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Oh yeah. A key hindrance of F# is that MS treats it like a side project even though it's probably their secret weapon, and a lot of the adopters are dotnet coders who already know the basics so the on-boarding is less than ideal.

https://fsharp.org/ is the best place to actually start, although i'm guessing you did and went to the hello world which leads back to ms's nightmares.

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/ is the standard recommendation from there but there's finally some good youtube and other content out there.

They have a browser repl as well https://try.fsharp.org/

And sometimes the company is succeeding in spite of you and the moment you're out the door and people aren't worried about losing their job over arbitrary metrics they can finally show off what they're really capable of.

Looks interesting. I'm a huge fan of F# and think anything working in that hybridish space is the way to go. I'll have to dedicate some more time to this when I get a moment.

> He'd lose the restrictive governance model and gain full-control.

He'd lose the dataset, which is by far the most valuable thing they have. The genie is out of the bottle and making such a dataset again is not going to be easy or cheap (or maybe even legal).

I'd say the biggest change is the quantity of available CATEGORIZED data. Tagged images and what not has done a ton to help the field.

Further there are some hybrid chips which might help increase computing power specifically for the matrix math that all these systems work on.

But yeah, none of this is making what people talk about when they say AGI. Just like how some tech cult people felt that Level 5 self driving was around the corner, even with all the evidence to the contrary.

The self driving we have (or really, assisted cruise control) IS impressive, and leagues ahead of what we could do even a decade or two ago, but the gulf between that, and the goal, is similar to GPT and AGI in my eyes.

There are a lot of fundamental problems we still don't have answers to. We've just gotten a lot better at doing what we already did, and getting more conformity on how.

My money, based on my hobby knowledge and talking to a few people in the field, is on "no fucking way".

Maybe he believes his own hype or is like that guy who thought ChatGPT was alive.

Maybe he's legit to be worried and has good reason to know he's on the corporate manhattan project.

Honestly though...if they were even that close I would find it super hard to believe that we wouldn't have the DoD shutting down EVERYTHING from the public and taking it over from there. Like if someone had just stumbled onto nuclear fission it wouldn't have just sat in the public sector. It'd still be a top secret thing (at least certain details).

I mean, I don't disagree, but this is still an enforcement issue. Society still isn't really sure how to easily prosecute these massive companies without also kicking open the doors to some concerning behavior.

It's also worth mentioning that such activities are generally illegal. The issue is more the enforcement of the laws than it is the laws themselves.

Thank you. I really can't find words to explain how baffling this whole thing feels. "Integers aren't just positive" strikes me as a similar title, and the tone isn't "hey other people without a background, I think something clicked for me" so much as "ahhh i've found something they missed!"

You have very different definitions of "the public" and I promise you that yours is a hell of a lot smaller.

People who are aware of who Justice Thomas even IS would still be a vastly smaller circle than the number of people who would be affected and have very strong opinions on a US default (although not until it happens).

Yep. Maybe when this started it was theater, but more and more i'm wondering if we've got enough idiots who think they stand to gain from something like this. It won't be some shadowy cabal of actors trying to overthrow things, it'll just be a bunch of headline hunting lunatics who can't think past the next hour.

In the time it would've taken IT to get that done, if it wasn't wiped already, the issue was fixed.

Once again proving that Monday is "whenever you push to production"

I do. My work machine I just got upgraded and haven't cloned anything down yet.

Ironic really. All my work code is unreachable. My hobby code I also have on my personal one drive, so I guess it's a skills brush up day.

Already said it to vert, but just wanted to say I wish you luck. Onlink was tapping into a niche that I think is super under explored and you clearly understood what was actually fun about it.

Holy shit i'm super excited to hear that. I remember joining the forums (ferrous moon?) forever ago just to see if I could get help with some bugs and figure out how to get past the harder hacking missions.

From there when the game only sorta worked for me I figured "well someone else has to have made a quality movie hacking simulator" and the answer was "not really no". It seemed really clear that Onlink really understood what made these things fun, and gave them depth, so I hope you can pull it off.

This game has a couple of interesting notes for me:

1. It's kinda what helped me find a career. I had trouble tolerating work for long enough, and while I could do it, it would get to me. I realized a LOT of the play patterns in this game are mostly optimization and data entry, so decided to take a start there and eventually wound up in tech.

2. It has a really cool, if possibly impossible to now play, fan made version called onlink. To memory it's not a mod so much as a separate application and has a lot more depth (annnnd unfortunately bugs). I know they were working on trying to make a standalone "movie hacking" simulator, but I don't know if that ever got off the ground (Cerberus I believe)

Libro.fm can also have drm free audio books. I ditched my kindle for a pocketbook era (yay speakers) and am just so done with any storefront that doesn't let me own things I buy.

Mostly seconded. Another upside is this really does put a much larger cost to bots and problem accounts. Even $1 a year is a big deal if you've got an army of 5000 bot accounts (something pretty trivial in this environment).

I'm all for things like Kagi doing this RIGHT and supposedly not selling all my data, but I've argued that companies like twitter charging for access is the path to a healthier environment.

Oh and to add, earlier this year I would've bet money that if Musk started charging, it'd be WAY more. $1 a year is a very smart starting point for a whole slew of reasons, and will let them tier out their services.

So not a ton that's that surprising as someone who's been following this, but this was something special:

> Ellison testified how colleagues at Alameda set up accounts on the Chinese exchange tied to the identities of Thai prostitutes, hoping they could somehow use those accounts to siphon the money away from the frozen account.

A comparison like this from any trained statistician would be treated as borderline fraud, and is akin to the "we proved cigarettes are safe to smoke" studies done in the 50-60's.

So to be clear, this is not a "flaw". This is a catastrophic, wrong from the get go, not mentioned and no effort made to control for, failure.

Deliberately misrepresenting data, or in the most charitable case, by sheer mass incompetence, when it involves the safety of people is never ok.

This is a bad faith comparison not using apples to apples. Humans drive in all sorts of conditions that self driving cars flat out don't, and this data doesn't control for that at all.

Ehh...kinda?

For the most part, it's because they were cheating the government and skimming funds for illegal businesses and laundering money and not paying taxes on it, not cheating the players (sorta kinda....again summarizing a lot.)

Cost and interface mostly. Also to some extent privacy issues.

Phones being $1000 is already an issue, and they're by default more robust. Glasses, assuming we can get them to a similar cost, are probably even more likely to be lost or broken. For comparison think of foldable smart phones, which exist, but are mostly seen as a trendy luxury item due to their durability issues.

The interface, I think is huge. Smart phones took off because apple figured out a good interface. People like to rip on them for just copying an idea that already existed and hadn't taken off, but they ignore that apple nailed the hell out of getting it so the average person could use it.

You need it to be clear, obvious, and responsive.

All the examples i've seen of these smart glasses (website isn't loading for me so I can't check this) are the sorts of things that nerdy people like me (typing on a cornish zen) would find fine, and will never be smooth enough for the average user, ESPECIALLY at current costs.

While things like the air pods pro have changed my opinion on the average user adopting tactile controls, I still think that voice activation and mostly reference-less tactile controls is NOT mass adoptable. And this is before we get into just the hassle of glasses (smudges and the like).

From what I can tell, these are basically just "headphones + camera" on your face. So it's not displaying anything, at which point this is like airpods with a camera. Is there a group of people who want that? Sure, this looks tailor made for luxury influences. Is that a use case for the average person? I don't think so.

Large difference between "i wasn't caught" and "they knew and still let me"

Vegas really is very well regulated. There are some extremely ugly sides to gambling, but if you're going to have it, vegas is a pretty good starting point for how to try and keep things under control.

There's no casino in town that will "look the other way" for a few 20 year olds who want to gamble, because doing it once could lose that operation it's gaming license.

There's no casino that's going to on purpose risk going above the 25% max hold, because again, you could lose the ENTIRE OPERATION.

The rules are rock solid (sorta....simplifying) and heavily enforced, and while at the end of the day all the machines give worse odds than the ATM, there's caps on what you can and can't do.

Somewhat ironically, I'm not sure if it's changed, but if a slot machine shows you a "pick 1 of 3" choice, it's never a real choice. The decision was made before you picked. Every "pull" of the lever determines your payout basically instantly, ALL the shenanigans after that (including free auto play games i believe) are just placebo/different ways of doing a jackpot.

I really wish the tiny whoop scene would take off more to lower the barrier to entry.

It's for extremely small drones (65-85mm from diagonal motor posts) which are great for flying indoors or in small areas.

The main issues being:

1. It's still very much a "hobby" hobby. You can get some ready to fly kits, but even then it can wind up more technical than you expect.

2. They're spec'd for the niche market, meaning quite powerful and very short fly times, which is a shame. One of my favorite drones is the Potensic A 20. A durdly little thing that can fly easily for 10 minutes on brushed motors, but it's not really built to last (or god forbid crash). I'd KILL for a "A20+" which is just low power brushed motors and nicer controls. It's on my todo list to see if i can cobble something together whenever I have real life time again.

To be clear, it's still pretty easy to get into. I have the beta cestus as a decent rtf kit, although beta has some battery connectors that sorta lock you in (they are supposedly better than others though and you can convert things...but there's the hobby part again), and there's been other half decent ready to fly kits over the years.

To add to other answers:

The enemy only has so many resources to target your resources. War has been, really for most of history, an economic struggle as much as a tactical one.

If they're planning an attack, they have to decide if the risk is worth the reward. They can't just magically hit all targets (or they can but that's because things go nuclear and hey, none of it really matters).

The more redundancies you have, the more likely you are to stop their attack, or to exhaust their ability to extend themselves. Given the absurd size of most road networks, that's a lot of potential targets to worry about, even if mostly undefended.

I suspect that's just an initial breakdown. They're estimating 4.2 to 8.4 million a day out of the 42 million they normally make, but that's just on the revenue side.

Equipment, man hours, botched projects, and lawsuits are going to push that number waaay higher, and even then I feel like it's got to be pretty low given the vast amount of money that passes through every day. On a 15% hold 42 million would work out to 280 billion of flow through the slots max (and obviously that's estimating high and assuming all revenue is from slots).

So 8 million a day is $53 billion in coin in that's not occurring? Maybe that's correct.

Doing quick napkin math so pardon any errors.