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I wonder if Windows will eventually move to an "image" based approach like macOS has done. When one updates macOS or iOS, you basically download a multi-GB sealed image of the OS and install it in-place.
Americans drive more miles than people in the EU.

If I recall correctly, the average American drives around 2X more miles per year than people in the EU. The country is big. Things are far away.

If you look at a state like Wyoming where everything is very far away the average person might drive 4X more miles.

More miles means more accidents.

Speeds are also higher in many places in the US, which is related to the fact that everything is farther apart.
> but it did surprise that someone would decide to use this syntax over a syntax used in other Datalog engines (and predating Datomic itself).

We are clojure programmers, so our introduction to Datalog was actually though Datomic in 2014. We are fans of other query syntaxes (SparQL looks cool too), but we find Datomic's flavor the most ergonomic for us, and it's an added win for us that we can express queries as plain data structures
> We don't know. We won't know the negative case, but we may someday in some circumstance find out the positive (bugged) case.

But that's either the same with any tool regardless of whether it's commercially supported / FOSS / made by anonymous devs or not. If anything, FOSS is easier to audit.
I didn't say keep all of your cash in Bitcoin.

In the current epoch, I'd cite Murphy's Law and say that anything is possible and it's wise for a CEO/CFO to plan ahead in case this happens. Bitcoin is one among several options and an excellent safeguard against corruption, political persecution, etc.

As for exchange hacks and lost keys, the business that relies on this will intelligently keep funds off-exchange/self-custody and use multisig wallets with signatures held by multiple officers of the company.

Today, it's the "nuclear option." But if enough people start transacting in Bitcoin routinely, it's the ideal future.
(1) Price matters. If Detroit was selling $25k reasonably sized EVs they'd be selling like hotcakes, even if they had limited range. There are a few people who will pay $75k+ for a luxury EV but they bought a Tesla 10 years ago. If Detroit wanted to sell XXXL EV SUVs at crazy high prices they should have done it ten years ago. Now it's too late and they have to make the kind of cars BYD does or pass legislation to keep BYD out of our market.

The Meta Quest consumer has proven they'd rather save a few bucks and buy an MQ2 instead of a better MQ3. It's a big problem for Meta because they're never going to move towards making better games that need an MQ3 to run.

(2) VR > AR Apple's just plain wrong about the focus on AR. The Apple Vision Pro has the hardware to provide far superior immersive world application story than the MQ3 but the software (and maybe controller) story isn't there. Apple acts as if there was something morally wrong with VR, like it is putting your hands in their toilet with all the conviction they have that it is OK to take 30% of all the revenue of the app economy. Sorry, visiting VR worlds is half the value you could get out of a product and throwing out half the value is like doubling the price.

A cheap set of XReal glasses can say "this is just good for watching the HDMI output of a game console" but at Apple Vision Pro prices product that expensive really has to "do it all" with no excuses. People really do subscribe to VR fitness apps, they really do have fun playing games like Asgard's Wrath 2 or games like Riven. Have you ever heard anyone say that they were engaged with an app for the Vision Pro?
The presence of subconscious processes doesn't deny the existence of conscious ones.

Focus/diffuses modes are widely known/accepted.

You can direct the unconscious thoughts too. If I spend some time intensely trying to solve a problem on the conscious level, often I get new ideas on how to approach it in the morning or during a long run (without thinking about it on the conscious level).

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Unrelated: the discussions about free will often miss that the existence of atoms doesn't imply that a wooden table doesn't exist: they are on different levels of abstraction--no point in comparing.
Web frameworks would be 1000x the current size.
> Torrenting for german content is quite uncommon.

Obviously, because, as the chain of comments above your shows, torrent users are easily caught and get fined to hundreds of euros per downloaded movie. Then they stop using torrent and tell all their friends about the experience. This has been going on for more than a decade, maybe two. So by now, German culture has adapted and people don't use torrents.
But more importantly: just let the customer decide! Let them decide whether there's a threshold where an outage is less costly than the hosting, and what that threshold is
Right now we have a common architecture where users upload files to a central service, and that central service then forwards the content to other users. This is true of services like Youtube, Zoom, etc. With 1Tb/s content creators could serve the content from their own network. This would allow for platforms that have much lower operating costs, and could offer much more generous revenue share. Perhaps a peer-to-peer agreement could occur, where different nodes in the network will cache and reserve each other's files to respond to highly viral content.

I would also disagree with the thesis that internet speeds in the US have stagnated. In 2014 I had about 80Mbps. Today I have about 1500Mbps. On west coast cities I see high end condos with access to speeds up to 7000Mbps. Even my friends in pretty rural locations in 'fly over' states have access to hundreds of mbps with the latest federal grants to build fiber in rural areas. In one case I know someone that skipped from 52k to 200mbps fiber, with cable internet never offered to his house.
AR/VR with low latency could allow for some interesting multiplayer experiences.

However there is also the downside of making high fidelity omnipresent surveillance easier.
I still don't know how to switch to the JSON-only view the few times that I need it.

And I hate that quite a few extensions have a vague "just set X in settings" in their README's where X doesn't show up in the auto generated UI, and is called something else in JSON
So maybe we should spend the money on preventing distracted driving rather than requiring expensive automobile features to try to compensate for it?
16K porn becomes the new standard definition

I wish I was joking but take the current usage of the internet, and scale up each part. 1TB/s might enable new things, but it's more likely to enable more of old things.
Or we can just make cars smaller.
Fire them. If the work is shit. Pay more for competent people. Simple. Good fast cheap. Pick 2.
High rent costs are not something a town/municipality can solve. In a most ways, it's also something a state government cannot solve.

"High" rent is relative to the area, and rent is high across the entire country currently.

Lack of rental housing drives up rental prices. The lack of rental housing is largely due to unnaturally low interest rates. People qualified for oversized loans, and bought up the rental supply, converting them into homes instead.

Since cash was easy to acquire via loans, this resulted in an unprecedented period of time where housing prices were driven upwards with near-zero limiting factor. That was the market where people were overbidding asking-price by $50K+ without even seeing the house... that was/is a very unnatural market. This bidding process resulted in significantly overvalued homes, which made them inaccessible to lower-income people. So the rental market shrunk significantly, and housing prices went through the roof... then runaway inflation came knocking, making everything that much worse.

Which is to say, all of this is the creation of poor federal policy, and there isn't much your state or city can do about it.
> Nobody wants bigger fucking trucks

The F-150 is the best selling truck in America, even though Ford produces a smaller pickup truck that is cheaper.

We can blame CAFE standards and automakers all day long, but at the end of the day many people do appear to want the bigger trucks.
True, but it's specifically the modern UK government - with its penchant for outsourcing jobs to ministers mates and bloated contractors - whose competency at large scale projects I dread.
It boggles my mind that driver attentiveness nags are being required when driver assist features are _enabled_ instead of _disabled_. When you are most likely to commit manslaughter, the car (and the regulatory bodies making the policies) don't care if you're paying attention or not.
My belief, and you can correct me on this if you have evidence to the contrary, is that nobody actually pays those bills.
Windows uses 4KB pages.
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I usually read: you have so few users / care so little that I shouldn’t trust you because you’d have heard this complaint and fixed it. But in this case it was fixed up quickly. Which is great
Volunteer led still seems to be more secure, even with a lot of corporate investment.

Rather than corporate lead endeavors which are very hit and miss, mostly miss, especially when the product itself claims security as a core principle.

It might not make sense to you, but the evidence points to this.
I used to vastly prefer the old control panel hands down but the last couple of years it has been in that awkward "a lot is better on the new one but not everything" stage.

E.g. on the legacy "Sounds" none of the per app mixing, device pairing, or new filters like toggling global mono mixing are there. Some power user things are also just easier, like adjusting the non-primary sound device volume doesn't require going into the device properties and flipping to the tab for each device you want to change the volume of - it's more combined.

On the flipside the legacy "Sounds" disabled devices didn't clutter the view and there are advanced options not present in the new sections. It's also much more space efficient... though sometimes to its detriment in that the windows can't be made larger and it relies a lot on modals which can be easy to misplace and get confused on (but also useful in that they can let you see more of the information without having to flip back to other screens).

That repeats for me about everywhere. Either alone I'd probably be more than happy to use at this point but that there are two places to go each offering not quite the same set of features is the real pain point.
> But... don't the control panel windows have more functionality (and usability) in practice?

Yes, and they're not alone even in the FOSS world (cough ...Gnome... cough).

My take on this is that someone decided that everything must either run on a cellphone or conform to its UI, therefore GUIs are slowly moving to the mobile touch screen model, which translates into leaving lots of unused space because of the bigger size of finger tips compared to mouse pointers that could trigger errors with smaller and more dense controls, and of course less controls because smaller screens with comparable resolution to much larger monitors would make them much harder to operate.

I can understand the reason, however all comes from the 1st mistake which is the attempt to unify everything to a mobile UI, probably to save on development time. It's unnecessary and it's wrong.
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Strong agree. How come when I search for Teams in the start menu, it doesn't bring up Teams as the first option, even though it is in the start menu?
When I was kid my dad had a Dodge Ram 50 which was about the size of a car and it had a four-cylinder engine with a manual transmission and no 4WD. Never had any issues hauling anything. We put a pallet of bricks in the bed and it wasn't a problem. Modern trucks are too expensive and big for no real reason other than ego and insecurity. It's blue-collar cosplay. Maybe a few people need a huge truck, but for most people a smaller truck or a van would work better.
You forgot

reg add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve

To enable the classic right-click menu :)
I've seen one explode and melt to nothing but I'm surprised there hasn't been a report of a Cybertruck slicing someone (beyond fingers) in half yet.
> Firebase Realtime can be more efficient, as it can tell if a permission check has passed statically. I am not sure if Firestore works this way.

Firestore's rules are also able to prove before the query runs if the query will only return data that the user has access to according to the rules. That's a pretty important property that "rules aren't filters" because it prevents bad actors from DDOSing your system. My former colleague wrote about this: https://medium.com/firebase-developers/what-does-it-mean-tha...
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> standard PostgreSQL tables

We're working on a feature where you bring an existing Postgres database, and use Instant as the sync layer [1]. If you have an app like this and would be interested in beta testing, let us know: founders@instantdb.com

[1] For a peak, you can search for 'byop' in the codebase. Here's a fun introspection query, which definitely awed me about Postgres' powers: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/blob/main/server/src/in...
The funny thing is, if it wasn't Amazon that Alexa was ordering stuff from, you could bet your ass people would have been using it like that.

But because Amazon sells used diapers, counterfeit items, can have gigantic price swings for some items, and has reviews that are gamed to the gills, no one would ever want to order from there blindly.
Yep, now's the time to move to linux. Microsoft has gone bonkers and is going to inflict a lot of unnecessary pain and frustration on people before they correct course, if they ever do.
Why isn't one of those providers roflstomping the other 3 (add OCI to the mix) with better pricing?
Had a similar experience at a startup I co-founded. Chase's risk or compliance team suddenly decided to close our accounts. Possibly because we were in the crypto space.
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Holium - who are 100% believers in what Urbit and Yarvin want - had to move off Urbit to a more, ah, functional functional programming stack because Urbit didn't ... work. Like, it just didn't work. This is why Urbit is running out of money.
This is proprietary closed source mindset. Nobody is asking for bug free cleanly compiling and running codebase. Releasing with dependencies removed is enough, community would patch around it in no time.
I wish one day, normal video conference just works, is not just the speed that we need but stability of the connection, easier way that audio auto-configures, maybe we can stop saying "do you hear me? " "yes and do you hear me? " ...
We've added a bunch of that crap since 2009, when pedestrian fatalities were at their lowest, why hasn't it worked?

It seems like the problem is vehicle size and distractions: why would more surveillance help?
Decision making is also more accurate, human analysts often deviate from procedure. Also why banks/fintechs often spend so much on QA teams just to observe how the human analysts have performed.

Transaction monitoring is different, that's post account opening.

When people are going through an onboarding flow it is their first account!
>But, I don't think that was their thought process at all.

Intent, being squishy and debatable matters far less than the outcome.

I can say that I never intended X, but in the end, X still happened. That it happened unintentionally assuages exactly no injury from X having happened. Intent, therefore can only be considered as at best, an aggravating factor on top of the outcome.
I've lost count of how many blog posts about poor performance ended with the punchline "so then we turned off page coalescing".
I drove 1700 miles on French interstate highways. I think the posted limit was like 120 or 130 kph. I went 10 over and cars were flying past me.

I never saw a cop over that week. And cars had great manners with everyone in the right lane except when passing.

But at least in France I get the sense that the speed limit isn’t followed closely.
Usually, I have no particular nostalgia for old designs—everyone praises Windows 3.1 but to me it's just eye-searing. But, even I can't stand the new search. A nontrivial amount of the time—and on two different machines IIRC—I'll open the search menu and type something, but my keystrokes just don't register. I have to close and reopen the start menu. And, actually opening the start menu takes a noticeably long time. I don't know if it's doing some last-minute indexing or something, but it's very annoying.

And the same is true for the settings app. I never really use the Control Panel–specific settings, and whitespace doesn't bother me, so I'm not inherently opposed to the new app. But the execution just feels subpar somehow—if I had to guess, it's probably the latency whenever you click anything.

(macOS also has all kinds of weird UI bugs too, e.g. the Bluetooth and sound dropdowns in the top menubar are very finicky for me. And System Preferences proper isn't much better. It drives me crazy....)
Ads would get bigger and more annoying.
Just leave it to run itself out.

Right now the sales pitch is "magical machine spits out any code you can imagine and it will all just work". This isn't the case now and I doubt it will be the case in the future.

It will get really good and make things faster and more easily, but you will still need to know how to use it to be effective and you will still need to understand the underlying tech to be the most effective.

It's like carpentry and powertools. Carpenters and slap together a whole house in a day, a big part being due to power tools. There are still carpenters who are all about the craft and traditional ways and they make amazing pieces of furniture and there are those who need to build houses, fast. Finally there are those who dip into carpentry and realise that it is a whole lot of new knowledge and a degree of understanding that was invisible to them before trying.

If you don't know what you're doing a power tool won't make you a great carpenter.
Websites would be heavier, everything would expect a faster internet connection and using software without a fast internet connection would be worse.

Probably software wouldn't get better, probably we wouldn't solve the real big problems of our time either.
Recent history teaches that the Post Office should be the last company on earth to be anywhere near creating a nationally important IT system. Their technology team have been useless for decades.
I'm okay with some changes they're going to do as long as there will be proper alternatives. The new app is generally more confusing and less usable but I don't touch either that frequently so it is okay.

My concern is that they're not going to invest into the proper, fully functional alternatives, maybe intentionally. And I suspect they probably want to use this deprecation as an excuse to take the control away from users, similar to other mobile OS. The new setting app lacks many important functionalities and usually redirects to old control panels. And MS can simply remove old control panels without giving us alternatives, or significantly restricted "modern" ones with less controls.
If corporations got their way, nothing would run locally anymore. Everything would run in the cloud and our devices would be nothing more than thin clients.
Aaah the windows network applet. I still remember fiddling with ipx/spx settings in that interface. It's been several decades! Good memories.
Solid objects look exactly like what we perceive solid objects to look like. That is kind of the point.
200 Meteorites on Earth traced to 5 craters on Mars
One example of how I used it:

It exported 75MB json of ChatGPT "Conversations". I extracted 19MB or raw text from this as a CSV. I then took this into Nomic.ai and embedded all of the text to create a clustered visualization of topics in my ChatGPT conversations.
tldr; purpose built tools

SSH is kind of a swiss army knife. But 1000x sharper ;) The delta I'm speaking of would be to have bespoke tooling for different needs. And the tooling for each purpose could have appropriate, structured logging and access controls.

With SSH you can do almost anything. But you can imagine a better tool might exist for specific high-value activities.

Case study:

Today: engineering team monitors production errors that might contain sensitive user data with SSH access and running `tail -f /var/log/apache...`.

Better: Think of how your favorite cloud provider has a dedicated log viewing tool with filtering, paging, access control, and even logs of what you looked at all built in. No SSH. Better UX. And even better security, since you know who looked at what.

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There are times when terminal access is needed though. SSH kinda fits that use case, but lacks a lot. Including: true audit logging, permissioned access to servers, maybe even restricting some users to a rigid set of pre-ordained commands they are allowed to run. In that cases, a better built tool can allow you to still run commands, but have a great audit log, not require direct network access (mediated access) to servers or internal networks directly, flexible ACLs, and so on.
Can someone explain those numbers to me?

5-10% performance boost sounds huge. Wouldn't we have much larger TLBd if page walk was really this expensive?

On the other hand 9% increase in memory usage also sounds huge. How did this affect memory usage that much?
I understand if you can do this at scale you already the best of the best. The best data. The best of everything. Money isn’t an issue for you if you can do this at scale.
My IRC client runs on Kubernetes
broadly it's Yet Another My Favourite Toy FP Edifice, where you think "WHAT IF THE WHOLE COMPUTING WORLD WAS A FUNCTION", and more proximately it's a crib from the Nix paper. Yarvin claims all ideas in Urbit are 100% original work do not steal, but this is not quite true.

At the moment the only bit of Urbit that works is a chat forum. This will one day develop fully into the Antiversity which will allow the righteous to network(-state) and fight back against the Cathedral, you see if it doesn't mate.