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I don't believe we share the same barrier to entry for objectivity, is really what it comes down to. He's sponsored, he's an influencer.

From a recent article [0]:
"The 30-year-old YouTube kingpin makes money from sponsorship deals with brands, merchandise sales, and a whole lot of ad revenue from YouTube."

Where do you draw the line between his format and his sponsorships? And how do you know that he's "reviewing" without monetary bias? As an example he put out this [1] video with Buick a few years ago. Let's try to be honest for a second - he wouldn't be caught dead driving that car unless Buick paid him to. And that is my point. There's no boundary between his "reviews" and his "ads". They look, they feel and they are the same format. He's excited about this Buick, "reviewing" it on his channel, it does say that it's sponsored, but is it his actual opinion? Very doubtful. And that, right there, is the difference between a reviewer and an influencer. Is he a charlatan? Maybe not quite that far - but he is being dishonest by making the sponsor video in, basically, the same format as anything else he does. Does he have relevant points? Sure - but there are other reviewers that have much deeper knowledge of the reviewed product. Case in point is his car reviews - he's not a true car enthusiast. His car "review" videos clearly reflect that when you compare it to someone who knows the car market in-depth (there are a lot of great car reviewers on YouTube, MKBHD isn't one of them). Is it good enough? For most people, probably. But again - I don't trust anyone to do a full spot on a car that's not even close to being on his want-to-have list and then expect him to be unbiased when "reviewing" a competitor. He puts out ads for his own brand, and anyone willing to pay him. He's an influencer. And now, he's hocking wallets that are $125+ [2][3].

[0] https://fortune.com/2024/02/22/marques-brownlee-youtube-at-a...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfC8Y66tR6o
[2] https://ridge.com/collections/mkbhd
[3] https://ridge.com/pages/mkbhd-announcement
Nice, glad it worked for you.

Splitting paragraphs is a great idea, thank you!

Let me know anything else you would want; I'd love to implement it.
Your implied point that prices will drop with the introduction of interstate competition and access to finance and interest by mega-corps is well taken. You are certainly correct, there.

Notwithstanding grey-market limitations, people have their motives for accepting the inefficiency of starting or staying small. Potential, for example.
Sure, if you don't exercise there's no need to shower every day. You may want to for other reasons though (it's nice?).

A message I _would_ like to see more of though, is that there isn't an everyday reason to wash your hair more than once a week. In fact, it's bad for your scalp.
It's a decision of product proposition, and Apple decided that the Pencil use-case shall support iPad sales and not be cannibalized by the iPhone.

They also decided for a while that all their premium iPhones shall have "Force Touch", an entirely unique display technology only for iPhones to sense pressure without the potential of additional accessory sales.

These are all valid decisions. They are not a charity, they operate to maximize the profit they can gain from each customer.

The iPad has the big "issue" of barely needing to be replaced with new models, as most use-cases are consumption-oriented and there are no real disrupting sales-driving requirements for iPad media consumption.

So the Pencil was created to drive the proposition towards Media CREATION, because people would buy a new, more-expensive iPad then and requirements for that segment are constantly increasing (better pencils, lower latency, more-demanding apps).

Also in the past year: iPhone increases focus on Media recording with more-complex video features, iPad is tagging along with demanding Media processing use-cases
While this is true in the general case, some number of smart cards and SIMs run Java Card directly on the hardware, using the Jazelle instruction set from ARM. So a Java Actual Machine, rather than a Java Virtual Machine.

https://www.design-reuse.com/news/4228/arm-securcore-support...
Sure, escalations are result of mistakes people make. This is why businesses exists -- they have processes, quality control and all that stuff that ensures reliable outcome while consisting of individually unreliable things. That's the whole point and that's what you are supposed to get right. There are different strategies, and hiring people from exploitable jurisdictions is one. As all obvious strategies it has downsides and it will also stop working at some point in future which may be irrelevant for you.
He’s one of the reasons I’m still a .NET developer. Super nice guy in person.
It is related, though: the creator is the same, so you can expect the same DX.
I always thought that "async void" methods existed so async methods could be sent to event handlers; AND, I've always believed event handlers should have a top-level try/catch.

(I personally can't remember using "async void;" seems like something like a goto that technically has a valid use case, but it's simpler to avoid.)
I get the gist and agree to some degree, but two stories down from this one is hackers that stole UHG data...

Was that good enough? Someone thought so at the time.
Is the wrong code in the new part of the diff or in the old one?

Generally getting zero value from a map is a feature, but the code that the diff replaces did look overly complex and fragile to me already tbh
There is no continent called America.
CORBA, Avro RPC, Thrift RPC, gRPC, now this. In this industry each generation wants to re-invent IDL every decade. But anything is better then JSON over HTTP so why not this.
A comment like "basically none" should not be taken literally. It is intended to indicate that the difference between the C++ approach and the C approach is that the C++ approach gives you a great deal of type safety to the point that the C approach looks downright error prone.

The C++ approach of sticking to value semantics doesn't involve any of the issues you get working with pointers, like lifetime issues, null pointer checks, invalid casts, forgetting to properly deallocate it, for example you have a foo_create but you didn't provide the corresponding foo_delete. Do I delete it using free, which could potentially lead to memory leaks? The type system gives me no indication of how I am supposed to properly deallocate your foo.

You don't like boilerplate, fair enough it's annoying to write, but is boilerplate in the implementation worse than having to burden every user of your class by prefixing every single function name with foo_?

The C++ approach allows you to treat the class like any other built in type, so you can give it a copy and assignment operator, or give it move semantics.

So no it's not literally true that C has absolutely zero type safety. It is true that compared to the C++ approach it is incredibly error prone.

While older C++ code is rampant with pointers, references, and runtime polymorphism, best practices when writing modern C++ code is to stick to value types, abstain from exposing pointers in your APIs, prefer type-checked parametric polymorphism over object oriented programming.

If anything, the worst parts of C++, including your point about being able to perform an invalid cast, is inherited from C. C++ casts, for example, do not allow arbitrary pointers to be cast to each other.
holy shit this guy knows no shame
> You can just keep using like a regular phone if that's all you want. Me having more freedom with my own device, does not reduce your freedoms you have with your own device.

I was just pointing at an aspect of how these devices are engineered. In fact, I jailbroke my first iPhone and spent years running with a rooted and modded Android device. So, be my guest...

> Otherwise what's the point of all that technological progress of M* chips

Showing that ARM is a viable computation platform? I'm not particularly enamored of the Apple ecosystem. It's great for what I use them for and awful for anything else. Reverse-engineering is an option, but I prefer focusing my efforts on more hackable platforms for my tinkering. Unless the law mandates openness, I'm not seeing Apple's stance changing.
I don't think the Brits were using the opium when empire-building.
They aren't planning on legalizing it for recreational use, this move would just reclassify it from schedule 1 to schedule 3.
I hate to be this guy but the man pages have it all

man -k systemd

There's some terminology to learn, but overall it's pretty approachable.

Edit; and as far as architecture goes they are all _separate_ programs. It's not a single large "systemd"
And while we're at it, how come if I have a phone without a sim I can't at least navigate to a carrier webpage to buy an esim?

The phone could pop up a menu saying "Here are the available networks", and you pick one, connect and it says "Welcome to AT&T, enter credit card number here", and you type a number and hit OK and you're connected.

Oh wait - just like Wifi!! Why are mobile networks so far behind?
How would a networking stack with no hardware addresses even work? The next hop needs a way to reach back to you, before you can negotiate anything fancy like passwords or certificates. Even IPv6 SLAAC starts with a hardware address.
We should legalize some of the less harmful mild uppers like khat while we're legalizing depressants.
Juul is Big Tobacco.
> remember when you had to write bash scripts to start, stop, restart services

This was a really big pain, yes, but I also remember how I could `tail -f *.logs`. I remember how I didn't need to remember about `--no-pager` and `--follow`. I knew where the files were, what they were called. I remember how I didn't have to google how to find logs between 10 days ago and 4 days ago, because the logs would be in a .tar created by logrotate with a date in the filename.

The init system was probably peak of systemd, after that they started reinveting things in a more complicated way. Do we really need journald, systemd-boot, machinectl, systemd-networkd, sd-bus, systemd-resolved, systemd-nspawn? Do people actually use it all? Are there any metrics to show how many systems have it installed and in use?
Having a soft-Rust alternative is a recurring topic in the Rust community and is acknowledged as being of interest by core members:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/j2l9v9/revisiting_a_s...
I have a mechanical wall clock in storage which shows the day of the week as well as the date --- it was made in Japan --- it's in storage 'cause it was over-tightened and the main spring broken, and rather than being repaired, it was just re-fastened, so now it runs fast and gains a couple of minutes each month (the chime is also rather loud for a 1,200 sq. ft. home).
Often enough, it isn’t an actual ATM. You pay at the counter like you usually would using a card or an NFC payment method (e.g., Apple Pay), but the payment reader processes it as an ATM withdrawal transaction (hence an extra transaction fee of a few dollars). There is no physical cash involved at any point in this (at least not on the dispensary premises).
See https://archive.ph/0GP4F
rand()?
Oh, thank you! You have many great ideas, @purple-leafy. This public version stems from the Roam environment where the outliner solves many things for you. Here I am using just a simple edit window without additional functionalities now.

Thank you for your time and expertise. I will look into them and answer (or ask) here, later.
You can sell schedule 3 drugs to consumers. Pharmacies do this all the time.
You described a worst-case scenario. I’d rather smoke Marlboro Greens, and I promised myself 20 years ago I’d never spend another penny with them.
The counter proposal is for sure more realistic compared to the expectation of not having 2 hour lunch break and closing laptop at 4 pm.
> - You would have to reserve some numbers that can't be assigned to regular citizens.

Because why?

> - If you make those "random" - you need to store them in a database that can be checked against when issuing numbers to regular citizens.

You have to store passport numbers assignments in a database anyways.

> - You wouldn't want such a database to exist.

Because it could leak? But number block schemes leak.

> [...]

> Fake passports that pass muster (regular patterns of a country's passport are known to foreign border guards, like checknums, typical issuance ranges, etc.) are not simple.

If you want a fake/second passport to look like a real/first passport then you need to make sure that there's nothing fake-y about it, like none of this reserved number block thing. If the country in question assigns passport numbers sequentially, then that's going to be a problem because the passport numbers will indicate when the passport was issued -- you wouldn't want that. So instead you'll need to either randomize passport number generation, pseudo-randomize it, or leave lots of gaps in sequential number assignments so there are always a few from each relevant time period available.

Also, if you use the same number for national ID and passport, then you'll need to issue a second national ID to match the second passport.

These things are not hard to figure out. The U.S. would never get this wrong because the State department has enough clue and could always reach out to NSA/CIA for clue if they needed it. Apparently the Russians are total amateurs at this stuff.
Imagine how well it would be received if you said "My grandfather clock has a date display- except it's manual, you have to twist a little knob once a day to keep it correct."

That's how I feel about wall calendars.
My sentence actually was written I would not trust an American CS to give law advice on European law.
No, I don't think I can.

You're answering a question I didn't ask, and quotes an article of dubious relevance.
They are frequently used in games to run scripting languages.
Run0
I will think about possibilites.
What should they be based on?
Check the network share for a folder called "Passwords"
Birds to the West of Rio de Janeiro
Indeed, there was a blog by a redhat engineer doing that: https://tim.siosm.fr/blog/2023/12/19/ssh-over-unix-socket
Dang that's a shame. One would think though, if the mechanical design is already done for wristwatches, it should be trivial to port that design over to full-sized clocks, literally just scale the mechanism up!
Not from the other side of a wide-area network, but if they are continuously in close proximity to you, or can effectively monitor everywhere (three letter agency), then yes. Of course, there are other ways to track you.
Look at your list of built-in modules though :)
And those ATMs around the block from a dispensary (or even in the same buildimg) would still charge a fee for withdrawal anyway (as they are always a third-party ATM and not a bank one, so you get that big message on the screen about an extra fee for withdrawal).
It isn't temporary if you keep it permanently in context (or in a RAG store) and pass it into every model call, which is how long-term memory is being implemented both in research and in practice. And yes it obviously does affect the learned behavior. The distinction you're making between training and context is arbitrary.
This is why I don't understand LLM sales pitches. Why isn't it

We built a system that (lossy) compresses all text on the internet and is able to be (fuzzy) searched with a human language interface. Storage size: under a few hundred gigs (depending on precision).

I have to say, it is a pretty impressive feat. Why upsell to AGI when that's only going to leave a bad taste in peoples' mouths when they find out it doesn't have basic reasoning abilities? I mean really, does everyone not realize they are drawing the same exact ascii unicorn?
aha, the contemporary english cognate would then be 'loan'.
Found Energy went from 'self-cannibalizing robots' to cleaning up heavy industry
Walking Maps
The display on the Timex Expedition is my favorite. For some reason I just find it more readable than a casio- maybe it's because the display segments are closer together? Or the greater font-size contrast in the time vs date?
Why not both? Both is good.
How is it that he ended up targeting a therapy organization?

Did he have some history with the profession / company that he's acting out against? Or was it just a random mark with a lot to lose?
Ansible can technically do cloud and local provisioning, just as Terraform can technically do cloud and local.

But practically, these tools have their areas of speciality.
8B, and it got better this morning, they merged in flash attention so I can now load almost 500k tokens with (96gb of vram) With that said, you can possibly have this kind of resource, this is a cheap build. Mixture of old and used GPUs.
The ending of Cryptonomicon is excellent!
Norway Smartphone Ban in Schools [pdf]
'without a DEA licensed rx and dea licensing'

Rx under DEA scrutiny is nothing like rec or laughable state controlled medical 'recommendations'. You pull that shit as a provider on controlled scripts and your charts get audited, your DEA license gets pulled.
Also the Parts-of-file File System: https://www.usenix.org/conference/2005-usenix-annual-technic...
Sounds like you'ved misjudged the use case. Tools like this do the deployment, they aren't generally deployed themselves.

So a portable binary is not a requirement. Other points like let or types are not an impediment either, there are many quality tools available if you need them (ruff, pyflakes, mypy), and python has been doing this kind of work productively for thirty years now.
Love the summary. I'd love if it also gave me chapters
Ah, my mistake, I thought you were making an earnest inquiry and not a joke. Carry on.
you answered it yourself
Why being slow is a bad thing? Ansible gives me a legitimate excuse to have proper lunch. ;-)
I am kinda confused by your comment, OP is about tracing as far as I understood, but you're referencing Google Cloud Monitoring (whereas the comparable thing would be Google Cloud Trace) and then again

(esp. for metrics and their attributes).

but OP isn't about metrics at all rather traces.
One thing that still surprises me is that C# doesn't have something like a generic async: IE, write one method, and the compiler creates both sync and async versions.

(Now, you might be thinking, "no, that won't work because of XYZ corner case," and I would say that: 1: If those corner cases apply, then you should be writing both versions of a method; and 2: For the vast majority of APIs that need to create both sync and async methods, the only difference between the methods is dropping "async ... Async" from within the implementation.)

Or, alternatively, one thing that surprises me about C# is that the JIT can't support calling "async from sync:" IE, it can't, at the lowest levels, swap in a blocking call. (So you don't have to write separate sync and async APIs.)
It’s not a particularly easy industry to value add. Growing pretty good weed is probably less work than a brewery - and I have a very hard time telling the difference between the hundreds of different strains.

Then you have to have security, your staff is high 24/7, banking is a mess..

Growing might be more pleasant than running the shops but then you better like agriculture
Tell that to all the people pissed off at Roe v Wade
In WWII serial number analysis was used to estimate Nazi tank production rates. That sort of analysis was old had long ago now. Somehow no one in Russia seems to remember.
> At the end of the day, that really is just it, but the collective behavior is something else entirely.

Exactly. It’s not to say that neat descriptions like this are the end of the story (or even the beginning of it). If they were, there would be no need for this entire field of study.

But they are cool, and can give you a really clear conceptualisation of something that can appear more like a sum of disjoint observations and ad hoc tricks than a discipline based on a few deep principles.
Can you list some examples?

There aren't that many companies that have gone from small and scrappy into a huge organization in 10 years. And I thought I knew all of them for the last few decades.
I visited Montreal last year and finding a recreation cannabis shop was not easy. Google maps is filled with "head shops" that don't sell weed, and apparently at some point all shops became nationalized (correct me if I'm wrong) which means there were private shops in existence but then shut down further polluting online listings. I eventually figured this out (after visiting what I thought was a cannabis shop that was actually a deli) but as luck would have it, they were all closed when I was downtown.

Coming from the US, Massachusetts specifically this was a major step backwards. Granted we are spoiled, especially in my region where there's 2-3 shops per town but I was not expecting it to be that hard in progressive Canada.

Edit: I looked it up and only the "SQDC" (1) is authorized to sell Cannabis.
1: https://www.quebec.ca/sante/conseils-et-prevention/alcool-dr...
>A safe, productive and prosperous society cannot be built by drug addicts.

Yet much of it has been, and continues to be built by, people who use drugs.
It's not just US people who do this, it's many others in Europe and around the world. The common name of the UK in many languages is some variant of England, even to the point of what you'd learn in a geography class.

Also, people very commonly use the name of modern day countries to refer to their territory, such as "most of Germany was frozen over in the last Ice Age". I suspect this is what is happening here.
not for at least like 20 years probably
The 1961 convention, which as far as I know has not been contravened (w.r.t. cannabis) by the subsequent acts only bans non-medical (and non-scientific) uses of cannabis. Schedule IV would probably be sufficient to comply with the US's obligations there, and Schedule III certainly is.
This has been similar to my experience. Rules Engines like CLIPS are just outside of the bounds of "cheap enough to spend time learning on the off-chance it is indeed better than what we've already written."
Or a credit union.
Tax all religious institutions.
I'll take another book like Anathem any day.

Stephenson's latest book, Termination Shock seemed tired. It didn't have the sarcasm and vigor that sprinkled his earlier work.
Every fan of physics is recommended to look up bollard test videos.
FWIW I've seen some DIY enthusiasts do some really cool things, I think this one for instance turned out really cool and would be a breathtaking wall piece. Even better if it ran and was powered fully by the counterweight mechanism rather than electronically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_8_N8HKOXw
In fairness we do also see the opposite, which is kind of a problem with the 2 term system.

In a presidents first term they are incentivized to do just enough to not piss of the other side enough to get some crazy numbers out but do enough to appease the current voters that they tried.

But then in the second term any worry about being re-elected goes out the window.

Like I am still convinced that Obama was in support of gay marriage before he publicly said it, and just waited until after he was re-elected. At that point what was he going to loose?
Greenpeace Crusade Against Golden Rice Will Blind and Kill Children
My Ubuntu /usr/sbin/sshd already links to libz, liblzma, liblz4 and libzstd. I don't see why linking to libxz would be so outrageous. All-in-all, ldd reports 26 libraries.

They attacked the weakest link, and systemd was just a small pawn in that game. Sure, a smaller attack surface is better, but it's not like OpenSSHd has a small attack surface even without libsystemd. Not even in projects with a similar possibility of obscure "test data."