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On the topic of curated YouTube: I've started building a curated collection of videos and channels on various topics: https://skyshelf.app/

>In my native language, the word racism is used for discrimination or prejudice against anything foreign (nation, race, language, ...).

Curious which language is that, and if "racism" is an accurate translation to English. What you describe sounds more like xenophobia.

A drunk violent guy with a shotgun is a joke but a threat nonetheless. Don't see a paradox here.

YouTube sure is doing its part to make YouTube less and less appealing.

Sure but the core point of commercial LLM’s pitch is tremendous speed up in development. It’s been speeding up for years now, yet like the commenter above I too cannot notice any improvements as an end user.

>The Unibook’s keyboard is pretty good, and its trackpad is pretty bad.

Just like 98% of non-Apple laptops. Amazing how after all these years nobody could replicate the feel of macbook's trackpads.

>It lets the user browser with cover art, descriptions, trailers, sorting by release date, rating, etc. It keeps track of watched and unwatched movies.

Infuse [1] is a nice way to get these features on Apple TV and iOS devices while simply sharing files via SMB.

1. https://firecore.com/infuse

>...until the engine is turned off again

Modern electric Volkswagens (and some other brands) have this amazingly awful feature where lifting your ass off the driver's seat turns off the "ignition". The car just shuts off immediately, AC turns off, CarPlay disconnects, those driver settings reset. Even if I sit back one second later.

In older VW Polos (at least) it was easy to disable that feature with two clicks on a physical button located on the steering wheel. Not so on the ID.3, and other newer Volkswagens, unfortunately.

Don’t forget the “New 3DS”.

Why does it matter how humans _felt_?

Well, they had a point, and we've got pretty close to that outcome. It didn't happen, thus today we're able to discuss the fact that it didn't happen.

There are almost no new physical releases on PC, sadly. I’ve been collecting older games on CD and DVD.

Anyone who lived in USSR, or otherwise familiar with the way soviet authorities operate, would know not to trust any official data from USSR. I personally treat any statistics and data from the soviet government to be unreliable to the degree of meaninglessness.

So, in my eyes, there is no info available about the true health consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe in Ukraine and Belarus.

Stock Android on a Pixel 7 felt the same way to me.

I could never get rid of the feeling that Material design looks like some stylesheets failed to load. It feels unfinished, raw, or temporary.

There's a way to compile HL2 on ARM Macs, I've written a guide here: https://rakhim.exotext.com/how-to-play-half-life-2-on-mchip-...

Nice. Glad these kinds of projects exist.

Obligatory mention of Minifeed, a curated directory, reader and search engine for personal blogs: https://minifeed.net/

I’ve been running it for a few years now. You can build a personal feed, follow others, see related blogs and posts, and use full-text search across all blogs.

Feel free to submit your own or someone else’s blog here: https://minifeed.net/suggest

That's also years of top tier PC gaming, if you're into that.

That’s strange. I was able to renew a work permit in Canada while staying (and continuing work) in Canada. Same for study permit. This was over a decade ago, so perhaps things have changed.

They also were not called visas, but permits. Visa is for entering the country, permit is for staying.

Nice project! Thanks for including Minifeed!

It's pronounced "Ice eye".

According to the people I know from this company, the original use case was tracking the ice cover of the Northern seas, for both marine applications and climate research (the company is Finnish).

Every single discussion thread about any announcement in quantum feels exactly the same:

1. this is not what you think it is, there are caveats and the title is misleading.

2. I feel there is so much hype around quantum computing.

3. It's like nuclear fusion, always 10 years away.

4. Nuclear fusion is at least practical. QC is not.

5. Did they manage to find prime factorization of 17 already? LOL

6. Cryptography will be dead, RIP bitcoin and https.

7. No, actually quantum computers are useless.

It's tiring.

I recommend this recent post by Scott Aaronson https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9668

I remember watching an interview with Marco Arment (creator of Overcast and Instapaper) where he mentions that he listens to Phish a lot [1]. He collects every single recording and live show, almost 30 gigabytes of music from this one band. IIRC, he listens to it when working, so he never runs out of "music for programming" this way.

1. https://marco.org/2011/05/26/geek-intro-to-phish

You sound like Guppy. Nice touch.

Very cool! Love the minimal design a lot, unsurprisingly.

My Minifeed [1] started with a similar goal of having a "HN for blogs", but then it grew to include search, related recommendations, custom feeds, lists, etc. I don't have categories though.

[1] https://minifeed.net/

Quantum networking is a lesser problem than changing the state and keeping intact long enough. You can already move quantum state over fiber optics pretty reliably, so transport exists, but what then? You need to put the qubits of the connected chip into the corresponding state (which takes time), and do it many times, and all that time is an overhead.

Superconducting QCs are fast, but the state degrades incredibly quickly, so you only have a fraction of a second (maybe a millisecond at best, currently) until the entire state is garbage. Some other modalities like trapped ion are the opposite: state can live long, but each operation is orders of magnitude slower.

The meme refers to the notion where an observation (i.e. interaction) collapses the wave function to a single value. As in, prior to observation, a system in a quantum superposition is said to be "in multiple states at the same time", and after the obsevation only one state exists, while all other possibilities are gone (or exist in other worlds, according to one of the interpretations of quantum mechanics [0]).

So, in that meme, the guy looks at one girl (the observed state) and "ignores" all other girls (all other possible states).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation

I've started putting together a curated directory of (subjectively) good YouTube channels and videos [1]. It's literally the 3rd day, so not many entries yet, but I plan to continue growing it like I did with Minifeed [2].

1. https://skyshelf.app/

2. https://minifeed.net/