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I feel like Smartwatches are to phones what tablets are to laptops: a supplementary device that doesn't work as well without the primary computer.

While many people might work entirely from a tablet, or even a Chromebook, you'll run into so many issues that you're better off carrying a laptop to cover all bases. In a pinch, a watch or tablet can pinch-hit for the device they supplement, but using them as a primary device every day gets old really quick.
I think they're fun, and kind of useful if drinking while the move.
If you reject the idea that objects exist, then of course they will resist attempts to count them.
DigiChain (Audio Sample-Chain Creation App)
There used to be a behavior in UIKit where you could scroll a view and tap to stop the view and quickly tap a button to move on to another screen, and at some point in time when Apple moved away from skeuomorphism, the UIView scroll behavior changed in a way that from then on forced users to wait for scrolling to stop before tapping a button, but they also injected a full fraction of a second, probably somewhere between 200 to 600ms before you could interact with UI controls again.

iOS has felt so stupidly slow since then, because you're waiting for all of these dumb screens to swipe and pan and you can sit there and tap a button in the middle of all of this like 3-5 or more times and the damn phone does nothing until everything is all settled and complete, and only then will it listen to your tap event.

Who are these utter grandpas who make these stupid UI decisions?
Wait, really? That's odd. I thought the whole point of a deferred rendering pipeline was to reduce inconsistency by doing all your lighting calculations in one pass on one quad. In forward rendering you have to worry about overdraw - i.e. if you have a model that's half-obscured by another, but you render it first, you still wind up drawing the whole model, including the expensive pixel shader material you attached to it[0]. With deferred rendering all your model is doing is drawing textures to various channels in the G-buffer, which is cheap.

I thought the major downside of deferred was memory bandwidth - i.e. you have to write and read the entire G-buffer with at least 11[1] channels in order to produce an RGB image. That's a cost you pay every frame so it wouldn't hurt frame time consistency.

Meanwhile in forward-land it was the case that your FPS was extremely viewport dependent. Like, I remember looking down at a floor would double FPS, looking at a large scene with a bunch of objects or people in it would tank FPS, etc.

[0] Unless you get lucky with drawing order or sorted everything from front-to-back so that you can rely on early depth testing to kill those pixel draws. Which would also ruin your frame time consistency.

[1] XYZ normal, depth, RGB diffuse, RGB specular, and some kind of 'shininess' parameter that controls the specular exponent. Most practical deferred implementations will also have either a "material ID" channel or some special-purpose channels for controlling various visual effects in the game.

This is also why Breath of the Wild has a weird column where if you stand inside of it Link stops getting toon shading.
Have you tried switching to AppKit?

Seems like the app doesn’t have a huge amount of UI and could be converted in a few months.
Building LLM Applications with Redis on Google’s Vertex AI Platform
Not sure if that's changed over time or not but transition speed is more or less the same between the two in my experience. There's some software which does a decent enough job at tablet mode (enough that I don't feel the need for a separate tablet - basically media consumption type activities - ebook readers, Netflix, etc are covered well enough and web browsing works for me) and the surface pro form factor feels much better for things like note taking using the surface pen in my experience (my work laptop is a Yoga, personal laptop is a Surface Pro so I use both regularly). On the negative side, the Surface Pro does make some different compromises - particularly the type cover isn't quite as good as the Yoga laptop keyboard (though of course any laptop keyboard is never that great) and the stand which folds out of the back isn't as good as having a laptop supported by the base if you have it on anything other than a decent desk. But overall I'd say the Surface Pro gets much closer to a true 2 in 1 device.
Some drinks are designed for straw (iced, layered, smoothies) and some people want to have more control during intake (maybe they think packaging is dirty or fear for makeup). Then it becomes a mindless habit
It completely disappears on a mobile browser.

https://imgur.com/GgDdUWM
Is it possible to generate the planner for A6X. The customization options do not seem to mention page size.
All I can say is.. Garbage collection, and memory management ("recycling"), are hard, lol.
now it will just be a biological algorithm instead :)
These metrics are almost meaningless when you use them this generically -- for the same reason Spain is on the lower end of EU countries ranked by population density yet contains some of the most densely populated regions in all of Europe (as mentioned in the article). Moreso than Paris.
The same would happen if they were all tightly packed in a small venue, and at the end of the conference there was only one exit down a narrow path.

For the record, a similar issue happened in Korea not so long ago at a Halloween festival where people weren't even motivated to go a specific way, it was just too overcrowded:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63443044
Can LLMs Solve the 'No-Reading Problem' of Contracts?
"Our analysis reveals that smart readers (1) reduce by 66.9% the length of contracts; (2) reduce reading time by 14:41 minutes (3) improve text readability by converting college-level texts to texts readable by fifth-grade students; and (4) do so without considerably compromising the essential information in the original contracts. However, smart readers are not flawless."
Gojekyll: A fast, partially compatible Go clone of Jekyll
I agree, Europe's great too!
For context, those raw sewage events (untreated sewage, strictly — it is usually mechanically processed but not chemically, I think) have always happened infrequently (e.g. in storm situations).

They are meant to be exceptionally rare events because sewage bubbling up into sinks is unacceptable. (This is a small, densely populated country and it has to go somewhere.)

They used to be more common into the 1980s, and then regulation and modernisation caused the rates to drop dramatically.

They are by no means constant events but the numbers have risen in a way that suggests that the penalties are now cheaper than the remedial work and the risk of consequences is collapsing. Not sure if the risks are on the same scale as they were before those regulations were enforced, but people are rightly concerned about the increase; we have slid down the rankings in terms of beach and river water quality in the EU:

https://www.newstatesman.com/chart-of-the-day/2022/08/uk-dir...

I don’t think the UK is unique in this, alas, and to be fair I would still rather have this than issues with drinking water. The water that comes out of the taps in the UK is among the safest in the world:

https://epi.yale.edu/epi-results/2020/component/h2o
It was the same for me with stochastic processes.

Most likely has nothing to do with age, but simply the fact that it was the second time you’ve encountered it. Your brain spent 2 years subconsciously processing it.
No, for it to be retropunk, it would need to just work. Not necessarily work well, but just work.

QBasic would be fine. GW-BASIC would be fine. P5.js would be great. Hypercard would be adequate. Heck, even raw assembly code would work.

Documentation on jailbreaks, microcontroller versions, ssh, and file systems? Not so much.

The whole point was /simplicity/. Simplicity isn't the same as ease-of-use or speed-of-use, but old-school computers might boot into a BASIC interpreter. That was simple.

I'd love to have a simple eink solution. I don't care if I'm manually flipping pixels or have high-level APIs, and I don't care if I'm using BASIC, Makecode, Python, or C. I do care that it just works, and I know ahead of time it just works.

What I don't want is I buy an old Kobo on eBay, and find out it's not jailbreakable, or requires some library which requires a different version of Ubuntu, or whatnot. I don't need another half-baked project.

The actual ultimate here would be an all-in-one which is micro:bit compatible. All-in-one means it includes a case, a reasonable form factor, and works in standard micro:bit programming environments.
What kind of drones are we talking about here? Looking at the demo in the site, it seems you are talking about passenger drones? Regardless, in a previous smart city project I did, we have a similar concept, although it wasn’t passenger ones but un-crewed ones, including consumer or even heavy-lift ones, and their bases is basically a “nests” where the drone can land, charge the batteries (either wirelessly or through auto activated actuators to connect to battery outlets), or even deliver some packages, the challenges were:

- Regulations: obtaining that was a hassle, as this counts as a BVLOS (beyond visual line of sight), for passengers ones I assume it is even harder, and while you might say this is on drones operators not our concern, then your ports won’t be used!

- Safety: from making sure the drone will actually land on that spot, all the way to ensure it won’t hit someone during taking off/landing is a big job, since it will be autonomous or semi at least, you won’t have someone standing near the landing spot (or nest) all the time to go through all the checklist before taking off or landing.

- Security: Ensuring no one is damaging your drone, stealing it, or damaging your landing spot or vandalizing some sensors like cameras in there.

- Connectivity: while our project was about flying over cellular (5G) in an urban area, we had so many connectivity issues, flying over RC is worse, you might end up with drones crashing on buildings due to C2/telem loss, or you have an emergency landing over the people (deadly for some heavy-lift drones), or crashing on the way to the launch site after safety is triggered due to loss of battery, this point might be different for you if you are targeting passenger ones though.

- You need to standardize a couple of things, power delivery, power outlets chargers, and so on, both on your ports and drones manufacturers abide with, and it’s not an easy task, look at electric cars as an example.

- Our project lead to other projects about regulating drones in the skies so you won’t end up crashing other drones/aircraft.

- I am sure there are more challenges in your case too like, is it worth from a property owner perspective, among others.
This paper is about App Store apps, not web sites.
The root problem of this is the same as any oher law enforcement agency (or workplace we might even say) is that their main purpose is not solving or deterring any crime but just to show that they’re trying.
> As I said, the word is doing most of the work of your argument.

It's really not. Saying it twice doesn't make it so. You just decided to make an issue of it for some reason.

> then pointing to some throwaway article on some popular Android news site and calling it reputable - in an earlier comment you indicated that these reputable articles can be found by "searching", which with how search engines tend to work these days is like the exact opposite of reputable.

I expect a tech savvy user to understand the difference between a garbage site and a reliable, reputable site.

> And as I've said for the nth time now, you could end this abstract discussion with a link to like anything concrete.

How about you just stop replying? Why keep it going this long when we clearly disagree? I find such behavior baffling. If I wasn't interesting in putting in time to provide links before, given the tone of this discussion, why do you think I would be now?
> In finance, for example, there may be situations in currency or options trading where buying and selling in one sequence is more profitable than taking a different path, and these can be modeled using negative weights as long as the search algorithm is fast enough.

This is a non-contrived example. You could do this as a mini-project where you scrape various foreign exchange or cryptocurrency data, and try to find some arbitrage opportunities by running these shortest path algorithms.
Based on? We had Growth the last time we had a Labour government. The ineptitude at every level of the current Tory party is staggering. Added to the rampant nepotism and other forms of corruption, I'd argue it's virtually impossible for any Labour government to do any worse.
pretty sure one could say that about many languages
> how is this different from Apple reminding you to set-up Apple Pay?

Thats an absolute dark pattern too.
I saw a video, years ago, where three guys in masks and boots (matching the nearby cops’ boots) were trying to instigate. A protest leader with a white beard was loudly denouncing them and saying they wanted no violence and that they weren’t part of their group. The instigators left, crossing into the crowd of cops in uniform unheeded. Huh, what a coinkidink.
Ah makes sense. I didn't think about that scenario.
> SwiftUI is a nice idea in principle, what with being reactive

I want to like reactive, but between its inherent properties, how SwiftUI does it, and the fact I'm having to use VIPER as the architecture for the project…

…I don't like it, but I also don't know exactly where the issue is. And "not knowing where the real problem is" means I also can't add any productive suggestions for how to improve matters, to the very obvious annoyance of the iOS lead.
It’s actually the opposite. AWS will run on top of other hosting providers for some services and regions.

That’s why you’re paying so much for AWS.
The only ones of these I actually want to entertain are the straws made of actual straw.

And those are not fit for blended drinks.
Driving on Compressed Air
There is a ceasefire, yes. But there is still occasional fighting at the border, it's just all melee weapons to prevent escalation.

I saw a twitter video of it about a year or so ago, it's pretty intense.
I am very hopeful that Xilem will prove an interesting local optimum that combines the necessary optimization and DevEx and UX.

My only complaint is it's being developed so slow! Which isn't a fair complaint, really, I just want it!
Local shop near me sells very large drinks with very secure thick lids with two holes (bigger pluggable hole to drink from and super tiny to let the air in). Sadly it's all plastic too of course.

(edited to remove claim that straw is no better than secure lid with a small hole, it could be a little better)
Considering the country is at war and the degree of sanctions waged against it, I would say 15% is laughable. Similar GDP countries have bigger swings over the same period for more mundane reasons.
Since when is an "internal langue ecosystem" a good idea? Technology in a company like Slack exists to deliver useful features and good performance/stability to users faster than competitors can do it. For an app like theirs it doesn't sound like something that needs several disparate internal platforms that are slowing them down.
In theory it can reduce tooth decay. In practice it only does so when drinking high sugar, high acid beverages, and if memory serves drinking a glass of water afterward is about as effective.
Is there a reason you're hiding the date on narrow viewports? Seems odd that on my phone it's only visible if I rotate to landscape
Europe's Cocaine Tsunami[0], a documentary by VICE, is about Albanian Mafia and Columbian clan del gulfo. Here, you can hear about how Albanians in UK are 'enslaved' by Albanian mafia families, and how many young Albanians from Northern Albania leave to work in the cocaine field.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTOwZxRT5Qc
Great point.

Now that you mention it, I did work with a person who had a condition that extremely affected his ability to move and yes, straw usage was essential for him.
> I suppose I don’t understand why you couldn’t build an integration with n8n solely with generic webhooks vs having to bring a copy of their software into your stack.

It’s a better user experience for customers. They don’t have to sign up for some third-party service, they don’t have to pay for some third-party service, they don’t have to mess around with API keys or onboarding flows, they don’t have to go to a third-party service to configure how things work, they don’t have to manage their admins separately, etc.

Sure, we could integrate with n8n the same way we integrate with Zapier. But why would we? We already have Zapier for that. And our customers ask for Zapier. And they’ve heard of Zapier. And Zapier has more than 10x number of integrations. There’s no benefit for us to replicate what we already have with Zapier using n8n. The benefit of n8n was closer integration, but in order to get that we would have to spend $50k/yr which simply wasn’t worth it for us.

I don’t think the problem can be solved with a differently licensed library. n8n explicitly considered this use case and this is how they want things to work:

https://n8n.io/embed/
Crawly – Elixir web scraping framework
To contribute to the tangled ball of messaging, slack also uses chime sdk to handle huddles
How hard is it to do fine tuning? I thought it would be cool to tune one to be good at debating and changing peoples minds about pickleball.
Any of the e-ink pads that run Linux under the hood and expose SSH can get you to a bash prompt. Which is about as simple as one can get.

Why does it have to be /simple/ anyway? With a rich programming environment you can make your own simplicity. The world needs more devices that force you to come to them, not the other way around.
http://homework.uoregon.edu/pub/emj/121/lectures/tycho121.ht...

> Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) proposed an experiment that would determine whether or not the earth goes around the sun. Basically, if the Earth orbits the sun, nearby stars should periodically "move" back and forth in their position with respect to more distant stars every 6 months. If the Earth was stationary (at the center of the Universe, this wouldn't occur.
> Why are people in the US so against public schools?

> Don't worry, we share similar views.

No, we clearly do not. If you held similar views to mine, you would not have posed the question, nor followed it with a false dilemma between breaking down regional identities and, "everything sucks. And there is no cohesion between peoples."

> And yet, I went through public schooling, learned the "national" identity but I still retained my own unique identity and cultural practices taught at home by parents.

To the extent that an American national identity exists, it is rooted in shared ideals and beliefs. Those ideals predate the system of public schooling devised by Prussian officer-aristocrats in the mid nineteenth century. Our ideals have certainly taken a beating under that system. Hopefully, they will also postdate it.

Given that you believe you learned the American national identity in a public school, I do wonder a bit about how well you understand that identity. Especially in light of your initial question, which implies a lack of understanding of why Americans might oppose a major institution.
Almost all other societal structures are way less rigid and tyrannical.

Name another institution where inmates have to ask for permission to go to the toilet, besides school and jail.

Edit: or another institution where people can attack you and you can’t call police to help you.
I don't think they have any desire to use this knowledge for their own gain, since they explicitly say that your data will not be used to train their future models - both OpenAI is saying that about their trainable ChatGPT 3.5 Turbo model, and Azure OpenAI Service was clear on that as well.

I think the future is extremely well-trained base models that are then fine-tuned on specific domain knowledge. I'm already seeing that with Meta's Llama 2 personally at home. My company has access to Azure OpenAI Service's GPT-4 trainable model that we've been working with on all our documentation, and the results look very promising so far.

But, this idea of the All-Knowing Oracle that can answer any question you have is all well and good, but it's so far beyond our current processing power as to be a pointless endeavor at the moment. Will we get there eventually? Yeah, sure. According to Jim Keller as of around 2019/2020 when he was speaking on Lex Fridman's podcast, he said we still have room to go 1,000,000 times smaller - meaning chips. I think we probably need two more orders of magnitude in processing power of the strongest high-end GPUs before we're there. NVIDIA's H100 is a great achievement, but we need something about 100x as fast, and I think we'll still need dozens of them working in parallel to train the model that can answer all these questions.

All of this though is a moot point, because it's the lawyers that have already slowed down progress. OpenAI is terrified of being sued. Altman couches it behind terms like, "AI Safety", "AI Alignment", etc., but it's fear. It's all stemming from fear. And it's all stemming from people just not "getting it".

We're entering a new age of upheaval, and there's going to be rogue AIs that tell people to go kill themselves to reduce climate change. You know why? Because there are humans that tell people to go kill themselves to reduce climate change. These models are language models. We taught them how to think, and we taught them how to think like us, so it's no surprise to me whatsoever that they behave like us - meaning they occasionally lie and they occasionally go off the rails and go a little crazy.

We have become gods and we have made a creation in our own image. Most of the time it's awesome, sometimes it's a little wild and wacky.
They’re important when drinks have lids.
I think that’s the primary benefit of the school system
Idea Fountain Request
Hi,

If you had 7 months to build and sell something. What would it be?
The paper coffee cups are around 100%.

Paper is just not very good at resisting water.
Why are Pyramids the first evidence of Earth’s measurements?
> vaguely resembling whatever they're talking about

The sibling channel to Wendover, (which is produced by the same team) 'Half As Interesting' [1] uses this to comedic effect - they will often show what is clearly the wackiest or strangest clip that came up when searching on these clip sites the phrase that the narrator is saying.

[1]: https://youtube.com/@halfasinteresting
You wish it wasn't like that, yet you helped build one of the cornerstones that enabled it to become that way. Curious. I'm getting mixed messages here.

Is this an example of "I knew not what I was doing", or what? I eval projects I'll assist by thinking of applications 2 or three times removed from the project prospectus exactly to not unknowingly further the ends of a surveillance state.
I indeed missed the header, as other readers hear. I'd advise against using the characters' bubbles to provide important heads-up, as they're often used for additional insights or humorous opinion, and so can be easily missed by quick readers.
I question if it actually does make a difference, and in any case, we should kill two birds with one stone and just not drink unhealthy drinks.

“It’s so simple!” -Jim Gaffigan

“Stop it!” -Bob Newhart
Bob Barker, Longtime Host of the Price Is Right, Dead at 99
I am not convinced we are not a failed state. Or that it’s yet likely we will get rid of them at the next election.
So you're saying you can cut it out and increase profit by a percentage point? That's pretty huge.

I recall finance going ballistic on my division at one point because our profit margin dropped by a tenth of a percentage point (and yet was still well above fifty)