emilyst

What really resonated with me was your repeated calls for us at least to be arguing about the same thing, to get on the same page.

Everything about LLMs and generative AI is getting so mushed up by people pulling it in several directions at once, marketing clouding the water, and the massive hyperbole on both sides, it's nearly impossible to understand if we're even talking about the same thing!

I believe the parent comment is referring to the harbor pilot job specifically.

Imagine being able to shut off all Ubiquiti console access in the world instantly, by posting about a grave security issue (real or not) and having a few compatriots to do the same in a short amount of time. You could trivially block a business's access to its own security cameras on a moment's notice, among other things.

If the response to an unverified issue were "just shut everything down" you effectively have implemented an exploitable DoS in your own incident policy.

> Ps.: When I say Thunderbolt, I am well aware of how Thunderbolt 4 is just USB4 with optional features made mandatory. It's not relevant to the discuss at hand.

Dear God, I hope this situation settles down in the near future. As it is I have years of USB-C-looking cables that all do different things but are visually indistinguishable.

The first source isn't really accessible unless you have an account. Total exports in terms of adjusted cost _has_ stagnated: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-trade-exports-const....

I suspect sheer maritime freight tonnage may be a less reliable proxy due to factors like cost of shipping changes, role of air freight, tariff changes, etc. Maybe share all the trade and globalization graphs instead? https://ourworldindata.org/trade-and-globalization

Your second source, hilariously, predates the entire pandemic (which is when home prices really took off). It also says very little to support your point that we're "consuming more" housing because home sizes are growing. The Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index seems to suggest that home prices were rising only modestly until the pandemic. https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/indices/indicators/sp-core...

It is bizarre that you would read an article which says, “using body-mass index (BMI) to measure obesity is likely the most problematic factor,” and then immediately prescribe a fixed BMI for everyone without qualification.

It sounds like you're responding to a cryptocurrency talking point. How likely do you think it is that taxation (as in, "nothing is certain except death and taxes") will disappear at some point?

oh.

Did Ubuntu choose WirePlumber or `pipewire-media-session`?

Arch tried to switch off from `pipewire-media-session`, because it's merely a proof of concept whose development is dead, but found that WirePlumber simply isn't ready yet (https://archlinux.org/news/undone-replacement-of-pipewire-me...).

It seems like, unless and until WirePlumber is actually ready, PipeWire isn't quite ready?

Depends on how you define headless, but the fact is, I'm rarely logged into it, and there's no mouse nor keyboard connected, nor any X server running.

Also tried, also useless. The program producing the sound is being run by another user.

You can't use `pavucontrol` unless you're logged in to a graphical interface as the user who is producing the sound.

For a headless system, it's useless.

It's fine when it works. It's a monstrosity when it doesn't.

I spent an hour the other day trying to figure out how to tell it not to output audio through my DualSense controller haptics (which look like a four-channel audio output) when I connect it to an Intel NUC over USB. I never did succeed, and all the posts I found were basically other people asking how to do similar things.

This seems like a neat idea! I like it too.

There are plenty of other systems to do this with. Gist's value proposition seems orthogonal to its Git integration—more to do with its UX.

I think your comment was directed to the wrong person.

Do you know you don't have a Y chromosome? Did you check?

He made people uncomfortable. He was asked to stop. He was reported. He kept doing it.

So it's not a "slightly odd sense of humor." It's not humor if no one laughs. If someone tells me something makes them uncomfortable, I stop it.

Ah, now I know why you hopped on IRC finally last week. :)

> 1. I run a malware as root which modifies my image. I don't run anything as root except apt. So this is impossible.

1. What if apt is compromised?

2. What if apt installs something which is compromised?

3. What if you run something which is compromised and escalates privilege?

From GNU coreutils:

$ wc -l src/ls.c

    4980 src/ls.c 

$ wc -l src/cat.c

     768 src/cat.c 

$ wc -l src/chmod.c

     570 src/chmod.c

There is a very quick overview of all this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_(system_call)#Higher_leve...

I wonder how out of the question Spotlight integration would be.

Yeah, I tried to be clear that "I’m not going to explain monads."

I feel like Wadler was pretty straightforward in his whitepapers about the role he envisaged for monads. See in "Monads for functional programming", the second sentence of the abstract, or the first sentence of the introduction. He's pretty clear that he's talking about monads as a tactic to represent impure notions into a pure functional program.

My point is to take the concept beyond theory and talk about application, and the application is making something useful out of functional programming.

I tweaked the weights a bit. Hopefully it's a little easier now.

It can and does crash a bit, as noted on that video.

I actually did a bit of testing, including grabbing VMs of various versions of Windows to see how things looked on XP, 7, and 8.1. It remained quite readable in my testing.