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>An intra-thread COM call is just a virtual function call - no extra overhead.

There was a time when a virtual function call was a lot of overhead

Even having a VMT is overhead.

Sometimes the COM interface is implemented as actual interface, where the implementing class is derived from another class and the interface. (in C++ the interface is just another class with multiple inheritance, but other languages have designed interfaces). Then the class even needs to have two VMTs.

Multiple VMTs have even more overhead. And with multiple VMTs, it is not just a method call. In the functions, this always points to the first VMT. But when a function from the VMT is called, the pointer points to that VMT. So the compiler creates a wrapper function, that adjusts this and calls the actual function.

when methods from the later VMTs are called , this points (non-virtual thunk)
I would have expected his job have guardrails in place to prevent this sort of mishap, like a full audit log and chain of custody of all evidence gathered during these investigations, as well as SOPs on the handling and storage of such evidence.
Introduction to Calculus [pdf]
You're right that a business wouldn't lower prices if customers keep showing up. The basic causes of prices falling amount to two: increased supply, and decreased demand.

On the supply end, if competitors enter a given market and take some of your customers, you might lower prices to lure them back. And if people just can't afford (or otherwise don't want) to go to your salon/restaurant as often, then you might lower prices to lure them back.

As far as the current environment, we've got student loan payments restarting in a couple months after a three-year hiatus. A good number of folks who had some disposable income are going to have less. That'll impact the demand end of the equation. Won't necessarily cause deflation, but will at least lower inflation.
Ethiopian immigrants do not face “structural racism,” which is a term that refers to the structural effects of past discrimination. They may face ordinary racism, i.e. discrimination in the present, but so do other groups. Ordinary discrimination doesn’t necessarily have structural effects.

I haven’t seen studies looking at Ethiopians specifically. But Nigerian and Ghanaian immigrants achieve comparable or better economic outcomes compared to whites. https://paa.confex.com/paa/2017/mediafile/ExtendedAbstract/P... (“Among persons aged 25 to 54, Ghanaian men do not differ from white men while Ghanaian and Nigerian women do not differ from white women in terms of occupational status after controlling for education, age, marital status, and the presence of children, but Nigerian men achieve higher occupational status than comparable white men.”). Note that this is controlling for education, so can’t be explained by saying these immigrants have higher education levels. And of course, racists can’t tell a Ghanaian person apart from an Ethiopian person.
> me and my wife took LSD on a vacation

Did dropping acid enhance your vacation, or does LSD also stand for something else?
Politicians are elected by people, who own homes as their primary asset.
> Mental well-being, personal growth, and fulfillment are being reprioritized ahead of financial gain: 73% of Gen Z would rather have a better quality of life than extra money in the bank, and 66% are only interested in finances as a way to support their other interests in life.

What's wrong with the other 27%/34%?
Tangential but I really miss the gestures. I'm much happier with my Pixel 6a, but I had a run of Motorola phones beforehand. God the shake for flashlight and rotate for camera were godsends. Everyone got a kick out of it too, it was always funny to see people react to how great shake for flashlight was.

I wonder if there's an app that can do this now on any phone, but I hadn't thought to look until now.
Isn't the underlying issue one of misaligned incentives, control over resources, and sheer incompetence? This particular expression may be a capitalist flavor, but I am skeptical any economic system prevents or corrects for this.
Prices aren't going to return to pre-covid levels unless you see a sustained period of deflation. Central Banks have a mandate to keep inflation around 2% while keeping employment as high as possible.

The target is (and has been for many decades) 2% inflation, not 20% defaltion.
notably the pixel has moved off qualcomm to google silicon and now has 5+ years of support.

if you want the _pure_ android experience, aosp support for pixel hardware has traditionally been very good. (google posts signed binary blobs for google hardware and with the move to google silicon those blobs have been getting smaller or may be completely eliminated now)
Between $500 and $3000 perhaps, like most laptops.
I think at this point that would be catastrophic, the average persons most valuable asset usually is their home (for better or for worse). A all encompassing reversal would economically cataclysmic.

I would think we need better incentives for new market entrants (first time home buyers) and penalties for n-private home owners who rent out.
I agree with you - the whole quiet quitting was a trigger phrase for me.
I mean to say that among Realtors he was pretty elite, whatever that means. Put another way, he dealt in million dollar listings, not just average family homes.
This sounds like an internalized problem that you have, and not something the magazine did themselves.
Prices are much stickier for some products than others. There's a big difference between a lot of commodities being sold wholesale (oil or steel or whatever), products sold to consumers (cars or oreos), and services (especially ones with a personal touch or relationship like you mentioned).

I think it would take a lot of deflation for most salons to lower prices versus just delay future increases, but prices regularly fluctuate up and down at the grocery store or used car lot.
I think Apple might still be gearing towards adding macOS in the iPad only because the macOS interface has been adding padding, in almost all recent releases, while screens have remained the same size. I don't see any other reason for added padding around controls apart from a touch screen future.
Not sure what you mean by effective but life expectancy is really good in Europe so I can't really understand what other criteria you would apply.
Yes, exactly. Fidelity is a private company just like Reddit and Discord are. There are still shares in the private company held by various owners, but the shares aren't traded publicly, which is what it means to be a public company.
There are plenty of next-to-useless agents, just like there are plenty of next-to-useless software developers.

Our agent (used twice, 15 years apart) was great. Both times, in strong sellers markets, so lots of offers made and rejected. Lots of last second "OMG, just listed, can we see it NOWNOWNOW!"

Very expensive, but so is a house.

Now that I've been through the process a few times, could I do it without? Probably. At the right price, would I use an agent regardless? Absolutely. The old 6% rate seems quite high for a basic sale given online MLS listings, though for a very specific home in a small market, might still be worth that (I'm think lake homes in my neighborhood - rare listings, selling for $50k+ premium over non-lake on same street, often have a buyer lined up before listing, so really hard to actually buy one without an agent who knows people).
I will say, at least after Apple introduced the smartphone to the masses we did eventually get some amount of commoditization and control as consumers. Not from them, mind you, but they successfully killed the old giants in their bid to take their place, allowing Android to rise and give some amount of control to the people.
This seems like low quality blogspam composed of a few random anecdotes used to generalize across an entire generation. At the bottom, there’s a big disclaimer about how posts on Fortune don’t reflect the views of Fortune. Guessing this is just some part of their unmoderated/unedited blogging platform.
So you know many Austrians your age that live in inherited homes? I still visit Vienna 3x a year (my in-laws still live there), nobody I know there lives in inherited homes, they mostly rent (old contract if they're lucky, new one if not). The same is true in Berlin, those that can live in an inherited home are a tiny minority.
Much more effective than being the USA and having to do without because you can't pay.
Looked at the Apple Mail/iCloud Mail - they support only up to 5 custom domains. Which I guess you can workaround by creating separate iCloud accounts and pay for iCloud+
In a similar situation/location. But can't access it through my home internet, but my phone is just fine if I turn off wifi. This is funny because I was still getting push notifications, I just couldn't read them with my phone connected to the home router.

They've been brilliant otherwise. Able to import everything from gmail very easily.
While there is population stabilisation, there's also changing demographics. Immigration, more single people (or people waiting until later in life to move in together), and an aging population that prefers to live at home will still put pressure on the housing market even though we are over "peak child" - that was the conclusion I reached when I researched the housing market in my EU country and why I decided to buy an apartment this year, coupled with low mortgage rates.
Bought current house without agent (very desirable part of Los Angeles). Selling now without agent. If you buy with an agent you put yourself at a disadvantage because the selling agent will need to split the commission (typically 2.5% a piece or so). When you make an offer on a home without a buying agent, suddenly your offer looks a lot more attractive to the selling agent, who is the only point of contact the seller has into what is happening with their property in terms of offers. People wonder how we got our house so cheap—bank on the real estate agents being greedy. They are the worst, period. I have not met a single one who will not double end a deal in 10 years in the LA market. Not sure how the current sale will go, but I will not work with an agent, I’ve dealt with too many to make that mistake.
probably not a ton. NoVA and a few other areas like Norfolk are wealthy because of tech and the military, and they'll just use VPNs. Rural VA still believes the Earth is 6000 years old and will embrace the new law.
reads this comment as I drink coffee from an Aeropress
I wish Europe had a slimmer plug standard. CCS2 is monstrous.
It dependends on the context (hah).

For, say, continuing a story, even a small LLM will benefit from a mega context even if it struggles to retrieve specific information... As long as perplexity isnt hit too much, which depends on the method.

But this is more of an issue for summarization or information retrieval.
The cold reality of launching on Product Hunt
Yesterday I got to finally release an app on Product Hunt[0]. As a budding software entrepreneur obsessed with startups, it was a moment I had been looking forward to. I went into the experience pretty naive, thinking there would be strong controls to ensure a level playing field and that attempts to game the platform would be against the TOS.

Immediately I was invited on LinkedIn to join a WhatsApp group of fellow "hunters" (as posters to PH are called). Intrigued I joined only to find that it was an enterprising outfit focussed on promoting your posting as a service.

But what really surprised me was how everyone else posting on PH was quick to take them up on their offer and busy filling in the forms to obtain this help and practically begging to get their post prioritized. As I worked at Reddit (alongside the current CEO of PH), I suspected fowl play and went to look up whether this was allowed and it seems that it is with the only warning that such promoters may use tactics that are against the TOS such as bot farms[1].

I tried reaching out to folks at PH but have as of yet received no reply. It seems like this is an accepted state of affairs which seems like a shame to me because the premise of PH is such a good one that I feel the web needs a non gamified alternative.

Ultimately, I'm proud of my meager 50 votes as at least they were real.

[0] https://www.producthunt.com/posts/summer-ai

[1] https://www.producthunt.com/launch/before-launch#hunters:-do-you-need-one?
They do have a significant digital media staff; like most print publications they typically augment their print content with video content, podcasts, etc.
In my hometown prices doubled in the last few years. If someone still wanna sell at peak prices or offer just 10% discount from peak thats no wonder hard to sale in current environment where harder to get credit, people lost job or inflation reduced their money power.
Yep. “Lengthening the stroke” is the end result. But body rotation, head position, engaging your core/abs, how your arms enter and pull through the water all make it so much more fluid. Even the angle of your elbow and hands.

I’m certainly no expert, but I see so many people that swim with their head completely out of the water. It drops the hips and legs, increases drag and expends so much more effort. The result is yolo thrashing through the water. Compare to Olympic swimmers who seem to effortlessly glide through the water.
I mean I would pay a huge premium for a sunny house in Seattle.
It scales for me just fine, thanks.
House prices are correlated to rent, because the higher rent you can get, the more the house is worth as an investment. So in theory they're not included... but in practice yeah.
reminds me of reddit.com/r/spottedonrightmove but this one has properties with interesting design decisions
Good luck moving property.
Only the first 2 versions of aeropress had BPA in them (the clear/light blue). Lab testing showed they didn't leech? The smoke colored ones don't have BPA, and the newer more expensive clear ones are made of something else without the issue (not sure all of them are glass). Some people used polyester filters with the aeropress that probably leech tons of microplastics.

I use a glass chemex with paper filters pretty frequently for larger quantity, and a Cona vacuum pot which is 100% glass for special occasions. Oh and a crofton (from aldi) carafe with a stainless insert for making cold brew.
I think savings like this are typically used as an endowment? they can hold on to it and operate off of the interest (would love if someone can confirm/deny this).
> keep reading articles about how home prices are "falling" or "plummeting". Yeah right

Home prices are heterogenous; they can be stable in one place and falling in another [1].

> are more expensive than ever, especially when you factor in interest rates

Home prices can fall while the cost of a home, i.e., mortgage payment for a new-home purchase, rises. The latter is closer to what PCE tracks [2].

[1] https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/home-price-index

[2] https://www.bea.gov/sites/default/files/methodologies/RIPfac...
PCE Deflator came in .1% below expectations (4.6% YoY vs predicted 4.7% YoY)

Private sector wage growth is 5.8% YoY.

I can't see the Fed going another meeting without a rate hike with these numbers, especially the latter going up.
How does Linux handle writes?
You're not missing anything. The entire article is a Gen-Zer complaining about the plight of Gen-Zer's with basically no substance to the article. It's written as if "young people" are the only ones affected by high inflation and expensive housing.

I see this attitude from time-to-time in the younger Gen-Z's. There's this belief that somehow life was supposed to be made "easy" for them, and they are wildly offended that life isn't easy.
I use a Google Sheet for the neighborhood book club list. It is handy for reference--did we read X, and if so, who picked it? The group has been going for something like 18 years, after which even the very good and the very bad can be forgotten.
I am introverted and I have had to go out of my way to do what I suggested. So, replace party with workplace, or grocery store, or laundromat. The setting doesn't matter. Health issues can't be changed and that's a tragedy but still the person will interact with health care workers and social workers. Use them for socializing. Is not having communication skills really a valid excuse? I assume we have all learned some sort of skill to support our adult selves financially so learn to communicate. I will admit that the point about someone writing you off as ugly, weird, annoying, not interesting is tough as I have felt that. I had to learn to be sincerely interested in the whole person and not the superficial. If the person has a defensive wall up that doesn't let me get to know them then I won't press it.
Games are a combination of art and code. Why should programmers be the only one's required to release their work under a viral license? Artist should as well.
This would be a good incentive to keep the floors clean so the food is not wasted
The only thing people use that valuable asset is to then sell it and buy a bigger house. If all houses go down in value then that bigger house is also cheaper now.

I never understood this mantra of why house prices _NEED_ to go up. They don't, the only people that benefit are investors and landlords, not people who actually want to live somewhere.
David Grohl's Monument to Mortality
Lol now do Autodesk
The yield curve inversion to recession lag is typically around 18 months (with big error bars), so it’s not super notable yet.
Who is "having to do without" because they can't pay? In the US you can't be refused life-saving healthcare.
To be fair to the rec system, I've tried several alternatives and the results are either worse or as mediocre.

The most useful aspects might be community-driven, but I find the web app so sluggish that I tend not to bother with it now.
Personal Coding Journey Blog – Post #7
> But as it turns out, the people who care about Reader don’t really care about the Pope.

I grant you that the overlap is small but it's definitely non-zero. (A more interesting story is that Benedict was forced out making his resignation invalid meaning Francis isn't the Pope... but you suggested you don't care about the Pope. :-)
Home prices (and thus rents) can be controlled with simple supply, independently of the Fed's changes to interest rates. If you're interested in lower house prices, join (or start) a local YIMBY-type advocacy org.
The PP is not appealing to authority, but making an argument against GP's claim that people are AI doomers because they are uninformed, arguing that many experts (presumably informed) are also AI doomers.
Transcription web app: How to handle audio chunks
I am creating a web application for transcribing conversations. The client sends chunks of data to the server every 30 seconds. At the end of recording, the server would use whisper library to transcribe the whole audio and return the text.

I am comfortable working with a single audio file. But how could I transcribe chunks of audio?
Do you know of any code examples?
thats a bad one...
Totally agree on the inspection. They're next to useless - a friend bought a home a few years ago, super-weird water heater/HVAC system (co-mingled, WTF), never mentioned by the inspector. When it broke a year later, it was a VERY expensive fix, and I think they might have recovered a few hundred $$ from the inspector (on a many thousands repair).

An agent is only getting 5-6% of the home value (assuming no split with a second agent). And a big chunk of that goes to the brokerage.
Maybe at least avoid direct exposure when you can?
Apple Says Original 12-Inch MacBook Now Obsolete
The ones who used to be willing to lay down their lives for honour and the love of their people and homeland, and who now see military service to the regime as futile and even self-defeating.
The assumption of the article is that future AI will be more intelligent or at least equivalent to humans. Although I could perhaps see a possibility of equivalence I seriously doubt we can make AI that is more intelligent than us.

Why? Well, what is it that we use to train AI? Human generated content. What is the most revolutionary AI technique that came out recently? Direct human feedback during the training process. Do you see a pattern here? If we attempt to feed AI generated content to train other AIs all performance metrics drop... Its a chicken and egg situation if a human mind is the best content creation device we have, how anything trained on that content can surpass it quality wise?

Of course AI having very fast access memory compared to our meatware can recall more and faster, but this is _just_ a quantitative improvement. Not a qualititative one.
> Inflation in the US as of 2023 is more like a choose-your-own-adventure than anything else. Depending on the channel or URL you tune into you and others just like you can extrapolate out […]

Almost like modern economies are complicated with many feedback loops and a lot of interconnectedness between different factors that interact in possibly non-linear ways.

Or you can just buy gold. /s
Have we gone to the same Europe? Because across 3 different European countries I have seen the complete opposite.
If you follow the Sysadmin subreddit, Microsoft routinely has long outages. Last week (or the week before) email was completely down, the admin panel was unusable, etc. Fastmail has been FAR more reliable then Microsoft. Yes, the Fastmail team should be responsive though. At least with Microsoft they internal comms are very leaky with this sort of thing so details are usually public long before it's announced.
Reminder that not all "experts" agree with the AI doom thesis. Yann LeCun thinks it's nonsense.

I don't think anyone really has "expertise" to perform AI doom prognostication, regardless of whether they created dropout or ReLU or the Transformer architecture or are a professor at Oxbridge/MIT or whatever else people take as an impressive credential. But even if we accept the logic of those who want to argue from the authority of expertise, we don't have expert consensus.
You're still bloviating.

How many other people have read this and not learned anything? If you're going to teach people, or disagree with them, at least state your premise instead of trying to sound like Yoda.
Only the people really drinking the Apple kool aid ever thought of the iPad as a "Pro" machine. You had to do like 5 minutes of online research to see how idiotic all their marketing around the device is. Sure, they put a faster processor in it, but everything else around it (including the software itself) is still the same as you would get in an entry level $300 iPad or a smartphone. So why pay like a thousand dollars more for an M2 chip that you can't really use?

Really the only smart iPad purchase is the cheapest one to be used for stuff like browsing the web and watching movies on the go.
> Gen Z’s economic outlook is bleak

That really depends on what one means by ‘outlook.’ If one means their perception of the present and future, then yeah, it’s bleak. But if one means their actual present and likely future, then my understanding is that Gen Z are wealthier than the Millennials were at their age; the Millennials in turn are wealthier than Gen X were at their age; Gen X are wealthier than the Baby Boomers were at their age; and of course the Baby Boomers are wealthier than preceding generations.

Compounding interest really is a miracle, and it’s not just a financial one.