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> Because there are no pointers in Fortran, only arrays, and because arguments to functions aren't allowed to alias [...], aggressive optimization and vectorization is easier.

Can you explain this like I'm 12?

What's an example of an aggressive optimization you can make based on arguments not being aliased and there being no pointers?
I’m not going to universally defend Apple (because no one can) but when you have to go back 10 years to come up with an example that as other commenters have noted was a supplier issue it’s not as strong an argument as you may think.
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What I would ultimately want from all this is that SMS goes away. That we get something better, I know there's that new protocol the IEEE have been working on, and there's RCS.

I don't care which, or anything else is used, as long as it's platform independent, secure, seamless, and enables all the features of modern messaging platforms.

Wife has an iPhone I have an android. One of the big problems with that downgrade is it's really one sided.

An example.

If I send her a photo, or video, google will send a link to it instead, unique to that message.. so she will see the full sized video or photo.

If she sends me a photo or video, it uses MMS... And it's potato quality.

I would settle to have apple solve that problem. Because it's solely on apple's side to solve that. But I would ultimately like there to be a successor to SMS/MMS... And soon.
People who are not serious about hiring think this is the goal.

This is not the goal. The goal is to bring people on board who will successfully utilize your resources to bring success to your organization.

Eliminating bias is a red herring. You’re better off trying to increase your bias so that it statistically gets you a higher chance of hiring the people you want.
It most definitely is highly personal, like most weight management advice seems to be.

The only immutable truth is that calorie deficit will make you lose weight.

BUT different people find different methods of calorie deficit easier to handle mentally and/or physically.[1]

I can easily go even 20 hours without food maybe only sipping on some water or tea, my grandmother is the same. She can just have a big meal once per day and go about her day (and night) just fine.

My partner on the other hand needs to eat every 3-4 hours or they become completely unbearable mentally. It doesn't need to be a full meal, but some kind of calorie top-up is essential.

[1] ...and it seems that different people get different amounts of calories from the same food, it's a gut flora thing.
Wifi is a network external to the vehicle. An internal network would be something like CAN.

Whatever the case, my point is that a good solution is probably not quite as simple as phrased above.
My first language is Finnish, which has a very straightforward correspondence between spelling and pronunciation.

I would divide the drug names into four categories based on how they sound:

Obviously a substance: Amantidine, Sildenafil

Generic fantasy names / pronounceable strings with no meaning: Azafen, Clédial, Cymbalta, Desyrel, Edronax, Luvox

Could be Tolkienian, but it's spelled wrong: Sintamil

Could be Tolkienian, but the final syllable is wrong: Elronon, Eskalith, Nardil

Additionally, the two Tolkien characters I had to guess were both kings of Gondor: Minalcar and Narmacil. Their names are in Quenya, while the commonly used names for elves etc. are in Sindarin, which sounds different.
You guys are just seeing a message from the home screen but you can bypass it by holding down HOME and pressing right to go to the app quick launcher. The home screen doesn’t work without internet but anything else that doesn’t need it will work
Funny thing I discovered with mine, when there's an ad during the show, I switch channel and come back.
The ad is gone and I now have a "we'll be back in x seconds" screen.
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Each American men bears a hat with mouse ears and every American woman is dressed as Cinderella. They hear Disney music all the time while letting children to take selfies with them. Is a very strange place.

Or maybe I have a very stereotyped, very local experience that came from going mostly where all the other tourists go. and I'm wildly extrapolating from here about the rest of the country.

Maybe the older houses are the only available places to rent in some cities when you are young, because they are old and creaky, so still affordable. Does this mean that every Spanish family live in old, poorly insulated houses? Hem, not.

Is true that Mediterranean coast and Canary Islands care less about proper insulation. The north and center is different.

Is Madrid louder than London, Athens, new Dehli, Los Angeles or Pekin? I'm very skeptical about it.

It just happens that big cities, sport events, drinking areas and heavy traffic streets are noisy places. Here and in Australia. If you go where the drunkards join; expect to meet a lot of drunkards. But now visit any small village in Castilla; most of the time you could hear an atom crashing against the soil.
Insurance involves having a large pool of good drivers to subsidize the bad drivers. So the money they spend to make the pool larger could make things better from you; more good drivers, they pay out less claims, they charge you less. It's one business where the "network effect" really matters, and so it's not a guaranteed waste of money like advertising other products is.

(For example, it really doesn't matter whether you drink Coke or Pepsi. Those ads are just inflating the cost of the product; there are no more efficiencies to be had in the production of sugar water.)
The use of masonry is limited by the requirements to withstand severe earthquakes, which are endemic throughout much of the US. I’ve lived in apartments that were effectively soundproof but those were legacy buildings where the interior concrete and masonry walls were not engineered to withstand earthquakes. It is pretty expensive to build apartments that are soundproof and can survive a magnitude 8+ earthquake. You can’t just throw building mass at the problem as is so common in Europe. Buildings need to have a lot of elastic flex to them.
maybe off topic but home ownership is one good and common way to build generational wealth (opinions/citations below) but renting or lease-holding does not realize as an asset which retains its value to be passed to children. (leases can be traded, i suppose, but have a landlord and possibility of termination). But how is generational wealth and social mobility improved or hindered by multi occupancy, high-rise living and city planning such as talked about here?

https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/mortgages/articles/this-is-w...
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/04/1146960942/how-buying-a-home-...
Not sure if it was intentional but you just used the "few can understand" defense that I see in so many Crypto forums. "You don't like it because you don't get it". It's not a very useful defense of a product or concept. Crypto is not the Einstein to AI's Harry Potter, that is comical. This is the "you're all haters" defense.
I consider the distraction theory a folk theory without any evidence, although it is very commonly advanced.
Just general technoscepticism over time. Look at cambridge analytica, and crypto scam implosion.
So much for Austria's so called "neutrality".
This article misses that there is a business case for bad decisions. Sometimes there is no other choice than making a design shortcut, doing things that don't scale, overcomplicating or overabstracting. There is no sense criticising these decisions, typically made for good reasons for which the current view of the code does not provide an explanation. Sometimes you don't win the contract if your service doesn't work in three months (game over), sometimes there literally is no funding for more engineers, or a system hemmoraging existential amounts of money needs to be hotfixed. Moreover building a system can be like discovering a new scientific theory, only once it has been developed in an overcomplicated or overabstracted way, does the simple case actually become obvious.

If there is an "epidemic" of anything it's hindsight criticism of engineers who made the best decisions that they could. "Incompetence" is doing a lot of leg work in this article, this is not a real specific criticism by itself. To me this a symptom of over antrhopomorphising the failures of a company and glomming them onto a theoretical goblin for which you can blame the ills on.

I believe this behavior emerges from engineers that have not participated at a decision making level in the entire software development process at many different sizes of company in many different contexts. This means a startup from zero, a large company where the marginal cost of issues is so extreme that all code is mobbed, a mid size company being bought out, being in charge of a service from ideation, to development, to maintenance and deprecatio.
> This is just natural selection in action: only people who are good at slotting into bureaucracy and being well-behaved cogs in the wheel will thrive in this environment, and other types of humans will die out.

It would require that slotting into bureaucracy increases the ability and opportunity to procreate for the individual over not slotting into bureaucracy. I doubt that is the case. Strong adherence to a bureaucratic lifestyle significantly reduces the number of offsprings compared to a more chaotic way of living.
I had the opposite experience. I was trying to figure out what this weird lightbulb was that I had to replace, and it had no writing on it. I uploaded the description and picture to gpt4, and it just got it clearly wrong over and over. Tried bard, got it right in the first try, with links to the product. I was extremely impressed.
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As an interface layer GPT is amazing. In some industries things still require humans to pick up a phone or send a text to make things happen. I’ve seen very promising results with pure LLM solutions that replace web forms people often never really understand. The ability to provide deep reporting insights from a question is huge.

I don’t think AI as a general computing platform or as a replacement for coders is particularly close but there are lots of game changing incremental things LLMs do extremely well today. Something I could never find with crypto.
Intelligence is going to be next on the line
This experience feels like an unproductive expenditure of precious moments, as if the ticking seconds on the clock are simply evaporating into the ether, unclaimed and unfulfilled.

(Is This Possible?)
Indeed, I was speaking of the notorious French unions! I have written several long comments in HN on their ills.
This seems like one of those "oh I don't own a TV" moments.
It's common in the US, too. I think that the history is:

"Pulling your leg" means that someone is deceiving you (either playfully or spitefully).

"Pull the other one" means that someone pulled your leg, and you are telling them that you noticed by informing them that you have another leg that can be pulled.
> I'm surprised it wasn't somewhat mitigated

How do you judge that it wasn't, as there is no information as to what the base rate would be if it wasn’t “sonewhat mitigated” by hiring processes.
We’re talking about Airbnb here. I don’t know of any vetting you really do for an Airbnb. And, unlike a key, you can copy a garage door to homelink without do almost any work.

Add to that the fact that garages tend to be less covered from a camera perspective (usually there’s a doorbell camera at the door) and it’s a bit of a blind spot for homeowners I’d think.
I'd like to know your throughts as to why the downward slope.
I think "most of what I learned is inapplicable to my job" is kind of inevitable in any CS program that tries to expose students to a breadth of topics before they graduate and get hired into specialized jobs. The trick is that the "most" will vary from person to person.

As a fellow 1980s CS person, I too got a lot of DSA coverage, but I ended up using a respectable amount of it when I was working at low-level systems programming jobs. I have never used what I learned in my computer graphics class. But I had classmates who went into animation and used that stuff every day.

Agreed about the lack of any education about the "engineering" side of the work, though. One challenge is that engineering is mostly a group activity but education is focused on individual learning. With some exceptions, you don't get a group grades in classes, and usually, collaborating with other students on your homework or your tests is considered "cheating" rather than "teamwork." Professors aren't in the habit of repeatedly changing the assignment out from under you while you're halfway finished, but dealing well with unpredictably shifting requirements is a huge part of the job.
>Masks Don't Work

Right, disinformation then.

>High-quality studies have shown that use of face masks in the community is associated with reduced transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and is likely to be an important component of an effective response to a future respiratory threat.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

Again, feel free to make claims with evidence. I'll even congratulate you for getting it.

>The China lab-leak is likely true.

Maybe, maybe not, we may never know. Funny how you threw in "likely", when every MAGA hat wearing idiot was shouting it with certainty two years ago with spittle flying out of their mouth at me and every other healthcare worker.

Dunning-Kruger don't mean what you think it means either.
Saw where ewaste goes in Ontario at least – a 20 ft deep hole in the ground at the dump
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I have thought that everyone was using WSL2 for this kind of thing and calling it a day. What are the reasons for even trying to build a native Windows version?
It's not embarrassing at all! I wouldn't have realised had the person not pointed it out. At least you've learnt something interesting.
It's a feature that benefits Amazon more than the customer, but that's OK. Problem is, it comes with significant undisclosed extra costs, that GP listed. Were Amazon and Chamberlain to honestly disclose these costs, I doubt anyone would be willing to adopt this "feature" - which should be quite telling.
Most people buying the entry level macbook pro are probably not loading 128GB language models.
They aren't worried about people sharing books at this point, or at least they shouldn't be. They're worried about people building their own models.

Here's something I'd pay for (probably with some sort of sketchy crypto, sadly): send me a huge-ass hard drive (or array of drives) with a complete mirror of Z-Library, Library Genesis, and sci-hub on it.
That happened to me multiple times at work. I genuinely thought I was going mad before I found out that that's just a thing onedrive does.
What things did you almost do today?
I have to admit, I run windows on one machine for a bunch of non wine friendly apps. I al considering a linux phone too at some point. At least i installed windows offline, but my god is that os a fractal of stupidity. It’s like each time i turn it on there’s something dumb it tries doing. Last time 20gb of disk space just vanished, and i did nothing. Transferring data, pc to pc, over a 2.5gb/s network and 10gb/s cable runs at a whopping 80 megs. I disabled windows firewall because it’s a home network anyway and i dont care - i get a popup that i cant disable to turn it back on. Then there’s a bloody edge process running in the background though i am not using edge for anything! I cant alt tab without using the mouse…their window snapping feature is cool but if i try to snap a second window it “forgets” the proportions i used before. I cant find pcs on my own network all of a sudden! I have two partitions and i cant resize the first only the second. Not to mention I cant move program files to another partition. Oh and the installer wont even support my touchpad and wireless - which are of course natively supported by Linux.

The list goes on and on and on. I cant blame their devs, i can see product management written all over these “features”.
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Huh... I never considered that parentheses go the other way around in RTL languages...

How do you think the user made the mistake in the first place? It seems like it was edited to "look right" when it was rendered wrong?
Exactly this. There's still a ton of study needed on gut flora and other mechanisms of metabolising calories.

Some people (like me) will almost literally get fat just by walking past the candy isle in the store, my body will suck up every single Joule of energy from any food I ingest.

Meanwhile I have a friend who was actually prescribed by a doctor to eat more fat (butter, specifically) every day because they just don't hold on to calories _at_all_. Everything goes straight through. He's been stick thin for the 25 years I've known him, no matter what he eats and how and when.
Bouncing between Windows 11, Windows 10, Steamdeck, macOS, Android, it feels like Windows 11 and macOS are both in a race to the bottom in different ways. Windows can do everything I throw at it and more at the cost of knowing dark voodoo to excise it's demons and paying for "Pro". Apple seems intent on ignoring basics like regressing multi-montior support, bad screen scaling options, and horrible 3rd party peripheral support. Android only works for me because of Nova launcher. Don't mind me as I clutch my SteamOS device close, it does one thing, but does it well.
I also find a bit of irony given how much fraud there is on Amazon's own website. There's got to be far cheaper solutions that result in far higher revenues. Of course Chamberlain doesn't have access to this revenue stream, but I'm sure there are other things that they can do like charging for an API key or better yet, charging Amazon for an enterprise token (which users can disable!). Since it seems they're willing to take on the security risks... because the current solution clearly doesn't actually resolve the issue. I can't imagine anyone that understands how to use HA wouldn't understand how to use ratgdo so I'm not sure they're realistically changing revenue outcomes.

About Amazon, how fucking hard is it to use a fucking Naive Bayes classifier to just check if product title or description changes significantly? Hell, do it with Babbage or some other (not L)LM that's cheap as fuck. We already have clear leaks showing that they fuck over sellers with their price lockins, are you really hurting them more by dropping all those product reviews? You can also do way better by using an image classifier. I have a hard time believing a company that's bragging about how many robots it uses in its warehouses and replaces shitty support with even shittier LLMs is not going to actually result in higher profits by doing this. A few returns probably covers the cost because shipping is expensive (something they already don't get right. Haven't had 2 day prime delivered in 2 days since 2018...)

Also, anyone else find it weird that stores on Amazon don't list all their products? Like you can click on the store page from the product and then that product is nowhere to be found. Want to reduce scams? Force the listing of their entire product directory. I already can't rely on reviews, you just are making it harder to trust you.

I really do wish there was a halfway decent alternative to Amazon. Even Target and Walmart's online stores are more attractive, just limited. But this seems to be a generally sucky space and I don't understand why. Don't even get me started on NewEgg...

> Money is one hell of a drug because they are high.

They're so high they're even turning down higher profits. But I guess the issue is caring FAR more about short term profits (quarterly statements) than long term (hell, even a fucking year). I really don't get this metric hacking bullshit bureaucracy we've built (and its not just isolated to the US or the West).
Way more researchers use windows then you might think. Plus students.
> You’re the one with the subjective opinion here because you personally don’t see value in it and make the assumption that is the absolute truth

I think you need to stop spending so much time on Facebook, and spend a bit more time reading a dictionary.

You firstly made an assertion that "they [in this context, everyone who is whining that it's too expensive] definitely get 12 bucks a month worth of entertainment off of Facebook and Instagram".

You secondly state that "I’m not saying I believe $12 is good value. It’s not a matter of opinion. It’s just a fact."

Both of these are subjective opinion, because it's what you believe and while some will agree with you, there are others who disagree with you.

You accuse me of making the assumption that what I'm saying is absolute truth, which is weird, because that's exactly what you were doing in your argument.

Read again what I wrote: "Maybe you, as the commenter might feel you get $12 per month worth of entertainment or spend 4-6h on the site daily, but that's simply not true for everyone."

That's not making any claim of absolute truth, rather it's saying that your claim that it's good value for everybody is false. And it's obviously false, because there's at least one person for who it isn't true.
Email addresses, DNS records, IP addresses, domain names etc etc truly a technology simple enough and ready for adoption by your average Joe.
I have a 16G M1 and that popup about the system running out of memory comes up frequently. I would do terrible, terrible things to be able to upgrade the RAM. My 2014 Macbook Pro had 16G!
thats it...uspto wont approve without such pervasive use....this is what they are doing...essentially trying to ring-fence everything is their motive
If you view the LLM as a computing platform that’s not so different then saying startups built on AWS are “scams”.

I do think we’ll find a lot of these aren’t defensible companies (like Lensa) but sometimes you get instagram even when the value prop seems slim.
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Agreed, except if you're willing to go into weird territory and go fully dual, programming terms and continuations alike (Downen & Ariola's great introduction to mu-mu-tilde language, not the earliest, but one of the most readable on the topic, quite mind blowing imho):

https://pauldownen.com/publications/1907.13227.pdf
The IBM PC launched in mid 1981, which means the 8088 was fixed in the design at least, what, a year before if not more? The 286 shipped in 1984. Are you saying the 286 was a completed design in, say, 82-83, or that Intel was saying "this is what we think the 286 will look like" in that timeframe?
Performance is not the only meaningful metric when evaluating the total value of a laptop.

Screen, keyboard, build quality, and a whole host of other factors contribute to it.
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OK, 99% of devs do not do items 1-3. I have never worked at a FAANG, but most of them are doing grunt work, from what I have read.

Furthermore, taking a database course in college might involve building a toy DB, I will argue that it is not at all comparable to building a new DB from scratch. The theory is helpful, of course, but it is just an introduction, unless they are doing serious post-grad research.

And it isn't just "plumbing" jobs like REST. The same thing was true when I worked in game development, or consumer apps. Back in the 90s we did have to occasionally write a new data structure or something, now it is off the shelf.
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Do you have a resource for us to do this for ourselves? Seems like a pretty good thing to do