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> these kinds of comments are stereotypes, nothing more
There is nothing fashion about my comment. We clearly come from different lifestyles.
I see comments like yours when I talk to young tech professionals, who are not married,
no kids no strings attached. Yes, you can make a living in SF.

Usually, they have no idea what it means to leave the office (no time for nerf gun and beer)
rush to the school to pick up your kids etc ... Or, they shut down the swimming pool classes
because the teacher can't afford to live in the city. Or, they shut down the daycare for the same reason.
I see completely the opposite kind of comments when I talk to tech professionals with family and kids.

> My SF condo is new.
You have probably missed that I have also classified "new condos" quality as crap.
See "Even the quality of the new "luxury condos" is crap"
And yes, I did live in some of these fancy new condos. They are overpriced because SF,
but don't call them "luxury". I know what luxury looks like and they are not even close.

> cost of living isn't that different, at least if you don't have kids...
Right.

> Compared to NYC or Europe?
Compared to the fact that given the amount of money gravitating around the bay, the current state
of public transportation it is just ridiculous. I have used the muni/bart/caltrain for years and I know what
I am talking about. I know what a good public transportation system looks like and the bay area is well far
away from that.

> SF traffic is nothing compared to Los Angeles
I did not specifically say SF traffic, but Bay Area traffic. More and more families and professionals are
moving out SF, this means they are now commuting from east bay, south bay, etc ... and the traffic is ridiculous.
I have also friends commuting south bay from SF .. it is hell.

> I've been working at the same place for a decade and enjoy it.
Good for you.

> Aside from the fact that buying a house in cash is not necessarily a great idea
Yeah, let me rephrase that. What I really wanted to say was that you can probably afford a
much bigger downpayment (~50%) and have a very very low monthly payment compared to Bay Area
where nowdays you are looking at ~$300.000 downpayment and ~$5000/$6000 monthly payment for
the next 30years for that crappy ~1.2M old house 2bed 2bath in some not fancy neighborhood.

No thank you. I know better places where I already know I am moving when I am done here.
Aka a form of negative income tax.
Or you own the house, but have external factors like your mortgage; or psychological factors like "I don't want to lose money on it." In which case you will pull the house from the market, rather than correcting the price. Or alternatively, not list it in the first place unless you are distressed. Any of these outcomes reduce supply and would cause prices to be stickier.
Food demand is predictable, but the causes of famines are generally not.

And yes, it's not a bad idea to have the capacity to harvest, process, and distribute all of it. Food during a famine ultimately needs to get in bellies. Not left on a farm.
It doesn't sound like it from the article, but I wish other scrollbar misbehavior was included in this work. Scroll wheels and touch are not the only way people scroll! I wish they would also work on the broken scrollbar behavior when content is added to page while the scrollbar handle is being dragged. For example, pages which append new batches of content as you approach the bottom.

The symptom is that it treats the scrollbar position as a ratio of page length, and as the page length changes, the viewport is suddenly warped to a new position at the same ratio of the new page size. To fix this, I think it should continue to use the old page length to calculate scroll position until you release the drag. You won't always be able to scroll past the previous end of page in one movement, but the content visible in the viewport should remain coherently related to your drag motions.

I recognize that something has to be made inconsistent in the ratio-based scrollbar UX if the page length changes. I think having the scrollbar handle jump away from the mouse cursor on drag-release would be much less annoying than having the viewport jump around on each DOM edit. You can continue reading what you were reading and only be distracted when you need to go find the handle again to scroll further down, much like if you accidentally let your mouse drift out of the scrollbar and then released the drag.
> most stores have a 14 day return period

A return period is even mandated by law in most advanced countries by consumer protection laws. The length varies and sometimes there are some exceptions like software and customized (engraved products).
He's there for historical reasons only (he's been dead for a while) and indeed he was part of that wealth genealogy.

My girlfriend bought his house on campus (Stanford gives tenured faculty assistance to buy houses on campus). As she's in a different field from me she was surprised to learn who he was. He would not have approved in her living there!
A 0.9% increase is noise. The whole market went up about that amount, it doesn't have anything to do with the layoff announcements, just prevailing sentiment among active traders. I wish news outlets would stop mentioning stock price movements unless they are at least 2% and definitely not trying to assign a reason until at least 3%. (To be fair, the article simply mentions it as a non-sequitur).
Diversification does not guarantee returns here. The majority of companies in their portfolio are likely to be worthless. A $400 million venture fund is often lucky to own 20% of a 'unicorn' $1 billion company, and they would need two of those just to break even. Look at the stats and it is far from a sure-bet even if they have the money.
It's discussed here: https://github.com/intika/Librefox/issues/23
Pretty much! It shows off how the codec works to a great extent though as it seems to be misinterpreting parts of the music to be the pitch of the speech, so Paul's voice sounds weird at the start of most lines but okay throughout the lines.

I've also run a BBC news report through the program with better results although it demonstrates that any background noise at all can throw things off significantly: https://twitter.com/peterc/status/1111736029558517760 .. so at this low bitrate, it really is only good for plain speech without any other noise.
Cox's Timepiece
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2155460-nasa-fires-voya...

Also (from https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/did-you-know/):

The electronics and heaters aboard each nearly one-ton Voyager spacecraft can operate on only 400 watts of power, or roughly one-fourth that used by an average residential home in the western United States.

A set of small thrusters provides Voyager with the capability for attitude control and trajectory correction. Each of these tiny assemblies has a thrust of only three ounces. In the absence of friction, on a level road, it would take nearly six hours to accelerate a large car up to a speed of 48 km/h (30 mph) using one of the thrusters.

The Voyager scan platform can be moved about two axes of rotation. A thumb-sized motor in the gear train drive assembly (which turns 9000 revolutions for each single revolution of the scan platform) will have rotated five million revolutions from launch through the Neptune encounter. This is equivalent to the number of automobile crankshaft revolutions during a trip of 2725 km (1700 mi), about the distance from Boston,MA to Dallas,TX.

The Voyager gyroscopes can detect spacecraft angular motion as little as one ten-thousandth of a degree.
I don't think Apple is too concerned about class action lawsuits over keyboards... They'll settle and pay a little cash, another entirely insignificant number.
I've had regular airpods since they came out and the airpower would be nice but I don't see a major need for it.
Almost impossible to answer due to the rapidly evolving space. But in short: something on Amazon probably made in China that has good reviews that don't seem faked (or at least less faked than others!). What's especially confusing are all the different supported wattages between iPhone and Android models. iPhones started at 5W, but upped to 7.5W with iOS 11. Some big Android phones support 10. Some chargers support 5 & 10 but not 7.5. So for an iPhone you want to be sure to get one that explicitly supports 7.5.

I bought one about 6 months ago that I've been very happy with. As described, a no-name Chinese brand on Amazon.

There are a ton of dual Qi + Watch chargers (or at least with a bracket for the watch charger), but not sure how Airpods will fit into the mix. I'm sure a ton will be coming soon.
I think there is simply an impossible-to-define line of quality/extremity over which negativity becomes incurable by exposure and where it's perfectly reasonable to ban it from one's platform. I don't think that's too controversial, but I also think that the share of people over that line is at a long-time high and increasing. Of course that opinion is more controversial, and I think is really the root of the free speech arguments. That opinion is full of subjective definitions by necessity, but I feel strongly about it.
> Poor people seem pretty powerful to me. In a world where rich people are infinitely powerful...what percentage of tax revenue do you think they'd be paying? 0%? 10%? The top 3% if earners paid over 50% of income tax in the US in 2016 [1]. That doesn't seem particularly powerful to me. Or, if it is, that power isn't wielded especially self-interestedly.

Oh, give me a break. This is silly statistic often dragged out by right-wing pundits. If the entire US population earned $0 and one guy (pick anyone!) made $1 Trillion per year and paid his ~$400 Billion in taxes each year would you see him as a victim, too?

Another silly example: New York, California, and Florida contribute 25% of the U.S's tax revenues, yet they don't account for 25% of congress. They don't get 25% of the electoral college votes in presidential elections. Poor them, right?
So it’s WeWork, but on a bus?
Something like this happens with trees in Houston. Because water can only readily penetrate the ground in the strip of soil between the road and sidewalk, their roots only grow in the strip of soil, and only have strength in the same direction as the street. So when a hurricane comes along, they tend to fall either straight out over the street, or straight back towards the house.
might be useful for those "flywheel" based energy storage devices.

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

(My favorite part of the article where it talks about trying to use in vehicles...)
Definitely. This should really be the top comment!
Not only that, but because of the California tax code, they probably can't afford to sell their house and buy one for a similar price.
> Newspaper stories used to have a “dateline” which gave the place-of-origin and the date the story was written, usually followed by the writer’s name.

Actually, the dateline is far more important than that. I didn't always know this, but the dateline is actually a contract telling you where the reporter was in person, and is the difference between the "hard" journalism of yesteryear and the "soft" web journalism of today.

Read this investigation [0] by the NY Times into the story of Jayson Blair, whom they fired after discovering he was faking sources for his articles. It talks a lot about journalistic integrity and was the first time I learned that datelines weren't just where the article happened but also the journalist giving you their word that they were there, on the ground.

Once you learn this, you start to see it everywhere. For instance, a recent article about the deep freeze we had here in Chicago (we hit around minus 50 degrees F with windchill for a couple of days) talked almost exclusively about Chicago, a little bit about the Midwest in general, and a single sentence towards the end about Michigan. The byline? Detroit, MI. Now you know why!

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/national/times-reporter-w...
The wheels of *politics turn slowly.
To be fair, even if they had the system I wanted -- one where I can have different identities in different circles -- I would still worry about Google somehow "leaking" data accidentally or for advertising profit.
You should also visit Tibet.
There are roadblocks and military everywhere. It is bizarre.

Once I saw drunken Chinese soldiers spinning circles in the middle of a small town with a stolen tractor. Super weird scene. The locals were not happy about it.

I had the sense that mainland China IS pretty safe from petty theft because all the police. However, what is up with all the open prostitution when is it supposed to be illegal?

What were we talking about?
You have a credit card with no personally identifying information other than your name on it? No card number, no expiration, no CVV, no phone numbers, etc?

You have a credit card with no ink on it, just laser engraving?

You have a credit card that is made of metal? Not with a metal core and layers of plastic on top of that, as several of the cards in my wallet are, but completely made of metal?

Which card is this?
Revolution CEO Steve Case Hunting for Innovation Outside of Silicon Valley
We're talking about language, not cars. It's no different than if all the emoticons for cars were modified to be RC cars with large antennas surrounded by lighting bolts to signify that they're receiving radio transmissions. An RC car "is a car" a hypothetical you might protest, but a toy car is not the same in substance as "a car" in much the same way that a toy pistol is not the same in substance as "a pistol." Perhaps one day moralizing tech companies might even take this seriously and revise fonts to denormalize personal car ownership for the noble cause of environmental protection. Is that ridiculous? No moreso I'd argue than depicting all handguns as squirt guns.
What’s the float though, the number of homes for sale?
This is...exactly the same as nearly every other retailer in HK. Off the top of my head - of places I’ve bought from recently - only Ikea allows random returns in HK. Everyone else is the same as Apple.

Unlimited returns for any reason at every store is quite an American thing.
You lost me when you said "web based and online".
Reminds me of the movie about the person who built the Getty Center in LA. W

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Paul_Getty
wasn't that a Yogi Bera quote.
Again with the stereotypes. I've never worked at any "nerf guns and beer" place in my life.
> Yet I know that even if you aren't suffering grinding poverty being RELATIVELY poor on a local basis is really hurtful and isolating. It destroys you socially. You can't do what your peers can do and have to stay home.

This resonates with me. I tried explaining this to a relatively new friend recently and he told me "That's your white privilege talking".

People don't seem to understand that suffering is relative, and if you grow up poorer than your peers, it's still hurtful.

No I have to decide which will be better for my kids, the oldest of which is reaching school age. Bottom of a middleclass area or top of a lower class area.
So apple doesn't accept returns, except when compelled to. Therefore we can assume that they have screwed some people in the process.
This has generally good reviews, https://hellonomad.com/products/base-station-apple-watch , although a little expensive.
I can definitely see that point of view at a certain amount of wealth however I see its primary function as security and stability. It really does buy peace of mind when you know that no one is going to take your shelter away, your car isn't going to break down in the middle of the night, you can keep the heat on, and you'll be able to stay afloat in an emergency.
It's more that it uses concurrency intelligently. The underlying stuff is similar to GNU grep.
It technically already does use the Qi standard, just locked down to Apple approved devices [1]. This AirPower cancelation was supposedly canceled because 3D layered coils generate too much heat and they could not figure it out.

[1] https://www.cultofmac.com/398423/apple-forces-you-to-buy-its...
I remember seeing a documentary, where the documentary film maker who was hired by the Biospherians was talking about his experiences there. He remembers when the hummingbirds were dying, and how the Biospherians didn't want to let him photograph and film that. He also talked about how one night at dinner, they all took out these animal masks and started making animal noises. (Something about getting in touch with the spirits of nature or some such.)
Apple Mail and G Suite users: don't install macOS Mojave 10.14.4 update
Hell, I charge my X through a Quad Lock case which is about as thick as you can get (it has a bulge on the back to handle the connection to the Quad Lock mounting devices). It doesn't work with everything, but it works with my cheapo Qi charger and my Nomad charger in my Tesla.

I'm sure it charges more slowly than with no case, but it does what I need.
Depends on the stock too. For example P&G barely moves at all w.r.t noise whereas AMD and Micron frequently move 5% due to noise
> In order to get projects, you have to leave your house and meet other local business owners.

And so we come to one thing that rarely gets explicitly discussed in articles like this - the location. I don't blame authors for that, your environment is usually something you take for granted.

But if I were to go and talk to local business owners where I live (eastern Europe) they would invariably fall in the category of extremely-and-then-some-price-sensitive.

So most of the contracting around these parts is done under the umbrella of various agencies or Toptal. These have ongoing relationships with foreign clients and take advantage of the fact that local market prices for IT folk are nothing compared to western Europe and (especially) US. Not a bad deal, but not as good as fostering relationships with the clients yourself (and these clients are usually at least moderately price sensitive, as otherwise they would probably hire contractors at their location).

I'm sure there are plenty of people that freelance without middlemen where I live, it just seems a lot less prominent than in better developed economies. I know maybe one or two.
Much as appreciate your point, this is not a helpful way to frame the discussion. Name calling and insulting isn't helpful.
+1 on this. Picked mine up around about the same time as you. Built tough. It's a little too big for my daily though these days as I live close enough to walk to work. I bust it out for anything beyond that though.
Clearly I did not understand this :) Is there any reason to not make this the default? I've never used this feature, but if you think it's generically useful, you can email the debian-science list with the suggestion. The maintainer is generally responsive.
The creation of the io.latency block I/O controller
>There would still be plenty of complaints if Apple stopped selling their USB-C power brick.

Of all the examples you could give, I actually think just about nobody would care about the USB-C power brick. To be honest, its kind of stupid already to buy a first party charger. It';s throwing $50+ into the wind.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DW3QGJJ
Who cares - they delay it, reprint and repackage it. Apple is a massive company that’s gone through monumental efforts to enforce quality (in the past). They could’ve at least done that.
Seven to eight decades after 1928 is 1998-2008. Female participation in the labor force grew significantly prior to that, though the main impetus was probably the Second World War.
>Have you ever had this experience before?

No because I use ad blockers religiously.
The more I think about it the less i feel like the cockroaches were the result of a “failure” and the more I think they're actually the data that should be considered a result of the experiment!

I for one welcome...
Any stories come to mind to share?
Local text to speech quality blows this out of the water with a much smaller bandwidth footprint than 1.6kb/s. To me this sounds sort of like "I figured out how to eat a pinecone in less than three seconds". Impressive but not useful.
I’m not an expert on this so I’m just guessing but I think the fake seizures are more for training what to do during the seizure rather than the detection part.
I quite like his presentation format for his online lectures (example - [1]); 3 panels - (1) video of him explaining/board work (2) notes (3) slides, all sync-ed. When he changes topic the slide and notes panel also move forward. And I think this has been around for ~ 10 yr now.

[1] http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.849/fall10/lectures/L01.html
Perhaps a worthy cause, but that website is first-degree eye slaughter.
I'm not sure why that first plot wouldn't be considered continuous. There's a pretty clear positive correlation, which should be more pronounced with a non-log scale y-axis, and more pronounced as you increase the order of the curve.

I'm confused about the second plot; what order is the curve? It seems weird that there are no points between 10^12 and 10^156.
MIDIMAZE III was actually fullscreen!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd6S7xAmfZc

Speaking of networked games, there was a racing game called Hover Sprint which allowed 16 players over MIDI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy90R039b1g

Lastly (just for geek wow really) a guy called Douglas Little has written a POC of Doom for the STE (as well as Quake II for the Falcon):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCvx2O5M69E
Vic made two factual statements, with the disingenuous implication that they are connected or causally related.

Alex Jones is a wacko. Talking to Alex Jones does not necessarily mean you are also a wacko. This new concept of moral badness transitively propagating through conversation is nonsensical and counterproductive.
It's possible to beat the speed of cat, actually. See e.g. https://hub.darcs.net/vmchale/fastcat. One trick is to not free the memory used by the buffer :p
> If you feed a poor person so that they can get a job and contribute to society, that generates quite a lot of economic value.

Not for you. Feeding a poor starving person does not make you richer. If they could have afforded to pay, they would not be starving. The economy fails to incentivize the satisfaction of a real need because it does not value the needs of those without money.

That, of course, is an extreme example, but the same principle applies to all the shades of gray.

> Is that so? That must be why our technology looks the same today as it did 100 years ago. Or 50 years ago. Or 20 years ago. Or 10 years ago. All those zero-sum pissing contests.

Any system of power can lay claim to the products of the society it governs, but I have always found those claims wanting, because there are so many other factors involved. Technological progress in particular. Capitalism's advocates are really good

The notion of incentivizing people to do important work is not unique to capitalism. Capitalism is not even particularly good at it, and is getting worse at it, as inequality in the wealth distribution drives capitalism's notion of what is important further and further away from what most people actually find important.

Capitalism on a somewhat level-ish wealth distribution is great: everyone gets a say in what's important. Capitalism on a super skewed wealth distribution is not great: only the lucky few get to say what's important, and everyone else is ignored. The wealth distribution is the problem, and policy to make sure it doesn't run away is going to be the eventual solution.
Take a look at the bottom of a cardboard box next time you get something delivered - it almost certainly will be stamped with exactly what the burst strength, etc, specifications are. This is big stuff in the packaging industry.

https://www.uline.com/CustomerService/ULINE_FAQ_Ans?FAQ_ID=4...