> The AI IPOs
To be clear, the Space X prospectus seems to claim it IS an AI IPO.
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To be clear, the Space X prospectus seems to claim it IS an AI IPO.
It is NOT cheap ($1300 min spec) but it's also quite a bit more powerful and with better ports (full size HDMI and Ethernet). It's not for everyone, but it blows my mind how little competition it has given how useful its been for me over the years.
It is, however, an expensive fucking device. $2300 maxed out these days (which I think is $800ish more than i paid. Hurray ram...) or $1400 min specs (which are still quite nice).
I'm glad to see other options at that size (Pocket 4 is 8.8", but my second screen is 10") but a literal quarter of the cost. 80% of what I do on the pocket could be done something like this Minibook, and I don't give a shit if the keyboard/mouse sucks because I've got my own anyways so long as I can tent it.
There will be those days where I might need to do some local heavy lifting and regret not having the Pocket, but I'm also happy to know if it dies on me tomorrow I've got options that aren't shell out another $1k for a tool mostly used for coding.
We either design with human nature in mind or accept that things will degrade.
There might be some level of adoption where they would, but honestly we're back to "but what about trains/trucks?".
Half the problem with evacuations is people don't want to leave behind their stuff to get destroyed. You'd basically be better off getting a fleet of semi's with some quick and dirty cube system thrown up than a bunch of automated sedans.
Not really a criticism but an interesting point that you would never expect a human to make that mistake even in a bad drawing.
The "quality" headlines aren't the one the average person is reading. It's even worse in climate discussions. Fuck "An Inconvenient Truth" was probably the largest exposure to climate issues for my generation and is STILL a problem because a some claims were made that, oops, even then were called vast exaggerations by the IPCCS. No snow on Fuji within a decade comes to mind, which basically nothing but the most extreme models predicted. Well it's a decade later and to the layman, there's still snow on the mountain. It's at some of it's worst levels EVER, but when you make bold and verifiable claims and then go "oh well you see actually..." you lose people.
Even worse are the "THIS TERRIBLE THING WILL HAPPEN!...in 100 years". That's still fucking awful, but when the layman has been reading the first part for over a decade now, or ever hears the second part, it often just loses their attention entirely. Climate science trying to get real change needs to manage expectations, but media is mostly about grabbing attention. It's obvious how at odds those goals are.
They’ve blown their attention budget for the layman and aren’t getting it back unless someone serious guides their attention.
Eh nostalgia/survivorship bias. Not saying that you're wrong about the shift to shoving it out door for a PM, but "nerd who is adamant THEIR layout is the only one" wasn't exactly the heyday of software design either.
I'm still of the opinion most people should get more comfortable with layers and smaller keyboards, but I've also met the linux nerds who swear the world NEEDS insert.
Personal emails? These aren't the kind of people to blog.
If you want a brief summary they, like many, feel this whole thing is a farce due to how the project has be designed and spec'd. I think smarter every day did a wonderful youtube video comparing what kind of documentation and planning they had for the past launches, and how it sure as shit doesn't look like they're anywhere near that right now (he's much nicer about it). NASA is doing their best, but the simple truth is the actual "landing" plan feels like it vomited out by a bunch a suits who don't understand reality and wanted headlines.
A decent anecdote from the discussion that summarizes feelings:
One of them got to spend a week in Cape Kennedy due to winning an Essay contest and met Frank Borman. To quote him
> The topic of the essay was, What is man's future in space?
> I believe that, had I written, 55 years from now we will beat the Chinese to the Moon, I would not have won.
Datacenters might not be as potentially destructive, but they're also a massive net negative for the community in many real world ways. If you want them to "maximize gains", then the answer is "tax them more" which, shockingly, turns into a functional ban because somewhere else is taxing them less.
There are negative things to observe about this project. They should not be ignored
"Just parent" isn't easy in an age of large numbers of families having to both work and kids having a computer in their hands at all times.
The "please don't say you're 18 if you aren't" standard has NEVER applied for anything else flagged as adult. If you sell products or allow services to a minor without doing proper checks YOU are responsible as the company if it's found to negligent, to the point you can lose your license.
The thing is, you also don't fucking store every single ID you've ever looked at because that's insane, or if you do, you do it for very short periods of time. If a kid gets a fake ID, fine, that's on the kid so long as the company is doing their best.
It's why an "adult mode" local cred on the machine is probably reasonable? If the kid gets a fake cred, fine, that's on the parents, but at least sites can automatically look for the cred and if not provided just bounce.
As it is ALL the onus is on the family, and there's a fuckload of preying on children (especially economically) that's not supposed to be remotely legal that we've just kicked open the doors to because its "hard" to solve.
It seems to me that the "logical" solution to this is some sort of local key like "sudo" that the user enters/has access to. This key is on a cookie or request or something that says "This request is being done by a verified adult" and then the website goes "cool here's your data". If the request does not have it, then the website says "Sorry you need one of these keys/permissions to access".
I see this as elegant because like modern IDs, YES THEY COULD GET AROUND IT, but at least it gives parents and users who want to abide and try the ability. Kids get fake id's, they get stuff they shouldn't. So long as audits show that the businesses are trying to catch this and punishing those who ignore procedures properly, things are "fine".
How infeasible is this from a coding perspective? I get that we're fucking with standards here, but I figured it would make most sane users and companies happy. Companies don't have to keep PII, just a log of "yes this access from this IP was approved, but we discovered is was used falsely and banned that key", and users have a tool that's setup once locally (or refreshed when you want a new key).
I guess you'd need some way to authenticate these as if it's too easy to spoof whats the point, but it strikes me as leagues better of "store everyone's colonic map"
How off base am I here? Is the theory somewhat sound or is this just dead from the ground up?
It’s only in the post climate change world that some are coming around to the reality that France exists and isn’t a smoking radioactive crater.
Economically, diplomatically, strategically, and environmentally probably the dumbest decision they could have made and something they will continue to feel repercussions from for at least another decade.
It’s not as loud as Brexit or Trump but likely equally as damaging to so many causes across the board.
The only silver lining from this monumental fuck up is that since sadly we only learn when consequences occur, they’re finally having to face the music and will hopefully plan for a better future.
Yes there are lots of people who use what they learn to justify shit positions but personally I started learning all these things because in any other endeavor you want to take seriously you learn everything you can about it.
The number of people who mean well but then just try to hope their way through stuff and relearn the same basic principles is sadly much too high.
Hell it doesn’t even have to revolve around moral/societal principles. The number of games I’ve seen that could’ve done better if they understood marketing, business, or even basic competitive balance better (even if so you can make your party game more fun) is huge.
But then again we’ve got this generation speed running “why finance laws and institutions exist” thanks to crypto. I guess the silver lining is people do learn a lot more once they’ve had personal experience with it.
I have 0 cred in anything security, so maybe i'm just missing a bigger picture thing, but like...if you told me i had to make some sort of malicious NPM package and get people to use it, i'd probably just find something that works, copy the code, put in some stylistic changes, and then bury my malicious code in there?
This seems so obvious that I question if the OP is correct in stating people aren't looking for that, or maybe I misunderstand what they mean because i'm ignorant?
Having the entire internet function on a “pay or be nuked” threshold that could easily get much worse if companies like cloudflare become less ethical (not that they’re saints).
Hell I've even worked on a couple of revision on "gaming" layers. Namely for FPS or older roguelikes.
I hate how hard it is to find a split space(feels mandatory now that i'm used to it) 40% with wireless and QMK/Zia/etc. The EPOMAKER-TH40 SHOULD be perfect, but turns out they put out a breaking patch or something and it's not ACTUALLY programmable anymore. I need something like this for 2 setups at homes.
I went around on a couple of things and landed on the split 4x5 Chiri CE for my everyday workhorse since it's easy to carry.
https://keeb.io/products/chiri-ce-keyboard-kit?variant=41088...
Of note, while that board seems to be out of stock and isn't for everyone i cannot recommend keeb.io enough. They've done a fantastic job of keeping my board running after I had some ESD ruin it once or twice, and have never charged me as it was still under warranty.
With how hit or miss a lot of this niche keyboard stuff is, it's really really nice to find people who stand by their product and can turn things around. I get its got to be a miserable market so I don't demand it, and I'm extremely happy when I do see it.
To be clear you're misunderstanding the position though. Black pawns are NOT in starting position. They've moved all the way across the board. Those are white pawn starting positions.
Assume all pawns are queens, then maximize queen moves, work backwards from there. Couple of other "obvious" assumptions such as minimal black pieces, which means shoving the king in a corner but somehow not in check, Rooks cover the next largest amount of space so they're going in corners, bishops will be mirrored, etc.
Not to say it isn't still impressive, but I always wonder how many "sane" positions there are for solving a puzzle like this in the first place. The paper quotes some huge number and someone else says it's a smaller, but still massive, number, but when you look at the stated goal and start from some obvious starting points, start working out rules (obviously 4 queens right in the middle blocks other queens and costs space), and eliminate symmetrical positions, well you're left with a decently solvable problem. At least compared to the kind of shit that's usually brute force solved.
Edit:
This is actually a fun one to think about for a bit the more I look at it.
It quickly becomes apparent that your basically getting 7 moves out a of a rank/column MAX, so you maximize for that first.
It quickly becomes apparent that the knights L move shape is also the optimal way to start tiling your 9 queens to maximize for squares taken.
As I said before the black position obviously has to be the dead minimum, and it makes sense that'd be a king and 2 pawns due to various end game stuff (basically impossible to prevent the king from being in check otherwise while taking up as much space as possible).
Once you know you're doing that with the black king you'll want to "block" the remaining space with pieces that can't threaten it, so you shove a bishop adjacent (which can still take the pawn), and figure you're going to mirror that bishop because that's kinda how bishop's work in play/mathematically.
It's actually quite neat to see how each step sorta leads you to the next one, like one of those metal puzzles or the sudoku's with unique rules and only 1 or 2 starting numbers.
Still i'm positive if I hadn't seen this picture first I probably NEVER would've gotten this answer correct, but I do think i would've come closer than I ever expected.
Edit 2:
Ahh i do see they have at least one or two solutions that are 218 where there's only 2 black pieces. I'm somewhat surprised that's a possible legal position but so be it. Interesting that still leads to the same net realestate. Thats the one area i'd expect to gain something if you could cheat.
Winning a case is one thing, as they can find other reasons to come back.
Losing, and saying "but we were already punished, you got what you want" is such a barrier to EVER putting any sort of realistic reigns on them. They might as well just bury antitrust now and stop pretending.