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if you read kernighan's book (he was there man) about the history of unix or whatever, it's quite a lovely read and talks a lot about the motivations and origins of unix, and hopefully some new unix tools for even the experienced unixbeard. anyway, if you read that book, it's quite clear that quite a bit of effort was made at bell labs for technology related to printing and typesetting. I think it is from this for example ken thompson was famous for being like "I'm going to rewrite this firmware" in the afternoon, and knowing nothing of the architecutre or anything, had a firmware by that evening. I mean that's pretty sick speed.

>Functional + universal data structure + homoiconic = power

>It everything used TSV or tabular data, But is not the case. With lisp you can always be sure.

basic unix kit is built around line-separated lines which are field-separated and you even get to choose your own separators and not get locked into tab. You can use this kitset, a common one, or other different kit. But with this kitset, yes, everything is indeed a table

Re: emacs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc&t=253s

It's possible to build the platform you describe but not possible to make significant progress. Joe User won't visit that site, boring! They'll visit the exciting dramasite for all the sweet gossip.

These site - twitter, facebook, etc... they aren't dividing humans per se by way of intent. They are black mirrors to human nature. The algorithms say, "human, what entices your attention?" "Drama!" "Fights" "Polarizing topics that people 50/50 disagree/agree on" . And so the algorithms delivered what the humans attention recommends - polarizing topics. And so we are now more polarized.

Because this is rooted in human nature, and you can't change human nature, the solution is something needs to be legislated. You can't ban free speech. You can't ban how long people spend online, also freedom, any more than you can ban gambling or alcohol or drug addiction. So then it comes down to something like recommendation algorithm ethics (hah! can you imagine? But why is that not a thing?!? we have an intense AI ethics community but that other AI that is the recommendation AIs that powers sites, it's all crickets as far as rules and ethics). Well, we all know why, money. But "medical ethics" while being a field is also legislated as to unethical medical practices lead to severe consequences, perhaps a "tech ethics" type field would help improve such algorithms, or "tethics" for short. Congress grilled Mark Cuckerburg for all the suicides his tech stack causing, I figure if we're talking literal deaths here maybe have a bit more regulation>?

The bay area is godawful in terms of expense, traffic, regulations "WHERES YOUR LOICENSE". Prop 13 means the new home buyer has 10-100x higher property taxes than their old home neighbor. Permitting madness means that in the santa cruz mountains, any construction is on essentially a permanent freeze. Even driving an old car, generally considered to be an "antique" if older than 25 years in the other 49 states, why in California there is no set time, it is a set year, 1976. So, according to classically rabidly insane california logic, in the year 3000, a 1,000 year old car would be "new" and not "antique"

the saving grace: whereas lane splitting (driving a motorcycle between two cars) is illegal in 49 states and grey-area in DC, it is outright totally legal in California.

Thusly those with interest and probably low anxiety and medium-high deathwish are exempted from traffic

Well that's part of the romance scam game, you don't want to seem too needy. The best romance scammers will play a little bit of "hard to get" and a little bit of "good cop bad cop" if you know what I mean. The aloofness that you describe here was not an accident.

One of the most romantic dalliances I ever did have was on the soft sand on the beaches of Italy, moonlight, red wine, the sand felt like velvet and silk rolled into one. I just think back on it and think to myself "let me brag about how great it was on the internet" 10/10 you missed out.

Just to add to this, I don't think we even need a physical button to trigger a photo. There should just be one big touchpad and screen like the tesla car. Speaking of, why does the tesla car have a steering wheel and gas pedal at all? these would be better served with the humble touchscreen. programmatic interfaces and such, a software update can completely revamp your gas peda.. i mean gasscreen

This way, with limited input, as I fumble with my camera my hamfists won't randomly press buttons, just as I fumble with my car hamfoot won't randomly press pedals. It's like all those little buttons and bobs were put there just to annoy me, it's awful.

Oh, and all these things needs to be "smart" everything "smart". Internet of things, wi-fi, bluetooth, redtooth, cloud connectivity. For the camera, the car, the dishwasher, the spoon, all of it. The internet of spoons. Touchscreen spoons.

When I was a war pilot this was common practice. Shut off radio. You'd know they were going to mess with you in creative and twisted ways. So much simpler to put it on mute. Usually works best in situations where radio silence is also a mission parameter

Yes. On my personal webistite I talk a lot about making forum posts -- things like typoes in what you enter into textboxes on websites, and also I had a bad habit if clicking "submit" to comments early so only a partial comment would go through. I had a blog that talked about these things and various solutions. Well lo and behold a small startup looking for a CTO comes in and decides to bring me in, actually turned out tha

Well the rightful answer is "it's complicated" DNA wise yes there are 3 billion bases and they sample about a million of them, so 1/3000 bases.

THing is about the bases

1. most of them are the same in everyone

2. the ones that are different tend to be correlated with each other locally and thus captured by their 1Mb assay

so

3. you can infer all the stuff they didn't sequence with pretty high confidence. Not a "in theory" but more like "has been a typical thing to do in the statistical genetics field for at least a decade"

4. outside of the genome there is the epigenome which may or may not be relevant, it undergoes very specific resets short after fertilization

also worth noting

5. bioinformatics is an imperfect and algorithm based science. Reads are aligned according to error and difference profiles (i.e. string mismatches and the most and least types of mismatches). So unless things are finely calibrated, a level of analysis most bioinformatics don't do, deeply study their read alignment penalties for particular data sets, even a robust bug-free read aligner correctly applying penalties will have bad alignments, false positives, false negatives

anyways I for one hope the futurepopele will clone me from the bytestream

Yea fo sho', and it was the Cray 3 supercomputer actually based on gallium arsenide at the time, meaning faaasssttt clock rates, about 6x faster than compeititors in terms of Hz. So that would be something like a 50 ghz processor today, wild

This so much. Anyone who has ever spent time having to be stuck at a Greyhound terminal in the south knows what true hell looks like. They are full of the sketchiest people of every city.

It's not the worst (i.e. a southern bus station), some parts of Chicago are the worst. It's just a god awful shitshow. I had a blast when I did it, yes there were crackheads, but you can make new friends with crackheads. There was a 'hood lady I made friends with and a sweet old foreigner grandma type visiting her kid... who didn't speak english.. so I helped her get there what with the 8 hour bus delay, which might be related to stations shutting down

Hah that's classic politics "Hello John Q. Public, here's all our data! It speaks for itself" John Q. Public: "Wow, you really improved last few years homicide-wise" "And so you see, a third party unrelated to us has just confirmed what a great job we're doing with simple empirical, evidence-based governance!"

So that means what you want to do is specialize in identifying bias in these datasets and finding the smoking gun. Such a task can be an ugly business but necessary for the public good, pushing data sharers to either share good data, or not share, but not share tricksy data in this unethical way.

There are rumors out there in the spacefaring community, wallpapered pretty heavily and media/google censored, regarding the astronaut responsible: https://www.newsweek.com/russia-could-take-legal-action-agai...

Basically the full workup describes her having a mental breakdown and just making life up there more and more miserable, saying "take me home or I'll escalate" followed by many cycles of not being taken home and escalating. It includes stealing/losing most tools and equipment and "losing them" to the vacuum of space, drilling holes in the space station, and let us diplomatically say... very poor hygiene related to human waste. The astronaut involved basically quit doing any work. Supposedly this ruined the station and basically assured that it be taken offline.

I was thinking D but also there is basically a superset of D and HighC that incorporates best of both worlds, some people here may know it, it's called "Holy C" and it was the basis for a new operating system in the same way C was tightly integrated with UNIX. Written by Saint Terry

exactly - refactor the monolith. What we do is refactor the monolith into microservices that we like to call "micro-monoliths". What you get is the agility of a microservice with the simplicity and lack of sync issues of a monolith. Monoliths are problematic because they are too large and unweildy; microservices are problematic because now you have 200 microservices to track and if one service node goes down it can trigger a cascading failure - we're talking complex distributed systems here. The solution is the micromonolith, a hybrid approach striking a balance between the two, best of both worlds.

>Those are all either answered in the README, answered in files linked from the README or not mentioned in the README/docs (like Netflix integration, playing files) so one can feel safe to assume it's not a feature if it's not listed as a feature.

Translation for those who can't read between the lines:

- it doesn't support media scanning

- the authors are going hard on not saying this outright. Figure the idea is more downloads from people aspiring to scan their media (who got duped), but then "fall in love" with the program when they see how great it is albeit unable to do what they wanted, scan media. 0/10 this is catfishing, be honest and listen to what the users want, a solution for media scanning. A meta-data organizer is useless without metadata! Which is what the scanner produces!

Father Ted opined on the concept quite extensively. It's hard to say whether the python "leaders" responsible for this are sociopaths or well-intentioned. If well intentioned the concept is to mold the community into an image of what is good and pure and right, to clip out impurities. Totally from the line of road to hell paved with good intentions. We see how this type of thinking goes - Pol Pot, Germany in the 1940s, and so on - the lesson is that it is wrong to try to mold a person or a society so forcefully, no matter how sweet the ideal. Secondly along the lines of Father Ted, it's increased likelihood at higher levels of seniorities that these are simply sociopaths who use the veil of "good" and kudgel of white guilt to leverage as much power as possible for themselves. Knocking out a scapegoat or two helps establish their power to grant or deny the future of absolutely anyone, basically a low key reign of terror. Sad to see any organization go that way but especially sad in an organization thinking itself to be for the common good.

ironic in some way?

>we want to detect plastic

>microplastics bad

>we built an open source masheen to detect evil plastic

>why yes, to build it you must unleash the amazing power of plastic

JPEG XL is a great name from a marketing perspective. The Apple roadmap has several successor compressors with AI elements in the planning sheet - JPEG XL PLUS, JPEG XL MAX. These formats will have small nominal yearly licensing fees to use. Finally, the most advanced format will be JPEG XXXL which they are developing in collaboration with pornhub.

>This forms the basis for arguments that additional regulation of high-risk biological research is unnecessary >such research just killed ~30M people. It was a lab leak.. I should know. The Chinese government has admitted it in secret and let's say they have made agreements to make affected nations whole, behind closed doors and with diplomacy. This in turn has trickled into media and social media indirectly and directly from China inducements, making sure that the lab leak theory is both underplayed and framed in a "we can't know for sure" light. Textbook water muddying where all sides have something to gain. If it's any consolation the party responsible for screwing up and killing more people than Hitler, Genghis Khan, and Stalin combined.... they have been dealt with appropriately by China

Look out Moore's Law!

Instead of doubling transistors every two years, look out, new Sheriff in town -- Gelsinger's law : the staff roster halves every two years!

We predict in the coming decades, Intel will consist of a single CEO producing microchips with over a quintillion transistors!

It's got nothing to do with Meta's social media business directly. Massive as the FB dataset is, it gets mogged by google who, what with their advanced non-PHP-based infra and superior coders, basically have way more and way better and way more accessible data... and their own AI CPUs they made, and a bigger cluster, and faster software, and more store, and so on. Big picture, Google is poised to steamroll Facebook AI-wise, and if no them, then openAI+microsoft

So Meta says "well we will buy tons of compute and try to make it distributed" "we'll make the model open and people will fine-tune with data that they found" and so on. Now google and openAI aren't competing versus meta, they are competing versus meta + all compute owned by amateurs + all data scrapped by all amateurs, which is non-trivial. so it's not so much as aspiring to be #1 as capping the knees of the competition who has superior competitiveness - but people love it because the common man wins here for once.

Anyway, eventually, they'll all be open models. Near future weaker models will run on a PC, bigger models on the cluster, weakest models on the phone... then just weak models on the phone and bigger on the PC.. eventually anything and everything fits on a phone and maybe iWatch. Even Google and openAI will have to run on the PC/phone at this point, it wouldn't make sense not to. Then since people have local access to these devices, it all gets reverse engineered, boom boom boom. now they're all open

TOR as it exists now is a honeypot simple as. Same as that documentary called "Benedict Cumberbniamnatch's Great Work" where they cracked the radio signals of the Frenchmen but they had to let the submarine sink so that they knew that the other guy doesn't know that they knew. NSA uses ROT which is TOR-inspired but takes the techniques and incognito aspects 7 or 8 steps ahead.

not sending a man to the moon means people will LIVE actually, I can't imagine what kind of hell that would bring if Boeing tried to make another moonrocket

> Why is Hezbollah firing rockets into Israel?

Why, Israel sent them a page and they are merely returning the call, as would be the right thing to do among polite company.

How about this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_refrigerator

Far as damaging the environment, I'm a contrarian. If people tell me "blah blah we're forcing you to help the environment because we think that's a good thing you should be doing" I'll do the opposite. At least for me they need to be saying "we're going to pass a law that forces you to pollute because our opinion is that is what you should be doing" and it is at that point that I would try to save the environment

It was once said by a famous african dictator:

“There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.”

― Forest Whitaker

So maybe it is like this. It's a funny thing to say, because in this mindset there is freedom literally to do anything. Consequences come after, minutes, hours, days, years, but after and not before, at least not until OpenAI-Google's new "PrescientCrimeCAItcher" comes online.

These "community guidelines" are quite frustrating because a major communication modality presently does not have freedom of speech, it has removal of speech it does not like. So that's an interesting loophole legalese-wise. Presently these are private sector companies running addicting entertaining boards from which they serve ads for profit. If these are instead made to be "utilities" like power or water, utilities of communication, I would imagine the calculus would change

Still doesn't work, NSA has a backdoor agreement with "Big Font" to put little tags in fonts to pinpoint the time, data, and individual authoring the pdf or similar. Similar to how they watermark laser printers, the waterfont the fonts

As a private sector company their job is maximizing revenue forever. There old slogan was "don't be evil" they have a new slogan, which is "vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears"