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Executable files (and OS processes) used to be that. Then came shared libraries, configuration files, multi-executable applications, and whatnot. It would have been nicer to extend the executable formats and OS process sandboxing, IMO.

Next thing we’ll define a new format and runtime to package and run a collection of docker images with associated configuration.
Thanks for your response; sorry, yes, I'm in UK. From that it sounds like it's not working properly for me; will try it on a different device. Cheers.
> Minivans are super practical vehicles, with great engineering that get overlooked because they have a weird uncool stigma about them.

So much this. My minivan fits my five kids, myself, and all of their bikes (using the big trunk and front seat) with room to spare. It's amazing.

Nonetheless, my wife won't drive it and complains constantly that it would "make her look like a soccer mom." She hates it.

Instead she drives a Subaru Ascent, which only just barely fits the kids, feels cramped, and has maybe 30% of the cargo space—all while having a pretty similar footprint.
Be careful with some of the data removal "services". Some of them just spam random services with your name and email address asking to be removed. You can actually leave behind more data than gets removed.
Come on. Discord or slack is like a forum where you have every post ever made on a topic in a single thread, 92,000 pages long. Sure, you can use search, but the nature of chat means that once you find one message (say, where a question was asked) you have to then skim through other discussions also going on at the time — often many of them — wondering if anyone answered the question, or if the discussion might continue after each interruption.

It’s okay for some applications I guess, but it’s the worst replacement for a forum, wiki, or knowledge base I’ve ever seen.
They made no honest mistake at all. I used them two years ago, did the unsubscribe thing three times since and still get spam from them. They know exactly what they are doing, same as beer53.
> I still don't need rust because I don't code like a crazy person.

This is not a foolproof argument because safety problems can easily result from unforeseen interactions among parts of the code that all seem to be OK and not "crazy" locally. A significant benefit of something like the borrow checker is that it can suss out these problematic interactions in a comprehensive way, even at the cost of forbidding some code patterns that would be perceived as safe in most cases. (Idiomatic use of Rust then requires you to either rewrite such code or stick it in an unsafe block and figure out what the preconditions are for it to be used safely.)
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Hi akkartik, I often come across your project as I think I'm on the same research path as yours, just trying from a slightly different approach. I am also interested in the bare metal/OSdev world for building a new language, as if you do it early you can avoid getting tainted with the semantics of the host OS you are working on (if you develop a language/OS combo on Linux, it'll probably end up looking very UNIXy)

I haven't done OSdev in 20+ years (https://github.com/1player/klesh), but I hope I can set aside some time to dive into mu seriously and maybe pick your brain a bit :) keep up the good work!
> The Reddit users do not have a recognized privacy interest in their IP addresses,” the motion says.

I wonder how did we get to this point.
But in some countries there are large areas of undeveloped land, so lots of space to store energy.
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I’ve never succeeded with slack chat. Basically I just have to remember when a conversation happened and go to that time and scroll until I see it. Even if I remember most of the words of a message I’m searching for.

Outlook is the reigning champion of terrible search, but don’t Slack is the runner up.
I don't know how much truth there is to this, but when IKEA established themselves in the US, they evidently had issues with americans returning duvet covers "because the fabric was ripped in the corners".

Subsequently IKEA removed the corner holes. Globally, in the name of large-scale economics.

And speaking of subsequently, I've stopped buying bed linen at IKEA.
B is exactly how I've felt about, in order: C, C++, Java, C#, Javascript. I spent almost 20 years writing languages I did not like because I couldn't find jobs in anything else.

Rust saved some of us from a lifetime of exactly the problems you have with Rust, maybe let us have this one :)
The roll method has been working for me since I learned it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OdRNW0aW4o (not sure this is the best video) I've never had to climb into the cover. I'm not sure what the author's issue with it is.

Extra wholes and zipper vs buttons are ascetics to me. Did you know they make pants you put on from the side with velcro? (https://www.google.com/search?q=side+velcro+pants&oq=side+ve...) That's arguably a better "design" following this author's logic, but I'm not switching
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Well done. SVGs can be selected in the file picker, but the compressor doesn't seem to support them. You should probably further limit the selection to raster formats.
Not stereo stuff, but there's a YouTuber named 'Jim Lill' https://www.youtube.com/@JimLill/videos who has proven, beyond a doubt in an accessible way, where sound comes from in a guitar, an amplifier, and now he's doing microphones. It's super interesting and highly entertaining. I definitely recommend.
Second-order effects are hard! Especially when your day-to-day is already consumed by first order effects: keeping your job, putting food on the table.

In times of great turbulence, it pays to hold on to fundamentals. Partly because they're a stable beacon that helps one muddle through; partly because there's little else to hold on to anyway.

On that note, a few observations:

1) We're biological animals. People love profit, but ultimately need other people to realize and enjoy that profit. To your point, in the limit, what good is being the wealthiest man on Earth, if you are the last man on Earth?

The rich and powerful are hardwired to flaunt their power and wealth and social status too, just like the apes we all are. Which puts a lower cap on how much they want to reduce the outside human population, whether consciously or as a 2nd order effect of their "whoopsie, I never!" actions. At some point on the concentration-of-wealth vs population-size curve, capitalism self-aligns with humanism, simply to preserve the biological substrate that powers it.

2) Taking off the human-centric goggles, "profit" is a function (one of many) to optimize. Humans love to optimize because Nature loves to optimize.

Nature's favourite goal appears to be bulldozing energy gradients, reducing free energy, increasing entropy. Everything else a downstream corollary: chemistry, biology, humans, civilizations, ecology.

So any plan to pause or subvert this optimization process is immediately suspect. Especially if that plan lacks a clear articulation of the process and ways to counter it. You and who's army? You think putting ink to paper to draft a regulation will do it? Because "Democracy" and "Will of the people" and "We humans are special"?

That's not a call for cynicism or despondency; just an observation of nature's directionality over the past few billion years. You'll be up against some formidable forces; Nature's rat-race to always do more with less is real, and us men and women merely players.

Having a way to model this space rigorously and explore the various equilibria and inflection points would be cool. Rather than humanity bouncing off the walls with new 1st-order-effect ideologies and religions all the time; a few million murdered here; a starvation there; an economic collapse yonder.
> Have you not used the search feature in Slack or Discord?

I have. Discord, in particular, has the worst search function I've ever seen in my life, or close to it.
I guess I qualify as a "Tech Dad". I run a tech business and father of 3 (11 years,10 years, 18 months). The most critical support network is your wife. Period. Full stop. If you have anything less than 100% support (mental and physical) from your wife and vice versa, you will be in trouble. I am lucky that I have that from my wife and only after that, I still have tons of difficulties to juggle b/w working on the business, figuring out time to spend with the family and do some side projects as well (which I am always cooking)

For me, it is about saying No to many things unfortunately. I cannot take the regular vacations that people like to take. I would rather spend 2 hours taking my family to a dinner together than trying to plan a 4 day vacation which is tough to get done. I don't have lot of time for friends anymore plus most of my "true" friends were from high school/college and it is tough to stay in touch with many that live far apart. You don't really make true friends at work or neighborhood (usually).

I just focus on what I really like to do and be selfish if needed as long as I am not ignoring my family and my work. Everything else suffers and takes a back seat. You can only do so much with 24 hours in a day.
conscious, kŏn′shəs, adjective -- Characterized by or having an awareness of one's environment and one's own existence, sensations, and thoughts. synonym: aware.

Self-attention seems to be at least a proxy for "awareness of ... one's own existence." If that closed loop is the thing that converts sensibility into sentience, then maybe it's the source of LLM's leverage too. Is this language comprehension algorithm a sort of consciousness algorithm?
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Id get into this debate, but its been done a million times before.

Heres the cliffnotes of how it goes though, roughly:

* So is minimum wage ok then?

* Why cant a minimum wage person invest all their money into a startup? Why do they have to be a accredited investor?!?

* Why cant I just open up a payday loan place that charges 900% interest? Theres no other payday loan places around and poor people willingly will use it!

* What about prostitution, nobody is forcing them to do it?

* Alright then, Should we let poor people sell their organs? Again, nobody is forcing them to do it!

Cliffnotes: Just because someone will 'willingly' do something, or doesnt have any better options, doesnt make it just or moral. You setting up a 'consulting' company in bangladesh that pays people x$ a day to do something is exploiting those people, plain and simple.

Also, as to your phillipine cost- You are completely wrong. The average wage across the majority of regions in the country is under $10 per day. This is where (see my first link below) most shops get setup, obviously.

https://www.outsourceaccelerator.com/articles/average-salary...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1048636/philippines-mont...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asian_countries_by_ave...
https://drc-fir.sourceforge.net/
I tried Optery, Incogni, and long time ago OneRep, way to lazy to do it myself, don't worry they will have my info, data is already on internet.

Incogni at least in there's claim offers opt-out from private databases (no way to verify ) and some but not all public database (eg. google searches).

Optery has largest list of public databases (with most expensive subscription) out of everyone else, there's costumer service is responsive regarding failed removal.

OneRep was not bad long time ago when they run it from Belarus (I know, crazy), but they would refresh somehow search caches too (it could be ok, or make things worse), they don't seem to offer advertise this service any more.

Don't search your self only via google, for example, bing will give different results, some databases will have misspelled names (could be deliberately), so there still some work to make sure all records are removed.

At this point, this is like privacy tax that you have to budget to have at least your address on cell phone number not easily discoverable.
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I didn’t realize it was a term of art and thought it was a corporate-speak euphemism.
Typically you have a fitted bedsheet with elastic, an unfitted bedsheet that goes above that, pillow covers and then some combination of blankets and/or a duvet/comforter (which has some filling like down or synthetic within a light shell like cotton--which you may then enclose within a removable cover). Normally, I wouldn't expect a comforter or blanket to be included as part of set of bedsheets in the US.
This is a very insightful viewpoint. In this situation, I believe it is necessary to use NER to connect the LLM module and the ML module.
Slack was the alternative.
We use a service that creates a static page from all Slack conversations so this way we have a searchable index and can work around the messages disappearing due to the free plan.
There are other limitations but it works well enough for a community of about 4-5000.
Yup. When I used to do studio recordings as a musician, most studios have A/B/C speakers for mixing. They have the nice speakers usually on concrete breeze blocks which is what you do your first mix on, and those are equivalent to entry-level-ish audiophile speakers but not super-expensive, then they have the B speakers which are a bit worse and then they have the depressing C speakers which represent what people usually have at home. Even super-expensive studios that will happily drop 10s of thousands on a valve preamp or Neumann mic don't use any kind of fancy cable or unobtanium plugs or anything. Just regular hard-wearing well-shielded audio/speaker/whatever[1] cables depending on application.

[1] There are some differences based on whether the cable is going to carry just audio or audio+phantom power and also whether it's line level or speaker level or whatever it's called. It's been a while.
Calibre has a "good UI" the way GIMP and QGIS have "good UI"s. They're opinionated, idiosyncratic power tools in spaces where a large part of the audience don't want to learn a UI that doesn't resemble those of more popular or initiative tools in the same space.

It took me the better part of the year to figure out how and why QGIS wouldn't just let me draw geometry like I can in a vector drawing tool. I still have to read the docs every time to figure out most selection manipulation actions in GIMP or decode the icons.

With Calibre and GIMP in particular, most people don't need most of its functionality, and easier but weaker tools exist that can do the same things. Almost all of my image editing is in Krita now because it's about as powerful and much more intuitive. If Citadel becomes the Krita of ebook readers, I'd readily use it just on the UI even if it's just as unstable.
It could make sense, at the time, if your support staff were on Slack, and you had high hopes for community engagement, and Slack offered discounts to get you hooked.
I don't think that's insanely hard. If you squint hard enough, WASM has those 3 things as a goal, and it is conceptually much easier than developing a regular, general purpose language, say Rust.

If you want to focus on performance as well (as WASM does), well, then it becomes really challenging to find a middle ground that works on IA64 and a 6502 chip.

So I guess what I am looking for is WASM with less focus on performance and more on portability. Forth might be half a layer above the CPU, but is insanely portable and/or simple to implement from scratch, which is why I mentioned it.
it was shell-scripting (bash). And i'm not sure, but it i think i was mandrake linux distro. It was quite the work to get ISDN working properly, especially to use two lines at a time (one dialing, while the other one was in use).
Whisper is capable to perform real-time translation?
ViewSonic VX1655-4K-OLED, I don't have it yet, but it's not very expensive and should better than those not well-known brand.
I am an immigrant and I knew it at the age of seven. I remember because it came up in a school interview.
Working link — https://en.vedur.is/media/uncategorized/Kort_StadsetningGoss...

From https://en.vedur.is/about-imo/news/a-seismic-swarm-started-n...
> Apart from that, it looks like Java RMI allowed remote objects returning other remote objects, rather than only immutable values.

Actually this is a very powerful concept as it allows one to achieve high level of reuse. Jini (https://jan.newmarch.name/java/jini/tutorial/Jini.html) made mobile objects the core idea of its architecture.

How powerful the approach is one can see when looking for example at Jini concept of a Lease and LeaseRevenewalService:

a server program can register an object (client side implementation of a service) in ServiceRegistrar (to make it discoverable and downloadable). Registration is lease based so the server has to renew it periodically. But it can be delegated to a LeaseRenewalService that can do it on its behalf so that the server can go to sleep (ie. not use any server machine resources).

All of the above happens without any party a-priori knowledge about any code that needs to be present at use site - code is downloaded automatically on-demand - the only thing common to client and service is a Java interface.
This keeps getting parroted in every thread about Calibre, but Kovid is not an asshole when it comes to community support, it was more of a one time incident. Here is a comment I’m copying from a different HackerNews thread:

“ It's a big shame that whenever anything related to Calibre is posted, top comments will often be how arrogant is author is. I used to think the same. But when I read his comments history in GitHub, he doesn't seem a dick to me at all. So I googled his name, and end up in a forum. It completely changed my mind.
Contrary to what people believe, Dovid Goyal is the most friendly programmer to his users. He spent lots of time answering questions in the forum https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=166. His answers include where is a menu located, how to convert a book from one format to another, helping the user to debug the exact the problem with Calibre. He has been doing this daily and is very responsive. You can expect an answer to your question in the same day. (The forum used to allow you to read user's comments history anonymously, but now you need a account to do so)”
Left after the dot-com crash, when getting IT jobs without being fired from the newly joined company was a matter of luck.

Now like many emigrants, way beyond the typical age that HR sees as acceptable to still be an IC, instead of a manager for fresh graduate developers, which closes many doors.

Then there is the work culture, that rather promotes connections than performance, managers that misunderstand the flex time concept to mean their employees get to work as many hours as they require them to do so (many times not officially counted for), small shops using pirated software or renewed trial versions, and many other issues.

So eventually after tasting how good work experience feels like, in countries where everyone on the building gets the union deals, stuff gets sorted out when asked for, overtime is respected and paid accordingly, and many other improvements, it is hard to get back, after a certain point.

Portugal is not alone in this, I get similar feedback from many southern Europe friends.
> That weird glossy pastel paintwork that’s so popular all of a sudden

I believe the technical term is "putty-lookin' ass whip". https://www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/why-do-new-cars-look-lik...
I only buy fitted sheets with length-wise oriented vertical patterns, such as stripes. Much easier than trying to find the worlds smallest tag.
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My favourite variant of this is high-end digital audio cables.[1] Presumably the ones are really spiky and the zeros are really round when you use such a cable.

[1] yes this really does actually exist as a thing.
Depending on the language it definitely has some "over engineering" issues. I love the API/SDK split and I think folks undervalue that.

I dislike:
1. Context/Scope: super complicated and too much abstraction/generalization here.
2. Span->activate returns a scope that needs to be deactivated manually. Which is different from ending the Span.

It gets very complicated and I assume supports folks swapping parts of sdk out within scope down the call stack. I'm curious how much that is used and if it justifies it's conceptual weight.

Again some of this stuff is lang specific problems. In java, mostly fine. In PHP (and I assume other environment per request dynamic langs) deep overkill.
Again, that’s a suggested interpretation which is not legally binding and, you’ll note, it includes broad latitude for exactly the reasons I mentioned. It would be quite easy to find, for example, one person who says they’re maximizing profits by reducing labor costs as much as possible and another who thinks that a well-paid, stable workforce will be more productive and resilient to challenges long-term. Both of them can be completely serious, acting in good faith, and neither would have any fear of legal consequences.
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These are API level security features. Apple is conflating these two issues for their benefit.

iOS is an incredibly secure platform mostly due to OS level security and carefully considered privacy in iOS libraries. Much of the benefit of the App Store is reducing spam and some data tracking, in addition to developer level features for IAP, subscriptions, and marketing.

I do appreciate much of what the App Store offers but has been exceedingly slow to update the review system, which has plagued developers for over a decade with inconsistencies and poor communication. I'm hopeful the increased competition will encourage some improvements on that front.
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JCL, FOCUS, IBM PCOMM, ahhh the nightmares
visiting enough forums

That's sort of the point though: we do that, but whereas around y2k forums were the online communities, I don't exactly have the impression that is still the case. And it's not like you're going to see much NSFL content on, say, TikTok.
Yeah he didn't have any shielding other than the insulation plastic on teh outside.
Thank you so much for your kind words! :)
I don't suppose you guys have something in the works for a polished voice I/O device to replace Alexa and Google Home? They work fine, but need internet connections to function. If the desire is to move to fully offline capabilities then we need the interface hardware to support. You've already proven you can move in the hardware market (I'm using one of your yellow devices now). I know I'd gladly pay for a fully offline interface for every room of my house.
https://www.discover.com/security/online-privacy-protection/
Is there a list of sources for these data brokers?
An LLM does not have motives nor agency, the premise makes no sense. What am I supposed to take from this?
Temperature and light may create illusions in LLM. A potential available solution to this is to establish a knowledge graph based on sensor signals, where LLM is used to understand the speech signals given by humans and then interpret these signals as operations on the graph using similarity calculations.
> ...the successful use of self-regulation in other areas.

Where has self-regulation been successful?