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Oh absolutely. I'm entranced by the game, but I wouldn't emphasize that it's an open world, I think that sets unrealistic expectations. It's rather that it's much deeper than the usual point and click games, more like an interactive novel, and with features that let you put different spins on the story. I think if the expectation is a point and click adventure, then the game can deliver, open world is more like Red Dead Redemption.
I don't know for certain, but I think Racket (PLT Scheme) started both of these. (Scheme implementors do tend to have a strong-minded side, but also tend to be aware of other implementations, and some are willing to borrow smaller details from other implementations, or at least to show they can support that too.)

IIRC, one of the arguments for `#:` in Racket was that one of the SRFIs incidentally kludged `:` keywords for its own purposes, and someone didn't want to break that SRFI. :)
There's also http://irccloud.com, it's paid and includes a bouncer and mobile apps but I've switched to that from my self-hosted ZNC + Textual (https://www.codeux.com/textual/) setup and it's very worth the money. Just having push notifications on mobile and full backlog everywhere makes this a way better experience.

It got me back on using IRC every day after not using it regularly for years any more. Just following along in channels like #postgresql / #beets / #dokku on Libera I already learned a few new things.
Ultimately it comes down to force. The person with the pointiest sticks will likely be able to enforce their view about ownership over others.

Taken quite literally, property is armed theft from the commons I guess. Unfortunately, it's tricky to do otherwise in a loosely organized swarm of barely tribal actors, because any peaceful society based on shared ownership will be prone to exploitation by malicious actors. It's basically a very large prisoner's dilemma: the global optimum would be to abolish private property, but as long as there are (enough) people around to exploit the situation for their own benefit (and to the massive detriment of everyone else), we have to stick to a sub-optimal system where everyone is worse off than the optimum.
UPDATE: There doesn't seem to be any proof that this is in fact malware. It looks like it just tripped the automatic malware detection software.
The author did not compare against the findability of other articles which aren't about net neutrality. So his conclusion that it's about the content of his article isn't supported by his analysis.
They can publish their "how much carbon did this WordPress instance burn" plugin without any approval from Matt, under the name of their own organization. Since they weren't being paid to do this in the first place, the only thing Matt was giving them was a chatroom which they can replace for free.

If they were actually being paid for this, which is contrary to numerous other comments in this discussion, then it actually does make sense for Matt to cancel that work. But I have been assured they weren't being paid, so they didn't have any money on the line and can just walk away from Matt's org while simultaneously continuing the work they are supposedly super passionate about.
Not to try and force my issue, but I have a suspicion that meta-narratives are inescapable and that a lot of people, particularly in America, are unaware that they are “postmodernists”, at least according to my green understanding of the ideology.

I still need to do some thought on the first claim and the second one just came to mind after reading your comment.

This has been a lot of fun. Thanks for the engaging and earnest discussion. If Allah wills, maybe I’ll implement this in a killer philosophical book & you’ll catch a hold of it. (We can exchange contact info if you’d like and I’ll keep you updated if I ever follow through).

Peace.
> no notifications of responses to comments

If you notice you keep hitting the "threads" link, then perhaps there is a case of addiction.
Didn't the exact same companies introduced the exact same changes they now revert not out of firm belief but to demonstrate support? If someone adapts to the environment out of self-preservation then they were never supportive of any cause.

I wish people would stop humanizing big companies.
They do have that right as long as they do not sabotage the integrity of the system. Personally I would quickly use other software developers and banks. Competition would sort that out quickly.

Today banks don't want to be liable for user error that lead to scams. They adhere to such policies out of fear, but they don't help as the most prominent victims of scams are still the same people, open system or not.
You might be interested to learn that Einstein's two famous papers from 1905 formally cited no other works.

I'm not going to conclusively pass judgement on the paper above, but I think anything that approaches the idea of big problems in fundamental physics from an informational point of view is highly interesting.

Does that sound too general for you? What I mean by that is: information is itself a fundamental entity of reality perhaps underlying many others. Not in an abstract way, but in a physically 'real' way. That information, is the fundamental unit. And not in a thermodynamic entropy / microstate ensembles / useful description type of way, but in an 'the is actually the underlying basis and opens up new physics' kind of way.

I'm not sure how the above paper approaches it (I have not read it), but what would a theory of mass, light and gravity rewritten in terms of information, maybe with shades of Shannon, look like?

I encourage readers of this comment to resist the tempting but easy path of curtailing a strawman of possible meanings of that into something you think is dumb for a mere self-satisfying fake pay off, but rather to take the interesting and curious path of it as a leaping off point of inspiration to open your imagination about what it could be. Good luck! :)
> I still split wood by hand

That's incredible. Everyone I know is using an axe these days.
LLM forecasters rapidly approaching human-level performance
> I came to this site to read the story, but they wanted my email first.

I just used Reader mode
It’s a comedy; the sides don’t matter. It’s a hilarious movie, in fact.
Much of these tricks comes from how cars used to be constructed. Without any concept of safety cages, they were basically a bunch of very light structures secured atop a heavy metal frame. So long as the actor remains on the seat above the frame, they are in a falling house of cards. Today we build the frames around the people. Pull such a stunt in a modern car and you will be trapped amongst twisted metal rails.

Cars were also much simpler to take apart. A few bolts here and there and a couple people could remove an engine. A few more and the roof came off too. Today, it is all spot welded and tight tollerances. Removing any substanial part of a modern car, anything beyond the seats, requires planning and specialized tools.
I live in a country that literally wouldn't exist if man didn't tame it 24/7.

Funny enough it's also the only place in Europe that takes floods seriously.
the current thinking is no because quantum fields still act within spacetime, which is curved by gravity. there could be no particle that exists outside of this, so every particle has to interact gravitationally.

but obviously, this is a concept from general relativity which is currently not compatible with quantum field theory at all. for the purposes of QFT every particle exists within some magical separate space where all those considerations are ignored because nobody really knows how to incorporate them without breaking predictions.
You are targeting an order of magnitude larger organization than it's necessary. The EU doesn't build anything, people in countries do.

The problem with the EU market is that if I launched anything social, I'm immediately hit with a localization problem so I have to launch first either in English (you lost 53% of people)* or start with a few select countries first with their native language.

It's kinda a mess. Money is not really the issue with EU startups, it's the cultural fragmentation.

There are also many small niche social platforms, but of course nothing like FB/X/etc..

* https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/surveys/detail/2979
around 2010, we (Zynga at the time) used torrent to distribute the MafiaWars code/assets to all servers in a couple of data centers. Worked without much challenge.
> But telling people they should silently accept to use words rooted in a notion of social dominance, doesn’t seem any better

could be, but...

most words are rooted in a notion of social dominance and only carry a a notion of social dominance when used in the context of expressing social dominance (to oppress or abuse of other people).

words like reign or empire or dictator are absolutely rooted in a notion of social dominance, but we accept that it's completely fine if we use them as a metaphor or as an hyperbole. If someone gets offended, it's their fault.

Some example:

- 2013 was the year in which the reign of Federer at the top of the men's game had supposedly come to an end

- Amazon empire: the rise and reign of Jeff Bezos

- Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, has been called a benevolent dictator for life
I disagree. Metro UI was ugly, space wasting, and a blight on UI design.
I even disliked it on mobile which it was arguably designed for.
What ideology do you think it explicitly supports? I really liked the game, but I thought that it showed character stories, and not particularly an overarching ideology, and now I wonder if I also support something that I don't even know of.
Night's Watch: Chrome Extension
Hi, I am building this chrome extension for PII data protection, any and all feedbacks are welcome.

Night's watch: Extension which prevents accidental exposure of sensitive data through clipboard operations to tools like ChatGPT. Masks confidential data, that the user may paste into AI platforms.
Yes, Eastern Europe is very safe. For example, Ukraine had very few natural disasters and floods over the decades. Most disasters were man-made, such as famine, Chornobyl and war. If Nature doesn't get you, humans will...
I’m sympathetic to both sides of the ranting here. It is simultaneously true that

(1) man made climate change exacerbates these things

(2) california state and local government is a bottomless wellspring of incompetence

And also, it is true that we will adapt to man made climate change. But many things in the biosphere (e.g. corals in the GBR) cannot adapt on these timescales. Extinction is forever, it is an incomprehensible loss.
> I’m wondering why every part of every life seems to be on the direction of commoditisation. Who wants this life and why?

Those who can extract some value from being in the middle of that commodisation, like game devs making a "gambling site" looking like a game.
>what the conservatives think DEI actually is

Speaking as part of a video that aired during a commercial break for the FOX show 9-1-1 about firefighter capabilities, Larson said, "Am I able to carry your husband out of a fire? He got himself in the wrong place"

https://www.newsweek.com/lafd-deputy-chief-faces-backlash-pa...

DEI means lowering standards to accomodate minorities and discrimination against more qualified white males
https://newdiscourses.com/2022/04/dei-explained-new-discours...

I think this is a quick explanation.

Many people on the left complain about the “old boys club” where “white men” hire each other and control all the power without merit for their authority, and DEI seems to be a way to smash the patriarchal old boys club and enforce the new regime where women, and minorities are in control.

Shouldn’t the people be wary of any type of authoritarian cabal?
I've been hanging out on the same forum pretty much daily since 1998. Looking back through threads from 20+ years ago is a great antidote to nostalgia - just a crowd of immature know-it-alls spouting utter shite (and very often being very unfriendly to one another)
It's possible that actually reading the register takes (significantly) more time than an empty countdown loop. A somewhat extreme example of that would be on x86, where accessing legacy I/O ports for e.g. the timer goes through a much lower-clocked emulated ISA bus.

However, a more likely explanation is the use of "volatile" (which only appears in the working version of the code). Without it, the compiler might even have completely removed the loop?
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The UK stayed basically the same and I think that was due to the fact that the previous government was already the centre-right wing party–and although they tried to move further right–the fact that they had done such a terrible job in government basically meant their goose was cooked no matter how many punitive policies they tried to enact or wars on wokeness they prosecuted.

The right-wing party of the traditional two (the tories) was absolutely slaughtered in the election and they've now elected as the party leader (although not without some controversy–apparently tactical voting gone wrong) a fairly standard right-wing populist in Badenoch.

There is also the increasingly substantial spectre of the far-right, with race riots taking place over summer and Musk's pet favourite Reform party gaining ground.

It seems very possible to me right now that at the next general election the UK will swing seriously to the right. If this does happen it will the fault of Labour as far as I'm concerned. Of course that's still a long way away and we can always live in hope.
We ancients have honed our strength through decades of punching sand.

Any similarity to tech sector corporate politics is purely coincidental.
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Apple is exceptionally good at this, they have their own names for everything – from retina display to spatial computing, including calling AI “apple intelligence”. But this is popular outside of apple too, e.g. some years ago we decided to call servers “the cloud”.

That new AI tech might be branded as something else but I doubt it would be a problem.
You think it looked more like "real stuff" than the contemporary iOS and Android designs?
I wholeheartedly agree with your thoughts, with perhaps the exception of the CEO. Or rather, the CEO needs to be someone who will be followed by the rest of the organization. Their decision making could be replaced by an AI, probably more readily than the specialist engineers in fact, but it comes back to humans being tribal. Would the middle management follow an AI overlord? Would the engineers buy into the AIs decisions?

The CEO's job is to decide on the future direction of the company, and then convince both the owners and the employees that this is a good direction. The first part is easy to replace with AI, the second part isn't. At least not for now.

I guess taken to the limit, the CEO will become replacable the moment that the employees have been replaced with AIs, because that that point there's nobody left to lead really. One could actually argue that this is tantamount to the CEO cutting off the branch they are sitting on. After all, once all the employees are AIs, what's to stop the shareholders from saying: "Hold it right there Steve/Jeff/Mark/etc, why are we paying you big bucks? You can be replaced with an AI that will make much better decisions, and there are no employees left to lead anyway."
I work in the same building as Urban Mueller (creator of BF). He told me the point of BF was to implement a compiler ;)
I can tell you, from the other side of the house (the eater), that there is still a giant yawning gap in restaurant software. Toast must have great sales people, or some compelling meal ticket manager or something, because the experience given to the diner is absolutely trash.
You realise that America was literally founded because of this? Your reasoning will inevitably lead to the dissolution of the country.

Besides Montana receives tax payer money from the people living in those California mansions.
I'm not an American either so I've not a patriotic fervor over the outcome of the Civil War to the extent as that most Americans have.

That the movie showed the Confederates in better light than the Yankees wasn't appreciated much when it was released. Back then, there were Civil War veterans who were still alive who criticized the film which contributed to its poor ratings. Also, keep in mind the film was based on the story The Great Locomotive Chase, changing it to having the Yankees as the main subject just wouldn't have been feasible.

Nevertheless, the film's stature has grown over the years and has developed a bit of a cult status:

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/the_general_film...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_General_(1926_film) (read 'Legacy')

Oh, and I just noticed on the Wiki page there's even an image of Keaton riding the cowcatcher.

I'm not a film buff so I'll let those comments/reviews stand on their own merits.
U.K. is moving to the right because of Starmer’s lack of competence and charisma.

> If economy is good people won’t care about politics when economy is bad folks start getting political

We agree. But you don’t seem to agree with your earlier post up-thread.
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Perhaps take a look at https://libera.chat/guidelines/
Seriously though, is there another format that:

1. Can be easily and freely shared by email / cloud drive, including assets, images and fonts.

2. Supports form filling and saving the form data in the file directly (as opposed to sending it somewhere over HTTP). Basically the electronic equivalent of a paper form that can be filled, send by email and stay filled.

3. Supports (cryptographic) signatures that are again part of the document, and can easily and securely be verified by end users. This is a very important use case in the EU, where electronic signatures are based on cryptography, not "I pinky swear I'm John Smith" DocuSign.

4. Has perfect print fidelity.

We keep complaining about PDF (and rightly so), but there's truly no other format to replace it. The W3c / Whatwg / whatever could probably come up with one based on web technologies, but they haven't yet.

There's Epub which solves a very narrow use case of PDF (electronic book distribution where perfect control over presentation is not required), but nothing that solves the "business" use cases.
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> "Globally" means installed with sudo. These are installed into the user folder under ~/.local/ and called a user install by pip.

> It works fine until you upgrade to a new version of python, in which case you install the package again.

Debian/Ubuntu doesn't want you to do either, and tell you you'll break your system if you force it (the override flag is literally named "--break-system-packages"). Hell, if you're doing it with `sudo`, they're probably right - messing with the default Python installation (such as trying to upgrade it) is the quickest way to brick your Debian/Ubuntu box.

Incredibly annoying when your large project happens to use pip to install both libraries for the Python part, and tools like CMake and Conan, meaning you can't just put it all in a venv.
> "Let's go, western saviors. Let's save the innocent Melanesians from this etymological hell."

Feynman was a consistent asshole, the term is not the best, but you're going too far on your sensibilities to the point that you're not reasonable anymore (hint: Melanesians need to defend their culture, not you).

Chanring your words without changing the white messiah attitude means nothing.
Can you share all the sources linking DEI policies to the right-wing shift? Because to me it looks more like a scapegoat post-factum where right-wingers tied themselves to the idea of DEI to fan the flames rather than it being a causal point. It's just another selling point for the hatred-fueled base of right-wingers, not too different from "immigrants are taking your jobs" or "women in the workforce are the cause of unaffordable housing/less well paid jobs", etc.

It's just a mirage to manipulate dissatisfied people, classic populist move.
I don't agree. amyone with literally zero skill could host a webforum or link sharing site. The value isn't the software, but its users. I think the reason another commenter said is correct too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42678416
On the other side, being told what is "bad", what is "good", "right" and wrong", what is "dark" and what is "bright", what I should do and think and why I don't have such good morals, in the past 15 years, was so exhausting...
the problem is that DEI is not regulated by law and fundamentally is a discrimination.

veterans hiring is encoded in Veterans hiring preference Act, disabled people have protections against discrimination in ADA act.

There is no law that enforces DEI, its all vibes and fuzzy warm words that lead to discrimination against white men.

There is no law, but DEI is being enforced as such - this is the root of the problem.
It's interesting that so much of this comes from academia but they exempt themselves from so much of it. The moral panic over the use of the word "master" in any context somehow turned a blind eye to master's degrees. Academics felt their usage was ok by their own ever shifting relative criteria that everyone else is expected to constantly contort themselves to follow. Very convenient how that works for them.
>The thing about DEI is that people seem to think it’s about giving unjust benefits to some specific groups they don’t like

Which people think that? You're creating your own narrative and then generalizing it to give it legitimacy without any sources or references: "people think that...".

Also, for the sake of the argument, let's assume you're right and a majority of people think like that then that becomes the reality even if you don't like it as that's how democracy works.

If enough people think like that then you as a company have to conform to the market or go bust, you can't change consumers' thoughts and views even though they sure do try a lot.
Streisand's effect at its finest :)
“AI” is a vague non-term. In a way, it’s not unlike “DEI”. For some it denotes a useful idea and a mark of progress, for others it is a manifestation of doom, and in practical reality it is a trigger word to obtain investment, serve corporate optics and increase shareholder value. No one agrees on what “AI” means and most people do not have a good working definition, other than “hype alias for ML”.

ML is not a perfect term for marketing use, either. It is obscure, and to many people “learning” hints at some sort of human-like education process (though it is an industry term that does not imply anything of the sort).

I believe the most correct term to use in marketing and branding is… well, none. It is an implementation detail that presumably makes the product better at addressing certain problems or otherwise improve customer’s life. Talk about that instead.
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> DEI means lowering standards to accomodate minorities and discrimination against more qualified white males

Women are perfectly capable of working in firefighting, the military or police. I've personally seen a female police officer of barely 1.60m throw a drunk 2m Russian dude on a rampage in a bar fight onto the ground and tie him up alone, about a solid third of the volunteer force in my THW unit are women, a good friend of mine is a trained volunteer firefighter at about the same height as the police officer, and the IDF has women in active fighting roles since the 70s, and fully equal to males since 2000 - and look where the IDF is, they are without question the top dog in the MENA region, despite all the cries about women threatening the fighting capability.

"DEI" means opening up the gates for everyone on actual merit. For women, it can sometimes mean having to rely more on skill than on brute strength (as in my first example), but in the end it doesn't matter much.