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Things I might read in 2024.

  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Richard Howard (translator) - The Little Prince
  • (Translation by) Sam Hamill - Yellow River: Three Hundred Poems From the Chinese
  • Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (translator) - Convenience Store Woman (via)
  • Jorge Luis Borges - Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (in Labyrinths)/ printed (via)
  • Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis (via)
  • William Olaf Stapledon - Star Maker/ audio, go to 12m35s to skip past the introduction spoilers
  • The Heart of Innovation: A Field Guide for Navigating to Authentic Demand/ audio (via)
  • Peter D. Kaufman - Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition
  • Lia A. DiBello - Expertise in Business: Evolving with a Changing World (in The Oxford Handbook of Expertise) (via)
  • Joël Glenn Brenner - The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars
  • Elad Gil - High Growth Handbook/ audio
  • W. Edwards Demming - The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education/ audio
  • W. Edwards Demming - The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education/ the PDF or ebook
  • Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland/ including the posts I SingleFile'd
  • the relevant-looking posts on benkuhn.net/posts
  • Commoncog Case Library Beta
  • Keith J. Cunningham - The Road Less Stupid: Advice from the Chairman of the Board/ audio
  • Keith J. Cunningham - The 4-Day MBA/ video
  • Cedric Chin's summary of 7 Powers
  • Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura - Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony
  • Nomad Investment Partnership Letters or redacted (via)
  • How to Lose Money in Derivatives: Examples From Hedge Funds and Bank Trading Departments
  • Brian Hayes - Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape
  • Accelerated Expertise (via)/ printed, "read Chapters 9-13 and skim everything else"
  • David J. Gerber - The Inventor's Dilemma (via Oxide and Friends)
  • Alex Komoroske - The Compendium / after I convert the Firebase export in code/websites/compendium-cards-data/db.json to a single HTML page
  • Rich Cohen - The Fish That Ate The Whale (via)
  • Bob Caspe - Entrepreneurial Action/ printed, skim for anything I don't know

Interactive fiction

unplanned notable things read

unplanned and abandoned

  • Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga - The Courage to Be Disliked/ audio
  • Matt Dinniman - Dungeon Crawler Carl/ audio
  • Charles Eisenstein - The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible/ audio
  • Geoff Smart - Who: The A Method for Hiring/ audio
  • Genki Kawamura - If Cats Disappeared from the World/ audio
  • Paul Stamets - Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet/ audio
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Just do your best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzXJDP9Hoic&t=27m30s

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ivan commented Aug 7, 2024

JSX

https://x.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1817617945641505193

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https://www.jsx.com/home/search

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ivan commented Aug 8, 2024

Just for info: It is due to Sulfur in Cysteine.

Hi Gozenka, quick comment about the source of the smell. The smell in NAC doesn't actually come from the sulfur atom in the cysteine, pure cysteine does not smell. Rather, the smell is called by a plethora of small sulfur containing molecules that are created during the NAC production process and end up trapped in the crystals. During transit and use, the crystals break open and these small organic sulfur containing molecule volatilize and create the smell.

OP, if you want to make the smell go away you can take the powder, grind it up with a mortar and pestle to destroy all of the crystal structure, spread the powder on a cookie sheet, and just gently heat it in an oven or a warm room or in front of a fan. Once all of the sulfur containing impurities have volatilized off, the powder will not smell anymore. This is the easiest way to eliminate the smell, but there are others.

Hope that's useful info!

https://old.reddit.com/r/Supplements/comments/17friw8/nac_powder_really_smells_like_farts/

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Accordingly, it was not spiritual illumination but everyday banality that he could not stand to lose. No line better distills the tender spirit of “The Book Against Death” than this: “Above all, when I am dead, what I will miss: the voices of people in a restaurant.” Canetti did not fret about the state of his soul; he worried himself sick about the fate of all the detritus that makes up a life:

What will become of all that has piled up within you, so much, so much, an enormous stock of memories and habits, deferred questions, frozen answers, thoughts, emotions, tender feelings, hardships, everything there, everything there, what will become of it all the moment life extinguishes within you? The disproportionate size of this stockpile — and all of it for nothing?

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“He would like to die while writing,” reads one of his notes from 1986. “Before he’s entirely finished, he’d like to complete a sentence, exhale before the next sentence, and die exactly between the two.” And this is exactly what he did. His very last entry contains no acknowledgment that death is even possible. “It is time for me to sort matters out again within myself. Without writing I come undone. I sense how my life dissolves into dead, dull speculation when I no longer write down what is on my mind.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/08/02/book-against-death-elias-canetti-review/

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The difference is that I just make claude-dev build very large pieces of functionality that I wouldn't be able to get done in cursor. I'm able to get it to build for example, a role based permission system on an enterprise crud app that already has a lot of functionality. I just tell it to do so and write the tests for it and then ask it 5 times to fix it to pass all the tests and it eventually does it without a me lifting a single finger.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTCoding/comments/1embttz/is_claude_dev_finally_the_next_level_thing_we/?depth=99

I’ve been experimenting lots with claude-dev the last few days. It‘s hands down the most powerful agentic code generation tool I’ve used,by a significant margin.

Still lots of room for improvement but I‘m eager to see how much leverage the next generation of models will provide. Definitely already more productive as is than my usual workflow.

One aspect that might raise eyebrows is cost. A single days of intensive use on large codebases can easily cost about $80 to $140 for sonnet API calls.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTCoding/comments/1en8dzu/state_of_gptcoding_aug_2024/lh53a6p/

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ivan commented Aug 9, 2024

Development velocity is the only variable to optimize. Poor stability reduces development velocity. Tech debt reduces development velocity. Pointless meetings reduce development velocity.

https://x.com/olson_dan/status/1820695663757455513

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ivan commented Aug 10, 2024

I interviewed a bunch of people who claimed enlightenment (or awakening/stream entry/similar shifts).

It seemed to me that there were different types of views on enlightenment among these people. Here's a bunch of ways they seemed to vary from each other:

The Bliss Spectrum: characterized by nirvana, ecstasy, constant happiness. They claimed they had reached a state where they were shivering with delight at all times.

The Mental Health Spectrum: of clearness, purpose-drivenness, fulfillment, being aware of what they wanted at all times, being motivated, healthy, whole. For them, ‘enlightenment’ was working all their personal shit out and having a hyper-functional life.

The Science Spectrum: Intense, awesome scientific epiphany. An awareness of their smallness, the universe’s largeness, deep realizations about being walking matter, of the intricate beauty of evolution.

The Superpower Spectrum: The possession of magic abilities, including being able to talk to beings from other dimensions, telepathy, and receiving sacred knowledge imparted to them from divine creatures.

The Concentration Tricks Spectrum: Intense concentration and mental abilities. They were able to alter their perception, slow time, change the space around them, see the refresh rate on monitors.

No-self spectrum: Altered senses of self; they included inanimate objects or other people in their sense of self, or had no sense of self at all. This includes ego death.

Understanding Spectrum: A general spiritual epiphany; people reported a sense of completion, of having ‘no more questions’, of finally comprehending what’s going on, of nonduality, of wholeness.

Wordless Spectrum: An altered or unusual relationship to words, typically distrustful or disconnected; playing with words, going meta with words, not using words, not-claiming, claiming contradiction and paradox.

Perception Spectrum: Seeing your experience as your own; experiencing yourself as inherent and integral to the experience; a realization that your brain is constructing things, often associated with dreamlikeness.

Morality Spectrum: An intense sense of an ethical direction; describes a ‘right’ or ‘moral’ direction, uses goodness as a consistent guiding description of their insights.

Love spectrum: A sense of love and compassion for all living beings

Tradition spectrum: How much they adhere to classic wisdom and beliefs; tends to believe in reincarnation and karma, places authority in the Buddha’s teachings

Disassociation spectrum: Stoicism; the ability to carefully control emotions, independence from environment, remaining unaffected by whims or pain or pleasure.

Peace: A sense of being deeply okay, at ease with the current moment, settled, present, like everything is all right.

https://x.com/Aella_Girl/status/1820932038238613797

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ivan commented Aug 10, 2024

These are models, supercomputer guesses as to what the weather might be. They are not realtime measurements of every square inch of sky.

The models are different, and have different goals and resolution.

  • GFS: Global, American Model, max 384 hours. Great for planning a few days out, but might not be as accurate in the 3-24 hour range, lower resolution (27km), updated 4x day. GFS27 and GFS+ variations.
  • ECMWF: Global, European Model, max 240 hours, 14km resolution, updated 2x day,
  • ICON: Global (ICON13), Germany Model, max 180 hours, 2x/day, 13km resolution
  • NAM: North America, US Model, max 60-84 hours, US-only, better resolution (12km), claimed to be BEST for North America, updated 2x day
  • HRRR: North America, NOAA Model, based on radar, good for short range, better resolution (3km), max 36 hours, updated 2x a day every 12 hours
  • RAP, WRF -- not in Windy, google them

https://old.reddit.com/r/paramotor/comments/y0znh5/dropping_the_windy_appneed_another_app_to_check/

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These kinds of pesticide registration reviews are routinely delayed. Part of the problem, Glenna says, is that regulators have to rely on industries to release toxicology information because it’s considered proprietary information. “[It’s] intellectual property,” he says, “so university or publicly funded scientists simply don’t have the ability to do the research.”

When a pesticide is first registered with federal regulators, the vast majority of the information available about it is science conducted by the company who made it. “The presumption in the US is in favor of the safety of the chemical,” Burd says. Elsewhere, like the European Union, “chemicals are not presumed safe, they adopt a much more precautionary approach.”

In fact, according to federal law, the EPA can only refuse to register a pesticide if its risks are greater than the benefits it provides, as measured by crop yield or quality. As a result, close to a third of US pesticide use involves chemicals banned in China, Brazil, and the European Union.

There’s also a revolving door between the agency and the industry it regulates. Alexandra Dunn, the former assistant administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, for example, is now running CropLife America, the pesticide industry’s leading lobbying group. She’s only the latest; since 1974, all of the office’s directors went on to work for pesticide companies.

https://jacobin.com/2024/07/pesticide-cancer-lobbying-lawsuits/

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ivan commented Aug 11, 2024

When voting, there should be a separate box you can check marked "REBOOT" along with whatever other votes you cast. If over 60% of the voters check that box, all officeholders are disqualified from ever running again, and new elections are held the following year.

https://x.com/cmuratori/status/1822166430663774693

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ivan commented Aug 11, 2024

[MrBeast's] videos are mindless, crude, wasteful and contain zero educational or artistic value.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZu8-WnSqic

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ivan commented Aug 11, 2024

What's particularly alarming is the speed at which new vulnerabilities are exploited. In one case, attackers attempted to exploit a JetBrains TeamCity DevOps authentication bypass a mere 22 minutes after the proof-of-concept code was published. That speed is faster than most organizations can read the security advisory, let alone patch their systems.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/cloudflare-reports-almost-7-percent-of-internet-traffic-is-malicious/

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The dilemma of the American conscience can hardly be better stated. Dostoyevsky was a great artist, and a radical one, but his early social radicalism reversed itself, leaving him a violent reactionary. Whereas the American James, who seems so mild, so naively gentlemanly—look how he says “us,” assuming all his readers are as decent as himself!—was, and remained, and remains, a genuinely radical thinker. Directly after the “lost soul” passage he goes on.

All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.

The application of those two sentences to this story, and to science fiction, and to all thinking about the future, is quite direct. Ideals as “the probable causes of future experience”—that is a subtle and an exhilarating remark!

Ursula K. Le Guin - The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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Users should be aware that the App Store collects exhaustive usage data and sends it to #Apple. This can’t be turned off. We made this video to show how tapping an app link gets recorded in details.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/02/15/lawsuits-over-apple-analytics-switch/#lawsuits-over-apple-analytics-switch-update-2024-07-18

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Erik Hoel, an American neuroscientist, posits that the industries AI are disrupting are not all that lucrative. He coined the phrase “supply paradox of AI” — the notion that the easier it is to train AI to do something, the less economically valuable that thing is.

“This is because AI performance scales based on its supply of data, that is, the quality and size of the training set itself,” said Hoel. “So when you are biased towards data sets that have an overwhelming supply, that, in turn, biases the AI to produce things that have little economic value.”

Hoel raises an interesting point. Generative AI’s current applications include writing, image and video creation, automated marketing, and processing information, according to the US Census Bureau’s Business Trends and Outlook Survey. Those are not particularly high value. Using specialist data, sophisticated models could do deeper scientific work, but that data can be in short supply or even restricted.

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What I wanted to point out here though is actually something deeper. Which is that the longer AI takes to show up in any positive economic indicators, the more it becomes the case that AI has brought increasing existential risk in exchange for minimal upside.

https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/all-the-existential-risk-none-of

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ivan commented Aug 11, 2024

Can other people free-ride on your skill? Can they look at your track record and say “everything this person picks goes down, so I should short it”? I mean! Tuttle Capital Management once launched some very rude exchange-traded funds to fade Jim Cramer’s and Cathie Wood’s stock picks, but I don’t think those had any real alpha; it is not actually the case that Cramer or Wood has this sort of anti-skill. In general, if your stock picks are known broadly, they’re probably not bad enough to make betting against you a reliable strategy.

On the other hand, your broker probably knows (1) what you’re buying and (2) how you’re doing. If you’re terrible, your broker might be tempted. Here is a funny CME Group disciplinary action against a futures broker called Wing Fung Futures Limited:

Pursuant to an offer of settlement in which Wing Fung Futures Limited (“Wing Fung”) neither admitted nor denied the rule violations or factual findings upon which the penalty is based, on July 16, 2024, a Panel of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Business Conduct Committee (“Panel”) found that between July 22, 2020, and July 7, 2022, Wing Fung deployed an automated trading system (“ATS”) in the Australian Dollar, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Euro FX, Japanese Yen, New Zealand Dollar, E-mini NASDAQ, Micro E-mini NASDAQ, and E-mini S&P 500 futures markets wherein the ATS’s strategy was to submit orders based upon trades executed by its clients who were regularly unprofitable. Specifically, upon a target client establishing a short/long position, the ATS generated a trading signal to enter an order in the same market for the same price and quantity as the client, though to establish the opposite short/long position. The Panel found that by employing this strategy, Wing Fung attempted to profit from its knowledge of its clients’ record of losses, which was not available to others in the marketplace. Additionally, the Panel found that Wing Fung employees used Wing Fung’s clients’ unique operator IDs to enter orders into Globex. The Panel further found that Wing Fung’s leadership fundamentally did not understand, or were otherwise completely unaware, of Exchange rules that prohibited the activity described above. Therefore, the Panel found that Wing Fung failed to diligently supervise its employees and agents.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-22/bad-trades-are-also-valuable

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ivan commented Aug 11, 2024

Jump had a conundrum. The firm needed to test the mettle of its would-be staffers—whether they could parse the nuances in financial markets and translate them into algorithmic trading models. But it couldn’t give the temporary hires the keys to the kingdom, with its proprietary strategies and billions of dollars in capital.

Crypto offered a solution. The sector had its own tradable assets, exchanges, and quirks, but it was separated enough from Jump’s world of stocks and bonds that it wouldn’t pose a threat. “It was a bit of a toy market,” says one former employee, who spoke with Fortune on the condition of anonymity to discuss their previous firm. ...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-08-05/the-good-trades-have-gone-bad

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Data analytics firm Grocery Doppio’s “State of Digital Grocery Performance Scorecard: H1 2024” found reduced grocery spending among 97% of consumers who had taken GLP-1 medications — glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, including semaglutide drugs Ozempic, Rybelsus and Wegovy, prescribed for diabetes or obesity.

Their grocery bills were down by an average of 11%, yet they spent 27% more on lean proteins from lean meat, eggs and seafood. Other gainers were meal replacements (19%), healthy snacks (17%), whole fruits and vegetables (13%) and sports and energy drinks (7%).

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-22/bad-trades-are-also-valuable

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ivan commented Aug 11, 2024

Dude bought at the peak and is selling now 🤣 🤣 🤣

Elon Musk backs down from $45 million a month pledge to Trump: I don't subscribe to cult of personality

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As Joseph Heath points out in Cooperation and Social Justice, the ability to appreciate “explanatory inversions” is one of the things that most sharply distinguishes a scientifically informed worldview from a “commonsense” one:

“One of the clearest points of demarcation between specialist discourses and everyday commentary and debate is that the former are often structured by what might be thought of as “explanatory inversions.” These arise as a consequence of discoveries or theoretical insights that have the effect of changing, not our specific explanations of events, but rather our fundamental sense of what needs to be explained.”

To illustrate, Heath gives the example of social deviance in criminology:

“Common sense tells us that most people, most of the time obey the law. Crime is an anomaly, and as such, stands in need of explanation. Common sense provides us with a wealth of explanations, which seek to identify the motives that impel people toward criminal acts. But if one stops to examine these motives… the most striking thing about them is how ordinary and ubiquitous they are. For every angry person who commits an assault, or greedy person who steals from others, there are hundreds of equally angry, equally greedy people who refrain from doing so.”

In other words, the “root causes” of crime are simply the benefits of crime. Nothing is deeply puzzling about why people cheat, steal, fight, rape, and murder. People rob banks because that is where the money is.

“This is what prompted the realization… that it is not crime that cries out for explanation, but rather law-abidingness.”

Why do most people fail to appreciate this?

“Common sense is wrong on this point because we are all reasonably well-socialized adults, living in a well-ordered society, and so we take for granted the institutional arrangements that secure our compliance with the rules. But the underlying mechanisms are ones that we do not really understand, as a result of which it is difficult to explain why more people do not break the law more often (since it is so often in their interest to do so).”

As Heath observes, the crime example manifests a more fundamental, explanatory inversion concerning human cooperation.

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“The truth about distant or complex matters,” writes Walter Lippmann, “is not self-evident.” Given this, “The pictures inside people’s heads do not automatically correspond with the world outside.”

These points are obvious in some ways. But I think they are greatly underappreciated in how many people instinctively think about topics like “misinformation,” “ideology,” and “science denial.”

In complex, modern societies, the relationship between reality and our representations of reality—between what Lippmann called the “real environment” and the “pseudo-environments” that make up our mental models of the real environment—is heavily mediated by complex chains of trust, testimony, and interpretation.

Think of the economy, society-wide crime trends, vaccines, history, climate change, or any other possible focus of “public opinion.” Not only is the truth about such topics typically complex, ambiguous, and counter-intuitive, but almost everything you believe about them is based on information you acquired from others—from the claims, gossip, reports, books, remarks, opinion pieces, teaching, images, video clips, and so on that other people communicated to you.

Moreover, to organise all that socially acquired information, you relied on simplifying categories, schema, and explanatory models that reduce reality's complexity to a tractable, low-resolution mental model.

In this heavily mediated process, there are countless sources of error and distortion. This is true even if you are ideally rational. But of course, you are not; you are human. Not only is the construction of your pseudo-environment twisted and distorted by prescientific intuitions and innumerable cognitive biases, but you are not a disinterested truth seeker. Instead, your beliefs are biased by motives and interests like self-aggrandisement, status-seeking, tribalism, and social conformity.

Just as importantly, the people from whom you have acquired your information about the world are similarly flawed, fallible, and biased. In some cases, they were outright liars and propagandists, but most were simply influenced by the same mundane sources of motivated reasoning as you.

For these reasons, the truth is not the default when people form beliefs about the world beyond their immediate material and social environment.

Of course, in some sense, this should be obvious. Just as poverty is humanity’s default state throughout history, so are ignorance and misperceptions. At least relative to a modern scientific worldview, almost everything people have ever believed about the world they are not in close perceptual contact with has been completely wrong.

Nothing is puzzling about this_._ The puzzle is that humans sometimes overcome the countless sources of error and illusion that distort beliefs and form accurate perceptions of how things are.

https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/why-do-people-believe-true-things

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ivan commented Aug 11, 2024

Civ 5 is a turn based game you absolute noob. Everytime i read what you write you just prove to be the noobiest noob ive ever layed my autist eyes on.

https://angelicism.substack.com/p/technologists/comment/62461710

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ivan commented Aug 11, 2024

But Musk has more recently embraced conservative politics, especially the issue of free speech.

https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/trump-says-he-has-no-choice-but-to-support-electric-vehicles-because-elon-musk-endorsed-me-very-strongly/articleshow/112270769.cms

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So basically a GA Airbus. I think this is a pretty cool project, and while it may not achieve the lofty goals you’ve set forth, any improvement in safety is worthwhile.

As other commenters have point out though, where this stuff falls short is ultimately still the human. Ok, great… your aircraft won’t stall in Normal Law. However you’ve now lost a generator and a whole FCC and you’re in direct law. The 400 hr pilot hasn’t actually flown a plane with direct input since their primary training 5 years ago. They also don’t remember what the different flight envelopes do and do not provide. Essentially the system is more complex but normally it works so the complexity is hidden. They’re not equipped to handle flying the airplane anymore.

This is where GA really ultimately falls short IMHO, proficiency. Airlines are the safest they’ve ever been because the pilots make an entire career out of being prepared for every contingency. People using airplanes as a personal travel tool can be trained and proficient to the same degree but often they are not because flying an aircraft is ancillary to their primary mission.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41163382

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[Quick reminder: you’re getting this dispatch because you asked to be kept up to date with Sparketype-related news, breakthroughs, research, and valuable resources for work and life.]

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Among states with access to online betting, the likelihood of filing for bankruptcy increases by 25-30% after three to four years.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/online-sports-betting-hurts-consumers
via https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1822302611065765906

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he devised an optical character recognition processing cluster by chaining together a dozen dilapidated second-generation iPhone SEs and harnessing Apple's Live Text optical character-recognition feature to find possible inventory tags, barcodes, or other corporate labels in listing photos. The system monitored for new listings, and if it turned up a possible hit, Bryant would get an alert so he could assess the device photos himself.

In the case of the Time Capsule, the listing photos showed a label on the bottom of the device that said “Property of Apple Computer, Expensed Equipment.”

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-prototypes-corporate-data/

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You can’t actually construct a useful framework built around something you define in the negative, which this is.

https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/bQ6zpf6buWgP939ov/frame-control#comment-9WeR3QpHmxC3YoSQw

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ivan commented Aug 12, 2024

Katamari Dama-C++

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41211119

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ivan commented Aug 15, 2024

Google should not be allowed to control both the web browser and the web ads. This should be part of the monopoly break-up.

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1esbyod/google_pulls_the_plug_on_ublock_origin_leaving/?depth=99

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ivan commented Aug 15, 2024

Paul Alfille had the brilliant idea of changing Baker's Game in one respect, allowing cards to be packed on the tableau downward in alternate colors, as in familiar games like Klondike and Demon (Canfield), thus producing the game we know as FreeCell. This has the happy effect of making nearly every deal winnable, though many are still quite difficult. Alfille wrote the first version of FreeCell for the PLATO educational computer system in 1978. The popularization of the game is also due to Jim Horne, who wrote a character-based version for DOS and later a full graphical version for Windows. The latter first appeared in 1992 on Microsoft Entertainment Pack 2 (and later in the Best of Microsoft Entertainment Packs). Later versions were bundled with Windows For Workgroups and Win32s (the 32-bit extension to Windows 3), and eventually with Windows 95 (and 98).

http://www.solitairelaboratory.com/fcfaq.html

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