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I bought 2 16500A for $20 each. The seller had a whole pallet of them.

I’ve had my fun with it: https://tomverbeure.github.io/2022/10/05/Sony-CHM-9001-00-CR... and https://tomverbeure.github.io/2022/06/17/HP16500a-teardown.h..., but they’re just to bulky and heavy for bench top use.

The IR touch screen is awesome though: I reverse engineered the whole PCB into a schematic (it’s a pretty pedestrian LED matrix), and one day I want to do something fun with it.
facepalm. You are going to put all of a businesses more sensitive/proprietary data in the blockchain. Why? Also, blockchain is the least performant database in the world. When ERP requires most performant database. Why??!!
They're not pushing anywhere near hard enough. I don't even really want to play new games, I'd settle for just being able to play old games. It's funny the article mentioned Halo - I can't play that on my M1 Max at all, even though I own the mac version. It could probably emulate it fast enough. Hell, it could probably emulate the windows version fast enough. But nope, it doesn't work and I'm not willing to jump through hoops to somehow maybe hack it into working, I want to play a game sometimes, not configure UNIXy stuff, that's what I'm playing a game to take a break from.

And I like the screenshot of Steam. Almost none of my Steam games work, even first-party stuff like Portal or Half-life. FFS, the steam client itself has not even been updated for arm64. That right there tells you how seriously Valve takes the mac gaming market.

If Apple were serious, they would do as MS has repeatedly done and back up to Valve's (and other's) offices with a dump truck full of money and just do whatever it takes to make it work. Until they start to take proactive steps, not this "build it and they will come" mentality which has never worked in the past, I think mac gaming will remain the backwater it is. I'd love to see that change, but I don't think it will.
> How many batteries do we need to store the equivalent energy in 1kg of uranium

Energy density isn't, alone, determinant here.

The most determinant question is: after taking into account all measures aiming at reducing renewables' production 'intermittency' ('variability' is more adequate), which are: spreading a mix (wind, solar, geothermic...) of renewable sources on a continent, enhancing grid interconnections among nations for them so support each other (objective already very actively and more and more pursued in Europe), storing at continental-level renewables' over-productions (thanks to hydro, hydrogen...) and using it on a clean 'backup' compensating for renewables' 'intermittency', demand response...
... then how much energy do we need to store in order to compensate for any remaining 'intermittency'?

Given that the average electric car battery can power the average home for quite a while (days), and that other EV batteries will be online...

Moreover each year 7% to 10% of gridpower is in France (fully nuclearized) produced thanks to fossil fuel, and its electricity is low-emitting, giving a quite comfy last-resort.

> And how much mining is required obtain those materials

Those materials are recyclable and have substitutes.

Uranium isn't (in practice) recyclable and doesn't have any substitute: this is eternal mining of an ever-rarefied source.

> shipping them around the world in diesel powered boats?

This is a valid point, enforcing the need for each continent hosting cooperating nations to produce its own production units.

On the other hand uranium reserves at current conditions can provide for at best 200 years (more probably 130 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_uranium ), therefore the conditions (price and emissions, as the raise as the ore grade lowers may quickly worsen if some 'nuclear renaissance' stems reactors building projects. Who will take the risk and invest?
Why are they a monopoly in this sector? What's stopping people from just switching to Bing if their product goes to shit? Doing that literally takes like two seconds
Feels like there are two things going on:

1. Randomness is inherently counterintuitive and humans in general really struggle to comprehend its ramifications. Read “Fooled by Randomness” or a million other things about this.

2. When a lot of people see something which offers a random sample they expect a random shuffle. In particular if you’re making any kind of playlist thing and you have a feature which does random samples not random shuffles people will hate your feature and you’ll feel superior because you’ll think they are wrong but actually you are the one who is wrong. You need to build a shuffle of some kind. Changing your sampling strategy to be “less random” thinking that it will coincide with peoples’ intuitions is making it even more wrong than before.
Centre (the consortium behind USDC, including Coinbase and Circle) does have a mechanism to freeze shady accounts and accounts used to steal funds. Which has been used to freeze the TornadoCash funds when they were ordered to.
If the user has to initiate all shuffles, it won't play continuously. If you handle it another way, that demonstrates that it doesn't "just" work with a pure shuffle without using those tricks.
> I don't get how Google even thinks this is a road, or what data it is using to discover it. Its nowhere on any map that I know of!

I suspect that someone holding an Android phone simply drives the path.

If you're Google, which will you trust more:

1) A bunch of sources of varying correctness which may/may not have been tampered with.

or

2) Actual GPS coordinates from your OS saying "Hey, somebody drove here."
https://www.gadgets360.com/entertainment/news/dune-2020-firs...

You are right, the regurgitation was indeed produced by the studio for promotional purposes. But notice how the image is rendered at the link: with credit and copyright. And specifically, for promotional purposes. And while I don't presume to know the specifics of the licensing of that image, I wouldn't either assume that this use is licensed. Especially without copyright and credit.
That is amoung the largest lithium batteries in the world. It’s great to see the gigawatt scale batteries get deployed.

Great for turning renewables into baseload power and also their response time is hard to beat.
This doesn't ring true for me at all and I've dealt with the dreaded omni-rails stack (or worse the dreaded tomcat springboot stack). Monoliths are far far easier to scale because you have one throat to choke and performance patches / elimination of n+1's spread across the whole app. Also in a monolith unit tests have the power of integration tests in a microservice world. I can actually be sure the boundaries between components behave as I expect and fail loudly if they change in a manner that breaks me. And the last thing in the world I ever want to do for scaling purposes is stick a network call/serialization step between two pieces of my own app because that's a bottleneck waiting to happen.

It feels like a lot of people reach for microservices when they should be reaching for sharding and/or moving to reads to replicas (which you can finally do in Rails thank god).
> Having lived through that era, the number one culprit that I would blame as the root cause of this shift is the rise in transaction fees.

Haha no, the number one culprit is that 99% of blockchain projects are either scams, bullshit, not actually decentralized, or simply fail despite pulling in vast amounts of funding (sometimes more than one of the above!).

However, I do agree that most--if not all--problems in the cryptocurrency space arise from the "currency" aspect. Just not so directly as "transaction fees".
Maybe WoW didn't run on Microservices, but you can bet the project was divided into a bunch of different fiefdoms. Just they were separated at the interface level rather than the network level. Same concept though.

Ultimately if you've got different teams working simultaneously, they should be working on non-conflicting features. Microservice is just one architecture that develops within this constraint. You'll never get anywhere if everyone is working on the same interfaces with no separation of concerns. So where should the separation emerge, if not along the same lines as the existing IRL separation? Conway's law is not a coincidence; it's an inevitability...
I feel like we are going to spend many years coping with Team Topologies, a book which idolizes a seeming infinite and vast independence of teams from each other in the name of 'spending things up' or some such.

I love, respect, & cherish the ideas here. But the sound-bite ideas of the book vastly overweigh the practical complexities of development.

Yeah, giving each team authority to do their thing is desperately necessary today; there's too much organizational confusion & unclear decision making processes. Teams need autonomy. Yes. But the book really seems to have so little to say about how to play together. It doesn't talk hardly at all about how to find concordance & to make decisions across teams. What are good common techs to adopt? Microservices as I'm everyone can pick whatever (Haskell for this, pho for that, & 12 varieties of node) is one organizational end, monolith is another end. The confusion and angst Team Topologies let's dwell and build is infinite, because it's pretense is that there are many parallel streams of development and that inter-team work is a negative.

The books is so good and so important. Because so many orgs are fucked and doing things terribly. Cognitive load is massively over managed and it's impossible to do anything to escape the tar pit the shitty ancient overly established pretentious shitbag elders have dictated. But the result of what Team Topologies says is such an opposite and shitty fucked, where cognitive loads expand exponentially because every team is independent & fucking off into their own space, with only vague constraining behavior or nebulous "platform" teams that "support" or maybe dictate to these platforms teams.

Never have I seen a book I both respect so highly & think so terrible & awful.
LOGOS and the Software Engineer (1972)
Reaffirms my determination to avoid all those cute custom, AI-generated stories services for my little kid, and to be very careful about other superficially child-safe media. He’s at a point where he’s latching on to phrases and repeating them, even weeks later.
The sole point about hydro also is highly debatable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35521090
This would make sense if it was a one-off.

But apple has hundreds of debug registers. They have >1000 apple-specific MSR registers in the M3, which can be used to bypass/test lots of things, not just this, if you have enough permissions.

They were historically not locked down for the most part, just undocumented.

Apple has MSR lockdown registers that let them lock down access to MSR's (which only makes it harder, you can unlock access again later, but it means you have to be able to write the lock MSR to unlock them), and the latest kernels now lockdown most MSR's.

XNU also even has code to inject AMCC/DCS/ECC errors for testing.

Almost all of these can be seen from the KDK, and it's been that way for years.

This specific thing being a backdoor is totally implausible as a result. It's almost certainly not the only test mechanism that could be exploited due to some bug.

The CPU registers are MMIO accessible, like the GPU ones, but protected through various mechanisms that the GPU ones are not, by design (the GPU has no IOMMU).

It is much more likely they paid an insider for access to the GPU register names/info, or found it through a leak, and then started trying to see what they could do with the info, than it is that the entire thing, top to bottom, was an intentional backdoor.
Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax
It’s great to be able to de-cloud.
But the community, especially the maintainer of Valetudo, is terrible. Literally everyone is rude every step of the way.

Checkout the telegram channels. Watch the maintainer yell at people, call them names, and watch the supporters eat it up.
so they didn't enable the write-protection after flashing?
Something I’ve wanted for a while now is a language / framework that behaves like networked micro services but without the network overheads.

E.g.: the default hosting model might be to have all of the services in a single process with pass-by-copy messages. One could even have multiple instances of a service pinned to CPU cores, with hash-based load balancing so that L2 and L3 caches could be efficiently utilised.

The “next tier” could be a multi-process host with shared memory. E.g.: there could be permanent “queue” and “cache” services coupled to ephemeral Web and API services. That way, each “app” could be independently deployed and restarts wouldn’t blow away terabytes of built up cache / state. One could even have different programming languages!

Last but not least, scale out clusters ought to use RDMA instead of horrifically inefficient JSON-over-HTTPS.

Ideally, the exact same code ought to scale to all three hosting paradigms without a rewrite (but perhaps a recompile).

Some platforms almost-but-not-quite work this way, such as EJB hosts — they can short circuit networking for local calls. However they’re not truly polyglot as they don’t support non-JVM languages. Similarly Service Fabric has some local-host optimisations but they’re special cases. Kubernetes is polyglot but doesn’t use shared memory and has no single-process mode.
This sounds very interesting, please do write it up.
I'm all for people doing what they feel works for them, but none of the stated arguments (either from the author or direct quotes from the original tweeter) hold up to scrutiny.
The soil in the Austrian Country of Styria has notoriously low iodine levels. When visiting Styria in 1748, David Hume wrote:

'But as much as the country is agreeable in its wildness, as much are the inhabitants savage, and deformed, and monstrous in their appearance. Very many of them have ugly swelled throats; idiots and deaf people swarm in every village; and the general aspect of the people is the most shocking I ever saw.' [1]

That's why some traditional costumes in that region include a so called "Kropfband" (goitre bound). [2]

It's fascinating how much one's place of birth used to influence a life and medical biography and in many countries still does.

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42843/42843-h/42843-h.htm

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kropfband
Curious to me as backwards compatibility has been one of the strengths I hear Go proponents cheer.

Any idea what were the APIs that were likely to cause problems?
I’d be interested in a simulation of this. I feel like this could well be worse, basically a kind of constant flickering, but I’m not sure.
On mobile, iOS specifically in safari, your drop downs are hard to use. I’m not able to dismiss the keyboard. Is that an issue on my end?
I think time has demonstrated that some form of (possibly itself centralized to some degree) incentive system can be important for a healthy decentralized ecosystem, but it doesn't necessarily have to be directly monetary: private trackers do pretty well with ratio systems, even through they're not wholly decentralized in the classical sense.

I think this has a slightly ironic benefit in practice: by paying out in-kind, as it were, you inherently filter for participants who actually are after the functionality provided by the distributed system and aren't just out to make a quick buck, which leads to a better true believer:huckster ratio. Reminds me of how capitalistic incentives don't always translate to good content: see cooking recipe / other SEO blogspam, or capeshit. Scene respect is the sort of in-kind pseudocurrency that, while not without its own flaws, ime incentivizes better art.
Thanks for trying. I don’t use Google Maps, but if they had a Jeep Mode I’d absolutely use it.

Of course, every now and then Google does send someone down the path less travelled by. One day while exploring a remote area and reaching the point where flooding prevented me from going farther, a couple pulled up in some massive SUV, having driven down a road that must have given them pause.
How is this related to my factual statement that "vision therapy to improve myopia is quackery"?
The idea is good, but it's bad to have it in the kernel. So moving it out should give more room to make it look better.
They are a constant sources of bugs, but it's not really an architecture matter.
There are already many triple A games that runs on ios. Technically they would run easily on Mac and apple doesn't even bother with these low hanging fruits
I use a rss client which has a content view, and it's barely different than what gemini offers. I also read plenty of epubs and while inline images are possibles, it's often looks really bad. I think there's a value on prioritizing content over forms. Some contents won't fit to these restrictions and that's ok. It's not like it's a web replacement, just an alternative whose restrictions create some kind of exclusivity.
The only thing GM is good for are their myriad of business POIs. For everything else, use OSMand respective OrganicMaps.

(and yes people, contribute adding POIs to OSM!)
Seriously... Too many people just buy the excuses of these systems even though there are massively distributed systems that work on existing technology quite well. Crypto is just an excuse to scam others with the promise of $$ rewards using words they don't understand and seeming to be high tech.
This isn't an artillery game - this is unrelated to the Worms series.
Aren't the Whisper models are proprietary pre-trained blobs?
You can create classes in VB 6 from IDE where you would add a class module and define code in that module. There was no "class" keyword AFAIK.
Very cool demo OP. Not sure why it's only for Apple Silicone, is it because of it's superior ML support compared to windows? Side oservarion, Olama is not available for Windows. Sadly I won't be able to test this out since I don't own a Apple Silicon notebook, I only have a Apple Intel and beefy Windows.

I don't know if I am a basic programmer or lack the idea on how do folks go build something like this from scratch with no Swift programming language. If I was OP, I would first do bunch of Swift tutorials.

This will be wishful thinking but it is a legitimate side project to make a clone of this to work on Linx oe WIndows on programming language I am most comfortable in, Java and C#. I have zero background in building anything in ML and not at all familiar with Direct X api or Linux Desktop API or Direct X.

The point I am trying to make is there is crap ton of API and tools to be familiar with before even taking the step to code.

How did OP crack this with no exp in Swift to build this? Is it simplar to build project on Apple Silicon and I should get one?

Mind you, I have 4 YOE and code in Java and C# doing vanilla web API and bit of WinFoem/DevExpress work.
My benchmark is largely based on the "Moby Dick Workout"[1] of Jesse Grosjean. I agree with him that ANY text editor should pass these tests. And block editors are first and foremost text editors. I just decided to take it up a notch and do my tests on War and Peace.

Another very crucial point, a good deal of software today is written with no oversight on performance at all, so you end up needing to buy the latest hardware to run apps smoothly. Why would anyone need a M3 Macbook to run a text editor fast??

This is why I used a 2017 Macbook Air in my tests and not the M1 Pro next to it. Efficient software matters for the longevity of hardware.

[1] https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/posts/moby-dick-workout/
So Just because some people give out something for free at certain time, all the other people should do the same all the time? Not to mention most open source comes with a well-defined term not just exploited from free by a closed service making money for another company.

Earnestly I found ";)" deeply troublesome.
x/twitter doesn't own that content.

It's arguably stealing from the people who posted on twitter (because twitter got permission and nitter didn't) but most people who post on x/twitter want their content to spread as much as possible, and don't benefit from twitter advertising anyway.
And health...

My favorite settings were 10% health 100% reload time, you had to be very careful especially with some of the more self destructive weapons but IMO was the best competitively. It made things like dart, fan, winchester (?) usable (if just barely).
of modern day rocketry and Elon Musk.
Do you have a better solution?

You can complain on the forums about how unfair life is, how incompetent companies are, fight every provider to prove your reputation until cows come home,… Or you can pay someone to handle that for you. It’s a no-brainer. The whole discussion is moot.

You pay your plumber to plumb, your builder to build, and email delivery company to deliver your emails. Trying to DYI everything is a waste of everyone’s time.
I have never seen a business accept GPS coordinates instead of the actual home address, for booking at-home services.
The Dark Arts – LessWrong
"This can keeps getting kicked down the road a couple years."

And it will continue to do so because the only people who care about the matter are the few who read columns like this. Similarly, we see the same apathy amongst the masses when it comes to copyright reform.

To overturn decisions of entrenched power—government or corporate—we need the masses to react and demonstrate in the way they did during the Vietnam War and there's no stomach around for that these days (there's been no such reaction for 50 years).

Opponents of such laws just have to accept the fact that they don't have the numbers and likely won't for some considerable time.