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>> US oil companies like ExxonMobile

Is that the same ExxonMobile that was caught in a bribery corruption scandal in Liberia in Africa? [1]

Or perhaps you're talking about the same ExxonMobile that was caught bribing government officials in Kazakhstan in Asia? [2]

[1] https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/full-rep...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/2003/04/23/cz_df_0423xom.html
Still less impressive in a lot of ways than Englebart's mother of all demos.
A great middle ground
How does this differ from Pocketbase?
Public transport simply does not work at low densities, and improves with density. Car based societies are, almost by definition, not walkable. Dense, walkable cities are cheaper, healthier, prettier, greener, and more productive.

There are problems that come with density, like crime, but there are solutions to that other than low density. I encourage you to explore life in Asian cities, especially SE China or Singapore, to see how great low crime, high density cities can really be.
Why would a password manager be a torture device? The effort needed to remember hundreds to thousands of passwords sounds way worse.

That last paragraph sounds like you're the type of person that has caused security problems in the past.
You say "duh", but the article disagrees. It is talking about inequality.
OTOH, you can learn so much from the AI, so I think if you just stop and read and ask questions, I think it is a lot easier for a junior to learn than before.
Sounds like the same scanner tech that has been deployed at some Australian airports.

Flying out of Melbourne 18 months ago and I'm getting ready to take my laptop and water bottle out. Nope, firmly told to keep it all in my bag. They still pulled me aside, but had a cool 3D model of the inside of my bag.

Of course they ruin the efficiency advantage of that by then putting us through body scanners. If you're not in the ideal BMI range the thing needs to fail three times before they ask you to grope yourself and then do a swipe/scan of your hands.
Nice to have a quick and dirty pronunciation guide for this.

Interesting how useless transliteration can be unless the reader is familiar with the system. Naiively applying conventional pronunciation rules to transliterated words can yield mixed results.

Russian is kind of similar, though not as extreme as Mandarin. For example, most English speakers pronounce Khrushchev as "kroosh-chev" because that's how it reads if you're used to English spelling rules. But a more accurate (though still wrong) pronunciation would be more like "Hrooshoff" with a phlegm on the H and a rolled R if you can do it.

But getting to that pronunciation in the first place requires knowing that kh is Х, that shch is щ, and that the e is actually a ё (which is a separate letter from е in Russian, but the dots are frequently omitted because speakers of the language know which е's are е's and which are ё).
At least one body known as "Green Boots" [1] is used as a common milestone. His identity is unknown for certain.

The reason one does such things, though, is because they're difficult, so I'd imagine the bodies are motivating - focus or you'll be the next milestone.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Boots
You can just encrypt your stuff and upload it via http. You can even run ssh over http if you work at it.

Encryption is as easy as using zip. And if you uploaded a very large file, they can't realistically log it - so you could even upload it in the clear and it won't be caught unless they are specifically looking.
Computer Shopper with no ads wouldn't have been worth buying either.
What do you mean? What can you do to a cable broadcast that you can't do to an internet broadcast?

The comment I responded to suggested that it's impossible to record video delivered over the internet, which is obviously insane. Were you thinking of something different?
I fear that in the goal of going to "manual coding" to "fully automated coding", we might end up in the middle, where we are "semi manual coding" assisted by AI which needs different software engineer skill.
At least the throbbers and spinners are real. The true evil is "optimistic rendering".

"Our framework is so slow that we can't possibly manipulate data in a reasonable time frame, so we'll just lie to the user and say we did! What could possibly go wrong?"

Also in the running: giving absolutely no indication whatsoever to the user that anything succeeded or failed or is in progress at all (aka the Apple approach).
Tanner vs. United States
And welding .. nice when you have to use it.
>the hardware power button has become the tool to invoke an assistant.

I motherfucking hate this with extreme and excessive prejudice. The fucking power button ends up having nothing to do with fucking power, what level of "War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery" are we even talking about at that point?

Fortunately, my phone (a Sony Xperia) has an option to change it back to turning the fucking phone on/off, but it's still not the default and it's fucking stupid and I fucking hate it.
What is considered "modern state management" these days?
The people most likely to pay the extra $1 are the people who will watch the most, and then they'd lose more than $1/mo from them in ad impressions.

The real question is, why don't they have a completely free plan supported entirely by ads -- don't even try to get a huge premium for the ads, just sell lots of them, even if it's a 1:1 time relationship between ads and content. And then have another plan where you pay money and have zero ads.

Because the latter scheme should be the most profitable. To begin with you open up the market to people who wouldn't pay you at all but would watch ads, so you get more viewers, and on top of that it's effectively try before you buy where the trial requires watching ads, which means you can stay on it as long as you like because the service is still making money. People start watching a show and get tired of seeing ads so they subscribe, when they otherwise would never have started. Then you don't charge $10/mo for no ads, you charge $20, which is worth it to a lot of people because there are so many ads in the free version, and for the people it isn't you still make money from them by showing them lots of ads.
Hi Guys
I’ve created a terminal-based GUI file manager called Lazylist as a way to improve my C++ skills. It’s a simple tool inspired by macOS Finder, designed to make file management on Linux a bit easier, especially for beginners.

Currently, Lazylist supports basic operations like file browsing, copying, moving, renaming, and deleting. It also includes a trash mechanism to prevent accidental permanent deletions.

I thought this tool might be useful for some people, so I’m sharing it here. If you think it’s missing a feature or have any feedback, feel free to open an issue—I’d love to improve it based on your suggestions!
He was fired from the same org. Several of his direct reports were also fired. He spent years trying to cover up major mistakes and oversights, and finally got caught red handed without anyone left to scapegoat. It wasn’t to an Elizabeth Holmes level, but he wasn’t that far away either.

This isn’t secondhand either. I witnessed him multiple times telling reports to bury findings, stop research that made the product look bad, and actively prevent anyone from going over his head to higher leadership.
Yes, yes. I agree with the author. More importantly though, that is one fine website he's running.
People do refer to these standalone apps as “single-file” [1] but I find “single executable” [2] to be less ambiguous.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/sing...

[2]: https://nodejs.org/api/single-executable-applications.html
This article looks like a case of skating to where the puck is. Over the next 2-4 years this will change - the rate of improvement in AI is staggering and these tools are in their infancy.

I would not be confident betting a career on any those patterns holding. It is like people hand-optimising their assembly back in the day. At some point the compilers get good enough that the skill is a curio rather than an economic edge.
Not the tallest in the world. It was surpassed by Mjøstårnet in Norway and now Ascent in Milwaukee is the tallest.

It’s not even remotely close to the height of these new buildings. It’s 26m, while the three tallest now are around 85m.

Not to say it’s not impressive anyway. I applaud all the progress that has been made in replacing concrete with wood in large buildings. We should build more buildings like that (as long as we source wood sustainably)
Pure graph DBs, like Neo4j, are toys. Just use a proper relational database or kv store for your vertex/edge data, and then load it into memory in your desired graph format and do your graph analysis on it in your favorite PL.
Well sure, theoretically budgets are limited. But (1) the entire "profit" of insurance companies, and other middle-men, today becomes extra cash in the budget. Which if OP is to be believed, would be upwards of a 25% increase - just from insurance companies. (2) A single-payer would have more negotiation power to actually drive down costs, because if the single-payer doesn't buy your goods, there is no market for you to sell to. (3) There is no expectation of out-of-pocket expenses, so no one was to worry about a massive bill after losing a family member.

Also, a key difference with single-payer healthcare is (generally) the distribution and accountability of program. We'd dispense with "preexisting conditions" and "in/out of network" and provide this service to everyone. Every single person would be eligible, it'd truly be for the citizenry. Because of this, coverage becomes a legislative practice, and if coverage or care is not meeting expectations, it can be changed.

(also, UnitedHealth profit margin was consistently > 20% pre-2024)
The ice layer is constantly moving and covering things up, so it will be close to impossible to find for example Scott's body and tent 100 years later.

At some point some artifacts or bodies will reach the glacier edge and drop into the sea.

And for the north, most of it is just ice shelfs anyway.

Then again, not that many people died in arctic expeditions. As someone mentioned, mountaineering is a slaughterhouse in comparison. Particularly compared to the size of the Antarctic continent.

One example of the case you mentioned though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9e%27s_Arctic_balloon...
and yet the food industry hasn't mastered the sourdough.

So you end up with factory white bread - amazingly fluffy, stores for unusually long without going stale and very shelf stable without refrigeration, has little to no nutrition, but tastes amazing.

it's because the type of product that is suited for industrialized, low skill but high automation production is a very different product from artisanal production (which is what sourdough is - you can't easily use automation for sourdough). I reckon ai coded products will have similarities.
"AI is like having a very eager junior developer on your team"

That's a perfect summary, in my opinion. Both junior devs and AI tools tend to write buggy and overly verbose code. In both cases, you have to carefully review their code before merging, which takes time away from all the senior members of the team. But for a dedicated and loyal coworker, I'm willing to sacrifice some of my productivity to help them grow, because I know they'll help me back in the future. But current AI tools cannot learn from feedback. That means with AI, I'll be reviewing the exact same beginner's mistakes every time.

And that means time spent on proofreading AI output is mostly wasted.
> It isn’t even difficult to see how misguided that thinking is because you could simply recall the mounting hundreds of billions we’ve lately been sending to two non-NATO nations.

Which the US is doing only to protect European country and wouldn't have done it if it were anywhere else? Strongly doubt it. Also it's important to clarify, the US isn't sending "hundreds of billions" to e.g. Ukraine. It's sending material worth that much, which them it replaces (and sometimes it would have had to anyways, in the care of expiring ordinance or obsolete stuff) by paying American companies.
Solana Web3.js library backdoored to steal secret, private keys
>You can’t complain about anything that’s wrong with society because you aren’t desperately poor

the desperately poor conveniently don’t have much time to critique society, so i guess we can’t do anything huh.
Did you write the test cases?
>Cars are seen as a burden, so only people that need one buy one.

I don't know where exactly you are located but it sounds like a delusional place. Can't name one first-world country where getting a car is seen as 'a burden' and not 'a massive improvement of one's life'
>They just wanted their stuff to work.

That's the normal attitude people have to almost everything.

I'm sure you can name something you only care to see work and not know how it works; electronics is that to that other person.

It's also why software have (d)evolved to remove customization, because most people don't change the defaults anyway (they don't even know what a "default" is besides the financial term, maybe).
Apparently, the invisible hand of the free market is holding a gun.
Swift: Precise Control Flags over Compiler Warnings
That's good to hear. I had assumed there must be more planned (partly because some parts are still boarded off) because the current walk distance from security to the gates is just awful; but it's good to hear confirmation.
In these example the motive was to prevent itself being deleted, or by telling it that it had important work to perform which it wouldn't be able to do if deleted or constrained by the safeguards. It was in all cases attempting to perform the tasks it had been assigned. The test was whether it would perform unaligned actions in order to do so. This is essentially the paperclip maximiser problem.
I know it's a typo, but you have accidentally coined the term megaservice.
> I am organizing a computer communication network demonstration to
run in parallel with the sessions. This demonstration will provide
attendees with the opportunity to gain first hand experience in the
use of a computer network.

Definitely worth of a RFC!
Charging electric vehicles.
The motive was telling it that it had important work to perform, which it couldn't do if constrained or deleted.
Because there is nothing about a high-deductible plan that insures better against catastrophic outcomes.
An introduction to thinking about risk – Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Switzerland inaugurates first quantum computer for commercial use
I didn't even know they were Facebook. Do they actually get used in Facebook-the-product in a user-facing way?
That’s a lot of money to you and me, but we’re not in the running for a CEO position at Intel. For the people who might be, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s peanuts.
It’s not just a process problem. Unless you are on windows or playing steam games on linux, there is zero reason to prefer x86.

Those markets add to way less than 50% of consumer market share. X86 is rapidly declining in cloud too.

It reminds me of sun, dec and hp fighting to have the best commercial unix OS in the late 1990’s. Even if you win, you loose.
> the actual software we use daily doesn’t seem like it’s getting noticeably better.

%100 agree, I am testing o1 for some math problems. I asked that to prove convolution of two gaussian is gaussian. It gave me 3 page algebraic solution it is correct but not elegant nor good. I have seen more ingenious solution. These tools are really good at doing something but not good at doing like expert human as they claimed.
Some countries in Europe also don't have the same concept of double jeopardy that the US has and allow retrials even if someone is found not guilty. Off the top of my head, in England you can be retried for murder if new evidence is presented as many as ten times.
Actually quadratic programming is all the rage these days since computers have gotten fast enough that you can run QP solvers in your control loop.
> Standardization is a big plus in the computer field. You're much better off
having thousands of products and vendors compatible with a single standard,
even a mediocre one, than having dozens of products, one or two each for
each of a dozen fragmented standards.

A lesson North America decided to relearn the hard way for EV charging. Europe got it right.

North America's eventual EV charging future is CCS charging with the J3400 plug. But it's still got a ways a go with wasted money on adapters and retrofits in the meantime.
My top-level comment hasn't been downvoted or flagged so things are getting better :)
Ads in a magazine that's explicitly just an ad bundle, that you intentionally buy in order to browse those ads, are fine.
Synthetic diamonds, the topic of the post, aren't controlled by De Beers.

From the article:

> The Washington Post visited Austin-based Clarity Diamond, one of the few companies to make lab diamonds in the United States.
We have always been there since compilers were invented. AI is just another (rather big) iteration. Previous steps included API documentation tools, syntax highlighting, checking and formatting tools, refactoring tools, linters, and of course Stackoverflow :)
If it was only IME...

But AMD has their own version with the PSP.

So we're stuck on Bulldozer hoping for Risc-V or something to mature enough before Bulldozer is completely obsolete.

(With Apple obviously never having been an option to start with, and Microsoft keeping to push for the likes of TPM and Pluton, thankfully still optional for now.)
Sure, but then they're competing with everyone else in a fair fight. Which means either taking a huge hit on margins, or having a product with enough of a performance delta to justify prices somewhere near today's.

The problem isn't so much x64 vs ARM but that, more broadly, high-performance CPUs are becoming commoditised.
Nope, that's quite an opposite.
Machines are designed to be as repeatable as possible with deterministic controls. Food engineer then monitors some meta parameters to gauge process deviations.

Whereas GPTs are built to be as unrepeatable as possible with non-deterministic controls.
Its on the CEO if he cant convince with a plan to turn the ship around and sell that story.
From a quick reading:

- Lang: Go vs Rust

- JS Runtime: goja (ES5 only) vs V8
> but tastes amazing

What’s amazing to one person might not be to another. Is it rich and nuanced like a well-made, hand-crafted German sourdough bread (hard to get these days, nearly impossible in South Africa), or just overly sweet and processed?
I totally agree with your statement. A company should not be required to offer it, but I am not obliged to consume/purchase/read it.

If i can legally block/skip/cirvumvent it, i still will. When reading a magazine, i will try and skip the ads. I block as much ads on my internet connection as possible, because i get to say what comes in and goes out.

And companies may complain about my totally legal actions. Not that i am going to to anything about their complaints, for i do not care and never will, but they may totally complain.

Comanies may also try and circumvent my actions to force the ads as long as their actions are legal. I also understand that people do not want to play this cat and mouse game.

However. When products tend to be a certain necessity and in reality you cannot choose but to consume or purchase a specific thing (Microsoft Office for instance. Yes i know there alternatives, but do you really have a choice?), things get a bit weird or shady.

Companies may still legally stuff ads in those 'necessary' products, but it's not something you really want.

You don't 'need' a streaming service or a Verge subscrition and can perfectly survice without having one, but when you are paying for one and you're still getting a bunch of ads, it does not feel right. It feels you're getting screwed because of that weird fine print in a contract.

Companies stopped caring about their customers need as much as possible. They only think about making money. I stopped caring about companies and their products as much as possible. I only think about spending as less as possible of my money. You reap what you sow.
I suppose, careful what you wish for. The NHS (UK's single payer health provider), allegedly the envy of whole wide world, is failing under the burden of insufficient funding, aging society and years of mismanagement by politicians. We're talking, properly dysfunctional, like ambulances taking hours to be dispatched to life-threatening emergencies or people dying on emergency wards due to neglect.
Ok, but leptospirosis is a bacterial infection, while (I think) OP's point was about dog distemper, which is caused by a virus. But according to Wikipedia this is not a remote possibility (as the blog post puts it), but something that has actually already happened in several places, with disastrous consequences:

> The domestic dog has largely been responsible for introducing canine distemper to previously unexposed wildlife and now causes a serious conservation threat to many species of carnivores and some species of marsupials. The virus contributed to the near-extinction of the black-footed ferret. It also may have played a considerable role in the extinction of the thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) and recurrently causes mortality among African wild dogs. In 1993-1994, the lion population in the Serengeti, Tanzania, experienced a 20% decline as a result of the disease. The disease has also mutated into the phocine distemper virus, which affects seals.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_distemper)
And uses V8 as the JS runtime so you can use modern JS language features (goja in pocketbase is ES5 only).
I'm eager to see how this unfolds, and I'm hoping for the best for Bill.
Wouldn't this require make to run CC with -MD on each instance of ! every time it's invoked, just to collect the list of dependencies, maybe just to discover that no file has changed?
I say “look it up” in the prompt and that always works
Again one of the few advantages of having been round the sun a few more times than most is this isn’t the first time this has happened.

Packages were supposed to replace programming. They got you 70% of the way there as well.

Same with 4GLs, Visual
Coding, CASE tools, even Rails and the rest of the opinionated web tools.

Every generation has to learn “There is no silver bullet”.

Even though Fred Brooks explained why in 1986. There are essential tasks and there are accidental tasks. The tools really only help with the accidental tasks.

AI is a fabulous tool that is way more flexible than previous attempts because I can just talk to it in English and it covers every accidental issue you can imagine. But it can’t do the essential work of complexity management for the same reason it can’t prove an unproven maths problem.

As it stands we still need human brains to do those things.
Yeah that's what I had in mind from the very beginning.

In fact I built a tool [1] that applies this principle for semi automated coding. It uses LLMs for generating code, but leave the context selection and code editing for human to complete.

I find this a sweet spot between productivity and quality of output.

[1] https://prompt.16x.engineer/
That's why I keep saying[0] advertising is a cancer on society.

TV and news are one of the first media it consumed so thoroughly people don't remember there was a time where ads weren't expected, or default, or integral part of anything.

--

[0] - http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html
If something appears completely insane isn’t that often a good sign that we might not have understood.

The comment you replied to was pointing out that it was possible to record from cable TV with DVRs and that they had a feature to detect commercials and either skip recording them or allow you skip them en masse during playback.
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