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No, I think I understand your point, from Hitlers frame it would have been justified. A consequentialist argument can take place before the action itself, we need to perform X because the outcome will be Y. Sometimes the means and ends align with deotological means and ends, other times they do not. I am saying your reasoning is consequentialist because it is an end justify the means argument, and I disagree because regardless of whether hitlers ends are met I think he would still be wrong because I reject consequentialism as a moral argument. I reject it precisely because these are the outcomes consistent with this as moral framework.
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Along very similar lines…

There is a saying in BI that goes: “What you measure grows.”

So let’s say you measure MAU, the infamous vanity metric. And let’s say your MAU increases with each dollar you funnel toward advertising, the thing you’re actually growing there is your dollar spend and not the growth of the user base.

Thus it is your advertising dollar spend that will grow and not the size of your user base.
not at all, I recall that no one (outside of the music industry perhaps) used the phrase 'digital rights management' until iTunes added DRM to music in 2003/2004, other things like the copy protection for videotapes/DVDs/games were just generically called copyprotection, or other domain specific terms such as activation (in the case of things like windows XP), not DRM.
AutoHotKey is awesome! I use it for better/faster app switching. I have a "shortcut" enabler key, in my case Right Alt, that controls it all.

When held down with any letter, it switches through the instances of that app. For example, Alt + C switches to VS Code window. Alt + F keys opens new instances of an app such as a new Chrome window in a specific profile.

Alt + number are configurable and can be set for the current window in focus. By tapping Alt, the "edit" mode is enabled, allowing me to set the current window as any of the number keys.

When in "edit" mode, the H,J,K,L keys also switch to navigation, becoming up, down left, right etc.

It makes switching between apps so much faster.
Salary: "Competitive"
One ends up with a 3-tier access hierarchy for accessing a given page:

Present in buffer pool? -> Present on local disk? -> Retrieve from S3/Azure/GCP.

The challenge becomes optimizing this -- speculatively pulling pages in, background evictions, etc.

Garbage collecting old pages also turns out to be complicated. Doing a full trace for expired versions in secondary storage on disk is slow but conceivable. Doing it across petabytes in the cloud, with all the problematic latencies and reliability issues that come with network access... limits the approaches you can take.

They are not new problems -- DBMS development has always been about juggling the trade-offs in performance of different lvels in the memory hierarchy. But it permits higher scale.
> Now your course of action will not be optimization of server-side processing, but something else (e.g. deploying in that region or on-premise for those customers).

And to empower your engineers to achieve that, you should

- Train them so they gain specific knowledge on whatever tech they are going to use. Most likely one of the big three cloud providers. Some companies avoid this step because they want to invest the time and money required. Often with severe consequences when engineers deliver a botched solution.

- Make it a realistic goal e.g. you may need to create a new team with a smaller scope, so those people are efficient and not distracted by other stuff. If Mary from accounts is pinging your engineers about some legacy system that keeps failing, do not be shocked when "your estimates were wildly inaccurate".
> This will run on a dedicated core, or in kernel space, or with Xenomai.

Most the USP of these is that they have an M-core which is usually where such tasks would live.

In automation it's not unusual to find controllers where the entire system lives on an MCU, and you quickly find that it's difficult to keep up with network requirements. I have devices where the MCU is 20+ years old, and the embedded TLS implementation hit a constraint 10-15 years ago.

This looks like the ideal use-case for these; your actual application lives in the M-core as it always did, but your network, TLS etc into an A-core that's much more suited to them, and where "fullsized" implementations are much more readily available.
Might be better of extracting the carbon and just storing it, rather than releasing it again.

Net-zero is nice, but extraction and storage is net-negative.
Or what we call science is someday going to be regarded as alchemy.
Here's an example. This tent is not in production anymore, but was sold without poles. UL-hiking often involves finding as many uses as possible for as few items as possible.

https://hilleberg.com/eng/shelters/rajd/
Is time-to-last-byte really defined as the moment the initial response has been successfully received? Or is it defined more vaguely as "all responses needed to render the page have been received "?

I'd understand "time-to-first-byte" as something that could at least give you a reliable lower bound for how long users have to wait, but I don't see how "time the initial response has been received" is any kind of meaningful indicator of UX in modern javascript-driven websites.
>outline shared principles for an open, free and secure digital future for all.

Unless you're Taiwan.
That's actually the only benefit I see: you can trust the laws to a degree. But there are so many that it's difficult to keep up with it and implement them, especially when bootstrapping/indiehacking/side gig'ing.
Fair enough, because it didn't have time to cool down yet.

But at astronomical scales, even if vacuum is a good insulator, the glowing plasma would somewhat cool down before it reaches the other star, I imagine.
My first computer was a Franklin ACE 1000 [1]. I always thought it as a compatible Apple II plus. It is great how these stories run in parallel lines: on one hand the legal aspects, on the other, how Franklin reached an extended audience and change its life, personal and professionally wise. Externalities of "piracy".

[1] http://oldcomputers.net/ace1000.html
This is a perfect app for this job. Finally, cropping a part of a video to share quickly has became convenient! Thank you an awful huge lot!!

I used AviDemux in the past but that was a UX horror.
Yes, and before humans the earth was on a cooling trend, though only measurable on a geological time scale (millions of years). A little plant matter gets converted to charcoal and then coal every years. Though biology mostly trys to get at that carbon first.
"I'll keep saying it every time this comes up.

I LOVE being told by techbros that a human painstaking studying one thing at a time, and not memorizing verbatin but rather taking away the core concept, is exactly the same type of "learning" that a model does when it takes in millions of things at once and can spit out copyrighted writing verbatim."

Personally I think they argue that way because they get off on being contrarian out of spite, but to me it's just a signal of maliciousness and stupidity all at once.
Do you have some suggestions on what sort of sortiments you like? It seems like many of the common component assortment kits readily available, while having several hundred pieces, only have a handful of any particular value component, which tends to run out rather quickly after only a project or two.
can you share your script please ?
The earth is not a zero sum game, we get energy from the sun. Photosynthesis reverses the process turning co2 into sugar and o2.
Politically, I could perfectly imagine the German right to far-right to create an atmosphere of fear, uncertainty and doubt to bring faked results into action. Sure, you can do that on paper as well but I think it's way harder to cover up than "something digital".
Do you realize you’re providing a very smug criticism about a recently deceased, beloved by many, community member?

If the authors earnest blog post strikes you as ego-y maybe stop for a second check your own ego.

Your cynical response to someone practicing vulnerability is disgusting.
26% here too. Mind boggling
When I was an IT industry analyst (basically a type of consultant) for about 10 years, we got good rates when we were directly (or near-directly) on the clock--up to about $10K per day or so. But the rub was that were relatively rarely on-the-clock. Bigger firms can make it work better because they bill out juniors at higher rates than they really are worth. It also works if you only want sort of part-time interesting work anyway. But it's not generally a great steady income stream.
Alchemy was a crucial stepping stone towards science. The scientific understanding of matter didn't develop as a parallel story in opposition to it but as an organic outgrowth or continuation from it. Newton himself was deep into weird alchemy stuff.

----

After a quick skim the issue isn't really whether its alchemic, but overclaiming. Especially the last sentence of the abstract seems to give the impression that more is known than is the case.

> Our analysis suggests that no current AI systems are conscious, but also shows that there are no obvious barriers to building conscious AI systems.

A lot hinges here on "suggest" and "obvious", which the authors can hide behind if put on the spot, and it's vague enough that most readers (especially journalists and hype influencers) will glance over those terms and think science can now detect the presence of consciousness in AI systems.
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Hot-take: It's an emotional defence mechanism: on-the-whole the UK and US are far too similar and integrated that it's natural for middle-class Brits to larely consider themselves peers, and not near-peers, of their US counterparts - so when you have that view of yourself and your place in the world but then look at the stark the income disparity, you're going to comfort yourself with all of the bad things about the US (and the US' bad things are legion) - and invoking the egalitarian NHS happens because the UK gets its impression of the US healthcare "system" (industry?) from things like Michael Moore's Sicko or Times columnists reporting on all the messed-up healthcare injustices that happen in the US - but there is a very real ignorance of what healthcare is like in the US when the system does actually work well for you.

And if it isn't NHS vs. "doesn't &everyone* get medical-bankruptcy?" then it'll be about guns, or the death penalty, or overt racism in the south, or corporate america's excesses, or US foreign-policy, and so on. Because those are the things that Channel 4 will report on - but you won't see or read stories that upset anyone's feelings on their place in the world: and it works on everyone: I've already mentioned Guardian-reading types, but also and especially the Brexit-types: who still desperately want to believe the British empire could be brought-back because the Daily Express told them so.
definitely do that!
I expect that some of those companies will be interested in acquiring shares of the company to ensure their continued access and innovation.
The risk is not that AWS offers a better service now (many of these companies are actually offering something better). But that they copy your idea or service and do it later.

I'm given to understand Snowflake runs its own cloud platform, at least in part.
You missed the most insidious innovation of all, derivative contracts and markets :-).

Yes, fully agree that over a larger horizon financial services have been evolving and innovating (not always in a controlled or beneficial manner).

It is also true that previous digital innovations (databases, spreadsheets and... powerpoints) have been adopted (as in bought / licensed) and were instrumental to enable all these innovations on the financial side.

What the financial sector did not realize is that as the information universe coelesces and, e.g., advertisers or retailers come to invent and dominate technological platforms innovation cannot happen with rented tools.

> the ones currently shouting loudest about disrupting finance seem to have a serious lack of understanding what finance actually is

the disconnect between (digital) technical and domain knowledge is exactly what I think is the problem
Well, there are a few areas where Linux desktop is as bad as ever: accessibility and security.
It’s interesting, because this is how your response sounded to me. Is there no dogma about how everyone should group together and take back the means of production? There is a very large, prominent movement about this response to capitalism.

My point is, that theory and practice differ, and when they differ it’s not the practice that is wrong, but the theory.

Every time people banded together to take the means of production, it resulted simply in destruction, instant corruption and a new autocratic regime built around the toughest thugs. The utopia does not occur. So clearly this is not the solution for solving our problems. There are problems. And there are solutions. But you need to search elsewhere.

Your union leader is not necessarily on your side. Even if they are, not for long. The system decides how they act, and power corrupts. Watch the strike in Hollywood. Watch how the previous strike in 2007 caused the present situation in 2023, and watch how the union will end up dissolving itself as more and more people will start leaving it. I’m not happy about this. I think workers need to be able to band together in groups and negotiate in groups (called companies, for example). I’m not convinced it should be one all encompassing mob-like group with no alternatives, but that’s just me.
While I agree the stores are annoying (they seem like annoying jewelry shops filled with poser know-nothing cool kids) but they do have web accessible local inventory. Why do you make an appointment for that? I just buy anything I need online and pick up at the store when the order is ready. It's not like they customize anything. It's basically a glorified shoe store. They either have what you want on the shelf or they don't.
Why are special interest groups allowed to create school curriculum? Do that also have a "clean coal" module from the coal marketing board?
You don't buy the point about a country with royal family that owns vast swathes of land?
how are people able to walk 100kms in 4 days with no rest days.

i just can walk 8 kms every day :(
US must land astronauts on the Moon again
KDE is dropping Telegram communications channels
Of course, I feel a bit sorry for the folks who will have to add a Matrix account to their list of accounts to check, but I'm really happy to see KDE embracing fully FOSS communications platforms.
Ok, that makes sense.

What's the mechanism that allows the acceleration to drop, without dropping to zero though?

Is the dark matter not expanding with everything else
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There are no dumb questions, only dumb answers - so here goes:

Hot things emit light. The wavelength(s) of light a substance emits depends on the temperature of that substance - cooler things emit longer (redder) wavelengths, hotter things are bluer. If the substance is cool enough, the light emitted will be mostly or wholly infra-red, therefore invisible to the naked eye but still detectable. The top of a flame is like that - the gas is still hot but no longer glowing visibly as it cools. Therefore the answer to your question depends on how hot the plasma is, but a confounding factor is that the hoovering object would create friction in the incoming material, thereby heating it up. I think the corona of a star glows with its own light (not just light emitted by the core), so I expect therefore that you would see a lot of light overall, especially nearer to whatever is doing the vacuuming.
Beginners question, would you happen to know what the Xcode command is?
AI is not only a branch of statistics. Symbolic AI has nothing to do with stats.
...and making the internet trustworthy "by introducing accountability criteria for discrimination and misleading content."

The above is misleading. It impacts people differently based on mental health variations and is thus discriminatory.

That's ok though as long as you are nice to those in power. Selective enforcement is only for those we don't like.

Feel free to lie in the correct direction.

Feel free to discriminate against white men.

Discriminate based on appearance or wealth as much as you would like.

Power.
Such a success story that France didn't buy oil/gas from abroad to generate electricity worth 120B euro a year for 40 years in a row. Who cares about the financial management vehicle of the operation is 65B short at the end of those 40 years?

The wind farms are awesome, and I'm super happy that the current economic and geopolitical climate and the technological advancements are making them possible and financially attractive to build. But in the end success is measured in TWh delivered. And France has been delivering 300TWh+/y of clean electricity for 40 years straight. And the 7GW that's gonna deliver ~20TWh/year is cool, but we need a whole lot more of it before it can be deemed as much a success as France's nuclear endeavour has been.
Was your sum KPI burned down on a report during the quarter or was it only reviewed once the quarter was complete?
> chronic migraines as an example, that shit is a response to something

Sort of. I think the _chronic_ aspect of chronic migraine often ends up being a response to something, but migraine itself is considered a primary condition.

In my case, I respond to many stimuli that are out of my control or hard to control all the time — weather, seasonal allergies and stress to name a few. I also have stimuli that I can control, and by controlling those I reduce the impact to those things I can’t control.

FWIW, I’m not shitting on doctors, here. I actually think that there is some evolution of our medical system that takes the narrative into account, perhaps by process or an intermediary that helps a patient manage their “case”.
This is just another reason for me to add to my list of "why I don't use WhatsApp."
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And if it is a high demand area you need to look more spanky than all the other applicants: great jobs, rental references, no kids/pets, older couple prefered of sharers. In London you also need to make an offer on the spot.
> a number of bugs have happened in the past because people didn't order properly.

This may be impractical, but I think my reaction would be to re-design it so that the ordering was mechanically a full order, even if culturally the people writing these things don't need to specify if they don't want to.

e.g. maybe a macro can turn your existing explicit order into high bits of a value, and then a "noise" factor into low bits, where that "noise" is derived from a date integer like 20230822 or filenames or whatever, and truly order on the entire value.

The idea is, this means any hidden order is the same for everyone, Intel laptop test rig, ARM WiFi cameras at customer site, last week's build, this week's build, Colin's build, the CI system's build, they're all using the same order, because while heisenbugs are strictly worse, "It only happens with my setup" is also extremely frustrating.

When people discover a hidden ordering requirement they can adjust the "real" ordering accordingly, just now there's a deliberate systemic consistency.

Probably not worth all the bother, but I think I couldn't live with the "stable sort to avoid heisenbugs" situation.
Do one thing correctly and do it well - like everything is a file OS and clib and the C language.

Sigh the same cannot be said of the terrible wonky state of the web - JS is just so shit and anything that followed it as just a new mess on top the existing pile of messes.
Digging around in Instruments is the opposite of accessible.

Every OS always had easy ways to tell if a process is waiting on disk or network (e.g., top, Activity Monitor). The mechanisms for measuring how often a process is waiting on memory exist, but you have to use profilers to use them. We are overdue to have them more accessible. Think of a column after “% CPU” that shows percentage of time blocked on memory.
Disagree. Think of any example that includes the configuration of a secret like an API key. Typically you see something like "<API key>" or "xxx-your-api-key-xxx" that signals to the user that they need to input a real value rather than leaving the default, usually coupled with a nearby note describing how/where to get said key.

The example here is of course slightly different, but I think a similar pattern could be applied.
Also related, the perverse incentive and the cobra effect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
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30 years experience says the best way to use a breadboard is don't use one.

They suffer from contact wear, stray capacitance and inductance, unreliable contacts and rather non optimal signal routing. This slowly adds up to pending headaches like failing circuits and ones that can't be reproduced. Even the nice 3M ones are problematic.

Refer to https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/appl... ... AN47-26 breadboarding techniques.

I tend to use single sided copper clad board and build stuff rats nest. Drill some holes through the board and screw it to the inside of a die cast box lid and for a one off it's good. Works fine up to 1GHz or so with some thinking unlike breadboards (1MHz if the planets are aligned appropriately). Also works for high voltage and high current stuff. If you have lots of digital, flip the ICs upside down and use kynar for signal routing.

Here's one I did last year where someone stole the internal oscillator out of an RF signal generator so I built one from the service manual schematics. Prototype: https://imgur.com/KLnEzcs ... This was "productionised" onto a custom PCB: https://imgur.com/WM44RYl
There has to be a catch. Maybe a teaser rate?
> reduction of dense muscle and fat
reduction of dense muscle and --->increased<-- fat
They're fairly competitive compared to the rest of the world. He is also working for a US company who could pay him more if they really wanted to. US salaries are high because the US has a glut of engineering jobs and is also a difficult place to immigrate to (generally requires you to have family ties or a job offer which is not easy to obtain when you might not be granted a work visa and won't realistically be able to start for about 6 months). If the US ever adopted a more lax immigration system in line with the UK, Canada, the EU etc I would expect US engineering salaries to drop.
Unless you have a time machine, we can't go back and rename the subsystem.
This is why I always turn on subtitles. The only draw is that the subtitles include sound effects and other information that can sometimes be distracting. I see the need for those, but I wish there was an alternative.

I think Netflix and others should provide two sets of subtitles. One for those who need closed captioning because they need the extra information, and a subtitle that only include the dialog.

Another pet peeve of mine is unnecessary audio effects. Once you start noticing it, they are as obvious and unimaginative as the Wilhelm scream. If you absolutely need to add some crickets to prove that the scene is filmed outdoors and not in a studio, go ahead. But don't add dog barks, cat fights and other distracting sounds to make "ambience". Everyone else does that too you know?

Pet owners often hate scenes where two people are talking outside, because there's a big chance someone adds a dog barking in the background and their own pets will react. They would probably pay for extra for an audio track without dog barks.