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> What Debian has is not a "stranglehold" but an ideology, and Debian continues to matter to (some) upstream projects because lots of users identify with Debian's hyperconservative, noncommercial ideology.

> Your complaint is basically, "it's too bad that the userbase not sharing my values is large enough to matter".

Arch and rolling releases have about the same market share as Debian. Indeed, ironically, Debian's widespread adoption is seen primarily in the enterprise space where it's free as in beer nature and peer adoption is a signal it's a suitable free (as in beer) alternative to RedHat. Without Ubuntu's popularity a while back making Debian not so crazy an idea, I think "Debian" philosophy would not have anywhere near the adoption we see in commercial environments.
It's also terribly ill-defined.
The rule of thumb also keeps you from doing a lot of task switching. It isn't free enqueue and dequeue tasks. It is better if you have a million things to do to have a smaller set of tasks. Especially if the runtime for those tasks are somewhat uniform.
A bus goes through many more miles and hours of operation than the vast majority of cars. Most cars are parked for the vast majority of the day, and sometimes in covered garages.

And how long do those cameras last? The feds only fund bus replacements at twelve years or 500,000 miles.
GDDR does not exist in sodimm form factor.

Intel and AMD internal GPUs can use normal computer RAM. But they are slower for that reason and many others.
We've had a long journey. Main thing is that I realized that my son doesn't learn enough from open ended tools like Scratch. So we tried a bunch of other things.

He started with Scratch JR & Scratch.

Then we switched to Tynker Jr & Tynker. Which provide challenge oriented block based games. Teaches loops, functions, etc.

Then we switched to CodeMonkey, which provides challenge oriented block & code based games (coffeescript, python). Teaches variables, arrays, etc.

Then I felt there was not enough new learning from the above. So I gave him VSCode and had him go through Khan Academy's HTML lesson.

That's when he made a bunch of HTML pages you see: https://www.armaansahni.com/ (pokemon, bakis, etc). ALL the HTML/CSS on the site is hand written.

Then I wanted him to learn how to be resourceful... for this, I gave him a serious of small challenges (eg: "make a function that displays hello world on the screen") where he had to figure out the answer himself. Use Gemini or Google, etc. But don't ask me. He ended up learning how to use Gemini to accelerate his learning (see his blog post, he writes about it a bit) and he was submitting solutions to me in JS. He had prior Gemini experience because he was using it to create images, and JS was natural extension of HTML.

Then one day he decided he wanted to make a game that he had in his mind.

In this above process, I basically observed what he was learning and switched to apps where I felt he could still learn something new.
CFB 25 Player Ratings Scraped and Searchable (11,000 Players)
Backstory: the ratings/bios were grabbed via an automated PS5 script and Chiaki using OCR to gather the ratings, As you will see it will be confused in some characters like the names and bio fields, but the ratings and abilities look to be in really good shape.

This process took 3 weeks of leaving my PS5 on overnight, and various fine-tuning to the script as this is my first attempt with machine vision and data collection.
If there was one invention that made its way into every car - I wish it would be some kind of oncoming active light dimming / compensation system. Maybe in the glass, or glasses / goggles a driver wears.

What I do now on the highways is point my side mirrors all the way out and flip the rearview mirror. I already have deeply tinted windows.

Of course this doesn't help with oncoming traffic.
Thanks for that. Are there any proxies that can communicate with bedrock and serve it via a OpenAI style api?
Why not? Because it was little more than a shitty hard drive? Didn't have the noisy, analog charm of 4-track cassette recorders?
Haha, good idea :)
Well the ‘pathology’ is clear, isn’t it?

They’re not actually smart enough to keep track of what every other team is doing, at any point in time.

FOSS works because there’s usually only at most a few dozen balls in the air simultaneously, so someone who believes they can keep track of balls in the air gets by without looking ridiculous.

But that’s just not viable when there are hundreds or thousands of balls in the air simultaneously… their eye muscles literally couldn’t move and focus fast enough.
I once had the pleasure of working with a guy who probably did have one of the hardest jobs in the company, but also had a very positive attitude towards everyone else.

He was in platform engineering, ensuring the server fleet was it top-shape etc. It wasn't over him to debug OS-level bugs. Very smart guy; if something was broken and nobody else could fix it, you went to him. He'd previously tracked product bugs down to the JVM garbage collector, or RHEL. He told me about the time he tracked a bug in a binary down to the OCaml compiler— if you read the x86 spec, it turns out OCaml wasn't using one of the registers properly and the binaries, under very specific circumstances, were technically buggy.

And on Fridays he hosted an informal get-together, open to anyone in the company, where anyone could go and chat about tech. Show something off, ask about a bug, bring up something cool found on HN— everyone was encouraged to pitch in (although often we wanted to hear him do the talking lol).

People like that are amazing, and I suspect he was that smart precisely cause he knew there was always more to learn; from the machines, and from other people.
Feedback at its finest.
Too bad.

The solution to Congress being ineffective is not strengthening the executive to make law.

I don't want to live in a country ruled by bureaucracy driven by a dictator.
both are things that are on his plan for the next version.

Appreciate the feedback!
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The auto-dim systems don't always work, either. My mother-in-law's Toyota has this feature, and it seems to work when it wants to.
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Delivery drivers incur expenses (gas, depreciation, oil changes, etc) that can result in their “net wages” being below minimum wage.

I don’t think claiming the mileage fully recoups those costs.
Separate from Twitter the company and Twitter the app, there is Twitter the community. That is absolutely dead, rotting, and never coming back to what it once was.
China barely tolerates North Korea as it is and would certainly not approve (and possibly would not tolerate) any actual aggression from North to South.

If you perceive the respect (NK has) for current status quo is at a low then it is most likely that NK desperately needs food or fuel for the coming winter, for every other player in the world/region the desire for the status quo is at an all time high.
> If Rust decides that it no longer supports compiling on x86, or if it starts depending on a version of LLM that no longer runs on a supported architecture

Then you stop publishing new versions of the toolchain for x86 releases of the distro? I fail to see the problem. Nothing prevents you from not making a newer version of the toolchain available. Indeed, that's the default.

> The same goes for crates, which can be pulled at any time for almost any reason and break compiles.

I never said you have to extend this by making all versions of crates available. You can freeze the crates using the same mechanism to redirect Cargo as they do today.

I'm going to ignore the rustup stuff as I wasn't proposing rustup be used for building the base Debian image itself - that was a comment more about the environment QEMU itself can advocate for for people building it & leaving it to the distros to solve their own packaging problems.
I've been doing something similar. I started with a 3D printer approach, then two cheap aliexpress C-beam linear actuators and finally managed to acquire a 2-axis microscope stage for cheap. The key I have found is that any issues with alignment can actually be solved with focus-stitching.

The real problem with most scanning setups is actually getting accurate color out of color negatives. The common wisdom these days is to use high-CRI light, but I believe that approach is flawed. Film scanning is not an imaging challenge, but a rather a densitometric one. You don't actually want to take a photo of the negative in a broad spectrum because the dyes in photo negatives were never intended to be used in a broad-spectrum context. You actually need to sample the density of the dye layers at very specific wavelengths determined by a densitometric standard (status M) that was designed specifically for color negative film. Doing this with a standard digital camera with a bayer sensor is... non trivial and requires characterizing the sensor response in a variety of ways.

Basically the hardware is easy, the software is hard.
Because it's not enough, you still need to do post-exposure shots (or else you still have a not exactly known but reasonably high risk of death). The main benefit of pre-exposure vaccination is that if somehow you have no access to the vaccine the day of exposure, you might still have a (small?) chance of survival. This benefit is nearly zero if you live within a driving distance from a hospital.

So why go through the trouble and pay $1-2k (plus more for boosters every 2-3 years) if you still need to go to the hospital after you get bitten?
Some people just take longer than others. I'm gonna be as patient as I can be with them.
The 600 mini is on the m4 with the anemic 10 core GPU. This is for grandama or your 10 year old.

The good one which is still slower than m4 max is 2200.

If you want the max you need at least a macbook pro starting at 3200 and if you want the better one with 128G RAM it starts at about 5k
Why shouldn't we be frustrated by aspects of the natural world? Bad weather, disease, death and so on. Was eliminating smallpox odd because we had no entitlement expect to that?
The issue is that feature or vulnerability might not be patched on older versions. If you are using a 2 year old version and a non-backported vuln or needed feature comes along that means you have to absorb 2 years of breaking changes to move to that version.

Frequent updates allow you to address the breaks gradually rather than all at once.

JS is just awful, though, because of the sprawling dep tree. I get why devs would prefer pinning as any one of the 1000 deps that get brought in could need an update and code changes on any given day. A sticky static version requires less daily maintenance.
Well, Next is kinda like that then. It takes care of the sub-dependencies for you and when you upgrade, you just upgrade to the next major Next version (which isn't necessarily easy, but more so than upgrading 100 individual packages). They provide codemods for some stuff too.
Kids dad here! Interesting, never heard of processing/p5. Will check it out!
Computers are objects of Theseus: leaking capacitors, tin whiskers, degrading plastics and rubber, etc. Also nobody is making CRTs anymore, except for some certified avionics parts.
With cert pinning, CT, and other advancements in transport security, I don't see a huge fundamental difference between this and adding a random apt repository & doing an apt install.
Why should we have piecemeal, extra-legal policies that only favor special interest groups? It's nice that they protect the privacy of church goers, but they can still geofence my neighborhood to estimate my income bracket among other invasions. It's well past time for comprehensive data protection laws rather than a hodgepodge of special treatment policies for whoever the executive wants to curry favor with.

We really need a leak of tracking data on Congresspeople going to compromising places to make this happen.
EdgePipes – The Alternative to SSR and RSCs
Well done. I like it. Could use an indicator showing an attack is available.
It sounds different to me.

Poetry is for the enjoyment and enlightenment of the reader. Who reads poems? The question is a little vague. Who reads poems on a birthday card? Everyone. In a children's book? Parents and children.

But this study focuses on literary poems specifically, using works by literary heavy weights like Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Whitman, Byron, Ginsberg, and so on. So the question is who reads literary poems, to which the answer is: academics, literary writers, and a vanishingly small population of reader who enjoy such pursuits.

So the test of if ersatz AI poetry is as good as "real" poetry should be if target audience (i.e. academics) finds the poems to be enjoyable or enlightening. But this study does not test that hypothesis.

This study tests a different hypothesis: can lay people who are not generally interested in literary poetry distinguish between real and AI literary poetry?

The hypothesis and paper feel kind of like a potshot at literary poetry to me, or at least I don't understand why this particular question is interesting or worthy of scientific inquiry.
I don't see what you see. Would you mind what part of this seems pretentious, navel-gazing, ignorant? ( I think rambling was stated in the article :)
Angular was kinda like that, batteries-included, but it lost to React. It wasn't until Next that we got a similar batteries-included big framework for the React world.
My point is there should be a discussion about how to make newer toolchains available to end users. This has nothing to do about packaging within the distro and a non-issue since whatever "tip of tree" is for QEMU is what would get frozen as the "blessed" version and that could use whatever tip for the toolchain they needed since that's likely the same version that Debian would freeze.
"The diagnosis can also be made from saliva, urine, and cerebrospinal fluid samples, but this is not as sensitive or reliable as brain samples."
I am unsure of the ethics of conquering a state that is in the state of North Korea and then forcing the people (who are brothers and sisters of the South) to continue to live like that for a generation while their conquerers live (relatively speaking) like kings across the road.
Integrating javascript with liveview and pushing and receiving events from client to server (and from server to client) is pretty simple using hooks: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/js-interop.html#client-...

The AI story is mostly centered around the Nx project: https://github.com/elixir-nx/
BMW has been using them in their higher end cars for many years now.
I also learned C by running a MUD, and I'm amazed how many people shared that experience with us LOL.
The story of Rogue
I wouldn't dismiss the responsibility of culture in the JS dependency problem. I agree with a few points in the article but much of these dependencies aren't needed, they are preferred and importing is normalized.

Left-pad wasn't a problem because of browser constraints, it was a problem because of culture and to some extent discipline.
metal. lots of metal.
Lynch shit, for sure.
Fast and accurate zero-shot forecasting with Chronos-Bolt and AutoGluon
I honestly did not notice the Musk bashing, but yeah, now that you mention it, I agree.

Still 1 bad paragraph (or picture in this case) does not nullify 99 good ones.
Ubuntu and Arch are about equal market share penetration for the desktop from what I researched with other and steam deck being the main dominant categories. So ignoring corp fleet deployments, I'd say Arch and NixOS have stolen quite a bit of market share from Debian-based systems in terms of end-user preference. But yes, Debian does still have a stranglehold because corp $ are behind Debian-style deployments.
As a software guy I’ve been dabbling with poetry for last 2 years [1] as an extension to my code writing. I think poetry and code go together rather well, there are similarities when it comes to elegance, construction and structure.

Liking or not liking poetry is irrelevant. There are some interesting things happen when one actually writes poetry. You are much closer to the source of ideas that can at times feel unique and inspiring.

Generative LLMs can easily mimic style, any _existing_ style. Can they capture a original higher thought form or is generated poetry an extremely smooth word salad?

[1] https://planetos.substack.com
We don't need to live forever as shown by the fact we've got by without it so far but death is kind of depressing. I've never really got the distinction that say killing millions in the holocaust is terrible but similar millions dying through age is desirable.
Congratulations Chris! I started using LiveView shortly after the beta was released. A few of my coworkers were really excited to try it out, so I was tasked with recreating our company's login page with LiveView. Needless to say, there were… ahem… growing pains—but it was super fun to encounter a problem and then just have it go away the following week because of some new update to LiveView.

I don't do much (any?) web development these days, but LiveView gave me—a backend dev—the confidence to spin up my own web apps with classy UIs. Thank you so much for all your work!
ive talked to them offline about it and they have promised a writeup is coming. will try to get a podcast too
Kids dad here.

Actually we did start with Godot - but it was too much too fast and he was overwhelmed.

He mentions this in his blog post. So we ultimately stepped back and I wanted him to learn to be resourceful. I give him a series of small changes (eg: write a function in any language that displays "hello world" on the screen) and he delivered those results in JS (he already knew HTML/CSS at this point). The rest comes as a natural progression.

I guess in this case, the best and pragmatic option was to use what you know.

In the future, we'll try Godot again :)
Congrats! Love Phoenix and absolutely love LiveView
Sun Cable was proposing a High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) undersea cable to Indonesia and Singapore. They went into administration last year but I think came out of it with new ownership. The cable has to pass through one of the worlds busiest shipping channel (Singapore strait) and areas of high seismic activity and the distances aren't trivial. Australia is very remote and there aren't many large power consumers in our vicinity and a lot of capital needs to be raised. The Darwin to Singapore route is about 9 times longer than the current longest undersea power cable.
Yeah, for example llama.cpp runs on Intel GPUs via Vulkan or SYCL. The latter is actively being maintained by Intel developers.

Obviously that is only one piece of software, but its a certainly a useful one if you are using one of the many LLMs it supports.
Sometimes a person's dedication and care expresses itself to others as ego. Sometimes it is just ego.

I think we've all implemented some clever trick in our code that we started to feel proud of. It's hard not to do. Even if you just contribute to a small piece of the project, you still might have those instances of pride. We're all human, and it's fine to take a little motivation from your accomplishment. But hold on loosely. Be critical of your baby and be willing to throw it out if it isn't the best approach.

I used to really like driver/embedded programming because it seemed like there was a 'best approach' or idiomatic solution for most problems that eliminated ego. It felt more like electrical engineering. I often felt programmers working on higher level software treated their work like a personal art project and that turned me off from it.
Congratulations to the team and a tremendously big warm hug for creating something that makes my professional life easier and joyful.

Elixir is terrific, never feel like the language is slowing me down whatsoever.

The tools you need are unsurprising and boringly in your face. Oban background jobs, auth, encryption, the works.

The tools for your day to day are polished and immediately useful. mix ecto.reset, seeds.exs, mix test, mix format, mix compile --force to see warnings. Just everything right there in your fingertips and works unsurprisingly.

Performance to the point where you won't ever really worry about it until you've made it big. Literally using 275MB right now and chilling. Sub 100ms response times.

All this to say, give Elixir and Phoenix a try. It's been the best decision of my professional career to try it out in 2016.
>Can’t vouch for the veracity of this

That's a pretty big indicator of gossip.
It's vastly, vastly easier to upgrade small version bumps constantly via automated tools like renovate than it is to try upgrade several major versions every few years. It's shite being stuck with dependencies the dev team has now put in the "too hard basket" in terms of upgrading because the delta is too scary or difficult and too much code has ossified around the now ancient version. Don't willingly do that to yourself if you can avoid.
Today, you could paste that into an LLM and it would immediately identify the issue.

The next generation of developers have so much power at their fingertips.
You'd have to deploy it yourself, but there's this:

https://github.com/aws-samples/bedrock-access-gateway
>So instead of selling coffee, I looked into how we could streamline the café and the cash register so that the volunteers who help out at the gallery felt comfortable doing my job, then I made myself a small office where I sat down to analyze the business and figure out how to improve it.

So he persuaded unpaid volunteers to do the work he was being paid to do?

Nobody has a problem with this?
Try teaching and lecturing position.

You'll do minimum coding unless you want to code for fun and try new ideas. If you have research funding you can become the project lead but the pressure is much less than industry since only prototyping demo not shipping.

The academic institutions will really appreciate your experiences and students as well.

I wish all the best for whatever you decided to do.
I always check the ego at the door, but have a high threshold for persuasion if I've done due diligence.
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> Our suggestion, what we have told folks internally, is not new here: encryption is your friend, whether it’s on text messaging or if you have the capacity to use encrypted voice communication.

Solid advice. But how do I get encrypted voice communication? Are Signal‘s or WhatsApp‘s calls encrypted?

Also, they sound so much worse than an old-fashioned call.