raccoonDivider

The things people experimented with 15 years ago are mostly settled now. Maybe you'd like a research engineer job in a lab or startup?

Do you still expect that to work now that the decade of low interest rates is over? Shouldn't people buy individual bonds instead?

Do Not Disturb by default is a question of taste and use case, they probably brought to the desktop what people seemed to like on mobile devices.

Applications stealing focus is a plague though. Maybe Apple will finally figure out that it's not worth having in their API.

I don't understand why they're trying to turn iPads into laptops. Just start from their existing laptops and make them more mobile instead of trying to inflate a phone OS into something that does the job? Is this about control over the apps people can run?

The Iraq WMD thing is the one everybody has been falling back on whenever they need to prove their claims that "all western media are propaganda" for a decade or more. It's been 20 years, the NYT recognized the lie and apologized, and these guys still haven't found a better example.

Doesn't the lack of newer, more convincing examples tell you a lot about the veracity of the claim?

Edit: didn't see the missile gap thing, did you add it later? AFAIK, that was more of a lie by the US Air Force to increase their funding and actual government officials believed it.

Makes me wonder how voice assistants handle people with multiple partners. Maybe "which one" is actually the right answer for some users?

That looks great. No real feedback yet, but it's the kind of thing I've always been looking for as a better alternative to Twitter.

The few guys in charge of security engineering don't have to share the values of the whole company.

I can't say if it's correct or not, but here's an argument [1] that I've heard multiple times:

> Pharmaceutical breakthroughs are financed by the high prices paid by American patients (and backed by abundant venture capital); government-run health systems in Europe then bulk-buy the same drugs for much less. Europe has had some successes—German companies were among those pioneering mrna vaccines—but most of the cutting-edge research in science and technology is done at universities and companies elsewhere.

[1] https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/02/26/europe-is-the-fr...

The UI was one step below Spotify or Apple the last time I tried it though.

Does any other brand have something similar to Apple's support? I was kinda surprised to see that you could get called back as easily as I did. Or that their stores could quickly fix e.g. a bricked bootloader. The Windows/Android devices I had before had nothing like that.

Why can't the compiler decrement indices as needed? It makes sense to keep 0-based indexing in the final binary, but the language's design doesn't constrain that.

I tried using the latest stable Flux.jl with the latest stable Julia interpreter about a year ago, and most of it didn't work. Some of the simplest model usage examples led to a traceback with dozens of frames, ending in an incomprehensible internal error that I couldn't possibly understand as a beginner.

It seems to me that Julia is still moving too fast for its own good. At some point, something needs to stabilize for it to be worth adopting.

Apple probably asked and paid for it. Isn't there potential in accelerating LLMs and transformers on smartphones? Most of what they are good at fits the smartphone use case well.

Because these countries rely on the US military for protection? All the EU does against Russia. Japan and south-east Asian countries do against China.

Look up how underfunded Germany’s Bundeswehr has been these past few years, how France’s push to build up European defenses is going, how Eastern European countries rely on NATO.

When you get defense for “free” from an overstretched US military, you obviously have more budget to develop your own country.

> Either way the C++ dependency management situation even makes the Python dependency management situation look good by comparison.

Is there a better way than “script the compilation of all dependencies and share the result” for any big project that has to support Windows? I’m interested in alternatives.

> The Fourth Republic was overthrown by a military coup. De Gaulle did manage to restore democracy with his new constitution, largely because the military respected him personally more than they respected the institutions of the Fourth Republic. Military coups are not a sign of a resilient democracy and it’s a very rare thing for a military to reliably subordinate itself to a constitutional government.

That's fair, but wouldn't you say that the coup was made possible by the fourth constitution's bad design and not really attributable to the country's being a democracy? I don't know much about how that constitution was written, but just coming out of a war and an occupation with a collaborationist government can't have made the process easy.

> The Third Republic was also more responsible for its own end than you give it credit for. A minority of the government wanted to keep fighting, from Algeria if necessary, rather than surrender, but the majority were defeatists and fascist sympathizers. The armistice and collaboration was a deliberate choice that came from within the system, as was the reform of the Third Republic into the autocratic Vichy state. In fact, Germany didn’t even completely occupy France until after Operation Torch, when Darlan, the de facto leader of the Vichy government (Petain at this point being more of a figurehead), switched sides and openly cooperated with the Allies, ordering an end to French resistance in North Africa.

The question is, was loss in mainland France avoidable or not? Again, not much of a history buff, but France was defeated extremely quickly, so the choice the government had wasn't between "fight to keep the current republic" and "collaborate", but more between "lose the mainland and go resist from abroad" and "abandon control of the mainland to the Nazis and collaborate". That doesn't make the Vichy government any more moral but it does mean that the republic's end would have been forced from the outside in any case.

It's definitely harder to socialize when all your classmates have smartphones and you don't, but you mostly need access to personal messaging apps. TikTok or a Facebook/Twitter feed full of people you don't know IRL are where the problems come from and they aren't needed. If only there was a way of splitting those out into separate apps.

Basically we need more things like Facebook's push a few years ago to show more personal updates from close friends and less mass-shared political posts from organizations.

The current French fifth republic started when De Gaulle had a new constitution written, during the fourth republic. A democracy changing its rules by referendum while staying a democracy shouldn't really count as a new regime.

Edit: arguably, getting invaded and going back to a republic after a few years shouldn't count as a regime change either. The German occupation was temporary and the country reverted back to a republic immediately after. That's more of an argument for the resilience of democracies than against it.

Logically you'd keep as many parts as possible inside, where the temperature is easier to control?

Do any of them reach even 1% of Binance's size? If crypto stays a bunch of niche projects that only enthusiasts invest in, isn't that the SEC's goal accomplished? I can't imagine they would care about a coin that doesn't attract either a lot of retail customers or big financial institutions.

I just realized that the NSA has probably been able to train GPT-4 equivalents on _all the data_ for a while now. We'll probably never learn about it but that's maybe scarier than just the Snowden collection story because LLMs are so good at retrieval.

Parking an aircraft carrier 2km from your shores counts I guess?

Some humans also never respond "I don't know" even when they don't know. I know people who out-hallucinate LLMs when pressed to think rigorously

It works pretty well in my C++ code. Context: modern C++ with few footguns, inside functions with pretty-self-explanatory names.

I don't really get the "low bar for contributions" argument because GH Copilot's contributions are too small-sized for there to even be any bar. It writes the obvious and tedious loops and other boilerplate so I can focus on what the code should actually do.