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I'm not quite as cynical about Inheritance Machining. Yes the quality is superb, both in video production values and subjects, but I think we're at a point where it's not that hard to create quality visual content if one cares to. High quality cameras are relatively cheap, editing software is excellent, and in many ways, a new YouTuber is standing on the shoulders of giants who created the path. Look at Marques Brownlee, arguably one of the best YTubers. He had to define what a review YTuber looks like. The next big YTuber will simply follow the same paradigm.

Compare this to someone ten years ago who was trying to do this with Super-VHS etc, with software that was very expensive, and forget about doing anything multi-camera. So the tools are just far more accessible.

Then combine that with a creator who has seen what works and doesn't work on YT/Insta. You need a good thumbnail, you need less talking heads etc etc.

And I think that Brandon at Inheritance Machining is very detail oriented, as you would expect from someone doing machining. This probably translates well into producing a quality video.
What is your view about AD(H)D?
Yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if JXL gets implemented in Chrome after Safari and Firefox implementations are stabilized.
This guy sounds like a real joy to travel with.
Man Elon Musk is personally farming soooo much corn every day! Wow!
wow, that's more than reasonable. thank you, looking forward to your upcoming updates.
Chrome is the Desktop IE
Safari is the mobile IE
Yes, I respect Apple for their commitment to quality on this front - although at times their decisions do drive me up the wall.
Same... Got mine in 95 i think, Rock solid.
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> I don't think IE was ever hated the same way from the end-user perspective.

Yep, for various usability reasons, I used IE as my daily driver until Windows updates disabled it. Never liked Chrome. Using Firefox now.
Because this is potentially a big deal. Skeptics who understand they can be wrong will want to follow this, but they don't want to get their hopes up.
I understand but therapists can't give me career advice, the steps I can take to get rid of my inferiority complex.
Are there any browsers better than firefox at the moment?
:) Well not exactly eating through savings, just feel bad about only spending without earning.

GJ. Maybe i will also find work one day that sucks less than the corporate crap i've been through. These environments have really caused me some undesired biochemical reactions i think.
I think 10-25% of Physicians are part of the American Medical Association, if you put them all in jail, we'd have a healthcare crisis.

We really need an alternative system for certifying doctors that isnt under the thumb of the private AMA and the private ACGME.
Concorde 40B Cell CFD Simulation – FluidX3D on GigaIO SuperNODE [1min]
>The vast majority of wealth is concentrated in a very small number of people - and not directly attributable to those people - due to local and international tax avoidance.

Yes, this is known.
I just asked you to clarify what it was I said that is so naieve?
It's not version 2 if it's an independent project.
This is quite funny in a painful way. I identify on a few different vectors. I started my "professional" career in telecom. There I really did become an expert on some very small percentage of code. It was exhilarating to do patches in 286 assembler for an obscure language (CHILL). Now many years later, I work in NPD at one of the small divisions of a giant Medical device company. I wrote 90% of the legacy code. It is embedded and I have not needed to update any of it in 10 years. With changing management styles, the new push is to buy new products from smaller companies, and just to the required paperwork for regulatory approval.
See this classic Netscape theme for Firefox. It has the animated logo as well https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/foxscape-light/
Interesting that the pound did so much better during such dire times for the UK, in the mist of a fight to the death, it was losing.
You're being negged into oblivion, but you have a point.

There is "I'm OK with my pedestrian job but I still try to do my best and actually like the people there" and "my job sucks all joy out of my life and provides me with nothing of value except money".

I have kids, but I somehow skipped the "I want to be the best"-phase and went straight to "I'll make do with whatever you give me" so nothing really changed. I actually work a bit harder now so my kids can see work is good - also to pay for their fancy shit.

Even stupid jobs can be sources of relative joy if you let them. Don't put up with abuse of any kind, though.
Why? Company breakups are about increasing competition. It's not about killing the Baby Bells by cutting them off overnight from what they need to survive. ChromeCorp would be both free to cut similar deals with other ad networks, and incentivized to do so, that would be sufficient for governments concerned about monopolies and anti-trust.

It's important to keep things mentally separate here. There is nothing anti-competitive about remote attestation, no more than there is about TLS. It's just far too general a tool for that. Even much more restricted versions as used by the smartphones, games consoles, Windows managed network security etc have never been claimed to be anti-competitive. That would be a very novel legal theory that's unlikely to work on its own (you can use the tech in ways that are anti-competitive, but it needs someone to actually do so).

So if Google were to be broken up, it'd have to be for wider competition and market health concerns, it wouldn't be to do with any specific API getting added to Chrome. And then if they were split up, they'd need to formalize arrangements in contracts that are today informal, like how Chrome is funded exactly. At that point, do you think the newly born AdCorp will just accept paying lots of money for ad impressions to Chrome when the users aren't going to see them? Google tolerates it today for a mixture of reasons e.g. a lot of their own staff use ad blockers, they want to be able to recruit very widely for many different projects, etc. A company specialized only in advertising would have fewer such concerns and could easily demand more aggressive measures, indeed, their new shareholders might insist upon it. Whereas today Google isn't really susceptible to stockholder pressure and is willing to let a lot slide.
The attempted sabotage of #JPEGXL.

Well no one else is supporting or using that format, how come it is a sabotage?
I'm not romanticizing anything, I'm saying this specific thing was directly about fear for your own safety/security, it wasn't shame-based.
Lots of reasons. Many folks are afraid of the unknown, so it's the devil you know, kind of thing.

That's why most folks aren't entrepreneurs. There's a ton of risk, involved in that kind of stuff, and most folks are risk-averse.

In my case, my job was sort of soulless, but only in parts. Many folks here, would say that it was a horror show, but I also worked for a company that gave me business cards that would open doors, I worked with some of the finest engineers and scientists in the world, enjoyed considerable trust, and had great stability.

Nothing comes for free. There's pluses and minuses to everything. I find it doesn't do me a whole lot of good to judge others on the choices they made, and, in the aggregate, there's not much in my life that I regret, and that's worth more than money.
Blaming poorly optimized sorting on a whole ecosystem of a language feels lazy at best. It wouldn't have mattered if it was done in Python, PHP or whatever, if the developer who programs something doesn't know how to sort things efficiency, there is nothing to say they'd do a better job in a different language.

Bad programming is just bad programming, no need to pull what language is being used into it. Just happens to be JavaScript because that's what browsers natively support. But if Python (or whatever) was used instead, the very same programmer would have done the very same mistake.
reminds me of upl8.tv
It's exactly like a random walk... with downward drift. If you take the log of the wealth, the steps are: log(1.5) = 0.18, log(0.6) = -0.22. So at each step, there's a 50% chance you go up 0.18, and a 50% chance you go down 0.22.

Random walks with downward drift don't inevitably go up arbitrarily high like ones without drift.
Tackling the Existential Threats from Artificial Intelligence
> There are talented people everywhere, the probability of somehow being ground breaking and world impactful is ridiculously small.

No there aren’t. For every Jonathan Blow, Salvatore Sanfilippo (redis) or Mike Pall (LuaJIT) there are probably thousands of run of the mill developers working at feature factories. You don’t build amazing software by being lucky. Your boss at GenericCo will never go out of their way to ask you to build that thing you’ve always been dreaming of making.

You choose to work on software you find interesting. Or, for any of 1000 totally valid reasons, you choose to be small.

If you think you’re all that, don’t blame your company for “not getting the opportunity”. Please. You already have all the tools you need to code. Make something cool!
Ah, the ol' liquidity spiel. One wonders how markets were even possible before HFT...
Do you have examples of needing to use both mouse buttons at the same time?
I think you have it backward.
> Mozilla won't earn me as a user until their CEO is removed

Is this because of your opinion on the fairness of her salary, or some other issue?
Yeah, it's a constant annoyance that iOS app settings are randomly splattered across somewhere in the app and maybe in system settings.
Yes we rich-eaters have been surviving on a mono-culture of rich folk and will surely starve without the rich who sacrifice themselves selflessly for our sustenance.
The TIs have much more sane programming language than Casios.
IBM and NASA Open Source Largest Geospatial AI Foundation Model on Hugging Face
I have a bunch of vendors (e.g. Microsoft, Google, Gitlab, VPN, others) in the same OTP app in my phone, so my belief is that they seem to agree just fine.

There are of course examples of vendors that don't. I think Steam is one of them. And my bank.
I recently put a little modal on my phone that just says "Compete against yourself" every 30 minutes, and I'm finding it remarkably helpful at focusing my efforts back to what I want to see in the world.

I like the mindset of trying to be just a little better than you were, every day. It feels... correctly scaled, somehow.
Is there a website/service/whatever where I can check the price of sending an SMS to a particular number?
>- for ages no proper trained IT staff in schools

Excuse me but how the hell is this a problem in Scandinavia? Don't you guys have the best schools in the world?

Even in Eastern Europe 20 years ago we had sys-admins in schools, and we were told that Scandinavian schools do it so much bater because they fund them the way the US funds its military.
Sorry, meant that implied but didn't use the right language.
sure, but that is unlikely. If massive black holes opened up in labs then it would have already done so. Probably by chance in the dinosaur age.
FTR Bitwarden fills android app passwords.
No, this is a LARP. People hated IE for many reasons but the main one is having to do a bunch of extra work to support it. When IE did depart from the standards most severely, it wasn't like most other browsers were super compliant, it's just that IE didn't update, so it stayed in its same non-compliant state for many years.

IE6 lasted from 2001 to 2006 in terms of being the latest browser, which is eons. But worse is that due to the fact that browsers were not evergreen, supporting IE6 remained relevant for far longer. Well into 2010 many sites still had to support the dinosaur of a browser due to its still-relevant marketshare. In fact, I bet IE6 in that era had more marketshare than Firefox does now!

Squabbles over standards like this are nothing particularly new either. The only reason Safari was? the new IE is because you have to test in it. caniuse says you can use Wasm, but the commonly-used initiateStreaming API came over a year later in Safari than it did other browsers.

What Chrome is today is far worse than the new IE. IE did a lot of dumb garbage, and even some kind of sabotage, but they never had the opportunity to do the kinds of things Google is working on now.
Would be a dream to retire at 58
One of the main places I use FF is on mobile. Turns out that putting the browser chrome at the bottom of the screen is correct and I can't go back now.
An Algorithm for Structuring Flowgraphs (1977) [pdf]
Need: 1-click native tongue dictionary. How: the AI prompt clickable, specifically, a word should be clickable to find its meaning. Perfect scenario: clicking a word to automatically read out loud the word in the english meaning. Often I found myself seeing words I didnt know the meaning to, and its not possible to quickly iterate on it to get feedback. Yea im not going to use your app with multiple tabs on.

Want: hard to say if necessary, but perhaps look into making the "stop speaking" button redundant . Note however, i found your voice commands ux to be infintely better than bard. (Bard has the problem that its hard to make prompt inputs in foreign language unless you have some kind of extension installed, buttons poorly placed, tiny, etc)
Nothing in the article said Arthur lived in the Bay Area.
> Neither Mozilla nor Opera did that, so apparently they didn't have to.

Both of them did that. The box model in question was invented by Mozilla (internal code name for Netscape), and Opera 7 also implemented it.
Will we run out of data to train LLMs?
HFT is still CRUD, CRUD for the extremely wealthy.

If you want interesting, go to HPC large scale simulation.
Not everyone can read texts as easily as the majority of the population. Some people can’t read at all.
Well if the victim is in another country or an average person without money for a lawyer what can be done?
I had a project where I needed predictable timing for I/O (reading a microprocessor’s bus at 1 MHz), and the ESP32 I was using just couldn’t do it reliably. Despite having a tight loop on a dedicated core with interrupts disabled, a loop iteration would sometimes take longer than a microsecond, causing it to miss some I/O. I was able to do it much more reliably with RP2040’s PIO.

For another project, the ESP32 family unfortunately doesn’t have a model that has both Bluetooth Classic (only the original ESP32 does) and USB host/device modes (only ESP32-S2 and ESP32-S3 do), so I’m thinking I’ll use the RP2040 as the main processor, with USB, and an ESP32 coprocessor. I really would rather just use a single ESP32, but that isn’t looking like an option here.
> Focusing on changes "under the hood" instead of flashy new user-visible features was the entire point of that release

Yes.

> it's not a myth at all.

The myth is that no flashy new user-visible features meant that Snow Leopard was a "stable" release. It wasn't a stable release, any more so than any other major new OS version. Snow Leopard became stable over time, after many minor bug fix releases.

Note the specific words I was replying to: "macOS really needs another Snow Leopard “no new features” release."

macOS doesn't need any new major OS updates. Snow Leopard didn't help. Mac OS X 10.6.0 was in fact much buggier than Mac OS X 10.5.8 preceding it. What macOS needs is a long series of minor bug fix releases.

This is crucial: as soon as you acknowledge that 10.6.0 was much buggier than 10.5.8, the whole idea that "we need another Snow Leopard" goes out the window.
It is a transferable skill. But not one many people want to pay for except in very niche areas these days. So if you are out of a job expect to grind for awhile trying to find someone to hire for C++. Unless you have network connections then you might be ok. Being good at C++ only goes so far, you have to have skills in techs people are willing to pay for. Not many companies are willing to wait while you skill up in their stack unless you are willing to work jr but they will not hire you anyway because 'you will jump ship'. Its not great.
Thanks! Yes - lots of work to be done on the UX. A processing-style spinner is the top of my list to add this week.

I'll see what can be done about hints. Thanks for the feedback
I think you are correct. It seems like all of the other prices align with the weekly rate as 5 days. It also makes the daily rate seem more reasonable, at a yearly rate of $240,000. In a better interpretation of this, I could have maybe also assumed that this is just a fun way of stating something like "hiring to work on doubling users costs this much, but there isn't actually a guarantee that the userbase will be doubled."
Awesome - glad you're finding it useful!
> 24 years old, working remotely, living with my parents, and making around 65k euros

idk if that helps, but as someone with a grandiosity complex: I didn't make that kind of money until well into my 30s.
Musk didn't declare it a forbidden slur. What he declared forbidden was "repeated, targeted harassment" and that cis will be considered a slur by Twitter in the context of assessing whether something is "repeated, targeted harassment". Personally I think that's fair enough. There are countless words which can be slurs when used to harass.

If a transgender woman asks to not be referred to as a man, I would argue that use of male pronouns can constitute a slur. It can be a slur even if it's technically correct that they are still a biologically male person.

Calling an openly gay man "a homo" is widely accepted to be a serious slur, even though it's a term derived from Latin and the factual imputation conveyed by the word isn't in dispute.

It doesn't matter if a person happens to fit the technical definition of "cisgender" because slur-ness is never about technical correctness, or whether a word has Latin roots. It's about the reasons why the word was chosen and the purpose it is serving in the conversation.
Google stands for nothing but their bottomline. Thinking that private companies have "morals" is foolish at best. All the things Google claimed stood for was simply PR in a world where Microsoft used to be the bad guy. Same with all the ESG, DEI and whatever "social initiatives". It's PR. You shouldn't fall for that.

Google can achieve horizontal integration since they own youtube, search and lead the Chromium project. They are "the web" and make money with ads so they are going to force you to watch these ads, nothing more.
Yeah, a fuzzy KRunner search gets me the desired settings most of the time
Firefox has been fine for me on a variety of macOS devices in the last 4 years, and it's currently on my M1 max macbook, and also my 2012 macbook Pro which is running OCLP and macOS 12. If it runs fine on that, can't see how you'd have an issue on any M1 device.
> but this is what our brains evolved to be good at.

Really? Personally I find having to learn a new written script is one of the biggest barriers to learning a new language. Despite years of exposure (admittedly at low intensity) I still struggle with reading anything in
hiragana/katakana. To be clear I agree trying to learn a language using nothing but romanisations is almost certainly a bad idea, but I'm not sure I've ever felt the human brain had any special aptitude for learning written scripts - after all we've only been using them a few thousand years.
It's funny, startups turn over so fast that I've managed to become that guy while staying at a company less than two years.
On the topic of silly little scripts that help with math stuff, I’ve put in my ~/bin directory a script called ‘doc’ which does

octave —eval “doc $@“

So I can just pop open a new terminal and type something like “doc bicgstab” to go directly to their documentation (I prefer their terminal documentation interface to the gui one, but it is inconvenient to have it take over my in-progress session).

On the topic of bc, I assume it is just a result of it being an old Unix program from the days when an FPU was not assumed, but the need to pass the -l flag to get floats seems kind of silly nowadays.
Peruvian fossil challenges blue whales for size
Fair point. The web stack is the one thing I actively avoid doing anything significant with for exactly the reasons you've just described.
Must be nice to live in your world of being treated as a professional.
The scope of ambition is larger than your job. Very ambitious people use a job as just the means to an end.
Its not middlemen that is the problem. The service providers have done a complete regulatory capture of the industry.

See the healthcare cartels among the top bribers of all time:

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-spenders?cy...
Off the top of my head:

* Start boys at school 1 year later than girls

* Universal maternity leave

There are more but I forget
I don’t even know where to begin with this comment. It’s a gross mischaracterization of what was being said for starters.
> if you’re looking for these to be a similar quality to OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4, they’re not even remotely close.

I figured as much, but it's incredibly hard to find any comparison that's kept up to date.

What I was after was a local javascript LLM coder that i could train on a local codebase, but even that was fruitless except for some unmaintained "promptr" project.

I guess OpenAI embeddings is the only option.
I don't know why people worry about the crypto in Brave. Personally I like crypto but I have it turned off in Brave anyway and it never bothers me.

When I open a new tab, Brave tells me:

Trackers & ads blocked
36,822

Bandwidth saved
5.62GB

Time saved
3.3hours

Which is definitely a feature I like.
Isn't Edge built on chromium, which is getting the chrome updates forced into it?
You asked two questions. Sorry if I answered the wrong one.

I think when the person above suggested eating the rich you literally believed them and you’ve been on a misguided tear ever since. There’s little I can do to help you, but by god I’m glad I tried. Best wishes.
What happens when the average approaches 100%?

i.e., do these benchmarks taken together capture anything resembling general intelligence?
I explained that. It doesn't matter whether it's a computer doing it or a guy in a jacket, but once one guy gets a computer all the market makers need it.
Everything is unique, but some are more unique than others.
> I was so stunned & shocked. My advisor says sheepishly - look its just a Master's thesis. Its not like you have discovered a new theorem or something. These results are well known in the literature.

The gesture is unfortunate and I understand that you were shocked. I'm curious if your view of it changed with experience however?

I mean, unless you actually discover something great - which very rarely happen, is frankly exceptional and would probably lead to a paper on top of the actual thesis - a master thesis is mostly something you do for yourself. The point of doing it is what you learn durint the exercise. It's not really intended for being read outside of your jury. An advisor might keep a few good ones to give as reference to future students but that's pretty much it.

Hopefully, your advisor actually gave a shit when he was advising you. That's where he could have been valuable.
Ingredients of Understanding
Between the sender and the subject line, this is all one needs to know in many cases. It's preferable that they do not open the email, because in previous instances, simply opening an email triggered the exploitation of a vulnerability: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityB...