I agree with the general sentiment but 2g was launched in 1991. Turned off "tomorrow" seems like a bit of an exaggeration. 3g has also been available for 2 decades.
My claim is not that public transport is perfect everywhere else in Europe, only that the preconditions for good public transport are much better in the UK than in most other countries, such as France or Germany, yet it isn't vastly superior. In my personal experience, public transport in the UK is definitely worse than in Switzerland, the Netherlands and Denmark, but I would argue it's worse than in Germany, France and even Sweden. Mind you, I don't restrict this to trains, buses make more sense in scarcely populated areas and their reliability tends to be highly affected by local politics.
It has always fascinated me how incredibly car-dependent the UK is, given how small, densely populated and flat it is. The UK seems to have the perfect conditions for getting rid of the automobile entirely, but in reality public transport in the UK (at least outside of London, but sometimes even there) falls short, even compared to much larger and more scarcely populated nations.
I think this touches on an important point that my personal experience on both the customer side and the retail side rhymes well with. When it comes to third party services such as payment and delivery, customers rarely see a distinction between the service provider and the retailer. This makes sense, since the identity of the service provider is often not even known to the customer. But to the retailer there is of course a clear distinction, and because of this they may greatly overestimate how well the customer can distinguish between the retailer and service providers.
I can really recommend following the "What's new in DevTools" series by the chrome team. Clicking a link to read release notes when you're in the middle of something may not seem appealing, but spending 5 minutes to skim through it when a new version is released is well worth your time. There are also digestible videos that are just a few minutes long and will give you a brief overview. While their purpose is to show new features, in my experience you will often gain understanding of the current limitations of the tools as well.
There have been quite a few laureates who were awarded the prize for their activism against apartheid, some of whom also spent time in prison due to their revolutionary tendencies. Would you consider these prizes equally unjustified?
>Max came across to me as a provacatuer, making proposals that are not sure things, but whose rebuttals will advance the field
I think that's the problem with Tegmark. His curiosity and willingness to engage are attributes that make him a gift in the fields of science. They also make him a popular character in media, which let him make radical statements that are made to provoke and arouse curiosity, but end up being presented as the opinions of experts in the field, or even the consensus. In my opinion, the end result isn't always only positive.
It seems like something is wrong with the links, at least on my machine. If I click the summary of the top article, I get linked to the second article. Clicking on the second article leads me to the third article, and so on.
There seems to be a bug in the regex in the video as well as the text below. [a-zA-z] is going to include the characters between Z and a as well as the upper and lower case letters. The claim by GPT that it matches "any letter (upper or lower case)" doesn't seem to catch it either for some reason.
I'm confused by this sentiment. It's possible to illuminate the sidewalk without shining in through people's windows (or cause excess light pollution, for that matter), especially if the sidewalk is the only thing you need to illuminate and the lamps can be built lower. It's also not unjustified fear. The risk of being subjected to violent crime such as robbery, assault or rape is higher when there is no illumination.
Since you mentioned textbooks on differential geometry, I can recommend anyone interested Sigmundur Gudmundsson's lecture notes in introductory differential geometry as well as Riemannian geometry. You can find them freely available on his personal academic page.
It might not make sense on the macro scale, but it certainly does on the micro scale. Even if you only use the extra size of the car a fraction of the time, the amount of money and time you would spend to rent a larger vehicle the times you actually need one would be much higher than the premium you're paying for having a vehicle with a capacity that well exceeds your average use case.
Also, one out six Americans are over 65 years of age, two out of five are obese, so the "extreme vast majority" being neither old nor disabled is really a question of definition.
This article reminds me of an episode of Derren Brown's TV show, called "The Heist"[0], where he supposedly manipulates a group of ordinary people to commit an armed robbery. Apparently, in a more recent episode called "The Guilt Trip"[1], he convinces people they have committed murder, which seems even more similar to what's described in this article. It would be interesting to read a skeptic's analysis of the phenomenon, since you're left wondering how much is caused by people acting to please the observer (the cameras in Brown's case, the experimenter in the article's case) and how much is actual planted false memories.
This reminds me of Steve Yegge's classic blog post "Programming's dirtiest little secret"[0]. Yegge's post is of course about touch-typing, but it essentially makes the same argument. Doing things slowly is a liability, not primarily because it consumes more time, but because it makes you opt out of doing certain things because of their perceived cost.
I would argue that's not really a trade, at least not in the sense described in the article, since it lacks awareness and consent from one party. The bees never agree to the trade of providing us honey in exchange for the hive and protection, and most likely see no connection between the two events. They simply stay in a hive they have found while it's convenient for them, and when their honey is unexpectedly taken from them they will survive on sugar water that they conveniently find outside the hive.
An aspect of this that some people find problematic is that many employers use these services to do background checks on individuals before hiring. Background checks are of course customary for some positions, in which case official police records will be retrieved with the candidate's knowledge or consent. For positions where background checks haven't historically been customary, these services will often be used instead, since they are much faster and cheaper in terms of administration, don't require consent and don't notify the candidate that they have been used, and (at least in the past) show offenses that no longer show up in the official records.
I remember seeing a DW documentary a couple of years ago about how differently billionaires behave in Germany compared to the US ("The discreet lives of the super rich" was its name apparently). If one accepts the basic premise of the documentary (that the German billionaires avoid flaunting their wealth and strive to maintain privacy), it might explain why billionaires in Germany could live their lives without security while it would be unthinkable for their American counterparts.
I recall using XP x64 edition on an Athlon64. I remember it having such poor software support that it was barely usable. I heard it was actually a version of Windows Server that they put the XP GUI on top of, but I'm not sure if that's true (Wikipedia only seems to partially corroborate it).
There are niches in e-commerce based around specialized tools which require more permissions and user engagement than a basic store site. In some cases, such tools account for a significant portion of the total revenue. It's not surprising at all to me that Shopify would invest in this type of technology, and I would assume that other big players are doing the same.
Interesting. It only seems to work in English. English texts that it successfully detects as AI generated are classified as human generated if you ask ChatGPT to translate them into a different language (or make the initial prompt in a different language). Perhaps they want to clarify this limitation, either through an FAQ or by stating that it doesn't support it when other languages are supplied in the prompt.
I was also curious about this statement. According to wikipedia, one third of the Plötzensee Prison inmates are there due to fare evasion. Or rather, they were when the articles that wikipedia cites were written. Of course, being a juvenile prison in Berlin, it might have the highest rate of fare evader inmates of any prison in the country (which would explain why the articles write about that prison specifically).
Unfortunately I don't have any link to such a job post, but when I've seen them in the past they've clearly stated what they are about, so keywords like "COBOL" or "Mainframe" would certainly find them. Sorry I couldn't be any more help.
At least where I live, most/all established banks have COBOL training programs for new hires. A friend of mine started one just a couple of months ago. As I understand it, it's not easy for them to find people who are both skilled programmers and willing to learn COBOL. If you really want to reskill into a COBOL developer, I believe that's very much an option still.
There are lots of articles about individuals in the US who have died because they were rationing or otherwise couldn't afford insulin.[1][2] How can this be the case if first-generation insulins are cheap? Are they rationing second-generation insulin analogs instead of using the more affordable first-generation insulins? If so, why?
If the setup/teardown is expensive I would do it in reusable fixtures. The reason I wouldn't choose the latter approach is that it would usually be less convenient in the long run. You'd need to replace your asserts with expects to avoid it throwing on the first error (if this isn't what you want), you'll often need to manually add data to the assertion (as GP did) that you would otherwise get for free, and you'll need to look at the assertion error rather than the test case to know what actually failed. This can be quite inconvenient if you e.g. export your test results in a CI/CD pipeline.