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Beans and brown rice would be… unless you’re eating the whole cow. But actually, it’s surprising how many things like preservatives get added to things like ground beef.
Have you considered the date (4/1)? Maybe that has something to do with why an article about a 1960s thing is written in present tense?

If describing how an architecture works is "brochure voice" then I guess pretty much any technical deep dive is. Not sure how to avoid that.

Serious question now, would a company's brochure call out that their functional units are not pipelined? Because none of their original documentation did.
It's semi-reasonable. The individual parts are reasonable but putting it together to create a branded methodology™ which is "my way or the highway" was the beginning of the agile-industrial complex as we know it.

You might make the case that Kent Back has actually put together two lines of code and run a compiler (even started JUnit) and the thousands of imitators who talk just like Kent Beck haven't, but if you're going to be critical of the agile-industrial complex you have to be critical of the founder too, who created a toxic style of discourse and a piratical business model of agile consulting.
Hello, would you accept remote applicants from outside the US but with everything already setup to start working? This field and position is literally what I am looking for :D
Yeah, I agree. The "limited time only" seems manipulative and totally unnecessary.

I'm less convinced by the criticism about the notes potentially not being worth the money. That's true of basically all products.

In this case, if the buyer chooses to buy these notes based on the minimal information the author has shared, then the buyer should be ready to accept the possibility that the notes won't be what they expected.
I'm the author of the post that you mentioned inspired you last year. It was fun to read your post as I tinker on my 2nd virtual pinball cabinet. I now have 4 real pinballs and built new walls to make a secret pinball arcade in my house... it really is a rabbithole
Given the recent news, tinfoil hats can actually be quite useful
When I started reading this it seemed like “internet” and WiFi were being conflated, for example on our neighbourhood WhatsApp group there are often people asking “Is anyone else’s WiFi down?”, when what they should ideally be asking is if anyone else’s (fibre) internet is down. In such cases I internally frown a little, but leave it there.

Anyway, for the situation in this link, they actually have a WiFi bridge from their house to their office which has the connection to an ISP, so it is absolutely accurate to say the WiFi was down in this case.
> Then came deregulation. Within five years, PG&E went bankrupt.[1]

It's not like deregulation was the only issue, that just accelerated the bullshit. PG&E had neglected ("deferred") maintenance for many decades - the deadly 2018 wildfire was caused by a cable hook that was around a century old and had never been inspected for a very VERY long time until it eventually failed [1]. IMHO, that amount of maintenance neglect should have been classified as financial fraud:

> PG&E has said in recent court filings it didn’t track when its hooks were installed or how long they had been exposed to weather. It also didn’t routinely inspect them to look for corrosion or wear. Before the Camp Fire, PG&E inspection forms didn’t even include space to note the condition of hooks and other hardware.

How PG&E dared to pay dividends when they didn't even know how much liabilities they had on the books, that is just utterly insane.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-old-metal-hook-could-deter...
Also, COBOL is basically a special purpose language...It's designed for accounting apps. and reports.

Its really not bad for them either. Verbose, but not bad...
The old "ostrich" / passive approach you advocate also prevents the recognition source of disruption. Indecisiveness and inaction to non-kintetic warfare by nation state actors and sponsors of internal "firebrands" isn't something to take lightly, "I suppose".
> Your fake conspiracy theory so far says - that the government is paying rand to only pretend to do a study

You don't seem to understand either me or the parent poster.

What we're saying is that the government (or parts of it, or whatever hair-splitting you want to do) is currently interested in drumming up funding/influence/power for the intelligence community, so it asks RAND to publish something that will drum up support for it.

This isn't some spontaneous born-from-Zeus' head revelation that the authors have stumbled into. They are given a target, and asked to write something to justify them. You don't need to 'fake' doing a study, to make your 'study' end up supporting whatever pre-conceived thesis you were shooting for. [1]

This is everywhere in the media and the think-tank space. You write what your funders want you to write. Denying this blatant transactionality is the wild conspiratorial thinking.

RAND is an especially egregious example of this, because it marches lock-step with the empire-building geo-political consensus in Washington. It's doing what it's paid to do, if it started drawing conclusions and advocacy its funders didn't like, they wouldn't keep writing cheques.

[1] And if you can't find any way to torture the data into your pre-planned outcome, you can just not publish it. These aren't medical trials, they don't have to be pre-registered.
This is a NOBUS attack - Nobody But Us.

By tying it to a particular key owned by the attacker, no other party can trigger the exploit.
> When I was a kid, it was pretty normal to get stung by a bee when out playing/picking dandelions/making clover chains, and just a walk around one's neighborhood would have more bees covering various flowers than one could easily count.

I bought an online pollinator friendly garden kit. $150 later (and a few dead plants that didn't make it through shipping) I now have an absurd number of bumble bees around.

Bumble bees are incredibly gentle, you can walk through entire fields of them and they will just ignore you. I was actually pretty worried about planting a pollinator garden while having a toddler around, but it has gone surprisingly well (meaning he hasn't gotten stung).
AI model has already been trained
Ok, I'm a believer. I misled myself into thinking there was more going on with Promise.all than there really was. I'm mildly averse to allocating unnecessary arrays. But this is mostly superstition rather than measurable performance concern.

Promise.allSettled has a poor-mans implementation too. But the others really don't have such a thing.

My impression is that Promise.all() is kind of nice, but it's really not that big a deal or important. If it didn't exist, you could get the same happy-path code behavior without really even changing the size of the calling code.

But there's nothing wrong with it really. On balance, it seems slightly nicer than the poor-man's re-implementation. In the last 5 years, I might have been able to use it maybe twice.
25% in six years is a collapse? 4% a year?

Easy to see you weren't around in 1979. That looked like things could collapse into a runaway inflation.

Look, we still could mess this up and wind up there. But 4% a year for six years isn't evidence that we're there.
If China blocks western sites, why do western sites allow connections from Chinese IP addresses?
Twitter claims to have 368m users, worldwide.

I'm sure there are far more diverse views on Twitter than a "Trump social network with an echo chamber of 500k users"

I would be surprised to find that the majority of Twitter users all thought the same way socially, economically, spiritually, etc.
> From initially refusing to acknowledge the situation to lying and cohercing people into taking untested injections whose side effects on the population remain unknown

You're spewing bullshit right here. COVID vaccines went through clinical trials and had a great safety profile.
How little they spend? What's that about the trillions in defence that go missing each year?
Unusual yes, magical no
On the other hand, offshoring of manufacturing and the emergence of computers should have reduced the workforce but we saw the opposite happen. There might not be truck drivers in the future but maybe those people will just be working different jobs, like how I am not a blacksmith making horseshoes today.
(I'm the author.) I really like trees! So I wouldn't have wanted to cut it down or even prune it.

Also, I hate operational (ongoing) solutions to problems. Pruning it would have been exactly that kind of solution -- we'd have had to prune it regularly or else it would have kept being a problem every so often.

The hardware fix was easier: our equipment was already a bit old and slow, the upgrade fixed the rain problem while also making it faster, and it's not something we've had to tweak since. I've long since moved out, but my parents still use that same 802.11n bridge today!
My memory is fuzzy. In that case, I'd blame the OpenSSL devs if the report wasn't a patch with the (non-working) "fix". Even if it was, they should have accepted the bug & rejected the patch.
Anger management activities that increase or decrease arousal
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Technologies: JavaScript, React, Neo4j, Node.js, Next.js, LLMs, Generative AI
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Engineer and Author with 17+ years’ experience. In the past I worked at companies like Stripe, Facebook, Twitter, Guardian. I am now focusing more of my work towards projects that use Generative AI: building proofs-of-concept, doing independent research, and working with organizations who are cautiously exploring. I love working on UX and frontend engineering too. I wrote and had published a book on JavaScript, so really any project that uses it or TypeScript is right down my alley. I’m only able to remote, part time, and on Asian timezones at the moment. You can see more of my work at https://j11y.io and my cv at https://j11y.io/cv
We don't use brotli for any responses under 25kb and in those cases, for us, zstd is the clear winner. We are still tweaking zstd and expect to improve the performance to bring it inline with brotli. Additionally, our biggest expense per month is egress, any savings goes a long way for us.
> Keep in mind the argument I'm responding to here: the idea that large US corporations are essentially insulated from US law by dint of being multinational.

I didn’t say they were insulated from US law. Anyone who does business here is subject to US law, whether they are a US company or a foreign company. What I said was that they are not meaningfully distinguishable from foreign actors for purposes of judging their attempts to influence elections. They are at best amoral, and I think in reality most are run by a class of people who think nationality is obsolete.
Alarmism aside, there are ways to mitigate this outcome. Take your comment:

>or human labor will be cheaper than a robot replacing it

One option is to create an automation tax, which makes human labor more competitive while also supplanting the income taxes that are lost due to automation. That's just one example, but like so many problems that are of man-made origin, there are also potential solutions of man-made origin. They are not natural laws.
Anyone else starting to get a feeling that whether something is conscious, or even studying consciousness matters at all in a practical sense.

More of just a nerd snipe or red herring to waste time on.

Like working to understand consciousness probably won't actually advance building an GAI in any meaningful way.

Nor will it be the driver of how we interact with our surroundings be it rock, dirt, tree fish, dog, human, robot or universe?
Methanol is strictly harder. There is enough demand for any amount of hydrogen or methane that can be produced cheaply enough. Methanol can wait until those are saturated. Ammonia might be another intermediate step before it is worth doing methanol.
Well black people in the US generally are a mix of central African + European + other. So like any group like that can have genetic factors that predispose them to certain diseases. Besides kidney disease problem people have much higher rates of sarcoidosis. It is what it is.

In this case sounds like dummkopfs decided to adjust the test to normalize black peoples rates of kidney disease to those of white people.

I'll be over here banging my head against my desk.
Beyond the obvious quips about grade and test score inflation, it's tempting to speculate that the colleges share "who applied to you?" data, and decided that the daughter's application was not worth the effort, given the 1:36 odds against her actually attending.

Though when "every" applicant has a 4.0...the informed applicants may know that they need the right number of varsity letters, letters of recommendation from noted alumni, volunteer hour for right-sounding causes, etc., etc. And the "Working Parents" user name (at teamblind.com) could be taken to mean that the poor daughter's family had no clue about hiring consultants for the the college application process...
but serializing/deserializing decimal using the json module is futile
Do you have access to the full text? This summary of the study doesn't detail which neighborhoods were subject to the change and which are control areas. You'd hope they are adjacent.
Australia participates in the Eurovision Song Contest.
I wrote CGI scripts in bash before it was hipster cool.

s/Old/Lazy/ because these are different properties.

There's no specific numeric old, it's all about health and fitness for "age" and adaptation for tech relevancy. What is a shame is when engineers get complacent. This can happen at any age.

AI is somewhat hype like all things that came before, but deep learning and LLMs are useful approximate automation effort multipliers and nothing more. The offerings are not (yet) instant mastery nor (yet) replacement for human experts. Long term, it's important to understand where and how to use AI as a legitimate assistant but not as substitute for learning, supervising, or thinking.
Lol what? No, I'm thinking of Groq.

I love Groq though, every time someone hypes up their project using it you instantly know they have no real usage whatsoever.

Even the most "toyish" toy project doesn't fit in their rate limits for anything more than personal use.
It would be hard to keep that a secret inside Google, given the potential rewards to a whistleblower. This is a formal legal settlement that is on regulators' radar. It just takes one whistleblower to tell, and that whistleblower would make 10-30% of the hundreds of millions of dollars in potential fines Google was facing.
A collection of the most relevant AI projects, with attention to the ones that are Open Source
> One option is to create an automation tax, which makes human labor more competitive while also supplanting the income taxes that are lost due to automation.

As if those in power would ever agree to such a thing. "Trickle down" is a myth, US Congress has been gridlocked for decades, and most other parliaments in the world are so infested with lobbyists that you will not ever see an automation tax without widespread violent unrest. People living outside of democracies have it even worse.

There are zero signs that democracy is capable of fixing the issues at hand, it's all just too damn corrupt, and fighting for utter and bare survival against the rise of authoritarianism. Yes, you sometimes have "social democrats" gain power (or authoritarians getting booted off their posts like PiS in Poland or what will sooner or later happen to Erdogan and Netanyahu), but they spend almost all of their political energy on undoing the worst "accomplishments" of their predecessors, and all too often get booted themselves by a population unwilling or financially unable to go through change (as we're seeing in Germany).
Why would I even want to think about that? Never needed to before. Don't need to for technical reasons (faster chargers exist). It's only cheapness to let those old things stand. They may be able to pawn them off on you by telling you to time it with your shopping, but not on me.
Argh, this could be a perfect fit for you. I'm disappointed that we won't be able to make it work for these roles.

Candidly, we haven't figured out how to do international remote work well. Hopefully we will in the future!
Like a congressional intelligence service? I don't know if that would be constitutional. I think the best you could get would be an independent executive agency.
Pedantically, IEEE 754 defines decimal floating point formats (like decimal128) which are appropriate for representing currency. Representing currency in non-integer values in any of the binary floating point formats is indeed a recipe for disaster though.
> Reasonable at first. Once it was known that the virus is transmitted via aerosols then forcing masks was the wrong thing to do, specially on children. Useless and damaging.

And that's the reason we have governments for. So that people like you can't do unlimited damage. You can privately hate the government, but as long as you follow the rules, the damage is contained.

Masks saved people, including children: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9968482/
Tools to help designers and developers pick accessible sets of colors for UIs and web designs.

I think the reason people end up using inaccessible colors is: the WCAG color contrast rules can be verbose and difficult to get your head around, what contrasts isn't always intuitive, and it's usually a painful manual process to test and edit color pairs to find ones that work together. I'm hoping to help make choosing accessible colors less intimidating and less time consuming.

Nothing to share right now but send me a message via my profile if that sounds interesting for when I have a beta ready. :)
It feels to me more like it's the power of the comprehensive background scanning (I've seen it called 'internet background radiation') that is constantly taking place: anything you forget about, anything you misconfigure, anything you are slow to patch, that is going to be found and exploited by some tool someone built somewhere that is continually searching the entire internet for the same five mistakes.
Is this an official domain? ‘googelblog’?
Who says that's true? I always thought the people who got hired were just easily controlled and had enough dirt on them that they'd never act outside of their interests.
A super-lightweight tool to backup a Mongo database to S3
Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for! Any idea if it's possible to use beam search on local models like mistral? It sounds like the choice of beam search vs say top-p or top-k should be in the software and not embedded, right?
When I was a kid, I had a toy gun that would start with kind of distorted phrases, then continued with shooting sounds. I think it took me a couple of years before I understand that the voice was yelling something akin to "Baldy! Get the f... over there! <shooting noises>"
Thanks, learnt something new today!
I know it's an Apr1 post, but I'd honestly really like more historic supercomputer content from chipsandcheese; this was a great read.
Sure but that's because the world knows about Gitmo now. What about the other quieter black sites?
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Next, we want to make it easy to build amazing REST APIs. REST is simple and ubiquitous, but right now it’s also messy, chaotic, and hard to get right. We’re going to build great open-source standards and tooling that bring the benefits of GraphQL (types, field selection/expansion, standards) and gRPC (types, speed, versioning) to REST.

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Now I'm getting an idea for my honeypot.
(Author here) I'm not a tree expert, so ... a tall deciduous one? Sorry!
If you were in my shoesm, would you do online courses and get certifications in more popular tech stacks and skills or would you reach out to people

I would reach out to people because sales is all that matters for a business and building relationships is how B2B sales work.

I would not get certifications etc. because that is pretend work. Pretend work is attractive because it avoids selling. Pretend work avoids selling because selling is mostly rejection and rejection sucks…ergo selling sucks until you get used to it —- avoiding selling will not normalize rejection.

wait weeks/months for the demand in the market to increase as the recession turns towards boom?

Building relationships during busts is how a business leverages booms later.

Or to put it another way, you are just making another argument to rationalize sitting on your seat in your office instead of pounding the pavement to find work.

High the technical ability without sales equals a failing business. High sales without technical capability is a road to success. Just hire the talent you need and build that cost into your price (plus markup for overhead and profit of course).

Getting lucky is not a plan. You need at least the luck of not having bad luck even in the best of times. Embracing the suck is the only thing in your control.

Good luck.
> The report described several Chinese government-linked accounts — sometimes referred to as "Spamoflage" — pretending to be avid Republicans and fans of former President Donald Trump's reelection campaign, with some accusing Democratic President Joe Biden of being a "Satanist pedophile."

Huh? Seems absurd that China would want another term of the president that implemented a raft of import tariffs and has been expressly anti-China
Never underestimate capitals ability to buy votes and influence when it matters. See how uber bought prop 22. All you have to do is fill the void with enough noise and you can convince the few percent of eligible voters who actually vote to believe anything.
Yes but if the algorithm and salt gets to be known then there are very few possibilities (10^n where n is max length of passcode) and unless people are setting 50 digit passcodes, then it is very crackable.