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And yet they still can’t break the holdfast of the PDF format.

This sounds like a choose your path story…

You are a country. You have to decide on your country’s economic model before starting the game. Choose:

- a free market economy. Companies are unhindered by the state to make their own decisions to maximize shareholder value. Decisions therefore lean towards short term profit margins rather than long term success. Influence of the state via elected politicians on a short term is expensive but effective to ensure you are unhindered by regulation. Success here is not aligned with the long term success of the state.

- a quasi free market where there is partial state ownership and control, but also supports free market principles to encourage private investment. The state will heavily subsidize your economy and decisions can be made to prioritize long term global success rather than short term shareholder value.

- a state controlled and state owned economy. All decisions are made by committee. There are no shareholders apart from the state. Success benefits all within the state. Failure also tied directly to the state. Long term goals are preference over short term goals.

Choose carefully. Once your have made your decision the costs to change it are extremely high and will result in societal and economic collapse.

As someone with an LG smart tv that watches Netflix etc, but who also has PiHole on the network, can anyone recommend any lists to block LG and LG advertiser traffic?

They are supposed to verify that before they place the trade and generally do follow the rules. Because if they don’t, they will be not allowed to allow any short sales for that security.

SEC is clearly ignoring FTD’s and as a result allowing MM’s to reloan unlocated synthetic shares.

Which is exactly what happened in 2008 with mortgage backed securities and CDO’s.

I can’t read magic eye pictures and I can’t read this either. Maybe astigmatism makes it unreadable to me?

It just looks like static on old tvs to me.

I’m convinced of widespread corruption here. We need to follow the money. Who is funding and pushing this agenda to blanket spy on all Europeans? I guess my question is rhetorical.

Tristan de Cuhna is more remote. It’s 2430km from St. Helena. Bouvet Island’s closest neighbor is Antarctica (1770 km).

I think the EU politicians who continue to push this agenda should be investigated as to where the lobbying money is coming from.

Looking across the Atlantic…

Encryption is a better example. The USG tried exactly the same tactic in the 90’s. The NSA tried to shove the Clipper chip down everyone’s throats. The USG put export controls on encryption and people went as far as to tattoo the algorithms on their body.

But like you said, they will try to control it and fail. Like they always do.

Isolated, on-demand microVMs — built for AI agents, code execution, and dev environments.

Came to say the same. It’s a very useful tool to stop having to deal with being bothered by strangers whilst I go about my day in public spaces.

Ironically the "environmental" movement has in some ways actually set us back by opposing clean, safe nuclear power.

Problem is it’s not exactly clean because you’ve got nuclear waste to dispose of and nobody wants it in their backyard. It’s mostly safe, but when it does go wrong it contaminates large swathes of land for thousands of years.

Its biggest problem is that it’s expensive[1].

Not only that - it’s getting more expensive.

Not only that - it will never achieve economies of scale.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3A3-Learning-curves-...

Agreed.

Moreover this claim stinks.

Apple have enough legal experience with the EU and technically competence to have baked EU AI, privacy and anti-monopoly compliance into their product from the start.

In fact any U.S. company could base their products on EU legislation, since it provides wide safeguards for consumer privacy.

Apple deliberately chose not to and are now being deliberately obtuse and misleading.

Anyone would think they didn’t have lawyers.

Either they are incompetent or it’s a deliberate choice to play this card. I don’t think it’s incompetence.

Where do you think that lobbying money is coming from?

This smells like stored procedures. You can’t unit test it. You can’t version it. Business logic in the database, (hidden brain problem), harder to isolate noisy workloads, no observability, scaling pressure lands solely in Postgres, lack of IO, especially API calls.

Good for local database only jobs though. Niche use cases.

As a side note, has anyone else noticed that GitHub have leaked what looks like a sequential customer number on their Billing - Usage page?

Go here and you’ll be redirected with a query string including a customer parameter. That looks like trouble.

https://github.com/settings/billing/usage

Just a side note, that this website is classified by Apple as an Adult website. I have Limit Adult Websites set in Content & Privacy Restrictions switched on.

Led me to wonder what happens if a domain gets a new owner, and they want to petition Apple to remove the block.

It doesn’t exist as a term, but I always thought “enduked” would have been a nice term for this process.

Instead it’s the more wordy “created a duke”, since his status was both created and granted to him. The title “Duke of Wellington” was expressly created for him.

Fun fact, he should have been “Duke of Wellesley”, but his elder brother, Richard Wellesley, had already been made Marquess Wellesley.

Since the peerage from Viscount to Marquess to Duke would ended up with two brothers potentially sharing the same title, they chose to give Arthur the title Viscount Wellington, from the town where the family heritage was connected to.

Therefore his title peerage line:

Viscount Wellington -> Earl of Wellington -> Marquess of Wellington -> Duke of Wellington

He was also technically a Baron before Viscount but he received that peerage the same day as his Viscount title.

Outside British peerage he held some other cool honors and titles. As well as being the Prince of Waterloo in Belgium the the Netherlands, he was granted the honor of “Knight of the Golden Fleece” in Spain, “Knight of the Black Eagle” in Prussia, and my personal favorite was “Knight of the Elephant” in Denmark.

In the UK we have lots of reminders of him namely because of the large number of pubs called “The Duke of Wellington”.

Talking of dark patterns I’ve noticed that many site “accidentally” have the bottom aligned cookie consent banner “break” on mobile Safari, such that the buttons are arranged such that “Accept All” is the only button you can press because the “Deny All” or “Customize” go out of viewport when you go to click on them. This might be related to how mobile Safari changes the bottom bar as you move to click the button. I often have this with the NYT Wordle game. Even though I use pi-hole to block ads, it’s still annoying.

The answer as always in these situations is to zoom out.

We are in the midst of a paradigm shift, and the perspective in the daring fireball post aligns exactly with this author’s perspective:

https://rebecca-powell.com/posts/return-on-intelligence-01-e...

Are you thinking of WindowBlinds / Stardock?

https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/

I seem to remember it was available at the same time as the Winamp skins / viz craze.

There is an SGI IRIX screenshot there from late 90’s. I scanned the list to take a look specifically for it.

I once saw 4 of the SGI Onyx2 RealityMonster supercomputers in a post-production house’s render farm in London.

They were so expensive, ($1m+ per computer) that it was only financially viable if they were engaged on client work 24/7/365. Damn gorgeous things and they turned the display of those into almost an art piece for wow-ing film studio execs.

Fun times.

Totally agree on this.

The use of “complexity” in terms of systems theory in comparison to “complicated”, is often misunderstood.

I also agree that it’s a really good framework for evaluating problems and then making decisions on potential solutions because each has its own set of approaches.

Small nick pick. It’s “Cynefin” not “Cynefine”. The word is Welsh (Cymraeg). Roughly pronounced ke-ne-fin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework

From a technical perspective how does one start to work with this historic prediction market data effectively?

Where do you source it from? What tools are most effective?

I’d love to see a more technical article on how that would work as someone who isn’t a data scientist.

I looked on Hugging Face and saw there was a 163GB historical Polymarket dataset. Is that a good place to start?

Brings back good memories of playing fun games with my siblings.

Our first computer was an Acorn BBC B Microcomputer.

Reminds me of the old adage “I don’t need to outrun the bear. I just need to outrun you.”

Once everyone takes the stance of waiting 2 weeks, we are all back to the same situation.

I don’t like the suggestion to “wait for others to be the unfortunate victims, so that I can benefit from their misfortune”.

Surely there’s a better way.

There are cultural differences here though. Brüder Grimm aren’t quite as toned down in Germany as we see in US stories being Disney-fied.

The U.S. was born out of Puritanism. That prudishness and absolutism continues to echo through into its modern culture. Most people don’t even realize it does.

I’ve never seen the Disney film. As a child I hated that story. My own children have no love for it either. If I was to guess, I’d say that there isn’t much of a character in that story to get behind and to empathize with as a child. Pinocchio is a selfish little shit. I can’t like him. As an adult I feel for his father’s desperation but even then I could never understand the story’s popularity appeal.

Lidl cloud is a resurgence in OpenStack?

I used to have quite a few customer hosted at Rackspace in the early 2010’s and I always thought it sad they dropped the ball when they got bought out by private investment and they fired most of the talent. I loved their API and the docs were really good.

Quite honestly I love the GitHub Copilot CLI. I pair it with Squad and it’s awesome.

https://bradygaster.github.io/squad/

If I have the same repo also open in VSCode, it’s also aware of that fact, so you can give it context (a file or selected lines of code).