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so then if you're not guilty, so not actually innocent, you're like... kinda guilty, right? you could still end up on the no-fly list, or the sex offenders list, or what have you.

The last couple of nightjets in the order from Siemens were converted back to day trains (rail jets), presumably because the trainsets are not economical enough (too few beds).

The capacity really is the main issue, in terms of cost.

The second is lack of privacy, in terms of attractiveness. 6-people-per-cabin couchette cars have sufficient capacity, but the market isn't quite there anymore.

We basically want to get as many cabins as possible in railcar (to reduce cost), but they're are comfortable and private (to increase attractiveness). With these levers, you can change the operating margin from -15%..-10% to around 10%.

Well, European sleeper is an operator -- their ability to improve the technology/interior is limited, it's a huge task just to keep running.

We are not an operator, so we will work with operators, basically adding our railcars to their trains.

"New goal: not exceed 2°C, then bring the temperature back down to 1.5°C"

It kind of feels people have given up. I'm working on a startup that aims to replaces aviation (the most difficult emissions to avoid) with night trains in Europe (currently economically uncompetitive). It's an obvious impact story, but impact appears to be "out".

Totalcmd on windows. On Mac I’m using some off-brand klone that’s kinda ok but uses like 1GB of memory per instance window. Mac OS is such a shit show these days.

They did

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yczxUJLPhkg&ra=m

My wisdom teeth pushed out against all the other teeth. It was painful, they had to come out. It was a couple months too late. My lower front teeth got kinda crooked then, due to being pushed together, and still are, 20 years later.

integrating the functionality of a download manager, the kind of software that's been around since longer than 2002.

That’s like trickery anno 2002. How come this hasn’t been solved in the last decades?

I used to play GTA San Andreas on an n270 netbook, I believe at 1024x600. Didn’t run well, but was definitely playable.

If you and your sentient clone somehow agree that you murdering him is "cool", doesn't make you murdering him any less of a murder. The example is rather contrived, since an atom-by-atom clone of you would have the same memory and drives as you (it probably wouldn't even be possible to identify which is the clone), so it would seem in this scenario you both appear to have a death wish. But acting on somebody else's death wish and murdering them does not make it "not murder" just because they expressed a death wish.

> If a criminal on death row is executed, we would not say they were murdered.

Who is "we" in this case.

In many if not most countries, capital punishment is viewed as a barbaric practice. Many regard it as murder, because as you note, it is the killing of a person.

> Imagine that I’m able to create an atom-for-atom clone of myself, have the clone clean the attic, then vanish into thin air. Would that be slavery? Murder?

Your atom-for-atom clone is his own sentient, intelligent being, a human, with human rights. If you make him clean the attic once, that may not be slavery yet (depending on what threat you use to make him work for you). If you then evaporate him, it's definitely murder.

This situation has fairly obvious morality; it's not clear how this helps with thinking about AI.

So it’s not about scam American companies, who are using drugs(?) to manipulate…?

The Tagebaurekultivierungsaktivitäten have been going on for a long time. I remember visiting some former open pit in the 90s, as they started filling it, noting how it would take like 10 years or so. Pretty strange land.

>It's old, I guess, which means either you've played it already or you haven't and never intend to.

It's in my Steam library. I'll get around to it eventually. Or perhaps my kids will do so before me.

Just use Social Media (and their algorithms) to condition everybody to hate the other gender. Then there will be a loneliness epidemic and no more kids. Humanity will cease to exist, all without any messy deaths or conflict in the mean time.

We have arrived at the Windows Vista era for Mac OS.

Love the hardware. But I need an operating system with correctly working alt-tab (per window), which will pop up instantly rather than within 0-5s.

We’re in the windows Vista days of Apple.

Dating Apps don’t need to be corporate. You could make an app for a whole country with a company of less than 10 people.

That's easy to say. I might as well say nobody wants to be addicted to crack (or whatever drug), yet here we are.

It's like we're putting everybody on crack and then say they're too weak if they become addicted.

This sounds super alarmist. Bit it’s not: the party only got 25%, so they will have to make a coalition with other parties to govern.

They were junior party in many previous coalitions.

The weird thing this election was: there were like 7 parties with a mayor candidate - and none of them grew up in Berlin.

Usually IEEE floats have an implied 1 in the front. So for the standard represented numbers, there's some minimum number 1.bbbbbb.. * 2^-N. This allows 1bit more precision than is actually stored.

between any two numbers, there's basically the same epsilon difference, but from the smallest number to zero it's bigger.

A subnormal number breaks that convention, it just becomes 0.bbbbb... * 2^-N. As the numbers get smaller, the relative difference between the numbers gets larger. That also means their precision is smaller than the normal floats.

In the article it said that in ternary, the majority of weights are 0. The components may be independent, but any group of weights won't be evenly distributed across all probable occurences.

ternary is totally losslessly compressed anyway.

Why not just use an 8-bit LUT to encode the 256 most common ternary vectors with 6 components. That means of the possible 729 possible such vectors, you can only represent 256 different ones. You have to do more aggressive rounding, but at least the scheme is very simple to decompress and stream.

Nukes are barely used. The technology of nuclear detonations was practically abandoned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare

Took me a while to get this one.

It is indeed very strange and annoying. And I don't remember it being so bad ten years ago (although I had to use witcher for alt-tabbing - which actually worked well, unlike AltTab now). Since Linux, and both OG Mac Os, I am used to having multiple Desktops, in total multiple windows of the same applications (browsers, pdf reader, office, file browser). Mac Os is completely hostile towards doing multiple tasks at the same time, and compartmentalizing them into desktops -- you keep getting thrown around to random windows on random desktops (example if you close a window), it's super difficult to find your windows, it's just crazy. You're afraid of ever moving away from a window.

I think this paradim is also what's makes the Mac OS feel snappy. If basically having multiple windows for one software open is "holding it wrong", the OS is pushing you into one application, one window paradigm. As long as you do that, everything is pretty quick. But don't dare open two browser windows, or even worse, two windows of a word processor. The performance will degrade (and you'll keep searching for your windows...)