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> Some of the tools we use are fast because they have less or no baggage, and some aren't because they have tons. In terms of what Xcode tries to accomplish, it fairs better and is capable of more than any tool I can think of,

Hard disagree on this. I can't think of any IDE that performs as badly, or is as unreliable as Xcode.

Intellij is significantly more complex and its still more responsive. (And its reliably responsive. I've never experienced typing lag in intellij on my M1). Xcode will lag even when I have plenty of cores doing absolutely nothing. As far as I can tell, the xcode UI doesn't seem to be in a separate thread from autocomplete queries. So if there's work happening "in the background" (like looking up function signatures for autocomplete), typing becomes janky. Intellij does seriously well for itself given its written in Java, and it doesn't use native controls. And it handles about 10 different languages. Xcode honestly has every advantage here, but still manages to drop the ball.

And if you want to say xcode has been around for longer with more technical debt, well, Microsoft's Visual studio (not vs code) is honestly fabulous compared to xcode. VS is of a similar vintage to xcode, with just as many "cobbled together" features added over the years - from VB to C# and .net, winforms to WPF to whatever the latest thing is. But its still fast and reliable. Well, its fast and an order of magnitude more reliable than xcode.

And for the record, its a really bad look when the people writing developer tooling can't develop code very well. I expect better from Apple.
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P-Values with Large Samples
The people hosting their own 'living funerals'
more of a rural myth, I guess ;D
LTSC was the best version, but now apps are starting to require specific release versions of windows. The current Windows 10 LTSC is based on Windows 10 21H2, and will not be updated beyond that. Ableton 12 for example requires Windows 10 22H2.

So until Windows 11 LTSC is released, I have been using Windows 11 Pro Education. It seems to be almost as good as LTSC (ships without most of the bloatware), but allows you to run a current version of Windows.

Windows 11 still feels much slower than Windows 10, even on a modern system clicking on the wifi icon takes 1-2 seconds for the window to open and then you can see elements of the window load. Opening file explorer is the same. This a fresh install on a Ryzen 6800H laptop with a fast NVME SSD. Then there are all the popups asking me to use OneDrive, Edge, Etc. Truly a terrible OS.
The end of my Elastic/optimyze journey
My Windows computer is connected to both a monitor on my desk, and a TV way over the other side of the room for playing games that make more sense that way. As the sibling post here mentioned, it can be kind of annoying to pick up the mouse and find the cursor is on the other side of the room.
Boeing Suspends 2024 Financial Guidance to Show That Safety Comes First
StackOverflow's making their own competing LLM for all this stuff.

IMO, one of the biggest problems with the way people use LLMs right now, is that they're being treated as a single oracle: to know Java, it must be trained on examples of Java.

It would be much better if their natural language comprehension abilities were kept separated from their knowledge (and there are development efforts in this direction), so in this example it would be trained to be able to be able to read a Java tutorial rather than by actually reading a Java tutorial, so when the overall system is asked to write something in Java, the language model within the system decides to do this by opening https://learnxinyminutes.com and combining the user query with the webpage.

I think this will help make the models more compact, which is a benefit all by itself, but it would also mean that knowledge can be updated much more easily.

Someone would have to actually do this in order to see if those benefits are worth the extra cost of having to load a potentially huge a tutorial into the context window, and likewise the extent to which a more compact training set makes the language comprehension worse.
Has “no way to tell the difference” been settled?
They only need hi-res where the user is looking, don't they?

We can't see what's in our peripheral vision clearly, so they should be able to get away with most of the FoV being blocky af, shouldn't they?
Would it be wiser if the Dart team and the Flutter team split up and let the Dart language grow outside the Flutter ecosystem?

Because the only use case I see with Dart is UI development, nothing else.
Yes, I could, but I don't want to. Go to store, walk around, wait in line, for what.. 1eur worth of milk? Plus you buy a bunch of other stuff that you don't need, because "it's there". I just make a list, go to the store once, fill up on 100, 150eur of stuff, and I'm done for a week or two. Stores are horrible, people are slow, they 'park' their carts in the middle of the aisle, so you have to bump into them to pass, they're too stupid to use the self-checkout lines but still use them and wait for someone to help them (scan stuff for them, instead of just using a normal line), people wait for 10 minutes in line, without realizing they'll need to pack their stuff and pay, so only after half of their stuff is scanned, they remember to take out their shopping bag, and only after they hear the price, they start searching their handbag for a wallet. Then they remember they need cigaretts too,... Delivery sucks too.. overripe bananas, bumbped apples, half-thawed frozen stuff, crushed boxes, long-lasting food just before the expiration date, etc..

Nope, weekly trip to the store minimizes all of the issues.
> 3) You hear fractions of the record 99.9% of the time.

You hear 10-20 second snippet of the song, pitched up and sped up.
Why would russia or aliens ever pay for it, when they can just steal it?
GCP is now relevant - before him it seemed like a Google 4% project.
What happens when the company goes down? they will still have the DNA databases
This is also true I don't doubt, but I've heard directly from contractors that they look for requirement holes so they can monetize them to the maximum extent possible.

Having a dedicated developer team who work directly for government whose sole job it is to make and maintain software like this for the long term, still seems like the most cost-effective and durable solution.
I want to watch stuff or collaborate on projects with my wife on a plane or in a hotel, you just haven’t seen these use cases from Apple yet because the product lacks it in 1.0
No it's basically just a big background job cluster, but for all the microservices at the same time so they can get a higher average utilization out of their servers by averaging out the peaks.
That was my point on ambiguity, leads to confusion.

Your interpretation is yours but how would your interpretation account for
research on ultra processed food.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/what-are-ultra-processed...
Perhaps not you or I, but collectively wouldn't we want to try to communicate with those outside running the simulation?
China and Its Role in the World
Weird, I often comment how rarely I see old people smoking. I assumed the smokers had all died early.
Does the Census Bureau collect information beyond what I voluntarily report?
Ha! I should have researched that instead of relying on my fading memory of the era. I'll footnote your point when I get a chance to update the post.
Apple's new Vision Pro is a privacy mess waiting to happen
I loved reading that . Thank you for the link . I wonder if I was down voted for swearing.
I don’t think Xi is as independent as you believe, but that’s a matter of personal opinion.

I just don’t think it’s very likely for just about any leader putting themselves into the position you are describing. This is a reoccurring narrative in western media, and I’m not here to defend dictators, but i feel like reality is less black and white than that.

Many of the "crazed leaders" we are told are acting irrational, often do not. It’s just a very, very different perspective, often bad ones, but regardless.

Let me try to explain what I mean: during the Iraq war, Saddam Hussein was painted as this sort of crazed leader, irrationally deciding to invade Kuwait. But that’s not the entire truth. Hussein may have been an evil man, but the way the borders of Iraq were re-drawn, Iraq was completely cut off from any sources of fresh water. As expected, their neighbors cut off their already wonky water supplies and famine followed. One can still think it’s not justified to invade Kuwait over this, but there’s a clear gain to be had from this "irrational" act. Again, not a statement of personal opinion, just that there IS something to be had. I’m not trying to say that i am certain that Hussein had the prosperity of his people at heart, but i do think that it isn’t entirely irrational to acknowledge that every country in human history is 3 missed meals away from revolution. That’s not good, even if you are their benevolent god and dictator for lifetime(tm).

Russia "irrationally" invading the Ukraine may seem that way to us, but let’s see. Russias economy is just about entirely dependent on their petrochem industry. Without, their are broke. The reason why they still can compete in this market is their asset of soviet infrastructure and industry. A good majority of USSR pipelines run through the Ukraine. I’m not saying it’s okay for them to invade, but i can see what they seek to gain and why exactly they fear NATO expansion all that much.

I personally don’t see a similar gain to be had from China invading Taiwan, at least right now. They have lots to lose and little to gain. Taiwans semiconductor industry is useless without western IP, lithography equipment and customers. There are even emergency plans to destroy taiwans fabs in case of invasion. And that’s beside the damage done to mainland China itself.

But as i stated, this may very well change when they get more desperate. Hussein fully knew the consequences of screwing with the wests oil supply, but the desperation was too acute.

I just don’t buy irrationality, there’s always something to be had or something to lose. It may be entirely different from our view, but there’s gotta be something.
Average life expentancy is influenced by far more factors than just diet, especially in lawless times with minimal creature conforts.
Git-Rerere
UHT pasteurised milk. The one I have at home now has an expiration date in late june.
I'm almost certain that scheduled meals rose to prominence with the industrial revolution (aka, "clocking in and out".)
I loved my htc with the slide out keyboard! Sure, it would reboot occasionally when you slid the keyboard out and it took 45 minutes to send an email on edge but that was back to the future stuff back then.
>There is a large segment of crossover where small non-IT centric companies will run it on whatever was on sale at their local reseller and a couple of Cloud services for CRM and accounting and no IT staff/policy.

Sure, but even small businesses get Office 365 nowadays and that automatically unlocks your home/pro edition of Windows into a business one, the movement you sign in with your company Office 365 account.

If you go for Google Workspaces instead of Office 365 then that's another matter entirely.
Very interesting, thanks for setting the record straight!
1 of the co-founders had access to an unlimited pool of personal capital (at least until personal issues curtailed that).

The other had an idea.

Make sure you are the co-founder with the sustainable advantage
> Does climbing really expose you to your fear of death?

It depends how (de)sensitised your flinch/fear/other responses are to various things. I practice martial arts (swords, wrestling) and even when I know I can parry a hit, or that it'll be pulled before doing me any real damage if I don't (or the weapon is a light synthetic that I'll barely feel through the PPE), I sometimes find the natural “pointy thing heading towards my cranium” oh-shit reaction cannot be resisted. Same for a throw that I know I will land safely from. There are those who have less efficient self-preservation reactions, or more control to resist them as needed, or both, and there are those who are far more reactive, sometimes significantly overly so, than I.

I assume⁰ climbing is the same: some don't get the natural fear response because their rational thinking combined with all the PPE damps it down, some very much do despite all that.

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[0] assuming as I've not done any myself so don't have a first-hand point of reference
i never done it, but i imagine making ui for a vr app is going to be a nightmare. So much real estate to fill, and how in your face everything is.
SpaceX: DoD Has Requested Taking over Starship for Individual Missions
> Walk for 5km without issue. Do 10 pushups. Do 20 situps. Do 20 squats.

Squats are often considered one of the most challenging exercises, as my physiotherapist points out. It's easy to underestimate them – I did 70 squats once and ended up straining my back.

The key to a proper squat is maintaining stable back support throughout the entire movement. This principle isn't just crucial for squats; it's fundamental for all heavy weightlifting exercises. It's also incredibly relevant to everyday tasks like doing laundry or cleaning, as these activities often involve similar lifting motions.

This concept is known as maintaining stability in the sagittal plane. However, it's equally important to focus on coronal and axial support, strength, and pain-free movement.

It's worth noting that exercises like situps and pushups, often seen as simpler, can also be performed incorrectly by beginners.

Regarding diet, it's an even more complex topic. Nutrition needs can vary greatly from person to person, and a one-size-fits-all approach is rarely effective. It's essential to consider individual differences and specific circumstances when discussing dietary advice.
there's probably no need to imagine this conspiracy-like machinations of shareholders. Intel fucked up bad and process development is certified crazytrain to la la land.

(dropping molten tin 1000 times a second and then shooting it with a laser just to get a lamp that can bless you with the hard light you need for your fancy fine few nanometers thin shadows? sure, why not, but don't forget to shoot the plasma ball with a weaker pulse to nudge it into the shape of a lens, cheerio.

and you know that all other parts are similarly scifi sounding.

and their middle management got greedy and they were bleeding talent for a decade.)
When all you have is a counter, everything looks like a bean.
Biology May Be the Great Filter: Rethinking the Fermi Paradox
Interesting that you see a slower response time with a large input - I don't see any speed degradation at all. Is that maybe just on the free tier of ChatGPT?
Note that depending on your area this might be illegal. In France for example, bats are a protected species and it’s forbidden to kill or capture them.
Sure, if you need some bread, you go to the local bakery and buy that.. or if you need some onions, you buy those in the local store. But here, in my (relatively small, but still...) city, if you need weekly 'supplies', you drive to larger stores and get 100, 150eur of stuff, so you don't have to go to the store every day.
MIPS Aims to Give Back Control, for AI-Centric Compute
OK ladies and gentlemen, the news just dropped, privacy regarding medical data "absolutely doesn't matter", presumably because some people have it worse or something!
I think the beauty of email is that it's already an open, federated standard. Is it easier to build this new activitypub layer on top of all forges, or is it easier to build a decent tool on top of email?
human capitals in these countries is not distribuited the same as in the western world or even most of asia. Thats reality under the luxury belief that anybody can be "integrated"
Oh, but it's not VR/AR/XR, it's "spatial computing©®™"

"What's a computer©®™"
> She’s sticking to her goal to transform 23andMe from a supplier of basic ancestry and health data into a comprehensive healthcare company that develops drugs, offers medical care and sells subscription health reports.

The company hasn't the funds (or time) to develop drugs and I'm not sure why any investors would invest in them rather than a company with a track record of doing so or a potential drug.

Selling their customers data to other companies (or partnering with) that can create drugs from it would seem the logical choice, along with "subscription health reports" and anything tacked onto the DNA/blood profiling/testing product to keep the data coming in.
If most technology breaks, someone can at least figure out why and fix it in future iterations. No-one is capable of doing that with an AI chatbot.
En anglais, s'il vous plait?
> all available evidence suggests Earth has the only life

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
Cypher (Query Language)
Yes, dedicated Windows VM just for Skype is the way. Probably outside of OP's scope though. Skype is handy for making calls, although in the early days I noticed the calls had weird country code prefixes, like Cambodia and such. They've probably changed it since then, but it was fun bouncing calls through weird countries (which spooked some of my clients).
Not that the NSA should be allowed to make an end run around the 4th amendment like this, but they're not really the problem here. Ban the aggregation and sale of personal data because commercial entities shouldn't be spying on us any more than government ones.
Your argument applies equally to any initiative ever made by humans that mentions "internet". Yet it appears quite few things exist on the "internet". We do have cryptography with good guarantees available.
Most credit unions (and most banks) buy their software from one of a couple “bank in a box” vendors. Fiserve is an example.

There is very little incentive for these large vendors to innovate so their software tends to feel 2 or 3 generations behind the bigger banks (or even more so the innovative credit unions).
I'm on paid (rich, I know) and the performance is all over the place. Sometimes it'll spit out a whole paragraph almost instantly and other times it's like I'm back to my 2400bps modem.

I haven't noticed prompt size having an impact jut I'll test that.
As far as I can see the QMK and TMK firmware for the ADB/USB are identical - seems the two projects have an amicable relationship. If I understood it right the QMK fork is mostly around including alternate mappings as part of the repo.

I did find the python tool in QMK very helpful for getting the binary burned into the Atmega though; I'm not sure it would have been as smooth sailing with TMK.
A web-based collaborative Git-based VCS is a wheel. There are like 10 different projects, the majority of which are open source or at least open core.
Yep... if amazon (aws) fails, half the internet is dead... if akamai fails, the other half is dead. There's also some microsoft somewhere, but who cares.

So yeah... the internet was a bunch of small bakeries... now it's pretty much centralized (though in two.. maybe three locations).
A company that has never made any money is now worth nothing. Maybe the world is starting to make sense again?
ShadyFooCorp has not many, many contracts with the government. And the governments computers do not run on their OS.

The only vaguely serious argumentation I can think of, is that they have the comfort and benefit of their users in mind and that they do not missuse the collected passwords in an obvious way.
I would use gpt 4 a lot few months ago to half a year ago. Some of the results were amzing.

But stopped lately, if I use it now it's mostly gpt 3.5 for formatting or small unit tests.

No matter what I ask GPT-4 it writes a functions with comments telling me have to finish it.

Then after few times asking to write it out fully, it still only does partially it, would be okay if not most solutions end up being subpar.
This seems like the early days of search engines and seo poisoning, where random sites were referencing others to make them climb up the search results.
Microsoft did port to Itanium. Customers just didn't buy the chips. They were expensive, the supposed speed gains from "smarter compilers" never materialized, and their support for x86 emulation was dog slow (both hardware and later software).

No one wanted Itanium. It was another political project designed to take the wind out of HP and Sun's sails, with the bonus that it would cut off access to AMD.

Meanwhile AMD released AMD64 (aka x86-64) and customers started buying it in droves. Eventually Intel was forced to admit defeat and adopt AMD64. That was possible because of the long-standing cross-licensing agreement between the two companies that gave AMD rights to x86 way back when nearly all CPUs had to have "second source" vendors. FWIW Intel felt butt-hurt at the time, thinking the chips AMD had to offer (like I/O controllers) weren't nearly as valuable as Intel's CPUs. But a few decades later the agreement ended up doing well for Intel. At one point Intel made some noise about suing AMD for something or another (AVX?) but someone in their legal department quickly got rid of whoever proposed nonsense like that because all current Intel 64-bit CPUs rely on the AMD license.
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Having a healthy lifestyle reduces the risk of diseases. Who knew!
I don't know what specific deals they have with LPs, but why would it make a priori sense to force the fund to liquidate some specific shares and distribute the proceeds?

I would imagine that any fund is allowed to make losses on specific investments, least of all a hyper-aggressive VC fund which will create losses on many (most) positions, by design. And then once losses happen they should be treated for what they are - just another position where decisions should be made based on the outlook, and not based on the history.
I was going ask whether it won't be better to use ChatGPT to generate the prompts for ChatGPT.

Perhaps one day we'll have Gemini generating prompts for ChatGPT and the Bard might provide the actual answers.

This might sound ridiculous and silly and I don't wish to step on ppls toes but looking from the outside in, it would seem to be the next logical step.
> Our mouths are too small for the number of teeth we have.

Is that a general thing?

I was under the impression those of us from the British isles had a problem because of mixed heritage due to repeated invasion: we've managed to inherit a tendency for smaller jaws from southern influences and bigger teeth from north/west Europe.
I mean it's the same problem for a lot of stuff, build it and they will come. Apple is super naive to think that they can just jump into this space and yet end up with a polished product (ie Apple's selling point).

I see on scifi all the time where someone flicks/flings a video playing on a device to move it to a larger display surface and it kills me that we actually have the technology to do stuff like this right now...but because every company works in their own interests/don't work together to create standards we don't get to have fun use of tech like that.
So this essentially appears to be the SEO blogspam playbook oozing into academia? I wonder if any (likely well considered) techniques developed to combat this context may be able to be backported to help reclaim the usefulness of general internet search.
Correction: the highest bidder will have the DNA databases.