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Perl is the canonical example of "less is sometimes better".

I love coding in Perl. But it seems that everyone uses a disjoined subset of it, which makes collaboration awkward.

And, if C let you shoot yourself in the foot, C++ give you a shotgun to do so.. Perl gives you a timed nuclear device.
If the organization is solving the problem, removing the organization would result in the problem returning though, right?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-companies-need-to-know-whe...
Microsoft drove me away circa 2006 with the complete dumpster fire approach to device drivers (at the time anyway, I don't know about today) where every hardware vendor can do whatever the hell they want, distribute their driver however the hell they want, sign it or not sign it, etc.

I had spent a pretty penny building a beefy gaming PC and the Windows XP installer would have this selective amnesia about device drivers that weren't signed. A very important driver provided by the motherboard OEM (nVidia) would be cheerfully accepted by the Windows XP installer at the beginning but then after the initial reboot during installation, the driver wouldn't work and would not be considered acceptable by the installer anymore. I was left with a ≈$3,000 (in early 2000s money) PC that could not complete the Windows XP installation. After a few days of hitting my head on this I drove to the nearest Apple Store and bought a MacBook and never looked back.

To this day I am still somewhat livid / grossed out with the entire PC ecosystem and it's lack of any kind of standards, platform conventions, and the general flea market / down market vibe of the available hardware (new motherboards in 2024 STILL have an ocean of USB-A ports instead of USB-C or Thunderbolt!).

There is a lot that Apple could improve on, particularly it would be nice if they loosened up a bit when it comes to what kinds of apps they permit on the App Store. But I immensely enjoy that I haven't had to give a flying dripping shit about device drivers for almost 20 years now. I don't have wonder if something will work when I plug it in. It just does. I sort of get why it's popular in enterprise settings, I don't understand why people put themselves through the misery that Windows seems to insist upon for its end users.
I think odds are good that someone in the room was a child molester and didn't want people to ask the hard questions.

And until it is okay for adults to have substantive discussions about such things without it being part of an attempt to get laid, people with dirty secrets who want tools to enable their crimes will have more say in "let's just gloss over this detail" than people who want something else.
> If only there's some company with money and clout to offer an OS with the same level of user-friendliness...

Legit question: do you think there will ever be a new commercial desktop operating system (not one that's given away for free) that isn't Windows or MacOS again in the next 30 years?

Because Linux is free, and Windows is ubiquitous, and because you need a lot of hardware support and support for existing applications to be see usage, it seems hard for any new company to break into the market with something genuinely new.

It seems like the way things are now are how they'll be for a long time. We'll just always use Linux, MacOS, or Windows, with superficial changes, I suppose. Or a BSD.
Almost certainly. It's just called `functools.cache` now. It's also known as memoisation and a classic use of higher-level functions (aka decorators).
So it can run Doom, but the question is can it mow lawn?
What currency is SF? I might be missing one of the non-Eurozone countries.
I am pretty sure that the grass still feels like they are a weapons factory...
Yes. Guess that is the problem. You try to cover the host of issues brought up, then you look scatter brained. One side just throws a lot of BS out there, it takes energy to try and respond, and the responder looks confused.

Hence why simple repeated slogans win.

Brandolini's law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
NFS v2 writes are all synchronous. NFS v3 added an option to make them asynchronous, along with an additional 'COMMIT' NFS operation that flushes them to storage. In theory how it works is an NFS v3 client sends some number of async writes, holding a copy of their data in its own memory, and then sends a COMMIT to flush them all. If the NFS server replies to the COMMIT with an error, the NFS client has to re-send those async writes and their data (possibly as sync writes this time around); otherwise, it can discard its copy of the written data. NFS v3 clients can still decide to send sync writes if they don't want to keep track of all of this on their end for some reason (including low memory to hold the write data locally). And an NFS v3 server can opt to immediately write out theoretically 'async' writes for similar reasons. All of this is still true in NFS v4, with I think even more elaborations on the theme.

(I'm the author of the linked-to article and I have a long-standing interest in weird NFS behavior, since we operate NFS servers.)
If the alternative is bash then I don't just like powershell, I love it from the bottom of my heart.
It shouldn't affect Trakt at all. All impacted domains are registered with Sarek, whereas trakt.tv is registered with Namecheap.

I'd say Trakt is also pretty far removed from any piracy-related activities, moreso than most of the impacted domains at least, which either host copyrighted content (streaming sites) or lead to it (e.g. torrent trackers like AnimeBytes.tv). Though I don't think it's known whether all .tv domains at Sarek are affected or just the ones related to piracy (but it's safe to assume that most if not all of them are related to piracy as that's what Sarek is known as being a safe harbor for).
Reminds me, recently removed a folder and explorer showed it still being there and you could click on it and see the files.

I'm suspicious that they're trying to move to 'one drive' for the whole file system and so need to cache everything for reasons. Performance and also the files on your drive might actually be only in the cloud. IE your hard drive is for local caching not for storing data long term. Means perhaps if you save a file to disk. And then later pull the drive and put it on another machine those files won't actually be there.

If true this bodes very poorly.
> I don't think it's unreasonable to call that Intel's problem

You didn't call it Intel's problem. You said Intel CPUs were "unstable", which simply isn't true. If your title was "Intel doesn't police default BIOS clocking", we wouldn't be this far down in the senseless thread about semantics. (Though to be fair, you wouldn't have been on the front page as long either, so maybe that's as intended.)
oh hi, people keep recognizing me in random places lol
Ironically, power shell is the most consistent cross-platform scripting environment today. No more wrangling osx bsd grep commandline flags not working with linux gnu grep, and vice versa. Powershell just works cross platform. And this from a guy whose daily driver is an M3 MacBook.
Steve Jobs was right. There are a lot of bozos in middle management and it seems that the Dilbert and Peter principle applies, but somehow in the sense that people are promoted to cause the most damage possible.

At some companies, it is almost impossible to even raise concerns about a middle manager's performance. It should be much easier, especially if a group of people would rather work for one of their own than certain "bozos".
When you have things about as good as they'll reasonably get, having a group as large as that dev organization going full throttle is more likely to make things worse. From the top of the mountain all directions are down.
> Sign-up closes on 26 August 2024. On September 9, 2024, a software update will remove DOOM from the robotic lawn mowers.

They put DRM on a lawn mower.
>It is designed for advanced power users who are willing to extend and customize it.

That doesn't mean the default experience should be bad. Why not start with a good experience and let users build on top of that.

>What you consider to be "must-have defaults" is as arbitrary and controversial as having an option to use vim keybindings or some popular dark theme out of the box.

Which is why it is important to get feedback from real users. Get a random person off the street to use Emacs and see if they have an easier time with tabs. Repeat with intermediate and advanced Emacs users. See what works and what doesn't.

>If you're saying that someone can't use Emacs because it doesn't open each file on a dedicated tab, maybe that's not Emacs's target audience?

It's not that it's impossible it would be that users have a harder time to accomplish what they want.

>maybe that's not Emacs's target audience?

This is the kind of needless gatekeeping that will lead to Emacs death.
> Being backed by microsoft means its always going to be better.

my eyebrows launched off of my face
>"it's quite likely that much of what we're seeing is the work of foreign and domestic* adversaries"

I think it's naive to assume the same weapons and tools used abroad won't be used at home. We've already found American police forces using IMSI catchers to surveil protestors in their own country.
I'll read it
>A lot of crocodile tears get shed over the poor children in the Congo. But only when it concerns batteries for EVs. I wonder why that is (rhetorical question with some obvious answers, I know) and whether those people actually really care. Because they sure are being awfully selective with their outrage.

Seems a bit complex for an issue as simple as you can extract cobalt from spent batteries literally with human pee and white vinegar as a solvent.
I agree, however I would extend it too be even more pragmatic and say, just use html5. You can do everything you want with html5 for simple crud work. There's not need to be extra, and the main benefit of html5 is everything's really easy to use and accessible.
Microsoft needs to realize that the UI revamps made since Windows 8 have been a degradation for usability, and return to the old values of the WIMP interface, interface consistency, and keyboard-ability, and get their UI framework story back on track for good.
> Why do people say stuff like this that is so demonstrably untrue? SD and GPT4 do not exhibit the behavior described above and they're not even new.

it's true that most people do not actually understand the problem/limitation, but it's a discussion that is statistically likely to occur on the internet and therefore people tend to regurgitate the words without understanding the concept.

I'm being facetious but honestly it's a major theme of this whole AI revolution, people do not want to accept that humans are just another kind of machine and that their own cognition resembles AI/ML in virtually every aspect. People confabulate. People overreach the bounds of their expertise. People repeat words and concepts without properly understanding the larger context in which they need to be applied. Etc etc.

Has nobody ever watched someone get asked a big question or an unexpected question and "watched the wheels turn", or watched them stammer out some slop of incoherent words while they're processing? Does nobody have "canned responses" that summarize a topic that you can give pretty much the same (but not exactly, of course) every time you are asked it? Is that not "stochastic word chains"?

By design neural nets work almost exactly the same as your brain. But a lot of people are trapped in the idea that there must be some kind of "soul" or something that makes human cognition fundamentally different. By design, it's not. And we don't fully understand the exact modalities to encode information in it usefully and process it yet, but that's what the whole process here is about.

(I commented about this maybe 6 months ago, but the real hot take is that what we think of as "consciousness" isn't a real thing, or even an "overseer" within the mind - "consciousness" may be exactly the thing people mean when they say that "LLMs have to write a word every time they think about a concept". "Consciousness" may in fact be a low-dimensional projection of the actual computation occurring in the brain itself, rationalizing and explicating the symbolic computations of the brain in some form that can be written down and communicated to other humans. "Language" and "consciousness" as top-level concepts may actually only be an annex that our brain has built for storing and communicating those symbolic computations, rather than a primary driver of the computations itself. It's not in control, it's only explaining decisions that we already have made... we see the shadows on the wall of plato's cave and think that's the entire world, but it's really only a low-dimensional projection.)

(or in other words - everyone assumes consciousness is the OS, or at least the application. But consciousness may actually be the json serializer/deserializer - ie not actually the thing in control at all. Our entire lives and decisionmaking processes may in fact be simple rationalizations and explanations around "what the subconscious mind thinks should happen next".)
Gamed by not shipping bugs?
I would argue that they didn't survive, unless they were predisposed to it. If you were depressed 500 years ago you died.
https://www.reddit.com/r/twinpeaks/comments/6sfzkw/comment/d...

this is pretty much the defacto guide for twin peaks watching (not including season 3). Personally, I think the season 2 episodes marked in red still have some great stuff in there, but it can be a bit of a slog to get through.
The OP asks "per request", not training time.
I spent four years trying to get my startup to revenue. I created something that I thought would be useful for its niche audience, but nobody wanted it in the end.

I was so burned-out from the experience that I had to stop for my own mental health. I got a normal job three years ago.

Since putting the startup on indefinite hold, I've been able to learn new sports, buy a home, and generally enjoy my life without the constant feeling that I had to be working more and spending less. My life got dramatically better.

So while I would have preferred that the startup succeeded, walking away after four years was far better than continuing down that path. And because the technology I had built was really impressive, it only took a couple months for me to get a job paying more than I ever had before.
That's pretty broad. I am referring to the style of analysis that heavily attributes slight environmental priming over all others factors (character, education, religion, mood, etc).
Yeah but they make bajillions so they're above the law, and people like money.
There are no trademark genes basically. Is there a genetic factor present in all Black people that is not present in any Asian person and some on ? The answer is no, there isn't.

https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/science-genetics-res...

>"Race’ cannot be biologically defined due to genetic variation among human individuals and populations."

"In the Stanford study, over 92% of alleles were found in two or more regions, and almost half of the alleles studied were present in all seven major geographical regions. The observation that the vast majority of the alleles were shared over multiple regions, or even throughout the entire world, points to the fundamental similarity of all people around the world—an idea that has been supported by many other studies (Figure 1B).

If separate racial or ethnic groups actually existed, we would expect to find “trademark” alleles and other genetic features that are characteristic of a single group but not present in any others. However, the 2002 Stanford study found that only 7.4% of over 4000 alleles were specific to one geographical region. Furthermore, even when region-specific alleles did appear, they only occurred in about 1% of the people from that region—hardly enough to be any kind of trademark."
This sums up so well the current state of the world. Quality of life is relatively high so people expect a lot.

For most of human history life was extremely hard, tons of death during child birth and diseases running rampant. Not to mention you don't have enough food.

Now life js unfair if you can't afford the latest iPhone. Not a criticism of OP, because indie startup stuff is very hard, relativly.
The OP asks about request time (and, I imagine, processing power) not training
>> Unfortunately, interpretations of the Federal Arbitration Act by the US Supreme Court in recent decades have made it very clear that what they're doing is legal nationwide under US law, with or without an opportunity to opt out.

> Do you have sources for that?

The GP comment is pretty accurate. My course materials (being updated) have a fairly-comprehensive discussion of arbitration: https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com/Notes-on-Contract-Draftin...
> I can get better, but I don't feel too much like it just to prove a point.

Honestly these pictures you posted do prove GP's point...
Now when it's forced to go there, everybody is crying "how dare you!". Truly, damned if you do, damned if you don't.

This is a gross (and bizarre) distortion of why people are taking issue with the current operation in Gaza, of course. In a nutshell: no, they are very obviously not simply taking issue with the IDF "being there" in some form in response to October 7.
Oh no company is perfect that’s for sure. I don’t use anything deep integrated stuff like the iCloud Keychain, I mainly use my own password manager of choice etc.

The iOS Bluetooth/wifi never bothered me personally because I use those all the time anyway. Of course everyone’s use case is gonna differ, but for me macOS is far from doing things like pushing huge full page “finish setting up edge” or “buy office” when I log in so, I’m happy.
Linux is my primary OS but sometimes I use Windows, and I really hate the UI changes. A typical example would be the printing dialog used by various apps. It used to work all right from the mouse. Now you can't tell which widget has focus, and can't tell how to activate a given UI element from the keyboard. Worse yet, you selected your print job parameters, press Enter, and nothing happens. You have to click the OK button with the mouse.

And don't get me started on the ribbon UI which was inflicted upon the world in Office 2007 onwards and then shoved upon everyone's throats in subsequent editions of Windows.

Why did they have to change such things? It worked as it was. There's no improvement and, on the contrary, a quite noticeable involution.
This is not surveillance. This is content shaping and censorship.
> attaching a stream to a parser isn't a parallel algorithm so threads are useless for writing it.

Couldn't it be done in 2 threads? The output of the decompressor thread feeds to the input of the parser thread.
Well, my worst manager was a developer that got forced into it. He was passive aggressive, petty, and If I didn't initiate meetings with him, we would have no meetings with me at all (but sit there angry in silence about something I never asked about). I tried so hard to dance around his issues. He never stopped working or took vacations. If I took one (unpaid, I was a contractor), I would get passive aggressive comments for a week in our daily standups from him.

The last straw was right before a pre-planned vacation (3 hours before, to be exact), he wanted me to merge our Jr developer's branch into mine. I merged it, and pushed it to the repo (not master or live, but backed it up to our repo server for when I got back).

Another note here is that they refused to use Git. Didn't even know how to pronounce it correctly and stuck to his guns about SVN. We ran into merging issues constantly.

When I was flying home, he sent me this nasty email saying that I'm not a 'senior developer' and that there were bugs in my code, etc, etc. A month prior to this, I was getting praise from the entire team and company bosses about a brand new extension I had written with no issues. He didn't want to hear that all of the bugs were incompatibility issues with the JRs code.

One other issue I ran into frequently was that the original code base (which he wrote), was so buggy, I would need to fix 5-10 bugs before I could even start working on a new feature. It was also filled with LOTS of security vulnerabilities, which were ignored. If I mentioned any of this in a constructive way, he would raise his voice in front of everyone at the meeting.

All was good though. They finally let me go because they 'ran out of money' a few weeks after I came back from vacation. The company folded within 6 months. Since then, I've had the best manager and contract I've ever had in my career and 3X my money over night.

Sometimes you need a shitty manager to appreciate the good ones.
I see that you bought into it.
You kind of proved my point. Of course the "finger situation" is getting better but people handling complex objects is still where these tools trip. They can't reason about it - they just need to see enough data of people handling books. On a bus. Now do this for ALL possible objects in the world.

I have generated hundreds of these - the bus cabin LOOKS like a bus cabin, but it's a plausible fake - the poles abruptly terminate, the seats are in weird unrealistic configurations, unnatural single-row isles, etc. Which is why I called it a super-convincing autocomplete.
But why would you want to? There's a "new" (Windows 8? so 10 years?) area in Settings.
> Not doing something is not the same as not being able to do something

This is a vacuous statement. We can only look at what they write, not what they're thinking inside their head when they write it, so too for understanding whether they can actually explain something or not. Telling someone to contact the author when the author themself can just...write it down in the initial article is uncharitable.
If Neocities captured the Geocities / Angelfire vibes of 1995 - 2001, then Nekoweb captures the budding anime / early Millennial vibe of 2000 - 2006. This was right around the time that Xanga, LiveJournal, and the rest started peeling apart the indie web.

And by the time Facebook started growing, it was game over.
I feel like every agreement I read these days has a "these terms are subject to change at any time without notice" or similar. I don't know of that is legal but it always bothers me (even more than forced arbitration). It was even in the form where I go to get blood taken! At least in that case I'm covered by HIPAA but other services are less strictly regulated. What's a consumer to do?
This is basically how the 1st Amendment is "backdoored" in this country.

The government cannot be so brazen in curtailing freedom of speech directly so they use Big Tech as the cat's paw. Any complaint over Big Tech's censorship/narrative control can then be met with the “it’s a private company, they can do what they want” retort.
They don’t want to pay developed world labor costs. Call your Congressional reps, they write laws. Be prepared to provide info.

I have found, surprisingly, bipartisan support on this topic with the reps I engage with. I encourage you to make the time to engage as well.
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Without knowing the particulars of a Implementation, it's hard to say. Some can refine results by running the model a few more times, so yeah, better processing and/or more time would help, though probably not by much.

Most models, however, don't, so no special benefit from better processing other than speed
I’m not new to macOS by any means, used it for work for far more than 2 years - so I do know this pain, but I’m not a huge system extension user so I’m probably an outlier
Did the title change? It currently is: “Downward migrating microplastics in lake sediments are a tricky indicator for the onset of the Anthropocene”
This whole "I asked a LLM something a little weird or out of context and got a funny response, which confirms all my priors about this list of conspiracies" gotcha genre is already getting tiresome.