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Shout out to my local KUTX (https://kutx.org/)! This is the kind of station that (I think) the author is mourning the loss of. They have human DJs, a great variety of music, and since they're a public station they have relatively few ads.
I don't really know how successful they are but since their inception 13 years ago I've probably listened to them more than all other stations combined. And I donate to them.
KUTX is 98.9, KOOP is 91.7?
If they’re opt-in, how could the new defaults be a problem for backwards compatibility?
No, I'm much older than that. I was in college in the early 90s when the internet first became known to the general public. I guess I just don't consider internetification to be that impressive. I mean, sure, it's nice that I can pay for things electronically and Amazon is very convenient, but compared to being able to fly? Or travel to the moon? Or split the atom? To say nothing of the many, many millions who were directly affected by two world wars.
As for the replacement of radio and TV, I think that's one of the least impressive aspects. Broadcasting via the internet enables on-demand consumption. Which is nice, but hardly revolutionary compared to the ability to broadcast audio and video at all, which we had already been doing for many decades. There's also the fact that it's easier for individuals to publish/broadcast, which I suspect is more impactful.
However there is one major exception related to my opinion of the impact of the internet. The huge number of 'information sources' that exist today (previously these would have been called news sources) means that it's pretty trivial for every person to listen to only those sources that cater to their existing preferences. Which is exactly what nearly everyone does. IMO this has had a huge impact on driving political polarization, which is in turn having a very large negative impact on governance and society as a whole. At least in the US, people were far less politically divided when there were fewer sources of news, probably because there was less disagreement on basic facts.
Like Trump, he excels at self promotion, and a lot of self promotion is about being able to lie fluently.
For such people, lying comes as easy as breathing. No wonder they do it all the time.
It is more probable than not that, within the twentieth century, an ultraintelligent machine will be built and that it will be the last invention that man need make, since it will lead to an “intelligence explosion.”
It’s not uncommon to find these kinds of predictions from the twentieth century, which of course with hindsight can seem wildly optimistic.
But I think there are understandable reasons for that optimism.
Imagine you were born in the early twentieth century, say roughly 1910 +/- 10 years. If you had been born then, you would probably have lived through all of the following:
- The transition from horses to motor vehicles
- The invention of the airplane, from first flight to supersonic
- Not one but two world wars
- The splitting of the atom
- Human spaceflight, including traveling to the moon
If you’d been born slightly earlier, you could also add electrification to that list.
When I compare what I’ve seen in my life so far, I don’t think anything comes close (for better and worse) to even one of those things. So yeah, of course they were optimistic about technological progress—look at what they just lived through.
I think "self promotion" is a better description than "seeking approval".
IMO people who are seeking approval tend to not go out of their way to be assholes quite so often ("pedo guy" incident, for example).
Veritasium made an episode not long ago describing the design and manufacture of turbine blades:
Companies always want to charge as much as they can get away with.
In any market where competition exists, companies compete against other companies for customers. Any company that doesn't (for whatever reason) maximize it's net income is likely to cease to exist at some point, or at the least is unlikely to grow. As a result, not being 'greedy' is usually not a viable strategy.
Describing simple self interest as 'greed' is inherently loaded and reductionist. Look at the natural world; pretty much all living organisms exhibit self-interested behaviors (at least at the group or species level, if not the individual level). Are all of those 'greedy' too? You could say yes and not be wrong, but in doing so you would dilute the meaning of the word 'greed'.
So true. We have one older, rather large machine in a data center that's been up for.. (checks uptime): 963 days. It has IPMI but at some point something stopped working and now we have to physically go to the data center to restart it. And since we use it every day we can't really afford to lose access to it.
Or possibly the downvoters don't know what The Onion is..
It’s true that the meanings of words can change over time. Whether or not that’s a good thing is another question entirely.
Not to defend him, but there are actually quite a lot of people who can’t or won’t grow up.
zstd
Yes, but also “damning with faint praise” immediately comes to mind
free and open source ML
What does that mean exactly? Like sure, you can get some freely available weights and run them on your own hardware, but where did those weights come from?
Was the training process in any way "open", or are you simply relying on a handout from some other (probably large, probably corporate) organization that has the resources to do the actual training?
both are better than the smart TVs I've used.
I mean, ok, but that's still a pretty low bar.
I used various Rokus for.. I dunno, must have been at least 10 years. Switched to the Apple TV last year because Roku keeps adding more and more ads to their devices.
The Apple TV is much nicer than any Roku I've used. Performance and reliability are excellent, and ads are minimal. Only for Apple's streaming service, only when that app is selected, and no audio.
If the labor supply is flexible (which is the case being discussed here with foreign workers commuting to Switzerland), then increasing wages will tend to increase the number of potential workers, but it won’t create additional jobs.
Meaning that if you are able to get a job yes you’ll get paid more, but because there are now more people competing for the same number of jobs you’re also less likely to get a job.
Totally agree. I did exactly this in the recent primaries, and then got to vote again in a runoff.
I think of it this way: in a state where one party is clearly dominant, most offices will end up being held by members of that party. That means that the primaries for that party actually matter more than the general election.
The solution is to merge more of his PRs on the condition that he takes at least partial responsibility for any resulting problems.
Yes, but it was most recently at the same level between 1939 and 1940, according to that graph.
And total US GHG emissions are currently at about the same level as they were in 1988.
I think there's some law that lets you stay on health insurance for a few months at least
Yes, but often you will have to pay the full cost in order to do so, which will be difficult for many people after having lost their source of income..
If Swiss population growth were entirely attributable to the children of existing Swiss residents, then this initiative would be pointless because it wouldn't change anything, and we would not be having this conversation.
So yes, it absolutely is about immigration, regardless of the wording.
doesn’t have a track record of not paying for shit he buys
You mean like the time he committed to buying Twitter and then tried to back out of a legally binding contractual agreement to finalize the deal?
His talks are some of my favorites; he's a great speaker. Very engaging and has a great sense of humor, which he uses to great effect.
Is it cheaper per MW of generated power? I thought that the main reason use of gas has increased so much (for power generation) over the past 20-30 years is that gas became cheaper.
I am hopeful (not exactly optimistic, but hopeful) that increased sales of MacOS devices will warrant increased investment in MacOS by Apple.
Surprisingly, reading about something is very often not at all equivalent to actually doing it.
Maybe you have to be logged in to see that? Because I don't have a login and all it shows me is a bunch of "no data".
it seems to scale well
This seems hard to say without knowing how large it is. To me, it seems like a relatively small community, far smaller than HN anyway.
At the last game company I worked for (decades ago now) the pay was at best average, and crunch time lasted for at least several months each year, every year (title had an annual release schedule). AFAICT this was both expected and considered normal by my coworkers.
And that’s why it was the last game company I ever worked for.