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An undersea cable will have to comply with the regulations of the connected countries. A regulator can just come and disconnect the part that runs through their jurisdiction if laws are broken.
Any GNU Social implementation (such as the one run by the FSF or anyone else) is compatible with Mastodon. They use the same protocol, and that's been the case from day 1 (Mastodon is just an implementation of that protocol). Mastodon is not really "new" at all, it's just a nicer UX than previous implementations.

For example, MediaGoblin has been planning on peering with GNU Social to allow you to share media as GNU Social statuses (and you could then share and comment on media directly rather than having to send a link to it).
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> doing everything possible in terms of vectors and never using angle measure unless interfacing with humans or legacy software is a generally good idea

More generally, use scalar products instead of angles. Calculations based on scalar products are faster, numerically more accurate, simpler, and easier chained. Convert from/to angles only for input/output.

Even more generally, always use sane representations internally, and press cumbersome stuff to the borders of your system.

Examples:

- You should use unicode strings internally, and decode/encode only on I/O.

- You should use simple, native data structures internally, and deal with XML representations only at the boundaries.

- And so on.
Your numbers are incorrect, iOS market share is around 22% in the EU5 (GB, DE, FR, IT, ES) according to https://www.kantarworldpanel.com/global/News/iOS-and-Android.... And according to https://www.kantarworldpanel.com/global/smartphone-os-market... Windows Phone's market share (as opposed to device sales) in the US peaked at 5.6% in 2013. That's a factor of 4. You may not like iOS, and there's nothing wrong with not considering a platform for ideological reasons, but it's not irrelevant.

Also, a used Mac Mini isn't $3000.
> I’m not sure why this would be the case. I majored in Computer Science. But I didn’t get interested from class.

> I didn’t fall in love with reading until I was about 22. After college. I read and I wrote every day and I haven’t stopped since.

> Maybe it’s just me. But I have never learned about anything I wasn’t interested in.

> My first job: I was a computer programmer at HBO.
I was so bad that they had to send me to REMEDIAL school

> My passionate interests have changed 30 times since I graduated college.

> (etc.)

"I" this, "I" that, "I" see, "I" don't see, "I" can, "I" can't, "I" foo, "I" bar, "I" phone, "I" pad, "I" pod... therefore my daughter (and presumably many, many others) clearly shouldn't go to college.

Does reading all this not bother anyone else?

Call me cynical, but one thing college teaches you is to avoid assuming most people are like yourself. Another thing it teaches you is that if you want to argue "everyone is doing it wrong", you should provide hard evidence for it. It's extremely frustrating to see individuals trying so hard to generalize from their own 1 sample of anecdata when civilization has come to the conclusion that higher education is a valuable thing over the past 1,700+ years.

Edit: On the plus side, I have to say, though, props to him for being honest about the "I". For every person that says "I think X is true" there are a dozen other louder people who omit the first half of the sentence.
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All laws are selectively enforced.
My 3 rules of sotware engineering are: 1 - KISS (keep simple and stupid) 2 - DRY (do not repeat yourself except to avoid violating rule 1) 3 - there are only 2 rules
Personally I think college was a waste of time as well and my time would have been better spent working at some company. I would probably have learned more and wouldn't have had 21.000 EUR debt. I would also have earned more money. And I also believe I would have been a better developer as well.

On the other hand, I also believe it's much more easy to get an software engineering job without a degree compared to many other jobs. For most jobs, I do think college or university is pretty much mandatory.
I used to think the same as you when I still was a student. “How can these people critize the wonders of college? I’m learning so much!”. Then I realized I learnt nothing.

Disclaimer: it wasn’t a fancy college, but still.

I just think education needs some sort of revolution
That is quite generous of your company to pay 5000 usd per month to devs in the Philippines. If you don't mind, can you let me know what company you work for? Since there is no contact info in your pofile, If you don't want to put it here, my email is in my profile. Thanks.
There's not a clear boundary, but it's basically the same as when electric power turned from something-only-a-few-rich-could-afford to a utility. At some point, electric power was important enough that it was deemed necessary to impose tight regulation that ensures its availability under fair prices to all citizens (which is what being a utility means to me).
Does contracting count as freelancing? Serious question.
Or do you mean freelances as only in gigster/upwork sense?

As a contractor I am technically working via my one man company but mostly work in a company office alongside other employees, so not sure if you count that as freelancing.
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I'm certainly sympathetic to some Platonic ideas.
I'd suspect there wouldn't be much funding to provide access to impaired people, either. Most people probably aren't all that interested in paying for things in Braille.

I live in an unincorporated township, with just a few residents. My road would never get plowed or maintained.
I still think you have it wrong; (Dynamic Audio) Compression does mean it may be using less of the dynamic range when taken overall, but the waveform will still take up the entire span of the available bit depth. Granted that with an optimal encoding this could be biased towards the "high" end (but bear in mind that would have to be both +ve and -ve), but I still think this would miss the point, and I think it would also create distortion in the 'zero' region of the audio. If you open up heavily compressed music in an audio editor (pick any recent EDM track), it will still cross the zero point, and have maximum and minimum levels present. It will also have 'zero' (i.e. 32768 if the range is 0-65536 in 16-bit audio) present - often at the beginning and end of the track, and the audio will be centred about that in the vast majority of tracks.

I'm not sure the 1-bit extreme helps with understanding this, particularly because the audio we'd be dealing with will be a mix of many frequencies; the waveform is an aggregate of the overall 'signal' at each frequency present in the mix; this is one of the reasons why multiband rather than single-band compression has become so popular (as it allows you to get the 'max' in each frequency band rather than one band dominating the overall result of the compression).

I think there's a difference to take into account when considering any given momentary sample and the overall effect - yes, compression does reduce the dynamic range of the music, but you would need some sort of variable bit depth which was linked to the instantaneous amount of compression being applied to get any kind of workable lower-bit-depth encoding scheme, which seems like a lot of complexity for no significant gain (to me?).
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Yes, it's equivalent. Thanks for saving me the time to read the piece. Good luck with your studies.
The loudness war seems to have been a temporary problem, prevalent mostly because music was primarily listened as downloads of individual files or small collections of files.

Music streaming services have since become a very important music listening medium. Spotify, Google Music, Apple Music and others do normalization of these loudness levels. This neutralizes the loudness wars as it makes loudness wars treatment of music useless, at least when listened on streaming services [1]. Music mastered in the loudness war will still have problems with dynamic range but the perverse motivations causing the war are simply not as relevant for new music.

I agree the loudness war was a huge problem a few years ago, but changing trends in the ways music is being listened to is solving it. The way you present the loudness war problem is therefore somewhat out of touch.

[1]: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywgeek/why-spotif...
As a sibling comment points out, this case isn't really about that.

But there's still something worth pointing out about Google's dominant market power: the market isn't search, it's search advertising. And while the public can easily switch search engines, advertisers have nowhere to go. Search advertising is, for many businesses, the only that barely works, and to get to those eyeballs, there's no way around Google.
How is this exactly going to be different from the thousand of other competitors that are now complete garbage marketplaces by the millions of indians and mediocre programmers pouring low-cost offers into it?
I believe the parent is referring to the latency of real-time effects used during performance:

* With analogue equipment the latency between the input and output of the effect is often below 1 ms (unless the effect is supposed to have a delay).

* Standalone digital effect equipment that processes the samples one at a time can also have a latency below 1 ms. (48kHz ≈ 0.02 ms)

* If you use a computer for real-time effects, the samples are not transferred sample by sample from the audio interface, but in a block of many samples. The number of buffers and the size of them can usually be changed by the user. With a buffer of 1024 samples, the oldest sample is already about 21 ms old before the computer can process it. After the buffer is processed it has to be transferred to the audio interface, and that will add another 21 ms. So the minimum latency for any real-time effect in the computer is about 42 ms at 48 kHz if the size of the buffers is 1024 samples. Often it is much worse because the operating system adds more latency. If the equipment can handle a sample rate of 192 kHz, the same latency is about 10 ms. If the computer can handle smaller buffers, the latency can be lowered. With 256 samples per buffer the minimum latency will be about 11 ms at 48 kHz and 3 ms at 192 kHz.
> I'd rather that process happen publically rather than in secret (as would be the default if the Facebook and Google were nationalised).

You're making it appear as through National Security Letters were public, which they very much are not.
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Emacs Dired mode is my go to here
Is anyone here into drone racing? I got into it around this time last year and it's one of the best things that's happened to me.
You missed the point entirely.

There is no hard definition of introvert or feminine. There are no hard definitions and eternal truths when it comes to people evaluating other people. Only perceptions and judgements made by other people. The closest thing to a truth in this scenario is consensus.

You can point to a test that grades someone 1-10 between introvert and extrovert. That test, too was made based on someones subjective idea of extraversion/introversion, formed by direct perception of people before they converted it into a set of questions with objective answers. One of the measures of the validity of the test will be inter-rater reliability, that is, how much do different people rating a person agree on the score they assign - consensus. If people are unable to broadly agree when rating the same person, it would not even be accepted as valid test.

I'm honestly clueless what social cause you think I'm advocating for - i wasn't really advocating for any, just pointing out an idea I find interesting that seemed relevant here. Of course, your perception of how political my statement is may differ, informed by your own interpretations. But surely that is not objective reality and must be rejected by the rational thought you espouse.
Also, the other way around works even better in my opinion. That is, translation from German into English. I tried it with a few excerpts from a philosophy text book and the results were impressive.

Your point that the AI doesn't "understand" the text still stands though.
That's also not too accurate as living expenses and taxation differ radically across those countries. Some of those countries you might pay 35-40% tax from your 100k salary, some of them 12% or less.
Cvv attempts?
How many attempts do you get trying to guess a boa visa cvv code before it's flagged as suspicious or fraud? My ex has my money and this is the only way I can get it back!
I was lucky enough to go to college in Europe, where it's basically free, to study something that can be transposed anywhere (CS, as opposed to for example law). I then moved to the US debt free. I'm in my late 30's and I own (as in "no mortgage") my house, while most of my coworkers (some in their 40s) are still paying off their student loan and have to live with 2 or 3 other roommates.

I'm all for good education, and obviously not the best judge since I didn't go to college in the US, but I don't get how this is a good deal for students. Especially when one knows that the cost of tuition is mostly artificial (I think there were a few good articles about that on the front page of HN recently).
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I got a small Inductrix Blade, but they are tricky to fly. I'm going to wait for auto-stability and auto-flight.

On the other hand, having a wireless camera that can fly anywhere has unique security and surveillance implications.

Edit: Editing this post changes its position: https://imgur.com/gallery/4nVD1
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I could see Facebook and Google move to a subscription-style model. People would easily pay, say, 3$ per month for Facebook and 5$ per month for Google if it was the only option. (Prices should be lower in less developed regions, of course.)

Once freed from the prime directive of collecting increasing amounts of data to improve ad tracking, operating and development costs should be much lower than they are now, too.
Well, I wait until I have 90 percent, and the remaining 90 percent will usually manifest after delivering the release candidate.
Banks either are or are not "moral" gatekeepers. They don't get to have it both ways.

It isn't a morality issue (banks don't care) it is a risk issue.
> Wait...really? You think that everyone that goes to a four year higher education institution learns nothing? I think I can see why you have a problem with college...

I have a BS in Mathematics. I don't remember any of my abstract algebra, barely remember some real analysis, don't have a clue about complex analysis or pde (actually I am not sure if pde is partial derivative equations or not without actually googling it first which I am avoiding to make a point). I couldn't write a SN1, E1, SN2, E2 from organic one if my life depended on it.

Things I do remember? LDL the first L stands for Loser so it is the bad kind. That means HDL is the good kind (don't know the context but I think it is about fat in nutrition). Oh and that we tend to remember strange things like a hippo walking through the campus quad because it gets stored in the hippocampus (which is below the cerebral cortex?) of our brain.

I did pretty well in college. Besides my sophomore slump, I was on the Dean's List six out of eight semesters. I was a department tutor who helped others with their studies/background work to prepare for class. I tried to do everything right. And yet, I don't think we retain most of the facts we study in college.

I will concede though that it is not easy to learn anything in my "spare time" when you work full-time though. I mean it might be possible if you can leave your work at work but if you're a programmer, you really can't do that. It still gnaws you in the back of your head. (Again, I hope I am in the minority and that most people are able to leave work at work).
Please be nice and just offer advice. I have everything else. I know all his info I just don't know the cvv code.
I like these Clojure SQL DSLs. I did a reactive Clojurescript DSL a couple of years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzwikfCAdws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwi2xxIXr8U
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Heh, my girlfriend and I have been reading that to each other for about two years I think now. It's highly enjoyable, although a bit hard to follow when one falls asleep while the other is reading it.
I thought college was a waste of time the first time around, and dropped out after a year. The second time around, after having spent a few years working, I not only saw much more value in the things I was learning, but understood the relative values of the different courses on offer.

So in hindsight I'm really glad both that I didn't persevere and push through the first time around and even more glad that I decided to eventually go back.

In fact, if I where king, I might require at least 12 month work experience before allowing people to apply for university.
>Call me cynical, but one thing college teaches you is to avoid assuming most people are like yourself.

That's like the one thing that it doesn't teach you. Everyone is expected to be interested in the same selection of things and learn the same things in the same way or not get good grades.
Bank transfers are probably the best way to handle this. I'd suggest to pay employees directly to their bank accounts from company account. And have company eat the transfer fees as business expense.

Another questions is how would you define salaries of your employees across various countries. As exchange rates could go up and down a lot. So you'd probably define salaries in the currency of country where company is incorporated in.

So for a US company you would pay your employees by bank transfer in defined amount of USD, pay the transfer fee on top of that. And employees would get money in their local currency based on the exchange rate.

Of course, ideally you would have all your remote employees open a bank account in your currency which would simplify everything.
Am I the only one who has gone at the university because it was fun?
Onestly it was the richer time I spent of my life
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It does.

It indicates what data has been disclosed for each hacked source (Email, Password, Usernames, Credit cards, Names, etc).
I am aware that flood insurance itself is subject to government influence - e.g. the National Flood Insurance Program, and possibly state regulation (even in Texas) - but I don't know the details. Does it result in premiums being affected by official flood-zone designations?

As you appear to be in or near Houston, I hope things are OK with you and your family.
As someone who went to university and got an advanced degree, I can relate with what he's saying. Nowadays, I no longer directly utilize the skills and knowledge I gained from my 8+ years in school. But at the same time, the way I think couldn't have ended up this way if my journey didn't go through formal education. My parents and those around me weren't educated enough to point me in the right direction such that I would end up with a more educated mindset. And I certainly don't think I was born smart enough to have gotten here myself without the exposure I had while at school.

Having kids as well, I question too the merit of sending them when they reach university age. My perspective, of course, has changed given the fact that I have now arrived, mentally, at a more educated state to know that formal education is only one of many answers. It's hard to say whether my kids could too arrive to a more educated state without the years of formal structure to encourage that growth, despite their parents being educated.

Similar to others who have supported going to university, I think it may not be a bad idea to support it still. I would say, however, that perhaps it's important to go understanding that education there is merely one of many perspectives.
any time celebrity investors start making news, I automatically raise an eyebrow.

the $20 million matters, of course, but what possible relevance does the identity of the investor have?
You do tend to see yourself in your kids.
And whenever someone said an 's'. It sounded like 'sshssh'
> Another thing it teaches you is that if you want to argue "everyone is doing it wrong", you should provide hard evidence for it.

University professors are among the first to say "do as I say" without any motivation (and no, they do not "want you to challenge them"; they just tend to be very narcissistic). The first thing I had to unlearn from college is repeating prefabricated opinions (which I had to do to get acceptable grades).
Assuming equivalent quality of CD playback equipment and LP playback equipment, LPs provide superior sound quality. LPs are analog, so what reaches your ears is undiluted sound. CDs are digital, so there are gaps in the sound, and there's the analog audio conversion that must happen to record to a digital/CD format, and digital audio conversion back to analog that must happen to hear the sound from a speaker. Both conversions reduce fidelity.

As ever this difference can be impossible to detect if the equipment and environment aren't of a sufficient fidelity/quality.
I saw a comment years ago and I dearly wish I'd saved it.

Paraphrased it was "large corporation shit on the floor. Of course it did, that's basically their job, the job of government is to supply the rolled up newspaper and occasionally the mop".

It made me laugh in its succinctness.

Corporations don't exist in isolation, they are part of society and should be answerable to that society, the all regulation is bad thing is as annoying as all regulation is good.

In a democracy fundamentally the corporation should answer to the people.

This isn't new, Standard oil is a good example from a century ago.
30 USD per transaction indeed seems expensive to me (but hey banks have to make money somehow and foreign bank transfers are one source of nice margins for them) but in a grand scheme of things this should be a negligible business expense to the company. I assume it would be a very small fraction of developer salaries.
> Even early SDRAM controllers had similar tunable settings for clock delays and such,

Define "early". F00F-era Pentium, 486, 8086...?

> upon POST, the BIOS would set all the settings to nominal values, then nudge each one in one direction while reading/writing pathological data until errors occurred; then nudge them in the other direction until errors occurred, and finally settle on the average of the two extremes.

Is this the seemingly-pointless "memory test" all computers do?

I always thought that just zeroed RAM. TIL it's doing similar things to modem line training. Wow.

Now I remember - I have an old 400MHz Celeron-based system I used years ago with an AMI BIOS that would occasionally recommend a different "RAS-to-CAS delay" on startup. I'd go and change it and reboot, and then a little while (days/weeks) later it would recommend a slightly different setting. It would always alternate between the two delays. I was pretty sure the memory in the system was on the way out and be sad whenever I saw the message, haha.
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well of course they are different. However making them "effectively EU law" and they are EU law is different. Countries need to comply, but some don't comply.. See my linked article.
If a country does not comply they get financial penalties. this also happens a lot, especially since some countries take too long to comply.
Wait a minute, doesn't the first law requires Cutie to prevent humans to dissolve themselves?
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