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Wayland has been hit and miss for me on Intel and AMD graphics over the years but has progressively gotten better and more stable.... Until an update on Ubuntu 23.10 a week ago randomly stopped snap application launching under Wayland, forcing me back to Xorg. I consider myself fairly Linux savvy but I still have no idea how to fix that.
Your point? The cost of the reactor is just a fraction of the total cost of a fission power plant.
Or the spiritually similar "Train Station Car Park" by Tom Williams & The Boat, an ode to waiting for a parent stuck on the M25 [0]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hlnDvtXW9c

[0] which was also the road that provoked the writing of "Road To Hell" by Chris Rea
Topological Phonons Discovered and Catalogued in Crystal Lattices
It's not theft. Rather just regular old big company incompetence.

You're dealing with broken automated systems and an out-sourced customer support agent.

Wait until LLMs arrive on the scene and further exacerbate the problem.
Discovery of a server with material from Amazon and Max in North Korea
As someone who works in a large cloud company, there is a lot going on to create a data center. By data center I mean compute and storage. These large companies have perfected the economics and engineering needed to create a data center. They spend billions on R&D. They basically own everything in their supply chain. Smaller companies can't compete.

Additionally, they don't pay the same electricity and water bill that others pay for their data center. They get a discount because they are creating jobs.

Getting streaming to be cost effective starts from decades of R&D investment + getting low cost electricity and water + owning supply chain.
"Catalog of topological phonon materials" (2024)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf8458
It is theft too. Theft caused by incompetence and out–sourced customer support is still theft.
I admit, I started reading this extremely skeptically. Perhaps somewhat snootily I thought "Ahh, the joys of youth. Wait until this guy gets to late middle age and starts to wonder 'Wait, what exactly am I optimizing all this for???'"

But I admit I was wrong and found myself (someone well into middle age...) really agreeing with lots in this post. I particularly liked this paragraph:

> While developing an optimization mindset can pay huge dividends, it's also important not to take it to an extreme. Obsessively optimizing every minor daily task runs the risk of becoming an energy and time drain itself. There is such a thing as "paralysis by analysis," where you spend more time tweaking and planning than actually doing. Additionally, removing all inefficiencies can make life feel overly regimented and sterile. A degree of spontaneity, imperfection, and slack is necessary for creativity, relaxation, and enjoying the journey. The goal should be to increase overall productivity while leaving room for flexibility, not transforming every waking moment into a tightly optimized process. Moderation and balance are key - optimize where it counts, but don't lose sight of other life priorities.

That is, by optimizing stuff that you essentially "need to get done", it can actually lead to more space and freedom to enjoy the creative parts of your life.

Kudos to the author, I was pleasantly surprised.
Yes, but in a large enterprise setting, which is where it makes most sense from a cost standpoint. For smaller business development, I typically go with something like fly.io.
Modern Meditations: Tyler Cowen
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Rented a Hertz and got charged $90 a day for easy pass service whether I drove the car or not (I was camping for a week) and had no way of fighting the charges, some fine print tricked me. For such scams I vowed to never give my business to Hertz again. Ever.
Kiwis are also linked to latex allergy. I have friend who has latex and kiwi allergies.
Banks are not a middleman between you and the central bank. A central bank isn't a bank in any way, shape or form, but a regulator and supervisor of the banking system.
Seems to be US specific. Can't see manuals for the last 3 cars I've had: 2001 BMW 330d, 2010 BMW 330i, 2011 Ford C-Max petrol. Renault stops in 1987, Peugeot stops in 1993, and there's nothing for Citroen, Vauxhall or Rover/MG at all.

(Realoem is pretty comprehensive for BMW parts numbers, if you need them)
I love the environmental simulation and deep secrets in Noita but it's not quite like Riven. Riven had me filling out pages and pages of a journal with notes and drawings. Many of these notes and drawings were my observations ended up being extraneous details about the visual design and lore of the world, because in Riven it can be very difficult to parse what is and is not relevant to progressing in the game. It's a very unique experience, I love a lot of puzzle games with secrets and meta layers, and I love Outer Wild's knowledge based metroidvania design, but no other game has had me scouring and mulling on every detail of this virtual world like Riven.
The dearth of signs of life in the article's photos is disturbingly consistent with that famous shot of the Korean Peninsula taken from the ISS at night: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Korean_Peninsula_at_nig...
Google knowingly made their search results shittier and shittier for years in pursuit of improved KPIs, to the point that alternative search engines are better, and so are LLMs that occasionally hallucinate or outright crash.
Or the net global economic benefit of discrete cosine transform... "We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_cosine_transform#Hist... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_cosine_transform#Appl...
Going to be interesting if we ever get “right to repair” for vehicles for the factories to open that all up again.

I have some CD filled with I guess downloads from a factory online manual. It’s not the best experience to be sure.
Make a TUI look pretty enough, throw in enough features from a GUI, and it becomes a GUI (sort of). No reason why one couldn't mix & match features as desired.

Compared to a commandline, both TUIs & GUIs add discoverability: no need to remember commands or -switches, just navigate through menus & see what's there.

I think all these are best regarded as different 'views' on the same underlying machinery. What works best depends on user preference / workflows.

Resource requirements obviously depend on the feature set & implementation.
No. 2013? See GP, see Google financial statements, etc. I do think it started turning a profit over the last 3 years, but can't confirm that.
Incompetence is not a valid justification for theft
Machine Learning Researcher Links OpenAI to Drug-Fueled Sex Parties
The older single level Comet cars don't have this problem nor does the light rail. Seems the solution is to replace with a longer lasting window material which is already known to work.
Netflix serves a slightly larger portion of internet traffic than YouTube on the same amount of revenue. So whatever subsidization youtube is providing for those videos, is clearly outweighed by the monetization of the remaining videos. YouTube has higher revenue per GB of bandwidth served than Netflix.
Small claims court. Just depends on your time value of money. Or willingness to screw with them for gigs.
> My point was that since their entire purpose in life revolves around developing and refining technology for the reproduction of capital, it reveals their blindness to any deeper aspect of the human condition than what can be sold for a profit

And I think that's grossly missing the point. The vast majority of people making art are just trying to make something look aesthetically nice within some sort of provided communication framework. And that's perfectly fine.

Frankly I think elevating artists to the pedestal of the illuminating the human condition is very damaging to their actual interests
It doesn't magically mean anything, but you're comparing a case where there's a plausible argument for fair use (no commercial impact from the training set sharing, not done for profit, transformative), against... what specific instance are you talking about with NV or Samsung? Theft of trade secrets? Samsung leaking their own IP to chatgpt, through stupidity, isn't illegal.

This doesn't even affect the major AI companies that are doing training, does it? Don't you think Google, OpenAI, Anthropic all have their own datasets by now? If they wanted to use bulk content from pirate ebook and academic paper libraries, they would've already mirrored most of those sites a long time ago.
I was a big fan of Apple and Wolfram back when they rolled out their big Siri integration. The optics at the time was basically the same; Apple was on an unstoppable roll, and in 10 years they'd have the competition in the dust.

Well, here we are 10 years later. Siri is the butt of every automation-based joke and Wolfram's software division is like a terminally-ill patient that keeps paying the hospital to keep them alive. An OpenAI integration can only end the same way, the proverbial next-generation Butterfly Keyboard that we'll all inevitably bitch about until Apple writes a puppy-eyed apology to the press.

Part of me worries that this will be a test of which company is less-competent, and we're going to be shocked at how low they both stoop.
ChatGPT and Claude are going to find it difficult to compete with Google, MSFT, and Meta longterm, who are rolling out their AI capabilities to billions of users. The aforementioned started from zero and we know most people will choose the default provided. With MSFT owning half of OpenAI, I suspect it is only a matter of time before ownership officially changes.
State Attorney General or Consumer Fraud Departments
Successful Hardware Relies on Robust Software Ecosystems [video]
I have had nothing but bad experiences with Hertz. Unfortunately the corporate rate we get is very low so I'm stuck with them, but it seems like there is always something that goes wrong. I drove out of their facility, had a low tire pressure indicator on, brought it back and they wanted me to sign something saying I was responsible for damage to their tire.
I don't think the amplituhedron should be given so much substance as a real structure beyond spacetime. It is a calculation tool.
Holy crap, that is seriously messed up.
Well, idealism simply says that consciousness/humans cannot be understood or explained via simpler concepts. That's the first thing anyone would think of but it is not a useful theory in any way.

The alternative theory was that everything complex can be explained to be a result of simple processes repeated many times. A modern way to say this would be that everything is a computation.

This second approach have turned out to be very useful for explaining many things. It did not explain consciousness so far but we now have many directions to explore.

So while neither position is proven so far, idealism is worse than wrong, it is useless, and if most people believed it, today we would know not much more than ancient Greeks did.
Soon enough generative art will be everywhere and the style uniformized so when some brands will want to differentiate themselves they will hire people again. They could charge more for the service, whoever survives the generative AI squeeze…
It's purely a scale problem.

On the "Revenue" side you will quite probably need to have enough eyeballs that advertisers come to you directly to display ads and do so in volume.

On the "Costs" side you'd want to be big enough that you can just store your content in ~3 of your own datacentres, cache the "hot content" in a site or two per country then give away caches to ISPs (who will gladly host them in their own network for free).

Biggest cost will be bandwidth/streaming servers. Encoding/storage is comparatively cheap. If you were small you would likely start to do this from a few 100Gbps dedicated servers per continent. https://www.fdcservers.net/configurator?fixedFilter=15&fixed... If we set an average of 3-4Mbps per stream you're looking at each server handling 20,000 videos served and the hourly cost of the server would be around say $4/hour so you're looking at around $0.20 per 1000 video hours in theory, in practice it will be higher. Worst case closer to $0.50 per 1000 video hours due to utilisation rates.
> I'm betting on a future dominated by gigantic core counts of really simple cores that may even be in-order.

¿Por qué no los dos? ¡CPU and GPU!
Some people think differently, and thats whom it caters to
This is a simple case where it's pretty easy to prove that they made a mistake, but I once got charged for skip the pump, despite a) i had filled in the tank, b) the tank was not even full when I picked the car. Lucky enough I always keep the pump receipts and they ended refunding me, but I'm left to wonder how many people get charged those fees and can't get them reversed
it's so wild to see people so confidently wrong. I was there. Were you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPuhlYDBW7U

Riven is being remade in 3D with full 3D movement right now by Cyan!
I think you have your populations reversed. The number of people who get their knickers in a twist over LLMs reflecting certain cultural biases (and sometimes making foolish predictions in the process) amounts to a rounding error.
No, the problem is I’m sharing my card data with a randomly company on the internet. I trust Apple and I want to be protected by their platform and to be able to easily cancel and not go into dark patterns where I need to call someone.

We all know that if this is an option and developers are greedy (which they are as humans) then they will do everything they can to push ppl to the payment gateway with least fees regardless of the customer’s privacy or security.

The text on its own is fine but it also increases the attack vector for most people.
That is fucking terrifying.
> the default storage options did not support ReadWriteMany for Block and Object Storage, which were necessary for using my database Postgres.

Postgres does not require ReadWriteMany volumes.

> To better understand this, when I created multiple replicas, the same database could not be accessed by all the replicas. Only one at a time could access the database.

Assuming you mean multiple replicas accessing a single postgres database, this should not be a problem. I can't think of any networked database that prevents multiple clients from concurrently connecting. Postgres even has MVCC to allow multiple concurrent changes to the same record.

The architecture diagram towards the end of your blog post shows multiple subdomains, each with their own database. Each of these should be using their own RWO volume, not a single ReadWriteMany volume; that's a good way to cripple your ability to scale.

CNPG is my preferred way to manage postgres clusters on Kubernetes.
I was too busy to fight it off, initially called my CC and put stop on charges. Eventually they got my money.
If you want to use geofenced features (while being outside the fence) you'd want to hide your location when your device checks it for the purposes of geofencing. Which is, I'd imagine, all the time.
Not that much heat, because the heat comes from an ongoing process, rather then being extracted from a dense thermal mass of something under pressure. Intuition about mass, flow and inertia can be misleading. If there's even a tiny leak or magnetic wobble, the plasma just goes out instantly. The cooling blanket is at a steady state with the reaction so once the plasma goes out, excess heat from the walls is very quickly absorbed.

The thermal flux in the wall is high when the reaction is happening (multiple megawatts per square metre), but the temperature where the beryllium face is bonded to the copper-steel backing structure is below 300 Celsis, so there's not a huge heat storage of immense temperature in the structure.

The plasma itself is 1 gram of mass at 150 million degrees. The tokamak full of sea-level air would be 1 million grams of air, more or less. So it won't superheat 800 cubic metres of air into an explosion, even if there was a huge leak and pressure equalised very fast.

The bigger explosion hazard is the 800 cubic metre vacuum chamber imploding (unlikely, it's only 1 atmosphere difference, it's not a submersible), a magnet quench (which does store a lot of energy that can be released at once, just ask CERN, though the result isn't exactly catastrophic because it's part of the design, but it might not be good for the magnet) or some mundane but dramatic electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic or steam system failure that could happen in a coal power station. Future reactors may have a cooling blanket that could leak liquid lithium.
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> Do you have a public source for that?

YT financials and P&L were not broken out in audited financial statements back in the day.
Video streaming is getting cheaper all the time. Bandwidth costs are dropping every year (substantially in most cases) and bitrates aren't keeping up (the few exceptions probably being AppleTV+ and BBC iPlayer which do 30-50mbit/sec 4K HDR streams).

You can do this for so much cheaper than AWS etc price for bandwidth. You can get 100gigE transit from he.net for list price $4500/month. Add probably the same again for colo + hardware (don't need much hardware these days to saturate 100gigE) and you can probably stream videos to 20,000 concurrent users at 5mbit/sec for ~$10k/month.

Another way would be to use someone like OVH who offers dedicated servers with 10gigE (supposedly 'guaranteed') for about $800/month each list price, without having to bother with colo and ip transit setup.

Obviously this is highly simplified as you will require encoding resource and storage, but again with someone like OVH you'd be able to spin up a lot of cheap boxes to do this. How much this will cost will depend on how many videos you get and how many views per video etc.

So IMO the actual bandwidth is a bit of a non issue. The far bigger issue is getting users to use your platform (marketing is MUCH more expensive than IP transit) and then having advertisers on your site. This is a much harder problem to solve and where the real barrier to entry is.
Because more people will see them and they’re kind of iconic, so they’re a fun target for graffiti. People don’t really vandalize other people’s personal cars unless they have a grudge or they’re trying to break in to steal something. It’s kind of a jerk move.

They’re also parked overnight in more remote areas than most cars. In fairness if you parked your car in an industrial area near a train yard overnight it’s probably more likely to get broken into than on a residential street.
Here’s Apple’s web page describing how they use YARA https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/sec469d47bd8/...
I don't think I've ever heard that before -- was there an ARM compiler available? Did DEC have any involvement? Did you do any prototyping?
> What would it take to be able to generate a puzzle game with the kind of depth seen in Riven using a generative tool like Dwarf Fortress?

You'd need AGI.

Standard procedural generation, even the most advanced versions, aren't any good at consistently making interesting things. Procedural generation is only good for making things that probably haven't been seen before, and the vast majority of what gets spit out via procedural generation will be bland and uninteresting.

In other words, there's a reason that 99% of any given Dwarf Fortress world's legends mode will be mind-dullingly boring, and a reason why Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup has an autoexplore key.

But if you're willing to tolerate somewhat-bland open-ended procedural murder mysteries in a highly simulated film-noir setting, check out Shadows Of Doubt.
Dunno. I imagine people will still debate AI regulation whether investment drops or not?
I was answering another very simplistic view
That's really interesting! I never owned an Atari 8-bit but reading about them now they sure seem like they were years ahead of their competitors in some important ways.
Is there a consensus on the best available cooler for the Pi 5? I looked at this exact unit but wanted more of a "case" design.

I first tried the Flirc passive case. It seems to transport and dissipate heat notably better than active coolers with copper heatsinks and 4000 RPM fans. That's especially impressive given that the entire top and bottom are plastic, leaving the horizontal edge as the only surface for heat dissipation.

My remaining concern there is that it only cools the Broadcom SoC, while creating a nice little insulated oven for the other chips. The inner surface area is much greater than the outer surface area, and with no ventilation by design, so heat from the SoC is being distributed throughout the whole inner volume.

I also tried an active cooler to avoid that, which I'm sure is better for every other chip but I'm surprised to find was substantially worse for the SoC itself. I guess the tiny copper block gets saturated very quickly and its surface area isn't very large for air cooling.

Maybe that's why the monoblock passive coolers do so well, in theory they combine the best of these approaches. I just wish they'd apply the same idea to a refined "case" design like the Flirc.
When I was maybe 5 or 6, a teacher at school asked if anybody could name 3 roads. I proudly put my hand up and said "A1, M1 and A1(M)". The teacher said that no, they were all the same road. I felt so smug, and at such a young age, knowing that the teacher was clearly wrong and how stupid they must be if even I knew something like that and they didn't. And so began my first steps into nerdism...
Because it's supported across years, decades even, by maldesigned software systems.

The mismatch should be detectable from basic BI. Nobody did because the failure was profitable.

Not unlike the UK post office ICT failure in that respect.
Can AI Create New Ideas?
I provided both a citation and the relevant quote from it.
> There's a silicon lottery

Isn't there also an environmental factor that hasn't been fully explore? Are we sure there isn't an alternative to the cooling mechanism on the CPU than the two options the parent and Jeff used?
Your laptop storing a Wifi credential locally is terrifying?
MetaWriter Software Vending Machine from 1983
It looks like the Victor Mono italic font is semi-joined.

https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/
You linked to a comment about dieting. The comment contains no sources relevant to climate change.
but in reality it's like two builds of the same OS with different features turned on (e.g. phone app vs split-screen support and such)
> and the style uniformized

Why would the style be uniformized? It is neither observed to be happening with generative art, nor is it desired.
Why wait for the class action, especially when the claim is plenty small enough to fit into a small claims court?

They exist for a reason.

If enough people use them, it'll end up costing the company far more than a class action, and you'll get more back too because Lawyers won't suck up 50% of the payment.
It is interesting that the most common criticism of the iPad Pro is that it is hard to fully leverage the hardware capabilities. Part of that is iPad OS has always been a bit of an afterthought compared to iOS, but part of it is probably just a limitation of the form factor. There are only so many things a tablet is good for before you need to connect a keyboard and pointer device. You can see this with the extremely expensive keyboard case that essentially turns the iPad into a laptop.
Because overcharging someone isn't actually theft, and rarely rises to the level of fraud.
I'd love to see a campaign to coordinate small claims court claims against abusive companies.

It could really fuck a company's day up if several hundred to thousand people across the world decides to seek redress from a small claims court on the same day.
For something called the long read why does this feel like the first third of a magazine article?