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The thing is that most architectures aren't amenable to emulation by things you wrote stoned and drunk.

I think this misses a few crucial steps.

Assuming you discover a capsule from the 21st century chances are overwhelmingly that either things have gone great, and you could just ask your AI to create an environment for that old binary (or reverse engineer it), or things have gone badly and you try to bootstrap computing.

The "things have gone average, and I want to run a 200-year old binary" case is I think the least relevant.

But even if we stipulate its relevant enough, this does not solve the issue. The subleq machine does not actually reproduce the hardware environment. A lot of software depends very much on the characteristics of the hardware it runs on. (Timing issue, undocumented but interesting side effects, etc). It depends on bugs in the containing OS. (See Win32 backcompat, e.g.) It depends on quirks and behavior of its input/output devices. Heck, the VM does not even define what "reads a keypress" reads - scancode? ASCII? UTF-8? Value according to numerology?

There's a lot of software that's not amenable to "it's just a single set of numbers in a capsule" with just that underlying VM. Likely most software.

SUBLEQ is a somewhat interesting architecture if you think about "bootstrap compute from scratch", but that's a very different problem.

"Sub-Saharan Africa had the highest cold-related excess death rate"

That's an interesting choice. It conflates cold-related excess deaths in the equatorial lowlands (which struggle to ever get below 70F/20C) and the southern highlands (like Lesotho, which routinely goes below freezing in June/July). Both are sub-saharan.

Of course, that may just be a bad summary, but it puts it onto the "should probably verify the results before I trust it" pile of papers, something that's sadly growing at an ever-increasing pace.

Given it's Meta, I'd put roughly zero trust in the opt out actually being respected.

Pangram is basically a made-up number.

I've tried it on large docs I've written well before the AI times, and that are nowhere available on the Internet (so it can't be a corpus issue) - and it is happily classifying me as 60%-80% AI.

Ah, but you only tell them the things they already know and want to hear.

That filter is crucial in any kind of advisory/consulting work. You're there to confirm biases, in 95% of the cases.

It's not quite that clear-cut. Franklin was pretty clear on the helical structure in both research notes and papers, but she didn't quite nail the overall structure (2 strands with opposing winding, complementing bases).

Fundamentally, she suffered the curse of the experimental scientist - waiting for actual data before being willing to build a model. Watson & Crick postulated ahead based on partial data.

> He's under the building doing plumbing or electric one day.

I believe I've encountered that guys electrical work, and it ain't sage :)

(I.e. there are a few of those "fix it all" guys, but they're not always code compliant. They do get stuff done, though)

You understand there's a difference between human lives and the value of a stock, right?

Because otherwise, I don't think this conversation is going to lead anywhere.

It really doesn't. Same as we don't say "written with vi" or "written by Emacs", even if it is intuitively clear one of the two is better.

Relatedly, is it OK with you if somebody bets a few million dollars on your early demise?

What those organizations miss is that they drown their teams in organizational red tape. The way to the future isn't tokenmaxxing - it's cutting back on process noise.

And oddly, Germany has the same pollen clouds, France has the same pollen clouds, the West Coast has them. (The three places I saw this year, at least).

It's odd the BBC chose to anchor on Japan when it's really a widespread issue.

"not correctly aligned (probably meaning on an address that’s a multiple of sizeof(int), but who knows)"

I stopped reading there. If you have decades of experience in C/C++ and don't know what that means (and that it's arch specific), I'll assume those decades were mostly the same year over and over.

C/C++ are horrible languages, but they deserve better opponents than that.

Obviously. Any European nation that doesn't treat America and companies ultimately under US political control a strategic risk would have to be asleep at the wheel. "Perfidious" is the word.

Palantir doubly so, since it has close ties to the current regime. (No, this is not a political discussion - it's simply about proximity to power, and the interests of said power)

The US-European alliance is on its deathbed.

Every single fucking employee contract in the US mentions that the company has the right to any work done on company equipment and/or on company time.

This is such a bad idea, it's impressive.

8 layers of management???

At gitlabs team size, that means every manager has 2-3 reports? Yeah, I'd be cutting layers too.

That's the thing - you can have it as a lived value, or you can have HR run programs. Very few places have/had both. Given the choice, I'd pick door #1.

(Saying this as a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion, lest there's confusion)

This is kind of implicit in "hacker camps".

ffmpeg docs include none of the protocols/file formats.

It would be equally "trivial" to say no to personal compute as well. So maybe the problem is manufactured by all of us.

You cannot be fully free if you're attached to physical goods.

It may sound like pseudo-Buddhist claptrap, but it's also true. Or, I suppose, Fight Club claptrap. It's still true.

The choice is "do you want to participate in society, its benefits and drawbacks". You can't have only one side of that.

> Here's what I find genuinely strange. A patient doesn't lean over the operating table and tell the surgeon where to cut.

This is extremely funny given we're the industry full of folks that brought the world QS and longevity hacks, together with the peptide boom.

"But that is only because doctors don't keep current/have preconceived notions"

Which would never happen to designers?

Have PWAs stopped working on Android, or something?

Sure, our streets are shit, our legislators are actively trying to ruin the tech industry, we spent $130B on 300 yards of train, policing in large cities is a disaster, and the "best state school system" translates into an education level at 29th/37th country-wide, building housing is impossible due to the world's worst permitting process, but otherwise...

Look, I don't mind paying a lot of taxes. If there's service you get for it. And I'm deeply in the blue camp. But CA leadership (state/county/city) is still an utter disaster and needs to be tossed out on its ear.

Wait, we created the unholy unity of troff and markdown?

Kidding aside, that kind of misses the point of either.

Most metrics teams are reasonably competent and are aware of that. Excepting "growth hackers"

I haven't been in a single metrics discussion where we didn't talk about what we're actually measuring, if it reflects what we want to measure, and how to counterbalance metrics sufficiently so we don't build yet another growthhacking disaster.

Doesn't mean that metrics are perfect - they are in fact aggravatingly imprecise - but the ground truth is usually somewhat better than "you clicked it, musta liked it!"

Define "without Xcode", but if you mean "without using the IDE", yes, absolutely.

You obviously still need to use signing pipeline etc, but that can all be done via CLI.

As for "non-trivial", here are Chrome's build instructions for macOS: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/m...

Which contains the words "While using Xcode is unsupported" :)

No, you really don't. Apple would like you to use it (god knows why), but it's not necessary.

Probably not the only one, but it's pretty much the least interesting thing to find jarring about the whole experiment.

People anthropomorphize. Nobody really finds it "jarring" in most contexts.