caleb-allen

If film was invented in France, why didn't France become the film hub of the world, then, instead of Los Angeles? If packet switching is from the UK, why didn't the UK build a world wide network instead of DARPA? If HTML was invented by a Brit in Switzerland, why didn't the UK or Switzerland become a hub for the world wide web instead of silicon valley?

You say that the rocket sent to the moon was built by a German, as if that's points against the United States. To many Americans that isn't a bad thing. It is a foundational American value to adopt culture, skill, and ambition from abroad.

Really? That is very different from my experience.

If you're talking about the actual City of London then maybe, but most other places I have found quite lively and active in the evenings, especially around where I live.

I saw your talk in London a few weeks ago and immediately thought of your discussions on python accelerators when I heard about Mojo - glad to see your thoughts here!

> RabbitMQ also put up a fight.

I'm interested in hearing more about this (making a similar decision right now!). What pains did RabbitMQ give you?

I did just this, and it hallucinated an answer (and did not hit my server).

It may be more accurate than ChatGPT sometimes, if it's using Googles latest web index. The url I used has nothing publicly available and is likely not indexed.

It's astonishing to see the goalposts move so quickly. The cope of "well, okay, it can do that, but that's not even the hard part!" when just a year ago this entire product was almost unimaginable.

You should listen to the full first movement of Beethoven's 5th Symphony. It's one of the most popular pieces of music in history, and for good reason!

I recall reading a very interesting short story about exactly this - handing over the entirety of your daily minutiae to AI and the moral consequences. I'm unable to find the name of it, maybe something by Ted Chiang?

> All it takes is for one or 2 strong employees to go off into the dark forest for a while and come back with a potential prize.

I wish there was a more prevalent culture! My most productive work comes about this way, and I've yet to find a job where I'm able to do this regularly.

> I'm so over this deconstructionist "reality is your perception" line.

Kant would have a field day with this statement

> Is a shapeless creature even logically coherent?

Do you see how your argument is self-defeating?

According to logic that humans have developed, there is such thing as a "shape". But Western philosophers have pondered the innateness of a "shape" or an "object" from very early on (Plato, through Leibniz, beyond).

"Shape" and "logic" are both human constructs articulating "structure", another human construct.

A shapeless creature doesn't need to be "logically coherent" to exhibit intelligence; logic, truth, and structure are features that have emerged from human intelligence. I wouldn't accept the argument that an entity must exhibit the same features to qualify as intelligent simply because humans have.

There are of course many breaking changes that could improve the language itself, but in my opinion the attention of maintainers is best spent on improving the ecosystem--while a 2.0 release may be exciting, I've been very pleased to see the language steadily improve with 1.x releases.

I admire the queen if only for the masterful job she's done at convincing the masses that she is a victim of circumstance rather than the quintessential purveyor of privilege

Wow, this looks amazing!

I'm not in data science but have been using Julia for about 2 years. I write almost all my personal code in Julia, and one of the biggest roadblocks for me is surfacing my code as a Web GUI.

I'm very excited to give this a try!

That's true, but at least the mental model roughly holds. Somebody who is barely technologically literate will understand that "more bars" is better, and that's exactly what the abstraction should do. Communicate something simply at the cost of precision.

My dad ran a business that was totally centered around Facebook and suffered heavily when Facebook flipped a switch and disabled many of the APIs supporting my dad's business

Neither do many founders and executives of American companies. Snapchat is a prime example of a company/executive neglecting Android for years, at their own expense. Their international growth was extremely hampered until they finally refactored their Android app pretty heavily.

Just stunning. I'm only 26 and clearly remember being impressed with my 512mb flash drive. There are few, if any, industries with such consistent progress as semiconductors.

I purchased the ReMarkable 2 a few months ago and I can maintain that it is the most useful computing device I've purchased since my first smartphone over a decade ago. It feels like "upgraded paper". There is a little clunk around the UX but honestly with the writing and reading experience it doesn't really matter.

I placed an order yesterday for 50 spare "marker tips" just in case the company ever went under, but it seems like that worry may be misplaced! I'll likely be a long-time purchaser of ReMarkable products.

Is Google using ARM for their custom TPU systems? Perhaps they have some sort of non-compete agreement with ARM

That's fine, but the above commenter's question was related to the definition of an "active user", and Snapchat provides an answer to that question, even if it uses weasel words.

I would guess that you could uncover this information in Snapchat's 10K filings.

In fact, I found the answer to your question on the 4th page of their annual filing to shareholders[1]:

> While these metrics are determined based on what we believe to be reasonable estimates of our user base for the applicable period of measurement, there are inherent challenges in measuring how our products are used across large populations globally. For example, there may be individuals who have unauthorized or multiple Snapchat accounts, even though we forbid that in our Terms of Service and implement measures to detect and suppress that behavior. We have not determined the number of such multiple accounts.

It seems to me that Snap is quite open about their active user counts.

[1] https://seekingalpha.com/filing/6183813

The MIRI cryocooler technology is one of the most interesting advances I've ever heard of. My understanding is that it doesn't require any moving coolant, and it does so by creating a "standing wave" of sorts in the heat transfer chamber, and the heat is removed from the areas of high pressure. Heat continually accumulates to where the "peaks" of pressure are, where it can be transferred away to other parts of the spacecraft to be radiated away into space

My totally uneducated guess would be that whatever long term health effects that stimulants have on heart rate are minor compared to other stimulant effects (like blood pressure, appetite changes, etc)

Jeez, what's with the hate? Why do you have such a problem with somebody else caring about an animal as if it were family?

Wow, this is the first time I've actually understood the practical use of DST. Not that it's needed anymore, but that makes a lot of sense.

Yes, but at least it is consistent.

I live right by the border, on the Utah side, and driving through Arizona and Nevada is always so confusing!

A VPN will do nothing to deter an enemy from detecting the radio signal from a starlink terminal

Same. I use pretty much every feature of the remarkable 2. My favorite product in a decade

Neither Apple nor Nvidia compete with TSMC, while Intel does