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It’s a fair point about the difficulty in deleting data in a decentralised system but that’s also true in more centralised systems like GitHub or any other website. Once some data is out there, you have no control over whether it can be removed. Other parties could have copied it and may re-share it. “All” removing data from a centralised system does is slow down this spread, sometimes to the point that it is effectively deleted but that can’t be guaranteed.

The best response I’m aware of is to invalidate any secrets that have been accidentally shared. Sometimes that is easier said than done though. And of course there are plenty of other reasons someone might want to delete data.

Generally, nothing inherently wrong with sending a username but directing people to a 3rd party social media platform rather than an official Anthropic email or support system does nothing to build trust that they actually work there.

This is a really interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing.

In your opinion, what would a product that successfully provides low cost computing in developing markets look like? Is one even needed?

I have to agree with this. The software was always serviceable before the new app. I have a Sonos speaker in my kids’ rooms that we often use for audiobooks and lullabies.

Even with the latest version of the new app, when I play something on both speakers, there is a delay from seconds up to a minute before sound comes through the second speaker, they play at wildly different random volumes each time, playing Audible books within the Sonos app no longer works, Airplay won’t connect about 30% of the time, and sometimes they just decide not to work at all for no apparent reason.

Every night I fight the urge to throw them in the bin. I’m contemplating replacing them but don’t know enough about alternatives yet.

And they provided an interesting tidbit of information about some of the units mentioned. I didn’t read it as anything negative towards your comment at all. Both your’s and their’s added to the conversation.

I took their question to be shorthand for “Can you please share the image?”

Or they’re looking for someone with a few of the listed skills.

I’d be totally on board with job ads saying “the team’s tech stack includes A-Z. No one is expected to be an expert in all of these but if you have experience with some of them or equivalent tech, we could be a good fit for each other.

Depending on circumstances, the ad could go on to say stuff like “we’d love to boost our capabilities in these particular skills” to call out anything that’s an area they want to focus on improving with the new hire, if there is one.

At my kids’ childcare, by far the most popular educator is non-binary. They do a great job of listening to the kids, and talking to them without talking down to them. Come to think of it, the way they interact with the kids actually reminds me a fair bit of the parents in Bluey.

Both my kids (3 and 5 but now at school) have said stuff like “Today we did x with Greg. He’s not exactly a boy and not exactly a girl.” Then they get on with their day. To them, it’s just another person that’s a bit different to them.

> the ones for the CV vaccine were listed on many pages of tiny text (both from Pfizer and from Moderna)

The size of the pages side effects were written on says absolutely nothing about what the side effects are or their severity.

> Then there are the long term consequences, many studies keep coming out with surprises (recent buzzword “Ribosomal frameshift”

Ribosomal frameshift is in itself not a “long term consequence.” It is simply that depending on where translational of a piece of mRNA starts, different proteins can be produced. This is an essential part of how our own (or any other organism’s mRNA) is translated into proteins. other proteins present in a cell can regulate which proteins can be produced - again an essential part of how our cells function. This has been known about for decades.

It is one of the main potential areas that could lead to side effects of an mRNA vaccine so understanding what other proteins might be translated and under what circumstances is important.

Please don’t fear monger without any actual evidence to back it.

Do you have any recommendations of your own that you can share?

There have been a few minor revisions of some of the optional add on boards and things like SNAC adaptors for using original controllers from different systems.

There have also been a few different takes on making a mister in more of a console form factor, and boards that integrate into arcade cabinets or fit in ITX PC cases.

The software has come a hell of a long way. In the army days, the most advanced cores were 8 bit systems like the NES. Now we’ve got PlayStation 1, Sega Saturn and N64 in the works. Similar progress has been made supporting old computer and arcade systems too.

There is an upcoming sort of successor called Marsfpga that’s recently started being teased. From the little that’s been shared so far, the community seems hopeful that this will mean the Dreamcast and support for arcade games through the early 2000s are possibilities.

Once you get much beyond that era, an FPGA-based approach makes less sense - the systems become much, much more complex and also largely standardise around with x86 or ARM where there are always to run them without emulation at all. A notable exception to that is the PS3 with its cell architecture. Then again, people said for a long time that PS1 and Saturn were not possible.

In my view Python’s strength is it prioritises making how things work clear while Ruby’s strength is it prioritises making intent clear.

I actually wish there was something that struck more of a balance between these two philosophies. Ruby’s expressiveness is very nice but unless used carefully, can obscure what’s happening. Python’s clarity in implementation can make a piece of code clear in isolation but can get clunky.

> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

I just wish Python applied this approach to package management. It is needlessly complicated.

Thanks for sharing. I’ll check out Ballistic NG.

I would love love to see XL/2097 added. That was my favourite. Wipeout 3 was a close second. It was certainly quite different in tone though. In what ways did you find it a disaster?

Are Aruinos really aimed at the professional prototyping market? I’ve always had the impression they are aimed at students and hobbyists. These two groups are generally more price sensitive but do also value ease of use.

For these non-professional groups, what are the benefits of a $20 Arduino ESP32 vs. one of the many $4 ones?