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Another nice example here, much more surface area:

https://twitter.com/Men90707224/status/1686441230895370261/p...

Hang on, wouldn't a sliver of any magnetic material behave like this within a moving magnetic field? This replication is a fail, yes?

If we assume it isn't superconductivity, is the amount of diamagnetism still novel/interesting if not a world changing?

(caveat: I may be running on old tarsnap company info but) I must say, the ONLY thing that has ever made me shy away from seriously using tarsnap was the prospect of an unexpected Colin Percival outage. i.e. key person risk. I'm guessing I'm not alone in this.

I think people are misinterpreting this -- it looks fine for, say, the first 20 invoices if you suddenly find yourself needing to generate them. There are plenty of more complex options once the transaction count and tax situation gets too onerous for copying into Excel.

I would assume this would be for cases where your are using that same software to report income, expenses, tax etc. But in Invoice Dragon (i.e. just a template) case you would be keeping a copy of the invoice for later reference in calculations, the same as a handwritten invoice, no? It's just "typing it up" for you. This isn't accounting software, just a template.

Robustly challenge what you think are unwarranted meetings. Preface your input in meetings that are silly but still exist with "Hi, I'll keep this concise because I know everyone has a lot of work to do ...", make a habit of reconfirming the value and purpose of the remaining meetings. Make it normal for meetings to whither quickly when not vital.

I go further and simply don't attend meetings that lack an agenda or at the very least point out when there isn't one when the meeting starts.

I don't spend much time in meetings.

This is so strange. Why on earth wouldn't you start with a randomly higher threshold for these apparently abusive use patterns then march them down over the next couple of days? You know, see if the magic smoke comes out. It's just .. weird. It's been down for half a day for me.

> I do not think that large corporations are inherently bad.

There does seem to be an extremely high correlation between being enormous and no longer bothering to play by the same rules all other players are forced to play by though. So I agree, I just think that large corporations are empirically bad.

I was confused for a while but it means the individual digits when summed should total 25. That worked for me.

GitLab Issues, especially as exposed by the UI is just ludicrisouly primitive vs Jira. They're trying to cover the GitHub use case regarding basically 'context for merge requests'. There's no planning, reporting, sane linking, reports, no query language, no batch updates, and visibility model means Issues edits are also basically committers, so good-bye segregation. It's just chalk and cheese.

Someone invariably says 'with the REST API you can do ...' which now means we have hundreds of teams reimplementing the out-of-the-box Jira features in mutually incompatible ways for their own consumption. All of that dev time is gone. I honestly hope the shareholders don't find out.

I'm in a Very Large Company that just yoinked Jira and replaced it with GitLab Issues. I can't even tell how badly it's going because no-one knows what going on with any project now. People are literally copying and pasting hand-edited Excel summaries of sub-projects in emails and asking people to edit in place and reply. It's hilarious.

It's super standardised, though.

There's a no-longer-very-speculative bit of Sci-Fi waiting here about whole societies "forking" based upon the curation of their training data. Arguably social-media + bots + paid state actors means we're already there.

The way I see it, you could argue for say, wing-nuts to be used everywhere because they can be used tool-free, but then you can't tighten them as much, can't put them is confined spaces etc. AVX is meant to be used with a specialist tool interface that has knowledge of lower level details and is made by someone else who adds a simple handle for you, Array.sort being this example.

I've been explaining this to my kids for years when they meet the neighbourhood cats. Angry cats glare at each other, and this is basically the opposite. I guess science has caught up!

Dijkstra had an opinion on this (and many other things). 0-based ftw.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF

Vice was a purposefully edgy fashion magazine for a few years before pivoting to their understanding of what journalism should be. I think it stayed as a fashion magazine.

I love this.

Tiny thought experiment for my tiny mind. Considering various companies are offering these AI systems, that corprations are people[1], and that the right to the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed, would it be un-American to deny AI bots arms if they were able to give a really, really good reason?

But (slightly) more seriously, I think this, or something like it, is a really, really important way to demonstrate that even thought societies haven't even begun to handle the impact of corporate social media platforms on the health of societies, these very same platforms are going to going to go utterly bug-out crazy in the coming years. Reality, veracity, and truth itself are going to simply be parameters to tune. And tuned by ... who knows? Strap in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

Let the explainer[1] explain why this really doesn't make all that much sense:

    "We chose to blend three properties to match our perception of how this plays out in reality:

    Distance: the proximity to a place.

    Population: the size of a place is a pretty good indicator of its importance.

    Wikipedia article length: an extra layer of nuance for the cultural importance/awareness of places that may not have a large population."

[1] https://pudding.cool/2023/03/same-name/method/

Hey, and just like legacy/fiat currencies, it has made a tiny subset of often nefarious actors inexcusably rich while doing nothing for society, but for Good Reasons, right? Such an improvement!

David Given (hjalfi on YouTube) did this port I think. He streamed the porting process for the esp8266[1] too. GREAT STUFF.

https://youtu.be/cDHcGY7EzUM

True, you've never been able to just walk it like you could to Tasmania. I mean millions of years ago, Australia was further south -- it's been inching north[1]. Sea levels around the last glacial maximum[2] made the distances much more 'canue-able'. I would consider that at least 'more connected', but you are correct.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/03/mind-the-gap... [2] https://phys.org/news/2018-04-island-hopping-route-people-au...

There is compelling but rare evidence of habitation back as far at 60,000 years. But there is zero reason to assume the continent was sealed to migration at any point. In fact it was disconnected and reconnected by land bridges more than once over that period. Culture is a process not an artifact. Regarding the speed of change, tally the vocab contribution of Norman French, Anglo Saxon, Roman and Brittonic languages to modern English -- the 'place' has almost forgotten the contributions made beyond about 1,600 years ago even if there are living residents that are genetically linked to inhabitants from thousands of years before.

I remember wheezing with laughter at some of the earlier attempts at AI generating colour names (Ah, found it[1]). I have a much grimmer feeling about where this is going now. The opportunities for unintended consequences and outright abuse are accelerating way faster that anyone really has a plan to deal with.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/an-ai...

The topic is taboo. I cannot be freely discussed on these platforms regardless of the position taken.

I love the idea of OpenBSD but have only had a couple of sad reintroductions over the years and never spent the time apparently required to "get it just right" before needing to get something else done.

It feels like a base install leaves you in several hours of configuration debt, and I apparently don't have the concentration span to dig my way out to somewhere interesting and not just half way back to productive on the systems I already use.

My newest computer is from 2014 for reference, oldest from around 2008 and I emulate older stuff.

I know I'm "doing it wrong" and perhaps it isn't a right fit for everyone but ... That's how it is.

I'm very sorry to hear about your sister.

Warning: People not prepared to read about harm coming to children should probably scroll past this one.

I'm still haunted from the first time I read about this.

"Don't touch this if you see it." becomes "We're now actuarially confident you're not likely to see this, and if you do, we can say we lost two after all." We'd like to hope this sort of truth twisting is unthinkable in that country, but countries everywhere are getting weird.

Edit: user defrost provided some good looking context comment exactly of the form I was looking for, thanks. The specifics of the available technology matters when assessing these claims.

For some reason I'm actually skeptical it has actually been found. A cynical reading is they scanned all the places people were ever likely to intentionally stop on that road and found nothing. So harm is just very unlikely, but leaving the item unaccounted for was just really, really bad press. I want to hear more about the sensitivity of this scanning device, particularly when used at this speed, and from someone knowledgeable in the field.