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> First we should define what God(s) is/are.

It's a good turn because it's the quickest path toward dealing with apophatic/cataphatic problem.

For the uninitiated, cataphatic definitions of God involve saying "God is..." and attaching positive claims to God. You can see this assumption in the article's quote

> Now we believe that [God is] something than which nothing greater can be thought…

The use of "greater" should key you in that we're using cataphatic theology. The issue is that when you start to add these positive claims, they start to conflict. God is the reddest and the bluest and the heaviest or the lightest and becomes a big ball of mud.

Apophatic definitions of God try to solve this, but using negetive attributes eg: God is not evil, God is ineffable, &c. The issue with that is that all you sort of have left is that "God is." Which isn't much at all.

The sort of third way out of this are various forms of pantheism which you've identified, but ultimately aren't very satisfying to adherents to world religions for reasons that are outside of the topic of this discussion.

Personally if someone wants to ontologically argue for the conclusion that God is reality, or God is the universe, more power to them. It's a perfectly logical conclusion, and while beautiful in its own way, eschews conventionally theological normativity in ways that again, I don't think are palatable to adherents of world religions. Note: they are rather palatable to cannabis users however :)
Yes, here in The Netherlands I keep 60% of such income, compared to his 90% after tax.
Maybe it's not commonly understood but that is what is happening regardless. Being at home when reading content versus in public doesn't make any analogical sense because the internet is not a physical space, so it should have no bearing on your expectation of privacy if you visit someone else's site.
Obviously, Santa is a timelord who has assumed the identity of Saint Nicholas of Myra. This explains why he can live forever, why he appears differently to different children using psychic paper (skin color, clothing, shape, different names, etc), can enter homes without chimneys (Tardis disguised as a sleigh) and why his sack is bigger on the inside than the outside. The Doctor isn't the only timelord who has an affinity for earthlings.
The situation leading to Sam's departure from OpenAI could be viewed as challenging for US foreign policy.

In the weeks preceding his ouster in mid-November, Sam engaged in negotiations in the Middle East for investments in Tigris, a new AI chip company. [1]

Speculation arose that the Tigris project might have played a role in Sam's removal.[2]

Of note, a month earlier, the Biden administration had implemented a national security policy involving export and supply chain controls for AI chips.[3] This move could have attracted attention to Tigris and Sam for potential international cooperation on an R&D project with national security implications.

Considering the timeline of Sam's Middle East negotiations following the onset of the 2023 Israel-Hamas war in October, there might have been concerns about possible interference with US administration geopolitical negotiations at a sensitive moment.

[1] https://fortune.com/2023/11/19/sam-altman-was-fundraising-fo...

[2] https://www.ccn.com/news/tigris-what-is-altman-chip-venture-...

[3] https://www.mintz.com/insights-center/viewpoints/2191/2023-1...
I've got an even better question:

Given how ubiquitous and common battery usage is, why on earth is it SO DIFFICULT TO RECYCLE THEM?

My garbage is collected once a week, green waste too, recycling every other week, but regular use stuff like batteries is NEVER picked up I have to take it somewhere.

I'm sorry but if we actually cared about preventing these things from making it into landfills, we'd make it as easy as possible for people to recycle them.
As someone coming from a culture with T-V distinction [1], I always wished we dropped one of the branches like English did in the past.

The informal T vs formal V causes confusion in conversation with semi-strangers. Eg. At work you never really know which way to speak to someone at a watercooler. If you choose the informal T you make them your equal. Ehich might be perceived as insulting to them, since they might want to keep a perception of superiority to you for eg. being older, more tenured, etc. Often you'd rather choose not to even engage in a conversation and just keep your thoughts to yourself. Better than ending up in a inferior position when choosing the safe V, or risking insulting someone when using the informal T form.

This felt to me like one of the reasons why English became the dominant language for business over time. Together with simplified morphology (you only need to learn the plural by adding 's' at the end, vs. 5+ other tenses of each word) it just ended up being much easier to pick up and less risky to engage in conversations and therefore higher chances of adoption by non-speakers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%E2%80%93V_distinction
>Only to someone with no sense of scale. Again, you can do that. But you expand the definition of authoritarianism to cover just about any human activity.

So start referring to America as "softer authoritarians than China" instead of this charade you put up now. Then people would be less miffed by your hypocrisy.

Everything political that comes out of America is such self-serving slop that I don't understand how anyone above age 30 buys it. When mass-censorship and consensus manufacturing is enacted on mainstream social media (oh sorry, when the US does it it's just "the algorithm" and "alignment", not a mean evil dictatorship), when Americans are forbidden from having a chance to vote for their preferred president in Colorado, when you wage a proxy war against Russia to the last Ukrainian man, when you get Ukraine to ban all opposition political parties, when you bomb countries for decades in the Middle East, every time it's done in the name of democracy.
They don't need to be years ahead. Availability and ideally a lower cost is the goal.
It was a situation where someone had to fix his code three times in six months. There’s a point you sit down and sort it out. Ajax data doesn’t always match the page structure.
Maybe god is just another name for set theory’s e, the set of everything.
When you realize that you need better than unstructured notes to do Clinical Decision Support ("AI"), which passes a Cost-Benefit Analysis.
That's really fascinating. I grew up in the SGI, but it's rare to meet people who converted to Buddhism through such interesting and circuitous routes as you have. Thank you for sharing
It is indeed not the game over argument any more, measured by the people. Both sides of the political spectrum in America have been ever more strongly advocating for authoritarian enforcement of their political goals and both sides have increasing admiration for foreign dictatorships and terrorists.

The extremes are closing in on the excluded middle which doesn’t have much of a voice at all as nonextremist views are attacked as supporting the other sides.

They are not always doing this in the same ways and in the same places, but there is a definite trend.

I’m not making excuses for one side by saying the other side is doing it, both threaten the republic and world peace.
I can conceive of a greater God which does have a material existence, so I think it's valid to request material proof.
> The first statement is provably false, empirically, as huge systems are overwhelmingly not written in dynamically typed languages.

Your conclusion is not supported by the claim you try to support it with.

> Ruby is not one of these languages.

You're free you think so, but you've not provided anything but unsupported conjecture and logically invalid reasoning to support your belief, so rather than convince me, you've provided an additional reason to question your judgement.
Totally agreed, I always assumed leetcode was primarily used as a proxy for IQ, with the added benefit of testing basic coding competence.
That looks like 53000 MW.
Some digging into why this suddenly dropped off in 2016. It appears the person that architected and pushed for this internally at Nissan left the company in 2015. No surprise that corp decided to kill the program <1 year later. Probably very expensive to run or sponsor an F1
-3 organization

MS already sponsors Excel competitions. So why not flight simulator.
I see now in dev tools that it is indeed an mpeg being downloaded. Maybe it may have been a bitrate issue with my external sound device which may have confused me. Thank you.
Microsoft's business was enhanced by distinguishing between "server" and "workstation" so the software enforced that.
There was always only one real reason to have nuclear power plants: to produce the base material for atomic weapons.
In 100 years the thousands of plastic diapers that I used as a baby will still be carefully preserving my crap such that archaeologists a thousand years hence will be able to accurately assess the contents of baby food in the late 20th century. And that applies to basically everything wrapped in plastic, such as most every garbage bag.
‘Wuff, Wuff!!’
I reserve all of it for people trying hard to live good honest life but bad luck and misfortune happens. This is certainly not the case.
Do you think that's how coding happens? That's something you might see in a movie or rehearsed talk.
Indeed, it's the same word! In the ancestor language of both English and German (and also Dutch, Low German, and many others) it's been reconstructed as "þū".
Yeah. Start a BV (privately owned company) here and the tax calculation is similar, if not worse, in complexity and you get to hand over ~40% of your money... in a country with vastly higher CoL
Not really. Bacteria oxidizing things with stuff other than molecular oxygen isn't what most people would call fire.
My favourite example of that is retired physics professors who assume economics must be easy compared to physics and write opinion pieces about how the country should be run (and make first year economics student errors).
I have fun all the time, this person is just miserable
Yeah. Was surprised to see him complain about a 15% business / income tax.
> No, extinction of species due to infections is not a planetary catastrophe. It's natural and perennial.

It is reductive to describe invasive species with no predators destroying native crops and forests as "natural."
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Santa never gets any presents, so he doesn't care being on the naughty list.
English became the dominant business language for reasons unrelated to the English language itself but because of the relative power of the people who spoke the language.
> If there's something so fundamentally wrong with him, why does he have such broad support?

75 million people voted for Trump.
Eat some yummy unhealthy foods. Have a beer. Life is too short.
Author here! It's a tricky question to answer. I wrote Lunar v1 in 2017, and it was fully free for 4 years, but those years were essential for the app to mature and get a good following.

In June 2021 I launched Lunar v4 with the new support for Apple Silicon and I also added a paid tier. I started making good money from the start, most likely because Lunar was already "known". I was making about $3k/month back then, which was enough for me to not need a full time job anymore.

Getting to $6k was a gradual process since 2021 until now: constantly launching free apps, giving more attention to those that provided utility to most people, adding paid tiers when I had enough to offer over the existing free features.
> described fire

I can just imagine my mitochondria right now pointing to the electron transport chain and saying "shit's on fire, yo"
Even disregarding privacy concerns (which you shouldn't!), I stopped posting on social media largely because I'm too argumentative of a person for it.

When arguing is limited to people I see in person, it's a somewhat time-boxed and constrained operation. I typically can only argue with one person for N minutes, and eventually both of us get tired of it and we move on with our lives, but there's always someone wrong on the internet, and a lot of those wrong people love to be wrong publicly on social media. I would always end up arguing with a stupid post that a stupid person on Facebook had, and then someone would chime in in support of me or the person I'd argue with. Before I knew it, a not-insignificant percentage of each day was being dedicated to responding to idiocy on social media.

Eventually, it started getting annoying and I deleted my Facebook, and never really looked back. I run a Mastodon instance that I almost never use (but I had to justify the server I bought somehow), I briefly worked at Reddit, and obviously I post a bit on HN which is basically social-media adjacent, but despite all this I never really felt compelled to go back to constantly posting on social media.

I suspect a lot of people have come to similar conclusions. I enjoy talking to my friends, and I do pretty liberally on Signal, but I feel that's sort of in a different category than "social media".
I have so much respect for people who know what they want and can execute on it, despite the financial implications of doing so in cases where it carries financial risk. It inspires others to clearly know one’s self-worth, desires, and agency.

> But I could not fit into the same old Slack chat + Zoom meetings + SCRUM + daily report + doing something that you feel it has no purpose in the real world for 8 hours a day madness that consulting work needs. So I said "no, I'm sorry, I'd like to continue building my apps".
No problem, thanks for replying!:) Wouldn't say it's an usual thing to do so (has some obvious downsides), maybe for people who love self-hosting.
> However, since it seems that "thee" and "thou" are the informal forms of "you", now I'm really confused why they do this.

Unnecessary reverence of the King James Bible translation, probably.
Some kind of shadow banning would be suitable. Let them play bots, or just other cheaters.
good, hopefully they'll shut down and we'll get back to having communities
If you need to fill a 20 hour storage system in 4 hours of sunlight, you care about how cheap the electricity is to generate and overproduce accordingly in better seasons. PV is cheap, and also not the only renewable so it may not even be as bad as 20:4.

If you need to fill a 6 month night storage system with the sunlight from the other 6 months, instead of overproducing in summer you care about the storage being relatively stable and dense enough you don't run out of space. There may well be enough space, though at the scales that matter you'd need a lot of pipes or transmission lines depending on where you want the hydrogen powered generators, and a good electricity grid diminishes the need to store it anyway (a sufficiently good grid, 1m^2 aggregate cross section, doesn't even need any storage, because the planet is a sphere).

Given how many people react as badly to hydrogen as to nuclear, just replacing Chernobyl with the Hindenburg and a misunderstanding about hydrogen bombs, I think sufficient storage will be tricky politically even if you solve all the technical issues.

If you see a way to make it happen anyway, go for it. A plurality of solutions makes black swan correlated failures less damaging.
But linking is slow, plus also only possible using ld.bfd. This causes problems here as I default to gold... For now; each time you start using or close lazarus you have to remind to change ld target.

Otherwise compilation is indeed fast because it uses a system of cache (just like delphi *.dcu system) plus it has modules. On top of that we can add... context-free grammar that's fast to parse, no _insane_ preprocessing (but still some, $ifdef and co).
kortilla didn't invent it. It was coined in the 1970s.
> Yes, the accomplishments of OpenAI represent that in action. It's an exceptional outcome to say the least.

What specifically backs that up? Didn't others create the technology? Is it that hard to hire and organize when you've got a top researcher that everyone wants to work with? By many accounts, he was just using OpenAI to further other businesses and investments.
It's a pity that the helium is vented out, considering its increasing rarity.

I'm guessing that capture and reuse probably would add way too much to the price of the machine.
Daihatsu’s charade. Committing fraud in safety testing needs to be punished severely.

It’s good to see that they’re stopping shipments. I hope there’s more than just fines.
I’m surprised to read this, inasmuch as when I briefly lived in Rotterdam (if “capital region” comprises it, too) some years ago, my local acquaintances coached me in where to use the formal, and where to use the informal, and the distinction seemed very much alive.
You think literally blasting someone in the face with dangerous smoke is "protected speech"? Potentially blinding someone by putting them into a thick cloud of smoke is "protected speech"?

I can't tell if your comment is a parody, or if the "free speech absolutists" have really gotten this ridiculous.
Congrats for knowing what's important to you (time and peace of mind, from what I read), and acting on it.

I work as a consultant, but for the same reasons: I choose to work only a few days a week, take the salary loss, and spend more time with my young kids. A time will come where I'll start working more, which will also unlock more meaningful work – but for now that's a choice I'm happy to make.
100 years is off by a bit, but most plastics have a life of 200-2000 years in a landfill. They'll break down.

It's the extremely nonreactive but probably toxic chemicals like PFAS which are terrifying.
I love this game, got pretty into it around 2016/17 and rose to the top of the global 1v1 leaderboard for a while. Really cool to see it still running :D
By that same token, the vast majority of downvoted comments I see are just...irritating. They're not usually overly bigoted, they're not more contrary than other, less irritating comments that aren't downvoted, they're just really annoying to read and engage with.
> said Chung, now managing general partner of Xfund, a venture-capital firm.

Emphasis mine. I mean, that's just backs up my original question. These people will say anything to garner favor, perceived or otherwise. I've seen Altman speak. At what point should I expect to see a representative example of this focus and insight?
My main metaphor I guess is that I like to be annoying to my children, but I don't really have children yet, so I'm just looking forwards to annoying my children. It's just the most exciting part of potentially having children - having unlimited power and time to be able to troll them. And seeing how these great neural networks try to adapt to it. I will do my best to keep them guessing for sure.
But the games might have more depth, and be more interesting, the more skilled you are.
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Seeing humans as anything but yet another species on the face of earth is anthropocentrism by definition.

Some species help to transmit diseases over long distances. Some diseases cause extinction of some species. Nothing is new on the face of earth.

If you think that humans have some sort of a mission to preserve biodiversity then it's just arrogance, nothing more.
my mom is like this too and i have a really strong negative reaction towards anyone who dominates a conversation or talks too much as a result
Good list but I don’t agree with all of them.

For example, post on Twitter everyday. It might have worked for some people before but I always found Twitter as noise and pointless. You can see startups getting likes for dump screenshots of revenue or milestones but it doesn’t really get you customers or real users.

The corporate one is spot on, I’ve had lots of interest from large companies but I couldn’t close any as I was a solo founder. They require lots of paper work, sales cycle is months, lots of stake holders … etc
That's rich given MS's crazy attachment to backwards compatibility. You do realize that they check every single executable that launches to see if it's eg. sim city, and if it is they enable some compatibility flags?

Meanwhile on Linux, everything breaks every time the distribution is updated. Because they're now using the right XYZ framework and every single app should be ported.
Something weird about referring to using the default password as 'hacking'
It's your anology about shopping in a store -vs- reading the web [anywhere, including in private].

>but that is what is happening regardless

So the justification is "everyone else is doing it" - OK.
The multi modal version will read your palm.
Do you have links to actual articles about current events?

If you read the Times, you'll notice that for the first week the mostly print the establishment view (america war good) but then after that, they start publishing the more critical articles.
You can use whichever editor you prefer from irb with an extension (might be builtin now? I mostly use pry, which respects $EDITOR) - the last thing I'd want would be an editor forced on me. The multi line input is for the really trivial stuff.
What other grand predictions do you have for us about the future of microbe evolution?

Also, we’re talking about a tiny quantity. A single square mile filled to one meter = 1600x1600 = 2.5 million tons assuming density of 1. That’s an entire year of 7000 tons a day.

EDIT: that was snarkier than intended, my apologies.
Thing is, with Matomo you can use on-page analytics and server logs. That’s what I do. If I’ve gone through all the trouble of setting it up, feeding logs into it, and making it viewable, it’s practically no extra work to add the on-page stuff. There’s no drawback to adding that bit of JS, even if it only adds a little bit of extra information.
People are realizing (again) that their opinions are like some ... body parts
Liquid helium has a 745:1 expansion ratio when converting into a gas. So, that's not a fun problem to have.
What the heck you write about, back home we have chestnut trees being up to 500 years old (thats the local record setter in one tiny eastern european country).

No chinese products around, not sure if you actually have any real experience of stuff you comment on.
Its unbelievable the decline of philips, i used to buy their stuff out of trust, but given their story with ventilators, this one, and other personal ones with razors, waterfloss and toothbrushes, I wouldn’t touch anything from them with a ten foot pole
Oh, interesting, is vosmicê a mispronouncing of vós mercês too?
1. warpinator, syncthing
2. rclone??

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3. self hosted ipfs in tailscale or something? (that would be cool)
Yes, I realize art is in the title and get the general sentiment. But this book is often proposed as a way to learn electronics from scratch. I'm not terribly sure it accomplishes that. My thoughts are that it's probably similar to the Feynman lectures: terrible to learn from as a first introduction but great once you have already learned the material.
I read that and honestly I can't see how that article could improve anything.

The author goes into a bunch of other issues or uses his own terminology, which makes things even more confusing.
Oh, nice. Thanks for the reference. I'll check it out.
Note that "you" is actually the object form, so the table is unfortunately not arranged the obvious way:

single plural used in contexts of
thou ye nominative (subject), vocative (preceded by the word "O"). For the singular, this implies that the relevant verb takes the "-[e]st" suffix.
thee you all object forms (direct object, indirect object, object of preposition)
thy your possessive determiner, before consonant sounds - thy will, thy God
thine your possessive determiner, before vowel sounds (including 'h') - thine enemy, thine head
thine yours possessive pronoun - not my will but thine, all that I have is thine

(the last distinction used to by used for my/mine, and is still used for a/an)
None of these people were skilled at fundraising. Their opportunities were inherited.