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If we jack the financial penalties up, it will just screw over the consumers. We need to send people to prison. Bankrupting the company is an interesting strategy, but I think that'd just result in more consolidation.

This is an amazing achievement for someone of any age, but to publish a book with this much research at 18 is phenomenal. I heartily congratulate you.

I've hopped through the book and it seems carefully laid out and organized. I may come back at you with questions once I've read further. Cheers.

So we're re-creating the Apollo 8 Mission 60 years later. 60 years after swinging around the moon, we are going to attempt the feat again. I'm having a hard time getting excited... Especially when some say it may not survive reentry because of politics (https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly....)

One added benefit of knowing how to do this stuff is even when you hire it out, you typically get much better work out of contractors for a better price. If for no other reason than you can more effectively communicate requirements and handle potential surprises/changes (which is guaranteed to happen when renovating)

I think the project is a great idea. Really a structured framework around local, persistent memory with semantic search is the most important bit, IMO. (The SOUL feature already exists for most LLMs in the form of persistent markdown files.)

I also think it'd be a great starting point for building a private pub/sub network of autonomous agents (e.g. a company that doesn't want to exfil its password files via OpenClaw)

The name, however, is a problem. LocalGPT is misleading in 2 ways. 1. It is not Local, it relies on external LLM providers. 2. It is not a Generative Pretrained Transformer.

I'd highly recommend changing the name to something that more accurately portrays the intent and the method.

That whole album is an absolute banger.

I'm on Firefox with ublock origin and it works just fine.

Either way... the site is a store.. of sorts... for Greenday's "Dookie" album, where the songs are mixed down into various bizarre formats. They said de-mastered, and I was hoping that they were actually releasing the individual tracks. Sad.

Yeah, but how much did that actually change? I mean, the media sensationalized every little thing that happened, to make people feel as if the world was ending (or being saved, depending on the news outlet). However, Corporations still ran the country through their bought-and-paid-for U.S. and state representatives, just as in administrations before and after.

<jest> Well the baby was neither a founder nor a female, sooo... </jest>

Why do so few researchers study them?

Because they're the ones funding medical research! nyuk nyuk!

Seriously though, as a health nut who tries to stay on the science side of things, I still see a lot of "It's Parasites!" stuff from the pseudo-science health community. As well as bizarre cures. Walnuts, Cloves and electric shock seem to come up the most.

I have tried to find any practical advice regarding detection, symptoms and such, and beyond tapeworms, heartworms and hookworms, there isn't much information.

In other news, guns don't kill people. People do. etc etc.

I'm curious what the motivation was for linking this now. This repo hasn't been updated in two years. Meanwhile, there are at least five other Rust MPMC queues in use that have been recently updated.

Is there something unique about its algorithm? I'm afraid the repo is low on documentation.

Is this effected by Microsoft's patent on various rAns coding and decoding?

If not, how does it avoid the (rather vague) claims?

https://patents.google.com/patent/US11234023B2/en

Anyone got any other experiences with things that cause brain fog?

Allergies and Food sensitivities.

These are often incredibly hard to diagnose because there are foods that we eat so commonly, we don't have a good control/variable separation for experimentation. In addition, allergies and food sensitivities don't develop all at once. They increase over time. This makes discovery even more difficult.

But it's almost always this.

As for myself, I had severe brain fog and fatigue. It turns out I was allergic to coffee. Looking back, I now see that it was something that became more and more severe over about 10 years.

It took me quitting coffee for several weeks for an unrelated reason to discover that it was the problem. When I started again, the stark difference in how I was felt made it much easier to diagnose. I got lucky really.

I'm a bit concerned that they don't mention a particular strain of B. Subtilis.

There are hundreds of documented strains, and they don't all eat/produce the same things (at least not in the same ratios)

Some have been documented to reduce inflammation and restore tight-junction function in epithelial walls (where other strains did not).

Others have been shown to reverse the accumulation of α-synuclein. That has been implicated as a cause or symptom of Parkinson's disease.

I'm going to need to see success rating for each groundhog. How often do they correctly predict the weather?

Also how often did their right or wrong predictions contradict the majority?

To my untrained eyes, SQL did not appear to have things like windowing, hierarchical relationships, (trees, graphs) in mind when initially designing the language.

Support for these things have been wedged into the language by numerous additions, and I think the fundamental syntactical framework of SQL is cracking under the pressure. Granted, it's been a while since I've had to traverse a tree using SQL, but I do recall that the query was very painful to write, and even more painful to execute efficiently.

Also, these things only work if you've wedged your data model into rows and columns. (or you use non-standard language extensions like jsonb)

PRQL, on the other hand, rearranges the syntactical structure to be more extensible, and also agnostic over the underlying shape of the data model. It works the same regardless of whether you're using an RDBMS or a graph/document database.

Is the result more complicated? IMO, only in the simplest examples. PRQL shines vs SQL when you have multiple stages of aggregation, like pre and post aggregation filtering, or referencing synthesized data, etc.

The U.S. factory farm system has killed 120+ million pigs and over 7 million sheep this year (hopefully not many monkeys). I am quite sure most of those pigs were subjected to torturous conditions before they were put out of their misery.

TBH, I think any outrage is hypocritical from anyone one who is not already outraged and boycotting the global meat industry.

boingboing used to be amazing, now it's mostly clickbait ads ):

The origin of the name comes from the fact that it started as a Lua project. In Lua (Portuguese for moon), everyone loves any "moon" related names or puns for their project. As such, "Lunatic" fits right in.

As someone who has family members with mental health issues, I don't find the term offensive at all.

I, for one, by default think more of someone who's obsessed with the moon, I guess it's because I never read that article, so I've never been told to be offended by it.

All that said, I do hope that the authors understand that they might be fighting an uphill battle with regards to adoption.

I am a software developer who works in his basement in WA state. Not a lot of natural light during the winters.

* Force myself to exercise. This is by far has the largest impact on my well being. (team sports makes that easier) * Take 10,000 IU of vitamin D a week * Try to get outside for walks in the late morning or early afternoon

Also, more recently, one of the inventors of the RAFT algorithm.

It would be interesting to see a write-up from them on Homa's benefits over UDP. UDP has been used to work-around issues with TCP both in the datacenter and in unreliable WANs.

Skimming over the paper, I think the magic of Homa is in its RPC calls and its short-lived connections. When they're handled at layer 3 and 4, they can provide a significant hint to switches, routers and hosts regarding prioritization and congestion control. If you agree upon the prioritization algorithms as part of the protocol, then both sending and receiving hardware can coordinate much more easily.

If we instead just implemented something like Homa on top of UDP, it would basically mean that the top of the OSI stack would have to somehow inform the lower layers of the stack about these "sessions". You'd also have to hope that 3rd party peers decide to implement the hints in the same way. This would result in much more complexity.

I don't think the goal is to review all Twitter source. That should be the job of the (new?) development team. I think the goal was to look at the last 6 months of code, especially the last few weeks, for anything devious.

I don't think it was your intent, but your statement makes it seems like all Tesla engineers are looking at Twitter code. I bet this number is closer to 4.

Tesla has ca. 1000 software engineers working in various capacities. The ca. 300 that work on car firmware and autonomous driving are probably not participating in the Twitter drama.

I've had to delete big chunks of code I wrote. Not because of burnout or exhaustion, but of sickness.

When I had a cold, but was good enough to sit up and type, I assumed I was good enough to work.

Nope. I've learned to monitor my health and energy levels better, and I stop when I know my productivity will be low (or negative)

Give them as much as they want to know.

Some folks don't want distractions. They don't care about the state of things that don't directly pertain to their job. They just want to build stuff.

Other people, like myself, want to know everything.

If you want honesty and transparency from your employees, you have to create a culture of it. Which means it starts with you.

If It's ZMK, does this mean I could flash in a new configuration to Dvorak? (I know, Dvorak is a bad habit. I'm trying to quit. Really.)

One bit that I find helpful is that the keycaps are all the same height/angle so that I can rearrange them... hopefully..

<snark> I would be able to take this more seriously if "cyber" weren't found in the title </snark>

Seriously though. I'm all for any attempts to standardize schemas. Most SEIMS end up being a sprawling/proprietary/incompatible mess.

When JC Penney decided to lower prices across the board and eliminate doorbuster sales, coupons and other manipulative tactics, their revenue dropped to the point that their CEO was fired.

Let's not forget about A&W and their famous 1/3 pounder debacle.

Unfortunately, treating customers like intelligent human beings is currently not a scalable business tactic.

Maybe someday

I think we'll always get what we deserve. Some day that'll be better.