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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sense And Nonsense Of Virtual Power Plants⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Did I understand right that VPPs are just a way of grouping some generation and storage together in such a way that you can pretend it will act as a CCGT plant?

If so, surely this is papering over the challenge. A real solution will present all the information used to operate a “VPP” to the entire grid, and allow all the available resources to be managed by the grid.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

Even if you take YouTube premium they are still farming your data and selling it to third parties.

The big data-farmers like Google aren’t selling it to third parties. It’s worth far more if kept to themselves and used to build an ad platform.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

whiteknighting

was a weak-ass criticism when it was on 4chan being leveled at anyone who said anything not derogatory about a woman, and it’s weak-ass now. Oh no, someone on the internet has an at-least-partially positive opinion of a company, how awful, we’d better stereotype and body-shame them for it.

If you had your way, the only comments about YouTube - or any other product from a large company - that would be allowed would be negative ones. How the fuck does that make sense?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You’re just trying to piggyback on a vaguely-related concept that your audience already likely hates. Call things what they are, not what would be convenient to you if they were.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this Lemmy thread full of bots/ Fake comments?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I see it having 77 comments.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah I’m probably gonna try this at some point. At the moment I only have 802.11ac 5GHz though, so not as much bandwidth as WiFi 6+.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That sounds bad.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Verification is important, but I think you’re omitting from your imagination a real and large category of people who have a basic familiarity with spreadsheets and computers, so are able to understand a potential solution and see whether it makes sense, but who do not have the ability to quickly come up with it themselves.

In language it’s the difference between receptive and productive vocabulary: there are words which you understand but which you would never say or write because they’re part of your receptive, but not productive knowledge.

There are times when this will go wrong, because the LLM will can produce something plausible but incorrect and such a person will fail to spot it. And of course if you blindly trust it with something you’re not actually capable of (or willing to) check then you will also get bad results.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I got around to watching this video… without having seen this guy before (and therefore having no reason to take what he says at face value), and with the “source” in his description being almost unrelated to the video content, all that’s left is that “Yoti is funded by trusts, Carnegie is a trust mentioned on Yoti’s website.”

That is conspiracy-theory level. The author doesn’t even go so far as to draw actual conclusions; he’s saying “we need to follow the money” which is reasonable, but you are saying “Carnegie invested in an age verifier and that’s why they wrote the law.” That’s going well beyond the facts. You wouldn’t stand for it when some moron tries to cast doubt on climate science and you shouldn’t stand for it now just because it tickles your biases.

Some of that money probably went to companies doing ID verification

Quite possibly. But almost certainly a lot of Carnegie’s money is going to companies who provide online services who now have much higher costs from doing age verification, content blocking and users fleeing, simply because there are a lot of companies in that position.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
A couple of days ago I started it using Steam remote play to the deck, just assuming that it would suck on Deck itself. Apparently it gets 40fps on low settings on Deck which is better than I expected but still kinda sucky.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Left to Right Programming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The blog post is really about language design, because you definitely should not write a filter method for your custom iterable class in python; you should make it use the language’s interface’s for “being an iterable”. Language design involves APIs offered by the language, but isn’t really the purview of most people who write APIs.

If a suggestion on language design would gain something at the cost of readability, anyone should be very skeptical of that.

Those things together explain why I am evaluating the post mostly in terms of readability.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I assume someone wanting to “integrate their phone’s functionality” is OK with a bit of personal data sharing with big tech.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Aren’t Meta’s smart glasses that?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Assistive technology is a massive area of development in smart glasses; it absolutely is being designed for people with vision and hearing impairments.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Left to Right Programming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I dunno, did we?

Screenshot from the post

I think rust’s iterator chains are nice, and IDE auto-complete is part of that niceness. But comprehension expressions read very naturally to me, more so than iterator chains.

I mean, how many python programmers don’t even type hint their code, and so won’t get (accurate) auto-complete anyway? Auto-completion is nice but just not the be-all and end-all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I would never have thought to try to play Elden Ring on a handheld console, never mind a Switch (2).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One UI 8 New Features: A First Look at Samsung's Big Update | Tygo Cover⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You know what actually works for this? A physical slider like my second smartphone had which switches between silent, vibrate and loud. That was the only time I actually switched away from vibrate because it was easy, and I could do it in my pocket without looking at the phone (especially nice in situations where looking at it might itself be rude)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Welcome to politics. Have you never seen parliament debate?

Yes. The convincing speeches are those with facts behind them.

You are wrong. The vibes tell me… but so do the facts.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Left to Right Programming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I was also thinking about UFCS. I do like it for its flexibility, but I did try it in Nim one time and was left feeling unsure. Unfortunately I now can’t remember what exactly I didn’t like about it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Left to Right Programming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’m always suspicious of people who say that a language is suboptimal and use as evidence some filthy one-liner. Maybe if you bothered to write some whitespace and didn’t write the language ignorant of its features (like generator expressions) you would end up with better code?
```
sum(
    all(
        abs(x) >= 1 and abs(x) <= 3 for x in line
    ) and (
        all(x > 0 for x in line) or
        all(x < 0 for x in line)
    )
    for line in diffs
)
```
You no longer have to “jump back and forth” except one single time - you have to look to the end to see where line is coming from and then you can read the body of the main expression from start to finish.

People don’t, in fact, read code from top to bottom, left to right; they read it by first looking at its “skeleton” - functions, control flow, etc - until finding the bit they think is most important to read in detail. That implies that “jumping back and forth” is a natural and necessary part of reading (and hence writing) code, and so is nothing to fear.

There is still a slight advantage to not having to jump around, but consider the costs: in Javascript, map and filter are methods on Array and some other types. So how are you going to implement them for your custom iterable type? Do you have to do it yourself, or write lots of boilerplate? It’s easy in Python. It’s not bad in Rust either because of traits, but what this all means is that to get this, you need other, heavy, language features.

In practice, you often know what a comprehension is iterating over due to context. In those situations, having what the comprehension produces be the most prominent is actually a boon. In these scenarios in Rust/JS you are left skipping over the unimportant stuff to get to what you actually want to read.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Left to Right Programming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Except they don’t like functional primitives like map unless they’re namespaced to iterable types…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Absolute bollocks. Doesn’t require anything. It only requires personal opinion. Parliament runs on it.

If your opposition is just based on vibes than it can be ignored based on nothing more than that.

You should practice it.

Levy is a Tax.

Oh, you are talking about an actual fee in the legislation, not the cost of contracting with a company that verifies ages.

The cost though is £70 million. Since you raise the prospect of child poverty, the one policy the government needs to reverse to improve child poverty is the two-child benefit cap, which would cost £2.1bn, so this policy costs 3% of a substantive policy on child poverty.

A high estimate for how many deaths could be prevented by lifting the cap is about 300 per year, that I have seen (it’s not really about the cap itself but is about modelling what would happen if Labour were able to reduce child poverty at the same rate it was in 1997-2010, which would presumably include eliminating the cap). 3% of 300 is 9 deaths. While I don’t support the OSA, I think it is completely plausible that a policy which reduces the amount children are looking at extreme violence and advocation of eating disorders and suicide would prevent in the region of 9 deaths per year. About 150 children die each year by suicide (according to statistics, which will undercount the problem because parents as a rule don’t want their child’s death to be recorded as suicide). And saving 9 lives is to bring this policy in line, cost-wise, with an estimate that relates to a whole programme of government, which will in reality cost far more than £2.1bn.

Cost is not the right lens through which to examine the OSA, no matter what your personal opinion tells you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The requirement to file accounts is not a tax. Call things what they are, not whatever you’ve decided they’re similar to in your mind. To do is either confusing or dishonest, depending on whether people ultimately see through what you’re doing or not.

Opposition to this on the basis of finances requires you to actually have some idea of the fiscal outcome. If the number of British children who end up bypassing the rules and viewing genuinely harmful material is small then it will result in lower costs from children traumatised, mentally ill or killing themselves.

I oppose the act because of incalculable costs to privacy, not because it might mean Facebook has to display 10 more ads to someone to maintain their profit margins.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not a tax burden because it’s not any kind of tax. It’s a cost of doing business, like the cost of keeping and filing accounts. Imposing an additional cost on services which are by-and-large ad-funded/freemium does not have nearly the same effects as funding something out of the treasury.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

All of this, by the way, is because an investment trust and thinktank (yes, a lovely little conflict of interest) called Carnegie United Kingdom Trust pretty much wrote the OSA for the government. As an investment trust, they invest money in things, but being private, they don’t need to tell Joe Public what they invest in, nor to the Investees need to tell us. So basically, they invested in YOTI or some others like it, and are making money from it because so many sites are forced to have it to work in the UK.

Can you link more information about this conflict of interest? I can’t find anything about it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the rise of Craigslist helped fuel America’s political polarization⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s pretty fascinating that they used the staged expansion of Craigslist to allow confounding factors to be accounted for.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the rise of Craigslist helped fuel America’s political polarization⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Nobody is “just blaming” any one thing except in your head. The headline says “helped fuel” not “single-handedly caused.”

Maybe you’ve been affected by a related trend - that of not reading properly and just replying with whatever half-baked idea was already bouncing around?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coding students whose jobs were taken by AI forced to find work at Chipotle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I am software engineer, and the coding LLM we have is absolutely capable of doing a bunch of tasks you’d give to a new grad.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK government suggests deleting files to save water⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s not the take-home here. We should regulate large companies, but as ever, individual choices both have direct effects on the environment, and indirect effects which influence the behaviour of a small number of more powerful organisations. Also important is that individual choices in the political realm influence what regulations get made, so we’re never absolved of a responsibility to the environment.

The take-home for me is that the government is using long-discredited statistics relating storage to water usage. Stored emails don’t increase water usage by an appreciable percentage.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia loses challenge against UK Online Safety Act rules⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The ruling makes sense as it is based on an assumption that can’t be demonstrated. But hopefully some big, high profile website gets sufficiently fucked or pissed off by the law that it blocks the UK/gets blocked by the UK.

Unfortunately the server I use as a VPN is in France which also has some insane rules.