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Did you know we almost had a lisp style language in our browsers? But Sun's marketing budget on "Java" made something that sounded similar (JavaScript) favored more

people wouldn't have these weird questions if we had used good programming languages from the start, but marketing dollars changed this timeline forever and every new generation learns about wtf-js
Yes, domestic and international trade is a worthy human endeavor. Shipping containers are awesome.

Shipping containers are also multimodal and are loaded up on trucks and rail cars at ports to be hauled away.
The noise isn't truly random; it's just a matrix of small values that shouldn't be taken into account. Subtracting them cancels them out.

As pointed out by a different comment, it's actually the attention we are interested in that is cancelled out *if they are both equal*. This is what the paper mentions in its abstract;

> promoting the emergence of sparse attention patterns

In theory, it is quite clever, and their results seem to back it up.
The clever ways that brood parasites trick other birds
One necessary corrective: the Mount Vernon News was no better before it was sold.
Thanks for the clarification. I thought the two were tied
Does Debian not include multilib by default?
These drugs don't magically let you eat more and not gain weight. They reduce appetite and slow metabolism so you eat less.
It patches a reward center in your brain, reducing appetite, but also patching addiction reward center activity.

https://recursiveadaptation.com/p/the-growing-scientific-cas...

> The consistency that I'm hearing from all across patient groups is gain of control, whereas previously, there was a loss of control… All of a sudden they're able to step back and say, 'oh, well I had this shopping phenomenon that was going on, gambling, addiction, or alcoholism, and all of a sudden, it just stopped,' - Dr. Gitanjali Srivastava, Vanderbilt Medical Center
> criticisms of a pure math theorem being applied to physics

Next you're going to tell me the Moving sofa problem isn't really about moving sofas!
… what? Rybelsus has been out forever. I’ve used it, injected semaglutide, and injected tirzepatide, ama I guess
I suspect that plus vs minus is arbitrary in this case (as you said, due to being able to learn a simple negation during training), but they are presenting it in this way because it is more intuitive. Indeed, adding two sources that are noisy in the same way just doubles the noise, whereas subtracting cancels it out. It's how balanced audio cables work, for example.

But with noise cancelling headphones, we don't sum anything directly---we emit an inverted sound, and to the human ear, this sounds like a subtraction of the two signals. (Audio from the audio source, and noise from the microphone.)
GLP-1 freaks me out after I read from plastic surgeons that it ages your skin from the inside out.
To be fair the pill actually makes people eat less.
We can probably just extrapolate the numbers from people quitting smoking.
You could fairly easily create your own portable stdint.h equivalent in C89 (using the preprocessor and INT_MAX etc.). I remember doing that in the 90s, before C99.

However, it was also conventional wisdom to use int by default to match the architecture’s “natural” word size, and maybe add a preprocessor check when you needed it to be 32-bit.

Another consideration is that the built-in types have to be used with the C standard library functions to some extent.
Theoretically perhaps, but despite what our internal self-perception would suggest, none of us reading this are actually important enough to resurrect later.
Same here. Nvidia shield with FDroid sideloaded and a custom launcher is pretty solid.

No Ads with the custom launcher.

I don't have to be logged into anything I don't want to be, the devices are... not excellent but probably the best you can get right now for the price range.

Media format compatibility is good. Bluetooth connectivity exists for peripherals (incl audio bars and headphones). It has USB ports to take a thumbdrive or other android support peripherals (incl USB audio DACs).

Good support for CEC and the remote has IR support for controlling other hardware (ex - I can make it work with my Epson projector just fine).

I don't really like the toblerone remote form factor - and it should be against the law into include dedicated streaming service buttons (netflix... blegh), plus every now and then I have to reboot the device. But generally speaking... if one died I'd probably buy another as the replacement.
No, it's just vague whining about the idea of capitalism itself. Updating capitalism is not talking about any specific problems.
An excellent career retrospective by John Hopfield - https://pni.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf321/files/docu...

"As an Academy member I could publish such a paper without any review (this is no longer true, a sad commentary on aspects of science publishing and the promotion of originality)."
That was my first thought, too:) But is that x32 (amd64 with 32-bit pointers), or full i386 32-bit code+data?
It's actually a pill to eat less, seems to be a hunger suppressant
People who need to ensure these programs are well funded definitely need to consider it.
Yes, the article seems to be confused in a few ways. The fact is that Gmail is not a real email user agent, because of a handful of deficiencies; the most critical of these is the lack of conversation threading. This article (https://lwn.net/Articles/837960/) shows in detail how Gmail is broken and how a non-broken email client (mutt in this case) does things more usefully.
Yes, because some mergers are bad. Like really really bad. For you and me, consumers.

If adobe merged with figma that would be catastrophic for that domain. Prices would skyrocket, quality would invariably fall off, and innovation would stagnate due to lack of competition.

Part of having a free market is maintaining it. You can't have a free market if it's constantly consolidating into a monopoly or pseudo-monopoly. This is bad for the products, for the market, and for the consumer.

The keyword in that last sentence is market. Plenty of people will argue what the FTC is doing is stifling economic growth - but it's the opposite. Anti-competitive behavior stifles economic growth in the long run, so preventing it allows smaller companies to grow and innovate. Keeping slow moving giants on life support and de-facto welfare is not good for the economy.
> a pompous French man drone on for chapters about the Paris sewer system

I'd enroll in that class
> But I did come away with a better understanding of the world and few would say that education is orthogonal to that goal.

That's due to the reward function / environment. But even outside extremes like North Korea, lots of education environments value conformity over independent analysis.
Pointless effort IMO. Good luck delivering
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This observation could have been made about young people throughout the ages. Disrespect for authority is nothing new.
This is sold as Contrave / MySimba, albeit adding metformin to the mix is a little unusual

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naltrexone/bupropion
Not that easy. I use my personal device for work - and if I didn't I would wish I did, when travelling...
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There wasn't a single KZ guard that did not know what they were a part of.

> But being a nazi guard in a concentration camp is fine as long as you're a nice person I guess.

The enemy of my enemy...
It's actually known that many of the alternatives companies have substituted for BPA are equally or more dangerous; they're just not blacklisted by the FDA so companies continue to use them with impunity.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/bpa-subst...

https://archive.is/Bu6TE
I think the decision to factor out the `Memory` type from `Array` will pay increasing dividends for a while, as packages begin to use it in earnest.
Yes. Having used both I can say indeed it is. Not only does GLP-1 slow digestion which limits what you can eat and when it also is being study for its effects on alcoholism etc reducing cravings. I and many people I know noticed the difference in cravings were not limited to food.
> sound the alarm over Gen Z undergrads not finishing Les Miserables because they are uninterested in reading a pompous French man drone on for chapters about the Paris sewer system

I'm sorry, but if gen Z isn't interested in the Parisian sewer system from 1830, then I think there is little hope for them. I remember being told to read the abridged version of Les Miserables so you wouldn't need to hear Hugo ramble about Waterloo, sewers, and fertilizer, but I just thought "can I read just the parts taken out of the abridged version?"
It may not need to be entirely retrained. The value spans and input are the same, and no extra weights are needed. You may be able to tune an existing model with this attention mechanism and get some of the benefits.

But overall... it's mainly a training change, so training is needed to make a difference.
A family can make do with a Civic-sized car. They don't NEED a Canyonero. Which is the whole point. :shrug:
I think the point was "an engineer must be objective in picking a technology."
coral has pcie module which is 1/4 to 1/3 of the price
Read what, where?
There's a thing with The Atlantic and some other high-prestige publications (The New York Times comes to mind) where, among really high quality journalism, they regularly publish articles that are trying to make a case for an understanding that isn't supported by basically any of their sources. The Times' work on trans issues comes to mind for this as well - they interview a bunch of people on both sides and end up making a case for an understanding that none of their sources agree with and basically everyone is mad about. It feels like a combination of the personal opinions of the journalists involved, but justified and presented in a way to fit as well as possible with expert interviews. This is super normal and human, but isn't what I would call journalism.

It's too bad because I think these institutions do a lot of high quality work, but it seems to me that they pretty regularly do this kind of thing. Perhaps this is a universal flaw of all publications, but there have been efforts to criticize this in specific instances[1] which seem to have little impact and generate little reflection and it's a shame.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2023/02/15/1157181127/nyt-letter-trans
This is the opposite of that. It's an appetite suppressant so you eat less, not more.
This is a well written criticism, but it should be noted that the author doesn't appear anywhere in the article she is criticizing.
Ah I see, so they didn't recover the actual crypto that was owed, just the estimated USD value at the moment of bankruptcy? By the way, I didn't mean to imply SBF wasn't guilty, simply that he might have been able to cover up the fraud if he had been given a bit more time.
Also Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Slovakia...

Technically, you can use them for payment, they are still valid money; but the price will be rounded to 5 cents when paying in cash and you won't get them in the other direction.
I have such pills with the same active substance as ozempic. So-so effect, also the protocol is to take one two hours before the first meal, making me delay breakfast.
This setting is to establish a new mirroring session, but presumably that iOS app install metadata is collected at the very first connection and then cached on macOS.
You're mistaken.

RDOF in particular required installation and battery backup.

It's not money for nothing and ground stations aren't free.

The plan was to deliver a free to the customer bundle with telephony
I can’t speak to amphetamines specifically, but re other stimulants, there’s more of a noticeable fullness effect on GLP-1 meds.
Why natural should mean "things undisturbed by human activity". This is just an arbitrary moral choice.
Hoping he speaks a lot of truth to power.
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> Disrespect for authority is nothing new.

It is still a perfectly valid argument to analyze whether disrespect for authority has increased or decreased over the years; or whether the disrespect has reached the point it threatens their ability to become functioning adults.
One last pretty funny thing:

Here a short chatgpt convo about how personification bias can cause people to believe that statistical models are intelligent.
I think it's what's fooling so many people.

https://chatgpt.com/share/670549a3-2f9c-8001-81c1-d950c626ad...
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Its not size of Firm, its new work from old work. See Jane Jacobs, The Economy of Cities and her other book Cities and the Wealth of Nations.
You'd think the union would keep it's head down then. Or they are just power drunk and want their cake while eating it too?
That is not correct. Yes, we are building more gas power plants. As peaker plants to pick up the residual load. That can in theory be the total net power requirement, which is why we need many of them. However, they are not running continuously. Already today, most gas power plants are idle most of the time. Gas usage by Germany is going on a steep decline as renewables are built up and especially as heating systems are converted to heat pumps.
Good point. I suppose if one is going to not win the Nobel Prize, a decent "consolation prize" is at least being referenced in the prize announcement for whoever did win.
Are you prepared to make the doctors work for free?
Because it's literally a large chunk of the economy? Why wouldn't you worry about that. I certainly don't like to see a society where the young are enslaved by the old to pay for their medical treatment.
What Does "Venture-Scale" Mean?
This isn't about tethering. It's about mirroring which requires the iPhone and Mac to be on the same WiFi. And you can't route data from the Mac through the phone via mirroring
Or negatives
You should look into Secure Container Release, Certified PickUp, Secure Chain, and a whole bunch of other initiatives doing this. Here is the Dutch one: https://www.portbase.com/en/programs/secure-chain/
Do we know what the long-term affects are? Is there any lasting benefit if someone stops taking these types of medication? If one does keep taking it indefinitely, does the addiction-suppression effect stay the same, or reduces over time?
Did you ever get depression as a side effect?
"Pragmatic" connotes a choice that achieves a goal by practical means, possibly sacrificing some desirable features that are challenging to achieve.

"Expedient" connotes a choice that achieves a goal quickly and conveniently, possibly by sacrificing some important but difficult features, and incurring some undesirable costs or consequences.

So they're similar, but not identical. A pragmatic choice might be improved when you can afford it. An expedient choice will probably require some cleanup afterward.
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"10" is a JavaScript error code, indicating "this is JS, not Brainfuck"
Is this like a client-first actors framework? (i.e. Orleans)
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useful line of thinking here.. this approach also reveals a fundamental part of negotiations.. are people interested in seeing an approach? and willing to put up with small failures and setbacks to get to a desired approach? ask that for both sides. call them "automators" .. those who want more robots, all the time, at any cost(?) due to the bright and shiny robot future they make.. and/or the "john henry"s so to speak.. humans and their allies.. people who make a living, have property and are part of families, schools and communities.. elect representatives into social groups that have a seat at the table.. long-term humans that live and thrive

On another hand, pure "economic determinism" about efficiency and quarterly results, that is included in this topic.. but some might say that those economic determinism people have a lot to answer for in an age of inappropriately priced fossil fuels, availability of credit in large amounts for unequal reasons, a system of law and associated prices that assume an infinite natural world to use up in any way, shape or form. etc.
These plans are delivered to the ends user free of charge, including installation and battery backup.

No one's states that in their application because it's a given so this $600 nonsense is misplaced.

And there's other middle mile infrastructure
The one basic principle to automate can be that automation should be used as a means to supplement human productivity , but if it replace the basic livelihoods of human beings then it should be taxed and the proceeds distributed as UBI. After all what is the point of automation of it ends up causing suffering for us?
I suppose self-induced when the weapon is food is, technically, natural.

I’m reading someone (very sadly) doing destructive testing on their own cardiovascular, pulmonary, integumentary, and alimentary systems, seemingly without a control specimen.

Hopefully you’re right about far off, but everything I’ve seen reading through some of these posts implies that further off isn’t growing more likely.
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Which one worked best for you?
No, but I take an SSRI for GAD anyway, which might be a confounding factor
She doth protest too much. A major purpose of education is connecting the past and the present. There will always be slang, but without a “lingua Franca,” you’re not going to make the connection between 1776 and 2024.

And yet she seems resigned to students maintaining “dialects” that make it difficult to talk to grandparents, and impossible to read the “old white men,” while she cites the phone as a reason:

> Linguistically, the dialect of English spoken by contemporary adolescents is rapidly moving further away from the vernacular of the canonical works we ask them to read. While this has always been true to some degree, social media and technology have sped up language evolution and widened the gap between English dialects.
Historically that is incorrect.

Remember that the C standard came about many years after the language was already in use, the C abstract machine wasn't an explicitly design for portability and performance, it was documenting an existing system.

C compilers being performant and portable is partly due to luck but mostly due to hard work by very smart people.

Last time I looked, clangs analysis and optimizing code was more than a quarter of a million lines as an example.

C being imperative is probably a lens for understanding how the type of optimization you are talking about are opportunistic and not intrinsic.

Another lens is to consider that the PDP11 had flat memory, but NUMA, l2 and l3 caches and deep pipelines make the compiler far more complicated despite maintaining that simple model on the abstract machine.

Ironically, FORTRAN, which was written on IBM machines that had decrementing index registers.

While the base one indexing is explained as being simply a choice of lowest value. In the historic context is is better conceptualized as a limit index.

That more closely matches what you are describing above. If you look at the most recent CPP versions adding ranges, that is closer to both FORTRAN and the above IMHO.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/ranges

That history is complicated because Dennis Ritchie's work on college was on what he called 'loop programming', what we would call the structured paradigm today.

That does have the concept that any loop that you know the number of iterations will always halt, but being imperative, C doesn't really enforce that although any individual compiler may.

C compilers are u reasonably effective in optimization, but that is in spite of the limits of the C abstract machine, not because of it .

As shown above, all it takes is one powerful actor like MS making a decision, that probably was justified at the time, to introduce side effects across all platforms.

Often it is safe to assume that the compiler will make good decisions, other times you have to force it to make the correct decision.

But using the default types is a decision more of a choice to value portability than about performance IMHO.
Health care costs is how individual people’s terrible lifestyle decisions end up impacting everybody else. If somebody wants to live some awful unhealthy lifestyle it really should be their own choice to do so. Except for the fact that it drives up everybody’s insurance premiums, and in countries where the government either partially or entirely subsidises healthcare costs, it gives the government an outright moral mandate to start nannying everybody’s health choices.

If somebody wants to live an obese lifestyle, I really think that’s up to them. But I’d be much happier about it if it didn’t cost me so much money.