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I think the problem is that "lack of public information about their future plans" is hard to differentiate from "no future plans exist". For a company that's in the past been known for their willingness to go for low-likelihood but high impact "moonshot" projects and seemingly open with some of their long-term plans (like everyone knowing that they were working on self-driving cars years before self-driving became a topic that people wouldn't be shocked to hear, like, their grandparents talking about), it's honestly pretty weird that the only device they've shipped with it was the Nest Hub, which apparently used to run on the same thing as a Chromcast (so which I don't even think was ChromeOS?).

If this were something that they were planning on using mainly for internal stuff, like for some sort of competitive advantage in data centers or something, I could understand the radio silence on future plans, but it's hard for me to imagine that's their main purpose when they're publicly putting it on stuff like the Nest Hub and Chromebooks (they didn't sell any with it afaik, but they published a guide for putting it on them). It really feels like they just don't know exactly what to do with it, and they're trying to figure that out as well. As for ChromeOS and Android, those already feel like a pretty good example of them not having a super clear initial product strategy for how they overlap (and more important, how they _don't_), so while having some sort of consolidation would make sense, it's not clear to me how Fuschia would help with that rather than just make things even murkier if they start pushing it more. I'd expect that consolidating them would start with the lower-level components rather than the UI, and my understanding is that Fuschia (as opposed to Zircon, which is the kernel) has quite a lot of UI-related stuff in it specifically with Flutter. I'm not saying you're wrong, since it sounds like you might have more relevant knowledge than me, but I can't help but wonder how much of this has really been planned in the long term rather than just been played by ear by those with decision-making power.
Again, literally all of it are just projections. Eurozone quietly accepts non-double-digit growth YoY in exchange for fairly balanced life style. If you guys don’t want that, that’s up to you. Until this point, all the previous governments in charge made their decisions on behalf of Americans. Retroactively blaming others is just… weird? Go figure out a government or method that’s best for you, since everyone writes their own destinies. At the end of the day, everyone will adapt, change and survive. To the better or worse. Pointing at others’ houses’ messiness while yours is extremely far from being clean is just not nice.
funny to read this on the day that Trump announces tariffs for... (reasons?)
The resend api has around 10 endpoints.
No offense intended of course, but maybe that's what your managers were doing (and were getting paid well for it).
I would also personally not do this with an American ungrounded toaster, even though I have an EE degree and have done a lot of wire stripping, re-assembling wires, electrical tape, soldering, etc stuff.

A new toaster is cheap. House fires are not.
Besides not having to use a passport when you fly domestically come May (unless it changes _yet again_).
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> pictogram-based writing

i think you might mean ideogram-based?
This issue was so annoying since “apple intelligence” debuted. I would have to manually toggle off for each device that updated.

But at least since 15.3.0, for me, it’s no longer an issue.
Minor point: lots of commenters here are defaulting to male pronouns for the author. In this Dezeen article, for which they spoke to Kasey, they use she/her pronouns. https://www.dezeen.com/2017/07/20/kasey-hou-reduce-electrica...
Wait, does that mean there is an option to actually always show scroll bars under Accessibility? I need to check it out.
Interesting. Could you post a link to the dongle?
> Is there a JITing C compiler, or something like that?

Yes, for example, compiling C to JavaScript (or asm.js, etc. [0]) leads to the C code being JITed.

And yes, there are definitely benchmarks where this is actually faster. Any time that a typical C compiler can't see that inlining makes sense is such an opportunity, as the JIT compiler sees the runtime behavior. The speedup can be very large. However, in practice, most codebases get inlined well using clang/gcc/etc., leaving few such opportunities.

[0] This may also happen when compiling C to WebAssembly, but it depends on whether the wasm runtime does JIT optimizations - many do not and instead focus on static optimizations, for simplicity.
Are you referring to the libertarians who like to see government fail so they have a reason to dismantle it?
Which is exactly why you're pissing in the wind begging Apple to renege their arbitrary stance.
Sorry to continue the thread, but it’s a bit baffling to see how a good chunk of America really thinks without them everyone else would be a toast. Sure, we would be worse off, but so would they. Basic self-sufficiency is almost every normal government’s major goal.
Modern toasters are generally way less reliable than older toasters. I think it is very difficult to buy a new toaster today that you can be confident will have a 50-year lifespan.
Sad to see it's shutting down. The wiki was the most fascinating thing about it to me as a kid with the lengthy recounting of mall sieges.
There is scarcity in BTC, but no scarcity on Cryptos. Every BTC investor/hodler is betting the farm that BTC will be the dominant crypto forever. BTC is very similar to a cult or Ponzi scheme where you only achieve your goal if you can convince others to join.

Why do you think nearly every BTC Maxi will claim all other coins are "Sh|t coins"? ...including coins/blockchains that are running identical code to BTC?
You should try it. I'd love to see what an engineer could do with building toasters from scratch.
They briefly had a living room and kitchen furnishings company, too – YAMAHA Livingtec – but the heritage was clear there: they expanded from wooden piano housings to other wooden furnishings.
Writing code is easy compared to supporting, debugging and enhancing code. AI is much better at "greenfield" coding where you start from scratch, either on an entire app or a new feature. For anything non-trivial, it is terrible at debugging. At best it is a super-rubber-duck that is nice to talk to that might have a few words buried inside screenfuls of text that help a human realize what might be going wrong. We're still in the honeymoon phase, where AI has only written new stuff and hasn't been around long enough to have to support code with tens- or hundreds-of-thousands of LoC.
We had an old toaster which was swinging plates to hold toast against the elements as a central core. Want both sides toasted? flip the toast. It was a 1920s design. Very functional, few parts to break (springs, hinges mostly) and it burned toast very effectively. It also did not accrue crumbs the way modern sealed-box toasters do.

I think if I was making a toaster I'd be looking to this model rather than the slot model, simply because its simpler. Or, placing toast on a flat bed with a reflecting heat plate behind the element. That would work for far thicker toastable objects, and also refreshing pita &c.

So many ways to die. Very cool project btw.
ERP add-ins for Excel are the main reason why I still use Windows at the office. Side note: the webified version of Outlook's new roomfinder is awful; it's slow, doesn't work correctly, and doesn't respect dark mode (but this is a larger failure on the Windows side in general).
Overwhelming an enemy involves getting inside their OODA loop. I can't see a real life-or-death scenario, outside of training, where you'd want your enemy to successfully get inside your OODA loop and disrupt your flow and rhythm, even for 0.1% of the time.

You of course don't want to become comfortable and complacent, risking losing focus, but there must be better ways of avoiding that other than being occasionally overwhelmed.
I still don't get why you think I should read something I don't trust.
> I would be very interested if you have any sources on anyone beating the Turing test in anything close to Turing's original adversarial formulation.

Eliza never won that adversarial version even against layman.

In what sense did Eliza ever 'win' any Turing test?

> I'm sure you are likely willing to believe that most LLMs these days can pass it.

No, I haven't seen any evidence of that.

To repeat: I am interested in evidence that any non-human can beat the Turing test in the original form given in Turing's paper, where you have the judge (human), and two contestants A and B. One of the contestants is a computer, one is a human. Everyone can see what everyone else is writing, and the human contestant can help the human judge. (But the computer can try to fake that 'helping', too.)

Turing specifically wrote: "The object of the game for the third player (B) is to help the interrogator."

I can believe that Eliza has occasionally fooled some random humans, but I can't believe Eliza managed to fool anyone when a third party was around to point out her limitations. (Especially since Eliza ain't smart enough to retaliate and fabricate some 'obvious computer limitations' to accuse the third party of.)

Most LLMs today still have some weaknesses that are easy to point out, if you let your contestants (both kinds) familiarise themselves with both humans and the LLMs in question at their leisure before the test starts.

Just for fun, I just tried out Kuki AI, and it's not going to fool anyone who actually wants to uncover the AI through adversarial cross-examination.

The chat excerpt giving of 'Eugene Goostman' in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Goostman also suggests that it would fall apart immediately in an adversarial setting with the full three participants.

However, I do agree that we have made progress and that today's LLMs could hold up a lot longer in this harsher setting than anything we had before. Especially if you fine-tuned them properly to remove telltale signs like their inability to swear or their constant politeness.

> But to think we came up with good tests at the same time we invented electronic computers, should give you surprise.

I never claimed the Turing test is the best test ever, nor even that it's particularly good. I was saying that it hasn't been beaten in its original form.

For example, the Turing test isn't really a fine grained benchmark that lets you measure and compare model performance two multiple decimal places. Nor was it any good as a guideline for how to improve our approaches.
Between Shifted and Removed Costs
Only for 10 years
FYI, Your website (https://getstream.io/) is broken :-)

Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).
Yes I looked for this in the article.

“The weird afterlife of Kinect” is that it became FaceID and is on hundreds of millions of beloved devices. By that metric the Kinect is a ridiculous success as a hardware innovation.

Strange that it wasn’t mentioned.
"Will" collide just now, Jaanus, or have they been in conflict since before the PATRIOT Act? This performative bullshit is getting tiresome.
IIRC it didn't take that long to develop first production versions of macOS? A couple of years maybe?

It's not like Fuschia was supposed to be a "fully capable OS developed from scratch", either? I mean it's "just" the kernel and other low level components, most of the software stack would remain same as Android/Linux at least for the time being.
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The ABA rejects efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession
Don't get me started on Windows!
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Zathura can also do this. E.g. https://github.com/dracula/zathura
Careful now, free market absolutism is almost a religion around these parts.

Our societies becoming increasingly more unequal and less functional coincides almost exactly with Raegan's and Thatcher's mandates. Austerity, privatization and deregulation are directly leading us into Gilded Age levels of inequality. And you shouldn't want that, unless you're like in the top 0.01%.
It's a lot like sandstorm; the web hosting platform that Kenon Varda created. It failed as a corporation, but is still open source. It's a shame: it was before it's time and still holds up incredibly well.
Also true, but how many people are buying toasters in 2025? I would bet that air fryers and toaster ovens outsell toasters 10:1.

Still, I think this is a great portfolio piece. The designer should keep going, and amass a little collection of simple repairable appliances.
Has your need for approval been met?
> don’t know where you draw the line between static and dynamic/modern

“Biddle identifies what he calls the ‘Modern System’ of combat (though I am going to treat it a bit more broadly than he does). In short, it’s a set of tactics and operational art that emerged out of the First World War and were refined in the European theaters (East and West) of the Second, to cope with the tremendous potency of industrialized firepower which had fundamentally reshaped war. Rather than relying on fixed positions for defense and dense shock-formations (‘shock’ here – think ‘bayonets, grenades and trench-knives’), the modern system relies on cover-and-concealment for survivability and maneuver in the offense (go around, not through your opponent’s overwhelming firepower). Adroit use of terrain on the tactical level is a key component of the system, which in turn requires both extensive training of junior officers and NCOs and devolving quite a bit of command agency down to them so that they can make local decisions (compare to, for instance, linear tactics which leave virtually no decision-making to the individual rifleman).

…

Static-System armies, since – as we’ll see – in modern warfare, they tend to be a fair bit more fixed and static than the modern system armies (note: I’m going to keep calling them ‘armies’ for simplicity, but the modern system combined land and air assets), preferring to dig in for sieges and trench warfare. So again: static system (old, cheap) vs. modern system (new, expensive). And remember: this is a difference in doctrine not equipment, in how an army expects to fight their battles and how they actually do – a difference in how, not in what. It is possible to have all of the tools of the modern system, and still not have the training or will to do the modern system (indeed, Iraq did just this in 1991 and got torn apart for it). You can buy tanks and planes, but you cannot buy the modern system, you must train it.“

Russia’s human waves are a trench tactic. Command flows entirely top down. They’re going straight at the enemy. And training is virtually impossible given the expendability of their troops.

https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...
I wish message passing and capabilities based OS had taken off stronger in the 80s because I sometimes feel like there are design goals and approaches latent in what we do now, which we could have been advanced in before now, beyond research models.
> the idea was to come up with a kernel that had a stable interface so that vendors could update their hardware more easily

interesting... if that was a big goal, i wonder why they didn't go with some kind of adapter/meta-driver (and just maintain that) to the kernel that has a stable interface.

maybe long-term not viable i guess...?
> signals are supposed to trigger conservation yet somehow, that is not discussed

Energy conservation has been discussed my entire life.

When I was a kid, it was things like double glazing, close windows, wear pullovers indoors, turn off lights when you leave a room, CFLs.

Late teen to young adult, increased loft insulation, cavity wall insulation. Energy efficiency standards for consumer goods. Cars getting taxed based on emissions.

More recently, a campaign group literally called "Insulate Britain": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulate_Britain_protests

> Fossil fuels have one that in the past

At first, but the last coal plant has been closed, and renewables are ascendent — just past midnight UK time and still 28.5% renewables, average for last week 33.6%, and for last year 36.8%: https://grid.iamkate.com/
I don't use anything else. This seems to work just fine.
> We are witnessing the greatest theft of intellectual property in the history of Man.

Issue is that this has been going on for decades. We've been really bad at allocating capital to people who are building important and highly influential software. These big companies do play a role, but it is a shame that a small portion of these profits does not go back to the people who did work that is cornerstone to their success. I often wonder what the world would look like if being an open source developer was actually profitable. But we definitely know what the world looks like when being a open source developer essentially means having two full time jobs and getting paid for one.

I think the problem is people see it as "charity" and see charity work as less valuable. I remember Steve Levitt talking about a conversation he had with Bill Gates over this. I think it was in the PIMA episode where they discuss CEO pay for charities and how their pay is far less than that of a corporation, even if the work is the same.
> Why automatic transmissions had to be invented?

To be honest, this is interest question.

May be better to look from other side - why manual transmission appear?

- For people, most natural way to drive was horse racing style - use whip or spur on to start or to run faster; draw rein to slower or to stop; pull right (left) to turn right (left).

Machines with automatic transmission use gas pedal to run faster, and brake pedal to slower, this behavior is more close to horse control than manual transmission.

Manual transmission appear on most machines, because it is simpler than automatic and cheaper, but automatic is more ergonomic (more natural).

Some machines are only automatic, usually for some reason. For example, some trucks have automatic transmission, because it have special safety measures, so one could not broke it if just accelerate to much. For passenger car, usually auto transmission is just for more comfort.
I was thinking that the article addresses the general, overall, technical aspects of a DNSSEC-less internet, that by its absence of any mention of email difficulty, that would address the question. That was my thinking.
This reminds me of the recent reading of "Inside Macintosh" on archive.org. I really hope they produce similar paper documentations nowadays. I'd love to hold a dictionary of obscure Mac internal knowledge.
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> Intuit gives money to representatives

No they don't. Corporations can't give money to representatives. That's exactly why I just said OpenSecrets is misleading.
Between the Taiwan Strait and China's aggression in the South China Sea towards the Philippines, I'm not particularly inclined to accept their understanding of international maritime law.
>> The manufacturer, Unitree Robotics, attributed the incident to a "program setting or sensor error." Despite this explanation, the event has heightened ethical and safety concerns regarding the use of robots in public venues. The local community is calling for urgent measures to ensure that robots' actions align with social norms, emphasizing the need for regulatory and legal frameworks to govern robot-human interactions.

I did not think I’m going to see this in my lifetime after watching Animatrix
By all means, I am enjoying this.

For a very long time I wanted EU (and other parts of the world) to rid itself from US influence, that I consider to be malignant to progress. US always leveraged its power (both soft and hard) to its own benefit first and foremost.

What I never expected is that this would happen by the US itself shitting its own pants so hard. I am actually very optimistic that EU will be forced to step up its integration, and other economies will be forced to step up on trading among themselves (not only goods, but also knowledge, services and cooperation) to replace the vacuum left by the former all powerful ally.

Interesting times ahead.
I'm AB+ and try to donate plasma regularly. But in the city where I live there is a single place to donate and, frankly, the experience is not very pleasant. The center itself feels more like an abandoned warehouse than a medical facility and there is often some kind of tension in the air among the employees. There needs to be more convenient donation options.
What kind of bugs have you experienced or are you worried about? Backup software shouldn’t need to be frequently updated
I think in addition to that, he has learned that his behaviour is rewarded with unprecedented social and media exposure and share of the social consciousness, and when all everyone talks about is Trump, it in some way legitimizes whatever he says by nature of choking out everything else. This has basically only escalated based on everything he has done so far in his second term. Even if whatever he said is dumb and doesn't work or he is wrong, it doesn't matter because that story is buried under the stories covering the 10 other outrageous things he has said since. Whenever he says something absurd, he is inviting everyone to join him in his reality, and everyone hops in.

I think institutional trust is too low, the media cycle moves too fast and people are too divided for facts to matter much in this environment.
Quality has improved so much too, I tried it a few months ago at Demo Day and I’m blown away by how good it is now.
ECB being reliant on American cloud providers seems deeply problematic
Ah, but you're wrong. The "Nobel Prize" for Economics is actually not a literal Nobel Prize but one established by the Nobel committee after Alfred Nobel's death which has some distinctions making it different from the others.

But that's all just me being pedantic :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Econom...