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Thanks for sharing. From your experience I suspect you have ADHD, which is why it seems to you like everyone experiences these things, when actually they don't.

People without ADHD are able to force themselves to do things they have no interest in, just because it needs to be done. I'm not saying doing that a lot is at good thing, or a recipe for a rewarding life... but the fact remains that our society is structured around rewarding and pressuring people to do things they have no interest in for advancement in school, careers, etc. My experience of school was that it was totally ignorant of the fact that some people have interests and like to learn things, and was based almost entirely on the idea of forcing behaviors with the threat of negative consequences - and for better or worse it was able to force most kids, but not the ones with ADHD.

Hyperfocusing on things you love is what you are describing in your second longer paragraph, and that is a key symptom of ADHD. In some instances it can be a huge advantage- I am a successful scientist because I hyperfocus on problems, and solve them. There are some real advantages to ADHD, along with many disadvantages, and ability to focus more deeply without distraction on things you are passionate about is a big advantage.

It's common for people with ADHD to just say "fuck it" and decide not to do what they are supposed to do, but then often feel guilty about it... not really realizing it was never a choice- they still wouldn't have been able to do it if they hadn't said "fuck it" but instead said "I'm going to just double down and do this even though I hate it." They can do the bare minimum at the last minute because the massive stress and anxiety at the last minute acts exactly like a stimulant, and suddenly gives them more executive control.

So how do you recognize ADHD scientifically? There is a pretty thorough system to clinically evaluate people that involves extensive question and answers about situations in your life, as well as interviews with multiple 3rd party people in your life. It's not perfect, but it's constantly being improved and is pretty good.

Sure, an ADHD diagnosis could have some disadvantages, but overall it is a very serious and very treatable condition where the treatment has well documented improved outcomes. ADHD has a shockingly high mortality rate, and treatment with medication causes a drastic reduction in mortality from unnatural causes like accidental injury and suicide.

I think you should check out the Hacking your ADHD podcast- https://www.hackingyouradhd.com/
Neil Armstrong figured that he only had a 50% chance of making it back from the moon alive.
Where possible a double flux one, passive if you are in a mild climate, active (a small "inverted" heat pump) otherwise.

VMCs are essentially one or two ventilators in a device designed to push and/or extract air from a closed space to the exterior. Simple flux generally extract, then since you do not vacuum a home external air enter the home from various passages, it's good to exchange air, but not much in energy consumption terms. The double flux suck air out of humid places like kitchens and bathrooms, push exterior air in rooms etc balancing the volumes, with a central point to exchange heat. The passive one is roughly simple, essentially air flux are divided by a set of passages and the dividers allow the heat to pass from the outgoing air to the incoming. They can't recover all the heat/freshness but they still help because you get let's say hot exterior air in summer that get cooled in the device by the outgoing interior air, the opposite in the winter, a small extras to dump condensation, some filters to protect the ventilator etc. The active one is a heat pump, like a minisplit, where the exterior side is in the outgoing flux and the interior side on the incoming, so in winter you pick heat from the outgoing air, witch is normally MUCH "hot" than the incoming, and in summer you push heat in the outgoing air witch is normally much "cooler" allow for a significant COP.

In mild climate and insulated homes an active (also called thermodynamic) VMC suffice to ventilate, heat and cool the home, in less mild climate can be integrated with others appliances too heat/cool the home.

Personally in the Alps I have an active one in a new (5 years) home and with ~10kWh/day suffice for most spring and autumn alone, integrate minisplit in summer and water-water heat pump in the winter. A passive double flux VMC can be just 1-2kWh/day but of course it can't regulate humidity and can heat/cool the home, just allow to waste much less heat/cool while exchanging air.

They are normally present in cold climate home where insulation was a thing since decades, so we need to exchange air anyway, they start to appear in hotter and mild climate since many have started to realize that a home for cold climate works as well in hot climate, because insulation is the same, you only need to tune the thickness and choose elements to shield the Sun in summer/allow it to penetrate as much as possible in winter. The same overall design from the arctic to tropic.
I dunno, I think it could with the right evolution in the interface. Imagine an interactive story app that you listen to on your commute, where voice commands back to it are the only interface (eg so it’s safe to interact with while driving).

Maybe that’s just a subset of the more general “AI companion” opportunity, but I expect you could get some really interesting experiences by calibrating the balance between the manually curated/composed parts of it and the parts that get a bit more painted-in by the LLM.

Am thinking especially of stories with conflicting timelines, unreliable narrators, etc, where you’d maybe be revisiting the same events from multiple perspectives to piece together what actually happened.
It also often impacts more than the EU, we still have cookie banners on websites globally because EU came up with a good-intentions idea when 3rd party tracking ad cookies were a major privacy concern. But like a lot of regulations they stick after the world changes/adapts. Now 3rd party cookies are officially dying out at the browser level and browser fingerprinting has long ago eliminated any privacy gain of cookie banners (unless you care about some first party cookie on a site that can already track you across pages server side, or use URL identifiers and other JS/AJAX). Yet annoying non-standardized, sometimes mandatory, modals before you can read a news article or blog post persist for non EU internet users...
Big-picture...yes, likely. Though it also has a strong "of course we'll use it for our group photo backdrop" vibe.

Small-picture...I don't think whoever did the article is really aware of the big picture.
IMHO the concerns that people won't be able to handle the rotation are under tested. While I'm sure there are people who won't be able to handle it just like there are people who can't put on VR goggles without barfing, I suspect the average human could tolerate it just fine.

I would love to see a pair of Starships hooked together with a sturdy cable a couple of dozen meters long and then spun around each other to simulate gravity.
It's still dysfunction even if the group in this case was able to finagle a happy ending to this specific story.

Charts and processes are there to serve people, not the other way around. If a particular group is clearly doing a great job, but the way your metrics are set up claims they're causing problems, then the problem is in your metrics.

The organization is dysfunctional because a higher-level manager is able to enforce their particular view of how these metrics are supposed to work at the expense of actually productive groups underneath them.

Note that if the GP had actually done what they were told, they would simply have not worked on all those bugs that came in mid-sprint until the next one.
That's not really relevant to my point?
Graphical adventure games were largely parser-driven for like a decade. Sierra's AGI parser worked well; my recollection is that it usually looked for a verb and a noun and ignored any extraneous text.
I am #20071 on ifMUD.

I had also written a document called "Tricky Document" which describes several tricks involved with Z-machine programming (many of which Infocom did not use). http://zzo38computer.org/zmachine/doc/tricky.txt (I also wrote implementations of Z-machine in C, PostScript, JavaScript, and Glulx.)

Another text adventure system that I know of is "OASYS". The VM code was not documented, although it did include source code, and I have figured it out from the source code and written a document. The included OAC compiler was rather limited (no include files, you could not call a function that is defined later in the file, ambiguous syntax, strings duplicated in the output file, no pointer types, no type checking, no macros, no arrays, no bitwise operations, spurious vocabulary entries, and various other limitations), so I had written my own compiler (which still uses the same VM code, but with an entirely different syntax).
> Don't even get me started on the nuclear safety problems.

I want to be pro-nuclear energy, but I just don't think I can trust the majority of human institutions to handle nuclear plants.

What do you think about the idea of replacing all global power production with nuclear, given that it would require many hundreds of thousands of loosely-supervised people running nuclear plants?
You're over thinking it.

Americans are just fatter.
As a wannabe drummer i can say the drumming example is quite bad as the drummer doesn't seem to hit toms that often to produce tom rolls, however the video is so heavily cropped that either I'm wrong or the AI was deliberately fed with something difficult to interpret.
Also, this article misses a small point in time in 2007-2012 where Textfyre was an unsuccessful attempt at commercial IF.

One of the published games was written by Jon Ingold (with Ian Finley), called The Shadow in the Cathedral, which is available at https://textfyre.itch.io/.

I'm not sure, but I think this is the last parser-IF game Jon had a hand in...and may have been a spark for Inkle Studios.
> But they have to exercise some caution about when and where they insert jokes and comments. They don't want any of their jests to end up on Instagram.

One time a developer was razzing on himself, and put something like "Joe is a moron & wrote this bad code" as a comment about his own code in.

Well, that JavaScript comment made it into the builds. And somehow some random customer named Joe one day found it, and called support all in a huff that we'd decided to, in our ~2MB bundle of JS, insult him personally.
I would much prefer that to living in a state where Apple holds the power to simply kill any law or regulation they dislike by threatening not to launch their products in the EU.
Maybe they could just not roll it out at all.
I highly recommend this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yEorY8UH30&list=PL5B1627ADA...

It's a systematic, well structured and holistic approach. No commercial background. Just teaching. Follow these simple 8 steps. Don't use an app.
1. It’s ok to keep laptop plugged in, even at 100% battery

2. Keep temperature as low as possible, maintain airflow

3. Avoid fast chargers
Kudos also to the original author for not doing premature optimization, of course. It wasn't until the iPad that it was needed. However, a TODO might have been useful. ;)
Out of curiosity, what about the Chinese market? It’s Apple’s third biggest market, and my assumption is since ChatGPT is banned there, they’ll need to work with some local AI companies to deliver the announced features.
I don’t think they’re using openai.

Didn’t they say they have models running on-device?
Irrational numbers have become a constant nuisance for me in Isabelle. I really wish that the Greeks' initial hypothesis that everything could be expressed in rationals was actually correct.
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/06/two-reports-releas...

You can read BOTH reports, this article is a bit tilted.
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This more likely has to do with context length?
As a total newbie I saved my company a quarter million dollars in Oracle licensing in a single afternoon by rewriting a PL/SQL function. That change was a few lines of SQL. Seniors don’t have a monopoly on good ideas.

Salary is driven by market conditions and nothing else. It is not an approximation of merit or even delivered value.
> the best technology humanity has to offer keeping me safe

Nobody can afford the best technology humanity has to offer. As one adds more 9's to the odds of success, the cost increases exponentially. There is no end to it.
Thirded. I just got back from a customer visit. They were trying to do something where the back of the napkin math said it would take a couple dozen CPU years to solve. I recognized a simple (in the math world) transformation we could do and the could run the whole problem in under 10 min.

Coding the transform isn’t trivial, so we’ll get some contract dollars to solve it, but it will still be done faster than the naive approach.

These are pretty sophisticated customers, but they don’t have a deep math background. Without that you wouldn’t find the “obvious” solution.
> If the Challenger launch had been pushed back what major effects would there have been?

The point is it's not just the Challenger launch. It's every launch.
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Thanks for taking the time to respond to me.

In startups like that, company culture and the founders' behavior is nearly one-in-the-same.

That's sad you had to deal with that kind of stuff. Even in the bad jobs I've had, the bad bosses treated the employees equally poorly.
Also, NarraScope is in Albany, NY this weekend, if anyone is nearby and wants to check it out.
My point was just that the example is a very low bar for dysfunction.
>> constructive notion of what a "number" was in terms of our ability to approximate it.

That's the key. The problem isn't whether the number exists or not. It does exist as a point on the number line. The issue is our inability to describe its position using our number system. Adopt a different numbering system, a different language for describing locations on the number line, and one can avoid the debate altogether.
Impressive deduction from someone not into graph theory, but what you're saying is actually known as the Hadwiger conjecture. It says that if a graph isn't t-colorable, then it must have K_t as a minor, where the concept of minor is what you mean (perhaps) with "simplified to".

It so happens that planar graphs are K_5 minor free.

This is touching in on extremely deep theory in the graph theory field.
For what it's worth, this is only true in Cantor's horrifying paradise. In the world of the intuitionists, none of this is true. Reject Cantor and embrace Brouwer and you can once again live in a world without these horrors, and all you lose is absurd statements about things true "almost everywhere" that are never true, and crazy results like Banach-Tarski that get an impossible result by doing two impossible things to set it up.
Exactly. Org-level metrics are a sign distrust and micromanaging. It's useful for a team to look at their own metrics so they can understand what they are capable of delivering, but no one else should care. That they can reliably and consistently deliver a satisfactory amount of work should be the only "metric" they are judged on.
More specifically, rich countries are run like short-sighted financialized businesses like Boeing. You cut costs and corners, and end up destroying the domestic know-how and culture that allowed the country to thrive in the first place.
"In a longer time frame, pushback is healthy for stability"

Yes, thank god for the adults in the room giving us our cookie prompts... such foresight!
You can't see beauty in a country that isn't perfect? I know plenty of people who have some flaw they would probably be better off without, but I don't say "I don't see imperfect people as beautiful, and if you do it means you like to see them suffer."

Why do you jump to calling the author sadistic for finding the positive in a complicated situation?
And good trolling skills never get out of fashion. And Python sucks, i would always prefer Java/Javascript over that slow crap.
Something automatic due to post history maybe?
My quip is supposed to be lighthearted, as the medical industry is obviously not a wealth-transfer scheme to transportation providers. The medical system gets paid regardless of whether their treatments actually help their patients. I don't think doctors are in charge anymore.
Only if you can imagine all cars with <5 inch ride height and magical coil positioners carefully aligning coils without moving your car or the road beneath.
I’m not saying they should, but that there’s a right way to do things and a wrong way to do things.

The right way asks for community buy in, follows safety procedures, is transparent and forthcoming about failures, is honest about capabilities and limitations.

The wrong way says “I can do what I want, I’m not asking permission, if you don’t like it sue me” The wrong way throws the safety playbook out the window and puts untrained operators in charge of untested deadly machines. The wrong way doesn’t ask for community input, obfuscates and dissembles when challenged, is capricious, vindictive, and ultimately (this is the most crucial part) not effective compared to the right way of doing things.

Given a choice between the safe thing to do and the thing that will please Musk, Tesla will always choose the latter.
LevelDB was like their hobby project and was built mostly for Chrome's Indexed DB. RocksDB brought it to a much higher level with a lot of dedication.
I kind of figure if I'm sharing a constant stream of screenshots of my screen with one company why not share them with every company? Might as well send it to the hackers too, I guess.

This way I can have more AIs analyzing my screen.
It’s a free tier for CDN, Storage, Observability, and lots more stuff. Definitely want to hear what you’re looking for on the computing side, we’ll be iterating.
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They are building one in Finland that is 90 GWh with simple technology! That would be an absurd project with current electric batteries. It’s a lot of easier to scale a big insulated pool of water or sand and heat it up with any waste heat and energy through the year. Only works for heating but many places need heating
Unless they're going to build 8m diameter module in orbit, the various inflatable projects make much more sense from a launch standpoint.
Hi PeterCorless! (We're friends IRL - it's Greg)

While we're putting in plugs for open source alternatives, I'll recommend looking at StarRocks. https://www.starrocks.io/

I share Peter's sentiment for wishing everyone an easy transition, whatever you choose.
I would make the case that it's fundamentally the same thing.

In both cases, there were people who cared primarily about the technical truth, and those people were overruled by people who cared primarily about their own lifestyle (social status, reputation, career, opportunities, loyalties, personal obligations, etc.) In Allan McDonald's book "Truth, Lies, and O-Rings" he outlines how Morton Thiokol was having a contract renewal held over their head while NASA Marshall tried to maneuver the Solid Rocket Booster production contract to a second source, which would have seriously affect MT's bottom line and profit margins. There's a strong implication that Morton Thiokol was not able to adhere to proper technical rationale and push back on their customer (NASA) because if they had they would have given too much ammunition to NASA to argue for a second-source for the SRB contracts. (In short: "you guys delayed launches over issues in your hardware, so we're only going to buy 30 SRB flight sets from you over the next 5 years instead of 60 as we initially promised."

I have worked as a NASA contractor on similar issues, although much less directly impacting the crews than the SRBs. You are not free to pursue the smartest, most technically accurate, quickest method for fixing problems; if you introduce delays that your NASA contacts and managers don't like, they will likely ding your contract and redirect some of your company's work to your direct competitors, who you're often working with on your projects.
Interesting that they chose an 8 meter diameter, probably assuming a launch on the 9-meter Starship as Blue Origin's New Glenn is only 7m diameter. It would be interesting to see a weight projection for a completed module to see how well it fits within Starship's planned capacity of between 100 to 200 tons to orbit.

A 50cm (max) gap between the module's outer edge and Starship's inner edge does not seem like much room for support or deployment infrastructure in the launch vehicle, and would also require bay doors that fully open - and maybe a robot arm to safely deploy.

I haven't seen any reference to explicit collaboration between Gravitics and SpaceX. Maybe it's still too early, but I would hope the two have open lines of communication to avoid expensive redesigns later on.
Oh, I would, definitely! It's interesting, but it's hard to run in a VM. Easier on bare metal, via a dedicated USB key.
> I mean ideally (for Internet access purposes) one would have worldwide LTE coverage via cell towers

As someone that has explored a lot of Australia, Alaska, Yukon, Africa and South America, I'm having trouble parsing your statement.

I've driven more than 1,000 miles for 10 days with absolutely nothing. No town. No people. No cars. Nothing.

I've canoed for 15 days well over 3,000 miles from the nearest town, road, building or electricity.

The idea you could cover the globe in LTE cell towers is unfathomable.
When it comes to singular revolving modules, they need to be above a certain size, otherwise the Coriolis effects will just disorient everyone inside.

An extreme example to illustrate would be a small module with a radius that equals the height of a stationary standing occupant. Their feet would feel normal, but their head would still be "weightless" and getting very dizzy. Actually moving is even worse: Not only would the weights of objects vary depending on their "height", but "falling" objects would seem to have curved paths, so your sometimes-heavy feet would keep "missing" the place you intended to put them down.

If you split the module into two with a tether or girder in-between (or replace one half with a dumb counterweight) that reduces the Coriolis effect... but now you've got something that alternately sweeps through space in a kinda-dangerous way, and it becomes harder to safely enter or exit.

TLDR: Spinning becomes useful on scales we aren't ready to do yet.
The government is not saying yea or nay, they are just providing proof of age or identity (not necessarily both, whatever the vendor website asks for, and the person allows).

Suppose I want to start a business where I don’t want the liability of having to deal with all the laws about minors. Then I can use the government API to only allow people over whatever age.
Yes, europe suffered a hard decade once denied access to the technological utopia that some of the most mathematical minds in all of the san fransisco bay area had created, gpt 4 voice mode WHEN you push SIRI BUTTON technology.
Agreed. I've got a few of them ready to open source. It's almost like there needs to be a reference library of best practices for agent types
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