Main issue would be impending lack of iOS updates, together with increased risk of zero-days due to AI.

It doesn't even have to be actually sinister, eg.

"Let's crawl the social media of prominent mathematicians in this field to see if we can copy/steal any ideas for low hanging fruits"

That actually might get you quite far already.

A mathematician that doesn't let themselves be inspired by, or learn from, other peoples work, are they really mathematicians?

Sure, you need an OS course, but that's when students should learn C as well.

As much as Steve Jobs was an asshole, at least he didn't invent tools whose only purpose is to kill people...

Like, maybe find a better example?

Mikhail Kalashnikov.

Fun fact: Stone and Kalashnikov were friends.

Yet here you are, posting self-congratulatory comments about how you don't post self-congratulatory things.

IMHO this is even less meaningful/impactful than the comment that you objected to.

The thing is, what I’m asking about is not unrelated. It is the inverse situation - which curiously nobody seems to care about.

And I say ‘curiously’ with some sarcasm, because it is very obvious why the focus is always disproportionately on needing to justify minimum wages for the poor, normally with ridiculous economic value arguments, but not extreme wages for anyone else - which is apparently fine and has zero negative consequences

It's pretty simple - it doesn't bother me if a company decides to pay a worker a lot of money. They could decide to pay their CEO a trillion dollars and it would have zero effect on me.

However, the government mandating a certain wage has a tremendous effect on me.

> They could decide to pay their CEO a trillion dollars and it would have zero effect on me.

> However, the government mandating a certain wage has a tremendous effect on me.

"the government mandating a certain wage" is the definition of minimum wage in this thread. If you are not a minimum wage worker and would not become a minimum wage worker after an increase in the minimum wage, why and how does that have an effect on you, and why would an increase in an executive's salary (multiple orders of magnitude more than minimum wage, and annually increasing in orders-of-magnitude higher dollar amounts than minimum wages do) not have a similar or greater effect on you?

Small minds think alike

This is one of the reasons why most heads of state have legal immunity during the time they are serving.

The card definitely stores the balance. They probably sync the transaction records to their servers, but during the transaction the value on the card is presumed to be the truth AFAICT.

Remember when the system was designed in the early 2000s the Internet was much less available and reliable, and when so many transactions happen every day, you don't want to get thousands of passengers stuck inside a metro station only because some Wifi router was down.

This is basically a limitation of the CAP theorem, in these situations there's really no choice but to sacrifice "consistency" and settle for eventual consistency.

I think even credit card payments for transit also make that sacrifice. I had a weird experience using a Visa card to pay for a tram ride because they were promoting it and had a discount. The machine indicated success and let me through, but since I rarely used the card, somehow the payment didn't go through afterwards (the credit card was in a very weird state). If they insisted that all the payment transactions complete successfully for a transit payment, it would be too inconvenient and unreliable to use.

Credit card payments have an "offline" mode for the same reason - before ubiquitous broadband, a shop may have to dial-up to the bank to verify a card, which is slow. Debit cards that run on the credit networks can have that enabled or disabled depending on trust.

Remember originally credit card payments worked by putting the card under a slip of carbon-copy paper and rubbing off the raised digits. All the digital stuff ontop of that was just for efficiency.

Some digital payment terminals don’t have full-time internet connections today, dial-up or not… think, handheld terminal in areas of poor wireless signal.

But yeah, even settling up at the end of the day with those terminals is still way faster than settling up carbon copies via mail.

Yes. Thank you for pointing this out.

I think there needs to be a linguist version of "what every programmer needs to know about (full?) text search"...

I'm not a linguist and I don't study languages, but I know enough to realize if a text search system is not designed for a particular language, it simply won't work. (As an example, to implement English search in a system for a hobby project, I had to import a US/UK spelling wordlist, and implement the Porter Stemming Algorithm. This is just for "one" language, and probably does not cover the other "English" dialects. Imagine doing a different workaround for every language in existence...)

RAG is actually a very language-agnostic way to work around those issues.

I am a linguist and can say your view is too simplistic. This works only for things that are common enough to be mapped onto the same vector from the training set. Try searching for my company XY and it won’t work, because your embedding doesn’t have an adequate embedding, so you will end up having to build a translation table anyways..

Alibaba execs probably had PTSD from last time they attempted to defy CCP policy...