kind of service, where there would be for feature-testing (i.e. "Does all your income come from your job?").
>Your DNA Can Now Be Pulled From Thin Air. Privacy Experts Are Worried.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/science/environmental-dna...

https://archive.ph/Qi62y

>Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02056-2
> possibly with the option to submit extra details they are missing like deductions
Y'all need emacs or neovim
A large majority of SaaS businesses can be done for free with an Excel spreadsheet, but many of them are still making millions a year.
For the most common and most impactful ones, like 1098s, the IRS is aware because they are sent the information directly.

Are they going to be aware of all deductions in all cases? You are absolutely correct, there's no way that's correct.
> Should we impose economic sanctions against the UK for their human rights abuses?

Are they doing this now? No. Is the CCP committing genocide now? Yes.

> It was widely reported on state media. You can mention it, just like the other economic protests earlier in the 1980s. It just doesn't have the cultural and historical significance that the people in Washington with lanyards, and people who consume nothing but propaganda think it has.

Can you show me some examples of discussions about tianamen square in Chinese social media to show that any conversations that don't follow the party line are allowed?

Was the "economic" protest not put down with extreme force and did thousands of people not die?

> Is the existence of prisons in the US an obvious sign of a genocide against African Americans?

You are ignoring my question that is trying to get the heart of this whole conversation, the genocide taking place in xinjiang and with some distracting question. Your government has admitted to building these as "reeducation" facilities and a large population is getting oppressed and processed through these. These facilities exist, there is a ton of evidence to support it. There are guard towers, walls, armed guards, etc. Are you asserting these prisons are empty?
Why restrict your analysis to such a narrow scope? Abortion was illegal in every state in the US by 1910. It’s also still illegal in my home country, which is a Muslim country on the other side of the planet from the US. Opposition to abortion is longstanding across completely different cultures and religions. It’s not credible to say it’s something that arises from evangelical Christianity or a late 20th century political movement.

What you’re describing is instead an ideological schism within Protestant Christianity. Since Luther, Protestant Christianity had a strong natalist orientation. That’s why abortion was illegal in every US state by 1910. But during the 20th century, mainline protestantism adopted an anti-natalist view out of concerns about overpopulation and the welfare of the poor. That’s the genesis of the modern US abortion debate.

It’s not accurate to say that these patterns reflect views on abortion being “fluid.” Protestantism isn’t centralized—especially denominations like Baptists. Until the mid-20th century, pretty much all the denominations agreed abortion was wrong. Once the anti-natal movement got going, those denominations fractured and people sorted into different ones. For example, the Evangelical Presbyterian church split from what’s now the PCUSA in 1981. Both are “evangelical.” But we apply the “evangelical” label to one and not the other, based on their views on abortion and other issues.
It's funny to see this considering that, for WoW at least, it seems that pandemic and WFH helped them create the best expansion since 2016. The last two expansions had worse design and systems than their latest. I personally think the only reason WoW hasn't caught on again is that BfA / Shadowlands killed enthusiasm for the game.
You might even learn and retain the material better that way (assuming the gist of it was correct, that is).
It is not only EVs, almost all modern cars are DRM locked.
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I would submit that the question if humans as a species are bipedal is not concerned with the question if any individual specimen happens to have two legs.

(This is not meant to imply that no consideration should be given to the exceptions, which quite reasonably it clearly is.)
uBlock Origin allows disabling JS by default, I use on my phone to preserve battery life
US Patents expire 20 years after first filing, so in a decade, Facebook's collection will start to enter the public domain.
Not really. Giving employees the choice to work from home or not is the opposite of controlling them. Just like giving employees the option to work only forty hours a week is not controlling them but giving them liberty. It's such a good thing it's law in many countries.
"Genocide" applied to the killing of animals would be a very unusual usage. Something like "extermination" would probably be more appropriate.
Ha, I wonder what's the societal tipping point for dumb phones to become the new normal?

"In sociology, a tipping point is a point in time when a group—or many group members—rapidly and dramatically changes its behavior by widely adopting a previously rare practice." [1]

Do we need 10% of population to stubbornly use dumb phones, and then, voila. :)

"Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10% of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of people who simply change their beliefs if their last two social interactions agreed with a new one." [ibid]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipping_point_(sociology)
This is a dangerous path. First this, next the government just sends you the tax bill, without you needing to file (and you can dispute it), and then CBDC where every microtransaction is surveyed and sanctioned (or not).
When I was in college we had a number of group projects and I thought the whole time that it would make a ton of sense for the professor to set up a class repo (I'm a old person so they would be a CVS repo at the time) and be able to see exactly what each person had contributed to the project. Even for single person projects it would have made it so much easier to detect cheaters. I also think it might light a fire under some of the less shameless slackers.

I hope schools do this now. Not only for detecting cheaters but to get the kids used to working in a more real world environment.
or they'll just be denied entry.
The cat and mouse iteration will be using ChatGPT integrated with Webdriver to slowly type the essay, writing a prompt that says "make occasional mistakes", etc.
How so? There are still many more people doing fine working from home now than before the pandemic. I would say we probably have enough data to judge that WFH works for some jobs/businesses and not others. I don’t think many people expected every business to switch to 100% permanent WFH. The fact that some companies are pulling back doesn’t mean the experiment has failed.
But then you can have ChatGPT write your essay on a phone/tablet and you just slowly re-write it.

I think schools will need to change the way they go about testing student understanding of topics. Personally I'm excited for what this might look like and it is a great opportunity for hackers to really innovate the educational field.
It's surprising that the most obvious question hasn't been answered. So what does Hippo meat taste like?

The taste is mild, less than lamb and more than beef, slightly more marbled than usual venison.
Or that the particular vertical just isn't big enough to warrant their focus. A $20m MRR is great for a small SaaS but isn't worth the time of any FAANG.
I know a powerful, politically connected woman who moved from the DMV to Aimes Iowa. She absolutely loves it, and is shocked by how much more walkable, affordable, and cultured the town is than where she came from.

This is maybe the ... 15th? person I know who's said something like this. I think people literally don't know how nice a lot of America is.
We're doing something a bit similar at DoltHub, where databases are managed with a GitHub like workflow, and where you get the pros and cons of that kind of system. Our hospital price database (work ongoing daily) is community built: https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/dolthub/transparency-in... (context: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NifwgKHBCeF35ZRZsfpgg4bE...)
If it required a remote kernel debugger to get things going why not add a quick screenshot of the assembly instead of saying there aren't "any identifiable marks for...64 bit build"? Identifiers are everywhere if you think outside the box.
Preference among multiple unrelated people is, at least hypothetically, independent.
> And then there's the disgusting shell game that IS the entire U.S. tax system, which is the root of the whole problem.

You can generalize this to the funding of the US government. The system obfuscates the stark reality: the US government spends resources faster than it collects them. It makes up the difference it two ways: deficit spending and off-the-books liabilities (SSA and Medicare being the biggest). Inflation is a solution to these problems.
The advice I've seen regarding current videogames seems sound (particularly: Get a Steam account).

Here's some advice regarding C64:

>Floppy disk is incredibly slow

Floppy really is slow without a fastloader. I use EPYX fastload[0], as an emulated cartridge on kung-fu flash[1].

Also consider sd2iec[2] as an alternative to an actual floppy drive.

>it's super difficult to find new games (these floppy disks with games are crazy expensive on eBay)

Research TOSEC[3][4]. Some archives[5] are available at The Internet Archive.

And about retro-gaming in general:

>maybe using a multi-system platform like the Overcame console?

I suggest the miSTer[6], a multi-system FPGA solution, because it is open source and has the strongest ecosystem there is for this sort of thing.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epyx_Fast_Load

1. https://github.com/KimJorgensen/KungFuFlash

2. https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/SD2IEC

3. https://www.tosecdev.org/

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOSEC

5. https://archive.org/details/tosec

6. https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Wiki_MiSTer/wiki
This is a horrible idea.
Not the person you're asking, but I may have insight.

Realistically, it's no different, checking if something is null or None. Yeah, some languages have a lot of sugar around optional thanks to rich type systems.

Imagine the following pseudo rust code:

if let Some(x) = x {}

is not that different from

if x != null {}

Or any other type of boolean check.

I think you have to be around optional long enough to understand the benefits.
Wish you'll keep up and see more adoption over time :)
Oh absolutely, and hopefully talented workers will say: "No thanks, I'll rather go and work for someone that offers unlimited WFH."
Surely nobody runs 3 Kafka nodes in production, no?
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Maybe! I certainly look forward to that. Although in my testing GPT-4 also hallucinates a bit (less than gpt-3.5), and the latency is so poor that it's unworkable for our product.
The good news is that there aren't proprietary electrons yet so if you can get something that fits and gives the right voltage you should be fine.

The battery maker is under NDA, I'm sure Mont Blanc made sure you're not going to find something on AliExpress.

And, yeah, I hate to blame the victim here, but who buys high-tech electronics from a maker of...fountain pens? (And maker of fine fragrances, too. sigh)
> abortion protesters have a habit of assassinating doctors that perform abortions

What’s the prevalence of this occurring? Wikipedia calls out 7 in the US [0] with the most recent in 2015. This this seems like profiling protesters as assassins is about as rational as profiling members of a certain religion as terrorists.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence
> The idea that you have to take courses such as "Young Karl Marx" at a university in the US in order to graduate should be alarming to anyone who understands world history. I am not making this up. It happened to my son at a major US university

With a decade on this site, you have to know this kind of inflammatory and difficult-to-believe statement needs a citation.

I'm not saying it didn't happen, but I'm pretty close to university policies and "major" US universities in general have broad requirements that can generally be satisfied by a wide(-ish) selection of courses. I have to assume there were some specific constraints in your particular case that were omitted to make this argument seem stronger.
edit: Dumb question. deleted
I am concerned about the false positive rate on AI detectors. But if they are being used to flag submissions for further review only then I can go with it. Finding out if a student cheated shouldn't be too hard, just quiz them on what they wrote.
Okay, a question then: what if someone's Jim isn't just a random taxman? What if it's raising taxes for the mob? What do you do then?

My typical interaction with Jim looks more like:

Jim: "Nah, don't like it; if you want it, here is the new rate."

Me: <tries to pay the extortion money>

Jim: "Oh look at you, aren't you hungry? I know you've just eaten your dinner, but AREN'T. YOU. HUNGRY. RIGHT. NOW.?"

Me: <tries to ignore it and power through>

Jim: "What? Is Bob here squeezing your abdomen too tightly? Your chest hurts? He will stop if you stop pursuing this."

Me: "I guess I'd better write a comment on this newest procrastination story on HN."

Jim: "Good call."
I've noticed a big trend by commercial entities claiming to be "Open Source" but actually charging for licenses. Just because your code is in a public repo on github doesn't mean it's open source. If it's not an open source license it's not open.

This is especially true of AI projects.
That's an interesting perspective.

It seems like it's trained on entire soundwaves. I'm curious if you'd get a better result by training it on transcribed MIDI and then taking the output MIDI and plugging it into VST's.

Seems like you would still get that "central brain" compositional approach without the garbled sound quality and unidentifiable instrument noises.
Neutrality is an ideal that i think wikipedia strives for, but is impossible to ever reach. Hopefully it tends ever more towards it as time goes on.

Like everything, wikipedia is certainly shaped, both consiously and unconciously by the people who write it.

Anyways, i think whether or not it is "neutral" is kind of the wrong question, because nothing really is in the absolute. The interesting question is how is it relative to other information sources. Ancedotally i think its pretty good, but this is a terrible question to answer ancedotally as that might just mean i agree with its biases or i just look at the right parts of wikipedia (wikipedia's quality is hardly uniform across all topics)
This similarity is constructed. Namespacing is largely about entry points into kernel data structures, while cgroups are a form of active accounting. They are orthogonal, and the existence of the cgroups namespace (=the intersection of both) illustrates that.
It does not seem conversational though
I wonder about the popularity. There are a number of examples in the long Microsoft Terminal issue discussion about sixels, but very little of it seems to be day-to-day tasks. Whereas people are getting inventive with Unicode in the little ways, from clever progress bars and spinners to tiny but importantly everyday things like arrows in shell prompts.

I just myself wrote a pseudo-window login dialogue (a replacement for the login(1) program for framebuffer terminal emulators that can do Unicode) using MouseText from the Apple IIc, which got added to Unicode version 13 in 2020.

* https://tty0.social/@JdeBP/110373938216006335
Yes and if you’re assuming that’s less than a quarter of the persons income then that’s an income north of 90k. That’s actually far above statistically important incomes even if it doesn’t sound like much to this crowd. Just looking to add some context.

And simply telling such people to go find better paying work is also clearly not going to work for everyone.

Context is important. I suppose I’d rather suggest that people be saving, sure, and doing everything they can to live below their means-knowing full well that’s still a high bar. Things like having roommates, always driving a paid off used car (10-20 years old), not having a car, etc. Manage the ego against hoping on the hedonic treadmill, as others pointed out.

A still better solution would be treating each other better and demanding it from our institutions and representatives. Doesn’t mean everyone should live like a king, but we can do better than the current.
Yet another arms race.
Use this key logging training dataset to generate a simulated realtime response on the usb port.
I've thought about trying to learn the transatlantic accent just for fun but wonder when/if I could use it. It doesn't have the same humor that the fake posh British ones do.
The linked article is good, but I've found myself drawn in to other of the author's writings. I'm both enjoying them and feel like I'm taking something away from them - that's rare in my experience.

I don't have a "top-level" comment specific to the linked article, but I felt compared to share my impression of the site as a whole. If you've got the time, I highly recommend spending some of it reading this site.
dom-proxy is the most recent work, I'm glad it stands out to you
> But ... Apple isn't going to suddenly vanish. It would be a slow fade, and there's plenty of room for different things to happen. All those Mac users aren't going to be in a hurry to run to Windows. It's certainly possible Microsoft could build something attractive to them, but I think it's also quite possible that someone else could too.

I think it would take quite a significant investment — as much or more than e.g. Framework has sunk into building their hardware business — to smooth the desktop Linux experience out enough to appeal to non-developer Mac users. That last "10%" that the desktop Linux is missing is hard. It'd also probably take a unprecedented level of cooperation from hardware component manufacturers to make high quality Linux drivers available for components from day one (the general consumer isn't going to want to wait somewhere between half and a full generation for robust hardware support, as is the case with the components in many prebuilt computers).

That's not impossible but it'd take a confluence of events that I don't see as particularly likely.

> …wouldn't an MS world be better? I am certainly no fan of Windows, but it does seem much more compatible, and usable in broader ecosystems than Macs do.

Compatibility and flexibility are qualities Windows has now at least in part due to meaningful competition. Make no mistake, Microsoft would love to command a walled garden of their own if they could, and in the absence of Macs they could probably boil the frog into making such a thing reality.
He's now the author of a very successful newsletter: https://www.thediff.co/
This is amazing. Pigs do fly
> It's worth noting that the mandatory office attendance doesn't apply to ABK's executives. Recently hired execs like Chief Administrative Officer Brian Bulatao, and Chief Communications Officer Lulu Cheng Meservey, have full-time remote status.

Basically, if we want these rights of remote work, we're going to have to unionize and fight for them.

The elites already have this right.

The lines are being drawn. Fight or acquiesce.
I also barely play games right now:

- lack of time as you

- TBH reality is more interesting than many games. For example 4x games are bullshit comparing to real politico-economic world

- Games more and more focus on graphics so I don't have the machine to run them

- I'm more used to the games of the 90s and early 2000s so modern game design and art direction and story telling don't make a lot of senses to me.
I’m an ER doctor. Here’s how I’m already using ChatGPT to help treat patients
Anthropic's 100k context window is available on Poe
We just added this to Poe, available with the standard Poe Subscription which gives you this, GPT-4, and others.
I literally close the tab when that happens.
I think its economy of scale and time/labor savings.

Right now there is one main assembly line, that almost everyone interacts with during final assembly (especially for the interior of the car). So you might have less efficiency if something goes wrong earlier in the line.

In the unboxed method, it looks like there are five or six main assembly lines running in parallel, and all of the interior work also occurs on these lines for their respective sub-components. Finally assembly in this method should literally just be bolting the sub-components together, attaching wiring adaptors, and you should have a working car.
They hinted that this was a way to downsize, and it doesn't seem implausible. There's no severance pay if you quit.
So if you submitted the US Constitution word for word for your assignment you wouldn't expect the cheating detector to flag it? How isn't this flagrant plagiarism?
True! Almost all of my extended family lives in South Louisiana and many have quite thick Cajun accents. When I spend too much time around them, I end up sounding a bit different when I get home.
> Mark has been an excellent CEO by all measures.

Facebook has a pretty terrible reputation with almost all demographic groups, so he hasn't been excellent by all measures.
I find it strange that it seemingly isn't mentioned in the top comments but the thing that killed Vice was simple:
twitter.

It took down a lot of cultural media landmarks by usurping their relevance, Vice was one of the big ones.

They needed to move at the speed of gossip with takes that were truly original in order to survive. they didn't.
Clear, yes, that is indeed a problem. I haven't personally encountered this to be a huge problem, but that might be ecosystem dependent.
For starters, you need to define what you consider success and failure. If it's to make a ton of money, you should probably reconsider your options right there. If it's to spend a bunch of time learning and thinking about a topic that may be something else. If it's just a fun side project (just wrapping up another one of those), that's fine too.