I'm of course hearing this second- or third-hand, but when I read 'evolution of weather systems' I substitute for 'cellular automata'/'Conway's game of life', vaguely recall them as being Turing-complete, then smile and nod and get back to ignoring the article.
My biggest problem with “tax the rich” is: then what? Build another “high-speed train”? Spend the money on some fake nonprofit run by the same rich people?
Right, that's what was so funny about it. Finding a counterexample: an incredible mathematical achievement. Verifying a counterexample: barely even a weeknight homework problem in an undergraduate multivariable course.
I don't know why your comment is downvoted, because it makes much sense. That's assuming the proof is not founded in assumptions, and the proof checker doesn't have bugs.
Upstream has followed several of opend's innovations: we shipped interpolated expressions on day one of the fork (that was the straw that broke the camel's back) and then, after 7 years of procrastination, upstream also merged it a week later. We shipped extern(Objective-C) support, upstream backported it (and actually fixed enough bugs that I replaced my original impl with their's) a few months later. Upstream has talked about "safe by default" for over nine years. We shipped "safer by default" as a compromise (full safe by default is too much of a breaking change) a few months after forking, then a few months after we shipped it, upstream announced their own "safer by default" switch (which you have to opt into, so they kinda missed the point of "by default" but still, they followed the overall concept). For basically ever, Walter has said null checks in the language were a hard no, we implemented them and then.... guess what, a few months later, my implementation was backported (and again, a few bugs fixed so i appreciate the collaboration when we can get it) and walter decided to allow the merge. Opend shipped druntime on webassembly, looks like something similar coming to upstream.
There's a lot of smaller things that haven't been pulled though, like i merged a bug fix to module naming, which was an upstream PR from like 2018, a fix on library file name generation, a regression from 2019 but has a trivial workaround, a fix to redefined reflection names which everyone finds annoying, the implementation was written in 2017, but they had endless debates about syntax and i just made an executive decision and moved on but they still bikeshed... stuff like that, they're all little things but minor annoyances every time you hit them and the fixes were easy, so just do it!
Then the two bigger things I did they have talked about but probably won't do is i made the class monitor opt-in, this is a relatively big breaking change, I had to do fixes on 8 different projects. Each one took a few minutes, so not a huge deal, but still. They talked about this in an upstream meeting but decided against taking it (for now at least).
And then I changed the default init of all built in types to zero, including char and float, and this is controversial since float init to nan has legitimate advantages, and the breakage can be subtle if you don't catch it. I was on the fence personally, it more like a 51-49 vote rather than an obvious bug fix, but it is easier to explain to newbies that int and float both init to 0. In theory, you are supposed to explicitly initialize all these all the time, but in practice we know it is different.
So I think the competitive edge is pushing them a little. And I'm not anti-collaboration; I write blogs about my implementations with the hope that they'll give a little code review and that's been semi-successful, like the upstream backporters have indeed fixed bugs in my implementations so I'm happy to share back and forth, we both win that way.
So, clearly condoms are not the complete answer. Any solution that does not acknowledge the reality of how people actually behave is going to be imperfect.
The rapid evolution of AI has made AI-generated misinformation and disinformation a serious risk. An international consortium led by a major Japanese IT company is working to build a trustworthy foundation for society.
job market is insane today. its hard to find a job in retail in some places, software is way more competitive. retraining to some in demand trade takes money you might not have and its still not guaranteed success. and even if you get hired for a stable job theres no guarantee your company will let you work your way up to 200k when they know you cant afford to quit.
the uncertainty of crime is better than endless waiting for an offer that might never come. if you take 10 scammers or drug dealers one of them will get rich, 3 will go to prison and the rest have a relatively normal life. that might be genuinely better odds than a mainstream career for some.
I bought a MBP mainly for the hardware, otherwise I'd have stuck with Linux. OS-wise, the jump from Monterey (which I'd last used) to Sequoia was smooth and still feels that way. I prefer not to notice the OS at all, something that I feel would be hard to do on Tahoe due to all that liquid glass and dumb transparency and animations.
these are just fluff words, not a revolutionary change.
zero trust helped a lot because it forced vendors to stop relying on people magically doing the right thing ina centralized system. it decentralized boundaries.
this paper just says you still need deterministic boundaries and access control, not just have an llm say safe or unsafe. cool thanks google haha.
ps: hi guys, i know yall reading. sometimes its not the concept, its the implementation. else active shield or whatever would have worked too. not everyone can be the T7-9 thinker if implementing is seen as "for peasants"
Always fun to say, always dangerous to live through the actual repercussions of what may "come after" - though this article wasn't really talking about a post-America.
As "bad" as America is (and it's not at all, the hyperbole is anti-intellectual) you aren't guaranteed better future circumstances and history shows that it is much more difficult and time consuming to rebuild institutions, whether that's international law backed by the United States, or the FDA or Department of Education that MAGA want to dismantle, and doing so is a very dangerous gambit without a clear replacement structure.
In fact, I'd argue that the increase in war we've seen over the last 6 years is precisely because of a decline in US relative power and control. Do you want more of that? Because that's what being OK with checking what next seems to imply today.
Additionally problem nations, whether that is Russia, Iran, China, Cuba, or others don't just like go away or become peaceful democracy-loving countries where, but, if only the US were to go away everyone would be happy. In the "what's next" you are looking at an American withdrawal from NATO and subsequent further aggression by Russia, Iran further dismantling and destroying the Middle East's stability and proceeding to build nuclear weapons, China invading Taiwan with impunity and pushing Japan and South Korea closer to an authoritarian communist led order, and you have countries such as Cuba or Venezuela where economies are in ruins, mass migration throughout Latin America occurs along with increases in violence and other destabilizing factors.
None of that excuses American behavior toward Canada recently, but burning everything down because Trump mean tweet seems like an outrageously bad idea. On the other hand, it'll save us quite a lot of money in the short term.
And compressed flammable gas canisters, which are sadly common all over Asia. If they leak due to structural compromise, e.g. being squashed by falling concrete, there isn't really a shutoff valve you can use.
This is kinda disgusting but I think applies to this discussion.
Blue cheese. Its living mold. I think it tastes good.
BUT.. when I eat it, I notice a few days later that my excrement smells more like blue cheese as well. My guess is that I'm inoculating my own digestive tract with blue cheese molds.
Another mishap happened with my cat too. I gave her some beef from our supper. Some of the gorgonzola blue cheese sauce got on it, but I thought I cut and kept the blue cheese off. Nope, I didnt, not enough. She had diarrhea for the next 2 days cause it wrecked with her digestive tract.
I think it might be because the tech bros got into a one-off event where a lot of people did and could've made money (as long as they were somewhat intelligent). Now the writing is on the wall that growth in the future will stall, as the sector takes up a larger portion of the economy,and positions of power will stabilise. Some of them probably believe turning elitist and racist could ensure them a better position for a while.
Maybe I'm trying to rationalise their behaviour too much but it feels like techbros have gotten a scarcity mindset.
