yt-dlp's days are fairly numbered as Google has a trump card they can eventually deploy: all content is gated behind DRM. IIRC the only reason YouTube content is not yet served exclusively through DRM is to maintain compatibility with older hardware like smart TVs.
I have such vivid memories of experiencing many of these things in infancy and early childhood. Especially pareidolia, mild object activation, and scenery slicing. Hasn't really happened much in almost thirty years. Is there any research on like, if this is a side effect of brain development? It's always made me wonder.
The AI bubble is also the same seven companies that have been making all the money for the past decade. The answer is don't worry about it if you're buying S&P 500. Just keep buying, leave it go, and don't touch it. Preferably ever. But realistically don't sell for as long as you can. That applies to any market.
Your money has to go somewhere or it will rot to inflation. If you're ultrabearish on stocks, snap up bonds. If you're bearish on stocks and bonds alike, snap up gold. Either way, bare minimum of what to do with your money long term is to preserve its value across inflation.
But really I would recommend nonetheless staying the course with investment advice on a stocks/bonds balance relative to your age. Increasingly, the economy distributes not through labour but through capital and holding stocks is essential even with their inherent risks. Even in light of that CNN article about meme stock and crypto investors having the last laugh over the past decade, indices of ordinary large-cap stocks bring you exposure to these things.
Sometimes I feel like I started investing late at 26. Already, six years into the best decade for compounding in your life. But such was the power of compounding that I had reached a substantial net worth by age 35. So even just nine years can make such a tremendous difference even into later ages. It's never too late to sock money away.
I was tempted to knee-jerk dismiss this as "don't write your own database, don't even use a KV database, just use SQL". And then I remembered the only reason I'd say this is because I went through designing my own DB or using KV databases just to avoid SQL...only to realise i was badly reinventing SQL. It could be worth the lesson.
If documentation is a side effect to providing accurate and effective AI context, it's pretty logical there will be a significant incentive to maintain it.
What is the "80% cause" of chronic inflammation most people should be aware of, so that people may be able to make lifestyle changes to reduce it? What blood tests can I have ordered to measure it?
You would think the therac-25 was enough of an engineering lesson on designing safety-critical systems in software that lack hardware redundancy. Maybe they didn't consider the door handles "safety critical".
Was just about to link this. I was a part of this scene at age thirteen! Was largely how I taught myself fundamentals of programming and how to solve problems. When I'm feeling particularly nostalgic, I'm occasionally tempted to fire up something like DJGPP and finish my childhood dream of making a useful GUI for MS-DOS.
As surveillance of social media ramps up, either by the government or by angry mobs, they're rapidly growing to be essential to use any unencrypted platform.
I believe it says quite a lot when a major and supposedly reputable institution like the WSJ will sacrifice journalistic rigor when they see an opportunity to potentially besmirch the image of a sharply unpopular demographic. Facts still matter over agenda. People should be fired for this.
If inflation is lower than the rate the federal reserve hikes rates to, you can ride out stagflation in money market funds and other types of income-generating investments. The real pain is when it doesn't. Stocks decline, cash declines, and there really is nowhere to hide. TIPS? I-bonds? Both are indexed to the CPI, which policymakers have loudly signaled they are okay gaming and manipulating for political favour.
I'm sure it isn't luck but at the same time I watch these things and genuinely don't understand how they do it. Particularly the whole thing of seeing and reacting that quick.
It reminds me of how bad I am with rhythm games. I can't even get through Easy on DDR because the arrows move too fast. It's like I can't read them and react quick enough.
Typically I do much better with games where the point isn't to see, process, and react within milliseconds. I definitely think there is a type of brain that can play games like these and another type that can't, and I'm in the latter.
To have something that is genuinely private and would qualify for listing in the app store, options are pretty limited. I don't think they allow developers to use onion services or anything like that. You could host the server in other countries, but even in hostile countries, it's not a leap of logic to assume the NSA would have an easy time getting in there all without the worry of that pesky "legal" thing.
Closest example I could think of would be Hans Reiser/Reiserfs. It's a more sordid story than just getting hit by a bus, though. Ultimately the project just died.
Certbot has this down to a science. I haven't once had to touch it after setting it up. 6 days doesn't seem like an onerous requirement in light of that.