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> All this misandry and trying to portray any masculinity as toxic is just lame. It's very similar to Disney's queer coding of villains. I remember in my teens, while being a sexually confused and closed queer how sensitive I was to that bullshit and how awful and ashamed it made me feel. It's ludicrous how it's being done again, just the aggressor and targeted demographics are different now. I can't tell if that's just Disney's Modus Operandi, or of this is some type of bitter revenge writing. It sucked then and it sucks now, and it will continue to suck. We need to do better.

I disagree with a lot that you say, but I think I can agree with this paragraph.

The story of "Wish" needlessly shat on King Magnifico and I felt pretty uncomfortable about that writing. So I can agree that there's definitely an element of coding the Disney villain in a certain way.

Scar is the effeminate uncle. Ursula is coded as a drag-queen. Moving to the more recent movies: I can also agree that King Magnifico was coded as toxic masculinity (handsome, successful king), but they did a poor job in the movie saying why he actually deserved the punishment he got (or the betrayal of his wife).

That being said, its also just... how Disney movies always seem to have been written? Both the good and bad ones. Not really an excuse mind you, but for a happy-go-lucky musical for children, a lot of Disney Villains get rather harshly punished, and not all of them seem like they deserve said punishment.

> The only challenge these modern Disney SFLs face is not believing in themselves (and as someone who struggles on and off with self esteem issues, I realise how difficult those can be, but also it's not "enough" to base a whole character around just that), usually with a sprinkle of "blame the patriarchy" in there too.

Well lets talk about Live Action Mulan for example.

There's no "blame the Emperor" scene. In fact, the emperor is a badass who takes to single-combat on the frontlines. Maybe you could argue that the Bori Khan (the new name of the main bad guy) and his relationship with Xianniang / Witch / Hawk is a bit of a blame the patriarchy (female witch subservient to a warlord). But on the other hand, villains are often seen needlessly abusing their underlings (Darth Vader needlessly kills his officers. Megatron abuses Starscream, etc. etc.). So I'm not entirely sure if this is beyond the norm in these kind of settings.

People blame Mulan for a lot of faults and say its clear of Disney's issues today. But... has anyone aside me actually watched it? Its a crappy Chinese Kung Fu movie yes that has issues deciding if Wuxia is cool or not... and that's the main problem with it.

But if there's some level of "Woke messaging" going on here, I'm not seeing it.

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Edit: after further thought, Toxicly Masculine male villains were at least a thing since The Sword in the Stone, and Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. I argue it's not really a recent trope either.
iOS 12 was released September 2018 and

> iOS 12.5.7

> Released January 23, 2023

https://support.apple.com/en-us/103015
This seems like bizarre philosphical cover for someone recklessly injuring or killing someone else, which obviously is not accepted socially, morally, or legally.
Keeping everything on your own drives should in theory protect you against the unpredictable access of the cloud .. but otoh I've had no fewer than five 2T drives crap out in the last couple of years, all bought in 2017 or 18. Point being, there just doesn't seem to be any way to preserve bits for the long haul, short of RAID. And unless extreme measures are taken from the get go, some bits are going to get lost. Your kids pictures or a major personal software project or the like, will just disappear like so much smoke.
Did you ever notice most all hotel and motel rooms come with a chromed luggage stand? The chrome makes it impossible for bedbugs to climb up and into your luggage.
Tallest wooden wind turbine starts turning
Very cool, ME/product designer here, ill definitely be checking volition out!
The desert ecosystem wastes almost all of its incoming joules. The most valuable commodity in a desert is shade.
That's not what I understand, but I don't have numbers. Do you happen to know where we can find some?
Meh. I have retinopathy of prematurity and -9.25 and -11.23 single vision lenses. My ROP was scored at level 3 of 5 generally speaking (I am a twin, my twin does not have ROP), my rop is considered stable. I get retina checkups every 6mo.

I've also had 2 retinal holes and 1 horse shoe tear across both eyes in the last 3-4 years... And cataract surgery in my worst eye last year implanting a mono-vision IOL. I am 43 years old now.

Everyone in this thread worrying about your -2 and -3 myopia can just go sit down ... Lol.

My biggest concern at the moment is the slow moving cataract in my "good" eye, I'd rather not get surgery for ~10 years if it can be avoided.... I write code for a living ...

Everyone's eyes age and deteriorate as we get older. My eyes are simply more prone to complications due to the ROP as they never fully developed correctly due to the incubator I was placed in at birth (born 2mo early)...
Fixed. Appreciated the feedback.
How frequent?
What parts of the computing landscape today remind them the most of what it was like to be a mainframe programmer?
Almost like solving real problems requires enough domain knowledge to select an appropriate algorithm instead of relying on some magic black box trained by Microsoft on the whole internet.
Aren't there ongoing debates about the cause? I recall a Chinese government project to add sunlight to primary school classrooms. So it seems there is controversy still about what the actual cause is.
I suppose I'm another mental gymnast, but I understand the sentiment. It's not just about offensiveness, either. I'd add safety. Humans weren't meant to live in protected bubbles. A little bit of chaos is what makes life interesting. And regarding the outrage, a hair salon is not a public place. A park is a public place. Or a public library. Spaces owned by everyone. A private business is exactly that - private.
Definitely one for jacquesm

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38733446
Were there any parallels between the systems they worked on and helped bring into this world and the modern era with "supercomputers" and AI, as far as people being worried about the technology replacing their jobs?

Did they have much of a network or reference to lean on when novel problems would come up, or was it more of a "figure out a way to make it work" way of troubleshooting?
> Especially since I know from a project I was involved in before COVID hit, that green hydrogen produced PV is absolutely feasible and commercially viable.

It'd be really great to link to that project and actually demonstrate this claim of commercial viability. We have at least one demonstration of a nuclear powered merchant ship operating over the span of a decade. Can we say the same for a green-fuel powered vessel?
Millions of square kilometers of the arctic are being "darkened" by loss of sea ice. Nothing humans can do can approach even a tiny fraction of that.
I'm working on an MPL-licensed, free forever CAD environment for molecular nanotechnology. It is extremely early, indeed I hesitate to even mention it as it is currently undergoing the final stages of a rewrite to run on a game engine back-end, and it isn't much more than boilerplate at the moment. But we have a small community of people interested in this, and we are currently raising money to support further development, among other things.

The key point though is that the atomistic modeling is sort-of an add-on to a bog-standard CAD workflow. You still use boolean geometry to produce surface representations, even if those surfaces are discretized crystal structures.

I had intended that once it was up and running I would reach out to some people I know that are interested in a more modern alternative to FreeCAD. Perhaps it would make sense to combine efforts?

[1] https://github.com/atomCAD/atomCAD
The fact that I had to read this far in to determine that a) this is an EU law (I think?) and b) still have no idea what this (proposed?) law is/does is frustrating to me. This link could have used some context. I don't have an issue with clicking the link, but from there?
I am curious what other industries are likely to have booby-trapped software which has not yet been discovered. It was only through some weird circumstances + dedicated investigation by the hacker group (I thought they were given months of access to the hardware) that this was uncovered. Most organizations do not have the resources to investigate equipment behaving oddly.

For example, if HP programs printers to start failing after N pages printed, would that ever be uncovered?

Is there some kind of whistleblower law that would allow someone with knowledge to come forward?
Mind elaborating more?
The fish that eats piranhas for breakfast
It kind of sucks ass at being a search engine though considering how often it straight up lies or makes things up.
They only communicate it after the fact, when the new OS is impending release. There’s no way to know at time of purchase how many years your device will be supported.

I feel like Apple changed the dynamics of smartphone market from company-issued devices like BlackBerry to BYO with the iPhone essentially on purpose so they don’t get stuck providing decades of enterprise support promises like companies like Microsoft.

Companies purchasing bulk orders of hardware probably wouldn’t tolerate a vendor unwilling to make any sort of concrete support promise for the contract. But a company who employs iPhone users can basically put the responsibility on the user and simply block access to non-compliant devices.
and yet whenever I leave the city to go out to a rural area it seems like the people there are in much worse shape than the city dwellers. The obesity rate seems markedly higher. I think you would be right 50 or 100 years ago but not now.
That just means that you can't realize infinite precision, infinite length, or infinite time. That's fine, and is probably correct. Good and Real by Gary L. Drescher (2006) talks about it, but large parts of the book are "wrong" (in the same way Occam's razor is wrong, not the same way the flat Earth is wrong). I'd say almost all of it is fixable though, so it's useful. I'd look out for the parts on the multiple worlds hypothesis of quantum mechanics (no better than modern version of the Copenhagen interpretation, unless you think wave function collapse is a physical event that has a cause), gives more respect to Wolfram's cellular automata ideas than it should (it should give almost no respect at all), and accepts evidential decision theory more than it should. Sabine Hossenfelder and modern causal decision theorists would have problems with it, but it's a good introduction for people who think human brains are magical and/or better than computers.
The story behind reverse FTP connections is kind of mind-blowing.
There are people who behave responsibly even if they would not be liable if they behaved irresponsible and caused harm. Some people have moral and ethical systems that play a bigger role in deciding their behavior than how much liability they would face.
Is my grandma going to install a custom rom? If it’s not over the air it might as well not exist.
> He imagines a simple yearly compliance process that gets companies all the rights they need to use Post-Open software. And they'd fund developers who would be encouraged to write software that's usable by the common person, as opposed to technical experts.

This seems horrible due to its complexity and poor filter for who contributes.

I’d rather just buy software licenses from Microsoft et al and let the corporate governance guide projects from whatever this new madness is.

It’s funny because commercial software exists. Projects are free to sell and customers free to buy. We don’t need some new subscription type. Just sell software and stop trying to get cool kid points.

Of course redhat/ibm sucks for how they’ve misused open source, but that’s a separate issue.
I think that's the opinion of the person replying to you as well.

They're just using that as support for why they disagree with the EU rules, since it can be considered "commercial" even if you're making no money, just because someone is losing money.
> What does this mean?

It means they’re shoehorning another issue into this discussion.
Even if you could pass that legislation, which seems very unlikely, that doesn't solve the problem. The employees of the regulators aren't personally liable, and in many respects don't individually control the schedule. The investors also cause delays - and would now have an incentive to do that - and in many cases the/an investor is the government. Also, good luck explaining to taxpayers the $10 billion payout.
I don't know how the business edition works, but how to set up SSH tunnels is easily found on Google search, and you'd just forward the port the server listens on, and connect to localhost on the client on the same port. Very simple, and at least as secure as SSH is proven encryption.
"The Shoe Is The Sign!"

-- Monty Python.
App Store purchases aren't tied to a particular device; you can buy an app on an old device and keep using it when you get a newer device. Do you have a coherent, reasonable suggestion for how Apple could modify their business model without completely breaking it, or are you just desperate to shoehorn complaints about the App Store fees into the conversation?
In my mind, the only allowable carbon offset should be an investment fund for new nuclear reactors.

A truly unlimited energy source with solve everything from poverty to wars over oil.
Wait so you and FairPhone could get sued by a patent for a small screen with internet?
Perhaps respond to the actual claim and not a strawperson.
Professional accountability would be saying that companies like Riot can't deploy root-level code with no oversight onto millions of machines "for competitive integrity", not taking down git repos because they don't meet some regulations around security.
So it's just bullshit then.
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Yeah, the folks working on aider (AI pair programming) [1] found that these kind of tricks reduced performance for them.

I’m pretty confident there will be situations where you can measure a statistically significant performance improvement by offering a tip or telling the model you have no hands, but I’m not convinced that it’s a universal best practice.

A big issue is that a lot of the advice you see around prompting is (imo) just the output of someone playing with GPT for a bit and noticing something cool. Without actual rigorous evals, these findings are basically just superstitions

[1]: https://aider.chat/docs/unified-diffs.html
no drama but much gratitude
"Food safety practices only became standardized after regulation was enacted."

Because you actually can standardize them. Software isn't so simple.

"> pre-approved and comparatively trivial recipes

That sounds like most software development."

Lol no that does not. Why wouldn't high school graduates or drop outs work in software instead of at fast food? The number of languages, frameworks, patterns, etc are much more complex than basic sanitation and time/temp/acidity.
Why do you say that? Every such history I've read says they did - though 'develop' is probably a better word than 'invent'.
Electricity demand isn't that simple, it's not like Sheetz dropping the price of gas to $1.776/gallon on the 4th of July and having to bag the pumps within the hour [0].

Electricity is quite interesting as a market because it's truly the logical endpoint of just-in-time manufacturing: the time between generation and consumption is measured not on the order of months, weeks, days, or even hours, but in milliseconds. It travels at 300,000 km per second/186,000 miles per second [1], which is incomprehensibly fast (it's fast enough to cross the widest span of the continental US, 4,799 km/2,892 miles, over 60 times in a single second).

As such, in order to maintain 50/60 Hz at nominal voltages and amperages (and that frequency is very important - in a 60 Hz system, 59.4 Hz is "we have 5 minutes before the entire grid blows up and plunges us into a 3+ month blackout" level bad [2]), utility companies aren't in the power generation business so much as they are in the predictions business. They have to take everything into account, from the weather to consumer purchasing habits, to determine exactly how much power needs to be generated at any given moment or the whole grid will collapse. That wide area synchronous grids like the UCTE (continental Europe) and Eastern Interconnection (eastern US) are able to operate is a testament to human ingenuity, as these really are quite fragile machines.

All this to say that you can't just "make power free when there's excess and people will magically use it up". Even if we can reliably predict excesses, people won't really be able to take advantage of it unless their schedule lends itself to it (e.g. being able to plug their car into a charger at work that only turns on when there's an excess), but even then, when done on a large scale, this only makes the predictions even harder for utility companies to plan around (think: thundering herd problem but on a national scale). At a macro level, it just doesn't work.

[0]: https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/business/sheetz-july-fourth-g...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_electricity?useskin=v...

[2]: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-envi...
Than take it from those folks:

https://cms.globalmaritimeforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/...

-> page 9 refernces the hydrogen and amonium based fuels

That was developed in the frame of this:

https://unctad.org/news/transport-newsletter-article-no-108-...

The IRENA page provided said information in an easier to digest form so.

The only source talking about nuclear reactors for civilian shipping was that Reuters article. Personally, I'd take exhaustive reports and internationally accepted strategies above some statement made towards Reuters.
Everywhere else in the world there's a minimum wage. And it works well. There are other basics with decades of data behind. I don't get why America wants to reinvent the square wheel so badly!
Ideally[1] this thread would link to the original source, and then in the comments we would link to the second hand source that includes interesting or insightful discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38726890
> sntrup761x25519-sha512@openssh.com?

I am not an expert in this space but, as far as I can tell, these are all work-in-progress, as is quantum computing itself. There are several research groups and committees involved, including at, say, IETF and the like.
Roombas are well-supported in HA, and they can use the local network connection. You still need to use the Roomba app to set up the robots, but afterwards they can work completely locally.
I'd say even more impressive is that, given an ARM Cortex X4 runs at almost 100x the clock speed, up to 14 cores, has caches, branch prediction, floating point, specialized instructions, gpu, etc., it's probably 100000 times faster than the CYPD4225. So given GPT4 training took ~100 days, it means a typical cell phone equivalent in 50 years will be able to train a GPT4 equivalent from scratch in under a second.
All the better for when we need to hijack their ships with a virus.
I forgot to add - unfortunately, the app doesn't render well on small screens (ie phones). It works great on laptops or on the iPad app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/medulla-mentor/id6469579767
Suica:

> Sales of JR East's Suica card (image of a penguin on the front) will be discontinued for the time being as of June 8 due to a worldwide semiconductor shortage. [1]

Welcome Suica (for short-term visits):

> Welcome Suica sales will be limited to the following for the time being from December 18th:

> * JR EAST Travel Service Center, Haneda Airport Terminal 3 Station

> * Welcome Suica exclusive vending machine, Tokyo Monorail Haneda Airport Line Haneda Airport Terminal 3 Station

> Please note that only one Welcome Suica will be sold per person.

> Please note that IC cards will not be sold at Narita Airport after the 18th. [2]

PASMO:

> The sale of blank PASMO has been temporarily suspended.

> The sale of Personalized PASMO has been temporarily suspended. [3]

PASMO PASSPORT (for short-term visits):

> The card is available for purchase at 21 locations. [4]

[1] https://www.jreast.co.jp/e/pass/suica.html

[2] https://www.jreast.co.jp/multi/en/welcomesuica/welcomesuica....

[3] https://www.pasmo.co.jp/visitors/en/normalpasmo/

[4] https://www.pasmo.co.jp/visitors/en/buy/
Canada has fertile farmland below about the 53 parallel. It’s massive.
What's making airline passengers act out on planes? Travelers are stressed out
In case anyone wants to do this with factually grounded content, check out my site: https://www.wikistorytime.com/

Just be nice with the usage because the billing is going on my personal OpenAI API key!
Fun story:
Visited Shinjuku station in 2014 and left luggage on those machines that store luggage for coins to go on a quick stroll in town

Came back later, and had to spend almost an hour to find the place where we left them

That place is big
I believe they’re assuming that malware can do a pretend reboot whereas the hardware keystroke can’t be faked.
Ah, you got me. I didn't consider that other alternative meaning.
Thank you for your answer, it's really kind.
And by the way, congratulations about DigitalOcean, your product is so cool that the ice gets jealous.
Nobody builds solar farms on "north-facing slopes". Nobody is making solar panels "track the sun". Nobody even proposes "clearcutting forests" for solar farms. Trolling is in strict violation of site guidelines.
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Sentiment Analysis of Right Wing Extremism in R/Canada (2023) [pdf]
On the Amiga, you had to write to a blitter control register (BLTSIZE?) twice with the same value or it wouldn't do anything. This might be the same, only a lot more paranoid.

But it might also be a backdoor, intended or not.
negative lmps have long been a result of baseload plants exceeding demand at night; widespread deployment of pv has turned that on its head, because now it's midafternoon when prices go negative, but also in a sense exacerbated it. consequently, expect rapid development of grid-scale storage: pumped hydro and massive li-ion, of course, but also maybe centrifugal trompe isothermal air compression, sodium-ion batteries, or high-temperature liquid-metal batteries
That’s a very cynical take on an industry (tech) that is mostly in my experience filled with folk who are intrinsically motivated. The whip makes productivity worse for folk like that, beyond the very short term. They quit.