Sorry for the negativity Kendall but the semweb didn't return the love that I gave it. I did hundreds of sales calls that went nowhere, but my phone kept ringing for people who wanted me to work on neural nets.
Timcast crew started talking about it on a recent show, with the clip on youtube: https://youtu.be/LsVk0O8ecF4?t=341 (jump to 5:41 if the timestamp link doesn't work).
Basically it seems to suppress appetite too much in some people, they starve without feeling like they're starving and end up underweight with new health problems, without rebounding after going off of it.
I think this tells the VCs that it is better to invest in development than just infraastructure. After all DeepSeek shows that investing in AI Software development can have a big payoff, rather than doing the exact same model-training that everybody is already doing.
It's not the biggest that will win but the smartest.
that reminds me that a week ago there was a (now deleted and sadly not saved on archive.org) post on Reddit where the author claimed they have manipulated voting on lmarena in favor of Gemini to tip the scale on Polymarket where they supposedly have made O(USD10k) on a question like "which AI model will be the best one by $date" with the outcome decided based on the scoring on lmarena.
Sure, I'd pay for it, but it'd have to be open source. You'd also be competing with STC (by the SWC creator, but it looks like it's dead for now based on GitHub history) and Static Hermes, which Meta is working on, both open source.
>my point was about how its functionality and design make it feel familiar to those already accustomed to .NET development.
Because it's literally a "shell" into the .NET runtime/framework. PowerShell _extensively_ uses reflection capabilities.
My point was they're not sharing some design philosophy or converging, PowerShell is just exposing .NET functionality directly and in an interactive manner. You in fact, can write a pretty similar tool with a few lines of C# that makes use of dynamic compilation and reflection.
Otherwise, PowerShell shares nothing (and I mean nothing) with other .NET languages (C#, F#, etc). It's history and design choices come from things like KornShell and Perl.
Where do you think all those $variables and "-ne" operators came from?
> The founding fathers didn't have the math to understand game theory, nash equilibria, and the tragedy of the commons.
I mean they had something even better. They added a process to amend the constitution so that as issue arose it could be fixed.
However there's no amount of game theory that will get around the fact politicians won't fix a system they see as working; they got correctly elected after all!
His may not be a familiar name 'round these parts, but Jack Ganssle is a legend in the embedded systems industry. And he's very helpful to boot.
Many lifetimes ago, as a freshly baked software engineer, I had a strong interest in Embedded Systems. Juggling interrupts, wrangling registers, counting clock cycles, banging bits, reading sensors, often in raw assembly so as to fit into limited flash memory was my idea of fun.
So much so that I was contemplating doing a Master's degree in that area. However, I couldn't find a US University with a good program for that. I had seen Jack being very active on a few embedded-related forums, and on a lark, I emailed him for advice.
And he responded! He gave me very sound advice, effectively explaining that graduate research in Embedded Systems is quite distinct from the actual low-level work that happens in the industry. This explained why I hadn't found any of the programs appealing. I took his advice gratefully and pursued a different area for my Master's, which shaped the rest of my career. Thanks again, Jack!
I always intended to come back to Embedded Systems at some point, but unfortunately it never worked out. Partially because embedded engineers are criminally underpaid for the complexity of the work they do. As the article hints, writing software that runs reliably in arbitrarily harsh environments on low-cost, cheap, quirky hardware with extremely constrained resources is a different level of challenging.
I need a Windows laptop for work but really appreciate the exceptional build quality of my MacBook Air. I had a ThinkPad, but it creaked and didn’t feel nearly as solid. Are there any Windows laptops that come close to MacBook-level hardware quality?
acre foot is one of the funnier American units out there. It is defined as a foot × a chain (66 feet) × a furlong (660 feet). So you get this weird rectangular cuboid with very small height and a very long length.
m³ is already a pretty hard to visualize unit (unless you are used to visualize volume) but acre feet is just about impossible.
It's an entire section with a clearly worded title in bold:
Registration is still ongoing
At the moment, the incorrect address still leads nowhere, as the registration of the domain in the Bahamas has only just been applied for, as Weber told the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper. As soon as the registration is completed, the incorrect URL will be redirected to the correct one for the Canton of Basel-Stadt.
Possibly a bit out there of a suggestion, but I had a similar issue where I fairly abruptly developed more or less constant nausea. Eventually, by chance after an endoscopy related to figuring out the cause of the nausea, my doctor realized my B12 level was extremely low, and once they treated me with injections once a day of b12 for a week or two, the nausea suddenly stopped
Asides from what sibling comments have mentioned, this is in large part true for me because I've yet to experience a Linux desktop environment that I've found to be great from a UI perspective. On a server, that's not applicable.
I think those fired should unite and form their own private investigators company. I think business-customers could trust it more than the to be purged FBI.
There's a reason why these specific agents are purged, it is that they are honest and willing to serve the public, as opposed to serving the King.
What I think is that electing the president is the only way the constitution provides for democratic control of what’s become the largest and most powerful branch. And ensuring democratic responsiveness of the executive—a civil service that will diligently execute the agenda of whomever is elected President—is of overriding importance to the health of democracy.
A country where the same people are in charge regardless of who wins the election isn’t a democracy.
A lot of women live longer than men. So, a lot of older people with altzheimers are women. Before modern times, women did not play contact sport and had lower concussion risk, unless it's undiagnosed. (The cohort in question would all have been born before 1950)
I'm not saying there's no risk but I am saying it will be multifaceted and multi factor. Avoid concussion no matter what.
There's a lot of banter as to which JIT environment is more performant.
As a big C# proponent, my gut tells me the JVM probably has the edge here, but it's not a clean sweep. The CLR has areas where it excels. I would also freely admit that the Java ecosystem is far larger and more mature. The NuGet ecosystem is no slouch, however.
But if I were a gambling man, I would bet that AOT compilation will become much more widespread in the .NET ecosystem while Oracle will ensure that you have to pay the piper for GraalVM to do anything interesting. Call it a hunch.
> asking for forgiveness (dereferencing a null pointer and then recovering) instead of permission (checking if the pointer is null before dereferencing it) is an optimization. Comparing all pointers with null would slow down execution when the pointer isn’t null, i.e. in the majority of cases. In contrast, signal handling is zero-cost until the signal is generated, which happens exceedingly rarely in well-written programs.
Is this actually a real optimization? I understand the principal, that you can bypass explicit checks by using exception handlers and then massage the stack/registers back to a running state, but does this actually optimize speed? A null pointer check is literally a single TEST on a register, followed by a conditional jump the branch predictor is 99.9% of the time going to know what to do with. How much processing time is using an exception actually going to save? Or is there a better example?
Surpass Meta in what? Meta’s revenue comes from social networks. Revenue doesn’t not increase with LOC. Writing 5x more code does not get you X billion users.
