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> I think, sadly, you're incredibly far down the rabbit hole of ageism.

That doesn't make me wrong.

Is it ageism to say I'd rather have a 23 year old baseball player than a 60 year old one? What about a 23 year old model instead of a 60 year old model? Ageism? Ok. Then I'm an ageist. I'll take the 23 year olds.

'But being a model or a baseball player and working at a tech company are not the same thing'

Ya, I know. But the point stands. Crying ageism doesn't make you right or the person appealing to age wrong.
gamification?

No, this is illegal use of casino algorithms and payoff psychology / slot machine psychology, outside of regulation, restriction from exposure to children, without disclaimers for gambling problems and hotlines.

The middle-tier issues I have: the same issues that used to exist with gambling and introducing it officially: moral concerns over degeneracy, the family impacts of gambling addictions, the regressive cost nature on poor/middle class.

What I'm really concerned about: outright cheating. There is implied probabilities involved here, and the apps are not doing the implied distribution. Sure, go ahead and point to the fine print. There is a reason gambling is so heavily restricted and regulated. These games are acting like they aren't subject to these laws.

What I'm really really really concerned about: the use of gambling payoff/reward psychology/neurotransmitter biology in games that CHILDREN are being subjected to, or even worse, they are ACTIVELY targeted by the "free to play" games, by the "click/watch ad to keep playing" ads in the FTP games.

This is OUTRAGEOUS. This has to end. This has to be strictly regulated. Many of these free to play games, which even cursory experience educates you to a world where "whales" that are paying thousands of dollars a month or more. These games are among the most popular/heavily downloaded games in the app stores, with hundreds of millions of revenue, which Apple and Google are feasting at the trough on.

Absolutely outrageous. Apple and Google should be ashamed of themselves, and fined billions of dollars over this. Why Europe has not woken up to this, which is the only real hope in the short run for substantial fines, is beyond me.
> This is not just a mathematics book, but unfortunately also a polemic of progressive politics. For example, on p.42 there is a helpful definition of “cisgender”, in case you didn’t know. Then, on p.319, the notion of isomorphism — ubiquitous in mathematics, and really quite simple — is explained by considering two categories induced by a partial ordering, one consisting of concepts involving rich, white and male, and another involving rich, white and cisgender. It is then shown that rich white cisgender women have the same status in the second category as rich white males do in the first. Just below this, there is a helpful diagram showing that each of these categories is a 3-fold product of the category consisting of two objects and one arrow, namely (people with structural power —> people who are structurally oppressed). Really, there are many simpler ways to get these ideas across.
And in the UK it's going to be in a blister pack not a bottle, which is a lot more work. You can't even buy more than two packs at a time, so you'd need to go from store to store.
American startups are only focused on getting an ipo or exit as soon as possible. Such thing doesnt exist in the mentality of the Chinese.
These shenanigans before displaying the final result can have quite a lot of psychologic effects.

Back when I started programming, I did simulate a jackpot machine in software (no money involved). The final probabilities were fair, but I added a twist while rolling the images: before stopping, the probability of having 2 or 3 of the same image was quite significant...
My younger brother was instantly hooked to it. The trick made him overestimate the probability of having 3 images the same, as he was seeing this pattern quite often just before stopping.
This made me realize of fucked-up casino can be, while still abiding by the rules
Or maybe I just wasn't aware of the regularity of Glasgow tube trains?

When I talk about the UK, I really mean the UK. 'The north' is a name not necessarily reflective of geographic boundaries, if you want that, use 'the north of England'. 'Yorkshire' also necessarily excludes Scotland.

I'm also geographically closer, and emotionally closer to Scotland than London, so why would I exclude Scotland?
Yes, but it's a little confusing that there's Qualcomm and Broadcom, and they both make chips for wireless.
I suppose the awkward part of blacklisting is that if a phone isn't immediately reported, someone may sell a stolen part to a repair business, which installs it, and then a week later the customers phone is locked down, through no fault of either the person who had their phone repaired or the repair shop
Great report, thanks! Details were all the ones I hoped to learn.
Use of antiviral may be fuelling evolution of Covid
This. My kids are now the third generation enjoying the same Lego bricks.

The oldest were bought by my great grandparents for my father, so these toys already involve five generations and probably will still be used for at least another couple of generations.

As far as sustainability goes, Legos are incredible.
This is what EVs do. Even pressing the brake pedal doesn't directly engage the actual brakes, it'll first use the engine regen to slow down and if that's not enough the brakes will start applying.

I actually need to put my car on neutral while driving and press the brakes properly about once a month so they don't rust from lack of use :D
Spotify’s AI Voice Translation Pilot
Depends how all your friends communicate. If they're all in a WhatsApp or Facebook group chat, for example, having a dumbphone will put you on the outer socially.
If we remove mass from our sun we can extend it's life to some mind-numbing numbers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzuHxL5FD5U
Carmack has been working on AI for a while. And I don’t think he cares about his reputation much.

Two decades ago he gave space travel a shot with Armadillo Aerospace. It failed, but that didn’t hurt his reputation.
Why? He's a person who likes hard problems and has a chance to work on them.

This seems to me in line with, say armadillo aerospace. I doubt they'll build AGI but we may still get some value out of this, like SpaceX got the "cheap fast iteration" idea from Armadillo.
Cellophane, or plastic?

One of the two is biodegradable.
Microsoft hiring nuclear energy expert to help power its AI, cloud data centers
On the contrary, I would say that the Lorrentz transforms prove that time is fundamentally different from space. They form a continuum in some sense, but they are not the same at all: you have to flip the sign of the "time" coordinate compared to the three space coordinates to get the right results.

Additionally, events in 4D spacetime can be either space-like separated or time-like separated, and this difference is the same for all (inertial) observers.

This is especially relevant in discussions about the arrow of time since all inertial observers agree on the order in which time-like separated events happen. So even though in the 4D spacetime model there isn't an absolute ordering of events, there exists a partial order that all (inertial) observers agree on.
This is a strawman. If we want to stop using fossils, it doesn't matter which use-cases we stop first. The main general problem in veening off fossils I see is that economies will crash and there will be wars if we regulate away use of fossils. So that's not going to happen any time soon.

However, LEGO is a completely optional/luxury aspect that won't affect economies at large, so perhaps it's better to start there. There are probably many of these "drops in the bucket" that together form something impactful.
The core question is which biological kindom will flurish between the next 250 years (when humans go extinct dragging most mammals with them) and the next 250 million years that this article is so rightly concerned about.

My money is on Fungi. In about 1 mln years intelligent Fungi will be roaming the earth, building large fungi language models and pondering the meaning of it all.
Explained better above. There are more irrational numbers, almost guaranteeing any number come across in nature is irrational. Interesting thought since I think one thing that makes irrational numbers is there is no function for them. So it's kind of a cheeky way to say no math formulas can ever describe the real world since all the numbers are irrational.
Why do you think he is trying to destroy it. And also why do you think he cares about it?

As Orson Welles says: Ignorance is Freedom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiHeNyY629A
> we can see that tech companies are often noncompliant

To a degree, sure, but only because of the fluidity of the US justice system. Tech companies, like anyone, always in the end bow to the whims of congress. Consider how much information Google has or could have on any given member of the government - it could begin blackmailing, but hasn't dared take that step. Consider the actual power over money the banks have - they are one of the primary mechanisms the US government uses to regulate the economy, set interest rates and etc. They twist the law to serve them but no bank has ever outright disavowed a law, despite it being as simple as making the numbers be what the bank wants them to be.

Yes, laws aren't the only pressure mechanism affecting banks, google, etc, but my point is that true noncompliance is representative of a rejection of a given authority. It's more than just breaking a law. The US government remains a competent enough authority to acknowledge, but if congress came out and amended the constitution to remove all term limits, and the supreme court put out a statement that it will interpret these changes as written, and then the three branches went from there to establish an overt authoritarian regime, at that point you'd start seeing true non compliance.

I use the extreme example to show the balance that has to be struck by authority to maintain the illusion of authority. The US government maintains authority so long as it's useful to those others with extraordinary power (banks, tech companies, the People in their entirety, the military-industrial complex, big oil, etc). It can't risk pushing against those interests too far in any direction.
thanks, I know :)
I would argue it is a saying in Dutch, it is part of our canon, basically every Dutch person knows and uses the saying ( without knowing its origin ).
This kind of article makes me want to reply in Reddit style, but I'll try really hard to refrain from doing so.

I guess this article is a good example of the mismatch between the intended audience and the actual audience, me.

I am totally unimpressed by someone who hasn't used a smartphone for some hours, but perhaps this is some new kind of sarcasm that I can't yet appreciate.

Somehow I expect public blogs and Twitter messages to be written for the most general audience, but this is obviously almost never the case.
we had something like this. Environment was flaky and expectation was you run the test a few times till it passes.... as expected most developers who can issue put requests with curl or something would only need to "run" that test once
A lot of it is brand protection to be honest. I’ve seen so many cheap “refurbished” iPhones in the past with absolutely terrible cheap parts put in them. For end users this is most immediately apparent when the screens are 3rd party (terrible color, irregular backlighting etc) but these days it is a lot harder to use 3rd party parts.

I think there is an argument to be made that these protections preserve the used Apple market because people can actually trust it for the most part (we certainly see that reflected in the prices). I imagine the lifespan of an iPhone is much longer than a comparable (by footprint) android device.

I’m my mind right to repair trumps all these upsides but it isn’t as clean as it always seems imo.
The customer then kicks up a fuss, the repairman realises that the part came from a stolen phone and the supplier of these parts is either reported or blacklisted by the repairman and every other repairman they know.
In comparison the drop in sales for Volkswagen EVs following the end of subsidies
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37637715
I am willing to extend the Razor to clueless individuals at most. It does NOT apply to corporations.
Yeah, it builds up over time. I do not take any medication on a schedule, but over years you stack up ibuprofen and stuff like that.

Every single person I know has a drug drawer with expired drugs.
It depends. Are the state attempting to cover it up? Is it to the same extent as what has happened in the Catholic Church? Are they offering the protagonists protection and sanctuary? Either way, I’m sure we can all agree that the measures they’re promoting are unacceptable. My point though is that organisations, such as the Catholic Church, and organisations that purport to operate under their auspices, have no moral standing to make these demands of other entities. From where I’m standing, it looks as if they are pointing the finger of responsibility at big tech, instead of the organisation that is covering up child abuse.
Rather than recycling plastic, it would make more sense for Lego to include an offer to re-buy the used Lego pieces in each package, so people become aware of the resell value and don't throw them away after a few years. It may even allow them to participate in the Lego resellers market.
I’ve been a PillPack customer for years and love the service.

If you take multiple medicines, and/or have a complex medication schedule, it’s super convenient. It self audits whether you took your meds already and avoids spending a lot of time sorting pills into organizers.

It’s also really convenient for travel; just tear off the packets for the time you’ll be away.

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Yeah, I try to avoid the culture war stuff, but this seems pretty unnecessary for a math book.
It reminds me of post it stickers on the monitor. Well, to be fair more like post-it stickers in a hopefully locked desk drawer.

Agreed, it will prevent any remote attacks.
Next time, join the civilized world and get a civil service, Americans....
If ideas are real, do you have any idea about entities that are not real? I mean, what is his exact definition of "unreal" things? Something that can not be formally described?
That wouldn’t prevent the case of “the module is swapped for one that unlocks no matter what, and upon noticing the phone isn’t unlocking, the owner resets and sets up Face ID again” right?
I am automatically extremely skeptical of any think tank who's name starts with "Common Sense" or similar, and I feel vindicated once again.

This seems to be a lobbying piece on behalf of the mega-developers who build slap-dash stick frame multifamily buildings and then wash their hands of them before the dust settles and the new owners realize that they were constructed to the lowest (or no) standards by the cheapest general contractor.

>These laws hold developers and builders accountable for perceived defects in the construction of condominium projects, even if the defects are minor, provide little to no economic loss to the homeowner, or do not affect the structural integrity of the building.

Sounds like litigation was catching up to these "investors" peddling shoddily built units in large buildings to desperate first time homebuyers. Imagine the poor developers being held accountable for construction defects in the buildings they built.

Condos conveniently have a mechanism for collective action built in (the condo board or HOA) which probably made it much more likely that a developer would be held legally accountable when a building had major defects. I'm willing to bet that the shift to single family homes is great for them because a lone homeowner is unlikely to have the legal firepower to take on one of the large developers for shoddy construction.
Shouldn't he first finish the VR headset?
I have health insurance and a costco membership. I would totally use it if they cap the price at $29.

Anything has to be better than the virtual visit that I had with OneMedical last year.

Story time: I needed a prescription refill and I booked with a nurse practitioner through OneMedical. During my appointment, within the first couple of minutes I told the nurse the prescription that I needed. She then spent ten minutes asking filler questions about my medical history which had nothing to the drugs which I was requesting. Then she sends the prescription to my pharmacy. So far so good. OneMedical then bills me bloody $220 for this visit.

Later on I found out that this nurse practitioner was employed by OneMedical.
I figured I would call their office to ask how they can justify these prices. When I call their billing department, they kept hanging up / disconnecting on me. When I reached out to them on their website, they are blaming my insurance company for my large bill.

At no time before I booked my visit was I informed how much I would have to pay despite asking repeatedly. I am all for this costco partnership. Here is hoping that the don't turn into the next OneMedical.
Yeah, it’s mostly based on talking to a lot of readers, writers, editors, and literature teachers, and seeing how the market’s going and what players in it are doing to try to stay relevant. I’ve not conducted some kind of study on this and it’s certainly possible I’m bubble-bound in some of it (though I think my bubble leans rather the opposite way, if anything…?) but do think it’s more-or-less accurate. I dunno, I could be wrong about a lot of it. I don’t get the impression that a great majority of reading that occurs is some elevated activity any more than I get the impression most TV-viewing is—I also don’t think that state of affairs is bad, to be clear, or that it’s bad to enjoy the literary equivalent of a Hallmark movie—but it’s possible I’m wrong and there really is good cause to call out reading as a notably improving activity, without qualification.

It’s touched by subjectivity, to be sure, but I’ve tried to dial in my level of sweeping-statement so they’re only as sweeping as I think probably correct (those “some”s and “many”s and “most”s) but sure, in the end it’s what I see from where I sit, not a behavioral study.

No worries about the tone, I screwed this whole thread up by having a tone in my initial post that many read (not without reason!) as implying some stuff I didn’t write, and did not intend to imply, but did. Mea culpa.
You wouldn't be able to corner the market if it wasn't supply constrained (because it was already cornered by the AMA). The US doesn't accept medical degrees from other countries, has an absurd residential training program designed by a stimulant abuser, there are price floors called "certificates of need" where you can't open a hospital unless your competitors say you can, etc.
I chose Java for one of the microservices that leverages JTS library, which was the tool I wanted for the purpose. I wanted to use normal Java, because the thing I needed to do was very simple. It works very well. Used Micronaut by the way.

Java has its place.
A repair business doing that wouldn't be in business for long though.

There are APIs available for verifying whether FindMy is disabled for the device in question, that might be a better proof that the device is honestly sold to a repair shop for parts.

For devices broken enough that they don't turn on there needs to be a way to remove them from FindMy without using the device though... is removing them from the list available at https://appleid.apple.com enough?
The most common medication is so cheap that I don't think the US pharmacy handling is worth it. And few packs I've had are more than 90 days worth of pills, with the exception of some really cheap stuff (as in $10 per pack of 100).

Picking up common prescription medication consists of me walking into a pharmacy - any pharmacy! - with my prescription, handing it to them, and telling them "one of this please". They will then immediately retrieve the pack of that medicine, ask me some questions to check for allergies etc. and hand it to me. I don't have to have the prescription sent to a specific pharmacy then wait for them to have the bottle ready and verified by a pharmacist.
This is the most glaring flaw of the system. The per serving amount is often arbitrary or misleading and just adds noise. I would rather know the total for everything inside the container and estimate my own serving.
> It was so much better - even ten years ago - than modern swiping keyboards.

Unless it learned too much about you. I found that regularly clearing all data from it improved swiping accuracy… It’s just like with all automated personalization, it doesn’t work.
For older people who actually do need to take multiple pills, I think this is fantastic. There’s no risk of taking multiple doses because you forgot whether you took one or not.

Nonetheless, it would be interesting to see this made of paper.
The problem seems to be that the Denver area has unusual soil situations that cause foundation problems. Here's the view from a firm that defends builders.[1]
Many of the problems involve building motion long after construction. Hence litigation.

Denver seems to have an unusually large number of foundation repair contractors.

[1] https://www.hhmrlaw.com/publications/CD%20Overview%20(2013%2...
I don't know enough to offer any real sources, but I'll share that I've found ChatGPT very useful for learning stuff like this - really solidly documented and established science/engineering.

I asked* "When making a wireless transmission what is the signal loss at 20km for 2.4Ghz?" and it gave an excellent explanation of free space path loss, stepped through the calculations, and gave the correct answer.

I've had it explain various kinds of first-order filters, especially for electric guitar circuits too. And asking follow up questions works well with how my brain works.

*Link in case you are curious: https://chat.openai.com/share/d0fcf90e-9d2e-4078-9bb4-60717f...
Innovative products are the result of the application of software engineering to solving problems in specific domains. CS/SE papers are focused on theory and gaming the academic system, i.e. getting grant monies.

If you want to create a profit generating product, then study up in some non-IT domain, understand the most pressing problems and solve one that current technology renders feasible. For example, the principles of generative text systems was conceived back in the 1950s. It wasn't until GPGPUs became sufficiently capable that the implementation of the theories became feasible.
Sometimes math can be pretty surprising, such as when complex numbers might be shown to be necessary to explain quantum mechanics:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04160-4

Or when group theory predicts subatomic particles through symmetries:

https://www.britannica.com/science/subatomic-particle/Hidden...

But other things like continuity and limits, as well as various topological spaces, seem to be purely mathematical constructs.
Do you try this blindly, to test the cost, or do you somehow know which will be cheaper?
The problem is tokio only insofar as it blocks attempts to develop an unified, common denominator API between multiple runtimes (for example: how can the Rust ecosystem not yet have a standard async reader trait, after years and years?), and instead encourage all sorts of libraries to depend on tokio directly rather than a facade that works on multiple executors.

Right now cross-runtime libraries are mostly written special-cased: one feature flag for tokio, another for async-std, maybe one for smol if they feel fancy. Almost none for glommio or other runtimes. That introduces a huge burden for libraries, that would rather depend on a single API.

Rust shouldn't have an official runtime; it should have APIs that make possible to write libraries that don't dictate which runtime you must pick.