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I cannot express the pleasure I felt seeing prices in my local currency automatically, without the Shopify "Zoinks! Looks like you're on our American store, would you like to change to our Polish store?" modal I've come to know and hate. Thanks.
[inheritance] serves no purpose in a society based on improving the lives of the entire population

I would say that society is served well by the ability of widows to inherit and not be left destitute. Similarly for minor children.

If you're talking specifically about inheritance by adult children, I agree the arguments in favour are weaker.
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10k parallel users I agree, but 10k receiving all updates from the other 9999 and vice versa can become quite a complex problem to solve.

Especially within time (latency), monetary hosting cost, and accuracy constraints.

For example, an MMO town with 10,000 connected clients all viewing the same complex session state of all other users and entities in one town.

That’s a lot of room for error. Or am I missing something?

That scenario is complex to me and has remained complex to me despite my various times building it out for various products.
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Now shred that log to particles and scatter them everywhere, and you have the "dust theory". Neither the time dimension or the log are shared with the simulating universe, and yet they are still valid for the observers within the universe.

If the sequence of the log states is entirely deterministic based on the initial state, then you don't even need to actually write down the entire log for it to "exist". This is Greg Egan's Permutation City.
I don't want to be the old fart killjoy, but why not use net/mail.Parse()?

Using regexp for email parsing is really error prone and gives email validators that don't accept characters like + that are often used for aliases, etc
> I already took some precautions re: security just in case...

Shouldn't you be able to sue HBO for forcing you to take unnecessary expenses?
I'm a technical artist so I'm pretty familiar with professional film and game production pipelines, and how generative AI is used within them. The genuinely useful tools for NN in production workflows will look like Nuke's copycat tool. Being very familiar with the current state of these tools, I'd be shocked if something like lighting could be controlled anywhere close to precisely enough for real professional work in the foreseeable future. Even with a full 3D scene, forward-thinking tools like Octane can only muster up modest optimizations with NN lighting processing. Starting from a 2D image? Maybe for a real estate listing, online product photo, or personal media, but that's about it. Prompts are just fundamentally one of the least useful interfaces for precise work, and most people involved just don't realize how unforgiving the requirements are for high-end media production.
When I first heard the maxim that an intelligent person should be able to hold two opposing thoughts at the same time, I was naive to think it meant weighing them for pros and cons. Over time I realized that it means balancing contradictory actions, and the main purpose of experience is knowing when to apply each.

Concretely related to the topic, I've often found myself inlining short pieces of one-time code that made functions more explicit, while at other times I'll spend days just breaking up thousand line functions into simpler blocks just to be able to follow what's going on. In both cases I was creating inconsistencies that younger developers nitpick -- I know I did.

My goal in most cases now is to optimize code for the limits of the human mind (my own in low-effort mode) and like to be able to treat rules as guidelines. The trouble is how can you scale this to millions of developers, and what are those limits of the human mind when more and more AI-generated code will be used?
Yeah, but one of those packages is nodejs. That means no firefox, no transmission, almost nothing with a web ui.
Quick appreciation for the Douglas Adams reference :)
>people with an estate that is taxable — worth more than $13.6 million, or $27.2 million for a married couple

the regulatory capture on display in the USA is absolutely pathetic hahaha
I think it was more of a “click”

Back in the ?ps/2? days, I had a joke equalizer plugin for Winamp that used the 3 LEDs on your keyboard. Another output device!
So this is basically a result of the DEA forcing eBay to enforce a ban on pill presses for them?

I hate how the government has basically been deputizing internet companies to enforce laws and regulations for them. If the DEA had done this themselves you could appeal it, ask your congressperson for help, or take them to court, but as long as their actions get laundered through a private company, the rights of the affected citizens disappear.
Hahaha! It's not blanks. UAP.
> Inlining functions also has the benefit of not making it possible to call the function from other places.

I’ve really gone to town with this in Python.

def parse_news_email(…):
def parse_link(…):
…

def parse_subjet(…):
…

…

If you are careful, you can rely on the outer function’s variables being available inside the inner functions as well. Something like a logger or a db connection can be passed in once and then used without having to pass it as an argument all the time:

# sad
def f1(x, db, logger): …
def f2(x, db, logger): …
def f3(x, db, logger): …
def g(xs, db, logger):
for x0 in xs:
x1 = f1(x0, db, logger)
x2 = f2(x1, db, logger)
x3 = f3(x2, db, logger)
yikes x3

# happy
def g(xs, db, logger):
def f1(x): …
def f2(x): …
def f3(x): …
for x in xs:
yield f3(f2(f1(x)))

Carmack commented his inline functions as if they were actual functions. Making actual functions enforces this :)

Classes and “constants” can also quite happily live inside a function but those are a bit more jarring to see, and classes usually need to be visible so they can be referred to by the type annotations.
I slightly lament the rise of MIT or BSD licensed middleware like this. It's undoubtedly great for the developers and organisations in question, but there's undoubtedly some societal good from having GPL or LGPL licensed products encouraging organisations to release their code under a similar license. This already exists for Go and Qt, and the competing library is "soon" to release a commercial license that would be available for those who do not wish to use the LGPL. Nevertheless, huge props to the author(s) for what undoubtedly is a vast amount of work.
Persistent collections for Kotlin are actually implemented in a first-party library: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.collections.immutable

I use it in almost every project because it works so well with StateFlow: https://kotlinlang.org/api/kotlinx.coroutines/kotlinx-corout...
> Ukraine is at war with Russia

This single fact shows, according to you, that no embargo can ever happen in the future. I abandon this "conclusion" to you.

Uranium reserves are to be considered in current conditions, all reserves are not immediately available nor equivalent (ore grade...).

> there is zero reason to withhold uranium

There will be more and more reasons to do so if it becomes scarce and needed by superpowers.

> even OPEC

Because the superpowers are at ease with the current situation (shale oil plays a major role here). Oil already triggered wars.
> The person being dead just means their surviving family and heirs are the target instead.

Which logically makes little sense TBH in this case in particular, but yeah thugs might not be particularly reasonable.
I was hoping that they sell them back internationally. I mean, how many '90s amplifiers can an african city buy?
>You can't just arbitrarily set the status quo that way,

huh, what natural, physical laws are being broken? collecting taxes exceeds the speed of light or goes below 0K or something?
Natural already means "things undisturbed by human activity", among a good lot of other things. As long as there's a clear need for such a word, it would do us good to have a separate word for that, like notmanmade or whatever, because that would make discussions clearer.
A lot of kitech's work was in making the large C ABI wrapper. There's another C ABI wrapper already in Debian (libqt5pas) that might be possible to use directly.
>I'd describe your system as closer to mob rule.

lmfao this is always, always, always the refrain
I thought that too, but whole page loads are slow too; I assume it's just because I live nowhere near Brazil.
Brave offers the most privacy friendly browsing available by default on both desktop and mobile.

This easily negates much of the privacy invasion efforts of ad networks. Even if they do continue to track you, this hinders their ability to put "personalized" ads in front of you.

If enough people do this, invasive "personalized" ads and associated machinery will eventually reach a tipping point and become non-profitable.

This won't stop advertising but it will force the industry to adopt more sensible, privacy respecting "context sensitive" techniques.

Social media apps are a different story.
> Same as Russia, Iran, China etc. Whose propaganda/influence are somehow OK.

This shitty argument doesn't even rise to the level of 'tu quoque' precisely because it's not ok when those countries do it.
It would be nice to add some styles where controls don't cover the video (I don't understand why at one point everyone decided that video controls have to cover actual video).

Otherwise great project!
Or you know, candy, which overlaps a lot with pharmaceutical production and packaging.
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well, people without 4G or a later phone model probably don't have the money for your $5 per month service anyways, so why care about them at all /s
What a useless page. Maybe put less effort into insults and put the actual explanation front-and-centre rather than burying it in a linked page.
Nobody said otherwise, you are desperately moving the goalpost here.
Capitalism only works when you have a middle class. Protecting billionaires’ abilities to hoard wealth is not in the interests of the middle class.

To be charitable I’ll point out that in general that’s not what you’re arguing for. There is a real sense in which personal freedom is essential to people making it out of poverty. Protecting one person’s and not another’s would defeat the point.

Here is the compromise. It should be easy for people to do things that billionaires would have no point doing (i.e. take out a business loan of $10K) and difficult for billionaires to do things that people would have difficulty doing (hoard the global supply of some good). That’s if your goal is to have an equitable society where everyone is on the same difficulty level, more or less.

Approached this way there would not be a slippery slope because the delineation is quite clear. Moreover there’s no squashing of personal freedom, a billionaire is always free to do things a regular person is able to do. In fact the system we have now basically squashes the freedom of the average person because they are not free to do things (buy a house, have a chance in court) by virtue of not having money while other people have a ton.
There’s ruffle! It’s able to play swf files, but there’s no editor, yet.
Heh! :) Okay, I think you might be missing the bigger picture.

What is so crazy for you about the idea that there are countermeasures? It does seem like you are trying quite hard to say "This cannot be the case, absolutely."?

Also, if you have time, you don't think the first “Installation of the Future” concept prototype... additional microgrids and “self-reliance” power generation systems implies a certain level of technical competence were failures would be highly unusual?
I would bet that those air-gapped systems are running some version of MS windows.
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To me, the proliferation of "better classes" implies there's a problem with Python's built-in classes - but what's wrong? Are they just too flexible and/or too verbose? Or actually deficient in some way?
You could make that argument for anything, though.
That is a concern that is shared with ReLU. But since the weights are shared across the context/minibatch, perhaps that would not be an issue, similar to ReLU.
What's the core technology making these models significantly better?
Also, QML exposes only a fraction of the functionality of the Qt Widgets API.
My eBay account of 20 years got cancelled because I followed their customer support's suggestion of opening a new one. And now I can't sell on eBay anymore:

https://tsak.dev/posts/the-decision-is-final-and-we-cannot-r...
Since there are video experts around in this thread, does anyone know if there are implementations out there for a player that enables fast smooth scrubbing with audio, similar to how you can scrub and/or watch the timeline at 16x in Adobe Premiere. I guess one needs to eagerly load something like a 16khz mono audio track and some sort of 1fps sprite or 240p video format with I-frames only to switch to on scrub.
I estimate I won’t be able to press my own bearings with a Harbor Freight press in a few years because someone used the same tool to cut and rebrick drugs.
You use a lot of words to respond to such a minor point. The main point is that actual "plain react" is useless. You need at least a router, some way to manage state, some way to manage style and so on. It's why nextjs is so popular, they are practically "plain react"
'is_deleted' in the db while AI crawls everything all the time including those?
> Tesla

... didn't at the time (circa 2015) like V2G because it competed with its Powerwall project. This is a completely obsolete consideration: https://zecar.com/reviews/2024-tesla-model-y-bidirectional-c...

> decreasing capacity

This is true. However this is to put in perspective with the financial impact: batteries are (from a technical viewpoint) more and more able to cope with this and charging during cheap electricity times then partially discharging when electricity is expensive will reduce the overall cost of the vehicle.

> A 2015 study

Obsolete.
Well, I get charged sales tax when I buy something at a store, itemized on my receipt. But the store writes the check to the state, and I write the check to the store. Did I pay or did the store? And why does it differ from a renter? Are we splitting hairs over itemized vs unitemized receipts?

And what about a retail store in England where the VAT isn’t itemized? Did I pay or did the store?
I said “may”, not “must”. Please don’t put words in my mouth — you have no idea what my beliefs are behind your keyboard. Thanks.

Ubiquitous adoption is an advantage for a given class of technology. This isn’t survivorship bias, it’s simply consumers finding a given technology useful to them and continuing to use it. Survivorship bias would have required ISO or img to fail and neither have failed (survivorship bias requires a non-survivor).

I can port an ISO between OSes from the early 90s through today. I can’t reliably do that with img as it may not use a universally accepted file system.

(And I did happen to burn a NetBSD ISO for a G4 last month from my M2 Air)
> Word censoring?

Should only ever be needed for text from the user, and in that case, as GP said, find a way to examine it as-is, don't "convert".

> Ease of use?

What ease of use? When has futzing around with case ever made anything easier?

> Console commands (i.e. from Quake to minecraft)?

Why would those necessitate changing case?
This one made my day.

One thing that I feel should be mandatory when building applications is setting: `user-select: none;` and only allowing it where it's needed.
For example, the reelplay theme bar is selectable

Again, thank you for this wonderful work
>Also, if you're going to give someone a lifetime ban for some keywords that AI picks up in a listing title, GIVE YOUR USERS A RED TEXT WARNING BEFORE THEY LIST IT TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE!

>They do that for BB guns and other items with WAY fewer consequences if you mess up!!

She has a point though. If it's illegal, why even let it get listed in the first place? Why not just give the seller a warning during the listing process?
When I went I wanted to buy souvenirs that weren't just cute and sat on a shelf so I focused on low cost but cute homeware.

It brings me so much happiness each time I use my daiso rice scoop or getting a tealight out of the bag I bought my fountain pen in! and ofc chopsticks because they really do the best ones.

If your buying pens don't forget to stock up on ink!

If I'd had more money at the time I would have bought better quality but the fact that some things were from the 100y store and are still better quality than stuff bought here says a lot!
Good point. We’re still not describing it perfectly. Admittedly I’m doing it by my memory of the last time I read Wolframs ideas.
I think we unfortunately have to describe it using Kolmogorov complexity: what is the length of the shortest computer program that produces the object as an output?
What Wolfram means by computational irreducibility is that he asserts that reality itself is the shortest length computer program that can produce its own output, and it can’t be shortened (reduced) any further without losing information.

Edit: sorry I think I still haven’t fully described it. Will have to come back to it tomorrow when I’ve had some sleep
No, because we have ne replacement for kitchen knives.

We have a replacement for nuclear: renewables.
Generally, the idea is that there is no incompatibility between units. Money is a bit exotic given its abstract nature wrt units / exchange rates.

For instance, physical dimensions store values as SI units, regardless of supplied unit, but retain the supplied unit type as a display hint.

Here, the Length dimension illustrates working with amounts of any unit.

Length orbit = 250 mi;

Length moon = 238000 km;

Length landing = moon + orbit;

display(landing); // prints 148,136.344 mi

display(landing.to(km)); // prints 238,402.336 km

// where

display(landing.to(mi) == landing.to(km)); // prints true

// perhaps a better example

Rate rate = 1.41 km/s;

Time duration = 76 hours;

Length distance = rate * duration;

// make your own unit constants

RateUnit kps = km/s;

rate = 1.41 kps;

You can play with the manifold-science[1] project, it implements the complete SI physical dimensions and many derived dimensions along with comprehensive operator overloading[2] support etc. to make working with and reading code using quantities more productive in Java.

1. https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/tree/master/man...

2. https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/tree/master/man...
eBay could have also easily detected the keywords during the listing process and prevented the listing from going live.
How much of this is specific to control loops that execute at 60hz?
Thank you for the opportunity to mention these:

“If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.”

Cardinal Richelieu

——

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument
Why is the device connected to the Internet? And why does it have a camera?
> I made reference to exactly this if you read carefully. I actually think this rejection is an inflection point in his behavior. He ought to have been more gracious and received the rejection without hurt to his ego (and reacting as he did). I think since then he’s wrongly viewed that event as ‘No good deed goes unpunished’ and become more and more defiant in his attitude.

Regarding this I think it's also worth a detailed study of that event. Unsworth (the guy doing the insult/who got insulted) wasn't even a diver. https://savingjournalism.substack.com/p/the-real-thai-cave-r...
It will never not be funny to me how Java language designs have such a hatred for operator overloading yet will happily accept .multiply(2).add(something) as a substitute.
> No? Downloading Hugo, getting a random theme and writing a few articles is pretty simple and requires no more tinkering than doing the same with a Wordpress

This is not even remotely true. There are more hosts than I can count offering one click wordpress installs that dump you straight into a point where you can begin publishing.

> (okay, one's actions are big buttons in a UI, the other is copy pasting commands, but in terms of effort, there's barely any difference).

For the average non-engineering background user, this is a huge difference.

I've spent most of my IT career in hosting. You are vasltly overestimating the capabilities or care factor of a significant chunk of the user market.
That's the job of a government, and why would people fund it through taxes if it doesn't do its job?
> Fukushima could have been easily predicted

After such an accident some armchair experts are quite sure that it "could have been easily predicted". Before the accident (to "easily" prevent it) or during it they are nowhere to be found.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41774144
Funny enough, the equivalent of your Python example is how Haskell 'fakes' all functions with more than one argument (at least by default).

Imperative blocks of code in Haskell (do-notation) also work like this.
There's a whole handful of permissively-licensed, feature-matched alternatives to GNU Readline that I suspect only exist due to political aversions to its license. It saddens me that these people would rather waste time treading over the same paths others have just to increase the potential for nonfree software, rather than using that time to write free and useful things.
There is a Muji still in Portland if you need ink for their pens at least. I’m really surprised it’s still there actually.
Yes, humans are in control, but in the case of Windows the humans that control the default behavior of the system when an USB device is connected are not the ones that are using it. Frankly, I wonder why implement an air gap if Windows is being used. Even in the case of Linux a hardened configuration should be used.
Hahahahaha! :) So it's totally okay for you to try that, but no one can say anything back, is that right? You don't think you're a little biased? Might that not be the definition of the disrespect you pretend to be against but try to throw at others? Huh, here's a tip: if you can't take it, don't dish it out. Hahaha! :)
Dynamic languages demand self discipline, they teach you to respect runtime and think ahead of execution time.

I've written software with both typed and untyped languages and never had problems (out of the ususal) with them.
Apple’s New Disk Image Format used the img extension. Fortunately not something you see anymore.
Comments about HTMX vs. React keep popping up, but I think they miss the point and it's probably a "marketing" problem on HTMX side if people feel the need to write these.

On the contrary, Unpoly -which shares similarities with HTMX but is probably more high level- makes it very clear on its front page:

Progressive enhancement for HTML

Get powerful new HTML attributes to build dynamic UI on the server.
Works with any language. Gracefully degrades without JavaScript.

Granted, HTMX has "high power tools for HTML" right on its front page, but it also has "reduced code base sizes by 67% when compared with react".

Anyway, as always, tools ad trade-offs...