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While building this social network called Disquiet mentioned in the post, I got to connect with over 100,000 people in the Korean startup scene. And yeah, I’ve noticed that most of us including me end up listening more to thought leaders. The people who are actually building real things don’t seem to share as much online. It really makes sense that I need to be intentional about our “information diet”
If you hit save too fast while a numeric dial control - like the sort used in the iOS Clock app for alarms - is still (barely) spinning.. it will happily just silently keep its old value.

This is easy to repro by spinning an alarm's minutes and hitting save before it's completely and utterly stopped.

This UI bug (?) has existed for as long as I can remember.
Subsequent president might realize that America might want allies, and if so they'll attempt to appear reliable.

Current administration is fast tracking nuclear prolifiacian. A future president might want to stop such trends.
Part of the reason is that the Rennaisance scholars had high regard for the Romans, and that passed along to the modern age. Much that was created since then, for example some Shakespeare plays and English rhetoric, was influenced by the Romans.

> Classics such as Marcus Aurelius have arguably been co-opted into the alt-right pipeline.

What else from Rome (or Greece) is used this way? Is this related to why some SV leaders embrace the Stoics?
The list I linked shows several places with rates worse than Japan, including Italy. Then there are places like Spain with rates that are about equal. Then there are countries that are barely better, like Greece.

I'm not sure where you're getting "substantially higher" from.
Real GDP per capita growth for US vs UK was almost identical until 2008. The last 3 years have been terrible for the UK, but if you're looking for the start of UK's stagnation you have to go much farther back than Brexit.
Can humans generate a song based on custom lyrics and style in a matter of minutes?
I have enormous respect for Penrose and that is a very dramatic intro but I think he's venturing a little to far into philosophy for not having a specialist background.

Godel himself had his quirky beliefs about the topic which Penrose seems to just be transmitting.

Godel believed that humans had a trans-computational understanding because people could see through the incompleteness theorem but a computer cannot. Hence people have some transcendental (for lack of a better word) cognitive grasp.

I think Heidegger is a better source to draw from, and who also is a philosopher with a proven track record for influencing AI substantially (through Dreyfus, Winograd, et al). These models have no true being, they don't care about anything, they don't wake up and aim towards anything. They have no true embodied, embedded, purposeful existence. This is really what Penrose means by being "conscious."
I must day I would never think an app like this would ever be this popular.

Must be real crazy genius somehow to come up with these ideas.
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That works great, so long as you don't have any malicious actors interested in the treasure trove of data you've amassed.

It's kind of like how in physical systems, if you kill all the predators in a few square km it leaves a void where any predator capable of evading your traps is able to prosper far more than you could have imagined, requiring intense efforts to actually secure whatever it is you were protecting.

If you create an environment that's attractive to predators (giant pools of interconnected, personal data and a system designed around access to that data being equivalent to being the person in question), so long as there are predators you can expect them to infiltrate that system unless you apply extremely costly countermeasures.

Rather than in-housing the identity verification (and allowing DOGE et all to slurp that up), I'd rather ban that sort of thing altogether and take out the private sector alternatives at the same time.

If we really think that's not possible, a centralized implementation is usually preferable (e.g., why do I need to provide more information and photos to id.me than I ever did to the IRS when all I'm trying to do is access my tax data, and why do the new terms of service strongly suggest that my personal information is being used for reasons far beyond identity verification). I don't think that's required for most of the identity-related concerns I've seen the last few years though.
New feature request: support for nix flakes...
"Moreover, a lot of other countries will totally provide "lethal aid" and intelligence to China, if it needs it, in hopes of taking the hegemon down a few pegs."

This seems...not true. The Phillipines especially would like a word. Most of China's neighbors are begging for more American Hegemony (America is just not good at it anymore). China's industrial prowess is clear, but it's also true that. China (esp the CCP) has a lot more to lose from a direct confrontation with America. America could lose a president, China will lose a whole regime.
Like https://govwayback.com/? It enables trivial access to everything as archived before the current admin took office.
It's for people who, for whatever reason, don't want to pay for the OS. They need to put something on there, so they went with something very simple and free where there's no chance of having to support it.
Not to deny that, but it didn't (for example) break the Secure Enclave. Key exfiltration didn't happen AFAIK.
It's unclear what point you're making with reference to the blanket ban on onshore wind. I wouldn't like to see turbines on Cerne Abbas or Dartmoor. Nobody wants that, as far as I'm aware?

I would like to see more of them on the generic grass/wheat/rape fields that cover much of England. That was prevented by the blanket ban.
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# Comparison of Power Generation Options

## Upfront Capital Cost
- *Nuclear*: Very high (£4,000-6,000/kW), with 10+ year construction time
- *Natural Gas (CCGT)*: Low to moderate (£500-1,000/kW), with 2-3 year construction time
- *Wind + Battery*: Moderate for turbines (£1,000-1,500/kW) plus substantial battery costs
- *Solar + Battery*: Moderate for panels (£800-1,200/kW) plus large battery costs, especially for winter

## Plant Lifespan
- *Nuclear*: Typically 60 years, with possible extensions; 2+ builds over 100 years
- *Natural Gas*: 25-30 years; requires 3-4 rebuilds over 100 years
- *Wind + Battery*: 25 years for turbines, 10-15 years for batteries; multiple replacements needed
- *Solar + Battery*: 25-30 years for panels (with declining output), 10-15 years for batteries

## Fuel & Operating Costs
- *Nuclear*: Low fuel cost, high operating cost (staffing, maintenance, safety)
- *Natural Gas*: Major cost is fuel (price volatility), plus potential carbon costs
- *Wind + Battery*: No fuel cost, moderate turbine O&M, plus battery replacement costs
- *Solar + Battery*: No fuel cost, low panel O&M, plus battery replacement costs

## Levelized Cost (No subsidies)
- *Nuclear*: £90-120/MWh
- *Natural Gas*: £50-60/MWh (without carbon cost), £100+/MWh with high carbon prices
- *Wind + Battery*: Base wind £40-50/MWh, potentially exceeding £100-150/MWh with storage for 90% CF
- *Solar + Battery*: Base solar £40-50/MWh, potentially exceeding £150-200/MWh with storage

## Reliability / Capacity Factor
- *Nuclear*: ~90% capacity factor, suited for baseload
- *Natural Gas*: 80-90% if run as baseload, highly flexible
- *Wind + Battery*: 35-50% raw CF for wind alone, requires battery + overbuild for 90% CF
- *Solar + Battery*: 10-15% raw CF in UK, requires massive overbuild and storage for 90% CF

## Key Advantages
- *Nuclear*: High-capacity 24/7 baseload, low CO₂, stable long-term output
- *Natural Gas*: Low upfront capital, flexible/dispatchable, mature technology
- *Wind + Battery*: Carbon-free, potentially low marginal wind cost, lower price volatility
- *Solar + Battery*: Carbon-free, low operating costs, suitable for distributed generation

## Key Drawbacks
- *Nuclear*: Expensive upfront, complex construction, decommissioning burden
- *Natural Gas*: Volatile fuel costs, CO₂ emissions unless carbon capture added
- *Wind + Battery*: High cost for baseload reliability, weather-dependent, multiple battery replacements
- *Solar + Battery*: Very high overbuild and storage needs for 90% CF, seasonal variation
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Why would I want that as a worker? I am already "overexposed" to the fortunes of my employer by virtue of being employed by it. If my employer does well then I get paid better, get a bonus, etc. If my employer does poorly then I risk being laid off.

Why would I want to invest in that risk when I have relatively little control over the success of the business, as opposed to investing the same amount of wealth in the market more generally or in assets that counter some of that risk?

Also, generally, why should employees automatically get some part of the company? What have they done to deserve it?
I would kill for Rust to spend some time figuring out what the ownership rule should be when I get the ownership wrong - compile cycles are cheap and inexpensive compared to me sitting & trying different approaches or running an LLM to try to help me figure it out (hint: they largely fail miserably and cause me to waste more time). I was fighting one function in my codebase and couldn’t figure out how to get the compiler to be happy despite me seemingly having a correct definition, so I just broke down and won the impasse by using unsafe which isn’t what I wanted to do. I know it sometimes recommends, but not in all cases and not in this particular case.

Another thing I’ll point out is that TypeScript does full program inference and while type checking performance is a huge problem, it does a pretty good job. That obviously doesn’t necessarily map to Rust and the problem domain it’s solving (& maybe TS codebases naturally are smaller than Rust) but just putting that out there. Rust has made certain opinionated choices but that doesn’t mean that other choices weren’t equally valid and available. SemVer is easily solvable - don’t allow inference for pub APIs exported from the crate which also neatly largely solves the locality issue.
that's just your opinion.
That is how literally everything in a market gets priced. When you buy an X, the price of it naturally trends to match the most expensive X that will be sold. In this case X is a watt of energy. But you can substitute any good or service.
Interesting that it matches what I see as the flip from rights-based to might makes right world

If you have the nukes why suffer weaker countries?

If you depend on Canada for oil why even have a Canada ?

If you have to pay to defend Taiwan for their chips bring the chips over, leave Taiwan outside

Why should Panama have a say in global trade ?
The discrepancy is easy to explain; Frank Herbert never owned a copy of Seven Pillars but was instead inspired by a manuscript of desert adventures that he’d found on a train as a boy whilst holidaying in the UK.
You like this rule being broken? Great, good for you.

What about the other rules? The ones protecting you and the country? Is due process not valuable any more? What protects us from people with bad or selfish intentions?
Perfect in what sense? Kickstarter is useful if you're thinking of doing something capital-intensive and need money and customers beforehand. This comes with downsides: deadlines, shipping, cranky customers, etc.

This is a hobby project and there's nothing to suggest that the author wants to get in the business of selling toasters for a living... or that it would be wise for them to do so.
I don't think it matters as long as Trump and others grab power hard enough. There still are lots of tools still available on the table to make voting against Republicans harder in the elections. A recent example: https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/trump-postal-servic...
> I can see elections results being regularly considered illegitimate.

You think we’ll still have elections?
I have found the Pilot Kakuno (about ¥1000, so inexpensive) - just IMO, - pilot ink is very easy flowing, the nibs are great for my writing style, pull off cap not screw, so much easier and readier to use, easy to clean.
I work in the UK health service which is not a good place for stationery lovers.
The funniest thing for me is that on a Mac you can use EMacs-style motion commands (^A, ^E, ^K, etc) just about anywhere you enter text. No suck luck on Linux which requires using Windows's braindead Home/End buttons outside of the terminal.
saying it can be explained <<< actually explaining it
> Is it a given that the US would come to Tawian's defence now

In practice, probably yes, officially probably maybe. Giving a security guarantee would allow Taiwan to do provocative things, so hence, why there isn't a formal one.

If it actually came to be today, I guess the US would at-least offer token support. To (a) embargo China, (b) ensure chip facilities Taiwan aren't surrendered intact.

Both of which doesn't require winning a conflict, just making it painful.
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Anyone with ears can find music satisfying. You don't need an artist's backstory or blessing for that. By all means use slow AI to get the same point fast AI can get to, but don't ask me to value it differently.
> Taiwan is under the administration of the government which ruled China

Both consider themselves the temporarily embarrassed rightful heir to the centuries old concept of China.

The distinction between take/retake in this scenario is a shallow attempt to peacock your political opinion for everyone to see.
My issue, macOS:

Use Notes and enable pop-up from the corner of the screen.

I've been unable to select the Note that pops up from the corner, without creating a New note. Then only that new one pops up.
Plenty of room to grow
In your experience how often have you had template builds succeed but then fail at apply time? This kind of issue is what I find most frustrating about IaC today, your 'code' 'compiling' means nothing because all of the validations are serverside, and sometimes you won't find out something's wrong until Terraform is already half done applying. I want to be able to declare my infrastructure, be able to fully validate it offline, and have it work first try when I apply it.
All those people who voted for Trump because they hated high prices and inflation are about to get a very harsh wake-up call.
Yeah, that's the problem eh? Both for the OP's projection, but also identifies the element that most centrist/technocratic political parties are missing.

You need to address the nativist tendencies in your country. You can't just bulldoze through them.

You need to address the wealth inequality.

And yes, I think you -are- allowed some degree of "clawback", especially if it helps address the other two issues. I think America specifically is allowed some degree of "clawback" (for example, a reduction or drawdown of military support to Europe).

For a country to be just to its own citizens, it does need to respect the citizen body's wishes about immigration (though it can also choose to attempt to shape those views to some degree). And it does need to address wealth inequality. And it -should- prioritize the welfare of its own citizen to those of its allies and trading partners (at least at a 1:1 basis).
> If immigrants were, by and large, able to acculturate well, there would be much less anti-immigration sentiment.

What? This isn't remotely true. Anti-immigrant sentiment is deliberately induced, because they're an easy target—it has nothing to do with how well they do or don't acculturate. Although, anti-immigrant sentiment does make acculturation more difficult as well—which hey, makes it even easier to inflame anti-immigrant sentiment!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chd0o8vIk6I

Can you learn to dance well from those games? I've overlooked them as girl games and Wii JD was meh. If it's good on Kinect I may as well learn something. Gathering dust.
Thanks for the good resources and comments, I’ll definitely check them out!
That’s a thought-provoking point. Sometimes I feel like I push myself too hard in the process of building stuff.
The other big insight here is that often making 50 doesn't cost much more than making 1, as much of the cost will be in programming and setup charges, not actually running the part. Sheet steel is pretty cheap, too.
Thanks for the interesting link! I’ve got to take a look at it
If this is true, why don’t we see the administration ordering the pages restored?
This is an approach I’ve never thought about before. Studying board games could definitely teach me how to design games in a simple and effective way. I’ll check out the board games you mentioned too, thanks!
Top 5 purchasers of U.S. goods exports (2022)
“The top five purchasers of U.S. goods exports in 2022 were: Canada ($356.5 billion), Mexico ($324.3 billion), China ($150.4 billion), Japan ($80.2 billion), and the United Kingdom ($76.2 billion). U.S. goods exports to the European Union 27 were $350.8 billion.”
The ambiguity of such questions drove me up the wall as a child.

My mother has a story about how I would ask about future events as "the day after the day after the day after the day after the day after today", which in my mind was much clearer than "in X days" why it wasn't clear how rounding occurred.

Clearly, this set me up for a career involving off-by-one errors.
It works as long as you have an economy and eyes to see it worked with her policies in place and didn't work before she was elected.

The Tories benefited massively from Thatcher because her policies massively benefited Britain. Without them, Britain would be far poorer today. Britain's problems today are not because of too much Thatcherism but because of far too little. The areas of greatest concern are those areas that they didn't manage to do much with, like local planning.

The idea of the market building housing only works if the market is allowed to do so. It isn't. That isn't a problem with the idea of the market building houses - it manages to do everything else in the economy just fine - but with planning laws.
Ya they are competing hard. They are core Apple Value.
They would be technically acceptable yet they would feel exceptional
Yep, fixing bugs/performance is just not valued by big companies

No one gets promoted doing it
Similar boat. I've read about Idris (and been 'shown the door' enough times) and I love the idea of it, but sadly I haven't yet had any reason to use it.
See the comment above about the intellectual faculties of people who think like you do. We had to hightail out of Afghanistan. What on earth makes you believe that we could win against a peer adversary, let alone do so without a draft or millions of body bags?
>the last time I smoked it the trip came on then it told me "don't ever come back here" and that was it.

This is absolutely chilling because this was exactly how I told myself to "quit," 20 years ago, after only my third time smoking Salvia. *Specifically: "it told me:" because IT is YOU, which you're entirely unaware of [disassociation] while experiencing an intense few minutes of horror/wisdom/input as a bodyless spirit.

Thanks for sharing.
Ireland was also not in Schengen. And still isn't due to being bound to the CTA with the UK in the good Friday agreement. Cyprus also. And Romania and Bulgaria weren't in it until last year.
from a non-economic standpoint it was just as stupid, the idea of "taking back control" is predicated on the concept that the UK was forced to accept rules imposed by others and would be free to stop doing that.

But the UK had substantial influence on those, and it no longer does, while still having to follow them to be able to do business with the EU.

And indeed, the UK has not really diverged from the EU in the last 8 years and voted a new government that wants to tighten the relationship.

It was a generic protest vote "I don't like how things are going and I was happier when I was young". I can empathize, but it was still self-inflicted harm.
China is huge, huge things don't do subtlety well over any long timeframe. It is hard enough to get people to do move in sync with clear communications, let alone when there are confusing signals.

If China says they want control of Taiwan, the base scenario is they are serious. The only thing holding them back is how expensive it is to execute on that want. Although since the action is off the Chinese coast and China appears to be stronger than the US right now I don't see how this ends well for Taiwan.
Fewer QA means more $100,000 bonuses to overworked Apple devs (2nd hand experience).
Fair point. I only worry that trump might decide to play them both ways.. extort investments for protection, then reneg the help unilaterally on a whim.
Or this 2021 one: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.07361
During your "reboot," which parts of you did you decide to let go of / "change"?

I agree that the intensity / experience was enough to only try a few times (3x myself).