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Idea: allow some weird Unicode operators like Julia does. Then it’ll be clear the weird operator is doing something weird and new. And this already works in other languages. There are lots of Unicode
We really need an EV-like fast charger standard for electronics.

I want to dump 1000W in to charge the battery as fast as possible. Lose the heat through boiling water or something I don't care.
He's obviously (mostly) joking. What's telling though is how many people in this thread are taking the suggestion seriously.
it seems like it’s going to be messy or a pain to maintain with the whole salt water thing, does it seem like there are lasting effects? brain plasticity changes due to the stimulation or potentially the opposite where you get rebound like with drugs where you are less effective after they wear off than you were before taking them?
Completely agreed. I was a marketing director for about a year and a half, and I stepped back from it because I was personally spending about 60 hours a week on items I would consider management, which I've never been that interested in. I'm interested in leadership; in building productive relationships; and excelling as both a marketer and developer.

If I'd had a secretary or assistant or something to handle keeping on top of projects and KPIs, I would have been able to focus on being great as a leader. Alas, that wasn't an option, so I got out of the way for someone who excels as a manager to take my place.

On the plus side (and admittedly an aside as well), stepping out of that role allowed me to write and publish a book in 6 months, which is something I'd always wanted to do but couldn't find the time for.
Read any book by Vaclav Smil if you want to understand the space of energy and not live in fantasy land.

There is no way solar is going to overtake everything by 2027.

I wish that was the case, it would be awesome but that is just not going to happen.

This fantasy land stuff is so counterproductive because when it doesn't happen it causes people to question the entire idea.

How the World Really Works is Smil's book to counter fantasy land stuff like this article but the problem is there is a true believer contingent that that is just not interested in the real world.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is simply uneducated, ignorant or a true believer themselves.

The fundamental problem is reflected in Smil's writing. The space of energy is incredibly complex and an incredibly dry read. It couldn't lend itself less to news articles and social media posts. So we end up with this ridiculous two sided argument between climate change denial morons and climate fanatics who think solar is going to overtake everything by 2027 and to think otherwise is to be one of the climate change denial morons.

It is fucking pathetic.
Telly (and similar) is the Pied Piper and the children the people who follow along for his free music and entertainment.

Though I get it’s a stretch - I re-read the story so it’s fresh on my mind.
I think everyone arguing about whether a CEO actually can/should be replaced by an AI are missing the point of the article…
So much this. And also this applies to many roles. I heard similar from people who ran buying and merchandising teams at my old company: “Why are they paying me to file my expense report? An assistant could do this and then I could spend an additional hour doing my job!!”

I hadn’t ever really thought about this until then. It seems like most companies just think “having an assistant or secretary is extravagance” so obviously they can’t afford it. But if they really knew what kind of unskilled grunt work highly-paid people spend so much time doing I think they would change their minds.
I like Zigs justification for not having general purpose operator overloading (no hidden function calls and loops)

But I wish they added:

1. Ability to declare completely pure functions that have no loops except those which can be evaluated at compile time. Something with similar constraints as eBPF in other words. These could be useful in many contexts.
2. Ability to explicitly import overloaded operators, that can only be implemented using these pure guaranteed-to-finish-in-a-fixed-number-of-cycles functions.

Then you'd get operator overloading that can be used to implement any kind of mathematical function, but not all kinds of crazy DSL-like stuff which is outside the scope of Zig (I have nothing against that, I've done crazy stuff in Ruby myself, but it's not suitable for Zig)
No.

It is honestely unpredictable. And it concerns only GIGANTIC neural nets several orders of magnitude above a human brain (Telsa giga factory size, minimum).
You don't need AI for this; almost anyone in a farming area knows of an old cow, pig, or chicken. There's always someone who keeps one around almost as a pet for various reasons.

I know someone who has some backyard chickens what going on 11 years now; most of the flock has passed (or been eaten by predators), but the remaining few continue to lay eggs (except for the rooster, that lazy ass - should have got one from Kansas).
Depending on your application, setting up SPF and DKIM can be complicated. And typically not having it set up is not a security issue, it may affect deliverability of your outgoing email, but is not a vulnerability.

(and indeed many beg bounties are about SPF or DKIM, because whatever automated tools they use to find the low hanging fruit didn't find anything more substantial).
> They were forced to by the shift of ad budgets from print to more targeted advertising

Indeed. As with almost everything else terrible about the world today, the root of the problem is targeted-advertising-based business models.
True, but if you look at the top-performing companies, they tend to be driven by risk-taking, rule-breaking leaders.
On linux, there is a ~/.config directory, yet devs who think they know everything still pointlessly litter my home directory...

Don't litter your web root either ;)
The majority of my notes are my journal entries and my thoughts. I treat it as sort of a digital "time capsule". I do have other kinds of notes, but I weed them out when they're no longer wanted. For fun, I like making the digital equivalent of scrapbooks (documents with photos and text arranged in a creative way) on subjects that interest me.
I'm going to take a wild guess that 90+% of things we describe as 'autoimmune' are in fact initially caused by some bacteria/virus/pollution we haven't yet identified.

I'd like to see research done on mice to reduce the number of viruses and bacteria they are exposed to - for example by sterilizing all air, water, and food for many generations. Then see which ailments go away.
Global fertility is sharply declining below replacement
Oh cool, I didn't realize this was an extension. Orion has it built in as a Develop menu item.
Open Translate, open-source Google Translate alternative based on GPT-4
I think if the spacebar were smaller, that's almost as good.

Or, well, just treat the row with the 6U key as an additional bottom row.
"Chess also has a rigid, well-defined set of rules. Business does not"

I believe every MBA Program, Management Department and Executive Coach would beg to differ
As a kid in 1983, I knew exactly what Mazda's truck cost, although it had inexorably increased to $5,995 by the time I had this jingle memorized.

https://youtu.be/SOjL-3oJlCM
Similar experience here. Years ago I got emails from Mozilla for a few days in a row about failed login attempts to my account from a certain IP. I did a WHOIS on that and I obtained that it belonged to Fastweb, it was likely some household's dynamic IP. I emailed the listed Fastweb's abuse email address a couple of times, but never got any reply. The login attempts stopped, but I would say probably because whoever was doing it figured out they weren't able to guess my password, not because Fastweb actually did something about it.
I don't think developers in general are cheap, it's that they are employed somewhere and therefore it doesn't benefit THEM to save time, it benefits their employer. It may even be detrimental to the developer as it put higher expectations on the developer to produce more if the suddenly perform better at a specific task..
Ummm... how is this news? Just ask anyone with multiple sclerosis.
Try Fedora. It just works.
How do you have time for friends besides your spouse after you do jour job, chores, fitness, sleping, education, side projects and random tasks which emerge every now and then? I do have some great friends but only meet them a couple of times a week even though they live very close to me.
There is https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/std but it's not always been correct, and the descriptions are lacking. The new one should hopefully fix that.

Personally I've never had an issue reading through the source for zig std, and if your editor supports it you can just 'go to implementation' on most things. Hopefully the code remains relatively readable since I find it preferable to see the actual code + some basic tests rather than trying to navigate those documentation sites.
How about MDM that doesn't slow every employee's laptop to a crawl? That's the real white whale of cyber sec.
This Wikipedia page is worth a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlocking_directorate
Get ready, Snowflakes: Azure AI is coming for you with one click
How many data points are you using to come to this conclusion about “men” and “women”?
This already happened once, in the 80s. A massive reduction of the 'middle class', by eliminating massive amounts of middle management.

Managers aren't overhead, it's an absurd statement, because it's an absolute. Managers allow leaders to extend their reach. Absolutely no leader can scale beyond a certain point. At all.

Managers allow for that. They're essential, beyond a certain org size.

Now, I will agree that some should not be managers! But that is the same for any profession. You need to churn, to chop off those not performing, or poorly suited to the task.
This just .. doesn't seem that useful compared to the normal devtools. It is also noticeably laggy, based on the demo on your site, with pop-in/FOUC. Definitely not worth $30/m for me. That pricing just seems way unrealistic compared to the value proposition. Easy pass for me.
In my experience, so purely subjective, high-paid leaders/managers spend upwards of 90% of their time on things that do not justify the pay. The same was true for me. I can't tell you how often I felt simultaneously underpaid for the value I COULD bring, and radically overpaid for the work I was required to perform.
We'll see how successful the autogenerated clickbait farms end up being. But nothing you're saying is really making a case for the company needing a visionary human intelligence for its CEO. If the entire business model of the company is strictly determined by external conditions, then the whole thing seems ripe for automation.
Orgs tell Slack to stop slacking when it comes to full encryption
Has anyone in the history of capitalism ever identified themselves as "middle management"?

I think most people associate the term middle management with the guy immediately above them.

Honestly, a lot of this resembles the "If only the Tsar knew!" mentality in old, imperial Russia.
Well that's a shockingly fitting. You've got the king or several dukes who own all the land/assets, the middle management barons and the serfs who do the actual work and get a small share as payment.
How exactly is "marriage" failing?

This notion that two people being in a long term relationship can somehow suffer systemic failure or attack is bizzare.

No objection re: children though. We've done an absolute number there via cost of living.
It's your servers fault for dressing in vulnerable clothing.
I understand your point but $30 more per month to have a web inspector that is slightly nicer in some way but also much more limited in many other ways is expensive. Monthly subscriptions adds up and not everyone has too much money.
Right. As I mentioned above I dont think it's a good idea either. Not energy dense enough.
In what concerns userspace, I don't see any good case, if I want a better C, without much features, I rather stick to Go even if I dislike some of the design decisions.

Or D, Nim, Swift, OCaml, Haskell, AOT C#, AOT Java,...

If any kind of automatic memory isn't possible/allowed, I would be reaching out for Rust, not a language that still allows for use-after-free errors.

Maybe it is a good language for those that would like to have Modula-2 with a C like syntax, and metaprogramming capabilities, and are ex-Objective-C developers.
I don't like anyone as much as I like my wife, straight up. It's incredible to have a partner that acts as my actual 'other half'. We are two sides of the same coin. It's an amazing thing. I can't, nor do I want to, get that close to other people.
They are a great set of articles. Kevin is a fountain of retro games knowledge and very interesting to talk to, as a bonus.
maybe they are failing for good reason? I am in split worlds of being from traditional society and adopting a western outlook. I constantly feel the push and pull between both worlds.
> The mind-reading stuff is still a fantasy and will be so also in the future.

Haha, of course they don't literally read our minds, but with enough data, it's possible to gather a lot about the way a person thinks
Well I dare say, before civilization, when people lived in small tribes, there was no privacy in your tribe.

But now, comparing to back then, all other "tribes" can see what you are doing.
I like Zig as a concept, but every time I've tried it, the toolchain lacked good IDE and debugger support. I've tried some plugins half a year ago but they either didn't work reliably or they missed important features. I'm personally sticking with Rust until the day comes that I can just add a VSCode/Clion plugin that'll give me an interactive debugger with full autocomplete support without fiddling around too much.

There's a lot to like with Zig, despite its unconvential syntax and some language decisions I personally disagree with. The language is still in development but it's very promising and I'll definitely try to learn it before it reaches that magical 1.0 release.
If you go grab something like eXoDOS or eXoWin you will quickly find out how true your statement is. Think that collection has something like 7k titles in it. But only maybe 100-200 are worth actually playing for very long. Think archive.org has an online version of it. That can be randomly broken as some games require particular versions of dosbox to work correctly and archive org only uses one. The full exodos install has whatever is needed to make it work.

Also at this point we have a 'language' of how to play most of these types of games. During that period they were trying to figure out what that 'language' was. So playability can be very challenging at times. That can include visual cues, graphical expectations, sound, and controls.
There's no accounting for taste, but the two major publicly available engines (Unreal and Unity) both use operator overloading in their standard math types.
> the MVP is trying to start with a better inventory of everything

That's a logical place to start and it definitely seems like a common weak point. It's also hard to justify spending in this area since it's not emphasized in compliance and it's hard to explain why it's important in a blurb.

> Do you have a reliable ... inventory

As you allude to, it seems pretty common to have multiple existing inventory sources and no way to integrate them. To me, the most intractable part of the problem was, ironically, workstations and servers. They are managed by different people using different tools and neither of these groups want additional security agents on their systems. Also, these types of agents tend to be prohibitively expensive when you have thousands of endpoints.

> systems themselves decide to mitigate issues, propagate patches

This seems problematic. I really don't want the security system breaking things without staff intervention. Security already gets blamed for any unexplained problems that desktop, servers, networking, and development have.
Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds say
well this took a few years off my life
People forget the plan recommended by Brooks in the Mythical Man Month. Surgical teams with delegated duties led by an experienced surgeon. Positions of a secretary, language lawyer, documentation writer, (and others I forget). I would love to just once work or lead such team.
> I want to see an affirmative argument that this is how our brains work.

I don't know why you think this matters.

I don't care at all if this is how our brains work - I care that the result is obviously analogous to what we call creativity - there are only so many ways you can arrange a 1kx1k pixel grid. Human digital artists explore that space, Machines can explore that space.

We happen to like some parts of that space more than others, and so we guide the machines to explore those parts more heavily.

So...

> Why is your default hypothesis that neural networks are analogous to human brains?

Because I can see that they are obviously capable of a similar skill.

Does it matter that your earth-mover is using hydraulics and not human muscles? Fuck no. It's digging.

Does it matter that this AI is using pre-trained weights and not human brain flesh? Fuck no. It's digging.

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Now - entirely outside of that discussion: I also happen to think modern copyright is one of the absolute worst abuses in human history (and it's getting significantly worse right now, with forced rentals, digital oversight, locked down devices, DMCA, etc)

Our cultural heritage is OURS: collectively. I am not thrilled, but accept, the original intent of 7 years copyright with 7 years renewal.

I am absolutely, morally, ethically, opposed to modern copyright of "Life of author + 70 years."

It means that as adults, we cannot tell the stories we heard as children in our own voices. We cannot bridge our culture between generations. We have sold our soul to fucking mickey fucking mouse.

Fuck that bullshit. I'd rather steal it all than play that game.
This does look really cool and its really responsive and definitely a very handy tool.

For me personally I wouldn't use it enough to justify the price tag. Depending on your business plan it might make sense to offer some kind of day/week pass. This would definitely interest me as I would be more of a infrequent user.
It absolutely does benefit me to save time, because writing css by hand is one of the most soul-crushingly boring tasks imaginable. Sure my employer also benefits, but that's only if I use that saved time to write more code. Maybe I use the extra time to walk my dog.
There are two major differences there, each related to one of the primary reasons (IMO) that people do stupid things like that:

Reason 1: Profit motive: No one's going to be making a profit off of hooking an AI up to nukes.

Reason 2: For the lulz: This is the kind of thing that happens when you have very broad access to the elements in question. Since access to nukes is very tightly restricted, and their usage controlled by significant parts of governments, it's vanishingly unlikely that either a conscious collective decision will be made to hook up an AI to nukes for the hell of it, or that someone will be able to do so on their own.

And yes, I know that there are lost nuclear weapons, which means both that a) there are some out there not under government control, and b) governments can be careless with them—but frankly, any non-governmental actor known to be holding a nuke would have to be considered a top-level threat no matter what they had making the decisions about whether and how to use it.
Traditional Catholicism.

“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it.”

Doesn’t take more than a minute of reflection to figure out why we interpret it this way.

Edit @avar to your question ("posting too fast"): https://gist.github.com/gjsman/d928b0db53cc2a4bacf37d4e45543...
>Developers, my only word of advice, is seriously.. stop being so cheap and spend some money to make your lives easier.

>but I can guarantee that 99% of developers will not spend $30/month to make their lives easier.

Your post is insulting and it really seems like it is an ad for this product.
I'm Norwegian, but have lived in London the last 23 years.

In Norway, May 1st is more celebration than protest. So imagine my shock walking home my first May 1st in London and encountering the Met kettling protestors with riot units with shields and horses... Norwegian police does not handle demonstrations great either, but I've never seen anything in Norway like the way the Met handles demonstrations unless/until things get violent. At least in London they seem to often presume demonstrations will get nasty ahead of time, but the problem with that is that it's far easier for people to justify e.g. throwing stuff at a police unit in riot gear hiding behind shields and trying to kettle you than regular police units keeping to the sidelines unless/until something happens.

Not been arrested, but had a few interactions with police here as a witness or because they had queries, and similar feeling that I wasn't putting myself at risk by being open and honest. Of course, I'm white and live in a relatively middle class area and while that makes less of a difference here than it appears to do in the US, the Met has a pretty poor record in that respect too.
As an individual, I want privacy of course.

But is privacy really important to mankind?

If we look at mankind as an organism, the organism can function better if each part knows what the other part is doing. If the left hand knows what the right hand does.

Isn't it the same with mankind? Maybe a society is more efficient without privacy. And more efficiency of the society would benefit its members.
but it's surely not rocket science to determine the effects of it, right? it's either so bad that a civilization can die from it, or decidedly not? especially if it's been used in recent times in Chicago, which didnt go extinct like Rome. So I'm not sure why this theory always gets reluctantly dragged along, it's either true or false.
3M is sunsetting their PFAS business at a cost of almost $2.3B. If they are voluntarily doing so, consider what future costs might be.

https://www.reuters.com/business/3m-stop-making-forever-chem...
This is so true that people who do not have kids cannot understand how much it affects every aspect of your life; if your friends are not also in the settling down and having kids portion of their life, you will inevitably drift apart (not saying you won't remain friends, but you will go from not having to work at it to having to consciously schedule "play dates" if you will).

And you will find you have new friends unrelated to your interests and driven by your children; because you will be at the park watching them play with their friends and end up being friendly with the other parents.
> I'm going to take a wild guess that 90+% of things we describe as 'autoimmune' are in fact initially caused by some bacteria/virus/pollution we haven't yet identified.

As a wild guess probably a bit high but viruses like EBV are being increasingly suggested as causative of many autoimmune diseases.

> I'd like to see research done on mice to reduce the number of viruses and bacteria they are exposed to - for example by sterilizing all air, water, and food for many generations. Then see which ailments go away.

May not be the panacea you expect, on the other hand some people think too clean is the problem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis
Linux 6.5 Scheduler Patch Will to Help AMD Systems with Multiple LLCs per Die
https://archive.is/ROoJN
I don’t think I’ve ever had a legitimate use for Reddit chat… the only time I’ve ever been messaged is by spambots and any redditor I care to message is also on some other platform that does messaging better.