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> And I didn't feel the need to resort to personally attacking you to try to make my point. Something you should learn from.

Coming from the person repeatedly calling me a shill and a liar? Don’t make me laugh!

It seems you still don’t get it. You are the one that has turned this into ghostty vs kitty, not me. I suspect you understand the flower shop analogy but are just ignoring it because it doesn’t help your argument. At no point have I said that ghostty is better than kitty ;) I’m still using kitty as we speak, so my usual flower shop hasn’t changed.

It’s kind of sad that you are so upset that someone on the internet could possibly be impressed with ghostty’s 1.0.1 release notes. I have little interest in your take on it, because it is needlessly trolling on an innocent comment.

Possibly you should take note from the downvotes and flags on your comments here. No doubt you will blame the army of ghostty shills who have organised themselves into a globally coordinated voting ring. As for me, I take it as a signal that what you have to say on this thread isn’t particularly interesting or worth replying to.
Way too expensive to be useful for anything.
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Amiga Workbench had a comically bad interface, though?
FYI: A comment like this one is more helpful with links. There's one below with a few. If you happen to read this, feel free to respond, or to hit "edit" and add them.
Yeah GPS+RTK was what I went with in the end.

Didn't work as well as I'd hoped back in those days though, as you could lose carrier lock if you got too close to trees (or indeed buildings), and our target market was golf courses which tend to have a lot of trees. And in those days a dual-frequency RTK+IMU setup was $20k or more, which is expensive for a lawnmower.
I had never heard of it, so I went to find out more. Yes, I think it's the same philosophy. Very cool project.

Unfortunately, it seems that they went against the project's very principle by inventing a new language, new VM and toolchain instead of simply targeting one of the existing platforms. I can see why they wanted to build an abstraction layer, so their code is portable across different classic (and modern) platforms, but this is one more case of https://xkcd.com/927/.

It would have been totally okay if they had said "The future of software is creating applications targeting the Amiga 1000", or anything else from the 80s-90s, which I'll arbitrarily define as "simple enough to accurately emulate forever".
I never was a big fan of Lua and that was something that kept me from looking closer at Löve, but a few months ago I discovered fennel (Lisp-like that transpiles to Lua) and that you can use that to write Löve games.

This looks like an up-to-date introduction:

https://itch.io/jam/love2d-jam-2024/topic/3484009/getting-st...

The "absolutely minimal Löve 2D fennel" repo was useful to me as I found the other templates a bit bloated (but possibly those are more useful for real-world projects beyond small experiments?):

https://sr.ht/~benthor/absolutely-minimal-love2d-fennel/

I did find that startup-time was bad for Fennel om some very low-end devices, or when running even a small game using LoveDOS in DOSBox, so I set up my test-projects to pre-compile the fennel-code to Lua as part of building the .love-files and that solved that problem.
This article claims that these big companies no longer respect robots.txt. That to me is the big problem. Back when I used to work with the Google Search Appliance it was impossible to ignore robots.txt. Since when have big known companies decided to completely ignore robots.txt?
I’ve seen your comment below, but you did specify big tech as context in this parent comment, no? Or is „very large tech company“ not FAANG?

Google has Staff at L6, and their ladder goes up to L11. Apple‘s Staff pendant is ICT5, which is below ICT6 and Distinguished. Amazon has E7-E9 above Staff, if you count E6 as Staff. Netflix very recently departed from their flat hierarchy and even they have Principal above Staff.
Twenty-plus years ago I hiked the Appalachian Trail. Back then, it was common practice to hitch a ride into town for resupply. One time when my partner and I were hiking in Virginia, we got picked up by a state department of conservation employee. During the ride I asked him what he did and he said “I destroy beaver dams.” When I asked him how he did it he said “with dynamite.” I laughed—how ridiculous, right?—and he looked at me very seriously and said “it’s not funny; beaver dams are difficult to remove.” For years I thought that this was some dumb redneck thing until I met another former DCR employee back home who told me the same story.
Imagine if the magic trick was:

1. They pour a large bowl of rice onto a table

2. They reveal the exact number of grains

Would this feel exciting as a card buried under the ground?
No

Does this still require a lot of effort to count every grain?
Yes

Applying a huge amount of effort doesn’t equal achieving the desired result (in this case the suspense, surprise and magical element)

The direction one is going is often even more important than the effort applied
A comparison between Pingdom and other services.
It's ridiculous because the much ridiculed SLS has a launch cost of 2 billion dollars. If you think SpaceX is throwing billions of dollars into developing a vehicle that costs thisuch to launch, you clearly haven't been following SpaceX at all.

You know there is going to be more that 5 flights, and you know people in this thread are not amortizing total R&D into flight costs. People are talking about 68 million per flight for New Glenn, which no doubt has has many hundreds of millions on R&D spend, and hasn't flown one time.
It's the stated mission of my project. Rust's stated mission is memory safety.

So using raw system calls is a distraction for them.
That's the wrong Matt Levine mate :facepalm:
> when compared to falcon 9’s costs which are sitting around 100m/launch right now largely due to inflation.

SpaceX's financial situation argues very differently. They have raised relatively little money for a company that is spending multiple billions on two very expensive development programs (Starship and Starlink).

If Falcon cost $100M per launch the 134 launches this year would have bankrupted the company. The $1.7B they raised in spring 2022 was their last major capital injection, and have been self funded since.

If Falcon cost substantially more than $20M to launch SpaceX would need to be getting external money from somewhere. They aren't. Their revenue is well understood and is around $10B per year, and salary costs fot 13,000 people are going to consume most of that. What NASA and the Space Force pay is public knowledge, what they charge for a private launch is known, and the number of Starlink subscribers has been revealed.
I’m on a 13 mini and it appears your css boundaries are wonky. They’re wider than the screen resolution but your content sizing is correct so it’s all over the place.

Also I’m a bit confused because the header says best movies of 2024, but the first carousel is a mix of movies from the last few years. Maybe some better heading hierarchy and explanation would help.

Edit: also some of your indexing is dyslexically misreading decimal numbers. For example you have Kraven as one of Rotten Tomatoes best of 2024 at a whopping 9.5. But the actual score is 5.9. I’m sure someone at Sony loves this mistake.
It’s mechanically less complex than using existing materials and allows for a new range of possible shapes. Moving a printer head around a gantry vs highly precise manipulation of objects.

3D printing homes is currently a terrible option, but the result is visually distinct which should help sell the homes. It doesn’t need to be good to make someone money.
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I don't necessarily think the ideas themselves are wrong but rather the devil is in the details.

A good example is the DSL one. In reality every significantly complex software system is essentially a DSL, it will have it's own collection of nouns and verbs that constitute the application domain, this is a language and rarely is it understandable to anyone without the domain knowledge.

The problems often arise when custom denotational semantics are added that hinder composition. This is overcome by 'not using a DSL' and instead just expose the semantics of your implementation language, but essentially an API is little different from a DSL just with all the baggage and coupling to the underlying implementation details.
I was referrinng to how the repurcussions of the failure of the Xbox One are still felt 2 generations on, with it seemingly going to end in Microsoft's divestment from the console business.

Though how that'll play out will be different, given Microsoft's portfolio is far wider than Sega's ever was and the weird hybrid-with-PC state of their games portfolio.
Second that. It’s an easy read and provides a lot of good advice. And if you read between the lines it can also be applied to sale and networking, not only purely customer research (teaches you how to write less cringey messages/intros)
And its sequel, Vimborne.
>so it really doesn't make much difference to me if I'm copying 12 chars or 64.

It doesn't have to be 12 characters. I often type short git hashes - maybe 5 characters - when jumping between commits.
A good example (in my twisted mind) is the folks that set up concerts and sports games.

I have a friend, who runs setup of major venues. Like, stadiums and conference centers, for big-time events (thousands of people).

The deal is, that a whole lot of moving parts, need to come together, for one event, and there can be no screwups[0].

Takes a lot of planning, prep work, validation, and, most importantly, experience (my friend is in his sixties), as there are bound to be curveballs, and newbies aren't very good at handling out-of-band events.

Not many people can actually do it, but almost everyone thinks they can do it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOSDrT_eDhk
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It was released around 4 years ago, when I worked at a civil engineering tech startup.

We had a lot of Cesium 3D tiles of construction sites, captured by drones. It was quite easy to place them to Unreal engine. Is was fun to place random things in the map and mess around it.
I've definitely heard it too - the only place I can think of is an interview Penn did with Tim Ferriss (https://tim.blog/2020/01/09/penn-jillette/) but my scratchings from that episode don't include this particular anecdote so maybe it wasn't that.

The way I heard him describe it was "To any normal person this would seem like a totally unreasonable amount of time, EXCEPT to a magician [because that's their job]", or something like that.

EDIT: Maybe it was actually an anecdote from his movie Tim's Vermeer? Been a long time since I saw it...
yeah, this is so simple, i don't understand why people keep invent more complex and worse rules to understand cdecl...
Pretty cool UX, however it seems to follow the approach to overwrite data once or multiple times.

As far as legends on the high magic of contemporary flash memory goes, you would want to simply tell your SSD/NVMe to secure erase the drive instead of writing data yourself. ShredOS doesn‘t seem to implement this.
VLA - Vision Language Action models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09246

It turns out you can take a vision language foundational model that has a broad understanding of visual and textual knowledge and fine tune it to output robot actions given a sequence of images and previous actions.

This approach beats all previous methods by a wide margin and transfers across tasks.
It works quite well, only it takes decades to develop a technology that runs on human minds (rather than silicon.) It takes decades to develop with another “uplifting” you, which you don’t have on account of it being a controlled and coveted field. Those who certainly do run the world through these means are subtle. “Indistinguishable from bullshit or an act of God” subtle. Besides, what can’t you explain away by chance or psychosis?

Minds may be networked, the occult society which moderates this is lawless, immoral, and can hear every thought (and memory) in your head.

This PDF is a funsy lay guide. Psychonaught is how I got started. Power is not so innocent.
> equating [censorship] to [censorship] is dishonest

Someone who would use this obvious of a red herring is dishonest. The point was not that the censorship is identical, but that the effect of censorship is in both cases to lobotomize the models.
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> I actually get annoyed when experienced folks say this isn't AGI, its next word predict and not human-like intelligence. But we don't know how human intelligence works.

I’m pretty sure you’re committing a logical fallacy there. Like someone in antiquity claiming “I get annoyed when experienced folks say thunderstorms aren’t the gods getting angry, it’s nature and physical phenomena. But we don’t know how the weather works”. Your lack of understanding in one area does not give you the authority to make a claim in another.
Nice easy intersections. Wide two way streets. Put a waymo in Rome and I will be impressed.
“No lives matter” was also a tongue-in-cheek slogan for the “Cthulhu for President” campaign [1], which riffed on the absurdity of Trump running for president in 2016. Maybe it has morphed into something else since then.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_for_President
It depends. If the complex sentence structures can be expressed more clearly using simpler structures, I would argue the writer is lacking.
It seems such costs would become prohibitive quite quickly? Stuff with moving parts breaks, and I'd expect ongoing maintenance costs to be proportional to the unit cost. Pair in the fact that most factories run on thin margins but massive volume, and it would seem cost is very much an issue.
It's fine, India and China are rising and soon we'll start seeing the opposite.

It's already happening.
>which is a slightly easier problem, about 100,000x faster

Where did you get this number from? I was under impression that this is completely infeasible (just like we can generate a collision good md5 in seconds, but we still can't do a preimage attack).
Disagree. If it were that simple then everyone would be using Windows on their Steam Decks running Big Picture mode on startup. But even given the significant advantages, like broader game compatibility, they don't.

Gamescope is the key. It what allows someone to use Steam Deck without dealing with all that desktop PC stuff and the kludgy fixes. Without the need to deal with Windows suddenly deciding to throw you through the user setup wizard again or dropping to desktop to download the new graphics driver. Games starting in windowed mode, games not handling task switching properly, games not handling sleep properly. It's a fixer for all of those, unless you specifically want to tinker you never have to drop to a desktop GUI with a Steam Deck.

Big Picture on Windows is simply another shell on top of a traditional keyboard and mouse driven interface. But combined with gamescope on Linux, it turns a handheld PC into a handheld console.
Strong second for Born Standing Up, just in case anyone was on the fence. Steve Martin is a delight.

(Get the paperback if you can, the edition I have is the most well-weighted and well-proportioned high-quality paperback I think I own. I hope they still print it like that.)
> You know there is going to be more than 5 flights

No, I don’t actually know the future. I can make predictions, but we could have a thermonuclear war tomorrow etc.
It seems like you’re either ignorant of some basic facts about healthcare or are willfully missing the point (true to the username I guess) so I’ll be more explicit:

Having access to doctors helps to manage disease.

Obesity is a disease.

In particular, having access to PCPs helps to manage obesity.

Our healthcare system yields poor access to healthcare.

In particular, it yields poor access to PCPs.

Ergo the obese population is in part an output of and not an external input into the design of our healthcare system.

Ergo changes to the healthcare system absolutely can — and in fact should have as a key goal to — yield changes to levels of obesity.

> “ Rearrange healthcare/government insurance models all you want; it can't fix that.”

This claim is false. The mental model of an obese population being exclusively an input into our healthcare system does not track with what we know about the relationship between healthcare and obesity.
> Also keep your lynch pin invariants in the database and not in your code.

I do both. That is how you protect against stressed devs at 2:00 AM trying to insert crap in the production database and how you also make good apps that don't blow up with database exceptions and give you neat validation errors in forms and/or JSON `errors` keys (when it's an API).
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> They work great to explore what is at the borders of your knowledge.

But not at exploring what is at the border of knowledge itself. And by converging on the conventional, LLMs actually lead you away from anything that actually extends.

> doing boring tasks for which you can provide perfect guidance

That's true but you never need an LLM for that. There are wonderful scripts written by wonderful people and provided for free almost all the time and for those who search in the right places. LLM companies benefit/profit of these without providing anything in return.

They are worse than people who grab FOSS and turn it into overpriced and aggressively marketed business models and services or people who threaten and sue FOSS for being better and free alternatives to their bloated and often "illegally telemetric" services.

> able to accelerate you

True, but you leave too much for data brokers and companies like Meta to abuse and exploit in the future. All that additional "interactional data" will do so much worse to humanity than all those previous data sets did in elections, for example, or pretty much all consumer markets. They will mostly accelerate all these dimwitted Fortune 5000 companies that have sabotaged consumers into way too much dumb shit - way more than is reasonable or "ok". And educated, wealthy and or tech-savvy people won't be able to avoid/evade any of that. Especially when it's paired with meds, drugs, foods, biases, fallacies, priming and so on and all the knowledge we will gain on bio-chemical pathways and human liability to sabotage.

They are great for coders, of course, everyone can be an army of clone-warriors with auto-complete on steroids now and nobody can tell you what to do with all that time that you now have and all that money, which, thanks to all of us but mostly our ancestors, is the default. The problem is the resulting hyper-amplified, augmented financial imbalance. It's gonna fuck our species if all the technical people don't restore some of that balance, and everybody knows what that means and what must be done.
On the other hand you can prompt it to be more concise, use simpler words, etc.

I asked ChatGPT for a concise version and this is what it did:

"Arnis generates Minecraft worlds based on real-world locations. Select an area to recreate cities, landmarks, and landscapes in the game."

So overall it's up to the person to decide how it should look like.
Is that true? I thought there was a desire to move towards byte level work rather than tokens, and that the benefits of tokens was more that you are reducing the context size for the same input.
I should not have posted this hours before new year's eve
Guilty as charged, I mix them both freely; I use fakes but also assert that a function has (not) been called [N times]. The latter is mostly testing implementation but there are rare cases when it's too much work to mock a quality 3rd party library (say, an HTTP client) but you still want to mock parts of it and ensure they get called.

Not sure why mixing up both things makes the conversations tortured though? Can you clarify?
You can mitigate (B) by using your own domain with Google Fi and the basic workspace account. That way, if you are locked out you can switch providers taking your domain with you.
His finish, going into details of Nietzsche is simply wonderful.

For those that have tried, but cannot penetrate these types of books, start with any Nobel Literature winner that looks interesting. They are the gateway to serious literature, and by reading the recognized "best written intellectual novel of the year" you'll be gradually exposed to the writing structures used in harder to penetrate literature.

Don't be fooled into thinking that a Nobel Literature winner is difficult to read, none of them are and that is why they have the award. They are also white knuckle rides through tragic human lives where the main character wins against incredible odds, and these novels demonstrate the critical thinking and secondary considerations necessary to prevail when others are crushed. Great literature teaches one first hand how to use critical thought, a dire need today.
From the nwipe (what this uses) page:

>In the current form nwipe does not sanitize solid state drives (hereinafter referred to as SSDs) of any form (SAS / Sata / NVME) and / or form factor (2.5" / 3.5" / PCI) fully due to their nature: ...

https://github.com/martijnvanbrummelen/nwipe

The ShredOS page suggests the use of hdparm for SSDs but things are fairly complicated:

* https://github.com/martijnvanbrummelen/nwipe/blob/master/ssd...
> people that can't code

These people may not be Software Engineers, but they are coding.
Oh boy, that actually explains a lot! And this whole time he was accusing me of being insincere XD

Also explains why he suddenly had no time to talk further when ghostty’s author offered to have a call elsewhere in this thread. Just here to advertise his terminal.

I must say, I quite like how ghostty’s author has conducted himself. Might give ghostty a try once it’s packaged for my distro and first few rounds of bugfixes are in.
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What was the crime here besides illegal possession of a firearm?

- storing explosives - mostly legal.
- self build bombs? There weren't used, so hard to make a case.
- Spreading misinformation? AFAIk, that's protected under the first amendment unless you really cause tangible damage i.e. Infowars style

One way I can think a case can be made is by portraying the guy as a danger to public safety. In Europe, that would warrant a psychiatrist making an assessment for the court. In the US where people posses more firearms than the total population, I am not so sure of that argument survives in court. And then there is the ancient constitutional right to bear arms...

To be clear, I totally support the FBI locking up an apparent maniac before he goes insane and starts using his bombs. I'm just pointing out that the US legal system doesn't seem to be well equiped for those cases.

For example, the guy who ran the FPSRusia YouTube channel from Georgia, US, was sitting on well over a quarter million worth of firearms and even owned a small tank (!). Apparently that is also legal in the US. Yet authorities only took action when somebody died on his property in what seemed to have been a shooting accident.

Let responsible people have a gun or two given these are legal, have passed background check and did proper safety training, but please keep disarming the apparent crazy ones. Nobody can make a sane case why a single person needs a dozen pipe bombs in a backpack or dozens of automatic firearms and a tank.