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Hi all, I'm in a bit of a bind. I have a production system using Hasura, that suddenly has gone down. All requests to my hasura cloud instance are failing. I can't even hit the /healthz endpoint. Support is saying this…

Assume every politician and public representative is violently kept in line. If this were public knowledge, what would be the ideal outcome?

Hi. I was just looking at the post regarding the Vesuvius Challenge - scanning old scrolls for readable text. I'm wondering if this is possible for notebooks. I often use pen and paper and fill small notebooks up quite…

At one time, my awkward encounters felt fundamental to me. Though I've come to observe awkwardness in the wild, without my being implicated at the centre (phewph). People just having friendly, but awkward, encounters.…

Even 20 years ago today, the world was very different in terms of technology. Obviously many of the same ideas were around, but the rate of improvement and invention still seems staggering in such a time. My biggest…

I often see discussions here about the growing body of research regarding plant communication. Just witnessing a tree, or walking in a forest can give a sense of wonder at these life forms. So if we were to let our…

Wasn't sure where to ask this, so here I am. Hasura recently upped their cloud prices big time, to the point where if I had to pay the current prices, I wouldn't be using the service. The prices only apply to new…

Mainly referring to increasing walled gardens, advertising, authoritarianism, and complexity of the web stack. Can we start from scratch? Simpler devices, open standards - a device and web environment that can't be bent…

Hi guys, I'm interested in learning more about trackpads, with a view to add one to an electronics project. Rather than buying a trackpad and hooking it up to an arduino to see if it meets requirements, I figured I'd…

I often use the playlist radio feature, which is good. However, if I'm just listening to the playlist and I get to the end, it'll start playing the "recommended" songs in the list at the bottom. I find this algorithm to…

Many people seem to have an intuition that in democratic countries there are small groups of anonymous, powerful people who decide on the path forward (eg. deep state) Yes there is lobbying, but is there any proof of…

Setting aside proclivities to particular fields, eg. interested in computers, so study computer science. I'm wondering which degrees develop well-balanced, clear thinking, and satisfied students? Which degrees equip one…

Is it some kind of geopolitical game? Is it aliens? Is it software bugs? It was in the spotlight for a time, but now not so.

There's been posts on here demonstrating the ability to identify different users as the same person based on writing style. Three letter agencies likely employ this internet-wide. Can formulating discussion/comments…

If a globally coordinated project of an unprecedented scale were required for our survival, could we pull it off?

I’m not as interested in university for the courses, but more so for a social experience that would expose me to people studying a wide range of subjects with an eye to improve the way of the world. Was it ever like…

ChatGPT seems decent. Seems to understand context to an extent. I'm sure more traditional methods could be used to give it "memory". Asking it to store specific interactions from the past. It seems it's a big step…

Ok... so a bit off topic here. Recently I have found great reward in keeping with the moment as much as possible [1]. Simply watching what arises in my experience as low-level as possible. In reality, I briefly watch…

Say quantum mechanics for example. Is it worthwhile for a layman to learn about it, without the rigour of academic study? For what? To discuss shallowly with others? To gain a illusion of understanding?

I don't have too much experience with statistics (or ML), but a lot of the articles I've found are quite complicated for something I expected to be simple. There are four distinct sounds I need to detect in real time…

My phone screen is broken, so I use Siri a lot lately. I was listening to a song on Spotify, and asked Siri to "Send this song to Alice". Everything seemed to go fine until later, I saw the link was Apple Music, not…