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I can say that I've got a much more open mind via conversions I've had with strangers on various platforms over the years. My feminism is much more informed and mature than it would be if I hadn't had access to the differing opinions I've read and discussed over the years for example.
I also wouldn't be able to do my job without the internet. When I was just starting out, I learnt perl out of a big thick book (O'Reilly maybe?) and I can say that searching the internet is easier!
I'm not saying it's perfect, but you must get some value out of it, or you wouldn't be here in the first place...
As a person who also has experience with mental health services, I fully agree.

People seem to have this misguided notion that when they tell someone to "seek professional help" that the "professional" they seek will actually know what they're doing. Generally, they don't. Beyond that, even the best therapists make enormous mistakes. And most people don't get the best.

I honestly think that an AI could do better than most therapists, and I'm sure it would be better than most psychiatrists.
> If you think you're going to defect from the social contract but still get to enjoy all the benefits of society,

Yeah, you can't do that all by yourself; that's for politicians and movie stars and business tycoons.

There are preppers and "self sufficiency" fans who are not seeking to "defect from the social contract"; apparently that's a difficult distinction to make for people taking a quick survey of the field.

They're the ones whose advice includes lots of "know your neighbors" and "coordinate with your neighborhood".
> no resources that can be practically mined

Asteroid mining would at least have a huge economic payout if achieved.
I'm surprised HDD don't turn out to be less expensive option calculating in all infrastructure + man hours. Do you have a ballpark what's percentage cost difference for your use case?
The only reason this is idiomatic is because there is no better way. That's the entire point I'm making... Haskell prides itself in writing generic and reusable functions. This then is then thrown out of the window with the kitchen sink monad. Very understandable, because everything else sucks.

That precisely why I think this is a great shortcoming of the language.
Yes I was thinking a better title would be, "It is difficult to determine the oldest language"
What you are getting at is now called a “pangenome assembly”. Several high profile papers earlier this year, one by Guarracino and Garrison in Nature.

A pangenome is a complex graph model that weaves together hundreds or more genomes/haplotypes—usually of one species, but the idea can extend across species too, or even cells within one individual (think cancer pangenomes).

On the idealized human pangenome graph each human is represented by two threads along each autosome, plus threads through Chr X, Y, and the mitochondrial genome.
1 - compare the govt and spacex track records. does that really seem wise?

2 - we can't really nationalize stuff, constitutionally. it's been limited to voluntary bailouts of last resort (aig, amtrak) which i think we should stop
I don't need evidence to know that the odds of casualties falling into a modern well (that is a few inches in diameter) such as the one being drilled here are less than being hit by lightning (assuming lightning is possible).

I won't rule out the possibility of an ankle sprain.
Blank checks are flying like it is the dot com era again. Money is most definitely being invested in it.
You CAN move to China I guess?
My personal problem with these games is that it feels too much like programming an work, and I do all that at work :)
and microtransactions in Ubik.... *shrug*
I mentioned quintessential works rather than "origin stories" to avoid an inevitable "all work is derivative".

edit: True Names surely should have been added in my brief list.
Just as a little correction: Dutch is not an "evolved German dialect". German and Dutch are both West Germanic languages, but so is Scots, Frisian and English. So it would be like saying that German is an evolved English dialect then (though to be fair, Dutch and German are grouped closer to each-other in that family tree usually and have provided a lot of substrate for each-other due to close contact).

Swiss German is not regarded as a its own language by any nation, though from a purely linguistic perspective it could very well be classified as its own language. What is deemed a language vs. a dialect usually comes down to politics. The saying usually goes something like: "A language is just a dialect with an army".
They state it is for irrigation only. You can use the same technique for drinking water in some places, but it really depends on local soil conditions (meaning even if your neighbor has safe water you might not get safe water!) and the care taking when drilling the well. If you do try this, after drilling and sealing the well you chlorinate the water (to kill anything you introduced), wait a week, then have a proper lab test, if the lab says it is safe to drink you are fine. The lab test should be repeated every 3 months (almost nobody does, but that is what the labs tell you)

You can sometimes work around this by installing filters (RO and otherwise), and UV lights. However you need lab results to tell you what filters to install, and you need to keep those filters maintained.
This is exactly the point. The pessimists get the pedantic thrill of pointing out that, 60 years ago, some proponents were overconfident. But they neglect to notice the larger picture, which is one of extraordinary progress. They'll be sitting in the passenger seat of a self-driving car, arranging their travel itinerary with a chatbot fluent in English and 60 other languages, and smugly commenting on HackerNews about how "AI pessimists got it right in the 60s."
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Not 'mostly' its pure clickbait.

> only surprising part of this story is that they managed to find a stupid pr person who gave a bad quote

They did not do anything wrong and they don't do what the article implies. The response is 100% correct and when confronted with 'what about this' they explained it like the non issue it is.

Its HTTP GET parameters. Not for specific user but for filter range, that's it.

The article is prime example why people don't trust the news.
The short answer is "because it seems too difficult to have been independently developed." Of course, it was once thought that things like writing or farming were too difficult to have been independently developed, but archaeological evidence has made clear at least 3 (and possibly ~6-ish) independent inventions of the former and at least 9 for the latter.

There are a few more concrete reasons to specifically believe against independent development of language. If you believe that language faculties arise very quickly after evolution of a biological organ to facilitate language, that suggests that the ability to have language is a key part of Homo sapiens and therefore language would have originated only once in the development in Homo sapiens as a species.
See https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/preparednes...
I enjoyed Shapez, and it's cool that it has many mods, but I just found it too abstract and sterile to keep my attention. Factorio just much more engaging for me in the long run, especially with mods.
Regulation always benefits incumbents, as they are already positioned to both shape and comply with the regulation.
Isn't it harder when you have to later report to management that actually, your 45TB of production data do not fit on the 50TB tape ?

I suppose compression ratios vary a lot between users of these things, right ? And if you are backing up user-generated data, you don't know in advance how well it will compress.
Everyone leaves leaving only the criminally inclined behind. Maybe this will work eventually.
I participated in a time tracking exercise and I found that like-clockwork, without fail, I would urinate 1 hour after a cup of coffee at the office. On the way back from the bathroom, I'd get myself another cup of coffee. I had no idea I was having 5 or more cups of coffee every day.

I later tried to cut down or reduce my coffee intake. Most times I always resumed from a combination of missing the enjoyment/routine, flavour, and ability to focus. I finally at least cut out espresso shots, and mostly have a green tea in the morning and a coffee in the afternoon, and sometimes an (orange pekoe/earl gray) tea or a decaf coffee in the early evening.
Blade Runner is pretty much THE gold standard when it comes to Cyberpunk cinema, and it's themes are pretty much everything you described. Blade Runner ain't no parody.
I don't know anything any mining. What makes it so destructive? Or more destructive than other mining?
Who said anything is fine? It's both more evocative and more effective to recognize reality as reality than to insist that it's fantasy.
I've considered getting an external Blu-ray writer and just a bunch of quality inorganic blank discs as a tape alternative archiving solution.
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Depends on how much data you generate. Even small game studios will use them for regular physical offsite backups for potential disaster recovery. (In extreme cases we stored regular snapshots of dev machines as vmware images).

Essential when data is created faster than the locally available internet bandwidth which in media industries is quite often.
Stay away if you value your time. It's not a joke when they call it cracktorio. Especially on the Deck...
Why are you only focused on "old peoples retirement" as an aspect of what these companies have controlling % in.

Just because these are the biggest funds on earth, does not make them some beautiful steward of your retirement.
See also https://github.com/bkw777/mainline which offers a UI to install the mainline kernels from mainline kernels PPA.
If I had to guess, perhaps it is friendly because the code is mostly portable between various lisps? At least that seems to be its mission according to [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISLISP
One of the many horrors that Gen AI is bringing to life out of dystopian sci-fi. Absolutely loathe this and wish I weren't entering a future with AI "cloning" of dead people, loved ones, and (probably) me.
Tapes are roughly 3 times cheaper pr. TB than hard drives.
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> But also sometimes it makes more sense to copy and paste over trying to fit an abstraction where it shouldn't be. :)

I find that's a smell of limited languages: Maybe a language has poor error handling semantics, maybe it's not expressive enough to make a parameter generic.

It can also be a smell of not understanding the language well enough, too. Maybe there is no need to copy and paste, but the programmer didn't understand the language well enough to make a generic abstraction.
Note that Erlang has maps since OTP 17, which I believe are implemented more efficiently than dicts.
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Lots of good answers here. To chime in a few:

- Beej's Guide to Network Programming (1994 originally I believe). Fantastic intro to networking programming via the Unix interfaces.

- The C Programming Language (1988 for 2nd edition). There has been change, but not a crazy amount.

- Mastering Regular Expressions (2006). Never look at a regular expression with fear again!

- Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (2002). Some of the patterns are antiquated but a lot of them are fantastic for modern development. Some of them are core to a lot of development now but we just don't think of them.
Wouldn't increase of punishment make it better. Risking it all for that moment of thrill. Couple years is prison surely would up the thrill to max.
I'm not a fan of custom modes and mods. I might go this way, if there's no other choice, however generally I prefer to play game as it was intended to be played by developers.
If you're interested, look into one of their most effective and popular tools, Clear (by Reuters). For a large sum of money, you can scrape the most comprehensive database on people in the western world. It will give the buyer information on what you look like, when you were born (and whether or not you're dead), what banks you have accounts with, how many cars you own, where you live, what property you own, who you're married to, who your children are (where they live, if they're old enough and you run clears on them), social media accounts, and other info.

But it's not the US government and Five Eyes spying on you - it's a private corporation... What no one mentions is that these countries have very lucrative contracts with Reuters to maintain this database for their use.

The police also use it to find information on you if they feel they need to really get into your business. And companies use it to check that you're the "right fit" before hiring you. Banks use it before giving out loans to make sure you are who you say you are... I've even heard stories of some landlords using it to make sure their tenants are the "right kind of person".

If you want more info on tools like these, and how to thwart them, look up "The Privacy, Security, & OSINT Show" by Michael Bazzell.
About $8000 of LTO-9 tape, $21000 of Toshiba MG10 hard drives, $38000 of Seagate IronWolf Pro NAS hard drives.
Because I don't care about what happens in a completely different country.
That doesn’t seem to make sense. Surely interbreeding with other hominids requires interaction with other hominids?
no - because sex has a biological cost. Many mammals have a "heat" cycle where adults become sexually active, then it goes away. Then everyone can return to survival. It is arguable that only certain niche creatures with relatively easy lives, can afford to be sexual more than that.
Can't help you, in this age of current flux I'm just pointing out that what had worked easily for 10+ years is now not so great, and if you are still an active logged-in Twitter user you might not notice. (Sorry for the aside, but I clicked and would have read it, but actually can't anymore after closing my account.)
For the benefit of people, cars and trucks should have right of way over pedestrians on limited access highways. Just as trains should on intercity train tracks and aircraft on runways.
I've got a bunch of video on a harddrive that I put in storage 20 years ago. Tried to spin it up again and it just makes funny noises.

So, yeah, spinning rust might rust.
You could look into Seablock and some of the related mods (iirc Angels and Bob's mod packs) which add some of those sorts of complexities.

IIRC some things can require charcoal filters, in which case you have to build the filter frame and filter, get it to the machine that needs it, then recover, replace and regenerate the used filter.

Another fun challenge is "feedback", where a later step in a production line produces as waste something you can consume at an earlier stage.
This is a very good question. It seems quite possible that some human population at some point, may have endured a level of stress and adverse conditions, that proper language transfer to the children did not happen -- something like a mix of surviving adults from different cultures who do not speak the same language.

There are apparent examples of languages being invented, with no clear parent language. [1] When education for the deaf is first introduced, children from many different families are brought together. Most do not have full language - they cannot communicate with language with anyone. Some are part of small clusters, families or small villages where many are deaf. [2] They often do have full languages. These languages are usually untraceable in origin. They're not related to each other, usually.

Pool these kids these together in a school and they will create a full language, a creole [3], in just a few years.

It's unclear, IMO, exactly how to interpret that effect. The children are not completely without language. They're obviously aware of the concept of language, a few of them may even have full languages (even if they can't use it with the other kids) and the teachers are also trying to teach them language, usually American sign if there's nothing local. So it can't be said to be language popping up in a true vacuum. But it is certainly curious.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Sign_Language

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%27s_Vineyard_Sign_Langu...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_language
How so? Early humans moved around and were all over the place, often with no or little contact. I don't see why two groups of humans couldn't have developed (proto)-language independently. There's lots of examples of things independently developing in multiple places.
If the typo'd tld was actually .cm then you could cough up the $80 to register that domain.
This is what I personally do. I have small needs when it comes to backups (< 1TB), so I have one backup that's just a regular HDD stored in a drawer, and another one that's on a Scaleway cold storage container.
Yes. Isn't that the point of the web site?

When the water table is shallow, but deeper than your Louboutins - which is much of Florida - you can drill a well yourself, at low cost.

After all, the technique only works for down to about 20 feet (there's another page on how to extend that to 30 feet), and 7 of the 26 listed success stories are from Florida.
Wow. Prosumer storage technology has rocketed past even enterprise backup technology.
Sure, but it seems easier to defeat than captchas, especially for a big opponent like a state, which can possibly allocate enough computing power to make the difficulty target too high for regular users

Whereas with captchas, the government need to pay real people to fill them, which doesn’t scale

Edit: I read the paper (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/blob/main/p...) and I understand what you meant. This is not meant to replace captchas but to automatically discard low profile attacks. Nice.
My mods are mostly QoL, and I’ve played hundreds of hours (well, didn’t count, bought it in version 0.14 years ago). It’s a sandbox that made me read papers on telecommunication routing for optimizing my splitters (Clos networks). You need to mod it like you need to mod Python to do a lot with it. Sure you can, but lots of us just fiddle around with it in different ways just for the sake of it.
As a Copt who speaks but doesn't understand very much of what I say, my father can speak it, as does anyone who has a liturgical inclination. I can always go learn more of it, and it will likely remain as alive as it currently is for the foreseeable future. It's impossible to be devout without speaking it, it's impossible to connect to our identity without seeking to be devout.

Just supporting what you're saying.
> Have we gone decades without plane crashes?

Do you think we should be using planes to send nuclear waste into the upper atmosphere?

> What's with this insanity that seems to grip even supposedly educated science-minded people whenever something involves nuclear technology?

Maybe the educated science-minded people have a better understanding of some of the risks involved.

I once heard that 1 kg of plutonium burning up in the upper atmosphere would be enough to wipe out humanity. Now I don't know the math behind that claim, and of course I know that most nuclear waste is not plutonium, but I would much rather be safe than sorry with things like burning up radioactive waste in the upper atmosphere.

Especially in the face of superior alternatives like putting it deep underground.
Not really, they are not even on the same sub-branch of Semitic languages. Aramaic is closer to Hebrew.

Aramaic is still spoken by Assyrians and IIRC some other Christian groups in the region though.
This is why “oldest language” is silly.

Is Old English the same language as Modern English? They are definitely not mutually intelligible. If we can accept them as being the “same” language then why not English and Proto-Indo-European? It’s not like people woke up one day and started speaking a different language. It’s a continuous evolution.

The oldest languages that are still intelligible such that you could go back in time and be sure to be understood are surely the liturgical languages like Arabic and Latin that have been carefully preserved over thousands of years. Without this system of active remembrance, languages naturally become unintelligible with their prior versions.
The experiment with the 10m square building shouldn't have this problem, if it holds true.
No, Aramaic falls somewhere in between the two. Hebrew is closer to Aramaic since it has borrowed its higher register (similar to how Latin influenced European languages)

Both Hebrew and Aramaic belong to the Northwest Semitic languages[1] family

Furthermore, there is no single attested Arabic language in the same manner as Hebrew, which is one of the Canaanite dialects

There are several proto-Arabic languages[2], but some of the northern ones are likely speculative. While there is evidence of the Ancient North Arabian[3] script, the actual language(s) it represents remain unattested

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Semitic_languages

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Arabic_language

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_North_Arabian
Facing failure after failure, Microsoft’s driver-signing program fails yet again
It's worth noting, Go's stdlib isn't perfect, but that's part of why it's so good. You can see how they've deprecated certain methods/fields/etc while maintaining backwards compatibility.
Well, the question is in reality either unanswerable (we don't know - and may never know - how many and when the first proto-language(s) emerged) or meaningless (all live natural languages go back as far as we can reconstruct or attest to).
Yeah, but politicians are worse. They're typically power-seekers.
I used Bayesian analysis for an industry problem where we had a lot of data (~1M samples), but the relationship between the observed data and the latent variables of interest was complicated and non-identifiable. In the non-identifiable setting, point estimates don't converge in the large data limit and quantifying uncetainty becomes critical.
No, the local residents and first responders have a much better big picture on local issues, which a wildfire most definitely is. The problem with wildfires is a lot of personnel and management get shipped in from elsewhere, and they often have no clue on local conditions. I have great admiration for the firefighters that work wildfires, but the management is awful. But, I'm probably bitter because the Fed burned my parents' house down due to mismanagement of a wildfire.
Ah - Sterling, always great. He didn't do his iconic closing speech at SXSW this year. Does anybody know why?
Nobody ascribed a cause to anything. My only point is that it's reality, not imagination.

People just making shit up is also a known problem in cognitive psychology. Very interesting stuff.
Humans have repeatedly built things that are beyond their own physical and intellectual capabilities. A calculator can do math problems much more quickly than any human being.
To be fair to Gizmodo, most people won't search for colleges using ranges that don't match their actual or expected scores.

It's like a search for "pregnancy symptoms" on Google—sure it doesn't specifically tell Google that you or someone close to you is pregnant, but you'll start seeing ads for baby stuff anyway because odds are you are.
I think you're being far to mild: this absolutely is letting an LLM give people not just medical advice, but medical treatment

This is absurdly dangerous, and I"m continually astounded by the lack of push-back, especially in this community. This community understands what LLMs are much better than the general public.

Same thing with the post a while back of a ycombinator startup that used AI to generate survey data. It's plain what it is, but there's shockingly little push-back.