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I'm not sure you understand what this is. It's not a router, it's a handheld 4'x8' CNC. If Makita has a 4x8 CNC for 200 bucks, it's news to me. :-)

It doesn't have "a little map of where you're supposed to go", it has a display showing where it is going to go. Now, I don't drive my router every day (a Bosch, FYI), so I'll admit I'm not a skilled operator. But my ability to follow a pencil line with a router is iffy at best.

You are right that the biggest problem to making cuts with a router is it grabbing and going off path. That isn't so much a problem with a CNC. I don't know how the Shaper, being hand-held rather than a mounted chassis, prevents kicking out like that. I don't know if it stops cutting when you move the body, or is fast enough to move the tool when you are repositioning the body and the tool grabs.

The Shaper's goal is that an unskilled operator can do accurate and repeatable cuts.

That said, I haven't used the Shaper. I've watched some folks over the years use them on YouTube, and I've half wished I'd bought the older model when they had it for pre-order for $1,500.

But the downside of these tools is that you can't just whip them out and start making chips, you've got to have CAD and CAM experience and generate the gcode. I've done a little with 3D printers, and SketchUp, and custom gcode. But I'm far from being able to bang out a set of shapes for a one-off project. I'd have to be making a few or more of something before I even considered it.

The Shaper looks insanely cool, and I wish our Maker Space had one, but I also don't have an immediate need for one either. I CAN tell you that I've recently been wishing our 4x8 CNC took up a lot less floor space, it's bigger than either of our workbenches but can't be used as a work surface (policy decision).
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Weird that my first guess isn't considered, that it could be from a now extinct plant, perhaps harvested to extinction like the abortifacient plant used in ancient Rome or destroyed in after the plant drew the ire of someone powerful. Or maybe the plant is still out there.

Unlikely to be related, but possibly, Tramadol was thought to be naturally produced by a root in Cameroon but then found to be in high levels in the soil, water, and other plants because people and their animals were consuming high quantities.
It may sound a bit arrogant, but global entry is 100$/5yrs, and TSA-pre is 80$ for similar amount of time.

If you are well-off to be using air transportation, it would be worth it. Though, I might be agreeing with you on the utility of excessive security check. As a foreign national, I can tell you that US requires 4x the security checks in foreign airports in inbound flights to US.
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He has scoffed at the Toyota Production System, so while I agree with you, I find this unlikely to happen. He seems to be backing into it with comments like "humans are underrated" since I would imagine his ego can't allow a backtrack any faster.
I didn't see a price in the article. But there's a page on the Purism website to calculate prices: https://puri.sm/shop/librem-13/ Judging from that, I'd guess the model in the article is about $1700USD.
I'm making a magically minimal todo app with a timer and a productivity meter
Is there any solution?
That article is from three years ago (https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/purism-librem-13-review). Is this an old laptop, or was that a really early review? It does say it's for a prototype, but that's still a long time ago.
But with solar you only have maybe 10 hours of generation per day at best, so you need to store the energy ( which has inefficiencies) or a grid that can cover many timezones. Using stored water for potential energy means it can be turned on and used as needed, and rated for an average use. In Australia there are plans for more stored energy systems using pumps and generators, probably fed by solar and wind.
I don't see any specs on the wifi card there. Assuming it's an Intel 802.11ac dual band minipci-express interface, (likely 2x2, not 3x3), which has decent linux kernel driver support. But if it's not specified it could be a lot worse. There's a shocking number of "new" laptops that still ship with 2.4 GHz only, 1x1 (SISO) wifi cards, because they're cheap as hell.
There are compliance and business continuity requirements as well. We don’t allow business apps on cloud providers unless the business unit can prove they can pull it back on prem within a certain number of days.
Actually it's a little of both. You do have to guide it by hand according to the map it shows, however it will correct small deviations from the path allowing relatively accurate cuts.

It has two huge downsides over a regular router: you have to place marker tape (quite expensive) all over the workpiece, and it will stop working once the marker tape is cut.
Also, you have to keep guiding it throughout the process so you don't get the time benefit (multitasking) of a regular CNC router.

I don't think it's a really good choice for a makerspace actually compared to a regular router table, unless there is a serious lack of space.
Does anyone know whether the USB-C port will charge using a typical USB-C charger? I don't buy anything that requires anything else anymore.

Very annoyed that the Dell XPS 13 is barely compatible with any USB-C chargers. It won't even recognize USB-IF certified chargers.
I guess it means no undetectable delete. Like Git.

You can copy it, filter-branch it. But if something is deleted the hash will be different.
But end users can detect rebasing. (of published trees)
https://github.com/attic-labs/noms (full disclosure: my project)
Poor people already give plasma and sign up for medical trials for quick money.

While the consequences aren't fatal, this is already happening.

Why do people who are not poor always feel like they should be telling the poor how to live their lives? You do realize that many poor people are incredibly intelligent, just that they are missing a network to get to a higher level.
This isn't new law. But the DOJ has not punished executives for it before, just companies. It isn't explicit in this article that they now will, but I think it is implied. Biggest previous case I know of:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-requires-s...

I very greatly admire the famous book "The Hard Thing About Hard Things", 2014, by Ben Horowitz except that it very strongly insists that you should engage in precisely this illegal behavior. The gist is in this quote, p. 116:

"A good rule of thumb is my Reflexive Principle of Employee Raiding, which states, 'If you would be shocked and horrified if Company X hired several of your employees, then you should not hire any of theirs.' "

(And he clearly expects you to be shocked and dismayed by this.)
For my side project I have chosen Parse. Although not perfect, I like that it is open source, and although I use a managed service I know I can swap over to a digital ocean type implementation if every single managed service calls it quits.

My fear with Firebase is being a Google product, who knows if it will stick around, and then you are forced to refactor your code, to something else.
The benefit I see is not the expense of doing long axes, but the problem with storing them. I can put a Shaper Origin away in a cupboard in the garage when I'm done, the 4x8 CNC at my makerspace takes up around as much space as a car, and hasn't been moved in years.
(not widely used though)
> In [business and engineering], a successful person's career could be described as a series of judgments that were better (more astute) than the rest's.

I disagree with the premise you're basing the rest of your argument on. I would sooner say that a successful career in general (and engineering is no different) probably only hinges marginally on some intangible measure of aptitude (rephrased: aptitude is necessary but insufficient), and mostly results from some combination of coming from a privileged background (that is, encouraged from a young age that you're capable, exposed to good education, validation, having access to a professional network, etc.) and having had opportunity to thrive (for example, a lack of financial stress allowing one to pursue a risky business venture as opposed to having had to support one's family from a young age and therefore accepting a menial job straight out of high school).

Of course, one can find examples of people from underprivileged backgrounds succeeding in the sense you're referring to, but i don't for one second believe that simply "working hard" and "making the right choices" is enough to magically rise to the top of the economic dogpile. In essence, i think your statement is an instance of the just world fallacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis).

I've tried to be measured and objective in my reply, but i see this as a common myth that deserves to die, so my apologies if i'm sounding abrasive.
Really? I want Intel graphics. Fuck dual CPUs on my developer laptop. I don't want to figure out how to disable or switch a separate NV/AMD GPU if all I'm doing is photo editing and running docker images.

I'd really prefer if the XPS15 or HP Spectre 15in had the option for an Intel card instead of an nvidia GPU I'll never use.
Yup. I thought it was weird that this is the first spam message I got in gmail in a very long time. This post led me to go back and check and sure enough it looks like it was sent by me. Big problem.
This has been driving me up the wall for the last few months.

I'm building a P2P project and everyone keeps asking me when I'm going to integrate blockchain into it. To what end?!

Blockchain is a way of solving the double-spend problem with distributed consensus. That's all. It's not even necessarily the best way to do that. But because someone built a Ponzi scheme on top of it, it's entered the public consciousness and now anything without a server is a ~blockchain~ app.
They say on their website "Atheros 802.11n w/ Two Antenna"

Wi-fi cards are actually a huge issue if you are concerned about privacy. You have no idea what the firmware is doing, and it has access to your entire memory through the pcie interface, and the internet at the same time.
It does not stop working when the tape is cut, only when there isn't enough visible tape. Also, you can put tape on a place outside where you are cutting and reuse it. The camera isn't pointing down where it is cutting. Also, it'll correct for fairly large deviations. It is more for one-off things as opposed to madd producing something like standard CNC router. Limitless size is nice, I am unlikely to buy a 4'x8' CNC router for my garage.
It's what I hate about the legal system. Prosecutors don't care about justice, they care about a record of putting thevmost people away.
About an hour ago, I received 4 messages like this over the span of two hours.
Ifa person doesn't want to tell something bad to the CEO, she still has the opportunity to ask help.feom her manager.
That one has an i7-5557U, compared to the i7-6500U the current one is selling with, so probably an early prototype.
It's extremely widespread. Take a look at the Twitter search feed for Gmail+spam: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=gmail%20spam
Ultimately, it's about responsibility: is the patient allowed to take responsibility for the decision, or does the doctor take that opportunity away by not presenting the information (or presenting it in a way that allows the patient to actually decide)? This may sound odd, but I've seen deep emotional scarring in friends and family who went through major surgeries, even when the operations themselves had medically "good" outcomes... and all because the time and care wasn't taken to give the patient autonomy over their own treatment.

Making a decision vs having one made for you are very different things, even if the outcome of the decision is the same.
Users can sign up on Facebook with phone number only. Most users in rural parts are signing up on Facebook through phone no. only.
AI generation of fake celeb images
Recessions generally cause oil prices to fall.
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It happens also in Outlook, received 2 emails so far with a link to a phishing page
My account is sending spam emails
This is how my call center measured performance until upper management came in and shut it down. Now it’s 800s, or you’re out.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16894593
I'm sympathetic to what you're saying; however, quoting is still happening – just in a manner than leaves 50-70% of the text annoyingly difficult to read on mobile.
Regarding the OP. Distributed systems can have much, much higher performance than centralized ones. BitTorrent is a good example: on a torrent with thousands of peers, it will literally eat up as much upstream and downstream bandwidth as you throw at it. If you had a big enough torrent it could take on a botnet for lunch.

More computers. More processing power. More bandwidth and storage. You just need to organize it effectively.

The reason Bitcoin and such are so slow is not because they're distributed systems. It's because transactions are propagated throughout the network in a flood fill, and there's a proof of work for each one. Bitcoin is inherently slow because of its design.

It's a first-generation product. There are serious academic efforts to build blockchains that can rival credit card processors in performance:
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/australian-scientist-have...

There are a lot of problems with these efforts, but there's the possibility they'll work them out.

I don't think blockchain is revolutionary or fundamentally new technology. But it's launching distributed systems into the public space and that can only be a good thing.
Same, I actively avoid anything with dual graphic cards.
There was a counterintuitive study of obstetricians that I cannot find right now that showed that in one state over many (10?) years the ones who did the most C-sections were the best doctors - because when researchers looked at the underlying data the realized these doctors treated the patients who had the worst predicted outcomes and beat the national odds - I think they theorized that these doctors had the best ability to choose the optimal method of birth and were not afraid to choose c-section when it was necessary.
Yes, multiple right now. I think about four made it through.
I’ve even heard of some centers that are allowed to hang up on you if you try that.
Key quotes:

"The mechanics of the fraud are complex and technical, but it boils down to this: Companies that place online ads think they are paying based on how many potential customers will see their messages, but the ads are ineffective in actually reaching consumers. Companies in fact frequently pay for ads that are 'seen' only by automated computer programs known as bots, or by low-wage workers toiling in offshore 'click farms.' The bots and click-serfs drive up costs for advertisers by faking 'impressions' on their online campaigns — meaning that any time an ad is recorded as being seen or clicked on, Google, Facebook, or whoever sold the ad charges the client."

and

"While everyone at the conference was eager to talk about fraud, few were willing to discuss its implications. That's because the profits from fraud widely benefit both of Ad:Tech’s namesake industries. If online ad fraud is as prevalent as I heard at Ad:Tech, it follows that the overall revenues of the dominant ad-based internet companies — chiefly Google and Facebook — are significantly inflated by bogus transactions. And that’s a big deal for the stock markets as a whole."
He earned a degree in it, and seems to know what he's talking about.
I really like the Purism design aesthetic, but hardware-wise they just don't pack enough punch for me to work with.

Last year I ended 10+ years of developing on macos because their latest "pro" edition had a weak CPU and didn't support more than 16G memory (don't even ask me about the TouchBar).

After some research, I went with a quad-core System76 with 32G memory (could have gone to 64) and 4TB SSD. The laptop is an absolute beast for software development; various compile/build times were cut nearly in half (versus my previous MBP), it is a screamer. While I do love it, I must admit it's pretty heavy.

If Purism made a quad-core laptop with 32G+ memory, I'd be very interested.
No, that's documentation, and it should come with the product or, in the modern era, be available online.
To me the fun puzzle is to lift part of the water above the source without moving parts. One can easily do that with a mech. pump but how to make it solidstate?
As far as I have noticed, it always happens when you post criticism on rust, javascript, tesla or google (haven't tryed with apple, samsung,... maybe someone should, it would be a nice research). In past same was with FB and Microsoft while this improved and today you can criticise them without downvotes. I think, that it is a clear case of this: https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/leave_my_br...
Yep, but you get romantics who just can't imagine reducing train service on those unused lines out of the romance, and they come and downvote people who suggest maybe this things aren't much of a public service, and people who aren't using them shouldn't be paying for them.
Its easy to define it but very hard to ascribe it.
Have you used a Mac trackpad enough to make a comparison? If it stands up to a Mac trackpad, this thing could be a real contender for my next machine.
Am I to understand this laptop doesn't support uEFI?
So, I've seen this in paid search. How are returns others see in more specific contexts, paid sponsorship, YouTube, and other more contextual channels?
Brene Brown has some pretty great books as well.
Leave My Brand Alone (or why are people defending brands)
This person has to be familiar with the concept of "cost of doing business," but I guess they just haven't made the logical extension to this domain.

Everyone knows there is some amount of fraud. Advertisers price it into their bids. AdTech companies work relentlessly to fight it. Who actually loses is very unclear, and may not be a static fact (i.e. it may depend on what given moment in history you're observing from, or even what subdomain of advertising you're working on). Depending on elasticity, it may be the customers, it may be the adtech companies, or it may be legit inventory suppliers.

Without fraud, the digital media business would most certainly not collapse. Impressions would become more valuable roughly in proportion to the fraction of impressions that are currently fraud. Everyone would be better off, with the exception of the fraudsters. If digital media would be crushed by the lack of fraud, I can guarantee you that the folks in the industry would not be working so hard to prevent it.
Page is 404'ing.

Mirror:

http://archive.is/gOm3s

https://web.archive.org/web/20180420220028/https://samphippe...
Has anyone else noticed that, on Purism's website[1], you can only select "Don't Include" for the TPM dialog box if you have also selected the "English (UK)" keyboard layout option? Or is this some bug in my particular web browser?

For a company whose advertising copy on their "Why Purism?" page includes, "We believe people should have secure devices that protect them rather than exploit them,"[2] only allowing removal of the TPM chip for a particular keyboard layout is a pretty big red flag.

[1]: https://puri.sm/shop/librem-13/

[2]: https://puri.sm/why-purism/
So much wrong here. I couldn't quite figure out the full nature of the problem (aside from working in a terrible environment), but then I saw this the author's most recent post: https://medium.com/@ard_adam/the-fountainhead-and-software-e...

Now it all makes sense.
Hanlon's razor.

Or may be the a soft version of it that says the most likely explanation is it's a mistake.
And racecar drivers go really fast as well, but that doesn't mean that normal people can safely drive that fast.
I don't use this as much as copy/paste, but I absolutely use it daily.
The point is once you have to point your finger at someone and say you are racist or you are sexist. You will most likely be wrong in ways that matter and only in ways that doesn't really matter (we are all racist, sexist etc).

And yes it's outlandish to say that in any way that matters. Sure you can say that someone who might be deeply religious. But its much harder once you get into the normal modern westerners mindset. I have seen my share of people being accused of things they weren't. That's were it's really dangerous especially the way you continue to talk about it as if you know when it's sexism or racism etc.

Again hate crimes aren't that easy to ascribe to someone either. I am pretty sure you and I would disagree on many of these matters.

I am not mixing anything at all, what I am saying is that very few people are those things in any way that matter.

I am adressing it directly. You say that if more people have empathy button you would press it because that would make the world a better place. So yes you are indeed doing exactly that.

No one is saying we shouldn't do it just that the way you speak of it scares me because you sound so certain you can differentiate.
I liked being directed to this paper:

THE GREENING OF QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
GEORGE AND I*
Julian Schwinger
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1547
https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/9310283.pdf
" Don’t use acronyms or nonsense words for objects, software or processes at Tesla. ”

Autopilot, Supercharger, or even name of Tesla Inc. itself. Your number-one choice for AC electrical coils?

And what do they say when discussing LIDAR sensors, for example? "We need to select a vendor for the laser-imaging-detection-and-ranging sensor". "Well Bob I propose the Bosch laser-imaging-detection-and-ranging sensor which runs on 28 volt direct-current". Not conducive to more efficient meetings.

Acronyms and codewords serve a purpose in any context that involves repetition.

If I were Mr Musk I'd be less concerned about the mental burden of acronyms and more worried about the physical strain and injury on the shop floor. But the latter can't be 'fixed' with an e-mail missive.
I think part of the problem is that people just don't know any better. A battery is just a battery, like any other battery. They don't know that there are different chemistries and physical properties at work.
Omg, yes! Caused me to update my passwords and shit. I taught I was compromised.
Because they are racist in obvious ways that's not really interesting to me. Historically sure but today its much harder.
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re: your earlier comment about lightweight embedded crypto libs, https://github.com/GaloisInc/gec is an example
My entire point is that isn't true at all - you have a medical record with some objective characteristics, but it is not possible to calculate the risk of a procedure based on that information. Just like in software, we have a project requirements document with many objective characteristics and we are unable to calculate the time required based on those characteristics.
https://www.inc.com/larry-kim/unicorn-universities-where-mos...

The top school on the list, Stanford University, claims 51 unicorn founders as alumni while runner-up Harvard University has 37. Rounding out the top three is the University of California with 18.

This is the truth but I can just tel you the truth, I can't make you believe it.
Can't Atom do all of this as well?
I have one of these on my property the previous owner built it. It takes quite a bit of maintenance to keep working properly, every 3-4 days I have to hike up the trail 15 mins to clear debris. If it rains then I have to clear that day. Also it is sorta scary, it's basically a drowning machine a few years ago I had to build a cover for it to keep wildlife from getting trapped. One of the best things I like about it is that it doesn't seem to effect fish any they come and go up and down stream freely.