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That's a public health crisis and little different circumstance don't you think?

If you're in a profession with a license you are expected to follow a code of ethics. If you violate it, the profession in its interest to protect itself, can and rightfully will remove you.

For example, licensed a professional social workers are not to have sexual relations with their clients. If found doing so their license is revoked and their name is publish in professional magazines and news letters.

The same is applied to Engineers. If a licensed professional Engineer is found to be faking data to make a car appear more safe they are out of a license and career.

If a Doctor is found to be reporting false information to the public during a public health crisis I would say that's a huge ethical violation and I expect their profession to remove them, promptly.

If we're comparing how Western free society handled Covid versus China I think we can agree that the Western society has been significantly more transparent and were not locking people inside apartment buildings.

Great work!

Question though were there reasons to go with optical tracking versus a trackball you use a thumb or fingers with?

Personally I've found trackball mice nice for eliminating virtually all wrist movement.

I feel bad for Chinese citizens. I can't stomach the idea of being prosecuted by my own government for speaking my own mind. Made worse that they coerce people's families.

I also worry that without freedom of speech a lot of academic research and urban infrastructure will suffer without people being able to freely criticize bad science and bad construction.

I've learned that Engineers approximate and use π = 3.

So now we've gotten our time estimate down from 4x to 3x. Talk about efficiency!

This is DuckDuckGo though. Here it's apparently just bringing you the relevant information from a Wikipedia page and showing you that.

Personally this a great feature for me.

In my mind, AI for search is one where there's an attempt to answer (with source to back that answer) and also provide an efficient list of relevant links to other sites that it believes is related or part of what I was searching for. There's nothing really 'hidden' more so than before in my opinion.

The test for AI is will users find results better and faster than before. Which so far seems to be yes as far as I am aware.

However I understand where you are coming from with the Chat-GPT interface just spitting out a result and completely obviscating where it came from.

Okay but insert Linux USB drive; boot; install; system works. That's literally been my experience and for many others.

A Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) is completely reasonable in my opinion for building your own machine and it's well known that Nvidia and Linux don't play nice. Recently built a new system and went with AMD for that reason. Considered Intel but they're a little new to GPUs and were a little too mid range for what I wanted.

Frankly it sounds more like you had issue with the Nvidia card than the rest of your components.

Also have to consider are you trying to use completely free open source software or are you okay with proprietary blobs and drivers.

For example Ubtuntu makes it easy for end user to activate those proprietary software blobs on installation.

Great collection!

A few things I would like to share to this:

Insights into Mathematics By Norman J Wildberger

https://www.youtube.com/@njwildberger/videos

I think he provides really good historical context.

Especially found his video with Howard Crowhurst on the Carnac alignments fascinating:

https://youtu.be/5X6Im_gCXu0

A Brief History of Mathematics By Marcus du Sautoy is also a great podcast:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00srz5b/episodes/downloads

Of course Gresham College has great wealth of lectures on many topics including mathematics:

https://www.youtube.com/@GreshamCollege

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham_College

Then there's great places like Project Euler that combines math problems and programming:

https://projecteuler.net/

This raises a question I have about Win 11. Are the problems people are attributing to 11 because they use the Home edition or are these problems also found in the Pro edition?

Seems like worldly different experiences.

Regardless getting a Linux system up and running is still infinitely more pleasant (assuming hardware compatibility is already taken into account).

Right now I'm deciding on getting a second drive since Windows doesn't like to play nice with duel booting from what I can tell. Also Microsoft fucked up the sound for Oblivion and Morrowind.

It's really hard to read long winded literary analysis when there's ads at the top, bottom, and inserted between every paragraph or two.

Good job web team you made consuming your content a chore!

A Farewell to Arms is a great book though.

How so?

Search already does that (sifting through data and giving me its best results) so you're already trusting a middle man here.

If AI can get me results that I can tell are better than older search algorithms results then that's a win. Either way I'm still having to verify sources.

Well if it is learning from my search habits and its results reflect more accurately what I wanted compared to traditional search then I would say that's useful. Not to mention the niceness of more natural language you can use to query.

I guess it depends on the interest of the parties concerned.

You the consumer would like to have results more closely related to what you wanted.

Google (or other company) wants to bring you a result that's more likely to generate revenue for them.

For myself, I recall being able to get a Wikipedia in the first or second result. Now it's a bunch of sponsored/ad results and a bunch of shitty bloated websites and no Wikipedia like I wanted. (Of course specifing Wiki in the search fixes this)

How else are they supposed to test without a large number of people using it?

How is DuckDuckGo supposed to compete without?

How is this not an improvement to search?

(presumably whilst still respecting people's privacy)

I don't really know much about football (soccer) rules however many sports I've found seem built less on trying to play the sport within the spirit of the game in mind but rather to win. To win teams find themselves looking at the rules closely and deciding how they can manipulate that for their favor.

Baseball is a favorite of mine for this. Whether it's allowing pitchers to add something sticky enough to the ball to manipulate spin. Or the batter creating a really tight window trying to encourage the pitcher to hit them so they walk. Or the opposite which is pitchers deliberately walking good hitters.

Regardless I don't know exactly what they mean by time-wasting. However if it's making games last longer by avoiding play, then couldn't they give an extra ranking point if a team scores so much over the other within 30 minutes?

Of course that means less time to sell beer and snacks.

I can believe it.

I've worked a lot of jobs at the bottom most of my life.

I've been offered more work here and there with management-ish roles. I've never taken them because I know that for myself at that time I wouldn't be a good manager for people under me, insecurities being one of them. Additionally the pay is too low for the extra work.

I've left 2 jobs within the last 2 years because of insecure management. I don't have a problem with people being insecure.

I have a problem with when people use those insecurities to lash out and accuse me of not doing my job or being dishonest (to cover themselves).

I'm trading 8 hours of my life a day 5 days a week. I'll been damned if I have to have my time be insulted and wasted like that anymore.

"We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents."

- Bob Ross

I'm not sure it needs to work beyond getting people prepared enough to consume advertising.

As long as you can import talent and expand the public funding of private education there's little incentive in America to improve public education.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/betsy-devos-a...

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"

- Rhett Butler

Cutting and full of emotion.

I disagree that is has little effect. The way we communicate is a central and essential aspect of us as a species. Even the little nods and the dog whistles matter. A dominate culture policing it's norm of communication onto another because the dominate one believes due to it being the prominent one it is thus superior leads to damaging and loss of cultural diversity and communication and perpetuates societal disunity and segregation.

Viewing swearing as "dumb" and thus people who swear are "dumb" is a really easy way to openly okay associating a whole group of people that may swear often as "dumb" or to selectively apply that standard to them.

You yourself are perfectly free to choose whatever words you would like to use; I am perfectly free to find language policing and censoring repugnant.

Hey as long as my culture is superior to yours because mine doesn't liberally use swear words like yours it's all good boy!

Obviously I hope you can tell that's thick sarcasm to illustrate a point.

I've found in my experience in in life that those whom comment are others use of swear words are often lacking individuals whom attempt to use their felt'superior language' to demean others. Particularly to demean others of a different cultural background than them.

> The panel can charge the ID Buzz while parked or driving and is capable of generating enough power to provide an additional estimated 1,864 miles of range over the course of a year. Averaged out, that's just over 150 miles of range a month, which isn't massive, but hey it's something, right?

Corporate contracts.

Cheaper to have everything wrapped up in one vendor sometimes than having a third party install and service gps.

My guess at least. I don't really know.

However unrelated to this computer vendors I've noticed charge a ton for more data and memory relative to buying from part stores. So perhaps maybe just taking suckers for a ride.

In terms of other life observing us broadcasting radio waves is rather small and limited. However consider the galaxy is much older than Earth. That conditions on Earth to support life is around the span of ~2 billion years. The galaxy is under 100k light-years across.

That's a fair bit of time for the possibility of some other life within our galaxy to detect atmospheric signs of life supporting chemicals on our planet and to send a probe to investigate.

I don't think it means aliens have visited or sent a probe but I think it is possible.

Seems reasonable.

It's a product that should, and perhaps could in a more bullish market, have grown their subscriber base while adding value to their core product.

Clearly they didn't get the numbers they wanted/needed and if everyone else is cutting right now, this is something that seems reasonable to cut from their expenses.

The concept of the game sounds cool though as a customer of the company itself however I didn't know about it.

Also I wouldn't put it past them to push features of the game directly into the Spotify app in the future. (Maybe they already have, I don't know).

"Then make the department store responsible for offering recycling points. Make them responsible."

Yeah I agree. More recycling for everything. I know that some hardware stores let you drop off old dead batteries but not typically lithium based iirc. Some groceries stores also have kiosks that pay for old phones, easily could be adapted for batteries as well.

Found this here today:

https://ai.googleblog.com/2023/04/robotic-deep-rl-at-scale-s...

I think personally letting people chuck everything into one bin and sort it at the collection site is a pathway to eliminate a lot of waste and eliminates arguing over which is often more recycled, a phone or a battery.

Oh so it's anecdotal.

Well my anecdotal evidence tells me my broken smart phones end up in my box of old electronics.

I don't service my devices through the telcos. I use prepaid plans and phones. Many people do. That's why department stores sell them. Because there's a customer base that needs them.

I sincerely doubt many 40 dollar off the shelf phones are being recycled.

Many people also likely find it stupid to pay someone to change a battery when we can do it ourselves.

I think a more reasonable compromise here is that we can probably both agree that recycling in general needs massive improvements. i.e. make it incredibly easier for people to recycle or remove the choice from the consumer completely.

P.s. if it's Schrödingers e-waste it's inherently 50-50 on what happens to it so it's not as bad.

And if small amounts add up then arguably devices+batteries in landfill are worse than just battery.

Tangentially related, here is the opensource gps software used by a lot of phones:

https://gpsd.gitlab.io/gpsd/index.html

Development primarily lead by Eric Raymond:

https://gpsd.gitlab.io/gpsd/gps-hacking.html

http://www.catb.org/~esr/

This will likely last you:

https://www.dyson.com/lighting