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What percentage of the population speeds vs what percentage has track days?

Surely those who have track days can disable the limit or buy a car without it, while the vast majority of "casual speeders" won't be affected by it.

Even 112 is quite high compared to the speed limit in most of the world. 100 would be right, outside Germany.
Headline says it is not a pipeline problem and gives very few statistics about why it is not a pipeline problem. The articles DOES list problems in the workplace once women have a job.

I consider the pipeline to be college. When I studied electrical engineering in the late 90's the Circuits 1 class had 9 women out of 80 students. By circuits 2 there were just 3 women out of 90 students. (Circuits 1 is a weed out class so it goes from 3 classes of roughly 80 to 2 classes of about 90)

That seems like a pipeline problem to me.
Yes, I have not had a track day. Most drivers have not had a track day. It’s incredibly expensive and puts a shit ton of wear on your vehicle. For the common man, go karts and rollercaosters are enough.
If you want to see how good UX can be on a mobile device, download Microsoft Remote Desktop for android and remote into a Microsoft Windows Server instance. I just want that experience, though preferably with a Linux system, that happens to have a "phone" application.

Did anyone ever make a "desktop" phone?
No more "reserved" than any other luxury good. They list the most expensive cities in the world and lament not being able to own a home in them. Of course the average person can't buy a house in SF. There's very limited availability and millions more people who want to live in the city than it can support.

No one has a right to live in a super trendy, naturally expensive city.
It will likely be replaced by greater demand from those states for Federal Funding if they're forced to lower their state taxes in order to offset constituent fears.
> Why I can't get this is beyond me.

The first setting in my default Android phone app is to block unknown callers. What specifically do you want?
It never made much sense to me that the providers would not offer some kind of robocall-free plan. I would instantly switch to avoid getting any more of these spoofed calls, which would block the vast majority of robocalls. It turns out that it is government regulation somehow preventing this:

>"The FCC last year authorized voice service providers to block more types of calls in which the Caller ID has been spoofed or in which the number on the Caller ID is invalid."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/robocallers-evol...
#1 is a key point here, and understanding it is essential to solving this problem once and for all. It's not just caller ID that they're spoofing. PSTN works a bit like the internet: there are "good faith" peering agreements between telephone companies, and they rely on each other to report truthfully where a call is coming from.

However, there are many companies, especially overseas, that either deliberately shirk these duties or simply lack the funds, technology, and infrastructure to authenticate the sources of telephone calls. The result is something akin to IP address spoofing.

Without imposing major infrastructure overhauls on foreign nations, there's little the US government can do to eliminate these problems.
In the past 2 years, Volvo discontinued all engines with more than 4 cylinders [1], announced that all future cars would be HEV or EV [2], then declared that the current ICEs would not be developed further.

Other car companies make a few innovative models, but (apart from Tesla) I don't know any other companies which have made sweeping statements about every model they'll ever make. I think Volvo has the strongest brand today, in the sense that I know what they stand for. They've come a long way from "boxy but good".

[1]: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/volvo-xc60-moves-to-al...
[2]: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15340510/volvo-electrifyi...
[3]: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a18725989/driving-on-e-cur...
One solution, not practical for most folks but works well for me: live in a different area code than phone number. (My cell number is in the area code I grew up in.)

It seems most spam calls either fake a source number that's in my phone's area code, or use a completely random source. Almost any inbound call I actually expect without an address-book entry would come from my (new) local area code, so I can pick up a call if (in current area code) OR (in address book). So in essence, my current area code is a 3-digit passcode.

Perhaps a nice trick if one is allocating a new VoIP number -- at the cost of looking like a non-local when giving it out, you can effectively screen for actual local calls...
Yes. But even so, that doesn't make it immoral to help your children of for children to accept that help.

Being in favor of a better world tomorrow doesn't mean that you can't play by the rules of the world today.

Every election, I vote for policies that will considerably increase my taxes, but at the same time, I expect my CPA to make sure that I only pay the taxes that I'm legally required to pay.
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This looks very nice! But posting it a day ahead of NSA's Ghidra unveiling? It's going to be buried in the noise :(
> Atom-grade

Is this really the best ARM can do?
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I created a tool for smaller companies/individual developers that allows users to submit feedback that gets pushed directly into Github issues: https://bugbucket.io/
> an EV limited to 88mph

Which one?
I find that the scam calls I get don't leave a lot of voicemails
Based on the simulations, it takes the pieces a while to re-congregate. Thus, you'd have to time the burst to have the particles as far apart as possible when they arrive. I wonder if there's a significant radiation side-effect risk? How much would the atmosphere absorb?
I suspect they decided that 180 kph is the sweet spot of "still significantly more survivable than higher speeds" and "won't prompt much consumer outrage". Though I'm sure there will still be no lack of people raging about Volvo impeding their freedom.
I used to work as a stagehand for one of the major event companies (mostly big name concerts) before I started my professional career. Not the same as moving obviously, but can definitely relate to your description of an infinitely variable 3D Tetris. It was also great fun, you got to see lots of great concerts for free, meet a lot of cool people (sorry Lenny Kravitz for that time I ran into you with my bike!) and a fair bit of running around and lifting meant a decent workout as well. It was dirty, sweaty, didn't pay much, and the hours were terrible at times. I think my worst (in terms of hours) weekend was coming in on Friday early afternoon, and leaving again right around midnight Saturday. We did get breaks of course but I had a two hour commute at the time so if I'd gone home in between packing up one show and unpacking another I would've slept for only four hours or so. I ended up sleeping on some old carpet rolls in the catacombs under the arena. It wasn't comfortable and I wouldn't do it today, but man I had fun doing that stuff back then. Only did it for about a year and it was hard work, but still kinda miss it.
If there's one thing there needs to exist non-government alternatives to it's education. The government shouldn't get a near monopoly on telling the youth what to think. FWIW your median "private school" is usually church run, not some elite prep school CEOs send their kids to.
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It's worse than that really. A lot of people are like a acquaintance of mine. Bought a FT DX 5000MP, which wasn't cheap, has hundreds of books on the matter, boxes of cables and bits of antenna, speaks knowledgably on the subject but hasn't made a single contact yet after 5 years of having a license. But he hates 'feng scum like me.
>It creates incentive problems that distort policy decisions at the state level.

What are the negative outcomes of such policies? I'd argue that the outcomes are more self-sufficient state governments with less reliance on federal grant money. The question then is if that's something the federal government should encourage.

I'm pretty sure a fiscal conservative would say yes. As would a states-rights conservative.

Most tax policies are ways to encourage or discourage specific behaviors. Your "weird backdoor" is another person's "explicitly encouraged behavior". You've got to justify why the behavior is bad and should not be encouraged, and I don't think you've done that. You've just (I think) claimed its unfair, but every state works under the same federal government. They could all do the same stuff.
I'm deep in that too, right now. My partner badly wanted one last kid, and knowing we were already resource-tight and having no family around, I was very hesitant. Logistically I knew it would be a disaster but I agreed to it. I love the hell out of this kid, but "totally emotionally crushing" is apt. I'm not new to this, but I can only do so much. Working my job, being a stay at home dad, and having to maintain our relationship (plus my relationship with my son and adopted son) is genuinely outside of my ability. But it's what we have to do here. Expensive city, no connections, 3 kids.

I know it's stupid to go into it knowing it'll be hard, and I can't complain. I'm not. This is just what it takes, and I went into it knowing it would be temporary. Kids get a lot easier as they get older.

A lot of things that are worth it in life take a lot of work. I'll feel better in a few years. At the moment I feel like I'm dying.

At any rate, here's to things getting easier. I'm sure our hard work will pay off soon enough.
Does msys2 run on ReactOS?
This is 100% true. My sister sold a piece of junk Subaru that had a defective engine which was replaced twice for like 85% of what she paid two years prior.
The secondary ruler is clearly just that -- secondary. The text and markings are often smaller.

It's likely way easier to flip a switch on the spedometer, then swap out the faceplate than you think.
> it makes bad code harder to write than good code

In practice, I've only seen bad code drawn in LabVIEW; it was shocking for me to see a "good" code example once. But then fixing bad code (i.e., refactoring) is only pain and suffering compared to text-based languages.

> quite obvious visually

Agreed, you can see how confusing it is, but unfortunately that never stopped anyone from doing it that way in my experience.

The only saving grace of LabVIEW is that you can now interface via C/C++ and avoid G (their "graphical programming language") altogether.
I am a full blown georgist :), want to hear more about why sales/ i-e taxes are appealing to some.
The author is right about many of the patent system's problems. But none of the problems mentioned have much to do with Theranos specifically, apart from its convenient availability as narrative material.

Theranos was a biotech company. Biotech companies as a rule are patent-focused, patent-buoyed, and patent-dependent. The high R&D costs of biotech and pharma might be the best fit for the patent system we have. Software might be the worst.

Under US law, inventions must be new, useful, but not obvious to be patented. The article rightly points out that the Patent and Trademark Office does not spend lots of time or money assessing usefulness beyond a gut plausibility check. We can assume they approve patents on useless inventions every year.

But what is the use of a patent on a useless invention? You can still license others to practice your useless invention. It may take some time for would-be customers to realize it's bunk. But in the end, nobody will rush to use your idea without a license, or to buy a licensed embodiment from you.

The USPTO is not a broad-remit anti-fraud organization. If that's anybody, it's SEC. It's not USPTO's purpose to vet new patent applications for commercial viability. That kind of due diligence is customers', investors', and potential employees' job, on the front end, and perhaps FDA's and FTC's, as backstops.
It's mysterious, all right. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/128708/why-wasnt-cr...

The case where things are given three or four letter codes is more comprehensible. Baudot code from the 19th C calls letters and figures LTRS and FIGS, though I'm not sure when exactly that got established as the normative spelling. Presumably LTRS and FIGS can be printed on a smaller keycap than the full word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code

So at a certain point abbreviations became both useful and fashionable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbreviation

(See also http://www.thepotteries.org/mark/w/wedgwood-date.html for a 19th C example of three-letter coding.)
What I miss are schematics and parts lists. Of course, that would be virtually impossible with today's electronics, short of a bunch of PDF documents or something. Even then, they would almost be worthless.

But...back in the 1980s, just about any electronic device you bought (especially if you bought it from Radio Shack), the manual would have a schematic in the back, plus a list of parts (and in the case of RS - the parts list would usually have part numbers you could pick up off-the-shelf at the store!).

I miss that.
It is true that Elastic Beanstalk is free, and is very easy for a developer to use to begin with. However, If I were to advice a new startup on their infrastructure, I would not recommend it for the following reasons. It is my personal judgement. Others may prefer to go all in on Amazon.

1. It is clearly a vendor lock in. You build your business upon all AWS services, using an AWS orchestrator - good luck ever getting out.

2. Abstraction. It is a controversial opinion. I'd rather have less magic when possible and know what goes on underneath, and possibly have control over. Now, a startup may choose to offload the duties of operating a database(RDS), storing files(S3), performing backups(S3/Glacier) in the interest of time and trade-off control, optimisation and $$. However, considering the generalisation of simpler startups, IMHO operating a small scale Postgres on a standard EC2 instance is not really much of a hassle...

3. Cost - however small it may be in terms of actual dollars, AWS managed services(S3, RDS, SES, SQS etc..) come with added cost over simply running their open source equivalent yourselves.

Again, Keeping it simple - not in terms of what the user needs to do to deploy their application, but in terms of what components do you need to get your application running in production.
When they say "take 1-2 hours on this" I take them at their word and do just that. On more that one occasion it has cost me an onsite.
>>I'm a proponent of laws and systems that increase personal liberty and minimize bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy is a cornerstone of American democracy. When you have 2 strong parties and a push for greater and greater political distance, the bureaucracy is what keeps one party from shackling the other with some policy that leads to the end of the Union. Personally I feel it's never been more important.
> The federal government is no more footing the bill through deductibility than it is footing the cost of capital acquisition by taxing net gains rather than gross revenue of capital sales; it just isn't taxing the investments state taxpayers make in common facilities which enable their earnings.

There's a difference. In the case of taxing net gains rather than gross revenue on capital sales, every citizen is represented in this decision. Not to mention, the consequential incentive is to increase investment in businesses that create taxable earnings. In the case of the SALT deduction, the consequential incentive is to increase state and local taxes to fund social programs over which only that state's citizens have representation.
This is what UX Researchers are for.
So...does anyone have any tips to find a good mover like this in the US? I hear horror stories on how some movers will hold your stuff "hostage" until you tip them. I don't mind paying, but I just want a trustworthy mover.
With current branch predictors threaded code might not make a big difference like it used to.

https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01100647/document
Quick question, will you be taking inheritance when your parents inevitably die ?

If yes, what's wrong with taking some of this 'inheritance' early, when you need it, rather than at 60 when you are practically retired.

If not, will you be donating it ? Don't you think having that extra money today will allow you to grow your assets enough, to be able to donate more when the times come for it ?

That money isn't just going to vanish....
C certainly has this via unions. It's more manual but provides more control, including choice of alignment.

It's CPU dependent but in practice the cache benefits of packed instructions will probably dominate any misalignment penalty. It's not like x86 instructions are aligned after all.

What's the best way to implement a variable-width bytecode interpreter in Rust?
Amazon knows on each purchase which seller the inventory came from. If a report comes in that a specific purchase was fake, they can trace which seller shipped it. This isn't complicated.
From what I hear and have read about Amazon culture, bringing issues up like this is a fast track to the chopping block.
I have paid millions in taxes over the years and I have no issue doing so. What I take issue is that this change in the tax code was only done as a punishment by those in power against those with a different set of political belief. That is the fundamental issue here. We are bring our country down with this system of politics that has become so toxic that you do not see the person you disagree with politicly as anything more than someone to be crushed. (The venom of your comment is an example). The founding fathers (one of which I am a direct descendant of) very much believed in civil discourse and using the right people for the right job. Washington appointed people he very much disliked because they were the expert the job needed, outside of his personal or political views. Up until the time of Newt Gingrich who is somewhat responsible for this current environment, our representatives in general understood the art of the compromise.

Personally I tend to be a libertarian and want the government out of most things. However I do except that fact that some form of taxes are a necessary thing in for any country to exist. I would like to see them line up in a more fair way, flat taxes on all income over a given amount, VAT for non-food, non-essential items, etc. Most of the way we tax is broken. A prime example in CA is property taxes. When my family and I moved last, our search for a home was limited to 5 parts of the Bay Area because of schools. If you want your kid to go to a great school, buy in a rich area as the schools are funded by property taxes. Seems to me it would be better to share that money equally across the state. It would help uplift everyone.

Edit: spelling
€50 million doesn’t sound like a lot for a company with $100,000 million revenue.
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One way I heard it described (from a medical student, years back), a c-section is like cutting up your thigh muscle (or other major muscle), you ain't gonna move for a while.
I don't get this. When my son was born I took plenty of PTO/WFH/sicks days due to child care, either helping out my wife catch up on sleep or doing mid-day pickups from school/care. My son is in elementary, and I still take lots of WFH/leaving early days with no issue from my employer.

I don't get why backup day care should be offered - picking child care can be a pretty sensitive topic for the level of care/attention given to your child.
Yeah, I noticed that the bill was called "Stopping Bad Robocalls", implying that there are "good" robocalls too, and I knew immediately that it wouldn't help with the political ones.
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It presumably also helps that the Rust version is the third iteration of the code (given that you mention earlier implementations in Go and Lua).
Some cars use their GPS to enable that yes. I think the Nissan GT-R does that.

It's from 2007: https://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/22/nissan-gt-r-recognizes-t...
Finalizers and resurrection is a big way that GCs can differ. There's also exotic reference types: Java has WeakReference, SoftReference, PhantomReference...
Maybe it is the US system that needs fixing, and not the culture.

Higher capital gains tax, gift tax and social welfare for things that loans are being taken out for (education, medical emergencies) might help.
Done: https://webcompat.com/issues/27204
Only if it exits at that seed stage: if it raises more money, the number goes up. If the company makes it to Series C+, the number is probably going to be higher than $35M. Which is what taking the average does: for about half of exits that number will be higher and for about half the number will be lower.

Rather than complicating the model here to try to illustrate the difference between exiting at this stage versus raising another round, we went with an approach that demonstrates how preferences work. Even if the number is lower for a Seed company that exits at Series A or higher if it exits at Series C, there is still a number under which you'll get nothing even if the company has a profitable exit.
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> The truth is though that everyone is using biometrics to log into their device which controls everything from emails, to password managers and 2FA codes. Does it mean if your fingerprint gets compromised that you'll be unable to use the biometric feature of any device for the rest of your life?

No, because the device is only using that to protect local storage and anything which leaves the device is using strong keys which can be rotated. If they don't have the device, the fingerprint doesn't matter. If they do have the device (and are within the timeout period, etc.), it's like any other credential compromise: you get a replacement, rotate passwords, etc. but the replay value is sharply capped because at no point is a network service depending on the component which can't be changed.

(If you have an attacker who gets a scan of your fingerprint/face and keeps stealing phones you need a restraining order; that's reasonably outside of the threat model for consumer devices)

This is also important since there's a subset of users who won't be able to use biometrics for some reason and the decoupled approach avoids making it impossible for them to use.
DM-5Rs are banned because they are DMR Tier 1, not Tier 2, and use both slots of DMR TDMA. UV-5Rs are ok radios, their main problem is not being very sensitive in reception because they are single-conversion SDRs at RX.

Wouxun are very good Chinese radios, with analog RF front-ends and very sensitive, but the price is in the same order of magnitude of the Japanese.
It might be a good idea to do it this way, but it is a very radical change with high chances of errors. What if 10 states enact some abhorrent legislation and makes them broke, or collect no taxes? I'd think this kind of change requires constitution ammendment level coordination.
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The questions they ask are ridiculous. And you have to use them when trying to do certain things over the phone as well.

I know they have fought quite a bit of mileage theft out of a number of countries and they thought this was a good idea of doing that but it's awful.