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Interesting view. What makes it feel like java in your opinion? I think I see your point about dart being what JS should have been but I would add that it is also like what Java should have been. And really the only reason to compare it to Java is because it is the language that spawned most other comparable languages (C#, Swift, Dart, Kotlin, JS (kind of)). But syntactically Dart is nothing like java:

- no `new`

- no single class files only restriction

- named parameters

- no java.util.arraylist nonsense.

semantically it is also very different (unlike eg. Kotlin)

- first class support for passing functions as parameters (this is the worst issue with Java by far and can't be understated)

- sound type system (String cannot be null)

- async/await

- no bytecode

lots of other QOL features as well. If you're really thinking of trying out Flutter don't let Dart stop you from doing so. You may even find you like it!
Eh.

I’ve worked at companies with large monorepos and I’ve worked on teams with more repos than engineers. At large scale, it takes good tooling to make it work well, and that’s true both for monorepos and for multirepos.

I do think that the monorepo tooling is better, but I think the difference isn’t so large. You can have a completely miserable experience in a monorepo or multirepo setup, or a good experience.
Read the piece, and if you haven't noticed we have mass inflation on everything not just cars. My comment was on cars that I think are good value right now.
Gotta admit, never realized this was a thing.

Obvious in hindsight, but... Yeah.
I do my oil changes top-side now, using an air-powered Mityvac (MV7300; no affiliation).

That's the factory-recommended procedure for several brands now and works well on my Mercedes and Honda. I was skeptical at first, but did the extraction and then removed the drain plug and the oil I got from the bottom wouldn't have half-filled a shot glass, so that's good enough for me.

As long as the filter is accessible from the top or side, I don't see the need to jack up most wet-sump cars (which is almost all of them).
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I have no idea what "facts" you think are a hard counter this belief. That buy-and-hold has some positive tax implications in no way repudiates the reality that it underperforms doing the exact same with either a) pretax funds, or b) capturing 100% of the gains tax-free.

Some Americans have the option to put over $75,000 a year into these types of accounts which are strictly better along virtually every axis. Most Americans are limited to $7,000. Many Americans who could put $7,000 in via a backdoor don't due to the various hurdles involved. This is patently indefensible. Every American should have access to the same level of tax sheltering regardless of employer.

Please go find some other windmill to tilt at.
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He's selling water in a desert, kind of doesn't matter how polished his presentation is.
> We’re not trying to replace artists.

They really messed up then, because that's literally all I can see using this tool for.
The tricky bit about nuclear construction today isn’t really _safety_ so much as public acceptance; you’ll get tied up for decades in disputes which are nothing in particular to do with the safety regulation, and everything to do with public opposition.
There's a nice browser extension for that. I've been using it for a while now.

https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect
This kind of optimization is what I did for the last few years of my career, so I might be biased / limited in my thinking about what AI is capable of. But a lot of this area is still being figured out by humans, and there are a lot of tradeoffs between the math/software/business sides that limits what we can do. I'm not sure many business decision makers would give free rein to AI (they don't give it to engineers today). And I don't think we're close to AI ensuring a principled approach to the application of mathematical concepts.

When these optimization systems (I'm referring to mathematical optimization here) are unleashed, they will crush many metrics that are not a part of their objective function and/or constraints. Want to optimize this quarter's revenue and don't have time to put in a constraint around user happiness? Revenue might be awesome this quarter, but gone in a year because the users are gone.

The system I worked on kept our company in business through the pandemic by automatically adapting to frequently changing market conditions. But we had to quickly add constraints (within hours of the first US stay-at-home orders) to prevent gouging our customers. We had gouging prevention in before, but it suddenly changed in both shape and magnitude - increasing prices significantly in certain areas and making them free in others.

AI is trained on the past, but there was no precedent for such a system in a pandemic. Or in this decade's wars, or under new regulations, etc. What we call AI today does not use reason. So it's left to humans to figure out how to adapt in new situations. But if AI is creating a black-box optimization system, the human operators will not know what to do or how to do it. And if the system isn't constructed in a mathematically sound way, it won't even be possible to constrain it without significant negative implications.

Gains from such systems are also heavily resistant to measurement, which we need to do if we want to know if they are breaking our business. This is because such systems typically involve feedback loops that invalidate the assumption of independence between cohorts in A/B tests. That means advanced experiment designs must be found that are often custom for every use case. So, maybe in addition to thinking more like product managers, engineers will need to be thinking more like data scientists.

This is all just in the area where I have some expertise. I imagine there are many other such areas. Some of which we haven't even found yet because we've been stuck doing the drudgery that AI can actually help with. [cue the song Code Monkey]
In Germany there is a spray based on eucalyptus oil and it works very well. it is marketed as “sensitive”. we have a dog that licks stuff and wanted to avoid the use of the acaricides
We had a corroded one that still functioned but I finally buckled under the RACKET the thing made every time the door opened and closed and got it replaced anyway.

Every single time you opened or closed it, it sounded like a goddamn car crash going on out front. Ugh.
I predict people will soon be saying this while lauding "human art" that they don't realise is completely AI generated.
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Hey this is a really cool idea. Might take you up on this
No moat.

Yes, CUDA, but CUDA is maaaaaybe a few tens of billion USD deep and a few (more) years wide. When the rest of the industry saw compute as a vanity market, that was sufficient. Now, it's a matter of time before margins go to, uhhh, less than 90%.

Does that make shorting a good idea? I wouldn't count on it. The market can always remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
I read that as "I risked 50+ remaining years of my life (or serious life-changing injury) with low-probability" not "it took me so many wasted hours with probability 1.0"
I have been playing with it for the last couple of weeks.

I do a lot of traditional music production for fun and was wondering how I could use Suno together with Leonardo for video and then bring it all together in my existing tools.

Here are some examples. I wrote the lyrics by hand and the music has been reinforced with my existing studio equipment.

For me, that is where the gold is. Not replacing myself, but extending what I can do.

https://youtu.be/Qip6eUbD8zs

https://youtu.be/mfFV3Cm_Kow

https://youtu.be/DZSpi6ySe-g
Their market cap is 2.2T $.

In the past year, they had a revenue of 60B $ and net income of 30B $. Absolutely amazing numbers, I agree. The year before they had a revenue of 30B $ and a net income of 4.5B $ - and it was a rather good year. What happens next of course depend of how you judge the situation - was it a peak hype demand ? Will it stabilize now ? Grow at current extraordinary rates ?

Scenario 1 - margins get back to normal due to hype going down, competition improving etc - in this case the company is worth at best ~200B $ - or 1/10 of what it is now.

Scenario 2 - they maintain current revenue and the exceptional margins - the company would be worth ~1T - or 1/2 of what it is now.

Scenario 3 - they current growth rate (based on past 12 months) continue for ~5 years. This is the case the company is worth ~2T $.

But they are in a business where most money come from a handful of customers, all of which are working on similar chips - and given the sums in play now, the incentives are *very* strong.

My opinion, is that the company is already priced for perfection - basically the current price reflects the perfect scenario. I struggle to see any upside, unless we have AGI in the next 5 years and it decides it can only run on Nvidia chips.

All of this is akin to Tesla in the past years. They grew from a small startup to a medium car maker - the % growth rate was huge of course - an amazing achievement in itself. But people projected that the % growth rate would continue - and the stock was priced accordingly. Reality is catching up on Tesla, even if some projections are still absolutely crazy.
To be fair, most commercialized music is formulaic, the only difference is that people had to be paid to record it.

I think the biggest problem with AI generated stuff is that the I in AI is hype, these things can't create real novelty. They're a new, poorly understood form of compression. If creativity is left to these AIs then the music will sound the same in 20 years at best, or more likely, degrade/converge when they're all trained on each other's and their own material.
certainly optimal would be global, and I'm pretty sure its isomorphic to bin packing..whether you use a fixed call interface or not. so its solved, its just exponential
I have around 30 YoLink sensors scattered about our house (mainly for detecting water leaks). And for a long time I only had the single hub in the basement on the complete opposite end of the house. I never had any signal issue and they've all worked flawlessly.

I haven't needed to change the batteries on a single sensor yet for multiple years. I did get 2 of their SpeakerHubs which also act range extenders, but it's completely unnecessary since the single hub is perfectly fine wherever you put it. I mainly use the SpeakerHubs as sirens, but they can also do text to speech, e.g. "(Loud Siren) Water Leak detected in master bath".

They've already saved me a couple of times.

I keep reading about all these standards for connected devices e.g. Matter, but in the end these just work perfectly for my use case.
> rake in $$$

How could they charge a high price when the supply of competition is so abundant?
I hear you. I think it's important to lead by example here and demonstrate the value of performant software that is accessible to a wider range of users/devices.

Native apps do demonstrate that there are performance gains to be made with languages better suited for runtime performance (think threads, AOT compilation, etc)

Just because there is currently a culture in the web development world that de-emphasises the importance of performance, doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to offer better tools to developers.

Right now, wasm is the only feature on the web that has the potential to offer that capability to developers - so I'd say that it's worth wanting and asking for the choice to use better tools for web applications.
Do they not have "internal" releases for these root components that are not depended on by everything, so you aren't having to wait 2 days and use a gazillion hours of computer for every single change though?
Didn’t I read once that FEMA has an official “Waffle house indicator” where they track WH closures to estimate the impact of hurricanes and such?
This seems as good a place as any to be Corrected by the Internet, so... correct me if I'm wrong.

Making a graphics chip that is as good as Nvidia: Very difficult. Huge moat, huge effort, lots of barriers, lots of APIs, lot of experience, lots of decades of experience to overcome.

Making something that can run a NN: Much, much easier. I'd guess, start-up level feasible. The math is much simpler. There's a lot of it, but my biggest concern would be less about pulling it off and more around whether my custom hardware is still the correct custom hardware by the time it is released. You'd think you could even eke out a bit of a performance advantage in not having all the other graphics stuff around. LLMs in their current state are characterized by vast swathes of input data and unbelievably repetitive number crunching, not complicated silicon architectures and decades-refined algorithms. (I mean, the algorithms are decades refined, but they're still simple as programs go.)

I understand nVidia's graphics moat. I do not understand the moat implied by their stock valuation, that as you say, they are the only people who will ever be able to build AI hardware. That doesn't seem remotely true.

So... correct me Internet. Explain why nVidia has persistent advantages in the specific field of neural nets that can not be overcome. I'm seriously listening, because I'm curious; this is a deliberate Cunningham's Law invocation, not me speaking from authority.
I have no idea. They do have multiple developers at the moment as far as I know, but maybe everyone focuses on the user interactivity instead. Regarding third party PRs again I don't know, I think they're open to it, but from previous interactions I had on their tracker, the review process might be quite stringent.
Irish names you're probably saying wrong and how to pronounce them
Reminds me of one of my favorite Far Side cartoons https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFarSide/s/g5y9E0ZlmI
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> Perhaps it finds niche there, because -let's be honest- most of the music in that category is made on the automatic pilot anyway.

Can you give some examples? In my experience, most music, even music we think of as banal or boring, had a pretty significant amount of effort, and creativity, put into its creation.
The beginning in particular seemed pretty rough, but he seemed to mostly get into a groove about halfway into it. At least he started talking a lot smoother around then.
From what I've seen, your level of pickle sensitivity and hate is very uncommon, and based off how much they seem to cater their menus to people I do not expect they have a system in place to address it.
The Importance of Innovating on Content
The cost really is the key for me. We had one replaced a few months ago and it was a few hundred dollars and was done the same day. I usually prefer to DIY, but it would have taken me a while just to measure everything, round up the right spring and acquire it, get the correct rods and cut them to size, etc. I'm sure that would consume at least an afternoon for me and it would still cost something to acquire the parts. The savings just isn't worth it.

If the cost to have it done professionally was $3000, it might be a different story.
I think it's a good reminder that objectively great CEO's and leaders can be kind of cringe when presenting. A lot of times people like that get passed up in promotions in favor of smooth talkers.
They definitely are relevant. That doesn't mean they're not sliding, though, and I imagine they're quite aware of how they're sliding. The oil companies had 99.9% market share, then 99.8, 99.5, 99, 98, 96, nowhere near irrelevant but it doesn't take a genius to see a reason why they might worry about their future.

We're at a significant point now, BTW. A few months ago, renewables reached 100% of the energy market growth, with installation rate (= market share) still doubling. It's in the single per cent of total market and doubling, and all further increase in the rate of renewable installation is also a contraction in the oil market.
Companies who don't track don't need any banner or popup.

> All companies are evil

No, but many, many companies are sociopathic assholes that exist just to make a buck. Otherwise we wouldn't need these laws.
Oh my, it sounds like nearly every other pop artist complete with whisper mumbles, edgy manufactured vocal tics and devoid of melody.

It nailed contemporary music.
This is a pretty good implementation. I like the simplicity of it, reminds me of SQLite backed storage decorators we used to have, where the data was persisted to a DB instead of the file system (altho thats just a different storage engine)

Does this also take care of the thundering heard problem? That was one of the cases where lru_cache really blows
Oh no, is that going to mess up my favorite genre called shreds? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nAhQOoJTIA
If they are this bad to replace, should I be worried about them randomly failing? I mean, I drive right underneath them like twice a day backing in and out.
> It was fine, but hardly the glorious wonderland often portrayed.

Probably down to personal taste, but I would happily take a thousand of these websites with strange, esoteric folk sharing knowledge in unconventional ways than another subreddit that's 70% non-sequiturs by volume, or a Stack Exchange thread that's just the same quesiton asked 400 times in broken english.
> Again, from the perspective of users, the experience got worse post-regulation.

Your right, the experience got worse.

But the underlying point is there two ways this could have gone. The GDPR simply mandated that if companies track you they have to get your informed consent. So one way it could have gone is companies didn't track anonymous users.

Notice this doesn't apply to non-anonymous users. By definition once you've logged in you've revealed who are and agreed to a far more onerous privacy statement. So one way companies could comply is just to make you log in to see some content (and track you that way), and not bug you otherwise.

But they didn't go that way. They insist on tracking you regardless. Perhaps you don't agree, but I find this even more annoying because I install tracking blocking extensions and that breaks some sites. To me the world would have been a much better place if they had just gone along with the intent of the damned law and not tracked people who are try to remain anonymous.

To be fair it's not so bad. Firefox dismisses the cookie banners for you [0], and I have extensions that block the worst of their effects. If you are using a browser from an ad company and are complaining about cookie banners (which almost to the man use a deceptive UI to encourage you to accept them all so the ads work better), then I don't have a lot of sympathy. Me rejecting as many cookies as I can then blocking their trackers the worst possible outcome for the web sites trying to garner some ad revenue of course, but shrug, the industry could have acted in good faith, and didn't.

[0] https://community.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/firefox-cookie-ba...
it didn't listen to you at all though. it gave you the most feminine male voice possible
Interesting, because we store relocatable objects. And process symbols can be resolved by name if you really want. It might be yet another performance trade-off though.
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With all due respect, you're speaking on behalf of 1 person here, not an entire country of people, and certainly not the entirety of the non-E.U. world. "We" can speak for ourselves, and don't all agree with the views you're ascribing to us. And "I" don't agree with the sort of stereotyping I'm responding to.

I'm personally glad someone is doing something for my privacy here. My own government, due to regulatory capture, is unlikely to act in my best interests here.
At least according to the article, the main failure mode is fatiguing, so I’m not sure lube would help with that, unless the corrosion is really bad. Most materials have a finite amount of cycles in them (although I’m a bit skeptical of the authors 7 year estimate…it seems low to me)
Yeah I noticed this too. I spent a lot of credits trying to get a song to sound like early black flag, even outright saying an 80s hardcore punk band with rough male vocals and a fast paced beat, and it only ever sounded like a 90s pop punk bank eg blink 182.

Had a similar issue trying to create a reggae song that sounds like the Maytals, every song either sounded like a female hip hop artist or rebelution.
I think their aggressive price point is at odds with their mission.

The mission used to be "unit of computing for education and makers at a super low pricepoint". This feels more like "create the lowest pricepoint possible".
You don’t see any value in someone who can do part of writing music/lyrics, but not all of it, using this tool to complete the aspect that they’re not skilled at?

I mean that’s where AI shines for me, letting 1 person (or few people) accomplish what would have required teams of skilled people to do. It’s the same story with tech in general. I write code that runs on web/android/iOS that has processed over a half a million dollars through it as a single-person company. That was all pre-AI, my point being that technology and the tools it produces allow us to do amazing things. I see AI as only furthering that.

Now I can create custom sounds using AI, let AI help with marketing copy that I’m not good at, have it generate cartoon/simple pictures to explain a process for my software, etc. A world limited not by my skillset but by my imagination.

I know people hate electron apps but the alternative is often no app (not a native app), in the same vein tools like this will allow people who can write lyrics but not music to share their songs. It won’t be for everyone but there is value in it.
Yep. Does Influx/Telegraf have a better story?
Everyone says this until they're spending their whole weekend working around some weird tiny differences in between a GNU tool and something that comes with OSX or homebrew or something.

And when you finally get it working you have the "satisfaction" of knowing you bought NOTHING of value with all that wasted time -- just the opportunity to be able to use FaceTime on the same laptop you develop on, or something.

If you're looking for a UNIXy nice desktop OS and that's the entirety of your requirement, mac OS is great.

If your REAL use case isn't just generic hanging around, but specifically developing/maintaining an app that runs on linux in production, then you're only hurting yourself the more you introduce mac or windows into the dev process. Nothing good can come of it. Best case you get lucky and you don't run into any issues... and also reap no real benefits because a linux desktop nowadays works fine, it's not the year 2000.
Kind of. I use their waterleak sensors and pair them directly with their YoLink Siren. The siren will go off without cloud, internet, or even power (until the batteries run out).
Don't bet against a CEO who knows what is talking about, has 80% market share and an arm tattoo of his own company logo.... :-)

So far the short sellers, learned that bitter lesson.
I predict that this kind of labelling will disappear before long and in a couple of years will look ridiculous.
Not going to lie, I never would have thought someone could sell those for $10/each.