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> entered the specialised market realm

The reasoning in this thread started with something along the lines of "if you use your computer professionally... [statements]". I would argue that if you use your computer professionally you should definitely consider using specialised products, which includes custom built desktops as you correctly noted.
Does cross-breeding ability automatically mandate a shared genus? Could they have genetically drifted in enough ways to be in separate genuses, even if reproductive compatibility isn't one of those ways?
I think on sufficiently close inspection, the lines between all types of abstract ideas - "algorithms", "copyrightable text or other art", "engineering techniques", and "patentable technology" - will prove to be as vaporous as the distinction between "numerical" and "nonnumerical" algorithms. Even squishy, unmathematical art is ultimately the product of algorithms running in our brains - and probably simpler ones than we'd like to admit.

Fundamentally, is there any difference between Vincent Van Gogh discovering that he can make pretty pictures by flicking his brush just so, and Benoit Mandelbrot discovering he can make pretty pictures with z => z^2+c ?
> The hominin—identified from a total of seven teeth and six small bones

Whenever I read such things, I'm amazed at how much knowledge you can get out of three handful of bones -- and on the hand I wonder if that's maybe still too little to declare the discovery of a whole species of hominin.
All of your problems will magically disappear if you don't buy laptops with nvidia gpus. People really ought to do some basic basic research before dropping a couple of grand on hardware.
Wow, it took me some time. For the other slow brains like me: he's talking about wood. Good joke tho :).
Interesting idea. I bet you might even find someone who would be willing to pay you to live there. Crazy idea, I’m sure…
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> but it's easily doable for everyone on this site

And that's where you lost sight of the big picture. Slack is _not_ for people on this site it's specifically for people out there: people who don't know and don't need to know what a protocol is, who don't care about netsplits, who couldn't be bothered to install some random stupid stuff on their machine and spend an afternoon configuring it just to be able to talk to their co-worker. We're not the target here. And yet it has convinced some of us because it ticks so many boxes by default.
The main issue I have with Apple is that they are pushing to make it impossible to repair things, not selling parts, trying to make illegal refurbishing parts, trying to prevent third party repairs and finally straight lying about things, like telling customers "your data can't be recovered, say goodbye to it" when in fact this is false and the truth is "Apple won't bother do data recovery for you, third parties do this but we don't want to talk about that"
References to posts on reddit should be banned everywhere else. 80% of all reddit is inhabited by 15-year old kids and internet crazies. Nothing should be re-posted here from there.
Life is not a subject of thoughts and purpose, our imaginary thoughts and imaginary purposes contained in it.
I agree.

I've always owned a car despite having lived in Z2 etc in London.

It is completely impractical to use trains for general transport unless you plan everything months in advance or you're not paying for it. The tube and NR within the Oyster zone are an exception - those are relatively cheap and work well.

Anywhere outside of the M25 is like going back to the dark ages.

Today is Friday. Let's say I decide to visit family because I'm free, a friend cancelled plans, whatever. This is not a cherry picked example; I'm typing this before I even look.

OK, I've just checked. An advance single to my hometown is between 80 and 100 GBP depending on time. That's not including travel on either side, just mainline to mainline. There are no changes required.

Most cars will do that journey for 20 GBP, in far more comfort, at any time I would like to leave (maximum traffic variation would be approx 1 hour in a 4 hour journey).

I've bought an electric vehicle because air pollution is a real problem.

But getting rid of cars? Intercity rail needs to be fixed first, and I mean really fixed - the prices need to come down by _at least_ a factor of 2.

I haven't even mentioned the fact that if you want to live within walking distance of a station that can commute into London, you've missed the window on ever owning a home that's not an absolute shoebox; so for most that actually want a real family home, a car is still the only option because living close to the tube needs inherited wealth, a 1% job, or doing it 20 years ago.
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“There is only one really serious philosophical problem,” Camus says, “and that is suicide. Deciding whether or not life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question in philosophy. All other questions follow from that.”

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/camus/#SuiResAbs
It's amazing how many multibillion dollar companies have arisen by, fundamentally, creating a worse version of the phone book that's nonetheless more popular because it's on the web
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I think hedonism is a valid personal choice(if it's a culture-wide beneficial choice -- that's debatable), there's no need to paint other choices black(not saying you were doing directly).

Experiencing in myself and other what you call the "relationship escalator" -- I can assure you it's not driven by hedonism, it's just a functional necessity, at least in the vast majority of cases and history(sure there can be people doing it to brag on social media).

To me it seems that the term "relationship escalator" is pejorative and that you were conflating it with the "hedonic treadmill" and somehow contrasting it with polyamory.

The "hedonic treadmill" effect as described in the wikipedia should apply just as much to monogamy and polyamory or celibacy -- after all, it suggests you will revert to mean happyness after a while.
It's the biggest question in your mind. In existence, there are no questions.
This is a really intriguing idea. But whoever designed that has never spent a summer with the kind of raccoons we have up here.
Indeed, in the west we are lucky (in some sense) that our tech is big enough that it is able to band together and stand up against unreasonable demands from the government.

In China, I can't imagine Huawei/Tencent/etc refusing to help the government break into someone's phone or create a backdoor into an "encrypted" chat.
Being a devil's advocate here, but why would anyone trust an American company with there data?

I get China is the bad guy and all that, but American companies are basically doing the same thing, they just have different ways of describing the process.
The market does incorporate new information into the price, but that doesn’t mean new business information is the only driver of the price, the largest driver of the price, or that the price is well set to begin with.

Consider the current state of the economy. People have lots of money with fewer places to put it. Lots of people just dump it into index funds. That means more shares of large companies are bought, which means the price of those shares is going to go up. This is happening as a fixed function based on total market cap. Did we really get any new information to believe that npv of future cash flows had gone up? Nah.
That's why I would never buy a Ferrari. In my small town, I wouldn't be able to find anyone to work on it. What a crap car.
One of the things that threw me off when watching forging YouTube videos like Alec Steele was that he would take on these historical projects like Renaissance weaponry but using super-modern power hammers and such. But they actually had power hammers in the Renaissance, Wikipedia calls them trip hammers. They didn't appear in Europe until the Middle Ages, but similar devices were used in China 2000 (!) years ago.

The things you can do with just water, wind, and wood are incredible.
A fine is simply passed on to customers or employees. If the fine is great enough, it could result in bankruptcy which harms employees and potentially customers.

Asset seizure targets the ones culpable rather than just transferring some or all of that burden. And regardless of the size of the penalty, there is no danger to third parties like employees, customers or other organizations along the supply chain.

If the above examples are inadequate, I will add civil asset forfeiture which is applied widely to crimes on the low end of the economic spectrum, even without convictions, but with great parsimony to crimes on the upper end even with conviction.
A few years ago some idiot marked up pretty much every walk way in my town as a cycle way. As a keen cyclist who lives in a town with a somewhat poor provision for cycling, this is somewhat irritating as it makes our local government look like it is doing well.

I followed the feedback link and reported a whole heap of these, including links to Streetview showing the "No Cycling" signs in some places. I got automated replies to say that someone would deal with my report - but nothing happended. They are all still showing up.

Perhaps even Google doesn't care about Google.
> Why anyone would trust an app from China with any of their data is beyond me.

I don't think this is exclusive to China. Why would anyone trust any app from anywhere with any of their data is beyond me. Simply assume that anything you put in any app/website to be public and you'll feel a lot better.

Facebook is as likely to share all their data with their government as Tiktok is, simply the cost of doing business anywhere.
Evan I think this is a great experiment. React hooks was an interesting idea and I like how Vue’s approach feels even more reactive (a la observable.com)

There seems to be an overall trend towards more reactivity and I applaud Vue for taking a creative approach to that. Will it stay, and become the da facto paradigm to do webdev? Only time will tell, but I don’t think we should be afraid to experiment with it.

The Vue team have always been excellent stewards of the project. I’m sad to see so much negativity here :(
Don't western governments ask for the data, then tell the company they can't say anything to their customers or anyone else... Basically, the same thing, but with a different description.
FYI, English is slowly evolving away from having irregular forms of many verbs. This means that simply adding -ed to the verb is acceptable. Some common examples: bend and bent/bended, lend and lent/lended, weep and wept/weeped...
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It looks like what you want is type-mismatch as warnings. I'm not sure it would be viable though, because dynamic languages can throw an exception in this case, while static languages will segfault. Unless the compiler inserts instrumentation code where it saw a type mismatch?
"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?"

- Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Section 125

I too look at the social coercion afforded to religion and envy. The idea of moving almost anywhere and having a weekly community event with like minded people is unparalleled.
When designing the law, you just need to consider this possibility as a fraud, and then if you do this you are facing a huge fine or a prison sentence. That's how all taxes work.

Of course some people would still infringe law (#Balkany) but most would not.

I the special case of France: such a law would be really easy to apply, at or least it would without Macron's changes: as everybody living somewhere was paying the «taxe d'habitation», every house without anyone paying for inhabiting it is an empty house. And in practice, with the suppression of the «taxe d'habitation», cities could just raise the level for the «taxe foncière» and it would have the same effect as a taxe on empty houses, without any special work to do.
Why should homes be a good long-term investment? They do not produce anything and it costs to maintain one.
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So, not related to the fox. Also, not a new species but rather a probable new subspecies. Other than that, the title is accurate.
Whenever I see the “I’ve never met x” argument, I’m always looking out for the catch. Because it’s a bad argument to begin with. But the catch is almost always in a situation where x is everywhere, and you would have to have your head willfully stuck in a hole in the ground to not see it.

And this is no exception.
It's not just those living outside London.

I live in London and travel outside of it because I know people living all over the country, I take weekend holidays to nature, etc.

Via rail if I did the same journeys I do in the car it could easily cost me 500-1000GBP a month. Non-advance tickets are basically priced at the "no, we don't want you to make that journey" level.
> They are 100% un-phishable, its impossible to trick a user into signing a login on a fake site

Maybe 99.999% un-phishable. There have been kinks in the certificate chain in the past that have lead to improperly issued certs.
I think Leuchtturm was not a particularly good paper.

Midori is very good, but they are not a paper mill. And they don't disclose who produces their raw sheets. An example of a good Japanese paper mill is Tomoe River, who perhaps also supply Midori.

In my opinion, the best paper out there comes from Fabriano, which has additional advantage of being totally chlorine free and pulp has been sourced from biologically controlled crops in Italy.

Regarding pens, Pilot is very good. But if talking about Japan, we should also mention Platinum (and more importantly their sister company Nakaya) plus, at least, Sailor.

There are also exceptionally good non-Japanese pen manufactures out there. One example is Conid. Or Romillo.

I also love Japanese goods, but it's nice to keep a balanced perspective. Some Western brands are on the same level of quality. In fact, if you go to Japan, they will worship some Western brands.
Domestic cats are also descendants of African Wildcats with some divergences like not quite as long fangs and less human pleasant voices (in addition to attitude differences).

I am not saying they aren't a distinct species but I wonder what separates them from ferals. Time and genetic distance making them their own distinct collection of features not usually found?

Mere interbreedability doesn't work too well as evidenced by the hybrid domestic cat breeds.
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The illustrative picture on that article is absolutely useless without a scale of some sort. The feature look small, like maybe on the order of a weld bead but it might be on the order of mill scale but under massive magnification and I have no way to tell.
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I don't understand what you mean by the interface. Is it the font size? You can change it independently of everything else.
I agree in principle that note-taking can enhance memory and retention; but I've found that today, typing my notes does the trick for me - especially because I use indented/hierarchical lists frequently, and update/re-org them as I go; so they help me build a mental model of material or actions we covered.
By the end of note-taking session, my OneNote file will have notes organized in the way which makes sense to me and in which way I want to remember them - whereas hand-written notes would (for me) be inherently more sequential. As yourself therefore, I retain the list of key points or actions far better than if I didn't take those notes - even if I don't refer to them later.

(as well, I'm a touch-typist, so I can look at the person or whiteboard/screen while typing, which again I personally couldn't do while hand-writing).

So it may be whatever works for any given person - or, whatever people get used to. It'd be curious to see if typed notes would provide same benefit to you after, say, a few months commitment? Or it may be that I switched early enough in life; or, to quote Lady Gaga, maybe I was just born that way :->
Having 3 input operands is definitely an issue. In the Alpha EV6 architecture, it was decided only 2 inputs are supported, so a CMOV would need to be split into two actual instructions, the first of which setting the 65th bit of one of the operands to the result of the test and the other selecting the correct output. Thus, CMOV had 2 cycles latency and still required extra hardware resources to implement.
IIRC only about half of transport is for the purposes of commuting.

I wouldn't own a car if I only used it for commuting; that's the easy case because generally most people have the same job for months at a time.

By contrast I can't simply move back to my home town without giving up work; I can't live near all of my friends that moved around the country; I can't simultaneously live everywhere I visit.

So the fact that a single or return train ticket costs hundreds of pounds makes it completely infeasible really. Most people in the UK consider it an exciting treat, not a normal mode of transport, particularly families (sod paying for 4 tickets, one is already more than the car).
Like I just commented, because American companies aren't slaves to a government "master". As much as we sometimes like to hate on Google/FB and other big tech, their size allows them to act as a balance of power against an overly-invasive government.

For example, WhatsApp (and Messenger) being E2EE by default(with confidence through audits) is completely counter to what a government seeking full public surveillance would want. Same thing with Apple's encrypted phones.

The government can't just waltz in and ask for the data as a) the companies can't help even if they wanted through the very nature of the in-built encryption b) the government can't threaten to shut them down without public uproar
I just replaced battery myself last year because it swollen to really nasty size. It prevented touchpad from working. And the laptop didn't rest on its legs when it was on flat surface.

Same model.
> Indeed, in the west we are lucky (in some sense) that our tech is big enough that it is able to band together and stand up against unreasonable demands from the government.

I assume microsoft isn't big enough, because it was stripping encryption from Skype and making it centralized.
I think the issue is that Apple used to be a more service-oriented brand.

My Dual G4 tower years ago had a run of bad processor modules. AppleCare sent service reps out three times in the space of four days trying to get it working correctly. Today, almost everything has to go back to Apple to be replaced; there are no more Apple-sanctioned repair outlets and the Apple store can't do much more than elevated diagnostics tests.

If you get into a car accident, you can take it to the dealer for repair but it'll likely be much more expensive because their goal is to keep the car running to their specifications. If the repair costs are excessive, your insurance might just total the car. You could still take it to a garage, get it repaired for a fraction of what the insurance claim was and get many more years of use out of it.

With Apple, there's not really much option for repair, as they usually won't sell parts to aftermarket repair outlets.
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ah .. I didn't know about internet recovery. Hopefully, I'll remember your tip if this happens to me again (I borrowed an iPad, in the end).

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like you can turn off 2FA once you've had it on for some time, so it feels like I'm being pushed into buying a second Apple device?
> Imagine a day when you turn on the news and instead of seeing people screaming at each other, you see an informed debate that uses good arguments and well-reasoned analysis.

Brought to you by Fox News.
I think he uses a calculator for that
What this thing lacks is overload protection, not fuse (it even has fuse on the current input).

Placing fuses on voltage and resistance inputs does not make much sense as the input impedance should be high enough that any sane voltage will not cause any damage (MCP6072's datsheet does not explicitly state the safe maximum current through internal clamping diodes, but it is probably safe to assume that it will be at least 1mA, which works out to 1kV on input), excluding high voltage transient surges, which is what the Cat ratings are really about and should be handled by some kind TVS network across the inputs or after the first attenuator (in which case the series resistor of the attenuator might in fact behave like a fuse).

The current circuit is somewhat more complex for overload protection. Common solution involves placing two antiparallel accross the sense resistor such that the fuse will reliably blow before the sense resistor and following frontend (neat trick in many HP designs is using shorted diode bridge with the DC-side short being actively driven by voltage follower. This causes the diodes to be mostly fully closed outside of failure conditions and thus minimizes any non-linearities inherent in large power diode).
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> War Before Civilization: the Myth of the Peaceful Savage (Oxford University Press, 1996) is a book by Lawrence H. Keeley, a professor of archaeology at the University of Illinois at Chicago who specializes in prehistoric Europe. The book deals with warfare conducted throughout human history by societies with little technology. In the book, Keeley aims to stop the apparent trend in seeing civilization as bad, by setting out to prove that prehistoric societies were violent and frequently engaged in warfare.

...

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

> How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth

> The puzzling question is then how a world dominated by ultra social human cooperation can also frequently succumb to large scale war and conflict?

> Turchin’s answer, and one of the big ideas in the book, is that war between social groups is the mechanism by which cooperative behaviour develops “within groups”. It is a fundamental evolutionary process happening between societies at a large scale. He elevates war as a selection mechanism for cooperation, and values it above many of the technological factors like domestication of plants and the advent of agriculture.

http://evonomics.com/how-10000-years-of-war-made-humans-the-...
1 is far more readable, pleasing on the eye, and informative than 3.
India prior to the Brits, should be a case study in how to integrate places like the Rust Belt in US, Afghanistan into global trade.

Each village was an autonomous unit of production that traded directly with nearby villages, silk road and through merchant ships with the world. ( In some cases they had their own local currency ! )

A single village could be directly linked to markets in Europe and China, or form part of a supply chain of villages to larger markets. Shenzen is similar being a SEZ, allowing it to trade directly with any unit across the globe.

It is kinda ironic that we went from a more libertarian trade system to a more restrictive one, as technology helped the state exert more control.

Places like the Rust belt can't directly trade with Kenya, they have to go through hordes of middle men.

Same thing happens in inner India, even though its filled with excess cheap labor in close proximity.
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