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Are you trying to argue that money is more important than banking? But that banking was the most important thing? Your logic elludes me.

Or maybe you have a manipulative world view? What is more important - money or power? If you have power do you need money? Is power equivalent to money?

"Money" is a means of exchange, and in some contexts it is a status signal.

Money is a measure, not an ends in itself. People want the money to do something with: the something is faaaar more important than money. Find me a person with money, and I will easily find ten things they would prefer.

Anecdotally:

My friends don't value money above other things. Other friends could easily take nearly all my money if they chose to (I put myself into very submissive situations). I don't work because I don't need more money.

Perhaps I live in a different world than you.

The people I know all have complex desires, and few of my friends are concentrating on making money (and the smartest friends I know don't make money their central goal). I do have a couple of friends who try to make money and they seem to do it quite well without too much difficulty.

Have you tried to offer money to people? If it is so critical then people would take it. My experience is that a few do but many don't. I've offered large amounts to acquaintances that haven't taken it (perhaps with or without hooks).

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There is absolutely nothing wrong with making and selling proprietary software. If you want to make money, you should probably just do that.

I'm very happy to have created a mildly popular permissively-licensed library. It's a contribution to a community with zero intention of profit. That is, for the most part, what open source is all about.
I think a lot of founders want to finish the analogy, as Steve Jobs was to the early Personal Computer, I will be to the early AI scene. They look at the marketplace and realize if they build on android or iOS they are subject to the whims and destruction of Apple and Google. They therefore decide the only option is to build their own hardware and see how it goes. I think it will be almost impossible to beat a phone connected to a peripheral with a camera mic and speaker like the meta glasses paired to your phone though in the long run.
A startup using reserved instances seems like a bad thing to do and is the opposite of scale to demand.

Unless you’re actually using all that reserved compute, in which case you just didn’t generate enough value. It happens.
Look at the DOM Attr interface [1].

You can list attributes, get their name, namespace, value.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Attr
Exactly, we never voted any of the people making these decisions into office, they didn’t have to campaign or explain their policies to the public. Having a layer in between these regulators and the public (the politicians who appoint them) removes power from the common people.
They're not really a startup. They've changed their name a bunch of times.
Always remember: It's either AGPLv3 or proprietary all rights reserved. Anything else means you're giving your labor away for free to the beggar barons. Biggest wealth transfer in history, from developers and straight into the pockets of billionaires. It's just irrational.

Also remember: Whoever owns the copyright gets to do whatever they want. The licensing security of free software, defined here as the likelihood of free software remaining free software, is proportional to the number of copyright owners involved. Changing the license requires agreement between all copyright holders, once a sizeable number of them has built up it becomes all but impossible. Therefore, anyone who asks you to assign your copyright to them should be viewed with suspicion. A true proponent of free software would want to maximize the number of copyright holders involved, not centralize the copyrights under a single entity.
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Congrats on the successful pivot. Must have been hard to walk away from a MRR revenue that's pointing up like that. Will try the new product
If netflix traffic is straining ISPs to the point of requiring hardware upgrades etc., I think it is fair for ISPs to ask them to pay some of that cost.
> They funded the war efforts in Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.

Aaaannnndd?... You're just going to leave out the banning of TikTok while claiming a victory for sending my money to other nations for wars I do not want to fund?

And another thing </Andy Rooney>, government shutdowns are problems created ENTIRELY BY CONGRESS for never operating under a proper budget since 1997. All they're doing is fighting each other over a massive shell game of sending the right amounts of money to their donors' interests to guarantee reelection.

"Infrastructure projects" is just another term for crony capitalism. Just look at funding for telcos to build out infra, or EV charging stations, or solar panels, or anything else they fund as "infrastructure." It's always just a massive kickback scheme, and nothing gets built.

They're doing work alright, just not any that I want. Our system is nakedly and brazenly corrupt, and we don't seem to be able to do anything about it.
> Source available from the beginning is ethical.

Not to rms.
> that do not have any of the checks and balances that are supposed to exist in our system.

But they do have the same checks and balances. All of these rules are open to judicial review and there is a whole process in place due to the Administrative Procedure Act. In fact there are more rules for these agencies like having public commenting periods after which they're required by law to consider that input when making their rules.
Is this the top?
I'm not sure whats taking so long then. My entire darwin-rebuild switch takes ~1s without the homebrew commands. If I manually run homebrew separately it takes ~4s the first time and ~1.5s in subsequent runs.
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> I assume those are the guys who are voting for the party opposed to one you're voting for, correct?

Except that it wasn't the same way one or two decades ago. And the republicans have changed a lot more than the democrats on that front.
What about programmatic speed ticketing? Either we care to enforce these laws impartially or we want to use them to give cops the ability to exercise their discretion, tertium non datur.
> Despite complaining, I'm not a database guru, however if you've been paying attention to AI at all, graph databases seem to appear to be superior, in function and form. Relational databases are good enough for many things, but I don't think they are the form most natural for data, just what we as humans like to see as reports.

This is the same line the NoSQL crowd trotted out 20 years ago, complete with "they don't need joins!" as one of the commonly listed pros.

The issue is that AI doesn't care about data integrity and consistency the way, say, a medical records database, financial database, or similar database does. Social media is largely the same way. Who cares if a random comment, post, or vote is lost? It's not ideal, but specific facts are not that important. Meanwhile, a lot of RDBMSs do store data where every fact in every field of every row is critical.

We end up right back at the same point we were at with NoSQL. These alternative data stores make sense for their special purposes, but for general-purpose data storage of objects you can define the important properties of, the RDBMS works extremely well. The RDBMS is one of the oldest and most heavily tested technologies in all of computing. It's extremely unlikely that it will end up being replaced.
The US trialed permanent DST in 1974. In the first 3 months, public support dropped from 79% to 42%. It was ended prematurely. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_...

Of course, there's no difference between permanent DST and abolishing DST but having everyone agree to shift their schedules forward by 1 hour. So abolishing DST altogether isn't really a better option.

I used to think DST was stupid. Now I think it's actually the best we can do.
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Yup that's what I was referring to. I always feel more confident configuring services using config files that can be managed using version control. It's PTSD from having to deal with software such as Jenkins ages ago.
It's going to get worse before it (unlikely) will get better. I predict within 10 years, we'll have at least one jurisdiction experimenting with AI-generated evidence, to help prosecutors get convictions. Prosecutor will push a button and computer will spit out a sworn statement that the defendant is guilty, this will be admissible, and juries will convict based on that evidence alone.

Drug dogs who "hit" on command are already used as probable cause generators. Breathalyzers are basically magic boxes that produce "evidence" of a crime. It's inevitable that we're going to keep using AI and computers to automate convictions.
All the large companies I deal with on a daily basis have moved everything to SaaS/cloud-based or in the planning stages.
> Many older people spent their lives with a working phone system

It's shocking how quickly the phone system has just up and vanished, replaced by a simulation of a phone system running over the internet, with little wireless supercomputers taking the place of the landline phone's 19th Century technology. Oh, pockets of the old circuit-switched voice network still exist, but they're rapidly being decommissioned.

It didn't hit me until one of my dad's friends called him from an unfamiliar number - because he was forced to get a cell phone for the first time in his life. My parents are on a VoIP service with their old phone number, and it works nicely, but it still depends on working internet - a reversal from when getting TO the internet required working phone service.
How long (and over what obstacles) until these chemical additives are banned, taxed, or labeled with Surgeon General's warnings?

Hopefully Medicare puts 2 and 2 together to sue the Big Junkfood monsters churning these toxins out, like they sued Big Tobacco.
This is the tyranny of minority rule. When congress is not representative of the electorate and the minority doesn’t have to compromise to get things done to gain political favor and power, nothing gets done.
For those who haven't encountered quaternions or their history, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_quaternions.
This is going to be crucial infrastructure for the next generation of LLM applications
Just try the app for yourself.
Stripe tried switching lots of code to the JVM and it was a huge disaster. Unless you already have lots of small services with clean interfaces and their own data stores that can be incrementally switched, you spend far more time bending over backwards to keep two systems running (one with some limited parity with the other) in tandem.

The cost of running the system is almost never bottlenecked by the performance of the language itself, but rather the responsibilities of the system and cleanliness of the code. Plus, in the migration, you start incurring the cost of your Ruby code calling your JVM code (and vise versa; your systems are almost certainly not a DAG), which almost certainly has higher overhead than whatever speedup you'd get from running code in the JVM in the first place. And then you're sharing protobufs/thrift files/whatever between different languages and libraries of varying degrees of quality (good luck with those Ruby protobufs!).

Before you know it, writing a little tool to optimize your Ruby garbage collector sounds like a really great idea.
> I don't know if it's that kind of world I want to live in.

I do.
Thank you, that gives me a pretty good idea. I have a few follow up questions If you don't mind:

1. So what will be the value of a defi coin as soon as you create it?
2. Based on what you said, if the liquidity of the coin is $10, and I buy $10 worth of the coin - the value will now be $20?
"Slim down windows 10/11" scripts have existed since each OS's release. Made by a variety of people over a variety of years. Most of them weren't open source and documented, many were just raw executables thrown around through MediaFire links or so on.
They should be able to throttle across the board to load balance. They sell an IP protocol service. They should honor the customer's wishes by delivering those packets fairly, not necessarily reliably.
You don't have to go through the pornoscanner regardless; I always request the complimentary massage instead.

It is all ridiculous, demeaning, and unnecessary either way, but somehow it feels a little better when the process is ridiculous and demeaning for the TSA staff, too.

If everyone opted out, the security line would grind to a halt, and politically-connected people would therefore lose money. Would that force the powers-that-be to improve this mess? I think we should try to find out.
I wouldn’t have any confidence in any predictions I make 100 years into the future even if we didn’t have the current AI developments.

With that said, I’m pretty confident that the movie industry will exist in 10 years (maybe heavily tranformed, but still existing and still pretty big). If it’s still a big part of current popculture by then (vs obviously on its way out) then I’d expect a collapse of it to require a change that is not a result of AI proliferation, but something else entirely.
You should avoid most of their offerings because of vendor lock-in.

My two cents is to build something that could be deployed anywhere else also.

Maybe you are fine staying on AWS forever but maybe you could save a lot of money by migrating somewhere else later.

AWS fees could cost more than your startup makes, depending on how you build your service, who knows what the future brings.

So it's better to make your deployment flexible enough that you can ditch AWS and migrate to dedicated servers easily. It's something to think about from the start.
I think that’s a massive achievement
The spammers are criminals. They'll just use ID scans and info from data breaches of other companies. Requiring more companies to collect them makes it even worse because now there are more places to exfiltrate them and it makes it easier for criminals to commit identity theft against financial institutions etc.

There are also non-"criminals" who are more than willing to use their actual ID for the sort of things that aren't strictly illegal but will still get your IP space on a bunch of block lists when they can make a buck doing it, so it wouldn't solve the problem even if it could actually identify all of the customers.
>> Nobody is yet trying to create permanent wastelands inhabited only by robots.

On the contrary-- I think that capability would be enthusiastically adopted by a state like Ukraine, which is fighting an asymmetric defensive war against a larger aggressor with logistical advantages. Keep in mind that a "permanent wasteland" as a buffer was in fact the status quo in parts of the east prior to the Russian invasion in 2022, except the wasteland was maintained by human beings at a high political and economic cost. Today, both Russia and Ukraine create permanent wastelands in the form of extensive minefields, passing those costs on to posterity.

The autonomous No Man's Land--a relatively low-cost deployment of a buffer zone along a state border, in which nothing human may move and live--is likely to be the future of warfare in a world increasingly defined by ethnic conflicts, unchecked inter-state rivalries, and migratory pressures.
> And the republicans have changed a lot more than the democrats on that front.

Only if you're looking at it from the Democratic perspective. From the Republican side they look at Democratic policies from the last decade and see a group that suddenly decided to throw all previous social norms out the window and upend social order. They see themselves as reacting to that change in the Democratic Party.

I think the truth is that both parties simultaneously escalated, but that perspective usually gets shouted down pretty hard by both sides who each really want to perceive themselves as the consistent one.
you should switch to digitalocean. they're awesome for startups. i've used them for a long time and i can tell you the uptime is really good.
You could put this on the app store and Mac users would pay $9.99 for it.
Taking money from someone who is handing it to you is not ruthless…
> More generally, I think we're seeing a repeat of the century old debate over torpedo boats. People saw how torpedo boats were much cheaper than battleships and thought "hey we can have many of those boats, it'll be cheaper and more lethal".

And that was mostly right; that's why fast attack craft, the modern evolution of torpedo boats, are still a thing, while battleships have been relegated to the graveyard of history.
Minor nit: it'd be 99.(nine 9s)
> IMO it seems likely ISPs knew the rules were likely to come back so they avoided most of the practices that would generate outrage (throttling streaming and other popular services unless you pay an additional fee).

And several states passed their own laws.
IMHO The notification experience on WebOS was still way better than we get from android or iOS today. It was an absolute blast to write apps for as well.
Don't start in the obvious places, because you can get stuck there for a decade before figuring out what else is going on ( I did, you shouldn't ) ( quick dive ; quick dip )

1. do a quick read on how UNIX and Linux kernels were designed, particularly what "file handlers" and "sockets" are ( day 1 ; 30 minutes )

2. do a quick read on the difference between "command prompts" (1-dimensional) and "pseudo-teletype terminals" (2-dimensional) ( day 2 ; 15 minutes ) ... note that both are varieties of "shell" ; shells are opposed to kernels

3. do a quick read on what "display managers vs window managers" are ... and if possible ( now this is quite hard, as the docs are messy ) ... how the kernel, talks to the shell, which talks to a pseudo-teletype terminal, which is a display client to the display server, which talks to the display server, which talks to the window manager ( it may not be exactly like that, but this is a good assumption to make until you get a clearer view ) ( day 3 ; 2 hours )

4. then learn a shell scripting language

5. then do something like "espeak 'oh hi there'"

Alternatively, do this in reverse numerical order.
> glad my Nebula won't be slower than my YouTubes

To be fair, wouldn't this still be the case?
Google peer with many ISPs, and have a lot of server / networking prowess, so the YouTube experience is normally pretty good across the board.

Nebula, on the other hand, is a fairly new player from my understanding.
Yes, I pay people do to work on difficult and annoying computer systems. Nobody would want to do this job for free.
I also worked at a new defense company that partnered with Anduril and other newer defense companies. It’s the same experience: unreliable software built week over week, thrashed by contract demands, and frankly mediocre engineers that make simple things complicated.
Doesn’t China also demand complete control of foreign apps in their country? Correct me if I’m wrong but my understanding is that the CCP demands specific changes to or outright removal of apps all the time.
Their customers already pay the cost. The ISPs offer IP services. The customers on each end pay for it.
Packaging is indeed a weakness of Python, but to be fair, that Python packages are frequently wrapping C, C++ or Fortran code makes packaging a lot harder compared to nodejs.
I feel like it was Reddit who more successfully cannibalized forums.
I really enjoyed 8tracks back in its prime: it was a social network for user-created playlists, and it made finding cool new music really easy. The playlists were often very well thought out; nothing like the playlists you'll find on Spotify.

There is rateyourmusic.com, which is positioned as sort of a Letterboxd for music, but I haven't used it much.

Music discoverability is a big problem I'd like to solve, especially now that I'm in my 30s and don't really have the sort of social circle these days that would expose me to cool new music.

I've toyed with the idea of making an 8tracks-like service, where tastemakers can create playlists to share, and the streaming happens via the API of whatever streaming services you're subscribed to (Spotify, Apple Music, TIDAL, whatever).
If anyone is interested in a project like this, feel free to reach out.
Girls' continued reduced interest in STEM a 'serious wake-up call'
EV sales now account for just over 90% of new cars in Norway. This in a country with a winter that’s brutal on range and where people love to drive 2-6 hours to get to their cabin on top of a mountain. I also regularly see people write about their road trips to the other side of Europe on forums.

I’d call that a pretty good demonstration that EVs are a real replacement for ICE at this point for a range of conditions (one exception I will grant you for now is if you have a heavy trailer you intend to drive long distance with)

There’s also not EV models for all niches, mainly because car companies haven’t had time to design them.

Yes, the economics in other countries is not as good and the infrastructure isn’t as good. But that has nothing to do with the capabilities of the vehicle itself.

The claim that the battery of a modern battery could outlast the vehicle and be on the order of 500k miles doesn’t seem at all unreasonable to me. Especially for LiFePo. Our old 2015 Kia Soul EV looks like it will reach about 150k miles on its original battery. But most vehicles now have 2-4 times bigger battery, with better chemistry and much better thermal management. Bigger batteries means it’s much less likely that it will be driven down to below 10%. More likely that the owner will cap charging to 80% to reduce battery degradation and much less use of fast charging. So we’re talking about several layers of non-linear reductions in battery degradation.

We fast charged the old Kia all the time. Our Ioniq 5 we haven’t needed to fast charge a single time.
Yeah, but now you have your own problems instead of pain shared by millions of other users. A lot of orgs on the same cadence is a great and under-estimated thing. I'm just sayin'
Congress does not want to have to learn the minutia of every aspect of things that are regulated. Delegating responsibility to the relevant agencies is exactly how Congress operates.
I don't blame the big corps like IBM (disclaimer: I work there, I don't speak for them) and Microsoft and Google. I really blame investors who are looking to get their money back. When they force an IPO but there's no business model to sustain the company, this is what happens. CEOs resort to developer-hostile actions which kills off the community and generates ill-will towards the company. People here shit on "lifestyle companies" but IMO that's the best model for sustainablility and developer communities (if that's what you're into).
Products aren't projects, which has confused people for decades.

If open source products retreating from some of the "freedom" elements bothers you, then you should be focusing your ire on the megacorporations and overfunded startups who simply refuse to contribute to the financial viability of the products that sustain them.

For some reason "we" celebrate the exploitative, though, so I guess that's out.
Oddly, I don't see any mention of what fuel this thing uses. Gasoline?

Edit, nevermind, it was a little buried: https://throwflame.com/products/napalm-mix-fuel-gelling-agen...
tiled gifs, most likely
What does static mean in this sentence?
Money moves mountains. There should be an auction for a cash refund to disembark.

The airlines just don't want to pay fair market value to get someone off the plane and they get to use violence to get their way.
That's a weird take. After all, 'cyberspace' is not some abstract realm divorced from the universe at large. It's still subject to scarcity of time, energy, and information.