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I think in my 20s, I intellectually knew every piece of good advice I would send back in time now that I'm in my mid 40s, because I'd read it on lists like these, or in books, movies, etc.

The difference is that I could not put it into practice at the time, maybe because I lacked sufficient experience.

For example, I've always known in theory that nobody is paying as much attention to what you think is most embarrassing about yourself, because they are too busy being embarrassed about whatever they think they're doing wrong. I knew that, but it didn't matter, I was still self conscious.

Now, I've just done so many reps of fucking up in public and seeing the almost total lack of ramifications, or the swift passage of those ramifications from my world, that I actually believe that advice at a core level, it can actually affect my behavior and make me content. I guess it's the difference between knowing and grokking. And, to be sure, I would have been embarrassed to use the word grok in my 20s.
> Im curious why someone would use emacs if they dislike lisp. To me its like writing SPAs without js

Why use Windows (or MacOS, or Linux) if you don't like C?
Correct. Absent Google's more harmful changes, most of Manifest V3 is actually pretty great and I'm looking forward to broader support rolling out in Firefox. I have a couple of private extensions I maintain that use both Manifest V3 and the blocking webRequest permission in Firefox, and it works great.

They wouldn't be possible to build in Chrome.
If you're not capable of being funny within restrictions, then the problem is you, not the restrictions.

Transgressive humour can be funny; having to be transgressive for humour is lazy.
> electric bikes and mopeds are electric vehicles.

At USA federal level, which applies to federal lands and federal funding like 'rec paths' on municipal lands, ebikes are bicycles. They are not vehicles and not motorcycles.

https://usbr.gov/recreation/publications/ebikes.pdf

A vehicle requires significantly different licensing, and typically registration + insurance policy + driver licensing. What location are you in that classifies an ebike as a vehicle?
Electric motorcycles in developing countries could be huge. So many things are done in them: deliveries, taxis, work transportation, etc. A combination of that and some form of non-oil public transportation would be huge.
That could be true in your case, but for many people that might not be the case.
This is a commonly restated falsehood, manufacturing doesn’t have to be a commodity, you can just have labor laws and unions. The US had a thriving manufacturing sector for generations and it was the backbone of our economy, then we gave it all away in the name of cheap crap from Walmart and Amazon and sold out our middle class.

Look at Germany as an example, they do a lot of manufacturing and they have an excellent quality of life. They also make things that are objectively much higher quality than what comes out of Asia.

We can have both, an educated knowledge worker base and a manufacturing workforce, they are not mutually exclusive.
> Since 2018, following a backlash from the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere, the phrase "MIC 2025" has been de-emphasized in government and other official communications.

You cannot make this up. The West digging their own graves and protesting when their adversary isolates itself.
Alexa may not be the most capable voice assistant, but it is the most reliable. I use it and a few others daily for different things, and have never once got a random "I'm sorry, I can't do that right now" or "something went wrong try again in a few seconds". Also, it's the only one that I know of that can text reminders to me. I hope they don't ruin it.
Are the buyers not getting a feed of every MLS listing in their target area?

That entirely solved our purchasing problem - we got automated daily or sometimes hourly emails parametrically filtered by school district, build date, price, square footage, and lot size whenever a new listing went up. It would have been stupid to have our agent filter them based on the deals that were better for him or his industry.

We had a uniquely good agent who spent hundreds of hours with us filtering hundreds of listings, visiting probably 60 different houses at all times of day over the course of a year before we finally bought, submitting a dozen offers, and helping us through the closing process, and then using his builder's license to help us ready the home we bought for move-in. He was extremely knowledgeable about all kinds of building inspection issues and the procedural minutiae. We happily paid him the 6%, it would have been far more costly to bring along an inspector/attorney/general contractor at an hourly rate.
This project probably didn't remove no window mode. Even if they did remove it, in 2024 people are using Emacs in a GUI whether directly or hosted within a terminal emulator.
If only there were hardware where you could install whatever you want. If only that hardware had a very large majority market share in the EU.

Ah. One can dream.
a 40% REI discount means it's only 20% higher than other places. I love REI, but they are not known for having cheap prices. Just trying to re-align the expectations of 40%
Yeast with more than 50% synthetic genome is created in the lab
Gosh, I cannot imagine what would be unappealing about the opportunity for a tradesman to devalue the price of their labor and experience the small-but-inherent risk of catastrophic injury any time a ladder is involved in exchange for the chance to pick up a spare tenner…

(Beyond that, even if they’re already in the area, by the time they pull up the truck, load and unload the ladder and actually do the job, the per-minute rate is probably already a fair bit worse than what they would earn from real customers - it may seem to you like you’re offering an easy job at $10/minute, but it’s probably a tenth of that all in from their perspective.)
The apparent paradox is easily explained by the fact that China and the west are not starting from the same place, the average US worker is far wealthier since they have already gone through widespread industrialization. Manufacturing will show massive % gains on a smaller economy, but the kinds of labor that lifts you from a poor argriculturally eventually top out.

That’s what this “made in China” initiative is tracking - moving up the value chain in China.
This is where I discovered her:

https://youtu.be/M1B3gATS0GE

(voice of machine by Adam Savage)
Yes there is the concept of suburban -- 郊区 in Chinese. I'm not sure whether it counts for urban or rural in the statiatics though.
If 90% are speeding on a given highway / road then the speed limit is likely unreasonably low. Traffic accident which could be prevented by a speed limit typically caused by fastest 10% of the speed distribution, not by remaining 90%.
> If you go deeper into the country though, there are many places where car ownership is nearly mandatory, especially for people who can't WFH.

This is true, but it's also worth noting that it's true because small and medium-sized cities systematically dismantled their public transportation systems between the 1920s and 1960s, replacing them with infrequent bus services.

One of the things I do when trying to understand how so many of our smaller cities became car hells is to Google "$CITY streetcars 20th century." We had the infrastructure and chose to remove it.
Canadian here too. I only ever bought one house, in 2005, and I'm still living in it. But I seem to recall that the agent - a good one, referred by friends, and referred onward - had a boilerplate contract in which I was responsible for his commission even if I independently bought a FSBO (pronounced "fizzbo" in realtor lingo, i.e. completely off-system For Sale By Owner house) during the contract period. I had that scratched out before signing.

For realtors it's very simple. Why spend time on something they won't get paid for? Why bother arranging a tour of a FSBO house, unless that one says "agents welcome" in its listing which means they will pay the buyer agent fee. But if that contract is standard, what's the disincentive? Just the unpleasantness of actually enforcing it when necessary?

Common here seem to be "flat rate MLS listing" services, where you pay a few hundred dollars and they list it, and you're your own selling agent. You still pay the 2.5% to the buying agent and say so in the listing.

And yeah, the dream customer of every selling agent is a clueless first-time buyer who just calls up the agent on the for-sale sign. Double commission!
Have you seen the picture with the 2 children plus one adult on one bike? Make me really uncomfortable I immediately imagine how they risk to be crushed by a truck.
I don't think people here have sympathy for ISPs. I sure don't.

I'm still against this particular rule because it sets a very problematic precedent.

There are other non-problematic ways to hold them accountable. Like fining ISPs for the taxpayer dollars they were given, plus interest.
By what metric? The UK doesn't stand out in this list - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicle... - it's below most of its peer nations.
The title company is the one who sends and receives wires and executes the nuts-and-bolts transfer of ownership. You could imagine fintechs getting into that space even with traditional agents, and you could imagine title companies catering to for-sale-by-owner.
Because they released it as open source purely to lure people in and get them using it enough so that switching away would be difficult for them.

If they're up-front with people and mention that it'll be open source up until a time of their choosing, after which subsequent versions will be proprietary, then I don't see a problem and no-one's getting tricked.

When I'm choosing an open source tool to use, then I want to know whether it's under current development or is more or less abandoned. If the author suddenly decides to stop maintenance for some reason, then that's acceptable because they weren't trying to trick me into selecting their tool over others, though I'd still be looking to either switch to a different tool or see if the project has been forked. It's about honesty.
"Compression artifacts" makes them sound like things that do not exist... but should. Begging to be reified.
Ouch! I can only imagine - then. I grew up in a stone built farmhouse with open coal fire in the living room and an Aga in the kitchen. Those two rooms were lovely and warm, the rest of the house not so much!
Yea but like parts of the PNW are >50% hydro too (Seattle is >80%), but they still haven't ever closed the gap to 100% for any significant length of time.
What is the relationship between wanting them to lose billions and having that option? Sounds like you're just wishing harm on the organization that gave you this platform in the first place.
Another comment mentioned pros and cons for the user of the ebike.

As a frequent pedestrian on the nearby heavily-used trails, I see a number of cons for everyone else:

Despite a prohibition on motorized vehicles on these trails, they exploit a loophole for handicapped users, and the agency in charge refuses to do anything to fix it.

Even if it makes sense to allow these motorized vehicles, the 15 MPH speed limit is frequently violated. Many of these people (especially scooters) don't wear helmets and speed recklessly, zipping between walkers, joggers, people pushing toddlers in strollers, etc. I saw a scooter user painfully wipe out just a few weeks ago. I'm sadly awaiting the first case of serious injury or fatality (to the user or others) caused by an uninsured speeding e-bike or scooter.
The groceries can be delivered by car or van efficiently, as the same delivery person can also serve other people along the way (as opposed to everybody going to get their groceries with their car indepedently and polluting 10x).

Or you know, have supermarkets and grocery stores in walking distance.

As for the kids, there is such a thing as a school bus...
Itaipu is mostly considered a brazillian infrastructure. Brazil paid for most of the construction, which is why they negotiated very good deals on the agreement with paraguay, which is the size of a brazillian municipality. They pay like $20 per Kw instead of the $400 the market would pay.

the deal is up now btw, so the media is covering paraguay attempt to renegotiate it.
Pentagon fails audit for sixth year in a row
Alexa has been one-upped. She's little more than a voice-operated dumb terminal now. ChatGPT is seen as the "Computer" from Star Trek. Not surprised by the job cuts. Sorry to hear about it. I am surprised by Alexa's lack of evolution over the years. Maybe I'm naive as to the complexities of AI and speech-to-intent, but I remember standing in my kitchen asking Alexa if she knew about ChatGPT. She recommended the ChatGPT Skill which worked, but ultimately I was left disappointed once I exited the skill, and returned back to _plain old_ Alexa. I wonder when ChatGPT will be able to turn on my lights and set a reminder to take the bread out of the oven? I should go look into that...
It’s more or less a collection of aphorisms that I would find in a book sitting on the back of my parents’ toilet.
I feel many people are more interesting in their 30s when they are still full of dreams and idealism than in their 50s after two marriages, a mortgage and a lot of hairloss.
Or perhaps it means building less-dense light commercial?

I'm not a big fan of the perspective that our only solution to the current housing issues are to package humans in quarters whose main selling point over chicken coops is that your feces don't fall on the heads of your downstairs neighbors.
Getting Taiwan to join unwillingly, aka conquest, would probably end up killing the engineers that make those devices and destroying the factories. This is one of the advantages of a high-skill economy, the value is in the people, not the natural resources.

So, they’ll have to convince Taiwan to join willingly. Which basically seems like fair game, I mean countries should be allowed to form unions and join together if they want. It also seems extremely unlikely to happen given their history.

I’m under the impression that the main threat to Taiwan from China is more that China might do something basically irrational; the existence of Taiwan is sort of unfinished business from their point of view, and stoking the flames there is an easy way for politicians in China to appeal to nationalism.

Anyway, as wildly dangerous as it all seems, everybody thankfully seems quietly devoted to not actually escalating it too far, thankfully.
Then please find me a 2.5G 8-port switch with PoE for $100?
That seems backwards. Only the buyer should need an agent, as they are the one who is searching. The seller is just sitting around waiting for offers.
Well, now it will be the only market in Europe. Apple is welcome to leave if they disagree.
A.I. is coming for the professional classes.
How about you go first. You didn’t even provide a book recommendation to support your claim.
Yep, this is the one to use. Refinery handles exactly this scenario (and more).
It was actually. Lawsuits were filed against the DuPont factory. The link is a bit of a “doomer/conspiracy” site I think but the information is accurate.

https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/magazine/entry...
Control your own data is certainly a big selling point, but seems this one seems to rely on a closed source saas model.
A friend of mine has one that he mostly uses for music. I've noticed that every time I visit his commands have had to get slightly longer.

2016 - "Hey Google, play Gorillaz"

2018 - "Hey Google, play music by Gorillaz"

2020 - "Hey Google, play music by Gorillaz on Google Play Music"

2023 - "Hey Google, play album Demon Days by Gorillaz on Google Play Music"

One day the previous command will suddenly stop working with a "I don't understand" error, so he has to figure out the new incantation to get it to do anything remotely close to what he wants.
> Considering that you can make > $20/hr flipping burgers in Seattle I'd say you are off by an order of magnitude. No reasonable skilled tradesman (or even unskilled handyman) is doing anything for $20. It's borderline insulting.

> They have expenses, fuel, insurance.

I think you missed important details in their post:

>> tasks I wanted done that would only take someone with the right skills and equipment a few minutes

>> tasks that are near them

The idea is, you're someone handy with equipment, and someone down the block wants lights installed. So you walk there with a couple tools on your hand, spend 5 minutes doing it, and earn (say) $20. Instead of just sitting at home and watching TV when you're bored. If you don't feel like it then you just don't take the offer up.

This is not meant to be an alternative to your day job. It's just intended to be something extra you can do when you're home anyway. If transportation and fuel and other costs would factor in then you just wouldn't do it.

It's in no way insulting, it's an opportunity for anyone that wants it. I'm not a handyman but I'd definitely do this from time to time if (say) my neighbors needed computer or coding help for a few minutes.
Now that the US made that choice, more density and more walkability has to necessarily come at the expense of drivers. Some of whom can handle it and some of whom who largely can't afford to restructure their lives around super dense and super expensive urban cores.
> That's a dramatic difference in taxation!

To be fair, we (US) outsource much of our taxation to the private sector, so that basics like healthcare fees/taxes are routed through private companies. If it comes out of your check before you get it, and it's not going into your 401(k), it might as well be a tax.
Yeah, e-bikes are great for good weather and living within 5 miles of your office. Tesla's are great for the rest and they do have windows at least for those of us who have to commute. And at least the 132MPGe of a model 3 is better than a gas powered motorcycle.
There are light stains that can make the wood grain pop. But you are correct, to my American eye, that unfinished look really detracts from the full effort.
It shows that the sustainability is not intended for humans, but for the entity they serve. When we talk about things being "sustainable" it's sustainable for the business, not for the people working in it.
Or he’s just saying what he needs to say to negotiate access to the market.
That doesn't really contradict the point. Taiwan's plan was to become the semiconductor manufacturer for the world (possibly to make it indispensable enough to discourage mainland aggression), and they did it. Focus is on the need for long-term plans for stuff like this, not the minutia of who owns what. China appears to intend to improve on that plan with an eye toward ownership of the entire pipeline.
Great username. Currently heating my personal home primarily with xmr-rig.

I have a heatpump, but why?! /s
New York, City of Broken Clocks
Does that happen also within the AI groups? For example, I've tried CodeWhisperer and it's hot garbage. But the same prompts I give it work reasonably well in Bedrock (though not as well as ChatGPT/CoPilot/etc).
It was hosted by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and US-China Business Council, what do you expect?
They just need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get born into a wealthy family
> You can't even take screnshots of shows you've paid to watch!

This has got to be one of the most short-sighted/stupidest decisions content providers have ever made. It's literally free advertisement and they eschew it in the name of "piracy".

Good thing all the TV shows that don't allow screenshotting have never shown up on pirate websites /s

Streaming sites should allow for screenshots and clip export, people aren't stealing/watching shows in ~1-2 min chunks. Add a border around the clip, put your streaming service name in the bottom corner with a QR code to the show (maybe even the timestamp as well). Let people "burn in" subtitles, add effects, etc (a la TikTok, or something, I don't use TikTok). Literally can only be a positive thing for the company. Heck, spend the bandwidth to host the new clips/pictures so people just link directly to you. Put all those GIF sites out of business overnight almost overnight.
If giving the user more power over software installation hurts Apple, then I guess I am wishing them harm. If Apple's approach was without harm though, they wouldn't have been targeted by European regulators with the DMA in the first place.
Because code is law, centralized systems that grow bigger than the polity they started in are inherently problematic. See Facebook in Burma/Myanmar as one recent infamous example.
To paraphrase Bob Metcalf, “I don’t know what will come after Ethernet, but it will be called Ethernet.”
I thought the side walls were there to ensure she did not roll off the bed in the night and die from the fall.
I’m sure the big tech companies are working on exactly this and trimming resources from other areas, both from a simple logistics standpoint and from conversations I’ve had with folks who work (or worked) for these places doing AI.

I personally don’t think LLMs are anywhere near ready for this type of rollout, so it will be a while before we see results. The cost of something like GPT 3.5 deployed at scale is tremendous. The censoring of responses will make it an obstreperous assistant, unless this has gotten considerably better in the last few months. And are we all just going to accept hallucinated results over something that is either vetted or clearly misunderstood?

I don’t even know how far away we are from sufficiently powerful TPUs that fit a mobile case and power profile. But I do think this is likely to be the next big mobile advancement, however far off it may be.
I don't have the ability to downvote yet but I can pitch in an explanation:

Setting China as an outlier that does reshoring/industrial planning at the expense of the [American] worker is a politic fantasy. It forgets that reshoring is a global phenomenon also found in democracies [1] that is rather the result of a more uncertain world where logistics change with the success and wanning of political favors and alliances.

[1] https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/french-foreign-policy/econ...
IBM pauses advertising on X after ads show up next to antisemitic content
Why do you care if they don't wear helmets?
Somehow, some way, Apple is the real winner in the voice assistant battle. They realized years ago that the rise of devices like Amazon Echo and Google Home would not have an impact on the iPhone. As a result, they accepted Siri as a dumb but good enough assistant and saved saved billions and billions of dollars in R&D.
You have to treat "Helping Other People Succeed" as iterated prisoners dilemma. The tit-for-tat strategy seems best in the real world. If you help and they defect, you have to defect in response. IE don't let them continue to take advantage of you. But you should cooperate first round.
I've seen a lot of these on my local walking path. Which is exactly that - a narrow, paved walking path, in a park.

Sometimes they will use their horn to alert peds walking they are passing - which is like, a car horn, because they need that for roads. I've never been "horned" but I've heard it and its not pleasant. Other times they just blow right by no warning.

And unlike walkers or bikers, I almost never see them coming back the other way. I think what has happened is they discovered the path is a quick cut-through to roads they want to get to on the other side.

Last time I was out I saw a literal motorcycle on the path. It wasn't a big one, but no doubt, it was a straight up gas-spewing motorcycle, no question about it. I had to laugh in between choking on its fumes.

I'm used to getting buzzed by cyclists but this is a bit much, and I've been walking less in the worse-affected park. Another park I walk in is a national park and the rangers don't tolerate that kind of crap. But the state and local parks don't have the manpower to enforce.