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On a previous job, we had a “be a one day support desk” mandatory training, but I took only months after I entered.

One of the funny discoveries was supported platforms and setup bugs are filtered very fast and just flagged as such.

The only monitoring was the up or down trends for that kind of complaints. It includes people on IE6, those using their fridge browser to open the site, or apps that showed the site under some broken in app browser. So people blocking javascript are just a drop in that global number, and if the number is mostly constant it just won’t matter what happens in it and reports won’t even get to the devs.
It isn't the marketing and advertising industry. Greed, Pride, Lust, Envy, Gluttony - 5 of the 7 deadly sins.. Aristotle might not have reduced it to such a short list, but he wrote plenty on similar ideas. So there's 2300 years on paper...

It's really human nature.
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> If I want to watch well produced online content, I do not think Youtube.com

I do. Historia Civilis is presently my favourite channel. Production quality is nothing to write home about, but the quality is fantastic. Moreover, I don’t walk away feeling like I crapped away thirty minutes—I learned something.
The guy is soldering a bunch of stuff to listen to music, so he's obviously not Apple's target market. Maybe he likes over engineered solutions?

At least, it sounds like he just likes being contrarian.

Android or Linux is not helping him much in this case, that's for sure.
lol, It is ignorance to blame all problems blindly on authority. Many people around me are complaining that some businesses only support electronic payment, which is a kind of market discrimination for those who have not received the education. And in China, e-payment has nothing to do with privacy or freedom. All payment tools can only be opened with ID cards, and some even need to upload recent photos of real people holding ID cards.
That's quite the url TechCrunch chose for the story.
Jira is an ugly ticketing software. Hope developers get rid of it ASAP.
Youtube is better at grabbing the users' attention... Not necessarily with better content.

Though I learn more from Youtube than from Netflix, in general...
Malwarebytes Anti Malware (MBAM). It is exceptional for a free tool. Windows Defender is too simplistic for my liking, with a very small filter list.

That being said, I run ComboFix + ADWCleaner + RKill + JunkwareRemovalTool every few weeks to remove any malware that may have creeped in.
> If it didn't justify it's cost they'd use other metals, no?.

Industrial use has gone down. They have started using other metals. As an example, the Pentium Pro used significantly more gold than modern CPUs do.
I get disgusted by thinking why does Netflix want people to not sleep. Why auto-play in 5 sec? Isn't this morally wrong, like dangling cocaine in front of a drug addict.

I agree that people have free will but designing products so that people waste days just watching TV is very very sad IMHO.
Yes. This is a strict requirement to serve an online PC game.
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Anecdotally, I hear a lot more complaints about the bailouts and the war than I do about anything related to NASA.
https://parttimeaudiophile.com/2015/07/24/audioquest-diamond... a review of >$1k cat7 patch cables
I think the author of the article just wanted to get out the soldering iron.. as otherwise a few minutes on a search engine would have revealed the existence of the CMOY headphone buffers and a plethora of similar devices for laptops and phones already out there, including ones with their own high quality DACs.. unless there is something I'm missing here?
Irrelevant. Books, video games, films, youtube, netflix (et al), mobile games, even social media all compete for the same thing: time. People don't have infinite time, if it's filled up with watching youtube videos it can't be filled up watching netflix, regardless of the quality of the content.
The LED tubes that are being used to replace the florescent tubes are much brighter! This could also be a source of migraines.
Any advice on economical methods for persona-specific VM chains? E.g. 5 personas times $X/month for a commercial VPN adds up quickly, not to mention the inconsistent reliability/transparency of VPN providers.
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Forget the cost... 500 rolls is over 30lbs! I can't imagine carting that much film around while backpacking. I don't think I ever brought more than about 4-5 dozen rolls even on month-plus length trips - that plus a lead-lined bag for airport x-ray was already a hassle and a significant portion of my carry-on.

I very much relate to the "really think about it each time I pressed that shutter". I spent so much time shooting film that now, even after over 15 years of digital, I still struggle to kick this habit and need to constantly remind myself to take more shots: explore more variations on a subject, grab a shot even if I don't think it's going to be outstanding, etc.
If this is a major issue why doesn't this fall under existing laws regarding fraud?
Not sure if the "Maps of X" games are titled appropriately. They should be called "Shapes of X". Even after learning shapes of various countries, I don't learn where they are on a map, though I can recognize them by searching a map and
eventually identifying them by their shape. Maybe in the info section after you guess it right, you can show a map and show the country you just identified highlighted on the map.
Same in India. There are more digital wallets than plastic. Even villagers in remote districts understand a digital wallet.
Nice!

I like the idea and design

Two things that bugged me:

1. I'd like a fast mode, where you just get immediate feedback on the answer (with correct answer displayed) and then onto next question immediately without showing the country info bit

2. who's flag -> whose flag (or "which country's flag is this")
The author's attempt to connect with her daughter seemed obviously misguided to me.

Upon discovering that her daughter -- a budding guitar player -- liked listening to one of the same songs she did, she thought it would be wise to demonstrate that she, the experienced adult, already knew how to play that particular song on the guitar. Next, she offered to teach her daughter how to play it herself, robbing her of any opportunity to a) learn the song on her own, and b) decide for herself that it was a song she wanted to learn in the first place.

I think a lot of parents could do with a bit more empathy for their teenage children. Teenagers are developing newfound desires for autonomy and mastery, but still feel largely trapped by their circumstances. It's no wonder they lock themselves in their rooms -- it's the only environment they have any control over.
Use a cotton swab with some of the material plucked off to make it thinner and soak it in CAIG DeoxIT or MG Chemicals Electrosolve (you can typically buy these from Fry's / MicroCenter / online). These chemicals are made to actually clean and de-oxidize contacts.
You can buy the Google Play version for which authors get 55%. The PDF is DRM free so you can read it anywhere and I don't have to take care of billing/hosting.
I'm pretty aggressive about telling people not to use the flash when we're out in public; a flash in a bar or other public low light area is super rude, imo.

But just taking a picture with no flash? I know it's a personal thing, but I personally find it less offensive than any other reason you'd pull out a phone.
Even within Linux, consider Wayland vs Xorg, systemd, etc.
I was there a few weeks ago. The soldiers are still there, in patrols and along roads, but they don't bother tourists. Electricity is pretty solid, cuts are common but long outages are rare. Most accommodation has UPS systems fitted anyway. The petrol shortages are a thing of the past and there are paved roads in some areas now (main roadways and Thamel).

Kathmandu is a nice city. The traffic and the dust are awful but the city is filled with charm.
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In The Netherlands some cyclists have this brilliant idea to put their lights on flash/flicker. I suppose some think they'll be easier to get noticed.

It is not allowed by law (the light has to be either constantly on, or it may be turned off if it isn't dark), it can trigger epilepsy, it is distracting, and it is selfish and not 'cool' at all.

It also appears to be common in PC desktops to enable all kind of LEDs, without allowing them to be disabled. Especially in all kind of colours (which Razor dubbed 'Chroma'). Not my cup of tea, a waste of aesthetic and electricity but the worst thing about it is that I pay premium for such feature because it is deemed 'cool' by the target market.

FWIW, I use a strong light in the morning to wake up. It doesn't flash.
When AOL first created its portal to Usenet newsgroups in the 1990s, there was a similar effect.
I typically ride bare. AV software just doesn't feel good.
This. Thank you.

Also Google Play Books shares is much higher (55%). My take was that it was impossible to make any real money on paper without charging an outrageous amount. I am happy with GPB share and people who really want a paper version do get it for a reasonable amount.
Great tip!

I was surprised to see flicker even on my $10 a bulb Soraa lights which are top of the line, cri 92+ bulbs.
This still means that the government could track/freeze your transactions. While it’s better than the status quo of electronic payments (where the government can, and so can private companies), depending on your threat model it may not be a replacement for cash.
Intel had been sayinga lot of things lately that didn't turn out true. Xpoint claims, 10nm schedules, etc.

Is is probably a safe bet to ignore any news from there until they actually deliver anything and read independent benchmarks.

It is really sad, they used to be very correct in their communication.
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I think that children used to be independent much earlier before humans invented agriculture. By your mid to late teens your body is developed enough to survive on your own and have children of your own. The evolutionary advantage in a hunter-gatherer society of making parents miserable is encouraging offspring from separating from their parents to start families of their own and not compete for the same resources. You see it with all kinds of animals.

And if I'm not mistaken it wasn't at all unusual until fairly recently for daughters to be married off and for sons to start an apprenticeship in their late teens. Only the necessity for decades of education for getting a job keeps children dependent on their parents so long.
Not a bad idea, essentially limiting your risk exposure from the start.
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I typically recommend Fiio gear for people just getting into higher-end audio. They have some great stuff for <$100 that can be a huge upgrade over smartphone / laptop / desktop output. https://www.fiio.com/amp
Ah. I just misunderstood what you meant. Sorry!
The example I thinking of is the common counterargument to "this job/industry/company is total BS": it can't be BS, because if it was no one rational would pay someone to do it. This presupposes that everything operates in a perfectly efficient market where pay corresponds directly to utility to someone, somewhere.

The 2008 financial crash, for instance, arguably demonstrated that a lot of practices in the finance industry weren't really creating value for anyone, just deceptively pushing up the value of something worthless in order to profit from it. But if you had approached someone making $500k at Bear Sterns in 2007 and said that, it would have touched off a whole string of rationalizations that basically amount to: "I'm being paid a lot of money, so this must be useful, otherwise I wouldn't be so rich" and potentially even "if you are so smart, why aren't you making $500k?"

And it's not just finance. I've had a version of that conversation often with Googlers when I criticize the company's bizarre and inexplicably messaging strategy were they seem to deliberately blow up any semblance of a good product. Their argument is ultimately, "we get paid $200k+ to do this and you work in a power plant, how could you possibly know any better than us?"

That's what I'm trying to get at with "money as merit".
>Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech Is on Track

As it was so for the past 10+ years :D
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i have been working on upgrading playsonify for sometime, for the few of you that know a bit about it, the big gains for this release are the modularity, I spent sometime refactoring the project organization to be able to switch between play and akka-http which has been an interesting experience.
Like they did with their initial xpoint announcements? They were cutting zeros off their performance numbers for months to come :p

If that wasn't lying, I don't know what is.
SE has a very strict notion of having the "correct answer" to each question

Probably had. The secret of SE’s success was the rigorous curation as encouraged via the gamification system, explicitly at the design of the site’s founders. Now there are various interpretations of their change in direction, but the quality has noticeably deteriorated for both questions and answers. There’s no sign of a credible rival right now but when one appears it will do to SE what SE did to ExpertsExchange overnight, and for the same reasons.
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Back then, someone flipping through your photos would say, "Ah, you used Kodachrome! Looks nice!" but if you had the same look on a printed photo today, they'd instead ask, "Why did you use a filter on this?"

I guess my point is that back then, people recognized that using different film and different equipment led to different results, and that the photographer chose their technique in such a way as to make art in the way they wanted. Photography was not simply method to capture a moment in the most realistic way possible, as it often is thought of today.
EUV is semiconductor industry's equivalent of commercial fusion: every 5 years, the prognosis is made that we will get commercial EUV in the next 5 years. And like that for the last 30 years.
:(

That’s pretty mean. I tried to engage your criticism in good faith, and you’re treating me like I’m too dumb to even talk to.

Feels bad.
> Teenage/parent conflict is certainly not a new phenomenon. You can find examples in stories almost as far back as there are records of stories.

So are conflicts between siblings of any age or spouses or friends. We however do not treat good relationship between the two as exception and toxic relationship as expected development the way some do it with teenagers.

Also, as a parent in current society, I suspect it is not so much child starting to see itself as distinct from parent at age of 14 (the kid should get it sooner), but more of parent loosing control. Teenagers were and will be moody and emotional due to biological reasons. However, a lot of other conflicts has to do with expectations and lifestyles.
I love this analysis of the dynamic involved.

Tech talents' emotional capitulation vs the fact that at this point many are financially independent and free to do whatever they want is also an interesting dynamic.
This reminds me of the story "the boy who cried wolf."
I work in Oncology.
A mobile battery service came over to replace a flat car battery. I was chatting to the guy while he was changing it over, and he said quite casually "Is it true what they say, that cancer has been cured and the pharmaceutical companies are hiding it so they can make money?" [1].

Obviously this is a silly question, but scandals like this ongoing COI drama probably do disproportionate damage to the public's perception of cancer care. Varying degrees of this mistrust must be dealt with each time a patient sees their oncologist. For that reason, Burris and the rest of them should be punished, he certainly should not become the next president of ASCO.

[1] Never mind that I could have equally asked "Is it true what they say, that infinitely rechargeable batteries have been invented, and the battery companies are hiding it just to make money?".
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There's a weird/fascinating subculture of "Indian Quora," a bit like the ruNet. Check out /r/indianpeoplequora, or just this question: https://www.quora.com/What-is-Indian-thug-life-like. It's a deep Indian circlejerk that's invisible to most of Quora.
This is really beautiful. And it even made me think about how sad it is to know nothing about so many small, "unimportant" countries. So I bookmarked it, and thanks.

Also thank you for making something that is not yet another app that didn't have to be one. Making a mobile friendly site that looks great on desktop is certainly possible, and that's the side we should err on IMO.
We had these companies by '99, so assume the starting point for the ten year timeline is 1989. The 'internet' had already been opened up to certain universities/institutions in 1981 (and was in government R&D years before that). There were plenty of people in 1991 who said the internet wasn't going to be or do much of anything.

The most charitable reading of the crypto tech timeline is to say that the bubble popped at the protocol layer instead of the application layer. In that case, we're somewhere around 1989-1993/94. Maybe we're still waiting for a Tim Berners-Lee.

Who knows.
This is a matter of taste; I'd much prefer taking and remembering landscape pictures most of the time. I know who I was with, and I don't want my face in frame spoiling the view.

The difference between a pro photo and my photo is that I own my photo and know exactly where and when it was taken.
Osculating polynomial is another one. It's basically a generalization of Taylor polynomials and Lagrange polynomials.
Not to denigrate the hard work of developers (particularly open source developers) who work on very complex application software like Thunderbird, but software designed for regular users needs to cope without cleanup scripts. (Yes, yes, I know that reinstalling Windows from scratch is a time honoured tradition...)
Wow, thanks for a very insightful comment. Curious: are you an architect? Or, are you into software perhaps?
FYI for anyone wanting higher-quality over Bluetooth, make sure that your devices all support a compatible codec: https://www.audioholics.com/audio-technologies/bluetooth-aud... e.g. iDevices support AAC but not aptX, while Android devices are typically the opposite. See also: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/enable-aptx-aac-bluetooth-a...
Evidently so, see downthread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18643589.
LED strain could be a real thing but I'm not sure if this forum's discussion is scientific enough to be meaningful.
Isnt kids sexualization mostly in adults mind? Girls just want to wear same things as adults and adults interpret it badly.
The ink is a lot cheaper than toner.
Think of this more along the lines of when you read a code description of how something works and then describe it to someone else. In the same way that you don't have to provide copies of the license(s) of whatever you read, you shouldn't have to do that here, because the model is simplying learning and then inferring.
The pattern of "I am a skeptic, eventually I was desperate enough to read the book despite that, and it genuinely helped me" has happened to more than one person I know. The standard testimonials is of the form "I thought it was magic crystal BS but it's actually pretty sensible". I find it a bit amusing that each person thinks they're somehow even more of a skeptic in the face of of the previous people who themselves tried to disclaim their skepticism.

But ultimately you have very little to lose beyond a bit of time to just give it a shot. It very well may not help, too.
I was a hardcore user of Quora till a few years ago. In fact I was in the top 50 or so most followed users back when the site was growing (mostly thanks to a couple of my answers that ended up blowing up)

For me personally, Quora was special because the people on it were so different from each other. My first few follows were a NASA engineer, a published author, a student with radical views on theology etc.

But over time, with popularity, the site has devolved into a homogeneous mixture of people with similar views on most topics, from the same strata of society, mostly from the same country(/ies), with the same educational backgrounds, same sense of humour (My friend used to joke that the average writer on Quora is INTP Engineer from IIT who is working at a MNC but wants to change the world through NGO-work).

I think the change came about when Quora stopped charging for asking questions. This led to a flood of nonsense questions and a flooding of experiential questions over factual ones (eg. What is it like to be an older sibling vs. Why is the Attack on Normandy considered a turning point?). And of course experiential questions have waaaaaay more people who want to share their experiences on the same.

I think the day I lost hope entirely was when I was A2A "If Pakistan kidnaps Sachin Tendulkar, what would India government's response be?" (Yes, I'm Indian, but this question is silly in itself and the chest-thumping answers on this were even sillier).

Today, I still use Quora, though the last answer I wrote was about 3 years ago. I still have about 9K followers, but I follow a carefully curated list of about 70 accounts. It's utility as a website to "share knowledge" is very limited and I look at it today as essay-Twitter (Similar noise, similar debating, but just like Twitter, once in a while something good shows up)
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Well, if its a light in your house, it is within your control. What if it is at work? In the public transport? On the street? In a grocery store? At a customer? If you suffer from LED strain, it'll hamper your ability to function in society. All this reminds me a bit of Chuck in Better Call Saul (portrayed by Michael McKean). Regardless of what he exactly had, the man was ill.
Their "on track", even if true, doesn't mean for Moore's law, does it?

x2 density in 4 years is not my Moore's law.