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16-Psyche[1] is finally conquered.

The first remote factory ships arrive, and not long after the pile collectors go out, the machines start building new rockets.

New starships, constructed from the mineralogical ultra-super-mega-wealth that is this remote asteroid treasure, begin to rise among the golden landscape. These are not Earth-rated rockets, but rather planetary transfer super-structures that can move entire cities worth of materials, slowly and surely, out to somewhere great.

We might find a spot to park some of these cities where the weather is always going to be great. We might find a way to build them into mini Dyson-spheres, parked around a bit of fusion, or so.

I think rockets can take us to great places. Imagine a single-pass 3D printed Starship made out of titanium and other such alloys 16 Psyche might provide ..

Its a pretty big universe. A lot of it is interesting.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_Psyche
Splash screen removal, access to support, etc. Generally all the benefits that come with paying for a thing, rather than being on a tier that the company is trying to get you off of.
Fix the title: University of South Australia. There is no University of Australia.
If you live in a cold climate, and are looking at heat pumps, make sure you use https://ashp.neep.org/#!/ to look at the low temp BTUs.

The defrost specifications are also worth thinking about. Having your heat turn off for a few minutes to do a defrost cycle can be annoying if you only have one unit.
I’d claim this highlights just quite how established quantum supremacy is. Specifically, they just did the work using quantum computers because they were the best tool for the job. We’ve moved on from the question of “are they good for anything”? In the field of quantum simulation they’re manifestly useful.

“Useful”, however, doesn’t need to be transitive. It’s perfectly possible for it to be useful to perform research without the research itself being useful.
Not to rain on the parade here but this is literally a copy-pasta product.

Jenkins, Google Borg, Cloud Foundry, Concourse Pipelines...and surprise surprise when you look at where he came from...Ex-Google, Ex-VMW, RabbitMQ...

If OP wasn't in and around the source of all these tools above then they were at the very least first cousins to the story.

The sales cycle is long, integrations require multiple dimensions of executive buy-in, especially security and networking.

I think they made something nice but it felt like a nothing-burger story about something that is constantliy oscillating between bespoke and commoditized due to upstream problems that are such a mix of issues. Lack of oversight to micromanagement, inexperience to too much experience that they cannot let go of "the way it's always done".

It may be just my unpopular opinion but you are boiling an ocean of problems selling toolchains. Business and Tech are like water often finding the holes that lead to a path of least resistance, even when these erode the foundation of "core business". Toolchains that behave like guidelines and "parenting strategies" with removable guardrails have always offered the greatest rewards in my experience.
Reddit’s replacement mods may be putting its communities at risk
Up until this past winter basically, natural gas in NorCal was so cheap that you could probably use much more energy and still come out ahead money wise.
Valuable as in culturally significant and monetarily expensive.

> The most culturally valuable artistic works are ubiquitous, the opposite of scarce.

Not so. Copies of those works are ubiquitous, but there is a singular, definitive work.

Name me a handful of world-famous works for which there are multiple, almost-indistinguishable but distinct copies.

The Mona Lisa has a few original alternates, and yet they pale in value to the famous one. Which itself, ironically, became popular famous mostly through being stolen (scarcity).

> Look at the top 100 most-paid artists of the last decade, and tell me how hard it is to find and appreciate their entire artistic catalogue for yourself.

> [Once Upon a Time in Shaolin] vs [Speak Now (Taylor's Version)]

Total artistic renumeration, especially in the modern period, is dominated by distribution volume.

But if we're talking about single work valuation, the Wu Tang album costs $2M.

Taylor's album costs $15.

That's the premium for scarcity.
Majority of young adults think proper spelling doesn’t matter anymore
I think I'm on my third Obsidian year. I can now say that I probably put too much effort in "organization" in the beginning and in effect, I notice that usually when I'm looking for something, I either check the file directly or I use search. And I figured that for me tags were not that useful, for now. Still, I keep tagging but I don't lose too much time bothering about that as I used to in the past.

I would suggest not to worry about organizing too much.
I don't necessarily mean that Socrates is a totally fictional character. Just that basically everything we know about his "character" is made up.

Like, he did exist, but the Socrates that we know doesn't talk like that, didn't have those ideas, wasn't that clever, didn't do any of the stuff described, wasn't put to death in such a fashion, etc. Those were all just made up as a way for Plato to forward his ideas; because in those days you couldn't just dryly talk about ideas, you needed to have characters and a story and so on.
I remember my high school AP Psychology teacher mocking p=0.05 as practically meaningless. In retrospect it's funny for a psychologist to say that, but I guess it was because he was from the more empirically minded behaviorist cognitive school and from time to time they have done actual rigorous experiments[1] (in rodents).

[1] For example as described by Feynman in Cargo Cult Science.
DX: "Developer Experience"

I suspect that someone who needs to know that their developer experience is broken probably doesn't know what "DX" means.
ArgoCD is almost worthless if your DevOps teams are IaC wielders. Honestly, just a bash script to push a container to the pods is all that’s required for DevOps deployment. A build pipeline should be get artifacts -> put artifacts in container -> push container to registry -> trigger a pull on your pods. If you didn’t have a standard cloud architecture, I can understand the frustration and reasoning behind looking at ArgoCD. If you have a standardized cloud practice, it’s moot.
China is very impenetrable. Too much of that line of inquiry discredits itself with speculation.
I've always figured my typing speed was due to MUD's as a kid!
Maybe you're not familiar with the economics of f2p mobile games, but basically, the game is free, you get maybe 100k installs and make back 25k$ (IAP, etc.) so revenue of 0.25$ per user. But then you have to pay for users acquisition (marketing to get installs) so the actual revenue is more like 0.19$ per user (still profitable!) BUT then I have to pay 0.20$ for any installs regardless of it made any money, so I'm effectively at a loss -0.01$ per user when I could've been profitable.

I made up the number up but you get the idea. With a % of revenue share (or at the very least do not count installs that generated 0$ revenue) it could be a profitable game, now it risks of being shutdown.
What is a good open source C++ and Vulkan game engine or renderer that has a good material system? I've never known how to implement a good material system with Vulkan. I've poked around the internals of Google Filament before I was wondering if there is something else worth looking at. Many engines were originally designed pre-Vulkan and DX12.
> A GV number is just as easy to transfer as any other phone number.

There is nobody to social engineer (it's Google, they hate customer service) and the system rejects all port-out requests until you unlock the number by paying a few dollars which requires breaking into the Google Account to begin with. It is absolutely not the same as compromising an employee of a carrier.

To be clear I'm describing Google Voice which is purely a VOIP service, not Google Fi which is a MVNO.
The most mind-blowing discussion I ever had about career progression was on my 2nd day at a bank, talking with the CTO. He said, "I'm not trying to retain any of you, I just hope to get 2-3 years from people and then expect they'll move on."

He got his wish.

But it was eye-opening. The needs of an individual employee to grow their career are not always matched up with any needs the leadership has to grow the career of their employees. If they can get by with mediocre talent that is cheap and turns over regularly, they will.

So is a framework crucial for companies? No. It is more important when the success of the company is directly tied to the talent of the staff. But it is surprising how many tech jobs just keep the lights on and don't need top talent.
Just for kicks I ran `git log | grep "Author: Simon" -C 20 | tail -n 50`

```
commit 53eddd4a0f8786e23f511a653d8d7ffa947ad8db
Author: Simon Willison <simon@simonwillison.net>
Date: Mon Apr 23 21:24:41 2007 +0000

Added HTTP_HOST example header

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@5063 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

```

There are earlier references as well, but I think the author was making pretty deliberate choices.
Growing up outside the US, black currant was the third default flavor of ice cream after vanilla and chocolate. Having strawberry fill that role here still seems like a missed opportunity for something slightly more bitter in the lineup of your average tiny one cart ice cream vendor on a beach or similar.
Fight Against Slavery advertises for unpaid internship
TikTok Popularizes Products. Can It Sell Them, Too?
Wattage on a heat pump or furnace or boiler is a measure of heat output, not of energy input.
The healthier attitude to trust issues in crypto (and society at large too), is to find mechanisms (cryptographic, game theory, economic, legal) to manage and constrain the trust assumptions that are made. You can't eliminate trust, and you probably shouldn't try. But you should figure out ways to put good seatbelts and airbags on that trust so that when you do use trust as a social lubricant (it is very good at that), the damage from when it goes wrong is constrained.
Can you provide an example of how it can chill political speech
Visually deceptive “proofs” which are mathematically wrong
I don't know what magnitude of noise is made by the body's electrical system, but everything above absolute zero will emit some EM radiation.
Cheers! I am gearing up for some OS4 coding eventually (need a PPC Amiga first), and am sure one or more of those books will be helpful. A shame the grandaddy Guru Book has yet to fall into "PD" status.
TIL you pay more the more your game is used. I thought these were just normal subscription pricing. I guess it's only a matter of time before this type of thing will be introduced into code editors like VSC and you need to pay based on how much your program is used. Middlemen rent seekers are a cancer.
Because that implies a large number of companies are conspiring together without evidence
Do stuff like DDoS attack services or botnets charge per-install instead of directly for usage or compute time? Honestly kinda predatory pricing if that's the case. Seems a little problematic.

/j
What are hardware requirements for larger models? What can I fine-tune on Nvidia A100? Will it be possible to work with 70b for example?
https://archive.is/GprKT
If you haven't looked into it yet, GitHub Actions is relatively easy to setup for Unity builds and, for us, it cut build times more than in half (60+ min to ~20min). GHA isn't cheaper per minute, but it is much faster and you can output things like Code Coverage.
I don’t know about “good” processes, but I definitely have processes… mainly just templates for daily notes & call/meeting notes & a plugin called QuickAdd. Though tbf, I’ve been using more-or-less the same templates since 2018 but in Typora… It’s nice being able to search back across several years of essentially plain-text notes for stuff :-)
You are describing narcissism or even anti-social personality disorder. I agree that they have little in common with true stoicism.
No. But a lot of index funds are freeloading on investor research and information
Failures don’t typically happen in that time frame either. My Dell from 2010 or so with detachable battery is sitting here collecting dust still works fine.

I upgraded the RAM and disk in its prime as well, why it lasted so long.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Dell+Studio+XPS+1645+Battery+Re...
BTW, this is probably a better link, but I only just found it now: [0].

There's also an article at the NY Post: [1]

[0]: https://oversight.house.gov/release/testimony-from-cia-whist...

[1]: https://nypost.com/2023/09/12/cia-tried-to-pay-off-analysts-...
I don't think that's true, and I don't think the juice would be worth the squeeze. Unreal's flavour of C++ is heavily managed, relying on preprocessing of header files to create garbage collecting pointers and a whole heap of other things you don't think you're signing up for when you think about a C++ codebase. There is no simple place to begin if you're trying to make it C# friendly.

But most of my issues have been with engine philosophy, where Unreal has bent over backwards to expose things to their visual scripting language. It feels like every single feature has a mandate to work in a blueprint tech demo, and as a result few of them are pleasant to code against and almost none of them work together coherently. These are not issues that depend on the language used.
OK, so, once again, a total anecdote here. Anecdotes are definitely not a substitute for actual data, there is a sample size of one (possibly zero) involved here, so proceed at your own risk.

During winter in Greenland, it's totally accepted to leave your car engine running at all times. Why? Because it's likely your diesel supply will freeze up otherwise.

The initial rollout of EVs in Greenland was a disaster. Fine during boring season (as summer is known locally: you can't go out and hunt properly!), but useless most of the year: the batteries would just die.

Then, EVs with built-in heat pumps became available, to aid with cabin temperature (mostly) but also very-cold-weather startup performance (coincidentally). These worked pretty well: when parked, the heat pump would supply warm-ish air to the batteries, which would then continue to feed the heat pump, and work with a properly charged power pack the next day.

So, instead of diesel cars idling 24/7, new EVs now run at, say, 80% efficiency in Greenland. Not a huge deal, globally speaking, but still a nice win.
To each his own, but it sounds like you're overlooking the opportunity cost, which is potentially massive.
https://archive.is/yBcFe
Sending money to Ukraine is more comparable with sending money to President Jinping or President Maduro.
Mozilla could easily live without Google's money if the vast majority of their income wasn't spent on being Big Nonprofit ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37180480 )

I would love it if they lost Google's money and trimmed the bile and focused on making great tech. But something tells me the first to be let go will be the techies, making Firefox effectively a maintenance-only browser. And the army of useless "evangelists" will be there until Mozilla collapses under its own weight.
> i.e. that users shouldn't have to depend on someone else's server or run their own just to gather online

I don't understand this. Can you elaborate exactly what you mean?

Because to me... you're now just depending on a whole bunch of other people's machines indirectly, and directly on the community owner's machine which is generating the certs.

It feels like a lot of complexity for something that could just be a small chat server running on the community owner's server (which they will need anyways - unless I'm misunderstanding, which is entirely possible).

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So since I'm probably missing something - can I get the elevator pitch?

Assume I'm your target market (I want private messaging that I control).

I would likely be a "community owner" as described in your article.

I am already running a self-hosted solution (ex: Zulip/Rocket/Mattermost).

What makes this a compelling offering to me?
Lately I have found Google to be a less reliable search engine when compared to a few years ago. Whether I am trying to find an old meme, a piece of research or even googling errors it seems like the results are never what I am looking for. And it's not just SEO spamming since things like software errors are not something people try and game. It used to be I would paste in an error and I would get a Git Issues result for exactly what I was looking for, but now I just go to GitHub or Stack Overflow directly.
We know that it's not (primarily) rocky though because the radius is 2.6 that of earth, but the mass is only 8 times. So it's about about 46% as dense as earth.
Nitpick: there is no "vs." ... because in the long run X11 is dead. After decades of serving us well it's not maintainable and not a good base to build anything on top that you want to continue maintaining in 5 or 7 years. Any warranty of a "cyber physical systems" is better off starting on Wayland IMHO

What issues are you facing with screen recording?

Can't say anything about NVIDIA because I avoid these chipsets like the plague (even for windows)
https://www.mangrovelithium.com/ Raised Series B recently, not sure its discussed already or not.
Please apply using the linked job posting above. Thanks!
https://archive.is/TyEYF
The advantage of tor over just E2EE is that it hides the sources of traffic and not only the traffic itself.

So it really depends on if your threat model can handle others knowing that you're using Matrix. It most likely can.
Yes! Radio astronomy at most frequencies is totally feasible 24 hours a day, as long as you’re not pointing too close to the Sun.
Source: I’m a radio astronomer.
Reasonable. From a peek at Wikipedia, UniSA is a public research university, formed from the merger of teachers colleges, schools of mines & technology, etc. And if you peel back the gloss & hype - this is just agricultural research, potentially quite useful to the citizens of South Australia.
That's not a good reason to just blame a specific developer instead of having the best practice in place.
That's really interesting. Jitsi offers a React Native SDK and we were interested in using it (in e2ee mode) for Quiet. Twilio offers one too (FOSS on client side and Twilio SaaS on the server side) but it would be nicer to use Jitsi. If we only offered it to paying customers it would have the same downsides as using Jitsi though.

One question: speaking for yourself and the use cases you know well, how much latency or call quality would you give up for anonymity? Would you give up video? Would old-school VOIP level lags between speakers be okay?

Doing something like push to talk would be trivial now, over Tor. But an anonymous video call with lots of participants would be really hard. Sometimes I think about something in between... like a voice activated push to talk where everyone's audios are played continuously. But nothing exists like this afaik so it would be costly to explore.
Is that working?
I'd pay for an automated tool to help convert my unity stuff into Godot right now.
> I guess I understand your point, but please consider that competent managers do not fall fully formed from trees.

I agree. But in my experience the one quality that makes a good and bad manager is simply considering the humanity of your employees when making decisions.

> Applying book-knowledge to real life and seeing what works and what does not is actually a solid way to learn.

I also agree, but I think you're assuming these managers did this and they did not. If the team was failing it was because the team wasn't following the teachings closely enough and had to be re-educated.

> Maybe you could help managers learn faster by giving them feedback?

These managers are not interested in feedback or learning. Why would they? They already read all the books.
C# with winforms in visual studio using the gui builder is basically the same experience as vb6 but better in every way. I'm honestly not sure why complaints about legacy vb6 being killed tend to overlook this, but I think it's because there are lots of people who have fond memories of vb6 but have simply never tried c# with winforms. If you want that experience, you can literally get it right now as long as you're ok making desktop apps that will only run on windows and don't mind that it may look somewhat out of place among more recent windows apps using WPF and its successors.

The real question then isn't why microsoft "abandoned" visual basic (they replaced it with something that is strictly better), but why people aren't using winforms or something similar in 2023. I think that's because 1) it isn't cross platform and 2) people have lots of other requirements that are difficult in winforms.

Aside from being cross-platform, I guess the winforms api requires you to manage a lot of stuff like data bindings by hand that people are used to having work automatically. People also want good support for various monitor sizes, although .net winforms is actually much better about that than vb6 because it has pretty decent layout controls so you don't have to write code to handle resizes to the same extent.

The fact is, the vb6 gui builder worked best if you just ignored resizing and only had to worry about one screen resolution, and even though .net winforms is better about that, it's still fairly complicated to use the layout controls to handle resizing properly

I think there was actually a project that was attempting to make a winforms-style api for Avalonia which would actually fix some of the problems including cross-platform support (including mobile; avalonia is pretty slick and it's unfortunate that microsoft hasn't just hired the people making it rather than focusing on stuff like winui and maui), but I think it stalled because among people making desktop windows applications there simply isn't that much interest in using a winforms style api in 2023.
https://archive.is/wftrb
I'm curious why you think it would be free of effect.

I asked because it occurred to me that it could. Then, someone pointed me to the paper (linked in this thread) and the researchers say so: "Large-scale use of wind power can alter local and global climate by extracting kinetic energy and altering turbulent transport in the atmospheric boundary layer" and "very large amounts of wind power can produce nonnegligible climatic change"

Whether or not that change is a problem is the next step of the process.

CO2 doesn't have anything to do with this situation, because wind turbines don't produce much CO2.
I think they want it. What do you think the most perfect or ideal question answer-er or teacher is? It would probably be an expert in the field, but also with the ability to deliver that content in a level appropriate way for the recipient/student. Unreasonable for the most part, we get away with good enough in the real world. This is a skill we all try to learn though. Like when you need to give a technical presentation to non technical audience

If you have input data that includes a high rated reddit eli5 question, the content of that answer might be hard to verify, the style and way its delivered would be ideal to keep around in the training data. on the other side, technical in-depth answers have content that is worth keeping around, the style of its delivery would be very specific.

Keeping the entire internet around in your training data would still give you access to all these types of delivery still. hope that makes sense.
Yeah, I'm not saying it has _no_ value but I don't think it's enough so to be compelling - it's widespread enough that we're probably going to be supporting it for the next few decades but the time where it had an advantage will be what, half a decade?
Did you mean argowf instead of argocd? Argocd is pretty simple and only syncs k8 resources.