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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was a very unique and rather underrated Physicist due to the then prevalent colonial racism attitudes. He received his Nobel prize some 50 years after he made his discovery when he was just 19/early-20s. His uniqueness lies in his breadth of study which he consciously adopted after being undermined/betrayed by Arthur Eddington on his stellar structure studies. Here is a nice short film with his own words - https://aeon.co/videos/the-indian-astronomer-whose-innovativ...

A longish biography, Nobel at Ninteen, S. Chandrasekhar here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXTruZkQ7hI

A short interview with the man himself - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-lJjR7pM7k

Finally, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subrahmanyan_Chandrasekhar ;

He wrote that his scientific research was motivated by his desire to participate in the progress of different subjects in science to the best of his ability, and that the prime motive underlying his work was systematization. "What a scientist tries to do essentially is to select a certain domain, a certain aspect, or a certain detail, and see if that takes its appropriate place in a general scheme which has form and coherence; and, if not, to seek further information which would help him to do that".

Chandrasekhar developed a unique style of mastering several fields of physics and astrophysics; consequently, his working life can be divided into distinct periods. He would exhaustively study a specific area, publish several papers in it and then write a book summarizing the major concepts in the field. He would then move on to another field for the next decade and repeat the pattern. Thus he studied stellar structure, including the theory of white dwarfs, during the years 1929 to 1939, and subsequently focused on stellar dynamics, theory of Brownian motion from 1939 to 1943. Next, he concentrated on the theory of radiative transfer and the quantum theory of the negative ion of hydrogen from 1943 to 1950. This was followed by sustained work on turbulence and hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic stability from 1950 to 1961. In the 1960s, he studied both the equilibrium and the stability of ellipsoidal figures of equilibrium, and general relativity. During the period, 1971 to 1983 he studied the mathematical theory of black holes, and, finally, during the late 80s, he worked on the theory of colliding gravitational waves.

Chandrasekhar was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 for his studies on the physical processes important to the structure and evolution of stars. Chandrasekhar accepted this honour, but was upset the citation mentioned only his earliest work, seeing it as a denigration of a lifetime's achievement.
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That's not what you wrote here

https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/spine-runtimes/issues/20...
Responding emotionally by using words like "ignorance" and "laziness" undermines any argument that you might think you are making.

Have you considered that you getting almost angry at somebody "not seeing the light" means you might hold preconceived notions that might not hold to reality? You would not be practicing critical thinking if you are not willing to question your assumptions.

It seems your assumption is very standard: "revolution is just around the corner, how can you not see it?".

OK, let the revolution come and I'll apologize to you personally. Ping me when it happens. For real. But make sure it's an actual revolution and not "OMFG next Midjourney can produce moon-scapes!", okay?

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RE: 1, cool, I heard such success stories and I like them. But I also heard about executives flunking contracts because they over-relied on ChatGPT to summarize / synthesize contract items. I am glad it's making progress but people are being people and they will rely on a 100% fault-free AI. If that's not in place yet then the usefulness drops sharply because double-checking is even more time-consuming than doing the thing by yourself in the first place.

RE: 2, your side projects are not representative of anything at all. And I for one recognize AI images from a mile away and steer clear of projects that make use of them. Smells like low-effort to me and makes me wonder if the author didn't take other, much more fatal, shortcuts (like losing my information or selling my PII). And yes I am not the only one -- before you attempt that low-effort ad hominem technique.

I was not convinced by your comment, very little facts and it mostly appeals to the future that's forever just around the corner. Surely as an engineering-minded person you see how that's not convincing?
I like to think that whenever I see CSS like that, it's going to be a serious tech site Bookmark added!
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One solution you could use to get around this weird design decision, is to use the reader mode in Firefox (I'm not sure what is the alternative for other browsers).
People do get kidnapped at traffic lights. Here's an incident of it happening in Florida a few months ago.

The ability to arbitrarily stop vehicles would be very useful for this kind of crime because it could be done in less crowded areas. And criminals could more readily select for expensive vehicles, young women or whatever else they're wanting.

[1] https://www.crimeonline.com/2024/04/12/video-florida-woman-a...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usuo0jOcHJA
Is that fan optional? I personally don't like SBC's with fans. I often use them for experiments and keep them exposed without a cover, so I don't want fans for that reason but also that it feels a lot less robust with a moving part.
> This tells me a lot about how a teacher thinks of students.

This is quite an uncharitable perspective!
No, that's not right. "NASA" isn't a trademark but the use of the term is governed by federal law. Basically you're allowed to use the term unless you're impersonating NASA. Since NASASpaceflight makes it clear that they aren't NASA, they're allowed to use the term. It's allowed because they're not official.

"NSF is not affiliated with and does not represent the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)."
Spiders hack fireflies to attract more food to their webs
This is a fallacy, the results are skewed to our ability of describing music, which via text (as opposed to tapping/singing/etc) is very weak.
Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir and Loki. Here’s my monitoring setup: https://giuliomagnifico.blog/post/2024-07-08-home-setup-v5/
Waffen SS was not part of regular army (Wehrmacht), like you are trying to whitewash. From wiki: "the Waffen-SS, the military wing of the German Nazi party".

It was separate army, directly under Nazi party. Many members were German. They have different weapons, their own logistics, separate chain of command and so on.

> They were also intrinsically less involved in the Final Solution, unlike the regular Waffen-SS, by and large (in particular they were not involved operating the camps,

There were atrocities outside of West Europe as well.
Agreed - those who get the most out of SO seem to use it as a personal blogging tool - answering questions as a trigger for writing out what they know.

I have always assumed that a good marketing ruse for FOSS would be to pay an intern to basically Q&A your entire docs into SO - if you do it right it would even build a better roadmap for your project.
Shockingly, people can change their minds.
Srcbook with AI can do the same job faster.
1. At least daily with the whole team, and whenever you have something to discuss with someone individually. Be available on Slack (/Teams...). Announce relevant things on group chat (like a new API function becoming available, release dates...).

2. As often as the manager wants to. If you don't need anything from them, most are happy to be left alone as long as you deliver.

3. Daily, standup-like. Keep it short if there isn't a topic that affects everyone.

4. I am not a huge fan of extensive documentation, because most people don't read it anyway and it gets out of date quickly. Just cover how to get started, and the overall structure so people can navigate. Keeping it short makes it more likely that someone actually reads it. But how much documentation you need depends on the organisation and project.
It doesn't really matter whether you write it yourself or someone in the team. If you're lucky, someone in your team enjoys doing it. Just use some wiki-like system to make it easy to contribute. Or keep it in the repository as Markdown, if it's only for devs.

5. Depends on the project and team. But I have often tried to minimize the number of tasks I do myself, because as you suggested, it's hard to work on something when you're constantly being interrupted. In some teams I haven't worked on any tasks myself.

6. Talk to people and review their code. It's super-important to review as soon as the code is available, to minimize downtime and reduce context switching for the team members. Prioritize team members' code over your tasks!

(Some people also suggested pair programming. If it works for you, great, but I am terrible at it. Hard to explain, but coding and speaking are two very different things for my brain. I can't write good code while talking about it, and the whole thing is very stressful for me. I prefer to discuss code asynchronously or on Slack).
I think the only thing that works for me properly is listenbrainz.org for recommendations. They give similar users, good playlists. Plus they have bunch of other interesting projects like acousticbrainz.org which do even low-level analysis and high-level classification.
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Concerning the first example: whoever thought that passing property names as string can be better than any other style should have his coding licence revoked!
The situation is not that different for desktop OSs. Apple, at least by default, knows every app you launch on MacOS (through the security feature they have of checking some hash of the executable against their database). Windows collects all kinds of metrics and info about everything you do, including detailed crash dumps that leak who knows what information. Both Intel and AMD CPUs have secure enclaves that run full blown OSs that you have no control over and do who knows what; and those have access to your network devices as well.

If you're running a Linux, you're probably much more protected, but even then, on Ubuntu and most other popular distros, you probably download all or most of your apps with apt or rpm from their own official repos, so they probably can get a pretty good idea of what you're running.

The situation is generally better than on mobile, but unless you're taking significant pains, you're still a pretty open book to your OS manufacturer. Whether they're reading this book or not is a separate matter.
Yeah, me too. But this being google, and them talking about youtube... you know where this tech is going next.
Everyone's talking about how USB4 can do the same job perfectly well with host-to-host networking or presenting as a disk, i.e. target disk mode.

That's lame and no fun. Why not do something more exciting and fast and furious (the author said, sarcastically), like PCIe DMA over USB4? I want to send files as fast I can stream vertices to a GPU dammit!
> Two years ago a Navy destroyer was ripped open by the nose of a Liberian tanker. Ten sailors were crushed or drowned as their sleeping quarters filled with water after the collision. At the heart of the tragedy is a single checkbox on a touchscreen.

No, this is crew incompetence, the checkbox is just covering the fact the crew has no idea how the vehicle works or how to operate it.

> The crew believed they had lost control of the ship because they were relying on the main steering controls, the rudder, without realizing that the ship was turning because of the secondary steering method, propellors set at different speeds

Let that sink in (no pun intended) - the crew is not aware the propellors can spin at different speeds... for three minutes... with what appears to be two giant sliders on the screen.
Makes sense to me. Even if it’s just a “hint” that could massively alter outcomes. eg braking a second earlier could be the difference between crash and no crash
Fixing links: https://listenbrainz.org and https://acousticbrainz.org. Also, all code is open-source in https://github.com/metabrainz!
I thought that the site must be designed for mainly mobile, so I switched mobile mode on in the dev tools in firefox. However then there is some menu header text overlapping the main body.

It seems the design of this site is very much style over function.
While that could be an explanation I am not fully sold on that idea. For example we don't get continuous streams of information on something like abstract math but we still dona decent job with it without going through millions of math problems.

If multi modality gets us through this phase then you are right in your analysis. Let's see what come out in the next 5 years
Not all roads are in cities, though. I'd be fine with "manual" driving in a city if I could turn on smart-cruise-control on the motorway and let it do its thing at 40/60/70 knowing that I can relax just a little bit more. Doubly so if in an EV world, the cars can talk to each other and a central network to say "I'm going to need to charge in X km, so I can use charger A, B, or C" and they communicate to minimise wait times across the board.
>it will be possible for anyone to materialize their artistic vision with great fidelity

This has already been possible for such a long time, and with the advent of internet the amount of free and easily accessible learning resources has grown massively. All you need to do is put in the effort to learn. As for money, pen and paper is less expensive than most computer hardware, i think.

It's weird how in most fields not having 'talent' (whatever that is even supposed to mean) is not considered a valid excuse for not going through the effort of learning but for some reason when it comes to art, it gets a pass.
I will assume it's the same foot pedal that I have, in that case the software is at https://pcsensor.cn/software-details?_l=en
> It will probably take another round of retirements for AI to adopted in the more conservative environments.

If that is the case, then the AI isn't really adding enough value.

I mean, if it was adding enough value, those companies refusing to adopt it will be out-competed before the next round of retirements, and so won't even be around.

We'll see how the landscape looks in 10 years: if there are still major companies who have not invested some money or time into sprinkling the AI over their operations, then that's a signal that the positive impact of AI was overblown.

If, OTOH, there exists no large company in 10 years who have not incorporated AI into their operations in any way, then that's a signal too - the extra value of AI is above the cost of adding it to the operations.
I'm honestly shocked in-q-tel isn't one of your backers.
Step back, big picture: Intel's hot new idea, in 2024, is connecting two computers.

With a cable.

Wow, these guys are really lost.
You missed my point a little. We keep optimizing for more addictive services. It's just as dystopian for a service to always present exactly what will keep me using the service and giving thumbs up.
for me it also results in fewer skipped or repeated lines - because I have to close the tab immediately.
This worked for me, thanks :)
In this context, true name does refer to magic powers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_name
Thank you for your feedback! Our goal is to help improve the quality of websites around the world, so we will continuously implement improvements based on feedback from real users.

I adjusted the font size for a long time, trying to choose one that would be a compromise in readability and not breaking the content on different screens and typical resolutions. In addition, the report is optimized to work well even in a mobile e-mail browser. See Mailer options - https://crawler.siteone.io/configuration/command-line-option....

That is also why, for example, switching the left menu and light/dark mode is implemented purely using CSS, without JS. The mail client in iOS, for example, supports CSS when opening an HTML attachment, but does not execute JS at all.

If you have other ideas for improvement, feel free to submit a GitHub issue with a feature request. Thank you ;)
Second example: doesn't the bad refactor also modify the list of users?
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How does it occupy 30MB ram but 5MB disk space does it grow
They’re probably courting a buyer.
Popular iPad art tool rejects gen AI
https://www.razer.com/technology/snap-tap-mode
The article actually does explain this in the first few paragraphs.

It is an issue because communities like StackOverflow are actually one of the sources of training material. LLM's are not capable of innovation, they can only do variations based on what is in their training material. People asking questions to other people about things does allow for actual new and fresh answer, where people might come up with solutions other people have not yet.

And yes, you are right, some of these answers would be duplicates and easy to answer. But only to a certain point, there are a lot of answers on StackOverflow that are technically correct but severely outdated by this point. They have been superseeded by more modern ways of doing things or the APIs to do so have changed in newer versions of frameworks.

With a human community you will have people leaving comments on older answers pointing this out and answering with the current answers on new questions.
LLM's, again, are not capable of picking up this new information on their own. You can actually often see this in the answers you get from them, they are often ever so slightly dated already.

When the communities that feed them die they will have less learning material so at the very least they will stagnate.
> much more readable

That’s down to preference.

Doesnt both filter and map copy the array increasing gc pressure?
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> the only way to start a new process is to fork yoursel

Not at all. Linux supports the clone system call which allows applications complete control over this. Linux user space chooses not to take advantage of it.
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Ok so why can't I take care of those things myself on iOS? Pretty sure I can handle my own curation, licensing and payment overhead for 30% more revenue.
Just the fact that they did such an amazing job with their documentation is as huge win for me!

I really liked Lite XL but back when I looked at it it was a challenge to understand it’s API and functionality.

Looking forward to give this a spin!
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> x86 NUC (if GPIO is not needed)

I'd be surprised if you can't buy a GPIO board that connects to USB for a few dollars on AliExpress.
The faker of his death could wait for any storm and pull the plug of the boat, though.

Not like 'I hope there is a storm the 15th of May'.
No LLM plugins yet?
That’s going to be incredibly painful to walk back.

I don’t think such a hard stance is wise given the general trend. Some level AI tech is actually useful even if you don’t go all in
Spotify's music recommendation is great not because it's doing smart AI things, but because it gives you options for discovery. You have:

- Playlists provided by spotify and tagged with various terms.

- User-made playlists (harder to find, but they exist, and many of them are fun!)

- Discover Weekly, Release Radar, Daily mixes - generated playlists for your account with 6-7 variations on how they are biased.

- Social features (see what your friends are listening to)

- Radios for songs/albums/artists

- Artist bios and "Fans also like" sections for each artist

- Smart shuffle on playlists (every 3rd song is a recommendation)

- A very permissive search box that lets you make mistakes (I hate competitors that punish me for writing things like "and" instead of "&" for an artist's name... I'm looking at you Tidal)

- Configurable search APIs to build your own funky queries or extensions

... and probably a few more tools to use when discovering music. An AI recommendation system will NEVER beat flexibility and giving users agency. I don't care that an AI takes into consideration that I went to the gym automatically. I care about having lots of options for discovery, each that is decent and biased towards a different style of exploration.
On the contrary, laws are the only thing that can protect you form this. Other than simply not using dating apps, there is nothing you can do as an individual to protect yourself from the service.

Now, laws in this area are woefully inadequate, even in the best places like Europe's GDPR or California's regulaitons, so in practice I do agree that at the moment shared with a third party == shared with the whole world, to some extent. But this just means we need harsher laws, explicit controls, probably agencies that conduct periodic inspections like the FDA for restaurants etc.
Is it just me or does this seem like it could be abused?

Like, could you just stand on a bridge on a freeway and send ‘I’m max braking’ signals to all the cars and then they all react to that and stop?

Bearing in mind the incredibly poor tech of most cars - like the keyless entry that you can just boost the signal while the keys are in a house and open the car - I don’t have much faith in car companies to do a good job.

I don’t mind my car reacting to real events actually happening before I know about them, but reacting to signals scares me a bit.

Is there some clever way that they’ll avoid this?
>We create rules enforcing mandatory sleep requirements stupidly believing that we can eliminate the potential for a user of the system to be drowsy while at the controls.

>stupidly believing

Dick move by author to reveal his level of ignorance of USN operation tempo around McCain collision until the last few paragraphs. There were lol 4 fucking surface ship collisions and a grounding in westpac in 2017 because sailors were ran ragged, leading to operation pause. UX wasn't the primary problem. Sailors weren't "drowsy", they were sleep deprived, hopped up on stimulants etc due to manning shortages and long deployments, and likely lax training (due to shortages), which caused USS Connecticut accident a few years later. I'm sure you can improve UI for audience subsisting on 3-5 hours of sleep, but maybe the more pressing thing to try is to get them more sleep. IIRC there was study on navy sleep hyigene and like 100% of sailors in bottom quartile experienced bewilderment/confusion.

https://news.usni.org/2017/09/18/admiral-captain-removed-par...
Speaking as someone who rolled his eyes at the synopsis of each entry in GP's list... I mean, you can just ignore the awards.

Like, think of it like the Oscars. It has been a very long time that "winning an Oscar" was predictive of how much I would enjoy a movie. What would some book awards be any different?

Just look for authors that write the sort of things you want to read, awards be damned.