tiberious726

If this counts as PCI compliance, I'm doing way too much work... How does this possibly count?

That shouldn't be happening, and is a massive security/privacy issue. Your power line devices should be configured to use an encryption key unique to them.

And with RHEV dead, there aren't even any serious alternatives

Yeah, it's not a new thing, but an ancient thing, from the days of the button mice (a third button in the center---no scroll wheel).

They are just completely different things: ML and GOFAI.

It's unfortunate that we seem to have decided to call anything that we don't quite yet know how to make computers do "AI". Good for hype tho

If that's true, in what world is ROCm a priority for AMD at all? They can't even throw a few old cards on the project?!?

It's not TFA's actual thesis, but here's a _much_ more powerful rebuttal of the triune brain and similar mental models if you're interested (from the perspective of what is the sheer idea of rationality) Matthew Boyle's "Tack-on Theories of Rationality": https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/8641840/Additive...

> "I mean, how can we authorize that?”

Wow, she's saying the quiet part out loud. No, we don't need her goddamn permission if we want to ice skate in a boat. That sounds awesome.

I think you are mixing up usb3 and usb4, here's a good explanation of thunderbolt 4 vs USB 4 (they are exactly the same for all practical purposes): https://www.cablematters.com/Blog/USB-C/thunderbolt4-vs-USB4...

You think it wasn't? Back when I was in school basically every senior admin had a degree in one of those fields.

Eh, we've been spending decades pumping out people with degrees in this kind of "social criticism". It just turned out that no businesses except the universities themselves were interested in hiring for such positions, so of course damn near every university administrator is grinding this axe: they were told they could make a career out of it back when they were in school and can't get work elsewhere.

You can swap the keycaps too

It's like the second result when you Google for n95 electrostatic: https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article/32/9/093304/1060745/Rec... (read the first section (not the abstract))

It was actually a really cool story when this happened during the pandemic. The original inventor of the current n95 mask production technique came out of retirement to help out.

'round these parts your safety net is your own damn responsibility, not mine. The default of life is nasty brutish and short, everything else is our efforts.

I would never even consider working in a place with fixed, tenure based pay, and have significant trouble believing anyone who has actually worked in a software engineer team would either.

Early on, at least English speaking ruby had an extremely poor culture around documentation. Code was barely commented and "the ruby way" was to use single character variable names

Back in 2012 there was no question that ruby was the language of DevOps, then Ansible took over. Puppet was a true pain to work with, and through at least version 4, their language designers were simply wrong about what it meant to be a declarative language (you could only declare each resource once, they pretended/falsely believed that inference and/or unification were incompatible with declarative languages), but wow was it powerful to maintain dependable state on long lived servers

300nm is specifically the size the filters are worst at collecting. Below that, _eletrostatic_ forces kick in, and they're much better than 95%.

That's not true anymore, at least not for all phones: https://grapheneos.org/faq#baseband-isolation

I think the application you're looking for is easy effects, which absolutely does profile autoloading.

You sure you aren't thinking of pulseaudio? Pipewire really hasn't even been out "a long time", and does do everything you listed kinda shockingly (to me) easily.

To be fair, I was a fan of pulseaudio even in the early days: being able to set up my desktop, with its decent speakers as just another audio sink for my laptop with its horrible speakers was like magic to me back in the day.

To also be that one guy, emacs has had this with the ssh method in TRAMP basically since ssh existed. (Not the devcontainer stuff, it has something similar, but it wasn't till LXC/Docker got popular that emacs could do it that way. At least on Linux) I agree, it's amazing and great that more people are finally using this methodology, but certainly not new to VSCode

> In fact, the organization enforces deliberate poverty, amongst its chapters.

You mean a cult. This isn't a real issue for properly run 501c3, it's a tax registration for a reason.

It actually works pretty great on those too. "Serious mainstream issues" are exactly the same kind of thing as fabricated internet drama, just fabricated by older and much better funded groups.

Even if it does, that would amount to a contradiction in Newtonian mechanics. You don't get to simply ignore that the ball starting to roll after arbitrary (non deterministic) time T is a solution to these equations.

(Note that the article goes on at length separating Newtonian mechanics from the "real world" or whatever)

Sadly not whole works, but there are surviving fragments. I had forgetten how hard they are track down... Here's probably your best bet: https://archive.org/details/oldersophists0000unse/page/n6/mo... (there's another book too, in a strange binding (thin and large) that I liked a bit better on him, but my copy is in a storage unit due to its strange size, I'll update if I can recall its name or translator)

Really, I threw him in there both because relativism has become popular in recent centuries (and really hasn't been for most of the history of philosophy), and because Plato/Socrates's idea of the Forms sounds absolutely bonkers unless it's understood as a response to/way to avoid the conclusions of Protagoras and other sophists in his school.

It was neither so much a smart nor dumb in the first place.

It has no intentionally, its utterances are not so much as about things, just likely strings of words from its training set.

They can't sensibly limit the meaning of what it says, because LLMs don't so much as have the concept of meaning. They basically have to ban tokens.

“I don't know how much I would give to effect retroactively the strict disciplining, the real scholarly education of so great and splendid a nature, with its spiritual and intellectual wealth. As it is, we have lost a philosopher in Emerson.” ---Nietzsche on Emerson

It's all controlled by a single professor who is quite a ways outside of the mainstream, and consistently presents his small, and very nonstandard school of thought as accepted truth. Frequently without so much as mention of the actual standard interpretation. It's not a good place to send a beginner, and frankly not even that useful as a reference for an expert unless they are particularly studying that one small school of thought.

The SEP was a land-grab in the early days of the internet.

Alan Bloom is definitely a nonstandard reading of the republic, and he is very much so trying to grind his (academicly) political axe.

It's also amazing and my favorite edition of the republic (just don't take his intro and footnotes as accepted truth).

Great recommendations! I'd pick The Genealogy of Morality as a better intro to Nietzsche, tho my favorite is far and away The Gay Science.

I wouldn't pick Meditations as being a intro classical philosophy tho, the Stoics were very much their own school of thought, and not the primary one that carried forward into later eras. It's a fascinating school of thought, but more also a diversion in getting up to speed (another great side-path from the same era is Pyrrhonian Skepticism!). Aurelius is also really late chronologically (and frankly not a philosopher at all... The modern equivalent would be a celebrity publishing a self-help book, still an extremely fascinating historical document tho).

I'm a huge fan of the Alan Bloom version of Plato's Republic. But if we're getting specifically into Plato, I'd feel remiss if I didn't mention the Euthyphro too.

There is also a _lot_ to be said in favor of reading the history of philosophy in rough order. It's a conversation through the millennia, and you can't truly understand what an author is saying unless you understand the context they are replying to. Eg. Kant is frankly unintelligible (and subject to wild misinterpretation) unless he is read as a rebuttal to Hume's continuation of Descartes's protect (as Kant himself says in the intro to the first critique).

Re analytic philosophy: In the words of my thesis advisor "breaking philosophy down into the categories of analytic and continental is like breaking down cars into the categories of those-with-four-wheel-drive and those-made-in-Europe".