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I've not read Stanisław Lem (and have only seen the western adaption of Solaris, not the original), and I would therefore add an additional example, the three levels of AI used by Alastair Reynolds in Revelation Space (published in 2000): Alpha (sentient brain uploads); beta (non-sentient simulations based on what you do and say in your life, so kinda like GPT even though he didn't have that as an example to write from); and gamma (basically just normal programs).
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> Yes, those people earn far more than software workers

You are seriously ill-informed. Very few people working in medicine make as much, let alone more, than software developers. Many software developers even make more than primary care physicians!

And national defense? You have to be kidding me! Software developers live like kings compared to those defending the country. First responders in general are in the same boat. Most of them would love to make the money an entry-level software developer makes!

As far as being ordered back to the office, it's been nearly four years since everybody was sent home. Many employees have been hired since that time. "Return to the office" is a change in the employment contract. Many states, though not all, prohibit termination due to a post facto change in the employment contract.

But don't expect the people I mentioned above to cry about our having to return to the office. What we should be doing is pointing out to them that our WFH is making their commute easier, lowers their car insurance premiums, improves their air quality - in other words, how it benefits them.
Funny that you cherrypick a single phrase that I actually made up, because I was generalizing, and use its unpopularity to insinuate that sexism never existed.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=h...

Above I'm comparing "happy husband" to "happy wife" because it includes searches for the phrase "happy wife happy life" and I don't know of a similar rhyming phrase involving husband and I want the comparison to be apples-to-apples.
It's more about engineering management but 'Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations' by Nicole Forsgren (Github VP), Jez Humble and Gene Kim is a must-read.
For me, that's the beauty of Web Components. You can find (or build) a base class that works the way you need it. I like a React class component style class with an XState-inspired state machine built in.

https://github.com/codewithkyle/supercomponent/blob/master/s...
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> collaboration is the problem rather than the solution

Spot on.

> The perfect workflow is where you tell me with clarity what to do, and then let me do it without distractions or changing everything halfway-through

In traditional manufacturing processes (i.e., physical goods), this is possible and often achieved. Productivity can be easily measured by dividing the physical output - like the number of items produced - by the factory headcount. Innovation exists in cycles that precede manufacturing, since changes to the factory layout are expensive and often require interrupting production.

Software development is a different beast. Innovation is intermingled in the 'manufacturing' process. Requirements change faster, and we need processes to accommodate that. Work happens in smaller time frames (e.g., two-week sprints). Productivity and delivered value are harder to measure. Paying customers are in the loop and provide constant feedback we need to filter and incorporate for our 'product' to succeed.

The software development challenge is more consultative in nature than the manufacturing one.
> According to the article, they have half a billion dollars in revenue (with currently $154 millon in losses), and that seems plenty to run a company like Unity.

This can be true when investment/debt money comes cheap and you're company still looks like a rocket in its launch stages. Investors and lenders are happy to pile money in and expect to cash out while you're in steady orbit, or at least not be the last holder of the hot potato if you don't.

But money is no longer cheap and Unity no longer seems to have startup-like growth ahead of it. New fuel isn't coming and the rocket either needs to level off and coast into a steady orbit or come crashing back to earth. Raising revenue and cutting costs is how executives try to stabilize the darn thing.

From the outside, it's looking doubtful that they'll be able to do that, but they don't have many alternatives.
> NOTE: The meaning of good faith, though always based on honesty, may vary depending on the specific context in which it is used.
I don't see how it implies that. In a DC power supply, for example, you can stick a regular capacitor (condenser) in parallel with the DC output and it will smooth out fluctuations in the voltage. The energy stored in that capacitor isn't available for you to use. You need the capacitor to stay charged so it can maintain the target voltage level. The only way to get a capacitor to be at a certain voltage is to charge it.

This is evidently something similar but for AC. It stabilizes the AC voltage / phase because its momentum pushes back against whatever tries to disturb it.
IMO the real problem is treating "ID theft" as a real thing. You can't really steal someone's ID, per se. If a bank opens an fraudulent account without due diligence, that's on them. The law should be that as a consumer, I am the authority on what debt/etc is attributable to me and the burden of proving otherwise is on the company making the claim.
I am not sure why you, and others in this thread, keep stating a performance boost. Workers claim a performance boost while actual performance suffers pretty greatly

https://fortune.com/2023/07/06/remote-workers-less-productiv...
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In the same vein, I also find it distracting to have people sitting or walking behind me–like my brain tries to maintain some awareness of them, which in turn makes me cognizant that people can see my screen, which itself is kind of distracting.

In an open office this is largely a no-win situation as well: if you get a position with your back to the wall, you see people milling about everywhere, and if you face a wall, the whole office sees your screen.
Yeah that is my confusion too. The nice thing about react components is that I don't have to remember to write all the div elements inside them, but from this example I do.
"However, tens of millions represent a small fraction of the > 100 million hemorrhaging that the company is reporting"

So it's not a big deal if I embezzle a few million dollars. It's just a very small fraction of the overall loss of the company so there is no need to look at that.
The cost of power (electricity) is much lesser than the cost of time.
I'm not saying people directly want lower memory clocks rather I'm saying 4000/4400/4800 MHz doesn't seem to be a decision based on intentionally aiming to create upsell segmentation because 400 MHz of memory bandwidth on an 8 channel system is a completely irrelevant way to incentivize people while using lower quality binning and manufacturing to compete on price IS an incentive people in that range want, even if it comes at a minor cost in performance (that's the point of the low end SKUs!). E.g. Epyc segments memory performance in the Edge line by cutting the number of memory channels in HALF, the equivalent of dropping to 2400 MHz speed in a loaded server. Now there are other additional reasons that's actually attractive to buyers as well, namely the Edge class is expected to be lower power and driving 12 channels of high speed memory is counter to that goal, but it gives an idea of how miniscule 400 MHz of memory bandwidth is in terms of things that matter for low tier server performance.

If anything I'd say that Epyc has support for 12 memory channels (win of the dedicated I/O die) is leaps and bounds more relevant. The Intel SKUs would need to run their 8 channels at 7200 MHz just to break even and here we are talking about 4400 MHz instead of 4800 MHz as a deciding reason to not buy an Intel server!

Every manufacturer has the MO of artificially cutting features to segment things. Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Apple - all of them. Now maybe the folks at Intel marketing were smoking something funny that day and genuinely though this limitation would actually create incentive to go to a higher tier, who knows. Even then, why would that particular (poor) segmentation be a driver be worth choosing to exclude a brand over when the meaningful segments from all players are all much larger?
It’s short term energy storage with rapid charge and discharge capabilities. Not all capacitors are electrolytic.
I like the problem statement in the essay, but it's generally more effective to give context instead of more precise instructions. The people you work with are smart and capable -- if you tell them what problem you're trying to solve, they will adjust accordingly. Plus, giving context fills in so many more gaps than just the time and effort expectations.

Here's a related post I wrote: https://pcounsel.blog/always-give-a-good-reason/
The point is, as the article points out, that it's a minor part of what constitutes "elite recreation"
> it was the first computer to use silicon integrated circuits (ICs).

I dispute this. The Minuteman II guidance computer was first. Perhaps there's a confusion with between the block I and block II designs of the AGC. Only the block II used ICs; this version was designed in 1966. The Minuteman II guidance computer was already being installed in a missile in Sept. 1964.
Ah you are right.
In one of her interviews Sandi Metz mentioned that she separates all her activerecord models under models/ar.

She is big on separating the business logic from the framework.
The headline implies the Baltic states will have an independent electricity grid, but it's just switching dependence from Russia to the EU (for electricity) and the USA (for liquified natural gas imports).

Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia would be better off eliminating those dependencies entirely by focusing on expanding their domestic renewable energy production infrastructure.
Most of it is shares, not cash. Shares aren't comparable to cash here at all.
It looks like the patent the court found infringed is EP2575366 https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2575366B1/en

"Signaling of coding unit prediction and prediction unit partition mode for video coding" which ridiculously oversimplified to near uselessness is encoding video using a single binary tree to select from different possible encodings of P and B frames?

I wonder if it is possible to encode HEVC without using this technique and it was just that Netflix's encoders used it, or is this integral to all HEVC. (Broadcom has had lots of discovery in the US version of this lawsuit, so they could know which products and devices Netflix uses to encode their video.)

And just for a scope of the number of patents out there whose owners claim are relevant to HEVC…

The MPEG-LA patent pool has about 10000 applicable patents for HEVC and licenses for $0.20 per device.

ATT, Motorola, Nokia, and Microsoft refused to join MPEG-LA and made their own 500 patent pool covering HEVC and charge $2/device + 0.5% of revenue from streaming.

Then there are the wildcard gamblers like Broadcom - not a pool member and swooping in with patents designed to be infringed by HEVC implementors which even indicate in the patent that the inventors were aware of the internals of the as yet unreleased HEVC standard.
> It's the bugs that you can't estimate because they're unforeseen consequence by definition.

Well, it doesn't need to be better than human estimates. Just less time-consuming.
Thanks! I once read this article and could never find it again.

The screenshots here are second to none for showing why the quest to reproduce CRT rendering is so important for preservation efforts. Without it graphics from this era simply don't look even remotely as intended.
Yes, but states have some pretty major levers they can pull. Prevent new houses for long enough and it will cut down on migration to the state
Technically you're still running JS first, just on a different machine.
For random asks, I prefer having full context. More information is better. Instead of "can we get a estimate for getting X done ASAP?" How about "Can we get an estimate for X because new customer Y really wants it and we're trying to close that deal week?"
That's not abundantly clear. Some of the facilities in the article cost $100k/hr.
In all my years in publishing, I've never heard anyone refer to jacket/spine stamping dies as dice.
How math relates to the physical world is not at all clear. Like yes 2 apples clearly makes sense, but non physical quantities like 10^241 of anything start to break down the relationship.

It’s not the abstraction that gets me usually, it’s the lack of an explicit relationship between math and physics. I’m sorry but personally I am not satisfied by what I learned in my math and math/science classes on this. It started for me day 1 of high school physics and I’m now graduating in 1 month in undergrad applied mathematics.

I felt reinforced when I read that Plato clearly delineated the two “realms”. I was hopeful a single math teacher would discuss this idea for one lesson, but it never happened. Plato was a champion of math who recognized the division.

I’m not one of those disbelievers in complex numbers or anything like that, but if some model formulates precise physical scenarios, we should be able to have ample cross-over language. Even the explanation for why honeycombs have six sides: there is always some kind of fumble from going from the mathematical reason to the physical reason. It’s the paradigmatic example of mathematical explanations for physical phenomena, and between two heavily studied fields, and yet we fumble it continually. What is it about the mathematical hexagon which determines the physical honeycomb? These questions are at the height of philosophy of mathematics, e.g. Mark Colyvan, yet are still disputed and we act like it’s all so obvious. I get it works, but don’t tell me it’s not mysterious, because 6 years in now I’m not at all satisfied and have little confidence it will be mentioned in future math/science classes.
In fact, there is a lack of linear algebra in infinite-dimensional spaces on the general curriculum, and it is an important subject for physics and a few engineering areas besides the relevance for mathematicians. It wasn't clear to me how the dependency between calculus and algebra was supposed to be, but your comment makes it crystal clear.

The discrete transformation is quite fitting for finite-dimensional algebra, and honestly I can't understand how anybody every thought teaching the continuous transformation first and the discrete one never was a good idea. The only explanation is that since everything is thrown on the calculus package without any consideration, there's only time for one, so people kept the most general one.
Looks like the main blocking problem was that the game was stuck in a loop looking for a multimedia system DLL that was missing, because it assumed there would always be a CDROM available. OP lucked out that the code that called winmm.dll had a GitHub link and he could just patch it.

Too bad Microsoft has kind of softened and lost its reputation for Windows's impeccable backward compatibility. This seems like it could have been easily avoided on the OS side.

I'm currently trying to get Distant Worlds: Universe (which is less than half as old as Worms 2, no excuse Microsoft!) working on Windows 11. Same problem: No start, no error message. I'll try some of the tools and techniques highlighted in the video!
>But h265 looks purely algorithmic to me

So are patents of physical devices. Those algorithm just uses levers or whatever.
This is launched in response to MI300X, and this should still not be enough to match AMD's product. This launches 2 quarters after MI300X, but B100 should arrive before AMD's MI400 generation.
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> It seems like it would lead people to asses things at the "correct" value (eg the value at which you would actually sell the asset).

The price you would be willing to sell at is not the same thing as the value of the property. I might only be willing to sell my house for $500k, but that's not the value of my house because there are no buyers at that price. The value is supposed to represent the price at which you could actually find a buyer for, so any listed valuations that people _aren't_ buying the property for are too high.
And that's how you get kettles hidden behind books in the archive room.
Does the tin itself lase? Is the radiation given off from the tin single-frequency and phase coherent?
This may only be applicable to certain CPUs - e.g. sha512 is a lot slower on M1

$ openssl speed sha256 sha512
type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes 16384 bytes
sha256 146206.63k 529723.90k 1347842.65k 2051092.82k 2409324.54k 2446518.95k
sha512 85705.68k 331953.22k 707320.92k 1149420.20k 1406851.34k 1427259.39k
Yes, share buybacks for the purposes of returning cash to shareholders (and dividends) are not expenses on an income statement, hence they are not included in the calculation for net income.
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This looks really neat. I appreciate that you reference the previous work in this area (by josephg, Ink & Switch, Fugue etc.).

I think the roadmap says that WASM is next as a target, and that makes sense for prioritization. Would you also consider Flutter/Dart as a target, even if at the level of "we checked once that flutter_rust_bridge can call Loro"?
If we're going to use circuit terminology I think the physics of a flywheel are more like some kind of AC Inductor. DC Inductors resist changes in the flow of current, keeping current flowing even when circuit conditions change. It also helps that the parts of an inductor and flywheel that are in contact with the circuit/grid are coils of wire wrapped around an iron/magnetic core.
Sorry, I should have been more precise. JP Aumasson is specifically who I'm thinking of; he's made the semi-infamous claim that SHA2 won't be broken in his lifetime. The subtext I gather is that there's just nothing on the horizon that's going to get it. SHA1 we saw coming a ways away!
If my understanding of finances is correct, the total compensation numbers you're citing are almost meaningless from a cash flow perspective. Most of the compensation is in stock, and issuing new stock as compensation doesn't really cost the company anything. Buying back the issued stock is where the stock compensation would have a negative impact on cash flow.
The manager was very clear and specific that what they needed was 20 minutes spent on the issue. Don’t second guess them. If they wanted something else, they’d ask for that instead.
AV1 already has at least 2 patent rent seekers. That's about the same as HEVC had 2 years after release.
It's not like Vermont is lacking in space for new construction, so it's turtles all the way down with a shortage of construction workers as well.

In this case I don't even know if it's purely the economics of the housing bubble being prohibitive, or rather the societal aspiration to get in on the housing bubble that does it. A sibling commenter acted as if $16k/yr in interest was no big deal. And I guess it's not if one mentally accounts for it as a cost to be carried while the "investment" line goes up-right ("stonks!"). But if the housing bubble ever gets reformed in the slightest, very few places in Vermont are going to be appreciating like that. So that's $2400/mo rent mostly just going down the drain for a depreciating asset? I'd say that deal only makes sense for people planning to retire in that same house.
"GPU" - zero video output capabilities built in.
I always saw web components as the missing leaves to the root that CSS frameworks embody.
Why is Asahi not a serious option? Linus Torvalds himself uses Asahi on an Apple Silicon Mac, that is a pretty solid endorsement of it being a serious option.
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I’m being sarcastic! Unfortunately human suffering is all too common, so virtue signaling about everything has limited import.

In areas where value is more tradition than intrinsic (ie rhino horns, whalebone) it’s probably effective, but at a certain point it’s navel gazing.
Can you point to resources explaining why they're a good choice?

Because the general consensus seems to be that large things like pumped hydro are good for centralized energy storage, while batteries are the choice for decentralized energy storage -- whether in your utility closet or in your EV.

Why should anyone choose a flywheel over a battery?
I'm totally onboard - this is nonsense! What's annoying though is because moissanite is cheaper, you can't get a premade platinum ring with a moissanite stone.
When you have to mail a package do you barge ahead of the line of people too?
I thought CUDA was NVIDIA’s moat. Is that no longer the case, or did AMD come up with a good alternative?
> Edit: I just remembered one of them was "Eye of the Beholder III"

If it's any consolation, you didn't miss much - III was a wet rag compared to the majesty of the first two games!
I think there are some things the 'elite classes' know of and do that most people just aren't aware of and have no access to. For example certain private clubs in London, dinning clubs, certain student groups at Oxford/Cambridge, hunting groups in Scotland, aristocratic balls, etc, that are all heavily nepotistic or literally just not possible to join without a certain upbringing.

Emulation might be a thing, and affordability to hobbies is at an all time high, but I think this misses a few things that separate classes because they're just not accessible to most.
Well clearly there is a lot more to this situation if you want to actually look at it.
Right which is part of why dictating the implementation language up front as part of the bounty is a mistake. They should have put the bounty on the speedup factor they're looking for and let it sort itself out.

My not-completely-naive guess is an expert optimizer can get the improvement they're looking for with only small parts or maybe even none of it rewritten in another language.
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Yeah, makes sense. Do you have a rough idea how much that costs every month?
I wonder if liquid metal catalysts can be mixed with ferrofluids and manipulated magnetically.