I think I still agree about what this article says about "user interfaces", even if the word user has lost the connotation of 'human' it used to have.

https://www.unqualified-reserv...

btw, I am astonished that there has been almost no progress in designing interfaces to be used by programmers.

Thanks. Any ideas where I can listen to what the encoded voice sounds like?

Oh, and they are saying that String Theory is a theory that fits in the space of possible theories - it would be really nice to have a different theory to compare.

And what 'requires' the laws of physics to remain stable?

I think, you've missed the purpose of the paper.

It isn't trying to prove a 'theory' about the universe, it's trying to describe the shape of space that all possible theories live in, for the given assumptions.

There's nothing requiring the laws of physics to remain stable and the team aren't trying to imply their is.

They're saying "if" the laws of physics to remain stable across different energy levels, scales etc, than these things we need to think about, to come up with a theory that might be 'provable' in some sense of the word.

Does anyone know if this is overlaps or is related at all to the idea that there are three types of 'time' for different scale interactions? Which I vaguely half-remember.

I will read the article when it is not past my bedtime.

Many Worlds Interpretation.

No. It's more that each photon is matched up with a anti-photon aka the photon being absorbed.

There's no such thing as 'time' and the universe doesn't diverge at every possible moment.

It's just a bit....fuzzy. If you look closely.

Any funding for Open Source Maintainers?

Or is this another example of how companies refuse to fund Open Source, and will only pay if it directly benefits themselves?

I doubt the morality of Open Source.

I watched the "Project Turntable" video, and that is unbelievably cool.

To work, the AI has to recognize what the drawing represents, figure out how to reverse-transform the 2D representation into a 3D object, and work out what the hidden parts should look like. It's amazing.

It's only a short step between this and working out walk cycles, matching mouth movements to dialogue, adding facial expressions, etc.

This will revolutionize 2D animation.

"so I'm guessing they're crime statistics are roughly in line with ours. ..but I mean for like petty theft like this."

There's an issue across the UK where thugs and drug users will target shops selling 'high' value groceries e.g. large chocolate bars or strong alcoholic drinks.

The criminals will threaten to use violence against any member of staff who intervenes in the theft.

They'll then walk the goods round to a dodgy shop willing to buy them, and so have that as a source of income for buying drugs.

It's an absolute shitshow, and the UK police aren't able to cope with it. Part of the problem is that each crime is small, so that even if you catch someone in the act of stealing one thing from a shop, the culprit would be unlikely to receive a prison sentence from it. The police need to be able to acquire evidence of a pattern of theft, possibly across multiple shops, by a single person.

I'm not sure I would go as far as saying I support the plan, but it also doesn't seem out of scale with the problem being faced by shopkeepers.

Well, Boeing is going to find out what the market thinks.

If a significant number of people will pay extra to avoid flying on Boeing, then that's going to make airline companies want to avoid buying Boeing.

And if airline companies also see the value of an aging Boeing fleet depreciate noticeable faster than an Airbus fleet, then it's going to make selling Boeing planes at a profit to be more difficult.

I'd always assumed that it was to eventually lead on to battery driven military vehicles.

I mean, those exist now, but only as little buggies and dirt bikes. Not great big heavy things.

That sounds like a reasonable guess and probably partly true.

But I also wonder if it's to make sure that PWAs keep working exactly the same, as none of the current PWAs would have been tested on any other browser.

Or not: "Max was advertised as "computer-generated", and some believed this, but he was actually actor Frewer wearing prosthetic makeup, contact lenses, and a plastic moulded suit, and sitting in front of a blue screen. Harsh lighting and other editing and recording effects heighten the illusion of a CGI character."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

> Panicked when TP7.zip was password protected

Your phone is probably capable of cracking that password in under 5 seconds.

Even small amounts of capital is quite powerful.

There is an issue in my city that a lot of 'public engagement' done by the local government is done during the week, during officer hours. That means that anyone who works in a normal job needs to take a day off work to be able to turn up to those meetings to express their view.

For someone who has money to spare, that's not an onerous task. For everyone else, giving up a days earnings to 'possible' influence what the government does is a huge cost.

One result of this is that retirees are much more influential than they would be otherwise, as they can attend many more meetings than working age people can.