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Considering they handle and transport a lot of money, it's safe to assume they don't meet to make back of the envelope estimations concerning weight and volume.

Fun fact, people who work at the Fed just print their salary at the end of the month.

This would be a coherent argument if the paper was submitted by an email address. Instead the paper was submitted by a person. The email address serves to identify the person. Only the person can redact the paper.

Could you give a concrete example concerning what sort of notation caused you difficulty in the past? Asking because it seems odd to me that you feel you need to learn „all“ the notation to get started.

Starting in elementary school you slowly build up topics, mathematical intuition and notation more or less in unity. E.g. starting with whole numbers, plus and minus signs before multiplication, then fractions and decimal notation. By the end of high school you may have reached integrals and matrices to work with concepts from calculus and linear algebra…

It makes little sense to confront people with notation before the corresponding concepts are being taught. So it feels like you may have a different perspective on notation as a layperson that are no longer obvious to more advanced learners.

Exactly, Typescript doesn't stop working because of random runtime errors, it stops working because you didn't update the toolchain tangle last Thursday and then some configuration file got out of whack with the tsc defaults ;-)

Not to mention you're not blowing money up Bezo's botoxed arse.

If it was a movie with Kevin Costner how can you question it's veracity!?

This is interesting and sets off a bunch of ideas. It might be fun to generate a printed version that can differently depending on how it's lit, either red/green or tricks with pwm'ing LEDs...

How happy are you with the results?The execution is great, but I feel the idea didn't really validate well. Every single sample ended up with pictures like this: (https://hotel.trvcdn.com/380/de/800024805/700034633/nh-colle...). While I'm impressed at how accurately you can detect chairs with wheels, that doesn't seem to be an indicator of an ergonomic workspace. Quite frankly, I would have preferred (and been fine with) sitting on the bed with my laptop in every hotel I clicked on.

Ok, I'll bite: why have you been looking for ways to identify the make and model of hotel chairs?

Possibly even have a product and not just renderings.

I want it to receive regular updates for the reasonable lifetime of the product provide by the original manufacturer! Kazam!

Same, T460 and a T480 I think. Updated to an SSD and maxed out RAM. My only quibble is max 1980x??? Screen resolution. ThinkPad are so cheap when they come back from their leasing contract, not sure why not more people are excited about them.

Even if you don't use Linux, they typically come with a Windows Pro license built in.

What are Maggie and Kasper's list? Could you provide a link, please?

Did you translate the original French to modern English or modernize the new translation?

I wonder how those would compare. Translating the original would probably be the 'correct' thing to do, from a literary point of view. Poses some interesting question, though.

But when Sam Altman owns all the money in the world surely he'll distribute some it via his not-for-profit AI company?

So data.illinois.gov has been hacked?

You could wire it up either way. In general the LED is extremely likely to outlive the rest of the laptop, though.

I wish she would put on a different shirt every once in a while.

I'm not aware of any definition of metastability that would be a desirable property of a system. Vaguely speaking, in my understanding metastability in physics, chemistry and electronics refers to a state that has not yet fully settled and the final state is therefore undeterminable / random.

Could you elaborate your understanding of the term? I can see it related to concepts like eventual consistency, just unclear of how it would be considered a positive characteristic. I'd have thought that a deterministic outcome would be important in a database system?

The article you linked to says they raise $175mio at a _valuation_ of $3b

Maybe you could be a little more concrete. So you're not taking a United States point of view, which point of view are you taking? I'm not aware of any country which provides "necessities" such as food and housing as the general case. Not anywhere in the EU, not in "communist" countries and outside of famines, certainly not in the third world. Of course there are food stamps and social housing projects for poor and elderly people, but I'm referring to the general case. Where do you see any significant necessities being provided to the general populace by the state? Which necessities?

Of course you can define "subsidies of some degree" to prove your point, but that doesn't change the fact that most people in the world generally have to pay for things, even necessities. The major exception being basic education which seems to be universally provided for free.

I have no idea what sort of a burden paying $5 for browser software would place on poor people, but I am sure that society would find a way, much like it does with other necessities. I also disagree that a browser financed by advertising is less of a burden to the vulnerable. The advertising revenue comes from the products they purchase.

I didn't make my point clear: that something is a necessity typically doesn't have the consequence that "government" has to provide it. In the general case, people are expected to buy food, pay rent, etc. These things are typically not provided for free or exchange for exposing your personal data. Only in exceptional cases does society step in to cover these expenses.

The argument that browsers somehow "need" to be free because they are a necessity makes little sense. Compare that phone or laptop the browser is running on is not provided free of charge either. A working automobile is arguably a necessity in large parts of the US and I don't see anyone handing out cars.

> when it's clear who's done it and why.

Is it though? From my understanding it's clearly sabotage, but who's responsible is open to some debate. Compare to NordStream, it's still not officially determined who's responsible.

> How do you do this for something that's a basic necessity at this point? ... If not bankrolled by a company, browsers would need to be government funded

You mean like government funded food, housing, health care and other basic necessities?

But you do have to admit that they know very many big important sounding words, go off on extremely dope tangents ("second order chilling effects!" Fuck yeah!) AND say "giigle" instead of Google, which is a.) super cool (obviously) but I suspect there's b.) a darker reason: they are probably a rouge cryptoanarchist being hunted down by The Algorithm and are only able to survive on the streets because of there every-day-carry RF blocking wallet and screwdriver combo and their ability to outsmart Google, because it hasn't learned all the words yet.

Good luck bro, continuing to obscure the entropic state of the x-M medium and remain plausibly deniable. Shannon in the (his?) house, mothafucka! Stenography FTW!

Especially after they were ragging on french developers for "not understanding ROI".

And the final paragraph is the kicker: "I’ve nothing against GitLab, and their software might be pretty good. All we know is that they’re outsiders, while a lot of the tech market in Europe seems to think that betting on GitLab is the best go-to-market strategy."

Sounds like they haven't even evaluated gitlab? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. At least I've heard of Gitlab! If your advice is not to cooperate with outsiders or to even evaluate their offering, well... The French have amazing marketers, but they suck at writing coherent blog posts ;)

Pretty useable though. It's more of a glossary that explains the meaning of the (very short) command names and sends you to the proper Volume (in roman numerals) those are sorted alphabetically.

Considering most users would probably be reading this on a fan paper printout, an index like this was probably quite good ergonomically.

And most "departments" nowadays won't have a seven-figure racks of hardware. Especially not incredibly arcane hardware that possibly only 100's of people on earth are capable of operating at all, which require you to upgrade your electrical and possibly floors and furthermore are so novel conceptually that one is not even sure what problems would be applicable to it.

For good reason. The domain has nothing to do with British Airways.