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That is the problem, and what is completely baffling, games that are sold at 70$ means they pay a ridiculously low fee (%) compared to cheap or free to play mobile games where that fee means it can render the game unprofitable and need to be shutdown, yet with a reasonable % of the revenue they would be able to be profitable and everyone makes money.

Big company selling big games will see this as a rounding error in their revenue. Indies / small company will probably need to shutdown some games because this won't be profitable...
Sure but if everything you're doing can be done from userspace, then you should probably be in userspace.

In the LLM case mentioned, having to hop a syscall every few teraflops is probably not a compelling reason to live in kernel space.
I know computers were slow, and Moore's law was what made really big networks computationally feasible.

Still, the decisive algorithmic breakthrough for the Perceptron was applying BP to MLPs. Without multiple layers you can't solve problems which aren't linearly separable, and without error backpropagation you can't train multilayer networks.
Phi-1.5 (1.3B Outperforms Llama 2 7B)
The nice thing about RF harvesting is you can have a beacon that keeps an area charged. Atmosic powered remotes with some TVs do this by having a beacon in the TV providing power.
Seems like the study utilized accelerometer data to identify sedentary-ness, so I would assume actively working at a desk would interrupt sedentary periods more so than being seated on a couch. But I agree, there isn't much to be found in terms of defining the foundations of the study.
I prefer it. I'm not wasting a single second in C# until I have to.
A +1 for fantasy consoles here. I'm partial to the TIC-80. I don't have the time and energy for huge personal projects, so the restrictions keep me focused on simplicity, fun, and the joy of coding itself.
Kotlin feels like a different language to me, but yeah, I guess it could be. I have not worked enough in Kotlin to know what warts it might have.
Yup, someone edited the title. Personally I found the other link more interesting.
The always entertaining saveitforparts Youtuber tried to make a "very small array" from a bunch of used satellite mini-dishes. He ran into all sorts of fun issues with his ad hoc construction.

I admire the guy for having as much fun with his failures as his successes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dklYG70e7R0
> Azure DevOps is the devil.

Amen to that!
The fiscal-progressive nature of the New Deal earlier in the century was so successful it created the middle class in the post-war era (90% marginal tax rates!) and it was being followed up by a socially-progressive era of the civil rights movement in the 60s and the powers that be had to make a concerted effort to derail both.

The takeover of the political dialog by economism using the Freshwater/Chicago school of economics started in earnest around this time and was so remarkably successful that Democratic presidents were spouting the neo-liberal conservatism[0] hogwash by the time of Clinton.

I am a member of the Cory Doctorow school[1] of political thought.

[0] https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progre...

[1] https://pluralistic.net/tag/political-science/
I agree with this. Exercise seems to be a major protective seal against dementia.
I have the feeling that this very page would be downranked very fast if such an extension existed.
Excellent username
It's really not a good idea to use dynamically generated pages to run a blog.

There's a reason static site generators exist. This should be made clear that this is just a toy/example app to demonstrate Django, not something someone should actually use.

Generating the pages on each request is madness, and is why Wordpress in the default configuration (without WP Total Cache, which allows the httpd to bypass Wordpress entirely for most requests) falls over as soon as it's linked from any media site. Let's stop repeating these engineering mistakes in language after language.

Compile your blog to static pages and deploy those. Hugo, Jekyll, and a million others await you, as well as CF Pages, S3, GitHub Pages, Netlify, and others.
There's a lot of loopholes you could plausibly escape through. For one: you could use hybrid atmosphere-breathing engines to get most of the way to low orbit. (Using ambient atmosphere as a reaction mass circumvents the rocket equation). From low orbit, you can switch to electric thrusters with Isp much higher than the engines considered here: it's no longer necessary to have a thrust/weight ratio greater than unity.

A hydrogen planet would be particularly easy, since the light molecules would maximize Isp for a (non-combustion) thermal engine. A nuclear scramjet on a Hycaean world would have some truly impressive performance.
As an American I had the same expectation trying to buy dry ice in New Zealand - couldn't find it in supermarkets or petrol stations. I wanted to get some for our outdoor/off grid wedding to keep the beverages cold for several days. Eventually I called BOC (who supply industry and hospitals) and they agreed to sell us some but when I showed up with a cooler (chilly bin) they laughed at the tiny amount I wanted and filled it up. I don't think they'd ever sold it like that to a private buyer.
I tag a lot. Some notes still fall between the cracks though so recently I’ve been setting aside certain tags for dataview. I have so far a “review” tag and a “relevant” tag for notes that I need to reread to see if they’re relevant and notes that I think are relevant to my current thought processes. Then I created a folder that just has notes that use dataview to list certain tags like a note that lists all my notes tagged review and tagged relevant.
Because we have such a great track record of protecting the plebs from the powerfull, right? The secrecy of the vote is not the problem at all. What happens after with that vote is.
I hate shilling for the Russians but I've been very impressed with Yandex lately.

It retains that early-2000s Google vibe, where there were still quirky independent sites to discover. Using it also surfaces just how much Google is censoring its own results on controversial topics.
> Data Scientist at BuzzFeed in San Francisco, creator of AI text generation tools

Ah, I get it, AI tools which earn you money good and creative, AI tools which don't bad.
My “system” in Apple Notes is that I just make sure to include words I know I’m likely to use to search for something later. It’s like tagging, but less work.

Search does the rest of the “organizing”
I think it's strictly less thorny because all of those things are issues with living artists, but you have lots of other added issues when the AI generated voice is also plausibly something that a living person might have done.
In the US some supermarkets have it for sale. Most do not that I've seen, but I know a few who carry it in stock.
I don't know if hard data exists, I have heard that wind turbines kill more raptors than other kinds of birds.

What I remember is that Wind turbines are build in large open fields that make good habitats for prey as well as creating thermals for them to lift on.

If my memory is correct, that means that wind turbines create a trap that draws in apex species by presenting them with what appears to be the ideal hunting ground and then kills them by presenting a hazard that they can not adapt to.

I have nothing against wind turbines, I rather enjoy them.

But as an aside, I think that the proponents do not listen to those who do have complains (i.e. shadows of the blades on houses, noise) and label them as NIMBY where the same groups have no issue in playing up less rational complaints about nuclear sites. I think it is a disingenuous tactic to bring up cats in the argument as they are not related to the discussion. It is similar to if we were debating Nuclear Power and I bring up that "More people drown in dam reservoirs and rivers". Sure, it is a great thing to know that I am more at risk of drowning but that does not do anything about the concerns of Nuclear Power.

Edit: Anther user has also heard the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481309
> probably because it's not with the big three cell providers

More likely because it's a VOIP number, which is easy to verify (Twilio's Lookup API will expose this info, and I'm sure there's other lower-level techniques)
>consumers will arguable experience more value through an abundance of good songs.//

It is people's shared experiences of a song that makes a song most valuable (it's not the only value, of course). Having more songs means less shared experiences, more is less.

Imagine going to a club where the DJ can play any of a million songs but only one person knows that song; compared to them playing a setlist of floor-filling bangers ...
Imagine a grocery store leaves pumpkins outside the front during Halloween season for customers to bring inside and buy.

You're doing the digital equivalent of saying "the pumpkins are right there for me to take, they were delivered outside for me to pick up and place in my car, for free. With no exchange of currency. I can just walk by the store and grab one and walk away".

In other words, you're ignoring both the legal contract (the terms of service) and the social contract (if everyone just grabs a pumpkin and walks away its obviously not going to be profitable and the company will stop offering it, we can only have the social 'nice thing' if everyone plays nice).

Just because its physically possible to do a thing doesn't mean the company consents to you doing it, or you deserve to do it.

You can easily litter. There's nothing stopping you. The ground is right there. You shouldn't though and you're rightfully called an asshole if you do.

If you applied your mentality everywhere, you would say "if you don't want me to litter in this National Forest, there ought not to be any businesses that sell disposable products within a 500 mile radius. It's not my fault you set this up for me to do so."
I think your use of infinity isn't particularly helpful here as it leads to the contradiction that knowing more doesn't lessen the knowledge gap, whereas it does appear to do so.

Maybe, a better interpretation would be that as we learn and understand more, we approach the limits of knowledge. Now it may take an infinite amount of knowledge to actually reach the limits of knowledge (c.f. an infinite series can approach a finite value, but takes forever to get there), but it can still be shown that we are getting nearer.

The other aspect is that as we understand more, we appreciate that there's even more to understand, but that can be thought of as our precision increasing and looking at the available knowledge in greater detail.
Wouldn't it be ironic if the current worry in the US about public spaces (i.e. homeless and/or drug addicts) were two sides of the same coin: the goal is to isolate yourself in a massive home in the suburbs to protect yourself from the homeless and drug addicts. And, if you fail at that goal, you then have no choice but to become what everyone fears.
I have spare SSD drives I'm willing to burn out. Fuck review bombing, this is definitely the way to go to disincentivize bad game publisher behavior.
Were the benefits of Plus over Personal worth the price? My impression was that most people bought because they went over the threshold which has now been eliminated for Personal.
> Further, what things are we doing now that future generations will ask the same question about us?

Lawns seem a good candidate. We take a piece of land that could provide most of the sustenance we need along with a host of positive externalities, then douse it in poison, expend enormous effort to remove natural fertilizers from it, pay to import industrially produced nitrogen to spread over it, and burn fossil fuels to cut it.

How a reasonable culture could view this practice as anything but stupidity or madness is anyone’s guess.
Reasonable statements from Kendall. If Elan tried pulling something stupid with the USAF, they could remind him about who controls his launch sites. And the USAF might not want to pay any "But we're not crazy like Musk, and you have to keep him from becoming a monopoly, and ..." premiums to other launch providers.
I didn't know San Jose State had enough money to run an team like this.

Unless I'm mistaken, aren't Formula teams expensive? the cars get rebuilt often, I imagine its no different with electric (less to rebuild, perhaps, but anything mechanical would need to be)

Thats awesome though!
How far does one billion parameters take you? As it turns out, pretty far
Building a Strong Security Stack
Do they account for the covid deaths during the pandemic? Since a lot of vulnerable people died early, the number of deaths due to other causes like heart attacks, cancer, old age, diabetes etc. would be lower now than if covid never had happened.
A New Economic Engine for Culture
> Sure I can (probably) build curl ten times and get ten technically different binaries

I think assuming the same build environment, then building curl is actually deterministic and reproducible:

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable...

(It says reproducibility fails if CFLAGS is different, but I'd count that as a change in build environment?)
I would say if the human driver was distracted and drove past a stop sign, he did not "ignore" the stop sign. He simply "missed" or did not see the stop sign.
To ignore something, you have to be aware of what you are actively ignoring. Even in the link you provided for the "second" definition, look at the examples paired with it.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/ignor...

> Definition: to give no attention to something or someone:

> Example 1: They ignored our warnings.

> Example 2: The mayor ignored the hecklers and went on with her speech.
I wouldn't recommend people use anything that requires a database for a blog in 2023.

Edit: Since I got extremely downvoted for this comment. Here is why:

You should use static site generators for new blogs in 2023.

Performance: Static sites typically load faster than database-driven ones.

Security: Without a database, the risk of SQL injection attacks is eliminated.

Scalability: Static sites can handle high traffic without complex hosting solutions.

Maintenance: No database means fewer maintenance tasks and potential failures.

Hosting and Costs: Static sites often have cheaper and more flexible hosting options.

Decoupled Architecture: Modern trends prefer separating frontend and backend, reducing the need for databases.

Development Simplicity: Static site generators offer a straightforward content writing environment.

Backup and Portability: Static sites are easier to backup and migrate.

Edge Hosting: Static sites benefit from faster load times with distributed hosting solutions.
‘Blue lights’ flash in sky moments before Morocco earthquake
There are still intermediate third-party routers between ISPs in any P2P system with less than a full mesh wireless network.

Ham radio and audible conversation through the atmosphere are probably the only pure P2P connections.
Tangentially related, I recently discovered this (quite entertaining) video which accurately matches my views on the subject of notetaking apps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRpHIa-2XCE
Sorry, not my area of expertise, I just know they exist, but I don’t know how the different ones compare.

There are a few: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Text_adventure_game...

And z-machine is the one I have seen for the one text adventure I know of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine, but I would be surprised if that’s the best one for a new project as it’s quite old.
That is what it stands for. Inspired by RTFM I assume. I learned these on Slashdot about 20 years ago ... they made sense in that context, and have carried on as a familiar jargon ...
Thunderbolt 5 to deliver up to 120 Gbps bandwidth, support multiple 8K monitors
It does, the domain shown after the title is eth.ch.
This looks very helpful! I'm just starting out in the ML/LLM space and have an opportunity to work on this at $dayjob, bookmarking as this looks like an excellent resource. Thank you!
This seems to work through the numbers and equations, albeit for answering a slightly different question: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/20054/fuel-needed-...

In summary, as you said, the altitude is less important than the base velocity increase and atmospheric density reduction.

The former, because you're pushing maximum mass at t=0 (i.e. all the future fuel you need to burn), so any added velocity at rocket ignition time would compound throughout the rest of the burn cycle (or, to think of it another way, you've already overcome fully-fueled vehicle inertia with the benefit of atmospheric oxygen combustion).

Similar to how a multistage vehicle operates more efficiently, albeit without the benefit of atmospheric oxygen.

The latter, because you're essentially getting atmospheric density reduction for "free" (in terms of saving your on-vehicle propellant), and your propellant efficiency (in terms of propellant:velocity increase) scales better.
10 years ago, Apple finally convinced us to lock our phones
> You're arguing in bad faith

Because I'm not throwing out low-effort "woe poor game developer" vibes and am instead expecting more? I've actually made effort to model how this could work, rather than exclaiming "this is going to ruin indie game developers!".

Bad faith is making unsubstantiated claims and then getting mad when asked to back it up.
In fact, 1.4.12 is already out: https://obsidian.md/changelog/2023-09-11-desktop-v1.4.12/
My favourite article on technical delivery is so simple and obvious https://www.bti360.com/what-ive-learned-in-45-years-in-the-s... I use it to get people to focus on the basics which is more consequential that grand initiatives and metrics
Which BSD did you start on?
Why? In my mind, AGI could be an entirely different field - we don't really know much about it yet.
It's what FIDO/U2F does, right?
So the same as the Gravitron amusement ride popular in fairs
(Easy and Secret) Ways to Make Money with AI
There are endless ways to make money with AI. These days Making money with AI is possible if you know the correct way.
Yes, it does. Each Datasette Cloud user gets their own dedicated container, run using Fly Machines.

The core Django app manages SSO and team creation, then calls Fly APIs to create volumes and machines for each team. I'll be writing this up in a lot more detail soon.

I'm finding stability on Fly is excellent for my deployed containers.

The problems I've seen are more around deployment - occasionally there will be incidents where fresh deploys can't go out for a few hours, all of which are reflected on https://status.flyio.net/
> Am I wrong? I mean, feel free to prove me wrong

Can you prove you're right?

> I mean, apparently this is a thing they should have considered, right?

I'm unaware of any business that doesn't consider pricing changes to strategic costs as future liabilities, especially when you don't have a contract with fixed terms. I don't see any evidence that Unity made guarantees that it's historical prices would remain consistent into the future. They're a public for-profit company, not a charity.

> Nothing physically has changed to force Unity to change prices

So not only can you predict what I would say, you have some sort of insights into Unity's cost structures and what it requires for them to keep Unity updated and competitive?

> but it would be ridiculous to claim that it's the buyer's fault that the prices changed.

It's not ridiculous to blame the seller that doesn't increase their pricing to keep a tenable margin. If my costs of goods increase but I keep my prices the same, it's my fault.
Freemium games with millions of installs but maybe only a couple hundred k of revenue. The model of "having a bunch of users but only a couple of them pay money" or ad-supported so the ARPU is really low is not uncommon, and certainly more of a likely sweetspot for a smaller game or studio to find themselves in.
> The energy density rating of the average supercapacitor is between 2,500 Wh per kg and 45,000 Wh per kg.

That's from your source, and those numbers are entirely made up. The Wikipedia article for supercapacitors lists a more normal 1.5 Wh/kg to 260 Wh/kg (with only one research nanomaterial going above 15 Wh/kg). No commercial supercapacitor has a higher energy density than a standard lithium ion battery.

Edit: The absurdly fast charging speeds would make for some fun pit stops, though
> cloud-based asset storage

Last time I checked their storage limit was around 40GB, that's too little unless you are making 2D casual games. I'm making a 3D shooter that takes 300GB+.
The Slow and Steady Demise of South Africa
> Indies / small company will probably need to shutdown some games

Are they giving away their games for free (so this shouldn't(?) affect them)?

Or or have about $1-2 revenue per user or less and over overall $200k revenue?
Not exactly -- the previous record was for 1 to 100, not 1 to 60.
Purism Launches New Secure Librem 11 Tablet
https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/high-bandwidth-and-cpu-usage-fro...
> If you can't turn a profit after the fee structure, then don't choose Unity.

You've got the order wrong. This is about people who already chose Unity, and then they changed the fee structure. Changing engines is beyond nontrivial for a project in flight.
Yup, it makes free-to-play games with high installation numbers and less exploitative mechanics that result in $200k (or over $1mil with the pro subscription iiuc) yearly income either non-viable, or much less viable using this engine.

They are also seemingly making Unity games online-only for the DRM/accounting purposes.
It's surprising that we find ourselves in a universe which does appear to obey certain laws. There's a whole bunch of assumptions made to help us understand how things work and it turns out they're mostly correct. i.e. It's more astounding that we CAN understand the universe and how well maths can act as a model/language to understand it.
A Ducati MotoGP bike does it in 2.3 seconds just as a point of reference.
In your opinion, regardless I have to set those systems up anyways to use the Earthly system. Jenkins caches by default and has parallel(), actions uses actions/cache, actions is also async so it's parallel by default. Both can use docker and take advantage of dockers caching management and make is a great tool, but again, any build system can use make.

I don't think it's harder at all, in fact in my mind Earthly is more money, more steps, more time and energy, and more vendor lock in for the same output you can get in just about any modern build system.
Does the metaverse count though?

/s
Graphics cards are the first obvious usecase.
If you're worried about traffic spikes, stick your site behind a caching proxy like Varnish or Cloudflare.

My main blog https://simonwillison.net/ runs as a Django+PostgreSQL app on Heroku behind Cloudflare, with a 15m cache TTL for every page.

This works perfectly. I survived a surprise Elon Musk tweet a few months ago which the server didn't even notice, because Cloudflare absorbed all the traffic: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/17/analytics/