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> I've never understood the Linux culture of tightly coupling OS and package management

The ABIs are quite tightly coupled though. There's e.g. a dependency to glibc, so either you make a compromise and use the oldest common glibc or ship packages for various glibc versions. So unless everything is built from source, this approach has its limits.

edit: of course it's possible to use static linking but even then there's a residue of calls that are dynamically linked at runtime. (That's why there's flatpak, snap, ... which bundle dependencies redundantly)

I mean based on current understanding a previous video that showed levitation independent of the orientation was already sufficient to show it's not diamagnetic but superconducting. Assuming this is not a hoax actually the very first video together with the paper already shows everything. (Levitation, mentioning of zero resistivity regions)

Although generally the accepted method is that other labs reproduce it and that the paper passes peer review. Some videos aren't enough.

> low level stuff and assembly

Cyber security companies tend to have a hard time finding people in that area. (Although mostly C++ and Rust these days I guess)

On the other hand it seems there's also a lack of testing subjects. It's already frequently pointed out how medical results might not represent everyone. I would also assume that e.g. pharmaceutical certification processes do apply more sophisticated statistics.

I never thought much about legalization of hard drugs. While for Marijuana there are direct benefits like drug tests, health checks so people don't wake a latent psychosis, for hard drugs it's more complicated. But the people who take those, don't they usually suffer from very serious problems anyway? Probably it's true, if systemic problems don't get solved then fully legalizing hard drugs might make things worse. But if things get legalized in a controlled way, that's actually an opportunity to create a social net for these people.

> Sounds like a big filter... for what? for who? Because can be seen it's not working just as a mere "quality" filter.

To me it seems it keeps not only a wall around papers and journals. But also about whole academia which is probably an unwanted side effect since inside and outside of academia there seems to be consensus that knowledge transfer could be better. Also it seems everybody who can rather does research outside (AI/ML, Chemistry, Pharmacy).

With a "regular" magnetic field you cannot even do this, it would roll over continuously. At least one point needs to be actually fixed. Also if I remember correctly it's mentioned that not the whole probe is superconductive but just part of it.

At the time I still had the habit to never use my real name, email or address. (Well I was still going to school/studying anyway) I think the assumption was that services were simply there for the creator's benefit. Maybe it's good to remind oneself that a service that is given for free always has a catch unless it's from a non-profit.

Before Plasma this was also an issue with KDE, I mean uneven or missing margins/paddings. Gnome always had that though I think. Hopefully they'll improve these kind of things, at least from a first try the UX feels very smooth. Also considering it's built by one company.

Similar for me, Delphi 2.0/3.0 was the first time I built something where I thought that looks like normal software. (Getting a hello world running in C++ at the time seemed like a menial task.)

Actually I used it a lot for weeks but mainly to find out if I'm going to become unemployed in the next 2 years (probably not) and also learning how use an AI assistant assuming it's here to stay. There seem to be other interesting use cases but considering it's really not more than autocomplete I kind of lost trust in the results.

I have since half a year or more problems with some PayPal payments - no matter which browser I try.

> non-racy session termination

I've seen a lot of dangling sessions with systemd actually although I'm not sure what the root cause is.

For an off-the-shelve solution there is Qubes but from what I've heard it's probably quite a pain to use unless you're comfortable debugging Linux desktop and driver problems in particular. Generally KVM/libvirt is nice because it's fast and can be set up transparently and networking can be customized in any possible way. (It might also be possible to get GPU Passthrough working with KVM but I think this only works if you have 2 GPUs)

That's true, during the time I had a 486 SX 33 with 4 MB and 200 MB HDD. Windows 3.1 ran fine, I tried OS/2 Warp and it was unbearably slow. Never tested Windows 95 on that computer but of course NT was completely out-of-reach. On the other hand "NT" was unusable for anything fun until XP.

Still, there's a point to make about bloat but the comparison seems to be between Apples and Oranges

Actually I bought Reddit coins at some point (to give Awards) and I'm bothered by this. Hopefully Lemmy will be an alternative or maybe Reddit folks will change their mind. Obviously I'm okay with paying for services in principle but I think it requires that it's voluntary and affordable.

That said, the Reddit Web Frontend is not exactly the best. I've used - and paid - for a native Reddit client actually (Stellar). The app will be sunsetted though.

It's all open-source and auditable, so any odd application behaviour should be prevented in the first place. Sandboxing is great but cgroups are not a sandbox. I think the post shows also that the main problem is amount of maintenance for many distributions. Maybe better package tooling would help - in the end Flatpaks are just a middleway between completely integrated packages and distributing everything as a self-contained tarball.

Crypto software has also been legislated in the past and everyone ended up using weak crypto for quite a long time. Looking back, maybe it wasn't that important anyway since most of the web still ran without TLS and you wouldn't read on a weekly basis about password breaches.

If "GPT 4 or higher" would be restricted then a lot of large businesses wouldn't use it, startups/smaller companies wouldn't work on services around that. The common knowledge about it wouldn't be as high as unrestricted.

It's not optimal but maybe good enough for the next few years. Also bringing back the comparison with crypto, maybe in the mean-time everyone involved is better equipped in dealing with all that.

Used to be the same for me and in a way it still is. It's nice though to have a long-term project to deep-dive into. The last time I started a longer term project, I've set myself some sort of deadline, if I can pass this critical problem to get a first proof-of-concept after a month or two I continue. So I had a hobby project for a few years.

True, they should have included that. I have the impression though that e.g. delivery jobs used to be considered student jobs instead of a full-time job to make a living from. While most gig workers seem rather young I'd think the age range has shifted upwards.

I mean Firefox used to be not very practical for Web development but I think that was around 2015. Also I've seen much more frontend developers moving away from complex IDEs. Bad for the financial hit, but for learning it's probably better to work somewhere else...

The median income in Germany is 48600 $

Also I wonder how much scientific rigour went into the recent progress in AI/ML. At least in principle there might be ways to determine invariants and boundary conditions (without modifying models), also considering there had been efforts to change ML models and make them explainable.

Speculating/gambling is a huge factor in anything that can be traded. But commodities also rely on physical deliveries which have influenced prices directly on various occasions. Of course for commodities also the selling side has direct influence on prices. That can go so far that for oil deliveries the tab is opened/closed on convenient times. So understanding prices is significantly more difficult than e.g. for stocks. Also speaking about the news part, a lot of data on commodities isn't freely available so you need to buy it. Trading itself on those is highly restricted - and speculative - anyway.

> Where as car sales might be stagnating but electric car sales are taking a larger portion of total car sales ie electric car sales/lithium use is still increasing.

I'm quite surprised the article doesn't mention sodium batteries. Li-Ion batteries are notorious for thermal runaways, so CATL and Tesla already shifted to LiFePO batteries quite some time ago. I think everybody would be more than happy to ditch Lithium based batteries altogether.

I mean older people that might have been holding families together also died during the pandemic. Things would have been easier if pandemic measures would have been done on a pro-active basis - and I'm writing this from Europe where measures where a bit stricter. Maybe the pandemic could even have ended sooner.

That said, the general problem of the "loneliness epidemic" was already there before Covid.

> The experience calmed my existential fears about my job being taken by AI.

Same for me. I didn't try GPT-4 yet, and not on code from work anyway but GPT-3 seems borderline useless at this point. The hallucinations are quite significant. Also I tried to produce advice for Agile development with references and as stated in other articles the links where either 404s or even completely unrelated articles.

Still I'm taking this seriously. Just considering the leaps that happened with AlphaGo/AlphaZero or autonomous driving, that was considered unthinkable in the respective domains before.

But banks also had much more relaxed capital requirements.

> It's about supply and demand. The USA has been printing up dollars like crazy since the beginning of the Covid pandemic.

Indeed it's about supply and demand. The inflation is largely caused by a physical supply shortage.

The current banking problems are separate from that and because some (smaller) banks didn't have to comply with Basel III and all.

I'm not completely sure but considering how the coal industry went slowly out-of-business with subsidiaries going on for decades - at least that's how it was in Germany - this doesn't seem the way to go. At least I'm more than surprised that companies and the state were looking into early pensions instead of options to start from 0 at a new job.

For other legacy industries like the German ICE car industry it was at times a close call, so that's when the 35 hour week became widely adopted during the 90s. Even today it is still an option for new people joining (working on non-legacy products of course).

Yeah also considering the article on Ars today about people testing whether ChatGPT poses no harm. I think singularity is coming but much differently than anticipated. So yes, the economy will have to change massively and less work hours are needed. (And the concepts are there: Negative Income tax, Universal basic income...) The change will be more graceful the less everybody is in denial.

As mentioned elsewhere this is not the first technological disruption in the economy. The change from heavy industry to a service industry didn't go well, hopefully it's possible to take learnings from this and do it right this time.

Not speculating whether Cramer or acquaintances of his have a stake on the stocks or not. But from what I remember from posts on WSB his advice if you'd follow through a) doesn't give very significant changes and b) rather goes in the negative direction. To me it seems it's hard to separate from noise. Of course this might be explained by stating a free money paradox. (If everyone invested...) But also it seems his advice is actually rather random and just fits an entertainment narrative at best or sales pitch at worst.