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> not keeping spare parts available b/c of frequent iterations applied during production

I think part of this also is that Elon is obsessed with the numbers. Deliveries, deliveries, deliveries. To him, every part sitting waiting on a shelf for service, repair, etc., is a part not going on a new build.

People needing service can wait, because they have no choice. The quarterly numbers can't wait.
> You seem to be missing the rather important point that chemical elements are a thing.

I fundamentally disagree with this. Elements are a human-created categorization of atoms (granting that atoms are real) by atomic number.

> Maybe author/title/year? No. For one, I’m sure you can find distinct books that share these values.

Author/title/year is very much like atomic number: extremely useful and sufficient for very many practical purposes. But when dealing with books, sometimes we need more than author/title/year, and when dealing with atoms, sometimes we need more than atomic number.

Atomic number is a natural key to the elements, because it's part of the definition of element.

This is why natural keys don't exist in nature, but can exist for things we invent: because a key uniquely identifies any member of a set. A key makes every possible distinction. When we categorize things, we select some distinctions (such as the number of protons in an atom's nucleus) and throw away others (such as the number of neutrons.) The enumeration and definition of relevant distinctions is necessary for the existence of a key. We defined the elements, and as a result of how we defined them, they have a key. When we define a book table in a database, it has a key as a consequence of how it is defined.

If we don't define the set ourselves, as our invention, it is impossible to anticipate all of the possible distinctions between members, so it is impossible to construct a key.
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I found turning off the Desktop to be helpful:

defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false && killall Finder
Most code is simple business logic, boilerplate, and tests.
SpaceX regularly lands rockets vertically on floating barges in the middle of the ocean. Tesla broke open and is dominating the electric car market. What on earth are you talking about.
It won't be used for showering, bathing, flushing toilets, washing clothes, washing dishes, watering plants, washing cars, filling pools, or other outdoor water usage. How much does it increase a household's water usage?
If you want to OCR specific text you can use Textsniper on Mac and draw a box on whatever part of the screen you want to capture. I'm guessing under the hood it's just using Apple's OCR tech, which does work very well (at least if you're on Apple Silicon, it's not quite so fast on my 2015 Intel Macbook Pro)
Thank you for taking time to reply.

What does the roadmap look like around establishing some sort of multi-tier architecture within the CF product stack?

I imagine I could hack something together today by combining CF workers and another hyperscaler to run my .NET workload (TCP connection definitely helps with this!), but I think that there would still be a lot of friction with operations, networking, etc at scale. Ideally, workers and backend would be automagically latency-optimized and scaled relative to each other.
To add to the concerns, imagine a small town which mostly conducts transactions within the community.

Why should they effectively pay a +2% that will never return to it and go to a processor far away?
I'm not sure if I'd be surprised either way. Either they don't track bills because it costs too much money, or they do track bills because they've found a way to monetize the data.

I scarcely use ATMs at this point because they won't hand out "large" bills. Inflation will be the real driver of cashless adoption, as the absurd number of $20 bills (and eventually, $100 bills) you need to pay for anything these days makes using cash too difficult for the average person.
Eh, my experience is that dealing with cash is much more expensive than people think (to be fair, most people think it's "free" since there are no direct fees). At some places I've worked in the past, it's been like almost the only responsibility of a manager working full time. Making sure everything is in order, watch over workers, training them on all procedures, going to the bank to buy change, counting tills all the time, etc etc. Sooo many man hours going into this.
Crypto fixes this to some extent, but would require a chain that could handle a large volume of small transactions.
The marketplace of ideas relies on everyone in it being some kind of purely rational actor who seeks truth. In reality, it can be to your benefit to believe something that isn't true, to get an out-group punished and yourself elevated. People will change what they believe or what they say the believe based on who is in the room with them. You have incentives to believe in certain things. This is going to affect what you choose to post yourself as well as what you upvote.

Attempting to measure, in real time, the validity or the popularity of an idea provides a perverse incentive. I honestly believe there is simply no way to do this.

Maybe the closest is by returning comments in random order on every load, and hiding all likes/upvotes on any comment for a set period of time. Even returning comments chronologically gives precedence to ideas that occur often, even if they are posted by the same user. This is however not a "fun game" and unlikely to be successful as a site.

Even with this, I think you would still end up with sites having a definite lean one way or another on certain issues, as users mentally total up they kinds of comments that reached the top after the results were revealed and users self-select into or out of the site.

So probably the "best" way is just random, always, and never show any rankings at all. People are free to rank the comments mentally based on their own incomplete information, potentially poor reasoning skills, and their own incentives. But that's the best you can do.
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It would be interesting if Nvidia went this route. They've got the chops to design a competitive modern ARM core, plus experience with the more difficult GPU/vector processing units. They kinda signaled their interest with the attempted ARM purchase a while ago, but that fizzled out quick.

That ship has sailed, though. The licensing of ARM puts them in an unfavorable position, which only incentivizes Nvidia to focus on GPU sales and RISC-V skunkworks. They've still got their Grace ARM system coming "soon", but I'd be surprised if they bothered to update their current Orin systems. It feels like no one besides Apple and maybe Qualcomm have an incentive to deliver consumer ARM hardware right now. To compete with Apple you need a custom core, and building a custom core takes time and money. The few stakeholders who can deliver a quality ARM experience are probably scheming to cut ARM out of the picture entirely.
just watching this headline rattle around the internet the last week or so has been hilarious.
And you often can't.
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These are clever strategies!

I'm too lazy to move things out of ~/Downloads, so I've just started using the folder as my default working directory and struggle to clean it out every quarter or so.
/tmp (or probably ~/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems for my account only) being cleaned out on every reboot would force me to be more intentional.
>who do you hang out with/kick crazy ideas with?

I am not sure what you mean. I work on some side projects alone and ideas are my own.

>learn new things from?

Internet has all the information I'd ever need.
> We do not vote for Presidents in India.

The fact that they are elected by electoral college does not make them non-democratic or non-elected. We live in a representative democracy.

> As a fellow NRI, this is counter to what I hear from my fellow Indians. There is a ton of optimism around jobs, infrastructure growth and economic policies that are finally opening up the nation

One wouldn't rely on anecdotal evidence to justify policy. For example my own experience is the opposite of yours. I hear complains about unemployment, lack of safety for women, cost of living crisis, lack of safety of Muslims.

> Every big nation that has successfully escaped poverty has done so through suffocatingly authoritarian means

Just because others failed doesn't mean we should too. Keep in Mind that the Republic of India has survived until now, and people at it's inception said it wouldn't.
I'll take this opportunity to advocate for 'payment network neutrality' - given their importance in the economy, I agree payment processors should be required to process all lawful transactions, by law. We should require this of any national payments processor in the US at the federal level - or state, I'm looking at you, CA and NY.
Changing the screenshot settings to make copying the image to your clipboard is good advice, it's one of the first things I do on a new Mac. I take maybe half a dozen screenshots a day, and the workflow is almost always pasting them into Slack or Jira; I don't need my OS to save a local copy on my desktop.

I'm not sure I get the advantage of putting things into a tmp directory. If I have to move things out of there to avoid them being deleted automatically, that seems like about the same amount of work as just archiving important downloads and then deleting everything in ~/Downloads once in a while. And safer too. By that logic, you might as well just save your downloads in the Trash.
This reminded me https://www.wheresgeorge.com/ in the USA has been doing it a while as well. Had no idea it was still going strong all these years later.
Thanks! We've changed to that from https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/05/cloudflare-workers-connec....
There were plenty of projects that were announced before BJP came to power and was never implemented. Congress was elected twice to implement these very things. Instead they spent all their time indulging in communal nonsense and high ticket corruption. To just put it into perspective: The Finance Minister P Chidambaram (during UPA era) castigated Modi for launching Digital India when he said it makes no sense considering India is not connected with Internet to the last village [1]. And that it will be a failure. The entire Opposition made fun of it in 2017.

So no matter if you have great ideas, if you do not even believe in those ideas let alone execute on them it is as good as dead ideas.

We would have progressed rapidly had UPA not indulged in corruption and working tirelessly to convict Modi in the Gujarat riots cases and instead focused its efforts on doing some actual developmental work, many of those ideas rightfully was thought of in its time (which i'll give credit for). But they lacked big time on execution. Modi had a proven track record in Gujarat which helped him beat Congress in 2014 elections. He just has brought most of Congress's plans to fruition which Congress doesn't like for obvious reasons.

UPA losing power is its own doing more than BJP's coming to power. Heck even Modi keeps taunting Congress in the Parliament saying that most of the policies that Congress opposes today was all their own plans that they never brought to life. That's the reason the Opposition is unable to counter BJP. BJP is just doing exactly what the Opposition promised in its manifesto when it came to development but never delivered.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/qlky5t/mps_who...
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Many Mullvad customers migrated from there to Mullvad in the first place after Kape Tech bought them.

Kape Tech , at the time, had a less than stellar reputation. I haven't followed it much since that time.
In Cologne, like many German towns, ice and snow is an issue about two weeks a year (in a cold year). And even then, that's what the city's road clearing services are for.
Yep, and hat tip to the government for a job well done. There's a right and a wrong way to protest, they were given time to choose to do it right. Now that the threat is over and dispersed they're welcome to come back and protest peacefully. For an end to the vaccine mandates, that ended already. Silly sausages.

For reference, the Emergencies Act doesn't 'suspend the constitution' it suspends certain Charter rights for a period of time. [1]

You may be thinking of the 'notwithstanding clause' but that's totally different.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergencies_Act
I think my message is, don't lose sight on the mission of the software that you're shipping.

My story is, I found a bug in some new equipment that would've broken 911 calls. While other engineers were just trying to reboot random equipment to make the problem go away, I insisted we pause to figure it out. Turns out, due to a couple of bugs, the new network equipment could only handle a couple of 911 calls before failing.

This was for a national cellular network... so 911 was kind of important.
Fantasies never come true.
EU politics truly are the masterclass in idiotism.
Indeed. 22% would be more than most cities' current plans will achieve... but we actually need 100% reductions in 15 years (to achieve only 1.5-2 degrees Celsius of global temperature rise).
Did we read the same article?

I thought it was cautious, nuanced but essentially positive.
Telling your employees not to communicate with customers in any other way but live voice is not normal.
How did businesses manage payments before the Internet and credit cards etc?
yeah. anything I can just redownload later I shove in downloads, anything I create or can't likely be redownloaded easily goes to documents
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I have a use case for Joker. Babashka doesn't support *BSD because GraalVM doesn't, so on *BSD your options are Joker and https://github.com/babashka/nbb. I wrote a short comment comparing them: https://github.com/babashka/babashka/issues/721#issuecomment....
in the case of What.CD there was a community of music makers that released exclusively or very close to the tracker community.

One of the great losses from the shutdown of that site was the destruction of that creative community.
Uber will happily take card in the app or cash to the driver here. Just select before calling the car.
WS = WebSocket? I think integrating with the Discord API would've been one use case until they added the slash commands & webhooks.

But looks like Discord Gateway blocks CF Workers: https://github.com/discord/discord-api-docs/issues/6145#issu...
One thing it’s good for is finding things that are hard to search for, another is doing simple text-based tasks that you could automate but it’s only a few things and it’s easier to just explain the problem, or for generating simple code that has a lot of boilerplate that does a relatively easy thing…

It’s not perfect, but it definitely is useful from time to time as long as you’re aware of the limitations
For me all downloads go to the desktop, once used/done it gets removed/moved. It's like a to-do list with icons.
Nice. Does this persist after upgrades?
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First days, you don't need all stores, a few is enough.

After a few days, I guarantee even the big ones will manage the inventory with pen and paper, with the blessing of the boss and the gov.

But even without all that, having the ability to have a black market in a time of crisis is priceless.
if we follow that logic photoshop and pdf editors are hacking tools
Me too, but that worked because you were comfortable! Sitting in a chair, looking at a screen. You didn't have a heavy, sweaty headset on. There was no pretense of waving your hands around to use a sword. Like when reading a book, your mind can put you in the world, just like a book or a movie can.

This is the same reason 3D movies never work, the tech isn't there, and even if it was, I'm not convinced people would prefer it.
That's an interesting thought. Obviously one can present this stuff as just in-line text instead of using images, with appropriate styles for monospacing and colours (although that does then highlight that these fancy prompts often make unwarranted assumptions about what's in the Unicode Private Use Area). There are many WWW pages out there doing exactly that. But I for one have not heard of a tool that can screenshot a text terminal emulator's buffer straight into HTML.
3d printers are very safe and reliable, mine detects crashes via the current through the motor controller with no extra hardware (not that it's ever crashed)

cost/benefit analysis is the heart of engineering, and that applies to redundant safety and error detection hardware as well
Understood, though consuming the sausage (as an end user) is often a very different exercise than making it, so to speak. Battery tradeoffs are a real consideration for end consumers, though are not as much an issue within a development environment where the test device is tethered to the host development machine.

To each, one's own.
On the other hand, this technology has been around for 30 years. The feature in question reaches back to the earliest mobile phones. Not smartphones - think earlier than Nokia 3310.

On the gripping hand, "silence.mp3" has been the solution for the author's "mom problem" for a good 20 years too. I hope they don't mean to imply you can't assign individual ringtones to contacts on stock Android? Even the K800i I had as a teenager supported that.

On the yet another hand (we're moving fast into octopod territory here), for a moment here I was wondering what the author was smoking with the "ringtone & notifications" complaint. I don't remember seeing an Android phone that did not have separate volume slider for each. Then I realized, I never actually owned a stock Android phone. Still, to support the author's point against Google specifically, Samsung managed to not have this problem for at least 10 years now.
It's more expensive to know.
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same, but instead of backup, I just delete the biggest unimportant files. I can last for years doing that, until I change Linux distro, new laptop, or just a fresh install
Nobody is screwing anybody over when the water supply is not poisoned (which is the case for nearly every European country). The basis of "contract over status" that let us advance beyond feudalism is mutual assent (or do no harm to the counterparty). What you're describing is essentially centralized tyranny and comes in many forms ("think of the children!")

And no, your health insurance / social retirement example doesn't fit. Sticking to the default in these cases does not amount to willingly poisoning oneself.
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But it's precisely those complicated parts though that seem like they should be solved by now. The solution is both of the problems is for when traffic gets unexpectedly high either behind a NAT or globally, everybody gets a CATPCHA when gives you a token and then you continue to rate-limit each token. (If users log in then each login already does this, no CAPTCHA needed.) This strategy is basically what e.g. CloudFlare does with the CAPTCHAs.

Obviously if someone is attempting a large-scale DDoS your servers can't handle it and you'll be using CloudFlare for its scale. But otherwise, for basic protection against greedy spiders who are even trying to evade detection across a ton of VPN/cloud IP's, this strategy works fine. It's exactly the kind of thing that I would expect any large website to implement.

If there isn't an open-source tool that does this, I wonder why not. Or if there is, I wonder why IA isn't using something like it. But heck, IA wasn't even using a simple version -- it was just 64 IP addresses where basic rate-limiting would have worked fine.
Or it's accessible for those who operate without banks. I think there is a term for it, "unbanked" or something like that... there's some decent chunk of the population that doesn't have a bank account / can't get a credit card / etc.
Well written article, but most of the "harms" described (aside from the Therac-25) are a direct result of attempting to replace human-to-human contact with technology.

1) Instead of relying on a phone alarm to wake you up, use a device designed for that purpose, or request a wake-up call (on a landline, if you have one).

2) Overcome the conflict between having a phone and not wanting to answer it.

3) When unusual and specific instructions are required, make sure you speak with a person to confirm them.
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You know this concept is in indian, korean and japanese cultures as well. A friend insists it is an asian culutural thing but I hard disagree, but I do understand I need to learn more.

Outside of Europe, just about every society in the "old" world has this concept. You basically live for your parents and then also for your children. Parents use the pride and disappointment as ways to control the future of their child and children strive to become the perfect child.

I'll give you an example: what immigrant ethnicities dominate medicine in the US? Indian, Nigerian, east asian. And the people I have spoken to largley attribute their parent's desire as the main/initial motivator for choosing such a difficult field.

I'll say this, ancestor worship is only in some societies that are mostly asian (to my knowledge), that includes concepts like the way you live honors or displeases your ancestors who can bless or curse you in real time.

It isn't jusr filial piety but piety towards elders. When I started watching east asian dramas many years ago, I kept thinking how their dramas reminded me of so many other cultures outside of asia.

My theory is that even europe used to be this way pre-renaisance. Any society that had arranged marriages meant parents did the arranging to the most part. It is difficult for me to imagine allowing your parent to decide who you will be stuck with for the rest of your life without filial piety.

Of course, I don't mean to suggest specific countries' concept of filial piety is unique and shouldn't be studied on it's own like this. Just pointing out that there are more non-western countries outside of asia that still follow this concept than there aren't.
Author here, sorry about that :(

Such software attract all kind of people including the casuals who end up creating github issues for problems that can be solved with a single google search or reading the docs. I got tired of multiple issues regarding ffmpeg and ended up dropping this in there. Not very proud.
Multilayer perceptrons literally are bad. Machine Learning industry is a complete joke because trivial stuff like this is all it has.

It would honestly take less time for biologists to trap a brain in a jar and force it to do things than anyone in this joke of an industry will create real intelligent algorithm that can think for itself.

Oh wait, I also forgot to mention that in our politically correct clown society, free thinking is illegal so AI by literal definition is illegal in the first place because it may just happen that it starts to be a little bit racist despite otherwise being amazingly intelligent and better than humans at solving certain tasks.
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I'd prefer not to spend 5% to get 2% back.
Thanks for the suggestions! I really like the idea of adding an 'ask me' feature, and I'll definitely think about how to implement it. Right now, I'm working on creating an About Us page to share more about the team behind this project. I agree that the design could be improved, but I wanted to launch something quickly to validate the idea.

Once again, I appreciate your advice. It's really helpful, and I'll take it into consideration as I continue to develop and make enhancements.