I wish there was a word for forgotten beauty.

I grew up at the foothills of mountains, but moved abroad into a flat city.

Every time I return, my heart aches as I gaze up at the vast towering landscape I grew accustomed to once upon a time, and yet each time I go back to the city, that longing in my heart is just sealed away again

Initially bad songs made with real thought often mature into favourites as you learn what the artist was going for.

If you skip every song because you don't immediately like it, then you never learn to refine you palette.

There is then indeed a real fear when a song comes up catered to you, that says nothing about the artist, but was generated to keep you listening. You're getting pidgeonholed.

I really want to see TDP over time.

If I can at least tell myself that our technological achievements come with efficiency gains instead of just apeing power throughput, I can rest a little better

Here's one anecdotal datapoint:

About a decade ago, I discovered that the HD 530 iGPU included with my budget-oriented i3-6300 CPU was better-performing than the physically-impressive SLI pair of 9800GTs I had been using, at something like 1/10th the power consumption.

(It didn't do PhysX, but nobody cared.)

Never heard of instant truncate, nor `fc`, nor `Esc .`

Quite a few useful ones

This seems like a win for user-privacy and also that potential independent revenue stream (freemium 50GB vs premium) they've been chasing since Google search became their only goose.

They should have done this years ago, but I applaud them for doing it now.

I'm not clear on why the naysayers are against this.

my friend's mother would make it for us, and I would secretly top it up with water and dilute the grounds until I ate/drank them down.

Not only did this illicit reactions of disgust, but it prevented them from doing a coffee reading of my future as my cup was always clean by the end.

So had you not done the herecy of diluting the coffee grounds, you might have been foretold your future of being replaced by LLM tokens

That's everybody's future, so I would have been pretty unimpressed if that's all she could come up with

Hey, people at AI companies are grinding, it's just more modern and l33t grinding.

> Proba-3, works just like a real solar eclipse. One spacecraft, which is roughly circular when viewed from the front, orbits closer to the sun, and its job is to block the bright parts of the sun, acting as the moon would in a real eclipse. It casts a shadow on a second probe that has a camera capable of photographing the resulting artificial eclipse.

> Having two separate spacecraft flying independently but in such a way that one casts a shadow on the other is a challenging task. But future missions depend on scientists figuring out how to make this precision choreography technology work, and so Proba-3 is a test.

Oh wow, they've potentially rescued this (very cool!) mission for both probes

Scott Manley had this nice overview of the mission (~9 min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfW645jhbKM

You buy a car, and it lasts maybe 10 years, and then you sell it on to someone else and they drive it for maybe another 10 years.

Updates should not be neccesary. An update can affect the resale value of my car by downclocking it "for safety"

If the manufacturer downclocks your car for safety, can't you sue them for the loss of value? Surely they're admitting that they sold you an unsafe vehicle.

See Google and the Pixel4 battery debacle.

In theory if you bought your phone from one of their vendors you could get your cash back. In practice, the phone was old enough to have already been resold and there's no way you could claim that rebate

It's definitely the first one. People at the upper echelons of the pyramid know how exactly unstable it is, but hope to grift off of the latecomers

Whilst I enjoy their topics, I do admit their banter feels like it's talking down to the audience