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they should have seen that coming
I think the nuance is different. I think there has always been demand of inexpensive access to space, what did not exist was a company willing to invest in making that true. If you lived through the "Single Stage To Orbit" (SSTO) initiatives that were kicked off by Regan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or "Star Wars" project to put "hundreds" of satellites into orbit, the idea of a cost insensitive customer willing to pay for tens of launches a year, drove a lot of investment into the market. When SDI was cancelled rocket companies bailed and investment fled. Even though billions had been invested in Iridium, and millions had been invested in Teledesic, the "establishment" could not see how having such a capability would be useful. Sort of like prognosticators suggesting that the world demand for computers might be just five from IBM in 1943. People who are stuck looking at the cost/availability in the "now" cannot imagine a future where those things are different.

One of the things I've always looked for in hiring people is the ability to "unconstrain" ones thinking by "rules." Those are the kinds of people who can think about a world where we have a technology to say, "nullify gravity", and what impact that might have on what we do or how we do it. Constrained thinkers will say, "There is no way to 'nullify' gravity so it isn't worth wasting any time thinking about what we could do if we could."

This capability shows me someone who is able to step into a different frame of reference with their reasoning skills intact and sharp. As a result, when there is an "unexpected" discovery or event, they waste little time in cognitive dissonance says "This can't be happening" or "That isn't possible what I'm seeing" and instead jump right to "Hmm if we can do that then <x>, <y>, and <z> could be done too!"

There are a lot of things to dislike Elon for, but one thing that he shares with Steve Jobs is if he believes a thing he is "all in". Sometimes it takes that to get to the other side of an "unthinkable" change.
No, George was the nicest and most unassuming guy you could ever imagine. He never treated anyone like that. And that was also his biggest problem -- that made it real easy for the vipers elsewhere in the company to backstab him, poison him, and then throw him under the rug.

And all of his staff, while they were at it.
> If they refuse to address to cause of recent inflation

If the causes aren’t “too loose monetary policy”, the Fed can’t address them. The Fed has a specific mandate and a narrow set of tools to pursue it.

You need Congress for broader policy.
Saguaro cacti collapsing in Arizona heat
They in fact could not get funding and the research is funded by investment money. They explicitly thank their investors at the end.
that sounds very weird to me. NeXT applications very much had multiple windows, and NeXT computers as well as PCs running NeXTStep could handle multiple windows just fine. even the app menu was its own window floating independently from the actual application window. so i really do not see where the claim would come from that multiple windows made things slow.
> the complex tooling and processes around actually deploying your code in a production environment

I agree. But in a professional settings, this is usually less of an issue. Everything is set up when you join. You still need to learn about the tools but you don't need to set up things for scratch like you would do for a personal project.

I remember how I was struggling to learn about Docker, renting instances on AWS, setting up services my app would need. This killed all the joy of my project. In my company, I routinely deploy hundreds of servers in data centers across the world, use all the managed DBs and various services available. Much simpler.
I assume you are replying to this part?

> WeChat is more akin to a web browser than having multiple "apps" inside it

>> Apple bans alternative web browsers too... so..

If they use a different browser engine they are currently banned but you can wrap Safari/webkit like every browser app on iOS does and provide different chrome/features. WeChat isn't embedding a different rendering engine, just using webkit.
WeChat was ubiquitous in China way before the incident. It’s simply being practical and using a method that almost everyone has access to. Whether it was a correct way to do so or not is a different topic.
the point of remote attestation is the environment the client is running in can be measured by the server and any tampering detected

tampering meaning running your code instead of theirs
> By sheer number of image generations? Take a guess...

Cat images right?
The author of the paper apparently says it wasn’t supposed to be leaked and that it needs more work, but he stands by his results and will assist anyone trying to replicate, which sounds pretty steadfast to me.
I went to the waste transfer station and was surprised to find they don't take styrofoam for recycling - it is waste.
> They already don't allow custom builds on any other mobile OS ...

Keep in mind that Pinephones and similar are a thing. Lots of people are hoping they don't fizzle out and die off like previous "open" phone projects. :)
AI is more Apparent Intelligence these days
Is she particularly lucky? One characteristic that lucky people have compared to unlucky ones, according to a psychologist that did a study on it, is a conviction that things will eventually work out for the best. Of course there are other factors as well but it would seem likely if a person has one trait then they might have others: https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/Real-World/wiseman.htm...
No, i haven't. (not OP but) The last decade or more 90% of people i collaborated with were on the same operating system. Which moves the docker development setup solidly into "nice to have" category for me, especially when working on small teams <10.
The point is the impulse and the acceptance of the impulse has the same result, if it isn't acknowledged (glad you accept it's real).

It's not dramatic, it's reality, but if you think it's dramatic, imagine someone who doesn't' get a job because of the soft bias might feel...

"Oh good, well as long as the HR manager doesn't like my hair it's okay, so long as they don't think they're intellectually superior."
Doing something as a hobby as very different from doing what someone tells you to do, how and when they tell you to do it.
is a world where people pay to use specific words

the idea of "property" (ownership) which is the cornerstone of the whole of civilization breaks down when applied to digital goods.
Look at Flock Safety for a private company doing this with private entities and sharing the results with law enforcement "partners".

"Now, you go from a crime in progress to instantly find the suspect when you search by:

Visual Evidence

- Vehicle make, type, and color

- License plate (missing plate, covered plate, state of the license plate)

- Unique features (roof rack, bumper stickers, and window stickers)

- Contextual Evidence

Timestamp

- Number of times this vehicle has been seen in the last 30 days

- Associated vehicles"

"Neighborhoods and businesses can download vehicular evidence, get a case number, and give it to the assigned detective. Vehicle data and license plates are the most requested piece of evidence.

If a known stolen vehicle or wanted person enters the community, local police will instantly get an alert on their cell phone or laptop. Up to 60% of stolen vehicles are associated with additional crime."

"With the Flock Safety network, your [law enforcement] agency is not limited to cameras you own — connect and collaborate with adjacent agencies and nearby privately-owned cameras in neighborhoods to extend your reach and multiply your search capacity."
Just to be clear when they talk about NOAEL amount. Its a lot of glyphosate. NOAEL for a human person is drinking two bottles of roundup. The other ingredients(surfactants) would do you in before the glyphosate. Amount humans are exposed to very minimal as mentioned in the study. Don't drink roundup.
> Greyhound stations shouldn't also need to be homeless shelters, and it seems like smart business to spare paying customers from the antisocial, erratic behavior exhibited by many homeless people. This seems like a strange ding on Greyhound.

Except if you're waiting for your bus, it sounds like there's no where to go?
That's fair. If the only thing in the Fed's toolbox is a hammer, I can't really blame them for whacking away at screws and bolts. It's going to leave a mess though.
I use hyprland too.

macOS's full screen mode is like the experience of using hyprland. It is vastly inferior. Yes, it hides window decorations and that is good. But its lacking shortcuts to switch directly to a particular workspace (so it lacks the Win + 1 feature that you are talking about, you can only transition between workspaces with a keyboard in order with ctrl + left or right)
133K is the record for them
If you really want the most infuriating version, do enough web dev and you'll eventually run into "it works in my country".
Government agencies have hidden pretty astounding things in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee
Many people do that too, hence why the observation that banning them as "single use" when they're not, and forcing people to buy garbage bags instead, which are then actually single-use, is even worse.
I guess it comes down to whether you can appreciate it without being a partisan of the political point. The Grapes of Wrath obviously had a political motivation, but one can be indifferent about that and still see it as art. Henry Fonda could find depth in the character enough to motivate him.

Same with Swift. Same with Lewis. Brecht, not so much. And Uncle Tom's Cabin has virtually no appeal anymore.
shrug. a lot of systems have been in place long before modern CI

Assuming they can just "do it" is a bad assumption of both the depth of their existing stack and their companies budget for migrating.

I'm gonna guess you haven't been around long enough to have FTP'd files as a deployment.
Apparently, my firewall wasn't responding and couldn't answer the DNS requests. What the hell portmaster.
The redditors response seem to be generic, where is the counter evidence, and proof of their authority?
"Alexander Graham Bell initially used Ahoy (as used on ships) as a telephone greeting."

Ahoy! would have been more fun.
> I’ve never understood how this battle could possibly persist, considering that planes can fly upside-down.

That's orthogonal. Planes flying upside down still have air flowing faster over the new "top" of the wing than the bottom.

Though, a common misunderstanding is that air must be taking the same "time" to go over the top and the bottom. This is not true.

You can build a pretty good mental model of flight with either simplified mechanism, but you end up underestimating performance by a fair bit.
Computers aren’t human. Thus, non-human.

If I were a congressional leader, I’d be more than a little concerned about swarms of unidentified drones flying around ships in US territorial waters.

The implication of aliens is a “Lucy with the football” play — a certain number of people always take the bait, and others laugh. It was done in the 50s, again in the 80s when Tomahawk missiles and stealth aircraft were tested, etc. Now the prospect of aliens is covering for some threat.
Even faster. That is to say, even faster than a semiconductor CPU that didn't generate any heat whatsoever (or was cooled with liquid helium).

Assuming of course it is possible to shrink the superconductor circuits down to the same size of the semiconductor counterpart.
CRT is not reductionist, it's observational; the white/black oppressor/oppressed dichotomy is how racism has played out in the United States in the 20th and 21st century.

To be blunt, the US didn't institutionally endorse the enslavement of millions of Italians for hundreds of years. The black/white conflict is different from any other racial conflict in America.
If I understand correctly, Dockerfile, and image layers, encode that path, making it retrace-able, yes?
We did what I thought was an interesting use case. Giving artists an ability to manage royalties in perpetuity for sales of a digital artwork through cryptography. Here is the breakdown:

https://medium.com/valorize-dao/how-we-are-developing-a-smar...
Bold to claim that anything that happened in Russia in the 90s could be called a "success." If that's what was in store for China then good on the CPC and President Xi for averting it. The "integration" of Russia into the global capitalist system was an utter disaster from both a humanitarian and a strategic perspective.
Nope, those are not real. There is no "population-wide genetic variation".
They're extended when they're locals or temporaries, but they behave like real 8- and 16- bit values in fields and array elements.
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Fair point. I’m just waiting for reproduction, like everyone else. We’ll know soon enough.
Pulling them up by their roots. How much acreage are we talking?
And you know this for a fact because?
It's taboo but criminals don't be executed without multiple murdering in Japan
Not only this, after decades I have decided that fewer visible windows is better for my focus. I went from using ultrawide and multiple monitors to a single 27” 5k monitor and find myself more productive than ever.

If the window is out of the way, on another virtual desktop or behind the current window it takes less of my attention.

I don’t respond to email or chat as fast because I’ll only check these apps infrequently throughout the day. At most I’ll have two app windows on display at once now.

Everyone is different and people are different from one day to the next.
What aristocracy? And over half the Chinese economy is state-run.
I’ve taken a peek at hyprland in the past and it looks great for what it is, but tiling is not my cup of tea, and even if it can be configured to float everything by default its design isn’t floating-first.
Because it's not logical, that's why it's not "crystal fucking clear". You're spouting nonsense, nothing even remotely related to what you're talking about is at issue here, you're inventing problems that have never been real.
Blurry photos do not stop people from posting them in many other cases. Planes do not have to be equipped as such: there's so many people flying with GoPro-s and similar recording all the time that we'd get something popping up all the time.

And that's even if we ignore the claim that people repeatedly see something. If I was a pilot and spotted something weird more than once, I'd make sure I record every flight from then on - can't imagine not doing it.
You're the second person that calls the activity window overview moving windows. In what way are the windows being moved? They're just being unstacked so that you can find that window 3rd from the bottom on the stack.
It reflects a profound level of ignorance which over time feels more like gas lighting than any real attempt to understand what the industry is about.

- provably fair gambling, lotteries, etc (otherwise vulnerable to selective scamming)

- p2p asset exchange without centralised deposits (otherwise vulnerable to theft)

- micro-payments and offchain payments (they help to scale the tech)

- flash loans (instant access to unlimited capital)

- escrow (setting up N-of-M access to funds -- this would require a lawyer in real life and still be unreliable)

- streamable pay rolls (when you sign an employment contract
-- you get paid after the first week(s/s/s/s) -- you can stream money to employees over time with smart contracts -- this is genuinely novel)

- automated vesting payouts (again -- most employees have to trust their boss to send whatever vested shares theyre owed. you can setup a smart contract to do this to minimise trust and ensure you will be paid.)

- provably backed derivative contracts of many different types (conventional financial contracts require the assumption that the exchange can actually back up contract values -- with blockchain smart contracts you can setup 100 - N% fully collateralised positions -- 100% transparent. Recall what happened with game stop recently. Robin hood couldn't do shit if it were a DEX.)

there is one final killer use case for the tech and by itself its enough to justify it: decentralised markets. most of you remember silk road as a drug market. But believe it or not silk road was about more than just drugs. it was about having the freedom to trade as you saw fit. taking the good and bad as it came. the website sold books, hosting, and many legitimate products and services. of course -- no one ever gives ulbricht credit for that. silk road was the reason bitcoin had any value in the beginning. today there are many more use-cases though.
Auto1111 (latest on git) OOMed my 3080 running the base-xl on 1024x1024 unfortunately. Granted, my xorg takes up almost 950 MB on the precious VRAM. Did you get it to run using A1111 on the FTW3 without OOMing it?
What is this quote from? I can't find it in TFA.

Edit: It looks like at some point the article was changed to point to the official WordPress site, I think this was the original link:

https://blogiestools.com/wordpress-sqlite-database/
As far as I can tell, https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008 is the paper by the original group and https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12037 is the paper they wrote with an outsider. Their chosen independent outsider is Hyun-Tak Kim.
For those asking "Why now?" ... here's a couple wild takes:

The Interstellar Squid have arrived. They're hanging out around Saturn (cf "largest comet ever"). Even after a century of preparation and propaganda, there is a large fraction of humanity who refuses to conceive of intelligence other than human. This is the last gasp at preparing them.

That, or the political corruption has gotten so rank that they're scraping the bottom of the bin for "lookit the shiny!" distraction stories.
Thing is, a lot of exit lanes have white lines you have to cross, which I've wondered about as a driver. Usually you have to cross a white line to get into the hov lane, like an cloverleaf/onramp usually around a meter.
"Continue works with any LLM, including local models using ggml"

Which of the local models have you seen the best results with?

UPDATE: Found a note here https://github.com/continuedev/continue/blob/ce76e391775034c... that says "While these models don't yet perform as well, they are free, entirely private, and run offline." and points to the documentation here for how to run one, but doesn't really recommend a specific model: https://github.com/continuedev/ggml-server-example
Putting SQL engines right on the drive arrays was a pretty cool idea. That let you offload a lot of I/O to the lowest level hardware that you could. That was a real mainframe-class trick.

Sadly, Tandem didn't seem to be able to deliver much else for us.

Database-wise, AOL decided to go with Sybase as the official company-wide solution. Don't know whose palms got greased on that one, but I could have lived with Sybase if that was the only problem.

No, AOL then had to decide who was going to be their sole database hardware provider, and they selected SGI for that. Now, SGI had some great hardware at that time, but databases is not something they did well. And SGI was not a principal hardware platform for Sybase, so everything that was developed had to wait another six months or so to be ported from the main hardware platforms over to SGI. And that's assuming it got ported at all.

And that's what was chosen as the infrastructure for implementing the new version of the AOL mail system that lived outside of Stratus -- Sybase on SGI. I could have lived with a database-backed mailbox store for the entire service, but only if it wasn't done using the combined shitshow of Sybase on SGI.
> think the bank failing risk is eliminated, if it fails the forwarded payment is unlocked so bankA gets their money back

Bank failing in this context would be the bridge (EDIT: contract) gets hacked. Hence mitigated, but not eliminated.
Yeah I would agree that TreeMaps are more intuitive on first glance. When most people look at a flame graph for the first time, they think the X axis is time, like a time series

But it's really the proportion of time (or a space measure)

But once you get used to it, flame graphs show all the same info, and IMO it's just as good or nicer
I mean, take ALEC for instance

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

Laws written by corporations.

Also, anybody who doesn’t think corporations buy legislators is being very naive.
Could we get high speed satellite internet on a cellphone?
Be sure to read the article's link to Seymour Cray:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray

Another favorite pastime was digging a tunnel under his home; he attributed the secret of his success to "visits by elves" while he worked in the tunnel: "While I'm digging in the tunnel, the elves will often come to me with solutions to my problem."
First a bow to her tremendous courage.

The irony of this moment was the song she was about to perform was "I Believe in You". This would have been the most religious song sung that evening by far.

It was brilliant on her part to separate the failed human organization from her beliefs.

This is what happens when you simply shout someone down. You miss the opportunity to better understand them.

Here is the rehearsal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C7tAp5X6Zo