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- faitswulff parentThe Pebble Time 2 has a heart rate monitor
- While we're on the topic, our school-issued Chromebooks allow unfettered access to YouTube. Yes, some of it is educational, but the kids can just click on the next video until they get what they want. Very convenient for you, Google Ads.
- Ah, I think I get it. Are you saying that regardless of BYD’s continued existence, China will still have 1/3 of the world’s manufacturing capacity?
- > They’ll nationalize and inflate away any institutional debt or wipe it out
This is just the reverse, actually, China isn’t afraid to go so far as to jail CEOs. There is no such thing as too big to fail in China, and all the Chinese domestic companies know it. The bailout playbook is a western thing.
- > I was always hunting for Pokémon with better abilities, better type coverage, analyzing synergy between moves… If you’ve ever played a mainline Pokémon game before, you must know how utterly unnecessary this is. Twenty years ago, I would have just powered through on Blastoise or Typhlosion alone.
I definitely beat the first Pokemon games with a level 100 Charizard. I even defeated gyms that were strong against fire types, often KO'ing Pokemon in one hit. The text would say "It's not very effective..." and then the opponent's health bar would drop to zero. So yeah, these games are easy enough that a 10yo can get by with twinking out a single pokemon. Makes the blog post even funnier
- I haven't used it in anger myself, but if you know Elixir and Phoenix you might like Gleam, which compiles to Javascript.
- They're definitely investing in the chips as well. It's an ecosystem play.
- You see similar levels of hypocrisy leveled at the capacity for Chinese EVs to surveil consumers, but not at Tesla, when we know that Tesla employees had access to sex tapes of their customers in their cars. As long as it’s western capital or western police doing the surveillance, it must be permissible, right? /s
We should be clamping down on all surveillance, and this is not a problem that has a technological solution. Quite the reverse, actually.
- Ah, but the number of people who are capable of this type of work who could be imprisoned is quite large!
- What you're saying isn't necessarily mutually exclusive to what gp said.
GPT-2 was the most impressive leap in terms of whatever LLMs pass off as cognitive abilities, but GPT 3.5 to 4 was actually the point at which it became a useful tool (I'm assuming to programmers in particular).
GPT-2: Really convincing stochastic parrot
GPT-4: Can one-shot ffmpeg commands
- > Still when I ask Claude.AI to double-check the math on our power consumption, it thinks we have an incredibly leaky apartment. Like ridiculously off the charts.
Ah. That answers my question about how you ventilate the apartment for fresh air: it's thoroughly perforated.
- You’re probably being downvoted because the author ended up not using c2rust.
- You are correct:
> ...each of the 117 drones launched had its own pilot.
- > Rust projects are easier to hack on and contribute to.
This was actually the subject of a study at the University of Waterloo:
> We find that despite concerns about ease of use, first-time contributors to Rust projects are about 70 times less likely to introduce vulnerabilities than first-time contributors to C++ projects.
- Meh, dropping actual human troops anywhere is largely romanticized. I'd bet on orbital drones, myself.
- What coding assistant do you use?
- They compile their customers' SQL to Rust code. Hence the preponderance of crates. It's a somewhat unique scenario.
- I can only remember one major outage from them in the past ~10 years (in the 2020s, not the 2012 outage), and if I recall correctly, it was fixed in short order...and they never released a postmortem
- It’s wild that Chinese automakers are getting to equivalent charging rates.
- The author mentions Python bindings in the post.
- Can’t shill outrage without something to be outraged about
- That’s fair, I think I might have been interpreting it as a call to “rewrite it in rust.”
- It’s nuanced. Google has shown that legacy C/C++ code is fairly stable in terms of memory safety bugs. That and the effort and risks involved means that existing C/C++ code is unlikely to be replaced wholesale. But that also means that switching new development to Rust has an outsized effect on preventing new bugs. So expect old code to stick around, but new code to be written in Rust with interoperability with the old code.
- If anyone's heard of RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation) for healing joints, the new guidance is called POLICE: Protect, Optimal Load, Ice, Compression, and Elevation. The key differences being Protect and Optimal Load, meaning don't re-injure it and expose it to some level of weight-bearing or usage.
- Yep, same experience, same platform. I guess straight to reader mode, it is.
EDIT - shockingly, reader mode also fails completely after the page reloads itself
- China is actually just one person (Xi) acting in perfect unison and its purpose is not to benefit its own people, but solely to undermine the West.
- I think I remember that as well. If you read the changelog, it goes through a good deal of edge cases behaviors that they probably ironed out in the intervening time, like captured variables with the same name and nested blocks with it parameters.