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I make different vegan milks, yogurt, tofu, etc., at home, using ingredients such as cashew, almonds, soy, peanuts, rice and more. For some other items, I prefer buying a commercial brand from a store. The variety is great. Reducing the harm I do (which is an ongoing thing) was the main factor in this change a long time ago.
I know, right??? Something is seriously wrong with this world that people like us (the hard-working competent employees) can't find work!
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As far as I understand it, the original thread was about whether this distinction exists at all. That is, my understanding is that the whole thread is about opposition to the Quanta article's assertion, which suggests that thermodynamic entropy is the same thing as information-theory entropy and that it is not a "physical" property of a system, but a quantity which measures the information that an observer has about said system.

If you already agree that the two are distinct measures, I believe there is no disagreement in the sub-thread.
Here's a related story from the period about why Microsoft didn't try something similar with Skype: https://www.pcworld.com/article/447285/why-skype-still-cant-...

I can't help but think carriers were the reason Samsung didn't make Hangouts the default SMS client, which contributed to Hangouts not gaining momentum fast enough, which led to Google acquiring Jibe and launching other chat products.
Banning phones has no downsides. You're in the office to work, you don't need a phone or tablet for that.
It's fixable, it's not a lost cause. Question is, are you and partner phone drones yourselves?
Right, mainstream news has been doing this same clickbait for half century at least and it is the reason we allow it from social media. We're desensitized to it and actually seek it out. We live to suffer and be enraged, because in our minds democracy depends upon it.
It has a pre-release version number and a bus factor of approximately 1. It's tempting though.
FTFY: s/extras/essential features/

the decision to roll window management and keyboard management and screen management into one thing called "compositor" looks very cavalier to me. It resulted in a need to duplicate so many things that are modular and pluggable under X.

(Repeating myself, I wish somebody created a Wayland compositor that explicitly delegates most tasks to plugins, providing a stable interface, so that you could use your own WM, your own keyboard switcher, etc. Thankfully, screenshooting is using a similar approach already, but in a limited way. The idea is so obvious that somebody must have attempted this already.)
Not sure how to edit, I think it may have been middle school, is been quite a few years :)
I put graphene into the same category as quantum computers.

No doubt, massive technological advancement if it can me massively produced.

But we’ve been waiting 20-years and still haven’t realized the benefits.
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The author reports two main "security issues":

1) No HTTP basic auth. This isn't a security issue in any way, shape, or form. Author has a personal preference for basic auth but this doesn't mean that changes the security posture.

2) No support for reverse proxy so you can change the root to something non-standard. This is simply security through obscurity and once again has zero bearing on the security posture.

I think the author would do well to understand basic web services security before he starts casting stones here. VPNs work fine if that's what you need, but of course they are too complicated for the author so that solution is dismissed.
Define phone. See.
Three seats is also magic? To invite/cause one person in each such group of 4 to go and find new friends. Plus some drama
This, if your workout plan for the day has you running is six miles a day, rather than just running the same path over and over again, might as well have fun with it and add a bit more fun to your workout.
>"Being able to know something like that and bring it with you across operating systems has been useful."

I did not say it is not useful for people who use it. I imagine for them it gets the job done perfectly. We do not have to be all the same.
The HA maintainers also refuse anything that has to do with SSO. I'm not even talking about implementing it themselves, there have been many contributions over the years to add OAuth support
Obscure path? Been a while since I've seen the phrase:

Obscurity is not security.

If that's something the author wants to depend on, I'm not sure we should listen.
...And just the other day I was thinking about maybe trying XFCE out :)

Now, currently I'm using LXQt (which is probably even more bare bones and "get the job done" DE), what can XFCE give me? I mean, I certainly see a point when people switch to XFCE from Gnome or KDE. But what about if coming from the other side of the spectrum?
In the first image on the left, you can see the large square has length and width of a, which would have an area of a*a, or a^2. There is then a little square inside with length and width b, for an area of b^2. Essentially, the little square is getting removed from the big one (a^2 - b^2). In the last image on the right, you can see that the length of one side is (a-b) and the top side is (a+b), which would mean the area is equal to the product of (a-b)(a+b). This means that a^2 – b^2 = (a + b)(a – b). The intermediate steps just show how to move the area around visually
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The reviewer seems to really have it out for Dawkins, but I didn’t really find their criticisms valid. When he started talking about multilevel selection I thought “oh well that explains it.”

He acts like Dawkins is just being pinheaded but my impression is that multilevel selection is still very far from being widely accepted. Indeed, my impression is that Dawkins’ views on multilevel selection are pretty mainstream within science. Am I wrong? I’m not an academic so I’m open that maybe things have changed recently.
I agree that the RISC-V ecosystem has some issues that I hope will be sorted out. But not all RISC-V cores are "baby cores". I imagine that XiangShan
[1], albeit student work, will spur work towards bigger, more performant OOO cores.

[1] https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan
A similar method is handy for some mental arithmetic involving squares, e.g. it's easy to calculate 1005² because it's 1000² plus two added blocks of 5 x 1000, plus a small 5² block, so 1,010,025. Going the other way, 995² is 1000² minus those same two 5 x 1000 blocks, plus 5², so 990,025.

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When I was training complex image recognition models (such as models based on the ResNet architecture that can recognize multiple objects), processing high-resolution image data would take up a large amount of memory. When dealing with massive experimental data and training complex scientific research models, the GPU I used also got stuck frequently. The data processing flow that was supposed to be as smooth as a surging river became bumpy, just like a snail crawling.One day, while browsing a film and television production forum, I saw the recommendation of the BurnCloud platform (https://www.burncloud.com/835.html). With a mindset of giving it a try, I started to learn about this platform. The BurnCloud platform has a vast amount of GPU resources, covering many high-end models, such as the NVIDIA A100.The NVIDIA A100, as the flagship product on the current market, is based on the latest Ampere architecture, equipped with 80GB HBM2e high-speed video memory, and supports multi-precision floating-point operations. Its powerful single-precision (FP32) and double-precision (FP64) computing capabilities, combined with the third-generation Tensor Core, are very suitable for handling complex AI training tasks and large-scale datasets. In addition, the MIG (Multi-Instance GPU) technology allows us to divide a physical GPU into multiple virtual GPUs, further improving resource utilization. These GPUs have thousands of CUDA cores and can achieve ultra-high-speed parallel computing.Compared with other platforms, BurnCloud has obvious advantages. Its interface is simple and easy to use. I only need to easily upload my project files to seamlessly connect with the platform's GPU resources without a complicated configuration process. Moreover, BurnCloud provides a flexible billing mode by the minute. Compared with some platforms that rent by the month, it greatly reduces the usage cost. In terms of data security, BurnCloud adopts advanced encryption transmission and storage technologies to ensure that project data will not be l
> I certainly see a point when people switch to XFCE from Gnome or KDE. But what about if coming from the other side of the spectrum?

I think you basically answered it right there.

It sits between. For the lxde people it would be more of a full fledged desktop, but not with the full weight of KDE or Gnome.
Solid release, I'm not interested in Wayland at all, but it's nice to have, hopefully the CSD stuff remain something optional
Decoherence may be enough. The idea is that the starting wavefunction of us and some experiment (say, an electron) is a tensor product

| us > ⊗ | electron in superposition >

and unitary time evolution governed by the Schrödinger equation evolves that state to

| us seeing spin up in a detector > ⊗ | spin up > + | us seeing spin down > ⊗ | spin down >

(I elided the amplitudes since we're just interested in the idea and not some particular values). In each 'branch' of the wavefunction (meaning: in each addend) we're left wondering "wow, how did the wavefunction collapse to the value that I am seeing", because we're inside the wf. But that's just a question we have that we've been tricked into by our limited sight; if we could see the whole wf of the universe, with our own superposition included, we'd see there is no collapse but just unitary Schrödinger evolution forever.
In my country I would only find such retailers in one of the big 3 cities.
Just because we intuit that something seems absurd does not mean it is. What is at odds with nature seems to me to be our intuition.

Our measurements of the subject seem fairly clear. The double slit experiment works, and scales to larger and larger particles with improvements in experimental rigor.

We observe Casimir pressure, and we observe changes in that pressure based on probabilistic constraints that we place or remove in the vicinity of the detector.

We observe reduced certainty of observations as they become distant in spacetime.

All of these point in one direction-that our intuition on observing things is much less predictive than we tend to imagine.

Whether that means multiverse, simulation, unlimited reach of wave function, holographic universe, or one of the other many possible explanations has yet to be established, but there is no indication that classical physics is reconcilable with observation.
Not a tech project, but I've been writing about research in economics, philosophy, and math/logic from 100, 150, and 200 years ago. It's been a rewarding experience and helps build context around the typical canon in various fields.

Here's my look at 1874: https://bcmullins.github.io/research-from-1874/
Author seems to think that security from obscurity helps while in reality it does not, neither doesn't have given a thought about putting something in front of HA like nginx if they want obscurity. With their principle anything should not be online
> Routing general internet traffic through a VPN introduces unnecessary complexity. (...) A VPN could bottleneck the performance for some devices. (...) Not all devices can reliably connect to a VPN.

This suggests to me the author is imagining a VPN setup that isn't split-tunnel. Why would anyone want that for this? And what device is "not reliably able to connect" via VPN that you'd want to reach Home Assistant through?

> No Basic Authentication Support: Home Assistant's mobile apps cannot handle URLs with embedded credentials (e.g., https://user:pass@hostname).
Path Limitations: Home Assistant must be hosted at the root path (/), preventing the use of an obscure web host path to deter scanners.

... so put a reverse proxy in front of it?

Maybe I'm missing something, but there's nothing unusual here.
Is it so hard to hire Americans?

In truth the politicians and bureaucrats have always been complicit in this fraud and willing to look the other way in exchange for bribes and kickbacks. They're just better at covering it up and preventing investigations of themselves.
The reason this is interesting is that five years ago, or even two years ago, producing such a "painfully obvious" description from such a photo with a computer was utterly impossible, and ten years ago it was unthinkable. The capability to do this automatically at scale for trivial cost has many nonobvious implications (for example for cloud photo storage and drone warfare), and it invalidates many widely held implicit beliefs. We are only beginning to dimly grasp how this will change the world.
Just ban advertising. Everything follows from the all out war on attention, and ads are its fuel.
> Thus, smacks more of no-true-scotsman than something I can chew on.

I wasn't making a judgement about you or your work, after all I don't know you. I was commenting within the context of an app that you described for which an LLM was useful, relative to the hard problems we'll need help with if we want to advance technology (that is, make computers do more powerful things and do them faster). I have no idea if you're a true Scotsman or not.

Regardless: over the coming years we'll find out who the true Scotsmen were, as they'll be hired to do the stuff LLMs can't.
I really like the XFCE implementation on Kali Linux because the desktop menu(?) includes a search bar. When I install XFCE on other distros like Ubuntu and Arch, this feature is missing out of the box. Is this a standard feature and/or is there a standard method to add it to other Linux distros?
Futility Closet used to have a charming and fascinating podcast. I miss it. I'm glad that he's still writing the blog.
I spend about 5-10 minutes a day tracking, usually as part of my daily routine—logging meals, workouts, or sleep at the end of the day.

It’s quick because I keep the system simple (plain text files or spreadsheets), and it pays off when I need to review trends or insights later!
This makes me want to learn music even though I'm not a musician
I have switched a few jobs already. I have never had job fulfillment which led to my conclusion that there is no perfect job. perhaps I should focus on my side projects.
You know how you get it right? Either on prem, offline everything, or explicit allow lists controlled by teachers for that specific period. Disable USB ports.

That’s what we moved to for one of our kids who couldn’t handle it. Except we have to control the access because the school won’t. It works.

Is it perfect? No. Google Docs is the worst due to embedding. But it beats whack-a-mole.

I’ve now had to do the management job of six teachers because they apparently don’t have the skill to deal with 30 kids with Swiss cheese restrictions. This, despite significant investments in software.
Yes, the more regular statistical mechanics theory of entropy doesn't make any reference to an observer, and definitely not to a human observer. In that definition, the entropy of a thermodynamic system is proportional to the amount of microstates (positions, types, momentum, etc. of individual particles) that would lead to the same macrostate (temperature, volume, pressure, etc.). It doesn't matter if an observer is aware of any of this, it's an objective property of the system.

Now sure, you could choose to describe a gas (or any other system) in other terms and compute a different value for entropy with the same generalized definition. But you will not get different results from this operation - the second law of thermodynamics will still apply, and your system will be just as able or unable to produce work regardless of how you choose to represent it. You won't get better efficiency out of an engine by choosing to measure something other than the temperature/volume/pressure of the gases involved, for example.

Even if you described the system in terms its specific microstate, and thus by the definition above your computed entropy would be the minimum possible, you still wouldn't be able to do anything that a more regular model couldn't do. Maxwell's demon is not a physically possible being/machine.
I see, it's my fault that listings are allowed to go up vague, and it's my fault that when I search for a specific item, since the platform already swindled a hundred thousand, I must be in line for the same.

It's also my fault when I search google images for a plastic jumper, I get molex connectors, I guess.

It's also my fault that when I get tired of not finding what I need, the last thing I clicked on gets shown to the next person.

I somehow don't think I'm at fault here.
s/proof/demonstration/ and be done with the arguments.

Intuitive but formally wrong is still good for intuition.
>A search engine that lets you search through artworks based on a 'vibe', aka the meaning or semantics of a text.

>How does this work? - https://blog.lockhorst.dev/projects/art-search

>the whole project is open source - https://github.com/SjorsLockhorst/sem-art-search
Serendipity I was just reading an article about homeless people in Amsterdam (first rule of the Netherlands do not ever live in Amsterdam).
I don't judge it must be a lot more fun being a drug addict in Amsterdam than Boekarest.

But it is emblematic of how the Dutch government is losing diplomatic power in Brussels.
If you ignore things like randomly running into screen sharing problems or issues configuring XYZ thing because Gnome or whoever can't be arsed to expose it in their Wayland implementation. I keep trying Wayland and then swapping back to X11. Less issues and I never notice the things Wayland "solves", just what it breaks.
If they’d train on my child’s search and browser history, they’d probably close most holes within minutes of them being known. smh
> For the diagonal lines the runner turned his GPS off at some points, and turned back on at another, causing Strava to fill in the missing data with a diagonal line

This part of Toronto also has laneways, so if you use the above feature, in combination with crossing through laneways that don't show up as streets at this level of zoom, you can perhaps get diagonal interpretation from Strava.
All because of the pervasive ad-based business model. Ban ads and things will change. Some says "ad are easy because payments are too costly" but the day we ban ads, payment processors will change their own model to make sure they capture all the market previously owned by ads. And freemium works for platforms that pretend their users can't pay.
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Well, it's not hard only because the website completely lacked any useful detail to inform the decision. In the end, it's a great play by OP to come here and open up a Q&A.
I really enjoyed being a DevOps consultant some years ago. Traveling to many different states (and that one time I traveled to India), spending time in different workplaces, and giving engineers an excuse to work on some really cool shit while leveling them (and myself) up in the process was deeply satisfying.

Traveling and working with others face to face was a big part of the job I enjoyed; COVID destroyed that.
RISC-V designers explicitly declare in their base specification: "The AMOs were designed to implement the C11 and C++11 memory models efficiently." So at least one example is present.
> Also, if you specify Terminal=true, your configured preference for your terminal emulator is ignored by all desktop environments.

What do they use?
I would have figured algorithmic trading bots got all the wins there before a human could.
My comment wasn’t really around legal or business merits but rather the bad faith nature of these actions which would apply whether using open or closed source ip.

However, the ‘dangers of building on sole-source’ licensed IP is true in general but a bit overdone in this case. Qualcomm had a large number of options using Arm IP including developing their own cores in house. However they chose to do something that was - on the face of it - in breach of license agreements that Nuvia had signed.
In my province, they implemented a smart phone ban in public schools this year. It was wild to see the political push back, where people just made stuff up to oppose it because they were politically opposed to the government in general.
The author doesn't explain it well, but I use home assistant and I share the same view. Home assistant is not a very secure app. I would be fine putting it behind Nginx with basic auth, because Nginx is quite battle hardened and basic auth is a small attack surface.

I've solved it instead by using Wireguard and keeping home assistant on my private network. No idea why the author thinks VPN is not a good solution. It's also helpful for several other apps I don't feel safe exposing to the internet.
I'm admittedly corrupting the term a bit, but I mean beans from a local-scale coffee (micro)roaster in the same sense as a local beer (micro)brewery.
>> There is a lot of variation in morphology between different insect types in a colony

Bees in a hive change their role (e.g. nursery, house-keeping, defence, food gathering) depending on their age but all these roles have the same morphology, unlike castes in ants.