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> Their inability to devise a system to meet a threat they fully anticipated argues against their much-heralded "genius".

It's like byzantine faults, no system can protect you if you don't have some minimum of correctly functioning legislators, judges, and executives.

AFAIK, green-screen, a.k.a. "chroma key" replaces the green colored parts of the video with some other background image/video. However, you've noticed it works poorly around the edges, depending on the lighting and other things. This is software containing a machine learning model that produces more a accurate "key" (mask) than simple chroma-matching.

FDE uses a key derivation function to limit the rate at which offline password attempts can be made. Not as limited as a TPM can be but not unlimited either and you can adjust it depending on how long you want to wait every time you unlock.

> If you need to list things ordered by creation time very often, it’s useful if the primary index gives that behavior, removing the need for another index.

I thought the main reason UUIDv7 was created with a time component is to keep temporally related rows together in the index pages. Randomly distributed row ids seem OK until the entire index no longer fits in RAM.

> Well-regulated militia is the National Guard. Note the term well-regulated. They’re military personnel that belong to the states, but still operate alongside the regular force.

That is wrong, see DC v. Heller, """ the “militia” in colonial America consisted of a subset of “the people”—those who were male, able bodied, and within a certain age range. Reading the Second Amendment as protecting only the right to “keep and bear Arms” in an organized militia therefore fits poorly with the operative clause’s description of the holder of that right as “the people.” """

> Unless you are really on top of your agents, they inevitably end up writing an absolute mess.

It's like the magic broomsticks from Fantasia's Sorceror's Apprentice sequence. Great at hauling buckets but if you don't keep a close eye on them they will fill your workshop with water.

How do you know Apple has not interviewed a broad and representative sample of real users and found that their #1 desire in a laptop is thinner and lighter than what is currently available?

I would bet that is what real users have been asking for, for decades now. They aren't asking for swappable batteries or headphone jacks.

Swift (2014) and Kotlin (2011) are huge because of iOS and Android, respectively. C# came out in July 2000, does that count? However there are post-2000 languages in real use that aren't developed or annointed by huge companies, some started as solo dev projects or academic projects.

There is a lot of news right now about AI writing proofs in Lean (2013.) Lots of people rely on Elixir (2012) and Gleam (2016) is up and coming. I wouldn't give up on Scala (2004) just yet, it's really one of the best languages out there with some great libraries and runs on the JVM. You could argue that Reason (2016) and ReScript (2020) are just dialects of OCaml but they are industrial strength tools that people rely on in production.

...and don't even try to take Clojure (2007) away from any hands that are not truly cold and dead.

The big deal with this release is value objects preview. https://openjdk.org/jeps/401

We still call it "machine learning"

For a second I thought this would be about the style of org chart used at the last big company I worked for.

Part of Rust's schtick is also cost free abstractions.

The DOJ used to have independence but no longer. The AG is now Trump's personal lawyer and if Trump says no prosecutions of AI companies then there will be no prosecutions. If the AG doesn't play ball they get fired.

The article doesn't mention it but in the USA it may be because the Department of Justice has lost a lot of talent and the ones left are busy going after Trump's enemies and negotiating the other side in Trump's own lawsuit against the USA for Trump's family to be immune from IRS audits and arranging for multi-billion dollar compensation funds for Trump's henchmen.

For what application do you need 96kHz or 192kHz of bandwidth?

If he used bots to stream his own song 80 million times then folks at the streaming services would notice. Instead he spread the 80 million fraudulent streams over tens of thousands of machine generated songs.

Apple may not want to support 7+ year old hardware but plenty of enthusiasts would and could if they just had good documentation of the hardware.

The code is rolling so you can't use a screenshot to enter the show. This is to stop ticket transfers outside the system.

The ticket stub is animated so you can't use a simple screenshot to move to a better location once inside the show.

Unfortunately stony corals also face a grave threat from ocean acidification due to rising CO2 in the atmosphere. They need alkalinity to make their skeletons.

> Invoking his late brother Yonatan Netanyahu, a commando killed in a 1976 raid to free Israeli hostages from a hijacked airliner in Entebbe, Uganda, he repeated the lines: “We are going to win. We have no other choice.”

Netanyahu doesn't just invoke his late brother, he invokes the bible saying 'Remember what Amalek did to you' (Deuteronomy 25:17) [0] 25:19, one sentence later, is 'When the Lord your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.'

[0] https://www.gov.il/en/pages/statement-by-pm-netanyahu-28-oct...

This is the Administration of Poe's Law and Order.

The USA can't afford to waste money shipping a bunch of rocks halfway across the Solar system just so some woke geeks can speculate if Mars in the past could have supported transgender athletes.

It would jeopardize important national security projects like the White House Ballroom, the Triumphal Arch, the Garden of Heroes and National Golf Course, and of course the Donald J. Trump Center for The Performing Arts (formerly The Memorial To That Loser That Got Assassinated.)

This years RAAM (Race Across America) winner finished in 8 days 19 hours, that's almost 350 miles per day.

Normal people no, but top ultra endurance cyclists can do 300 miles a day for two weeks straight. Especially if they are not self-supported and/or the course is not too hilly.

Just like running your own mail server doesn't help when nearly everyone you talk to uses GMail, simply not using these devices yourself is likely not to make much difference.

"Pulse is a new programming language embedded in F*, inheriting many of its features (notably, it is higher order and has dependent types), but with built-in support for programming with mutable state and concurrency, with specifications and proofs in Concurrent Separation Logic."

https://github.com/FStarLang/FStar/tree/master/pulse

Maybe they can use their brilliant super AI to address some real and present threats that are being ignored like nuclear annihilation, the loss of the prohibition of the acquisition of territory by force established after WWII, the certainty of all of the fossilized carbon being dug up out of the ground and released into the environment, the resurgence of measles and a poor posture for the next pandemic, ETC...

A similar maneuver is already being used for the White House National Security Ballroom.

> I don't get how instagram is as popular as it is.

Stockholm syndrome.

Here's a video of an amateur cyclist going all out for about a minute after spending about five minutes getting up to speed, pushing his bike to 76.11 mph.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM7I_uPJRYQ