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Tesla is collecting at least $2 billion in zero emissions credits from GM and Fiat Chrysler over the next two years. China is willing to lend cheap money to them to fund Gigafactory 3. I’m not worried.

I expect StarLink serving North American users in 12-18 months, with all sats flown on flight proven boosters already paid off by paying launch customers.
There was a time when research science was on that list as well, and Apple effectively abandoned them - and continue to do so with nonsense like utterly lacking cuda-capable GPUs.

My lab has grant support. I've bought workstations just as expensive as this recently, but then new Apple ones are non-starters, even if I've been using Macs since I was in 2nd grade.
Any chance one could convince you to also support nano as a editor option?
"How long were you remote before you got the office?"

I was remote for a couple of years from home, traveled around Asia for a year (while still remote), and got an office when I got back (7 years ago).

"Since I didn’t have one at all for years, I’m very conscious of all the lost time in transit each week, even though my commute is pretty short by local standards (~25’)."

It's more than just that. While I did enjoy having coworkers to socialize with, I realized it wasted lots of time during the day. I can get things done with virtually no interruptions and it's great. I regularly meet people through meetup groups in my area, so I still get to socialize. Just not at work (aside from Webex meetings/phone calls).
I find more stuff on Spotify than Apple Music.

I am a huge Apple fan, but Spotify is better in so many ways (Discover weekly and other lists like “piano ballads” - which while not perfect are better than I get on Apple Music)

Maybe it’s because my wife and I share music lists or something but the recommendation engine in Apple Music is not good for me.
You can already set "background app refresh" permissions on a per app basis in iOS12 (and it is disabled system wide if you're in low power mode). I hope this carries through to the new background tasks in iOS13.
Just set EDITOR=nano in your environment, or add it to your aerc.conf. It already works :)
I use POP3, and only wait for mutt when changing to a folder (4s/100k mails). Then everything is basically instantaneous.

But yeah, I don't know about mutt IMAP performance, as I never used it. I've only configured a local IMAP server over my maildir to be able to try aerc. I have no clue why aerc is taking 100-200ms to load a single message (as you see in the video) from the localhost. Maybe naggle (is it even used on localhost)?

Also, I'm not sure how you'd make threads work while loading message list only partially. So full load of the message list is needed anyway (at least once and cache it locally). It's not some failing. I want thread that started 5 months ago to pop forward if new message is posted to it.

EDIT: Faster scrolling loads multiple messages at once faster. Maybe aerc can take into account that user may have scrolled past more than one message in the time the previous message finished loading.
That is intentional. They don't want people who are looking for red flags. They are looking for people to go all in on changing the world.

Three years from now the company will be bankrupt or the applicants will be expendable because the company will be much larger.
I know the international tuition is much higher. But economics dictate the university cannot increase prices when it finds itself with empty slots they need to fill.

Universities will take a large financial hit, but tuition should also decline in the face of lower demand.
I imagine that's not a coincidence.
I tried switching to Edge because it has better touchscreen support, better battery life and some other niceties. But the number of websites that only test in Chrome is... not small.
Frankly, looking at all my apps, the only use-case I have for background tasks is Google Photos, who I want to automatically upload my recent photos to the cloud. A very distant second would be communication apps running some kind of reconciliation once or twice a day, in case some notifications were missed.

I have no desires for any of my other apps to execute any tasks in the background.
It will only be available to everyone after it's patented and sold to a big pharma. All made possible by the great Bayh–Dole Act - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act
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I'm definitely a critic of China's awful stance on human rights, but would Trump taking a stance against China's despotic government on humanitarian grounds seem the least bit credible when that seems to be the de-facto justification du jour for foreign regime change?
Assad barrel bombs, Iran nuclear this that, Gaddafi something something... I've long since stopped giving the ( unilateral ) American government the benefit of doubt when they complain about other counties' treatment of their citizens. At least this time they're being remotely honest.
That's what a scratch disk is for
If your hardware cost is driven by the performance of your shell, I question what you're doing with your terminal emulator.

I can think of essentially zero areas in which zsh is slower than bash in which it is slow enough to create the need for a hardware upgrade, or even contribute to such a need on an already-overloaded system. I mean, sure, file performance bugs if you want.

But your shell is not going to be the "oh christ, this is slow" program; it doesn't run Electron for chrissakes.
I’m only familiar with working in bash and bash scripts. What do I need to know about the differences with zsh?
Buttercup’s comment is a sweet little Rorschach test.
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Yes. Move to Vermont or Michigan, get 3 of those new monitors, plus this machine, and bask in the glory as they warm your room in the winter with the heat turned off.
Optimizing MySQL for indixes of Latitude and Longitude
Some color would be nice. (I quite like Irssi's color scheme)
Because they don’t generate interest ?
Not really. Most Chinese PhD students have full assistantship.

Most Chinese undergraduate students won't be able to get job in the US anyway.

Your second and first paragraphs are talking about different things.
While I don't agree with what Trump is doing, there is something to be said about students that come to the US to study, only to use the knowledge and information back home to destroy US companies.
If you pick up a virtual orange or type on a virtual keyboard, they will be impressed.

If you move a robot arm, they will be inspired. Future is certainly augmented.
Of course they did. That’s the only way government business gets done in this administration.

In other news, water is wet.
This. And my thesis was about how tf-idf and embeddings with deep (deeeeeep) neural networks could be give better results in authorship attribution.
Why account passwords are stored on plaintext after the wizard? How do you encrypt them while configuring?
The people who have these problems rarely have money, in my experience. Have done almost all the work pro bono (which I’m fine with, it just doesn’t scale). These are systemic issues that need addressing. Medical collections should not be a thing. Federal and state law should fiercely protect against abusive creditors and lazy credit reporting agencies.
If you're already logged in and have created a WaaS account, go to "My Application" and update the part that asks if you're interested in the Expo.

If you are not already logged in/do not have a WaaS account, you should see a button saying "Apply to Attend"
> Apple Pencil latency is dropping from 20ms to 9ms,

This is why I respect Apple. Most tech forums would have been flooded people whinging about how mere humans can’t perceive such low latencies and how improving them is a waste. Meanwhile Apple knows not to leave anything on the table for UX.
That is how it works to the best of my knowledge, but most users don't browse that way; they browse from the home page. Hence it's a perceived issue to a lot of creators. Not saying I agree that the answer is no recommendation engines ("algorithms"), though...

The bell controls notifications about new content, which was a change from older YouTube, where they would notify for all new videos for subscriptions on mobile. But as the userbase grew, so too did their subscription lists, so it really is a reasonable feature. So this is the "change" the YouTubers talk about.
There appears to be something of a software engineering crisis in academia.

Imagine that you are a graduate student or a newly minted PHD who happens to be pretty good at practical software engineering: You can leave academia for FAANG and a solid six figure income, or you can stay struggling, poorly paid, unable to get tenure in academia. In some groups software engineers are treated as glorified typists, too valuable enabling other people's work to be a principle researcher themselves. I've heard from a number of people that they avoid hiding their programming skills to avoid that trap.

This has many consequences beyond the obvious direct ones like papers with unusable implementations.

Academic work is often valuable even when it isn't practically useful but in many cases where academics are /trying/ to do something practical they fail because their community lacks the engineering experience-- I've seen a fair number of papers presenting optimizations as useful engineering when in reality their approach only makes sense because of inefficient non-programmer tools make a weird set of primitives fast (e.g. using a matrix multiply in matlab where in C you'd simply write a loop). As a practitioner this is frustrating because it sometimes requires re-implementing the approach to realize that it was only 'fast' compared to a pants-on-head-foolish approach.

It also can create essentially fake results.

Many times the lack of software engineering is compensated for by mocking components out in ways that would give faithful results if the researcher understood everything, but the whole point of expirementation is that the researcher doesn't! This mocking is seldom disclosed in papers. For example, I've encountered multiple papers that claimed to implement some enhancement to Bitcoin and tested it in a test bed but in reality they just added sleep()s with appropriate times, guessed out of specious reasoning like "our function X should be 10x slower than a signature", and hardcoded constants (computed in mathmatica or sage) for their messages. ... not realizing that sleep() isn't the best analog for cpu busywork in a multithreaded program!

Another kind of fake result I've encountered which is even less directly a result of the software engineering shortage is in signal processing literature. While working on audio/video compression I found it common for algorithms to be presented without various constants and after reimplementing and asking the authors for their constants I found that they'd been cherrypicked for the ten images used in the paper, and that the whole approach doesn't actually work. This is a kind of ineptitude (or outright dishonesty) that would be much less common in a world where reviewers received a working and usable implementation in source form-- but that can't be expected in a world where qualified software engineering is not readily available to researchers.

I don't have any proposed solutions but I think it's important to acknowledge that it is a common and serious limitation to the usefulness and accuracy of contemporary research.
That's an incredibly high bar. I'd honestly be shocked if even the hardcore NT Kernel developers had built a microcoded branch predicting processor.
Theoretical "perfect" competition eats all money that could go toward R&D, by making profits razor-thin. It's an awful way to exist that no sane person who's thought it through actually wants—assuming it could ever exist stably for any length of time, which, probably not.

Going the other direction, monopolies leave the most money available for R&D. Japan famously leveraged the power of a small set of huge players—not monopolies, but very, very far from "perfect competition" markets, certainly—to drive post-WWII R&D, ensuring their continued success by delivering them a captive domestic market while pooling their excess funds with cooperation-encouraging incentives (=more money, from the government) to rapidly improve their tech and productive capabilities, aiming to become an export powerhouse. It worked.

This is not meant to be a defense of monopolies, especially those not firmly under the yoke of government to ensure all that excess is captured in some way for something resembling the public good, but the situation is more complex than one might first think, and whether one may prefer a huge number of market participants or a small number could be very much situational.
Yes, and the post I was replying to was citing 2003 prices.
The trouble here is the definition of "market". Apple's ecosystem (which Apple has an absolute control on) doesn't seem to be very safe from being defined as a sole market since there's no viable substitute to the app store for Apple users.

For instance, even if Apple decides to increase the app store fee to 50% so its app's prices as well, still consumers don't have much choice since buying a new phone is typically more expensive by order of magnitude than buying an app. This is also a part of Spotify's claim as well and Apple is trying to defend itself for this time unlike Apple v. Pepper.
I'm guessing the main problem is that I can't cancel an IMAP request once it goes out. When you scroll down, one at a time, through all of the messages like that, I have to wait for ones that scrolled offscreen long ago before I can read out the details for the ones onscreen now. Adding an option to fetch all headers when opening a folder might be wise, or just fetching the offscreen headers in the background while idle. Another thing some email clients do is open several IMAP connections, but pooling connections to implement cancellation could get icky.

aerc will also support maildir before 1.0, which doesn't have the same issue, and will be at least as fast as mutt.

>Also, I'm not sure how you'd make threads work while loading message list only partially. So full load of the message list is needed anyway (at least once and cache it locally). It's not some failing. I want thread that started 5 months ago to pop forward if new message is posted to it.

IMAP has a thread extension I intend to put to good use for this purpose.
I clean trains (includes lots of toilets) the hilarious story to share is that long long ago one would just show up at the trainstation and be hired to clean by annother cleaner. Paid in cash every friday. Over time a truly insane number of madly overpaid deskjokeys was tagged onto the process to do countless completely nonsensical tasks. From a really well paid job and really good cleaning, in 70 years, things moved to really shit pay and half the employees. The work didnt change at all but everything is measured to the detail. Apparently the combination of shit pay and more work than one can do makes employees unreliable enough to justify tons of desk work. The hr and countless job agencies are completely overworked. The measurment of bad results triggers countless meetings. The ppl making work schedules are tasked with a completely and utterly impossible mission. But it gets truly hilarious where the cleaners bring new employees into the 3rd party job agencies, when we dont like it change the work schedule and carefully compare salaries with hours worked. So nothing has really changed at all. The only new thing is that for every 1000 euro in actual cleaning there is now 2500 euro in administrative tasks.
Fuel taxes are high enough for America. It's not fair to compare the US and the EU. The EU has an extra trillion or so per year to spend on swanky infrastructure and entitlements since it doesn't have to outlay much for its own defense.
Embrace, extend.

So what's next?
Because we’ve learned time after time that one size fits all is a fool’s dream.
Disney owns ABC. ABC owns America’s Funniest Home Videos. AFV owns decades and decades of some of the best, curated, family-friendly, user-submitted home made videos the world has to offer.

AFV was YouTube before the internet. I’m certain AFV will have a lot of content on Disney+ specifically to capture that audience of kids interested in more organic content.
I find this line of thinking so odd, because nobody ever says “exporting American {cars/corn/computers} to China drives up demand and costs to US citizens.” The worst-case scenario here is that education is economically just equivalent to an export, but that’s still a pretty great scenario! Especially since it’s an export that doesn’t pollute, supports high-paying labor, perpetuates the global premium associated with a US education, and has the side effect that sometimes foreign students do stay and continue to contribute to the economy.
> a truly independent browser would probably do something shocking, like bundling adblock.

Opera does this: https://www.opera.com/computer/features/ad-blocker
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Except Apple isn’t a monopoly on mobile devices.

How can you be said to have a monopoly on your own platform when that platform itself is a small % of the market?

The argument is ridiculous on its merits unless you are willing to ignore years of established case law (which is the basis of our Jurisprudence)
man aerc-imap for details, you can specify an external command to run. The creds file is chmod 600, and most other email clients (e.g. thunderbird) are also storing your creds in plaintext - it's just less obvious cause they put them in sqlite or something.
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There also the potential that many of these students may work for the Chinese government. Do not doubt this. SO having them here offers no benefit to the USofA. We have just as many talented Americas to fill jobs etc. This is not a diversity issue. Trump is hitting China in every possible because of the trade advantages they have had for so long as well.

Peace
Did they ever deposit the check?
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Hm! I can't think of much to add, except.. the next thing I would've worked on might've been to integrate a client for https://patchwork.kernel.org/ to keep it in sync and mark patches there as handled.
But they get a number of upvotes (which could be considered a proxy indicator of interest). In some instances the show page top submission has a higher up vote count than most of the front page but still does not show up.
I don't disagree. But I don't see a better solution. Why would someone with a family take a risk for instance? I know that Volvo are taking safety very seriously, and want to have 0 fatalities (even pedestrians) sometime this coming decade.

I think emissions can be improved with things like hybrid drive trains and electric motors.
What an absolutely harrowing, hair-raising tale. Reading this, it's hard for me to fathom the reasons why this guy and the other migrants are willing to subject themselves to this. What courage...
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How easy is it to tell it what IMAP folders to use for sent mail, deleted mail, and drafts?

A while back, I engaged in epic combat against Apple Mail on my Mac, Apple's iOS mail app on my iPhone, Outlook on my Mac, Outlook on my gaming PC, Outlook on my Surface Pro 4, and Thunderbird on my Mac to banish the blight of, e.g., Sent, Sent Mail, and Sent Messages, and similar for drafts and deleted.

It was an epic struggle, but I finally got them to all agree on Sent, Trash, Drafts (and Junk for spam). I'm not going near any other email client now without being sure I can tell it to use those before I let it have access to my IMAP.
Unfortunately, many geek forums accept cynicism, negativity, sarcasm and snark, and downvote a happy post, usually with some excuse like "doesn't contribute to the discussion".
It received just enough to pass,

Only Democrat votes. Republicans and rank-and-file Democrats were not allowed to even see the final bill before the vote.
Easy, you can change what folder it treats as sent. It doesn't have a trash bin (and it won't) or draft support (and it will) yet.
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Even the bell is no longer reliable.
Thanks! I wonder if you've seen my work with mailing lists on sourcehut, by the way?

https://sourcehut.org

I'm working on a replacement for patchwork. Here's an example of a thread which was rendered with my tool, which is just generated from organic mail threads without extra human intervention:

https://lists.sr.ht/~philmd/qemu/patches/5556

If you have more feedback or thoughts around this, I'd love to hear it too :)