> but given that you have to go digging for the key combination
Except you don’t. If you’re in an Apple OS, by default doing -- (two hyphens) auto-substitutes for an em-dash.
Also, the key combination isn’t even hard. Depending on the layout you’re using, it’s either ⌥- or ⌥⇧-. My fingers press that (and the appropriate combination for apostrophes too) without me having to think.
The supported method to get a new one each boot is to truncate the file to 0 bytes and disable systemd-machine-id-commit.service
Double-check that this method actually works though.
Machine ID is used for things like dhcp leases, log rotation, etc. Shouldn’t break anything unless you have some proprietary software license for your Linux box
Absolutely, and plenty of companies have made that mistake.
But the point is locking up money in a 3% margin business doesn’t impress investors.
So you either need to improve the margin with lower costs or higher price (or both). Or bail from the market entirely and put your money in something that makes more money.
That's a great way to put it: functional slop. That's what I mean tho - as long as it is minimally functional it does its job.
I totally get the shade thrown at ycombinator. But I guess my perception is that it has never been about the tech for them and more about getting quick hacks to get to market quickly. So it feels on brand?
I was idly browsing F-Droid yesterday and found a Claude coded B-REP CAD program built on OpenCASCADE, all touch friendly and everything. Definitely something happening.
We first became powerful because we did the industrial revolution before anyone else, and used more of that capacity to fight the world (and win) than to fight each other.
When we fought each other, after the industrial revolution, that was the Napoleonic Wars and the two World Wars.
> and ever since the creation of the EU it's been becoming less and less important on the world stage.
I wouldn't say it was "ever since the creation of the EU", but rather "roughly between WW1 and decolonisation". Post-Cold-War the EU has taken over from the former global importance of the member states, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect
That said, east and South Asia are regaining their multi-millennia history of being the world's dominant power by virtue of having roughly half the total world population.
Just to add to this, radio-controlled drones are also still used, it's just that those are relatively easy to jam while the fiber-optic ones aren't and that makes them very difficult to defend against.
Also, to my understanding, jamming works best against smaller, First Person View quadcopter-style drones that have a limited range and carry only limited firepower (e.g. one grenade basically) and are often used against personnel and armor.
Longer-range and better armed drones, like the US's Predators that can launch missiles, or Iran's Sahel drones that attack targets thousands of Kms away, fly at much greater heights and are -again, AFAICT- harder to jam, although I am saying this with some uncertainty. I'm just observing that in the recent war with Iran we didn't hear Israel trying to jam Sahels, they were just trying to blow them up with their Iron Dome, so I don't think it's easy to jam them in practice.
In any case, I believe hkpack's comment above that Ukrainians have private tech that the world doesn't know about doesn't stand to reason. If any party had such tech, it would be the US, China, or possibly Israel, with Russia a distant second possibility. Ukrainians are not known for their AI output, to say the least. And we're talking here about major breakthroughs needed to endow drones with true autonomy, breakthroughs that require scientific advances and not just technological tweaks and R&D.
Also, if there was really useful drone autonomy, it would have now spread like wildfire in every possible theater. Despite a few announcements that this or that party (e.g. Turkey, last year) has used autonomous drones in a real combat situation, there is no shortage of real combat situations and yet there are no autonomous drones to be seen on any battlefield.
Finally, any side with autonomous killer robots would advertise their existence to high heaven. Half of the effect is the ability of such a weapon to cause terror to the enemy. Why keep quiet about it? The enemy already has samples of your tech, that's the only thing certain in modern warfare; you're not keeping any secrets that way.
You can do something similar in 3D with Luneberg lenses, as used on the AN/SPG-59[1]. A truly wild piece of engineering, as is the following SCANFAR system if you're into that sort of thing.
I can only assume someone in the top brass had a skim of Arthur C Clarke's Superiority and forwarded it straight on to engineering with a big green approved stamp.
... oh, wow. It's a Uwe Boll film! You'd think Musk could find someone better than the guy who is generally reputed as the world's worst director to do his propaganda for him.
Boll was, of course, himself a migrant for many years. As is Musk, for that matter.
> Saying people enjoy exercise is only slightly more controversial than saying "ice cream tastes good".
You might be in a bubble. I know many people who exercise regularly, and I'd say most of them only do it because it's healthy. If they found a way to stay healthy without exercise, they'd drop it in a heartbeat.
It is also known that programming languages are treated by your brain similarly to human languages. But it is not known whether this means make your brain younger.
We really wanted to use sqlite-vec for this for our SSG but last we checked it hadn’t implemented HNSW/had good support for running vector search in-browser yet (I think it was still doing full-table scans?). I was pretty disappointed because after so many months/years, to not have that suggested to me that they weren’t up to task of delivering on their project, and I had recommended them as a worthy project for a grant I had also applied for, that they won and I didn’t.
If anybody knows of a good solution in this space, or if I’m wrong about SQLite-vec, please let me know. For our own SSG we’ve basically decided that we’ll give it a couple months while we work on other infra we want, then if they’re still not done we’ll just do it ourselves.
Aww you missed the Ballmer Years. Chalked full of "me too!"'s and broken promises. But he was right about one thing. Developers, developers, developers...
I’ve been working with MIP solvers a lot at work recently, and the depth of black magic is so deep it’s hard to comprehend. Even after the presolve there are so many tradeoffs and structures to exploit it’s hard to understand the whole system
From the article: "the earlier you speak them, the better"
I don't think that this quite matches the notion that learning is the brain's way of exercising, if learning/exercising as a child prevents aging more than learning/exercising as an adult.
Imagine if we could get all of our physical exercising in as children and become lazy as adults. ;-)
> In others, it's less important and speed of iteration has more value.
Maybe in some sort of topsy-turvy techbro world.
I've never, in three decades of developing, had a user say "what I want are new features updated frequently and I'm happy to accept sluggish, buggy code".
What they do say is "I want more features, sooner, without bugs".
Except you don’t. If you’re in an Apple OS, by default doing -- (two hyphens) auto-substitutes for an em-dash.
Also, the key combination isn’t even hard. Depending on the layout you’re using, it’s either ⌥- or ⌥⇧-. My fingers press that (and the appropriate combination for apostrophes too) without me having to think.