Do you think there is any chance that there is a diverse set of natural tendencies among humans, clustered by what sort of environmental filters those humans passed through? For example, surviving “trying to kill you” winter every year for thousands of years in a row with survivor man tier technology, where planning and tool design/making are critical, vs not?

I’m literally asking if you think there’s no chance, and if so, how do you know that? Was it scientifically proven? I’ve looked long and hard for that, and gosh I just couldn’t find where that ever happened.

If there is a chance, though, then we are gambling at (further) becoming Brazil in order to save the comfort of one single generation of old people. Yeah I think I’ll pass on that, thanks.

As for alternate solutions. We could allocate available resources based on how many descendants the old person produced. Why should we tolerate free riders and make the young produced by others pay for them? Let them be in old people dorms. Let them have insufficient medical care. It isn’t worth risking the quality of the country over, obviously. And if we use the scheme I mentioned, then they aren’t anybody’s grandparents, anyway. Who will fight for them?

The values you hold, the ones you are defending right now, are western values. Your type seems so sure that the newcomers can be brainwashed to think like we do. Good luck with that! Egalitarianism is not the norm historically or globally. It certainly isn’t the human default.

    > how to handle errors and diagnostics, though it's an area of active exploration

IIRC it was actually this Windows port of Toolbox that in some ways laid the foundation for Carbon - i.e. a port of the Toolbox API to what became Mac OS X.

— Kurt Vonnegut

https://archive.ph/LZPil

Anyone knows what could cause this?

When they first introduced video calls, schools had to close for a day.

Imagine then you come here and see someone calls it awful. Can't help but think its just an instance of "old man yelling at clouds".

A partial answer is that part of low-level programmers avoid memory allocation and threads like plague. In some cases they are not even an option (small embedded programming, it's nearly as low-level as you can get before going hardcore for real with assembly programming), but when they can the keywords are efficiency, reliability, predictability, and simplicity : statically allocating in advance is a thing you can do because the product is typically with max specs written on the box (e.g. max number of entries in a phone book, to take a generic dumb example), and you have to meet these requirements even if the customer uses all of the capabilities to the max; no memory overbooking allowed, which is basically what dynamic allocation is, in a sense.

> instead of starting a new programming language

If I were to start a new low-low level programming language, I would basically just fix C's weak typing problem, fix the UB problems that only come from issues with long-gone processors (like C++11 finally did with sign encoding), "backport" some C++ features (templates? constexpr?), add a pinch of syntactic sugar and fix union types to have proper sum types. But probably I've just described D and apparently a significant chunk of C23.

Washington state just makes the customers pay the costs for build-out. Then the municipal utility district always breaks even. You can finance it through a utility lien, but either way, build out is expensive; less so if someone else already paid to get fiber to pass your lot, but still pretty spendy.

I've found AI is pretty good at figuring out what to do, but hit or miss at actually doing it.

re blocking: after every search in the upper-right corner of each link I see 3 dots which opens a menu and offers "block this site from all results".

Also there could be mandatory confirmation required for any amount set.

Want to remove ads? Click and confirm.

For just donating 1c per minute of reading you could have those queued somewhere and still have a chance to explicitly approve it once a month / a week / a day

Search for people that could replace your team - not that it would be the goal. Don't treat it as an annoyance, treat it as this is your opportunity to make the team really great. So don't use tools, wade in and screen, filter if the experience does not match.

But most of all you'll want someone that isn't too cocky, but has a track record of accomplishing.

There was an era where there were a lot of completely free sites, because they were mostly academic or passion projects, both of which are subsidized by other means.

Then there were ads. Banner adds, Google's less obtrusive text ads, etc. There were a number of sites completely supported by ads. Including a lot of blogs.

And forums. Google+ managed to kill a lot of niche communities by offering them a much easier way to create a community and then killing it off.

Now forums have been replaced by Discord and Reddit. Deep project sites still exist but are rarer. Social media has consolidated. Most people don't have personal home pages. There's a bunch of stuff that's paywalled behind Patreon.

And all of that has been happening before anyone threw AI into the mix.

Damn, you don’t hold back, do you?

LoRAModel positions itself as a LoRA-centric generation & training platform, with Flux LoRA compatibility noted on-site, a model gallery, and plans that include training credits. Having the LoRA context collected in one place helps me get to a “first decent result” faster (and keeps me from mixing base models by mistake).

What I liked as a user: • It nudges you to respect base-model compatibility before you waste time (SD1.5 vs SDXL vs FLUX). • The flow aligns with the community’s with/without-LoRA testing habit; see common comparison workflows. • Pricing/Refund/Privacy/TOS are public, which makes commercial use decisions easier.

Not affiliated; just sharing something that reduced friction for me. Link: https://loramodel.org/

Unfortunately I get the same kind of garbage around closing curly braces / closing parenthesis / dots with this magick filter... It seems to do slightly better with an extra `-resize 400%`, but still very far from as good as what you're getting (to be fair the monochrome filter is not pretty (bleeding) when inspecting the result).

I wonder what's different? ( ImageMagick-7.1.1.47-1.fc42.x86_64 and tesseract-5.5.0-5.fc42.x86_64 here, no config, langpack(s) also from the distro)

While I don't wholly agree with all choices made by Andrew and the Zig team, I greatly appreciate the care with which they develop features. The slow pace of deliberating over features, refining them, and removing unnecessary ones seems in sharp contrast to the development of any other langauge I'm aware of. I'm no language historian though, happy to be challenged.

My point is that if you ask wagonmakers what they think about cars, you won't get many positive replies, but enthsiastic ones where city governments decide to go full Amish. New times and new technology necessitate changing the craft, and the methods of yesteryear, though trained into teachers, just don't work anymore. Change is scary.

The winner is King and the loser is the bandit, or as we say in the west: history is written by the victor.

You need the long axle to apply the power to.

You never heard of them as they are only producing 30 a year.

Technically and conceptually these problems are not simple nor were well known or understood at the time Lamarr was working on them. It took from the mid 40's to the mid 60's for all the parts to come together.