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> Smartphones ... were the catalyst for mobile-first tech companies, like Spotify (founded 2006,) WhatsApp (2009,) Instagram (2010,) Uber (2010,) Snap (2011,)...

> The smartphone and cloud revolutions coincided almost perfectly with when interest rates fell to zero and then stayed in the deep freeze for a decade

> These developments gave VCs even more reason to invest in startups

> - New categories of mobile-first startups were around, with potential

Free money (ZIRP) fuelled investments, sure, yes, of course.

An interesting idea here is that the free money was sent into certain directions because certain foundational tech was already there: cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and mobile devices (iPhone, Android).

Even if money weren't free at the time, maybe the available money would've been sent to those (types of) startups anyway? Maybe tech history would've been the same, only slower?
https://ciechanow.ski seems to be doing pretty well without complicated JS frameworks and his interactive articles I would consider top tier on the internet. As far as I can tell, he's a generalist and is using vanilla JS for all of his articles.
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> Exploiting and stealing always makes you rich

Colonies have Britain an edge, but plenty of nations had colonies at the time (and have throughout history). Britain became rich because it industrialised first.
Neither Canada nor Australia used to be the wealthiest country.
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> Not sure these are comparable. Britain’s shift was led by its elites. Europe’s is closer to a dumping of its elites.

What does that mean? How is a political party funded by a bunch of generational rich right wingers dumping elites? None of these right wing parties would exist without rich people funding them. They're not grassroots movements, regardless of how they try to portray themselves.
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I see a tiny scrollbar on an article starting with "Let’s dive into a highly debated topic"...

I figured it must be AI-generated slop, and closed the window.
Hi, I like your markdown blog project, it's simple but the graphics are a bit too rough. I advise you to also include a free plan, at least the user has the opportunity to try it. Nice start
LCD is doable, it would just take you more time and research to come up with stable cheap solution. LCD are driven by AC at rather pedestrian frequencies, nothing an RP2040 (rp pico) couldnt handle.

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1044-lcd-technolo...
This is nice. I want to see Linux replace all kinds of stuff. Especially things like bootloaders, UEFI firmware and even on-device firmware.
Yes, but they are pretty.

Case in point: the maize genome Circos plot popped up in Jurassic World, they just overlayed an image of a Triceratops https://circos.ca/images/mastheads/
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This dicussion omits very non-politically correct points:
- there is a strong ideology shared by lots of people in education,
- equality is a lie.

A certain mainstream ideology denies these points, so it goes against elitism. The end result is mediocrity.
You would hope, but some folks don’t have a background in APIs and don’t really know when life could be better.
The problem I see is a mindset that doesn't value creators/makers. Why is public transport seen as the problem? Who can't make the next great thing because they can't get from A to B? With remote work that shouldn't even feature on a top 10 list.

If you look at the US, there are always complaints about the public transport being way behind the UK/Europe. But they value creators/makers. Why not look to the US, which is the leading economic country? If not, then which other leading economy should the UK emulate? Certainly not China.
Have you ever tried to convince a republican how great Biden is or vice versa?
Interesting project and kind of tangential topic, will JIT compilers still be widely adopted given they are considered a critical attack vector when it misbehaves? I wonder if there is an effort to formally verify its safety or do a complete redesign to ensure it.
The image thrown around in UK media about Singapore has nothing to do with Singapore
Folks, let's focus on the value instead of just bashing their name and comparing it to PyTorch. The team has an AI background, so naturally, PyTorch feels like home to them. Given the state of the existing libraries, it is great to see another one taking a completely light approach.
> How is a political party funded by a bunch of generational rich right wingers dumping elites?

It’s a new set of elites. Starmer is still connected and conversant with the present batch of elites.

> None of these right wing parties would exist without rich people funding them

This is true of practically every revolution outside fairy tales. (It’s why fairy tales need divine intervention and/or superpowers to be believable.)
No.

Second: "Cotton Capital: a special investigation 2023
Cotton Capital how slavery made Manchester the world’s first industrial city"

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2023/apr/03/...
What any of what you said has to do with abstract reasoning?
> they pay far more percentage of their income as VAT/consumption taxes, which is of course nothing like 50%

I don't think that's true, unless you assume rich people either a. spend a lower percentage of their income (in which case, what's the point in having money) or b. they avoid VAT when they do spend.
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> image thrown around in UK media about Singapore has nothing to do with Singapore

Because the U.K.’s role wouldn’t be identical to Singapore. The analogy is fine. Singapore exists between China, Southeast Asia and the world; Britain between America, Europe and the world. Singapore has a logistical advantage in its proximity to the Straits; Britain a financial advantage in the City of London.
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I've had visions of putting a CD together that was that way, but with pregaps and indexes utilized as well.

"WTF? The time counter keeps going forward, and then sometimes it goes backwards! And using the track seek buttons completely eliminates some parts that I can hear if I don't touch anything!

It's a whole different song entirely when you program tracks 39, 40, and 52 in a loop, and IDFK what it is with this Index number that only always showed "1" before.

Oh wait. Srsly? From tracks 71-93, it's using the index to count beats...and the track number to count measures? No, that can't be it. Except...."
Why not just ask for permission when needing that sort of data?
It's true: in addition to comments like the above where they complain about pop-up ads that no one else sees (because everyone else is using an ad-blocker), in discussions about ad-blockers, or when someone flat-out asks them why they don't just use an ad-blocker, they'll say they believe blocking ads is immoral etc. and try to shame people for blocking ads.

My guess is they work for the adtech companies.
i met orbital composites at reindustrialize. they seemed to know their shit; i was very impressed.
I guess by now, even its use on Google Nest Hub isn't even certain.

I had high hopes for the project, but it looks like a keeping engineers busy kind of thing, a pure cost center, without any revenue to keep it going besides Google Nest Hub being shipped with it.

It's a wonder how it wasn't axed already.
> there are always complaints about the public transport being way behind the UK/Europe. But they value creators/makers

Those creators cluster around urban centres with good transport. You can’t remote found a battery plant.

I doubt Britain’s salvation is in public transport alone. But remote work doesn’t obviate the need for human infrastructure. (At the very least, it hasn’t been demonstrated at scale.)
I think most people would agree there’s more to intelligence than language. LLMs don’t have anything except language, so they are not intelligent.
The Nine Inch Nails “Broken” EP had a couple of tracks at the end of 99, though the middle tracks were all 1-second blanks.
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I consider anything that's not public knowledge to be a secret. When possible, try not to come up with anything that's guessable. I randomize even DB usernames in Terraform, not just the passwords. I do the same with schema names, etc. This requires sweat and tears, but it's always worth it. WordPress sucks, but the idea to have a custom table name prefix is not random, but a security consideration. But don't prefix field names the same way, please! :D
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> How is it any different when a machine does the same thing?

I think the argument is that the machine is not doing that, or at least there isn't evidence that it is doing that.

Specificly no evidence that github is doing both 1 and 2 at the same time. There might be cases where it makes trivial changes to code (point 2) but for code that does not meet the threshold of originality. Similarly there might be cases with copyrighted code where the idea of it is taken, but it is expressed in such a different way that it is not a straightforward derrivitave of the expression (keeping in mind you cannot copyright an idea, only its expression. Using a similar approach or algorithm is not copyright infringement)

And finally, someone has to demonstrate it is actually happening and not just in theory could happen. Generally courts dont punish people for future crimes they haven't comitted yet (sometimes you can get in trouble for being reckless even if nothing bad happens, but i dont think that applies to copyrighg infringement)
Yes, the UK is an empire, a much smaller one though. Scottish people haven't understood it the same way Indians did.
Again, plenty of civilisations across history had slaves, and many of Britain’s contemporaries did too.
What is the new set of elites in France and Germany? How are they different from the old batch of elites?

As far as I can tell, it's all the same donors and special interests. The only difference is in the rhetorical window dressing.

You might as well be comparing Lidl and Aldi.
Once upon a time when mobile data wasn't as common and cheap, I found that starbucks wifi allowed ping to any where :)
My prediction is that council taxes will be raised substantially out of necessity and the effect of this will lower house prices and reverse the 'wealth effect' which would impair peoples ability to pay that tax. The net effect is a further crushing the middle class. Lower per capita incomes, higher taxes, and a reverse wealth effect is not going to be a fun time.

Basically the government needs a lot of money and there are not many places to get it from, rich people have big houses so such wealth taxes would be more popular with the average voter - so I think they will do this out of a combination of necessity and ability. I wonder how I would find evidence in support for this belief in the data or train an algorithm to make similar predictions. I guess I'm sampling a model of my beliefs of how governments work. Reverse wealth effects have not happened in the west for a very long time so there are not many modern examples to template on - especially at a time when inflation of the money supply is an option.
I don't know how I escaped learning about silcrete so far, being interested in both geology and primitive technology. Thanks for the tip! For anyone that curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silcrete
I work in the kernel maintenance group, the "10 year old code" is having select important and critical flaws applied.

If you think about it, all maintained projects of old code has this same mechanism, just has more frequent updates.

How does the age metric now work once you know this ?
You were just lucky.

I have seen plenty of old Seagate or WD HDDs failing. In a few cases that was just a couple of months after the expiry of their warranties. In some cases the motors failed, in other cases they began to show very frequently bad sectors.

These were among the almost one hundred HDDs that I have used in my personal computers during a few decades. Judging from your tiny 256 GB HDD, you might have mostly used small HDDs, which are more robust. I have typically used only the models with the largest capacity of each series, which are more prone to failures, due to having more disks (i.e. a heavier load for both the motor of the disks and for the coil actuator of the head assembly) and with narrower spacings.

Before switching to magnetic tapes, I have used many HDDs for backup and archival purposes. After such HDDs have been kept in cold storage for a few years, few of them did not have any corrupt file. However, I have always kept duplicates for each archival HDD and even when both HDDs had a few errors, they were not in the same place, so I have never lost any archived data. The files were stored with hashes, which caught some cases when the HDD had read the file without apparent errors, but the file was corrupt despite that.
You also don't want people so media savvy that they see through domestic propaganda.
> Even more amazing: Trees 3D print themselves out of carbon dioxide.

Carbon dioxide and low-entropy energy in the form of solar light.
Britain has the world’s biggest empire… in part it did so because it industrialized first, but also it was able to industrialize first because of the empire. The two are deeply interlinked
Also: https://sl.bing.net/ep8K7FWVAHY

The quality of your argument is very low. You didn't even bother to check yourself.
Wonderful bit of cultural context.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DT7bX-B1Mg
In retrospect, the article was what one should have expected given the second half of the title. And it was quite interesting. But yeah, I thought this would be about the bullion gold.
Not sure I can follow that argument.

"We can be rich again!"
"But the wealth was based on slavery, that is no longer"
"Others had slaves too!"

Or is it

"We can be rich again!"
"But the wealth was based on slavery, that is no longer"
"Others had slaves(-trade) too, but we were the richest, so I doesn't depend on slaves?"

Could you elaborate on your logic?
If you want sonic whiplash without so much effort, you can also listen to a Fantomas album in its original order.
The Lisp Curse article was written by a web developer with zero Lisp experience in even a hobby setting, let alone professional. He just made it up, like a hallucinating LLM.
They should try catching up to their European neighbours first:

https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4D22AQFfh_jg66bW1A/feedsh...
What are you taking about? A river literally started on fire because it was so polluted, which prompted the formation of the EPA. The sky absolutely “was falling” prior to 1984, it just took folks way longer than it should have to figure out how badly corporations were destroying our lakes and rivers.

https://www.history.com/news/epa-earth-day-cleveland-cuyahog...
> If that were a more sustainable model, it would be happening far more often.

that's not the argument. The fact that there currently are restrictions on producing derivative works is the problem. You cannot produce a star wars story, without getting consent from disney. You cannot write a harry potter story, without consent from Rowling.
Is this real? It can't be real. Nobody can be this stupid. But then again it takes a special kind of person who doesn't understand satire to actually do something like that. Somebody, where they would say "we trained him wrong on purpose as a kind of a joke".
> How do you know this, does Wise provide auth response data?

Usually, for each transaction, wise gives a small type details, such as

* manual entry: when I manually type in all details on a form

* saved-detail: when I preauthorized some vendor or processor to perform txn without further interactions(think quick checkout using paypal)

* apple/google pay: when card is preauthorized in such

* chip and pin: means I entered the card physically on a machine and entered PIN

* contactless: means an NFC tap pay directly

Usually, all manual entry raises a notification and all the fraud charges were manual entry minus the notifications(immensely unusual unless I used the card with that vendor before frequently) on very random places in matter of days(one in California, followed by one in Tokyo). Then next time two in India followed by one in Vietnam. Then next week two in Malaysia followed by one in Bulgaria. And then several more.

While I freaked out because these vendors were entirely unknown to me and my card were all frozen with no funds in balance, the lack of notification and the charges in pattern(first $10, followed by $100 and then $500 or $250) were very odd.
Do female users really need "acknowledging"?

Is the lack of acknowledging a barrier?

Are they all waiting for "activists" like you to open the door and be welcomed at using, e.g. SerenityOS?

Do you believe female users feel left behind because there is no official line that says "hi, female users. I acknowledge and salute you. You are welcome here."?

Why do you believe people different than you need your white gloves treatment?

Get off your high horse. It is political posturing at best, at worst it's just getting annoyed at nothing and feeling righteous about it.

All these idiotic inclusive movements all that create is ghettoisation and making everything about gender and race, when the stated goal is to remove the gender and race barrier. In the wise words of Morgan Freeman, "if you want to get rid of racism, stop talking about it".
I find that writing which speaks of Google as a single "it" misses the mark. I say this because the Googlers who write here show many disparate views and pressures to deliverable.

Sure, we think "there is one vision" but I suspect, there will be people inside the tent who still think this is a good idea, or a variation of it, and so (not) is mostly conjectural, because nobody who CAN say with authority what is or is not being done, is going to want to commit until they understand how it affects their KPIs.

Considering why Google acquired Android in the first place, Some of this is a bit bizarre. You would think by now, there was a roadmap which made sense across the generations. We're at Android 15. Thats an awful lot of time in that model of the world and Fuschia is on what release trajectory?
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I wonder if you could just tear the controller out of a CD/DVD drive and build a new one from scratch, kind of like the new floppy controllers being used now to read the raw magnetic data. You could just command the head to move to the center, find the beginning of the data and just keep reading until you hit the buffers.
> Banking is a cartel in the US

US has more banks than any other country by a factor of 10.

https://www.helgilibrary.com/charts/what-country-has-the-mos...

And #4 for branches per capita: https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/bank_branches/

7x as many branches per person as Canada

Sure, those data sources are a bit sus, but I'm sure they're relatively correct. And dunno how credit unions play into it.
Oh alright, I wasn't familiar with it, my apologies
>It’s not clear why

What Google revenue streams would full Fushsia cannabilize? Lack of USB->HDMI also bummer on pixel devices. I could probably convince a lot of people to migrate to chrome/fuschia/google OS if all it took was slapping their old phone to a usb hub. Well I could a few years ago, google kill services / lack of direction have put me off recommending any service by them. Still, seems like Google has a pathway to get into the Apple hardware game but simply chooses not to.
Carbon in the form of carbon dioxide as raw material is literally instantly available and the resulting "composite" is lightweight. This is not to say nature always considers recycling beforehand. Nature needed to invent fungi to break up this carbon dump. Carbon era is named thanks to this fact. And it's tempting to think nature "came up" with humankind to make the humongous carbon dump of the carbon era useful once again.
https://archive.is/foSLp

Microsoft has given up its seat as an observer on the board of OpenAI while Apple will not take up a similar position, amid growing scrutiny by global regulators of Big Tech’s investments in AI start-ups.
> But sufficiently complex obfuscation of infringement is very hard to distinguish from genuine originality.

for the purposes of copyright, originality is not required, just different expressions. It's ideas (aka, patent) that require originality.

The 'sufficiently complex obfuscation' is exactly what people's brains go through when they learn, and re-produced what they learnt in a different context.

I argue that AI-training can be considered to be doing the same.
What isn’t abstract about looking at an obstacle course and then imagining how you will move your body? Or looking at someone’s face and imagining how they feel. Isn’t that abstract?
UK state does not provide high level of services, to justify super high tax. You have to wait years for some surgeries from NHS. Infrastructure such as transport system. Education. Safety....
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Would it be interesting dialogue? You could generate more dialogue, but would it have anything underpinning it of interest to the player? i.e. you could suddenly have townspeople that would talk about local scenery or their relationships with other NPCs, but none of that stuff they describe would actually exist in the game. I would personally be weirded out if NPCs started making stuff up.

I can imagine training some sort of LLM on your game data such that NPCs are able to actually describe the game world, but I can't imagine what kind of scale you'd need to operate at for that to be cheaper than just paying someone to write the dialogue. Maybe at Ubisoft's scale where your team sizes are in the thousands (AFAIK, they have been investigating using AI for writing, but it's mostly for things like combat barks which are very repetitive and basically noise.)
I've seen this guy on the Zed YouTube channel, and yeah, dude loves to talk for hours without saying anything useful.
Its a thinly veiled social powergrab .. and not very different to what came before it. There is always a parade, there is always a priest caste, there is always original sin and martyrs. The ideas claim to be different, but the outcome stays the very same. If you see the world in social contracts, all attempts to fix it become a religion. And this synthetic religion violates the Separation between church and state.
Counter point: no it can't. Between schadenfreude from colonialism and brexit, I don't think many are invested in seeing UK succeed. If anything the opposite.
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The East India Company is from 1600.

The Watt Steam Engine is from 1765.
Just wanting to understand the definition of Open Source you are using here, considering that you can see and download the source here:

https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad

Are you maybe referring to their Enterprise offering?
I agree. Whenever people complain about LLM hallucinations they behave like they never seen one in humans.

Not only humans hallucinate all the time, humans also have persistent hallucinations as evident from the presence of opposing beliefs in various slices of society.