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> Planners do important work moulding how our cities grow.

Lost me at the first sentence. Let me fix it:

“Planners follow the flavour of the day while committing the same sins over and over, their failures recognizable only in retrospect once replaced with a new (also faulty) paradigm based on centralized planning. Despite their repeated failures, as an industry or field of study they show no contrition and continue to act as if they and only they know what’s best.”
I forgot about this entirely. I remember it being a big fear, but I don't recall all the issues. I think there were even Distros that had versions accounting for what they didn't need from SCO.
If you're on MacOS or Windows, start a WebEx or zoom call; the timeout for screen locks is reset while a meeting is running. Also, it means that your boss sees "in a meeting" if they look at your status, which makes you look busy, which bosses think means productive.
That you can’t will other people into feeling a certain way seems quite besides the point.

There’s first of all the point that the sibling comment made (bongodongobob). There’s also the second point of solidarity. Now for those who are too politically liberal to understand that word: it’s about standing together with your fellow person based on some commonality, knowing/trusting that they will also have your back in other contexts. Which could translate to bearing some discomfort because you sympathize with their cause or think that their cause is proximal to your own (see: first they came for X but I didn’t do anything because I’m not X).

This can be seen even in my social democratic country when there is some large strike. Say airport workers. Then the media will immediately be on the prowl, asking leading questions to would-be vacationers about how horrible this strike must be. The more solidaristic ones may choose to bear that burden because they feel that they share a common cause.
My apologies for the covert edit making you rewrite your reply.

Why is sci-fi useful when we could just look at technology history? It's the range of imagination involved- exploring big possibilities and unintended consequences that are unlike anything we've experienced before. A lot of it is also noticing how historical patterns could play out in a new context, and sharing those ideas.

I am reluctant to list out prescience examples, because on one hand they seem so numerous I couldn't do them justice with just a few, and on the other hand people will disagree with the importance of them.

Overall- I feel like it is a simple fact that lots of tech people and inventors love sci-fi, grow up reading it, and then it influences what they think about and choose to work on. I suspect we wouldn't have had rockets or space travel when we did, if we didn't have so many victorian era books imagining space travel. The numerous billionaire pet project space companies we have now seem a lot like people trying to live out fantasies from reading Heinlein. Even little things like the devices we have- my Kindle looks and acts exactly like the e-book readers in The Next Generation, for example.

When my son sees old Star Trek episodes very little is remarkable to him except the big things like warp drive and transporters. The "advanced tech" they use day to day is all stuff that is a normal part of his life- 3D printers, tablets, ebook readers, video conferencing, mobile communicators/phones, etc. Same with the "Back to the Future" movies- they travel to a future filled with various electronic gadgets that are very similar to those we now have, but didn't exist at the time... and my son doesn't see how remarkable that seemed to me as a kid, when those didn't exist.

As a researcher in biotech, some of my current research is definitely inspired by sci-fi, especially biotech and nanotech from Neal Stephenson books.

Edit: found this interesting list on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_existing_technologies_...
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> I assume this is parody, but just in case it's not: I am not someone who can do something about this, other than what I'm already doing.

Maybe other people aren't already doing those things. Maybe some people saw these kids and thought, "You know, those kids are right. I should do something about that."
Well, yes, but it's advertised as "replacing million-dollar missiles" which is just false.
This is a good point but you're never going to win an argument with somebody who has spent more money than warranted on a purchase.

Whether it be title insurance, a name brand on an item that came from the same factory as another item, or even religious tithings, people are both financially and emotionally committed to past expenditures and it is extremely tough to fight past this commitment.
Thanks for writing this.

Is this concept (dice room puzzle, doomsday argument) at all related to the st Petersburg paradox? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox
Yet another example of b0rked / unescaped TeX, specifically log vs \log in this case. Blows my mind that nobody sees it...
New snail-inspired robot can climb walls
Ah, never thought of it that way.
The LPs pay 2% management fee so the employees make some money regardless of the outcome, just like startup founders want to make some money even if the startup fails.
Oh yes. This is a huge one for me. My wife bought a luxury car that's loaded with these new driving "assist" features and they're both annoying and extremely distracting to the driver. Worse, when they unexpectedly grab the wheel while I'm actively trying to steer, it's caused me to swerve while fighting to correct it. Fortunately no road incidents yet but these are clear safety issues. If it were a commercial aircraft instead of a car, pilots would be required to report them as incidents.

Of course, I always turn these stupid features off but, inexplicably, my wife likes them and keeps turning them back on. So when I happen to drive that car it continues to be a nasty surprise until I remember to turn it off. This also makes a separate UX failure even worse. Settings like seat position, enter/exit behavior, navigation and even entertainment options are stored and recalled in per-driver settings. These per driver settings can also be linked to each key fob. She has her fob and I have mine. Very nice - except these damn driver "assist" features are NOT stored in per-driver settings like they obviously should be!

Damn it, car UX designers - all user options should be stored per driver. It's a few KB for bit flags and single-byte values, it's not like we don't have the storage these days.
Kanka is better imo
Put them up for the Nobel.
That would explain all the mummies too. They were sucked dry of their water by the aliens!

But only the wealthy people. They didn’t want any of that commoner water.
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It’s a job but not like any regular jobs. In most regular jobs, you are given a set of requirements/tasks, you do them 9-5 and go home. VC decides who gets money and as a result what kinda of jobs there will be out there. Luckily, VC is only a part of the financing sector.

The problem, in my opinion, is the lack of skin in the game in many of these funds. If the alpha is the 2% of funds managed, then the investments are a side show and as a result VC are just a plunder of these funds and a misallocation of resources in the economy. (Hence my comparison with communism).
You should find a live version
With AI, usage-based is becoming the norm because of how expensive and unreliable are any of the APIs that are (almost) capable of doing the work. If you need to run a prompt multiple times until it gets it right it can get very expensive.
> also, she calls every piece of music a "song"

"piece of music" is a little cumbersome. Given the choice between being correct, and using a word as convenient as "song", I'll probably side with the changing language. Is there any other alternative phrasing? "Piece" sounds ambiguous to me. Am album could be a "piece of music". Or a playlist. Or part of a song. Or just the flute track.
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> has been dead in the water for a while now

Both are under active development and are used in several transcriptomics atlas projects, as far as I can tell.
There’s different levels of priority within the same mobile networks, at all of them. MVNOs are just a price discrimination tool. It’s all the same electromagnetic waves being sold at different price points and priorities.

ATT just increased their higher priced consumer plan by $7 per month.
"This is because the watch is way more complex. Similarly, the highly complex structures of plants and animals must have been created by an intelligent maker rather than the forces of nature. Hence: God."

"Hence: God" doesn't follow from this argument. An intelligent designer doesn't have to be the ultimate, all knowing, all powerful designer. Humans are intelligent designers. A modern passenger plane is a sophisticated design. Of course, "God" may be outsourcing or delegating some of "his" design work to lower level designers.
water spots lol.
No, but the USB-IF will make you roll a D20 to determine if the USBC-USBC cable you are holding supports the feature you are trying to use.
That was true in the TB3 era.

This will work just fine with a 40gbps USB cable.
I felt the Orbital song had a little more relevance to the digital part of the discussion
I'm similar but also I treat languages I can't understand or movie samples as non-lyric.
This is analogous to astro-photography problems with keeping stars as points rather than as blurred lines in long exposures. If you think about it, if a long exposure at night has a static landscape but moving stars, the IBIS equivalent would have static stars and a moving landscape :)
Unfortunately rust language development has practically ground to a halt. There is a trickle of work but it’s highly unlikely that major language features will happen any time soon.
Hitting us with the hard questions! And honestly this is something people overlook about the realities of the data space.

It's always easier to communicate what you are not, so let's begin there:

- drag and drop query builder
- absolute prettiest graphs
- tailored to the least sophisticated user

In addition to what I think we are not, I think there is some space for our belief about what the data space is/is not:

- We don't think data self-serve is possible but rather small datasets can be tailored. Fundamentally it comes down to complexity and data is complex. It takes expertise/skill to get value from data.

- It takes experts to get value from data, but as systems get better it will take fewer.

- Businesses should not be data driven, they should be reason driven.

- We don't think data dominates business, it's a supporting tool and so we don't think it will every the entry point for everything but rather supports process, so we want to appear in places where we can support that reasoning, like a chart in a Notion doc.

Now a few bits about what we are:

- Tool for those experts and engineers

- Tool to make them the most productive ever

- Prevent messes that people get themselves in in BI by injecting software engineering practices into the process (we know many companies with full time employees responsible for cleaning up messes)
More importantly: they transported those huge stone blocks by rafting them down the river.
Deactivating Facebook for a lifetime improves;

mental wellbeing, personal satisfaction, the development of quality relationships, reduces anxiety, reduces depression and improves ones belief in oneself and humanity.
I thought they were built by the golf course.
The article is from 2019.
It's the stuff that's left after anaerobic, then aerobic, bacteria have chowed down on the sewage. It's basically dead bacteria. Any pathogens would have become food for these decomposers.

I think I'd also worry about residual drugs. Some don't break down quickly.
It does. A perfect gyro will remain on a single axis relative to the rest of the universe while the Earth goes around the sun, and while the galaxies swirl around.

I'll leave it to you to figure out how "perfect" it would need to be, and what the actual error that the stabilizer would need to account for if the gyroscope is accurate enough to detect the motion of the Earth around the sun, compared with the error created by the Earth's rotation.
> KDE recently switched everyone on Arch to Wayland

You mean Arch recently switched its KDE users to Wayland.

KDE has no say on what Arch's defaults are. That's what distros are for.
> Why is nobody wearing a TT Helmet and visor on a normal road stage?

(1) weight is not always worth it, notably when there are lots of climbs

(2) riding with others, need to be able to turn your head. Further, you can't get as super low when in a big group. It also doesn't help as much because the group dynamic is more important than crouching extra low and/or helmet drag

(3) out of the saddle sprints.
I didn't say they viewed themselves "first and foremost" as romans, where are you getting that?

I'm pointing out that their using greek didn't count against what they & others considered to be their "romanness" before the western empire fell, so why are you looking at it that way now?

To be honest I'm not really certain what you're trying to claim though so maybe the distinction is useful for your point. But anyway "to what extent & by whose measure were the eastern romans, and later the byzantines, roman" is one of the most active & scrutinized questions of one of the most visible and prestigious branches of historical scholarship.

And the overwhelming scholarly consensus is that they were roman by any standard that applied in their time and most that we can come up with as well. "They spoke greek and weren't roman because of that" hasn't been a serious reputable stance on the subject for a few generations now.
> Chenoweth has identified two cases where maximalist campaigns failed despite mobilizing more than 3.5% of the population: Brunei in 1962 (4% mobilized) and Bahrain in 2011-2014 (6% mobilized):

https://www.directactioneverywhere.com/dxe-in-the-news/cheno... (2021)
It’s it just authorities. Most people don’t want to hear about the cause of some random protester. Stealing their time is a crime. When protests involve illegal acts, they’re riots not just protests. It’s compelling someone by force. Do I have the right to come occupy your home because you don’t share my ideas? If not why would that be okay elsewhere? We have existing, legal avenues for both lawful protest and political change that people can use.
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Physics is math, but not all math is physics.
> And if you're a 16 year old

I'm talking about "strikes" that were 7-year-olds. Junior schools were striking.

> That's more than "appropriate" protest ever did.

I don't care about appropriate; just about effectiveness.
They threw a fit over Doom then got over it almost 30 years ago ;)
Well, it supports Llama3.

But the other question I have is about the license. The tokenizer.py file is identical, and the rest is very similar - just making minor adjustments here and there.

Can they just take this Apache 2 licensed code, change it a bit and offer it as MIT? They are clearly not the original author.
Google says Chrome OS on Android was, sadly, just a fun proof of concept
There should be a holiday called "Protest Month" where everyone throughout the year saves up some resources and then all takes off for one month all at the same time.
Depending on where you live, if we already serve some houses in the area (very possibly if we're advertising locally), then it's likely that your specific location is more costly to serve and is being delayed until we reach that phase of the rollout for the area.

Specifically, aerial deployment through telephone poles is an order of magnitude cheaper than underground unless you get in when the neighborhood is being built (which AT&T and Comcast often do, and get pre-wired to each house). My understanding is that we are trying to fill in the areas between that aerial neighborhoods we initially built out where we provide service, it's just slower. If the availability form shows service for houses in your city that seem to have service delivered through telephone poles then it's possible we'll get to you in the semi-near future.

If you live in the bay area have service through a telephone pole and we can't service you, then I'm not sure what's going on. My understanding is we've covered most the bay area, but honestly that's not my department...
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I buy service from this company that is a MVNO and is a prioritized cellular company : https://xcapeinc.com/mvnovoice.html

You aren’t going to get service that is cheap but they do offer things like static IPs and peering.
I personally tried to build more housing, I tried to buy 5 acres and build 5 homes on them. 5 acres could have easily held 5 large homes with big yards.

The city zoning board denied me, saying that that 5-acre plot had been zoned for ONE house and an ADU of no larger than 300 sqft.

That was when I realized why housing is so expensive.
Oh - I see. It's extremely easy. Disrupting people who can't do anything about it in a way that turns the focus on you being the problem, not politicians, will mean that politicians will not be affected by the disruption.
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>Jobs would have blown them away.

Looks like he did exceed everyone's expectations.

OTOH people who prefer the conventional are not likely to recognize the most promising outliers for what they are, it can go right over their head as if there was no difference from those having below-average potential.
The source that OP may be talking about is an OkCupid blog post that got scrubbed when they were bought out by Match. It was about rating the attractiveness of the opposite sex in heterosexual people, I think in Chicago in like 2008 among like 500 users.

The end result graph is here: https://www.google.com/imgres?q=okcupid+blog+20+of+females+a...

(sorry if that doesn't work)

The data is not nearly this simple as OP is stating, as to be expected with such topics. But the underlying idea is women don't mind that they think men are a bit ugly and will date them anyways. In that, women put less of a preference on physical appearances. Again, I've not read that blog post in a few years and I couldn't find the original source of it as Match scrubbed it. If anyone has the blog post, please let us know.
I found Gnomes fit and finish very superficial. Yeah, if you use Gnome standard apps or Gnome circle apps everything fits really nicely. As soon as you dive into extensions, stuff gets wonky and breaks. I find this particularly annoying because Gnome does lack some stuff I really like, where I have to resort to extensions that frequently break between updates.

On KDE you can also use extensions which are equally wonky, but KDE offers so much more out of the box options that I find myself needing far fewer extensions.

Also, KDE is much quicker on implementing stuff like VRR or HDR support which Gnome is still lacking. But at the same time, KDEs implementation is still lacking in some areas. While I personally like the "move (relatively) fast and deliver early results" mentality, being on a semi rolling release like Fedora I'm not stuck with the broken state for very long. In that sense, I can understand why people may be annoyed with partially implemented features when they're stuck with them for a long version lifecycle.
Hm, residential walking surfaces are easily swept with a broom though.
I got laid off last month but I'm in no hurry to find a new job. I'm actually not even sure if I want one. Working as a frontend software engineer became too boring, I don't want to work with React anymore. I want to get back to work as a full stack engineer creating full applications but that aren't many jobs for that.

So I'm creating apps for myself with the intention of turning one of them into a profitable business. It is been fun to catch up with LLMs and other models.
Windows-only, unable to share a network connection?

Apple already allows TCP/IP between 2 systems: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/ip-thunderbolt-conn...

And there is this, too:
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/16/50-10gbps-mesh-network-uses-...

I was hoping for something like the Craylink cable, where connecting 2 Origin 200s gave you a single system with a single system image (1 kernel) across the two.

"One of the revolutionary features of Origin 200
is CrayLink™ Interconnect, which can connect two
towers to form a large, four-CPU shared-memory
system that can operate as a single system or as
a high-availability cluster. By linking Origin 200
towers via CrayLink Interconnect, both CPU and I/O
performance are doubled, thus scaling in all dimensions. " ( from https://www.siliconbunny.com/data_sheets/o200.pdf )
The regulators could have forced the big four carriers (now three) into a common carrier model.

In that setup, all cell providers would effectively be an MVNO, and the three (then, four) physical networks would be operated at arms length from the consumer facing side. Also, the four networks could be structured so that their financial incentives were to improve cell coverage and bandwidth instead of undermining each others' operations.
I don't think this has to be incorrect. Or that your "unless the age distribution...." needs to be true either.

Everyone eventually dies. When that happens, as things currently stand, it will be a 2.5% chance the cause will be the flu.

You might die young or old. Across those possibilities, it is 2.5%

That can be consistent with the idea that if you were to die next year, it probably (i.e., much less than 2.5%) won't be the flu because you are a young person.
The value dimension of text is not the volume of words but rather the signal-to-noise ratio, aka information density.

It does not matter whether a human or an AI produces a high-signal synthesis from a lower-signal body of work. The signal boost is value creation.

The underlying debate is whether AI is capable of signal-boosting arbitrary works more effectively than humans. I'd say presently, it is not. Even with the most powerful models, consistency and reliability across work types and lengths are far from business-grade.

If that were to change, the fact that an AI boosts the signal does not globally deflate the value of text. The value of text is determined by the signal, not the signal producer.

The main issue right now is that AI is not reliably boosting information signals, and therefore, most serious professionals probably still prefer to read original works.
In most areas, causes from the right aren’t treated similarly. And it also seems odd that the number of participants matters at all - if you take over some place as an individual, you’ll be arrested. But if there’s 50 of you, that may not happen. The ability to selectively enforce the law based on viewpoint or situation is a hole in our system.
Maybe anything, yeah. Maybe not.
We need to go back to "the old ways", that is, people just need to pay to use the internet. Compute and storage has never been cheaper. Instead of a service subsidized with ads, we each host our own software and just pay AWS (or whoever) for the bits we flip.
Which side's misinformation?
My internet bill comes every month. What deal are you getting?
I'm a music person, when I'm approaching new (to me) music I'm highly focused on how the melodies, harmonies, rhythms, textures, etc. fit into a coherent narrative/whole and the lyrics don't factor in at all, though the voice as an instrument does. I think an interesting type of music perhaps on the border of the "music vs. lyric" line is glossolalia, such as Dead Can Dance, where what the voices are vocalizing is usually gibberish/nonsense chosen strictly for its musical qualities. From that particular artist, I can recommend The Serpent's Egg and Spleen and Ideal as excellent albums.
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