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No, creatine has been studied for decades and it’s been part of fads before (I remember Mac making a joke about creatine shits in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia a decade ago).

It’s just resurfacing as a general health fad/marketing campaign.

It’s always been popular among athletes and weight lifters but now nootropic influencers have gotten ahold of it. It’s one of the few supplements with robust scientific evidence of a strong effect but that’s in athletic performance not nootropics.

EUV was developed in a joint venture with the Department of Energy and ASML, Intel, etc called EUV Corp. It’s why the US can export control it.

Paying someone a week late (or not at all) on net 30 terms does not trigger insolvency proceedings. The type of obligation matters.

The merchant is even called “VibesPlante”

Technically, from an economic perspective, it's debt.

Isn’t the important difference that it doesn’t trigger bankruptcy on default? Economically it might not be that different but it has some significance legally because the courts have some fast tracks that trigger bankruptcies (IANAL but that’s my layman’s understanding).

If they “default” in this case it will lead to lawsuits that they will almost certainly lose but in the mean time they kick the can down the road hoping to recover on general economic headwinds like lower interest rates. IMO the risks are obviously correlated here but I’m betting short term incentives drove this mess.

Plex subscription also includes a “Skip Intro” for TV shows. That’s the only value I’ve gotten out of it other than being able to stream to my phone.

Not sure if Jellyfin has an equivalent

Wiping out the natives isn’t the same thing as waging a war. Even from the beginning the European empires had very tenuous control over their New World colonies* and once they had to actually fight wars against well equipped European colonists to defend their control, it was a disaster for them (Bolivar, American Revolution, French and Indian war, etc).

The closest counterexample is probably the partitioning of China but that’s got its own mitigating factors

* they couldn’t even enforce the most basic sovereignty like when Spain introduced the New Laws and the encomenderos were like “lol no”

Calling it prompt engineer is doing it a disservice. With agents we’re well into process engineering, which is a ton more interesting.

The obvious baby’s first process is “plan -> execute” but as we learn about the strengths and weaknesses of LLMs you have to start unpacking that process into planning, prototyping, testing, validation, reviews, and tons of research. If you treat it like an extension of your brain that can automate some thought processes, it becomes a lot more powerful.

Hopefully this is a bug and it makes them do another reset.

I also don’t think people realize how often they zone out while listening to audiobooks and miss important details. You can zone out while reading books too but with audiobooks there usually another stimulus by design.

With their doors covered in Ring cameras.

I think Fable gave you a load of nonsense. Like I said, this stuff isn’t really in the training data and academic research is disconnected from commercial CG (and I’m pretty sure its wrong about ACIS - iiuc ACIS used global tolerances and its one of the reasons it lost to PS).

Robust/(adaptive) exact predicates and tolerance tracking solve two different things and a geometric kernel needs both, especially if you plan on letting models use meshes, lattice, or freeform surfaces (which is where the industry is headed for simulation driven design). The constructions you feed the exact predicates need to already account for tolerances to be correct (i.e. pcurves, vertices, etc) and the second you do any math on them - before feeding it to the predicate - you need tracking. Predicates don’t eliminate the floating point math.

(Grain of salt and all that, I don’t really know what I’m talking about)

That sounds like Caltech. The ochem major is notorious for how hard it is.

Heh, me too. I'm on my third rewrite after a bunch of promising false starts.

Unfortunately geometric kernels are one of those things where unknown unknowns will bite you in the ass really hard because none of the content is really in the training data for LLMs and pathological/degenerate cases aren't just common but expected. IME it's not something that can be vibe coded with current models, if ever, without intimately understanding the algorithms.

I can't do a thorough review of waffle iron right now but just off the top of my head: it doesn't look like you have a tolerance context? The tolerances look like hard coded constants (TAU_MODEL/TAU_WORK/MATCH_TOLERANCE/etc) but that's fundamentally unworkable. Each operation and vertex/edge/etc needs to track accumulating errors and apply them to downstream point classification. Interfaces like Kernel::boolean_union(a, b) are the wrong abstraction because it's missing tons of information/functionality like accumulating FP errors, evidence/proofs, rollback, etc.

Keep working at it! It's worth the challenge.

It’s a professional system from the founders of Solidworks that competes with all the top CAD tools.

Because it's built on Parasolid, the same geometric kernel as everyone else. With ACIS pretty much out the door, almost all the professional CAD packages are just window dressing on the same CG implementation.

The water damage would ruin the motorcycles. They can always get more jumpers. The hard part is motivating them!

People can pretend to care about more than one thing.

Whether they actually actively oppose those things to the point of impacting building permits, that's a completely different matter. It really doesn't take much legislation to make golf courses economically unviable and force them to close, especially if you've got enough population within 30 minutes to support 22 of them (I speak from experience, I helped write a water reclamation ordinance that shut down at least one in my SoCal city)

If anyone actually bothered to talk to their local reps instead of posting internet comments about how much they "care", they'd get something done. If they don't, their care is just a fart in the wind for all the good it will do.

I think for many people (myself included) understanding mathematics is rooted in application because it helps bridge the divide between intuition and rote memorization. Without the application, IMO instructors are doing a disservice to their students and pedagogy of mathematics itself. They’re intentionally ignoring a significant fraction of the class, unless they’re teaching some esoteric grad level pure math.

Canon is still in the market, they just supply parts and license IP to the printer manufacturers like HP. They make some high value stuff to sell to the OEMs but I don’t think they can make a whole print head anymore.

You're just describing another standardized incentive structure that you're operating in

Yeah, that’s the point. That incentive structure includes going to prison, and employers aren’t willing to die on that hill because it exposes them to insane liability if they go against a certified Professional Engineer.

Like seedless grapes?

Especially a layer that is largely out of band in a project (i.e. ~/.claude/…). In any project where I’ve needed memory I just add a line to AGENTS.md telling it to use MEMORY.md to save memories or STATUS.md to track progress.

For context: One climber died and a helicopter crashed trying to rescue her. No one's ever been rescued before at that altitude on that mountain range.

There’s an ambiguity here: what is “this area”? If we’re talking about the semiconductor industry, they’ve been investing billions since the early nineties. The really big push came with the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund in 2014 at which point they were plowing billions into the industry across the public and private front. That one fund alone has $100 billion in assets under management at this point, and there are many other funds involved.

They’ve also invested in AI separately (before LLMs) in that time period but I’m less familiar with that sector.

And the Underhill spiderlings in A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge too!

Another great book that I usually reread right before rereading Children of Time because the whole spider civilization angle is so fun.

And China is now doing something on the hardware axis; which it may have never explored were it not for the sanctions.

Gaining parity on the semiconductor fab front has been official government policy as part of their Five Year Plan for at least the last decade, straight from the Politburo. They were always going to go down this path, and with AI playing front and center on their upcoming plan, there’s even more pressure.

There was never a possibility of them not exploring it.

Me too! I was visiting my parents’ farm and walking around in pitch black while looking at the stars when I saw a bright green glow out of the corner of my eye. Ended up tracking it down to a California pink glow worm that had perched itself on a rock.

I think he left that line behind a long time ago.

That’s because the Department of Energy originally funded and contributed IP to the EUV Corp joint venture between several semiconductor companies (including ASML and Intel). Their ability to export control EUV was part of that original agreement that the entire technology is built on.