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I want my net worth to be dependent on my skills, not the pile of money I happen to have laying around

There's a lot of people talking about the technical aspects of AI, but I think the (for a lack of a better term) marketing of AI is just as important. Insisting that anyone who is anti-AI is on the wrong side of history does not tend to make people who leaned in that direction reconsider their opinions, it tends to make them think that pro-AI people are arrogant and thus push them even further towards being anti-AI.

This is even bigger with AI because of a couple of other recent trends that have been marketed the exact same way and have failed to live up to the hype: cryptocurrencies ("have fun being poor"), NFTs, the metaverse, etc. None of these have turned out to be the absolute use-this-or-you'll-be-unable-to-participate-in-society level changes that their proponents have claimed. Now AI proponents are making the same claims, but people have seen that the last few times this has been claimed (often by the same people) and therefore don't believe the new claims.

Fundamentally the point of DNS versus Ansible updating /etc/hosts is the same: get a mapping from DNS named to IPs to the client. As such, Ansible will have all the same issues. Plus, it'll introduce its own issues, like the fact that /etc/hosts is effectively cached DNS with an infinite TTL

Changes from a single point of failure to a thousand points of failure. What if a host if offline when the Ansible update runs? What if someone wants to run a service that ignores /etc/hosts, like a Docker container?

The OS was smooth and worked well, and the design philosophy across basically every app was extremely coherent. Everything worked well, and everything felt like it fit together. Really its only problem was the lack of apps due to companies intentionally not supporting Windows Phone (Microsoft had a YouTube client that Google made them kill off, and Google never bothered to release a replacement IIRC)

My first smartphone was a Windows phone with half a gig of RAM and it's still the best phone I've ever owned in terms of software

well, here's hoping lol

Re #2, in the mtf trans experience high estrogen and low testosterone are correlated with low libido, with some individuals even temporarily stopping antiandrogen medications in order to get some back

Missiles versus aircraft is a fight between very high kinetic energy in the missile, and relatively low kinetic energy in the plane, but with the ability to generate more kinetic energy. Missiles don't have a lot of fuel, so they need to generate a lot of kinetic energy to still be effective by the time they reach the target. Typically a missile will accelerate to its top speed in the first few seconds of flight and coast the rest of the way. At very long ranges, all the energy generated when launched has bled off, so there's two common solutions for long-range missiles to generate more energy: a "dual pulse" motor is basically a second rocket motor that fires later in the course; or a ramjet, which can be throttled up and down and is more fuel efficient than a rocket engine.

Well, only one Waymo got stuck in that flood, while at least two human-driven cars did, so by pure counting metrics they are better lol. But in my experience driving around them Waymos are much much better than most Atlanta drivers, not that that's a high bar

I just moved from an apartment right next to where this Waymo got stuck: https://old.reddit.com/r/Atlanta/comments/1tj00sl/flooding_i... and I can say that that particular intersection floods about every time it rains hard. That being said, yesterday's rain was particularly heavy and I hadn't seen that intersection flood that bad since before Waymo started being rolled out here

My company just finished switching from LastPass to Bitwarden. Just in time for that to become terrible too it looks like lol

I'm curious to see how this works out, because sports betting is _not_ in the CFTC's remit, and Kalshi etc's argument that states can't regulate them because they're not technically sports betting is contrary to the spirit of the law

In a similar vein is https://rngdle.com/ which takes daily games where you post your scores to social media to gloat to its logical conclusion

The idea was to get people to include more substance. Instead of just saying "Washington crossed the Delaware" to get students to include reasons why, impacts, further narrative, etc. IDK if it was effective or not. Probably at least a little; there's only so many ways to rewrite the same thing over and over. I know in my case though I submitted essays below the word count a few times, but since I actually included the content they were looking for I didn't have any problems

The controller will work with Steam running in the background

Yeah, I can read about the parts that I want right now. If I open a video editor to splice two clips together, I don't need to know about input devices. If I want to do that, I can go read the manual for that at that time.

Plus, there's no way I'm going to remember whatever the tour tells me by that time anyway. To actually learn the product you need experience to lock in what the manual says

Yeah, it's all about communities, not platforms. What happens is that people find a community they like, then the platform underneath it dies (IRC, MySpace, Digg, etc) and they can't find the same community on a new platform. I've made a lot of friends on Discord, and ionce a year or so when it looks like Discord's about to finally give up we talk about our plans to migrate the community to a different platform. But since the community is the important part, we don't really care about the ills of the platform until it starts to actively hurt the community

I've had success with other games (haven't tried KSA yet) adding them as a non-Steam game and using Proton like that. But yeah not being on Steam and me having to eg check for updates on my own, remember another login to download on a new computer, etc means that I'm going to stick with KSP 1 for a while at least

What raises the error, and how does the system know that an error has happened? Like, if you have two processors calculating 2+2, and one comes out to 4 and the other to 5, how does the system know which one is correct? Actually, typing it out I think I get it now. It doesn't need to know which one is correct, it just has to redo the calculation if there's ever a disagreement. Then if somehow both processors calculate 2+2=5 simultaneously, the next computer over will disagree and everyone will repeat the calculation, and that's why they have 3 levels of paired redundancy and the chance of 8 simultaneous single-event upsets is low enough for their risk tolerance. Ok, now I get it.

In one of my classes they had to explicitly ban people from using Python in their psuedocode submissions lol. (Generally this meant things like "no list comprehensions" and similar Python syntax details).

CS degrees are about computer science, not software engineering. The fact that the best available degree for a software developer is generally a CS degree is a historical accident, but regardless universities unfortunately don't tend to cater towards what CS students are actually getting their degree for

Patrick tends to describe systems in a vaguely disapproving tone of voice. It may be because he disagrees with the participants in the system (the SPLC in this case), it may be because he disagrees with the system itself and how it's used, or it may even be that he agrees with the system and how participants use the system and is using a somewhat negative tone in order to not appear biased. Regardless, the result is that it's easy to feel defensive if you do support the subject of one of his articles (again, the SPLC in this case), while people who don't like the subjects can point to his generally well reasoned and comprehensive article as evidence the subject isn't all it's cracked up to be. I've seen it happen before here on HN where people will get nitpicky about details of the article and miss the overall point, and I think it's because the negative tone makes people defensive.

Regardless, I'd encourage you to think about the actual moral actions presented in this article. Is the system that the SPLC used and extended an inherently bad system (in this case, acting as a source of disallowed organizations for banks)? Furthermore, given the existence of that system, was the SPLC's use of it bad? Are the SPLC's goals good or bad? Were their methods in the timeline taking up the latter half of the article good? Despite the generally negative tone of the article, I think they were a morally acceptable method of achieving their goals. Essentially, the article is describing the SPLC's efforts to use large-scale community organizing and pressuring organizations to accomplish their moral goals. The article's disapproving tone makes this sound like a conspiracy and... it kinda is. But then, can't you describe almost any charity as a conspiracy to accomplish a moral goal? As the article notes, the SPLC has used similar tactics in the past to combat, eg, the KKK, and I doubt many people would imagine that as a conspiracy to target and censure particular law-abiding citizens.

In short, despite the article's somewhat negative tone overall, I don't think anything described is actually a negative thing (well, the factual bank fraud is, but not the conspiracy to implement moral goals). The description of the methods they used are essentially a negatively-worded description of just about any sort of charitable organization. You could describe the DNC as a conspiracy to install into power authoritarians who want to curb speech they don't want ("hate speech"), for example, or you could describe it as a grassroots organization to ensure people are fairly represented in government and their wishes (curbing racism) are achieved.

> The self-checking pairs ensure that if a CPU performs an erroneous calculation due to a radiation event, the error is detected immediately and the system responds.

How does a pair determine which of the pair did the calculation correctly?

Almost all of the music I listen to is instrumental. Like the article says, lyrics distract me from whatever I'm doing, and I rarely listen to music for the sake of listening to music, it's always something I'm going while doing something else. At most I might listen to lyrics while driving, but I'll pause the music if the driving situation gets complicated (like in stop and go traffic where I need to get over 3 lanes)

Finland specifically has problems treating trans kids: https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/finland-trans-st...

For minesweepers (and air defense missiles too for that matter) the cost-benefit isn't just "cost of minesweeper over cost of mine", it's "cost of minesweeper over cost of mine plus cost of ships that run into mines". Also, minesweepers have an advantage in terms of concentration: you have to mine an entire area for mines to be fully effective, but you only need to proof one mine-free lane for the minesweepers to get their cargo through. (That being said, the best use of minefields is to canalize targets so they show up in areas you're expecting and are prepared for, which can shift the balance back the other way too.)

Why do only Macbooks suffer from this problem? When I had a work-issued Macbook I charged it and my personal Framework off the same USB-C charger and I only every felt the leaking current from the Macbook

What would the threat profile be here to require that? Regardless, I'd be a little surprised if they didn't have anything like that; provenance is very important in aerospace, with hardware tracked to the point that NTSB investigators looking at a crash can tell what ingot a bolt was made from

I have to admit, I've been an Artemis hater ($4 billion per launch lol) but the experience of watching people go back around the Moon has been incredibly inspiring, and it proves to me that maybe we can still do hard things