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>scooter nor e-bike for sale

You're forgetting that the majority of electric scooters and bikes out there are rentals. Every single one of them has geofencing and speed governors.

Currently, if you buy your own (aka, one that is "for sale"), you can do with it what you want. I wouldn't us the same argument for a car that you own, because there is significantly greater public risk associated with misuse of an automobile.

The technology does exist though, and it is trivial to implement.
Assuming all resources can be found everywhere is simply false. Beyond that, those that are common have externalities in extraction and processing, as well as huge labor costs. These are complex issues, and claiming simple math can dismiss the history of colonialism that built the current context, is flawed.

I don't follow your point with the second sentence.
Eight US newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
It’s vastly cheaper to live in the US, I talk to my Paris coworkers quite a lot and they pay more for just about everything except maybe childcare.

My health insurance is free in the US, covered by my employer, my tax rate is 35% whereas I would be taxed at 45% in Paris. Gas costs more in Paris, car registration and taxes cost more, just buying a car in the first place costs way more, not to mention the car I own is not even legal there so I’d not even be allowed to do the same types of activities. Forget taking my truck to the lake with the kayaks and forget hauling materials to build my house.

It just doesn’t make sense why any smart, capable person would choose to live in Europe unless they absolutely loved the culture.
Theranos fell apart the second they signed a deal with Walgreens and it became obvious they were using machines made by other vendors to do blood tests, because their own thing didn't work.

Enron got away with as much as they did because of the far more generous accounting rules that were in play back then.
I agree there's no reason to believe it's self-aware (or indeed aware at all) but capabilities and origins is probably among the questions they get most, especially as the format is so inviting for anthropomorphizing and those questions are popular starters in real human conversation. It's simply due diligence in interface design to add that task to the optimization.
It would be easy to mislead about if the maker wished to do that of course, but it seems plausible that it would usually be have been put truthfully as a service to the user.
Sadly the ConfigureAwait section is empty, and one of the most confusing part.
> The only ethical problem I see is other people deciding what life is worth living.

It’s more complicated than that. If there’s only 10 ECMO machines available in a hospital, someone has to decide who gets those machines. Like the entire field of medicine, triage is necessary and sometimes ethics dictate someone should not go on that machine based on their chances of survival.
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fiddling with printers and plotters isn't the hard part, most likely the marketing part is because anything sells if you find the fools.

The whole stick of this article strikes me as marketing in the first place.
The article says it will save a estimated 362 lives per year at a cost of 82$ per car or 354 M$/yr. The actuarial value of a human life is usually around 5 M$, so that is a societal ROI of 5 if we only count fatalitys.
The Linux Assigned Names and Numbers Authority
On very old glibc ldd used to set an env variable and run the executable. The assumption being that PT_INTERP is set to glibcs dynamic linker. The dynamic linker would dump resolved libraries and stop execution if the variable was set. My guess is they wanted one and only one code path, whereas a separate resolver in `ldd` could get out of sync with the dynamic linker and therefore report incorrect results. But obviously binaries do not have to have an interpreter set at all, or they may point it to any other executable that's not glibcs dynamic linker, and the result is it would just execute like normal.

The fact that the lecturer is aware of it makes `sudo ldd` look even more odd.
Because people are on their phone while driving
This is one of those things that Software Engineers don't believe until there is an extended Bear market: There is always a line of eager beavers outside your company's door just waiting to take your place if you leave. The last decade (especially the hot job market of 2020-2022) lulled everyone into a feeling of job security and even irreplaceability.
https://www.heise.de/news/Zoll-BKA-und-Verfassungsschutz-ver...

Not sure where you get your information, but these are routinely used by police to covertly track targets.
It's a powerful story, but it's simply not relevant to my argument, and I suspect the reason you think it is relevant is because you've deeply internalized the inevitability of death. Of course you, and we all, have: it's been inevitable for the entirety of human existence. But humans were never able to fly across the ocean for the vast majority of our existence either, nor were we able to orbit the Earth or communicate at near light speed with the other side of the Earth. People who say death is inevitable are putting it in a special category: it's the one thing humanity will never be able to solve with technology? We can colonize other planets, split the atom, develop computers and AI, but keeping oxygen flowing to the cells is just forever beyond our reach? No.

Your story is about a man's denial that his father, currently in critical condition, would die. Yes, the probability that humanity would solve death in the hour of life his father had remaining was low. I'm talking about humanity's denial that death is just a giant bag of problems that we can, eventually, solve one by one. The probability that humanity will solve death in the next thousand years is nearly 100%; the probability that it will be solved in our lifetimes may be low, but it's not 0. (Keep in mind, 1000 years is ten times the lifespan of an exponentially accelerating medical field, not simply 1% of the whole human history in which basically no progress was made.)

If we had a simple, maintainable, cheap machine that could keep people alive for 100 years without a working heart or lungs, there is no ethical dilemma, and the line between "killing them" and "letting them die" becomes pretty blurry.

The reason this matters is that once we actually start to realize that death is a problem that we can actually solve, then we can get the fuck to work on it! We could be investing so much more than we are in treatments like ECMO. There should be a national moon-landing-level initiative to make these machines available to everyone. But the longer we mope around with our learned helplessness, calling people like me naive and in denial, the more people will die needlessly.
The 90% is not diamonds, it's loans I've made.

I have two customers A & B. A has $1000 on deposit. B has $500 on deposit. I have $1500 in my safe. Assets = $1500, Liabilities = $1500.

B borrows $500, which for simplicity's sake he deposits in his account.

Now A has $1000 on deposit, B has $1000 on deposit. I have $1500 cash in my safe and a note from B for $500. Assets = $2000, Liabilities = $2000.

I just created $500. It's really that simple.
>Who cares? What's your point?

The point is some cultures are clearly not part of Western culture, and some (such as the pre-Columbian American ones) had absolutely no contact direct or indirect with the West until the colonial period. So it does make sense to make a distinction even if the boundaries are blurry.
This feels like a CSS benchmark haha
My current tax rate is 35% where I live in the US. I would be taxed at 45% if I lived in Paris.

Sales tax is 8% where I live in the US. VAT is 20% in Paris.
Since you insist in human intuition being a "required step in the process of knowledge discovery," I can safely say that your time preference you have is what led to the segmentation of the human species into categories such as races. When, really, any human baby born on Earth, absolutely any human child or man, that is, has the same genetics as a high level athlete like the famous Lebron James basketball player. There's no real difference between the races or types of humans. And, similarly, there's no difference between the "types" of intelligences that human intuition can help grab hold of.

Quantum mechanics is a magical system, to you, only because you're limited and guided by your human biases and preferences. Dumping intuition is the way to go for seeing past the toys and child's play that is modern science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
> How many people prefer the faked shuffle way?

I am one of those people who prefer the fake shuffle. I like how it kind of shuffles but still "knows" what I want to listen to.
There is a decade's worth of music in my Liked Songs and my taste has changed over time, so I don't want to listen to most of that music at a given moment, but I still want to keep it there for archival/nostalgia purposes
But you can just write a small module in Python, have it do the looping logic for you, install it at the root of your project's configuration-as-code repository, and then use the module in the YAML, removing the need to do complex, ugly loops in YAML.

Is there a reason this isn't an option for you?
Masseuse or physical trainer are the only jobs that I can think would qualify.

No screen time, no one needs a midnight massage (although your work hours would probably not be 9-5.), not reliant on technology, and going to take a while for AI to replace.

Very few good jobs fulfill criteria number 2.
Not if you're truly into marketing and art is a second thought. Most 'artists' of this type sell copies because that easy money. But if you're not good with marketing you end up stockpiling copies of your art that nobody wants.
In the movie biography of Tom Wolfe (RIP), his daughter tells of reading some of the vicious things people said about him, and asking him if this didn't bother him.

He said, "No, of course not. You're nobody 'til somebody hates you."

So if you despised them first and said something that touched them that deeply, I could see considering that a success.
wow i didn't know that tesla only existed in 2023, and all past and future years dont exist
You've lost me by bringing up Hamas. Is there a way forward in this conversation that does not require me to take Hamas seriously? Does it help us for me to give an accounting of why Hamas is not a viable actor in the region?

I believe Palestinians must have self-determination in a sovereign state, and that that state should include the whole of Gaza and the West Bank, including the rolling back of Israeli settlements in the West Bank to the '67 borders.

Do we need to go past that to keep talking? If Hamas is still in the conversation after this reply, what we're going to be litigating is my argument that it is the obligation of the entire world to destroy Hamas by all available military means short of the invasion or at-scale air assault of Gaza. If that's a conversation you want to have, we can have it, but my hope would be we don't have to --- that the actual thing we're talking about here doesn't depend on us settling the Hamas issue.
Pretty simple: Because using the browser's own player would be to easy. It's like loading a json file that then parses the html in the browser again.

People do stupid things.
filesystemd, replacing ext4/btrfs/etc.

It will come with `filectl` for all your file operations, so you will no longer need `cd`, `pwd`, `touch`, `rm`, `mkdir`, `cat`, `grep`, `find`, etc. Instead you do everything through `filectl` commands.

This will deprecate many commands from GNU coreutils, which is a good thing because replacing things is always good.

Then, since programs are just files, and filesystem will be part of systemd, any program you want to use will obviously have to go through systemd as well, meaning they will need to be a service unit of type `oneshot`, because this way we keep everything well integrated together.

Don't worry tho, you only write the unit files once and they work forever. The only thing you need to remember is that, instead of `cargo build` you'll need to use `filectl exec -u cargo build` (`filectl exec -u` is only 3 words, so you don't have the right to ever complain about this tiny little change).

Anyone who doesn't like these changes is stuck in the past.
> Yes, scientists still get paid but the draw of start ups (like tech) is lower pay, and potential upside through equity.

> So if the drug fails, they just lost a significant amount of money versus staying in big pharma, and they lost their job.

This is true of the scientists that aren't making the decisions. The ones that do make decisions are going to be able to retire if the startup was funded enough for clinical trials.

­> And for big pharma, if you don’t create new drugs, the company revenue falls and lay offs occur (like what is happening right now at several big pharma).

Do you have data according to which the current layoffs in big pharmas are significantly affecting decision-makers? Because that's the matter at hand.

As far as revenue decline, sure, for a given definition of "new drugs". The actual argument I've put forwards is that for a big pharma, it can make sense to run trials which are unlikely to succeed and with limited clinical utility if the financial upside is sufficient, which is not true for uni labs or biotech startups.

> Go and look at the massive layoffs that Pfizer, BMS, and other big pharma have done over the years.

Pfizer does "massive" layoffs every year, and just like BMS, every time a lot of the affected employees aren't executives fired due to unsuccesful trials, but employees of companies they bought.

As far as researchers getting laid off, big pharmas are infamous nowadays for firing researchers when R&D pipelines are sucessful just as much as when they fail. Researchers are made redundant either way, unless for some reason further research in the same domain is needed (which often isn't the case). It also happens pretty often in startups that end up selling IP.
> I think the pause on enforcement a lot of police departments did after the George Floyd protests is a contributing factor to that first point

Which is always a silly thing to read. George Floyd wasn't arrested because he flying 60 mph through red lights. It was over an alleged crime with maximum damages of $20; it's not even comparable to the violations being let slide.
May have the ability too, but doesn't mean will.
can i self host logfire? based on the “logfire auth” in the docs i’m thinking no?
It is a great tool! Congratulations on launching it!

Could you clarify if it's possible to self-host the service?
btw - the IfC section starts at 14:39 in the video
honestly that's such a niche problem to have that i dont think it's worth throwing the baby out with the bathwater. anyways you shouldn't be discovering installed services by logfile presence, it should be something like querying your package manager.
How much work should we expect a person to do to keep another person alive?

At a certain point, our obligations to another person have to end. At what point do we fault someone for not putting in work to delay someone else's death?

Obviously, withholding immaterial support is ethically deplorable. If it costs $1 of medicine to cure a child's life threatening illness and give them a high probability of living a typical human lifespan, you'd be a monster to not help.

But what if it costs $100,000 and has a low chance of healing them?

Or $10,000,000, with no probability of them ever leaving the hospital room, and their use of the room and machines will mean 10 additional deaths that could have been prevented?

I think we should be biased towards life over money because it's more humane and we'll probably learn useful things along the way that improve care in the future, but even with that overweighting, at some point it looks like a bad trade-off.
Tesla's engineering culture around the Supercharger is what makes it viable. They mass produce a custom-designed unit in groups of four, and then ship them from factory directly to job site. None of the other competitors are doing that yet, which is why Tesla has been both more profitable and more reliable. Maybe that culture will survive the layoffs, but it's a fast growing business with a ton of complicated engineering work to do.
if you live in a place with lots of sun and rain you can make a pretty good living owning a yard service and employing a small crew. A childhood friend of mine in FL worked as a mower and then bought the business when his boss was ready to retire. I think he does well into 6 figures and supports his family with it.

edit: i will say he and his crew are pretty amazing at what they do. Speed and quality is unbelievable (it's been 20 years since i've seen him work though)

edit2: i've also heard of people buying a backhoe, dump truck, and a trailer and making 6 figures doing random contracts.
AI Hesitancy
I sometimes use it for moving code blocks around, especially between files or from scratch pad to a file.
I wish it was completely legal and completely non-normalized.
I started the article thinking "ohhh the horror, this will not go well." And I ended up being mildly impressed with the typesetting quality, especially for the relative simplicity of the approach. So kudos to the author for demonstrating the flexibility of CSS.

I am concerned that there are lots of edge cases, essentially ligatures for engraving, that might not compose so well. A triad, or the author's called-out relative head spacing of 8th and 16th notes, or letting the program align different parts across different grids - would this also work well? Lilypond has proven to be exceptionally flexible for these kinds of complexities.
It violates the principle of Least Surprise; if I'm invoking run0 I'm expecting it to run my program with a different UID and return the same stdout I'd have gotten if I had just run the program in my shell. Not inject a whole bunch of color control bytes in there. Which hopefully my terminal will handle. Unless it doesn't.

I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they only do this if $TERM supports color. But still. That $TERM variable can surprise a poor programmer in all sorts of ways.
> and not being able to use an app that allows me to create iOS apps

Maybe you already know about this and you just mean there isn't an app that provides the equivalent of your full MacOS dev environment, but you can absolutely build and run iOS apps on your iPad with Swift Playgrounds.

It has a lot of shortcomings, but I've used it to create a couple little personal apps that I can run without distributing them through the App Store.
Construction trades (e.g., any role involved in building a house).
On revenue of 3.65 trillion in 2022, or 0.6% of annual revenue
You're joking but I follow the games somewhat more than casually and even I'm a little confused on which game is which and what is actually in each game.
To be fair, the reliability threshold had better be extremely high for systems controlling a 2 ton box going 120 km/hr surrounded by other boxes of similar velocity. There's plenty of room for reasonable discourse about where exactly that threshold should be. I suspect most of us (myself included) are also probably not familiar with how reliable modern iterations of this technology are.
On the scale of the company, Python is a very small language, and the very important stuff is 100% not in Python. However, 100,000 people work at Google, and probably over a million have it on their resume, so "small" at Google is "big" for a lot of people.

Google can definitely afford (in technical terms) to be a follower rather than a leader when it comes to Python.
> since Pyinfra doesn't need Python on the host node I can kick off tasks in bulk to do server things.

And you can do this with Ansible, too. Check out the raw module/command.
Because it would make roads less safe.

It's very common to need to *accelerate* in emergency situations.

Something like smart cruise control which drives the speed limit would be appreciated. A hard cap would not.
> which tower(s) do you forward the call setup data

Whichever one has most recently communicated with the user in question (based on the credentials or certificate provided, in the original example)
I'm genuinely shocked by this. The gaming industry usually culls companies based on acquisitions, then become insolvent by the investor.. maybe I missed a beat I don't see this here. In fact they made 2 Amazing chapters of a series everyone wanted and a promised 3rd to finalise.

I would like to believe this is invested money's and not "losses of investment" but I'm no accountant.
Is self hosting possible? Can't see any mention in the docs
i've never met a great instrument player who needed jira for solo practice. tomato ** 100000, with a chorus of violins.
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Sure but the "plus" part is capped [1] for cost+plus.

If you're buying AWS compute through GSA I bet the rate is more than AWS's costs + 10/15%.

Or if you purchase say post-it notes from Staples; I bet they're going to be way more than the cost of paper+glue*1.15.

[1]: https://www.acquisition.gov/far/15.404-4#FAR_15_404_4__d941e...
Like when
The issue is that it's more or less impossible to graft onto the language now. You could add enums, but the main reason why people want them is to fix the error handling. You can't do this without fracturing the ecosystem.
First and foremost to avoid accidents: We don't want a misconfigured HTTP website accidentally opening a new Excel window for every fetch/XHR call or to have to fight Excel defaults to get JSON to open up in our IDE or Dev Tools of choice. We don't want random shell scripts accidentally curl-ing things to Excel. Things like that.

Secondly for "ownership" reasons: We don't want to give non-developers the mistaken impression that Excel "owns" JSON and that it is a Microsoft format. I've had people tell me that CSV must be a Microsoft format because you can double click them in Excel and they show an Excel-like icon (in some ways it has been too long since Lotus existed and Excel was in the "we'll take all of our competitors' file associations too" era). On the one hand it might be nice to blame all of CSV's problems on Microsoft and Excel if that were actually the case, but on the other hand it also confuses people as to the real/valid uses of the format. Unfortunately, too, that transitive relationship goes both ways and I've heard second hand that CSV files are among the reasons the Excel team hopes to never add another file type association again because supposedly they get far too many support requests for CSV file problems that maybe shouldn't be their job to deal with.

A separate file association adds some intent of "this file was actually meant to be opened in Excel and hopefully the developer actually tested it some".
Elixir 1.17 type inference of struct and map fields
More speed can also be safer in some scenarios
These projects defend themselves. Big cloud companies showed up, created a lot of services with open source software and made billions with it.

Not only did they not give anything back to the developers of the software, but they also destroyed the old model where the software is free and the customer pays for the support because now the customer was supported by the cloud company and not the developer of the software.

And now those projects changed their license and were forked. The forked project will again be developed by enthusiasts and volunteers and end in the exact same situation a few years down the road while companies like Amazon again made billions off of those projects.

Way to go!
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