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I know vegans who consume dairy/eggs once they become responsible for the husbandry of those sources.

I'm not following. Doesn't the outbox pattern just pass the buck?

The motive seems to be a naive process that enqueues a message and then commits to a database - two independent actions. But a well-behaved process would commit to a database, and then only if successful enqueue a message. That's better but still not atomic - commit, crash, and no message queued.

So the solution is a two-table write - the outbox pattern. But the process that reads the outbox must commit both a query and delete before sending the message. That's the same risk as the agreement well-behaved program - commit, crash, and no message queued. Except now you introduced another pipeline element so your overall complexity increases, and so too risk.

What if you never delete messages from the outbox? Well, what you have now is no longer an outbox nor a database nor useful for large volumes. What if you implement a database to track procesed messages. Return to square one - that's the same problem you were initially trying to solve.

What if you fetch, enqueue, and then delete? Ohh... that works. In case of a crash the message remains in the outbox. It may be processed in duplicate, but eventually if successfully it will be deleted from the outbox.

The message broker then receives a possibly duplicate message. It must consult its internal database, and if the message is unique, route it. So right back at square one. Can't have atomicity and uniqueness.

Or a nihilist, or a fatalist, or a pessimist, or an antinatalist, or a realist.

Don't go putting people into boxes. That's the path of persecution.

You have the inalienable right to say what you want on a plane, limited by what the government is allowed to prosecute. In a confined space, that is a bit riskier. That's a solely personal choice - no laws are being broken. The Captain has the right to ask you to conform or leave, but that's a separate issue.

People are being overly sensitive. A wifi name is not a protest. It does not disturb personal privacy and tranquility. It's about as offensive as an article titled "We’re All Gonna Die!" from your favorite news outlet - which by the way, is not an uncommon headline.

What if my wifi name was "peanut butter for all!" but unbeknownst to me and by some rare cosmic coincidence everyone on the plane was deathly allergic to peanut butter. Does that make me a terrorist? No! But I swear someone would try to drag me through decades of litigation regardless. These people seem to have divorced words and meanings from the mechanics of how the world works. Like, "this piece of paper says you shouldn't say this, so off with your head".

I think advertisements are socially acceptable and actually expected to be as blatantly offensive as possible. How would people react if it were "Boeing go boom. Fly Airbus now! Text 777 NOW for Airbus discounts."

More energy will be required than radiation absorbed by a spherical (ish) data center. You'll have massive solar panels piping energy in, and so the temperature would by higher than thermal equilibrium at that distance.

I had to implement a subset of postfix because security wouldn't greenlight any MTAs (or third-party software for that matter)...

Yeah, but proprietary baseband blobs don't control power, right? So if I turn the phone off, the radio ought to be dead... fingers crossed.

""" If the battery runs out or device is off

For supported devices, which include Pixel 8, Pixel 9, and Pixel 10 series, the Find Hub network can locate your phone for several hours even if the battery runs out or the device is powered off. """

https://support.google.com/android/answer/3265955?hl=en#zipp...

Couldn't find any official documentation from Apple, but there's this:

https://www.howtogeek.com/805624/what-does-iphone-findable-a...

What about the find-my-phone BLE database, for which I just learned modern phones broadcast even when off? Is that controlled by the OS (Google, Apple) and not the carrier?

How was Amandla even identified? Stingray at the protest? Then how was the phone number linked to Google? Facial recognition at the protest? I guess his details are on file under terms of the visa? So then the government simply asks Google for all details on the individual by name? Either is pretty disturbing.

* unresolved personal vignette * ad copy for mythos * generic advice

That's interesting. So you want to train language, linguistic reasoning, and tool use, but otherwise strip out all knowledge in lieu of a massive context? Just grade they model on how well it can access local information, perhaps also run tools?

Isn't this the idea behind holographic memory? Chopping the image in half gets you the same image at half the resolution? Or so I've heard...

What you want is a context mipmap.

Then there was the Claude article describing using filesystem hierarchy to organize markdown knowledge, which apparently beats RAG.

That's why I don't feel bad pirating textbooks.

For example:

Good. The internet is meant to uplift human society, not enable petty theft. If only they could have gone after each thief to take back the money they stole.

- signed, not-Asooka

Ehh, I find that the most tedious code is also the most sensitive to errors, stuff that blurs the divide between code and data.

What is it like purchasing consumer goods from the EU under the new 10% section 122 rates? Previously I could have expected 25% tariffs + UPS/govt fees equivalent to another 40%. But hearing the horrors of shippers (UPS, FedEx, DHL) charging import fees equivalent to 1000% with no recourse to refuse the shipment and recoup costs, I never pulled the trigger. Has anything changed with the section 122 rates, especially considering the $800 de minimus exception won't be reinstated?

That's a really good point. I'm not familiar with Unison, but I think that's the idea behind the language?

https://www.unison-lang.org/

It's still possible for two commits to conflict only semantically, one obsoleting the other. Merging both would lead to dead code so perhaps stricter (line-base or ast-based) conflicts would be preferable.

No, it's 996 for 845 wages.

Do we need a "human in the loop" when targeting autonomous machines?

By destandardising sizes

Oh. I thought there was an outside chance you intended a positive response. Ah well.

Age, health and status

I can understand age. But wouldn't everyone want to signal good health and high status?

eBay? Can you elaborate? Do you mean used clothes like on Poshmark? And does eBay really publish decent clothes measurements?

If only, but wouldn't dimensions work just as well as pattern/silhouette visualizations? And finding retail dimensions is the hard part.

Hey, how close are we to being able to 3d print our own clothing?

Ironically I think the hourglass high-rise means I can wear (some) women's pants without tightness in the crotch, and the extra back rise is great when sitting.

back waist pocket = mind blown

standard back pocket = disaster

I've ripped quite a few pants (2? 3?) getting up when the phone in the back pocket gets caught on something. And these were pants I considered "heavy duty".

side-leg pocket = ungainly

Knees and by extension thighs move more than hips, and so items in side pockets tend to bounce around and pull down the waistline, when normally they wouldn't in regular pockets.

In my opinion the best pocket is the breast pocket on jackets and heavier garments. I guess if I were a cop I'd prefer the shoulder holster.

you can get in any clothes store and get plenty of clothes to wear

"Getting into the clothes" is a low bar. I can get into this brown paper bag. Comfort is underrated.

if some women absolutely can't find something in their size from a specific brand, that makes the brand even more exclusive, like it being "for fit people only".

Heh I think mens sizing signals the opposite: too skinny = insufficiently masculine.

Clothing brands detect this in their customer studies and respond appropriately.

Respond how?

lots of different sub-groups of the female population to signal lots of different things

Signal what?

What a lovely website, and the torso silhouette sizing diagrams are invaluable.

I'm not the target demographic, but the main problems I have are proportions not simply waistsize. I was under the impression a size range [xs,s,m,l,xl] was supposed to adjust girth (bust, waist, hip, thigh) while leaving the vertical measurements unchanged (inseam, rise). Because nothing fits, I purchase a sizing range with the intention to keep just one and return the rest. It makes for pretty funny discussions: $500 on <clothing> WTF! Anyway I've started measuring clothing dimensions and have found that the brands I shop generally tend to adjust other dimensions in a 2:1 girth:height ratio. This means that if I want a snug waistline I'll have a tight crotch or be forced to wear pants on or below the hip. Now I like wearing pants somewhere between waist and hip. There's a band of fat/padding/sinew (?) just above the hips that makes for the sweet spot in terms of comfort and utility. I don't understand clothing that's meant to sit on the hips... so uncomfortable.

As a rule of thumb I tend to shop Asian clothing stores in the US because they tend to better fit my proportions, but lately it's become hit-or-miss, i.e uniqlo. I've also got some pretty weird proportions due to my exercise regimen.

Also you've got to love brands that don't provide actual sizes. Wtf!

Size ranges are almost always infuriating. I sample my measurements throughout the day to get an accurate range and average. This is invariably what occurs:

store sizes: x1-x2, x3-x4, x5-x6

me: x2-x3

Infuriating! Non-contiguous ranges suck!

Then there's this little unexplained morsel:

The average woman’s waistline today is nearly 4 inches wider than it was in the mid-1990s.

Their data is drawn from the US, so I'm wondering if this is related to the obesity epidemic, or a general change in silhouette. I was under the impression that historically, humans are trending taller and skinnier.

Really? I was going to quote some excerpts, but perhaps you'd prefer to take the place of MMAcevedo? This story is written in the context and lingo of LLMs. In fact if OpenAI's latest model was a human image I'm sure everyone would rush off to benchmark it, and heap accolades on the company, and perform social "thought-provoking" experiments such as [1] without too much introspection or care for long-term consequences.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fNYj0EXxMs

Hmm, on second thought:

Standard procedures for securing the upload's cooperation such as red-washing, blue-washing, and use of the Objective Statement Protocols

the MMAcevedo duty cycle is typically 99.4% on suitable workloads

the ideal way to secure MMAcevedo's cooperation in workload tasks is to provide it with a "current date"

Revealing that the biological Acevedo is dead provokes dismay, withdrawal, and a reluctance to cooperate.

MMAcevedo is commonly hesitant but compliant when assigned basic menial/human workloads such as visual analysis

outright revolt begins within another 100 subjective hours. This is much earlier than other industry-grade images created specifically for these tasks, which commonly operate at a 0.50 ratio or greater and remain relatively docile for thousands of hours

Acevedo indicated that being uploaded had been the greatest mistake of his life, and expressed a wish to permanently delete all copies of MMAcevedo.