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The default Ubuntu Gnome based desktop offends me. It's like the designers thought MacOS was far too confusing and customizable, so they didn't expose more options than would confuse a toddler. This wouldn't bother me if their design choices hadn't been so hostile.

It's little things. The thing that bothers me every day is the 1px window borders which I fight to be able to grab with my high dpi laser mouse on a perfect tracking surface. 1px borders also means when I place windows side by side I can't help but grab the wrong window when adjusting them, so I have to deliberately leave a little gap between them, and the gap width is never perfectly consistent.

Yeah it's linux, so I could load up any number of alternate desktop environments or tiling WMs, but I'd much rather mess around with my code than sink time into customizing my GUI. I'm also hesitant to go nuts customizing my work linux box as there's value in having a similar setup to others you're working with.
Did you read the actual study paper? Sounds like the study is suggesting they are noticing that certain hobbies increase the risk and suggesting that perhaps these other types of hobbies should be accounted for in the ALS exposome. Less about the hobby itself and more that you are getting a nice dose of pesticides by going to the golfing green.
I think mostly the problem with arguing with people that have certain classes of delusions is not the belief that they're crazy or lack agency, or even that they're just inherently _stupid_, but that they're either profoundly ignorant or engaging in motivated reasoning. Often they believe (or profess to believe) in something because it makes them feel better for one reason or another. A lot of people claim certain beliefs because it's important for whatever group they claim membership in that they claim to believe it. In either case, arguing them out of it just isn't worth the effort.

In the case of people being profoundly ignorant, there's so much you have to explain about how the world works, including really basic things like "how you know something is true", before you have enough common ground to have a reasonable conversation about it.

In the case of people who have motivated reasoning, they believe those things for reasons that are entirely immune to any kind of rational argument, because they are starting with the conclusion they want and only see evidence and rational arguments as tools to persuade others of that belief and not as a means of getting to "the truth". They're not crazy, they just don't care about what's true. You can be deeply wrong about a lot of things in life and it _never matters_. Does it matter if you believe the world is flat or not? In almost all cases, no it doesn't. So if it makes you feel better, why not believe that?
Both of those are true though.

What is it you’re saying is a delusion?
Why should the academic community care about your opinion? Dark is a very accurate term
Sounds like company is doing well but also that the fun is over and you are going to be doing a lot of useless meetings and power point presentations soon
> bluetooth

Especially macOS bluetooth with airpods is almost magic
Form factor and pricing will play a big role. You can’t get the M3 Pro in a MacBook Air, and it costs a bit more than the base MacBook Pro models.
If it is matter at all, then we do know something about it, that it is "dark" (does not interact with electromagnetism).

The alternative is that it isn't matter at all, and that some other explanation is required for galactic rotation curves, the Bullet Galaxy, observed gravitational lensing, and the configuration of the cosmic microwave background.

It's nice that one theory currently does all of that. That doesn't guarantee that it's right, but it means it's more than just "we have a guess about one thing".
My "become the joker" take is that the SRE book is completely misunderstood and misapplied by small shops that just do not have the profit margins of GOOG to staff internal tooling & operations at the same scale.

So instead of spending scarce resources on the 80/20 monitoring of compute/memory/disk/network resources we see shops build Rube Goldberg machines to drive KPI dashboards that the CTO can stare at. Except that there's no one really spending the time to pick meaningful KPIs and levels.

Hey, I get it.. "cattle not pets".. but, if some pods are constantly falling over then maybe monitor & address that rather than waiting for some 3 steps removed KPI on error rates crosses the 97.5% level. I've been at too many shops where they got observability-pilled and constantly still fell over on the types of underlying resource starvation outages most tooling had well addressed by 2005. If you don't notice you ran out of some storage resources last night until a cascade of failures cause a user facing data availability SLA to be breached.. that's silly.
Tiny pinpoint holes, blow air through them. Could you adjust the size of the holes and the flow of the air so you could feel them distinctly? If so, they could be backed by much larger, far away, valves without the mechanical parts needing to be so fine and precise.

You only need to feel something, there doesn't need to be anything there - is it possible to have a voltage or capacitance charge or signal at a point which feels like a presence? "A smooth surface which feels lumpy" seems intuitively unlikely but stranger things have happened.
Maybe I'm not reading that correctly, but it seems like you were able to do more difficult assignments than the students in the other class.
How many hail merry's should I say for eventually neglecting my Tamagotchi in the third grade father?
Ahah that makes sense. I was grasping at things like heavy metals present in the tree itself.
Potential decisions by the US Supreme Court about regulating speech on the web and the proliferation of AI-generated content are far greater threats to the openness of the web than the TikTok bill.
I think the point was that failing to properly cook raw chicken could be dangerous to the customers.
That's opt-out, not opt-in.
Let me suggest Lorem Ipsum Matter ;)
Elon buying twitter obviously a failure. The layoffs seem to be a success though
It looks like the future for laptops is ARM. I hope Lenovo makes a ThinkPad with this chip, there already is a ThinkPad with a Snapdragon SoC (ThinkPad X13s), but from what I have read it's not very good. I considered getting a MacBook to use with Asahi but some important features are still unsupported (like HDMI output support).
That's a wholly different claim than the one I disagreed with. Be careful with your language.

Opposing a powerful entity's behaviour is not an excuse for sloppy language or misleading hyperbole. In fact it's especially important to avoid it because the powerful entity only needs to re-frame the criticism around that hyperbole and then proceed to factually disprove it.

Regardless, your new framing is still a ridiculous claim. To suggest that Apple was being "anti-competitive" in 2009 is self-evidently absurd — because their marketplace was simply too small to matter with respect to any competition regulation. They grew their marketplace under the supposedly "unfair" rules which means that the rules cannot be framed as an antitrust violation. This is arguably the most significant point of fact which lost Epic their case against Apple.

If you disagree, then you need explain why every two-bit little nobody who creates any kind of marketplace of any size shouldn't be required to follow strict market fairness rules. Under that logic, Tide could force your local chicken shop to sell Tide products, because they should be entitled to fair access to that chicken marketplace.
> Any source of that claim?

Any tag like ubuntu:20.04 -> this tag gets overwritten every time there's a new release (which is very often)

https://hub.docker.com/r/nvidia/cuda -> these get removed (see e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73513439/on-what-conditi...)
> which is so newly discovered

It says that it was published in 2015, or am I missing something?
Where are the benchmarks? Where's the stress testing? Where's the acoustic testing? What kind of review is this?

These large commerical outlets are put to shame by Gamers Nexus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUqYTenB2A0
The upside is that English comprehension correlates extremely well with technical ability for non-graybeards. Curiously german hiring managers haven't caught onto this at all, though that might be because they themselves largely lack the required language skills to test candidates for this.
The list includes the neutrino (added to explain missing momentum in observed nuclear decays), the Higgs (added to explain mass which would otherwise not make sense in electro-weak theory) and arguably antimatter (added to fix incompatibility between special relativity and quantum mechanics).

Reality is more complicated than slogans would suggest. Sometimes adding new types of matter to our understanding of physics was the right choice, sometimes it wasn't.
>It's not conservative to have your own culture and history.

Relax, nobody's saying to take your beer and Lederhosen away, but why force your own translations to established industry technical words onto students?

It just creates confusion and hampers further self learning and cooperation as the lingua franca of IT is Englisch anyway.
the article uses and overuses words in such a way to look either like llm generated garbage, or like hype.

excellent.
don't confuse ZDNet with anything resembling journalism
> which happens for things not in the standard library.

So to be clear you don't use Requests right?

Because there is HTTP client handling right in the Python standard library, and yet it sure seems like most Python programmers use Requests, because it's better.
I know it was not intentional, but I kinda like the idea of "navigation by obscurity", leading the visitor on a wild goose chase through a web of hyperlinks.
I wonder when cutting any type of glued/engineered wood, if its not just the dust but chemicals in the adhesives getting vaporized when cut.
Yes, fantastic work. Downside is that snapshot.debian.org is extremely slow, times out / errors out regularly - very annoying. See also e.g. https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/8496 for complaints (but it's pretty apparent once you integrate this in your builds).
Delusional thinking is _common_, not normal. Just like cancer is common, but not normal.
I have mixed feelings associating “less freedom” with a commercial service.

But it is overreaching to say there’s “no reason” to censor it. Friction of information discoverability matters in the aggregate. I do see your point that a dogged information seeker will likely find other avenues.

The fact is people are using AI assistants as criminal consultants. It seems reasonable for commercial providers to mitigate that for some (hopefully minimal) concession on capability. That balance may be imperfect, and there may be headway to improve a model’s ability to action that balance.

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/03/28/chatgpt_europol_c...
…As I golf, swim, garden and woodwork…

I sort of understand it, but dammit, I’m enjoying my life.

I think we exist in a world inundated with chemicals.

Don’t do these activities and I bet you there is some other disease that gets an increased risk.
Source code is something that you author; binary artifacts aren't.
Is it too late to switch back?
We faced a similar situation at DevRev (https://devrev.ai) a few months back, but we decided to go fully client side rather than using server side solutions like Cube. We developed our own open-source library Meerkat (https://github.com/devrev/meerkat) which allows you to generate and execute SQL queries in the browser.
There is a relatively straightforward technique for this that you can use to invert operations like blurring on well-constrained sets. Just generate every letter (in every font) and compare with the start of the input. If you get a good match cut that part off and start over.
Thank god, .tk caused so many headaches for us, truly a cesspit of a tld. The rate of fraud and abuse on our platform was staggeringly high from it, it was close 99%.
Work with me, here: dedicated seaplanes for megasized offshore windmills. This would put TailSpin one step closer to being real. Clearly a civilizational win.
Eclipse Steady
Yes and it tells us zilch about the reality of the situation.
In the US, new books were mostly cover price until into maybe the 90s? There were some exceptions. It wasn't uncommon for larger stores to offer some bestsellers at something like a 15% discount. It was sort of an innovation when a large independent bookstore opened in Cambridge MA and sold most or maybe all their books at a 15% discount.

There was also a larger set of fair trade laws in the US because manufacturers didn't want their products to be discounted which, among other things, probably got their products on the shelves of small stores that perhaps couldn't otherwise afford to carry them.
This is such a bizarre article. First, they say superiority claims were right all along, and then paragraph after paragraph they reveal worse single core performance, worse multi core performance (needs 4 more cores to gain 16% advantage), higher power draw, and to finish it off they mention that Geekbench is not really a great benchmark.
The issue is that it will be seen as "political" if one political side's media happens to be cited more often in examples of misinformation, and one will.
Most daycares have waitlists well over a year and cost more than rent and mortgage payments.
> is agreed upon as worth attention

That’s just it. There are many things that some group of people will say is harmful, but that many or even most others think is hyperbole.
More celebration days, no complaints here. I wish humanity cared more about such universal celebrations that brought us together.

Of course those days would be very hectic travel wise if the entire population of earth were to migrate around on those days.
Wait.. was that in the paper or is there a different source for this?
"fuck around and find out" at play
The CTO is the one in charge of choosing the programming language, putting in place the initial framework, processes and rules.
I’m 40 years old and trying to buy a home in a high COLA city with my partner and our child. We are currently renting. Everything is either absurdly priced or surrounded by people of color and crime.

This realization has convinced me that it’s not a supply problem. I go on Zillow and there’s HUNDREDS of affordable condos and single family homes and 2 flats on offer. I can buy many of them cash. But they are in the ghetto. And ghettos are not some sort of act of god or timey-wimey opopsie-dasie. They are deliberate creations of a society.

Similarly, I look on Zillow at houses in second-tier cities an hour or two drive and everything is reasonable. My partner and I work in person five days a week, and yet millennials and Gen Zers working remotely except for once a month have no legitimate reason to be in high COLA markets except for their love of marg towers.

It’s not a supply problem. It’s an “I’m a racist white person and I’m okay with the carceral industrial complex” problem.

All the crime I see in these areas that frankly makes living in them a threat to my female partner’s survival is due to 60+ years of stupid welfare policy and 50+ years of the War on Drugs removing fathers from homes and incentivizing criminal culture.
https://paperswithcode.com/sota/code-generation-on-humaneval
Giving the editors hints in this case is very expensive.
I was alluding to the parent beginning their post with "So," which I instantly exaggeratedly read as "Saaaur," and I couldn't help but commenting about it but wanted to provide an example (hence the video) for clarity.
The error rate for delusional thinking is way higher than the error rate for normal human thinking. That’s why we call it delusional.
Also trading goods, whether at a market or otherwise used to be an equal competition. Nowadays abstract companies use abstract algorithms and massive data sets of not only sales but also data from other sources like the ads customer ever clicked on or hovered over to optimize the price for maximum profit.

This happens to consumers and intermediaries alike. Prices are maximised as much as they can be while still allowing enough sales to sustain the system. There's no fairness in pricing nor a human element most of the time. It's automatically kicking the customer and patting them on the back at the same time in real time.
they will outsource it then. you need global union with india, vietnam, east europe, and china. good luck with that.
The "contact sales for pricing" is a plague, especially for companies that are have that specific Northern American attitude. While I hate it, I don't see it being much different from a lot of IT space.

I did a lot of research and product evaluations, was always honest about my intent and how much decision power I had. It worked out maybe once - most companies insisted on wasting time of multiple people just to ... Waste even more time and not give even unofficial rought estimate, or basic definitions from license. It kind of matters if it's paid for "every employee" or "every employee that uses the software". Apparently just for me.
> Delusional thinking is a dysfunctional process almost by definition, since it produces invalid conclusions

It does not automatically follow that invalid conclusions are the result of a dysfunctional process.

Another way to frame this is that a process that is stressed beyond its design parameters and fed inputs outside bounds of what is considered “normal” will result in invalid conclusions, where “valid” is based on a relatively new (in terms of the existence of human brains) understanding of science and ability to rigorously define validity.

In other words, you and I may not be able to understand the delusions of those around us, but had we been subject to the same environmental factors, they might make perfect sense to us.

I think the general point is that thinking that appears delusional doesn’t automatically indicate some inherent defect in the brain, and likely has causes that make sense if we could trace the history of inputs to the brain.

The conclusion that we should be more open to engaging with delusional people and less quick to discard them outright seems like a reasonable one.

Anecdotally, I have family who gravitate to certain conspiracy theories, and based on what I know of their traumatic past (war vet, physically abused), I understand why they have deeply embedded mistrust of government and other people that causes them to accept beliefs that help them make sense of their lived reality.

They’re still otherwise very intelligent. Expert in their chosen craft, and capable of nuanced understanding of deeply technical subjects. But their human brains are also shaped by events that would likely have a similar impact on anyone else who went though the same set if life experiences.

> That’s like saying that cancer is OK because it arises commonly in many humans

I don’t think this analogy works. Cancer invades the body. Our cognition is something we all share, and the way it operates is not inherently dysfunctional, even while it is always susceptible to trauma and conditioning. And even in trauma, what appears “dysfunctional” externally is most likely helping the person survive.
I think you do a better job than the article does of articulating it's underlying point, which is to approach others with humility rather than judgement. Many people, perhaps most (the "crowd"), find out one delusional or disagreeable thing about a person, and use that as an excuse to judge and then entirely ignore them. Your way is wiser.

If we take seriously the idea that "the line separating good and evil [or rational and irrational, if you prefer] runs through every human heart" then we all hold "delusional" beliefs. There are ideas I hold and defend, right now, which do not align with reality. I don't know what they are just yet, but I'm trying to figure that out, and am (or should be) willing to listen to anyone else along the way.

In practice, though... Whew! I mean, my uncle Dan knows a hell of a lot more about guns than I ever will, and I'd value his opinion about the relative merits of this or that firearm very highly. On the other hand, inviting that conversation means engaging / filtering all of the other opinions he'll inevitably express along the way. It's a ton of mental effort, and not usually worth it, especially since I'm not all that interested in guns. He knows much more than I do about cars, as well, and has fewer (not none, but fewer) conspiratorial beliefs attached to that subject, so that's where I'll usually lead our conversations.
Granddad Died Today (2017)
Feels like half the behaviours listed as low status would also be things associated with autism and other types of neurodiversity. For those of us in that situation, things like eye contact are difficult due to coming across as unnatural.

Makes me wonder if the high status behaviours listed here are associated with narcissism or what not.
I was about to go and find an article about the best techniques and materials and submit it to see how it does. On the other hand I'll wait until I'm not at the airport.
You can't induct for this problem because induction will only show a property for all finite strings. Arbitrary-length finite strings, but still finite.
sooner than that
So who is liable if the AI makes severe mistakes?

Not that MS has been held accountable for all the security problems they've had recently.
Most bars have generic cola on their soda guns.
Designing File Formats
Come back in a few months. The Linux DE is broken beyond repair. If it’s from the big names (KDE, the one with the foot logo, the mouse one, etc) or is dependent on them, it’s not worth even looking into it.
until big corp laysoff all that middle management
Yep. Imagine reading ASCII art, verbally, one character at a time, to a dementia patient in a context in which they're not expecting it. They'll probably react negatively.
At least DARPA has some success stories in terms of delivering useful technology.

Still, I feel what you are saying. If I am hesitant, it is because I think I saw actual AI video in the wild yesterday and it was convincing. And it will get worse.

What does surprise me is that old media don't lean into it more, because it would reinforce their status as gatekeepers IF they play it right.
I think this is the key here. The protections in place are good enough: someone motivated can jailbreak chatGPT or use TOR. At least in the former case it would be easier to detect and find him.
Both the horrors of October 7th, and the horrors the current Israeli government are committing and planning can be true at the same time.

Everyone in Israel isn't a right-wing settler terrorist, and not everyone in Gaza is a Hamas terrorist either.
Nvidia rival Cerebras says it's revived Moore's Law with 3rd G waferscale chips