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Sounds like the consumer tech version of "$70k EVs aren't selling anymore!"

Misinformation. The good EVs are selling quite well. It's just that their price has effectively dropped quite a lot. My wife's Model Y which cost us nearly $80k (we bought at peak price: the prior Corolla got totalled) now has the equivalent 2024 model selling for $42k!

The crappy EVs (ie most everyone else's) aren't selling, because they are inferior in efficiency and software implementation. Rivian and Lucid vehicles are pretty good, but those companies are still at risk of never showing a profit. I've been in a Hyundai Ionic 5, and that seemed decent too.
To be fair to Apple, seems Sony is also struggling to shift their VR googles for the PS5. Maybe the mass market novelty of VR is ramping down or is the Meta Quest 3 still selling well?
Whilst I agree with the reservations of the other replies I think you were implying in the future and I'm sure the LLM's will be more trustworthy and up to the task at some point.

What I would really like to see now is all the new TTS models being used more widespread. There are still so many games that have text only output. My kid love Alba: A wildlife Adventure but the eldest still isn't quite ready to read all the text so I have to sit with them reading out all the lines.

If anyone has a way of applying universal mods / accessibility features to existing games I'd love to see someone solve this and happy to help with the TTS!
She's not running for office, so that hypothetical is not even relevant.

Do you have any other knee-jerk reactionary comments to offer? If so perhaps keep them to yourself.
>Or, maybe it isn't Apple-specific; maybe there simply isn't enough users, or VR/AR as a software paradigm is currently too far removed from how companies design their applications, and it is just a matter of time until they adapt.

Pretty much this. People, generally, just are NOT going to wear this on their face for very long, if at all. This product solved zero problems that most people have. It's literally an iPad you wear on your face and most people would much rather spend $500 on an iPad.
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I wonder who works in those embassies. Are there some British dudes just living there that go to the embassy every day for work? Where do they buy food? What do their residences look like? Do have spouses and children? Where do they work and go to school? Do they enjoy life there?
Yeah. I have played a bunch of the roguelike Caves of Qud [1] and it has both hand-written text and procedurally generated text. The former is quite interesting and relevant to both gameplay and plot. The latter is mostly uninteresting and irrelevant, though it does work as "filler." This is similar to how procedurally-generated grass can give a more natural look to a hill than you'd get with tiles (which are incredibly easy to spot unless a ton of work is put into hiding the seams and repeating patterns).

I still long for the day when we can have procedurally-generated stories and quests that are actually interesting to play through. I have no idea how that is going to work though!

[1] https://www.cavesofqud.com
one possible way it to realize that it's all re-inventions of the same thing all the way down.

Slack is just IRC with pretty icons.

Reddit is usenet.

Twitter is just AOL AIM away messages.

Etc.

One way that might work is to turn it into a game.

Taking an example from your post, you say:
"Why do I need Jenkins and Chef when I can SSH and add scripts and cron jobs."

So work backward and write/post about it.

Starting with SSH, cron, and scripts, here's how you can recreate Jenkins and Chef.

Along the way you'll help other folks who also missed the boat figure out what the new technologies also do as well as give you some fodder for interviews where you can say, I reimplemented from scratch Jenkins using basic technologies and that's how I would use XYZ in this situation.

Or, maybe you could try to focus on jobs where the company is scaling and actually needs to look at whether Chef, Jenkins is the best idea or whether it can be replaced by more optimized technologies that are used to using and have been "battle-tested" to an n-th degree.

Maybe that could help?
In a brace language you paste the bracers as well and it works, as long as all names are fully qualified and you ignore visibility restrictions.
The imperial fl. oz is 1 weight oz, at least within the margin of error of 1824.

It's a shame that everyone broke the "a pint is a pound, the whole world 'round" relationship. The US standardized its pint too big, the UK switched from a 16 to 20 oz pint.
> "Enshittification" describes the process by which something becomes degraded or corrupted.

I feel like many get this wrong, it’s not just “when things get worse”, the term was coined specifically around the phenomenon of investor-owned companies putting profit ahead of user values, leading to a degradation of service, combined with platform stickiness keeping users locked in.

That isn’t what’s happening here, if anything selling open source code without contributing back more closely aligns with enshittification, which is what these licenses prevent.

This is really a conversation around positive vs negative freedom. Is your freedom to profit off my code greater than my freedom to benefit from your modifications of my code?
I think "xsetroot -grey" should be the same? Or at least very similar. I don't feel like restarting X to check.
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I find it misleading to use an f-string containing encoded `{CONTEXT}` <https://github.com/postgresml/korvus/blob/bce269a20a1dbea933...>, and after digging into TFM <https://postgresml.org/docs/open-source/korvus/guides/rag#si...> it seems it is not, in fact, an f-string artifact but rather the literal characters "{"+"CONTEXT"+"}" and are the same in all the language bindings?

IMHO it would be much clearer if you just used the normal %s for the "outer" string and left the implicit f-string syntax as it is, e.g.

{
"role": "user",
# this is not an f-string, is rather replaced by TODO FIXME
"content": "Given the context\n:{CONTEXT}\nAnswer the question: %s" % query,
},

The way the example (in both the readme and the docs) is written, it seems to imply I can put my own fileds as siblings to the chat key and they, too, will be resolved

results = await collection.rag(
{
"EXAMPLE": {
"uh-huh": True
},
"CONTEXT": {
"vector_search": {
"query": {
"fields": {"text": {"query": query}},
},
"document": {"keys": ["id"]},
"limit": 1,
},
"aggregate": {"join": "\n"},
},
"chat": {
"messages": [{"content": "Given Context:\n{CONTEXT}\nAn Example:\n{EXAMPLE}"
}

One could not fault the user for thinking such a thing since the *API* docs say "see the *GUIDE*" :-( https://postgresml.org/docs/open-source/korvus/api/collectio...
That just sounds so utterly dystopian that I would never want to be part of it.
Apple is the last company I want a VR headset from.

Like I'd buy iPad instantly if it could run a real OS (like a surface pro) - but Apple loves the app store margins soo much they will fight tooth and nail too keep you locked in, at heavy expense of capability.

Likewise for Apple vision pro :

- productivity - only if it fits the store model
- entertainmen - only if daddy Apple approves
- hackability - no way

MacOS devices are a legacy from a different era in Apple business model - they would not build such devices today - and are not really expanding the range. iPhone I can live with the lockdown for the integration between MacOS, likewise for accessories (even here I might switch due to the taste their ecosystem business leaves in mouth).

But VR and iPad are things where I want fully capable/hackable environments - that's not going to happen with Apple App Store business model.
Fidelity can do almost everything, and I consolidate there whenever I can. (And an employer's non-Fidelity/non-Vanguard 401k service is actually a reason to look forward to leaving the company, so that I can roll over my 401k treasure to Fidelity.)

The only thing Fidelity couldn't do was way back when I wanted a Solo 401(k) that permitted loans, but they didn't have a prototype plan for that, so I would've needed to find&pay someone else draw up the plan document, to hand to Fidelity.

Fidelity even has HSAs now, and very convenient to buy&sell within them, without the headaches and ridiculous investment options like I had with two other places.

They have most any kind of fund I was aware of. But lately I just stick with the simple low-expense-ratio total-market iShares ETFs, like ITOT/IVV, AGG, IXUS, which have only a negligible fee upon selling. (IIRC, you can also get the Vanguard funds at Fidelity, but my backtesting of ITOT, etc., against Vanguard counterparts looked like they were equivalent.)

Cash in accounts can be moved automatically to/from funds like FDRXX (4.99% yield) or SPAXX (4.96%), and my bank-like Cash Manager account uses an FDIC deposit sweep (2.72%).
"In flight testing conducted in June, the remotely piloted aircraft completed a 523-mi. flight over Marina, California, including a vertical takeoff and landing and landing with 10% of its liquid hydrogen (LH2) fuel load remaining. This compares with the 155 mi. flown by the battery-electric S4 in 2021."
I do think there is a big opportunity for widely supported hardware-accelerated matrix algebra in games. Currently most of that is geared towards graphics (naturally) but being able to easily encode arbitrary models and have them run on-device would open up a lot of opportunities for games (like deep simulation) that weren't possible before. Its currently possible of course but requires custom tooling and (relatively) niche hardware like a high-end graphics card.

I see the development energy around LLMs as a way to open up support for that.
> It might be partially because of the size of the VR/AR market, but Apple's approach with Vision Pro was never to try to capture all of it. It seemed mostly to gain experience in manufacturing and start to see if anything actually materialized.

Did they say this, because otherwise I'm calling ... you know what.

This is a failed product by Apple.
WebVM is a server-less virtual Linux environment running client-side
Tangential, but it's wild to me to see a vector PDF (as opposed to a scan) for a book from 1994!

Adobe Acrobat came out in 1993 but it's not like 800-page books were being distributed for it by the following year, at least not that I remember. It's really cool that whatever program that manual was typeset in, someone eventually went back and managed to export the manuscript to PDF.

Or, of course, maybe it was output in PostScript originally and they saved that and so a later conversion to PDF was trivial.
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Almost all of them will have some difference. What is needed is to parse the previous state, calculate the difference in size, and show only the "significant" difference.
the war stories briefly mentioned in the footnotes of the book, are very interesting too.

for example, one of them is about a team that speeded up the run time of a quicksort implementation on a supercomputer by a factor of a thousand times (yes, times, IIRC, not percent), by doing successive optimisations at many layers of the stack, from high level algorithms and data structures, down to the hardware.
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Obviously the average citizen don't have Internet, but an embassy without Internet (most probably through satellite) is unthinkable, they need to be able to talk to their home government.

But if we go back 20 years (others have said this is written in the early 2000's), satellite communication was probably worse than 28.8k modems and really expensive, so yeah, it could've been there but only for official and not personal use.
I imagine we could do this now but not the way you think.

have a human created story and text as a guideline.

With that have genAI make the text per stage, you would get different statements every time and would stay on track.

Would be interesting to play a game where all players say the same information in slightly different ways every single playthrough.
> Apple is probably going to have to light a gigantic stack of cash on fire to try to course correct this.

It would certainly cost an absolute fortune to acquire the streamung rights, but live sports is an area where fans have demonstrated that they are willing to spend a fortune on AV equipment and subscription fees.
> random student that just took a poster as a souvernir.

Let's not mince words here, he stole government property in a country with some of the harshest laws on earth.

Did he deserve to die for it? No, but it was an incredibly stupid thing to do.
>with an emphasis on Algorithm and Language

did you mean algorithms and data structures?
(H100 SXM is 1000 TFLOPS, *2 is from "with sparsity", which is not used here.)
Mostly because I just wanted to understand a bit more how these things work. Using abstraction in the form of magic keywords gets the job done (sometimes, but not always) but is almost useless for your understanding.

And I think that the understanding can be very useful even when you use the magic words.
You're more likely to see studios (who want lots of more varied content) use generative AI in the studio, where they might generate and review it before release.

Letting generators run free on the client sets up different kinds of immersion-breaking, where NPC's hallucinate misleading details about the story/world, can be tricked into reciting off-topic absurdities or age-rating violations, etc. AAA studios can't afford the embarrassment of that and smaller designers with pride of craft won't see their signature come through the art in it. Surely, some designers will figure out ways to make it work great for some specific idea, but it's not the best way to use the technology in most cases.
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Yes, they are at war, they are all-in, while we are not. Maybe it’s time to consider we are at war too? How long are we going to let them wage information war, sabotage, political interference and corruption against us? They talk on state sponsored TV about nuking London, invading Europe, while we carefully consider whether Ukraine should be allowed to retaliate against Russian air bases that target civilians in purpose?

Not to mention they are about to get a Russian asset elected POTUS.
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> Solo 401(k)

If you are self-employed, you can also consider a SEP-IRA, which has similar limits. The only downside is it is only available in traditional flavor, no Roth. You can roll it to a traditional IRA and then do a Roth conversion though.
How old are you? Once you get of a certain age, doing anything new or different to your body leaves it aching for a week.

You’re right that you address it with exercise though.
> Logs are expensive compared to metrics, but they convey a lot more information about the state of your system.

My experience has been the kind of opposite.

Yes, you can put more fields in a log, and you can nest stuff. In my experience however, attics tend to give me a clearer picture into the overall state (and behaviour) of my systems. I find them easier and faster to operate, easier to get an automatic chronology going, easier to alert on, etc.

Logs in my apps are mostly relegated to capturing warning error and error states for debugging reference as the metrics give us a quicker and easier indicator of issues.
What worked for me was counterintuitively not applying to a ton of places, but focusing on places I'd really want to work and then reaching out directly to relevant team leads. It might feel like you're wasting effort since it's more investment and people might still just not reply, but I found it to be more effective. And it led to a really interesting job that I like a lot. Good luck!
If you have lower back pain from sitting in a chair with bad posture for decades, it's a godsend.

When you're "in the zone" programming on a screen or writing a book or editing a movie, it's not like you're particularly aware of your environment anyways. And like I said -- not building up the lower back problems that will haunt you later in life.
Mildly off topic, but I sometimes re-imagine the myth of the Minotaur as a parable about how the only bars which can't be bent by brute force are the ones made of computational hardness.

Why did they build a maze for the Minotaur with a possible escape route rather than just an ordinary prison? Why leave the possibility of escape open?

Well see, the Minotaur was arbitrarily strong. No material could build a wall strong enough that he couldn't bash through nor a door that he couldn't break down. But, he wouldn't try and break down anything if there was obviously a path right there he could use to go around it normally. By putting him in a maze, he will always keep trying the next path thinking it might be the exit, never attempting to break any wall. The puzzle is harder than any material they could have used to build a prison, as it cannot be bent by the Minotaurs brute force.

Computation (eg cryptography) can be "unbreakable" in a way that bank vaults and deposit boxes can't.
Meta is also a company with little to no business in entertainment or content creation. Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Epic, Valve, etc. have a better chance of making a metaverse happen than whatever Meta is trying to buy their way into.

Meta's entire business doesn't exist without it's user's giving them content. They are so far away from a creative company.
> Customer: "But I had no problems when the code came to my phone."

"Unfortunately, many of our other customers, and customers of other financial institutions were not correctly protected by the code alone.. and were still getting scammed or confused.. and losing _all_ their money."

> Customer: "[...] I'm finding this very frustrating, I need to get into my account."

"That is understandable, but we take the security of your account and your personal information very seriously, and this requires us to make changes to maintain that security in the face of new threats and actors as they evolve."
I was the same as you but in the end I returned to Sublime. Nowadays with LSP plugin you don't need much, just LSP + extension to support your language and that's about it.

They changed the licenses to 3 year from lifetime though, so it's a bit of a bummer but at the same time I get it.
As I interpret the record format (https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html#record_format) then new native datatypes (datetime, jsonb) cannot be added without breaking the file format.

When file format is no longer backwards compatible, it makes sense to make a new major (semantic) version, so you don't have a situation where version 3.50 can read a file but version 3.43 cannot.
The watch is a bit odd, though? It is, far and away, more of a fashion purchase than it is anything else.

Yes, I think it has some good uses for health/fitness. I can't bring myself to think it is the driver for people buying it.
I'd like this article better if it weren't a twitter thread surrounded by some text telling me what the tweets already say. All that to carry some ads. Chumbucket bottom feeder ads, even.
Later on they talk about installing a satellite dish for diplomatic communication, so the embassy might have had some sort of internet connection over that.
Not, if you are programming in Clojure. With [1] SQL is as composable as datalog or any other Clojure data.

Compared to the strongly-typed deep embedding of SQL in Slick in Scala it is astonishing how useful something so simple can be.

[1]: https://github.com/seancorfield/honeysql
You can turn any such maze into one with a single exit by surrounding it with a small “moat” with a single exit. For large mazes, I don’t think the price you pay for it is too large, as it only adds O(\√#cells) of area to the maze, and I think any good measure for complexity of a maze scales by #cells (if you don’t scale by #cells, you can make a maze harder by glueing multiple ones together, and the trivial maze where there only one straight line will get harder by making it longer)
Nah, people aren’t religious. It’s just not a large enough platform. Too niche and it looks like they’ve given up on it.
Indeed! My point being that it’s gonna be true someday, just not yet.
Thats a good idea. I will for sure add it to my snacks as I actually like seaweed
Good luck, to her. She's going to need to grow a backbone if she wants to sell her opinion to one of the world's largest queer population centers.

Shame her whole career in art didn't work out. Sometimes it's just the audience, yunno?
Reminiscent of Peter Higgs (Nobel Prize winner for the eponymous boson) saying that he would not be able to get an academic job today, not to mention Katalin Karikó (Nobel Prize winner for mRNA) being demoted by UPenn for not attracting grant money.
A modern car is a great example of abstraction. There's a lot of functionality and complexity hidden behind a very simple interface.
> it was really weird watching so many people convince themselves that it was a mass-market product and then convince themselves that the failure of a mass-market audience to materialize was some kind of a disaster.

They were presumably following Apple’s lead. Apple predicted far higher sales than we’ve seen and have had to cut those predictions down to size.
Long history of it, too.

The US made special clear coke in nondescript bottles for Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov so he could look like he was drinking vodka instead of the illegal Western drink.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-secret-clear-coca-cola-fo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Coke
People don't like stuff on their face. People wear contacts or get surgery to avoid wearing glasses. People don't like stuff on their face. I paid for college working in the eyeglass industry and it's nearly universal that people "wish they didn't have to wear glasses". People don't like stuff on their face.
Having done a software engineering degree (albeit 25 years ago now) you should probably not expect it to be any more practical in that way. We had only a handful of extra mandatory modules over the CS requirements (I think on working on larger systems) but no extra practical programming.
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The problem is compounded by uncertainty, basically fear, and hopelessness or laziness.

If, you knew for certain, that Problem X is solvable with Effort Y with enough of Resource Z - would you act upon the advice?

If anyone has given advice that was not heeded it can be frustrating. All the advice and information exists to solve your problem yet if it remains - why?

Losing weight is an example of a known problem with a solution. People do the equation - the Effort Y is often variable that is lacking because the Effort is 18 hours of consistent, positive behavior, for weeks or months in a row.