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I genuinely wish things were this binary. I’m a hacker (using the original definition) at heart, I want to turn random devices I own into other things, which would be so much easier if it weren’t for encrypted storage and signed boot chains.

That’s all very well until you start talking about hardware that does things like providing video of the inside of someone’s home. I’m still behind being able to modify them and use them as you please, but if you do so that should be self-evident, because otherwise *someone else* can do so, and you won’t know until video appears on the internet if you walking back from the shower.

TPMs don’t necessarily mean that you can’t modify a device you’ve bought, it just means that things like the API key which connected it to the backend will be invalidated and you’ll have to set the device up some other way. That’s a safety mechanism, and even I want it to be present in hardware I buy.

Likewise I don’t want someone to be able to take a doorbell from the front of my house, extract my wifi credentials from it, and pivot from that to compromising the entire network.

I’m sure some people will say “well just don’t have those things”, and I’m inclined to agree, despite having worked on such devices I’m not sure they’re actually hugely useful to most people. People are buying them though, they’re in the wild, let’s make them as secure as possible.
It was Mercurial-only for a long time. Then people got used to git and asked for a mirror to stop dealing with whatever was the layer providing mercurial access for git locally. Apparently, now there are more git people out there than Mercurial.
Going "all-in" on GitHub means making yourself dependent on a Microsoft service that could change its conditions every day.

It is bad enough that Firefox depends on Google money for survival, I don't see why they should give even more of their freedom away to rely on Microsoft.

The kind of low-effort contributions that you would get from people that will only contribute because you are on Github are not the ones that you need or want anyway.

Plus if they wanted a alternative, Gitlab is so much more pleasant to work with anyway.
I got a random call from Wells Fargo fraud department
and I refused to give them my information.
Escalated and the supervisor also pretended to not understand my concern.
In fact, they placed a stupid hold.
I went to a bank and the bank manager has to call them back and basically beg these people to remove my holds.

These people in the fraud department don't even deserve to get found in a river.
Saying 'GNU Make' particularly was an automatism. When I use Make I do use GNU Make specifically. I do not have experience with BSD Make, or other Make dialects.

> did actually do a suitable job of replacing gnu make

The title does not say _a replacement_, it says _an alternative_. I never intended to replace GNU Make; if I said that anywhere — that was a mistake on my part.

> do improve upon those who created unix

I did not intend to improve upon UNIX ideas or philosophy. The improvements I am aiming for are:

- developer experience,

- conciseness and maintainability of the code.

…and these are being addressed for a narrow use case. For that use case, in my experience, Make is very often used.

I argue that within the bounds of this use case, this is an alternative which can be of use to improve productivity and everyday experience.

> I don't really understand the full job make does, so here is something which only does a simpler job which I do understand, and I like python

I classify these assumptions about my understanding or misunderstanding as ad hominem and unprofessional.
> There is a solution - not sure if everyone's ready to hear it yet: Decentralized finance

Carrying some emergency cash is also a solution for this sort of thing.
The specific expression of a recipe is protected. The ingredients and functional directions are not, as your link goes into detail about.

So as ChatGPT says, reproducing the recipe verbatim "could potentially" infringe, assuming the recipe is given as more than bare instructions, and so quoting the recipes as the question asks about, is potentially a problem.

Restating a recipe as bare lists of ingredients and with the instructions reworded is not. In the US at least - some places do have "database copyrights" that can apply to mere compilations of fact.
How the Navy Spent Billions on the "Little Crappy Ship"
Idris2: A purely functional programming language with first class types
More affordable (and smaller!!!) electric cars would be nice.

However, out of the mouth of mr Musk it sounds more like hot air to distract from their cybertruck, roadster, semi truck, Tesla taxi/autonomous driving, and reliability (TÜV) failures.

And wasn’t the model 3 already supposed to be the affordable Tesla?
Electric vehicles will succeed or fail with how they can establish themselves on a second hand market.

I would have the budget for such a price, but I certainly wouldn't want to pay it. For official business there are company cars and I drive perhaps 5000 km per year. I still have a car and I need it to visit some more remote people and for convenience.

Paid 2.5k for it and I have it since a few years. I do have a mechanic, so repairs are cheap, but you can guess about my expectations for buying the next car. Haven't seen EV with attractive prices yet.
Still going strong at 85 years old...
> System that are shitty by accident

US banks aren't shitty by accident - how could anyone say such a thing. They deleted millions of mandatory records. They manipulate markets. They fund illegal wars, and people like Epstein. They support dictators and tax dodgers. And that's all just JPM! Look at what GMS have done; look at the Panama papers, look at the 08 bailouts.

Giving banks the benefit of the doubt requires extraordinary, profound naivety.
I feel like this is the modern version of excommunication. Bank accounts are essential to life in modern societies and if you have none, you are in serious trouble. If there are suspicious activities these should be investigated instead of just closing the account.
It's a fairly easy assumption to make that the current flock of SMR proposals are designed to build on naval reactor experience, given the size range.
Hah, I also make heavy usage of Todoist and notifications.

Got an old tablet on a cheapy plastic arm held above my monitor dedicated to my task list when working. It's set up to get my attention as and when tasks need starting.

Bit of a balancing act between having it make enough noise/vibrate to get my attention and not vibrating itself off its perch and making me jump out of my skin :)
Ok there is no company that cares more for your privacy than for its revenues, the problem is that YouTube's revenues are generated by violating your privacy.
>Mr. Dubrowski, the JPMorgan Chase spokesman, said the bar’s series of deposits was indeed the problem.

>“We must know our customers and monitor the transactions that flow through our bank,” he said. “That includes instances where we see a pattern of cash deposits that are just below federal currency reporting thresholds.”

Later in the article:

>“We must know our customers and monitor the transactions that flow through our bank,” Mr. Dubrowski said, who stressed that the bank was not accusing Mr. Ladipo of any wrongdoing. “That includes instances where we suspect that the transactions involve parties connected to potential scams.”

Is Mr Dubrowski an AI by any chance?
Unfortunately the ridiculous TWh/year metric is absolutely standard in the space, and it's far too late to do anything about it now.
Are things like Operation Chokepoint [1] still a conspiracy theory?

It appears to me like a sophisticated and coordinated operation, not the accidental result of bureaucracy.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
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Here's a proposal I wrote to Maxis in 2002 asking to license the rights to develop a commercial educational version of SimCity for Linux, based on the multi player Unix version, with the support of Columbia University. They didn't bite at the time, but Will Wright and I eventually talked them into actually making it open source in 2008:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110611185928/http://www.donhop...

>Educational Multi Player SimCity for Linux Proposal

>Submitted by dhopkins on Sat, 2004-02-07 14:27. C Cellular Automata Pie Menu Applications SimCity TCL Game Design

>Back in March 2002, Maxis told me they were interested in supporting the educational use of products like SimCity. Earlier, I had developed a multi player version of SimCity, which runs on Linux/X11, and was scriptable in TCL. Educators and researchers from Columbia University, MIT, IBM, Xerox and other educational and commercial institutions were excited about gaining access to this version of SimCity, and adapting it to teach and stimulate students' interest in urban planning, computer simulation and game programming.

>So I wrote this proposal and presented it to Maxis, but nothing ever became of it. But recently, Will Wright has been pushing EA to relicense SimCity under the GPL, so the OLPC project can use it. So it may eventually see the light of day!

[...]

More SimCity stuff from my old Drupal blog:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110611162810/http://www.donhop...

https://web.archive.org/web/20111109132608/http://www.donhop...
It's worth putting an asterisk next to this that the theory of operation isn't terribly robust. Yes, phase noise is a valid way to sample thermal noise (a true random source) but it's not clear that this is what you're actually measuring on any given implementation of the TRNG. Depending on the synthesis and PnR of this module in your larger design, there's a good chance you'll have a correlation which some other part of your design especially as density goes through the roof. While it's likely to still pass statistical tests and seem chaotic, it might not be an actual TRNG without you putting in a lot of work to isolate it.
GP was probably being tongue in cheek, but there is an argument that more cves means your product is more secure because it has been more finely examined.

Here however, I think its clear that postfix is the superior choice. It has been at least as finely examined and has stood the test of time.
Or... or... s/he could convince a VC that the startup would multiply the potential opportunity in the space the tools cover by 10x and get a really fat check for generating the right hype with the right crowd.

/s
>IMHO it was Github which made git popular. [...] The important feature was free hosting.

Bitbucket also had free Mercurial hosting in 2009. I think it was 1 private repo in the free plan and it was later expanded to unlimited free repos with max 5 users around 2011.
Seems like this is going to be a massive new push for the electrification of all cars, I think this could be absolutely massive, considering just quickly tesla is making inroads on all markets. A 25k car is huge for reaching even more customers.

I also wonder if this is targeting the market where BYD is so successful. I imagine most chinese customers would buy a tesla vs a BYD if they had similar pricepoints.
This is a really nice playlist, but how are you supposed to use it? Are you "supposed" to go through all 8 meditations in one day? Or just one once per day? I see it's from a book, but would like to try these out before reading it.
It's not expensive. Even budget, non-electric, cars such as ford fiesta cost about 18K nowadays.
It wouldn't solve the OP's problem.
Could you share the name of the podcast?
You’re right, people commuting with large cars would see the larger costs. The thing is, we need to provide less-polluting alternatives to commuting by cars and also disincentivise using large and heavy cars for daily trips. People commuting alone in a large car are an absurdity.

These alternatives could be better public transport, tax credit for small vehicles or car sharing, incentives for remote work as much as possible, none of which are completely outlandish.
Only really going to be a thing in the far exurbs. There's no point in trying to go off grid in a city. Even people in countries with unreliable grids are still connected most of the time.
Like London there might also be a diminishing demand from under 25 year old young adults wanting to go to nightclubs in Berlin. A taxi driver told me for weekends he would work a mile radius picking up people to and from Fabric nightclub, now the demand has tailed off considerably.

If young people are not compelled to go to clubs these venues they might have to wait out for the next generation and a potential culture change.
An electric four door estate makes tonnes of sense in the EU. The estate in the EU is an important car package, it's a family work horse.

> In addition to keeping the cost of R&D and production low, Tesla wants to ensure the compact EV is easy to manufacture.

It's simple and other manufacturers have done it for years. Just use standard parts where possible. Stop designing custom headlights, glass, wheels, etc, etc.

I would also advise to Tesla to build an even lower cost model, perhaps with the following specs:

* 2 seats and some space for shopping/luggage

* Half range (~200 miles or so), shorter charging time

* Lightweight, smaller motors, inverters, etc

* Repairable (keeps the cost down in the second hand market), use off-the-self components where possible

They could call it "Tesla Model # Lite". The market would be people who drive to local towns, etc, and back. If I were them I would sub-contract an existing manufacturer to build it too.
I can enjoy music at home or at any private space. One of the main ideas behind clubbing is to enjoy the music in a community of like-minded people and fostering that sense of connection and belonging.

In the past it would occur naturally, because electronic music was a niche thing. With raising popularity, door policies had to be implemented to maintain this community. Now that it's mainstream, clueless outsiders start coming in telling people who built the scene what to do.

Quite similar to what happened to tech and the Internet in fact. The club scene is in its Eternal September now.
Secondary Security Screening Selection
It's not something that you say for yourself, it's something others might say about you if they notice your counter-neighbour behaviour.

Edit: my translation "I wish that neighbour's cow drop dead" was not accurate since it shouldn't be in the first person. It's more like "let the neighbour's cow drop dead".
Thanks! :)

So, WireHub is basically a wireguard config generator. A tool to generate some text files. What you do with those files is up to you.

Because getting from text files to a fully working and secure VPN is the real deal, you have things like zerotier, tailscale, etc which provide you with a bunch of custom-made tools to do that.

Problem is, with solutions like that you place a lot of trust on these companies because they effectively control everything. It's like trusting CloudFlare to be your DNS (no need to get into that discussion though).

So WireHub is kind of the middle ground. Makes it easy to create and maintain wireguard networks (configs for each and every device and their peers) and gets out of the way for when it comes to deployment.

If Wirehub goes down, you just don't get to update your configs via its UI. If it gets hacked, you get your public keys exposed - no biggie, right?
FFmpeg is getting multithreaded transcoding pipelines
If they did that, someone might actually develop an open source toolchain and software stack for these. However, considering they charge 200x more for the software than the hardware, I can't imagine that's in their financial interest :)
The economics of nuclear are difficult; the cost is _extremely_ front loaded, moreso than virtually any other energy source. It's also awkwardly-sized; in practice, if you want to build a nuclear plant in Europe today, it's going to be in multiples of 1.7GWe and that is that (I think the EPR is literally the only plant currently licensed; there was also a GE one but it's basically vapourware).

Not that it's impossible, and small numbers of nuclear plants are under construction (outside China, where the government is throwing money at the problem, and lots are) but it's far from the obvious route these days.
I'm surprised we haven't heard more lawsuits about this in notoriously litigious America. I find it hard to believe that "we can ruin you at any time" is a sustainably fair contract term.
Really? I don't think so.

Just try to clone Mercurial repo (Firefox) and roll back in history to specific commit. Let me tell you beforehand - it is (at least used to be) impossible. What you could do is to "clone it again" up to specified point. You have to do it somewhere else on a filesystem just to needlessly spoil disk space and you end up having the same sources at least twice. When I asked why I got handwaving arguments about code history being sacred, which is of course nonsense. If it was so... in Git I'd make another branch and rewind to commit I care about without wasting another 25gigs of disk. How can be this achieved in mercurial these days (without waste)? Back in days I wanted to do some work specifically on Firefox, and those steps were the only I could come up with after a lot of searching and asking questions, and because of Mercurial I gave up, to me it felt like it was a high entry barrier on purpose.

So, no my friend, a lot better wins time.
They don’t seem to plan to use any of the GitHub features. They only use it as a “cloud git hosting”. My guess is if there was as reliable git-web hosting they might as well go with it. By only using GH for repo hosting they’re not locking in themselves and also outsource the tedious parts (infra, backups, etc.).
I read about lucid dreaming on wikibooks, iirc this was before the movie inception.
Do you guys actually control your dreams?
How do you keep bad things from happening?

More importantly, do you remember anything when you wake up?
ICE based small cars sell for about 10K less. Second hand electric cars are still few and far between.

Here is a Nissan Leaf from 2011 for 5K:

https://www.marktplaats.nl/v/auto-s/nissan/m2041841167-nissa...

There is no mention of remaining battery capacity, only the original is listed.

For that kind of money you can fairly easily find a Renault, Skoda or if you're lucky a VW with lower mileage and probably a newer model year.
That's a good problem to have, though. Inefficiencies from following "the wrong path" just mean the end solution isn't quite as good as it might have been, but if it was good enough to solve the problem in the first place then anything you can recover by switching tack is almost pure upside.
Sure, more than 4, less than however many assets there are in the game. I mostly want to emphasize that a systematic issue implies that this was an acceptable development pipeline, which I doubt any engineer on the team would say.

>I really think that the performance and scale indie developers can squeeze out puts AAA developers to shame nowadays, and I really hope that that'll continue to happen. All it takes is time, organisation, and a lot of time.

Yup, I agree. Indies don't tend to have money, so the budget comes from. Elsewhere. We can already utilize some amazing tools to cut down the time of scaling up environments. Not as much with actor assets. But I don't think it's too far off (more just locked off in acedemics white papers).
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> Did I miss any of your possible talking points?

Yes, that he has a cult following excusing everything he does.
Do you mean particular brands?

Electric cars in general will be the only option. The big countries in the EU are banning selling new petrol cars in 2035. So they'll definitely succeed, there's no option!
> it was affordable for the right market segment.

What is that supposed to mean? Everything at any price point can be affordable for the right market segment.
Development is currently quite active. Everybody’s risk analysis is different, but my assessment is that :

- open source means that we can contribute the fixes and improvements we need
- not being dependant on a commercial product protects us from events outside our control : what if the company goes under and does not release their code ? What about licensing / pricing changes ?
- it follows that in the worse case scenario where the project is completely abandoned, we have the code base and opportunity of maintaining it
- others are in the same position, which strengthens the incentive to collaborate on maintenance

That is not to say I’d systematically reject commercial products in favour of FOSS, just that both have different risk profiles that may or may not fit a given situation :)
What is ai2.0? I have never heard this notion.
It defies common sense that you can make up for wind energy being down to almost nothing for days with 8h worth of energy. Solar will never produce much in the uk, and will produce zero during the cold UK winter nights when consumption is maximal.
At first I was angry about these grifters because they suck opportunities out of the market, leaving legitimate startups behind. But knowing what I know now, that VCs are also grifters (looking at a16z and its pump and dump crypto win) I have started rooting for the "bad guys". So may Lee attract all VC money in the world to promptly set it on fire like Adam did.
You are it's revenue. You're the product. So far, YouTube will use you as much as possible.

There isn't free beer in the world. Each free beer you get was paid by someone else and he/she/it want at least get their beer investment back.

So, why wonder wonder wonder, Mrs or Mr. W. Onder?
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