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I've been using Firefox on Ubuntu from 2009 to 2022, 08.10 to 22.04, then switched to Debian, but I never noticed any problem. I always used X11, a laptop, touchpad and two finger scrolling. Maybe is it a Wayland thing? Or it is very subjective.
thanks, you made me realize I'm not alone
I think we might be speaking past each other? How is enum in Rust a tree type? You might be able to use it to create a tree type, but that's no different from using struct to make struct Tree : std::vector<Tree> {}; in C++. That wouldn't mean C++ has a tree type, it just means it's not hard to create your own. Whereas std::list is actually a linked list type that's already there.
I agree that it makes intuitive sense (albeit from a 2024 perspective obviously, hard to tell from theirs)

But when I learned about it, I believe part of the issue was that the speed at which industrialization happened overshot the ability of the infrastructure to keep up, also the increase in population, decrease in living conditions in london, made those kind of concerns secondary to things like food
I hope Bruce Byfield will write something. He obviously likes KDE, but also criticizes where appropriate, and he just writes really good, well researched articles.
Your comment is probably sarcastic, but I think this new world disorder we slipping into will necessitate a more muscular Europe working in tandem with the US to counter our common enemies.

I would welcome a Europe that takes what is going on more seriously instead of hoping another pansy-ass raft of sanctions will make Putin or Xi shudder in fear.
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Libertarianism as Deep Multiculturalism
Intrigued as hell by this comment.

But, can you clarify? You say they should know you weren't born yesterday, but your post also implies you're working with these people.

What's the missing detail?

What are you getting out of this that makes the other red flags "worth ignoring"? What keeps you showing up?
> How do you make an OS where the main pointing device on half of the market sucks and assign that low priority?

Because Linux isn't "an OS". It's a kernel made by one set of developers, combined with a bunch of operating systems made by a second set of developers, which pick and choose compositors/window managers/etc. often made by a third set of developers. Each of these sets of developers are pretty good at solving bugs that live entirely in their "domain", but when there's an issue which crosses these interface boundaries, there is nobody to "assign priority", never mind actually work to fix it.

(Not to mention, systemd demonstrates that trying to solve these kinds of pan-system problems earns you little gratitude but tons of vociferous hatred, so people are not inclined to do it.)
I've been wondering how to take America's existing grid structure (both in a physical and business sense) and get new nuclear plants built. Big infrastructure projects like nuclear plants are so risky for private entities that it is a hard sell.

In many places the answer has been that the state manages the project since sovereign states cannot go bankrupt. But maybe the answer in the US is that the monstrously large tech companies who need 24/7 (and more recently, clean) energy become the anchor customer.
Interesting https://invidious.io/
That is surely something you can take up in discussion with people who are anti-abortion, but back to my original question: Why can't the EU Declaration of Human Rights not just be amended to include a right to abortion?
Most problems don’t need complex solutions.
Totally agree. People often approach music with a very rigid black/white mindset that only blinds them to the beauty of music in all its forms. I don't like sushi but I can appreciate the craft behind it and experience the collection of sensations that I go through when I consume sushi
Economic Activity in Context
> Energy use that doesn't deliver concrete value to the world

How is that any different from fast trading computers producing 'wealth' by juggling inflated derivatives and 'generating' water vapor value from hot air...
It's such a relief to see someone putting this into print.

Now, if we can have the same conversation about pets, we can really make some headway in resolving a major component of first world mental illness.

Overattribution and projection...
At least one book I have read about the rise of plastics said that during the worst years of rubber shortages in WW2 there were serious proposals to scrape roads and recover tire materials in the USA. I believe the discovery of stable artificial rubber materials, capable of being produced in volume in time for the D Day landings helped with the supply chain crisis as the armed forces moved forward (the rate of supply became a major issue and logistics demands were high)
Indeed, based on Wikipedia ~4 months of difference but we are comparing a microprocessor with a full computer though. The Amiga included capabilities (sound, graphics, sprites) that took more time to incorporate in average PCs.

A last observation, I remember sprite support was an important capability for early microcomputers but the PC completely ignored that.
As an aside, aren't folders in *nix also files ? So how did this happen with git, written by Linus ??
Diverse groups trust each other less, that is often framed as a positive (your workers are less likely to unionize!!) but you can clearly see why it can also be a very negative thing for teamwork.

So in general you want diversity when you want weak subordinates that are easy to control, that is the main advantage companies are really after. The other thing is if you want a group of people that holds each other accountable, since diverse groups are less trusting they are less likely to conspire, so useful on boards etc.
Yes, I do. And open source software can have papers and algorithms documenting various aspects. This is very much like using results of other math research papers, in that there is communal review and trees of dependencies and everything can be cross-verified.

It is also true that, just like with a generic math research paper, that I don't check every claim of every step of every implementation of every algorithm in the process. But checking is possible, and when we find errors (which we do frequently) we can look and try to explain what it happening.

But when we find errors in tools such as Mathematica, we cannot. We report the errors and then know nothing more. (And sometimes the errors are never fixed).
Would guess depends on how account is used/what account is used for? aka throw away, "sensitive' subject matter aka doctor/patient discussion, financial transactions, public figure, etc.
Plenty of countries have surrendered in the past. Like telling the Japanese they should surrender is so patronizing.
Can AI Solve Science?
Excel does do a good job of showing inconsistent cells in columns, it shows a green corner.

But I do like the idea of different kinds of cells having a different style entirely. You can style them yourself but a default theme would be a cool feature.
There's no such thing as a truly immaterial concept. The most implausible, logically contradictory or essentially abstract thought exists only insofar as there is a material configuration of state representation, and it is this physical representation with which other concepts, also configurations of physical matter, interact through the medium of energic exchange, all driven by the universal pull of entropic degradation.

Abstract concepts, even ones considered materially 'incomprehensible' like love, or ones considered materially inconsistent or impossible like taking the square root of a circle, are names - very long, patterned symbol sequences condensed from salient features of the far more complex structures they reflect, objects that would be otherwise inconvenient to discuss or contemplate on human time scales and within human constraints. Abstract information, any information, is the result of an energetic compromise necessary for our relatively insubstantial chunk of brain tissue to be able to play-manipulate objects far greater in scale, scope and remoteness then it physically could interact with. But it is still physically manipulating them, or rather the lightest of lightweight representations of them, at the mechnical, physical matrix of neurological energy exchange processes.
One of the main ones that comes to mind relates to promotions. A good example is a fintech I worked at. We wanted to advertise specific offers to specific channels of customers, but we otherwise wanted communication with them to stay the same.

For example, we'd have the same opening email sequence, same retargeting, etc. for customers across channels but we'd want to have consistent messaging around offers (ie. "$1000 off when you sign up" vs. "first month free" kind of stuff). It was tricky because we didn't want to advertise the same offer to everyone, so we wanted to carefully segment who was getting which offer and keep it the same over a window of time.

Unfortunately we didn't have a perfect solution. The closest we came to it was to have an experiment ID tied to their user account. Then we had a system where we would define the different experiments (including messaging and promotions) with each experiment having an experiment ID. It was far from perfect but worked.
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Are Fidelity brokerage customers also affected by this? Or just life insurance?
Who says they are throwing away their existing media stack?

Who says they care about apps from third parties?

Amazon Prime already has its UI.
You're saying nearly half the workforce of Bulgaria doesn't have those things?
Training LLMs from ground zero as a startup
> security

Who cares, everyone either misplaces ACL's or ran everything as Administrator or close.

Under Linux/Unix, we had ACL's too, but nobody used them unless you were in a networked environment.
I tend to think its similar what happened in the 70s, when gasoline got expensive. The US manufacturers were slow to react, and made a few terrible "compliance" cars (Chevy Chevette, Ford Pinto), but continued to try to milk what had been their bread and butter as long as they could. Meanwhile, European and Japanese imports ate their lunch by delivering cars with good fuel economy that were not objectively awful.

I tend to think that GM and Ford haven't fully bought into electric cars, so the experience with those cars tends to be fairly miserable (terrible charging, bad reliability).

The interesting thing to me is how far behind the curve the Japanese brands are this time around.
Likewise, a classic, compelling nonfiction history of the transformation of European peasantry into rural citizenry is Weber's "Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914" (Stanford University Press, 1976)
> simply choosing a random theta in 0,2pi and phi in -pi,pi, which ends up with points biased towards the poles.

Am I right in thinking that it’s because circles of constant theta on the sphere contain the same ‘expected’ number of points (since phi is uniformly distributed), and these circles get smaller (and in the limit, shrink to a point) as one travels towards the poles — hence, higher density of points…?

…makes me realise that spherical polar coordinates, as natural as they seem, aren’t in some way homogeneous in the sense that whilst the mapping (theta, phi) —> (x, y, z) is continuous, it isn’t uniformly so… or something like that. I don’t know enough (possibly differential) geometry to articulate it properly, but it feels like the problem of getting genuinely uniform sampling from a sphere (or indeed any manifold) is somewhat equivalent to having a ‘nice’ coordinate system (one that respects the symmetry of the sphere). Basically, polar coordinates are prejudiced and treat points differently depending on how close to the poles they are.

By definition, our sampling in the domain space (two intervals) is uniform; the problem comes when we project through a coordinate system that doesn’t respect this.

Which better solution did you use? I’m having trouble reading your code on my current device.
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[leans in, taps mic] the secret ingredient is regex.
Why Do People Talk About Skiing So Much?
As with many things Gen Z is leading the way in breaking the mold (in a good way in my opinion)

[1]:https://www.wavy.com/news/military/u-s-military-sees-record-...
Huh? Now I'm quite puzzled. I find both fine to say. I think I make it pretty clear in my comment that dependency use is a per-programmer issue. If you come to Rust with an unquenchable dependency-lust, then yeah, you'll wind up with a Cargo file that looks like the Chicago phonebook. But - here's the kicker - you can do that with C or C++ too! There's really nothing about Rust that requires or recommends this, is my point.

Rust is a generally safer language than C, this much is fairly well established. That alone is an intrinsic advantage. I'm the sort of dev to inline handwritten assembly for a performance boost, so I feel very warmly towards C (which is just assembly in a wig), but for those things where correctness and safety is more important, Rust is simply the better tool.
Given what the web is, it makes me exceedingly sad we don't see the page as a browser of many sites more often. That a page mostly just dials home, to its own server, is radically less than what web architecture could be, is a mere readopting of the past.

Efforts like Tim Berners-Lee's Solid seem like a great first step. There's also a variety of Mastodon clients one can run as PWAs, which both is an example but also a bit of a counter-examples: the page can dial anywhere! But then that Fediverse server intermediates & connects you out to the world. RSS readers too; dialing home to connect with the world. Instead we could perhaps have a client that reaches out directly. Then that activity of reading & browsing, keeping track of favorites and what not: that would have to be sent home or otherwise saved.
Let me present you an alternative. Europe can build up a credible defense capability which will provide a strong deterrence to Russia. In that case you don't have to die in the trenches and you don't have to spend your life running away from the aggressor.

Nazi Germany did not invade Switzerland, USSR did not invade Finland (after suffering horrible losses in the Winter war), even though both had their own claims on them, because the costs of such an adventure were considered too high. A big part of this deterrence was a population willing to fight to defend their homeland.
for context Yi Tay was Tech Lead on Google PaLM, UL2, Flan, Bard, etc and now is cofoudner at Reka (which has shipped some v interesting small multimodal models that have featured on here). I prompted him for this post as an ex-Googler now training LLMs as an independent startup https://twitter.com/YiTayML/status/1765105066263052718

our conversation was recorded here https://sub.thursdai.news/p/thursdai-feb-15-2024-openai-chan...
I use a .pagebreak class that puts a page break before stuff.

Then I tell it not to break sections and articles unnecessarily , and let the browser figure it out .

Not a fan of embedding specific sizes into the CSS, I often(Well, not really often as I'm only printing a few times a year) like to print A5.

A4 makes it annoying to try to hold a binder in one hand and takes more space than it really needs to.
Research* shows that Twitter only accounts for a fraction of traffic that Facebook/Meta directs to News media.

* https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/journalism-media-...
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I use KDE connect for that on Windows too, it does both SMS and calling. Your phone only needs to be in the same network which isn't an issue on your desk when you get home.
So it's a bug of the "automated remediation that makes things worse" family.

This system that checks for invalid values in the cache looks like a very bad idea in the first place as in my understanding it checks things beyond "is the cache up to date?".
And after you give up on Ukraine what's next? Georgia? Moldova? Estonia? Poland? Lithuania? More? They're all fair game for Russia are they?

Russia will find your submissiveness very helpful.
Ground-based sensors historically undercount methane emissions in 3rd party trials. They have a limited FOV which makes it hard to accurately measure a plume of gas, particularly when the wind blows. I suppose you could create a Dyson sphere of fixed sensors around an O&G asset, but that quickly becomes more expensive than a space based sensor.

Because these leaks can occur spontaneously, you really want real-time, continuous monitoring of a wide area with high resolution. Aerial sensors are impractical for this purpose. Only a large constellation of satellites can offer this.
It never ceases to amaze me how stubbornly good we are as a species at believing that if we create something that is smarter than us in every way possible (e.g. super-AI) then it still will not in any way pose a threat to our (or government's) monopoly on violence.

It's the same sort of wishful hubristic thinking I think that makes some people believe that if an advanced species arrived from outer space that is far smarter than us (e.g. like a super-AI) then we still would not be at any kind of risk.
One thing I miss from Google is relatively seamless integration with maps. Sometimes the address queries just fail for me on Kagi. And even when they don’t, Google’s maps are still far more useful IMO.
I have a little python package for making images of Littlewood polynomials (and others).

https://github.com/evanberkowitz/littlewood
It’s true that a new change can intriduce more bugs, but I have a suspicion that the excel team is working with brains and a test harness that most software projects don’t have the time or money for.
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The issue with VMs for Linux, which Windows isn't the first, rather the last from several attempts done by UNIX vendors, and IBM/Unisys mainframes/micros is that Linux kernel syscalls have become more relevant than POSIX.

Thus it is easier and cheaper to plug a Linux VM, than implement POSIX, and then get the same kind of complaints from Linux folks using macOS, or other UNIX proper environments.
Does it avoid the downsides of a matrix representation mentioned?

The article responds to another, noting that there's inherent tradeoffs.

ex. "with 100 nodes and 200 edges...If we use an adjacency matrix representation...we need a 100×100 matrix containing 200 ones and 9,800 zeros. If we instead use an edge list we need only 200 pairs of nodes."

(n.b. this flattens a lot of the interesting info in both articles into 'ah, matrix!" - open to that being true but it feels unlikely)
I haven't done so yet, but I'll throw a link to ButterBox up on the LibraryBox site and suggest people take a look.
“If you like a trackpad, you have a Mac, for the same reason.”

I have a ThinkPad with a track point and don’t use it opting instead to use the trackpad. Before the ThinkPad I had a MacBook Pro. I find neither trackpad better or worse than the other.
The laws of the conservation of shit are immutable and inescapable. You can displace shit in spacetime but eventually it comes back.
Depending on project/work setup -- can be helpful for starting developer to get started learning system. Also can provide way those familiar with project to document/evaluate what 'new' developer(s) have learned / understands.
> https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/free-data-transfer-out-to-i...

> Over 90 percent of our customers already incur no data transfer expenses out of AWS

They mean "90% of customers who are leaving AWS pay no egress fees", right?

It can't be 90% of ALL customers pay no egress fees, can it?
Which kind of ensemble? Because it cannot be as easy as a voting meta model of nn with same architecture/hyperparametres right?
Purely from a consumer standpoint, why on Earth would I EVER choose a vehicle that expects me to pull over to change the AC or to take my eyes off the road to control it, if there are competitors on the market that allow me to do so without doing those things?

Can you imagine actually pulling over off the interstate to change your AC? Absurd. Totally absurd and disconnected from reality. Nobody would do it, they would take their eyes off the road and then it doesn't matter AT ALL whether the function they're trying to perform has to do with safety or even operating the vehicle -- it's a distraction, and that's sufficiently bad.

Can we stop putting distractions in front of drivers, in general? Please?

I'll forgive Android Auto and Apple's thing because people won't stop looking at their phones otherwise but the driver should be able to control the vehicle and everything they might want to do in it without looking away from the road.
Your link says around 57 tons for a "typical" payload launched by the ESA using an Ariane 6 rocket and <15 tons for a payload that launches from a reusable platform. The parent article says these are launching using SpaceX rockets, which are reusable, so presumably their footprint is lower than an ESA satellite. They're also extremely small satellites and not exactly typical payloads. Possibly they can even fit multiple satellites on a single launch.
While this might be true now, this has not always been the case.

And there are still some individual NATO members that want to make excuses instead of pay their fair share for the nuclear umbrella we are providing them, among many other things.
The linked paper did look at SDXL Turbo, and found that the images were about as good as SDXL and better than a lot of models that would have been popular a little while ago. The compromise from using it, if there is any, is hard to detect. But it is much faster.

But the difference is academic; progress is so fast that it is reasonable to expect all these models will be obsolete in a year or two.
To be clear, are you equating WW2 Japan to Ukraine here?

Don't you see some major differences between the role of the two in their respective wars?
> I thought anyone could publish rust packages, just like for PyPi? Are the packages audited before they are published in Rust?

Who prevents nasty C/C++ packages from being published? To my knowledge, anyone can just publish a C/C++ library.

> I would say that you have "too many" dependencies when you don't have control over them, e.g. because you can't afford auditing them or maintaining them. I have seen multiple Rust projects that I would rather rewrite myself than audit their tens (hundreds) of dependencies. That's "too many".

Then don't use them?

Your concerns appear to boil down to 'bad software exists'. Which... yeah. It does. Not sure what you want us to say. It's an intrinsic characteristic of open source / free software, and it's not like C/C++ is somehow under-represented (or Rust over-represented) in dodgy software.

There's plenty of closed ecosystems you can stick to if you don't trust yourself not to use dodgy dependencies (though I think this is a very strange concern to have).
Fundamentally, it’s hard to enforce certificate pinning if the user can modify the binary. Even if sandbox mode used certificate pinning, there would likely be some other way of removing the pinned cert checks.
Sorry I missed this and your invitatio to chime in on definitions.

The key difference in all of this is intent - much like it is in
many areas of law.

Misinformation becomes disinformation when done with ill intent.

Also, one can have disinformation by omission, such as leaving out a
critical safety step in a recipe.

There are some good basic definitions in here [0]

[0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2021/6536...
> [0] although nothing wrong with that too.

[citation needed]
"Ratio of light speed to the area of the universe" does not determine how far you can travel in a set amount of time, because time dilation exists.
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