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> I use git on the CLI 99.9% of the time. I never used a GUI for git and don’t see a reason to.

Because it shows more information about the state and spares you the trouble of navigating much of the zoo that is git cli design

For example,

> It shows the current branch and whether the repository is dirty, i.e. whether it has uncommitted changes

And the GUI would also show what/where those changes are and allow jumping to edit them. And you'd get updates after you edit even without manually refreshing the prompt
I don't remember the details offhand, but yes - unless Chrome's network simulation has been rewritten in the last few years, it doesn't do a good job of approximating real world network conditions.

It's a lot better than nothing, and doing it realistically would be a lot more work than what they've done, so I say this with all due respect to those who worked on it.
Why do humans have near-equal numbers of male and female babies?
Yes you will be fine. Of course benchmarks wise recent laptops will be faster for sure but for regular work a 5 years old laptop is still a beast, especially if you use Linux.
Many who want to avoid taps on their cables will resist standard connectors if they are not both tamper-proof and tamper-evident.
I highly doubt it, given that the optics/resolution are pretty bad for the current mirrored screen size.
Even now, you can saturate a modern cpu core with only 1 million packets per second.
Most are nowhere near as thoughtful and effective as he is, though.
This is the real advantage. Any crapbox with 16GB of ram is good enough for most things (unless you work on JVM microservices), the main benefit of the new laptops is the unreal battery life.

That, and USB-C charging is handy if you spend a lot of time on the road.
Spoken too early - I’ve skimmed the blog and it looked like a pretty thorough and likely more relevant analysis than this post.
It's not their job to make AMD viable, it's AMD's job to make AMD viable. NVIDIA didn't get their position for free, they spent a decade refining CUDA and its tooling before GPU-based crypto and AI kicked off.
Why do you read "tell" as insisting instead of suggesting?
The HoloLens was discontinued because there was no team left.

Everyone important left years ago for Meta and Apple, or startups like Magic leap. There have been several exoduses, whether it was due to bad leadership (see below), military contracts or just a program that was never treated more than an R&D outlet like the Kinect DX was too.

Then the remaining head of program was fired for watching porn during team reviews in headset. Among other allegations of impropriety. Before that, he was considered an awful boss to work for by many.

With nobody left, Microsoft had a ghost project that was eventually killed off. Anyone in this space knew it was coming just by talking to any one on the team.

Its death means nothing more than Microsoft has once again shown it can’t stick with things outside its core competencies.

The HoloLens was also a significantly more limited device because of the nature of waveguides. There are definitely advantages to additive displays but if anyone’s used a HoloLens 1/2, it’s a far inferior experience to the Vision Pro or even other waveguide based products like Magic Leap.
The title is a garden path sentence. It took me a while to figure out it's not about perception which ties limits to something.
The public blogosphere died because of Google, simple as. Once search stopped prioritizing blogs over bloated, SEO-optimized slop, traffic to blogs died and discoverability was limited to you spamming your posts everywhere.
>Do you believe that being rich implies merit?

To some degree, yes. You don't get rich by being incompetent, and even if you get a headstart with an inheritance or endowment you're still going to end up broke if you can't keep making money.

>the unifying element is luck. Being in the right place at the right time with the right amount of money, and knowing the right people to bring it together.

In Japan we say that luck is just another element of your abilities. We also like saying that you don't wait for miracles, you make them yourself.

Considering that Japanese society has a fairly unambitious culture, them saying that should tell you something.

>every day we move closer to that monopoly only existing because rich private citizens choose to allow it.

The US government exists at the pleasure of the people, the US military serves in our interests at our pleasure. Government of the people, by the people, for the people as President Abraham Lincoln once said.

Americans choosing to allow the US government is the system working exactly as intended.
I remember experiencing this in one of the German airports/airlines and having that exact thought.

It was this fully automated airport, where the checkin is self serviced and you only interact with computers.

Eventually, when I inserted my boarding pass I had a printed piece of paper back that said that they had to change my seat from aisle to midseat

I then tried to find someone to talk to the entire way, but computers can only interact in the way the UI was designed, and no programmer accounted or cared for my scenario

The ground attendant couldn't have done anything of course because it wasn't part of the scope of her job, and this was the part of germany where nice was not one of their stereotypes.

Eventually I got a survey a week later about a different leg of the flight, so could I really complain there? that one was fine? I had a paranoid wonder if that was intentional
It's worth it to note: When doing interviews for a new role, the camera quality really does matter.
I'm not sure how much things have changed, but when HN was semi-spun-off into its own autonomous unit inside YC, dang was given the option to change reporting structure so he'd report directly to the board (and not CEO) if he ever thought that was a better arrangement. If he hasn't done so, then I trust that he hasn't felt he's needed to, and that YC's leadership hasn't meddled in HN's operations.

And if he has pulled that trigger, I expect things are still fine, else he'd leave and go elsewhere.
"Accessing my Gmail data programatically" is pretty painless with Apps Script, you can pipe those emails into a Sheet. LLMs are pretty good at writing Apps Script too, I've used them for dozens of small internal tools like your use case https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/gmail
His children and ex wives might disagree
How else can thought be described if not through language? I don't know what you mean by "symbolic constructs." Symbols are the foundation of language—they're not the opposite. There is no sense in which symbols exist outside of at the very least a protolinguistic system. Once you begin to associate sensory data with meaning, you are doing the work of creating language. To analyze or describe cognition, we must use language, which organizes symbols into meaningful constructs. That thought occurs without language is not even wrong per se. It's unfalsifiable, which frankly is worse than being wrong in a scientific context. As Wittgenstein puts it, 'The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.' Without language, discussing thought is impossible, making the claim that thought occurs without language scientifically untenable. It is an attempt to position thought as the transcendental signified.
They're applying that simplification to the exponent bits of an 8 bit float. The range is so small that the approximation to multiplication is going to be pretty close.
I only got my undergrad in physics, but I think there is something there to be mined between time as a dimension and the second law of thermodynamics. Why this one?

First, I will render a quote which never failed to amuse me: "The law that entropy always increases holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations -- then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation -- well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the Second Law of Thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it to collapse in deepest humiliation." (Eddington)

Why such honor? For one, in statistical physics, you can more or less derive the second law of thermodynamics, from scratch. No need for observation. It's just there the same way the quadratic equation is. Somewhere I have a cheap Dover reprint which contains a relatively easy to follow construction of the second law. It's the math. You can measure things badly, you can find one phenomenon creating the appearance of another, but you cannot fool The Math.

And so the statistical physics you can get from just math gives you this arrow of time, flying only one way, just as we see from spacetime.

To me, and again, I only got a few grad courses under my belt in it, this suggests not just a deep connection between entropy and spacetime, but the inevitability of it from the basic math (really, a talented high schooler could be coached through it) means that there is something about large (for n = ?) numbers of particles losing the reversibility which is so often present in particle interactions where n is smaller. What gives there? How do we go from this "trend" emerging to it being a property of spacetime even if no particles are sitting in said spacetime.

Not that I would have dared write the great Wheeler, but I have wondered if his "geon" concept would have fit in with this sort of thing. It seems so fundamental. One can imagine a universe with a different number of un-unified forces, or gravity dropping as the inverse-cube, or varying physical constants, but the math is still the same in these universes and it then suggests that there's no, uh, room for an option wherein the time facet of spacetime is anything but an arrow flying forever on towards entropy in its many masks.

A great task, or perhaps a very alluring windmill, for someone younger and brighter than I.
It's a bit frustrating to observe the US on this issue go from draconic prohibition to laissez faire commercialization when probably the solution lies in a legalized but regulated approach.
Yes.

It will never be possible to get to 100%, but I principle anything below that is possible. Not just 99%, but 99.99999999% or however many you want.

Of course, it's not actually feasible, you would need galaxies worth of energy to do so.

But for something like 10% or even 50% of the speed of light, it's not even that implausible.
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> It was rapidly approaching bankruptcy

I don't think that's a foregone conclusion.

> when Musk was (in the end) forced to purchase it

And because it's private now, we have no idea what its financial situation is. My expectation is that they're much worse off financially since Musk's acquisition, even after shedding most of the staff.

A lot of people I know predicted Twitter would be completely shut down within a year of Musk's acquisition. I wasn't quite so quick to agree, but I think we're still going to get there eventually unless Musk drastically changes course.
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Tangent, but it seems like such a tough engineering challenge to keep all these models around and available at an instant
I love this idea, but have to ask - why is your account 8 years old?
Why will I use !browser, when I simply move that code into .server endpoint (or file)?
You forgot technorati! They lost the plausible deniability there.
The problem exists in Italy: criminal organizations sell a box (called "pezzotto") that connect to illegal streams (mainly sport events).
But the law to block it was written in a very terrible way and this tool is even worst.
Linux on a Skylake-era i7-6820HK (quad core, ~3.2ghz) runs modern GNOME or KDE just fine. I had 64gb of ram and had cleaned the guts and installed a slightly bigger/faster NVMe to use in the last year. It runs LibreOffice or GoogleDocs just fine. It's slow to finish big compiles owing to 4 slow cores, but it's responsive even when bazel is doing its best.

The biggest issues I have with my system is that even with a brand new battery, battery life on 45W Skylake portables isn't ideal (this system is nearly 10 years old now), yielding about 2.5 hours with light browsing or terminal work. The 4k IPS screen is also dim-ish, but I remember it being pretty nice for the era in late 2015/2016. Compared to an M3 macbook pro is like the moon compared to the sun. This isn't inherently an issue with the CPU though.

If you leave the laptop plugged in, it's fine compared to a modern machine. Connected to an external display to avoid the dim screen and I'm able to do my programming/administration work just fine. I don't need a ton of cores to run GNOME powering Chrome and Kitty + tmux + ssh.
We actually were considering DVC, however for our particular use case (huge video files which don't change much) the git paradigm was not that useful - you need at least one copy of the data on the origin and another one on each system that's doing the training. So in the end we just went with files and folders on a NAS, seemed to work good enough.

A hybrid solution of keeping dataset metadata under DVC and then versioning that could work. This was many years ago though and I would be curious if there are any other on-prem data versioning solutions, when I last searched all of them seem geared towards the cloud.
There are many reasons their argument is BS, yes. Explanation successful :)
The "why" section is unfortunately empty, would be nice to learn where other shells are worse vs NGS

The author's origin story compares bash and Python. But then there are python-based shells like xonsh, why wouldn't it be better to improve those vs having this new one?
> A-tier libertarian

It's been a while since I've seen an oxymoron as perfect as this one.
That's how the internet works, there's no guaranteed delivery and TCP bandwidth estimation is based on when packets start to be dropped when you send too many.
So, where are all of your world changing innovations driven by these superhuman capabilities?
I'd also add to this that people often end up with very different ideas of what a unit test is, which confuses things further. I've seen people who write separate tests for each function in their codebase, with the idea that each function is technically a unit that needs to be tested, and that's a sure-fire way to run into tightly-coupled tests.

In my experience, the better approach is to step back and find the longer-living units that are going to remain consistent across the whole codebase. For example, I might have written a `File` class that itself uses a few different classes, methods, and functions in its implementation - a `Stats` class for the mtime, ctime, etc values; a `FileBuilder` class for choosing options when opening the file, etc. If all of that implementation is only used in the `File` class, then I can write my tests only at the `File` level and treat the rest kind of like implementation details.

It may be that it's difficult to test these implementation details just from the `File` level - to me that's usually a sign that my abstraction isn't working very well and I need to fix it. Maybe the difficult-to-test part should actually be a dependency of the class that gets injected in, or maybe I've chosen the wrong abstraction level and I need to rearchitect things to expose the difficult-to-test part more cleanly. But the goal here isn't to create an architecture so that the tests are possible, the goal is to create an architecture that's well-modularised, and these systems are usually easier to test as well.

There's an argument that this isn't a unit test any more - it's an integration test, because it's testing that the different parts of the `File` class's implementation work together properly. My gut feeling is that the distinction between unit and integration is useless, and trying to decide whether this is one or the other is a pointless endeavour. I am testing a unit either way. Whether that unit calls other units internally should be an implementation detail to my tests. Hell, it's an implementation detail whether or not the unit connects to a real database or uses a real filesystem or whatever - as long as I can test the entirety of the unit in a self-contained way, I've got something that I can treat like a unit test.
that's a gotcha. analyzing norms is a matter of fact, and not itself normative. I happen to disagree, otherwise e.g. education wouldn't cause people to be more liberal.
I’m quite sick of all the studies that only talk about problems. If a side effect of some autistic conditions can mean an advantage their area of deep focus can this not also be celebrated ? Often even people with deep autism with associated problems achieve extraordinary things through their focus and persistence.

Otherwise all is presented is negative with no positive. I’d quite like to be seen also from the positive side when it’s present thank you.

I’m happy that I’m not neurotypical and please can’t they cancel trying to cure this. Sounds all too much like eugenics.
Too focused on the bottom level. If a given business process results in employee A doing their job correctly according to the process, passing work to employee B doing their job correctly according to the process, passing work to employee C doing their job correctly according to the process, and the end result is shit, then the person who is accountable for the end result being shit is the manager who is responsible for the process itself. As more and more employees are involved, and the processes get more and more hierarchical (rather than "employee A", you have "middle-manager M"), then the person with accountability is higher and higher up the hierarchy, who also has more and more power and responsibility to fix it.

The idea of "unaccountable" failures only makes sense if both (a) the problem is so systemic that actually an executive is accountable, (b) the executive is so far removed in the hierarchy from the line employees doing the work that nobody knows each other or sometimes even sits on the same campus, (c) the levers available to the executive to fix the problem are insufficient for fixing the problem, e.g. the underlying root cause is a culture problem, but culture is determined by who you hire, fire, and promote, while hiring and firing are handled by "outside" HR who are unaccountable to the executive who is supposedly accountable. But really this is another way of saying that accountability is simply another level higher, i.e. it is the CEO who is accountable since both the executive and HR are accountable to the CEO.

No, you have to have an astoundingly large organization (like government) to really have unaccountability sinks, where Congress pass laws with explicit intent for some desired outcome, but after passing through 14 committees and working groups the real-language policy has been distorted to produce the exact opposite effect, like a great big game of telephone, one defined by everyone trying to de-risk, because the only genuine shared culture across large organizations is de-risking, and it is simply not possible to actually put in place both policy and real-life changes to hiring, firing, and promotion practices in the public sector to start to take more risks, because at the end of the day, even the politicians in Congress are trying to de-risk, and civil servants burning taxpayer money on riskier schemes is not politically popular, though maybe it should be, considering the costs of de-risked culture.
Our current administration is damaging to the country. This anti-Musk insanity started pretty early when Biden invited all EV companies to the EV summit, except Tesla. Which, at that time produced more EVs combined than the rest.

And now people are wondering why Musk doesn't like current administration. What a mystery.
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Oof, you consider that an enhancement? If anyone paused something we were watching to read something off a web page, I'd lose my patience real fast.

My partner is often on her phone intermittently while we're watching something together, and even that bothers me. It seems quite sad to me that people can't put their phones down for even a half hour to watch an episode of a sitcom.
New Glenn, eventually.
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If you get a laptop with removable batteries, it doesn't really matter. Just carry a backup battery if you need it and you outdo modern laptops with non-removable batteries.
Looks like it’s being worked on: https://lwn.net/Articles/989623/
> To calculate A + B you could for example generate A, B for trillions of combinations and encode that within the network. And it would calculate this faster than any human could.

I don't feel like this is a very meaningful argument because if you can do that generation then you must already have a superhuman machine for that task.
Having used both a fair bit I much prefer Flutter. RN always felt like fragile pile of hacks to me with extremely brittle builds. Flutter feels like a stack engineered for purpose from the ground up and the tooling, ecosystem and performance have been consistently great.

Also RN has no real desktop app story.
You’d probably like to see JigSpace on the Vision Pro

https://youtu.be/Cw9_Ywnsdcw?si=pLT2uttXCDJEA3MX
I had a hilarious time deleting comments from people who don't believe the topic is real. Specifically hard to believe stuff made the experience funny. People got really mad in private messages. As if it is a god given right to complain about others talking about something so elaborately that the conversation dies.

All scaling issues solved.

If you want to talk about the garden gnome liberation front you must believe they need to be rescued.
How else would you test if something happens after 1 second or not?
Simple. Buy TV, never connect to wifi. Plug in Apple TV. Never worry about ads or anything.
To whom does it really matter? How do you know?
A though: any open-source project which worries about "corporate freeloaders" despite its license is not truly open-source.
In my country they enacted this system for student management that is national.

It handles signups, restauration and housing services, grades, everything.

One example is that the grades are entered by professors and mistakes happen all the time, for everyone, due to the insane server load.

There's no one to complain to, because the excuse is always "it's the system, not us"
The point is that "accountability of an algorithm" is a category error.
I agree, and I don't think they're actually dying. I think certainly they're a much smaller percentage of consumed content today than thy were 15 or 20 years ago, but I don't believe that's because readership has dropped. It's just that the pie is significantly bigger now, and other media has gobbled up most of it.

I dropped off social media 5-6 years ago and don't miss it; I still read blogs and get much more value out of them.
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Hey,
I used to spend hours creating landing pages for my side projects & SaaS. However it's such an important part of the process.

I've noticed that the whole process is pretty redundant: why not make it 10x faster using AI?

Generations are 100% free for now. The AI generates a working NextJS14 project that you can immediately deploy.

Any feedback?
Also consider the speed of light is also the speed of causality. If there was no such limit it means it would be possible for effects to precede causes which would lead to a very different kind of universe!