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Microsoft prescribes command-line surgery for HP Smart app malady
Critical questions? Was hoping for them to get booed off stage for talking to vendors of proprietary solutions and not including open source projects in their disclosure comms.
https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/23/google-fi...

Summary: one of their engineers started to think they had achieved AGI and went to the media to save the “life” of the chat bot.
Hi I might be interested. How can I contact you? My email is on my profile.
My read of this is 'don't write your own auth library'. If you want to rely on someone else to host it, or host it yourself, that's up to you and entirely fine. Different pros and cons of each approach; neither is perfect.
> Because the debt is now due?

The so-called Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) credibly posits that because the U.S. borrows in its own currency (dollars), it can simply "print money" as needed — as long as the U.S. economy has sufficient unused productive capacity to absorb the resulting increase in demand. [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/business/economy/modern-m...
Bricking it: Do you own anything digital?
I feel bad now for posting something negative, it's just a spontaneous report of me trying to use it. Since I've never successfully stepped over to using it and become a user, I don't report bugs either. I've simply been curious to try, but content with youtube (mobile web version)
Programmable or 'purpose-bound' money is coming, probably as a feature in CBDC
All systems are like that, x86 PCs are the exception due to the way clones came to be.
Wait for the official Space DLC and all the 2.0 QoL improvements next year instead!
My personal opinion here.

For a long time GDP and standard of living/well-being of a society have been correlated that people started to think that these are the same. These two are becoming more and more detached each year with progressing inequality. To the point that GDP now tells us very little about a country.

For example Bermuda. The high GDP per capita incomes is fueled by offshore financial services, but that does not translate to personal wealth of the citizens. And Qatar. More than 50% of population are immigrants working mostly in low-paying jobs often in terrible conditions. They generate wealth, but they are not considered citizens. Finally the elephant in the room - USA. GDP per capita means jack shit if half of the wealth belongs to a few people.
Yeah, the flip side of this is that a lot of projects and companies are suddenly abandoning their roadmap and alienating their userbase, who in some cases have invested into the project in one way or another. And this often comes with gaslighting.

I'm seeing this a lot in my professional work and I think it's wrong. It's one thing for an engineer to want to switch jobs, it's another for a company to hoodwink its users.
The only cost is 20$ for a linux instance on Hetzner. How is that not profitable ? and I live in the most expensive country in the world. Switzerland
Even if the loans weren't subsidized by the government, the schools wouldn't do it. It's more likely they would be financed by banks like they are with other goods.
Student loans would also have to be dischargeable in bankruptcy to give them skin.
I don't understand why there are 31 layers in this tool.

I don't understand why we only see 4 charts (I would expect to see 8, one for each 7B mistral tiny model)
<insert Agent Smith's virus speech here>
It got worse: 3 weeks ago Evernote announced that their free version will be limited to 50 notes

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23981683/evernote-limit-...
Two things.

Firstly, it is simply not the case that all constraints must be able to be statically enforced for them to constitute part of the type's definition. I'd guess that's a huge part of the confusion here.

But, yes, actually all WUFFS indexing is statically checked. It's using inference to conclude the range of the index, so if it won't fit that's a static type mismatch.
I hadn't noticed it actually, though it's also a bit inconvenient for me to write a git commit at the moment.

Hope this helps.
AMD and Xilinx both use newer TSMC nodes?
If a young woman was interested in STEM and saw your comment it would be a reason for them not to go into STEM. That is bad. It pushes someone away from what they might be interested in.
I had to connect an old accounting system to a web app with enhanced ui (an operator determines a payment on a visual graph of contracts between companies, plus graphs editor). There were two ways: a separate db with periodic sync, and a direct COM-connection to the old app, which was scriptable through js<=>COM library. I chose the latter, tests worked fine.

After a month or so I started to notice that something is wrong with performance. Figured out that every `object.field` access through a COM proxy takes exactly 1ms. Once there’s enough data, these dots add up to tens of seconds.

>_<

Instead of doing a rewrite I just pushed as much of js logic as possible beyond the COM, so there’s only a constant or little amount of `a.b.c` accesses on my side. Had to write a json encoder and object serialization inside the old app to collect and pass all the data in one go.

The web app was abandoned few months later for unrelated reasons.
hit me on support@postoptions.app
Sure, now do the roads outside of the BART system. There have been thousands of car thefts, carjackings, robberies, etc. Crime isn’t a transit phenomenon.
Depends on what the artifact is.
I’ve read you need to partition usage to limit each keycloak instance to about 1500 total users to avoid performance issues. Does this hold true in your org?
The implication is that drivers intentionally ram Google vehicles when they have a ghost of a reason to do so.
"ramen profitable" is typically understood to mean that you could live off the profits... if you were willing to reduce your lifestyle to just working on it and eating nothing but ramen.
Yeah, they both have DBs, and you can kind of outline inside pages. The difference is that, technically, in a "real outliner", each "node" (or line) is (by default) a different entry in the database, whereas in page-based apps (Capacities/Notion), it is the whole page.

Capacities is partially going in this direction. Notion, less so, but it is simple and advanced (linked records...) and hence a favorite of mine too.
Just curious, because my intuition is that anyone who finds sponsorblock to be crucial is likely consuming a decent bid of media... What are your strategies for compensating the creators you enjoy?
Your app is profitable but not "ramen profitable".

If a business is ramen profitable, it means it's making just enough money for the founders to pay for living expenses
Actually since Virtual Box and VMWare got good enough on Windows around 2010, but having one less thing to install, pay license for, is definitely welcoming.
I'm using a free hosting by IBM, the set up is decribed in the plug in github, so it was easy
I have an Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD). It was installed just over two years ago, after I had an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation (this has a 1 in 5 survival rate, so I dodged a bullet there). I was lucky that I passed out in the lobby of a building that had a defibrillator; if I'd not been near one I'd be dead (or likely brain damaged).

It was implanted three days after the VF episode, and the doctor basically said "we don't know why the VF happened in your case, the ICD is your best option for staying alive in the future". The implantation procedure only involved a heavy local anaesthetic and wasn't unpleasant. Much, much less painful than the broken ribs from being CPR'd, which took a couple of months to heal. The ICD sits under the skin above below my left collar bone, and the shape is clearly visible. I ignore it on a day to day basis. Every year I go in for a device check and sometimes for a joke they make it buzz (like having a mobile phone on vibrate, under your skin). Hehe.

It's fired once, almost a year ago. I was on my own at the time, at home, and if it hadn't gone off, I'd be dead, again. So having it is a no-brainer, and I have never felt traumatised / horrified by it. What was / is harder to deal with is that every time it fires, I now face a two-year driving ban. I totally understand the reasoning here: when a VF episode happens I have perhaps 5 to 10 seconds of useful consciousness, some of which is spent feeling disoriented, and I know I'd be a danger if driving. But the lifestyle changes caused by loss of driving are more mentally challenging than the fact of the ICD itself.
Xilinx's toolchain and chip offerings are substantially better.
I don't think I said anything that disagrees with your post. Except for one detail - the comic you linked writes (emphasis mine):

"It's just that the people listening think you're an asshole, and they're showing you the door."

But as I think you'll agree, the problem is that "the people listening" often don't show the door (that's why hateful accounts gain such large followings), and it's up to the corporate owners to do the deplatforming.

But I agree it's better PR to describe it as "people" doing it. The manufacturing of consent necessary to maintain our democracy is much easier if we trick "the people listening" into thinking they are doing it, instead of it being done to them by 3rd parties.
Reminds me of paper and pencil
Especially enjoyed the part where they fabricate a custom 500 watt, 54-pole (if I counted right) out-runner alternator essentially from scratch. Sheet metal was cut!
Definitely wouldn't work today. Nowadays you need to classify like 30 images of bicycles and 20 fire hydrants and pray to god before they accept your answer...
Hmm, I had to google this mod [1]. Seems really cool, but it also does sound a whole lot like the factorio expansion [2], so what is going on here?

(I been eagerly awaiting the factorio expansion for a while now!)

1: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/space-exploration

2: https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/factorio-expansion-space-...
Aren't you already trusting the maintainer by downloading and running their software? An evil maintainer can publish any hash they want, so why would they go to the trouble of making a hash collision?
Its PvP mode is also excellent. You can complete both defense and offense by laying supply lines. It's possible to ambush the opponent's supply lines as well, gaining a significant advantage on the front lines before the enemy detects the disruption in the power facility and logistics system. This is what I consider one of the most important characteristics of a real-time strategy (RTS) game.

It would be better if one could steal expensive components from the opponent's conveyor belt (like processors in Factorio)
That might work for a few years, but if all institutions did that it would collapse the whole system. A university degree is for jobs why would you think otherwise?
Oooh, you’ve just reminded me of the email server at my first dev job. It would crash every few days and no one could work out why. In the end someone just wrote a cron job type thing to restart it it once a day, problem solved!
I’m also unsure how a safety driver affects the robo driving unless it’s an entirely separate program or the safety driver is pressing the “damn the dogs full speed ahead” button.

In my perhaps naive view a safety driver failing to act and a robo driver should be identical.
Are you proposing that no useful code should ever be open source, because someone may use it for benefit without paying for it?
I’d agree — but would argue affordable for a sponsored dissertation program with 3 research students and an associate professor. They’re actually still training it!
And in fact that's how it's (supposed to be) done.

With the maintenance and repair shops having railway equivalent of Part 145 certification, just without type ratings IIRC.
I do not know how you could think that. In a climate where people can't even get medications without getting judged, they'll be able to easily just call up their provider to unblock a website
You'd probably get the same response approaching them with a "we're trying to do this but couldn't make it work, could you help us ?" kind of pitch.

Except if you're actually convinced it could be your mistake, getting that tone will feel like getting played like some small kid. Most people will help you anyway and be professional, of course.

That reminds me of detective Columbo. It's cute and all when it's supposed to be done to strangers. Imagine Columbo coming to you every week with that same convoluted spiel.
I can confirm that the DAC on the 2021 M1 Macbook Pro is absolutely fantastic.

You can also rely on the fantastic quality of the Apple USB-C to 3.5mm adapters [0] as "Neutral, clear, clean and very precise. Basically as audibly transparent, good-sounding and clean-sounding to my ears as a device could be...".

[0] https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/apple-usb-c-to-3-5-mm-headp...
Global logistics is complicated, who knew?
I lost changes that I made on one device. To be fair it was probably a mistake on my side, but I didn't notice how it happened so I prefered look elsewhere for a sync solution for obsidian.
Raytracing simulates geometrical optics. That it doesn't take interference pattern into account is therefore a mathematical limitation and of course true, but irrelevant for most applications.

There are other effects (most notable volume scattering), which could be significant for the rendered image and which are simulatable with raytracing, but are usually neglected for various reasons, often because they are computationally expensive.
Sounds like something I might try. Factorio has a tower defense element that never really works because the attacks are too small, my base is too large, and I always just wipe out the biter camps. That's an aspect of the game that clearly needs a lot more challenge, but lots of players just ignore it and build.

For my first half-dozen tries, I always built may bases far too compact. I really had to learn to use the space available to me. A game that rewards compact building might be just for me.
More of the total work that people have to do, including chores, is in the US work that people pay for and are paid for, rather then doing it for themselves.
This makes absolutely no sense from any angle. US politics is so messed up right now. The entire right is lost in a personality cult and is driven more by triggering the libs than actually effecting change for their fellow citizens or the country as a whole. And the entire left is on a rampage to make sure they alienate as many people and supporters as possible and would much rather focus on symbolic protesting on issues they have no impact over as opposed to real issues they can help. The center is sensible and fairly effective but was small to begin with and is rapidly getting squeezed from both sides.

Re: this specific issue, it’s very obvious that universal programs are always more successful. They build a strong political and support base across the spectrum of voters without creating any losers who are deliberately excluded that would be motivated to end them. Further, more often than not any sort of means discrimination costs way more than the money saved through the means discrimination. And that’s even before the hoops the means discrimination adds to the lives of the poorest to prove their eligibility.

The means discrimination should be done once on the income tax side. There’s an extremely well established process for that and will be done anyways. Setting up ad hoc processes for each program on the benefit side simply doesn’t make sense.

And yet contra all the information we have the people proposing these policies will go out of their way to make their own policies less effective and more expensive as we’re seeing with these unnecessary riders.
Thanks. The link seems to list relevant links and repos. I'll see how I can help now.
Mid 90s, can't remember the tech (VB, C, Java?) In the very last hours before an important demo one of the programs stopped working. Not always, only every second time we run it. No version control, no unit tests. It's obviously some side effect but debugging it before the demo and making changes could make it worse. Maybe it won't even run anymore, anytime. We decide to wrap it into a script that starts it, kills it, runs it again. That worked and made us pass the demo.
Difficult to compare usa vd European countries due to size differences.

Better to compare individual states vs European countries.

How does California compare with Norway Is better than usa vs Norway.
Midjourney v6
Kids with chattier parents are more talkative, may have bigger vocabulary
Completely wholesome ramblings of a new dad.
If it’s truly AV they probably won’t care because they’ll be watching Fast and Furious on the touchscreen.
What a boss clip!

Relevant in every way.

I support the idea that consciousness is “the inflection upon the substrate of existential being.” Which basically means matter and energy is dormant potential of being which living systems animate, crating sub scope singularities of “inflection” from senses, actuators , and other biotechnology.

I guess that means we’re analogue quantum computers and consciousness is the matter of the universe hallucinating ourselves.
Cutelyst v4: 10 Years
> And gosh, Obsidian has really a huge amount of plugins for data-handling. At some point, it was so bad that there were multiple competing task-plugins which broke each other just because they had different formatting for dates.

Depends on how you see it. I think it's great that they have a free market of open-sourced plug-ins that you can donate to. I'm actually impressed of how rarely they break each other.
The claim was that "we figured out how to handle Nazis 80 years ago", where the "we" that did the handling would be considered modern-day Nazis, and it is to people holding a mild version of their opinions that the modern "handling" is being applied.
> There is also Open-Xchange

I think most people can safely rule-out Open-Xchange unless they've got deep pockets.

Sadly commercialism has taken over there, and their sticky hands have now reached Dovecot.

The open-source version of Dovecot 3 will have the vast majority of multi-server functionality stripped from it. OX have stated on record[1] that their plan is that open-source Dovecot 3 will supported and maintained for single-server use only. If you want multi-server you will need to pay $$$$$$$$$ for the commercial version.

[1] https://youtu.be/s-JYrjCKshA?feature=shared&t=912
Charity for Profit (Twitch)
It would be interesting to see this using median income or similar meassure rather than GDP per capita. Inequality by itself doesn't have to be a problem (depending on economic ideology) but if all purchasing power is restricted to a few ultra rich that should be relevant to the discussion of whether a country is rich.
All countries are relatively big/small compared to others.

Switzerland is comparable in size to some of the biggest US counties (San Bernardino is half of Switzerland e.g.).
I assume from what you are describing that OIDC is probably just the right tool for this job.

In my problem domain (think internal apps that serve many different purposes with little overlap and a diverse set of users) logging in individually to every single app simply is not an issue, albeit a little annoying).

That being said we do use a single authentication backend across all apps, just not one that is capable of OIDC and is thus a lot more limited in what can be achieved with it.
>YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW HOW YOUR PHONE WORKS - I DO NOT HAVE TO PAY A TAX TO APPLE TO LISTEN TO MY MUSIC.

(Ignoring the all caps) That's not really apple bad as an argument. It's the fact that you're paying more for music you probably already own, and you have zero idea how that phone actually works.

Tinkering with technology, whatever the reason, should be encouraged?
My point is that this sort of thing doesn't happen so lightly in other ecosystems. And the "you don't have to use it" excuse isn't used when the project clearly wants to move in that direction:

- others will jump on the feature and use it. you might not have to use it but libraries you depend on may decide otherwise and rewrite

- you didn't have to use ReactHooks, but try using Apollo client or react-query without them now, or try finding any non-hooks documentation in general.

- you will slowly see bugs being neglected if they're not about the new and shiny.

- there is no equivalent of useContext for class components

So the word "supports" here carries very little weight in practice because the rest of the ecosystem constantly rewrites.
From the help page:

E-value - Controls the elitism tendency of the generation algorithm. An elitist maze has a short solution relative to the size of the maze, while a non-elitist has a solution going through a larger portion of the maze.
R-value - Controls the river tendency of the generation algorithm. A maze with a high river factor has few but long dead ends, while one with a low river factor will have many short dead ends.
Loved every bit of it. Congrats to the new parents. As a father of three, I think I got the biggest laugh out of:

"I cannot quite remember why I thought this would be a good idea. I blame the pronatalist influencer conspiracy."
A very long time ago, my dad prepared me for this risk by buying Civilization just before my high school final exam. I graduated with 268% on Emperor.
I think that it died because of the dotcom bubble, the purchase by Yahoo and it being overall crappy...

Yeah it had ads but without much targeting

Providers: you still pay for internet subscriptions; you used to get several services included for a fair price
Can someone explain how that circuit works?

They mention it buffers with a gain factor of 0.1, but I don’t understand how the four op-amps play together to eliminate the hiss.
I actually fixed this exact bug in a C library recently which used auto most likely because the author was used to using it in C++, it compiled and went through. Led to very spicy behaviour in C.
what is your font of choice?
maybe the affordability issue where people need more than one job in the US is showing up here.
No, you'll have to exercise your own CPU I'm afraid!
> “America’s reliance on student loans is imperfect, but this move would hurt students far more than the colleges they attend.”

I’m not so sure that this would hurt students more. Taking debt without income or profit to service said debt is a highly risky move and this may mitigate the number of risks taken thereafter.

That said I do understand at the surface it would appear to prevent poor kids from attending these schools.

We should probably analyze the entire cohort and make a determination if it’s a good or bad move.
> This shows part of the downside of consolidating email into a handful of massive providers.

I don't agree.

The great thing about consolidating email services is that a fix for a vulnerability will typically be rolled out quickly, thus protecting the vast majority of email users from this particular attack.

Whereas with self-hosted/on-premise SMTP services we'd be chasing this for years and years. There are so many ancient, unmanaged and otherwise badly configured SMTP servers out there...

The difference here is that for the engineers that work for the large email service providers, it is their full-time responsibility to deliver email service. Whereas for the self-hosted solution, it is often a burden to the IT admin who doesn't get time/budget or have the knowledge to tend to the SMTP service. SMTP is often viewed as a set-and-forget type of thing, that can be set up in less than an hour, but it definitely is not.

I'm all for open-source, self-hosting and keeping control over your own resources, but for email (other than your private email address maybe) just outsource that to one of the well-known providers and focus on your actual job.