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> But pretty much every writing system still out there in use (i.e., not cuneiform or runes) was designed with a quill or brush as the instrument.

That's if you know cursive. I don't think the standard small-case script most people use in their everyday life is quill-friendly.
They could use an algo to rate for AI slopness and de-rank that in search and the like.
I’m really interested in this, but it looks like it hasn’t been worked on in a while and there are some crash reports on the iOS store reviews.

I would love if Apple built some of this in native apps.

I do like sharing runs with a small group of friends.
My experience with non-AWS providers in TF is that they're less maintained and buggy - in theory this should be easy, but people seem very afraid of TF and I can picture this getting chaotic.

But you're quite right that if they're comfortable enough, they should go into S3 and get a statefile they were happy with!
Probably easy, as long as you don't mind being on trial for violating something like CFAA.
> Then even for tens of thousands of people, you can still get "random" divisions of a population where, say, one half has all the T9 traits -- and thereby the "effect" is just due to this random segmentation.

You have chosen a very high-variance distribution for the trait, so in this experiment also the sampling error would also have very high variance - big enough to capture this effect you are talking about. The article mentions this. Random sampling does not guarantee we don't get a false positive, but it lets us quantify the probability of a false positive, and pick an acceptable risk of false positive.

This probability depends on the variance of the underlying trait: a high-variance trait takes an impossibly large sample to get the same discriminatory strength as a sample of a low-variance trait.

> In the hard sciences causes can actually be controlled, by eg., literally placing your hand on some part of the experiment to stop it moving (or equivalent).

Things can be controlled in softer sciences also, it's just that it's sometimes hard to agree on which the meaningful causal antecedents are to get results that replicate out of sample. We can run into that case in hard sciences also, and we do from time to time – the typical example is how insufficient control of unknown factors caused Newton to believe relativistic effects didn't exist.

I fail to see how your "third option" is fundamentally different from the two options already specified in the article.
In "Of Other Worlds", in a conversation with Brian Aldiss and Kinsley Amis (or Martin Amis? Don't remember), he says that he had a rocket take Ransom to Mars, but he knew better by the time he wrote the second book, and had angels take Ransom to Venus. That is, he wasn't trying to write hard science fiction; he was trying to write stuff where you were confronted with "the unknown". Fantasy and science fiction were both aimed at that, but fantasy was better, because you didn't have to worry about the rules of actual science.

He also said (quoting from memory): "If I were briefed to attack my own books, I would say that though the scientist has to be a physicist for the plot, his concern seems to be almost exclusively biological. I would also ask whether it was credible that such a gas-bag could invent a mousetrap, let alone a spaceship. But then, I wanted comedy as well as adventure."
I built a website for a small nonprofit last year. They were using MailChimp for their newsletter and something else for lead management. Some board members insisted that since their companies used Salesforce this non-profit should too. They even donated the $20,000 to pay for it. The nonprofit has a lot of turnover - terrible leadership - and no one knows how to use it. Terrible decision for this organization even when "free". I spent some time trying to help them, but it's clearly a platform that you need to specialize in.

On another note, during the pandemic I built a vaccine signup website for a small hospital in Maine. It was really basic, but the amount of traffic it received and the sense of urgency we felt were overwhelming. Wild times.
Yep. I just checked and the repo stands at "0 forks" and "194 stars". I don't know if GitHub can undo that somehow.
Swapping codes on two adjacent houses would be pretty amusing.
They didn't in this case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31033758
Why pay for the border wall if you can't build it? I really hate games that don't offer players agency.
That's crazy. Why would the number of hours worked per week ever possibly be relevant to a hiring process? At most they might ask "full-time/part-time/other" or something like that.
Not really. For example, tutorial code will often leave out edge cases so as to avoid confusing the reader: if you're teaching a new programmer how to open a file, you might avoid mentioning how to handle escaping special characters in the filename.
Where do you see it was abandoned?
Yeah, stars/watches don't seem like a huge deal to me - but the fork part is pretty bad. It breaks the upstream connection between repos for all the forks.
Good question. Finding the request that's responsible for the action you want will be a bit trickier for SSR, but it's still possible for most cases. It auto-generates regex (for now) to parse out needed info out of the html template.
Athletics is an actual competition where the expectation is that "you win".

When you hire 12 baristas are they competing to make the most coffees or is their job to handle customer's orders? If their job isn't to compete with each other then don't stack rank them. Use other metrics like #of incorrect orders or w/e and decide what you think they should've done and if they did more than that give them a bonus. If they do less then maybe you need a new employee.

> Microsoft always suffered from rewarding egotists and political animals over people who did actual work.

That has nothing to do with grading on a curve. You can assign people to the top of a curve based on "egotist" criteria or based on "work". Nothing about a curve or stack ranking requires it to be based on "real work".
Without the name and position of the person, it's very difficult to send personalized emails with relevant information.
> This article ultimately supports this by showing us exactly how half-baked this particular browser feature happens to be.

In a way, yes. I do think there's a lot to improve from the browsers' side. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the "half baked" solution is also not quite as bad as "no solution" and 1) it can be improved, 2) it really can be used today if you know "how to cook it right"
https://web.archive.org/web/20241009043953/https://github.co... And for those like me who don't pay attention it had 69k stars earlier in the month.
"Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World"

A book about what to do with life in the face of boundless possibilities, and when just about everything important has been figured out. I recall that this was a significant plot point in Permutation City -- and Egan answered the question more elegantly than Bostrom did.
I'm still using my 2017 27" iMac Retina, and vastly prefer it for most things over my 2020 M1 MacBook Pro (which I dislike primarily for not having volume buttons).
I thought about keeping my existing doorbell button and chime, but adding an ESP32 plus hall effect sensor, to detect when the doorbell chime is being powered and trigger a notification over wifi.

It seems a bit convoluted, though. Is there a DPST momentary button I can use instead (removing the need for the hall effect sensor)? I searched on digikey but 'DPST momentary' came back with results that were too bare (just the button), expensive ($50 per unit) and had a long lead time (8 weeks).
"Peter Thiel is there to personally present you with the check."

I...won!!!! Kinda...
It's a step in the right direction. You have to understand that for decades a vocal group of Unix die-hards has opposed any limitations whatsoever on the bytewise content of file names. The newline restriction in this latest version of POSIX may be modest, but it represents a dam breaking. When (obviously) the sky doesn't fall, the next version of POSIX will have a lot more filename cleanup.
This is pretty clever
Yeah this is exactly what I'm writing about in the article :)
Thanks. Could be, I haven't read that one.
In the real world, nobody writes shell scripts that handle newlines in filenames.
I kinda like the idea of a film (but maybe a serious one), that picks a couple branches and films the results.

We get that with time travel films that explore how small changes might change someone's destiny, but usually those are a little more focused on the time travel aspect and such.

It wouldn't have to be every branch to be interesting ... you could have effectively 3 films that maybe branch at the midway point or something.
Or someone would figure out how to find who’s behind the spoofed requests, as those orgs have the resources to do so
It's back now but I'll add we have private clones of everything we use and automation that pulls them daily. Has been very handy over the years.
Thanks for the correction.

> That was propaganda by Edison to disparage DC

But if he prefered it, why would he create progaganda against it?

> DC is just as dangerous as AC.

I assumed the alternating made it more dangerous but I stand corrected.
None, Flutter is dart only.
Not really my experience when helping on, for example, gene array data analyses: there's often a lot of causal theory (or at least hardened hypotheses) developed going into the experiments. People don't just randomly measure things.
Then you don't have a standard build, you have a build with multiple steps that needs to be documented and/or scripted. In an organization where every other project builds in a single step with "mvn package", and people can check out a repo and fire up their IDE and stuff just works, people are going to get bent out of shape because from their perspective, things aren't working out of the box.

A slightly more powerful build tool that supports custom code in the build doesn't force users to script around it. You can create an arbitrarily customized build that builds with the same commands as a Hello World project. (It's a double-edged sword, to be sure, because people don't try as hard to avoid customization as they would with Maven.)
Ouch.

This is even more painful for small-to-midsize projects whose star counts help distinguish them.
I also kinda wonder if they accidentally removed a user or some credential that has the permissions needed to make things public again, a TF change could involve both the public/private change and user account changes. Could be a bit to look up an admin account to fix things.
I've been using OpenTracks and Nextcloud for this purpose. The UI is pretty basic and the elevation not accurate, but mostly gets the job done.

Would love to have a TUI for something like this.
This is true: my gaming PC had that watermark for nearly 10 years. You can't change the wallpaper, remote desktop doesn't work, but that's the only downside to not paying for windows (and using Microsoft's free iso, instead of pirating a key).

It's quite clear to anyone who's tried it (at least since Win10), that Microsoft does not care at all if you pay for Windows.
On Android, have a look at GadgetBridge https://gadgetbridge.org/gadgets/
ISTM GitHub rolling back such a mistake for a Microsoft repo, but for nobody else.
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Hetzner (if they keep logs) should be able to verify if a user has been sending arbitrary packets out on port 22 very trivially
Ancient Monkey: Pwning a 17-Year-Old Version of SpiderMonkey
The story here is likely off on the wrong foot from the start: our Halloween isn't really meaningfully connected to Samhain. https://adfontesjournal.com/archives/halloween-its-creation-...
Good Taste, Management / Communication Skills, Code Review Ability.

If you have these skills, the productivity gains from tools like Cursor are insane.

If you lack any of these, it makes sense that you don't get the hype; you're missing a critical piece of the new development paradigm, and should work on that.
You're reading into it too much. You don't think you're actually Picard or Kirk, you think the world around you is very similar to the stories, but not actually the story itself.

In my case, it went like this: Whoa, my crew is telepathically beaming me instructions and we are right in the middle of a mission. Where the fuck am I? Crew, give me my command protocols. Oh, I command a starship? Sure, sorry, the heat around here, I might be hit with something, I don't remember, help me! Oh, you're going to transport me? Sure, go ahead, let me just run away from this commando waiting on the hallway using the only other exit - the window... Now it makes sense that I'm a starship captain, why would a commando be waiting there otherwise...

(Your mileage may vary)
Related question. For those who do any kind of programming for fun on the side, how do you feel about using tools like cursor for those projects. Is it a cool productivity enhancer that allows you to focus less on the code and more on the end-product, or does it suck the fun out of it for you?

I work in an environment right now where feeding proprietary code/docs into 3rd party hosted LLMs is a hard no-go, and we don't have any great locally hosted solution set up yet, so I haven't really taken the dive into actively writing code with LLM assistance. I feel like I should practice this skill, but the idea of using a tool like Cursor on personal projects just seems so antithetical to the point that I can't bring myself to actually do it.
So while I find that idea interesting, I would rather prefer knocking or texting on the doorstep of peoples homes.

I might have a situation where the QR Code makes sense though. I'm renting a location for a party at the top of a building, which is only accessible by transponder cards. So there is no door bell or anything. Instead of having someone letting the guests in, this could be an alternative.
Netflix has a number of interactive movies (Minecraft, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch), and it was one of the promised things when DVDs came out, but it remains a niche market / novelty.
The other good thing about Option#2 is that visitors do not have to give you their mobile phone number (which they are doing by sending the text).

Just because they are at your door for some reason does not mean they want to give up what has become their mobile ID. People are starting to get protective of it with good reason, since there are so many attacks using the Mobile #/ID...

Also, as pointed out elsewhere, the static easily duplicated QR code has issues for you, but it would also be easy for someone to slap a malicious QR code over your static one, disabling yours and enabling their scam...

Maybe I'm just the wrong generation, or live in a place that still has winter, but a QR code where I need to get out my phone, take off my glove in winter, activate the camera to scan, etc., seems a lot less welcoming.

One thing that is good about your QR code option is that you do receive notice anywhere and you do have their mobile number, so you can reply immediately with a text or call, such as "sorry, I'm running late, not quite home yet, I'll be there in 10min". Ofc, you could also post your mobile number below the wireless doorbell.

Perhaps Option #3 would be a doorbell that can display a scrolling message, so

— wireless doorbell

— sends text to you

— you can reply to doorbell (e.g., "coming downstairs now", or "traffic, be there in 5min", "pls call me at 987-654-3210", etc.)

This way, no one needs to reveal their mobile number, but everyone has the advantage of mobile communications, albeit with a small bandwidth.

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Yup. If it's just me, I guess it's some plugin I have installed or something.
It's also worth noting that this was almost handed to Amy Schumer and not Margot Robbie (who actively spearheaded pitching the project alongside Greta Gerwig), which is probably the difference between making a mockery of the project and giving it the love it needs to survive despite being branded bilk.
You'd have to really try.

10 milliamps across your heart can kill but using Ohm's law we can calculate 3V / 0.010 A to get a resistance of 300 ohms. This means you're probably still going to have a bad time if you apply it directly across your heart during open-heart surgery but other than that 3 volts just isn't enough to drive a lethal current through your skin.
Look at the article, people are walking out because of how ridiculous it is, not because of how triggering it is, this article is too much of a puff piece to say.

And your criticism was the exact reason the article’s therapist puppet master technique was avoided. So we are already passed that point, lets get the roleplaying puppet master out the way. I dont want some therapist that gets off on dissing me as a ventriloquist.
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TL;DR: if you're on the fence, go read the book. It's good and short to boot.

I have to admit I've only seen part of a playthrough of /The Invicible/, but haven't played the game myself.

Still, as a general rule, I personally would (almost) always recommend starting with the book form before trying a visual adaption.

Having seen the visuals first will heavily influence your imagination and internal vision of the writing, which would deprive you of one of the greatest joys of reading. This book in particular paints some truly awesome mental pictures that I wouldn't want to have spoiled in any way.

Another reasoning goes that the experience that came first tends to "win out" regarding your perception of the material. To me at least, a book is somehow less polarizing than a movie or a game. It stands for itself, and oftentimes (as is the case with /The Invicible/) has been standing as a recognised work for decades; it doesn't need to prove itself and can be taken as an artistic expression more or less free from the kind of economic incentives that necessarily plague a larger production.

Any adaption comes with changes and, quite possibly, shortcomings that can be more or less individually tolerable. If you play the game and don't like it for the way it tells the story, its art style, a clunky UI or whatnot, you take that baggage with you to reading the book, or in the worst case even lose interest and forego doing so altogether. That would (arguably) be a much greater loss than the other way around.

Adaptions do have their advantages, mainly in creating an impressive audiovisual environment, which can evoke some very immediate emotions. But those themes have been chosen and interpreted by the adaptor and are not necessarily identical to the original author's intentions.

Condensation in adaption to a different medium generally comes at a loss of depth that IMHO makes it hard to re-experience the source material without bias, and thus encumbers its full appreciation; not least because even in the best case it forestalls the setting, and often the twists and the conclusion as well.

In the end I would argue that a book tends to give a humanistically richer experience. It gives ample time to fathom its themes, to reflect and interpret them without visual distractions. Adaptions of great works can be great in their own right, but not too many stand the test of time as well as the books that came before them, and in that light I myself prefer to keep that order.
Ah gotcha, I thought it was papered over a bit more with Flutter's tooling. Good to know.
This is really awesome. There's several platforms that intentionally gate keep their API and it makes really annoying to build integrations with them. How do you go about these platforms and not breaking their TOS?
You can read about one experience from a few years ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31033758

I guess ES has enough brand recognition. But it'd be killer for a lesser known project. While stars don't matter per se, they do give a project some credibility over a project with 0 stars or 50 stars.

If someone looked at both Elasticsearch and Opensearch and was new to the area, they'd think Opensearch was the original and ES the fork.
Loved this series. I watched it before starting Yellowstone and it stands on its own very well.
If you have a local git origin set to the HTTPS URL of the parent repo, I don't think anything would change when it comes back online.

This sentence seems to be about GitHub internally treating forked repos as branches of the original repo to save space (as well as displaying "fork of X" in the UI), and there's no way to manually set that relationship other than the fork button. GitHub would have to manually reset that if they wanted to. (This setup is what allows those fake commit URLs where you use the URL of the original repo plus the commit hash of a commit in a fork.)
And what does that tell you? How do you detect malware from the URL? Do you have a whitelist of known-good domains and don’t visit anything else?
It’s just 90 minutes of hunting and then dying of dysentery.
Which is your perspective, and distinct from the argument just made: that if it was possible to write Chinese tones, the traditional characters would have been replaced. It's obvious that the characters are not replaced due to cultural factors, rather than the inability to come up with a system that can transcribe Chinese speach.
The best solution is to use HTMX (or similar) to hook into your server-side validation so that you only have validation code one place (on the server), but you don't have to wait for complete form submission before finding an error in a field.

Example: https://htmx.org/examples/inline-validation/
You wouldn't be the first engineer to fade into irrelevance because they were too proud to adapt to the changing world around them. I'd encourage you to open your mind a bit.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/out-run/id1477511092

Version history:
1.3 - Jan 25, 2021
Nice work, congrats!
How do you deal with security related stuff like recaptcha, signed requests and so on?

Do you also support internal APIs of mobile applications? If so, how do you deal with AppCheck / PlayIntegrity / Android Key Attestation / Apple App Attest?
Sometimes that's all the abuse you'll see though, with for example port scans.
My team already uses `make` but there's no reason for me to run it in my Downloads folders. File names in there are sometimes wild. Yet I expect command line tools to work with them. If they will cease to do so, I will have to start using non-POSIX variants of those tools, I guess.
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Fun game, got the neutral ending myself.

I kind of felt like it was a game where no matter what you did the outcome’d be the same but apparently not since there is a “neutral” ending I’d assume there is a bad and good ending as well.

Also I know this is a hyperbolic game but “You also tip well, because labor should be adequately compensated regardless of whether a service worker goes the extra mile for you” is some disgusting nonsense that seems unfitting since the narrative is coming from a hyperbolic socialist and not a capitalist but tipping culture is something inherently capitalistic and also a disgusting way to make the customer feel responsible because the employee isn’t being paid enough.