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Is that true? Windows 7 OS updates ended in 2020, while Chrome continued to update until M109 in 2023[1].

[1] https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/185534985/sunsettin....


You can join a Google Meet meeting without a Google account if the meeting creator enables the “Anyone with the link can join” setting, or if they accept you when you click the link.

https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9303069?hl=en&co=GENI...


It's been over 6 months since I've looked into this, so it's possible my info is out of date - but the “Anyone with the link can join” setting is only available to people with a paid Google business account. Nobody in my department had anything like that


Yes. https://chromestatus.com/feature/4592567062626304 links to the implementation bug at crbug.com/1026287 which had been closed as a duplicate of crbug.com/1333988 which has been fixed.


ah ok thanks, apologies for my confusion but actually this is great news especially as I have some stuff I've been wanting to do with this for a long time.


I'm unconvinced.

The author seems to be stating that because llms have generated "interesting" statements that all of Chomsky's approaches are invalidated. This seems to assume that the llm isn't somehow incorporating Chomsky's generative grammar system into the model, which would be a very hard thing to prove.

Also, the author's stated proof contains flaws. Take for example page 16:

Generate ten other sentences like "colorless green ideas sleep furiously": Purple fluffy clouds dream wildly. Blue glittery unicorns jump excitedly.

The author claims that the llm has completed this task successfully, completely ignoring the example's pairwise incompatible terms (colorless green, and sleep furiously), and accepting that "purple fluffy" is equivalently meaningless. It is not, and the model has clearly failed.


How much is "surprisingly inexpensive"?


Zip code 90740 has <800 under 5 yo kids. Total cost year 5 was something like $11k for the year.


This FAQ (via the neighboring comment) says the average rate is $2.10 per kid/month, so $25.20 per kid/year.

https://assets.nationbuilder.com/uwpnw/pages/2189/attachment...


A few dollars per child per year.


I think it's closer to $40-$50/year. The way it works in CA is that every book costs around $4 and the cost is equally split by the state, local gov, and the Imagination Library


Font sizes get scaled in the browser. So when you ask for a 9px font, the browser treats that as 9px in virtual pixels, then maps it into 18px physical pixels.

It mostly works, but gets weird when you have non-scaled content in the design.


Ah, that could be the misunderstanding.

You don’t have non-scaled content in the design. Everything is scaled. <img width="32" height="32"> will be 32px (as in, CSS pixels) wide, whether that means 32dpx (device pixels) or 64dpx or something else.

(OK, so there are a few escape hatches; you have things like <img srcset> which allow you to choose different image sources for different scaling factors, and you can also query devicePixelRatio and change things based on it—though all of this isn’t actually guaranteed to map to physical pixels, e.g. my system uses 1.5× scaling but Firefox hasn’t finished implementing fractional scaling under Wayland so it renders at 2× and then scales down to 1.5×, so any line that is carefully made “one device pixel wide” will actually only be ⅔ of a device pixel.)


In browsers, there are supposed to be roughly 72px per inch. This should get scaled, assuming the OS/Browser knows what the actual pixel density per inch is. And even then the scaling may not be linear to reality.

If you've ever run a mobile device without the real dimensions set properly (cheaper models, or custom roms) it gets interesting to say the least. Having less than stellar vision up close, I have every accessibility setting on my phone maxed... It's bad enough as it is the number of applications/sites that will render (in particular modals) off-screen.

In the end, however, nearly everything is scaled to either the real pixels, or often assume 72/inch as the actual screen density and scale accordingly. You really never know which.


Correction: The CSS units are defined as 96px = 1in. It’s the point that’s 1⁄72 inch.

My comment elsewhere in the thread is relevant on these units and how they’re anchored: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36001822.


Yeah, I often get the two conflated... in either case, it's never, or at least rarely accurate.


Thanks for posting the bug links.

Also wanted to point out that the user feedback in https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249645 is not the way we should treat browser developers. (Not blaming the parent - I assume this is some other user being..... cranky?)


It sounds like they've taken the existing Type-1 cgm plus self-adjusting pump and used it on type-2 diabetics. Solid medical study. Hardly a breakthrough, IMO.


Origin predates computer RPG's. It's from tabletop role playing games, and stands for "non player characters".

NPCs are the characters that the Dungeon Master (DM) creates to guide and influence the story, but the player characters (PCs) are the focus of the story. It's collaborative storytelling about the PCs adventure. An NPC is, by definition, not the hero.


Don't forget a music company... no wait, different Apple.


And my favourite Portuguese greengrocer, Apple.come: https://shopinporto.porto.pt/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/04-A...


Apple Corps (Music) vs Apple (Computers) had 30 years of legal disputes.

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


Similar to the nissan.com case: https://nissan.com/


Which concluded with Apple Computers buying them out in 2007-2010 in order to create Apple Music.


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