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Whenever I see a comment like this, it just tells me that whoever was structurally exploiting some low power group is just mad that they actually have to care about the people being exploited

If making a system more equitable leads to its “implosion” then it was exploitative at it’s roots and shouldn’t exist in the first place
Mixes Well is an understatement. I couldn't imagine writing any more than a simple toy app without it. I've experimented with building an iOS UI purely in code, and while it is possible, it is a painful, masochistic, and slow way to develop.
I'm trying to impedance match my BitGrid [1] idea to the real world. I've got a simulator that runs at a reasonable speed.[2]

I'm now stuck in analysis paralysis, trying to get to the next steps. How would I interface it to external hardware
How to represent the values of the look up tables, etc.

I think it represents a new class of Turing machine. One that could be scaled to Exaflops of performance without much effort.

Distributed bitgrids should be an easy way to extract sufficient horsepower out of even a Raspberry Pi pico, if you have enough of them.

[1] https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid

[2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid
Former DARPA chief, now White House OSTP director: time to regulate AI is now
In 1920 long distance calls were charged by the minute, and by the distance. The operator would write down when she connected your line on the switchboard, then note down the time when she unhooked it.

In 1920:

>a call from New York to Indianapolis, Indiana would cost $4.15 for the first three minutes and $1.35 for each additional minute

>a call from New York to Los Angeles, California would cost a lot more - $15.65 for the first three minutes and $5.20 for each additional minute.

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/35135/how-much-d...
Unlike gold, platinum is quite stiff. I suspect they're using it because they don't want to have to compensate for the effect of gravity on the shape when it's being machined. At a guess the properties they're going for in the alloy are:

- Easy to shape

- Very shiny

- Won't oxidise in atmosphere prior to launch

- Very susceptible to gravity (because dense)

- Not susceptible to magnetism (because not ferromagnetic)

- Strong enough not to sag under gravity (because Pt)

At this precision I have no gut feel as to whether tidal losses might be important, but that might be a factor too. Platinum would help attenuate them, I suspect. Pure gold would be squidgy where AuPt will be (comparatively) springy.
> Though that's only the enabling technology, the lower desire for babies is almost certainly driven by other factors (urbanization, better health care, etc)

I'm not so sure about that. There's no law that says desire has to be aligned with needed action. For instance: up to the availability of oral contraceptives, it was very hard to avoid having kids even if you didn't want them. Kids would happen automatically if you desired a different thing: sex.

It's sort of like exercise: it used to not matter if someone desired to "exercise" or not, because they were forced to do lots of physical activity if they wanted to live (e.g. physical work on a farm, walk to the market, etc.). Now technology has enabled a previously impossible level of sedentary life for the common person, moving exercise from a necessity to a desire, we have huge and increasing levels of health problems in society because the desire for the needed thing itself isn't there.

I predict, after some period of time, "childfree" psychology will breed itself out of society, and the people who are left will have a lot more explicit desire for children.
I see several words which could fit but all of them are obscene.
You could just write rust code that calls the C APIs, and that would probably avoid a lot of discussions like the one in the article.

But making good wrappers would make development of downstream components even easier. As the opponents in the discussion said: there's about 50 filesystem drivers. If you make the interface better that's a boon for every file system (well, every file system that uses rust, but it doesn't take many to make the effort pay off). You pay the complexity tax once for the interface, and get complexity benefits in every component that uses the interface.

We would have the same discussions about better C APIs, if only C was expressive enough to allow good abstractions.
Downvoters and flaggers generally don't explain themselves. They lack the ability to articulate their position and simply prefer the easy buttons.
Kudos to the EU for taking action where the US hasn't for a company operating within the US...

It's really out of hand how such a useful site has been scuttled and manipulative for so many people that relied upon it, even well prior to Elon taking over.

Paid verification means nothing, but the blue checks have been in lace for so long that they have indicated trust... It's a deeply opportunistic move to corrupt the site by changing rules to serve anyone that pays.

Quitting Twitter is not simply a light matter for many who have grown to depend on it, and now those very same users are being ratioed to the point where their only option is to pay, with no guarantee that that will help them at all.

Based on even the complaints of now paying (verified) users, the site is just scuttled, and the money isn't worth it... It's not about the money for people like me, It's about a deep lack of trust for anything that would pull the moves that Elon has on the app/site. The thrill is gone.
The types that C knows about are the types that the assembly knows about. Strings, especially unicode strings, aren't something that the raw processor knows about (as far as I know). At the machine level, it is all ad-hoc juggling of buffers without a reliably tracked size, until you impose constraints like only use length-prefixed protocols and structures. Where "only" is difficult for humans to achieve. One slip up and wham.
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Great article! I was afraid it was going to be trying to formalize a lot of visual ideas similar to what UML tried to do back in the day. Instead, this is a very nice catalog of many good visualizations that can be used as aids to the task of programming.
The government isn't at all interested in securing fundemental infrastructure, having more measures against sim swapping? Seems like a huge national security issue
In Germany during WWII (according to Richard von Rosen's memoir) you had to wait a few hours for your long-distance call to connect. You could pay double to get connected faster and ten times the price to connect faster still.
Is it possible to find a certain encoded formula of PI inside the PI digits itself, given its length?
System 100 is a _great_ design to learn on. Nomenclature and patching strategy is pretty close to what we do today (vs Moog 55 series which is very... Moog-ey) and it includes quite a few conveniences like inverted outs on envelopes without getting in the way.

Aside from using a similar visual design language it's hard to believe it's the same company that makes Roland's contemporary menu divers.

And the Behringer modules are dirt cheap. I think a few of the utilities are like $50 new.
Its crazy to me that there isn't a modern version of this kind of camera. Sony and Cannon could be doing a lot to take away from the smartphone share if they made cameras more usable and modern:

- Built in GPS for location tagging in photos(a few cameras have this but for many you need an external dongle attached to the camera)

- Automatic backup of photos to cloud/network storage locations

- built in flash storage for redundancy

- Wifi that isn't trash so you could transfer photos at a meaningful speed

- LTE for the same reason when on location

- Run apps for upload to a variety of services

- More computational photography features
I am not sure this is a win politically. It takes a lot of the wind out of the persecution argument he has been making.

I am also not sure this is a win legally. Dismissed on a technicality, not on the merits, is the weakest way to win a case. More than likely it is a delay, not a resolution.
93 billion light years is 8.798×10^26 meters[0], so about 35 digits ought to suffice for any given nanometer.

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=93+billion+light+years+...
I work at a big research university where I don't think you see a lot of "nontraditional" undergraduate students.

On the other hand, I went as an undergrad to New Mexico Tech which was a very affordable but high quality school and made many friends there who had served in the military or been a single mom or drove a truck.

At a school like that with a lot of nontraditional students I think the teachers and administration would have some sense of your needs and also you would meet others who are in the same situation and who would be supportive.
Don’t forget than if it’s invoked at the 38th second of a minute, the behavior is undefined.
I really wish we find out the root causes of ADHD - I believe it's a mix of genetic predisposition and upbringing to control symptoms. It looks like this research brings us a step closer.

I've heard of the kooks that put electrodes on their scalp and apply voltage to "overclock" their brains - maybe there's something to that, but with a more controlled, pharmaceutical and scientific process behind it. Provide minor stimulation to the claustrum and you end up getting more restful sleep, etc. (not to say that long-term use won't burn your brain matter out!!)

It's been such a negative thing for me, even with support systems, medication, etc.

Even if I can't be cured/helped, making sure future generations will never need to suffer as negatively as some do with the downsides of this disorder would be a great step for society.
>- I wonder if this cast is always correct in C [ie.: math.h], no matter the datatype and/or the number base?

Floating point arithmetic is deterministic. As long as it is implemented as specified atan(1) has to give the floating point number which is the closest approximation to the real number pi/4 (in the current rounding mode), the multiplication by 4 means that precision can be lost and potentially your result is no longer the closest possible approximation to pi.
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I feel like you can partly get around this by slowly increasing type specifically over time. With strong type checking the risk of refactoring is low.
That's a nice visual, but completely wrong. You're underestimating the accuracy by the absurd amount of roughly 10^160000000000000.
Who pays for the servers?
I'm a little obsessive about the unit cost of everyday items and in addition to them using inconsistent units, it's not uncommon for it to be wrong.

A few days ago I was in a CVS and a 4.25 oz box of candy was $1.99 and listed with a per oz cost of 39.8 cents. Either the price had gone up or through shrinkflation the size went from 5 oz to 4.25 oz and the unit cost was not recalculated. I see it too regularly to be able to trust that number on the tag.
Does the fact it's not been updated since 2021 not affect its effectiveness considering what it purports to do and the ever changing web development landscape?
> While this [i.e. Short-Term Rentals Operated Like Hotels] has happened in some cities, most notably Amsterdam and Barcelona, we have no evidence that this is actually the case in New York [...]

This is really worth keeping in mind when reading the conclusions.

The "operated as a hotel" kind of airbnb are very dominant in many places, so I would guess the result of "it doesn't really impact the housing market" doesn't generalize to these places.
English is a programming language with short immutable tokens and sequential ramification.

When you see something else like Python's list comprehensions or Common Lisp Loop-macroes, you become confused and very angry.
In floating point arithmetic two consecutive operations can have an unbounded error. Just because the precision is good enough for one computation doesn't mean it is good enough for all computations.
Does anybody have a recommendation for the apps/scrips (mac/windows/ios/android) that will allow me to generate audiobook from ebup (or txt) using my own openai api key?
I only bought about a month ago, and I'm up 10% already, plus a round of dividends. I'm not trying to time the market, I just think GW is a great company with a lucrative future.
Mishandling without intent is quite different. AFAIK the DOJ has evidence of intent in this case. If he had just cooperated with the national archives and the FBI like every other president before him it would have been nothing more than a footnote.
> the only year it actually lost money, was 2020 -and it has completely made up for that. It even made some money in 2008

How did you manage to not lose money in 2022? Almost every asset class was negative then.
Calling it now, learning a language this way will be called having an AIccent, where you speak the language well enough, but use unusual words and stilted phrases that only RHLF'ed LLMs do. Instead of saying "no", you'll say "As a large language model, I can't do that".

Makes me wonder if any sci fi predicted this.
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But it needs to be a balance. IT policy that costs tremendous amounts of time and resources just isn't viable. Decisions need to be made such that it's possible for people to do their work AND safety concerns are address; and _both_ of them need to compromise some.

As a simplified example

- You have a client database that has confidential information

- You have some employees that _must_ be able to interact with the data in that database

- You don't want random programs installed on a computer <that has access to that database> to leak the information

You could lock down every computer in the company to not allow application installation. This would likely cause all kinds of problems getting work done.

You could lock down access to the database so nobody has access to it. This also causes all kinds of problems.

You could lock down access to the database to a very specific set of computers and lock down _those_ computers so additional applications cannot be installed on them. This provides something close to a complete lockdown, but with far less impact on the rest of the work.

Sure it's stupidly simple example, but it just demonstrates the idea that compromises are necessary (for all participants)
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I guess that there would be a few incompatibilities, but you could even try directly embedding postgres https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-wasm
Kentucky became famous for it because it did immediately stop being an militia title in every way. A charitable foundation was setup for using the title as a part of a charitable works program and several early Governors involved in that decided that it would be a useful idea to give the title to celebrities and other "ambassadors" to/from the commonwealth, making it as much a title to promote tourism as anything else.

I think that's the fun ouroboros nature of Colonel Sanders' title in that he was made a Colonel for the predecessor to KFC. (The Sanders Cafe at his Standard Oil Gas Station was one of the first "Welcome to Kentucky" stops for early car travelers coming into Kentucky via the roads through the Cumberland Pass [I-75 today].) The Colonel of KFC was a Colonel because of KFC, just about.
If you have all that why not also make it a phone?
My hearth is with the seagulls here. Hope they develop a hatred towards blueetooth speakers too.
> For example, pi doesn't contain e, does it?

Assuming we are only interested in base 10 and that pi contains e means that at some point in the sequence of decimal digits of pi (3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, ...) there is the sequence of decimal digits of e (2, 7, 1, 8, 2, 8, ...), then I believe that question is currently unanswered.

Pi would contain e if and only if there are positive integers n and m such that 10^n pi - m = e, or equivalently 10^n pi - e = m.

We generally don't know if combinations of e and pi of the form a pi + b e where a and b are algebraic are rational or not.

Even the simple pi + e is beyond current mathematics. All we've got there is that at least one of pi + e and pi e must be irrational. We know that because both pi and e are zeros of the polynomial (x-pi)(x-e) = x^2 - (pi+e)x + pi e. If both pi+e and pi e were rational then that polynomial would have rational coefficients, and the roots of a non-zero polynomial with rational coefficients are algebraic (that is in fact the definition of an algebraic number) and both pi and e are known to not be algebraic.
It sounds like you are describing a smartphone with a traditional camera form factor?
There is a lot of push among marketing for entourage effect but actual evidence for it is pretty scant.
I agree and Michael Burry has warned about it. There's no real price discovery on these index funds. Money comes in - buy all in the fund regardless of any fundamental. And many of those stocks aren't that liquid so in an exit and a dump, they will get destroyed.
With enough darts (and monkeys throwing them), you're bound to get some outliers over time.
The only people to "hate" on Linux are the Rust community; in fact, they genuinely DESPISE the Linux maintainers for allowing themselves to be so brazenly exploited over the years. This is akin to how communists despise the workers.

Now, as for me: I respect Rust, not hate it, and only sympathise / pity the wider Rust movement. I believe their resources are much better spent someplace else: NOT bickering over decades-old operating systems and getting into the other people's codebases (this is what pleading for "common abstractions" is, really.) Had they learnt to stop competing for popularity and recognition, they would be very successful in validating the borrowing hypothesis. The conviction is not there: had there been conviction, heart, and commitment, they wouldn't bother with old codebases, and would instead make something special.

P.S. I don't require hate to be superior, my nature is sufficient to that end.
It seems like the consumer market was completely destroyed by smartphones, used by people who don't particularly care about image quality, and the professional market is people who do RAW shooting with image file sizes of 40..90MB, with post-processing on a PC.

Seems like the niche between those markets never was large enough to warrant this functionality, given that both mobile standards and cloud service APIs change multiple times over the lifetime of a camera.
>As pi never repeats itself, that also means that every piece of conceivable information (music, movies, texts) is in there, encoded.

It is somewhat shocking that again and again this logical fallacy comes up. Why do people think that this is true? It doesn't even sound true.
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> I can't afford to allocate memory at will

This was my mantra for the last 30 years. But now, even the tiniest thing has 1GB, linux and virtual memory. Except for very edge cases, this excuse is rapidly dying
+1 I would absolutely buy this.
Well, why not?

When it comes to treatment of women by the taliban hazara women have it bad enough that it's been called genocidal, and it's a rather racial and religiously motivated abuse. The group is pretty large and the US engagement with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran hasn't exactly been good for them, so if the OP is usian it would be prudent for them to know about their plight.
Thanks, thats encouraging
As luck would have it, Biden is in the clear now even if he is, as you suggest, breaking the law. He has absolute immunity.
Scandinavia is not an example of socialism and these countries and aren't trying to implement "equity of outcomes".
Phones have relatively terrible lenses and sensors.
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There is a lot of misinformation here.

THC-A is the acid form of Delta 9 THC. Marijuana has mostly THC-A that doesn’t turn into d9 thc until it is decarboxylated. Look at any test result COAs of marijuana to see what I am talking about.

THC-A hemp is just marijuana that isn’t considered marijuana until it is burnt. Hemp is just cannabis. It is all cannabis. The same cultivars are being used for THC-A hemp as medicinal and recreational. In fact, there is genetic bottlenecking going on.

As you said though, cutting early generally ensures that any cultivar doesn’t “test hot” for d9 THC. Besides sufficient heat, THC-A turns into d9THC through oxidation as well as UV exposure so the sun isn’t necessary. There is plenty of THC-A hemp flower being grown indoors too.

Happy to answer any further questions.
It's probably a lot like wine, where blindfolded critics struggle to determine between red and white or $5 and $5000 wine but can claim to tell you which particular hillside of a vineyard in France the bottle came from if they can see the bottle.
Feels like this is the 1000time some article states something like this. Am I the only one who feels like we're not really progressing in those fields? Just a feeling though
If someone could port the Free Pascal string library to C, it would solve a lot of problems with new C code. It reference counts and does all the management of strings. You never have to allocate or free them, and they can store gigabytes of text. You can delete from the middle of a string too!

They're counted, zero terminated, ASCII or Unicode, and magic as far as I'm concerned.

Oh... And a string copy is an O(1) operation as it only breaks the copy on modification.

Edit: correct to O(1), thanks mort96
In-body image stabilization is another area that has had huge improvements in pro/pro-amateur cameras in the last 10 years.
Short term rental have always been around. The "uberization" of short term rentals is the problem... Also privacy in the era of hidden cameras, discrimination, cleanliness, and safety issues are all problems that are skirted often by this uberization of the short term rental market. The companies at the hilt of profiteering don't provide proper oversight, insurance, accountability, and reasonable price controls to make this industry last, and they're also driving home buying and rental prices up during the worst economy while not dependably employing nor helping anyone other than people who have enough wealth to own & rent properties at over market value, while putting (the better regulated) hotel industry out of business.
Any other millennials remember the pre-ajax CGI and <frame> based web game based on the book where you made your own countries and alliances and chose tax policy and stuff?

Come to think of it 2003 was only a couple years before Gmail would change web apps forever
Do you mean in the computed 202T digits of Pi, on in in the infinite sequence of Pi digits? In case of the latter: s̶u̶r̶e̶, probably, if Pi is normal, any finite sequence of digits is contained somewhere in Pi, so it would contain (in encoded form) any closed formula and any program, book, or piece of music ever written.

E: As the comments have pointed out, this requires the conjecture that Pi is normal to be true, was has not been proven or disproven yet.
Samsung actually released multiple Android-based cameras: the Galaxy Camera range with built-in zoom lenses (https://www.zisman.ca/blog/2013-01-05.html) and the Galaxy NX with interchangeable lenses: https://op-co.de/blog/posts/galaxy_nx/

They all suffered from running Android 4.x with no major upgrades from Samsung.