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Except they didn’t merge patches from RealThunder’s fork for TNP, for example. They used it as a guide and reference implementation and wrote a new implementation.

In general they do not just merge his work; they have to rewrite it. RealThunder is prolific but he evidently doesn’t use the same coding standards as the rest of the project, and makes changes across workbenches where he chooses for his own ideas, when in the core project they have other maintainers.

He has the total freedom to do this, and I agree his fork is illustrative of good solutions in some cases, but this is not a good way to just fix master. So they don’t.

Transparent previews in Part Design — and a general mechanism for them elsewhere - is coming in 1.1.

I notice you talking about the attachment editor choosing a random orientation a lot: in my experience it does not choose randomly, if you use an appropriate attachment scheme. I think I have rotated a sketch attachment once in my last two dozen or so uses, and that rotation was indicated by the design. The heuristic is complicated though, and the interface has several frustrations. There could be better UI for working through the attachment schemes.

1.1 has a change to core datums (Part Design-style LCS, datum planes, lines and points available throughout FreeCAD, not just in Part Design) that should make some of the more esoteric attachment schemes less often required, because you will be able to place an LCS once
Which mission profiles does Starship not make sense for?
Australians or Brits would tend so day "learnt" rather than "learned"
I wouldn't even call it "lite". The PS2 was, in terms of features, one of the best DVD players on the market at the time. Component video, DD/DTS 5.1 optical out, if you had a good quality CRT you didn't need anything better (though you might want to chip it to go region free).
Point taken about preferring Apple over Google. I buy Pixel phones and immediately install GrapheneOS, which does a pretty good job of keeping Google at arms' length. So I guess the answer to your question is that there is another alternative.
Sam Hyde – Dear Elon [video]
Interesting philosophy, but you do you.

> You can't cause harm to others, but their subjective distaste or apprehension or whatever is not harm.

You know there's a reason that there's never been a successful hyperlibertarian society, right? Some people are assholes.
During the pandemic, Matt Levine of Bloomberg’s Money Stuff had a thought experiment about how large asset managers might approach vaccine companies and pay them to develop and rapidly scale vaccines, as this would be wildly economically favorable for the economy as a whole versus whatever vaccine makers would’ve made from traditional unit sales and competition. “Here’s a blank check, open the economy back up.” sort of thing.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-24/the-va... |
https://archive.is/2021.02.24-173233/https://www.bloomberg.c...

I see parallels in this. GLP-1s are going to be incredibly disruptive and there is an argument to be made that some interested parties might be incentivized to pull forward the eventuality of deployment at scale of this intervention. Of course, some industries are going to be impaired (food, alcohol); acceptable losses imho, businesses that profited and existed due to a malfunctioning reward center now patched with GLP-1s.
The factor was calling the economy a bad economy, they are already backtracking on promises since the economy is doing pretty well already and they won’t be able to juice it much more.

Anyone who thinks 49.9% of the vote (vs 48.4%) is a landslide will quickly find them in negative approval ratings if they think that gives them much political capital (if trump focuses and spending rather than earning capital, that is, which he definitely will).
Like most drone companies (Skydio etc.), they haven’t been able to keep up with DJI and have moved out of the consumer space and into the regulatory captured space with Blue UAS/NDAA compliant drones and high end enterprise offerings for organizations who can’t buy DJI. Their products are available only through dealers/resellers and only their expensive enterprise options are still in production.

Parrot were quite cool; they had one of the only fixed wing consumer drones (Disco) and always offered some of the most open APIs and best SDKs for their drones. Unfortunately their products don’t really hold a candle to modern DJI in terms of flight characteristics and especially wireless link.
It's worth nothing that while they do eliminate many of the drawbacks with emulation, FGPA solutions are still not 1:1 recreations of consoles.
Darktable may make you better understand the technicalities of editing, but I don't think most photographers want to spend their time learning the minutiae of what specific image processing algorithms get used to achieve their desired effect.
There was a good defcon talk of someone going way deeper than that https://youtu.be/5CzURm7OpAA
well there are many enterprise farming use cases, or security use cases that can be useful for them. I think the fact that parrot's been working with the army too much they dont know really how to sell to enterprises so thats all the marketing they have.
SimpleX?
“those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it…"
From what I understand, they exited the consumer market entirely because they just couldn't compete on quality with DJI.
Like interest on a bank account? Holding cash is already an investment strategy. Bonds are a thing. People have options to hold cash and not lose purchasing power. One of the traditional ways people tackle inflation is they demand interest from the banks sufficient to cover it plus a little more to account for time value of money.

It is rather unlikely that giving people an option that they already have is going to cause a problem. One major benefit of money is that people can hoard it and there is no cost in the real economy because all the resources are still there and prices can just adjust to the amount of cash in circulation.

> here was a small deflationary bump in American history around the 1930s that helps to illustrate what can happen in a deflationary spiral.

The US came out of the 1930s with an economy that was capable of overcoming almost literally the entire world. Again, the evidence that deflation was some sort of major problem is questionable, it seems to have been associated with the creation of one of the most dynamic economies in the history of history.

And the idea that we have this one clear lesson from one instance back in the 30s is just weird and unbelievable. That isn't how history or complex systems work.
as a UChicago student can confirm that this was incredibly shocking when I first saw it… the expanse of the collection is really unmatched and crazy
I hope it's bad luck because I struggle to find what else to improve. I can launch high quality projects quickly and reliably and my main concern is product-market fit. I feel like I've tried everything and its opposite. Problem I face now is I've lost a lot of faith in the system and it requires a lot of energy to maintain my work ethic and also maintain the outward appearance that I still believe in success. I often feel like I'm only role-playing entrepreneurship and there is no chance of success.

Sometimes I feel as though I'm being hindered artificially by some hidden forces but I try not to focus on this. It's partly why I share my experiences online and why I talk about this with my co-founder and family members. It helps when others validate my experiences because it can often feel like too many coincidences.

I worry the feeling might get worse with AI now literally manipulating people's psychology and thus, the markets as well. There's a chance my fears may become reality.

It'd be silly to keep working on a startup if there was a super-intelligence preventing me (or any new industry entrant) from succeeding right? This is a new reality I may need to factor in at some point. Would have been insane to think that way 5 years ago. Not so insane anymore.
The addressing architecture isn't the problem though?

But if you think it is, I encourage you to run Yggdrasil.
> this is also showing off what rust can do

To people who already know Rust, yes. To others, not so much
That EOL equipment probably shouldn't be EOL though. Part of the blame should go to equipment makers that didn't bother to send out updates to fix the vulnerability in still functional equipment.
At least now there's a "show all resolutions" setting in display preferences.
I ponder if LLM:s are very useful but at a quite narrower set of tasks than we expect. Like fuzzy manipulation of logical specifications.

I.e. over time it constitute a fundamental shift in how we interact with abstractions in computers. The current fundamentals will still remain but they will become increasingly malleable. Details in code will become less important. Architecture will become increasingly important. But at the same time the cost of refactoring or changing architecture will quickly drop.

Any details that are easily lost when passing through an LLM will be details that have the highest maintenance cost. Any important details that can be retained by an LLM can move up and down the ladder of abstraction at will.

Can an LLM based solution maintain software architectures without introducing noise? The answer to that is the difference between somewhat useful and game changing.
Putting everyone in jail also works well to prevent crime.
All of "USA" variants of drones are government/large institutions only at >10x price. They aren't consumer products.
2025 seems pretty cool so far, you 2024 people will like it.
> Don't use LLMs where accuracy is paramount. Use it to automate away tedious stuff.

My programmer mind tells me that "tedious stuff" is where accuracy is the most important.
So some might suggest that the problem is wages being slashed by >50%? Falling real wages are actually a problem. And, AFAIK by definition, are not influenced by inflation or deflation. But if wages had fallen by <40% and prices by >50% then the overall situation was probably improving. A bit chaotic to be comfortable, but not fundamentally worse.

And there is an unemployment problem too, obviously.
lol "important". You're free to flock to some other platform that better caters to extremists.
Skydio are the ones leaning on Stefanovik and others to push the DJI ban, stoking xenophobic fears just so they can corner the market with an inferior product.
It’s got more than twice the payload capacity of Falcon 9 to LEO and a 7m payload fairing vs 9m for Starship.

The real question is if there’s going to be enough demand to justify these systems. With enough reusability it might make sense to fly these things 2/3 empty, but that’s only going to be so profitable.
About "knowledge is incredibly unevenly distributed", an interesting fact is that women is much less likely to use LLMs, if they hear about them/follow updates in the first place:

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/08/21/w...
Golang Sync.Cond vs. Channel (2018)
Going too early would mean a hardware spec that'd inevitably get demolished by PS2. I think delaying a year, going DVD and maybe bumping the RAM up would have resulted in a product more competitive, but Sega were completely dead outside of Japan by 99 and they probably couldn't afford to wait

They were screwed either way. The Dreamcast, no matter what form it took, could never have saved them. Saturn was the fatal blow, it's weirdly esoteric tech choices, over-complicated and expensive design making it impossible to compete with Sony's simple, cheap polygon pusher. It just took them a while to bleed out.

Kinda seeing it play out again with the Xbox brand, interestingly.
I hope Blue Origin succeeds too, but I'm not sure which mission profiles wouldn't be served best by the Starship in comparison to other launchers. There could be some ultra-light ones, where the cost for the whole launch is less than refueling the Starship, but...
Are Parrot drones insecure or deliberately built with zero security? I thought they're French made, and France tended to be more scared with technological resistance to government interventions than US or China.
If Xi Jinping died suddenly, it’d cause serious instability. His centralization of power erased clear succession plans, so top CCP factions would likely fight for control. Markets would also freak out. Long-term? Either a return to pre-Xi more collective leadership or another strongman doubling down on Xi’s approach. Centralized systems with no backup plans are fragile.

It’s possible that with technology like absolute communication control and ubiquitous surveillance the chance of internal unrest or revolution is greatly reduced. And as long as the country is growing and the average citizen is getting richer they’re much less likely to get unruly. It’s like startups: growth solves all problems.
> Past performance is no predictor of future returns

False. Why do people invest in real estate and S&P500 passive index funds?

Because historically they go up.
> but if it works, there's still going to be demand for other mission profiles that it won't make sense to send on Starship

I'm rooting for any and all US launch providers to succeed, but I don't think this is true. Starship at full reusability will be better than any other launcher for every single mission profile imaginable.
A few years paid to write Clojure.
Dinner for One is from the UK but hardly anyone in the UK knows about it while people in Germany love it.
The Sound of Music is about a real Austrian family but relatively unknown in Austria and Germany while people in the USA (and I would guess other English speaking countries) love it.
We should put a stop to hydro electric as well https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure
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It is still a work in progress, but it's already showing promise. I've got a Linux executable and a WebAssembly build up and running. I've included instructions on how to get started in the README.

Features and development plans are still evolving, but I'm excited to share this project with the community and get your feedback. Take a look and let me know what you think!
DJI drones can already do all the stuff that's not tailored to hunting down people, and they can't compete on quality with DJI, so they're trying what little niche remains.
Sure, but saying something in an ornate way is not the same as “saying nothing”.
When someone says:

> Oh, and of course, they don't just crawl a page once and then move on. Oh, no, they come back every 6 hours because lol why not. They also don't give a single flying fuck about robots.txt, because why should they.

Their self righteous indignation and specificity of the pretend subject of that indignation precludes any doubt about intent.

This guy made a whole public statement that is verifiably false. And then tried to toddler logic it away when he got called out.
Another issue is lack of education/training/awareness among developers.

A BS in CS has maybe one class on security, and then maybe employees have a yearly hour-long seminar on security to remind them to think about security. That isn't enough. And the security team and engineers that put the effort into learning more about security and privacy often aren't enough to guard against every possible problem.
I've never programmed in rust and i can understand find.

At the end of the day rust is just another imperative programming language. You shouldn't need to know the language at all to understand the very simple examples written in rust.
Up to a point they could simply deny that AI couldn't do these things. This allowed them to count users as people for advertising revenue. This industry has long suffered from fraud, but because not enough information is generally provided its been an uphill battle given the opaqueness of the numbers.

With GPT's release they can no longer deny this, it was publicly available and people could easily engage so there was no longer any doubt.

Ad revenue has shrunk proportionally over time requiring ever more private information to be collected to be considered valuable. This is how surveillance capitalism works.

Now onto the question of how this can make them money? Instead of just static advertisements, imagine a bot that would occasionally insert (sponsor) into a conversation. If you sell it like that, they can charge more for the same slots, while mining the conversations for the valuable dossier elements that bring in a premium.

Inevitably though, this is a dead business model. When everyone knows everything about anyone, and its commonly available, there is nowhere else to go. That kind of society also ends up causing abuses because of false reasoning that normally accompanies permanent records. People don't change, they are exactly the same whether they are 35 or 8.

Obviously that last statement is not true because people have the capability to grow with time, but that doesn't prevent others from using it as a coercive element to their own benefit. An age of evil awaits, and such systems continue until the destructive dynamics turn inwards destroying itself, chaotically.
It's on the same package but the same die?
It's amazing how good true vintage ALPS keyboards are. I have a keyboard with Matias (ALPS clone) switches and they are great to type on, but the switches seem unreliable and I got tired of replacing them.

Inconveniently, vintage Apple keyboards require ADB to USB converters which aren't readily available.

I wish Apple would apply their design expertise to making a modern, reliable(!), electromechanical keyboard that replicated the feel and performance of classic ALPS keyboards.
Happy new year everyone.
Your article led me to wonder if our b-trees would be faster if I switched the intra node operations to use Eytzinger ordered arrays:

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/commit/677c6f8457943fe5b56d7a...

There are two ways to look at this Big O wise. One is that insertions and deletions would be asymptomatically faster since memmove() is a linear operation while bubble up/down are logarithmic operations. Look ups would not be any different asymptotically, but the constant factor might improve from being able to do prefetch. The other way is that the N is bounded, such that it is all O(1) and the difference is how big the constant factor is.

I imagine I could implement it and benchmark it. However, my intuition is that the end result have lookups be marginally faster to the point of splitting hairs while insertions and deletions would be slower. While memmove() is a technically a linear time operation, it is a sequential operation that has a very low constant factor. The bubble up and bubble down operations needed to do insertions and deletions in a Eytzinger ordered array are technically random access, which has a higher constant factor. At some point, the Eytzinger ordered array operations should win, but that point is likely well beyond the size of a b-tree node.

My reason for saying this is to say that Big O notation still matters, but understanding when the constant factor is significant is important.
The Brits didn’t introduce the potato blight, they just mismanaged the resulting situation in their 19th Century trademark bumptious, oblivious, supercilious manner. But it is unclear whether home rule at that point would have come up with any better idea than emigration. Without the potato, Ireland couldn’t (and still can’t (?)) sustain its pre-1845 population, and an agronomic solution was a long time coming.

Eh, the Americas got a lot of great Irish immigrants out of the tragedy. And those immigrants and their descendants have had a better life than if they stayed in dear old Ireland IMHO.

You could say the Great Famine actually started with the introduction of the potato to Eurasia, an Americas/colonialism introduction that at that point had kept hunger from the door of countless Europeans, especially during times of conflict (since you can’t set a torch to something growing in the ground).

Nothing is simple. It’s an ill wind…
Same here. Am a forced lurker here as somehow my posts just never go beyond to anyone like it once used to.
In addition to building filesystem images, a common use of root for operating system building is to chroot into a "clean" environment to avoid environmental corruption. (In general, chroot is reserved to uid 0 due to issues with setuid binaries -- on some systems chroot can be made available to non-root users by turning off setuid behaviour.)
> When the world's population was exploding during the 20th century, housing prices were not a problem, yet somehow nowadays, it's impossible to build affordable housing to bring the prices down, though the population is stagnant or growing slowly.

In Canada, the population is still growing at a fairly impressive rate (https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/CAN/can...), and that growth tends to concentrate in major population centres. There are advocacy groups that seek to push Canadian population growth well above UN projections (e.g. the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Initiative "aims to increase Canada's population to 100 million by 2100") through immigration.
In Japan, where the population is declining, housing prices are not anything like the problem we observe in North America.

There's also the supply side. "Impossible to build affordable housing" is in many cases a consequence of zoning restrictions. (Economists also hold very strongly that rent control doesn't work - see e.g. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-does-economic-eviden... and https://www.nmhc.org/research-insight/research-notes/2023/re... ; real "affordable housing" is just the effect of more housing.)
10t to LEO in an unusual orbit.

Being smaller than Starship while still huge isn’t necessarily a disadvantage.
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That's just making the architecture work better.

I'm old enough to remember when everyone outside of a few weirdos thought that a single hidden layer was enough because you could show that type of neural network was a universal approximator.

The same thing is happening with the wide MoE models. They are easier to train and sound a lot smarter than the deep models, but fall on their faces when they need to figure out deep chains of reasoning.
> Why it’s worth paying attention in math class.

Math class does not teach practical knowledge such as personal finance or health.

Citadel returns since 1990 is 38% annual returns before fees to outside investors. They have a 5:50 fee structure. There are hundreds of more firms, staying out of the public eye.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/multistrategy-hedge-funds-p...

Minimum investment $5M. Sorry but the middle class is not allowed.
It's not really about asynchronous callbacks or their equivalents. (In this case, the thread running it is otherwise meant to be blocked in a safe state, so that there's none of the usual dangers of interrupting arbitrary code.) Instead, it's about any callbacks coming out of C code, even something as trivial as qsort(). If you pass a C library your C++ callback, and your callback runs back through it with an exception, then 9 times out of 10, the C library will leak some resources at best, or reach an unstable state at worst. C just doesn't have any portable 'try/finally' construct that can help deal with it.

So I'd say it's more about the basic expectations of a function called from C, which includes a million other trivial things like "don't write beyond the bounds of buffers you're given" and "don't clobber your caller's stack frame" and "don't spawn another thread just to write to output pointers after your function returns" (not that any of these is the issue here).
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