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If they could just make the Nexus 7 with better bezel-to-screen (maybe something similar to the Pixel's?) it would be perfect

I want something I can comfortably hold in one hand to read books on, a 10 inch iPad or Samsung is just too big (and heavy) to do that, and a phone just feels too squashed at the same time

I'm probably in a hell of a niche but it truly was just the perfect 'sweet spot' size for me
>Yah, pretty sure it is the same feature that's been in Bing Chat for 2 months now.

It's not. Feel free to try these queries:

https://twitter.com/ComicSociety/status/1698694653845848544?... (comic book page in particular, from a be my eyes user)

Or these https://imgur.com/a/iOYTmt0
(graph analysis in particular, last example) and see Bing fail them.
Thanks. What do you mean by "finding banks, auditors, and investors
willing to use statements from an accounting package they've never
heard of." ?

Is that a file compatibility issue. Are there not standard file
formats for exchange of data in the financial industry?

Don't people, as a last resort maybe, just send a csv, or print the
ledgers out on paper?
IANAL but sounds like you're overthinking everything. Don't worry about being sued into oblivion. You have nothing yet worth being sued over. Focus on making something useful. If it is --- you'll have other problems before you have patent infringement problems.
Except in the whole deliberate megacide thing. You know, what the word "holocaust" means.

Equating the two is utterly despicable.
The Java implementation required modifying the IO routines, and this is greatly helped by Java interop being far from easy. .NET was always more friendly to interop, lots of projects would be affected.

Fixing this would either be a serious break in the ecosystem, or you'd have a new capacity with way too many asterisks to be useful.

The .NET world already spent the budget for big migrations with .NET Framework -> Core (just like Java did with Java 8->9, or Python with 2->3) - as much as we might like green threads, they aren't useful enough (compared to async/await) to justify another break.
Has anyone attempted to replicate the performance with a man as the target?
I was surprised by how poorly poised Intel was to act on the "Cambrian explosion" of AGI late last year. After the release of their Intel Arc GPUs, it took almost two quarters for their Intel Extensions for PyTorch/TensorFlow to be released, to middling support and interest, which hasn't changed much, today.

How many of us learned ML using Compute Sticks, OpenVINO and OneAPI or another of their libraries or frameworks, or their great documentation? It's like they didn't really believe in it outside of research.

What irony is it when a bedrock of "AI" fails to dream?
There are many graphics editors that still support eps (Illustrator, Affinity stuff, Inkscape); the format is well described and as it basically does not move anymore, the existing convertors will work, like ghostscript (although the Affero GPL is annoying but thats not for this discussion)

It’s much better than to have docx or photoshop.

It’s just removed from the base OS for probably both licensing and security reasons.
So BlackRock and Vanguard didn't buy up swathes of housing out competing individuals by offering above asking price and then rent or landbank that housing?
It's also only available bundled with ProRes, although it's almost certain there's also some backroom RED RAW-racket deal going on too.
Hope you feel better soon :)

But this shows that theres no eating processed food --> get depressed causation, just a correlation. Otherwise a perfectly happy person who eats a lot of tv dinners would inexplicably get sad with nothing else in their life changing.
Don’t they do it already? There are a lot of languages where intonation is absolutely necessary to distinguish between some words, so I would be surprised that this not already taken into account by the major voice assistants.
People here extensively drank the kool-aid, and they don't even have the beginning of the required understanding of the economics and the physics of grid scale electricity production and distribution.
Maybe they will understand when they pay the same for energy as in Germany.
Yes, there's procedures for redacting evidence and sealing testimony. Those procedures are being followed here, and leading to an outcome the author of the article doesn't like.
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If it's a family, it's the kind of family you see in movies where father knows best and everyone does what he says.

I preferred Netflix's honesty -- they always said "we're a sports team. We bring on top performers, and we cut low performers. Sometimes we even cut top performers that we just don't need anymore. But if you are a top performer with a skill that we need, you'll always have a job".
A few of these wouldn't be possible with something like that. Look at the last picture, the graph analysis.

https://imgur.com/a/iOYTmt0
This is cool. But I want to see how it handles you going back one and tweaking it.
One easy (albeit a little costly) solution here is to use the DJI Android-tablet remote (DJI RC / RC 2).
Is Math Real?
Instead of writing a backend, doing a login screen, setting up a database and all the other things with a backend, for the time being I've just done the front-end javascript to create an ad, and then tell the person to copy/past the ad that they just created and email me. After that, I've got a few scripts locally that will publish their ad.

This workflow will allow me to iterate quickly, without wasting so much time and effort on things that in the end doesn't matter.
I've not installed TikTok like since ever. Will God forgive me?
Whilst your point about lateral violence is valid, your reasoning is ignorant. MDMA might be molecularly similar to meth, they are different drugs with different effects. Also, the term "junkie" is stigmatizing.
I just wear it with glasses and deal. My glasses are pretty tight to my face, though.

And I'm assuming that a lot of silica particles will go through a P100 a lot faster than the stuff I do. ;)
You can also be put in jail for contempt until you cough up your bitcoins

If those in power want something, they tend to get it
Do they have a moat though? When MS Office integrates a more powerful model than is even available to Jasper right into the word processor, what happens?
People want to use the specter of climate change to play politics and advocate radical socialism instead of solving a technical problem. We could easily go nuclear, sequester carbon, mitigate what changes we can't stop. But that doesn't address anyone's political aims, so instead we have a silly proxy argument between people pretending climate change isn't real and people demanding that other people sacrifice lifestyle and embrace their politics. Until we get past that and address the real issues, nothing will change.
Even if they are 10x more quiet, then if there are 10 of these drones flying around we're back at square one.
Sounds like the setup for a Scifi novel.

"The drones lie in wait silently. The sun dips over the horizon. A lone IR led comes to life on the robots face. It is done waiting. It's prey is beckoning."
Google probably has data of the others bids. If Bing bid billions for that spot as well and Google had to outbid them, then I think it is fair for Google to bring that up as evidence. At the same time Microsoft and Apple probably don't want to reveal to the public what actually happened there, so it makes sense for the judge to keep that under wraps since it isn't related to Google.

Google maybe even signed an agreement to keep that secret, so they aren't allowed to reveal evidence about Apple or Microsoft to the public, in that case it wouldn't be fair for the court to force Google to breach that contract just to defend themselves.
> Science is a tool. More precisely, it's a method to make and improve and gauge tools. But those tools can't ask questions (we didn't somehow put there first), they cannot judge. They can tell you if something is fair according to your parameters and heuristics, but they know nothing of the inherent value in being fair, they can't answer "should I be fair?", and the same for everything else that actually matters.

And do you think that philosophy has shed any light on the answer to the question, "Should I be fair?" Or indeed on what the word "fair" actually means?

You're not wrong that science can't answer these questions, but what science can do is demonstrate that, for example, different people want different things, and have different ideas of what words like "fair" mean. We can then go one to (say) devise systems that maximize value according to some quality metric, but that's the best we can do. We cannot somehow derive some universal standard of "fairness" because no such thing exists. And we don't need philosophers to tell us that.
Does not seem like its hurting Netflix / Disney all that much. If I had a 100 million subscribers paying me $100/year, I'm pretty sure I'd be crying into my caviar.

Admittedly, they're both nonsensically incompetent at times, and if you believe Disney's financials (do you believe any Hollywood financials?) then they somehow manage to lose money on $10,000,000,000 / year. I'm still not sure how you make the equivalent of 10's of 1,000's of tv episode costs ... and then lose money ... with Disney's back catalogue and vault.
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> Who in their right mind would go back without at least better pay?

Someone who is looking at their upcoming mortgage payments and their empty savings account.
There are limits to what open source can do too. Perhaps it's necessary, but not sufficient?

There's limited benefit to having the source code when the community has been splintered, and the future direction is contrary to your needs. Sure, you can make your own fixes, etc, but you no longer enjoy the leverage community development.
That's really a function of what kind of CEO the company has, and what do you mean by "know". I worked remotely for a company employing hundreds of people, around for couple decades and with offices in different regions of the world, and I still got to talk to the CEO a couple times, and he knows me by name, all by virtue of bumping into him a couple times on corridor while on one of my infrequent visits to the office.
This is very unfortunate. I've always found it annoying how Mac OS' Preview.app "natively" supports PostScript but will stubbornly convert it to a PDF and delete the original PS file.

I do not have concrete statistics to back this up, but in my experience, a gzipped PostScript documentat is often smaller than an equivalent PDF, and unlike PDF, it's marginally easier to edit by hand after decompressing. Also, the PDFs created by Quartz PDFContext is often needlessly large and tools like pdftk have been able to losslessly compress them, whereas Quartz' own compression filter seems like the equivalent of JPEG compression at quality 0.

The only practical advantage of PDF to me is the presence of an alpha channel, but that is basically it. With that said, PostScript documents themselves being a sort of program has always been a security nightmare for some, so I understand the removal on Apple's side. During the OS X Tiger days, I recall a simple infinite loop in PS could've stalled Preview's PS-to-PDF converter. Being able to properly sandbox PS seems like too much effort at this point given the ubiquity of PDF.
By way of comparison, in the UK to be in the top 1% it required an income of £183,000 (roughly $220k) in the tax year 2020-21. (Official stats are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/percentile-points-f...)
Come the apocalypse, unless those billionaires can each go into the bush by themselves with just a knife, and come back with a dressed deer carcase, their security teams are likely to deem them dead weight and kick them out of the bunkers.

(New Zealanders don't do "respect for authority"; they do "respect for demonstrated ability".)
very easily. here is the lecture from my robotics course. Amazing professor. Dr. Sodemann was the best I had in my lifetime. https://robogrok.com/1-2-3_Cameras_and_Color.php

Its actually easier than you would expect! you can use a process in image processing called "thresholding" where you basically filter the RGB or color values. Its very common and a little "hack" on compute. Computers "look" at images or video by converting the camera data into large matrices. Red would be 1 matrix, blue another, green another. Instead of this, you typically convert it to black and white but you can do any color you want, depending what youre looking for. This reduces your compute from 3 matrixes to 1 and makes your functions exponentially faster. Someone can help me on O(n) notation lol.
The interconnect between dies doesn't rely on the substrate though right?
The firefox UI works like chrome, but looks worse, calls attention to itself while chrome stays in the background. They want to look different, but they can't do the same thing better. If they did an actually different interface, like tree-style tabs, they might find a niche.
Downtowns are dead, dying or on life support, says urban policy expert
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They ask you to create an account.

The options are "Sign up" and "I'll sign up later".

How about that distasteful mindfuckery.

Seeing it a lot.
Awesome! Another nice gift for the open source community. I'll try it out soon.
paper documents haven't significantly changed in the past forty years. consider eps feature complete
Poison Fruit Pits Became Irrestistible to Humans – These Plants Make Cyanide
I can't live inside bitcoins.
The size statistics page is super cool: https://github.com/byronka/minum/blob/master/docs/size_compa...

Reasoning this way about software and dependencies more often seems like a good thing, just so we're aware of what we're actually getting into, especially with projects that use npm.

I actually hadn't heard of Javalin before, which also seems nice: https://javalin.io/

Aside from that, I've also had good experiences with Dropwizard - which is way simpler than Spring Boot but at the same time uses a bunch of idiomatic packages (like Jetty, Jersey, Jackson, Logback and so on): https://www.dropwizard.io/en/stable/

I do wonder whether Minum would ever end up on the TechEmpower benchmarks and how it'd stack up against the other libraries/frameworks there, those benchmarks are pretty interesting.
I've been writing one, but it still has no ending.
The surviving ones can. The same way that multiple species of trees, growing on the same patch of the ground, desperately competing for sunlight, together validate that the soil underneath is fertile.
The bulk of what actually sells and gets read is deliberately written to be very easy to read and follow, to maximize potential market size. It’s a reaction to the shrinking size of the total market, and why YA and YA-reading-level books (if not nominally YA) now dominate. Been trending that way for 20 or so years.

“Any reading is good reading” is an attitude that’s true and useful for young kids, but is less true as they get older, and not true for most adults. At some age and level of development, reading the next Harry Potter prequel book isn’t any more improving than binging a middling TV series.
> Cartels are generally a result of government regulation,

They are often the result of companies bribing or otherwise coopting the government to enact those regulations.

> You can also have cartels enforced by e.g. acts of violence or vandalizing competitors

Or you could just abuse your dominant position by preventing your suppliers or retailers from doing business with your competitors, outright buying them, running them out of business by temporarily dumping your prices etc. these are all both more effective and more realistic options than outright violence.

> but the answer in these cases is not to pass more laws to mitigate the consequences of insufficient competition,

Having corrupt and incompetent governments leads to bad outcomes. That’s not particularly insightful nor does it automatically discredit any form of regulation.

> it's to address whatever is causing the market to be uncompetitive.

You’re certainly right. Sometimes this can be accomplished by reducing restrictions and sometimes by introducing additional laws. We should also take into account that unregulated markets are hardly ever competitive.
Do you care to elaborate on why you feel this way? Specifics would be appreciated. I'm not getting the same signal from it at all.
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-climate-potential-humanity-dan...
Interestingly enough, the only thing that's missing from this design from the modern Windows Registry is the generation and usage of user principals. The registry already supports a rich, granular permission system, and enforced sandboxing for access. In a greenfield design, yeah, I could see your design being quite useful, but adapting and enforcing a usage pattern on current day Windows isn't that far off.
Is tofu unhealthy? I mean that seems pretty processed to me.

There are also things like Huel and Soylent which is probably about as processed as you are going to get and I really don't see any health issues with those (outside of the usual "its not real food" people but I really don't care about them).

It doesn't help that "ultra processed" is such a blanket term that it's basically meaningless.

I mean just because I buy "whole" ingredients doesn't mean that I magically cooked a healthy meal either. It could be just as bad (or worse with a few of the recipes I have made from Julia Child's book... as good as they are) than some of the processed meals I see out there. Maybe just less sodium.

Much of the same correlation you are looking at can also be attributed to the type of active (or less so) style that people have. Less walking, more relying on cars, etc.
I saw someone tie Ian's knot at a running shoe store in Austin, TX six years ago. I assumed I'd never see it again, but here it is. Ian, you brilliant bastard. God bless you.
Every modern operating system ships with a native mail client that integrates with assistive technology.
The original Apple LaserWriter had a Motorola 68000 CPU running at 12 MHz, 512 KB of workspace RAM, and a 1 MB frame buffer. That wasn't cheap, but Adobe's pricing of the PostScript license was still very steep and contributed significantly to the high printer costs. Adobe's greed over licensing fees caused serious conflicts between Apple and Adobe.
Also mentioned above, ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE would be able to update the concurrent writer's row instead of throwing a uniqueness violation.
Researchers love dunking on artificial sweeteners. It is one of the guaranteed methods of getting loads of press. Press yields prestige. Given that artificial sweeteners often correlate with people with weight / health problems like diabetes for very functional reasons, it's like shooting fish in a barrel.

Paradoxically this same data source (the Nurses' Health study, which is a continuous series of questionnaires) has had a prior paper claiming "sugar-sweetened soft drinks, refined grains, and red meat" led to depression. Now that "ultra-processed foods" and artificial sweeteners are the public demon, they take centre stage for the next round. I suspect with a bit of p-hacking one can contrive whatever aha result they desire out of it.

Their argument regarding eliminating correlation seems suspect. They analyzed diet in period 1 against reported depression in period 1 and found a given correlation. They then analyzed diet in period 1 against reported depression in period 2 (apparently 4 years later) and claim to have found the same correlation, which is what he cites in defence. Yet they never state that depression in period 2 in those cases is worse than period 1, invalidating it.

The Nurses' Health Study is a really fascinating exercise and certainly holds massive use, but it also has been a source of a lot of incredibly dubious nutritional "science".

https://nurseshealthstudy.org/participants/questionnaires

The NHS II surveys were the ones they used for this "get press" study, and looking at the actual surveys it seems doubtful that they yielded the results they did.

Probably could build a lot of fun blog entries p-hacking the data from these surveys.
I don't think you're going to escape aphorisms. Even if you could come up with one that you like better, someone else will just publish a different but valid blog post saying how your aphorism is wrong or requires revision. You acknowledge as much in the blog post by discussing the lack of nuance in aphorisms.

Because I think aphorisms are themselves the fundamental issue, and I think they are inescapable, it would just be better to teach things often used as "rules" are in fact just guiding principles. That's a much more reusable lesson that applies far more broadly.
Firefox removed RSS support long before they bought Pocket.
No, scientism is simply the belief that the scientific method is applicable to all areas of intellectual inquiry, and that it's the most productive such method. The dismissal of philosophy is a straightforward corollary to that belief.

Note that the scientific method is self-correcting even in this regard: if someone can demonstrate a more productive method of inquiry, someone following the scientific method would accept that new method, just as they would accept any hypothesis that is demonstrably superior to the current state of the art.
If the temperature and humidity are high enough, no amount of fans and/or misters will cool you down.
Searchable database of 183k books used to train models by Meta, others
It’s in the very first paragraph of the article:

> If there’s one language that’s been at the heart of the Macintosh for the last 39 years it’s PostScript, the page description language developed by the founders of Adobe, the late John Warnock and Charles Geschke, and their team of engineers. It brought the Mac’s first commercial success in desktop publishing, in PostScript fonts, and early PostScript printers including Apple’s game-changing LaserWriter. Although Mac OS X never inherited NeXTStep’s Display PostScript, its descendant Quartz and Core Graphics are still based on PostScript’s relative PDF.
> The potential for intel to explode is definitely there if intel executes with its AI demand.

Nope. Intel doesn't get "It's the software, stupid."

Intel is congenitally unable to pay software people more than their engineers--and they treat their engineers like crap, mostly. And they're going to keep getting beaten black and blue by nVidia for that.
The intent might have been to prevent it turning on while in your pocket.
You sound depressed, not stupid. What were your SAT or ACT scores? (You don't need to post them -- just compare them to the national averages.) They are the closest thing to a national IQ test in the U.S.
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This does not seem to be all that similar to the point you are trying to make regarding the OP.
Im sure you put a royal effort into that.
Hard mode: try to bring up LFS on a non-x86 platform; preferably something without a standard device bus like PCI-e or USB. For example, a 68k Mac...
And clicking "buy now" on every ad that shows up during the process
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Salad is probably the most acutely dangerous thing you can order in a restaurant or buy in a supermarket. Especially if it contains sprouts.

Something I learned the hard way, especially when traveling (which is most of the time,) is to avoid ordering salad at restaurants.

Cooked veggies are better. But I'll take metamucil over salad, easy.
As long as it's better at some of the advances that would make it even better at those advances, or better at more advances, then it'll quickly become better than us in approximately everything, and at that point humans become NPCs of their own story.