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>but it's a kind of experience that you either have or you don't, and it's hard to understand if you never had children.

this kind of mention is only ever asymmetrical -- generally in the direction you mentioned -- but i'd like to mention that being a childless adult with a long term relationship (or not) is also a unique perspective that very young parents / couples will never experience.

I had plenty of friends in school that mothered/fathered children at the age of 14-17 -- they won't get to experience my life, either -- they were busy with trying to provide for a child.

Both experiences are equally valid and unique, but for some reason we only ever speak about the one side of the coin 'missing out', as if the parents can just sort of surmise what they missed out by having a child; I'm sure that's not the case, just am i'm sure I could never understand what having a child is like -- I just wish there was a bit more understanding from the other side of the aisle that any perspective unlike your own is unique in its' own right.
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The Gameboy didn't have access to the internet which meant you couldn't do most of the modern business models on it. The only way to make money off of a Gameboy game was to sell it in a store. It was impossible to patch it after it was released so you had to make sure all of the bugs were fixed instead of just shipping it unfinished and patching it later. There was no way to play a game off of a server and no way to track "hours of gameplay" or "player count" to optimize for addictiveness. Without an internet connected platform, these things were impossible.
The only problem with these ancient and durable HP Lasterjets - I used to use a 4L - is that they were slow. My modernish Brother HL2270DW - which I got for free at a garage sale because the toner cartridge was missing so they couldn't test it - is much faster and can print double-sided. And has a $20 aftermarket toner cartridge in it.
Or https://mullvad.net/en/browser
Agreed - but ai companies are exploiting people’s willingness to see things which are not there. Still bad.
> What happens instead is companies keep rewarding executives by increases in revenue, they keep rewarding product managers similarly, and product managers selectively choose metrics that optimize immediate revenue, at the expense of brand loyalty.

While I'm not advocating for the growth mindset, you seem to be neglecting why, exactly, most executive incentive packages so frequently include stock options. They are directly intended to defer the rewards over a defined vestment period to align their incentives for the long term success of the company.
What's his plan on being allowed to compete?

Or will he be doing it after the fact, when the questions are published.
Because RFID labels are orders of magnitide more expensive than bar codes and printed labels. The groccery margins are simply to small for that. Hence the sarcastic comment of using expensive tech (that had its own hype curve in the early 2000s), to solve the how-do-I-know-whats-in-my-fridge-without-opening-it problem.
I would think sales and Customer Support would have a feel for it. But maybe a data collection tool for them would be useful.
US nukes in Germany are actively controlled and operated by the US military. If the US dissolved you better believe Germany would have the technical know-how to begin operating those facilities and weapons themselves, if they wanted to.
To contextualize this, in my experience this doesn't happen as a result of some malicious conspiracy but rather as a natural outcome of working with various projects and exchanging with colleagues in various projects.

For the consultancy it boils down to not reinventing the wheel, learning from others and sharing knowledge about what works and what doesn't. Typically, what is shared are anonymized generic design or cases and not actual code or design files though.

Of course what is knowledge sharing and efficiency for consultants might simply boil down to IP theft for the affected companies. My question is rather how much of it is natural human social interaction and collaboration if you put dozens of people from dozens of projects into one room talking about a similar problem.
The ransomware attack happened a month ago; it was noticed October 28. Why isn't the site back up yet?
The average consumer never backed anything up. They don’t have time nor willingness to test restorations.

In that respect, cloud storage was supposed to be a major step up for the average person.
> Cellular carriers have special handling for APNS and GCM, for example

Would you have any extra info on this? Thanks!
I understand why that sounds like it should be true, but I'm not convinced that it actually works out; I can get an esp32-cam for <$10 with no effort off the shelf, so if the cost to build the thing in is even vaguely close to that then the real cost is going to be dominated by the internet connectivity and phone client side of the equation. I guess it depends how much food we're talking about throwing out and how much it costs, but that strikes me as plausibly within an order of magnitude.
I remember we had an Epson colour printer that we got just after we got married: it was able to print photos, and this was a great feature, except that this would run through ink like nothing else, and ink, well, you know.

When it eventually died I got a wired Brother B&W laser printer, and it's been incredible. We've put many thousands of pages through it, easily, changed the toner twice, and it just keeps on working. It is a simple, boring, wonderful piece of tech.
What I said was extremely tame, and if I'm wrong in my assessment please feel free to let me know.
- Books don't run out of battery

- Books can't be remotely revoked or modified by a centralized authority

- Physical books are what's needed for building a proper antilibrary [1]

- I like to own things and you don't own a book unless you possess it in its dead-tree form

- Books can serve as personable gifts and inheritance

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilibrary
What an amusing coincidence; yesterday I decided to buy some games after almost 2 years since my last purchase. The games were the Room collection and Agent A, which appear in the first two pages of your list!
> I just hope the fediverse or any other alternative is preparing itself for that next big drama. Because I feel it's a matter of when at this point, not if.

The question is, does the Fediverse want this level of responsibility? Moderating ordinary content is hard enough, moderating porn is worse because of all the legal liability: various countries have extremely strict laws regarding access of minors (e.g. Germany), there are various definitions of CSAM (again, Germany being very strict by banning not just anime "minors" aka lolicon but also textual erotica of such), then there is the issue with "revenge porn" and getting that deleted across the Fediverse...
Try 4.0. I use it a lot for tedious glue code, and I couldn't be happier to have my time back to focus on more important things.
I don't think it's true that "math departments have been closing for a while now"
That's not what we expect from El Reg!
Also for what it's worth, it's a very cool art project! And I'm always happy to have more computer nerds get an introduction to the tools required to make stuff in the physical world.
Some people want a Tesla; I drive a Toyota Corolla. It gets 50+ mpg, and it Just Works. I also have a Brother laser printer, which Just Prints. We need to have bleeding-edge innovators, but not everybody wants that in every aspect of their life.
> I think it's nice to do IPC properly for each platform you are targeting.

There’s nothing inherently “proper” to using platform specific options, but perhaps that’s not even the issue here. It’s a beginner tutorial. A “concise overview of various IPC techniques” with examples that “should compile anywhere a good Unix compiler is available.” What you’re talking about isn’t part of the mission.
I think a lot of this thread is really confusing 'personal growth' to 'market share growth'.

You can have ordinary well functioning products that just do their one thing and do them well, and thus grow market share.

There is nothing about 'growth' that says your product must add and add features until it is un-usable, which it seems like people are saying is 'growth' as in 'personal growth'.

Just build good products and 'grow' market share.

Printers have failed this by making their products bad by growing features, and thus Brother is winning because it can simply print. A printer that can just print, and not wash your car.
The Commodore 128 had a bodge wire that was added very late in the development cycle, and it was there to get rid of an instance of signal reflection. Bil Herd mentions it in his book, and I think this video of his goes into more depth: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kQXdEdsT5qw
> Why was the movement for push on ios then, if it never worked? Is it a kind of thing that everybody “wants” but no one buys?

It's the kind of thing that consumers want but corps don't as it allows individual app developers to easily self-host efficient realtime notification instead of being locked in to centralised proprietary services from Apple & Google.
As shown by the quotes of the actual content of what Stallman said, it's abundantly clear that Stallman did nothing wrong.

People care about what Richard Stallman does, thinks, and says. Like Richard Stallman, those who listen to him have the freedom and responsibility to exercise critical thinking and think on their own.

Richard Stallman is a notable person who will be remembered probably for millennia. No one will remember the hobbyist Drew Devault.
Found an HL-22070DW at Goodwill for $12 and immediately slapped some third party toner in there. It's been going strong for about 3 years and haven't experienced this at all.
I have a relative with complicated medical needs whom I provide a lot of medical liaison labor for. Along with the rest of the family.

The ability to consolidate his medical history into a Google Doc and have it synchronized across devices, history-stamped, and accessible by the family members who are helping him is life-changing. It has kept him in his own home for years longer than of we lacked these technologies because it allows us to seamlessly coordinate his care among visits and specialists better than the local hospital network does.

When people say "provides no real convenience," I have to conclude they don't have the challenges we face.

This tech has quietly changed the world for the better.

> convenience and privacy typically stand in opposite realms

And thank God the trade-off can be made. We damaged the efficacy of medical care in the name of privacy in this country; were can use Google Docs to counterweight that in our family. If Google gets to know intimate details of my relative's cascading dementia as a consequence, fine.
You’re making the assumption that the current property tax would end and be replaced. Unless this was all done at the county level, that most likely wouldn’t happen. Even then, many jurisdictions would just double tax. They’d argue that one tax was for land and the other for the dwelling. For the poor who lived in an area that was once cheap, they’d simply lose their homes if they haven’t already as they’d be unable to pay these taxes.
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You could have given the same advice (which is very good, I do the same) without the age reference because if you've only seen boomers fuck up with butter fingers, you've been very lucky!

(Preemptive disclaimer that I'm not a boomer. I'm not from the US, but if I were, I'd be gen X).
Mine is a DCP L-2540DW bought in 2015 for $99 from Staples / Office Depot.

#1 is a simple setting in admin console of the printer -- at least for my model.

It is called "replace toner" = "continue".

Default setting is "replace toner" = "stop printing".

I print for MONTHS at a time after the printer displays "replace toner" message with perfectly dark prints. Even when the print starts to fade out -- this setting ensures the printer wont refuse to print. Just keeps showing the low toner warning.

#2

I have not come across this restriction myself. Happily using cheap third party toners bought off Amazon for about 6 years now.

#3

Did not try but my guess is that should work too. I was just not motivated enough to try because cheap $10 toners on Amazon do the job for me.
I recently set up rclone to do nightly backups of my entire OneDrive to Dropbox, I feel pretty safe with this in terms of reliability, I find it unlikely that both services will catastrophically fail like this at the same time.

Would recommend rclone to anyone, it has worked pretty consistently so far.
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Only because there are strong legal protections for residential tenants. Those laws don't apply to your relationship with Google.
No, it definitely doesn't sound like that and it's not about rights. Your landlord cannot go and remodel your apartment and ruin your possessions without your approval of the changes they are about to make.
> $5mn will be awarded to the first publicly-shared AI model

Thank for you the emphasis on openness!
Art isn't an easier problem than math. An artbot would have sounded more sci-fi than a mathbot only 2 years ago.

Yet it only took the AI world 1.5 years to go from drawing child scribbles to replicating top artists with like 90% similarity (I can barely tell the difference between AI and human drawn art anymore with the new NovelAI model). It won't be long before AI starts to go superhuman in art skills.

It won't take long from a school-math model to math olympiad model (I'd say 1 year is enough), and going to unsolved conjectures won't be that long either (2-3 years?). We know from AlphaGo that its possible to make AI systems far superhuman at solving some abstract math problem.
Machine vision is presumably still advancing and new techniques are added, or are they only adding complexity?
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> Getting this to actually work would be a bit difficult, for very little benefit.

I wonder why an actually secure local connection to a web UI is considered to be of very little benefit. This sounds crazy to me, for all these years.
Over the last couple weeks I wrote some extensive documentation for an Open Source project, and I ended up using mkdocs published to github pages when I commit, via
github-actions. That's been a really spectacular experience.

About half of the docs are just direct Markdown, and the other half are in python docstrings, pulled by mkdocs automatically. The "mkdocs serve" dev server works amazingly well for visualizing changes. Highly recommended.
The Bob you described sounds like he's mostly targeting fixed set points. E.g. body fat percentage is bounced below, he's doing a fixed number of leetcode problems, etc.

That sounds more like a sustained model with unhealthy targets.

I'd think a growth model would be more like uncontrolled addiction, where the goal dosage continually increases and stays out of reach.
Proof: certain political party in the US.
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Not a bad idea, but why not 30th? Or X+10 years after the release of their impactful project?
> This seems to be one potential, actually useful application of blockchain...

No.

Blockchain and anything crypto has absolutely no use case at all other than speculation, please stop suggesting this solution in search of a problem.
But, Docker doesn't even, and I'm on Windows, whoever needed access control, waah waah.



Unix domain sockets are great. I find it completely amazing that they are not used more widely.

Since when was it OK to open a TCP listener when you don't want to receive connections over the network? Did everyone forget about that during their Kuberenetes fling, am I too old, or what?
It's highly unclear to me what will happen. Probably learning math will be more accessible. But it's unclear how many humans will be involved at the forefront of math research. For example you can imagine a situation where in some parts of math large communities work in a direction guided by a few "visionaries". This sort of thing will not really happen after the commodization of theorem provers. Like instead of an advisor telling a PhD student a problem, they can just plug it in. On the other hand, in some sense the advisor and the student will be equal in the fact that the only thing you will need to do is ask questions?(last part is also speculative)
I don't think this is really a truism, but maybe! But like, even Google says, "you can choose any language as long as it's C++, Go, Java, or mayyyyyybe Python". That's pretty manageable, and probably the worst problem you'd ever reasonably have. I think most people should probably be restricting themselves to Python/Go/Node, which again is very manageable--certainly better than 10 languages.
I based my estimate on photos of the foundation work like: https://keithyorkcity.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/1930-march...

I couldn't find actual blueprints.
Well there are some external central touchpads and keyboards with an integrated central touchpad, and 17" laptops have normal-sized keyboards

Some laptops' keyboards are not bad at all, although it comes down to personal preferences
Yes, big time. For instance, once you have segmented the image you should use something like openCV to extract contours of the segmentation mask.
> There is no legitimate threat from Russia to Nato within the next 6 years

Roark66 said "next ~6 years tops", so you two do not really disagree; the question is what comes after those six years. The number is presumably taken from this recent publication:

https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/preventing-next-wa...
It's hard to predict how that game of chicken would have played it. It seems likely that Russia may not have invaded of Ukraine had nukes, if they believed Ukraine would use them.

The entire scenario rewrites 30 years of history, everything would be different. Would Russia have invaded? Would Ukraine have made itself more of an international player if it were on the list of nuclear powers? Would Ukraine have actually used nukes after an invasion? Could their allies have pressured Ukraine to avoid a nuclear war? Would Russia be in the same position or is today if Ukraine left the USSR as a nuclear power?
The purpose of "SEE ID" is that a cashier or server actually requests a photo ID like a license and verify the name and visual identity to the person presenting the card.

This seems like the second most secure form of identity check (chip + PIN #1) if everyone could be made to follow it consistently.
But if doing evil(killing) is always the work of evil/amoral people can you actually have "good" soldiers? given that the work of a soldier at war involves killing, especially as modern mechanized armies use weapons that makes it nearly impossible to avoid collateral damage.

Im of cause using moral in the relative term here as following an "code of ethics" and acting in "the interest of the common good" as described in that code rather then simply acting from hedonistic/sadistic impulses.

The problem with absolute morality is that it's of absolutely no use to an rational actor dealing with an real world that don't conform to the idealized/simplified model that such moral codes tend to depend on for logical constituency.
The linux kernel and x11 are both ridiculously huge monoliths, yet somehow never the target of this (fallacious) unix philosophy criticism.
I think a better example of personal growth mindset would be your career. Eventually you'll cap out being a programmer for example. You've mastered the highest paying technology, you've moved to the highest paying location, etc. Your options are to go independent and start your own company, move to a startup with equity, or start cheating people. Cheating people would be to over bill your hours, take on 2-3 jobs and half ass them all, etc. I would argue it's not so much the growth mindset, but the lack of ethics people apply when chasing money once their growth is capped out.

Growth is good, but it will eventually cap out. It's what people do when that happens that really matters.
Picks up reasoning on the fly seems like wishful thinking. On the other hand in nature there also is split into people who get math and those who don’t so maybe there are 2 different ways of bootstrapping brain to be functional and luck is all we need. Anyone knows more on this?
chatGPT will likely improve the standards of many low skilled developers.
On this week's episode of "CEO or LLM?":

> "In any given quarter, there will always be some amount of de-growth. What's happening now is that de-growth is not being compensated fully because clients are optimising and there is some deferral happening," said K Krithivasan, MD & CEO, TCS.

> "If the existing projects get paused or optimised more than the incoming revenue, it results in muted or moderated revenue growth," Krithivasan added.

> According to Krithivasan, once things settle down, this optimisation will be compensated by new projects.
So you’re saying companies paying dividends is bad?

That companies should always operate as worker cooperatives and never return money to shareholders?

Because stock buybacks are just another type of dividends.
I actually prototyped a system like this, mostly as an exercise to learn about crypto. You can't feasibly host or verify proofs on-chain, so you need external trusted verifiers (e.g. oracles). Making sure the oracles can't front-run proof submission is a challenge. Standard formal proof system (like Lean) are sufficiently expressive, although they weren't built for this and need to be modified to make sure a proof hasn't introduced any additional axioms, as you note. The proof system also becomes a point of attack, so you'd probably want multiple, independent verifiers (which themselves have been formally proved correct). I believe these exist for some proof systems, although I'm not sure about Lean's kernel.

Ultimately, I don't think this is really practical, and investing in AI proof agents is the way to go.
In a world where almost no individual has good backup discipline, cloud storage has helped them stave off the data reaper much longer than they would have alone.

Two or more copies is still the inescapable rule, but having a cloud store is preferable to no cloud store.
It's also got a decent NN implementation. You can have both.
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What misinformation? I think I missed it or it wasn't misinformation in the first place.
I applaud DJB for his continued efforts.
There's a massive corpus of useful math proofs, just most of them have been implemented and are second nature now
> One of the major reasons the UK left the EU is because it would turn the UK into the financial center that it once was not having to deal with all these pesky EU regulations on financial markets.

Eh, yes and no.

A lot of the financial backing given to pro-Brexit politicians was from rich City types hoping to be deregulated, it's true.

But London, the financial centre, had some of the lowest support for Brexit (outside of Scotland). Areas like the West Midlands and Yorkshire had the highest levels of support, and they've got no financial industry to speak of.