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> It means that google doesn't have to aquire-hire your team, they can just poach all of them wholesale.

Imagine a skilled worker taking a new job that pays better. What a nightmare scenario.
> that dovecotes were in a great measure doomed when first the turnip and the swede were introduced to British agriculture, early in the eighteenth century,

Unless I'm missing something, turnips were in the UK since the early middle ages. I know the argument is that they pulled up turnips and swedes for winter storage, but I don't think that's true. Pulling up root vegetables is hard fucking work.

I'm going to call bollocks on that reasoning. Around the 17th century people made the change from using oxen just for pulling to horses. Which meant cows were more for eating than ever before.

Plus you'd have sheep, pigs, rabbit, fish, deer, and chickens for winter protein.
This article is more than one year old, any reason this is popping up now?
Sure, it's fantasy and you could stop there. But the story often treats them as little people in a medieval setting and I think it wouldn't be enjoyable without that point of reference. So it's worth making comparisons.
To be fair, I have not found MDs to be particularly reliable for answering basic questions about medicine either.
Pretty wild 3 years in to actually selling NeXT Cubes and Mr. Jobs flat out says "We've had historically a very hard time figuring who our customer was".

I think that's a very fair and accurate assessment, but surprising they let it go so far out of control. They really started out going for the academic market for years, but there really wasn't much demand there.
I am by no means a data scientist, but if, as a large language model, ChatGPT was trained to optimize the same "quality" metrics that are used to evaluate the models trained on these random web scrapes, and now ChatGPT output has a larger proportion of the random web scrapes, wouldn't the measured "quality" increase as a result? It all seems intertwined.

In other words are we just overfitting?

It's important to note that the tests that they use appear to be open source, for example https://huggingface.co/datasets/lighteval/mmlu.

Again, I could be totally ignorant on how these things work. (edited to add key words associated with ChatGPT output in order to increase the quality of my comment :))
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I mean, honestly if this didn't happen it likely would have happened by now anyway.

Enough people would have walked in and picked up computer systems filled with company information that security would have been implemented at some point.
Like the way there's a "You Might not need JQuery", and now "You might not need a CSS framework", I really can't wait until there is a "You might not need a front-end framework", "You might not need React", "You might not need a build step anymore", etc.
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The article doesn’t though. East is a path parallel to the equator on a spheroid. East of Seattle is a circle around the globe at a particular latitude. Facing the thing 1mm east of Seattle is a different heading than facing the thing 5000km east of Seattle.

As has already been said as soon as you “go”, if you aren’t turning some infinitesimal amount you aren’t going east. It’s only a surprising result when misleading people by arguing that east is a particular heading.
Again, please stop projecting. I am not the one who wants to expose 14 year olds to sex.

I was not sexually trafficked when I was 14 year olds, so what would I have gained from sex trafficking being illegal, right? Your line of thinking makes no sense.
I find the attempt to define "design language" amusing -- feels like if you have to devote that many words to what you're trying to do with design you've already failed hard.
Local privilege escalation isnt just a problem on shell account sharing - it turns a "this image uploader has a weird RCE" into "I have root and compromised the application server, stole the database credentials and moved laterally through the network", thats why they still have relativly high (>=7) CVE scores
I really don't want my at-will employment status to be the arbiter of whether an unforeseen health issue will bankrupt me. Tying either private insurance or public insurance eligibility to your employer seems like a bad pattern we should be trying to get away from.
Build123D and CadQuery are actually compatible at the library level, I think? Certainly at the editor/viewer level.

In principle I think this means Build123D could even be given a FreeCAD workbench, but then there is no properly-supported CadQuery2 workbench at the moment (there's a fork that works but I don't think it has a real maintainer, and it's entirely possible that recent changes have broken it).

https://github.com/jpmlt/freecad-cadquery2-workbench

I definitely agree the implicit variable (in fact I don't think there is really an implicit variable, so much as dynamic scope detection, but we can imagine there is one) set up by the with statment is not particularly "Pythonic" but it is documented precisely here:

https://build123d.readthedocs.io/en/latest/key_concepts.html...

It's not ideal but it is still clearer than the CadQuery fluent API, which I don't really like, not because I think fluent APIs are bad at all (quite the opposite, actually) but because I don't believe the one in CadQuery makes a particularly good case for its existence (it's more the selector grammar I am unconvinced by).
Dumb question: is there any use for this for horizontal drilling? I'm imagining scaling up the size of the drill head to the size of a car-carrying bore hole, vaporizing the rock (or whatever gets in your way) and using some of it to recondense into tunnel liner, and blowing out the rest of the ash either back out the whole tunnel or via vertical(ish) vent tubes drilled periodically from the tunnel roof up.

Though maybe the tunnel liner part is too much of a stretch. It sounds like the vaporized rock wants to turn to ash. I don't know if there's a way of concentrating the once-solid parts and keeping it hot enough while routing it to the tunnel wall. It just seems like a cool set of problems to solve, resulting in a self-contained (minus the energy source) burrowing drill that can create arbitrarily long stone tunnels underneath (non-volcanic) land.

DIY lava tubes!
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You don't have to exhaustively defend your opinion though. "I think X is bad/ugly/etc. $HIGH_LEVEL_COLOR" is plenty imo. You don't have to prove your opinions.
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While it is true that city names (at least the bigger ones) have their english version, names (surnames and first names) are not "translated" into their english forms if the used alphabet is (more or less) the same. Now you could argue that the name of the dynasty isn't the same as the surname "Habsburg", so that the usual rule does not apply.
Pretty much, though some would contest calling strings “objects”.

The spec indeed goes through some trouble to ensure they are pure value-types and do not exhibit any reference-like semantics, for instance by prohibiting their use as keys of WeakMaps and WeakSets - along with numbers, booleans, nullish values, and bignums.
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I had a similar start, probably similar era, maybe a '98ish. My mom grabbed me one day and said I had to meet the new neighbors.

So, I went round and they had a front room full of a whole crazy mix of stuff. Some Next machines, Macs, AUX, Sun, BeOS, everything, on all sorts of crazy hardware.

We got chatting, he handed me a Yellow Dog CD and told me to install it and see what it's like. That led to SuSE 6.4 then 7, some BeOS, Gentoo, Ubuntu, etc. Had to purchase the SuSE CDs early on because on 56k couldn't download the ISO and didn't own a CD burner anyway.
Good data point, but a little bit biased.
Feature request: Play again in the same checkboard. I got a checboard with two wall that blockd my bishops and the computer got a regular grid. I want revenge!!!

Feature request?: Symetric maps (like in Starcraft 2).

Does the bot run in the server or in my computer?

Feature request?: The hard bot takes too long to play. Can it make a ping when it plays. Does chess.com make a sound, or they decided it's a bad idea?
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Yeah but the material conditions of an individual's life are determined by the goods and services they have, not by the total amount of goods and services that exist in the world. Moreover, certain material conditions--safety from harm, freedom of expression, and the political power to maintain those things--absolutely do not increase in some global sense the way that economic output does. Consequently, it's the distribution of wealth that determines the quality of an individual's life, and that's what concerns me.

So no, I don't give a fig if "total wealth" whatever that is is somehow going up in aggregate, not if it's not being shared more uniformly.
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Inaccurate title. "Finds" implies it is being or has been used. More accurate would be "Fusion tech proposed to be used in geothermal energy drilling."
Thank you. How’d you dig this one up?
Is it basic but not documented? Basic to me means the first google search result is generally correct.
Look up distributivism. Catholics like Chesterton advocated for it as something of a middle ground between the abuses of capitalism and communism after the Pope write an encyclical on the tragedy of workers. They recognized both capitalism and communism as being abusive. Tolkien would have been aware of the theory I believe and it could have influenced him.

Distributivist thinkers promote a more localized system of government with a strong community where the ultimate goal isn't milking out all value (capitalism).

One of my issues with distributivism is I'm not sure if we'd have the technological advancements under such a system (your local community isn't going to design and manufacture an Xbox or advanced medical equipment). It does sound more equitable on paper though.

https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2014/11/distributism-...
Please explain how certain players having more or less unlimited capital advantage that allows them to snuff out any potential competition leads to more aggregate freedom.
I've done two DSLs in my career.

One was for a visual novel video game, where the designers had relatively detailed specs. They had been manually translating those to code, but that was tedious and pretty far outside their expertise. I was contracted to translate those specs into code. I ended up mostly writing a script to turn their specification language into a more structured representation, then translate that into code, with a bit of back & forth to make their language more precise. From everything I heard this was a big success, my script saved them a lot of hours, and the game was pretty successful by the standards of indie games.

The other...is not exactly a DSL, but I don't know what to call it. We had researchers who were writing a lot of numeric code to try and find signals in data. This code often worked, but was slow and expensive to run at large scale, in part because it would have to recalculate intermediate values over and over again. So we wrote a "DSL" that had almost exactly the same syntax as the code they were writing, but was lazy and created a DAG rather than immediately executing, and eventually used the DAG to execute much more efficiently.
If we're talking about the professional angle, businesses certainly use apps and the internet for productivity. There are database apps, point of sale apps, group communication software like Slack or Teams, etc.

I think you're better off attempting to define what you want to block (e.g. social media, academically dishonest websites, and maybe games) than whitelisting only calling and texting as if the smartphone cat's not out of the bag yet.
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thats much more 14th century.

by the 17th century serfdom had been "abolished" (old lizzy the first did that)
Hiragana is used for phonetically spelling Japanese words, Katakana is used for phonetically spelling foreign words.

For instance there is the popular anime titled “Sailor Moon” which is written in Katakana like セーラームーン and stranger still the second season is called “Sailor Moon R” (I think for “return”) and is written セーラームーン R.

My understanding is that Bopomofo never caught on particularly well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo

it is still used in education in Taiwan but in Taiwan, the mainland and the rest of the sinosphere people who want to spell out Chinese words are more likely to use Pinyin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin
tolkien saw it as the person-centric economy, and advocated for it. it’s easy enough to see the idea reflected into the Shire, itself kind of an idyll of what a good society was like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism
I'm also exploring a post-Nix package manager, wip: https://github.com/porkg/porkg

My mantra has been to avoid "getting bored" and inventing DSLs for the longest time. I initially sought to use Nickel-lang, but it was missing some features that would make it an ideal candidate for this. I started writing my own (you may find this in the history) before realizing "WTF are you doing writing another shitty DSL?" I have subsequently decided that shell scripts (or anything you can shebang) are good enough, i.e. pkgbuild inspiration.

I also plan to avoid making a derivation the source of reproducibility. Instead, a lockfile will offer that. This should alleviate the issue whereby updating the like of glibc cascades into an entire rebuild.

Any *OS and home-manager would need to bring in a configuration language. I think Cue really makes the most sense, but that's still a long way off.

Nice to see you used JS instead of yet another DSL :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20wbA_ijjmg&t=696s
Geo would make a good transition project for the drilling side of the business.

It's counter intuitive but if we did move that way we need a LOT more petro infrastructure going forward. And without irony it would be better for us.

Capturing all the wasted natural gas (that gets flared off) as a reorient to maintain existing wells lowers carbon foot print and makes the use of gas less attractive due to cost.

Petrochemical products aren't going away any time soon. Unless we want to go back to hunting whales for things like lubricants. Having useful plastics (because there are tons of medical uses). And we're not getting rid of fertilizer (cause feeding 8 billion people is hard).

There are reasons to keep the drilling side and the current matinence side around doing what they do today while lowering carbon foot print.
Would it be better fixing the US-style healthcare system to make it a more of a market system or trying the Canada-style healthcare where you’d have no option to go see a “woman-friendly clinic” that popped up out of sheer demand for it?

FWIW I hardly look at usernames and judge the comments anonymously, at least at first.
But it just said in a straight line to the east. It gave you a cardinal direction to start. From there forward, you go in a straight line.

It gets tricky if you suggest that you can only travel along a great circle in the direction of the rotation along that axis. Since the axis is actually tilted, this is the result you get from traveling along that great circle.
CEC works so well in consumer electronics that I control my home theater with a Raspberry Pi and a bunch of Bluetooth-to-RS-232 adapters.
There is a certain type of tea that my mom would give me every time I came home from college, and I refuse to even try drinking it anywhere else
Smartphones are not harmful to everyone (unless you're also going to claim that smartphones are dangerous to you and as an adult you are not responsible for your actions when buying one).

Apple nor Samsung nor Google sells iPhones to minors - they are not able to get a contract for phone service. These devices are sold to adults and it is the adults that give the devices to children.
For me, the meaning of life becomes 'doing the things that are necessary for life'.

This is a helpful reminder that I get most satisfaction from those things - cooking, gardening, physical activity, socialising with and helping/nurturing others, etc.

In the modern world, most of us 'make a living' by doing quite abstract tasks and fall into the trap of using that income to replace what we think of as mundane tasks with more convenient alternatives (fast food, movies instead of conversation, etc). In a sense, we alienate ourselves from what our lives actually are.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism

I assume it’s a reference to how most hobbits seem to hold and manage productive land, or at least to be attached to a family that does.

(I’d not made the connection to distributism, but also get a similar sense of how their society is structured, just from reading The Hobbit and LOTR—but, this may be a biased perspective because we’re hanging around with some of the richest Hobbits that there are)
Sensational title without any actual examples.
There are so many energy projects that need probably orders of magnitude less investment than even the geothermal You propose, e.g. like the sodium fuel cell I have been writing about from time to time.

For instance sodium can be used in its metal form directly to produce electricity in a fuel cell e.g. as described in US3730776A (https://patents.google.com/patent/US3730776A/en). The fuel cell does not require any special materials, however it still is a challenge to construct from the engineering point of view. Also, the proposed design can be greatly improved with additional knowledge about the reactions occurring. The resulting sodium hydroxide solution can be recycled using the well known Castner process, the "waste" hydrogen resulting from both reactions can be used as fuel or for other industrial processes.

Btw. the energy density of sodium metal is 3694 Wh/kg and 3555 Wh/litre - so an order of magnitude more than a typical Li-Ion battery. Also, the advantage of decoupling capacity from power is dramatic. Of course, you can also split the process of storing and releasing of energy which can be an advantage. Last but not least, sodium in its metal form is not hard to store or to transport. At ~100°C it becomes liquid and therefore even easier to transfer using regular steel pipes.
I think Flakes kind of help with the centralized problems. At least individual flakes can be run or installed separately, they don't have to be merged into the core nixpkgs repo, and they (at least in theory) should be giving the same build reproducibility as you'd get from installing directly from nixpkgs.

I agree with the torrent idea though.
> there is an upper limit of natural fermentation where if you try hard, maybe you hit 20% alc/vol

In a drink. In your stomach your blood will absorb that, meaning the yeast will just continue to make alcohol forever until you die since the yeast tolerates much higher alcohol percentages than you do.

Yeast makes sugar into about half alcohol, so 200g carbs would be enough for about 2% blood alcohol at 5l blood. 200g carbs isn't that much, you'd get it from some cake and soda at a party.
Sounds like something to be handled by anti-trust, not suppressing employee freedom.