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I wish Office 365 would hire someone like the author. Online Word never renders the same as it would in the Desktop software...and this matters. I deal with only modestly complex documents when I write grants but I do need to stay within page length limits for sections, I need some layout stability...so I inevitably fire up my Windows VM to run the application.

Before anyone suggests LateX, I know, I know, but when you write collaboratively, you don't always get to choose the platform.


Microsoft had a blog post somewhere talking about how they're using desktop rendering code via wasm and canvas to get to parity.

Don't know how complete that effort is though. Haven't checked myself.


Google has switched in 2020 (if i am not mistaken to canvas), but I am not saying this would be the solution to everything, It is just another option one could do. I do not know if someone noticed this, but that is part of the reason you could not just open google docs on mobile. Because I would suspected that it would been too much effort for them back than. In anyway Tasfer tried as best as possible to do that on mobile too.

Was actually going to suggest Typst.

yeah, I am waiting to replace my home battery for the safer sodium option whenever it becomes possible. I keep hoping.

It's both. It's not either or. It's absolutely both.

There are good reasons for people to be pissed off about data centers in the U.S.

China is absolutely funneling money to push anti-datacenter sentiment, and many of the people involved/receiving that money are not aware of where that money came from.

We are at the crux of a national security spiral in AI development that is naturally unpopular at home.


You know it's entirely possible for China to be pushing this while dropping their own fortune into research, and for everyone to lose their investments.

Don't get me wrong, it's no that the tech is useless, especially for militaries and surveillance states, but it's not the economic miracle or 'new industrial revolution' so many have gotten away with promoting. I think many here will be shocked at just how quickly a fad can die when the money implodes.


Who are the people receiving money from China to be opposed to the wasteful data center buildout, and how can I get some? I'm still waiting for my check from Russia / Iran / Qatar for being opposed to Israel's genocide campaign.

Doesn't the title presuppose the outcome?

So what would you suggest as an alternative?

Agents can retrieve documents and query databases, but retrieval reliability limits the utility of agentic analytic abilities: a revenue metric answered faster is worth nothing if the number is wrong.

Just adding a few words takes it so far...


If the banks don't hold, nor will the center.

I for one have backed up to offline storage our research lab's data in preparation...

Yes, but last time I asked copilot to provide an alt text for an image depicting a experimental procedure using rodents, it suggested "A rat being attacked by another group of rats".

What is weird is criticizing people who acknowledge good things because of past bad things when nothing anyone said here, that I can see, anything close to "they are redeemed rejoice!"

> What is weird is criticizing people who acknowledge good things because of past bad things when nothing anyone said here, that I can see, anything close to "they are redeemed rejoice!"

This is like going to a politician's event and seeing him giving away lollipops to toddlers and kissing babies. But it's the same politician caught in corruption and embezzlement scandals.

You look at that and praise how they have redeemed. Other people look at that and see a corrupt politician handing out candy.

People tell us who they are through their actions. If you prove yourself to be capable of morally reprehensible things to the point throughout the years you build a reputation for all the morally reprehensible things you do, does your potential to do morally reprehensible things change if you go way out of your way to let people know that sometimes something's you do aren't morally reprehensible?


Wrong, these companies have shown time and time again they are irredeemably misaligned with our interests.

Right now you and everyone else is doing the "leave the multi billion dollar company alone" version of the neckbeard "leave the lady be" meme. And you deserved to be chastised for it.

Its the equivalent of you going around telling everyone in the office about how your boss is turning it around because they bought donuts today, after they spent three years telling you you're worthless, they're entitled to taking all the credit for your work and they plan on firing you as soon as they can.


Anyone can solve any problem they want and release it. Nobody is defending multibillion companies, they are pointing out hypocrisy when the same would be celebrated of it was some academic mathematician who also used ai released a solution vs open ai or any other entity doing so.

> Anyone can solve any problem they want

I'm pretty sure the multi billion dollar company has been throwing some of those multi billions at it

> and release it

"it" being a Lean proof that shows they could, technically, get a real mathematician to write down a real Math proof that could actually get published and be useful, right?

"it" being, a bunch of busy work for real mathematicians without the actual pay-off of discovery?


Nobody is forcing anyone to look at anything. Most human math papers don't even have a formal proof and now people are whining when a company goes beyond and releases formal lean proofs.

Do you disagree with the four color theorems proof? Do you know how much compute was used for that?


Isn't the strategy to nearshore production, and recent moves in South America were potentially done to reduce Chinese/Iranian/Russian influence in those regions?


Recent moves in South America are because Marco Rubio has been given free reign to indulge all his narco-state fantasies.


Indeed. Most of the local death squads have been phased out or even prosecuted, so the US has to keep up the rate of indiscriminate murder of civilians itself. The boat bombings are just the most conspicuous example.


> Indeed. Most of the local death squads have been phased out or even prosecuted, so the US has to keep up the rate of indiscriminate murder of civilians itself.

This is going after the production and distribution of the drugs for the Mexican cartels, but doing so from outside of Mexico.


South America US mil moves is about going to war with drug distribution networks. Ecuador, Columbia, in particular.

Jungle warfare school was recently... reopened in Panama to the point that a conventional unit (one of the 10th mtn units) is there training. If that is where conventional units are training right now... that's a signal.


You might be right, but it isn't clear to me that that means the near-shoring hypothesis is wrong. Wresting control from the Cartel in the south can be a goal of its own right, but would also seem to support a goal of establishing more influence in the region for nearshoring our supply lines, as well as establishing another source of oil to counteract anticipated disruptions in the Iranian conflict.


What exactly would we be near-shoring? All of our weapons are made in the US.

For minerals, we've sent mercenaries (Erik Prince) to help protect mineral extraction and transport out of places like the DRC (Congo).

We'll probably get some gold out of Venezuela.


Why the hell was this downvoted? If you want sources, there are tons all over the mainstream news, web search, etc.


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