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Text rendering and transparency (not always together) torture me to often :(

Quite recently I noticed that Java2D text rendering cheats the same way as Firefox and Chrome described in the overlapping example.

The character Ø can be expressed in Unicode in two ways. Either as single code point U+00D8 or as an O + combining slash (U+0338). Since the first one is one code point Java2D renders it correctly with transparency but the second variant as two characters with notable overlap since Java is lazy on the 'combining' part.
Not "he".
They're currently raising at a $150B valuation so you would have been retired and on a Yacht by now (and yes they do tender offers, so your equity wouldn't be illiquid).
I don't know how many of them vote for the far right, but why on earth would they vote for NUPES? Mélenchon constantly attacks them, he's on auto-blame mode.
Similar to the Reddit move. Doesn’t seem to make sense on a cost /benefit balance after factoring in PR yet they’re determined to do it

I wonder what they’re seeing/thinking that we’re not
Usually the way one plays what-if is by coming up with a bunch of ideas and then thinking about whether they make sense or not, and then tossing out the ones that don’t make sense. Often when someone writes ‘what if X?’ What they really mean is that they think X and either think it is plainly obvious or know it is a controversial/conspiratorial theory, which is the tone I wrongly read in what you wrote. I hope you won’t be too put off from writing down your weird ideas in future.
I think to have meaning the AI would have to work both as generally and usefully as a human, and fit entirely within a human size profile (not offloading compute remotely). What makes humans competing against each other even remotely worth paying attention to is the constraints, which is that we're all autonomous, we all have similar size, we all can function to a similar degree.

Plenty of animals can beat humans at all sorts of things, but they can't do so while also standing in as a human, so the comparisons aren't very interesting. Building a robot that has a human profile and can run and beat humans at a 5k race also isn't very interesting (at this point), because fine, you created a running robot, but that robot's not going to do it's own taxes at the end of the year, so in the sense of AI, who cares.
I thought this was a problem at first, but I don't see anyone trying to hide it anymore. "Driving" is just an app that people glance at while using their phones.
> I learned that they always have money for stuff but rarely for staff.

(By "they," I mean Harvard, generally. I have no reason to believe CS50 is exempt from this, but I have no special insight, here.)
ChatGPT for Programming Numerical Methods
Another example of stupid copying Apple
It's only 2^69, or 512 exa-decryptions. A 4090 does 44 tera ops/sec (roughly 2^45), so we're left with 2^24 × ops per decode. If it takes 1000 ops to check a key, that's 2^34, or 16 billion seconds. About 500 years.

Give or take a few centuries, it's very far from the age of the universe.
not that honest if it's true that "CentOS Stream updates often lag behind RHEL updates"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36487460
I never understood this stance either. I am sympathetic that these venues need income generation. However, if they are losing so much money over the loss of advertising then they need to change their business model. The free market is that simple.
>Software developer hiring is definitely ripe for revolution/innovation.

That's like saying that janitor jobs ripe are for revolution/innovation. You would think I'm joking, but most companies really do not care, despite what they say.
This is one of my favorite lectures on this topic. It's a podcast from Sam Harris from a couple of years ago, but I still go back to listen to it every few months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u45SP7Xv_oU
Lemmings Doom
Has it made it so "regular people" can afford to run for office though?

In practice I don't think it works the way its being presented like this. You still need to be wealthy enough to kick off a campaign, raise awareness for running for office etc.

I don't think this has meaningfully made the Oregon legislature more representative of the "average" person
The Late Robert Gottlieb, the Art of Editing (Excellent)
The languages they consider are C, C++, Python, MATLAB, and Julia. I wish Fortran had been included, but since the paper has many of the prompts, people can experiment independently with Fortran.
I wouldn't support this. This would mean that the government would be dictating to Social Media about what is wrongthink and what is misinformation. Therefore, there would be a chilling effect on Social Media, which would not be able to keep any information that's at odds with official government storylines or party narratives.

At that point, you might as well just nationalize your Social Media outlets and then you can make sure they do everything in lockstep with government wishes.
Thanks for the answers. You are an inspiration!
I was initially confused by the comment that it doesn't get hot in summers - Tamil Nadu during summers is one of the hotter regions of India. The actual earthship / community is built in Kodaikanal, a famous "hill station" in the Nilgiri mountain range.
Legally voluntary, practically involuntary.
The very first houses (stone age) where circular rather than square.

So you could say that our architectural fashions are going around in circles
Had the same car.

Crashed it once, bought the exact same model cash the following week.

Oh those were the days. Miatas too cheap to meter.
Who said anything about jaywalking?

>t's your responsibility to follow the rules.

Sure! And motorist need to follow the rules of the road. Unfortunately when they break the rules, which they do most of the time, they can easily end someones life.

I'm guessing you're one of the good ones who definitely doesn't speed every time they are in the car.
Multi-paradigm languages, and there are several popular ones including Scala, need strong software architecture enforcement. The software architects need to decide which style to use, e.g. purely functional and monadic, vs nicer-looking Java-style OO.
Yup, will keep that in mind for my next phone, thx!
It’s pretty easy to blame the user, but Microsoft guides users into some terrible decisions, especially for small businesses. My biggest complaint is how they encourage using a day-to-day account (ex: me@example.com) as a global admin. That’s a massive risk for small businesses.

I always set us dedicated, unlicensed admin accounts for small businesses. Having a dedicated admin account should be a top priority, but MS keeps streamlining the process of making the first user a global admin.

I wouldn’t want to change my mail provider in this situation. It would be disruptive and splitting mail between two systems creates a mess that’s a pain to clean up.

I hope this guy wins and I hope a regulator brings the hammer down on Microsoft if he’s relying on them to meet his data retention obligations.
Canon is a fake idea. The only canon is head canon, contradictions and ambiguities and omissions exist in every text and work.

Sherlock Holmes died at the base of the Reichenbach Falls, Luke's father was killed by Darth Vader (whose first name was Darth) and Bilbo's invisibility ring is just a neat magical trinket with no malevolent power or significance beyond what is immediately apparent. Odysseus was killed by his son, Telegonus. Hermione used the time turner to travel back into the past to make out with herself. Bellatrix Lestrange had a secret love child with Voldemort. Cleopatra was bitten by a poisonous asp.
> Now only if I could find the name of this historian.

Is it Hieronymus Wolf?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Wolf
Ballmer really messed that one up.
It is from there. It’s not a meaningless question at all, but a somewhat useful proxy for gauging opinion on porn generally in the absence of polling on this specific issue. Your alcohol comparison is apt, and despite total prohibition being a failure (although dry counties exist today without descending into mayhem), most people don’t want their kid to be able to go buy vodka on a whim with no safeguards, and legislation reflects that. When children grow up in an unhealthy environment, it has negative consequences. You can blame parents all you want, but parents shouldn’t need to be tyrannical to enforce basic social mores that they and their neighbors agree upon.

If I don’t want my kid seeing 4K meticulously produced videos of surgically altered women getting violently choked out and treated like sex toys by random men, what is my reasonable responsibility as a parent? I have to know how to set up some sort of blocker on all devices, monitor their computer usage at all times, not get them a smartphone, not allow them to go to school with all of the other kids with smartphones, not allow them to have any friends over with smartphones, not allow them to go to friends’ houses where the same measures aren’t taken. What is my reasonable responsibility as a parent who doesn’t want my kids to drink vodka? Don’t leave it around, don’t buy it for them, don’t let them go to friends houses where the parents do either of the former. There’s a chance someone could sneak it onto a school bus, but it’s not always there just a tap away.

But your other numbers have no bearing on this at all. One can have vices, recognize them as such, and not want children to have those same vices. I smoke. I’d quit, but I do actually enjoy it. I try to do it away from people. I feel guilty when some kid comes up to me and asks about it. I tell them that it’s stupid and disgusting. I’m happy for measures to be taken to prevent them from taking it up. I’m fine with paying the extra taxes that are intended to discourage such an unhealthy behavior.
I've written a basic Python script [1] to read the battery voltage from this device. More details here [2].

Could easily integrate with Home Assistant. Might give it a go actually.

It reads the real time voltages, not voltages stored in the embedded device's
memory (for when there is no BLE connectivity while it's running). If there is interest, I can work out this part too.

[1] https://gist.github.com/x1sec/3af7efdcd3465aac09093081c32ba3...

[2] https://doubleagent.net/hardware/ble/bluetooth/2023/05/23/a-...
Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment
From my position, I don't feel any IBM influence. In fact, if Red Hat were still a publicly traded stock, I believe the shareholders would have had much more influence than IBM is exercising right now. That said, from the outside looking in, I know that a lot of people have a negative view of IBM, and I can understand how they would come to the conclusion that this has something to do with IBM.

Fully agree on the "PR Problem". It's tough to "control the narrative" in OSS. Based on my observations, I think Red Hat's approach is: Deliver the facts, ride out the storm, pick up the pieces and move on.
I suppose there is a limit to how linear piezo response can be. I am not sure the order of magnitude of forces involved here, but they must be very,very,very,very small.
> But Height, is not something that women do not have.

Height is not masculine. Higher height than women is masculine. The average man is taller than the average woman.

The average Dutch man is taller than the average Dutch woman.

Traits doesn’t mean only one sex has it. It just means a difference.

Both men and women have testosterone and estrogen. But the levels are the traits difference between them.

I’m not sure what you’re arguing as the request was to name something that men are better at than women, some characteristic. You should be able to do that as it’s simple.

It doesn’t seem that you’re arguing that there’s no difference. Just some weird semantic debate with yourself about what “trait” means.
> no compilation, no running code

I recently had an interview where, for the first time, the coding round was Coderpad based, which allowed me to run my code and build my solution bit by bit with instantaneous feedback.

I know for sure that I wouldn't have been able to solve that recursion problem without that live terminal. I now am going to insist on this live terminal in all of my future interviews and refuse to do any that don't employ one.

I think it helps my anxiety immensely.
tasker probably

but why
That's a shallow understanding of my message. I said that it's the dogma that corrupts minds and makes otherwise reasonable people do wicked things. Who created the dogma is a secondary question, for the US has plenty of enemies. In the near future we'll see how dogmas will become more elaborate, more oppressive, and it's the war of dogmas that will be central to future wars.
On my Galaxy, it was enabled by Android 13 upgrade. It seems that Samsung had postponed to enable it
I run kerosene in mine. I know people who use gasoline as well.
Domesticated? Human beings back then would have been a walking menagerie of pests, right? Seeds and plant matter, mice, mites, flees, pets, and yes if they managed to travel with livestock, them too.

All of which we know today are vectors for the spread of disease.

I have zero expertise to comment on what a primary contributor to population declines might’ve been for any given animal, I just find it fascinating (and baffling) that those who are experts seemingly ignore something that is undoubtedly a contributing factor.

As others point out this is of course understandable, because the story is less compelling. The image of humans with spears tracking down the last wild beast is one imaginations can’t resist. The image of slowly dying and decaying beasts, less so.
Stops just short of the triumvirate inventing Go, a language which protects programmers from other programmers' bullshit.
> Ashton Kutcher

At age 12?
Just read it. There is a superiority bias in his description of world cultures and their histories.
Once in college we ran an online treasure hunt where the participant needs to decode from images, text hidden in source code.

Decoding using enigma was our last question. The word "That's all folks" was encoded in five different ways & configuration for enigma machine would keep changing according to the time of the day. We took reference from computerphile videos & people really loved solving this.

We redirected them to an online enigma decoder (Forgot the link)

Good old times :-)
Yes. They lay off scores of staff in nearly every economic downturn. There's a whole lot of 'blah blah blah' about why they can't use the endowment to avoid screwing people who've given decades of their professional life to Harvard, but I think it mostly comes down to their wanting a big shiny endowment balance long after everyone on earth right now has died.
Actually, with that particular message, ~~frequency analysis~~ incidence of coincidence will help immensely, to the point of making it easy to solve.

With a modern block cipher, a partial key doesn't help. If you have 120 bits of a 128 bit AES key or whatever, decrypting the cipher text with your partial key will give pure noise. Even if you flip just one random bit in the key, the decrypt will be indistinguishable from complete randomness. Not so with Enigma; if you have parts of the key correct, parts of the rotor settings correct, parts of the wheel selection correct, patterns in the plaintext will show up as patterns in the ciphertext. The more of the key you have, the more those patterns will show up when you run the decryption routine against the ciphertext.

Natural language has a quirk where letters are more likely to be repeated. If you calculate the percentage of letters that are repeated, this gives you the incidence of coincidence. Incidence of coincidence is preserved by a partial Enigma key. So in that particular plaintext, all those repeated UUUs, those repeated NN, those XX and TT, those will light up like quasars.

Incidence of coincidence analysis should just tell you outright what all of the rotor settings are. From then you'll need someone familiar with German and the code language to be able to figure out the plugboard settings, but that's not as difficult as you might think.
RH takes a lot of liberties with Fedora, sometimes those go at the expense of the users. I wish they would put it in a separate foundation, because as it is some redhatters think they are special i.e first class citizens when it comes to contributing to the distro, so a lot of valuable hobbyist contributions go unnoticed.
Don't Skip 1 on 1s
What's the super Birds Eye view tldr reason that such a thing does require 20 million lines of code? How did this happen?
Aside from compensation - would you want to work at a FAANG?
Yes it was!
Does Nim make you explicitly enter an unsafe mode to access raw pointers?
I went to a school with 1000 men. There were hundreds who identified with the towel ass slappers. And I have friends who still do.

In my high school the jocks got the girl. Movies are fantasy and there was no sensitive kid who got the prom queen. At least for the limited experience I had.
I'm not sure how big the real impact on society of that one is, but it's the kind of thing you could probably do pretty easily.

Not sure what exactly you have in mind for it so I couldn't give any specific numbers, but I would guess $150 to $500 max if I was doing it, maybe a bit more if you want any super fancy addons, and that's including making the case.

But you'd probably have to specify a layout yourself, otherwise that would be the hard part to actually get that one excellent. The rest is all pretty trivial well known engineering, making the layout actually feel nice to a touch typist especially would probably need someone who's very tactile and in tune with the subtitles of doing things by touch.
If someone is coming to your house they can just bring the gas with them. There's no need to take your car to the station at all.
Very Interesting. Clicking the references button (or closing the reference pop up) is incredibly slow.
> Flash never sucked or had power use issues. Maybe Mac users had a sub par experience.

Linux and Windows. Yes, it ate power like it was free.
Thats the silliest thing. Of all permissions, the really only 2 important permissions are: universal file access and network access. Who cares if it has bluetooth if it can't read or write data (outside of it's own app storage?)
Yeah, Infinite Jukebox works surprisingly well, and it's fun to manually tweak some of the probabilistic looping points to create something fun.
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> Imagine if there was 100k or 500k of these trojan horse devices in the US. It's truly scary what it means for US's national security.

Imagine saying this with a straight face as an American.
That would explain why the burnout persisted over the next jobs. It was the same work.
Firefox: dev tools, Inspector tab, Fonts panel, Fonts Used.
They are called 1500s. So they should be 3/4 ton trucks, no? 1500lbs is literally 3/4 of a ton.
It's not going to do something like require phones use clips again to hold the back on and hold the battery inside the housing. Apple's self-service repair program might already qualify.
> If school requires things then school should provide things

They do. What’s your point?

My point is that parental controls are useful because kids must use devices. So protecting kids while using those devices is important.
Thanks for those great tools recs. Had never seen mvt before and I'm running a check of my local iTunes backup with it now! (Funnily, this seems one of the easier ways to backup my text message history into an easily searchable form)
True. Apple can also choose to stand their ground, which would likely work if the developer doesn’t have the resources to fight a court battle. There may be other viable strategies for them to remove this application in whatever legally valid way.

Still, a plaintext interpretation (as far as I can tell) of Apple’s current rules seems to favor the developer, given the circumstances.
You can just blacklist the offending executables, ports, and/or addresses in your firewall, you know.
If you told me to guess what language that motto is from, I'd have no idea. It could be basically any of them. If you say "C, but memory safe" I know it's Rust.
What’s funny is so did I. So I’m definitely a hypocrite in restricting what I was not restricted in doing.
Garbled message. If it were a garbled key, that would explain why the original commo couldn't/didn't decrypt it, but if it were just a garbled key, modern cryptanalysis would have decrypted it already.
My understanding is that VCs with healthcare experience didn't invest in Theranos. Holmes' family was well connected, and they invested in a family friend.
This American would very much like a 3kW electric kettle.
It is worth pointing out that many things change by 'rate of change' before the actual downward slope is detected. So, pre-planned Chinese coal build outs (and India) will continue, beyond the point we knew we're heading to an inflection point. In some reporting interval, they may even "accellerate" because normally they may make 2-3 a year (for instance) but because of regulatory outcomes deliver 5 or more in some reporting interval.

My only reason for saying this is people will continue to post "but Chyna is building coal" when the reasons will be "China is completing its investments in coal which predates the radical drop in the cost of PV and wind, in deployment"

Construction planning is 5+ years lead time. If you have committed to work, sometimes building out is worth it more than the social cost consequences. Its classic externality stuff: if you have invested in coal, and shipping coal, and in selling coal you are damn sure to want to realize the profits of that commitment. Even a reduced operating life is better than being pushed aside for Solar or Wind, if all you have is your coal contracts.

We really are now planning a post FF future. And, thats good. Of course it will be a bumpy road. Converting from horses to cars instituted massive social change, not the least of which was a need to spend on roads because cars were heavier and more destructive than horses, and bitumen build outs acellerated. I have no doubt some Horse Copers and Farriers decried this waste of social capital, as they wrapped their tools up and moved into other trade.
> it’s fair to assume

I’m not sure I like this pattern of thinking. For example, a TP Link router would send data back using packets over the public internet (unless there is some true spy craft at work). That’s verifiable.

If you suspect your TP Link router is sending everything to some remote server… monitor the traffic?
Microsoft exec: We could “go spend Sony out of business” (2019)
Just reading the examples in the wiki page blows my mind. How is this not more known? Wow!
Thank you for clarifying. I'm interested in your argument, but confess I don't understand it.

Killing an enemy combatant in war is justified--after all, he or she is coming to kill you. That isn't a flimsy excuse at all. And the fact that men were conscripted into armies as opposed to women is no accident. It is attributable to human sexual dimorphism. But when many men die during war, that doesn't seem to me to be a targeted killing of men, since wouldn't women be killed as well if they were soldiers? And I don't quite get the analogy to mass killings, which seem to me to have an entirely different moral valence altogether.
Microsoft exec was ready to ‘go spend Sony out of business’ to strengthen Xbox
Talk about an area of programming that is full of footguns. (e.g. an early textbook on numerics for the computer age was titled ‘Numerical methods that usually work’, what I remember most vividly from Saul Teukolsky’s class was just how easy is to discretize a PDE in a way that gets the wrong answers.)
Round furniture being nice =/= round rooms being nice.

And a round room might be a cylinder with a flat curved edge at least.
A spherical room/wall is the absolute worst use of space case possible.