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Approximately related, I find the NumWorks calculator [1] absolutely enthralling. It has a fairly beefy modern ARM Cortex M4 processor which runs an attractive GUI written in Python. And yes, you can write and run Python on the device. The hardware is very well described [2] in human terms and electrical schematics are available. Software is totally open source and the device can be easily reflashed. I'm not sure what I'd use it for, but I've had one on my birthday list for a while.

There's a web simulator [3] online if you want to play with the OS.

[1] https://www.numworks.com/

[2] https://hackaday.com/2018/05/18/open-source-calculator-teach... (full disclosure, I wrote this)

[3] https://www.numworks.com/simulator/
I've owned 4 cars in my life, a crappy 1995 Dodge Neon (May She Rest In Peace), a Jeep Wrangler, an F-150, and a 3-Series BMW. By far the most enjoyable driving experiences were with the Wrangler and F-150 - because of the height of the cab. Sure, the BMW drives "better" and has tighter steering and suspension etc, but sitting at that height gave you a view of the road that not only made me feel safer while driving it also was just more comfortable (I'm tall, 6'3"). I was in the military with those middle two cars, and they obviously had other utility for me than the comfort. It isn't just "cowboy cosplay".
So long as TI (and other) graphing calculators are the only approved calculators for the SAT and ACT tests, they will continue to sell. For students with college aspirations, purchasing one is mandatory.
I'm fascinated to see if you just work in bizzare confrontational companies or are just paranoid. Pretty much everywhere I've been I've gotten on well with my coworkers, chatted about videogames, beer, gone to various resturants for lunch, and generally enjoyed myself. To do anything else would seem almost unbearable - and this comes from a 100% introvert.

There are subtle signals that people have to both recognise and/or know how to use in order to use smalltalk succesfully - things like never interrupt someone wearing headphones on both ears, or recognising body language of someone absorbed by thought.

Even if you genuinely don't ever like talking to people, they are bound to get the message soon enough and stop trying. And if for some reason they have the spectacularly bad social skills to not pick that up, usually telling them once or twice (kindly!) that you don't like to chat at work should get them to stop.
> contention for resources starts triggering wars

There is no economic or historical basis for this. When resources become more scare people begin looking into alternatives or alternate extraction methods.

This is how the iron age came to be. Iron was common to many local areas, but the tin to make bronze had to be imported from far away. It took innovation to develop the necessary techniques for iron smelting which turned out to be a superior material for tools in addition to being extremely common and readily available.

They use to think this way about crude oil. That we would eventually run out or that everybody needs to go to war to protect their strategic assets in the middle east. This turned out to be complete non-sense. Techniques that revolutionized natural gas extraction were adapted to oil extraction following massive oil price fluctuations. Now Texas out produces Saudi Arabia. Europe now produces large amounts of petroleum from Norway.

They used to also think this way about lumber and rubber, both of which are renewable resources. Now the world produces plenty of both with minimal environmental disruption.

The US has plenty of coal and coal is relatively cheap to extract and ship, but there will always be a minimal fixed price to coal-based energy. Renewable energy scales more efficiently and now is cheaper than coal due to wholesale energy production, especially in Texas which now also dominates renewable energy production.

When there is sufficient demand people will find a way well before going to war. War is very expensive.
With respect to point (2), the argument doesn’t really work for SF; rent control only applies to units built before 1979. New developments can raise the rent as much as they want.

You could argue the threat of possibly having rent control discourages new building, but it’s a much weaker argument.

Your points in (3) I think are much, much more relevant to the SF housing crisis than rent control.
The Fedora-based distro is definitely a pain. Sugar has some neat ideas, it it's way too slow.

I've enjoyed using mine with Debian and a tiling WM. Much snappier.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_Debian_as_an_upgrade#St...
Average age would be interesting. I imagine a lot lower in 1900
I don't know much about chef (have used ansible and salt-stack). In a previous story, it talked about how a developer removed his code from a repository of Ruby Gems that chef uses, and broke many systems that had that as a dependency. And that Chef then "fixed the issue" after a bit of time.

I'm just wondering, to publish these GEMS for chef, do you have to sign over your copyright? or is there a specific licensing requirement?
A lot of us think we are invulnerable when we are young. I had a college friend who died of brain cancer a few years after graduating. I myself had a kidney failure a few years ago and now on dialysis. In the snap of a finger your life can change.
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Anecdotally, I've literally never seen a trash-can Mac pro outside an Apple store (and I even have friends that work at Apple).

That a huge change from a decade or more ago, when Mac pro towers were under every desk on designer teams and ubiquitous at Mac developer shops. The MBP laptops just didn't have enough grunt at the time.
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C# (the default .Net lang) has so much ceremony, boilerplate/scaffolding and IDE dependence (IDE programmers) and OOP overhead that it requires 5x more lines of code than the same app in Python or Go. Every time my interest peaks, I take a look leave with the same feeling that it's a dated/bloated OOP relic and would take all the joy out of programming. I've also noticed that most C# programmers don't usually know another language (other than a little JS) and seem totally dependent on Visual Studio; if all they had was a text editor they'd be lost. That's not a good place to be.
See actual theory be implemented in solution solving problems.
Is there a time delay where the OCC can't in fact make them release funds? Several major banks have deposit limits of 5-days or even 30-days for funds inside of a new bank account to prevent check fraud.
I guess my point is I'm going to have to maintain something, it's more useful for me to know how to maintain a PostgreSQL installation than it is some custom Amazon framework or tool. Serverless certainly hasn't been the "fire and forget" system I was sold on. And for just starting up, I can stage an Ubuntu server and set it to auto-update and really not have to touch it for quite a while. I happen to have extensive sysadmin experience and authored a reasonably popular provisioning tool, but I can appreciate not everyone wants to learn it. However, getting AppSync with its Velocity templates talking to DynamoDB and authenticating with Cognito requires quite a bit of knowledge as well. And time spent learning that only benefits you if you never leave the AWS ecosystem.

I suppose I could look at Aurora instead, although Amplify only supports MySQL Aurora, so no luck with Postgres again. Likewise, the price advantage goes away. And now I'm stuck figuring out a wildly convoluted TCO calculator. I could look at another hosted DB solution, but now I either need to move everything to a new provider or find a way to deal with WAN latency for simple DB operations. Moving means learning yet even more otherwise useless knowledge about a single provider.

I'm sure a lot of this is just growing pains. But as a lone dev just poking at something in his spare time, all these "get running in 30 min. or less" tutorials fall apart the moment you try to do something outside that tutorial. And the number of services available, their weird pricing structures, their implicit deficiencies and explicit limitations, just mean I'm still wasting time not building software :-/
I assume they pay taxes in america? Shouldn’t they also move the company to a different country and stop employing American citizens?
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I hope not - only direct flight from Portland to Germany and very cheap (but crappy)
I'm a free-market kind of person. But I think that the problem with politicians' / planners' tinkering here is that it's inherently gimped/broken. Tinkering and tweaking the rules/details of society only kinda works if you're able to do it a lot so you can constantly "respond" and stay ahead of the changes and responses in the market. Whether as byproducts of the regulations, or in opposition to them.

The market and the people that form part of it will always respond, and modest tinkering will always fall short because (from my perspective) it seems downright impossible to make version 2.0 after implementing version 1.0 of the tweaks. At best, you get 1.1 or 1.2, and after that a perpetual 1.x.xxxxx set of patches that are only tiny changes in order to appease special interest groups.

And the reason (I would posit) is that the rules/system of government we seem to have in place make this sort of stuff next to impossible. Whether it's from special interest groups, meddling activist judges, flip-flopping politicians, lobbying, partisan voting, corporate meddling, lack of real public buy-in and participation, lack of referendums, anything. It's gimped so we get the crappy part of the constant "tweaking" and "optimizing" by politicians, all while having to do PR for their changes/ideas and a public that is almost exactly divided on the issues.
Why Austin? Why not North Dakota, or West Virginia or some place that is hurting for jobs.
TI calculators are the biggest technology racket in education. The fact alone that most schools won't allow the use of Casio equivalents deserves an anti-trust investigation. There are programs that even dictate which TI model is accepted.
> Nobody is going to drown.

Well, they probably won't drown by the millions, but sea level rise contributes to coastal flooding in extreme weather events, such as hurricanes and typhoons, and most people who die in those events die due to flooding. So it is not a stretch to stay that thousands of people--perhaps tens or even hundreds of thousands--could actually be drowned by rising sea levels.
This article suggests the basis for the price is a result of lobbying to make calculators manadatory for certain tests. This rings true to me - even TI's comparison page (https://education.ti.com/en/product-resources/graphing-cours...) has a section on test requirements but not on actual product features!

However the argument for why this might collapse seems to be that technological change - touchscreens, phones, tablets, apps etc - means that institutions will be more willing to break from TI's grip. I don't believe this is likely. From the point of view of those institutions, saving student's money isn't a high priority. They are more likely to care about how a single use-device makes cheating hard. Not to mention the fact that despite the article's love of convergence, physical calculators are genuinely much easier to use for calculating than a touch screen device.
> ... making a small group of privileged people feel good about something that will not help the kids crossing the border.

Are you talking about Chef or this whole discussion thread (myself included)?
I think you're right.

There's plenty of articles explaining why deficit is not a problem, but despite of all the economic theory I find this view very weird. In the bottom line, if you're consuming more than you're manufacturing, mostly likely you're in trouble.
I think you overestimate the accomplishment at hand.
+1 .. Markdown would be awesome!
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It's nice but as far as I know it doesn't have a real CAS despite its processing power.
This can be summed up pretty easily. The TI graphing calculator has no internet access and no ability to store notes. Neither ability can be easily added.

As long as that is the case, they will win, because the test companies don't want to deal with people having internet access and notes.

Now if Apple/Android made a simple way for a test proctor to put your phone into a single app only that you couldn't easily break out of, maybe things will change.

But until then, they're going to require devices without internet and note taking.

Edit: Since everyone is replying "you can store notes!", yes, you can, but most test proctors know about the programs and make you clear your memory before a test.
This to me smells like "things I shouldn't have to care about when using a serverless architecture". I would expect the serverless provider to keep my code fully AOT compiled in the fastest cold-start-format instead (wasn't ".net native" a thing?) of JITing things at the last second.
Replace "open source" with "GPL" and I think you'd be correct.
VS is very good but I've been using Rider since the start of this year for most work, I found it to be a very strong competitor.
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I think you have the wrong idea, I read nothing in the article about Greta criticising her own parents. Your quote itself even states the target - world leaders. Her argument is coherent and logical. She is not taking issues with being born, she is taking issues with world leaders making empty promises. I think she understands what she's saying.

Please read the article again.
I might be missing something here, but I'm not sure this makes any sense to me.

Why should you be owed more than a yurt should you decide to build a yurt? If you're making a post to advertise a service, all I expect is a notice disclaiming as much. Otherwise, it certainly feels dishonest.
just look at the genesis of the project:

Ms. Wynne was drawn to math through her summer
neighbors on Cape Cod, Amie Wilkinson and Benson
Farb, who both teach at the University of Chicago

also, Amie Wilkinson seems to pursue publicity wherever she can get it (quanta, AMS, NY Times, ...). as in every other field, success in math depends on self-promotion and networking!
The "core" library was designed for portability and it's not as old as the .NET used for Windows desktop development, which is very mature and very performant.
You might say the same thing is happening in software. As everything is outsourced to specialty services, eventually you aren't building or running anything but the glue. If a service goes down, and there is no replacement, you can find yourself in a position where you don't know how to rebuild your own product.
The limit of 50 is a soft limit - you can send a support request to get it raised and they usually respond within a half an hour. Lambda also has a default soft limit of 2000.

But, also you can have up to 4 vCPUs with Fargate as opposed to one with lambda.
It's a great project, but it isn't Open Source (and definitely isn't Free Software) due to the NonCommercial restriction on its license.

Creative Commons recommend against using their licenses, including NC-SA, for software -

https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...
Sounds like you are arguing in favor of genocide of all humans?
Oldest travel company in the world [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cook_Group
Timely thing - I actually dusted off my TI-89 over the weekend doing taxes. There was something about a focused tool with a physical number that I was really desiring. I have fond memories of tapping around on it in high school.

Turns out it sucks, and I wound up just buying one of the $5 solar basic calculators and was way happier. I can't wait for this monopoly to get blown up.
So how are you guys able to build freeways and even homes if your construction costs are so high?

(If you've ever tried to get a builder in Copenhagen or London you won't start talking about construction worker wages as being lower in Europe!)
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/09/16/china-is-doing-a-lot-be...

As long as GDP is related to emissions and globally advanced countries engage in zero sum competition, exploiting others by pressing their historical power advantage, there is a very strong incentive for China, India and the rest of the developing to catch up by any means necessary.
I'm "going" to write a post about my experience with the SolidRun MACCHIATObin as a desktop… (spoiler: I wish it was faster but it's pretty dang awesome in general)
The "proprietary" .NET was very performant. It's the new "open" one that has to catch up.
Thanks for the reply. I tried to post this on cybersecurity subreddit and it was immediately removed. I'm responding late because I didn't know how to find my post lol. New to this site.
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Technically the resistance is a property of "Salmonella, Campylobacter, Staphylococcus and E. coli", not chickens, pigs, and cattle.
> Fires in the arctic are normal things

Forest fires in places with forests, who'd have thought?
> and I'll point out that you're very much treating the American public as a geopolitical foe if you don't acknowledge that fact.

This does not follow, as the logical conclusion of your statement is that the American public either has a right to all state secrets, or is a foe of its own country. The value of secrets is in their secrecy, and when that value is lost, harm is done.

> Any serious threat to the US is sophisticated enough to get around surveillance with simple, freely-available tools.

That is a big claim, can you give an example of a serious threat to the US which is possible with simple & freely available tools? It sounds like you know an easy way to defeat the US in information warfare.

> Snowden did not "escap[e] to Julian Assange". This is just a lie.

What I know is that Snowden escaped to China with data he stole in less than 3 months on the job, and less 1 month afterward was on a flight with Wikileaks editor and Assange's closest advisor Sarah Harrison, seeking political asylum in the bastion of political freedom, Russia.

> There were a number of people...

My question was about Snowden's efforts, as the topic is valid reasons why some may consider him a traitor. I'll interpret your response as, like me, you also don't know the answer to my question.

> you should be ashamed that you repeated it... What on earth are you talking about?... This is just a lie.

I find this rather unnecessary. People who disagree with you aren't enemies to be shamed and insulted.
When I was taking my AP finals, the school I'll attend them in gave me a list of models they will accept. My school does NOT have AP system, so I had to take it in a different school (which is the only school supports it in my country), thus I had 0 leverage. I didn't have one of the calculators they allow (some other Casio model), I called them and they told me I'll be rejected to take the exam. I had to buy another calculator just to take the final. Even though it's almost 100% same as the calculator I had. Miserable.
This is cool for blog posts.
Well, to me the kind of marketing and evangelism needed to convince people that a standard product is actually higher end and higher quality than it actually is, and that they should buy it because of the status it signals, is a form of trickery. Yes, some call it "marketing" :)

Not the worst kind of trickery, mind you, but trickery nonetheless, and definitively annoying. And yes, Apple is extremely successful at this.
You can't, reliably. The entire geographical area is contaminated, so you should worry about living there and not just about your home. Now they are saying Google offices were breached and documenting one specific (but very prominent, easy to cover) instance, imagine what's going on in general in the background.

I moved to Europe from SF bay area years ago, coinciding with the birth of my son, and this was one of the factors.
Good idea! Currently it supports some HTML elements using Rails' simple_format (<b>, <i>, etc), but Markdown would definitely be an improvement.
Well you can't buy Afterburner for a PC, so the comparison is harder than CPU,GPU, RAM and SSD specs alone.

But yeah, it's crazy expensive.
Software is full of this stuff.

I remember the very first time I had to do anything interactive on a web page. We had a long list of items in a table, and as a stopgap for adding search functionality we were going to sort the table by multiple columns.

Stack Overflow was still a twinkle it Atwood's eye. So I go googling about for stable sort implementations in Javascript and I find plenty. Except they all have the same problem. They were all slow as molasses. I should have taken it as a huge warning that none of these implementations used demos showed sorting of more than 10 items.

I needed to sort 100 items. 300 at the outside. Ultimately I had to go to source material and implement it myself.

Clearly there is some notion in the software community that market for ideas is inexhaustible. That the 'oxygen' in the room is infinite, and therefore I can interject whatever half-assed concept I had into it without costing anybody anything.

Virtually all of us, when we tackle a problem, try to do better than what is already on offer. But what if the thing on offer is truly, horrible? If my only goal is 'better' instead of 'good', then my alternative will be really bad. And in a field full of bad, who wants to be the person who introduces the 6th standard? The 8th?

Keep your dumb ideas to yourself, or put them in question form and ask people why

After someone posted Norvig's Sudoku solver, I was troubled by his statement about how many algorithms he'd have to implement so he just did brute force. So I took a whack at it, got fairly far down the deductive path before things got hard. But I'm not going to show it to everybody. The internet has been working on strategies for 10 years, and they've done way more algorithms than the ones I knew about. The best I've managed is to maybe simplify a couple rules, but I think one could argue that it's the bad definition of 'simple'. It can't handle as many cases, but I can explain it to anyone. Is that enough to add to the noise? Probably not.
Our Samsung Flip is really snappy and relatively affordable. Still enjoy whiteboards more though.
I am not a fan of the lobbying side of this story, but I do think that the TI graphing calculators are good products. They are very durable and easy to use. I fondly remember programming a multiplayer poker game in TI-BASIC on a road trip complete with a CPU player! I also would browse TIcalc.org to look for new games and utilities.

I later bought a TI-89 Titanium which opened up the gaming possibilities! Check out square-z for a fun tetris-like game
Yeah, .NET Framework was an absolute pain to work with also, there was a lot of boilerplate, especially when it came to ASP, and like you said it was tied to Windows and Windows API. Now with Core it's multiplatform and they're opening up all of the traditionally Windows-based SDKs to Core architecture and making them multi-platform while having them open source.

.NET Core is an absolute pleasure to work with, and while I'm not into Razor views, the web startup modularity and extensability of the pipeline make swapping out solutions a breeze. I can run a full React app in some a wwwroot folder that has almost 0 dependencies on the outer C# code, such that I can plug out the folder and copy it into a new directory and run it like any other React application - that was mind-numbing with ASP non-Core. I love it
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That stance just ignores the opioid epidemic in America.

/s "whataboutism" is a useless venture
> except for a few locations where the benefit of a too-active immune system has serious consequences

For anyone else curious about this, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_privilege