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I would have appreciated some more details on the benchmark. SQLite has notoriously slow writes in the default journal mode, but proper configuration and WAL/WAL2 mode[0] should be a starting point for any comparison.

It's the first time I've heard of Isar[1] though. I'm always surprised at how many solid-but-underused Apache projects are out there, chugging along.

[0] https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2020/sqlite-performance-tuni...

[1] https://isar.dev/

It's from an Ursula K. LeGuin short story, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas".

You can read it here: https://shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf

It has a wiki article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Om...

I drive a recent model year Chevy Bolt where I paid a total price within that 14-20k range.

I don't find myself worried about cut corners. The safety profile is fine. The quality is fine. It's an EV that does everything I want: reach a range large enough to make it usable beyond just a city car, be reasonably cheap, and have a serviceable lifespan beyond the gimmick period of a Tesla.

It's possible that most were made out of common materials. Only those made of something sufficiently resilient survived for us to find.

I would love it if you could share the RS archives, or at least get them in the hands of something like the Internet Archive. I also collect old cache dumps and RSPS repos but I've never seen a high quality archive.

It's a time investment for everyone involved to sift through enough cruft for these classics to surface. Generating orders of magnitude more of increasingly plausible cruft means that the human arbiters can spend a much greater time investment attempting to surface nuggets of human wisdom that simply aren't present. How do classics appear out of that environment?

Exactly what an already exploitative labor market needs: paid interviews!

I can't see a single way this could go wrong.

Seems to be hugged to death. Any sign-ups just give me "Email rate limit exceeded".

Even that stunt might not be enough for a sufficiently evil shill, e.g. Thomas Midgley Jr. He famously did a similar move at a press conference for tetraethyllead (TEL), where he washed his hands in the stuff to prove its safety:

> On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for 60 seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.#cite_ref-Se...

It probably won't shock you that he frequently suffered from lead poisoning.

Yes, and it amounts to a puff piece for GCloud. "We don't think we're as far behind as everyone else does" is not a compelling argument. Google is only too happy to believe Gartner rankings when it's in their favor [1].

[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/google...

This doesn't come close to the actual market share you'll find in the likes of Gartner or others. The cloud landscape has long been AWS, Azure, and GCloud as a distant third.

Yes, a lot of words that amount to the sophistry of the "gender critical" (TERFistry?) and a status report on their bigoted agenda.

The author clearly states that they hate that the Biden administration made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of gender identity. That's it. That's their gripe.

What a snivelling, condescending attitude toward others. Of course people are able to say no and cancel, it just doesn't work. That's the whole point of this thread!

The appeal of sending a letter isn't to avoid human contact, it's to avoid the time suck of aggravation and frustration that these dark pattern schmucks throw in the way. If it were _possible_ to tell someone on the other end of the phone to fuck off, everyone would do it. You'll get an IVR, multiple HUCAs, and if you're lucky, someone who confidently assures you that your service is now cancelled; until you go away for a month and realize you're still being billed.

The letter is both a paper trail and a recognition that it's the fastest and sanest way to get a problem resolved. That we have to resort to an anachronism is a consequence of the fucked nature of these parasitic companies and the total power imbalance between them and consumers, not a failure of will!

Zelle does not actually guarantee that your payments will go on the fast path. If you send a payment after-hours or to a new recipient that scores too high on some opaque fraud metric, it will be sent like a normal ACH with a few business days of processing time.

The "TTS Output" and "Audio on device" sections make it seem like there is no spoken output, only status beeps.

A former Mycroft dev, Michael Hansen[1], is still building several year-of-the-voice projects after he was let go. I'm especially excited about Piper[2], which is a C++/py alternative to Mimic3.

[1] https://github.com/synesthesiam [2] https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

Can you explain where "tbgs genTargetPercentage" comes from? Googling it just brings up your own comment.

More likely is that it was mentioned in a recent front-page article about comparing specialty Linux distros:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34837219

Enterprise, AL?

Very disappointing to see. I knew something was up since Mike Hansen, the engineer maintaining their Mimic3 offline TTS model, mentioned being let go in the open GitHub issues.

https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3

Mike seems to have kept the effort going with his larynx2 project. I was thrilled at the results their model produced so I hope to see more from it.

https://github.com/rhasspy/larynx2

The installer also doesn't even let you view the Terms and Conditions. It's styled as a link but it literally can't be opened: https://imgur.com/CUzLdRQ

This is ironic considering how aggressive the language is on their branding page: https://voice.ai/branding-guidelines

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No, I haven't. What's the connection?

Particularly with the last anecdote, it seems that the evergreen problem with open-source licenses is not the choice of license or the particulars of the terms, but enforcing the terms at all.

Bad actors have free reign to threaten and intimidate fair use development. While FOSS developers are having to defend themselves from these spurious claims, they have little recourse to pursue real infringement of their work.

Erik died in 2009.

Erik Naggum in memoriam https://perpelle.net/artikler-og-leserinnlegg/erik-naggum-in...

A marginal increase in utility makes it easier to rationalize paying a premium for style.

There's the old adage of "if you aren't paying for it, you are the product"...

Mint invests so much effort in reliable data connections because harvesting that transaction data from consumers is the entire product.

UI and functionality are just distractions that serve no purpose beyond getting users to click "Connect Account" at least once.

Ignoring the ghoulish suggestion entirely, this misses the point of the debt ceiling crisis. The debt ceiling has zero effect on spending, it's servicing the debt for spending that already happened.

You don't fix what you spend on your credit card by not paying the bill.

Have you written about this anywhere? I'm curious what common disease could be cured in the manner you described. It seems like the low-hanging fruit is already picked clean in the pharma industry.

This is like a technical invocation of Poe's law.