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Note that PC gaming isn't just the ultra expensive 2080ti powered desktops, if anything people using those are a bit of a loud show-off minority (just check the Steam metrics for a much more realistic image). My current computer costs around 450 euros, monitor and peripherals included, is based on a 2400 Ryzen APU and i can run most recent games at mid-quality settings at 1366x768 (which is the native resolution of my monitor, bought explicitly because i prefer low DPI in GUI and for having better performance in games without the blurry upscale that i'd need with a 1080p monitor - note BTW that i got a decent quality VA monitor for better dark colors, there were cheaper options including some 1080p ones if you really want that). Of course this computer will need an upgrade at some point, but even if i decide that i'll only play games released up until today, i'll still have years worth of gaming :-P.

Of course that doesn't mean consoles aren't often cheaper (although the games are MUCH more expensive, especially if you do not want to wait for a while for the prices to drop and/or deals) or that Stadia couldn't be cheaper. Just pointing out that PC gaming isn't the ultra expensive thing people often associate it with (and a PC can do stuff beyond playing games while has the vastest game library of all platforms).
Yes, one of my daily drivers is an ergodox ez. Using thumb keys to change layers is a total game changer, but I also use this technique on my nyquist.
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The problem isn't that they sell no useful items, they just sell so many items that even if a small percentage (it's not a small percentage) are destined for landfill then they're creating an astonishing amount of waste.
What do you mean by dying. Are you referring to low birth rates or other factors?
Especially after the 737-MAX disaster.
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I mean to an extent you do search for the least number of move: you memorize a number of different algorithms and apply the one that will work with the least number of moves in the given situation.

The method used by a majority of cubers is called "CFOP" [1] which can can solve the cube in "average 50-60 moves" according to a quora user [2].

[1] https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/advanced-cfop-fridrich/
[2] https://www.quora.com/How-many-moves-does-it-take-to-solve-R...
I don’t trust sideloaded apps with background access to both my location and the Internet, so it gives me no sadness to hear this.
Fortunately, Nvidia has finally decided to get their act together. They contributed the wayland backend for KWin/KDE that got merged just last week.

If I am not wrong gnome 3.32 also has the nvidia wayland backend
I hate it when I accidentally write some code to crawl email accounts for data and accidentally upload that data. Accidentally deploy that code to production, hide the opt-out button, and forget to post a disclaimer. Gosh darn it!

I'm just a mess without my morning coffee. If I don't get a good cup of joe in the AM I could do something reckless and random... like violate the privacy of millions of people! OOPS!

You know what I'm talking about!
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> many cannot in non geological time

Are the things that can't be bootstrapped actually worth doing?
One of the things that's surprised me from learning both Spanish and German is that whilst for a small, basic set of vocabulary, German and English are very similar (e.g. Haus, Schuh, Hund vs. Casa, Zapato or Pero in Spanish), the two languages diverge massively for higher level vocabularies whilst Spanish seems to converge (for example, importante, diferente, imposible vs. wichtig, anders, unmöglich). The net effect is that my Spanish comprehension is considerable better than my German - I can read a news article in Spanish and get a reasonably good gist of what it says; but I still find myself all at sea when reading even relatively simple phrases in German - typically wondering to myself what the hell verb is that?
>don’t forget that these users consciously gave Facebook their passwords.

There is a lot of legal precedence about social engineering and how to prosecute it, this would completely fall under fraud. If I ask someone for their password to perform some service and they then I copy all of their data, that is a crime regardless of how stupid they are.

This really doesn't matter at all in a case of fraud if you gave the password willingly, it is under false pretense. If someone asks me to give them something so that they can provide a service or take those things as an investment. I willingly give them those things yes, but we have a written, verbal, or implied contract that they will do and will not do certain things with that information. Failure to follow our agreement and instead robbing me is a crime.
You're not alone. My boss was trying to research some Python stuff. Bottle, Celery..."who came up with these terms!"
RE 2), I think the article pretty clearly implies your project of love should pay its own costs. Once your users pay more than they cost you, scaling problem disappears - in fact, economies of scale are your friend here.
Yes there is such magic wording. You can't use the software without agreeing to the license. It is obviously the case that anyone who contributes is a user of the software. Thus all contributors are bound by the license terms whether or not their names are added to any list. If any contributor were to assert a violation of their copyright, they would themselves be in violation of the license.
“I have an idea”

“That’s a really dick of an idea and I’m pretty sure it’s illegal. Exactly how illegal, I’m not sure. But I know illegal to some degree.”

“You live in a shit apartment because housing prices are stupid and makes your salary meaningless in this town. Here’s a wheelbarrow full of hundreds and we all agree it was an accident.”

“When do you need it by?”
Linux survived these attacks. Debian survived them. Ubuntu did. More or less all Linux distributions have been attacked but survived, many of them thrive.

Yes, this is free software. Being less susceptible to these problems has been one of the stated advantages of using such for a long time. Alternative 'stores' carrying 'pirated' non-free software do not have this advantage and can easily turn into dark places so the solution does not lie there.

Will people choose a 'boring' free software 'store' over a 'cool pirate store' (Arrrrr!)? Some will, some won't. Those who will will end up being mostly silent as the thing just works. Those who won't will be susceptible to the whims of those who put up those 'stores' and are likely to come home with a bit more than they asked for.

Some 'stores' will get a good reputation along the lines of that of F-Droid, some will get the reputation of being the place to go to get the latest craze but also the latest infection. Users will start making conscious decisions based on those reputations, just like they already do elsewhere.

Will opening up closed platforms like iOS for third-party software repositories get rid of these problems? No, it won't, it will even raise the average level of problematic software on that platform. The difference between closed systems and more open ones is not that the closed ones are inferior, it is that they limit the user's choice to get something which is better as well as worse than what the walled garden offers. In this context better can mean software which does not come with tracking, analytics, profiling and other such privacy-invading nonsense. I can get the source code and build it myself, I can host my own repository, only time limits where I can go. This is not true for the Google Play Store or the Apple Appstore, nor is it true for the Amazon equivalent or any of those Chinese alternatives. That is why I chose to use something like F-Droid.

By the way, there is nothing keeping e.g. Facebook or Twitter from releasing a free software version of their apps. Their value - and most of their profiling proficiency - lies in their platforms, not in the apps used to access them. They might lose any additional venues for leaching the user of data but they would gain some believability when they state that they're not up to no good. Of course there are plenty of alternative apps for these services so they don't really need to but they could if they wanted to.
A lot of airline-style cockpit resource management is being adapted for operating theatres, and it is a good thing.

If a junior person thinks that a senior person is about to make a terrible mistake, then the word "Stop!" should be used, along with the reason. That word will often make even the most arrogant person pause and think about what they are doing.
You...”doubt it”? I guess the issue is settled, then. I’ll take it that the underlying argument is “government bad, private good”. It doesn’t really contribute anything, but at least we can guess at the reasoning.
Extreme protectionism can be dangerous for sure. But the Bombardier example and protectionism in aerospace isn't a negative example of protectionism. It actually shows that protectionism works. The US benefited by having bombardier planes being built in the US. More jobs, more work for american workers and more taxes for the government. It's a win-win situation. You could argue that Boeing lost out, but they really didn't either.

Bombardier, Airbus, Boeing and the entire aerospace industry in every country exists primarily due to protectionism. Without canadian government support and market protection, bombardier could not exist. Without EU protection, Airbus cannot exist. Boeing or other aerospace companies would have underbid bombardier and airbus out of existence because they produced their own planes.

It's why China and Japan also use significant protectionism to protect their aerospace industry. They, like the US and EU, all "encourage" their own national carriers to buy from national manufacturers.

As others have noted, aerospace industry is inherently dual function just like satellite/GPS industry. They, by their innate nature, serve both the civilian and military industries.

I know we are told "protectionism" is bad from a young age, but the modern industrial world ( starting with the US ) was created by protection. Almost every industry in every industrial nation owes it's rise to protectionism. If you have the time, you should read up on the history of US protectionism in the 1800s, which set the example that every major economy from china to germany to japan to south korea followed to become major economic players.

Without protectionism, we don't have Airbus, Bombardier, etc. Without protectionism, we also don't have Samsung, Toyota, Sony, Volkswagen, etc. Without protectionism, every industry in the US would have been bought up or controlled by the wealthier british industrialists.

The first act of Congress was an act of protectionism - a tariff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_of_1789
I think in the same line of logic we have to recognize that maybe we can do without some smart things, and we should seriously evaluate / question if they really provide much actual value. It can seem like there is value there, but the end result might be far different than we think.

In Minnesota red light cameras and such automated ticketing systems were determined to be illegal (for the state):

https://www.thenewspaper.com/news/16/1688.asp

The result? Minnesota isn't experiencing some sort of Mad Max like traffic apocalypses, things seem pretty normal and I don't know of any dramatic disparity between places that use such cameras and those who do not. Meanwhile corruption and other issues cloud the traffic camera world... it's a product that arguably encourages / benefits bad actors, and possibly nobody else despite what we might otherwise think it does.

Sometimes despite what we might want, we just don't need smart stuff and using it just allows for bad actors and little else. There's lots of talk about home smart speakers but then on HN we see all sorts of discussions of people who bought them and admit, they really don't get a great deal of utility from them... so perhaps we've just paid for a product that actually provides google or amazon more utility than we ever get...

As Frank Herbert said:

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

In Dune the result was that mankind eventually did away with "thinking machines" as it was clear the risk was greater than the reward.
Sure. However, for this simple illustration of how sound bites evolve in meaning over time, I think it makes more sense to look at the semantics of the phoneme "za" rather than the prefix's technical grammatical meaning (though your addendum is useful and correct).
Thanks for pointing this out. I guess this is something I had assumed Google does by serving the fonts for free, but I never really bothered to look into it. Going to remove all Google Fonts references from my projects now.
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Not everything can be bootstrapped, but there are different types of investments. The problem is that VC-backed companies can outspend and thus outcompete companies on a saner but slower investment schedule.
Probably no qa. Lots of tech companies put qa on the developer
Its only ecologically sound if you throw away your heirloom furniture after 10 years just like you have to throw away the IKEA furniture. If you still use the same table your great-great grandma used the heirloom furniture is better ecologically.

Considering the amount of glues and plastic required to make IKEA furniture I'm not convinced even at the 10 year mark IKEA is better ecologically, but that is a complex question that I wouldn't know how to analyse (if anyone tries I expect a few years latter someone will find a significant factor they didn't account for, and again a few years latter...)
If it's deployed. Due to my partner flying for work I've seen most passenger planes from above while at the gate or in flight. Never paid attention to the landing gear except to note that it was down.

But for most people when they look at a plane it's either from the front or the back. Boeing planes have a sharp tapered nose. Airbus have rounder nose with a steep incline at the cockpit window. To me, one looks like a shark and the other a dolphin.

It get's complicated for the smaller, regional fleets. I know an ATR when I see it but I would have some difficulty differentiating an Embraer from a CRJ or 707.
I guess your app is Android only - I can't imagine this working well on any iOS device, regardless of being a native app.
I have a prescription that means I take eight pills in one go. And they are provided in blister packs. It's really annoying. I can see that this is a thing.
I really want to read that article, but there's an advertisement covering the "continue reading" button.
I didn't know the Web Share API existed, but based on the RFC, it looks like yet another Google-driven "standard." I still don't see why it needs to be added to the page.
Never had this problem with KDE. New KDE actually seems to work OK without killing off the file system indexer.
Some JVMs use fat pointers where the pointer embeds the dynamic type of the class rather than the statically declared type. This permits inline caches to verify the type of the instance without any indirections.

Delphi implemented interfaces like the C++ approach, and in order to be compatible with COM, it didn't have a huge amount of flexibility: interfaces are mandated by the COM ABI to be called like this:

reference->vtable->method(reference)

This pretty much forces the vtable references to be stored in the object instance, one per implemented interface. Casting an instance to an interface means adding the offset to the vtable in the object data to the instance pointer.

The vtables for every interface point at stubs which subtract the same offset and then jump to the implementation, so that object data is where it's expected for a normal instance method call.

COM influenced the internal design of Java interfaces too - the first three slots were reserved for COM's lifetime management and typecasting methods. I'm not sure anything practically ever came from that though.

I reused the interface calling mechanism when I implemented anonymous methods in Delphi. Anonymous methods can capture variables from their declaring scope; the captured state needs lifetime management in the absence of GC, so I piggy-backed on COM's lifetime management. This reduced the effort to interop with C++ too.
He was the first author I read where I couldn't get away with my typical habit at-the-time of skimming the boring bits, rather than paying close attention to the text, and which was interesting enough to warrant reading more carefully. A great writer. I'll have to pick up what I missed of his work.
I'm curious to know how overpopulation causes corruption.
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I'm going to check out Isaac Arthur, it looks like there are audio only versions on soundcloud, which works better for me. I've used Art Bell and Terrence McKenna (via the Psychedelic Salon) in the past, and pretty much anything that is mildly interesting yet monotone and frequently I use a sleep timer since I'm generally asleep pretty quickly when this works.

For me the sleep prep is more about momentum than duration, if I'm moving in the relaxing direction the duration of the prep is not as important and I can go to sleep shortly after watching TV or using my PC.
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I just got a 4K 27inch monitor and it worked great on windows 10 125% scaling, using hdmi. Then, I actually had to use the macbook for work, and it didn't get past your step 1. There is no way to alter the sizes of things, its either 1080p on 27in or full 4k. But, I decided to try one more thing, and got the usb-c to displayport cable. Behold, it allowed me to have 1440p HiDPI scaling, which HDMI didn't. And, I thought it was an HDMI 2 cable. So, that's something to try, but probably just on Mac.
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> Are you ok with that gamble?

Yes.
A while ago, I made a libsodium wrapper for my personal projects (which I eventually plan to use in hobby game dev).

I'm going to be porting it to a few more languages in the near future, for projects that myself and my friends are building.

However, it should be generally useful to anyone wanting their cryptography APIs to be almost mind-numbingly easy.
Bloomberg specifically tries to push stories that move the markets. That alone makes me take their articles with a grain of salt.
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The train has already gone but the whole "HiDPI scaling" is such a sad solution to the problem. Were the existing DPI APIs really such a dead end? They could have been extended to support on the fly DPI changes. The web "px" debacle is part of the same culture, I guess.
So there is 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 positions of a Rubik's Cube? Pretty mind blowing.
There's no law that makes "hacking" a criminal offense. This particular case is just manipulation/social engineering so you probably shouldn't be calling it "hacking" on a message board that's mostly populated by software professionals to whom "hacking" has a meaning that does not include what is basically a con-man trick (though I see you have already edited the parent comment to reflect this).
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That's true. I bet we'll see many more different sorts of jobs open up as tech increases in complexity.
In Daiso anything without a price tag will be 100 yen plus consumption tax. Tags are only for things 200 yen or more. Thus you will only see tags saying 200, 300, or 500 yen.
FB's public comments about these remind me a lot of the "5 Standard Excuses" scene in the '80s BBC sitcom Yes Minister, where a civil servant lists the best CYA mea culpas for politicians to use when something goes wrong.

1. It occurred before certain important facts were known, and couldn’t happen again

2. It was an unfortunate lapse by an individual, which has now been dealt with under internal disciplinary procedures.

3. There is a perfectly satisfactory
explanation for everything, but security forbids its disclosure.

4. It has only gone wrong because of heavy cuts in staff and budget which have stretched supervisory resources beyond their limits.

5. it was a worthwhile experiment, now abandoned, but not before it had provided much valuable data and considerable employment.
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A violent and deranged woman. Watch the videos and be the judge how this apathetic woman retaliates against a neighbor for calling the cops.
Is this how a wife and a mother should behave???
Youtube:
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Got very confused for a moment: https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet
They were non trivially higher a little over a year ago, so I'd argue they could do with some propping up....
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That's much more relevant criticism.
The author refers to creating economic opportunities as making watering holes.
In the Florida everglades, each alligator makes a watering hole in the flat, hard limestone ground. I don't know how big the holes are. About 20 feet across and 6 feet deep? The alligator mostly lives in it for several years.
The hole fills with water when it rains, and tends to stay full of water during the dry season.
This is a huge benefit to all animals around it. And of course, the alligator benefits by occasionally eating one of the visitors, but fewer than you might think.
But even with the alligator eating, making the watering hole is a huge net benefit to the ecosystem as a whole.

I think the question boils down to, "How can the government encourage the creation of new job-creating watering holes, instead of pushing policies which increase the rent of existing watering holes?"
Your startup seems to be doing pretty well (I would call it "profitable-able in a pinch") and you have a mini safety net with your wife's academic employment should provide health insurance indefinitely if you do take the jump. Also, with your experience you will also likely find job in industry if your startup folds, so you have fallback options, assuming you are OK with working for a corporation.

That said, I would personally still take your "one more year" option as it gives you an extra year to get your startup to profit without officially resigning. This seems to be a very valuable freebie. Did I misread your web post about this option or are you reluctant to take this for other reasons?

And finally, on your startup -- I would steer it to become profitable ASAP; for example if and when you are deciding between hiring a fifth employee (to grow faster) or getting profitable sooner I would take the second path. My 2c. And good luck whichever option you choose!
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Most people care about the features, there's a really small amount of people for which the tech stack matters. Negligible, I'd guess.

So no, you're not doing anyone any favours here, just spreading negativity.
> the semantics of the phoneme "za"

The thing is, the “phoneme” [sic] za has an array of meanings, and this was true already by the Proto-Slavic stage. Sure, one could recommend as a mnemonic device that a learner see Russian zapomnit’ ‘commit to memory’ as a compound of ‘behind’ + ‘remember’, but that isn’t the actual etymology of the word. It is a folk etymology.
> the lack of glue in their construction

They're made of particleboard - it's literally made of wood chips glued into a block. Glue is the only thing holding it together.
If you can hear them, sound differentiates them pretty effectively too. Most Airbuses haven't been fixed yet.
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So similar to many parts of Manhattan?