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OT: I've wondered about printed forgeries, but in the context of comic books rather than cards.

Suppose someone in the 1960's had bought a printing press of the same make/model as what was being used to print Marvel comics. Suppose they also bought a large supply of the same ink and the same paper and the same staples. They then wait.

Then decades later they can see which 1960's Marvel comics have become valuable collectables. The early '60s was when Marvel introduced Spider-Man, Thor, the Fantastic Four, Doctor Strange, Iron Man, the Avengers, the Hulk, the Black Widow, and the X-Men for example, many of which went on to fetch hundreds of thousands or even millions for mint condition copies.

They they use their vintage press, ink, paper, and staples to print mint condition forgeries.

What would their chances of fooling people be?
I'm not a collector, but my understanding was that the point of grading a card was to have a verified, objective rating of the card's condition.

If grading is subjective, then I don't see the value of the process and would consider it a scam, personally.
I'm not talking about those people. I'm talking about villains, like Trump and Musk, Kash Patel, Mitch McConnel, the people we treat as villains because they have shown us repeatedly that's what they are.
One factor in hindsight for doing this in-house was we did find out that AI can struggle with understanding and navigating existing workflow builders that were built and optimized for human usage and comprehension e.g. what nodes are available, the options that can set inside of those nodes and even how they are named had quite an impact on whether the AI could reliably form valid workflows on its own.
Yeah...the whole point is that you're testing the model on something it hasn't seen already. If the problems were in the training set by definition the model has seen them before.
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Because they're not letters of the German alphabet, by definition, and they're not German vowels, by definition.

They're characters that represent vowel sounds, sure.

It's kinda the same thing as how in the English alphabet, Y is by definition a consonant, despite being used to represent a vowel sound in many words. (beauty, many, cyst, tryst, for example)
You don't need "fuck you money" to be selective. You need a spine and a willingness to suffer discomfort while you find better work.

If you keep working for a company you believe is unethical or harmful just because you need the paycheck, you're being unethical and harmful regardless of how you justify it.
I've lost count of how many years I've owned a Bjango license. Amazing software.
I think it's a more interesting approach to disregard the metaphysical claims, which are inherently unfalsifiable and thus irrelevant to life in this universe, and look at religious texts as constitutions governing human behavior and morality. The metaphysical bits are just a side note to help sell that social contract and give it a theoretical enforcement mechanism.

In other words, the relevant question isn't how some pastor "knows" that God says to do XYZ. Obviously they don't. The relevant question is whether and to what extent there's value to be extracted from the collective wisdom of generations of members of an institution whose history stretches back thousands of years.

Whether or not a literal god may have been involved at any point is irrelevant. Right now, we're very far removed from any such claimed involvement, looking at documents that have been written, cherry-picked, translated, rewritten, and reinterpreted many times by many different fallible humans. If the only meaning someone sees in religious guidance is its connection to a literal physical deity, they're in for an exercise in frustration from what is at best the world's longest game of telephone. I think it makes more sense to just accept a religion and its culture and teachings for what they are, and try to be the best person you can be without worrying about how the guy controlling the simulation we live in may choose to mete out rewards and punishments.
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I had a neat program like this for Windows in the early 2000s. Got it from a Microsoft engineer who unfortunately I lost contact with. It must have been the lightest-weight resource monitor program to have ever existed for Windows NT, 2000, CE, and XP. Basically it took the Task Manager's resource meters, displayed them transparently, and set them on the upper-right corner of the screen.
As someone your age who struggled with maths, has kids, and shares your goals, I found Mathematics for Machine Learning[1] (available as a free PDF or on Amazon) and Khan Academy [2] to be great resources.

I used those along with a few exercise books and a Casio FX-82ES Plus 2nd Ed.

My advice: keep practising maths every day, or you’ll just forget it again.

You can also copy and paste complex maths problems or papers directly into an LLM - it does a decent job of explaining them. If you get stuck, try the "Explain it like I’m n" trick, decrementing n until it makes sense.

[1] https://mml-book.github.io/book/mml-book.pdf

[2] https://www.khanacademy.org/
Isn’t it a little like Ted Bundy pointing out he hasn’t murdered the vast majority of Americans, though?

At the very least, I wonder how many officers are responsible for the violations. 7000? 1? LASD only has 18k employees.
If you do a thing and it doesn’t work and don’t even try to fix it… still all talk.
Ok, fair enough, I didn't mean to be rude. It's just that it sounds a lot like stuff that people who push fairly sexist stuff say.

The thread is about evolution, and sexual selection in the context of evolution generally implies having an evolutionary fitness. I missed the part about birth control, since then we're not really talking about whether sexual selection is having a role in human evolution.

In the context of sexual selection affecting evolutionary fitness, it seems clear that there is an inverse relationship between wealth and number of offspring.

I am not sure if there are any scientific studies purporting to link "reputation" and either marriage or offspring. Do you know of any?
Yeah, it's really bad UX how icons simply don't show up if there's no room on macOS. There should at least be a spillover.

Back in the day I paid for https://www.macbartender.com/ to get these features.
Ok cool so you can't define it either. Maybe we should stop flinging around a nebulous term that means absolutely nothing until someone can define it in any way, shape, or form.
I like that I was able to style these with a super minimal theme in my menu bar that gives me a glance at what my system is up to and if it's outside normal parameters.

Have been using this for about a year now without issue.
This was an invaluable resource 5 years ago when I was working on a summer research project making a ray tracing-based optical levitation simulator - initially it felt a bit insane to try to deeply understand this obscure bit of maths to implement rotations, but once it clicked it clicked. Quaternions ended up being a super neat formalism for writing and computing rotational equations of motion.

https://github.com/jdranczewski/optical-levitation-raytracin... for my repo, and https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/nme.5165 for the rotational dynamics with quaternions.
That and the idea of a poorly sanitized log entry or something slipping to the AI and then you have a big problem. Just seems like a security issue waiting to happen.

There was a system not long ago on here for AI automatically running system recovery as triage. I just can’t imagine giving AI any rights to actually run commands without oversight.

I guess good luck explaining why you deleted a database or whatever while diagnosing an app when it decides that the best course of action is to delete and start over or some other really stupid solution.
I use it too. What do most people consider as a better alternative?
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You weren't abused. You were just talked to in a way that caused an elevated emotional response.

That said, I do find your argument interesting as it parallels the "guns don't kill people" argument. An I am a gun rights advocate yet am against Palantir's product usage on US citizens. Good food for thought.
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Project activity is indicative of whether it will be supported in the long run. The fact that Mathesar's admin hid the line change count under insights, and padded the commits looks like a feeble attempt to impress investors.
are you on a work laptop? A lot of times they have screensavers for intel arch, and apple silicon might have something to do with this problem
Are you sure? the only two on the EFF site say they do: https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d... and it also says that basically all commercial printers do have tracking dots (last updated in 2017).
If you ask for a rebuttal you will get a rebuttal from ChatGPT, even if the most probable answer might be supportive or neutral. Ask an LLM and it will comply (if not censored).
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reminds me of power tools
Musk prefers tame, fawning interviewers who tell him that he's exceptional as a human being. Like Joe Rogan.
It could be argued that the emergence of the web and search engines in particular has established this as a common pattern long before AI was around. I'm not convinced that AI represents a dramatic change to this behavior, though the point about anthropomorphizing AI likely acts as a magnifier.
That was the one, but I find it strangely pleasing that there are several near matches for the scenario described.
Perhaps I misunderstood something, but it seems those claims were supported by the evidence of multiple internal memos retrieved via discovery. Another commenter points out that this practice ended in 2018 due to Congress making it illegal, but prior that the FAA had been issuing a biographical assessment as a basis for hiring decisions, exactly as stated in the article.

Your own link has the court opinion confirming my understanding of the article. The fact they won the case on procedural grounds is not relevant to the fact the court is opining in the case that the evidence supports a conclusion that the FAA discriminated against "non-diverse" candidates who were otherwise qualified.

I think we can all agree that for a role like ATC, the most important thing is that candidates are competent and capable, because it is literally life or death. I have the strong belief that minority candidates are also competent and capable, so discriminatory against "non-diverse" candidates is reprehensible in the strongest terms. I don't think my position here is unusual, unreasonable, or in any way objectionable, and it turns out Congress agreed and made this practice explicitly illegal.
Thanks, I'm totally gonna try that!
I didn't mean to send you down a rabbit-hole since you've already built an awesome-looking platform. Just googling, came across a devkit:
https://ameridroid.com/products/pinetime-smart-watch?variant...

The DevKit is mainly there to allow easy access the SWD pins. It can be flashed via a Pi: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineTime_Devkit_Wiring

Aaron Christophel (go-to guy for hacking wearables) has a video on flashing them via an ESP32: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu6RoXRZxOk

For OTA flash, some folks have had good luck with https://gadgetbridge.org

For those interested in going the cheap-o activity tracker route, here's another old thread on Hackaday, featuring Aaron. More good info in the comments: https://hackaday.com/2019/02/20/custom-firmware-for-cheap-fi...

Also, one last tidbit: I know the idea was to stay away from the more expensive devices, but many Apple and Android watches have built-in BLE central capability so they can scan and connect to peripherals without having to go through the phone. In later models, they can even scan in the background and update complications.

Again, not remotely as cool as building one's own device!
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I agree in the sense that it is directly the fault of the people doing the surveillance but this sounds like "guns dont kill people, people kill people..." which is true semantically, but not in spirit.

Palantir for example works directly with the government on State and Federal levels, and know damn well what they are doing, what their tools are used for, and answer directly to the requests of the government in regards to contracted work (all at the cost of the taxpayer mind you). These are mass surveillance tools, they have one purpose.

I also don't think its insignificant to recognize the backroom deals here that have created this vicious cycle of:

working as a govt official and giving kickbacks and heavily inflated contracts to contractors, and forming laws favorable to those contractors -> then getting a consulting job at those same defense contractors or lobbying groups -> and then moving back into politics

we can't just strip away the context here, a database has a purpose, what purpose does mass surveillance tools have? I'd argue that there is no proper use case for these tools against Americans, other than authoritarianism.
Is there a sensor like this that is open enough for tinkering at home? The radar sensor could be useful for home automation.
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I suppose it'd be easier for someone to buy one of each of the comics, rather than an industrial size printing press used to print comics and hold onto it for 70 years.

I dont think ink, on it's own, has a 70 year shelf life either.

And, aside from having the setup to print stuff with, you still need the source material (presumably printing plates or whatever) which is where the actual forging comes in. Assuming it was printing plates lets say, you'd need to copy them to a microscopic level along with every dot on a matching comic book.

That's probably quite hard.
The timeline is largely a function of how talented you are and how hard you work.

If you can maintain the rigor and pace of an undergraduate CS degree by yourself, you'll be fine. But I think that's really hard to do, and also misses some of the group aspect of college learning (you can augment with OSS projects though).

If this was 2020 I wouldn't recommend for you to go to college, I would say just bootcamp or self study, and find some startup to work at and hone your skills, and job hop from there. But junior hiring has grown much more competitive.

Do you have any network you can leverage to find a first job? If so, I think that route is definitely better. But in the current market I don't see why a company would hire you vs. some random new grad.
Moving from Java to Python for the preferred backend language many many years ago was a relief: building prototypes faster, no need to mention obvious types (int, bool, string) anywhere. In some places using (data) classes and I had robust programs. When doing type mistakes, running the program or having unit tests exactly told me where I had it wrong - no need for type annotations to enjoy programming, right?

But now over the last years, I happen to prefer changing programs a lot without running them a lot. I often do code refactorings over multiple commits, being highly concentrated, without running the code once. And then only running the code only 1 hour or 2 later. Such a pleasant activity! Just writing, reading, writing, thinking code. No ugly and long stack traces, no need to input user data into input fields, just reading and changing the program code, with the editor in full screen.

And guess what I highly started to appreciate, after many years of Python! Type annotations! With type annotations a LSP would immediately underline any mistake I would accidentally make, and that made me feel much more comfortable and secure about my changes, over several commits, touching 100s of lines without ever running the program. I suddenly learned to understand, after many years of dynamic type less programming with Python, that I can get more easily and for much longer into a flow state when I add annotations and run a LSP live over my code while I work on it.
Alright, bet. Wanna make your Mac menu bar less clunky? Here’s the tea. Pop these commands in your terminal to tighten it up:

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int 8
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding -int 8

Changed your mind? No cap, just undo it with these:

defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing
defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding

Then, log out and back in. Boom, you’re golden.
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Which is a shame. I love Samsung's hardware, but the crapware they pile on top of Android is intolerable.

Thankfully, I MDM my personal devices and can neuter most of it from there.
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Cool. I used to pay for iStat Menus, but one day I got a new laptop and couldn't figure out how to download the old version I had bought a license for.

IMO it's essential to see cpu / mem / network consumption at all times and, on top of that, the top 5 apps consuming each one of them. It should be a default feature of computing devices by now, but it's so far from that which only benefits bad actors (resource hogs, bad software). I shouldn't have to launch activity monitor every time I want such basic info.

I'll try this out.
It depends on if they get too greedy. One or two would probably slip in.

But once you get too many, something would be noticed. Everything would match, but the ink wouldn't have been on paper long enough, that kind of thing.

And the space and requirements to keep everything in wait - would be more hassle and expense than just stockpiling copies of every comic ever made.
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The one factor that might be hard for them to control is "aging". Sure, the paper will likely have aged the same, but maybe the ink ages differently on paper than on a bottle. (In both potential ways: The ink in the bottle may go bad, or it may age less than on paper.) I am really not qualified to even speculate.

But one thing I want to note is that this scenario does not strike me as too different from "what if I had bought or mined 100 bitcoin while they were still cents each", which would actually have required significantly less effort and even foresight.

I don't think anyone originally thought that comic books for kids sold at newspaper stands would ever become collector's items with such a massive value, so it would probably have been rather bizarre for someone to do what you suggested, especially since the many factors that you mentioned alone mean that some explicit planning for this scenario is likely required for things to actually fall into place that way. I'm eager to be proven wrong, of course.
Update: Found the routes in the FAA HELDC PDF

https://aeronav.faa.gov/visual/12-26-2024/PDFs/Balt-Wash_Hel...
Choose one of the following paths.

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>Marine radar is trivial compared to air-to-air radar.

like in the case of a boat, the air-to-air radar is still peanuts compare to the cost of the plane/helicopter

>The Black Hawk, like most aircraft, does not have an air-to-air radar.

Pretty surprising for the military. You'd like to know when an enemy fighter or a missile coming for you. And military frequently operates in the territories without any ATC, so you'd like to see even the friendly planes and helicopters too. Say at night over Iraq.

And even without radar - simple ADS-B receiver attached to notebook plotting onto the screen of the notebook would be a great improvement in that situation over DC or anywhere over US.

> IR cameras would be completely inappropriate for the situation ...recognise what that small dot is that you’re seeing.

in visual at night you have a sea of city lights with some low flying lights you can easily mistake for ground lights. In IR all those city lights would pretty much disappear, while the plane's engines and exhaust would be a very bright light against very dark background of the sky.
The same ones Trump hears, probably.

FAA ATC has been underfunded and understaffed for years. That has nothing to do with DEI.
Naïf... if you can call that English.
The lack of a systray on MacOS is one of the reasons I really hate the interface. Stuff like this can partly make up for that.
Oof, rumor mill strikes again.

No, 85% of apprehensions don't result in release into the country. That is a number that you'll have a hard time substantiating. Allegedly Mayorkas said it to the CBP union, according to the CBP union.

Below is an actual analysis of actual data from the right-leaning Cato Institute. The real number is somewhere in the 40-50% range and has been stable through most administrations (and, shockingly, Trump released more illegal immigrants into the country than Biden).

In addition to letting immigrants into the country at a higher rate, Trump also specifically slowed down deportation processing for violent immigrants, keeping them in the country, free (as is required by the Constitution's Equal Protection and Due Process clauses) for longer.

https://www.cato.org/blog/new-data-show-migrants-were-more-l...

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/07/16/trump-tried-to...
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The free download requires account registration, which will discourage most people from trying it. Even third-party login might make it easier, but I didn't find that option.
> ticketmaster has 50,000 General Admission Taylor Swift tickets and 1M fans eager to hoover them up.

I think something like trivial postgres setup can handle this thing..
I've asked chatgpt to explain to me the pokemon card craze, and it gives a long answer, but I still don't understand the videos of people shoving shopping carts full of big boxes of Pokemon cards...
Why not tail it?
IDK about PSA specifically, but I've collected comics, video games, toys, etc and the one commonality between all of them is that there are these big "grading" companies that charge money to seal your stuff in a plastic box with a label at the top that indicates its "grade" and there is always a scam of some sort. Sometimes they're not actually investigating the goods with any real scrutiny, sometimes they have a conflict-of-interest involving a well-stocked seller, sometimes they're directly manipulating the market. There's always something with these guys.

Also a lot of their income comes from convincing people who aren't educated on the market to grade extremely common items that will never be worth any significant amount of money no matter what "grade" they get; not actually a scam in that case but it shows you what their real priorities are.

I've also seen them set up booths at sci-fi conventions where you can pay to have them "authenticate" things you got signed by celebrities. In this case the authentication is entirely separate from the signature so there's nobody who can actually testify that they witnessed William Shatner signing your crap, only that they know your crap and William Shatner were in the same convention center at the same time.
I‘m part of info sec group in the company I‘m working at and this would get banned right away. Don‘t get me wrong we use and are open to AI and all kinds of tooling ideas to make us more proficient.
How is a menu bar app not a substitute for the systray?
It seems to be a really niche Pokemon forum, so I'm not surprised that the post isn't written for a general audience.