Just the metaphors and "magnetics" for fiddling and dealing with your gun were so good. The conveyance system was also just so much more intuitive. I think they even seemed to have done something to deal with the very mild nausea I felt with some title.

Oh, and the game was fun.

Aside (shower thought):

A little of a tangent, but I have always felt that the weight belt is kind of odd in that it has become completely accepted to use one for the deadlift and squat. Like, why did we decide that this one form of brace is acceptable but others enhancements are not "real" weightlifting? Why not an incline plane? Why not a pulley?

I'm not at all arguing for or against the usage of the weight belt. I just find it odd that it has become so accepted; seems curious how we decided to draw the line here and not there.

It isn't even a shakedown, they are genuinely protecting you from others. But how did we get to the point on the web that this is needed?

* Got me a "BearSkin" jacket from youtube's incessant advertisement.

* Signed up for a $250 subscription to "The Daily Beast" when she was watching youtube tv right before bed and probably subscribed when she meant to just view.

* Signed up for Norton Antivirus when she got a gif that looks like a popup that tells you have a virus and it opens to a Subscription Plan on her phone.

None of these things were things she particularly wanted, some she didn't even consent to, but a combination of paid promotion / advertisement / confusion about the UI is basically doing things against her will.

I literally got her Youtube Premium just so she stops seeing all the ads that are feeding on her. It is a problem.

I would say Verilog is very much NOT a low level language.

Metaphorically, it feels closer to SQL to me. I mean this in that you theoretically tell the system what it should do, and it builds it into the messy real world. However, the reality is that the planner (sql) or linker/placer/router/whatever (verilog) are very good, but you often end up needing to actually fully understand the problem anyway when things don't work in the abstract.

I know there is https://clash-lang.org/ for Verilog design, which sounds a little like what you are talking about (never really looked at it myself).

It would mean you don't have to remember to carry the bag all day (which is fine if you drive, but a pain if you use public transit and have to carry bags everywhere). Just "check one out" if you don't have one, bring them back and they will be reused (and you credited) for returning them (or just reuse them yourself, if you want).

This may partially be driven by my mother, who has like 7 different types of bags that she takes to the local HEB. It is always a little song and dance with the bagger about which things go in which of her bags. These are true first world problems, but it just makes me consider alternatives.

Also, minor, but if the bags were actually "valuable", then it would encourage the homeless who find discarded bags to collect them and return them themselves, which helps with the "visible garbage" problem.

These are idiot thoughts of mine, but I do sometimes wonder about alternatives.

Maybe $17k for a 512gig system that can do 1.2TB/s seems like a pretty good deal for a small office.

Or even better, "leak" that there might be metrics (that are in reality false), and then see who allocates resources towards maximizing them. Favor allocating resources to those who hit your internal metrics, favor de-allocating resources towards those that hit your "honeypot" metrics.

This all kind of depends on having direct reportees who have a great degree of latitude in how they spend their resources I suppose.

It claims fp8 and fp16 has had higher throughput in the cloud since 2023.

fp32 and general computing still has more compute than personal computers.

And that memory is at the crossover point, but at this point only 10% of memory is going to personal computers, so the next few years will radically change the pc to cloud memory ratios.

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/8733239a-328b-4aaa-8d76-0...

Anyway, all of this made me a (tiny bit) sad. It is the gradual end of general purpose computing you own, and the start of everything just being cloud compute that someone else owns and you rent.

So, by that logic, we are potentially looking for a problem space where their is a large amount of data that is too large to even be paged through by the client, and where the FHE would actually make financial sense relative to downloading it?

I'll think about that, but nothing immediately comes to mind.

But I am curious if anyone can think of any use cases for this as it currently stands? For every idea I can think of, I can think of another solution that would probably be a better solution at current slowdown in cost from using homomorphic encryption.

For their two examples...

1) For the "will they click the add" one, how would anyone verify that the model I am uploading of myself is remotely accurate? And can't they learn my characteristics by running them against very specific ads that pinpoint my preferences?

2) For the "Do you have heart disease" one, why not just generating a billion datapoints (or more). The user can download the compressed data of this huge sample of points and then just enter their data on their own side and find the point that is closest (if not an exact match) to their own data?

I'm not pulling apart the idea of homorphic encryption, I'm just curious if anyone can think of a really compelling use case for it given it 10^3 to 10^6 greater compute cost?

Too high latency for Clair Obscura (and obviously Dark Souls) level reaction time. Though surprisingly passable for most FPS (I just played "Ready or Not" on it yesterday, and it was acceptable).

I agree that laying things out on an infinite 2d plane is surprisingly time consuming. We must be missing some affordance or something in how this should be?

Ignoring the military stuff, I feel like it is saying that this harness, although stamped from a mass produced part, is mine once I take possession of it. An extension of me?

Kind of like the energy slave idea.

1) I think that is a really interesting insight. I have never done the above myself, but often I don't "tinker" with things because the amount of energy it would take me to JUST GET IT RUNNING is large, and I might end up borking my own system in doing so.

An LLM in a VM can reasonably and safely completely work out on its own how to run some software. I'd never thought about really doing that as a reflexive thing when I am curious. Good thought.

2) I wonder if this is going to be a bifurcation. Where open source software is looked at far more often than in the past because it can actually be "live" investigated (not just have the code reviewed) with little effort?

3) On the opposite of 2, I wonder how many people are going to start "close sourcing" their software, because previously they could be open source, and rely on the inertia of actually getting it running to be enough to support a consultancy service or whatever. If getting it running is trivial, then maybe I need your service less, I just need the code. Might result in different business models?

2) (Unambiguously yes) If your business does not make financial sense without tips, then it isn't a business. There are many businesses that can't currently compete with businesses' that tip, see next point.

3) (Modestly disagree) I would support a 50% tax on tips in general. It should be something that only the wealthy do as a flex, not something that we are normalizing among 95% of the population.

I've never understood why that isn't more common honestly. It would be cool if I could actually transfer POW from one domain to another as well. Probably wouldn't stop scrapers, but it would likely stop low margin fraud type things.