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> catastrophic loss of human population

At the same time, the population has been booming to the point that close to half of the humans who ever existed are alive on Earth right now. This is a significant part of the current crisis actually.

The core of the issue is that we are polluting and not managing externalities as we should right now. It means we need to fix what we are doing not that we have to go back to the pre-modern world.

The projection of multiple agenda only tangentially related to the the actual issue we are facing is not helping.

Nicotine is quite bad for your blood pressure.

That’s a high amount of sugar. That by itself can’t be too good.

Nobody knows what the Royal Navy actually has. Nobody knows what other governments have. You are in the realm of what are the actual capabilities of nuclear weapons carrying subs. You can safely assume than anything remotely interesting is classified.

Yes, also, while I have only worked on military boats and never on subs, I can straight away tell you that anyone who would know anything remotely interesting or close to the cutting edge regarding inertial navigation system for subs wouldn't be able to talk about it.

It's one of these subjects where you will never get anything better that vague press releases designed to justify research budgets.

No offense but the iPhone UX is notorious for having obscure features most users don’t know about and which are never exposed. Not that Android is better but as a distinction between the two that’s a poor one. They are both terrible when it comes to properly exposing features.

Apple is notorious for retaliating against “news” companies giving them bad reviews especially for demo and preview. At this point, an article is worth approximately as much as a marketing copy straight from them.

But HoloLens has pretty much entirely abandoned the consumer market and is now targeting the lucrative segment of professional usage where there is obvious gain to me made using AR, a segment Apple has always been mostly uninterested in.

Professional don’t buy new technology out of the goodness of their heart. They do it because there is a market to address generally business users. Yet Apple seems to be mostly positioning the Vision as an entertainment centred device targeting a large market. At this price point, it is quite surprising.

I think significant questions remain at this point about their actual go-to-market strategy (unsurprisingly considering they have only been given a short keynote presentation) which make people suspicious if not sceptical when you take into account the other notorious failures in this market.

Don’t seem entirely comparable in that both watches and iem were legitimate markets to which Apple brought an innovative products while AR and VR headsets are a notoriously difficult market where plenty of products have already tried and failed to make money.

If this succeed, to me it will be more akin to what the iPad did than to what the watch did.

It’s also extremely expensive. I’m curious to see how Apple will market it. We will see.

Steam and Apple models are extremely different. What you buy on Steam can’t be launched outside of Steam but Steam is happy to serve as a launcher for content coming from outside of it and will allow said content to use its extra functionalities (controller support and chat notably). Valve hardware is always notoriously open. The deck runs and allows you to access Linux.

Apple is completely different and outside of MacOS strictly controls everything.

All of this is available in Excel by the way.

Spotify is not responsible for the terrible contracts linking artists to right holders. If artists want a fairer revenue split, they should just negotiate it with the distribution companies they chose to sign with.

> diesel is very small %

Depends of where you are. The share is very significant in Europe (it’s falling but still in the 30%-40% range).

Most cars using a diesel engine are indeed fitted with a particulate filter nowadays. It is more or less necessary to meet environmental standards in most of the world. So at least some cars do.

I worked for different parts of the national railway company of my country (France) for four years (circulations management and scheduling mostly - briefly on a CBTC system and the first studies on autonomous driving). It’s hard to understand how complicated it is to keep trains running if you haven’t experienced it.

> while in English literature actual stuff happens and is told in a nice but practical way.

That’s an overly broad generalisation.

I can give you a ton of English novels spending pages after pages describing the movement of a leaf in the wind in rather florid language. It’s much more likely that you have been mostly exposed to a lot of old and rather serious novels during your education in Spanish are now mostly consuming novels you find entertaining in English.

It’s the same with the Odyssey which let’s not forget is originally written in ancien Greek verses. The epic has been translated hundreds of times with vastly different goals. Even in the same language, some translations aim to capture the poesy of the original either in its rythme or in its evocative power, some try to stay as close as possible to the Greek text, some just want to be easy to understand.

I don’t think you can buy support from the Document Foundation, can you?

Even then it would be vastly different than working with Red Hat/IBM. Most procurement offices probably wouldn’t be fine dealing with such a small partner.

The fact is with Oracle and Red Hat having withdrawn, no serious company nowadays supports OpenOffice/LibreOffice. This part of the market which was already mostly dead when serious online solutions arrived is now pretty much officially buried.

That’s not what support means.

Who can you call if you have a technical issue with LibreOffice? One possible answer used to be Red Hat if you had the entreprise version and a support contract.

You can’t arbitrarily decide that being ready to pay $5 a month is magically an appropriate filter under which people are not allowed to care. This argument has no substance.

It’s a Reddit client. It’s marginally better than the official one but there is absolutely no way that it’s 5$ a month better to most user. I did purchase it and thought it was too expensive for what it is (it’s noticeably worse than most free Android client for exemple) and always refused to pay the subscription because, well, it’s a bloody Reddit client.

> Google has enough lawyers to give the EU and US the run around when they want to.

Google has paid something like 10 billions dollars of fines in the EU during the last decade. I don’t think they are giving the run around to anyone.

Weird article. The actual content is buried somewhat in the middle and you have to wad through irrelevant paragraphs after irrelevant paragraphs to get to it.

Turn out California work laws have an exception regarding hourly wage for shepherds due to the special requirements of the job but goat-herders are not currently considered shepherds. An amendment to correct that is being pushed through but has yet to be voted. As of now in its absence, the activity is not profitable anymore.

> and not typical SEO blogspam

I mean it’s the New Yorker. It would be news worthy if they did do blogspam rather than long form articles.

Extremely American way of looking at it. Here in France most of my friends have been in committed relationships and living together for years, some have children, only one couple is married. Marriage is an holdover from a time far removed which is both utterly useless and slightly paternalistic.

It goes beyond making their kids happy. If you see your family as an expending unit, helping your kids finance their education and buy a house is probably the most impactful thing you can do financially. Having a house early saves you a ton on rent and that’s even more important when you are young and have a low salary.

> I find the capability of LLMs deeply surprising

The more time passes the more I’m convinced that what we are witnessing is that intelligence is not actually that rare or complicated and any kind of system complex enough to create emergent behaviours will end up displaying it.

Very curious to see where things are going to go from there.

He is saying “be an actual professional and don’t bring a vocabulary pertaining to intimate discussions to the public sphere when what’s discussed is a technical conference.”

It’s already barely acceptable in a purely American context. To me as a European, this is extremely off putting and culturally out of line which is a recurring problem with Rust.

SML definitely has a nicer formal definition but OCaml has better performance and a lot more functionalities. I wouldn’t say SML is the better language but the syntax definitely is cleaner.

Strangely I think SML focus on being well defined and tidy is why it never really took off. A language success is linked to its community and your features define who will want to join you. It seems to me that at the beginning it’s better to attract tinkerers than perfectionists.