jschwartzi

Autotools is the de facto build system for most of the GNU system programs. The bit about dependency management mostly fits but I would argue that letting us figure out how to build and install the dependencies is fairly UNIXy. It’s also unclear to me that centralized package managers are necessarily better for security, though they’re easier to use. Also a lot of more modern tools I’ve tried to build in recent months do not give a crap about cross compilation as a use case. At least with autotools its supported by default unless the library authors did something egregious like hard coding the sysroot or toolchain paths.

In Seattle it will often also be a Subaru driver.

Yeah anecdotally I’ve hopped on a couple planes this year where masking is required. Normally my wife and I get sick from the plane. But since we’ve been wearing KN95s the whole time starting when we get to the airport we haven’t been getting sick at all.

In my state the vaccination rate is above 70% and the hospitalization rate has decoupled from the positive rate. The spike this winter ended in October whereas last winter it didn’t end until January. We’ve been on a downward trend even with shows and restaurants open and people having parties. So I would cite that as evidence the vaccine is protecting our population.

I want legislation that the manufacturer has to publish, online and in a conspicuous place, full board-level schematics, parts lists, and service notes for household appliances no later than the day after the first unit of a model goes out of warranty. Or that such documents are placed prominently in the packaging the product arrives in and that installers are required by law to provide it to the customer. You can sell something that breaks in 3 years but you have to give me the documents I need to repair it including the logic board. My biggest fear in getting a new washer/dryer is that it starts my wife and I on the same junk treadmill everyone else is on.

What proof do you have that enumeration of function is equivalent to understanding? If I encounter a building-size device filled with large cogs and two stones, I can’t immediately tell from looking at it whether its purpose is to grind apples or wheat. So I’m not sure you can say that an animal is or isn’t sentient based on the organization of its cells.

I can’t put my finger on why though.

In my state prospective teachers are fingerprinted and their prints are run through the FBI database when applying for the certification. My prints are in that database.

The other point that’s being missed here is that pedestrians need a bunch of stuff that’s ignored:

* to be able to walk from business to business in minutes or seconds * to feel safe walking across the street * to be able to have conversations with other people outside without having to yell over traffic.

The stroad is also really bad at providing these needs because pedestrians are not considered at all in US roadway design.

The US definition sucks.

I think if it’s water efficiency you’re after you should check out my proof of millet system. It continues to produce new coins even in deserts and historic droughts. And you don’t have to drain Jackson Lake for your proofs!

They hit the ground at the same speed but with significantly more impulse.

So in other words it’s useful for feeling morally superior.

That’s really only been my experience with telecoms. Other companies I’ve called in to have absolutely put me in touch with higher level managers who can actually resolve the problem. It depends a lot on what company you’re calling in to, but I’m not going to stop doing it just because it doesn’t change anything at EG Comcast. And I’m totally fine with you mentally erasing the conversation after I’m done.

The reason it’s okay to be deterministic and wrong in engineering is because it’s a lot easier to explain the conditions under which the wrong result will be produced and how you can identify those situations in the specific photo. The reason I think a simple resize that deterministically adds misinformation is better than a neural network is because I can calculate the bounds under which the algorithm produces wrong information and label the image. And I can do that without running the algorithm.

When interpolation goes wrong it’s predictably wrong, which is not true of more complex algorithms using AI. If we can predict how it goes wrong we can extract the meaningful information from it.

you might get better results with a run-length encoding on a dithered image. I’m not aware of any modern image formats that use RLE though.

That’s not “hassling,” that’s “clarifying criticality.” The notion that we can’t even pass complaints along to support agents isn’t helpful. In my case when I lodge a complaint or turn down a solution it’s not meant as a personal attack. I legit want the company to know that they’re falling short and that I’m probably looking for alternatives.

Obviously don’t start getting angry, but if there’s a point of frustration please pass it along.

Also Ubuntu in Azure.

If you did start something like that you could call it Labcorp and make sure it’s the only game in town.

It’s even a microcontroller that emulates the original SIM, so it can have whatever specs they want.

This was driven home to me many years ago when I popped a SIM from a Mexican carrier that had an embedded Dominos Pizza app on it. Suddenly the Windows Mobile phone I was testing had a new icon on it.

A better hardware architecture for running a gui with some real-time requirements is often to move the real-time stuff into a separate microprocessor entirely. I’ve run into some tricky problems trying to do both on the same core, as you have zero control over when the UI will suddenly start consuming more resources, and it becomes a game of whack-a-mole to keep your ui responsive without overtaxing your event loop. I think this is one reason TI put a Cortex M processor on die with the AM335X. It enables you to offload your real-time logic onto a separate processor and dedicate hardware control to that so the main application processor could focus on rendering and responding to user inputs.

I don’t understand. Are you saying there’s some negative impact to allowing people to have children who otherwise couldn’t? What problems do you foresee?

Just a nitpick but the process of crystallization evolves energy rather than involves. So it’s proceeding to a lower-entropy state. If we wanted to trigger such a transformation we’d have to involve machinery so you’re right in that sense. But there are other ways in which the universe stumbles into lower-entropy states sometimes, including crystallization from a super-saturated solution. Super-saturation could be driven by something as simple as the day/night cycle

That isn’t a plan, it’s an appeal to “life finds a way.”

All of the trees I’ve seen where I live have been damaged either by the current drought or by various bark beetle attacks. All of them. We had to cut down a birch tree that was girdled by bark beetles, and I’m very worried about the mature red cedars on our property surviving the next ten years. You can drive around the city here and count dead or dying trees. Tell me how are they supposed to adapt?

Please only do this in artificial bodies of water. There’s an entire food chain of insects and birds and fish which rely on the larvae and adults.

Bitcoin isn’t exciting because it doesn’t solve very many problems relative to the massive energy expenditure needed to create it. It’s like a fire at an oil well or a gas pipeline break. The arguments for why we should use it remind me a lot of arguments for why this year is the year of the Linux desktop. Bitcoin may be eating a lot of speculation but I can’t buy beans with it.

Well the idea that stocks must go up is a kind of scheme in itself. The whole financialization of our economy is based on constant growth. So you could argue that it’s a Ponzi scheme as well. Our children will likely be caught holding the bag.