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The apple pencil is just alright. The design decisions they made to have it magnetically attach to the device, while cool, mean that its not a very ergonomic implement for long term use. For comparison check out the shape of the Wacom Pro Pen 2.

https://estore.wacom.com/media/Global/Products/accessories/p...

I can use the pro pen 2 all day and not feel issues with my fingers or wrists. The apple pencil requires me to use some goofy silicone addons to make it ergonomically functional if you plan to use it for more than an hour. Plus those add ons get in the way of mounting the pencil magnetically, often get in the way of using the touch buttons, and limit what cases you might use.

This is the silicone add on I use, which ergonomically makes the apple pencil an actual functional tool that doesn't hurt hand/fingers/wrists.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0C21XNJJC/

The apple pencil is a pretty 'ok' tool if all you're doing is the occasional sketch. The apple pencil + ipad is a nice drawing platform because its almost always the one you have with you.

It's not so much better than a dedicated drawing platform on computer - a proper wacom drawing display. But thats a dedicated device, and costs as much as an ipad, so you pay more for the better product + the computer.
The homepage might be more compelling if the thumbnails for the sample videos were something other than black rectangles.
I think this argument would hit a little harder if Apple hadn't just released their thinnest device ever that is sporting both a touchscreen and a dual layer OLED that's better than any of their laptop screens. I've never broken out the calipers but imo most of Apple's thinness comes from the body and not the screen. You could probably find a number of touchscreen laptops with similar thickness displays. On top of that you could compare the weights of non-touch and touch models, the 15.6" LG gram for instance gains 0.03lbs in the touch model.
Klarna says 90% of its employees are using generative AI daily
Windows Server 2025 has DTrace built in
AccEar: Accelerometer Acoustic Eavesdropping (2022)
Hi, would you recommend this book in 2024?
Most bioinformaticians are biologists.
> specially given that on my Mac I need to use a VM anyway to run containers

Take it up with Apple.
If anything he's not being specific enough
https://i.redd.it/hluqexh3oqc91.jpg
Wow, this is very interesting! Thanks for sharing. I've never heard of controlled atmosphere before but it makes sense. I always wondered how so much produce could always ben in a fresh state.
The ts and ds thing... it's just language. It changes over time, it's not youth being lazy... The slang of the youth today is actually kinda wordy and extra.

Anyway, I too think today's youth's slang and language is annoying, but not really something the older generations get a say in.
Teaching ressources (i.e. prof/TA time) are limited.

The question is therefore not whether lecturing is useful or where does it fit in the overall learning process, but whether those limited hours of prof/TA time are better spent lecturing vs doing something else (e.g. active learning).

There is a trade off between lecturing and active learning, even if you perfectly understand what lecturing is supposed to do.
You might be surprised to hear I actually do care deeply about my work and my colleagues, and have spent many a late night firefighting in production, shown up when it wasn't necessarily expected, et cetera.

It's not about entitlement, is about healthy boundaries around working life. There is no virtue in burning yourself out. Your manager who tells you that you're "part of the family" is not being honest with you. When your interests and your employer's interests diverge, it will turn out that it was just a workplace, after all.

Ask your coworkers who "care" what they think.
I made this account specifically to hate on MacOS systems. Thanks for the validation
>LLMs is doing nothing of the sort for me.

Don't use it for things you're already an expert in, it can't compare to you yet.

Use it for learning new things, or for things you aren't very good at and don't want to bother with. For these it's incredible.
They mention their Github pull request with all changes.
Are you binding to 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0?

> Sure, you should keep the containers talking within the docker network, but we are kind of distributed in our org (across a series of NUCs).

I don’t think I understand this, are you saying that you want the ports exposed to some devices on your network but not others?
>On the downside, containers offer weaker isolation than VMs, to the point where people run containers in virtual machines to achieve proper isolation.

That's not really why containers are deployed in VMs, especially in the context of on-prem enterprise software. I think that's more of a legacy issue. For example, for on-prem enterprise software, the enterprise already invested millions into their VM infrastructure so deploying a containerized stack means deploying into their VM infrastructure.

I think when centralized container orchestrators get enough market penetration with properly trained IT, you'll probably see that change.

Also, very few people choose containers for security and isolation. Typically it's for flexibility in deployment, and control of the environment (no more dependency hell).
Research if curiosity and rational thought are genetic traits or learned.
I recently built a similar thing for learning purposes using firecracker + the firecracker go api.
I wrote a small init system in rust and combined that with filesystem images derived from the Debian, Ubuntu etc. container images (that can be extended with more layers).

What really surprised me the most, is how quick and simple it is to compile the linux kernel. Cloned a tag with --depth 1, configured it and then it took ~ 5 minutes to build vmlinuz.bin. As someone who is too young to have had to regularly do that, I had heard multiple stories of how long that's supposed to take but it really doesn't.

I then tried to move from firecracker to qemu microvms but didn't get that far yet since I didn't have more time.

All in all a great learning experience and if I wasn't an undergrad student with no time, I'd love to build a service/business around it.
Thanks! Succumb to the soothing sounds of bench equipment calls :D
People were running containers for a decade before rootless podman came around.

There has been lot of sharp corners around userns and related tech that needed to get resolved. Notably Debian& Ubuntu disabled unprivileged userns for some legitimate security concerns
I am going to ignore AMD till/if they get their shit together. They have lost any goodwill or trust many gpu generations ago. It is really up to them to make up for it.
Which is why we started saying "whoa, slow down" when it came to some particular artifacts, such as nuclear weapons as to avoid the 'worse than we can imagine' scenario.

Of course this is much more difficult when it comes to software, and very few serious people think the idea of a ever present government monitoring your software would be a better option then reckless AI development.
> “This is an isolated, ‘one-of-a-kind occurrence’ that has never before occurred with any of Google Cloud’s clients globally,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and UniSuper CEO Peter Chun said in a joint statement obtained by The Guardian May 8. “This should not have happened. Google Cloud has identified the events that led to this disruption and taken measures to ensure this does not happen again.”

But it's not a one of a kind thing...

Sure, one of a kind at this scale but I've heard numerous stories of GCP/AWS terminating accounts with no explanation even when asked for one. However because the customer is small, it seems like it just vanishes in the noise and nothing comes of it. It's quite simple, use a cloud provider as a backup but don't trust your primary data with any cloud provider.

4 copies, 2 with completely different cloud providers, with 2 additional copies being far away from any cloud provider each using different storage medium.
I say this with great care as I do not want to launch a flamewar.

If you do not consider Linux with namespaces an OS (because of fragmented userland): Would you then consider FreeBSD with jails or Solaris with zones for fully fledged?

If you still consider those flawed (maybe because thet do not force you into jails/zones) should we at least no consider OS/390 or z/OS as proper operating systems to that/your (not meant inflamatory!) standard?

Yes. Though you do not mention them directly DOS and Windows has ruled the world for years and they opened the door for the nasties. But they were not all there was - only the popular/easy choice. Everything is a trade off.
Fast linked lists
We've convinced sand and various metals, at the nano-scale level, to allow us to remotely view - in real-time - things that are out of sight.

Time-machine back to 1900 and tell someone that. You'd be burnt at the stake as a witch (not really, but you'd sound insane).
Thanks for the kind words, and for being a long-time customer (whoever you are). :)

I need to send your team some shirts!
For me, the 12” MacBook ended up being superior to the iPadOS experience.

It’s the lightest laptop ever made I could find at the time and a similar form factor and weight to an iPad with keyboard.

If Apple ever released a 12” MacBook again with Apple silicon I’d go pick one up immediately, and likely use it more than my MacBook Pro.

Having a super light full desktop experience without the time required to tap extra gestures was much better.

iPad also was a pretend computer for a long time until it got mouse support, then specifically built in to the keyboard.
Your goal as an accommodation provider is to sell all your rooms by yourself, and use third party sellers only to fill in the gaps. That takes work, and that's why it's your job.

But many people think that their job is to sign the mortgage to buy a hotel or B&B, maybe hire some staff and then customers will appear out of thin air. Then grind their teeth at booking charging 15% for actually doing their job.
I believe the biggest barrier here is the background processes (and true inter-app communication that'd come with it).

Many pro apps have either plugins and/or interoperability with other apps/extensions on the desktop.

In iPad, even if you have the app (e.g. Logic, Resolve, FCP) it's very hard to create a "real" experience like the desktop with file/plugin interoperability or a true ecosystem. In addition, this is why we don't have any developer tools that'd actually be anything of a daily driver (rather a proof of concept).

If we get true multitasking/background tasks, then I believe many other pro apps will jump onboard.

The hardware is absolutely fantastic, the SoC is more than capable. We just need the software support.
" GPT-4o doesn't show much of an improvement in "reasoning" strength."

Maybe that is GPT-5.

And this release really is just incremental improvements in speed, and tying together a few different existing features.
birmingham is one city in a bigger metro area. when i speak of "birmingham" i speak of the entire metro area, which has grown in population since the 60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_metropolitan_area,_...

that stat you grabbed doesn't exist in a vacuum. that stat matches the same time as the white flight demographic shifts that happened in all metro areas in the south.

now do huntsville.
I agree in principle, but this is not so easy when shared disk IO is introduced, in my experience.
The health and environment effects of that one aren't great: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/reid2/
Fly: takes your docker image, converts it into a Firecracker VM and runs that: kernel boundaries etc are all the same as before (and the same as running your container locally).

Kraft Cloud: takes your docker image, and turns it into a “unikernel”, and runs that. In a unikernel, your application _is_ the kernel. There’s no process boundary, no kernel-space/userspace split there’s a single address-space etc.

I believe the idea is that you get a perf benefit-as your application is often the only one running in the container, security is provided by the hupervisor anyways, so may as well cut out all the middle layers that aren’t getting you much. Seems some of the authors/founders of Unikraft are in the comments, they can explain much better than I.
There is a lot of discussion on here about the different isolation levels available, but these micro-VMs aren't playing in the same field and can't be compared apples-to-apples.

If you go read the paper this requires a specialized Xen kernel, which in turn requires processor virtualization extensions directly available where you're running these containers. Those extensions aren't generally available if you're already running inside of a VM.

This is a solution that only works on bare metal which I would bet money the vast majority of people using containers, outside of development environments at least, are not running their containers in bare metal but in an existing VM such as on AWS or GCP where this solution is simply a non-starter.

Neat, niche, and doesn't operate in the same world as containers.
I just got an axidraw and I’ve been having a lot of fun with it. Because it can just use SVGs as is, I could plot a “still”[0] from one of my existing generative pieces[1] minutes after bringing it home.

What surprised me is how good some plots look and how “cheap” others come out. I’ve made a few that were fun to watch but the output isn’t nicer than a laser printer.

My current thinking is the more “exotic” the pen and paper is, the better.

[0] https://imgur.com/gallery/5t4lWRT

[1] https://david.app/projects/geo-clock
> Why can't they?

They are designed for query and reponse. They don't do anything unless you give them input. Also there's not much research on the best architecture for running continuous though loops in the background and how to mix them into the conversational "context". Current LLMs only emulate single thought synthesis based on long-term memory recall (and some goes off to query the Internet).

> I think when I'm alone without query from another human.

You are actually constantly queried, but it's stimulation from your senses. There are also neurons in your brain which fires regularly, like a clock that ticks every second.

Do you want to make a system that thinks without input? Then you need to add hidden stimuli via a non-deterministic random number generator, preferably a quantum based RNG (or it won't be possible to claim the resulting system has free-will). Even a single photon hitting your retina can affect your thoughts and there are no doubt other quantum effects that trips neurons in your brain above the firing threshold.

I think you need at least three of four levels of loops interacting, with varying strength between them. First level would be the interface to the world, the input and output level (video, audio, text). Data from here are high priority and is capable of interrupting lower levels.

The second level would be short term memory and context switching. Conversations needs to be classified, and stored in a database, and you need an API to retrieve old contexts (conversations). You also possibly need context compression (summarization of conversations in case you're about to hit a context window limit).

The third level would be the actual "thinking", a loop that constantly talks to itself to accomplish a goal using the data from all the other levels but mostly driven by the short term memory. Possibly you could go super-human here and spawn multiple worker processes in parallel. You need to classify the memories by asking; do I need more information? where do I find this information? Do I need an algorithm to accomplish a task? What is the completion criteria. Everything here is powered by an algorithm. You would take your data and produce a list of steps that you have to follow to resolves to a conclusion.

Everything you do as a human to resolve a thought can be expressed as a list or tree of steps.

If you've had a conversation with someone and you keep thinking about it afterwards, what has happened is basically that you have spawned a "worker process" that tries to come to a conclusion that satisfies some criteria. Perhaps there was ambiguity in the conversation that you are trying to resolve, or the conversation gave you some chemical stimulation.

The last level would be subconscious noise driven by the RNG, this would filter up with low priority. In the absence of other external stimuli with higher priority, or currently running thought processes, this would drive the spontaneous self-thinking portion (and dreams) when external stimuli is lacking.

Implement this and you will have something more akin to true AGI (whatever that is) on a very basic level.
This could be part of great stress relief device.

Just install it in a mannequin with with a punchable face, telling you how sorry it is that your are struggling with your life, with that happy, ironic and cynical voice intonation.
Yah, that's not giving. That's using force to take from people. I realize you aren't talking about history, it's why you are saying things that are so incorrect. You are failing to look at all the times in history we have run shades of your proposed experiment to understand why it has never ended the way you envision.

The answer to your two questions becomes obvious in a historic context. Tax payers object less to taxes when they align with their preferences so the only government that has a chance of avoiding stagnation as the rich change their structure to avoid your new policy is one that actually gives tax payers the services they want in an efficient manner (if you want services for others it means finding a way to provide them in a way that the benefit to the tax payer from network effects is equal or greater than the cost to the tax payer).

Barring an efficient and responsive to tax payer preferences government, the outcome will be stagnation, capital, and competency flight as people smuggle every asset they can out of the reach of the coercive policy then finally smuggle themselves out if they can. After a few generations this leaves you with a much weaker, more incompetent country ripe for takeover (if anybody stronger is experiencing expansionary population growth) or ripe for further stagnation and weakening until its weak enough for an external force to find taking it profitable regardless.
Due to recent price drops. Previous comment was using old data.
Lidar maker Hesai sues U.S. government, denies link to China's military
I hired an electric company to put in a car charger. In order to participate in the EV pricing program it needed a 2nd meter, which needed a permit. The actual installation was a few hours. The permitting process went back and forth between city inspectors starting in September and didn’t get approved late January. The company didn’t fight anything, always did what they recommended and it still kept coming back with more “issues” and adjustments. The company said they’d never take a charger install job again in the city. It was ridiculous.
It’s simply control. Can’t put that genie back in the Mac bottle
It's depictions of all prophets, and they consider Jesus to be one.
I remember someone making that claim about Racket. Turned out they were using a very restricted subset of Scheme intended to be used for a particular introductory programming book, not the actual Racket language.
I have a separate codebase for FREE which ended up unmaintained. Now, I think it's better with a monorepo where you will have the chance to share code and update as frequent as you need.
Let's not forget that there's a market for all the junk, and it's not the scientists. There's a close parallel with AI slop - it's not aimed at people but at advertisers, the goal is SEO. Same with fake papers and pay-to-publish journals. That stuff is aimed at administrators, because faculty nowadays need publications for promotion, and the admin has no idea about quality but can count.
AWS CEO to Step Down
I'm talking about this library, not free software in general.

How can it know when to block a website? Does an human curate a white/black list of valid websites?
i know. i cited that in my first comment. thanks for reiterating a truth that i acknowledged.

zoning regulations and entitlements are only one piece of the puzzle. a significant piece, for sure.
Does this prove that the Commodore 64 is Nvidia-complete?
Yep, that was in the tweet. Got any more info about the exploit or why it’s not in their categories?

I presume some in the list did received bounties?
If your experience has been fine, then clearly they aren’t doing anything inherently bad in a way that hurts the consumer, why would you want them to be hit with additional regulation? I’d also argue they aren’t a gatekeeper to begin with because there is a lot of competition in this space.

Regulation for the sake of regulation isn’t a good thing and my personal view as someone on the other side of the pond watching the fallout is that this gatekeeper thing is overreach. Apple is a great example of this.
Nowadays it is fairly straightforward to set up docker in rootless mode.
It's been a reality in Russia since 2017.

> The voice of "Alice" was dubbing actress Tatiana Shitova, who voiced most of Scarlett Johansson's characters and the voice of OS1, who called herself "Samantha", in the Russian dubbing of Spike Jonze's "Her".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_(virtual_assistant)
Who is complaining? And if containers do not offer enough of an isolation, why would you think VMs do? There are use cases where you have to have host-level isolation - for example, if you want to build a HIPAA-compliant cloud service, your customer data has to be isolated at the host level and VMs are not enough.
You can just as easily find hotels in the region you're looking for, using Google Maps. Or you can browse listings, do a web search. Booking.com doesn't force any hotel to list with them. Their success is because customers find them reliable and practical. That comes with a cost, which is 15%. Hotels have to specifically opt in. And of course Booking.com is already regulated. What I'm trying to ask is what is the purpose of the "gatekeeper" designation?
i'm the op that everybody is being snarky towards. thanks to a project that i worked on, a lot more people are aware of this fact. notably i played a very insignificant part, but you are preaching to the choir!
> which will also affect the other big internet-censorship tool from the UK government: silent DNS blocking

Can you expand on this?
NASA's Hubble, is experiencing orbital decay as the solar cycle peaks
Increasing confidence in WebAssembly code with formal verification
For me, LLMs mostly replaced search. I run local Ollama, and whenever I need help with coding/docs/examples, I just ask Mixtral7x8B, and get an answer instantly, tailored to my needs.
Yep, every step they take to make the UI closer to a desktop OS makes me less happy with it. Peak was iOS6.
Right, that entire internet think was complete hype, didn't go anywhere. BTW, can you fax me the menu for today?

And that motorized auto transport, it never went anywhere, it required roads. I mean, who would ever think we'd cover a huge portion of our land in these straight lines. Now, don't mind me, I'm going to go saddle up the horse and hope I don't catch dysentery on the way into town.
yep, regulations are only one piece of the puzzle to increase supply. my proposed solution would need that, and would also help increase supply. increasing supply is the the entire point of my idea.
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Yeah, I know. Namespaces are pretty cool outside containers too.

My comment was more of a soft jab against using containers as the ultimate "thing" for anything and everything. I prefer to use them as "statically linked binaries" for short lived processes (like document building, etc.).

But, whenever someone abuses containers (like adding an HTTPs fronting container in front of anything which can handle HTTPS on its own) I'm displeased.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1988/