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Well yes obviously it's important to the fab. Higher density allows them to fit more dies on a wafer, sell for slightly higher margins, whatever. Great for Intel but again absolutely zero reason for end users to care. Pricing is basically completely divorced from the manufacturing costs anyway.

When someone says something like "Intel's 14nm is as good as TSMC's 10nm" I think most people would expect this to be talking about the performance of the chips being produced.
OP (Mengkudulangsat ) expressed problems with sharia finance in terms of investing fundamentals (risk, complexity, etc.).

stealthcat objected to OP raising these points and appealed to authority (variously, Islamic leaders/theologians, foundational religious texts, and God). stealthcat questioned OP's intentions and religious commitment, implying he might not be a Real Muslim(TM) and exhorting him to defend orthodox teachings.

To stealthcat, I would challenge him to consider that many religions are plagued by convoluted rules, to which people come up with hokey workarounds. Orthodox Jews have sabbat elevators; Amish use pay telephones; Sikhs have kirpans (knives) that are impossible to unholster. projectramo's comment about sharia finance obfuscating the principle of interest seems very on-point here.
> The idea of the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines is to start guiding people towards kinder communication at a point well before one would even think of saying, "You are breaking the rules."

I really like this. I think it'll help the community become a more welcoming place overall without needing to view politeness as a rule set. I see this as an overall benefit to the GNU project, as well as to OSS as a whole.
The way SO is moderated encourages out of date information.

For example, if you find a question from 2015, with all out of date answers, if you ask it again today it will be flagged as duplicate with a link to the 2015 answers and no further discussion is allowed. The older SO gets the worse the content gets.

They're trying to make a "Wiki site" but in a Q&A format, it doesn't work and doesn't make sense. Until they realize that their moderation policies are going to keep driving away questions that would warrant modern/fresh answers.

For example try searching SO but set your Google to only show content from the last 12 months, the results are simply low quality with half mod-dead. Most of the good content is from two years ago or more, back before the site switched from Q&A to "confused Wiki-site."
I live in one on these houses! The construction is very solid, the insulation is thinner than you would ideally want but overall it's a nice house. The trim work is beautiful, every piece fits together nice and tight. My only complaint is that I wish they hadn't used lead paint on it.
There is a long tail to tech use and the answers often are the best for that particular set of variables. I think that adding tags to make it more specific in this regard as time passes can really help. If it stops being relevant when library X reached version Y, add a tag that says pre-version Y
> If a low-income person decides to spend their food voucher on industrially-produced cheese so they can use the surplus on fruits and vegetables (or pizzas), that’s their choice.

That only works if there are no carry-on effects of their eating habits (i.e. subsidized health costs, etc). If we can reduce those carry-on costs by forcing the purchase of healthier options, then the system is more sustainable.

Add to that the fact that food subsidy programs are not intended to be a lifestyle -- they're supposed to be there to help people in times of need, a crutch to help them between jobs, not a solution to their joblessness. In other words, there should be some motivating factor to become self-sufficient.
I don't think the term "nation state" is appropriate here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_state

I can't work out whether the recent fashion for misusing (or at least generalising) the term "nation state" is just people trying to sound clever (and failing badly), or whether there's something more sinister behind it, perhaps some kind of neo-racism, something along the lines of: if you're an X-ian then you are automatically responsible for anything that an X-ian government agency does, even if the X-ian parliament was never told about it, let alone the general population of X-ia. It's probably just people trying to sound clever but when terminology is changed I'm curious about the reasons.
Is that true? Don't blue states tend to have a lot of people with low 6-figure incomes? Didn't all such people get a substantial cut in their effective tax rate?
Kaposi Sarcoma is caused by HHV-8, a completely different virus than HSV-1/2. They are in the herpes virus family, but this is a huge virus group including eg chicken pox (HHV-3) and Epstein Barr virus that causes mono (HHV-4).
Who is going to do the seizing, when the government itself is involved in the sales? The article specifically mentions arms deals to the Saudis, despite everyone knowing what those arms may be used for in the end.
I recently had the same experience.

In an effort to get completely off of Google, I moved my music library off of Google Music and was going to just use an MP3 player. I had some suggestions from friends (Sony, Phillips, Onkyo, Pioneer) and decided to search Amazon to see what I could find.

When I did a search on Amazon, it was page after page after page of Chinese MP3 players, all under $50. Most of the Hi-Fi players my friends recommended were in the $4-$500 range and up. Even after searching for the specific models they recommended, I still couldn't find them. The search results would return the same sub $50 players.

After a few minutes I gave up and went directly to the manufacturers site. Even more discouraging, when I was googling "Pioneer MP3 player" the Pioneer website was completely buried in the search results, but the first two pages of SERP's had a myriad of Amazon results.

There was a time when you just expected a company to be on page 1 if you searched directly by the company name and product. And these were not fly-by-night companies nobody has heard of. These were major electronic and audio companies I was searching for. Depressing to say the least
You don't have the move machines actually, as of about 3 years ago there are machines that'll do both in a single machine. [0] On top of that though moving from one machine to another really isn't the end of the world especially if you're able to setup the process right, like putting all the 3D printed parts onto a standard sized base plate that you can easily index off of.

By bulk rough outline I mean they're basically just machining off the outer millimeter at most to smooth out the surface. It actually can save a lot of material as the size of the part increases because unless you're taking cast/forged pieces then milling them down to tighter tolerances the initial work piece will be the smallest bounding cube/rectangle or cylinder that'll fit the part which for some things is a LOT of waste.

And yeah they will be slightly weaker than the same piece made out of a forged piece but that can be mitigated by part design and some annealing either after the milling or between printing and machining.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaIOrQi2HLM
Shared (via iCloud Family sharing) list in Apple's Reminders app. Actually we have several - a shopping list (for groceries etc), one for DIY/hardware stuff, etc. I don't use the feature much but you can use Siri to add items to lists by name too - "Hey Siri, add milk to my shopping list" works as expected.
A CoC in any other name is still a CoC.

A very thin end of a wedge is stil the end of a wedge.
Intel is still working on 7nm. That will be their next big play.
Wow, so she generated a shitload of charged air and used a child's science experiment to woo some VCs? I think I'm in love. I cannot stop laughing. She could get rich many times over pulling this trick.
We had a baby 4 months ago. We still get surprise bills from things we don’t even know about. Some of them could be scams but I have very little idea on how to even verify. Calls get stuck on automated helpdesk.

For all technological advancements in US, the healthcare system is quite backwards. It’s not a new problem. Tons of countries do it well “Canada, Australia, Sweden ...”

The US political and healthcare system refused to accept other models since there is sooooo much money to be made at the expense of “some-other” people dying and going bankrupt.

House insurance, car insurance, all other forms of insurance are transparent, US healthcare is the most “mafia-like money extortion” system.
thx for reading. For me, learning about goals all started with a talk at work. This pretty amazing guy, Tommy Romero, taught a small goals class at work and started off by saying that <1% of people set goals. Then he talked about how 87% of US companies fail in the first 2 years, 50%+ of marriages fail, and a bunch of other daunting facts which helped build the case that maybe we should plan better.

Other resources:
• The Art of Exceptional Living, by Jim Rohn (https://www.amazon.com/Art-Exceptional-Living-Jim-Rohn/dp/07...)
• Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill (https://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Landmark-Bestseller/d...)
• Research on how to set SMART goals, e.g. https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_90.htm

Hope this helps.
As co-maintainer of GNU Guix, I want to point out that the views expressed in Richard Stallman's message are his and not those of the Guix maintainers.

In particular, by writing that codes of conduct are "punitive spirit", RMS shows a misunderstanding of how these texts came into existence.

More importantly, by writing that he disagrees with "making diversity a goal", RMS seems to deny the role we free software people play in the demographics of our communities.

Many of us in Guix (and I think I can speak for my fellow Guix co-maintainer here) believe that free software should empower everyone. As such, correcting the biases, conscious or not, that have led to the poor diversity of our communities, must be part of our mission.
Is it really this complicated to treat other people with respect?
>the most effective thing you could do is create a bullshit startup and get them to invest, and then frivolously waste their money

Yeah, that sounds like a great idea to employ against a regime perfectly willing to violently murder people.
Avoid distractions and work in your goals
The only good implementation of a 3D desktop effect (outside of straight-up window rendering) is Expose, which Apple demoed in 2002/2003 for 10.3.

I remember, circa 2005, there being compiz extensions that enabled something similar.
Your Kids College Essay Exhibits Signs That It Was Written by You
I used my T420 until last year, and it's a wonderful machine. But the new keyboards aren't as bad as they were in the beginning any more. They're actually good keyboards now. I just wish they had seven rows. But if that doesn't convince you, maybe have a look at the so-called X210. It's an X201 mod with up-to-date hardware, the laptop equivalent of a sleeper car.
He is making the point that in your lifetime you experience a long procession of politicians and other celebrities who
are thought important for a while and are then forgotten. That is why, as he says later (twice), he is not interested in reading thick biographies of formerly famous politicians.

I think some commenters here are missing the intended tone of the article. It's supposed to be a confection, an amusing and self-deprecating defense of his old-fangled preferences, with a melancholy tinge about running out of time (the author is in his eighties).
This is only partially accurate. Parts of Solaris continued to be published under the CDDL and other licenses after that. But yes, the kernel and parts of the system libraries were no longer published. Remember that unlike Linux, Solaris is more than just a kernel.
I think this is great advice. How do you get expertise in these other domains though? Finding a job in the other field could work, but it's a huge time investment (especially if you ultimately don't end up finding any viable problems in that domain).
Wasn't that pretty much standard in the old days?

Many keyboards just had a latch and then you could remove the keyboard without using any tools. Thinkpads was just slower to get rid of that than the most of the brands.

Miss it dearly though. Pretty much all my devices are forced to be obsolete because of non-replaceable batteries.
OK but this is a completely different discussion: defining what meritocracy means vs. rejecting it altogether.

The dynamics of open source projects is a very interesting issue, but in general in most healthy environments it works like this: someone sends a patch, and it looks really good. They send another one, and another, and everyone can see that these patches are actually useful (not fixing typos in the comments...). With time, whether in formalized or informal way, that person has more and more to say as others respect their opinion. Why? Because they demonstrated they know the project, they devote their time to it, they can make reasonable decisions. So they are trusted more than a random guy who just joined yesterday, even though the same person - with time - can prove themselves and reach the same or better position in the project. This is called "meritocracy" and it's the base of most FOSS projects.

Of course it's not ideal and there are abusers - overly protective maintainers who refuse patches from anyone, or small groups of friends who dislike newcomers - but in general it works very well and I see no reason to destroy it.
The point of this series is to learn, so I think going through the legacy system first and then showing the newer one can make sense, it depends entirely on your objectives.

This path is what I've seen out of 99% of hobby OS tutorials I've read.
I actually had a hard time finding a legit OEM cooler for my X60 after it failed. Found one offered with the right SKU finally and it was electrically and dimensionally correct but it’s actually the part for some other machine and incredibly the BIOS reads out some data from the fan and complains at boot that it’s got the wrong part. Still works though.
I dreaded these types of restructurings when I was at Intel. It was interesting watching morale plummet while on the surface everyone was optimistic and in denial about the state of the business regressing. Deep down though people just couldn't shake the feeling that large layoffs were on the horizon and sure enough they came.
Of course, foreign capital inflows are hardly unique to Silicon Valley tech. Dodgy capital finds its way wherever speculation and money laundering are to be had. Real estate is a huge example. We have known for a while that some of the priciest real estate in the world in cities such as New York and London is due to capital inflows from the Middle East, Russia, China, India and other places where people have made enormous fortunes through illegal or semi-legal means. But that's only the tip of the iceberg. There's a difference between selling drugs on the street and creating a narco-state. If you want to see the first narco-state of real estate, move to Vancouver, where Chinese capital has turned the city upside down.

The fact is that dodgy capital inflows are central to every speculative bubble: real estate, bitcoin, Uber for X, you name it. Who else has the money to throw around?

I feel like we are at the beginning of a sweatshop moment for finance. Way back when it became known that kids were slaving away to produce your shoes, there was a global outcry and enormous pressure put on companies such as Nike to improve their operations. Did that save the world? No it didn't, but it changed the way outsourcing was implemented.

Similarly, we need to change the moral landscape of finance. I don't mean the radical solution of socializing investment or samizdats that people write in secret communist pamphlets. I mean raising the bar for the mainstream - making it impossible for otherwise profit minded people to take certain kinds of money.
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Oxygen-Rich Liquid Water May Exist on Mars
I was thinking about having a true Voronoi diagram in the distorted version of the plane and a distorted Vornoi diagram in the sphere. I'm not sure if the result would be good enough to have all the expected properties.

I'm not even sure that it's ok to do the triangulation in the plane as described in the article, perhaps mapping the triangles in the plane to distorted triangles in the sphere may case them to be too curved.
> The only thing even remotely game like about SO is that each question can have just one selected “corrct” answer

Are you kidding me? Have you never seen the wall of badges?
1. Apple ARM computers have insanely fast CPU/GPUs in, kinda way more than they need.
2. https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/15/17969754/adobe-photoshop...
3. Apple rewrote all of their apps (or killed them), so they're bound to be cross platform. Why else start from scratch and release with fewer features? Final Cut Pro X, iWork, Logic Pro X.

90% of apple sales are for ARM computers, bet they'd love to only make 1 OS, would save loads of money
Funny having this read on my screen while I was also reading this: https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/mosul-moria-air-s...
Funny, becaused that's when I knew it was worth continuing to read.
I use this for file viewing and managing:

https://www.fileviewer.com/index.html

(the web page describes it as 'an all-purpose File Manager for Windows with a powerful inbuilt text file viewer')
A simple reporting tool for tracking and reporting project/task activity.

It's cool because work requires me to submit an activity report each week and I wasn't about their terribly inefficient form, so I built a web-service to track my activities.

It's nothing special per-se, but it's significantly less complicated than other free options I've found for this sort of reporting and I like things that don't require me to learn how to use them.
Thanks for the interesting read. I think this ties into a wider problem of basic reasoning and bullshit checks that applies even on tech forums, where people don't do at least minimal differentiation between physics-hard (or chem hard or bio hard), tech/industrial-base hard, and information-hard problems. One of the most classic examples that comes up in discussions about the future of tech is some variation of "yeah but where is my flying car?" as an example of how "the future is hard to predict". But this is also a great example of a fundamental error of reasoning: completely ignoring any tech developments, a flying car is a physics hard problem. No matter what bottom line is it represents lifting hundreds to thousands of lbs/kg into the air (potential energy E = mgh) then maintaining that against the acceleration of gravity for as long as it's not on the ground. That represents a lot of energy, and there is no way to get around that. Increases in energy storage density might ultimately create enough to play with, but it will always inherently take a lot, which also illustrates another property of physics hard problems in that any tech developed towards them tends to be multi-use and thus affect the competitiveness of everything else at the same time. Some energy storage tech that made flying cars feasible could be equally applied to regular cars, except the regular cars would have the inherent benefit of all that energy not spent on actively countering gravity and thus be a lot cheaper no matter what.

Theranos was another example of this: even if you were totally ignorant about any specifics of tech or research there, fundamentally what they were proposing was gathering highly accurate life-critical population stats based off of a tiny non-random sample with an inherently biased gathering route to boot. That should have raised harsh questions immediately.

Yes the future can be surprising, but the ways in which it can be surprising are not equal. There are clearly lots of problems, incredibly important problems, that are information hard, as-in if only we knew a technique or information we could make use of it right now but we don't so we have to stumble around in the dark for it. But when a route is found it can be a huge deal. But that doesn't mean thermodynamics or whatever might just cease to exist in 50 years because "the future is impossible to predict!"
Other fabs couldn't either. Intel 10nm depended highly on EUV, the only working 7nm (TSMC) doesn't use EUV at all yet. The first EUV fab will be much better than any existing one today, and it still seems like Intel will claim that prize.

Though, tsmc certainly isn't letting them have it for free.
> making it impossible for otherwise profit minded people to take certain kinds of money

These are called sanctions. They are proper to consider, given the circumstances.
Firstly, now that the root has a 2048 bit key, I predict that the rest of the TLDs will follow soonish. Previously, the concept was unproven, but now that it has been proven to work, I assume that keys will be rolled and progress will be made.

Secondly, as I understand it, a 1024-bit RSA key, while not recommended, is still vastly more secure than an MD5 hash.
Yeah I'm leaving this alone, looks like a straw man, also I don't think she makes a convincing point.
State of the Token Market in Late 2018 by Fabric VC [pdf]
When I find an article like this, what is supposed to convince me to spend the time to read it? The title communicates almost nothing and there's no subtitle. The author starts off with a (boring) vinette and knowingly teases the actual topic: "Needless to say this article is about Saudia Arabia." But there are thousands of journalist writing thousands of articles about Saudi Arabia right now.

Is the idea that I would know the author's name and just trust them? (Surely no one loves everything TechCrunch puts out generally.) Or that I'd get linked to it on social media from someone who's taste I really trust?

I'm just honestly confused why a column like this doesn't have such a bad bounce rate as to induce a different writing style.
I really think that most designers have poor understanding of the confluence of creativity + functionalism + user needs. For every great designer, there are many who do not understand this balance. Combine that with trying to be trendy, aesthetic, flashy in addition to business/marketing objectives (ads, tracking, GDPR); you end up with a design enchilada as exemplified by the GP's link.

Does anyone remember Go's rebranding?
https://blog.golang.org/go-brand

Compare that with boring but highly functional Rust Lang's home page and their branding: https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/

Or even better, check MPFR's page: https://www.mpfr.org/

No bullshit, just content. I might be a minority, but to me aesthetics are not as important as the rest of the public values. Aesthetic aspects of design should follow and not lead in Design. Most people write this off as "non-designey" opinion who doesn't understand design which is not true. I think the Swiss in 1960's nailed aesthetics that don't get in the way, especially in layout (Muller-Brockmann) and typography (Frutiger).

These days, in design colleges we have this insane push for retro aesthetics (Brutalism, Vaporware, etc), trying to keep up with current trends as well as increasing pressure for originality. This leads designers to create substandard work in favor of originality. As Paul Rand said, "Don't try to be original. Just try to be good." - This sadly does not work when you're wired to do something different for your senior project as a designer. Designers graduate and create noise thereafter.

Furthermore, some of the burden of bad design should also be carried by the expectations from clients. It is not just about designers.

Edit: I just realized, I apologize how off-topic this discussion is to the original post.
This is much. much more reasonable than the "Post-Meritocracy" Code of Conduct.
Literally fell out of my my chair and out the office window; had to be rescued.

+1 thank you for this comment.
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