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I loved TurboPascal.
I agree with everything the post argues.

I would like to expand a bit on it being before the Internet was a huge thing.

The manuals that came with TurboPascal were nearly excellent.
It included most of what you would need to get started.
When you didn't quite understand something, you had to spend time to
figure it out and how to do it well.
This could be time consuming, but afterwards you gained important knowledge.

Then there were other books to get, there were "coding" magazines,
though at the moment I cant remember any TurboPascal specific ones.
and if you were lucky you knew one or two other people who were into
coding and you could share problems, solutions, hints and tips. and warez.

There were also a lot of BBSs out there.
Where you could ask questions, help others, etc.

These days most people if they face a problem, Google it (maybe now ChatGPT it) find someone posted a solution, cut and paste the crappy code, crosses fingers that it works and off you go.

(or pull down libraries without having any idea what in the world it actually does)

At the same time things have gotten a lot more complex .
In my TurboPascal days I knew most of the stack.
The programming language, the operating system, assembler,
a lot of how the CPU worked.

These days understanding javascript, understanding the runtime / compiler etc,
before you even get close to the underlying OS, and certainly not down into assembler amd CPU
> and yet doesn't capture anything meaningful

Odd that you would say that, as it logically subsumes the very meaningful "treating people/sneetches poorly because they have different melanin phenotype/stars on their bellies is bad".

I'm still waiting for the world where skin colour is about as important as hair (yes, this has vastly improved since my youth) or eye colour, eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW68oWV9uE4

"girls are different / brunettes, blondes, redheads..."

(yes, it's heteronormative, but the video, and even some subtones of the text, suggest comfort with more diversity than was either popular at the time, or even, for some people, now)
This is a lot like RescueTime which I use for personal accountability as to how I am actually spending my time

https://www.rescuetime.com/
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Oh I read the wiki article about them. Looks interesting indeed. Decent density, they claim 10000 cycles so if its real world 5000 cycles to start with thats solid 10 years!
I'm in my late 30s. So maybe not so far away from the age of lack of energy :P

I like JetBrains a lot. Things work seemlessly and easily integrate with external tools that make up the whole experience. But from 2012, I tried to rely as much on shortcuts as possible, for one simple reason, the mouse.

There is no problem with using the mouse. But everytime I have to use while focusing and coding, I find that that small gesture to move my hand from the keyboard to the mouse a bit flow breaking.

I have to move to the mouse, do a thing or two, then find my way back to the J key notch.

I like what NeoVim and emacs bring with regards to the reliance on the mouse. They allow for maintaining the same posture most of the time and focus only on typing.

I dislike how brutal they are at learning how to use them to full potential, and that making them into IDEs takes ages of IDE building rather than project coding.

I like Helix. Which takes a lot of inspiration from Vim/NeoVim/Emacs. But require no configuration to get you going right away.
The documentation is easy to read, as of now there is no plugin system but there is a builtin integration with a lot of LSP servers for most of the popular languages by default.

Keys and navigation is easy, it even shows a helper popup to show you which key to use next.

My suggestion is, if you ever want to start a new silly project, and you're feeling free to take it slow for 2 days. Try using Helix on said project.

PS: Helix isn't fully complete by any means, but it really is capable of doing everything you want in many projects without being a hindrence if you can adapt to the lack of some built-in features like git and file tree. Its annoying but I am less upset about it and use alternatives
> Git is designed for code and is terrible/overcomplex for words

I think this is not git problem, rather diff tool it's using? Wonder if using another one, e.g. difftastic[1] would be a better experience.

[1]: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic
Funny because I entirely agree with you, even though I do the exact opposite. Everything I write is in vim because I'm too lazy to learn an IDE which may or may not still be around in 5 years. I use 0 plugin and 6 lines of .vimrc config which I know by heart, so I don't care if I'm using it locally or remote, I can always get started in 1 minute.

I tried to install plugins but there is always something that fails somehow. Nvim distributions don't install and run out of the box for the most part, I get weird errors regarding lua or something and just give up. As for VSCode I wrote my first python project using it a couple weeks ago (I'm not a developper) and it's alright but a few things annoy me, like the integrated terminal and some things getting in my way.

At the end of the day, each of us should chose whatever we feel comfortable with. I spent maybe 2 hours in my life learning vim movers and never looked back. I don't even use tmux or anything, just open 1 or 2 terminal windows and alt+tab between them, with the occasional :split or :vsplit command.
The state, through taxes. It's a public good after all.
Operation Triangulation is an excellent talk detailing the discovery, nature, remediation, and future thoughts about the related iOS exploit. Hector Martin has some nice after commentary here too: https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/111655847458820583
Plainly, it’s the difference between picking one at random, or shuffling a playlist. I think people can intuitively understand the difference between the two.
This is weird. If you don't mind my asking, why don't you google for studies with larger scale experiments/surveys rather than using a single random data point ?

Edit: yeah, that's what I thought...
https://www.rescuetime.com/ already does what you describe very well, without ML. I've used it for years now, for personal accountability.

It even already does the "high score" thing you are talking about, LOL
French alps had the very same problem.

Austria I don't know. Many Austrian had the reverse problem with too much iodin and basedov eyes.
Skimmed, obviously.

Split of toes happen, fourtunately...
I think everyone agrees that once the Russian army started moving it was to late to stop them invading Ukraine. The issue I have is that "Putin wanted to occupy Ukraine" is too simplistic. We should be asking why he felt forced to occupy Ukraine. Russia can't realistically afford to do what they're doing, it is ruinous for them too and they all know it. The US strategy is to bleed them white while expending Slavic blood on both sides. Which to be honest is a pretty good and cost-effective strategy locally speaking, I'd actually say it was a good idea except Russia has nukes, oil and strategically the US really need to be working on isolating China which this failed spectacularly at.

Russia underestimated how active the US was in Ukraine. They weren't expecting the level of resistance they encountered and it is pretty obvious that Ukraine would have folded immediately if the US wasn't backing them. Given that the Russians are probably moving from fear of NATO and it turns out NATO was conspiring against them in Ukraine, I have difficulty accepting that "Putin wanted this". It looks a lot more like "Putin thought he could find a diplomatic solution and realised the only option left was to invade, but it was too late and didn't send enough forces". If their rationale was the obvious one (fear of NATO moving in Ukraine) then the invasion revealed that not only are those fears justified, but they were in fact underestimating the threat.
This resembles OSH/YSH, especially the v1/v2 layer things.

http://www.oilshell.org/
Yeah, that was my same experience. It was a tight fit, but certainly doable.
Transform Your Accent into American Accent
Not from newspaper sales
No, you're confused, because this is confusing:

https://unlicense.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlicense

So if something is unlicensed (no license) you would be correct, but if something is unlicensed (unlicensed license) you would be incorrect...
AI Is a Healer, Not a Killer. It will find new drugs
https://archive.is/6wKQJ
Sometimes the random button should just return 4 multiple times in a row, as a reference to https://xkcd.com/221/
It became sort of a hackerish trend in the past decade, usinga hyper customized (neo)vim in lieu of an IDE.
10x less than what Volkswagen had to pay lol

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/volkswagen-spend-147-billion-...
Yes. You expect the absolute difference in numbers of 0s vs 1s to grow roughly with the square-root of the total number of digits produced.
We must be talking at cross-purposes. All your statements can be true and uncontroversial, and still not be resposible for the groundswell of hatred towards Russians in Western populations. Or, more subtly, would have been ignored without a propaganda pump drawing the public's attention to them.

All I'm saying (and it's not a particularly useful statement tbh) is that it's damn hard to tease out cause and effect here.
I think the site requires you to pick something unique (???). For me, entering AAA doesn't work but entering HJFDKFDSGHK works.
To converge on 50% implies 49%\51% prior. Almost even.
In the context of their blog post, it's assumed that the reader has some knowledge of web technologies — if you can print data to your own webpage, you can also exfiltrate it.

It's not reasonable to expect the author to explain _every_ underlying technology involved since that was likely not the scope of the post.
> This Serverless Function has crashed.

> Your connection is working correctly.

> Vercel is working correctly.

Looks like it’s down for now.
My system monitor says it's using 1.3GBs after warming up, and even forcefully reindexing a big C++ project.

I don't think VSCode will use 400MBs with that amount of code, plus electron, plus all the LSP stuff you run beneath it.

In that state Eclipse will fit into a 6GB system just fine. I'd love to try that at a VM right now, but I don't have the time, unfortunately :)
but what if they were also scraping, for example, Netflix content to use as part of their training set?

There were some tweets the other day about how Midjourney could be prompted almost-exactly reproduce some frames of the film Dune. It wouldn't be shocking if these companies were using large databases of movies, with questionable legal status.
China court recognizes creator as legal copyrights-holder for AI image
I played this as a kid on a Franklin PC, an Apple II clone. It was more interesting than Pac-Man at the time and IIRC you could design your own levels.
This must be a bug though. If you unfold hidden comments, you jumpt to the BOTTOM, where you just WERE, rather than the top. So you scroll up, with no scrollbar, frantically, because you don't know how far you have to go. Until you reach the top - and you drag down ONE MORE TIME, because you're scrolling frantically, so the whole thread reloads, and everything is folded again, and you're back where you started.
I like the reminder that research is hard, and unless you check whether your sources knew what they were doing, you'll be building on foundations of sand.

It's so easy for one party to say "there were X people here, I guess", and for the next person to take that number and plug it into some complex formula without ever checking how reliable the number is in the first place.
the (presumably) stateless, serverless function that appears to serve the site has.. crashed?

i dunno, i feel like the wording of this error message could be improved :)
The ratio of occurrences of 0s and 1s will go to one in the limit. But the absolute difference of occurrences will diverge. (It grows roughly like the square-root of the number of digits.)
Ironically, I have no idea what you’re implying with this reply. Should I drop the usage of the word ‘just’? Isn’t it clear what I’m saying?
I used h264_videotoolbox which is supposed to be efficient for apple hardware. I'd like to get hevc_videotoolbox working.

rem does OCR in memory before streaming to ffmpeg. But it works on the screen grabs of the video anyway.

Yeah, it's a pretty different use case than other video. Curious too if there are "screen recording optimized" codecs.

Like non-contiguous diffing. Instead of "diff from last frame", "diff from frame X"- and/or some sort of quad tree hash lookup
> All of that costs money, and The Times earns that by limiting access to its reporting through a robust paywall.

Not to be pedantic, but NYT has the least robust paywall I've ever seen. Just turn on reader mode in your browser. Simple. I get that it's still tresspassing if I walk into an unlocked house, but NYT could try installing a lock that isn't made of confetti and uncooked pasta.
Apples and oranges. The US had done plenty of atrocities since the CIA branched off after WW2, sabotaging foreign governments, temporary invasions, etc. But, if the US was Russia, all the Americas would be Russia by now.
tl;dr

The plaintiff, Li, used Stable Diffusion to generate a photorealistic image of an Asian woman. He shared the work on Xiaohongshu, a Chinese platform similar to Instagram. Later, the defendant Liu, a blogger, published the image in a blog post without Li’s permission, removing his username and platform watermark.

Li sued for copyright infringement. The Beijing Internet Court ultimately ruled in his favor. Crucially, the court recognized Li as the legal rights-holder, having contributed the necessary “intellectual input” through choices of models, prompts, parameters, and final image selection. Judges emphasized that copyright law aims to encourage human creativity.
Or maybe that's what it's supposed to do.
Around would do that more effectively. Almost is more similar to nearly, and I agree commonly used for lower.
And an empty plate is not a plate, also by definition? Okay, sure.
Can I get a user replaceable battery instead?
I guess that settles that. I may have to look into running for mayor. It seems like shrugging one's shoulders anytime a problem doesn't rest squarely within one's city limits allows for avoiding all accountability for one's own policies and actions (or lack thereof).

And the tradition continues today.
It will be equally easy for ChatGPT to rewrite copyrighted content that makes the output materially different for a copyright claim to succeed also.
Yeah, I don’t judge people for pirating or ad blocking, but the ludicrous justifications do get me - quite the entitled mental gymnastics. They remind me of bitcoin people trying to explain how mining is good for the environment.
A GPU is also useful in other scientific calculations, AI is just a small part of it.
Perhaps even more relevant, it's already the name of a persistence library for Lua. Probably unmaintained at this point, but it's been around for decades (version 1.2 was released in 2004). Unless names are invented words, collisions are inevitable at this point.

http://lua-users.org/wiki/PlutoLibrary

https://github.com/hoelzro/pluto
I haven't heard about him but checking the source tree of our 2 front-end apps and his 'is-number' package (which his is-odd depends on), seems to be imported by quite a few other packages.

Now looking at the source, that package may make sense if figuring out whether something is a number type in JS is really that cumbersome. (Though I'd expect that there is a more generic package that covers the other built-in types as well.)

Also since isNumber treats strings that can be converted to a number, a number, it can yield weird results since adding two strings will naturally just concatenate them. So e.g.:

const a = '1';
isNumber(a); // returns true
const b = a + a; // Now you have a string in b: '11'

Of course, it's standard JS stupidity (and 2*a would be 2, and 1+'1' and '1'+1 would both be '11'), but then maybe stating that '1' is a number is not the right response. However, the package was downloaded 46 million times last week and that seems to be so low only because of Christmas. The previous weeks averaged around 70M. And most of these are dependencies, like in our projects, I'm sure.
I feel like viewport height (vh) kind of solved this. Designing for a specific height is janky but now you can just programmatically do it.
Correct conclusion IMO. Many years ago I ran a social network with a focus on art and media, and we had a “show me another” button which picked a random submission to display.

People complained that it wasn’t random. Incessantly.

So I changed it, to instead maintain a list of previously viewed items for each user, and to exclude them from the results.

And that was that. People almost immediately noticed that it had been “fixed”.

There’s mathematically perfect, and then there’s user expectations - and ne’er the twain shall meet.
Ay least in Chicago, pizzeria pubs are pretty popular around the city. Never had NYC pizza but the Chicago variety has been very tasty to me.
When was the CCC not political?
Just because someone decided to be cheeky and call their license "unlicensed," doesn't mean I'm confused about what license are or aren't... If I wrote a license that granted no rights and decided to call it "Public Domain (TM)," would you also berate people who explained to other what actual "public domain" means?
My dad, in Alaska, calls them box canyons.
> (Of course other numbers, like the rationals and reals, are pure fiction and can safely be ignored negative or otherwise.)

I think natural numbers are already pretty fictional.

Btw, you might want to look into p-adic numbers.
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When it does load it looks like this could've just be a static site, so it's interesting to see it being a serverless function that crashes the whole time.

But yes, the idea of designing for the fold is from early 2000s (or i guess I should say pre-2010 in my experience) and should stay there.
Tetra unlocked after decades in the shadows [video]
Blockchain dev's wallet emptied in "job interview" using NPM package
You can't, but there are some people who can quickly memorize entire pages of written text.
Even some Amazon stuff is really good.

I used a Kindle 2 e-reader daily for ~14 years and, aside from decreased battery life, it was still great. Sadly I eventually stepped on it one too many times and the screen cracked.

I might fix it for ~$20 with ebay parts if I ever get bored enough.
I was really sad when I heard about this. I've enjoyed the Smothers Brothers since I was a kid and found my parents' records of them. "Mom Always Liked You Best," falling into a vat of Chocolate, Streets of Laredo, My Old Man, John Henry, Crabs Walk Sidways, Pretoria, etc, etc. If you have never watched them before, look up a few of these.

I was fortunate enough to see them in person when they performed in our city about a decade ago.

Did they ever do just a straight music album? That would have been great. Streets of Laredo starts off so beautifully.

EDIT:
Here, I'll help you out:

Streets of Laredo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDmdSPKR73o

My Old Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgD1o9I8hw0

Pretoria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P5IIsCFTCo

Crabs Walk Sideways: (be patient through the first minute or so) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en54Im4qBOA

Chocolate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH0IZZRd0bI

Six String Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1MUytzDQog

Boil that Cabbage Down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmfILH3JKQg
This made me laugh:
"Upon execution, it decrypts (using a custom algorithm derived from GTA IV hashing) its configuration [...]"

From https://securelist.com/triangulation-validators-modules/1108...
I (author) wouldn’t say I “forgot” about it. I was there when Eclipse became a thing, and my memories are all pretty grim. Difficult to use, slow, very resource hungry… so I never really paid much attention once I finished school. It probably is better now as others are saying, but I don’t know nor care at this point to be honest.
Lode Runner was the first game to impress me with its play mechanics and its level builder. It was really an elegant little game. I don’t think it would make my all time top 10 today but it would probably make a “top 10 to date of release”.
Returning the full text of an article verbatim seems to me like the opposite of "transformative."
Start reading Bhagvad Gita few days back.

re-read: 1984, Animal Farm and flowers of algernon.
The Flash should be blue, how SONIC got it right
Reloading the page worked for me and showed the real content. It is a collection of past visitors viewport heights. When I opened it I saw more than 50 different heights.
why it is OK for the Washington Post to copy the NY times, but not ok for OpenAI or Archive.org?

If the Washington Post printed an article from the NY Times nearly verbatim and without attribution, it would not be OK and surely they would take legal action.
I fantasize about stealing something everytime I get one of these “Unknown item in bagging area” errors forcing me to wait for an attendant to come clear the error. What did I breathe too hard on the scale? The sheer nerve of the retailer both making me do their work and having less than zero trust in me is too much.
In the world of cricket, there is always room for improvement and development. As a passionate cricketer myself, I have always sought out platforms that can enhance my skills and provide me with valuable insights. Luckily, I stumbled upon CRICADDA, and it has been an absolutely wonderful experience ever since.
Someone else pointed out that doing would be 100% a warcrime, so I'm doubting the veracity of the reporting.
There were some changes over the last couple of years. Previous CEO Tom Linebarger stepped down in July 2023, to be replaced by Jennifer Rumsey. Tracey Embree was the President of the Cummins Components division (including emission controls) and left the company in 2023 and now President of Otis lifts. Mahesh Narang was also a VP of the Components business (including emissions controls) and has left Cummins in 2023 to now take a lead at Oshkosh. Notably current CTO Jonathan Wood was also in charge of components group engineering during the time line of this scandal. So I would say some have quietly moved on or aside or upwards, of course they have paid no penalties and merely continued to earn considerable $$$ in other organisations. The people who generally pay in these circumstances are the lower salaried workforce, who may well suffer in terms of being let go or loss of bonsus / pay rises etc.
Legacy support, basically. You're hired to maintain some key legacy monster created by people long since fired, and there is no option of refactoring it due to sunk cost fallacy by the business.

So, you're stuck just doing nothing but little "keep the lights on" tasks, your only job is to keep the buggy mess running, and you have little-to-no opportunities to modernize or do any best practices due to the limitations of the legacy monster and total lack of interest on the business-side.
I am devastated when I see that things are getting worse, and I can't do more without help .
I would do whatever it takes.
You can't imagine how many scammers there are trying to have me pay all sorts of fees
I feel this is misleading as most iPhone users are totally aware that iPhone Models not running iOS 17 are not being actively updated.

The list is widely published: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/models-compatible-wit...

Any model more than 5 years old (Xr and Xs) are essentially not being updated and not secure. So an iPhone 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and X are all not secure and most people who use the iPhone are totally aware of this.

It's like writing an article that Windows 7 is insecure and Microsoft isn't patching it. This is essentially their policy in most cases.