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By this paper's own conclusion, this phenomenon explains 31.9% of the decrease in recent decades. That's significant, but also means that most of the decrease comes from somewhere else.

Why?

If Apple's business model requires preventing their users from using the device they bought as they want, and overcharging commissions on software built by third parties, their business model is wrong.

    The novice said: "I will save my working files, but not my system and application files, as they can be always be reinstalled from their distribution disks."
    The master made no reply.
    The next day, the novice's disk crashed. Three days later, the novice was still reinstalling software.

If that's your situation, it might be worth backing up applications. However, there are better solutions that make this irrelevant. For instance, using NixOS, you can literally back up a single text file describing your system setup, and you can recreate the system from it automatically in minutes, guaranteed to be bit for bit identical.

You can already do that without ads.

The point of ads is that one of those services will pay openai so that their services will be more prominent than the others.

There's at least one possible point, which is where the income is taxed. If data is not considered valuable, the German branch of company X can send data to its Irish branch, and the profit realized in Ireland (with very low tax rate), while this value was generated in Germany but the German state gets no income. And if Ireland raises its tax rate, send it to another fiscal paradise.

Potentially, if data was accounted as valuable, the income would be accounted for where it is generated, each country gets its fair share, and tax avoidance gets harder.

> Levent having received tips that information about our progress had been passed to OpenAI

That seems like a valid reason to contact OpenAI.

From Buckmaster's text:

    The route to the Clay problem through a
    smooth force, options c and d in Fefferman’s statement of the problem, is the
    route Luis and Diego opened and the one Levent and I had quietly chosen to
    attack. Almost nobody else I know of was working on it. It is not the direction
    one arrives at in a few days by giving a model the problem statement. When I
    heard “forced,” it was a bright red flag.

This is much more than the knowledge than the problem can be solved, it's also the specific, non-obvious approach to solving it. That's much more damning for OpenAI, if confirmed.

> Invest in formal verification, fuzzing and property testing, and memory-safe languages. LLMs are good at writing Lean and fuzz tests. I don't care whether you use Go or Rust but for the love of god please don't use C or C++ for new code.

How accepted is this thinking in your respective domains?

Moats are supposed to be obstacles for your competitors, not your consumers.

Putin is under an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for war crimes. Rapes and killings are widely documented as part of the war he started. I don't think the parent comment was overstating the crimes in question in its simile.

Visit of the underground vault in Paris, narrated by Stefan Zweig:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyKenOq5Pw

Is compriate a typo, a neologism? I could not find a definition.

I'm not convinced the reason is technical. Yes, the total Ethereum chain state is not tiny (a few TB I think). But if you're only interesting in ENS domains, you don't need to store all of Ethereum, you can just receive new blocks, filter the relevant domain change events and only index that.

I suspect the lack adoption might rather be because of:

- DNS being "good enough". Rug pulls as described in this article are sadly possible, but not frequent enough to motivate enough actors to work on the switch

- The stigma attached to crypto. Which is understandable given the number of bad actors trying to make easy bucks with false promises. But it's also a shame, given that this actually seems a perfect use case: the code is simple enough, and as far as I know, only a blockchain can guarantee a specific code will be executed without relying on a third party being and staying honest (in others words, true self-custody of a domain name).

Why?

I you emit the methane, you have one molecule of CH₄ for 10 years, then one molecule of CO₂ for x years.

If you burn the methane, you have one molecule of CO₂ for x years.

Burning seems strictly better.

(If you use the heat of the burning to offset other emissions, it gets even better)

To add nuance, that article does say one of the two versions does reduce text quality (and the other is worse at detectability):

> SynthID-Text can be configured to be non-distortionary (preserving text quality) or distortionary (improving watermark detectability at the cost of text quality).

On android, you can use Firefox with ublock origin plugin. Works great, blocks youtube ads too.

> and how about plumbers (and the like) who need a vehicle to carry what they need to work?

This is literally addressed by the comment you are replying to:

"What about the delivery people who need to bring this into the city?" They should be able to get in and out much faster, and their cargo makes it easy to amortize the cost!

This tracks with an old convention in languages like Pascal, which uses begin / end keywords for all blocks, where people would add "end (* if *)" as a comment to make it more explicit which block is being closed.

An event encouraging people to vote in an election or a peaceful demonstration against a proposed legislation are "actions designed to invoke political change". I don't think any of those are commonly understood to be terrorism, nor should they.

Nix offers the best of both worlds on this aspect: each program can depend on the exact version of a library it needs and several versions can coexist on the disk, but if two programs depend on the exact same version, it is stored only once.

The problem now is that it's the producer that decides what the packaging is, but it's the consumer (or the state) who pays for the collection and recycling. By making the producer pay for it, you give them an incentive to make it more efficient.

There's a class of americans that didn't benefit from that world order. However, they elected someone who pretended he was going to help them, and actually is making it even worse for them and better for those who were already benefiting.

Please be aware people reading don't know which country you are from, so using "our" is ambiguous. You could just as well have been Canadian, and it took extra deciphering to guess you're apparently from the US.

Of course, because Russia spends 7+% of its GDP on its military, and Italy 1.6%. It does say something about the relative capacity though. Russia probably cannot sustain this level of spending forever, and European countries could (continue) raising it if needed.

Oh, if peak RAM usage is higher, in which scenario do you find that's a significant gain? Maybe I misunderstood, what I got from the blog post is that there will be indexing on save (vs on each keystroke with RA). That would be often enough that lower RAM enough in between would not be of much gain. Is that only an incremental indexing with normally low RAM usage? So you would essentially fully index only once per project, + whenever you upgrade dependencies or upgrade rustc?

Thanks! Nvim is definitely a good match for the "I care about RAM usage" crowd, I suppose zed as well, compared to vscode.

Super cool!

In the comparison table, you indicate indexing times. Could you also measure memory usage, since that's the stated goal of the project?