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I’m just kind of … aghast … at the thought of reviving UseNet.

Mastodon seems to be a good canary, to see how decentralization works. It’s already well under way.

But I’m just a scarred, traumatized old soldier, and my opinion probably doesn’t count for much.

Maybe we really do need another alt.tasteless. It would seem quaint, compared to today’s foolishness.
> Tesla was already on its way to making its DC fast charging Supercharger stations interoperable with other non-Tesla EVs.

So far only 11 sites in the US have been retrofitted with the adapter:

https://www.tesla.com/findus?v=2&bounds=57.93427273503574%2C...

But in Europe most Tesla charging sites are open to all EVs now, due to Europe's sensible standardization on CCS type 2 combo. A common charging standard to build to drives investment and infrastructure build out.

It's sad to see North America still flailing about trying to decide something as trivial as which EV plug to use.

> though it’s not known whether GM and Ford will completely remove CCS on future vehicles. But in the meantime, Musk will have to wait a little while longer before he can dance on the grave of CCS

It may not be removed at all. The arrangement may be that they will use the CCS protocol with the Tesla plug, in which case it's still CCS. The plug is the least complicated and least interesting part of the charger.
The discussion seems to suggest moreso that SE wants to be paid for allowing training on the data.
Asking for truck-only transit routes does not necessitate a 6-lane BQE.

But that’s a good first step. Lot’s of other Moses era boondoggles also need to be re-imagined
You could probably write an editor plug in that would abbreviate commands for coding and display, while still using the complete commands for the underlying source code files.
There's more to the story in that Elm is a stable, high-quality frontend language that works as well as its creator wants it to for now. There are a lot of happy Elm users over on the Elm Slack, and it's being used in production at various companies.

There's also [Elm on the Backend](https://gotoaarhus.com/2023/sessions/2529/elm-on-the-backend), a recent talk given by the creator of Elm, about his experiments in using Elm as a full-stack language. There are some notes and a few photos, but no video as far as I'm aware.

I'm not involved in the Elm community nor do I write it for a living though, so I'm only kind of aware of what's going on over in the Elm world.
"Exceptionally" I think you might be thinking its more prophetic than it actually is.
Because generally little aren't mean. It sounds like you think there is more malice in the world than the person who came up with this. I believe there is less massive than you think there is.
The inability to find efficiencies is what leads to ever spiraling costs.

And further we have worst of both worlds. We paid for tech infrastructure costs to support lower staffing but are still paying for all the full staffing.
I'm an emergency physician in a US healthcare system (run by the federal government) whose electronic medical record is apparently written in MUMPS.

Dealing with simultaneous crashing patients and crashing EMRs is a challenge. Daily popups notifying me of out-of-bounds index errors or [insert memory safety error] that I've given up screenshotting and sending to IT, because none of them know MUMPS either. Can't order a critical medication or view the result of a critical lab result because EHR is crashing again...

In spite of at least basic familiarity with bash, python, go, rust, nix, and having at least looked into Haskell, Common Lisp, and a few others... the few snippets of our EHR's backend MUMPS I've seen completely unintelligible to me.

My understanding is that the bus factor for vast swaths of our EMR infra is ~1.
To have specific numbers, the wires for AC charging would be 2-8 gauge depending on max speed.

So the three wires would weigh 1-3 pounds total for six feet of cable.
The system was of course the same, but we as the public have new information about Mercedes' level of confidence and are updating our views.

If a magician bets you $1,000,000 that the card he is holding is the one you chose, are you not going to change your position on how likely it is that he's right?
I mean that's a bus or Bus Rapid Transit, because a train requires dedicated infrastructure and is a fixed route. A bus can route around problems where a train cannot.

In Boston they're trying to connect North Station and South Station, a distance of about 5 miles. The cost is at least $10 billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%E2%80%93South_Rail_Link
Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell Level 3 self-driving vehicles in CA
The license still applies even when the redistribution clause is not being exercised (else any edit on your machine would strip the license!). This is an unremarkable part of the language and of contract law.

If you mix in other code that you don’t have the right to distribute into the GPL code this has the same kind of impact as doing that with non-GPL code.
Because even if they did, would still be worst than many others.

"Ford’s BlueCruise Ousts GM’s Super Cruise as CR’s Top-Rated Active Driving Assistance System - Tesla Autopilot falls to midpack as other high-tech systems improve" (Jan 2023) - https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-safety/active-drivi...

"...Of the 12 ADA systems we just finished testing, Ford BlueCruise came out on top, followed by Cadillac Super Cruise and Mercedes-Benz Driver Assistance. Tesla, once an innovator in ADA with its Autopilot system, fell from its second-place showing in 2020 to seventh this time around—about the middle of the pack. That’s because Tesla hasn’t changed Autopilot’s basic functionality much since it first came out, instead just adding more features to it, says Fisher...

...“After all this time, Autopilot still doesn’t allow collaborative steering and doesn’t have an effective driver monitoring system. While other automakers have evolved their ACC and LCA systems, Tesla has simply fallen behind.”..."
NASA Fears Budget Cuts Are Imminent After Biden Signs New Legislation
There’s a podcast series called “Cabin” by The Relentless Picnic that does an excellent dive into Kaczynski’s manifesto, the relatable bits as well as his deficiencies, and contrasts it with Thoreau, ties it into some email they got from an angry incel type guy, as well as a bunch of personal stuff the casters are going through themselves.

It really defies categorization into a genre or anything but it’s really insightful.
Is “Python Virtual Environment Manager” a third party plugin? I had a search but could turn nothing up. Wondering if I’m missing out.
Hey, what if they wanted to use another database than Oracle and not have to rewrite all the SQL.
- It's not clear why you no longer care that a technology is killing a lot of people if there's a human in the loop that you can blame. If a driver runs over your sister/son/friend, does it matter if you can blame someone?

- About 43,000 American motorists died in 2021. If we have a way to prevent many of their deaths with software, would you not want to unless you could prevent every death?

- Why is a software tool failure different from any other tool failure? Brakes can fail, wheels can fall off) (happened to me once), etc. Listeria in produce is a failure in the production chain. Showers can be made safer. You use your car/shower/spinach and some day, for reasons entirely beyond your control, it might kill you.

- Why isn't the driver to blame in a Tesla? They're supposed to be watching and responsible.

- There's no clear distinction between what's a software failure and what isn't. Collisions have multiple contributing factors. Perfect software will still have collisions. The numbers reported aren't just collisions where the Tesla was at fault. One person was killed by a self-driving vehicle when a person jumped a concrete barrier and ran across the highway at night. The human driver couldn't react in time, and the software didn't see them. Is that a software failure? At what point do we accept that a collision is no longer the car's fault?
That’s what a subsidy is my dude. The money obviously has to come from _somewhere_.

Are you saying that if taxes pay for transit then transit isn’t subsidized?
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If I need a background track for something, and I commission someone else, then I believe the standard contract for the commissioned work would still leave copyright with the producer (though not always), and changing it so that I have exclusive rights to the work would potentially make it more expensive.

Add to that, if I don't like something, want it tweaked, want something completely redone, or just flat out change my mind about some direction I provided later, I have to go back to them and negotiate a new contract, or find someone else to do the work. The costs add up over time, and there's an additional benefit to immediate feedback (or cost of delayed feedback, as anyone who has worked on a software project that takes forever to compile/check can attest)

I haven't used the music AI tools yet, but having played around with Dall-E a bit I can say that it's pretty enjoyable to be able to give direction, and bound it, then roll the dice and see how things turn out. I definitely feel some ownership of, and pride in, the resulting creation
You don't get the economies of scale needed to justify high-quality, regular rail service along the more quiet routes.

Look at China's high speed rail network. Only a small minority of routes manage to break even, and the rest of them are a huge financial burden that the CCP just accepts because achieving a huge engineering feat creates a sense of national pride.
It’s not just degree. In the context of social networks, decentralization refers to the location(s) of the servers and federation refers to ownership of the data. In that context, federation refers to multiple operators owning portions of the data in the wider network, not the ops structure a single provider is using in their back end.

Theoretically you could have a centralized federated model where users own servers in a single data center!

The most extreme form of both decentralization and federation is a p2p model where each user owns their own data on their own computer.

I agree with the other thread that it’s best to understand the meaning behind these terms and not to rely on them as shorthand or gotchas, but we do need separate terms for these two concepts.
I can recommend the Clickbait Remover add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clickbait-rem...

It just replaces the thumbnails and works quite well without the crowdasourcing effort.
It's not a myth, it is a hallucination that works in English. Which used because we're all speaking that language here. Like I said above, it is a different bias, but we have different biases than LLMs. Every language is going to have different biases. Some classes of heteronyms don't even exist in certain languages so a similar thing to The Chaos doesn't work as well there either. Maybe Chomsky would say there are more clear examples since he believes in a universal grammar but I'm also not a linguist. Just wanted an example. I wouldn't call this cherry picking as it both works in a few latin languages as well as strongly works in English. But even in English there is a bit of care you need, like double letters help to be stuck together. That's not cherry picking though as the example isn't such a unique thing that it invalidates the main thesis (what cherry picking is about).
LM = language model

I fail to see how that is relevant to computer vision
And don’t forget cooling! All that extra power draw generates heat.
This mostly proves that untrained humans suck at software testing.

It also demonstrates that evaluating people or bots takes time.

That waitress who smiles at me may trick me into thinking she cares about me, only later for me to realize that to her I'm just another rando who might dispense a big tip. Or maybe not. I can't know.

I once had a ten year acquaintance with a person who turned out to be (in the further evidence of 15 more years of experience) an opportunist and sociopath. In a world where it's hard to know people, it's also hard to make snap judgments about bots-- except that we KNOW bots ARE NOT actually human-like in their perceptions, judgments, or private experiences. If they seem so, it's merely camouflage.

Camouflage may be more or less effective, but it's still just a trick. If you tell me "here's a con artist who is so good that you will not catch him defrauding you for at least a year!" that's not an exciting development in interpersonal sophistication. It's alarming and depressing. And as that improves to "you will not catch him for 5 years... 10 years... you will never catch him." that is not improvement.
Nice, I used different tools before and sharing it here if anyone is interested.

- Static sites password (1)

- Link lock, to lock the url (2)

(1) https://github.com/matteobrusa/Password-protection-for-stati...

(2) https://jstrieb.github.io/link-lock/create/
> I'm well aware of his history, and it's always interesting to me how few bad things people can point to that he actually did.. when weighed against all the transit/bridges/tunnels/highways build under his watch.

Nixing the Staten Island tunnel is a pretty bad one[1]: you could argue, not unrealistically, that Staten Island would be a far denser and better integrated borough with mass transit access had that project gone through.

As a native UWSer, I'd also argue that the Henry Hudson Parkway was a pretty bad call on his part: it was an "obvious" highway to build, but it more or less permanently froze the expansion of a major rail line underneath it (the West Side Line) and means that one of the most beautiful parks in the city is semi-separated from the neighborhoods that are closest to it.

Moses' legacy can also be measured in part by the graveyard of projects that were too obscene even for his own time: his desire to build a bridge and highway over Battery Park, for example, or to divide Washington Square Park with an expressway.

Edit: I didn't even mention the CBE; Moses is arguably directly responsible for the generations of economic and environmental blight that accompanied that particular highway.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/nyregion/staten-island-su...
So no wearing crosses in the office? No praying towards Mecca, or wearing a headscarf, having a beard, eating spaghetti is pastafarian and cramming religion down my throat!

Also plants and fish offend me, so I don't want to see them in the office. And population is anti-environment, so no photos of kids either.

I think the only solution is to work on cubicles with separate entrances.

Excuse the sarcasm, but having a small push back against mandatory pronouns and being fired is just another step to a really damn bland office environment.
Thanks for the links, I’ll read through them when I get a chance.

And feel free to argue about keeping Seattle the way it is. I have no interest in changing Seattle. Just leave my Manhattan out of it :)
I agree with you that's an option, but then it should go for "pronouns" and other identity stuff too then. Why should certain things get a pass? As it stands now, there's all this "bring your whole self to work" nonsense, but it really means "as long as your whole self conforms utterly to an extremely narrow set of dimensions along which you can pretend to be nonconforming". Either accept differences of opinion and don't hassle people for not actively prostrating themselves on the alter of your religion, or keep personal life out of work entirely.
I've completed 5 weeks at a new SRE job and only have access to documentation and "corporate" stuff. Due to a blip in the onboarding I and person who started with me have no access to the technical platform to do our actual job.

There is a 90 day on-boarding roadmap and we are stuck at week two

Read a lot of documentation/tickets/slack but hard to make sense of it without context.
Look, your reply is in the Library!

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Cheap trains everywhere doesn’t have to mean high speed rail everywhere.

You can have slower cheaper rail infrastructure that serves less traveled routes.
That's not how it works. A 70ms pipeline stall means a ~90ms frame which means that your 1% framerate low is going to be reduced.

Adaptive refresh rate means that only frame rate matters. You can't miss a frame, you can only have a frame take longer, and that's measured perfectly well by 1% or 0.1% low frame rates.

Also I don't see why an M series CPU is going to be any better at feeding the (asynchrous, multiple frames in flight) GPU rendering pipeline than a modern x86 CPU, when both are just as fast. macOS is also pretty bad at realtime scheduling for heavy workloads compared to modern Linux and Windows.
Is that a real question? The answer is very obvious. Those people are a million times less culpable.

(Yes, I know it's sarcastic. But sarcasm still needs to make sense to be effective. You can't say the equivalent of "that logic leads to X very bad thing" if you get the logic wrong.)
It's more prophetic than the overwhelming majority of futuristicistic movies. Exceptionally does not equal extremely.
Recently I was reading that in Europe, most cars sold don't even have automatic transmission, yet the drivers there are much safer than than people in the US or Australia.

There was some speculation that because they shift gears manually, they have to pay more attention to the road and can't do things like drink coffees while driving. They also enjoy driving a lot more than we do.

I wonder if other technology would have a similar effect of ultimately making driving less safe and enjoyable. I've never driven a super-modern car, but I do know that I zone out a bit when cruise control is on...
Yep - the total TDP of the comparison is like 600W. The Pro is also for people with strange PCIe card needs - the Mac Studio delivers this performance in a tall MacMini form factor and nearly silent operation. Not that there aren't things to complain about, but Apple Silicon architecture is impressive for what it is. The GPU suffers more for its uncommon architecture that is similar to a phones but is harder to optimize for. Adobe, Logic, and the like will make that effort. I doubt game engines will. But that's why I also have a power hungry windows laptop.
Now, ideally they take the revenue from the congestion charge and distribute it evenly among the residents!
Fair enough, but then nobody wants to use it because it's slow.
Teslas with FSD are disengaging all the time. And even worse, it's not always FSD initiating: often times it's FSD not realizing it's about to do something wrong, the humans take over, and then them brushing it off as "well it's a beta" or "I bet it would have gotten it but I wasn't so sure".

Getting to a point where Mercedes can guarantee their system will correctly initiate disengagements and do so with a 10 seconds of response time while putting the liability on themselves is a massive leap of anything Tesla has ever put out.

Again, this is what happens when you have literally no clue how the space works (and then turn around and accuse people of FUD.)
Apple has beef with the worlds largest GPU maker and refuses to sign their drivers because they got screwed by that company over a laptop GPU a decade ago and still hold a grudge.

Microsoft on the other hand, is run by adults.
Easily solved by said security professionals auditing the security of the devices, refuting the claims in the Bloomberg article, and throwing it all up on a blog with catchy “No, china didn’t backdoor servers headed to US gov datacenter racks” title.
If you're using Python as a bash script replacement for various individual standalone scripts, typically you would be using system libraries without pinning dependencies, in which case you'll break on various OS updates as Python libraries don't seem to value backwards compatibility. Sure you could include a virtual environment with every script but that's not very ergonomic and will really add up...
I hadn't read all the details behind HAMR before. Fancy tech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat-assisted_magnetic_recordi...
> cool the CPU you really need to be running AIO or dedicated water coolers

There is no shortage of silent air coolers, such as the NH-D15, that are 20-30 dBA and undetectable unless the only noise in the room. It's usually stock case fans that are the culprit.
> Barracuda was one of this early companies that made a very useful product out of free software. I idolized that and wanted to work there.

What software? Is it just ClamAV in an appliance?
As a public agency, are these numbers not available? If not, why?

I wouldn’t expect them to buy a special section in The NY Times to publish them to the world but surely the numbers are available to someone willing to put in a little work to find them.
I don't really understand why people are disregarding the power draw. Seems like a wasteful perspective.
I think like anything in life, it's shades of grey.

If someone wants to swap gender, or I suppose go by "they" sure whatever. Good for them, or bad for them, honestly I don't really care, you do you.

If i have to walk around the office saying "oh kitten-self is over there" that's a tad extreme.

In the same way companies have a sensible approach to say swearing, they need one here too.
> people who have decided it’s not for them

Rather the opposite, actually. Elm had a lot of promise, and a lot of people really liked what they saw. I consider myself among them: language-wise Elm is pretty much my dream language, and I would love to use it in all my products.

But then I tried actually using it, and it turned out one of the core Javascript API wrappers was broken, and rather than accepting one of a dozen pull requests to fix it, they just nuked it instead and made it impossible to write the same wrapper yourself.

People keep talking about it not because they dislike it, but because they are grieving what could have been. Those tradeoffs and warnings weren't there when we first fell in love with the language.
I came here to post that first link. I don't mind working with CBVs if that's the existing style in a project, but the very existence of CCBV highlights the pain of lots of indirection. Certainly a lot of power, but not trivial to remember how everything connects either.
Nice. I think you have potential to do great. You have a nice voice which is easy to listen to and you’re going at the right pace. Music volume is just right. Keep at it.
According to Elon HW V2/2.5 was going to be FSD solved in 2016. Now HW V4 will be FSD solved. There've been multiple paid upgrades along that path that depending on exactly how Elon convinced a given buyer to pay for FSD previously.

The fact that you're going to claim that Tesla, the company that famously discounts vehicles wholesale before unannounced upgrades, silently downgraded their CPO program to a used car program, removed ultrasonic sensors and didn't tell buyers if they'd be missing basic features like Summon temporarily (read: 4+ months) until their vehicles were delivered... is showing a commitment to their car buyers... really says something.
If you live in a high traffic area having your car drive you through the stop and go is currently possible and a huge quality of life increase. Stop and go traffic is 100% the worst experience when driving, having that automated is awesome.
To Get Politics Out of Business, Get Business Out of Politics
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How to make developers love security
The last release is from 2021. Is that correct?