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> This doesn't necessarily make them evil, just disconnected.

If you are very highly compensated, responsible for people's ability to earn what they need to survive, and don't care enough to understand your employee's perspectives and realities, you some definition of evil.

Responsibility is the key word here.
> how does the drone determine that the drop off spot for any delivery is safe at the time of drop off without "looking" down?

I couldn't get the question out of my head, so I went digging, and thought I would reply to myself with the answer in case anyone was wondering.

It seems to be that the drone changes orientation by 90 degrees during travel then the orientation it uses for take off and landing. there are not only forward facing cameras, but camera mounted on the left and right sides of the drone and a camera facing backwards.

So during its "travel phase" of flight no camera is pointing at the ground, but when the drone plans to drop off a package, it rotates its orientation 90 degrees so the camera that would be facing the rear during travel would now be looking at the ground.
Hmm, this article is a little confusing. I'm not familiar with Vitess or Citus, but am familiar with "manually" sharded Postgres/Mysql, and I'm not sure I understand if there's any "interaction effects" of the decision to shard or not and the decision between MySQL/Postgres and Sqlite.

Like, the article's three sections are:

1. The challenges of sharding

2. The benefits of these new sharded Sqlite solutions over conventional Sqlite

3. A list conflating the benefits of SQL databases generally with the benefits of Sqlite

None of which answer the question of "Why should I use sharded Sqlite instead of, say, sharded Postgres, for hyperscale?".
How about: Have 1 + N separate SQLite database-files.

Each user would have their own database-file which contains only information about that user. Then 1 shared database-file which contains info needed for all users.

Users would update their own data, which is a small database file which can be easily uploaded. They would not need to update the shared data.

Not knowing your app I don't know what the shared data would contain, presumably something. Perhaps the shared data-file would be updated on the server based on what individual user-data the users upload.
All more probable to happen over time, but not less probable to happen due to youth.
>why can't it just be to defend the US?

It was that way for most of our existence (and empire building). The whole world police thing came after WWII.
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I worked on the VFX of a movie in 2012 where we actually used a Kinect as a cheap Lidar replacement for mapping set geometry. Such a useful little device.
People that have never interacted with a legacy system don't understand how the legacy system works and think they know how to fix everything.

If you haven't had to deal with people like this before you just didn't write software for long enough. Pretty common in junior devs or people that believe clean code.
It arguably makes sense in a large monorepo, but otherwise I would agree.
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I don't think it's reasonable to include (pop) musicians. Pop music fans, who decide what's a hit, skew young, and are influenced partly by how much the star prancing on stage attracts them as an imaginary sexual partner (or role model). Stardom involves a lot of intuition, charisma, and personality, all things a young person might have by accident. There's also a "voice of the [...] generation" trope that's more plausible if you are one of that generation. So yes, many albums are released by youthful stars and gain attention due to their youthful relevance, sex appeal, and physical fitness (non-rusty voices, nimble fingers, jumping about): and if coincidentally also good music, they're likely to overshadow later albums that are only good music but connect with less visceral urgency to their audience. With, as you say, many exceptions (Wilburys).
The end of AI slop is coming
How the U.K. broke its own economy
I think it's weird. Either you trust your output to be pseudorandom or you don't. These weird hacks may be fine, but they feel like adding "safety" duct tape onto the wings of a passenger jet.
This could be more simple, which is a good thing, well done!

BTW I might have found a bug in the info property title in the spec: "MUST provide the title of the `agents.json` specification. This title serves as a human-readable name for the specification."
I think that's the main problem.

The low hanging fruits have all been picked a long time ago.
You can try to undercut existing software, but it's not easy.
How to add a note above your files when running `ls`
"Pollution" is not great to tax if you want a functioning society.

Since apparently Carbon Dioxide is considered pollution now you have somehow defined the very action of living and working as taxable. Not going to end well.

Consumption tax leads to LESS investment because it leads to LESS viable companies over all. So unless you goal is More investement into a handful of megacorps you shouldn't do this.

Land tax is horrible because it's already our most abundant untapped resource, maybe in dense urban environments it might be justifiable, but that's it.

Stop trying all this dumb shit just say "suburban tax" if you want to make a tax that targets suburbanites. People appreciate honesty more than BS! Democracies can't function without it! The entire point of having representatives is to taxes that the people don't want, if they can't do that then American democracy has already failed decades before Trump.
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I agree. What's the point of a massive military if you can't scare people with it? All I'm saying is we need to be careful what we wish for and understand what we are getting into. If congress thinks the population is itching to go to war, they might just get us into one (again).

Like you said, we haven't had a draft in decades. People might think we won't ever have one, and those people would be mistaken.
At my small company, only reference checks when we're nearly ready to give an offer. For education, never.
A problem with explicit interning is that libraries, when creating objects, cannot make an informed decision whether to offer some runtime performance in exchange for the expectation of a decrease in memory usage.

And it is even less than an expectation. Many interning libraries never free objects that they created, so they can keep lots of objects that never are needed again around, and thus increase memory usage.

I think the ideal API would somehow a) be simple and b) have the program communicate with the system about what they desire from the system. As a first step, the system has to know how much memory the program is willing to use, how much longer it expects to run, and for how long the program plans to retain data it is creating now.

Simple examples:

- if the program is shutting down, and there’s a megabyte of memory available, it’s likely detrimental to intern any new data.

- in a “json grep” tool, interning json keys likely isn’t worth it, as most data will be discarded soon.

That’s probably at least a dozen of ph.d’s of research, and likely not attainable, though.
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I tend to agree. It makes me think that a project is more interested in optics / following trends and is likely overstating things.

Instead of "Blazing Fast", just show a chart showing you are better per core than XYZ.

Instead of "fearless concurrency", show that you are better at utilizing system resources than XYZ.
Credit unions are probably a pretty good place to start, as they're cooperative by nature but also operate similar to a normal banking corporation (expansion, etc).
> For those who've lost track of that situation, can you provide a link or two?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/technology/google-search-...

I mean, it's the same situation as last year. Google lost the lawsuit, got declared a monopoly, the DOJ said they'll force Google to stop paying Apple and Mozilla for placement on their devices/browser (for Mozilla that means losing $500 million in ARR), Google is appealing but as of right now it'll come into effect in the second half of 2025. Which is the impetus for Mozilla to try find a lot of extra revenue. Also Trump isn't a fan of Google so unlikely he'll save them. Although ironically, Apple and Mozilla are the biggest losers: Apple gets billions from Google and Mozilla $500 million.
I disagree with the premise that one should make children for the sake of filling a void.
haha i was wondering the same. I hate my nail biting habit and there are few days where i can go without it and then it comes back and stays.
not even you don't need to, you shouldn't. Sessions shouldn't be accessible to js at all
The SAP abbreviation proves itself once again.
I exclusively use Japanese writing implements, and hand-wrote all of my notes when I was in college. (Saved carrying a laptop around, and some professors were sticklers about not having laptops out during lectures.)

* Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen and Namiki ink

* Pilot G2 is my "minimum" pen, though I vastly prefer roller ball pens.

* Uniball Air Micro

* Pilot Precise V2

* When I need a pencil, I use the Uni Kuru Toga, a mechanical pencil that slowly rotates the lead to keep it sharp. Before that, I used the Pilot pencils that use the G2 body.

* Recently, I ordered a Metacil "infinity pencil" out of curiosity. It's an aluminum pencil with a very dense tip that writes like an ordinary pencil, but is supposed to last a very long time.
> You're old as soon as you see imperfections as permanent

Conversely, you're young as long as you believe you have control over imperfections.

Last year, I slipped in a puddle on my bike. Last week, my orthopedic surgeon told me I can never be a runner again. There is too little cartilage left in my ankle.

Yesterday, Strava told me I logged my 250th entry. Scrolling down my activity stream past the walks I logged recovering from my ankle injury, I saw the hundreds of runs I went on when I took jogging seriously. One of those runs is now the best run I'll ever do.

Not being able to run is an imperfection that is "permanent" and that I will never "grow" past regardless of how much I care to do so. That's what getting old feels like.
This reminds me of the time a few years ago when mind mapping sites and apps exploded into popularity among the... "technorati" and sort of slightly seep into the wider online awareness but then seemingly, just as quickly, disappear into the background noise of the internet (I'm terminally online to a degree, especially when it comes to tech news—and have a pretty decent general awareness of pop culture trends—and can't recall having seen the topic referenced since the trend faded. But perhaps I'm just not in the right circles?)
They 'll be lucky if they get to keep their job.
no, I just couldn't stop laughing
Seeking improvement is a good thing.

Is the definition of seeking perfection different? Maybe these words are poor for the distinction between direction and target.

CertainlyI wouldn't want to be an unhappy perfectionist. But slowly perfecting/improving something is a happy thing.

That said, I struggle with the internal dialogue of some people that are never happy with what they do.
autodidacts existed before youtube
I feel that if Firefox up and died we would have people scrambling to work on something like this in much greater numbers.
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I don't see how the amount of work that went into it changes the core fact that all art is influenced by that which came before, and we don't call that stealing (unless you truly believe that "all art is theft").

My point re: LLMs wasn't meant to exclusively be a "they're doing it" one, the hope was to give an example of something many people would agree is super useful and valuable (I work much faster and learned so much more in college thanks to LLMs) that would be impossible in the proposed strict interpretation of copyright.

edit responding to your edit:

Re: moral good: I think that bringing the sum of human musical knowledge to anybody who cares to try for free is a moral good. Music production software costs >$200 and studios cost thousands and majoring in music costs hundreds of thousands, but we can make getting started so much easier.

Is it really consent for those artists signing to labels when only three companies have total control of all music consumption and production for the mass market? To be clear, artists absolutely have a right to benefit from reproduction of their recordings. I just don't think anyone should have rights to the knowledge built into those creations since in most cases it wasn't theirs to begin with (if their right to this knowledge were affirmed, every new song someone creates could hypothetically have a konga line of lawyer teams clamoring for "their cut" of that chord progression/instrument sample/effect/lyrical theme/style).
very nice, i didn't know about it, thanks
The word games I was referring to were your overly technical analysis of the term "illegal." In everyday conversation, people don't care about logical breakdowns of words. They find such arguments absurd and view those making these claims as out of touch. While you might see it as a justified position, most people perceive it as someone being pedantic/elitist with too much time on their hands.

I'm sorry that I assumed you belonged to a group on a political thread where everyone was trashing Trump. It was a dumb mistake to assume you are worried about the rise of the far right.
It does look like something a Googler came up with.
Also, biofuels have >10x the energy per unit of mass compared compared to even the best batteries in the lab (and some sources put that at closer to 100x). There are a lot of use cases for biofuels (as a replacement to petroleum) that batteries can't come close to handling.

Converting the waste stream from agrivoltaics into biofuels appears to be the best option: reduced land for "energy" crops, increased output for food crops, and biofuel to replace petroleum.
It's not just Apple guys, it's everywhere.

Software quality has seriously declined across the board, from Spotify to Slack to core operating systems like Windows and macOS. I think a major factor is corporate culture, which largely ignores software quality. Another issue is that many engineers lack a solid understanding of CS fundamentals like performance, security, and reliability (perhaps this is why many are not able to solve basic algorithmic questions like linked lists or binary trees during interviews)..

I've seen code written by so-called "senior" engineers that should never have made it past review; had they simply paid attention in their CS 101 courses, it wouldn't exist.

On top of that, as long as poor software quality doesn’t hurt a company's bottom line, why would executives care if their app takes 20 seconds to load?

Consumers have become desensitized to bloat, and regulators remain asleep at the wheel..
You can simulate as much of an aircraft as you need to. So long as flying is a physical process, it can be simulated.

But your simulation will never fly you over an ocean, it will never be an aircraft or do what aircraft do. A simulation of heat transfer will not cook your dinner. A simulation of Your assumption that a simulation of a mind is a mind, requires evidence.
> I wish more programmers would use it.

For instance, people writing blogs to explain Lisp, who then present some Javascript crud in which symbols are just character strings.
> However, the mechanisms linking cerebral blood flow increase to metabolic changes in the brain affecting cognition remain unclear.

Stanford research published after that article provides that answer: Face shape. It's not just better cognitive performance but the alternative contributes to face shape commonly perceived as "not beautiful".

The Stanford research, and no I don't have a link, concludes there are two activities responsible for these traits: slurping soft foods and mouth breathing. The alternative to chewing hard foods is slurping soft foods and the frequent activity of slurping alters the shape of a person's face as they grow because humans were really only designed to consistently slurp soft foods in infancy, but the shape of the face will elongate to compensate for slurping along with inferior jaw bone strength.

The alternative to nose breathing is mouth breathing, which drastically lowers oxygen intake which mimics and contributes to sleep apnea like conditions even while awake. There is a measured cognitive decline associated with the degree of oxygen suppressed in air intake. Mouth breathing also negatively contributes to developmental face shape, but less so than slurping soft foods.
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This reminds me of the short story Time Shards:

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/time-shards/
Same experience here, they sent me a copy of my background check with an incorrect graduation date. I don't even know how that would have happened. I have my diploma and transcript but no one asked me about the discrepancy.

Some companies definitely check references. I've had multiple companies contact me as a reference for an applicant and ask for a brief phone call or to write a quick blurb on some website form. Just make sure you ask before listing someone as a reference.
The program - yes, it is a rule-based program. But the reasoning and logic responses are not implemented explicitly as code, they are supported by the network and encoded in the weights of the model.

That's why I see it as not bounded by computability: LLM is not a logic program finding perfect solution to a problem, it's a statistical model to find next possible word.
MCP March Madness
A fun experiment to see how well API platforms handle some real-world AI tasks using their services.

Along with this we released a new tool use eval framework to help determine accuracy, speed, and model quality.

https://docs.mcp.run/blog/2025/03/03/introducing-mcpx-eval
I suspect there are not many outside your own acquaintances willing to have their children drafted to defend Taiwan.

Just being realistic. Americans were committed to these things because leadership committed us to these things and would make it illegal for us to get out of it. Given an actual choice, not many Americans would have willingly gone to, say, Vietnam. Maybe a few brainwashed anti-communists, but the average American thought, "Hey, not my circus, not my monkeys." I suspect even fewer would be willing to go fight for Taiwan.

The average American's attitude is, "Call me when they attack Hawaii." Until that point, most genuinely don't care. That's why Trump's current moves in Europe will be applauded by his base. Because people have severely overestimated the desire of the American every-man and -woman to defend foreign nations.

You can't give people a choice. If given a choice, they'll always say no.
Yeah, this 0.2% of the population means 640,000 people. For one disease. There's more than one disease out there.

So for these people it's bad luck, sucks to be them. For your success, it's all hard work.
Cool.

Abstraction is one skill. It's quite useful, especially in an age of computation. But it's just one skill.

There are many other human skills too. They all have their own value (which may vary across time and space).

Few people are really good at more than one or two of them.
Not a Brave user but I have managed it at a workplace before. Far as I recall they show a wallet button at the top right near the extensions button and show crypto trading rates alongside the weather on the default new tab page. Disabling the wallet icon could be done with a right click and a left click, and the new tab page could be customized in settings to show less stuff pretty easily. Might be different now.
SailfishOS is pretty decent on mobile, as in a simple system that moves slowly. You can get support for Android apps with an emulation layer. Even banking apps tend to work well. Sadly, to get a license from the US you'd need a EU IP address.
All my ~software jobs checked every last thing - work places, start and end dates, manager name where available, and education transcripts. No criminal checks involved though.
Apparently, at some point, manifest V2 support was introduced. Maybe my build was too old, maybe there was some other issue, but - it seems that current Ungoogled Chromium for Windows builds _do_ support manifest V2.
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