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> Let's be fair though, that actually happening in movies has dropped dramatically

It has dropped somewhat from the peak in 2005 to a little below the 1991 level by 2016. And we know from comparison of internal tobacco firm documents on product placement with their reports to the FTC that almost half of what the companies internally documented spending on product placement between 1978-1994 (that’s the latest the internal records that have been subject to outside examination go) were not reported to the FTC as spending on paid endorsements as required, and that that includes 100% of product placement spending in that period after 1988. [0]

And, we know that recogbizable branding is still displayed on screen and that with every other categort of goods that invariably, outside of news/documentary context, involves direct or in-kind payment for promotional purposes.

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https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7kd981j3
Small systems (such as the Raspberry Pi) and microcontrollers are very different beasts. A linux system requires more resources than are generally available with a microcontroller.

Microcontrollers work without and operating system or with a very small Real-time operating system (RTOS).

A microcontroller just as the Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040 chip) and a Raspberry Pi running linux (e.g. Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W) are almost the same price — $4 vs $15.

Microcontroller have KB's to MB's of RAM and storage and
computers have GB's of RAM and storage.

There is some overlap in how these systems are used but generally if you want to control low-level are hardware with specific time or latency constraints use a microcontroller. If you want to run regular programs (with or without a keyboard and screen) use linux.
I am not denying that at all. I know my share of carpenters and if they are in a pickle, they might take on a job like that, and swear about it like there is no tomorrow all the way to the bank.

What I found remarkable wasn't that there are badly managed projects, but that there are software devs who seem to think there is no other way than doing it like that.
What do they do that makes them more efficient?
Enamel tableware were once popular and still available. Enamel is glass like in its properties and should be as safe as glass (unless lead containing colour pigment is used which should not be the case nowadays).
But what would leak? The helium? The nitrogen?

The only real danger is if you are in an enclosed space and oxygen is displaced. Nitrogen gas is about the least toxic substance imaginable and helium will literally just go away unless you make absolutely sure to trap it.
This is a good overview, thank you for sharing! One nitpick - the "duck type" section doesn't seem to mention Protocols, which is the "official" name you'll find in the Python documentation.
I supported my claims with academic sources, and the authenticity of all of the policies I referenced can easily be verified if you search on it.

The facts all undeniably point to the truth, which is that anti-free-market left-wing ideologues were responsible for the Great Depression.
The inner tube is hard vacuum? Does freeze over risk rupture and also incur re evacuation and time to get those last pesky digits of nothing?
Technical Overview of Voice and Music Generators
We know what helium and nitrogen gas do and what dangers they represent. We also know how much of them are in the LHC. The main danger is that both displace oxygen, so you can suffocate e.g. if a large amount of helium is released by a quench in a small room. But this isn't any danger to the surrounding area, there just isn't enough liquid helium or nitrogen in there.

Both gases are inert, so they really don't do anything else. There isn't anything to investigate here.
Disgusting fascist behaviour
Lit is great, really easy to grasp and to use.

One thing I don't understand in lit (or vuejs, svelte etc...) is why we can't have an each loop that would use information about what has changed.

In my most common case, I am simply updating an item in an array (or removing/adding an item) and the each loop could use the list of operations to do the changes instead of iterating over all the items.

For large array (1000+ items) for a SVG diagramming tool, performance would be much improved, no?
I always had the impression that the relationship was in reverse but maybe this is what you had in mind? https://github.com/material-components/material-web
The only concession we have is a smart TV, try find dumb ones today. Oh, and a basically always disconnected, when not used, Alexa and a Google smart speaker I got for free once which I haven't seen in quite a while...
My background is the Nix side of things.

I'm getting the impression that the main difference here is that Nix's approach is more 'concrete'.

In Nix-world, you'd describe your package as a function, where the inputs are parameters. Something like `function myPackage (curl, gcc) { ... }`. When this `myPackage` is built, you can pass in what you want `curl` to be. So, you'd think that it's something like `curlWithGnuTLS = curl(..., GnuTLS = true)`, and then could have something like `myPackageWithCustomCurl = myPackage(curl = curlWithGnuTLS, ...)`.

To give more specific Nix examples,
here's where `curlWithGnuTLS` is defined https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/dbf6c323883ae7e00941f6... By convention, the packages that want curlWithGnuTLS specifically use that name as an argument. (That's because `callPackage` will use the argument names to find the values to assign to it).

In nix, customising these package arguments from the CLI isn't really ergonomic.

It sounds like with Spack, there's more emphasis on being able to specify those parameters from the command line when installing things.

That said, to the question about different dependencies: if package A depends on curl-with-foo, and package B depends on curl-with-bar.. it does depend on how it's declared, but Nix is comfortable to have package A linked against curl-with-foo and B linked against a separate curl-with-bar. -- Although it would also be possible to declare a curl-with-foo-and-bar and pass it to each.

e.g. on my machine, if I run `ls /nix/store/ | rg 'curl.-.-bin'`, I have dozens of lines like:

m2h1p50yvcq5j9b3hkrwqnmrr9pbkzpz-curl-7.86.0-bin
mxaq2w1dzq5msgk2kc4vl1dfs54dv5ny-curl-8.0.1-bin
nsz5w44p42xb39xninjkmj2dxzm13f7g-curl-7.79.1-bin
That's a simplistic outlook. Oppenheimer was a celebrated leader of the team that invented the bomb that ended the war... and then, very publicly, had his security clearance revoked and was basically dragged through the mud by the government that benefitted from his work and elevated him over others.

I would more equate it with someone being very publicly arrested for a horrible crime, only for the verdict to result in "not guilty" or the case dropped before going to court. You know, like OJ or MJ.
> they still called Linux a Unix (which it's not)

Uhhhhhhh, on what basis ? The only arguments I can see for this would be either of:

- Pedantry, as technically the Linux kernel itself isn't UNIX certified by the Open Group, who owns the trademark - though multiple distributions have been certified to past standards, with no meaningful changes necessary. As an additional note, if you want to only count implementations conforming to the latest standard as being "real UNIX", then AIX is literally the only UNIX in existence.

- Purity, as Linux doesn't directly use any of the original code from AT&T-created UNIX OSes. But by that standard, it seems like modern BSDs wouldn't qualify as "UNIX", given that all of the AT&T code was stripped out a long time ago, and MacOS would qualify even less given it uses a non-AT&T kernel and only a few parts of some BSDs in the userland. Also, if including AT&T-produced code suffices to be "UNIX" then I must ask whether a Linux distribution that comes with ksh qualifies (...or even if Windows with UWIN or Cygwin+ksh qualifies). Generally though, the argument just reeks of ancestor worship to me.

...and neither of them are satisfactory to me.
'stealth' for android also added a web-scraper mode to their app, about a week before the API change. Using the API still seems to work for me though.

I may try this one at some point.
I can confirm this is common. But after sterilizing the bottle or washing the bottle, you don't give that water to the child. One usually just cleans using the microwave, rinse it out, then you add water from another source that hasn't been in the microwave in a plastic container.
giving someone a free board game in exchange for them playing it and creating a review seems like a great thing.

Sure.

But if you don't reveal that they've given payment in the form of a free game, you are giving a dishonest review. Free stuff is payment. And everyone knows it is payment - Free meals and other benefits at a job are advertised to entice you. It might not be taxed, but is definitely part of your pay package.

I'm pretty sure the FTC knows about the Amazon reviews - they've taken action against some of them. They may or may not have the budget to go after more and may or may not have the power to go after all of them.
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Amazing that we have a unicode code point for this, but we still need to use vegetables as proxies for our reproductive organs.
Now you gotta deal with nano paper particles in your blood stream.
> meat making machine reached an economy of scale that surpasses even plants

No, the problem is subsidies (and lobying).

"The U.S government spends $38 billion each year to subsidize the meat and dairy industries, but only 0.04 percent of that (i.e., $17 million) each year to subsidize fruits and vegetables." (https://scet.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/CopyofFINALSavi...
)

> a lot of plant-based food is actually more expensive than meat-based food

Not if we're talking about whole foods ... vegan diets are the lowest priced diets in the high-income countries (https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-11-11-sustainable-eating-chea...).

Relatively more expensive are processed plant-based replacements of meat & dairy - again the result of subsidies and economies of scale. The situation keeps getting better though ... with numbers of vegans increasing and production of these things being ramped up.

> convenience

Habit, tradition, convenience, taste. The only reasons that exist. We kill 90+ billion land animals and 1-3 trillion marine animals a year for no necessity.

And we're not talking about biodiversity loss, environmental destruction, deforestation, pollution/eutrophication, health ... that seems like a big price for a mere convenience.

> If you go to r/vegan, they'll downvote you if you're just plant-based dieting

I don't agree with them on this, but their reason is "I'm currently meatless for 50% of my meals". Those who switch for ethical reasons are more unlikely to switch back.
Eh, I like it. It's refreshing to see a company representative communicate like an actual human being instead of the usual meaningless corporate robot-speak.
> I'm not confident that any significant number of cases that people smoke in media is due to funding from big tobacco.

I’m fairly confident that much of it is, that spending on it is systematically not properly disclosed to the FTC, and that approximately 100% of the cases outside a documentary or newd cobtext involving a recognizable brand are paid (in cash or otherwise) product placement, the last bit the same as with non-tobacco brand placement, and the rest as has been documented through 1994 by internal tobacco documents compared to FTC reports, with no sudden shift after 1994 that would indicate a behavior change.
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I know this is quite off topic, but does anyone else think that Mr. Robot was originally suppose to be a movie (or maybe a mini series)?

First season is good, it has some fluffy bits, but mostly it has a story it wants to tell and the technical aspect is pretty good. However it all falls apart in following seasons.

Season two is so slow and boring. It doesn't move to plot forward. It doesn't have (m)any technical things (just some hand wave-y "hacking"). The show just goes further and further from what attracted me to it in season one. To a point where I quit watching somewhere mid season three during the original run and only after the whole thing had concluded (and I think I was sick at home) I dredged through the rest of it.

Feels like these days everything has to be a series with multiple seasons. Writers aren't allowed to just tell a story, but instead everything is milked and it almost immediately becomes shit. Another example is Stranger Things. Season one was good and the last episode left me wanting more, but when season two rolled around they took such a big step back that I couldn't get through the first two episodes, I just didn't care.
I have a smart home and it works great, but it all runs locally. ZigBee for most devices, because it is an encrypted local mesh communication protocol. The things that use wifi have no internet connection. Home Assistant is open source and runs everything locally. If a vendor of any products doesn't support their ZigBee hub anymore I don't care. Home Assistant is my ZigBee Hub. If any cloud service is shut off I don't care, because nothing is in the cloud.

If you build new KNX is great. It works with Home Assistant and it's just a bus system. You program it once and it works for decades.
(Off topic) I thought Teller was the quiet one? ;-)
They run their own data centres and have for a while. There is a pretty big industry for that sort of thing as an alternative to “the cloud” here in Europe.

We used to use nianet to house our hardware in Denmark. Basically these companies does hardware renting and they also do hardware renting with more steps which is where you rent rack space but own the hardware. They provide the place for the hardware and they also have multiple locations so that you have both backup and redundancy, and while it doesn’t scale globally in 20 years I’ve literally never worked on anything that needed to beyond having some buffer caches for clients logging in on their vacations or something like that.

What Hetzner seems to be doing with the DO styled hosting, and this is just a guess, is that they are one or the many EU companies preparing for the big EU exodus from the non-EU cloud. Which is frankly a solid bet these days where both AWS and Azure are increasing prices and are becoming more and more unusable because of EU legislation. Part of this is privacy which Microsoft and Amazon are great with in terms of compliance, but part of it is also national security. I work in an investment bank that builds solar plants, since finance and energy are both critical sectors we risk being told that half of the finance/energy companies in the world can’t use Microsoft because the EU seems it as a single point of failure if our entire energy sector relies on Azure. Which is sort of reasonable right? But what this means for us is that we can’t vendor lock-in, not really, because we need to have up-to-date exit strategies for how we plan on being fully operation a month after leaving Azure. Which is easy when you just containerise everything and run it in VMs or similar, and really annoying if you go full in on things like AKS. Which doesn’t help our Azure costs.

Anyway, right now we are planning on leaving Azure because of cost. Not today, not next week but sometime in the next 5-10 years and a lot of these EU cloud alternatives that actually operate the hardware instead of renting it are likely going to be a very realistic alternative. And that is the private sector, I spend time in the EU public sector which is a massive amount of money and I’m guessing it’ll leave both AWS and Azure by 2050. Some of these EU cloud initiatives is going to explode when that happens, and right now, hetzner is one of the best bets.

To get back to your question, DO rents server space. I have no idea where they’d rent it in Germany but they could potentially be renting it from Hetzner.
Do they have Terraform providers? And managed Postgres? Besides from the ability to just host a Docker container, that is all I need.
I tried a similar approach but via CSS for my "medieval content farm" (https://tidings.potato.horse), but for perf. reasons ended up only randomising the opacity and tint of its individual characters and removed the transforms.

My next step is to add those little padded areas hiding the empty spaces on the right side of the text[1][2], so the column of the text feels neater (horror vacui was a big thing then it seems).

Weirdly enough, this gets much easier with container queries and stable diffusion:

1. feed SD with some examples of patterns, then scale them to 10 or so sizes

2. then use those images as backgrounds for elements fitting the empty space in each line

3. select the right image using a container query

This should give them a neat but organic look. And hey I can brag about not using any JS!

[1] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2f/46/2d/2f462df256f4bd509b48...
[2] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ac/68/a8/ac68a86da5ec457960d0...
If you're deploying an Elixir/Phoenix app, then Gigalixir has worked really well for me. It's expensive, but then so is Heroku.
Sergey’s return to an active role at Google strikes me as a bittersweet omen.

Sweet in the sense that he’s returning to form for the first time in a while. He’s rekindling a connection so important to the early success of Google that I think it puts a lot of hope into people’s eyes.

Bitter in the sense that it feels like a parent moving in with their child who is now fully grown and just experienced a nasty divorce. The former paragraph reeks of romanticism in the rhetorical sense. A chef has no legacy if his good cooking dies with then. Why should they suddenly step in now? Why have Sundar around if you don’t trust him with the most important part of your company?

Perhaps I’m oversimplifying.
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Anyone who has lived in the real world knows that the conditions in which you grow up have a massive effect on where you end up. There are entire communities of people who live in deep poverty. It's not because they're all - uniformly down to the last person - dumb. The parents are poor, don't have a high-quality education, work long hours, can't afford tutoring, can't help their children with their coursework, etc.

There are entire countries trapped in poverty. China was desperately poor until just a generation ago. Did Chinese people suddenly become smart for some reason? Which is the next country that will magically go from being filled with dumb people to being filled with smart people?

As I said, just a bit of experience with the real world and critical thought will show that your explanation is nonsense.
Ah, but don't forget the Saxophone was a Belgian invention! Well the inventor was born in the Netherlands, but Belgium didn't exist then, and that territory is now in modern Belgium. And he did invent it after he permanently relocated to Paris. But still, through and through a Belgian invention!
Sorry, if that wasn't clear but I think MDN is not only reference documentation. I agree, for the reference part the AI shouldn't do more than trying to point you to the right parts of the text. But for learning things, nice explanations, even if sometimes slightly off, can be a lot better to digest than reference documentation.

I'm not saying it's great yet, but there is potential for having something that can hand-wave away some details like a human would when explaining something to a beginner.
"who saw my document and how much time" on a page level. thats basically the only incremental value of docsend over docuseal. most other features overlap.
I am heavily into smart home; I have over 100 devices in my home.

My main requirement for my home is that everything had to “fail normal”. My non-geek family would not tolerate the lights not working if the internet connection failed. To that end, although everything is connected to a cloud service eventually (HomeKit), loss of internet or excommunication by a cloud service provider would simply disable app- and voice control, but stuff would still work normally otherwise. If a device manufacturer bricked a device intentionally then I am fortunate enough to be financially able to hire an attorney.

I am currently working with an electrical engineering firm to build my own line of smart home devices, that will be fully open (HW and SW) and will be based on Raspberry Pi (there’s an actual Pi Zero 2W in the light switches).

I’ll post here when I’m at the point where I have something to share.
> Getting it somewhere in the order of the distance to the Moon, or even much closer than Mars, would make mining and transportation that much cheaper.

Actually I disagree, placing an object "somewhere between the moon and mars" is at our current space ability, uselessly "out of reach". Perhaps there is a plan where this makes sense in the next century, but I think you're far far overestimating the utility of it and "what we can currently do".
The 'where each user is' is implicit, the expectation is that you're some kind of global SaaS, and you want low latency whereever your users are.

Sure you can do that with any cloud (or multiple) that has datacenters in a suitable spread of regions, but I suppose the point (or claimed point, selling point, if you like) is that that's more difficult or more expensive to coordinate. Fly says 'give us one container spec and tell us in which regions to run it', not 'we give you machines/VMs in which regions you want, figure it out'. It's an abstraction on top of 'battle tested proven bedrock' providers in a sense, except that I believe they run their own metal (to keep costs down, presumably).
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Not sure how seriously anyone ever took it, but-

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/C2uvzYeoMkwMmscMx/hamster-in...
I think you're mixing things up - the incident you are referring to happened at the Black Mesa Research Facility, not at the LHC...
Interesting remark! Genuine question here: by what would you replace JSON if you can re-architecture it?
And what kind of project do you run which needs up/down scaling and load balancing?

In my experience, for a simple PHP web application, the smallest VMs already can handle a thousand concurrent users, which amounts to something like a million monthly users.
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According to current psychological evidence you cannot become more intelligent. Intelligence is fixed. You can, however, study with great focus and intensity with a goal of increasing your intelligence, but the results are tiny and extremely temporary.

Instead of becoming more intelligent you can always become more educated. The results of increased education vary significantly by person and may result in near-permanent contributions. The goals of increased education are increased skills, increased decision making capacity, and increased risk appreciation.
Google's trying to make DRM for websites
If this is true, is Stable Diffusion already superior to human imagination, at least in terms of vividness rather than the interpretation of the prompt/thought that prompted the imagery?
Probably the majority of the software I use to write code is open source, but font authors will routinely ask for exorbitant amounts for a license, they often refuse to charge a flat fee, insisting that they get a higher cut if your app has a certain number of users. Just because an app is popular, doesn't mean it's raking in the dough to spend six figures on a font license. It's just bizarre that I can build an app that serves millions of users using tech stacks like Linux, HTML, JS, CSS, Rust, Go, with tens of thousands of open source libs and modules to choose from, none of which have per-user fees, the majority of which have no fees at all, of which millions of man-hours have gone into producing and maintaining, and a font could end up being the most expensive component of my app.