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magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)?

skibidi toilet anyone?

then, as they say, gumball, but also adventure time, gravity falls, spongebob, courage the dog, bare bears, teen titans, ..., there's plenty of engaging content if one let's kids explore and watch what their friends are watching instead of only parent-approved safeware.

Partly true, but let's be clear about who is being indoctrinated about culture.

Khmer culture is basically an offshoot of the original Hindu, and then Buddhist culture from India. The language is the 'latin' of the region and based off sanskrit, and all the temples in the region are modeled on Hindu temples (representations of mount Meru).

Tai people came from SW China and colonized, if not assumed, this extant culture, and also of course intermingled and whatever.

So both populations share a deep and long history and are closely related.

TIL, Thanks.

'Landed table'? Is that the 'fact table', the one that contains the codes that need to be looked-up?

Of course it is, OTOH the nature of this 'enterprise' has been visible for quite a while now, and I'm sure, investigated quite intensively (by more than DoJ), and 'missing' only means that the general public doesn't know where he is.

"When handling large CASE WHEN statements, it is better to create a dimension table or view, ideally sourced from the landed table where the original status column is populated."

Is this code for 'use a lookup table' or am I falling behind on the terminology? The modern term should be 'sum table' or something similar surely.

What I read is they hacked wallets that had the 'Milk Sad' vulnerability (predictable private key), but I'm skeptical as that's an old CVE, IMHO it's more likely an infrastructure or communications hack or a wrench attack - the suspect is now 'missing'.

My 16yo son did exactly this over the last week as part of his Rust minecraft mod manager, using http range requests to get the file length, then the directory, then individual file data.

I'll dig up a link.

Yes of course, but this claim is a response to Korea's claim that they are 'missing', presumed trafficked to scam compounds.

Cambodia is claiming they are 'detained' by immigration, and refuse to leave, making it sound like the Koreans themselves are the problem, trying to deflect from the real issue.

No, some Cambodians are seeing a very sizeable benefit, probably the standard 20% that the leading family cream off of any major investment in the country.

And BTW it is not just the Chinese, there are innumerable other operators, including a whole bunch of smaller 'startups'.

They operate because Cambodia openly accepts it, and takes a cut, not because they are somehow so clever as to disguise the real business being conducted in closed-up apartment blocks.

Militarily you are right, but remember war is politics by other means.

Thailand's Thaksin is now in jail and his daughter, basically his avatar, has been removed from government. Mission accomplished.

And to get a sense of how powerful this scam industry is in the country, the latest news is of a young Korean murdered after being kidnapped by a scam gang. Korea has responded forcefully, calling out the danger, yet the Cambodian press is now full of accusations that Korea is defaming Cambodia, that they are just as guilty of human-trafficking Cambodian brides, that some Koreans who were 'rescued' from a scam center don't actually want to go home, that the international press are unfairly treating Cambodia ... you know the story by now.

Cambodian people are suffering, no doubt about it, but what you say about the surge in nationalism and entrenching his position is certainly true; the 'leadership' has only gotten stronger.

It's surreal how Cambodians are blindly, even passionately, following the government narrative of evil rapacious Thailand invading innocent peace-loving Cambodia, when there is strong evidence showing it was Cambodia provoking the issue to meddle in Thai politics, but there is such deep-seated pride (on both sides I think) that truth is disregarded.

And this isn't the only one.

The ruling family in Cambodia is a big part of it, via their ownership in HuiOne (now renamed), which is essentially the clearing house for the 'industry'.

In fact the Thai-Cambodia border conflict is due to this industry, and a breakdown in the relationship between Thai and Cambodian leaders over it, with the wiley cambodian leader yet again provoking the sensitive border issue for political gain.

It's one product, sure.

Arguably more important is standard time.

Before the railways towns ran on local-noon time, so the railways and their timetables required time to be synchronized across regions.

maybe code should be stored with no formatting, only the required whitespace, and the editors/viewers are responsible for applying formatting. Then formatting will never cause confusion in diffs.

It should be very obvious that the 'infosphere' (media, culture, education, day-to-day interactions and environment) heavily influences people, and ends up controlling them by setting the 'normal' for society, and it's affordances .

"intelligence is not necessary to wield power."

Great quote, which should be obvious when we look at our 'leaders', especially in recent history.

Now we're expected to believe a rag-tag crew of Ukrainians used a leaky sailboat to simultaneously detonate deep water pipelines, lol.

Denmark and Sweden gave up thier investigations quite quickly, probably they arrived at the truth but couldn't say it, only Germany was strong-armed into keeping the charade going.

The title in the article is 'How I trained...' yet there is no explanation of how it was done, just that it was.

'I don't know, but I'll get back to you?'

you can add the reasons why the question is more complex than it seems

nothing worse than people pretending to know when they don't

It seems rather more likely to me, even if it's millennia way, that we get a semblance of an autonomous agentic AI, than what you suggest.

It might be impossible, or just need some innovations (eg, transformer), but my point is the investments are non-linear.

They are not investing X to get a return of Y.

If someone reaches AGI, current business models, ROI etc will be meaningless.

I mean, the limit to renewables is to capture all the energy from the sun, and maybe the heat of the earth.

But then you start to have some issues with global warming (the temperature at which energy input = energy radiated away)

We probably don't want to release more energy than that.

I don't think it's that obvious, in fact the 'bitter lesson' teaches us that simple scale leads to qualitative, not just quantitative improvement.

It does look like this is now topping out, but it's still not sure.

It seems to me a couple of simple innovations, like the transformer, could quite possibly lead to AGI, and the infrastructure would 'light up' like all that overinvested dark fiber in the 90s.

When you can use AI as though it's an employee, instead of repeatedly 'prompting' it with small problems and tasks.

It will have agency, it will perform the role. A part of that is that it will have to maintain a running context, and learn as it goes, which seem to be the missing pieces in current llms.

I suppose we'll know, when we start rating AI by 'performance review', like employees, instead of the current 'solve problem' scorecards.

How so?

The maximum possible benefit of fusion (aside from the science gained in the attempt) is cheap energy.

We'll get very cheap energy just by massively rolling out existing solar panels (maybe some at sea), and other renewables, HVDC and batteries/storage.

Fusion is almost certain to be uneconomical in comparison if it's even feasible technically.

AI, is already dramtically impacting some fields, including science (eg deepfold), and AGI would be a step-change.

I think these articles slightly miss the point.

Sure, AI as a tool, as it currently is, will take a very long time to earn back the $B being invested.

But what if someone reaches autonomous AGI with this push?

Everything changes.

So I think there's a massive, massive upside risk being priced into these investments.

I think we can agree that a 'starving' company is not the same as a starving human.

Your other points about differentiation are especially valid, now, but the great mass of people have limited capability there. Should they just starve?

Most of big tech enjoys some degree of monopoly power through network effects, so it's a little disingenuous to wave "It's the market, stupid" in this case.

Quite apart from the fact that in the jobs 'market', one side is forced to participate, else they starve.

Market pressures for thee, but not for me.

The next step will be to impose tariffs on code developed abroad.

Not that I agree with tariffs, but there are import taxes on physical goods and parts and so on, even when they are produced by the same company, so why not on services?

This gets at an underlying concept, but arrives at entirely the wrong conclusion IMHO.

Through history clocks and time have been used to regulate and control society. eg read "About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks" by Rooney.

But time-keeping was orchestrated by elites, to control the masses, and differentiate themselves, just like manners. Whoever owned the time, had the best clock, had power and control.

That is now symbolized by expensive clocks and watches, worn by the wealthy and powerful.