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Thank you for engaging in the conversation. This is the kind of response I was hoping for. :)

I'm not nearly as experienced with Vim as you are, even though I've been using it for a similar amount of time, along with Emacs. I've never written my own plugins, though have deeply configured them to my preference along the years.

The thing is that I never feel that I'm playing "vimgolf", or that I need to make an effort to remember key bindings. Maybe once I change some things or introduce new behavior it requires a period of adjustment, but for the vast majority of time the actions I need to take to produce an effect are ingrained in my muscle memory. E.g. I don't actively think "how do I select the text between parenthesis", and typing `vi)` just happens automatically with little mental effort. I'm sure it's the same for you and anyone who's used Vim for a while.

In contrast, it's not possible to achieve this with mouse input. You will always have to consciously think about the action you want to take and manipulate the mouse to achieve it. More importantly, this action will always be imprecise given the analog nature of the input, so you might misclick and cause unintended behavior. Additionally, it takes your hands away from the keyboard which you're already using for making content changes. I'm a big fan of the ThinkPad Trackpoint for this reason, but even that is not a perfect solution. All of this combined means that it requires much more effort from the user, to the point where it's personally unbearable every time I've tried it. Both Vim and Emacs support mouse input as well, but I never rely on it for this reason.

> The best way to approach acme is NOT to think of it as a text editor, but rather think if it as a replacement for your terminal.

That's interesting. I kind of don't want that, though. Just like with my editors, I've invested a lot of time and effort to customize my terminal as well. It also has custom key bindings and configuration, and is deeply integrated into my workflow. Emacs, for example, supports embedding terminals and many different shells. I can see the benefit of having better integration with the editor, but all these solutions have some shortcomings that make them inferior to using a standalone terminal IME.

I also prefer the Unix philosophy of using smaller tools that do one thing well, and combining them to fit my workflow. Repurposing my editor for all my tasks doesn't gel nicely with that, otherwise I would be using an IDE. :)

> Basically, try it. It's so different, it's hard to get across in just words. It's like smalltalk - you have to try it to really get it.

Thanks. I've tried Acme a few times over the years, but not extensively, precisely because I get frustrated fairly quickly... I'll give Anvil or acme2k a more serious attempt. But then again, this is all based on personal preferences anyway, so I'm fine with accepting these editors are just not for me.

Cheers for the chat!
Linux was nowhere around when PCs were already running OS/2 and Windows NT, it was something to toy around at home, for doing university homework, and only because Windows NT POSIX wasn't good enough.

Had Microsoft known better, and Linux would never taken off on PC.

Paying for software was never an issue back then, piracy was quite common, you could get whatever you wanted on the countries where street bazaars are a common thing.

Check the list, make your order, come around the following week.
> > ..., should not be mandated to comply with requirements targeting the responsibilities along the AI value chain, ...

What does that mean?
I’d love to do that, but I have a different kind of syndrome where I can’t motivate myself to play something unless I’m playing with other people. Being an adult, I don’t have anyone who can just jump on a game with me on a regular schedule.

I’ve wanted to play Valheim for ages. I even bought the Factorio DLC on launch day and barely played it because nobody wanted to play.
Benchmark GGUF models with a ONE line of code
> I've seen no evidence that it is significantly worse for pedestrian safety than an F-150

Serious question: have you looked? Or is there any special reason you imagine that if such evidence existed, you would have seen it?

I say this because I spent 10-15 minutes looking for information and gave up because I’m not sure of any tests which I could use to compare the two, or any testing bodies that focus on pedestrian safety. If that information exists, I’d be interested to see a side by side comparison.
Seinfeld was also filmed in LA, but I recall at least one episode where they took the subway.
I think our lame ass congress wants to get rid of it by eliminating standard time. Completely useless group of humans.
This is not especially surprising. It's not that I can't focus. I can, for hours and hours and hours on end. The difficulty is directing that focus productively. High stress environments provide the necessary motivation, forcing my focus onto the thing demanding that attention more strongly than the usual cacophony of distractions. But high stress also leads to burnout; I can't sustain that for months on end, so I have to cope in other ways most of the time. (Typically by altering my environment to reduce distractions.)
How an entire article about rotary mixers fails to mention Rane or their legendary MP2016 mixer is wild.

It became one of the most commonly available rotary mixers, was the house mixer for many NYC clubs, and one of the mixers commonly found on tech riders of DJs who were the last to transition to CDJs.

Random bit of trivia: if you see old school photos or videos of rotary mixers in American clubs, sometimes it wasn't actually the Rane MP2016, but the Phazon SDX 3700: https://www.integralsound.com/sdx-3700-mixer It was the house mixer for Tunnel/Limelight.
I agree that breaking up Google is a good idea. Way back in the mists of time, the main way we found out about each other's work was from links in other blogs. It tended to be a virtuous circle, but starting out was haphazard at best. You could get some attention in replies at the bottom of posts, but then the spam came and killed those off.

I think that one way out (with the goal of making conversation independent of google) would be for us to pick up RSS again, and perhaps come up with some RSS specific search engines. Some sort of federated mechanism for ratings and reputation would help.
My dad had a Blu-ray player that had similar features to a smart TV (Netflix, etc). There was a licensing sever and the API was down, so everything stopped working. A single point of failure for the whole device.
I've started and re-started Factorio several times, and always enjoy it... up the point where an automated train network is necessary. Here, I always run into problems, and no amount of researching or fettling of the setup seems to guarantee that my trains work. Sometimes they do... often, I have to drive them manually.

Anyway, if you like Factorio, you might also enjoy Mindustry: simmilar-ish, less constructional depth, more tower-defence and fighting.
I won't go so far as to say I'm disgusted by what others do, but I am increasingly resenting having to use my phone for myriad tasks that shouldn't require a phone in the first place. Like unlocking my apartment door. It's obviously so that someone can get a recurring cut where they would have once provided a one-time semi-permanent solution (like a key, or a notepad).

I mean, maybe some of this will be blunted over time as open source slowly eats away at these utilities, but until then I view my phone like a grenade, or a drug, or a slot machine, or a money-eater.
So it's easier to drive to San Francisco from Seattle instead of parking your car at the train station in Seattle, take a train and then do your business on downtown SF, come back to Seattle and take your car back home?

(It's a figurative example I'm not sure there's a train from Seattle to SF)
I would have thought a direct fusion drive might be the way to go where you fuse something like helium-3 and deuterium and then just let it escape put the back to propel the rocket. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Fusion_Drive)

Admittedly it's hypothetical and no one's built one but it would be quite similar to the thing Helion is building which is theoretically supposed to make electricity this year. Although many are skeptical about that.

There's a photo here of an earlier Helion thing https://www.linkedin.com/posts/helion-energy_first-frc-in-ou...
Polish vodka it is :)
Is it free? Yeah they will have some of the most talented people looking after the infrastructure, would be fine to backup non sensitive stuff. Pictures of my cat etc.
> Sibley thought that ADHD patients would experience
> the most relief during periods of low stress. What
> she found was more counterintuitive.

Did this researcher not talk to anyone with ADHD before starting this project?
> What horrors lurk in the depths of those lovelessly constructed TV OSs that call out to servers and will cause mayhem when those servers are decommissioned?

My Sony TVs all work without an internet connection, so I'd guess nothing?
Calculators don't really help you think. You need to have a concept of the calculation beforehand and you only run the technical steps on the calculator.

Writing is different. It is more akin to the left leg, when the right leg is your thinking. I am a weird combination of an author and a mathematician-turned-programmer, and both these skills are very useful in either activity; I wouldn't be able to program half as well if I didn't dump my messy ideas to a doc first, especially when the model is far from straightforward.

Writing things down is a huge feedback loop for thinking. Plenty of edge cases stick their head out of the doc once you write everything down.
French high speed trains are fast, for instance the average speed of the train on the Paris-Strasbourg section (~400km in length) is 250km/h. This is the global average speed, so it is even faster on the high-speed section, going at around 320km/h. I often take this train, which is very convenient.
Seems like ad copy for the recently-released Alpha Theta Euphonia.
If continental Europeans want to visit another distant European country, that's a rare use case? Or are you only referring to e.g. US tourists visiting Europe?
Not necessarily. In my experience large corporations have a ton of internal tooling that no one knows about, even internally. Say in a company with 6000 employees scattered around the globe, tough luck knowing whether some developer made a one-off tool to debug something and used the company's LDAP to authenticate, and then the app connects to some db full of stuff. Years back I stumbled upon such a tool that had a web shell that allowed you to do pretty much anything using some dev's account - anyone with a company email could access it. This is far more frequent than you might think in large corporations. In small companies, typically everyone has access to everything and if that isn't the case, more often than not, you will ask someone to go and fetch something for you and the third time around, they will get fed up with it and give you full access so you don't bother them anymore. 6 months down the line, everyone has access to everything. Or if a small to mid-sized company sees people that clearly know what they are doing, they commonly give them full access to everything so they can get on with it. Like at my current job I've had root access to everything, everywhere since day 1.
There are three big risks I see in depending on vendors:

1. You aren't average. Market forces might not align with your use case. The pricing model might change, or it might happen that you find out later it doesn't scale well for your business.

2. They might leave you suddenly. For example, all the google "products" (quotes because there is actually only one--ads) that have disappeared over the years. Even when an open source dependency suffers a cataclysmic licensing event, you can still fork it and carry on, provided you've both chosen your dependencies wisely and hired the people capable of maintaining them.

3. By choosing a vendor you're making a commitment to ossifying a part of your stack. The observability example is a good one here. At the companies I've worked for who do all their logging, metrics, alerting, etc in-house, developers aren't afraid to use the tools. The tools adapt to the requirements, whether it's cost efficiency, features, whatever. At the companies where we've used vendors everyone's perpetually afraid of increasing the monthly bill, and nobody has a say in deciding what goes on the product roadmap. To be clear, this might be the right trade.
What’s the AI part? This just looks like automation… yet again.
Too late to edit so I'll self- reply: My claim was completely wrong, log 1000 is only about half of log 1000000, and this is true regardless of base. Whoops...
You shouldn’t even joke about this. Stimulant meds for ADHD do not make people high. If you get high off them you don’t have ADHD.
I expected much more from the article.
It is, especially, poorly argumented.
I feel the author wrote it hastily.

To begin with, the following assumption is false:

>To write well you have to think clearly, and thinking clearly is hard.

For most people, most life situations which require clear thinking have nothing to do with writing.

>This is why eminent professors often turn out to have resorted to plagiarism.

What's the percentage of such professors ? In the university I studied, there is no case of plagiarism till today. And plagiarism is not done because professors can't write, but due to other professional factors.

>If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking.

As if writing is the only way to think well/correctly/effectively. My father never wrote a word: still, some of the most thoughtful statements I ever heard in my life were told to me by him during our conversations.

When you face a situation of danger, such as a wolf is running towards you: will you start to write your thoughts about what you should do, or will you just run right away and decide about the safest paths to follow while you are escaping ?
Good service and cheaper than cloud.
Keep them airgapped or use a smart HDMI stick, their support typically outperform anything from the TV vendor and you can install apps (e.g. Jellyfin) on them. If you dislike Google or Amazon there are some Linux based options.

There is also HDMI over-radio but I don't know its limits (range, bandwidth, latency).
Very much agree. I made a cross-platform and open-source note-taking app[1] in Qt C++ but never really talked to common end users and their needs, just built for myself.

Now that I'm working on a proprietary version[2] (with a block editor I rewrote from scratch), I'm talking to these end users and understand their frustration in using my product. For example, many users had issues discovering the different features of the app, so I created a toolbar, which much helped. This is just one example.

[1] https://notes-foss.com/

[2] https://get-notes.com/
So much of his point is that you should appreciate Watchmen for what it is, rather than worry about his association with it.

You thinking he should behave a certain way in response to your appreciation is more or less exactly what he thinks is ridiculous!
Common myth. ADHD medications used as prescribed by people with ADHD in typical therapeutic doses don’t cause the high that neurotypical people experience from recreational doses. When I’ve taken those (yes by proper prescription for ADHD), my experience has been nothing like what I’ve heard neurotypical people describe.

What’s more, plenty of people with ADHD are unmedicated, and performing well under stress - sometimes even better than people without ADHD in such situations - is a common ADHD pattern even without medication. This pattern is widely self-reported in ADHD peer support communities.

One theory I’ve heard is that the stressful situation causes the body to produce more of the neurotransmitters for which ADHD often causes a deficit, and so neurotypical people sometimes produce too much to focus calmly in that circumstance whereas ADHD people can have the rare experience of functioning more like neurotypical people normally do.
Yeah, half baked anything is going to screw you over. INI files are certainly programmatically serialisable, otherwise they wouldn't exist. It does move the datatypes to the program rather than being encoded in the config though, which adds to program overhead. Horses for courses though, with greater flexibility comes greater potential to f*uk it up.
There is still enough Unix™ around, including from a well know fruit company.
Yes. But would encryption be allowed? If not, how would they know if the data was encrypted?
If politicians had any desire or awareness to actually represent the needs of their constituents, the USA would look like a wildly different place. Instead we just have a single wedge issue every four years that's sufficient to drive enough people to the polls to keep politicians in power.
Unlike in Europe, where rail maintenance is heavily subsidised by the government, in the US it is paid for by the private rail operators to a much greater extent. Thus the rail operators have much more say over how the rail is used and obviously priorities the more profitable traffic, which in the US is cargo.

So if the US government would wanted to build out cross country passenger rail they would either have to build new tracks, or use eminent domain to take back control of the existing tracks. Both options would be very expensive and wildly unpopular.
Caps dry out but transformers don’t go bad unless dropped or something like that.
The article actually addresses this directly through Wheeler's distinction between "Voice of the Customer" (arbitrary targets/expectations) and "Voice of the Process" (what's actually achievable). The key insight is that focusing solely on hitting targets without understanding the underlying process capabilities leads to gaming metrics. Amazon's WBR process shows how to do this right - they focus primarily on controllable input metrics rather than output targets, and are willing to revise both metrics and targets based on what the process data reveals is actually possible. The problem isn't having targets - it's failing to reconcile those targets with process reality.
Most european countries have connections with more bandwith and less base latency for cheaper than the US, it's not a connection issue. If there was an issue it's that the repo itself is hosted on the other side of the world, but even so the sidenote itself is odd.
I know what high is, and prescription levels of these drugs ain’t doing it champ.

Oddly enough my lyrica dosage on the other hand can make feel oddly very pleasant.
Yes. The somewhat nice property of rust having guaranteed memory safety has been blown out of proportion so much that even though C++ with smart pointers and a bit of bounds checking is quite likely not to have memory safety issues, the comunity has decided that anything less than a guarantee means the language is unfit for any purpose and no new projects should ever be started in it. As if Java/JS/C# don't have null reference exceptions occurring all the time and to me those seem quite similar to segfaults. But I guess people are only specifically alergic to memory unsafety.
Looks like Moonshine is competing against the Whisper-tiny model. There isn't any information in the paper to see how it compares to the larger whisper-large-v3.
US IT sector is too linked to the US and Israeli military. One more reason for Europeans, for example, to create their own sovereign independent IT sector. They lack the will but by following blindly they will again pay the price like we see with dutch ASML now and Nokia before it.
> No wonder that took a lot of JavaScript!

To the point where they quickly found the flaws in JS for large codebases and came up with Typescript. I think. It makes sense that TS came out of the office for web project.
Some information online indicates that the non high speed train takes about 20 mins more than the high speed train on that route. It does not seem a huge time difference
So, I'm not the only one. ;-)

I'm thinking something functionally identical to Backblaze, but with versions going back to the 1950s.

I'd love to be able to go back and read all my emails and BBS messages, I'm sure they're all sitting in Utah, and I paid for them to be there, after all.

I don't think that there's any use in arguing about encrypting before the backups, they'll break it no matter what.
I was just watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1sZpSoMq5g

And, apparently, poor lonely black holes can evaporate over time?
Even on the server you're better off with the custom cloud offerings than using an off-the-shelf image.

That is the thing, what really won on server and embedded was UNIX/POSIX, and while GNU/Linux is the cheapest and more flexible way to achieve that, it isn't the only one, and the best experience is anyway with vendor custom distributions with their special sauce, not the pure FOSS one.
Basically by starting out doing projects for peanuts, for anyone I could (eg. acquaintances, contacts from summer jobs, etc). That got me references.

When I developed my first software title and sold it B2B, that helped bring in lots of new customers from around the world - many wanted to buy customizations or integrate the technology into their products.
This naturally led to higher margin consulting work and is how my focus began to pivot. I was also posting guidance online to solve certain challenges in my niche of expertise that were previously considered somewhat intractable, which helped with exposure.

After that it was just years of hard work and a deep commitment to customer success.
Therapeutic use for treating depression is one dose every several weeks, so there's no chance of addiction forming unless the patient decides to start using it recreationally - and even then, although some people do get mentally addicted to ketamine, it's fairly rare even among frequent users.

And my memory of reading up on this is that the current understanding of how ketamine works for treating depression is that it's something about the way the body processes & gets rid of the ketamine, it's not from the effects that the person taking it feels (unlike with psychedelics where it's the effects themselves that open up new neural pathways in the brain allowing therapy to potentially be more effective). And taking ketamine daily won't be more effective for treating depression. So I wouldn't expect many patients to go from the medical treatment to thinking "I want to start using this recreationally" (though if enough people get treated with it, of course a few people are bound to go down that path - but plenty of people already go down the path of choosing to use it for fun).
I haven't tried it myself, but heard that this is indeed the case.
> but if you keep changing things that don't need changing (ALSA -> PulseAudio -> pipewire -> whatever is already in the works to replace pipewire) instead of ACTUALLY FIXING THEM

This is possibly the dumbest thing I read in a while...

1. PipeWire was written to fix PulseAudio and is a drop in upgrade. How do you think things get fixed otherwise?
2. Why would anyone rewrite PipeWire at the moment, why would you think that?
Isn't this, in effect, what daylight saving time is? Moving all schedules 1h forward/backward 2x per year?
Of course not, but even with state of art train technology (let's say 250mph), that would still be an over 3 hour commute each way (just the railway part!). If it's just for a business trip every now in a while, it's faster to just fly there.

I'm just saying, this is such a rare use case that it's not as high of a priority as expanding the roads that 80% or more of the residents in a city use daily. Whereas for freight it makes a ton of sense.

(fun fact, there actually is a train route there!)
Why Debian won't distribute AI models any time soon [audio]
Ah, smarter today than yesterday. Thx