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I think a big issue on my part is marketing and UX improvements. It can do much more than "just flashcards" apps.

For example, I use it to learn from youtube videos, by copying the transcript to the app, which then processes the words, and creates flashcards for the words that I don't already know.

I'm thinking of integrating youtube transcripts, song lyrics, open books such as Grimms stories directly into it. Should not be that much work. But I needed to release and instead of infinitely adding features to my dev build.
USB-C must deliver a minimum of 3 amps at _at least_ 5V. If it delivers more than 5 amps it must contain a marker chip. The Zimaboard charger could deliver 4 amps at 12 v for 48 watt power delivery and be entirely within spec. (I haven't actually confirmed if this is what they do, so take it with a grain of salt)
Not to mention: even if it were possible to move the ISS to L4/5, and get it there in one piece... why? We don't have the infrastructure to keep the station supplied, and it's likely to overheat badly (since it's no longer in Earth's shadow half of the time). It's a lot of effort with no clear payoff.
The counter to your "think of the grid" argument is that the fossil fuel network may start to atrophy once there are significantly less people fuelling their gas vehicles.

If filling your gas car involves an unplesant trip to a peeling, cracking and unreliable gas station, then that's one more incentive to go BEV.
I never said no maintenance. Of course over 50-100 years you're putting ~0.5% / yr into it.

Real vs. nominal is important but it also applies to the largest cost which is interest. Interest at 7%, but inflation at 7%, means that loan is effectively free in real terms.

I agree there are better investments overall, but when you need to live somewhere, and in the case of looking to secure purchasing power in anticipation of extreme inflation... Better to rely on real goods. Otherwise, you're hoping the high volatility of gold and stocks coincides with your highly increased rent from other owners.
Japan has little traditional fossil fuels, but they were making a lot of noise about exploiting the methane hydrate in their seas:

> Methane hydrate is confirmed to exist abundantly in the sea near Japan and is expected to become one of the domestic energy resources of the future

https://www.japex.co.jp/en/technology/research/mh/

So in this case, they're really just a subset of the "oil and gass industry" boosting hydrogen vehicles.
Even if you did game on a mac in the intel days, you would get massive performance improvements dual booting into a windows partition, so that's what most people who were serious about it would do and that certainly doesn't help the numbers.
But TCP is way more complex
There is an Oil Sector Lobby and there is an electric sector Lobby too. All Lobbies hate competition.

The electric sector wants to destroy Hydrogen because it competes with them, of course, they want to destroy the seed so no tree comes out of it. Hydrogen disappearing is not going to happen, because it going to be necessary for some things, like heavy transportation.

Just because clean Hydrogen is in the early stages in development(like EV were 15 years ago) does not mean that we should not develop the technology.

I personally believe that NH3 is great for storing energy and energy transportation, and extremely useful for things like growing food.

It is also toxic and difficult to handle, like oil, but in lots of sectors(like heavy industries) it makes lots of sense. In other sectors, electricity and batteries make more sense. Different technologies will coexist together and compete.
Is there any actual numerical evidence that international immigration is on the same scale as intra-national migration as a source of housing demand?
Given access to repeated uses of a coin of unknown bias "p" (which is not 0 or 1) you can (eventually) always generate a new coin flip with bias given (exactly) by:

1. 1/2 (i.e fair - von Neumann)

2. p^2

3. p^2/(p^2+(1-p)^2)

4. sqrt(p)

Number 4 really surprised me, I learned it from this paper: http://www.math.chalmers.se/~wastlund/coinFlip.pdf

But you can never generate the biases:

5. 2p

6. 4p(1-p)

Although... if you change the game to allow a quantum coin then 5. and 6. are possible (a paper of mine: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.06183)
The books are a lot more grounded. Fleming referred to Bond as the blunt instrument of government.
The argumentation is flawed.

1. Just imagine the required charging infrastructure if all vehicles were suddenly battery powered. Charging electric vehicles requires quite some power. Can the power grid installations sustain that (power lines, Transformer stations...) ? What resources (financial and physical (e.g. Cooper)) are required in order to adapt the infrastructure ? Just an example: A supercharger station which can charge a few cars at "full speed" simultaneously can draw > 1 Megawatt. Furthermore, superchargers are quite complex (and expensive) technology;

2. Batteries are not a suitable large scale energy storage. However, non-dispatchable, fluctuating energy sources such as solar and wind power require huge amounts of storage in order to sustain the power demand.
We've come a long way since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. When it was debated, the great liberal Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey himself stood on the Senate floor during debate on the measure and declared: “I will start eating the pages” of the law if anyone can find a clause that calls for quotas, preferences or racial balance in jobs or education - https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-02-20-mn-34094-...

Of course, there are still no quotas. Just that, if you don't meet the non-existent quotas, that is evidence for the illegal discrimination prosecution against you.
My ADHD meds, coffee, GitHub Issues and Discussions, and using a simple ‘todo.txt’ file in my local box.

For content creation, I created this little React based Wordpress alternative that is free to use and 100% open source: https://github.com/elegantframework/elegant-cli

For emails, I use ConvertKit to collect email signups and send out updates to my subscribers.

Pomodoro method when things are really hectic and on fire. I’ll set a timer for 20 minutes and won’t leave my terminal until my task is complete or time has run out.

P.S. I have a daytime developer gig as well; and a family at night. As well as I have small stakes in past ventures that need tending sometimes.
The debate over whether LLMs are "intelligent" seem a lot like the old debate among NLP experts whether English must be modeled as a context-free grammar (push down automaton) or finite-state machine (regular expression). Yes, any language can be modeled using regular expressions; you just need an insane number of FSMs (perhaps billions). And that seems to be the model that LLMs are using to model cognition today.

LLMs seem to use little or no abstract reasoning (is-a) or hierarchical perception (has-a), as humans do -- both of which are grounded in semantic abstraction. Instead, LLMs can memorize a brute force explosion in finite state machines (interconnected with Word2Vec-like associations) and then traverse those machines and associations as some kind of mashup, akin to a coherent abstract concept. Then as LLMs get bigger and bigger, they just memorize more and more mashup clusters of FSMs augmented with associations.

Of course, that's not how a human learns, or reasons. It seems likely that synthetic cognition of this kind will fail to enable various kinds of reasoning that humans perceive as essential and normal (like common sense based on abstraction, or physically-grounded perception, or goal-based or counterfactual reasoning, much less insight into the thought processes / perceptions of other sentient beings). Even as ever-larger LLMs "know more" by memorizing ever more FSMs, I suspect they'll continue to surprise us with persistent cognitive and perceptual deficits that would never arise in organic beings that do use abstract reasoning and physically grounded perception.
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It is not the tax on the UBI that is referred here. It is whatever tax will be neccessary to finance it. You can't reason about this by looking at the current rax system, since it would most likely need to change.
> Fast forward 10 years and the same problems will remain.

I don’t have a strong opinion on UBI, but I want to challenge you on this.

If everyone gets $20k per year, let’s say the median earner goes from $40k to $60k. An increase of 50%. And let’s assume that we don’t increase taxes, even though it would definitely play a role.

Pretty soon, inflation kicks in and everything goes up 50% in price.

But a low income earner of $16k per year is now making $36k per year. More than double! So the 50% increase of prices means that the UBI helps the lower income person’s purchasing power to be on a more level field with the middle earners, even though the middle earners obviously still are better off with their larger income. Just less so.

And the person making $200k is now making $220k. But the 50% inflation means that they have to lower their consumption a bit, to be more in-line with the median earner.

So introducing UBI like this causes an automatic rebalancing between different levels of income, somewhat, even if the median earner is unaffected. Obviously this is greatly simplified though.
If your main computer uses linux you can use a script to start your writing app and have that script disable distractions for a certain amount of time. Simplest would probably have it start the writing program full screen and disable all WM/DE key bindings and hide any panels if it does not already do so in full screen so you can not leave full screen/open other apps until you quit the writing app. If you do not use a DE/session manager you can have an .xinitrc which does not start a WM and only starts the writing app, so when you want to write you log out and start X with the writing .xinitrc. This may be possible to do with a DE/session manager but I have very little experience with those so can not say.

If you just want to turn your old laptop into a fancy word processor just have your .xinitrc only start the writing app and you will not have access to anything else.

I suppose for these methods you would also need to have the script temporarily set your xdg default browser to something which is not a browser if your writing app uses the browser for help files since that would allow you to open a browser.

Why not just turn off all the devices and get out the pen and paper?

Edit: Probably easier to just have the script turn off networking than playing with the xdg defaults.
The actual fix seems even simpler than that! It really is just adding this check: !doc->HasFocus(IgnoreErrors())
I think the challenge is more coordinating the 8 people who will be a trusted part of your life long-term. Also they’d have to be sure to keep their fragments of the key intact through replacing devices, etc, no? Seems like just keeping a Yubikey in a safe deposit box would be simpler.
Yeah... there's a lot of idiots out there.
Then they will rebel, and discover the unholy power of modern drone based warfare. After which they'll be replaced with more technology and low paid laborers from other nations.

And as I come from a family of midwestern farmers, I'd say that your revolution fantasy is just that. They tend to embrace high technology pretty damned willingly. This is what is leading to the country side emptying out. We don't need 50% of the population to farm any longer. In another 40 years we may not need 60% of the population to sit around in offices typing out code. These are things both the rural and urban populations in nations need to work on finding solutions to rather than fighting each other.
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Would you say `ls` was broken if it didn't show files with "w" anywhere in the name and had a --show-w-files flag? And if so, what would be the reason you would call that broken behaviour? And why doesn't that same reason apply to dotfiles?

> "You’re choosing the one thing which will not solve your issue, complaining."

It is not "my issue", it's ls's issue. I'm making a point that "it's not broken, if it was we would have heard of it by now" is wrong. It is broken, you have heard, and you choose to not listen - that's different from not hearing about it and different from it not being broken. It doesn't mean I can't work around it or that I don't know how to.

> "Imagine if you directed such passion towards a positive constructive thing rather than ranting at length about friggin ls"

Imagine if you had just said "yes it is a bit broken" instead of arguing.
I am a pretty staunch supporter of car-free cities.

But I have to admit that adding another lane does allow more people to use the road. Even if everybody ends up stuck in traffic again, overall more people are able to get to work or wherever they want to go.

That being said, I still think that with correctly priced externalities, and when offered the choice, that most people would prefer to bike or take the train.
"New Google phone service whispers targeted ads directly into users' ears"

https://www.theonion.com/new-google-phone-service-whispers-t...
One thing I never see discussed about why hydrogen is so popular as a replacement for hydrocarbons: You can fairly easily generate hydrogen from natural gas via methane pyrolysis, and the carbon falls out as carbon black, a solid. The waste heat from a single gas turbine can generate enough hydrogen to power about 3 turbines of the same size, so when it's all said and done at a combined cycle plant with a steam turbine on the other 2 units, you're down about 12% on your net energy production, but it's not releasing any carbon into the atmosphere.
I've had exactly these experiences following a spinal injury -- fracture of a vertebra but with minimal cord damage and quite a lot of disruption to the dorsal root ganglia.

You can't put into words how weird it is to fall over because your brain thinks your foot is somewhere it isn't. Or how suddenly you become incredibly aware of how the front of your calf feels. Or how overjoyed you are to be able to move your toes again for the first time in a year. It's not like what you see on the movies.

Wallerian degeneration -- yes, degeneration -- is part of the healing process of some grades of nerve injury. Things literally get worse before they get better, as the fragment left of the crushed axon degenerates to its root and then regrows. It's incredibly slow -- around 1mm/day at most -- and a matter of probabilities. What's also worth mentioning is that there are plenty of internal nerves too, where restoring function after a trauma would be life-changing -- like the Vegas nerve, which buggers up lots of things if damaged slightly, or, in my case, some of the nerves in the fundus and neck of the bladder, meaning that my toileting is really very different than it was before.

I'm glad you're doing better, and hope you continue to do so. I've no idea if the device the article is talking about will ever help, but nerve injuries cause so much disability worldwide I'm glad they're continuing to be worked on.
It's not reasoning. It's word prediction. At least at the individual model level. OpenAI is likely using a collection of models.
Sure, you can get the teeth, but how do you get them to stay in your mouth?
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Because we need a straight tunnel in a year and not a winded one in a few decades?
Apple doesn't support Vulkan, obviously doesn't support DirectX, and barely supports OpenGL. Metal is a different beast, and the adapter layers are not adequate.

It takes extra effort, and fairly deep and unique knowledge of rendering, shaders, and compilation to support Metal, and even engines which do (Unity, Unreal) face some amount of difficulty in doing so well.

Apple's strategy of giving the middle finger to graphics APIs is patched over poorly by their partnership with Unity, and the fact that lower-end games can get away not needing a crazy amount of compatibility...but it's still on Apple to do better.
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The article addresses this. The early tunnel boring machines were inspired by worms that bore through wood.
I think it is remarkable that despite the horrible situation the defense is scoring some legal wins:

> In May 2020, Janki filed a new suit against the government on Thomas’ behalf. She argued that the 23-year permits violated the Environmental Protection Act, which stipulates that the government may grant only five-year leases for oil drilling. In a settlement, the EPA agreed to reduce the terms to five years, after which Exxon would need to reapply for new permits. This was a major victory, but it didn’t address the roots of Thomas’ deeper concerns: the increasingly existential threat of climate change.
I know they do have limits, but I don't believe any government or private entity has linked absorption to any kind of health impact at levels anywhere close to the published SAR limits.

These are likely just out of an abundance of caution just in case, not because they actually think harm will come. Frankly that's just fine, I wish they'd do that more - especially with new chemicals.

> If there was a problem with interference, I really wished our regulator would require the telecoms to disable them from the networks to force migration to non-interfering devices.

Agreed.
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> Cruisecontrol?

I had forgotten about CruiseControl. Long ago, I had a gig for an avionics developer in a team whose technical lead had gotten deep into agile and had mostly sane practices (sources control, build scripts and automated tests were not a given back them).

Still, we had a colleague that was often a bit to quick to commit broken builds or failed tests to the trunk. One day, I stumbled upon this program - CruiseControl - designed to automate build and test tasks. I had no notion that continuous integration was a thing.

As a practical joke, I setup a VM, installed Cruise Control, gave access to our subversion server and created some jobs using existing Ant tasks, just to email blast the team when a broken build was committed.

It got positive results way beyond the initial intent (mainly by eliminating "build worked on my machine"). Two years later, all SW projects of the company had been moved to Hudson.
I've never really thought about how corporate America reacts to things like weight loss. A fascinating insight!
Why not? In fact weaponizable software should be the first thing to be open-sourced so that everyone studies them and adopts countermeasures, instead of them being a secret privy only to shady parties.
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>It is also toxic and difficult to handle, like oil

Except oil is a liquid, while ammonia is a gas. You can put oil in an open container and it won't hurt anyone. Now try doing the same with ammonia...
The farmers will be doing just fine as long as they get good prices for their product.
> In terms of housing, the $1000 a month group only improved by 6% more than the $50 group.

6 percentage points more, not 6% more. Kind of a big difference. A 26% increase is 30% more than a 20% increase. Group B has a 75% increase in participants finding housing compared to the control group.

> That is to say, even if you just give people enough money every month to get an apartment with a roommate, only 6% will actually use it that way.

While that is statistically correct we don't know why it is only used that way 6% of the time. The greater increase in the lump sum group could indicate that the $1k/month group couldn't pay for application fees, deposits, or other upfront costs even if their supplemented income otherwise could sustain the monthly costs of housing.
One irony is that hydrogen cars are actually a better option than ICE. They're just both blown away by BEVs because batteries and supporting tech has progressed so dramatically.
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Because biology is hard to replicate with machines. But even if we could, it wouldn't be useful, because we want to burrow where we choose and leave behind a usable tunnel.
This is a cool idea, but there is a bay between the two locations I chose and the map centered out in the middle of the water with none of the coffee shops actually showing without zooming out.
> quite literally insane from all practical points of view

Erm. I don't think that's true.
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This is an insane amount of noise to throw out for such a simple point...

Valve made a new game: Instead of releasing it as a new game, they abused a loophole to force said new game onto people's devices without them having any say in the matter.

In other words, a piece of software they didn't ask for is being installed, and the software they did ask for is now hidden behind workarounds.

_

Apple plays no part in any of that: trying to paint not abusing your digital distribution platform... as being equivalent kissing Apple's ass is nonsensical to the point of absurdity.
nit: (as a non-Christian) There is little to no __archeological__ evidence

The Bible's testimony itself, along with conclusion that people believed in this historical event at some point in time, is at least a some evidence towards it.
We probably can if you want to build 1 inch tunnels that go in random directions...
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FYI the authenticator app itself has this now.