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The sentiment is very much strongly warranted. It derives from 1) an inversion of the legal onus, and 2) a dangerous slippery slope in civil liberty.

Car manufacturers have been repeatedly caught with their pants down on the multiple security flaws in keyless ignition systems. These are multi-million dollar businesses choosing not do spend money on recalls or R&D to mitigate this. These corporations are effectively externalizing private costs with public over-reaching legislation and public law enforcement.

Secondly, and much more gravely, the criminalizing with 'unlimited fine', as most laws, will rely on non-technical people's interpretation. In practice this means (as prior history shows with regards to legislation and tech), that the step between banning Bulgarian RF repeater/jammers for key fobs, and charging a 16 year old with a several thousands Pounds fine just for using an SDR dongle becomes something very real.

For anyone with experience past or present in autocratic states it is also an obvious reduction of civil liberties in (what should be) a democratic society.

I was gonna say looking at world affairs, it's starting to feel like the end of the Westphalian system.

Interact as in fly-by repair? Or interact as in interfere/tamper/destroy?

Nobody is being exploited, most people _want_ to self-employ to not get chewed by income tax.

Most states in Europe treat you like you're mister money bags for anything above 50k a year.

You can choose:

- Cost of living (read Housing)

- Taxation

- Income

Government's need to curb one of the first two or boost the third, otherwise people will always be looking for the exit door.

Curiously I think that also depends at least in my anecdata case.

In a work/technical context I am definitely thinking and reasoning in English.

At home if I am discussing or planning something my inner voice is definitely in my mother tongue.

What is interesting is that irrespective of context if I m doing basic arithmetics or simplifying an equation my inner monologue is _always_ in my mother tongue.

Another one is levels of pain. If I have some misfortune or accident I might swear in English. But if I _really_ hurt myself there is deluge of swear words in my mother tongue.

As a dabbler (using python mostly for internal engineering tools and post processing of data) I am using uv at home but not in a professional setting.

The latest release is at 0.6.1, what is missing (roadmap/timeline wise) for uv to exist as a 1.0 release?

This is absolutely amazing work but I would not call him a hobbyist.

Again not diminishing the work but adjusting the expectations, this output is not from a curious guy in a shed. He is a trained Electrical Engineer working as a Senior Consultant/Scientist in RF design for a Finnish Engineering Consultancy.

This guy clearly has a breadth and depth of knowledge from his professional career which he brings with him into his out-of-office projects.

I just want to say that in 2024 there are _a_lot_ of hospitals doing shift planning manually and burning people out.

Also irrespective of the project itself, amazing wife!

> The gov.uk website completely eschews JavaScript at some usability cost

I would imagine this was mostly driven by accessibility requirements more so than some ideological rigidity.

> All our written interaction will have been polished and enhanced by one LLM or another into a uniform template.

Isn't that just a natural continuation of a global homogenization of human culture and experience?

If you visit anywhere in Europe, or Asia, or the Americas you now have virtually the same 'a la starbucks' coffee culture (even in countries with strong cafe cultures). Same lighting, same minimalist furniture, same music.

Couples now take the same style of wedding/newborn photos across the globe.

Music globally has become less, not more, diverse.[0]

A loss of writer's voice or style would be just another step in this global 'blandenization' of human experience/aesthetics.

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/science-proves-pop...

> I follow a bunch of developers (surprise surprise) and read mostly technical blogs

As a follow-up, how do you go about discovering the people you keep up with if they are not personal acquaintances?

The vendor list is really telling of the issues with Ada's adoption:

- Of my quick scan, only AdaCore supports Ada 2012 (where a lot of the really good stuff is implemented) the rest are stuck on Ada 95.

- None of the vendors seem to list transparent pricing.

If you are only selling based on volume and through a sales rep then you are off the bat excluding most startups, SMEs, and just general bootstrap curious folks.

Excessive NO2 emissions spewed by diesel engines not meeting regulations very literally removed years from our collective life spans in city centres across the world.

Despite their own health hazards no amount of tire particulate from EV's can achieve that level of widespread public health impact.

There are also different styles of teaching and learning. Karpathy always like to start from first principles and increment the building blocks.

Whereas for example Jeremy Howard's style resonates a lot more with how I enjoy learning, very much a "let's build it" and then tinker around to gain intuition on how things inside the box are working.

I see the benefit in both approaches and perhaps Karpathy is more methodical and robust. But I just find Howard's top-down style a lot easier to stay motivated with when I am learning on my own time.

I am not expert but there seems to be an overlap in the article between 'AI' and well ... just software, or signal processing:

- AI that collects “real time” biometric data in public places for the purposes of law enforcement.

- AI that creates — or expands — facial recognition databases by scraping images online or from security cameras.

- AI that uses biometrics to infer a person’s characteristics

- AI that collects “real time” biometric data in public places for the purposes of law enforcement.

All of the above can be achieved with just software, statistics, old ML techniques, i.e. 'non hype' AI kind of software.

I am not familiar with the detail of the EU AI pact but it seems like the article is simplifying important details.

I assume the ban is on the purpose/usage rather than whatever technology is used under the hood, right?

Hi Andrew, amazing work and done for the best of reasons!

I see you are replying in the thread, in your closing notes you wrote:

> I would not have been able to get past the initial stages without ChatGPT.

One of the coolest uses of LLMs for me is indeed exploring a problem domain where I am not a subject matter expert.

The problem is if it leads you down a dead end or hallucinates a solution. Then, at the edge of your knowledge, you actually have a very small foothold with which to challenge these chat replies.

Did you also face this on the more HW 'heavy' part of your project? Any tips on how to navigate terra incognita with LLMs?

> $40K is a small investment, not a gamble. If it would fail, worst case you would only lose $3000-$6500 or so.

As someone not familiar with investment sourcing or SME financing. Could you break down the maths/accounting? How do you go from sinking 40k in a business to losing 6.5k if you turn the lights off at the end?

I think the moment that clicked for me was when I heard young people in my family circle (25 and below), _in_Europe_ claiming that Trump "will likely be good for the economy".

When I dug deeper they were effectively repeating talking points they heard on TT. When I dug deeper I also realized they are conditioned to distrusted mainstream news, but somehow 10sec videos on TT are legit.

If you can shape the opinions of young men in Europe, raised in social-democratic nations to have them believe that a bankrupt, convict, conman, traitor, kompromat, will be good for the US and global economy then you can truly shape any opinion anywhere.

If we are selling Bristol I need to add one more to the list.

- Bristolians are a big part of what makes Bristol an amazing and 'gert lush' city.

It was the most laid back and enjoyable place I have lived in my time in the UK largely because the people around me were also super welcoming and open-minded.

Neighbours, work colleagues, random people in pubs/concerts, many are still long term friends.

The University openness ethos permeates the city i suppose, but it was kind of the closest I felt in a large city to the 'village/community experience'.

A lot of it is learned behaviour. You get used to working and being productive at night because it's often when you have free time and quiet time. Your brain then starts associating that light setting/environment with 'in the zone' mental states.

As an example I used to be a midnight owl but now with kids I have to make the most of my daytime hours and squeeze as much sleep as I can in the night hours. I totally get the warmth of working the night hours but I am also fine with being in the zone during the daytime. You can shape your brain to get used to anything.

On the topic of WFH eye strain but less on lighting.

There was a post a while back where the author proposed using a laser projector as a means of reducing eye strain.

She referred to lighting as a factor but I assume the major benefit is the increasing distance to the screen such that your eyes are focused on a point much further away than conventional screens (and I assume eye strain is not linear with distance).

Is there any evidence on this topic? Assuming space is not a problem why is a projector arrangement not more popular? (for office work where people don't care about colour accuracy)

> salute

Salutes. He did it more than once in that speech.

In full, hand to chest and all.

It really starts at a young age.

I remember playing (my) football (your soccer) in school and my neighbourhood as a kid.

If you were going to strike you needed to be pretty sure that you can score or that you can take the heat from your team mates if you fail.

In contrast watching kids play sports in the US, everyone is constantly trying to lift each other up after failure.

These small cultural differences easily add up in how you carry yourself in business.

Negativity seems to be culturally frowned upon in the US (what a downer). Positivity seems to be culturity frowned in Europe (naive 'happy go lucky' kind of guy).

> on an unjustified 125k.

Irrespective of your self perception of value, I am not sure you are fully grasping the disconnect between the growth in cost of living and the (lack of) growth in wages of the past 50 years for the average human in western economies.

By many standards we actually need that 125k just to live what we would consider a middle class life in the 1980's.

I used IRC in my teens as an early social network but has since never used.

If I wanted to get involved in say more technical/niche channels outside my expertise, is there any advice or unwritten rules I should know?

Perhaps a better question, how should you participate (as noob) without getting Stack Overflow beatings, and show respect of other people's time?

I am assuming IEEE is not travelling the world doing investigative journalism, they will have used whatever media was provided by the university.

It's a concept for R&D to try stuff out and for Marketing to get people to talk about the brand. I would be surprised an active system like this would survive the lifetime of a car without an unpalatable amount of maintenance and parts replacement.

Worth pointing out that EPFL's PR release includes a picture of Won Dong Shin (the PhD that actually built it) as opposed to a picture of the lab's director as it sometimes happens in academia.

I have never had a voice coach but many moons ago I stumbled on this video from an irish MBA lecturer, Conor Neill:

> 5 Aspects of a Powerful Speaking Voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE7QJSO449o

It's a short video but it really resonated with me and helped me make a lot of actionable changes in how I speak (in a professionally setting at least).

> Germany admitted close to one million

Not Germany, Merkel. Merkel Incentivized and allowed admitting refugees at an unprecedented rate.