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For most of the article I felt like the author's learnings were pretty obvious, particularly in regards to the water jet direction and the minimum necessary dish arrangement. They didn't even get into detail about the heat and steam.

Then they mentioned the part about dishwashers having a "filter", and in that moment, my heart was instantly filled with shock, horror, anxiety, and finally, resignation.

I apparently live in a world where dishwashers have filters.

I'm afraid to look, but I'm pretty sure mine probably does as well, in fact I think I've seen it with my own eyes, yet somehow it never registered. Oh no.

I regret to inform you that your bank, credit card company and every other financial institution you use is already selling it off in real time... it's how they make credit reports :(

There is three things here:

- Steam Runtime: A set of common libraries Linux native games target for multi-distro compatibility, I believe this still uses Ubuntu as the upstream

- Steam OS: An arch based distro pre-configured to run Steam out of the box, used by the Steam Deck, comes with extra stuff like gamescope to smooth over various issues other distros have with VRR, HDR, etc.

- Proton: Runs Windows games on Linux

Probably this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbioCor

They technically worked but they were expensive, painful, and basically just kept you alive on a bed. In essence they were like a more invasive version of the iron lung but required a team to maintain.

For this reason while you may have heard it used it various trials with "success" they were considered a failure in the end and rejected by the FDA. I've spoken to some people who worked on it and the feelings are pretty bittersweet.

Learning from this, Abiomed later brought a heart pump called the "Impella" to market which works to assist your heart instead of replace it. This device is cool for different reasons and can actually save peoples lives instead of merely prolong them a few years.

The new artificial heart in the OP is more sophisticated than the AbioCor, the science keeps improving.

I've always seen it as a logistical problem. With the Irish famine the British had a sophisticated world spanning logistical system that deliberately de-prioritized the Irish, even during an active famine that was a consequence of their own design. It's hard not to point fingers here when the culprit is obvious.

With modern famines it becomes more nuanced though imo. The logistical systems are not already in place like with Ireland, they are often built and sustained reactively, like a bridge during a storm. Some never "turn off" properly and undercut local farmers creating a stronger potential for future famines in the region. The solution isn't just allowing everyone to starve of course, but doing a better job at the follow-up work.

I'm not saying this is some impossible problem, just that it's a delicate one despite best intentions. Food grown in abundance in one region of the world might be rotting by the time it arrives where it's needed. While we have systems through the UN and non profits for this I still think we could do a lot better.

Why do we need to remember this agreement that provided zero security guarantees? At most it ensures denuclearization is dead, but frankly speaking, it already was.

Maybe instead we should remember the 2014 Wales Summit that was intended to deter Russian invasion?

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Wales_summit

Or maybe instead we should consider that right before Russia's invasion in February 2022, Europe collectively dropped their military spending as % of GDP? Possibly since Trump had left office in 2021? Its unfortunate deterrents don't function when you do this...

-https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_222664.htm

Actually, maybe what we need to remember is that most of Europes money has been going to Russia even after the invasion? What a strange thing for allies to do right?

- https://www.russiafossiltracker.com/

It's weird how the United States justified its support in Ukraine as securing the region for its allies while its allies undermined this at every step of the way, do allies usually do that? When I listen to them on TV they seem to care a lot about Ukraine so it's strange...

No I believe this discussion is about the majority of voting Americans.

Only if you think computers need to copy the precise neurological "hardware" systems of the brain. However if you think of conciousness as software then I think overlap is highly likely considering both are emergent. That said, this topic is more philosophical than scientific at the end of the day.

Unless you are suggesting total anarchy, usually criticism of one system would imply you desire some kind of alternative to replace it, or perhaps even some kind of amendment to the current system. It sounds like you don't have one?

But in that case, what now confuses me is your critique on private ownership. State ownership would be the alternative in this case, no?

But under the old systems, the ones that naturally manifested across the world for millennia, the natural flow is that elites in control of the state kick down the ladder and form tiered societies that limit social mobility. Through this they secure their position for generations. To do away with private ownership is to remove the checks that have been put into place to limit the power of elites who would otherwise have exclusive control.

While there have been many historical attempts to prevent this from happening, only the more recent political philosophies prescribed by liberal democracies in the past ~200 years have been effective in, even if only partially, mitigating this core issue of resource consolidation by elites. By focusing on meritocracy to the extreme (relative to before), liberal democracy and "capitalism" make power more fluid, it makes the ladder kicking more challenging (but not impossible). Yet these checks alone have given way to the explosive increase in innovation and quality of life we all now benefit from today.

Can we do better? Absolutely, especially as innovation opens doors to new ideas and capabilities.

But don't get confused by the semantics and abstractions masking the core of it all: Power. If your solution is to just re-centralize power to the group of elites in charge, even if they are elected, then regression is destiny.

Oh so what do you consider to be present in the absense of capitalism if not what came before it?

Exactly! The only solution is bringing back serfdom and hoping the party appointed manor lord does a better job than what us greedy peons could ever hope to accomplish on our own.

Future totalitarianism? Is the UK's government restricted in anyway right now? What line have they not crossed yet?

Would contractors need to do any of this? Is DOGE using federal funds?

I'm not exactly clear on the situation but if they are just doing this for free and don't have access to confidential information, I could see that potentially being the key loophole here.

> History teaches us where the story goes.

Does it? When else has this happened before? Or do you just mean manipulated markets specifically?

Not entirely what you are asking for, but Waydroid has a surprisingly simple architecture which makes it easy to tinker with to suit your needs. It just links the Android hardware compositor OEMs use straight into waylands interface, which is made easy since the interfaces are already very similar to each other. It's basically no different than how it runs on your phone once it's up and running. Non-wayland inputs/sensors work in a similar fashion, basically just getting the output of the /dev file then redirecting it into the android equivalent.

All it's really doing is pulling a LineageOS image, then dropping in the waydroid "drivers/firmware" that make it work with wayland using a series of patch files people have contributed. It all then gets run in a container which you "remotely" access for the GUI parts. Starting and stopping the container is like turning your phone on and off. If you set it up as a systemd service then you can just make this lockstep with your actual boot sequence.

It's primarily "marketed" as a tool to run android apps on Linux, which means the documentation kind of guides you down this path of running individual apps as their own window in Gnome or something. This doesn't work very well and apps tend to crash when you try to resize them. However, if you run it via `waydroid show-full-ui` it works perfectly in my experience and operates just like a phone/tablet.

I currently use it with a 2-in-1 x1 Thinkpad (meaning it has a touchscreen + pen), primarily for reading comics, books and watching movies when I connect it to my TV. I have it "wrapped" in Hyprland, so I can easily switch workspaces to return to the "host" if I want to, but I usually just do everything entirely within waydroid, and lazily use JuiceSSH for most host operations.

My laptops camera is a bit special and lacks linux support, but my understanding is a properly supported camera would work fine with waydroid. It doesn't support screen rotation or wifi configuration though, so those parts still need to be handled by the host system. I have my laptop auto rotate via hyprland since it was the easiest but I think it would be trivial to just add a patch for support as well.

It uses a pretty old LineageOS image, but I rebuilt it with some community patches so I could use the latest image, so you aren't even restricted to just LineageOS. I also didn't quite like how my stylus was being treated by android, so made a custom idc file for it and plopped it into the overlay filesystem waydroid has, saving me the effort of having to rebuild the image again.

It all sounds kind of complicated, but you can get most of this up and running right out of the box, complete with google play services too (requires you get a token from google, but they have guides for this). It's just once you notice something bugging you, you can actually do something about it, in an afternoon even, instead of just dealing with it forever. Something I personally appreciate.

That said, I'm using it as a tablet, for a phone there will be some gaps that need still need filling, such as:

- You would need to somehow get a small touchscreen device and install linux on it

- GPS: You would need to make sure this device exposes the GPS interface in some way and integrate it with waydroid. Since waydroid works via the same path OEMs take, there are probably some guides for this.

- LTE: Same as GPS, though so long as you can get internet on the host, waydroid will inherit that automatically.

- ARM Apps: Waydroid has some stuff that should allow you to run ARM apps but I've never bothered to set it up, not sure how well it works.

What should work out of the box, assuming they support linux:

- Cameras

- All touch interactions

- All stylus interactions

- Keyboard + Mouse

- HW rendering, works perfectly

- Network access (only configurable on host though)

- Direct USB access (out-of-the box in the sense you need to enable this in the waydroid config since it's not always desirable)

- Google play services (with token)

- All android apps built for x86_64, which is surprisingly supported by nearly all apps I've tried other than doodle jump.

- Storage, doesn't require a custom partition or anything and you can use bind mounts to get host files, though I find SFTP to be easier in practice. I have in the past bind mounted an SSHFS mount which worked fine. In theory you could utilize this to expose an NFS which is otherwise not possible on Android.

>In fact, the Reserve Banks are required by law to transfer net earnings to the U.S. Treasury, after providing for all necessary expenses of the Reserve Banks, legally required dividend payments, and maintaining a limited balance in a surplus fund.

Going purely off memory here, I recall audits implying this may not actually be happening as legally required. It was back when Ron Paul was making a big deal about it though, I can't remember the specifics so I'm bringing it up to invite discussion.

I fully agree with you here, but people that don't agree still exist despite how obviously wrong they may seem to us.

Just my 2 cents, but I don't really see how your first paragraph proves the assertion you make in the second... Arguments about Netflix using too much bandwidth on an ISPs network are exactly the kind of thing I'd expect FCC personnel to be sympathetic with considering it's the same argument they use for all the other mediums they cover... It ultimately devolves all discussions into crappy metaphors involving phone and radio when the Internet is really it's own thing and should be treated as such.

Meanwhile the FTC handles consumer protection, they are by nature going to be more proactive about this kind of thing. If they handle it then it aligns with their existing incentive structures and they can brag about it to congress in the same way they do for everything else they do when budgeting discussions come up.

No matter how I think about it, the FCC just seems incompatible with what most net neutrality advocates, such as myself, actually desire.

I've always felt the FCC was an inappropriate path for enforcing this. Ideally it would be powers granted to the FTC either through legislation or potentially through existing powers they might already have in this domain.

The FCC's jurisdiction on this was already shaky even before Chevron was overturned, I think the moment activism was pushed in this direction net neutrality was doomed a decade of unending lawsuits. Even if they somehow made it passed the courts, I'm not quite convinced the FCC would be motivated to actually do much about this even with a sympathetic administration. Consider that prior to the internet, they were pretty much created to do the opposite of what people want from net neutrality.

These are just my armchair thoughts though.

I am happy to inform you that the United States also does not have school shootings on an "almost daily basis". Not trying to be pedantic here, but gross exaggerations misrepresent the issue.

The idea is that bots are inflexible to deviations from accepted norms and can't actually "see" rendered browser content. So if your generic 404, 403 error pages return a 200 status instead, with invisible links to other non accessible pages. The bots will follow the links but real users will not, trapping them in a kind of isolated labyrinth of recursive links (the urls should be slightly different though). It's basically how a lobster trap works if you want a visual metaphor.

The important part here is to do this chaotically. The worst sites to scrape are buggy ones. You are, in essence, deliberately following bad practices in a way real users wouldn't notice but would still influence bots.

In my opinion, life is just self-replicating tumbleweeds of matter that drift towards local spaces with high energy. The ideal "shape" of these tumbleweeds is gradually approximated via the algorithm of evolution, filtering out the tumbleweeds that fly too close to the sun and so on. Intelligence becomes an emergent property of these optimal shapes, but intelligence doesn't change the outcome, broadly speaking, they still drift towards local spaces with high energy.

Individual organisms will live their life perusing energy, with every breath, with every meal. Even super organisms, such as a nation, will (attempt to) peruse energy in the form of a thriving economy, which influences the energy allocation of the organisms that make it up.

Even absent these tumbleweeds, high density matter (high energy) will literally bend space, and attract other matter to itself through gravitational force. It's entirely different than what I've already discussed, yet intuitively similar?

How does this apply to the fermi paradox? Maybe the idea that the algorithm of evolution will eventually lead to life self-propagating across the universe is flawed. Maybe the spirit of exploration is not universal. Maybe the the simple fact that interstellar travel and communication is energy inefficient is enough to explain the aggregate effect we are seeing?

Personally, I think the subsequent libel lawsuits demonstrates it was all just ego

Because it was just a silly internal code name for an unreleased product and Carl Sagon was just being a killjoy to his own fans. That he continued to escalate with lawsuits makes him look ridiculous frankly...

I think it's all about how you spin it in, imagine:

- SimCity where you can read a newspaper about what's happening in your city that actually reflects the events that have occurred with interesting perspectives from the residents.

- Dwarf Fortress, but carvings, artwork, demons, forbidden beasts, etc get illustrations dynamically generated via stable diffusion (in the style of crude sketches to imply a dwarf made it perhaps?)

- Dwarf Fortress, again, but the elaborate in-game combat comes with a "narrative summary" which conveys first hand experiences of a unit in the combat log, which while detailed, can be otherwise hard to follow.

- Any fantasy RPG, but with a minstrel companion who follows you around and writes about what you do in a silly judgy way. The core dialogue could be baked in by the developers but the stories this minstrel writes could be dynamically generated based on the players actions. Example: "He was a whimsical one, who decided to take detour from his urgent hostage rescue mission to hop up and down several hundred times in the woods while trying on various hats he had collected. I have no idea what goes through this mans mind..."

I'm not sure if there is a word for it, but the kernel here is that everything is indirectly being dictated by the players actions and the games existing systems. The LLM/AI stuff isn't in charge of coming up with novel stories and core content, they are in charge of making the game more immersive by helping with the roleplay. I think this is the area they can thrive the most.

To add another angle: in the past I've experienced issues where I'd always butt heads with a co-worker if we used a messenger, but would be fine when we talked over a call. I'm sure a higher reading comprehension from a certain someone could maybe have helped with that, but I suspect much of it just comes down to the fact that a lot of nuance/tone is lost when thoughts are put into writing, which makes it easier to offend people.

At work, arguing with people is the last thing I want to deal with, so calls are sometimes the simplest way to cut through the bullshit.

I think it's simply the enforcement mechanisms make people paranoid, especially since they are usually directed at children (by schools), it all then snowballs from there.

I agree the needles don't help though.

Yeah it's a bit like naming a python library "python"

> My wife is a professional translator and spends a good deal of time picking up the steaming wrecks that LLMs have left after someone went for the "cheap" option first. And we're talking best of breed stuff like DeepL here.

Just so we are clear, for Japanese to English translation, DeepL is hot garbage compared to a top class LLM with the right prompt. DeepL translations are basically unreadable, and regularly just cut sections out entirely! So I wouldn't call DeepL "best of breed" by any means, it's not even at the starting line. Can't comment on English <-> French/Spanish/German/etc though, never tried it with those.

In my case the epub was technically a replacement for a fan translation I was reading, which was decent enough, but with a simple script and instructions to keep the vibes of a light novel, it got very good, I remain impressed. Next I plan to convert it all to markdown to see if I can help encourage it to structure paragraphs properly, the html tags have so far limited it to line by line translation.

When I've experimented with officially translated works, meaning cases where I've translated the raw and compared it to the official, it's still not up to par, but good enough in my opinion. I'm not aware of any payed service that streamlines this yet though, not sure why. It's nothing like traditional MTL.

> As for the other points, I rather like to spend some time thinking on them personally. If you're not connected to the decision yourself, what are you?

What? It's a dialogue, a conversation, I bounce ideas off it and ask for advice to help guide the direction of my thinking, have you ever even used an LLM? I do this with my friends and co-workers too, do you not do this?

This comes off as a bit presumptuous, an LLM lacks executive thinking, if I'm not directing the conversation then the LLM has nothing to give.