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> Just about everything that set out to be big and professional, failed. GNU HURD. Microsoft OS/2. Apple Copland. IBM Workplace OS. Apple and IBM's Taligent. Whereas CP/M and DOS and Windows, even Unix itself, all started out as fun little proof-of-concept things that barely did anything, but were fun to play around with.

> My core proposal is to cut Oberon down into a monolithic, net-bootable binary, and run Squeak on top of it. For drivers and networking and so on, there's a solid, mature, fast, low-level language with a choice of toolchains. But the user-facing environment is the much higher-level Smalltalk-based Squeak GUI – for apps and experimenting and learning. Decades after they split, we reunite Smalltalk and the tiny efficient OS that it inspired.

I love the vibe and the nostalgia. But there's a lot going against anything like this taking off in today's real world. For one, personal computing devices are phones, not PCs. Secondly, in computing we're past the stage of innovation and well into the stage of... well, consolidation or something. I mean, I love the ideas behind this but if there were a business doing these things I wouldn't invest a cent in it, there's no market for it.
I give it closer to 20 years, but I agree.
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Productivity can grow without workers reaping the benefits of that growth, unfortunately. And in that case, the stock market grows even more.
> Why would those who do own houses want to see their assets depreciate because of increased supply etc.

Which is a perfectly understandable reaction on the surface, but it ignores the long-term impacts of such a situation. Granted, we humans are terrible at thinking about the very long term.

An example I think many of us that live in places like the SF Bay Area, Seattle, Boston..etc have seen is that at some point, high housing prices start damaging other parts of the local economy. Younger people can't afford to move to the area, so the demographics start slumping towards older people; eventually that will lead to the collapse of some pay-it-forward kinds of social services. Businesses have to pay extremely high wages to be able to find workers that want to work there and are able to afford to live within a reasonable distance; Some of this is solvable via automation/remote work, but I don't think you're going to have your mechanic or your cleaners doing telework. A lot of businesses cannot sustain those sorts of wages without severely increasing prices, but then you get people complaining that their local coffee shop has to charge $15 for a cup of plain black coffee.

I think we just haven't yet seen the fallout from the housing affordability problem fully unfold yet. Unless something changes, we'll be seeing more and more effects from this in the coming years.
Good point. More precisely I should say does Netflix help you become more productive! They definitely want you to have more free time.
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Or maybe the "others" simply don't exist because D2 was already the peak of the genre, and it's got a long tail as proof.
Yes, in the early days of microcomputers teletypes were common, and paper tape was a part of that. I'm talking about the computers of the 1960's for example where interactive use was unheard of.
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>How would someone go about proving so, how would you go about disproving it?

Morality, boiled down to its essence, is an opinion. You can't prove or disprove an opinion of course, and you certainly don't have to entertain them if you don't want to.
When you eat at Wendy's and other fast food you are paying twice. The first time is for the food. The second time is when you're getting your triple bypass at the tune of $150k.

I hope this surge pricing will encourage people to seek better quality food with higher nutritional value.
Hope all you'd like but that doesn't change the fact that they'll do whatever they want because you have no power.
"Unlike the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church was not bothered by liturgy being celebrated in different languages."

Well that's just plain wrong. Sure, Rome (not the "Catholic", the East calls itself Catholic too) preferred Latin, but it was never universal. Anyway, the rite wasn't standardized to the rite of St Francis (but not imposed) until the Council of Trent, 100 years after the fall of Constantinople (hardly an empire by then).

When exactly did Rome object to other languages? The first 1000 years when East and West were in communion and Greek was the primary language of the Western Church?
India is also a huge diverse country with many cultures. Hundreds of millions of Indians have no qualms eating cow.
Hm, I guess my response would be that this sorta begs the question. WHY are awk and sh/bash the "best" thing on nearly all Linux machines, the default choice?

Why didn't something better come along in the 90's or 2000's or 2010's that made them less appealing or obsolete? That something could be installed "everywhere" by now.

Not to say there hasn't been progress of course -- I think say fish, ninja, jq, etc. are great projects. They also are installed in most places, and ninja and jq aren't that old.

IMO, it's just a lot less than you would expect given the huge growth in computing in the last 20-30 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_on_mass_surveilla...
Certainly the Trudeau regime has never abused its power to deprive Canadian citizens of their rights and freedoms, and would never use this new, draconian law to do it again.

https://torontosun.com/news/national/ottawa-appeals-court-de...
> someone else has your cash

It was never yours. The Fed doesn't give money away, it buys financial assets. What did you sell them?

Also, the Fed has been selling assets lately, which does remove some money from the system.
It used to be cheap.. but feeding myself, my wife, and 2 boys under 7 cost $34 last time, that was for 1 meal for my wife, a double - sandwich only for me, and 2 happy meals, and jr frosties...

Lately I've been simply eating jimmy dean breakfast sandwiches pretty much every meal, they're tasty, and 1 sandwich per meal fills me up, so I get like 4 days worth of meals for $10. (I had gastric sleeve surgery, so I fill up kinda easier than I used to). Not sure how healthy, but convenience -- it's 60 seconds in the microwave.

I'm currently going through a separation so I'm definitely not having the energy to cook anything, plus I'm moving into a motel temporarily until I can get a lease, which only has fridge/microwave.
that's a pretty good word! wanting to buy a car immediately comes to mind, with manufacturers hosting web apps to configure the exact BMW that you're gonna get when you make it.
This Supreme Court case is about whether social media sites can be forced to host users' speech, not whether the sites are liable for the users' speech. On the latter subject though...

> I don't think they should be able to have it both ways.

> Social media companies have speech? If they have speech then why aren't they liable for that speech?

The state governments trying hold social media sites liable for users' harmful speech want to "have it both ways": Hold social media sites liable only for certain speech, yet pretend that the proposed laws instituting that liability regulate conduct without regulating speech.

Most of the speech targeted by proposed third-party liability laws such as KOSA is protected by the First Amendment (LGBTQ information, eating disorder discussions, body image posts, etc.). Without some evidence of causal harm on a case-by-case basis, not even first-party liability - liability on the users who posted the speech on social media - would pass the First Amendment, and third-party liability would not apply in such cases. But assume that first-party liability would apply. What about third-party liability for social media sites' moderation of user speech?

The First Amendment can prohibit both direct and indirect restrictions on protected speech. Strict scrutiny [1] requires laws impacting constitutional rights to use the methods least restrictive of those rights. Moderation of user posts by social media sites is a First Amendment right, just as posting by users of social media sites is a First Amendment right. Holding the social media site liable for First-Amendment-protected user speech violates strict scrutiny because a method less restrictive of protected speech is holding the respective users liable for posting that speech.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_scrutiny

And before anyone brings up republication liability on newspapers: defamation is unprotected speech. Defamation does not have First Amendment protection. But holding a party liable for defamation in the US requires that the party distributing the allegedly defamatory speech know that the speech exists. Newspapers tend to check even their op eds before deciding whether they should stay. But the humans managing social media sites don't necessarily know that any particular post exists, especially when the moderation system includes automatic processes. Section 230 declares that social media sites are not liable for defamation even if they know about it. Without Section 230 in place, social media sites would have an incentive to stop manually moderating posts, because you can't know about specific defamatory posts if you don't look at them.
I read a lot. I used to have time to read basically whatever, and would generally just follow the bibliographic of referential trails in other books. Now, my time is much more limited, so whenever I want/need to learn about something new, I'm more disciplined and devise an "essential reading list" as a first step. To do this, I'll perform a basic google search for the topic, check a wikipedia article, or search for the topic on a publisher's website. I'll read the abstract for each book and try to determine which ones are oriented toward beginners. I'll usually select at least three "beginner books" and read them, along with a couple of select "advanced" books that I know I'll have to wait to get to until later.

I try to read for at least 45 minutes each day and I take notes on the books I read. From there I move on to the more advanced stuff I gathered and use my old habit of following bibliographic references for more.

Umberto Eco has a book on how to write a PHD thesis, How to Write a Thesis
. I think a lot of the techniques described in that book are valuable for any kind of research, whether your aim is to write a thesis or just to learn something new.
I hope you get your medal!
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> You’d assume they’d have other projects to move their employees to, or alternatively, use contract work to temporarily employ people meant for time bound tasks of this kind.
Musk 'texts' Nadella about Windows 11's demands for a Microsoft account
But it could seem like a neat and obvious way to reduce policy size (which is limited) and make it arguably more readable, or at least the intention clearer. (I might assume `2847373847261`, `37385857721`, `5847262671`, ... is `*1` over our accounts, but I might be wrong, or I might forget (/not correctly automate) to add the new one.)
This is exactly what the article is saying - low interest rates set by the fed and corporate tax rates in the last decade led to higher corporate profits, and higher multiples, which was also probably fueled by investors with more cash and corporate buybacks.
One might be interested in “Font for rendering line chart data” that was on the homepage a few weeks back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39173438
The one major practical difference is that the bill should be doled out according to income. The second major practical difference is that (almost) everyone in the nation should share the cost, not just the customers of a specific utility in a specific geographic area.
IDK, it just seemed like overpriced normal knives to me. They aren't bad knives. But I just sharpen my knives before each use anyways. The $2 knife from wal mart works just fine.
So what you may have already discovered, is HIPAA compliance, HiTrust certification, BAAs, etc are table stakes for servicing covered entities in the healthcare space.

They are all preludes, however, to agreeing to liability amounts/indemnification in the actual contract.

This is why, as an example, most healthcare orgs end up moving away from Google. Google (to my knowledge, which includes large deals at F50 level), will not contractually agree to any kind of financial or legal liability for data breaches, hacks etc.

Microsoft (and to a lesser extent Amazon) will agree to such terms if you're a big enough account, and generally already have some kind of framework in place with your procurement dept likely that simply needs to be amended.

This is also why larger healthcare orgs are reticent to work with smaller, less well capitalized startups in the ecosystem. The liability alone should something go wrong would potentially vaporize your company, and would definitely lead to uncomfortable conversations with your investors (who maybe, might also have large holdings in the larger healthcare orgs and be incented to not do stupid things that would create massive liabilities!).
> Step 1 is good in my opinion, though you might need some carveouts... like say a property being held in a trust to be passed onto a descendant.

What you're saying makes logical sense, though I think as soon as you make a carveout, it will get exploited.

Many countries around the world have a housing crisis. There is no reason for a house to be held for some decendant to have it later. People need houses to live in NOW, not for them to be tied up waiting for some person to have it sometime in the future.

It's ruthless, but I would just as soon force them to sell it so someone else can use it. Like drinking water or food, it is not reasonable to horde a limited resource which then means others miss out.

> For Step 2, what about progressively punitive property taxes on additional properties. That gives those with really large amounts of fuck-you money the chance to still have those sorts of houses, but they operate at a pure loss, and we all get the benefit of that tax money.

Still doesn't fix the problem.

We don't want more tax money, we want houses for people to live in. A billionaire could still own 100 houses and just run them all at a loss and not care. That's 99 people that now don't have a home because one person is greedy.

> as there will probably be significant legal challenges to that

Well, yes. We're talking about changing the LAW to make this thing explicitly illegal. That means there will be people that won't like it, and interestingly enough it will only be the greedy people who are hording and stopping other people having houses that will be upset. That is what we want. If those people are not upset, we're not doing enough to stop them ruining society for everyone else.
Radio is basically illegal to play in public due to licensing, so most chains would not want the liability. Not saying it doesn’t happen, just that that franchisee was playing chicken with a copyright infringement lawsuit.
I book almost all my travel through capital one or Amex credit card points. Am I getting fleeced by not booking directly now?
Exactly! Couldn't have said this better myself. Contract work was one of my first thoughts after I read that first line. There is nothing wrong with short or medium-term work that requires more flexible employment arrangements, as long as that's understood by both parties. Hiring full-time then letting go "once the work is done" is something else altogether.
What is a DC transformer?
Many organizations just have a blanket policy that you shouldn't be exposing data about an organization's infrastructure unless you need to do it. This is a good policy.

> by pretending it’s secret

No, nobody needs to pretend it is secret. You're missing my above point. There is not a dichotomy between secret and public. It is possible for something to be neither secret nor public.
I remember magnetic tape being a lot more common than paper tape for the uses you suggest.
Because I never stop having questions.
AWS PrivateLink has another property that generally makes it undesirable for these types of integrations: communication is bidirectional, and IP subnets should not overlap.

We (as a vendor ourselves) typically integrate as a VPC Endpoint Service, where communication is unidirectional and our service is exposed as a load balancer’s endpoint within the customer’s VPC.
Like passkey support. I thought for sure it would be further ahead in Linux but nope.
This isn't at all about discrete GPUs, where did you get that from? This is about APU/iGPUs. In general memory channel are expensive so you won't see a new product with 8 channels running 3000Mhz memory speed or something like that.

Also Apple laptops do have large memory busses. The Apple M1 Max chip for example has a 512bit memory bus.
I understand physics because science has performed a series of measurable experiments over 100s of years resulting in concrete mathematical formulas and theories that explain the laws of physics so that they can be reproduced by machines.

Sora has zero of this knowledge. This is very much allegory of the cave[1].

If Sora sees a series of images that contain impossible physics, for example MC Escher paintings, what will happen?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave
It is for the donors more than the Ukrainians to decide,

You're losing focus here. When I said "It's up to them to decide", this was clearly in reference to the question of whether worse off, by this point, for having made a decision to not simply roll over and let Putin have his way with them ("finding a peaceful solution", in your words). Which, if you don't think they're capable of evaluating for themselves -- you must think they're basically very stupid, as a people. For not being able to make heads or tails such an important matter as that.

Whereas now you're referring to an entirely different decision -- "Whether it makes sense to continue fighting".

So like, okay - you can think whatever you want about that issue. But it's entirely different from the assertion you made where I jumped in -- the assertion that "Ukraine ... is arguably worse off today by the choice they made to engage instead of finding a peaceful solution", offered with absolutely no regard to what the Ukrainians themselves might have to say about the matter.

And for Putin's idea of "peaceful", which you apparently accept without reservation.
I think ping is measured round trip
Everything the US military uses is manufactured in the United States, but many things are designed by foreign firms.
To add on, it was a huge consideration for the applicants that I know of
yeah... about that...
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/WLD/world/birth-rate#:....
You traveled enough to be familiar with the food offerings of multiple airports, yet somehow lived a life inside a microcosm devoid of Wendy's restaurants. Fascinating. My guess is you live in Alaska and commute to Vermont https://locations.wendys.com/united-states
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A fast food restaurant could adjust their pricing based not on time of day, but on which customers are looking at the board.

It could be based on individual unique identity (from facerec, and the umpteen ways a smartphone sells out the user), and/or on factors they can pick up from cameras alone (like gender, ethnicity, age, style of dress, class).

From there, you can learn price tolerances, including how price affects repeat visits.

Hook it into promotions, loyalty programs, etc.

For extra dystopia, if there's any demographic you'd rather not have in a particular store, you can discourage them with pricing.

If someone gets better pricing than you, it must be an algorithmic oddity, or they they got better promo rewards from retweeting a post, or their (upcoming) AR glasses outward-facing ads display got better impressions, or something.

"Sir, this is a Wendy's... halt, and submit to AI socio-biometric scanning, citizen!"
it's about a century old but the recent popularity of AI made more people aware of it, I personally became aware of it more than a decade while learning about reinforcement learning (the old kind with GOFAI) but it's also used in social fields, biology stuff like foraging theory or really anything that involve an agent with a brain.

here an n-gram of the first mentions: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Exploration-ex...
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As a former D2 player, I don't think so.
qdrant vs pgvector remains to be benchmarked for a range of relevant sizes, please drop any if you see them!
Don't take the following prompts literally, but think into the directions of:

"Create a simple DNS client using C++ running on Windows using IO Completion ports."

"Create a simple DNS client using C++ running on GNU/Linux using epoll."

"Write assembler code running on x86-64 running in ring 0 that sets up a minimal working page table in long mode."

"Write a simple implementation of the PS/2 protocol in C running on the Arduino Uno to handle a mouse|keyboard connected to it."

"Write Python code that solves the equivalence problem of word equivalence in the braid group B_n"

"Write C++|Java|C# code that solves the weighted maximunm matching matching problem in the case of a non-bipartite graph"

...

I experimented with such types of prompts in the past and the results were very disappointing.

All of these are tasks that I am interested in (in my free time), but would take some literature research to get a correct implementation, so some AI could theoretically be of help if it was capable of doing these tasks. But since for each of these tasks, I don't know all the required details from memory, the code that the AI generates has to be "quite correct", otherwise I have to investigate the literature; if I have to do that anyway, the benefit that the AI brings strongly decreases.
I've had a Topre Realforce for 14 years, never had an issue with it.
I dont, then i realize i'm getting behind and madly try to catch up then realize its so hard to do when you dont sleep properly and start sleeping better then realize I'm getting behind and the cycle starts again.
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I think Pandora is one of the better systems out there for this. You prime it with a few examples of stuff you like but then it seems to continually drop slightly different stuff on you to see how you react.
How is this very different than applying for and accepting a scholarship? Wouldn't this have approximately the same downsides as people that get full ride scholarships to University?

I trust the medical school admission process to select good students for their program. I'm sure with free tuition they'll have more than enough promising candidates.
Do what you like, it's your life, but as a physician I've been stunned on occasion by some of the misunderstandings of very experienced nurses.

They don't have a medical education. They have a nursing education. They are different things. A good doctor relies on experienced nurses for what they are good at - which is recognizing someone who's in trouble, because they have spent a lot more hours at the bedside than we have and have superb spidey senses. If a nurse asks me to look at a patient, I will. If it's an experienced nurse, I'll come running.
I get fast food infrequently enough that I'm shocked every time I look at their menus' price increases since my last visit. So nothing will change for me.
Sure, but the percentage of people with that gene hasn't changed, yet it is an oft-cited anecdote (I don't know if there's data) that more people like them now than they did forty years ago.

This is often said to be because of the new breed that is less better, but I also agree with GP that better cooking methods have something to do with it. I love brussels sprouts, but my stomach flips at the thought of boiled sprouts.