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You’re not wrong. If you don’t get sales, your company will (eventually) cease operations.

Without further context, it may have been your delivery that ruffled feathers, not your message.

Two questions: Why was this particular person added to the team? Why are they a co-founder instead of an employee?
> To explore

But then why start a colony? If you're just looking around, then the massive investment to build a comfortable habitat isn't worthwhile. I think the incentives just don't line up; that's my Fermi paradox answer. I especially think it's unlikely that anyone would set off on an exploration where they were going to die of old age before ever seeing anything.

> We've got millions of years to work out how.

What if it isn't possible? The sheer scale involved suggests there's nothing to be done. It is a bonfire exponentially larger than all the mass we can conceivably bring to bear upon it in any way. When it burns out, it burns out. Moving the planet is a little more feasible [1], but doing it with solar sails would take about a billion years, even if the sail was 19x the diameter of Earth. An ion drive would be snappier, but we'd have to have effectively unlimited energy to make that happen, and we'd have to eject about a sixth of the Earth's mass from outside of the atmosphere on some sort of planetary gimbal.

[1]: https://www.sciencealert.com/this-rocket-scientist-explains-...

> how can you possibly know what the limits will be

Oh I can't. But there are limits, and we'll hit them eventually. The most obvious limits are energy and mass. We obviously can't do anything that would require more mass than exists in the solar system, and the ceiling for practically accessible mass for any given purpose is likely much lower. Some elements are quite rare. There may not be that much energy to go around. There are also likely soft time limits: A project that takes ten thousand years might simply be beyond us politically. Some tasks, like full comprehension of the human brain, might simply be too complicated to ever be realized. The longer you think about it, the more plausible limitations materialize.
based and bogpilled
Another alternative is to become actually useful in that spare time.

Doing what depends on the business - it can take some detective work to figure it out.

Then again, the detective work could quickly show this is someplace you don't want to be long-term.

In which case yeah, find something productive to do, or treat this as that paid learning time to build some new skills.

Best part of learning is test it's defensible ... "oh, I'm busy doing an assessment on the pros and cons of rewriting the system using node.js. "
she got that grant no? did i misread the article
Sounds like in the end, MS didn't pay anything. https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1775781751748469137
For reference, `git log --topo-order` docs: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log#Documentation/git-log.txt--...
We had 6 O200s Cray-linked into three nodes in an CXFS cluster to run an appletalk server backed by clarion arrays. While there were serious limits caused by the single metadata server, XVM and CXFS were better than anything provided by Veritas or the other major UNIX vendors of the day.

The Fibre Channel XIO boards were really needed back then for that application as PCI was still way too slow.

I was sad to know that when I left that job that SGI server was being replaced and the support personal at SGI were going to lose their jobs too.
>several GB

I have all of my mail going back to 2001..
And then leading to a war that reduced the population of what would become Germany by 1/3.
Use GPT-4 in Shortcuts to talk to your text
No need for an app, this shortcut takes your pre-defined prompts and queries, and stream output the answer using a static HTML page hosted on Github Pages (https://github.com/rankun203/html-gpt).

Bring your own API Key.
I have similar thoughts to yours, except I exclusively use the Git CLI. I don't memorise all of the 'incantations' that the article suggest are required because if I ever use a command a few times, I make a Git alias for it. `git commit --amend --no-edit` => `g cmane`. I also have an alias for listing my aliases, which I can run through grep to jog my memory. That plus Ctrl+R for shell history means I very rarely type long commands. You'd have to be some kind of masochist to do that often.

So IMHO this article and the others that like to dunk on Git CLI seem to miss the point a bit.
There's a Java-in-Java implementation called GraalVM, if I'm not mistaken. So yes, if you are that worried about bugs in the JVM, you'd use a type-safe JVM too, and then compile your JS down to java bytecode.
> decide not to worry about what previous generations considered core knowledge

these sorts of things have already been happening for centuries. What was considered core knowledge depends on the environment one lives.

Way back in prehistoric days, foraging and identifying edible plants would be considered core knowledge. How many people do this today?

Prior to industrialization, most farmers will have some experience doing blacksmithing (for their own tools/repairs etc). That would be considered core knowledge that is lost today because industrialization made it unnecessary completely. Ditto with sewing, and many other skillsets that would be considered artisanal today.

If knowledge acquisition turns out to be like that too, then it's fine imho.
> Therefore, the only metric to judge is through the lens of legality (because everyone "agrees" what legal is).

I just want to make sure we're all on the same page here: You believe that prior to Lawrence v. Texas, being a gay man in many of the US states was unethical? That prior to 1865 chattel slavery was ethical?

I often feel like HN has devolved into high-school level science fiction and philosophy, but this is rather on the nose.
Tradition is a funny word to use for trucks which were invented within a single human lifespan of today.

Are you sure you’re not the one overloading a term?
This would be a problem if knowledge were a closed system. In that case it would suffice to invoke the data processing inequality and sooner or later your knowledge is all gone and you’re left with just noise.

However, if AI enables new knowledge to be discovered then maybe there’s no problem in the end?
There are law firms that specialize in setting up trusts. We found a local firm who handled setting up a trust for our family and it was pretty straight forward and not very expensive. If your family has assets >$1M it's definitely something worth looking into (and quite possibly for lesser amounts too depending on your situation).

There are a variety of potential benefits (tax, inheritance, legal liability, etc) but one that shouldn't be underestimated is how much it can simplify the paperwork, process and delay at death vs just having a will. If you are elderly and have kids, creating a proper trust in sync with your will is one of the nicest things you can do for your kids. Having recently been through the death of a couple of parents, one who left a well-organized trust and the other who just had a standard will, the difference in work required and stress involved was night and day.
It will, if you turn autodrive on.
These days I think it's hard to say, honestly.

The only thing really new here would be powder layering. It's unclear how that might be mad cheaper today. Maybe they found a solution?
Obviously not legal advice for anyone, but the general consensus seems to be that in many countries (including the United States where WotC are based) game mechanics are not copyrightable. This interpretation has been stated publicly by the US Copyright Office: https://web.archive.org/web/20161122174519/http://www.copyri...

Obviously the name can be trademarked, and text (e.g. the names / descriptions of things, the specific expression of the rules) and images (e.g. card art) can be copyrighted.

There is a long history of clones of games with the exact same mechanics, but with everything renamed and the artwork changed.

Occasionally, there are attempts to patent mechanics.

So it wouldn't necessarily be a problem if GP was to rename the game, change all the card artwork, make sure no instructions from the original game are used in the new game, and rename all the cards and concepts in an isomorphic way (i.e. a 1:1 mapping between MtG and whatever the new game is called). That way, it could be a completely new game which happens to have the same mechanics as MtG, but isn't a derivative of it legally.

It would be possible to speculate what WoTC would do in that case, but hard to know for sure. Most likely, they'd probably just ignore it if it isn't using their trademark, artwork, descriptions and so on. They could send a blusterous C&D letter to try their luck if they were particularly worried. If the GP got such a letter and ignored it, or replied explaining that their game does not reuse any copyrightable elements, they'd probably just back down. If they really decided to take it to court, they could try to hope it goes more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spry_Fox%2C_LLC_v._Lolapps%2C_.... than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_East_USA,_Inc._v._Epyx,_I.... (although they'd probably have a harder road given Spry Fox was largely based on the visual look-and-feel, which would be a longer bow to draw when saying a computer game infringes on a card game).

Obviously, none of this is legal advice, and the circumstances could differ depending on facts like where it is hosted / where GP lives, and the exact details of the game engine or how similar artwork was.
If using the AI does not economically complete well with those who don't use said AI, then yes it will happen, and i attribute this to the invisible hand of darwinian competition.
Is this expected to work on mobile Safari? All I see is an ascii art darth vader helmet and when I input a command I see three dots animated then get the prompt again.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong?
Do they still make pinball machines?
99 Cents stores to close down all 371 locations
Oracle EBS required root X11 authentication be disabled to use the compositor for PDF generation even 10 years later so still pretty common.

Oracle threatened to not support us when I used an unprivileged Xvfb instqance instead.

Still stupid but not that uncommon back then.
Oh, this is fun -- if you use the inspector to check the network calls to openrouter you can see the whole setup after sending the first message: https://pastebin.com/3PmpsnUF
I just spent way too much time in there.
I would say that the big issue with indulgences, as they became exploited, was that they weren't in exchange for doing "effective" good.

Fake charity is a much bigger problem than an impure motive for giving.
> According to everyone that has ever told me how to do powerpoint presentations, they need an intro slide that tells the audience what they are about to be told in the presentation they are about to be told, and a conclusion slide that tells the audience what they were told in the presentation they were told.

Sorta? I guess that might be like driving. Hands on the wheel, gas on the right, etc. But what about driving in the rain (presenting to a cold prospect)? What about driving uphill (addressing a conflict)? What about driving offroad (explaining to an irate customer what happened?

There's storytelling and communication in each of those, but they're different.

See here[1]. It does have an outline, and it does have takeaways, but there's a a structure to the story in the presentation.

It opens with "3 parts" but immediately grabs your attention with item 0. I do that because I'm presenting to engineering students, and there's some CS/ECE folks in the audience and we count from zero. Plus its fun to shake people out of "here we go, another presentation" mode.

Each part has some interesting stories and plot points. The first explains moore's law, and advances in ML / DL. You can't tell from the charts, but there's a narrative that says 2011 to 2016, we saw this advance. There's a relentless march of technology. Isn't that interesting. Part two talks through real projects, and real outcomes, and the shift in value and complexity of delivery at scale vs "we got it working on a laptop." Part three looks at the future - and calls back to pt 1, and proposes a question - what rate do you think stuff'll advance? Here's my guess. Here's some resources. Keep the convo going. Thank you. etc.

It's an incredibly fun presentation to give, and people enjoy it as well. This doesn't have the basic structure you shared, but -- it kind of does. We come back to the "agenda" pages when transitioning between the 3 sections. It has a clear punch line. And it contextualizes what we're going to talk about.

It does this, though, without having a boatload of bullet points and outlines, and, looking at it with fresh eyes, probably makes no sense without a talk track, but people seem to like it and find it useful.

[1] https://ibm.box.com/v/ou-ai-session-2024
See what happens to a branch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4ph-h7l_aM
Really interesting.

One thing jumped out at me was whether some of my own coding process as a sighted developer overlap. I’m sure I’m not the only developer who talks about “Seeing the code in my head” before type it out. Not literal lines but I craft a mental map before hand, which guides the process more on a subconscious level.
This is one of the biggest hurdles of learning modern physics. We know, from experiment, that the universe is flat at large distances, and that there is not a fourth dimension into which it is folded or bent.

However, we also talk about "curvature" of space-time, and people's intuitive first understanding of that is that space-time somehow gets bent from the perspective of a higher number of dimensions.

Curvature is very badly explained in physics, starting from the highly misleading rubber sheet analogy.

If you want more pet peeves for your collection, try every explanation of gravity that shows rubber sheets, and (for advanced peeving) rubber sheet diagrams of Schwarzschild black holes that put the event horizon partway down the well, instead of where the coördinate singularity actually places it (which is infinitely far down at a finite radius).
> That prior to 1865 chattel slavery was ethical?

some people in that era did believe it was ethical, and some didn't. After a while, more and more people were convinced that it was unethical (and conveniently, machinary made slavery less economical for some industries). Once enough people believed/changed their minds about it being ethical, there was a large argument that resulted in laws rather than on individual ethical beliefs.
Not just avoiding spam but some meta search engines (Dogpile IIRC) could also search specialist search engines like White Pages and Yellow Pages (long before Yelp etc existed). You'd be able to find business listings and contact info that wasn't normally found on web search engines. They could also include FTP search results which was useful as public anonymous FTPs had yet to fall from use.
> you have to have one or you're a wimp.

This was phrasing I was responding to, why are you suggesting I was speaking more broadly?
> no matter how many people the person is screwing over

Are you sure? That sounds like a stupidly obvious factor to overlook.
I love the fact that he records voiceovers of his articles! I listen to podcasts on a regular basis, and this substitutes for podcast perfectly: it's shorter, but 10x higher quality.
I am against systems designed to target and slaughter civilians. I am against using starvation as a weapon of war. I am against rules of engagement so loose that it allows the military to kill a convoy of people coordinating directly with the Israeli military on a aid mission who are using GPS devices to transmit their location to the Israeli military using three separate strikes over 2.5 km. I'm against dropping 2000-pound bombs on dense civilian areas. I am against rules of engagement so loose it allows the Israeli military to kill three of the hostages it was purportedly trying to save while they're waving white flags. I am against using snipers against people hiding in churches and hospitals. I am against an approved collateral civilian kill rate of 15-20x.

I consider these positions to be pro-humanity.

If in your view, holding these positions makes me pro-hamas, I encourage you to examine if you are using an unnecessarily binary framing to analyze the death and destruction going on.
> i dont think people are so stupid as to feel this way. It didn't happen with cars - you could travel hundreds of miles in less than an hour with it, where as without it, you can barely do 5. And yet people have never made the mistake that they could travel that fast themselves.

But cars are in a totally different category insofar as they do one very specific thing and are bound by very obvious physical limits. Our own physical limitations are very obvious to us, our intellectual limitations, I think, are less so. Further, companies (I think knowingly) market AI (read: llm chatbots) as though it's some general, infallible solution to all intellectual and digital content problems. This is obviously not the case, and if you use a chatbot to work in a domain in which you have any expertise whatsoever, you'll quickly uncover this. The problem is people without expertise using these tools and being fooled into thinking they've plumbed the depths when they haven't tread past the shallows. Physically speaking, your capabilities are very apparent when you attempt to run 100mph and simply *cannot*. Realizing you cannot do something or don't understand something correctly intellectually is a far different scenario.
And the next round of spy vs spy begin... AI generated content vs detecting it... just like the age old email spam problem.
I remember when the New Republic had great, memorable headlines and pretty good articles. I see that that is tradition has ended.
I'd say the backdoor could have been hidden in another build system, even Makefiles. But it would have been much more difficult to hide.
I worked on a year long project to rebuild our payments system only to learn the company had been undergoing talks and was acquired by a different payment system competitor. Even though the pending acquisition was going on for the last 6 months of the project nobody told us to stop working on this thing that the top level people knew would never be used.
Imagine a future in which the power company manages drones that destroy the electronic barnacles on their lines.
Are you suggesting that ford is intentionally making the f150 in bulk knowing that the maverick would actually sell better if they manufactured that in bulk instead?
I wrote a bespoke scheme interpreter, then a virtual machine, a bytecode serialization format and a fun standard library. All in C. Totally useless for real work, not unique in any way, but really fun and great for learning. Sometimes useless shit is the best.
Well. I host a public instance. IP is still not blocked. YMMV.
Isn't Kagi also really a delegator? I've heard they delegate to brave among others.
Of course, everything is possible. But the design of autotools and the obfuscation of m4 scripts made it much more easy to sneak in.
Thank you good man!
I would argue that it is less than an order of magnitude smaller than the coronal discharge or other losses.

I suspect we are talking about 24 watts as compared to eg 1000 megawatt 500kv line. This is seven orders of magnitude difference. Totally lost in the noise.
How long have they been out of stock and how do their historic sales relate to the larger f150, ram etc?

Are ford et al ignoring demand for smaller trucks as you are suggesting, or does the data show a demand for ever larger trucks up until interest rates started dropping?

What’s the time it takes to spin up extra production of different product lines of trucks do you think?

This link seems to suggest the ford maverick is actually smaller than the ford ranger: https://www.autoblog.com/2021/06/08/ford-maverick-size-compa... perhaps this is a reaction to more recent demand for smaller trucks and trucks in foreign markets which generally prefer smaller vehicles
> don't get me wrong, things like being able to pull a repo to have it locally, and work on it independently from a server, without internet connection, is a vital point for any version control, [...], but in the end there usually does end up being a central location for the code, so why not embrace it?

Yes, it's a vital point for any version control system. And that's exactly the reason why everyone moved to Git. Because every popular version control system at the time required an internet connection for everything. It was difficult to do any meaningful work offline, or even online for that matter. Server outages, performance issues, hard to scale, etc. So painful to work with for big projects in particular that Linus Torvalds threw their entire version control system in the trash and wrote his own, arguably better, decentralized version control system. I'm sure Microsoft employees, especially the ones working on Windows pre-git-migration, can tell you all about the drawbacks of centralized version control systems. For sure, go ahead and embrace the centralized workflow if you want to, grab a copy of more traditional version control system software, but it will be as painful to work with as it was back then.
Agree, I was reading recently that it was maybe due to all the European vineyards that have owned their land for a long time, and thus don't need to pay the investment overhead that comes with a lot of upstart California operations. Still, there are many decent ~$10 options from CA like Bogle.
One of the things that I have been pushing for a while is the idea that presentation and content should be separated from one another as best as possible. This has honestly soured me on any form of XML for human-readable document unless it has a very clear set of implementations.

This all gets hazy when I discuss archive formats (which, by necessity, have to handle ugly, nasty binary data like JPEGs) but a solidly specified archive format with few interpretations is important.
is the spatial curvature described by general relativity due to non euclidean 3d space, or euclidean 4d space where we can only perceive 3d?
> This is only for driving galvo motors. And analog makes a lot of sense for that. Complexity is moderate too.

Yes, sorry, I was trying to highlight that with the "... digital controllers ..." bit. I'm no electrical engineer so maybe this is not a big deal.

> Back in 2017, I implemented my own ... slicer for resin printers ...

I've implemented a Gerber to GCode converter. All these things are well within reach. The point I'm trying to make is that to do them well, to have the bugs worked out, to have them reliable enough for production use, etc. is much more difficult than one would think.

One of the big factors that the current gamut of slicer toolchains has going for it is that people have been using it, so its limitations are known.

This is kind of my point. The statements are crafted as if to entice people on the periphery of this space who are knowledgeable enough to know its possible, or who are frustrated with the current toolchain or machine price points, but who don't have a good enough sense for whats probable.

Again, there's no reason this shouldn't exist. I would never want to discourage someone for making an attempt at displacing the current batch of clunky software. I really hope this tool does exist at the price point they're claiming.

I would give them much more slack if they had code released or has some or all of their machine's schematics or code under a libre/free/open license. As it stands, it seems very scammy.

Anyway, thanks for the response. I agree, we'll have to see.
I believe if you are on a UEFI system, “systemctl reboot” has some flags to let you select boot options.
You can also split the difference and run Dokku[0] on a vps and basically host your own instance of “Heroku”. It can even use the same build packs and procfiles.

Feel free to message me and I’d be happy to help with server stuff.

[0] https://dokku.com/