I assume this discussion is in cs or maybe math? In chemistry, a thesis can be viewed as one’s papers stapled together with connecting exposition. Each paper/chapter is some kind of experimental or experimental/theoretical work that’s novel. And release from the PhD program occurs when there’s a sufficient body of work.
While ai might or will get involved in the theory or descriptive portions, there’s a whole lot of lab work that isn’t easily automated and which doesn’t lie in the current body of knowledge. New ways to make stuff at the bench, or new stuff made at the bench. These are what gets people their organic phd’s. Some schools are sufficiently complex and endowed to include medchem work which proposes and makes new drug matter. In these cases, theses will be large and representative of pushing the state of the art forward.
The TLDR is that the sun is very, very far away compared to the moon.
It’s actually quite fun to look at the moon, adjust your mental model based on where the sun is relative to you and what you see illuminated, and experience the scale of the solar system.
I don’t know that that is true but if so it’s probably because they largely didn’t flee to the west.
Haven’t seen it yet but The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On is an ‘87 doc about a Japanese WWII vet tracking down Japanese war criminals, confronting them and then beating the shit out of them. Here’s Bill Hader talking about it:
I'm watching out for right (anti-other, ancaps) and left (anti-status quo, ansocs) getting together to fight the centrists.
(Eg Bannon+Sanders against AI, but led by much younger people including women/LGBTQ.. strangely, this might happen in Japan/US/LA first not EU/EA because urban youth are more polarized in the earlier set?? The ancap against AI angle is particularly interesting-- YC already has some of it)
All this said, I wonder what it’s like being on the receiving end of Google. The number of personal, emotional and existential queries is probably pretty significant.
I'm actually impressed that GM managed to get the base model price down, If I recall they originally launched closer to 75K.
Although, I don't think the base model will do 492 miles, I'm guessing it's more like 250-300.
I'm still not sure whether GM just completely mis-managed the thing (which GM is known to do) or not. I say that because it is full-size-ish, but that creates the problem of it being a heavier unibody, and when we talk about EVs, 'weight of base vehicle and the batteries to move it' can become a Delta-V-ish problem.
As a sort of example, I'll point to the Cybertruck; it's honestly probably even more 'brick-ish' aerodynamically than the Silverado EV, but it weighs 1000 pounds less (or so) and thus gets 20-60 miles more range than the Silverado EV base despite the battery being not much larger as far as capacity.
Possibly also worth noting though, that Delta-V-ish problem means the Silverado EV in some configurations has a curb weight high enough it can't go on some residential streets.
IDK. GM got kinda-smart with how they handled EVification of their CUVs (i.e. start with midsize, move down, be aggressive on pricing) but the Silverado EV still strikes me as classic GM WTFery
> John Chowning actually first licensed his FM synthesis patent to Yamaha
Did he? Wasn't there New England Digital (NED) with the Synclavier which had FM on the market before Yamaha? Are you sure Chowning gave licenses? I would rather expect that this was the Standford administration's business, not Chowning's.
I ported the decompiled C code of the 1998 PlayStation version of Metal Gear Solid to the ESP32-S3.
The game code compiles directly to Xtensa machine code, with the PlayStation SDK, GPU, GTE, CD drive, scheduler, and controller replaced by software layers.
It runs on a Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense with 8 MB PSRAM and microSD.
The post goes into the porting process, memory layout, scheduler, software rendering, debugging, and the bugs that took the most time to find
> The majority of Americans own the home they live in
That's the biggest obstacle but also the biggest motivation for increasing land tax. The number is barely 50% currently and falling fast. Of those 40% are owned outright, the rest have mortgages.
This isn't even accounting for commercial real estate and farmland. People complain about grocery price gauging where I live but supermarkets are no more profitable than before covid - they don't realize the main expense change has been land rent.
Once you take out a mortgage you're committed to speculating on that land's future value. If that expectation doesn't pan out, you get a GFC. A gradual land tax would remove some fuel from that fire.
> If you incorporate and don’t pay yourself a salary you still owe corporate taxes
Well yes but actually no - e.g 'buy borrow die'. Regardless, my point is avoiding a land tax isn't as simple as living somewhere with cheap land (it requires consuming less), and people (companies) do also avoid income taxes (it doesn't require consuming less).
> Athletes have the highest tax rate in the country, why do you think people don’t care about their tax rate?
I've never heard anyone talk about this. If I search 'taylor swift tax rate' vs 'elon musk tax rate' I think it's clear.
> As far as I know the only tech billionaire with significant land holdings is gates
Why limit to tech billionaires (who do own lots of land)? The class that specifically didn't make their money from land monopolies, and who pay little effective tax under current system anyway? Trump, Kushner, Witkoff come to mind.
If you're concerned about taxing tech specifically - well George is one of very few people in the 1800s who genuinely considered the full AI + robotics case.
> It's sorta a shame that Go keeps doing such a good job at a minimum-viable wheel-rewrite, but then lets it linger for so long without catching up to the rest of the programming world.
How many mainstream languages have content addressed imports? I can’t think of any, so I assume I’m misunderstanding your meaning of the term because you seem to be suggesting that it is common and Go is the outlier for lacking it?
Besides using a separate port, I would also suggest running the hidden service on a non-127.0.0.1 bind address, just in case you ever host something else on that port and forget to disable the hidden service:
> HiddenServicePort 80 127.13.37.1:8080
> listen 127.13.37.1:8080;
This way, strangers won't be able to connect to a service bound to 127.0.0.1, should you ever decide to re-use the port and forget to disable the hidden service.
You'll also need to use separate ports and/or bind addresses if you host multiple hidden services and don't want people to correlate them - if nginx doesn't match the Host header, it will serve whichever site comes first alphabetically.
I thought CSS was originally to simplify hand-written HTML so it could focus more on the content and formatting would be standardized by the CSS stylesheet.
2MB of CSS just sounds insane. What are we even doing here?
FFS, why not just go back to explicitly inlining all the formatting in the HTML itself? I have trouble believing all the CSS is actively used. It’s not like any of this is written by humans these days.
2MB of text - isn’t that roughly half the size of the Christian Bible?
I agree with everything he says, but plenty of people still today don't see the writing on the wall
Yesterday I asked DeepSeek to clone Prince of Persia in Swift and the result is more than awesome [1]. I didn't write a single line of code, didn't check it, not even the main entry point. I don't know if it delivered swift, assembly or brainfvck, it just works, played three levels testing it and was taken back more than three decades ago when I first saw it
We are at a tipping point in software development, apps are worth nothing, market share is the most valuable currency now. If you think you have a secret app that can fly you to the edge of the universe and back through a wormhole, it can be copied and it will, at a faster speed than you built it first and heavily optimized on every new AI model release, in any language and for any platform
You trust the result because of the output, you use it, you run it, you don't care about code review or unit tests, AI does it all for us and does it perfectly
Bugs? Of course, but they are fixed faster than we can type them in the chat box. And things will only get better, way better
Exactly. Even if you believe the industry should be regulated, the only thing worse than failure to regulate would be regulation by the senile, corrupt people in government today.
> [1] Other languages - like Go or Python - have a runtime check that raises some sort of exception or panic when lst[0] is accessed on an empty list or slice.
> After spending years doing those FFI dances in both directions, I’ve reached the conclusion that the only good boundary with Go is a network boundary.
It looks like this extends into the package manager too. The only good boundary with Go programs is a socket. The only good boundary with the Go package manager (? if we can say it is one) is a domain and a DNS server (your own or somebody else's in the case of gopkg.in).
I almost stopped reading here. I'm not a Nix user at all, so I don't know if it's needed in the first place.
With all due respect for the work done here, to me, it just feels like another "let's rewrite it in rust" project.