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> But I don't run malicious applications on X

The thing about malicious applications is that they usually don't do a lot to inform the user that they are a malicious application. "I don't run malicious applications" is a claim shared by nearly everyone who's ever run a malicious application.
A nice thing about paper is it is very hard for hackers to ransom all of the wills.
> So the author doesn't bother to even attempt to list a single benefit of the electoral college?

Yet you won't bother to even attempt to list any either? That seems a little unfair.

Me, I once thought the Electoral College offered a minor benefit, the idea that its ranks of delegates were a protective fuse against disaster, where all those éminence grise types would have a principled revolt and block some flagrantly unqualified demagogue from seizing the levers of power.

However that was before the live-testing of 2016, where the "feature" singularly failed to operate.
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Unless the car always drives backwards, I'm not sure how useful it is to inform everything behind the car that it is driving autonomously.
It's funny to see these bickerings still happening.

It was a no-win situation. Trying to save lives inflicted measurable harm. Doing nothing would also inflict measurable harm. Either side presenting their position as the "correct" position is just biased.

I would also assert that tying your faith in humanity to an unwinnable situation is probably not the correct move, but YMMV.
I think these usb-c pd (and other) issues were corrected in the oled switches and the docks that come with them but the fixes might not have been total.

This comment, specifically about some of the technical details of the video out stuff points to at least some changes were done in the new generation: https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/171c3mj/comme...

Someone can correct me on this as well. I've noticed that my switch will charge properly and quickly on their provided charger and a few other usb-c chargers I have but not certain other ones where it charges much slower. My theory has been that not all usb-c chargers are compatible with all voltages and that perhaps the switch's 'preferred fast-charge voltage' is somewhat uncommon (i think it's 17v?). Can anyone confirm this is how these things work? I just assume there is a negotiation where the charger says 'I can supply these voltages, and perhaps at these max amps, and the device choses one or none of them depending on it's needs.
For people who want to retain the convenience, my suggestion is twofold:

1) Don't answer the question that was asked. Mentally translate it to a different question entirely. "Name of first pet" is always answered as "color of first car", for instance.

2) Make the answers full sentences, not just single words. If the answer you're providing is "color of first car", the answer shouldn't be "white", it should be "The color of my first car was white".
hm! interesting!
Yea, the way big cities seem to want to resolve the crime problem is to simply stop responding to crime calls, if no one can report a crime the crime never happened right???

SanFran seems to have this policy when it comes to shoplifting, never mind your eyes, or the video, since the police dept has a policy to never respond to retail theft, retail theft crimes are dropping... it is like magic.
There is an easy way to get around the "reported crimes" issue.

Look at murders. Dead bodies will not be hidden.

And murders are also showing returns close to historic lows.

Also, the cities people are moving to have much higher per capita crime than NYC (nearly every mid to major US city has much higher per capita crime than NYC because NYC is incredibly safe for a US city).

Here are the numbers (from July...this is what a quick DDG returned, but I'm sure more recent numbers will be similar).

https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/p00088/nypd-citywide-crim...

Homicides were down 35% since July 2022. Homicides almost certainly do not have the "reported" crime issue at least in the US.
I wish posts I just read wouldn’t disappear completely when I press the back button due to being flagged or whatever, especially if they’re on the front page. Happens enough to annoy me.
If you ever regard wide-audience advertising, most of it is devoted to status games; imx breakfast cereal ads are the only ones that seriously resist such low-effort interpretation.
Honestly, the changes in C++ 20 and 23, plus the upcoming changes for 26 (looking at you, Concurrency TS v2) have so drastically improved the language it's almost like the ES5 -> ES6 evolution of JavaScript.

I might be in the minority here, but I genuinely enjoy writing modern C++.

My complaints are about it's dependency management story and lack of integrated, standardized tools for things like dependencies, testing, logging, etc.
Say you have a dozen of full screen windows. That’s 3840 × 2160 × 3 bytes per window or 24MB, so our dozen windows take just shy of 300MB uncompressed. That’s not nothing, but it’s also a small fraction of the RAM on even a phone for one of the primary functions of the device, and the upside is that you avoid all kinds of nasty challenges coordinating updates and access between applications and the window server because there’s no shared state between applications and the window manager can do things like transparency, scaling, or all-windows switching views without any app involvement.

Another way of looking at this, Apple did the same move over a decade ago with far more limited hardware and pretty much everyone loved it because the speed and stability boost was quite noticeable.
I think the question is how young and how wise.

I don’t think it’s age so much as the amount of lived experience you have to map your knowledge to. There’s a limit to how much you can experience in a short time — but it’s also true that people can live a long time without experiencing much.

One thing I do notice is very young people who seem wise tend to have unearned wisdom. They can tell you something that sounds right (they trade in book knowledge) but they don’t truly know it because they’ve neither experienced it nor understood the variations and nuances around it. I tend to be skeptical of unearned wisdom and I think these folks need more self awareness and more cognizance of the limitations of their true knowledge.

On the other you can sense it when you’re with young people who grew up with opportunities to have a wide range of experiences. They’ve seen and processed the world more deeply.
Fascinating, so if I understand this correct nanotubular disrupting secretions by the cells themselves or artificially produced would surpress that vector? Or raised interactions with tubular collapsing chemicals.. Aka higher temperatures?
Haha, I know this was already answered, but just to cement it, I wanted to quote this Fedora toot:

> The speakers work, baby!

https://fosstodon.org/@fedora/111608377792618573
I have found this not be true too often. Then again maybe I have more computing junk than most.

Really it should be a manufacture requirement that the barrel port on the device have a waterproof hard to destroy sticker, or case moulding that lists it's requirements. As the years have gone by I've seen way too many devices with a plug hole and no idea what it thirsts for, leading to deep searches on the net for the product. Also the wall warts themselves are commonly made by some other group, so once separated there is little to no visible pairing identification other than looking for output/input power on both devices.
The comparison is not to a new macbook pro, it's to a 2019 one. The 2019 macbook pro is currently giving 0 performance as it is a brick. 2013 Toshiba wins
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> When you love something, the payment is patronization.

Sign up for a Patreon then. Paying Google to support a creator is like paying the brothel madam because you love the courtesan.
The closest I know of is a penguin who is also a major general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Olav
Do you have a system for running benchmarks in your CI?
> Keep in mind NYPD had its budget cut by billions of dollar

Where do you see that? Looking at their spending, that does not seem to be the case:

https://ibo.nyc.ny.us/RevenueSpending/nypd.html

Anyway, wasn't the election of former police officer Eric Adams supposed to be a turning point for the city? Did the tough-on-crime mayor not have a measurable impact on crime? I noticed in San Francisco they elected a moderate Mayor (London Breed) and tossed out their reformist DA in a recall but it does appear the crime problem seems intractable even for hardline moderates.
I think QML was originally designed as "mobile first", but I think it works fine for desktop interfaces as well. I wrote an app that ran on Android as well as Windows and I liked it just fine for that task.
The tools exist, but maybe not in a single nice package. I use:

- A pass-thru USB power meter. Measures volts, amps, wattage (simple arithmetic), and watt-hours

- a USB load device. You can configure the voltage and amps to draw. Used in conjunction with the above, you can see just how much a USB supply can supply

- a watch cell powered cable tester. Not essential for your use-case, but great for working out whether a cable is at fault or not.

None of this directly measures quality, but usually you can infer that from amps, and from negotiation.
> I really wish I could see that level of detail with my own eyes.

Straying off topic, but be careful what you wish for. I have great eyesight, and have developed my ability to see/notice details considerably throughout my life. (Which btw is super under rated, “seeing” is about much more than just light being focused in your retinas, its incredible to me how things that used to look really complicated or looked a complete mess when I was a teenager are now just a bunch of components and as a result easy to see.)

My experience is that I notice how imperfect everything is, constantly. I go to someones place they lived in for years and notice all kinds of things they never picked up on, mismatched moulding or paint or texture, wood grain not matching in furniture, light limescale on porcelain, heat marks, cammed out fasteners, fixtures that are not square, plumb and flush, bubbling peeling paint. I could go on and on.

Being discerning is kind of a bummer if you can’t put it to good use.
I think it works completely fine in QML.

Qt has had panels and splitters that you can move around at runtime since forever. There's a function to call to save the state and restore it when loading. What's the problem?
I usually recommend disregarding the questions and filling in a common response for every field (with the current date or the name of the company or service, for instance), and writing it down.

No one except hackers or certain federal agencies would be able to compare the results of security questions across independent identity management systems.
Meta's news ban in Canada remains as Online News Act goes into effect
It's a really poignant piece, and I think having a strong grip on its ideas is the hallmark of a transition to a socially-constructive adulthood.

For me, personally, it was quite depressing & disillusioning to recognize that there is no "inner ring" where the people populating it are magically "better" (more rational, of stronger character, whatever) than the people outside, and that in fact "innerness" is more often inversely correlated with those qualities.

It took me a while to fully digest, value and live by the last paragraph of the essay, the call-to-action to become a crafts person invested in your "society" of like-minded friends, which, I think, is as important as the rest of the essay insofar as it provides a path forward.
> for some reason.

Linux is and has been courting the casual user for quite a while now, which is why I think things are going in this direction. It's a testament to its modularity that it can support the Windows shipjumpers as well as your use cases.
Every turkey frier I've ever seen is a propane burner and a well sized pot to put on top of it. 0 electronics unless they have a thermostat type feature (which I've never seen).
More than one server please.
At one point in the early 2000s, Comcast's internal network wasn't internal. IIRC, everything (workstations, servers, printers, etc.) had a 24.x.x.x address with no firewall or other mitigations in place; you could directly connect to arbitrary ports on any corporate machine, from anywhere. And they weren't exactly on top of patching.
I want it to stay relatively unchanged.

If it can handle bigger loads, that'd be great. Otherwise, it's working, and I believe it's near-complete from a user perspective.

Features should be built for the moderation side, IMO, not the user side.
You're totally right, apologies for my non-answer earlier :)

I feel like education is probably our best bet for sort-of-kind-of dealing with the repercussions of the problem. Ultimately, attempting to legislatively regulate the production and private distribution of AI nudes just doesn't seem enforceable to me — see: Brandolini's principle. I think our best hope to mitigate the negative impact of this tech is to talk widely about it and actively try to make my "prophecy" come true. Sex ed curriculums should start including warnings about how fake nudes are an epidemic and begin to build the new social norm of not assigning moral judgements based off of them.

I could also see some government-funded PSAs on popular streaming services/TV channels/radio channels being effective. You'd want to try to disproportionately target such messaging to older members of society, since they're less technologically literate on average and therefore more likely to be emotionally traumatized by tech like this.

Now that I'm writing this, I do wonder if there are some regulatory approaches that could help, especially since we have had some success banning CSAM legislatively. The problem with AI nudes, I think, is that they are destined to become indistinguishable from genuine nudes, so a blanket ban is impossible without establishing a panopticon (which is obviously bad). Blanket banning works for CSAM because there is never any case in which a piece of CSAM should ever be knowingly stored or distributed, regardless of its origin. It is always immoral. This complicates things because nude images of adults can be shared consensually by said adults, and banning this practice would be absurd.

I'd be curious to hear your thoughts as well. What sorts of options are there to combat this new AI-generated nude plague if my optimism about the situation turns out to be misplaced?
There's a difference between a carless life and a non-car-centric life. I own a car and use it. But for most day-to-day business it's either unnecessary or worse than other options.
I can't think of a single example in Ukraine of a building experiencing anything remotely similar to the sustained heat of 24.000 liters of aviation fuel burning and spreading throughout the building by way of the elevator shafts.

Buildings are great at surviving individual impacts and explosions. They're not so great at aviation fuel melting through the concrete and steel supports and weakening them over time.

If Russia started indiscriminately dumping thousands of liters jet fuel inside buildings and setting it on fire, we might see something remotely similar to what happened on 9/11. Until then, I don't know why Ukraine has any bearing on what happened back then.
afaik there has always been the option to install alongside during the installer. It might not even be possible to do otherwise if you're installing from macOS itself.
In my experience, since getting a replacement vehicle is challenging, deductibles are crushing, and increased insurance costs are debilitating, the poorer you are, the more careful you are driving your car.
Yes! Would be interested in trying it out if you are looking for alpha users.
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Everyone wants to be in some control of their space and thoughts.

I don't have to work on some advanced grand vision to not like being available all the time. I am also not claiming that I am going to be super productive when I close the door.

It is not my fault not setting DnD it - this is what triggers me - no I don't have to set DnD if someone wants something from me they should make sure it actually IS important, they should make sure they got their stuff right by trying out things and thinking about what they have to do and what tried and what they really want to ask.

Then they can also send me an email, send me IM so I can reply as soon as I get to it.

Coming to me 9:00 when I am still taking my coat off and opening laptop - asking questions well that is not my problem not setting DnD.
> My sense is there are enough useful applications

FWIW tech bubbles always have a large number of useful applications, hell the dot-com bust was full of companies held up for mockery that (maybe?) turned out just to be 15 years to early.

Bubble doesn't mean "there is nothing useful there" it just means the interest/focus/investment gets unmoored from the fundamentals. I think we are pretty clearly there in the AI space right now, even if you focus on core technologies that are working.

>very shocked if this AI Bubble didn't leave a lot of good things behind

you are basically arguing it's his "Bubble 1.0" rather than "Bubble 2.0", and he is less optimistic, but you aren't arguing fundamentally different things.
Percentage of parents that died from COVID doesn’t compare to the percentage of parents that require school to take care of their kids during working hours.
Have LLMs solved natural language parsing?
With all the recent advancements in LLM and transformers, has the goal of parsing natural languages and representing them as an AST been achieved?

Or is this task still considered to be a hard one?

LLMs seem to understand the text much better than any previous technologies, so anaphoric resolution, and complex tenses, and POS choice, and rare constructs, and cross-language boundaries all don't seem to be hard issues for them.

There are so many research papers published on LLMs and transformer now. With all kinds of applications, but they wll not quite there at all.
Sampling methods also affect this. Have you tried min_p sampling? https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/3841#issuecommen...
It's likely that they are trying to avoid support calls from users plugging into whatever USB port is on their dash that might not supply enough current, or is intended for media/AA/Carplay and forcing the camera into interfacing with the infotainment system.
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I used to work for a major clothing retailer. Our insurance policies did require us to use UL certified appliances in our stores.
I never thought of using a water leak detector like that nor have ever actually used a water leak detector. I can now create my own pressure plate activated door or true AFK notifier. Thanks for the write up!
Just in case any other Deadheads were curious about that guitar, it's a walnut stratocaster built by Dan Erlewine, who also built "Lucy", Albert King's flying V guitar. It's likely they were built from the same batch of wood. Known to be played on 11/18/72, 11/19/72, 11/22/72, 11/23/72, 12/10-12/72 (only on two of the nights, but Alligator was also played), and 5/13/73.

https://www.rukind.com/viewtopic.php?t=14697
https://deadessays.blogspot.com/2019/08/jerry-garcia-instrum...
https://danerlewine.com/jerry-garcia-stratishcaster
Washington was pretty egregious. There were random closures and testing requirements that made planning impossible, all the way until April or May 2022, I think. And it is cover-your-ass related stuff, because no one below the state level wanted to be on the hook if the state was still going on and on with nebulous reactions.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/seattle-...
I think you want Slackware. It's about as close to a BSD system that linux gets, no systemd...install i3wm and you've got mostly what the commenter above described.

I used Slack for many, many years both as a personal OS and a production server. It's rock solid, fast, and lean. It's not easy though, and you're going to be doing a lot of compiling from source and package management by hand. These are the trade-offs.
Right, I think the solution to this, which already exists, is other preinstalled stores, like Samsung or Amazon stores, by OEMs. What should probably be illegal is making deals forcing OEMs to have exclusive app store deals?

That being said, that's also a shitty situation for consumers, as having many or different app stores is confusing and just leads to the very fragmentation people have complain about on Android for a decade.

This is the real duality of the situation. On the one hand, people criticize Android for not being as cohesive an experience as iOS, but on the other hand, anything Google does to make it more cohesive will be seen as anti-competitive. Same with security.
"The amount of pushback these measures got, when we were literally just trying to save lives"

Did it actually significsntly save lives or prevent long covid? I'm wondering if any countries didn't shut schools that we could compare to?

I would guess maybe in the initial wave by not overwhelming hospitals it would save a few lives. But when the policies were continually extended thier return on investment dropped as the harms they inflicted increased and the value they provided decreased. Perhaps a better approach would have been to tell the at-risk populations about the risks and mitigations to let them decide what level of protection they wanted for themselves (not talking about others since the whole masking thing turned out to be effectively useless without at least N95s).

My main point is that I know we could save tons of lives by banning cars (not just traffic fatalies but forcing people to walk could prevent many chronic issues), but that doesn't mean the cost/benefit is justified by ignoring the downsides, forcing large opposing population segments into it, and merely stating it was to save lives.
I think you can kind of have both. For example in Budapest Uber is banned and I miss it, but Bolt provides the exact same user experience for ordering a regulated city taxi (with fixed pricing as well). I can get one quickly any time of day.

In American cities I often found I had to wait 20 minutes to get an Uber or Lyft, if one even came. Is that because the economics of it fundamentally don't work and no one wants to drive for them any more?
Virtually every other city anywhere in the western world, especially outside of the United States.
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Where'd you get that idea. Wayland is part of the freebsd handbook. There's even a page on xenocera about how to use sway on openbsd and what issues are left to make it work fully. Wayland compositors will end up working fine on openbsd. That obviously doesn't cover all the bsds yet though, but it will get there.
this feels defeatist

c++ is with us for the near future, it needs an evolutionary path that provides a sane path forward

why not break with the past? anyone needing to compile c++11 can find the tools and still use them, they can live in the past as long as they like

just getting dependency/build management and integrated testing would be huge and really a small ask given what is happening in other tools

its crazy that you still can't make sane use of things like modules, even if you fully commit to "modern" c++
For component composition and layout, Plasmic makes it easy to build responsive pages. Our primitives like stacks are all based on flexbox, though you can use absolute positioning if needed.

For some more detailed docs, check out https://docs.plasmic.app/learn/styling-and-layout/
I don't know if you're in the minority or I am, but I find modern C++ to be borderline intolerable (and I've been programming mostly in C++ from before there were C++ compilers).

I used to love C++ (and still do if we're talking about older standards), but the new stuff is just a baroque torture.