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100% of what? In principle with favorable winds a large merchant ship could cross an entire ocean using sail power, but it would be very slow. Due to capital expenses, crew wages, and customer demands that wouldn't be economically viable. Even with "slow steaming" to save on fuel, merchant ships on long crossings are generally cruising at least 13 knots. There's no way to consistently hit such a high speed on a large vessel with any practical sail rig.
My impression is that similar "men dominate" dynamics apply to a very wide range of (de facto) competitive human activities - ones where the vast majority of the rewards go to a tiny fraction of the topmost talent. But being mere (say) 98th percentile doesn't get you squat.

Even if all the creeps and jerks in such areas were magically transformed into perfect gentlemen, women are mostly too wise to spend that much of their lives on long-odd gambits.
I straight out put RISC-V board into the retro-looking landline phone from ebay. Some soldering, a gpio-matrix keyboard (mine is a keypad and not a real pulse rotary) and baresip integration and it kinda works.
>I'd say, for personal devices, folks expect a shiny new UI every OS update.

A 99% of folks could not care less, when they're not downright annoyed by the UI changes. There has been major reactions on UI changes (from Office, Gmail Windows, Gnome, iOS and macOS to Facebook). There have been in comparison crickets about the UI not "updating fast enough", and those are mostly from designer types (like the stupid "skeuomorphic" hoopla a decade ago).

A small minority of designers and superficial people is the one making any noise about UI needing to be updated every time.
if not, pulse to dtmf sounds like a reasonably-approachable (attiny?) side project?
Some really high end racing sailboats do use rigid "sails". But there's a lot to be said for a wind surface that can stow away. I assume regular sails are lighter. Also, of course, momentum and habit.
Except when these vulnerabilities are exploitable from JavaScript in your web browser.
Inside NASA’s bid to make spacecraft as small as possible
That’s some unsubstantiated full tinfoil hat conspiracy if I’ve ever seen it.

Also you may want to review your history. It was Nixon who opened the door to China. Whether you think that was a good or bad decision, it was made long before Clinton had anything to do with it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_visit_by_Richard_Nixon_...
Sadly, this is more of MSFT's "we can do what Apple does too!".

For a "business" oriented portable why is it so limited on ports? No wired Ethernet? As many others have pointed out, why are the 3D graphics so hobbled? People use laptops for CAD, visualizations and these days GPUs perform offload of a lot of other functions.

I saw someone "crap" on Dell and Lenovo but honestly I think most of the Lattitude laptops have really good build quality, decent availbility of parts and good longevity.

Lenovo X1 Carbons are far from perfect but they're pretty solid machines and still offer wired Ethernet (albiet via a breakout dongle) and a decent amount of ports. Linux works pretty decently here too.

I never understood what the value add of MSFT's Surface family was/is, supposedly a "first party" portable with Windows with the same quality and engineering as an Apple product but if you look at HOW they go about it they seem to keep missing the point. If you go to Wikipedia and punch in 'Surface' you'll see some crazy big table of devices they've churned out, all with varying degrees of issues.

I have a Surface Pro 2 which runs Debian Linux quite well (like another poster pointed out) so that's cool but it's has a lot of oddities that wouldn't be acceptable had the machine not been free.

Lenovo made an X1 Tablet family that's fanless and is honestly pretty compelling if you need a fanless, "tablet-like" PC that runs Windows. I use mine as a car diagnostics computer and the car software needs Windows.

If I were writing the specs for a "business computer" it'd include being fanless, excellent battery life, plethora of ports incl. legacy USB-A, light-weight and durable. I doubt any Surface will meet that.

Apple MBPs and Apple Airs BTW do NOT meet these criteria either, lack of ports, chunkier / heavier on the MBP line, can't do dual-displays on the Air, macOS really needing 16GB but Apple charging a crazy tax for 16GB+ of RAM, etc.
That is because of the difference in mass over the voyage, the less delta in your fuel math the less of a problem it is. Also, nothing prevents you from doing exactly this with a smaller amount of fuel. Last I checked dense liquids continue to be dense liquids and will flow to the lowest point.
> My problem with this particular approach is that it requires us all to agree on what things are called

Walk around your home and notice [almost] everything already has a name for it as it comes from some store (unique handmade items are an outlier). Let's just label things we all agree they are called (or give them multiple labels).
Agreed on turning them digital. If you care about quality just remux them though, all a lossless codec is going to get you is a 10x larger file with the exact same output.
I struggle to understand how a company whose IP essentially amounts to using RF emitters as geolocation sources based on simultaneous correlation with GPS data and other known geolocated RF sources can amass apparently between 600 and 700 patents on this "innovation".

I know that they sued Google over their Android NLP implementation and Google lost on almost all of the enumerated complaints, Apple started using Skyhook beginning with early versions of iOS, and Microsoft apparently also uses them.

What they have seemingly done with the assistance of an absurd number of patents that they apparently keep getting granted by the USPTO (which is known for issuing boatloads of junk patents), is take a fairly obvious tactic which amounts to one of the earliest examples of crowdsourcing - the WiFi "wardriving" practice - and find ways to patent-encumber that technique that they did not invent until they have engineered what appears to be a complete monopoly on it.

I'm also curious how the legal landscape of that business may have changed after the Qualcomm acquisition. IIRC at one point in time Qualcomm was licensing Skyhook data.
The design is... well it isn't... no excuse but it's suppose to be hidden behind some UI ofc.

Why do I need it anyway? In case I forget who is my mum?

If I ask you for an organized list of your friends, coworkers, relatives etc along with contact details. Would you be likely to share it without asking why?

Sounds like something that should be illegal.

If mum has a public website with her short stories, reading list and her crafts on it one should write a blog post about it. You could also put the vCards in an RSS feed but it wouldn't be as interesting.

I read the topic more like Rum as an alternative for Whiskey
Firefox it shows "Loading..." but never goes on. On Chrome the page never even loads. Weird.
> the Christian concept of the seventh day

Jewish idea at its root.
Same experience, i’d go for static any time i get the chance but needed something easier to edit for non techies for a non profit’s site. Ended up going with squarespace because I was so over wordpress licensing issues and plugin bloat. Now squarespace has its own frustrations like their terrible events calendar but at least the budget is under control.
Pure zstd (or .tar.zstd) vs pack vs patched 7z+zstd would be more interesting, how much overhead introduced by pack format itself - in size and speed
https://archive.is/Ao8X8
If it's only a concern of a stupid minority of people, then the parent might as well use "objective".

Some people don't believe the earth is round either, but the rest of us don't consider it a "subjective" "IMO" fact.
Mistral AI announce 7B v0.2 base model release
It's an impressive pile of components on one chip, but the lack of pricing and dev board info is annoying.

Anyone know if Efinix FPGAs have a decent tool chain?
What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move? (2020)
Would you share a little more why you'd recommend it even for a non-jazz fan ? I assume you mean it would be of interest to music fans more broadly, or because it has applications to interests outside of music ?
This was actually quite an interesting article. Addresses a few of the common hypotheses and explains why they don’t work. Their conclusion is that it’s the propensity of men to focus obsessively.

Interesting stuff.

As an aside, I remember someone on HN saying something I found very meaningful (which I only remember paraphrased) and which I think I’ve tried to live by since. It went something like:

You know what stopped me from programming? It wasn’t the people who said I couldn’t code. It wasn’t the fact that I had limited access to a computer. It was nothing. Nothing stopped me from doing this.
The same could be said about the librarians job. Sure pick your own level of involvement.
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Oh boy another underjord post. It's always such a joy getting to read his writing.
This makes perfect sense for DJs but I'm not sure it makes sense for the streaming market in general. DJs are expecting to use specialized equipment (be that a full set or a laptop and some speakers), software, and to manage their own content library as a thing in itself but most consumers just want to turn the TV on and watch content without dealing with where it goes.
> I find the software stack looks like hold together with duck tape.

That’s how I feel about the Android platform!

Non-upstream Android and Samsung specific patches on the Linux kernel, a weird Franken-Java runtime that doesn’t support modern Java features, which means most developers use Kotlin now to make for a tolerable developer experience. There’s tons of compatibility libraries that must be bundled with your app to account for the fact that a significant amount of your user base will be running embarrassingly old versions of Android, each with their own unique set of features and bugs.

Like you said though, to each their own.
How quickly can you connect to just about any arbitrary data source, pull a whole pile of data. Do some analytics on it and form it into a few glossy 8.5x11 for the next quarterly review. You're looking at about 30-60 minutes for an experienced Excel user. How about making it update in near realtime and adding some interaction for manipulating the data?

More importantly, can you teach an analyst of some sort, who while being a power user is not a programmer to do it just as efficiently?

Doing math on a 2D grid of cells is the technology that Excel perfected in the 80s, the power of Excel is in the connectors, services, and interoperability that surround it. It's no small feat to have an application that can guide a beginner through grabbing 10k rows out of an Oracle database and putting it on a graph, while also having the power to allow experienced users the ability join arbitrary sources and construct models around the results then present it in a logical fashion.

I am very much not a fan of the current state of affairs, but unfortunately nothing does Office like Microsoft Office.
How about pure zstd (or tar.zstd) vs pack vs patched 7z+zstd benchmark? Measure container overhead, in both speed and bytes
Sure and that’s still useful.
Which tech stack did you use and why? As everyone says that no-code is faster for MVPs
> The UI is designed for features A, B, and C. We design, test, revise design, test, and so on. There’s more thought and rigor that goes into than you might be thinking.

What you're saying is spot on wrt new features in large corporations. That's not what is usually considered to be a "redesign".

Another thing about this is that these designers aren't actually users of the software they're designing. A recent example I stumbled upon the other day is portainer. It was a fantastic web UI back when docker got started, clearly made by people that had an issue and wanted to solve it. It had issues and warts, but it added value overall.

Nowadays it's not really worth using anymore, because none of the developers or designers actually have ever used it to manage anything themselves. It just doesn't actually solve any issues anymore, despite having lots of pointless features and looking more shiny now.
I live in a smallish apartment building with 50 apartments and in the basement we have a little building community library where people put books/DVDs/Blu-ray disks that they’re done with. Last weekend I grabbed The Goodfellas and The Dark Night and will put them back when I’m done.

I think it would be really cool if there were ways for people to share their physical media because I don’t have the room to maintain a big media library, and also don’t have the energy to rip and store locally.

I also want to add that I’ve changed my streaming behavior- I will subscribe and immediately cancel the subscription so that it expires after a month so that I don’t end up with a bunch of active subscriptions that I’m not actively using.

When I do subscribe I always pay for the more expensive ad-free versions but recently I couldn’t get anything to play on Paramounts streaming service. After some trial and error I found that their “ad-free” service won’t run with my blocker running on my router and I needed to allowlist some ad services for it work. That’s pretty annoying.
> anything more complicated I'd rather do in a proper programming language.

Yes you can. Most people cannot or don't want to. Programming is just a skill used to reach an end and if your job description doesn't require it, you skip it.

Excel democratizes the data analysis better than any open source alternatives and programming languages. It is easier to use and relatively less buggy than all of the open source and proprietary alternatives. When one really needs programming, VBA is there and it provides a much shallower learning curve for the curious.

From a corporate point of view MS Office has unmatched integration with Windows, Active Directory, Sharepoint, SQLServer and many other programs. A huge amount of financial, management and engineering software tightly integrates with Microsoft software to provide functionality like automatic BOM dumps to Excel and then integrating that with manufacturing, currency conversion. The developers of such software are pretty content with it, especially due to long-term backwards compatibility MS provides for their APIs for all their products.
Different people use it differently. Each social platform has it's own unique features that one can continue to use along with anything else. How do you play games on RSS/vCard? How buy and sell things? How advertise on it?
You greatly overestimate how quickly companies learned. Outsourcing has been a thing for decades and to this day some people are still trying to do it to cut costs. I guess that's what happens when you don't value retention nor document previous decisions. You repeat the cycle.

Sure, the smart companies will use it as a tool, but most companies aren't smart, or just don't care. It'll vary by industry. There is already talks of sizing down VFX/Animation for a mix of outsourcing and AI reliance, for example. And industry that already underpays its artists.

>Not allowing copyright on AI generated work is a ridiculous and untenable decision that will be overturned eventually.

Maybe, once the dust settles on who and what and how you copyright AI. It'll be a while, though. But I get the logic. No one can (nor wants to) succinctly explain what sources were used in a generative art work right now, and that generative process drives the art a lot more than the artist for most generative art. Even without AI there is a line between "I lightly edited this existing work on photosshop" and "I significantly altered a base template to the point where you can't recognize the template anymore" where copyright will kick in.

Still, my biased hopes involve them being very strict with this line. You can't just give 2 prompts and expect to "own" an artwork.
I generally don't drive anywhere that's under 15Km away, but there are exceptions. Taking the family to certain places just isn't feasible by bike sometimes.
Women are biologically incapable of competing with men on the same level in any sports.

Not true. Women can, and do, beat mean head-to-head in ultra-running. Now yes, men win more than women on balance, but it's not unheard of for a woman to outright win a challenging ultra-marathon (as opposed to winning the "women's division"). There are probably other exceptions as well.
In the era before internet, you either figured things out on your own or you couldn't get anything done.

If you were very lucky, some magazine might have mentioned it. Another way out was to just use disassembler if some other software package performed the same thing.
The detail about input validation is a really nice one that hopefully the next generation of programming languages all do standard.
Is it any good? Why pick this versus other options? I poked around the docs and didn’t find any ecosystem comparison discussion.
I mainly read comments too... :)
> The Google threat model openly lauded in the article seemingly doesn't take state actors as a serious threat model

The article specifically mentioned the Google threat model was a result of a state actor threat ("Operation Aurora").
The financial situation of writers always seems a bit mystical and magical to me.

How can they spend so much time writing?

Are they independently wealthy? Do they have a job we just don’t hear about, and they write in their own time? Do they not have families depending on them?

I’d love to have a life of leisure pursuing the highest quality of a thing I can build over a decade. But my family also needs to eat.
I agree. I used to use Nextcloud and upgrades were a mess. I missed one once and tried to upgrade and the whole thing went nuclear. The upgrade started and failed, breaking everything.

I found have read the note but how can a dev agree to have an upgrade started knowing it will fail and fuck up the db??. Thank you borg for the backup.

It is such a mess in their container that they could not agree on how to get the real IP being looked.

This is really crappy software.

Syncthing is fantastic and just works (right after you get your PhD in syncthingology because, man, it is complicated when you start)
Thanks for that. Here's Drew's comparison of the two forks as of now: https://github.com/placeholderkv/placeholderkv/issues/8#issu...
A lot of published writers have a spouse with a full time (generally high paying) job, as far as I can tell.
I loved the example with Gmail because I am the main hacker behind GabrielAI.

Basically smart filters for gmails and Outlook.

You got to express in plain English which email to filter on and how to create a DRAFT and the tool automatically filters your email and generates drafts or add labels.

It was born out of frustration of replying to several emails, all the same, with content that was already available online. Still need to provide a human and technical-ish touch.

Demo video on: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ALQNDYjLQUU

https://getgabrielai.com
Yes, but with supposedly no special forms there cannot be a lambda operator.

Turns out the language does have special forms, which is OK; it's just weird to say there aren't (though it's an understandable goal).

When I worked on 3Lisp (so many decades ago) it became clear to me how many special forms there are (a small number, but more than I thought) and, honestly, how few there really are, so the "benefit" of a 3Lisp turns out to be negligible in practice. Oddly enough I didn't really notice that when writing interpreters because I thought of most special forms as simply compiler hacks ("eventually we can get rid of this").
Dignity fades on a 18 hour red eyed flight

I’d sleep on floor if stewards let me
the guy wrote a book on it. so far his evidence far exceeds yours, which is none.
World famous mathematicians will have written all their well-formed novel ideas up in academic papers, which are readily available.

I don't know what you would learn from a conversation, except for the half-finished stuff they're still working on before it gets published.
Gymnastics?
Slig, I don't know how to reach you other than here.

Today's hardest puzzle (#110 @ 2024-03-23) says that "Theodore's favorite player is Italian".

The list comprises of the following players: Di Stefano (Argentina then Spain), Maradona (Argentina), Ronaldinho (Brazil), Ronaldo (Brazil or Portugal, depends on who the game speaks about), Rooney (England).

That's roughly what I don't like with your implementation: the grids cannot be solved by themselves. Some external knowledge is required, and in this case, the knowledge is incorrect. Basically, the hint here should say: "Theodore's favorite player is <whoever the AI thinks is Italian>".
Also see:

Unix as IDE.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38789528
RIP. When I was a preteen, I was offered his 1998 CD featuring Beethoven's piano sonatas op. 22, op. 26, and op. Waldstein. I listened to it hundreds of times. That's when my love for piano music began.
How do you propose we watch YouTube videos without getting served by YouTube?

Youtube only sees the Invidious instance, not the end-user clients. That's probably as good as it gets.
That's disappointing - thanks for the info. I guess I'll continue to avoid infotainment updates. I can confirm that the telematics toggle is present (and functional) in the variant coding submenu on version 221025. I wonder what dealers are doing in Massachusetts now.

I think the antenna connectors are accessible if you remove the lower center console trim, then reach up behind the screen. But I haven't tried this, since the software toggle works for me.
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So world famous mathematicians don't learn by talking to each other?
We should just shorten copyright back to 14 years and not grandfather anything.
I know well what a FEXPR is (I was a Maclisp maintainer) but they are special forms.

It is interesting to imagine inverting the sense of execution, but as you say it's hard to do much optimization.
Cal Newport has a new book about this, Slow Productivity, worth reading if one is interested in more on this topic
Take that carbon mic element and tap it repeatedly on a hard surface to loosen up the granules of carbon that need to be able to move round in there when you speak into it. You may find that it improves the fidelity noticeably.
I can see my house from there!
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It can't be a stronger property, the essence of Turing-completeness is that a Turing-complete automaton can simulate any other Turing-complete automaton, including itself.

Whether an automaton, capable of scale-invariant self-simulation, but not exhibiting Turing-completeness, is even possible, is a very interesting question. I don't know the answer.
>The sun's variation in intensity over the solar cycle has a typical 0.2C difference... and even then, 5 years later you get the 0.2C "back".

On what are you basing this statement? The climate models I've looked into were wrong about the effect of clouds and ignore types of energy from the sun.

>- There is no consensus that is going to happen; or even a majority view that it will.

Consensus is not science!
There might be multiple business models. (I'm mildly interested in finding a co-working space, but less so in pinning down what amenities they have, and I'm not sure I'd pay for it.)

Your site got me thinking about pinballmap.com, though, which I think scaled by letting users suggest (and add?) locations themselves. It's a web site with a companion app. Not sure if it makes its money on app sales or donations.

Though I've always said the best way to make money with an app is to add the app to your portfolio, then land a high-paying programming job...
Wow! This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a while.