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Love Big Train, some seriously good sketches. Here's some more of my favourites (outside of the ones you've already mentioned).

Unfortunately my favourite sketch, 'Cake Factory', isn't on Youtube any more. That was where I first realised how brilliant Simon Pegg was as a comedy actor.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcAqR-Hs9II - Join the Army

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUm-2x-2dM - Do You Speak English?

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyj5cv5FPWA - Eagle Line Super Train

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxiOfepOxe8 - Evil Hypnotist

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIIAQME1Uhg - Jockeys in the Wild

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GmmAUbfhMU - Champion sprinter

[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKRBYGhqI8Y - On Call Surgeon

[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMh9CDNQhBg - Office Politics: Jesus vs Devil
I primarily use Instagram to follow artists, but yeah, my experience is about the same as what you listed. Before I took a hiatus from it, I just started going directly to my friend's pages to see if they shared anything new, and directly to the artists' pages to see if they were selling prints. Better than being forced to look at ads for essential oils vape pens.
No.

But also when I got older, I looked more masculine.
Yeah, most people nowadays spend their time and energy on making serving html websites more and more complex.

Complex missile systems? That's nothing compared to my vm running kube, running docker, running nextjs react emulating x86 and running kube again. Layers of more software surrounding software is the next big thing. Also microservices and LLMs.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, especially when searching for evidence left behind by competent adversaries (e.g. NSA, GCHQ, etc) who have a strong motivation to remain undetected.
I'm aware of TRO vs PI's, i'm a lawyer :)

PI's exist to maintain status quo. It's not that interesting. What evidence standards are used also varies a lot (some courts only use admissible evidence, some do not).

In this case, it will likely be overturned on standing grounds, for example, fairly quickly, if not other grounds.

It has tons of problems everywhere. On standing, for example, it clearly ignores binding supreme court precedent - the court decided, with basically no discussion of why, the states have parens patriae standing to sue on behalf of their citizens in cases like this, but they literally do not, and haven't forever (going back >100 years).
I expect this will be raised almost instantly in the request for a stay.

Actually, i just found the stay request, they already filed it:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.18...

"This Court concluded that Plaintiff States have standing under a parens patriae theory
despite the Supreme Court’s clear statement that “[a] State does not have standing as parens patriae
to bring an action against the Federal Government.” Alfred L. Snapp & Son, Inc. v. Puerto Rico,
458 U.S. 592 (1982); Haaland v. Brackeen, 143 S. Ct. 1609, 1640 (2023)."

"The Court also held that all Plaintiffs have standing despite their failure to present any evidence of ongoing or imminent
harm. See Attala Cnty., Miss. Branch of NAACP v. Evans, 37 F.4th 1038, 1042 (5th Cir. 2022).
Additionally, the Court’s conclusion that Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their First
Amendment claims fails to properly apply state-action doctrine and ignores the voluminous evidence presented by Defendants that contradicts Plaintiffs’ conclusory allegations."

I don't think this injunction is gonna stand very long.
Do you mind dropping the names?
What's all the fuss about glass vs plastic touchpad in the article? I never had a glass touchpad on my laptops but I had glass touchpads on all my smartphones (the screen.) I see why the screen of the phone can't be plastic (colors, scratches, more?) but I never felt that the plastic touchpads of my laptops did not do their job as nicely as the screens of my phones.
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Okay great, for what its worth this is your comment that made me jump in:

> How else would you deadlift? Your back is a lever.
Also watch strongmen lift atlas stones. It’s all in the back, and a rounded back at that.

Can you see how I got to the thought that you might be advocating for not properly engaging the entire posterior chain and in effect attempting to muscle up the weight relying mostly on the back like a stiff leg deadlift? It seemed like a potentially dangerous position to be suggesting and would put a lot more stress on the lower spine for dubious gain imo. I gather from your response though, that you had something more sensible in mind when posting that.

To your second point, corelated injury from overall load and fatigue does make sense to me and I think for experienced lifters they are able to make the call on form and what works for their body, I was primarily concerned with the non experienced passerby. I still think you're likely putting more stress on certain parts of your body than you need with certain technique, but that's a personal call.
This appears to be the licence for Larn:

https://github.com/primeau/Larn/blob/master/LICENSE

That seems to be a normal MIT licence (without advertising clause). Debian packages loads of software under that licence.

[Edit] That appears to be JS Larn, which is apparently derived from Larn and uLarn, but with an MIT licence replacing the original author's. You can't do that.
That feeling when hacker news user endorses eugenics as long as its just stupid people.
(But they mention that they work in marketing.)
This will just make app developers angry at your platform. If this is just some hack users are doing apps will increasingly use attestation to make sure you are not feeding them fake data.

Apps want to be able to give users a good user experience and if they are given fake data users will get angry that the developer's app is broken and leave 1 star reviews. Denying permissions and letting apps know something is denied is much better because they can adapt their app's experience to work around it.
Interesting, when I wrote the article the prices were what I could generate on the Apple website, but you are correct that they are not the same now. I should have taken screenshots! Thanks for the heads up, I'll update the article to reflect that :)
Or can. Numerous anti-Fingerprinting systems have been discovered to make you more fingerprintable.
Yes. I typically only need SSH so that isn’t a huge concern for me. I only rarely need a GUI.
rye is an experimental way to manage python installs and dependencies, it's inspired by both rustup and cargo.
A voice is not a "likeness" - voices are not copyrightable.
Yeah, state management has always been a problem on the web.

For others who might not be familiar, redux is a library you can add to your react project to help manage state. There are others but redux seems to be the most popular.
Great link and a good resource for folks curious on this. I had posited that it was likely changes in the starter getting more efficient that has caused this to become more common. However, the article makes it clear that it is largely changes in how things are powered in the car. The specific point about the belt being used to power AC and such is likely the largest factor on why this is slowly going out. (And why it is more common in hybrids, since they had to be designed to power all systems without the belt.)

Is a very interesting case study in what software folks would call "tech debt."
Indeed. First, when you search "Threads" in Google or Twitter or Reddit, you get a ton of mentions of simply the word "threads" in other context. It's a too generic a word. And the "th" and "thr" means I constantly pause when I wonder how the heck to talk about this app to friends and relatives here who don't speak English (Europe).

This is something they can correct in time, if they listen to reason. It's probably best not to shake the boat right now until the user accumulation slows down significantly and then they can make the news again by changing their name.

Every problem can be turned into a benefit, but it's up to the ingenuity of the problem solvers.
I'd actually like to see more of a citation. The trail starts here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Watch_International

Which references:

https://politicalresearch.org/sites/default/files/2018-10/Co...

This claims an antagonistic relationship with the UN. I don't see the UN doing anything wrong on a quick skim, but rather this describes FWI abusing their relationship with the UN.

There is also the (much more vague and less specific):

https://politicalresearch.org/sharon-slater-going-global-wit...

Wikipedia makes bold statements from very tentative language. Clicking through references here turns up documents like:

https://familywatch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/05/R...

Which is a FWI guide to the UN, but can't be confused for a UN document. Through the game of telephone, this somehow became referenced as if it were in publications attacking FWI.

At least on 5-10 minutes of clicking, I can't find any specific, primary reference to the UN doing anything wrong.

Last time I testified at a major public hearing, the person before me ranted and raved about brains and electromagnetism from household electronics. Were they crazy? Batshit crazy. Did everyone dismiss them? Yes. Did they have a right to do that? Absolutely.

As a footnote, unfairly cutting crazy people out of conversations has two problems:

1) You can't talk to them and convince them otherwise. Conversations are two-way streets.

2) It gives them a huge soapbox. If a person ranting about EM waves impacting brains was shut out of public comments and unfairly oppressed by [corporations / government / etc.], if anything, that oppression would support their argument.
not if its an os feature.
This is why I'm an open source advocate. It's not that open source automatically makes software/firmware trustworthy, it's that closed source empirically guarantees the software/firmware can never be deemed trustworthy.
> Graciously, they are off by a few percent.

From half. “Most” is likely close to 65-70%. And 46% is “less than half”.
That is a clever idea, but I tend to find overheating is too sudden to notice from colour changes.
> Every category should have a "yes, but feed the app fake data" option.

I would prefer it to be per app and not category. I may not want to feed positional data to pretty much everything but Google Maps and any app that calls for help in case of emergency. Same for contacts, personal data etc.
I'd however expect an app like that to meet fierce resistance from Google and other businesses that profit from users profiling.
I don't think this article is correct - it's not right to say that customers don't want chatbots, it that customers don't want the chatbots of today.

> Instead, the reason people go to customer service is because of a question that’s so specific, or complicated, or gnarly in some respect, that there’s no way the app will have the answer: you need a human.

This is the thrust of the whole thing, and the problem it's not looking quite deep enough at what people want. People don't want a human - people want their problem solved.

A human is probably the best way to do that, but realistically, if you consider the role of a human in these situations, it's as an interface between the customer and an internal system. The human translates natural language into a series of actions in some computer program (or maybe multiple programs and also communication with other humans).

This is something that LLMs will inevitably be better than humans at. I just called my new health insurance company to get my member number. I spoke to a woman who first had to open up my account and spend some time looking at information. An LLM will do this instantly, and the aggregate time savings of this across all customer service calls will be enormous. That's on top of the fact that no one will wait on hold because all agents are busy.

She eventually realized she had to transfer me to another department. She gave me the direct phone number for that department then transferred me. Except instead of transferring me, she dropped the call. Then I called the direct number she gave me, and it was the department for cancer and complex medical claims. We've all had experiences like this.

Humans are not anywhere near perfect at this job. LLMs may not ever be perfect either, but they'll be better. A human at a call center either needs to be trained, which is costly and time consuming, or they need to be given rote instructions for all possible tasks. Neither of these make them particularly well-equipped for questions "so specific, or complicated, or gnarly."

Obviously this won't all happen overnight, but it's not tough to imagine that cases like Wendy's replacing their drive thru employees with chatbots can be successful in the immediate future. A Wendy's employee in that role just hears natural language and translates it to a series of button presses on a screen representing a very much finite number of possibilities. This is well within the capabilities of GPT-4. I think we'll see this more and more often for low-level customer service, with the chatbot passing the user off to a human for more complex things. The chatbot will move further and further up the stack of complexity until it's doing everything.
> Responding to change over following a plan

> provided a detailed plan is in place to respond to the change, and it is followed precisely

I worked for a company that went through an ISO 9001 process certification formalizing our Agile process. One of the charts detailed the process for changing the process. Art imitates life imitates art.
What else am I going to do with my hands while staring at the road? Even if I could get a hands-off upgrade in my existing car, and I wasn't opposed to car subscriptions, I wouldn't pay this price. Just give me normal level 2 driving.
I've seen it too, I personally think it's a bit of the old "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" type of thing kicking in. But once you realize how far cyberdespotism can go... normal levels of exploitative do seen a little more chill in perspective.
> Not only was it not a failure upon its eventual release, but Windows 2000 evolved in 2001 into the consumer-grade Windows XP

esr was talking about server OSes, and he proved to be right in the end. Today Windows server ecosystem survived only in deeply entrenched corporate niches or as a legacy payload. No one in their right mind will not start a new project on MS SQL or IIS. Even .Net server development moved to Linux eventually.
> Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

But it is also not evidence of the thing for which there is absence of evidence.

EDIT:

> especially when searching for evidence left behind by competent adversaries (e.g. NSA, GCHQ, etc) who have a strong motivation to remain undetected.

No, there is no “especially”; absence of evidence means no basis for any affirmative belief, period, equally for any fact proposition. Arguing for “especially... ” is exactly arguing for a case where absence of evidence is evidence for the thing for which there is an absence of evidence.
I used it in this way, and experiencing first hand how much the deck was stacked against me as a user let to me abandoning any belief that phones are computers.

They are vendor content delivery devices and you are at their mercy.
Seeing so many comments about how hard it is to just break compatibility and upgrade is sad. Instead of just throwing our hands up and saying it’s too hard, we could adopt the model the JavaScript ecosystem has seen more of which is codemods that upgrade the code for us.

If as a community we invest in those tools and make them easier to build, the cost of upgrading goes down and the velocity of high-impact changes can increase.
> even OpenAI may be on shaky legal ground

Not sure it matters. We’re very much in do first ask permission later territory here and nobody is putting the genie back in the bottle.

The legal will have to bend towards reality
> I've worked with engineering companies across Europe

Europe isn't overflowing with gigantic tech companies nor defense contractors that would have what you're describing going back to the 1980s and 1990s. You can likely count them on one hand, given how few there are to begin with.

There's a very big difference between knowing how something was made decades ago via schematic & component lists, and having to restart very high-quality production from scratch, including the ancient components. Building things related to technology during their actual time + place, is considerably easier than trying to recreate that time + place decades into the future and at scale.
Afraid I'm not an artist sorry. I'm a lowly programmer who has had the (mis)fortune to write tooling in this space for a couple of games.
As a noob to Python, Black plugin in pycharm accelerated my usage greatly.+1 to this opinionated tool.
I don't think this assessment is correct. No one said completely random data. It certainly could make fingerprinting possible (or, easier than no spoofing at all) if the right considerations are not taken.
I used to care about this at one point, but as I've learned more, it's just become increasingly difficult to care about style. I just care more about truth/substance these days.

However, I've read a ton, and of everything I've read, I loved Hermann Hesse the most. I still remember that poetic simplicity and flow, simply blew me over when I first read it.

This is the first paragraph from his famous, Siddhartha:

> In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree is where Siddhartha grew up, the handsome son of the Brahman, the young falcon, together with his friend Govinda, son of a Brahman. The sun tanned his light shoulders by the banks of the river when bathing, performing the sacred ablutions, the sacred offerings. In the mango grove, shade poured into his black eyes, when playing as a boy, when his mother sang, when the sacred offerings were made, when his father, the scholar, taught him, when the wise men talked. For a long time, Siddhartha had been partaking in the discussions of the wise men, practising debate with Govinda, practising with Govinda the art of reflection, the service of meditation. He already knew how to speak the Om silently, the word of words, to speak it silently into himself while inhaling, to speak it silently out of himself while exhaling, with all the concentration of his soul, the forehead surrounded by the glow of the clear-thinking spirit. He already knew to feel Atman in the depths of his being, indestructible, one with the universe.

You can find it online at Project Gutenberg [1].

[1]: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2500/2500-h/2500-h.htm
I recommended Still Game to an American colleague and he found it hilarious even though I thought it would be a bit crude at times for an older gentleman. I guess the fact they're pensioners themselves softens the humour a bit.
When it comes to adult ADHD, the US medical system is falling behind
Related: I recently wrote a blog post about using docker to containerize my ML research dev environments -- I've never found another way to make properly reproducible dev environments.
http://vedder.io/misc/research_dev_env.html
How to keep lambda calculus simple
I'm not saying it won't happen (after all, so much animation is crap and it's driven out the good stuff), but take a listen to the audio samples on my two books (searching Amazon for "Albert Cory" should find them).

It's more than just following an annotation about sarcasm or sighing or sounding depressed.

But yeah, that probably IS going to have to suffice for the vast majority of popular works.
Can I call it ideological infiltration?

Whether by social group principals (grassroots), or self interest promotion (corporate), this is the thing that has been infecting the Reddit platform for years making it less fun to use.
I think currently only Mercedes is doing that (and there's limits--Mercedes won't go to jail for you if you self drive home while intoxicated)
You are on the right track, but you haven't reached your destination, so to speak.

"Value" isn't a property inherent to the copy on your website (or any text, for that matter), it's a property of the relationship between the copy and the reader. One way in which people recognize value is when they gently realize that they are (at least a little bit) wrong.

What are people wrong about re: API testing?

You currently have:

> AI-Powered API Performance Testing

> No-Code, Self-Learning!

None of this implies that I have a problem. And this is because if I am building a website, I already test my API.* So it doesn't matter that your product is automatic, no-code, and self-learning. Instead, you have to point out how my testing of my API is incomplete.

*Or so I may think. I might be convinced that I am testing my API even doing something as simple as '> rake routes'...

But users will likely respond to the following value propositions:

> Most people don't even know they aren't testing their APIs properly...

> Doing it right is actually quite tricky, due to... (e.g. effort, time, money)

> By relying on unit tests, engineers miss the forest for the trees...

> For example...

^^ Build this out first, and a snappy way of wording it, as well as a heading / tagline will follow.

The more you understand your true audience, the more you can "tune" this copy to specific issues they might have in their API test coverage. If I build a Rails site in a month by myself, am I likely to need your product? What about if I'm at the scale of Shopify? Or is your intended audience somewhere in between?
I appreciate your admission here.

We can disagree about usefulness I guess. Ultimately Ruby has worked just fine. They didn't report massive issues, and the DB is going to be the bottle neck way before Ruby, so I just don't see an issue.

If I knew I was building a site for a massive load would I use Ruby? No. But I don't think it's a terrible choice either.
"Women shouldn't be in the workforce" is a statement with ambiguous and even opposite meanings (with regard to why), so I think GP's intent is probably better captured by a statement like "raising children and maintaining the home is more important, more impactful, and more fulfilling work than almost all work outside the home".

When my daughter was born, a coworker asked if I hope she'll be a programmer one day, and my answer was that I hope not; I want her to be able to stay at home like her mother, and if she can't and has to work some corporate job, that means I will have somehow failed her. If she wants a job like mine, then again I will have probably failed her somehow.
Lol. At least the web pages load fairly quickly.
That's not how Proton works. If you have an organization, you have complete control over all the accounts. I can reset passwords for any email address in my organization and read all their email if I were so inclined. He's not talking about individual accounts which are how you describe it.
The thing you are speculating on is answered in the very first sentence of the article: "Nations like the United States and other NATO allies have given Ukraine their Stingers, putting the venerable human-portable surface-to-air missile to use against Soviet-designed aircraft, as it was originally designed to do. "
In bulk, there's no real difference between the company getting insurance for the user, versus the company being insurance for the user.

Either way, the cost they pay will be directly related to how safe it is. They have almost all the skin in the game.