In a similar vein, 0911 or 9111 will often work too for communities in the US. EMS and other first responders run into the same issue with automated calls or panicked people, so they’ll try that first while waiting for dispatch.
That code was also used at our (EMS) depots to secure the controlled drugs as well, as if none of us could have guessed it.
How's that working so far? Millions of illegal immigration, emptying of foreign prisons into America, development of apps to help navigate illegals into their US destinations, pacifying social media of the abovea?
Thomas Reuters apparently is helping against America ... so far.
Pardon? This is about how Thomson Reuters was funded by DARPA to do a study on defending against social media attacks at scale. It has nothing to do with any of the points you brought up, and I fail to see the connection.
Turn off Fox News dude - you're severely lacking perspective of your own country. Everyone outside of the US media sphere(or rather spheres - there's two) laughs at your news media and how entrenched misinformation has become.
You've made a diagram showing statistics of immigration encounters, and from that you deduced that prisons are being emptied into the US? Bit of a stretch. The diagram is nice, but you're missing the point: the picture being painted for you that you're trying to prop up is false.
Title 42 was the main culprit of the border encounter explosion, it was used as a temporary solution to the 'asylum seeker' problem. It turned into catch and release, even the CBP agreed this was an issue because the recidivism rate was so high. That ended in May of 23' and now the only problem is working through asylum claims. Idk why everyone misunderstands the problem at the border so much.
As well as most of the people crying about this problem are unaware that Trump shot down the border bill which would have enabled officers to close up cases much quicker than judges. So do you even have a point here?
Where are you seeing that there’s two pieces? I’m only seeing it referred to as one program there. I’m not a govt contracts expert so by all means let me know what I’m missing.
I'd agree except for the ability to search in an e-book. There's nothing worse than knowing the textbook in front of you contains the answer you need but not remembering which of the 1500 pages contains it. Being able to CTRL-F saved me hours of time when I went back to school after e-books became common.
For a current project, I've been using a physical book as a reference manual for the API I'm working with rather than using the more typical internet search for the function name. And it's actually somewhat surprising how efficient a physical book is!
Sure, there's a lot of efficiency to Ctrl-F a text string and just find all the places in a document. I won't deny that it takes me longer to pull up the index, search for the function name in the index, then flip to the page. But then I can just leave the book open at that page on the desk (or my lap). I never have to Alt-Tab, or fiddle with the location of windows to switch between looking at documentation and looking at the code I'm working on.
This difference was more stark when I was trying to close-read a different specification to ensure that I understood it well enough to make sure a PR implemented it correctly. I needed to have three different parts of the specification open simultaneously to bounce between all of them. With physical paper, that's just a swish of a hand away. With a PDF reader, well, goto that other section, scroll down to the piece I wanted, now goto the first section again and scroll down again and wait what was that back thing again goto and scroll and scroll and goto and descent into insanity. Trying to use multiple windows ameliorates the problem somewhat, but it also takes an inordinate amount of time to set the view up correctly, and I often end up running into the "focus doesn't follow the eye gaze" problem of typing in the wrong window and ruining the view.
>With a PDF reader, well, goto that other section, scroll down to the piece I wanted, now goto the first section again and scroll down again and wait what was that back thing again goto and scroll and scroll and goto and descent into insanity.
I pretty much just use screenshots in snagit for that stuff.
A decent index solves that just fine. And usually outpaces ctrl-f chasing for a given word, because it's indexing by ideas, not words. (If it's a decent index, that is :)
Good indices are built atop a taxonomy that is then used extensively to list related taxonomic terms. This will give you direct hierarchical terms (loosely maps to what I guess you refer to as by subject) but also related terms. A good indexer will also exercise judgement and check with the author if certain terms are related and in what way.
Let me give you an example of a high-quality index entry from the Software Architecture in Practice (Bass et al. 2021) [1]:
Availability
analytic model space, 259
analyzing, 255–259
broker pattern, 240
calculations, 259
CAP theorem, 523
CIA approach, 147
cloud, 521
design checklist, 96–98
detect faults tactic, 87–91
general scenario, 85–86
introduction, 79–81
planning for failure, 82–85
prevent faults tactic, 94–95
recover-from-faults tactics, 91–94
summary, 98–99
tactics overview, 87
As you see, it lists a number of taxonomic terms that are merely related to each other and you might not think about Ctrl+F-ing for them unless you already want to search for them. You may come to this entry knowing about CAP and navigate away to analytic model space, 259.
Not really. An index is also a list of ideas you should search for. Search for a synonym and control-f fails, but the index will have a "see also" for that, or worst case lets you scan for interesting words without reading the whole book. The index will also leave out all the places where a word happens to be used but are not useful to someone searching for the term.
Of course a good index is hard (read expensive) to write and so many books didn't have good indexes.
You mean like page 20 in the PDF isn't "page 20" in the index? Unless the pages are out of order or extra stuff is inserted, you should be able to simply add an offset. Or worst case, you binary-search the PDF like you would with a book.
There are scanned-in books whose index pages don't precisely match the digital pages. Good PDFs will account for that offset themselves, but manual recalculation may be necessary.
Worse are books half-assedly converted from print to digital. These often include an index (useful for all the reasons others have mentioned elsewhere in this thread), but the "faithful" reproduction of the print text means that the page enumeration in the index bears a nonconstant relationship to the digital text. The offsets are not constant.
Then there are ePubs with the above feature. The sane thing to do would be to link the index entry to occurances. Often you'll find, again, print-edition page mentions which are of little use in locating the passage within your digital edition.
One of the underlying problems is that the print notion of "page" is increasingly archaic. For languages / typographies in which paragraphs are a useful convention, paragraph numbering might be preferable (this should be constant across formats). Direct symlinks are of course useful, but these conceal information revealed in a conventional (print) index such as passages where a topic is discussed at some length, or clusters of appearances, as well as cross-references or associated references which a well-constructed index will reveal.
I can't remember examples like those, but one I deal with is where the index has a different kind of numbering scheme like "E403.1-a". But at least cmd+f maybe works in that case, unless of course that string shows up everywhere.
Technical / government docs often feature such numbering schemes. I believe part of the history is that those documents were often composed in segments or sections, often by independent teams, such that a fixed page enumeration wasn't readily available and/or would change frequently.
There's a pre-digital publishing trend of loose-leaf or removeable bindings, with publications prepared in sections or with periodic supplements, which began in the late 19th / early 20th century. Those would typically be organised and numbered by section. The concept is somewhat trite now, but I think of it as a significant stage and evolution of publishing, somewhere between fixed-format codices, periodicals, and eventually databases and wikis.
It is quite disheartening to see a comment about book indexes being downvoted. In professional publishing houses, indexing is a job done by a qualified indexer and is not as trivial as one may think [1]. Some rather important reading guides [2] recommend to judge a book by its Contents and Index, which are often overlooked in books that were not edited by professionals or were edited in haste.
It is quite disheartening to see a comment about farriers being downvoted. In professional blacksmith shops, horse shoeing is a job done by a qualified farrier and not as trivial as one may think.
Not quite. Not a big fan of analogies of questionable fit, but let's try:
It is quite disheartening to see a comment about importance of horse shoes being downvoted. In professional blacksmith shops, horse shoeing is a job done by a qualified farrier and not as trivial as one may think. The importance of horseshoeing for horse wellbeing is also highlighted in certain key equestrian literature.
For 4, it would be neat to first pass each block of code (function or class or whatever) through an llm to extract meaning, and then embed some combination of llm parsed meaning, docstring and comments, and function name. Then do semantic search against that.
That way you’d cover what the human thinks the block is for vs what an LLM “thinks” it’s for. Should cover some amount of drift in names and comments that any codebase sees.
When I was in college, the local news was interviewing a comp sec professor of mine in the computer lab. The cameraman was taking B-roll footage (blinking lights from racks, cables going everywhere, that sort of thing). He asked if he could film a few of our screens to show what we were diligently working on, which is how we got hacker typer onto the nightly news.
I remember the ads in old Car&Track and Road&Driver magazines at the doctor’s office. They always had a veneer of illegality to them, even in states where they were legal. Funny how something like Waze doesn’t. I wonder if it’s that Waze is just the technological equivalent to the oncoming driver flashing their brights at you.
There was also at least one recurring ad for a purported radar jammer. Either in the car magazines or the electronics ones. It might've been "sold in legal kit form".
Congrats on the launch! I've been thinking about a similar concept, except focusing on support teams instead of sales. Same idea though, pre-record a walkthrough of the product for playback later.
Some thoughts:
- Can I embed these on a web page for my customers to play around with as they wish?
- Do you have any showcases of the software in use? (the site is currently 503'ing for me).
- Any ideas around keeping demos up to date? Will I need to re-record my demo if my website changes?
- What do you view as your moat compared to mockup walkthroughs like Figma?
- Yeah, you can embed these and the whole idea was to make it easy to do that just. Then we realised sales teams need this more
- We do, happy to show you on a call if you are intereseted
- Keeping demos up to date is hard, but can guarantee that all of them will work until they are manually updated. This is somethin we are still exploring. So you won’t need to re-record if you care about demo working
- We make it ultra easy for anyone to record demos. For figma, you need to have knowledge.
- We are not 503 anymore! Sorry for that. Traffic!
There has to be water coming in from higher up than the highest point in the lock system. Otherwise, how do you fill up the lock when you're traveling to the top? In a "normal" canal, this is handled by the upstream river or stream. In the Panama canal, this is accomplished from two lakes above the canal system.
That code was also used at our (EMS) depots to secure the controlled drugs as well, as if none of us could have guessed it.
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