Splitting these companies would also be good for people like Bezos and Gates as splitting Standard Oil was good for Rockefeller. They don't lose their interest in the companies and the newly formed companies likely will benefit from the competition creating much more aggregated wealth. In the end, the breakup of Standard Oil made Rockefeller wealthier. He gained from owning shares in the spinoff companies, their rising market value because competition, diversified investments, and the growing demand for oil.
There isn't much of a difference between a router between two machines physically next to each other and a router in Kansas connecting a machine in California with a machine in Miami. The packets of data are wrapped with an address of where they are going in the header.
WebSockets are long lived socket connection designed specifically for use on the 'web'. TCP is data sent wrapped in packets that is ordered and guaranteed delivery. This causes a massive overhead cost. This is different from UDP which doesn't guarantee order and delivery. However, a packet sent over UDP might arrive tomorrow after it goes around the world a few times.
With fetch() or XMLHttpRequest, the client has to use energy and time to open a new HTTP connection while a WebSocket opens a long lived connection. When sending lots of bi directional messages it makes sense to have a WebSocket. However, a simple fetch() request is easier to develop. A developer needs to good reason to use the more complicated WebSocket.
Regardless, they both send messages using TCP which ensures the order of packets and guaranteed delivery which features have a lot to do with why TCP is the first choice.
There is UDP which is used by WebRTC which is good for information like voice or video which can have missing and unordered packets occasionally.
If two different processes on the same machine want to communicate, they can use a Unix socket. A Unix socket creates a special file (socket file) in the filesystem, which both processes can use to establish a connection and exchange data directly through the socket, not by reading and writing to the file itself. But the Unix Socket doesn't have to deal with routing data packets.
(ChatGPT says "Overall, you have a solid grasp of the concepts, and your statements are largely accurate with some minor clarifications needed.")
Meanwhile, after reading this article, I have my face one inch from a wall making clicks to see if I can hear the echo. Hopefully, nobody sees, or hears, me.
Classic example of academic research funded by the military.
> In 1985, the wreck was finally located by a joint French–American expedition led by Jean-Louis Michel of IFREMER and Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, originally on a mission to find two nuclear Cold War submarines.
Veritasium released a wonderful new video yesterday, "On These Questions, Smarter People Do Worse" which ..... I'm not going to spoil it for you but you will understand why I responded with the link.
Watching, they discuss a study about gun control and I though omg I was thinking about that recently and the study they presented answers the question I've been pondering about gun control. If you watch the video, you will understand my disappointment.
I had been living in New Orleans including when it had the 8th highest murder rate ... not in the United States but the world in 2022 (it was #1 in US hence not 8th). The city couldn't hire police officers and close 120 position had been unfilled. There is a very strange phenomena happening in the past 2 years, the crime rate in New Orleans is plummeting without police. [1] So, in the Veritasium video, they talk about a gun violence study and I think, that is exactly the question I'm asking. Does gun violence go down if law enforcement is removed from the equation because that is exactly for unknown reasons happening New Orleans today. Nobody is taking away guns in New Orleans and everyone I know has at least 2. I was a little disappointed with the study but tapped my self on the shoulder asking the correct question when presented with it.
Smarter people did better than Dumber people. The people with a score of 8,9 on numeracy did the best [1] but not as good as they should've. This is basically best shown on page 12 [2] on the actual paper, people with high numeracy have a better chance of correct answer than low numeracy.
I suspect the effect is even across low & high numeracy but because high numeracy people were more likely to get the correct answer to begin with. Akin to say you playing a toddler in Counter-Strike. You're more likely to win a round than them. So if for a round I disconnect one of your controllers then the disconnection is more likely to cause you a loss than the toddler because the toddler was going to lose anyways, the effect of disconnection for them is dwarfed by their innate ability.
The title says that smarter people do worse, which is correct in the sense that their relative performance is 20% worse than less numerically inclined people. They cover this in the latter half of the video. However, in order to believe this was the title’s intent, you would have to assume the title should have read, “Smarter people score worse on political numerical questions than on apolitical numerical questions.” Realistically it’s so ambiguous that any interpretation is plausible.
> Realistically it’s so ambiguous that any interpretation is plausible.
The dude isn't some rushed working single mother. He had amble time to choose what he wanted to convey and instead chose that title.
When your study creates 2 populations (those with good numeracy and those without) and you make a claim that one of those populations "do worse" than it's always implicitly with respect to the other population.
> But doctors never definitively diagnosed Johnson with celiac disease. His doctors wanted to do a biopsy to get a definite answer, but that would require eating gluten again, something Johnson wasn’t willing to chance.
How about this for an app idea? Does this already exist?
Use the app to record all the food consumed. Use AI to read restaurant menus, cereal boxes, ect. Give the user a survey every 1 hour. Make eating A/B testing strategies, for example, have the user not eat dairy for a day, then not eat gluten, ect.. Do some calculations and figure out what foods cause what symptoms.
I've had this web app about 15-20 years ago, until the tech got obselete.
It was popular, yet little bit more simpler
Now I saw that somebody made similiar app...but without proper execution..
If you make one, please don't focus on automating photo taking and that stuff, but the simple ui + simple results
I was a private yacht chef for 7 years. They would hire anyone off the street to work on a $35,000,000 private yacht without checking references or a background check. I had unprecedented access to CEO's of Fortune 100 companies and phone numbers of a couple billionaires on my phone. I thought about writing a spy novel where a bunch of college students got entry level jobs on a yacht and used the access to plant bugs. The plot is they get caught and have to escape the Caribbean while being chased.
1. A group of EECS graduates get jobs as deckhands and stewardesses on mega yachts in order to bug the yachts to glean information for trading securities.
2. They install computers in the electronics cave below the wheelhouses because nobody knows what most of the electronics there do in the first place.
Today there are hundreds of mega yachts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with thousands of unscreened workers maintaining the yachts before they leave in November for a season of cruising and charters in the Caribbean.
3. They get caught by Russian mafia while in Martinique or St. Lucia.
4. They MacGyver their way out of the Caribbean while being chased by thugs with unlimited resources.
Perhaps, someone in the MIT ocean engineering program doing a semester at sea on the Corwith Cramer breaks bad. Back in the day they would lure crew by using ladies of the night to entice a victim into a Shanghai Tunnel [0] where they would be abducted. Our protagonist working on submersible project on the Corwith Cramer gets seduced by a yacht crew member while having a drink at the Leeside Pub or the Captain Kidd bar in Woods Hole. It wouldn't be the first time.
Personally, I had planned to spend a season working in a restaurant in Miami Beach and was evacuated from the inter-coastal because of hurricane Irma. The only bed I could find was in a crew house in Fort Lauderdale. All the windows were boarded with plywood and they had several kegs and dozens of bottles on the table as we waited out the storm with a party. Fortunately the storm tracked the West Coast. Someone asked what I did and I said I was a chef. They suggested I become a private yacht chef. Two weeks later I was cooking on a private sailing yacht in the Bahamas.
Probably more interesting if a storm blows the protagonist into a situation.
I build browser automation agents that run in Node.js frameworks such as Playwright, browser extensions (Chrome Extensions), and Electron Applications. While traveling the world during the past year working on many personal projects, I built an IPC/RPC framework for consistent communication between JavaScript runtime execution contexts with a strongly typed interface which solves a very specific problem. Browser automation requires orchestrating several different JavaScript processes using many different messaging APIs, such as WebSockets, postMessage, fetch, MessageChannel, sockets, etc. If you are at Microsoft, there are reasons you would be very interested in my current project.
This is perfectly legal and the government of Thailand is well aware of this practice (I believe it is only allowed
for air entries). The US and the Schengen zone both have limits on stays within a six month period which effectively eliminates this practice and the Thai government could do the same if they wanted to stop this.
I’m visiting Chiang Mai Thailand and China is flooding the roads with cheap EVs, BYD, Hozon. There is charging infrastructure everywhere. I don’t know how the United States is going to compete.
So far it would seem that the U. S. is tackling that competition with tariffs. OTOH, I’m not sure what it would take to get a (for example) BYD to pass crash testing, and if it would still be price-competitive.
It's so frustrating that rather than treat the climate crisis as an actual crisis, we've instead decided to heavily tax EV buyers in order to support domestic manufacturers that have been dragging their feet for decades.
> Tariffs of 100% on China EVs is a nuclear weapon to prevent them from gaining any ground here
Doesn't matter if Chinese manufacturers enjoy economies of scale from supplying Europe, South and Southeast Asia, Africa and South America. If American automakers are constrained to America and grow complacent, the compounding effects of learning curves and R&D advantage due to greater total profits will leave us with a fleet of Ladas.
At the end of the day we have to compete. Other than Tesla, we are uncompetitive in the mass market. The tariffs are meant to give us a safe harbor. But they don't automatically deliver us an edge.
A Global Times article says that China has 3,000,000 public EV chargers[0]
US Department of Energy data has the number for the USA and Canada combined as 66,650[1]
This might not be Apples to Apples as the USA numbers might be "sites" and the china number might be "chargers", but I don't think there's anywhere close to an average of 45 chargers per site to make up the difference.
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