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Thanks for sharing your story here! I think your comments and answers are thoughtful and well stated. I don't share the Buddhist worldview but can relate anyways in terms of art. When learning to model in 3D I started looking at things around me differently. Instead of looking at a chair and in my head thinking "chair", I looked at it as a shape and a surface with a texture (not thinking those words, just looking). This opened up a world of beauty, not only in natural objects, but also in man made things, especially in metals. The key change was to not categorize or label the things but instead become vulnerable to their features and let them move me. It had unexpected but pleasant everyday effects, such as stopping at a door I always used and in awe contemplating the door handle.
No, making an album private does not disappear the music from people who have purchased it.

However, Bandcamp does abide by the laws that require them to stop distributing music at the rights holders' request.

No music service, or any service, for that matter, will guarantee access to files without regard to laws. Some will try harder, some have tried harder and been beaten down.
I mean, being misaligned with company leadership is a great way to loose your job. I worked at a medium sized company which is known for having a good culture. Everyone was kind & helpful, there was loads of autonomy, never any kind of layoffs.

At some point, a team I worked closely with got unexpectedly fired. The entire team, including manager, just gone one day. Not for financial reasons, but because they were “not performing well.” (There were multiple people on the team who had consistently good performance reviews.)

I spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out why that happened. Obviously if that could happen to them (fired despite good feedback), it could happen to anyone.

As far as I could tell, it’s because the CEO or CTO didn’t think the type of work they were doing was worth doing, and also didn’t think they were making a difference.

It’s good to be a self-starter, to advocate for best practices, and to keep users in mind. But at the end of the day, if that doesn’t fit into what your bosses expect from you, you’re done.

That’s why it’s important to communicate with stakeholders. Your boss needs to understand why spending time on preventative maintenance pays dividends on the long run. You can’t spend 75% of your time on stuff that doesn't look productive (which is subjective) and also not be proactive in being on the same page as your stakeholders about what’s important. At some point, they’ll get confused about what you’re actually doing day to day, and your job’s on the line.
AWS has to pay a relatively big money for keeping user data. It is understandable why they would want to delete it.

Playlists are basically zero cost to store. You would spend more $ on delete processing than keeping them around for eternity. So it's just not well thought use-case, implemented without attempt to view the whole picture.
They did continue participating but it's true that this became a sort of electric train where daddy buys it for the children and ends up playing the most with it.

The trading game did not capture their interest further than watching colourful flashes for a few minutes. It's probably too complicated for their age and hard to understand without knowing some basic financial markets knowledge.

However I used the same device to make other more appropriate games and keep them involved. I could ask them what game they would want, and I would make most of it but involve them in the parts of the code that can be meaningful to them. I found that while they like understanding how it works when I walk them through some small bits of code, writing code (even heavily assisted) is still daunting at their age so they prefer tools like MIT scratch.
Housing in my hometown (ex-mining town, incredibly poor) has increased 1172% since the mid 1990s (£11k->£112k). Salaries have increased less than 100% in that time (£15,034 -> £29,593)
GIMP can be offensive in the American variant of English, but outside of America it's not offensive.

A lot of the developers are from Europe and it's imperialist for these American activist to force American language standards on everyone.
I did the same thing long (well, not that long) ago for my school’s system too: https://github.com/saagarjha/break. In retrospect this was an excellent use of time because when I made this I barely knew what JSON was and ended up reimplementing some protocols from scratch (HTTP basic auth, WebDAV) that I learned much later were actually standardized and I had actually known them all along ;) Alas, the service got bought out by some vulture/bodyshop PE firm and the app ended up outliving the servers it was hitting. But until then I got a lot of great email from high school kids telling me how much I improved their experience or asking if they could build their own thing on the APIs they found in my app after trawling GitHub.
>> I was routinely refused service, despite it being illegal to do so

> Which years it was? I have never experienced that over course of last 15 years

Not the parent, but I've seen this a lot. Taxi drivers "changing shifts" at Clarke Quay, Orchard, and other popular nightlife places, picking and choosing where they want to drive to since they provided all the demand pre-Grab/Uber.
We already provide security guarantees to over 20 nations in Europe. Do you think we should extend it to the rest of the world? At what point is this considered overextension, one of the leading indicators of the downfall of great empires and a source of internal misalignment, debt, and administrative burden.
Linkedin, without any doubt!

Microsoft could have turned it into something much bigger and more useful by revamping the site after acquisition, sadly they didn't.
Okay? I wasn’t trying to make any claim in contravention of what you just said.

My points were these:

1. the steppe mammoth specifically (i.e. the one everyone means when they reference humans hunting mammoths to extinction) existed as it did because of the mammoth steppe’s unique biome;

2. megafauna that were endemic to the mammoth steppe are not transplantable to any biome we have today, because they were adapted specifically to those conditions (thus the being-endemic, rather than ranging elsewhere), and we no longer have those conditions. (They might survive, but they would quickly adapt out of the phenotype we recognize. You’d just get another elephant.)

I made no claim about the survivability of megafauna that did range outside of the steppe. Clearly, if they were out there, they were able to be out there; and we do have equivalent biomes to those today.
Same here. I've said it elsewhere, my Samsung Galaxy has been doing such videos automatically, out of random photos in my gallery (grouped via one of couple built-in semantic categories), every couple days, for 3+ years now.

Such collages are obvious to spot, too. There's only a limited selection of music, which you quickly memorize, some photos don't really match the generated title, the mood is off, etc.

This ad would've made sense 5 years ago, not today.
I don't have Spotify, I have Navidrome. Self-hosted on a cheap old mini PC.
This is what I don't understand. In Spain you can only vote in your assigned precinct. Otherwise, you have to vote by mail.

Every mail vote collected by the Postal Service gets delivered on the election day to the assigned precinct. At the end of the day, all those votes are mixed in the ballot box and then counting starts. It takes no more than three hours to get the 99.5% of the votes counted nationwide.

In order to vote by mail, you have to walk into any Postal Service office with your valid government ID and explicitly ask for it. The PS agent will verify your identity and will send you the voting papers to the address you register into. Then, you do your choices and go back to any PS office and send the vote to your electoral precinct by certified mail.

From the moment you ask for mail voting, you get marked in your precinct as a mail voter, so you cannot go in person and vote anymore. You can, though, on the election day go to your precinct and verify that your vote is there.

I don't see the difficulty on this.
The ingame groups ended up creating structures that look quite like governments. It felt almost like a recapitulation of real frontier history. Which is something that always felt self-defeating about libertarian ideology to me - like, we know what happens when there are no rules and governments, people make them, and without a government you can't stop that.
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go is the boring language that gets stuff done, perfectly suited for that class of people who care only about outcome
It's unclear to me where would you even find such an ad in the wild? 4 minutes is ridiculously long for a single spot, even for TV in 1990s. I'm gonna guess this would be running on a loop on a trade show or something.
Thanks for the suggestion, I have added a short section about threads.
i miss the old kanye
Isn't your comment also America centric? Spotify is huge in more countries than the US.
Procrastination is a feature. Not a bug
Yeah, the generated preview (depending on what application the link is shared in) can play a 30 second sample, but if you want to listen to the whole song you need to have an account, and if you don't have a subscription you'll likely get an ad first.

It's why I often share a youtube link instead, it plays inline a lot of the time and when it plays inline it often doesn't have ads. But that may also be because I have an effective ad blocker (for now).
Question is what is going to happen to all those revenue projections, and money that OpenAI has recevied if GPTx+1 is just a minor improvement over GPT4o/GPT4Turbo etc?
Unless there is a fork exec family of syscalls are not child processes but the same process itself. Small detail but important because sometimes you really want a separate process altogether.
this is a bizarre take.

you work for the company, not for your abstract imagination of what users want. if you genuinely feel the company isn't aligned with users, then try to change that.

it's not unethical (per se, obviously don't build bombs for them) to please your employer.
There isn't any library for the trading UI or graphics elements. The only library in this case was the display graphics library which allows to draw simple primitives such as squares, lines, circles, text, etc. [1]

The UI is a bunch of elements you would see on various trading systems (orderbook, trade blotter, market depth chart, intraday rolling chart, scrolling news ticker etc). But they had to be implemented from scratch using these primitive shapes and coordinates on screen.

For example, the chart element is rendered by looping over the recent prices, calculating the min/max values to derive a range and adding a buffer on either side. Then calculating the price interval of each pixel (difference min-max divided by the number of pixels of my chart area). I then iterate over the prices, calculate their positions on the display in pixels, and draw series of lines between consecutive prices.

[1] https://github.com/pimoroni/pimoroni-pico/blob/main/micropyt...
I can understand this reaction normally but VMX-1 appears to be some sort of test division? I imagine it’s fair to say this guy isn’t test pilot stuff if he panics and ejects the second the book says he can.

It’s not like he stopped being a pilot if I understand it right.
> The guy in the Excel commercial comes off as cool, confident, and skilled at using Excel.

FWIW, everyone else in that video comes off as a bunch of idiots, so I'm not sure it's that much better.
From a certain point of view, the entire civilization beyond the absolute basics is a "big vanity project". Whenever you gaze at Notre Dame or Taj Mahal, or even an old Greek amphitheatre of which there are hundreds, you can say "this could have been used to feed the poor, no one needs a theatre to survive and a theatre won't help us solve climate change or whatever pressing problem is on the horizon".

But people in general don't want to live completely utilitarian life, and your "vanity" is someone else's "exploration of the possible" or "lifting up human mind". Both of you might even be right at the same time.
I’m not sure these structures are exactly like governments, in the libertarian sense. Do they demand taxes from people in their area? Do they set arbitrary laws?
The mere existence of Steam is astounding to someone who grew up playing nethack and chess on Linux.

But the Steam client is really strange. Sometimes it works for months, and suddenly a game won't start, or something doesn't work, and I have to do weird stuff to get it working like purging all files or reinstalling. It doesn't make sense, it's like the Steam client rots.
Thanks, Induit, you will definitely be among the first to hear from us as soon as we launch! We are not going to disappoint you on this one.
Why is it nauseating? The USA made its own prerogative to keep trade flowing, it was the USA who decided it was in the USA's benefit to invest in enforcing it, exactly because it helps itself! The benefit to others is secondary, as most things in geopolitics it stems from an egotistical motivation: it helps the USA.

> I don't doubt NATO has economic benefits, but this is a partnership that needs to be re-examined if our partners aren't honoring agreements, don't have skin in the game, or aren't aligning with American interests/values

Please, explain how the partnership wasn't beneficial to the USA even if the 2% spending wasn't reached by the partners, you are going in circles here without further developing what exactly is the damage caused by it. All partners have skin in the game, for fucks sake, the only time any country invoked Article 5 was the USA after 9/11, is that forgotten?

> This is true for Europe, this is true for our allies in the middle east, and this this true for our partners in Asia.

What else do you think the USA needs from all these partners? USA's hegemony only exists due to these partners, again you keep being absolutely non-descriptive on what that entails, you just want "more"? More of what? More military spending? For what reason specifically? Because if you are being egotistical the more other countries do not depend on the USA's military the less power the USA has over them. If Europe stops purchasing USA's military hardware and go completely domestic there's nothing to be gained for you. I absolutely support that, I think Europe shouldn't depend on the USA and stop purchasing military hardware from there, increase spending but on domestic platforms instead of feeding the USA's MIL.

You don't seem to understand where America's power stems from...

Edit: by the way, just stumbled upon this article[0] right after submitting this comment, who do you think benefits from this stupidity in the medium to long term? It's definitely not the USA or Western Europe.

[0] https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-jr-volodymyr-ze...
POSIX requires that the environment variables can be access as an array, through the environ variable. This array is expected to be used with POSIX interfaces such as posix_spawn and execve. If the array already has to exist, why not use it in getenv?

A purely hash-based implementation is not possible because there is putenv, and some applications expect modifications of environ to be visible via getenv.
As the article clearly points out several times by referencing the potential "upending of star formation theory" and the list of "brown dwarfs that shouldn't exist", current star and planetary formation theories are severely lacking, so you're right to question definitive statements such as stars forming "on their own".
Yeah, but as I musician they pay you next to nothing unless you're already on top anyways. I know touring musicians who can comfortably live from their physical record/merch sales who say they can basically ignore their spotify revenue since they earn more with their merch sales on one concert than they earn during a whole year of running on spotify.

So if you care about your musicians consider seeking out other ways to get your records, e.g. bandcamp
Yeah even if it isn't AGI, I still feel call centers are practically doomed at this point, and given time, these models can and will replace those people.

I also happened to know a copywriter who said she was laid off cause of ChatGPT.

It still is going to be a disruptive technology, though it is not perfect by any means.
This article is an expert-level primer on office politics in big tech masquerading as a primer on delivering software.
Really great post! It belongs on a reading list somewhere for everyone who is using Postgres independently or as a part of their stack.
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> It's read the same whether there's an ellipsis, semicolon, hyphen, or whatever.

So why do you think we have all of those different punctuation marks instead of just one?

I understood what was meant by reading carefully and guessing. If you punctuate more ‘correctly’ (and I’m aware that’s a controversial and triggering suggestion for some), readers don’t have to be careful or guess what you mean — it just flows.

You may think this stuff is surprising because you’ve never noticed it before, but if you look you’ll find that it matters to editors everywhere. If this were to be published, it’d be corrected immediately.
What an utterly valueless “analysis”. The use of a word says nothing about context and without that you can say nothing about any imagined editorial stance.

This simply conflates any use of a word with advocacy for a position.

Even more tellingly we are supposed to think that saying things like “discrimination based on race and gender is unfair” constitutes an arguable position.

The takeaway is that people like the author have entirely bought into a radical right wing position and somehow believe they are impartial observers.
Read the fine print: "With sparsity". They double the claimed throughput by assuming that half of the FLOPs can be skipped.
The procedures were not bad, they were ambiguous: I think most pilots understand what “unresponsive to the pilot’s commands“ means (that they should check if the plane responds to basic controls like pitch, roll and yaw before ejecting), but it leaves room to wiggle out of your responsibility by saying that you misunderstood this statement. And if someone is willing to do that, you might conclude that he is not a good fit for a leadership role...
Yeah I have an iPhone 15 plus and I am in Bangalore, I tried installig the update, changed the language and everything but no Apple intelligence on my phone.
> Taxi drivers "changing shifts" at Clarke Quay, Orchard, and other popular nightlife places, picking and choosing where they want to drive

Well, that's inconclusive as they may have been actually changing shifts (no doubts they would use it to their own gain though)
It's not misinterpreted. Misinterpretation is an accident that happens when a good faith message can be reasonably interpreted in multiple ways, and the listener's choice is not the speaker's choice. A good faith message is one where the speaker deliberately removes all likely ambiguity they can foresee.

When a bad faith message is "misinterpreted", it's because the speaker was not interested in communicating successfully in the first place.

There exist two things:

1. A name which amuses the developers by honoring an uninteresting bit of historical trivia.

2. A name which contributes to the project's health and success by attracting new users.

One of these things must be selected as more important than the other.

As far as whether GIMP, in and of itself, succeeds or fails, pretty much no one cares. If GIMP vanished, and the practical value lost to the world was big enough, some new project would spring up to take its place. Maybe Krita would expand its scope. The Blender team sure has bank to play with. Whatever.

But what lots of people do care about is the success of open source in general. When software is expensive and closed, fewer people get to use it, and the fewest of them are screwed if what they need is too niche. When software is free and open, more people get to use it, niches become less niche, and niches that remain niche can be filled by anyone with enough DIY motivation. And because all of the benefits of open source rely on a large user community, attracting users is very important, both to individual projects and the whole community.

And right now, the solution the open source community has to offer the world is an embarrassment. This is bad. The GIMP project is selfishly pissing in the water supply the entire open source community is trying to build. No one is going to take that trivially.
> I would love to hear if anyone can think of any one thing nearly as useful in so many ways.

What about a computer? If you make the argument that it is a composite of many different elements, so is a deck of cards.
Sure, it's not fair, but that's irrelevant.

The real dilemma is - will pressing this issue hard have positive or negative effects on the future US strategic position? It's not just the GDP percentage which is on the line, you can't isolate it from the rest of the relationship.

I'll use an analogy from my personal life. A friend is consistently late to meet ups. It bothers me, since I'm losing time by showing up on time. It's clearly not fair. When I bring it up, he apologizes, but ultimately his lack of punctuality never changes. Now I could go hard on him - give him ultimatums, send reminders before the meetup etc. The question is - will I be able to change him and get him punctual? Is it possible I will seriously harm or even destroy the relationship by continually pressing this apparent weakness of his?
This has made Steam something to avoid for me. I tried switching to Flatpak version to see if that would help, but unfortunately not. For me it started ~1 year ago.

The performance issues have made me not want to even open Steam anymore so I have nearly completely stopped playing. (not related to this issue but several games have also added kernel anticheats, killing off Linux versions, which also has contributed to this)
It used to, but then they removed it. They might have re-added it since though.
Sounds like the mining bust is a big factor, which isn't exactly representative of the whole economy. Also sounds like you're not in the US so none of my stats are relevant to you.
You picked a good example because by key signature circle-of-fifths distance from C major, the choices are equidistant.

Gb-Bb-Db can be obtained in the key of Db: Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, Gb. It is that key's subdominant.

F#-A#-C# is in the key of B: F#, C#, G#, D#, A#, and is that key's dominant.

Five sharps or five flats. Same distance from C major.
> Maybe he wasn't familiar enough with the airplane's systems

It seems that a highly qualified marine test pilot is unlikely to be unfamiliar with the airplane's systems
But a promotion also means change, maybe people are happy where they are? After all, you're most productive in a familiar codebase. Then again, if a codebase is "done", productivity is less important and often work dries up. There's plenty of people that are happy with working 10 but getting paid for 40 hours a week.
There is no road from here to there
I just did and all the results are related to this software, so what is your point?
yes, that works too