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It’s also likely that having grown up surrounded by journalists and people working for newspapers, his education allows him to properly write articles as a freshman. That doesn’t prevent him for learning computer science if that’s what he likes doing.

To be fair to Jung, most of what he wrote is barely coherent garbage with zero experimental backing and an attitude towards intellectual honesty and scientific integrity which I would politely qualify as problematic. Sorry, I think it had to be said.

It’s an init system and a process manager. How exactly can it be fun?

Technically, I guess it’s interesting to design if you are an expert but as a user, having to use creativity is the last thing I want from low level pieces of my OS. If you want to tinker with OS design, you can always install Minix in a VM.

Probably the first Spelunky but Slay the Spire, A Short Hike and Disco Elysium are close. Honorable mention to both 80 days, Stardew Valley and The Witcher 3.

> the original but better

Better story but less interesting and easier combats. I know of at least one person who loved the first mostly for the gameplay and got bored very quickly with the second. Both incredible games anyway.

I have only played Forbidden West and it’s the most mediocre experience I had with a video game in the past decade. The gameplay felt clunky with weird spikes of difficulty in the middle of otherwise fairly boring segments. The main plot was utter trash and the other quests completely uninteresting. If that’s the standard of good AAA games, I never want to play another one.

Do they? Considering how much was at stack in term of PR when OpenAI released ChatGPT, I would be surprised that Google didn’t put out the best they could.

> maybe as an intermediate step we could make available all the recordings to the peer reviewers

The issue is clearly not the amount of data available to peer reviewers considering it's already easy to detect major flaws in a quarter of published peer reviewed research. The issue is that peer reviewers do a shoddy job which should surprise no one having ever published peer reviewed research.

And to be fair why should they do better? It's generally unpaid, it's poorly paid when it is paid and it's not particularly well considered.

Please read the article before commenting. The problem is not how hard it is to run clinical trial. It's that made up data is an endemic problem. It doesn't matter if clinical trials are hard or easy to organise when up to a quarter don't actually bother and just forge their results.

I don’t need to assume anything. Gwern isn’t an anonymous poster. His bio is in his profile and he is indeed American.

First results are in by the way. Second highest results for the opening weekend of a Ghibli movie. I think they will survive the lack of marketing.

> but there's also an extraordinarily low level of discussion. I was shocked when I clicked on the first review and realized it was a review - "oh, huh, when did it come out?"

You are commenting on an article in the Verge for a movie which has only been released in Japan and won’t be out in the USA for months. This article is one of many in most western publications. A lot can be said about this movie but having a low level of discussion is definitely not one of them.

What’s the point of a marketing campaign when you have so much organic reach?

The issue with Paris is not the Parisians. It’s the bloody tourists. Covid was great. Please stop coming. Thank you.

Vim definitely was designed and remains an editor first and foremost. The IDE=like functionalities were clearly cobbled together later and it shows, on that we agree.

What always surprises me however is why having realised the limit of this model, decide to go back to VSCode, another editor with cobbled together IDE=like functionalities? IDEs are nice. Last time I checked VSCode debugging was still subpar and required fiddling with configurations.

No, it’s clearly not how it works.

National scale investment like the power grid are not subject to the same kind of rules that classical investment because the state can and do print money. For all the bad things I have to say about the Inflation Reduction Act for exemple, it will result in significant investment in renewable with money which for all intent and purpose appeared out of thin air (with all the impact this will have on the overall equilibrium of the economy).

You could have at the same time have a comprehensive investment plan for nuclear and renewable without one significantly impacting the funding of the other. The US would be labour and knowledge limited long before it is capital starved.

For all the bad things I have to say about the cost, it’s still Microsoft. We have a direct line to them and they are here when you need them.

> But, achieving all of the other attributes of simple HTTP triggered functions in a DIY context is very challenging without also spinning up a billion dollar corporation and hiring 1k more people.

I literally rolled my eyes reading that. How do you think we did before cloud computing?

I am currently in charge of multiple teams scaling and deploying innovative applications for a large industrial company. We are using Azure for everything. Our cloud costs are insane for our number of users. I used to manage applications with ten times more user for one hundredth of the cost and less complexity. It’s billed to another part of the company which is responsible for this dubious choice (I really hope someone is getting nice business trips paid by MS so it’s not a complete waste) so I don’t care but how people can blindly put faith in the cloud is beside me.

> It matters because every dollar put into nuclear is dollar away from something else.

That’s not how things work. It’s tempting to view money in such simple term but also very wrong. In effect, the state has a lot of leeway in how it decides to invest and a lot of conservative positions are taken to preserve the overall status quo when it comes to who has power and who hasn’t.

I’m not sure a somewhat popular author of pop sci-fi novels of dubious quality in the 60s should be held as a guideline for rules regarding safe usage of AI.

> What rubs me the wrong way about the mhils Github response is that it fails to answer the question that the commenter asked: Is there or is there not a target date for the next release (and if so, what is it)?

Why exactly do you expect him to answer that? It’s not like he is working for the guy. He can do whatever he wants.

Reading this discussion I’m starting to understand why so many open source maintainers end up calling it quit.

> it was mhils who first responded like a jerk.

What?!!

Mhils answered happy to setup a support contract if you need timely release while pointing to his email. Nothing in his answer is out of line. I think you need to seriously reset your expectations if you think that answer from someone providing free labour is in any way wrong.

That’s why I said average but, anyway, I did my postgraduate in Oxford where most of the American didn’t come from middle of nowhere universities and they were all frankly disappointing in mathematics. My two cents.

I admire your ability to find joy in these things.

At the beginning of my career, I once spent a week in a secure facility trying to understand an annoying network bug using tcpdump because we weren’t allowed to install wireshark. The whole thing turned out to be a combination of the worst bug I have ever seen in a standard library in our decade old version of GNAT (Ada lib - admittedly it had been corrected seven years before) and an ARP misconfiguration.

The whole week was awful and largely responsible for me moving on to greener pastures. It takes a special kind of character to enjoy these things.

> Without hesitation, computer science is certainly not a mathematics major.

Properly taught it definitely is.

The issue here is that an average undergraduate mathematics major in the USA learns a ridiculously low amount of mathematics so I guess a CS one does even less. I did more maths during my two years of prépa in France that the American who majored in mathematics I met during my postgraduate study.

That’s a classical and expected corollary to social dumping reforms intended to boost competitiveness. There is less money invested inside your own economy (that’s what the saving rate is) as you have intentionally made people poorer which leads to an influx of foreign capital propping up your currency and nullifying the advantage you were expecting on the international market.

As mentioned before Germany whose economy is extremely unbalanced and wouldn’t be viable if it used its own currency was shielded at the cost of killing the competitiveness of the poorest union members.

Have you heard of this thing called an image?

> it seems to me improbable that they will make in September (after the hypothetical approval of the "ecodesign" draft) an amendment to something approved only a few months before.

Par for the course with the EU especially when it comes to laws dealing with the environments. See for exemple the regulations linked to the green taxonomy where half of the material is still missing despite the law coming into force and where information about how the law should actually be applied are published months late. The EU is kind of a joke sometimes.

The Inflation Reduction Act in the USA and the equivalent measures which have been taken in China but don’t have a catchy name. Both countries are currently giving subsidies to companies at an unprecedented rate.

The Hartz reforms are fairly famous, yes. It’s mostly social dumping. Forced contraction of actual wages through reform of the benefits plans.

It’s important to note that they are overall poor reforms and should have been nullified by the German money value shifting due to the knock off effect on the saving rate. This didn’t happen because they were put in place at the same time as the Euro and the overall imbalance in the union allowed Germany to keep an undervalued currency. In effect, Germany robbed all the poorer members of the union to prop up its own economy something it has kept doing since.

And obviously the reason is the lack of labour reform and not the billions in handouts currently given by the US and China which the EU refuses to match because of its brain dead insistence on undistorted markets and fiscal rigour. Ah Politico, such well researched and reasonable journalism, it warms my heart…

> Hopefully, we never need an aircraft to be fully grounded with a tethered cable.

That’s one way of landing an helicopter on a boat in a rough sea. It works surprisingly well.