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Why?

I have a long commute, the only thing that makes it bearable is choosing the content I listen to. The app makes a difference here - PocketCasts and Spotify have features that others don't - so I do want to use their native interfaces. The apps I use in the car have great Android Auto interfaces which simplify content selection. Using Android Auto also integrates with the other features on the phone, such as phone calls, calendar reminders, "OK Google", and maps. This essentially defines my entire driving experience at the moment.

If Tesla's interface doesn't support an app that I want to use (eg. Spotify) then I would have to resort to using the phone over Bluetooth. I wouldn't just say "oh well, I spent $50k on this car but it doesn't support PocketCasts so I guess I'll listen to something else for the next hour" every day. This makes the big touchscreen rather useless, and is going to be more dangerous than my current car because I will be fiddling with the phone.

Maybe I'll just get a big suction cup and mount my phone right on top of the touchscreen, using Android Auto on the phone itself over Bluetooth.
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> Why do you have the GPUs inside the office with the people rather than in a server room under temperature control?

Because Nvidia, the 800 lb / 400 kg gorilla of the GPU ML/AI space, has decreed that only "data centre class" GPUs can be used in a server room, and those are much more expensive than the GeForce and Titan cards:

* https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/03/nvidia_server_gpus/

* https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/27/nvidia-limits-data-center-us...

So instead of spending $1000 on an 2080 or US$ 3000 on a Titan, per the EULA you have to spend US$ 8000 on a Tesla.
Because of something called justice? It was really ridiculous how he was treated while he didn't do anything wrong. Uninformed masses will still see this guy as a bad person for years to come for no other reason that the media is lying to them.
> it should take time and effort to talk to people all over the world

No, it shouldn't, that was the whole point of the global Internet (ignoring its origins), to drill into people's thick skulls that in the end we're all very similar, that most of the "local culture" crap it's just that, CRAP, and deep inside we're all driven by the same fears and desires. That ANY kind of war means just fighting against other people that are just like you and that in the end it's not worth fighting. That we can have the global village, and keep our special tribal/nationa/race identities too, there's no contradiction there.

Hope AR, VR and later neural implants get implemented and deployed in ways that empower this vision instead of the opposite, that they manage to push further in the one-world-interconnectedness direction of the 90s internet.

I used to dislike corporations like Facebook... but now I'm pretty sure I'd rather live in a globalized world ruled by such corporations, than in a separated and restricted one ruled by governments representing "nations"! I'd swallow the AI-powered-corporate-surveillance part as a minor inconvenience if it manages to deliver the "one world" dream... I'm just afraid that most corporations aren't truly powerful and globally distributed enough, in the sense that they could at least in theory overpower the governments of most of most of their base countries if push comes to shove and they need to fight them for more freedom and connectivity. Maybe if they'd drop central control and organize themselves more into "cells" or something similar... there's got to be something in the whole Ethereum and distributed systems experiment that can become successful and power this. Heh, maybe once Libra gets traction more can be built on top. Go Facebook!
travelling is overrated
Only if you never, ever upgrade the software. As soon as you need to make changes, that unavoidably hands control to those doing the changes.

(This has become very apparent among all the bitcoin forks; the "default" fork has won every time because hardly anyone can be bothered to pick a specific one and it's far better to be on the majority one)
> Yes, but was the sign there before, or not?

The story is well known

The sign was there

And together with it there was an Amnesty International sticker.

So it really depends on what people want to see, more than what's really there.

I've seen much worse sign, like professors not receiving at their office even if they were required to, posting signs with the new address where you could find them (usually their private studio office)

And they only received if it was "really needed" otherwise you just sent an email and waited.

That's what made me really furious when I was a student.

Women were more concerned that they traveled 100kms from their home towns to meet the professor and talk about their thesis and finding their door shut, not of some stupid signs that was clearly a joke made by someone who wasn't a threat to anybody.

The real threat came from the polite, well dressed, highly educated, power angry monsters, those like Epstein.

Stallman is the exact opposite of that kind of men.
For many years I had imposter syndrome because I couldn't read papers.

It took a lot of work to extract any information from a paper; I had to spend hours reading it. I was always impressed at folks who could just glance at a single figure, without referring to the methods, and could glean what the paper was trying to say.

However, after working through enough papers and replicating the results of the authors, I came to learn a number of things- 1) papers are just written badly and it's not beacuse the authors are smart. It's beacuse the authors are bad writers. 2) most papers- in bio, I'd say about 90%- contain invalidating errors which mean that the figures and conclusions are worthless. It takes skilled readers to uncover methodological flaws (or infer them, as often not all the details are included).

After working in bio for a while, it was nice to be in ML because - at least it seemed- I could replicate most papers by downloading the github repo, training on my local GPU for a few days, and then using the trained model to make the same predictions as the papers. Then I realized- in most cases, what was being claimed was far more than what the trained model was actually capable of doing.

Now I stick to well-trod engineering literature that most people consider boring. In nearly all cases I can read the lit, repro the work, and get results that make sense (much of my work is ensuring that published benchmarks are reproducible).

The advice here is golden.
Fwiw, it appears you're saying "[human] sign language is complex; simple use of physical signalling is not language". But, your statement could be read as disparaging sign language as "not language", something I'd strongly refute.
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State Management is a first-class part of svelte, check out their `Store` implementation.

https://svelte.dev/tutorial/writable-stores

It only took me a few hours to fully appreciate what a tidy solution Svelte's store implementation was.

As far as syncing data from APIs: I am pretty sure that it should be out of scope for _any_ view layer. APIs vary widely, and it wouldn't be appropriate for a view tool (Svelte, React, Vue, etc) to have an opinion. It's really up to the developer, and for the most part (and I may have a controversial opinion here?) should be a pretty simple set of wrappers around `fetch`). Where's Vue or React's API consumption tooling?
in situations like this "one bad cluster of comments" isn't considered a mistake or a lapse in judgement but a symptom of what a person actually thinks. RMS more than likely did not form those opinions on the spot and then forgot he had them afterward. and RMS has a public history that is congruent with those opinions and how he presented them.

im sure it leaves a bad taste in a lot of mouths what the leader of GNU has done and how he thinks.
I don't like it either. I don't think Sivers is especially pretentious, but to me this just reads like a third-rate poem - I see what he's saying, but I don't think he says it well

edit: Just realised Derek will probably read this. Sorry dude, I think you're a good guy, but you can do better than this
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"Troll" is both a verb and a noun. Originally it was just a verb: "to provoke responses by metaphorically dragging bait", but it soon broadened to mean "somebody who provokes responses by metaphorically dragging bait". And in modern times the meaning has broadened still further to include direct insults, which is a needless loss of precision in language because there was already the perfectly good verb "flame" for that meaning . But even after all the extension of meaning, the origin of the word is still the dragging of fishing bait.
Do you see a slide there that compares them to React?

The person you responded to didn't say "Vue isn't marginally popular", they said

> I doubt its uptake got anywhere near ReactJS...

and it didn't. You can read about that here -

https://hackernoon.com/angular-vs-react-vs-vue-which-is-the-...

Don't stop reading at the stack overflow opinion poll graph though because Google Trends and NPM trends tell a significantly different story.
People here seem to think this is just a random set of components not as good as X+Y+Z. This machine was designed and specced based on talking with the people who will be buying them, not the general public. Complaining its not X+Y+Z is like saying IBM didn't design a mainframe for your needs. Not everything has to build for everyone.
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This problem was solved over a decade ago with memorized seating positions tied to the key fob. It wouldn’t have been too much of a stretch (pun not intended!) to memorize and set the temperature alongside the other settings using the existing system.
Be aware though, Nature and Science both emphasize rapid publishing on "hot" topics and many of the papers are just wrong. The work is accessible, but misleading.
More information on Twitter: https://twitter.com/axi0mX/status/1177542201670168576
I worry that this is scope creep for Telegram. I trust them--for now--as a secure messaging service. That's serious enough. But incorporating an entire bespoke payments system puts an even bigger target on Telegram's back and introduces new trust issues.

Also, I can't help but compare this to Keybase's affiliated payment system, Stellar. I'm curious what the differences are in the two projects.
I don't know if the 500 karma rule for enabling downvotes is enough any more with the number of throwaway accounts I see on here. If would be nice if the vote history were visible for a given account to see if people were using temporary accounts for trolling the vote system. A single user with several throwaway accounts, each over 500 karma, could add a false perception of actual user activity.
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More like "If you can afford the Mac Pro, you probably already have many, many Terra bytes of storage arrays"
That reminds me, apparently I've been airdropped $20 in "lumens" as a keybase customer. Any idea what the point of that is or how I can cash out easily?
It would be weird for twitter though because a tweet itself is essentially a comment- people would make de facto counter-comments instead of replies and it would just be an unthreaded version of the original thing.
A lot of devs tend to feel that UI is something trivial and “solved”. The unfortunate reality is that UI related code gravitates towards being extremely messy, convoluted and harder to change over time. It changes more than other types of code, is really hard to test properly and has to handle coordinating events firing from all over the place. Add to this JavaScript’s lack of types and past testing culture and you can see how creating a framework that fits your needs can become an appealing option.
You think her summary of their differences is charitable?
Er, aren't all filesystems either "in maintenance mode" or "unstable"?
This feel excessively glib
> If i remember correctly, Stallman made semantic argument, not legal argument.

I agree! Stallman's claim was (at least mostly) semantic. Specifically, it hinges on the claim that sexual assault means something that involves coercion on the part of the assaulter. He adds to this a factual argument that (assuming Minsky did have sex with her), he was probably unaware of the fact that she did not consent. Therefore (he concludes), Minsky probably did not commit sexual assault.

But ... you'll notice that this is exactly what I've been saying throughout this thread. RMS is defending Minsky against the charge of sexual assault by saying that she probably pretended to consent (which means he probably didn't physically force her to have sex).

Maybe you want to defend this claim. I'm not here to argue for or against it. The simple statement that I made in the OP was that this is what Stallman said, and the rest of the thread has basically been trolls claiming he didn't say it with no evidence.
Ah yeah I didn't put that well. I was more thinking that they will not be big compared to fiat or bitcoin.

They are a bit neither one thing or another. Bitcoin is fully unregulated so you can use it in ways that governments would ban if they could, fiat is pretty much regulated (apart from cash in hand), but Libra etc combine the inconvenience of crypto with being subject to regulation.
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Nearly every setting you'd use while driving is also on the steering wheel.

Your claim was this:

> You can not drive a Tesla without using the touchscreen on an almost constant basis.

This is patently false, but I can't prove a negative. I drive the car every day without touching the screen, let alone on any constant basis, but I guess maybe you know better.
As I see it, governments can raise money three ways: taxes, bond sales, and their monetary printing presses.

Bitcoin removes the third option, helping to hold government abuses it check a little bit. It's not a solution for everything, but hopefully it restores money to a function of communicating value rather than being both political control and theft. If Bitcoin works it will also force governments towards greater fiscal responsibility.

Bitcoin is not a perfect solution for all problems, but a partial solution in a deeply broken world.
I have tutorials on Gatsby and have used it quite a bit. I don't recommend it. I can't understand why this is getting funding? People are so much better off with a CMS like Django or Wordpress. Hell, they could use static HTML, Apache and Quill.JS and nothing else is needed. Maybe sub Quill with TinyMCE or CKEditor. There is nothing overly special about Gatsby.
I'm not sure is that easy to achieve 500 karma with a throwaway account... Not to mention with many
It was just the last few drop needed to let the pot boil over. RMS has been criticized for years for being a child rape apologist.
If Boeing needs a less than average pilot I can surely use the paycheck
The downside is that when your peripherals' batteries go flat, or the Bluetooth stack goes tits-up, you've got no keyboard or mouse.

This happens with some regularity on the iMac I'm typing this on presently. The system has a wired (non-issue) keyboard, but the wireless Bluetooth "Magic Mouse". Every so often the mouse (or more likely, Mac) decides it wants to wedge Bluetooth and forget the mouse pairing / configuration. Powering down the mouse doesn't fix this, nor does restarting the computer itself.

If it wasn't for the old legacy wired mouse+keyboard combo from the prior iMac this largely replaces, the system would be dead in the water when this happened.

(Subsequent OS updates seem to have made mouseless operation slightly more viable, at least for recovery purposes. It's possible to log in and fire up System Preferences, which is most of the recovery process.)

Too: removing additional steps in the keyboard/mouse stack results in crisper response:

https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/

Fewer moving parts => more reliable operation.

I hate wireless mice and keyboards.
I don't find this to the the case at all. Most of my base layers are blended merino and they need to be washed just as rarely as pure merino. Perhaps not all blends are created equal.
It's interesting how "subjectivity" has been reintroduced into physics and mathematics in the 20th century: Relativity and its frames of reference, Quantum Mechanics and its necessity of entangling yourself with what you want to observe, Statistical Physics showing that entropy was the lack of information that you have about the system, Mathematics - that you were forced to choose a set of postulates that you then wouldn't be able to prove...
It's disturbing to me that there are people who created, ok'd, and released this video, prob thinking, "hey, this is great!"
Hmmm. One of the reasons I have a Twitter account is to call out shitty companies (such as my phone company) when they basically ignore my complaints via email or phone call. A bit of public shaming seems to work wonders in these cases.

Now I am going to have this option taken away?
He has done lots wrong over many years to many people. The incident that caused the furor was the last straw because it was tone-deaf to the context.

Nobody wishes him ill, but he has no place as a leader in the free software movement if it is to flourish. Of course, he can participate, and as president of GNU that might be an OK level of participation.

Do not expect us to believe he has been treated unfairly, however: he has been treated the same way any other employee at MIT would be treated, and as the FSF has seen fit given its organisational goals.
Related discussion 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21068889
Then why use 'Clojure' in the HN post except to advertise for that mostly dead programming language?

It's not 2014 anymore, the world moved on. I'm as upset about it as anyone.
If you can prove it won’t be nil, normal IBOutlet included, fine.
i wouldn't think you are being disrespectful for disagreeing that there are only two sexes. even if you were, then big whoop. you don't have to respect me. sometimes it seems like it's an endless boo-hoo until we're all winston smiths, scared to even think (and the thought of that really offends me).
There are also techniques like type tags and refinement types in some programming languages, which serve a similar effect. It's really useful for marking data as validated or as earmarked for a given purpose as it flows through layers of a system.
I think something that I haven’t heard people say is that firing him only addresses the emotional reaction to the abuse that happened but may actually make the problem more common in the future.

Part of what gave Epistine the ability to do what he did was the fear people had of speaking about what they understood to be reality when they knew it would upset their coworkers or employers.

RMS’s lack of that fear (regardless of wether his ideas truly corresponded with reality) is what got him fired. This demonstrates that those fears aren’t unfounded and empowers certain kinds of extremely abusive people far more than any semantic argument about rape or pedophilia could.
I entirely disagree. I spent yesterday utterly flabbergasted after watching this Spot video [0] and thinking of the implications of this becoming available to consumers soon.

[0] https://youtu.be/wlkCQXHEgjA
I indeed can see myself boycotting a project on moral grounds if there is a decent alternative (and even without a decent alternative in some cases, I guess)
You can only focus on so many products... I don't see why it's confusing when people are upset by what they choose to focus on
Heh, I think you just uncovered a bit of hidden psychology I hadn't realized before. The part about "people put up with his childish insistence on doing things exactly his way" probably comes off as aspirational for a ton of people without realizing it. In fact, stallman hits a lot of things I'd say are probably aspirational: considered as a programming god (despite not really being involved in the technical side of the industry for at least a few decades), the ability to say whatever you want and get a pass because of who you are, getting acclaim for being an inflexible curmudgeon instead of being told to get with the times or adapt your core ideas to a changing world...who wouldn't want that kind of pass in society?

Total speculation, but it makes me wonder if stallman is the geek's version of Steinbeck's "temporarily embarrassed millionaire"; that people want to see themselves not as members of a society, but just undiscovered genius misanthropes whose greatness hasn't yet been recognized.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Since there is a long training/weeding-out process I would expect the distribution would be truncated normal, with some cutoff to graduate plane school. If this bar is low then the distribution will still be roughly normal, but if it's near or about the mean (does anyone have the fail rates?) then the distribution can look a lot different, e.g. one-sided normal, or power-law.
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Years ago I realized sitting at a desk was not making me happy. So I quit my Software Engineering job and took 2 years to drive from Alaska to Argentina, having the time of my life. [1]

Then I worked for a bit again to save money, and quit again and just got back this year from 3 years driving all the way around Africa. [2]

The people I met, the places I saw and the lessons I learned will stay with me for the rest of my life, and I personally love the life.

I've decided I want to be a travel writer and photographer, because it makes me happy. I have way less money, but I'm happier than I've ever been. I have written a couple of books about my adventures, and I write for a slew of magazines now too.

Do what makes you happy.

[1] The Road Chose Me Volume 1 - https://amzn.to/2wkxceX

[2] 999 Days Around Africa - https://amzn.to/2H93IUH
> But what lower resistance means is that you have higher power consumption as: p=iv & v=ir -> P=V^2/R So we see low resistance-> higher current. and higher current -> more power.

I think you're forgetting time in this equation. If two otherwise identical MOSFETs have different gate resistances, the lower-resistance MOSFET will charge faster and draw switching current for less time.

Take this all the way back to a simple linear circuit: a 1-ohm, 1-farad RC circuit will have a time constant of 1s, and if supplied with 1V the current will be I(t) = exp(-t). The power lost to heat in the resistor is then I^2R = exp(-2t), and integrated from 0 to infinity the net energy loss is 0.5J.

If instead the circuit has a resistance of 0.5 ohm, the resulting current is I(t) = 2exp(-2t). Power loss is I^2R = (0.5)*(4 exp(-4t)) = 2 exp(-4t), and integrated from 0 to infinity gives a net energy loss of again 0.5J.

In the meantime, the lower-resistance MOSFET is likely to save power from other effects. Most notably, faster switching implies the transistor spends less time in its linear region where it itself acts as a resistor between source and drain.
> (there is no fucking way you are oblivious to people being coerced into sex this visiting Epsteins Island, just none).

That seems a particular American hangup.

If people would visit the mansion of a skin-magazine tycoon on invitation, and one of the many women around there would approach them, very few would assume this was a genuine romantic interest, but there would be little reason to doubt if they were being set up for blackmail instead of straight-up prostitution.

Whether you are revolted by prostitution, or whether you would find it inappropriate for an older man to sleep with a significantly younger woman doesn't matter.

> (fuck rms for shitting on singular they) [..] you know he'll throw a huge tantrum if you don't.

Terrible thing that, people throwing tantrums when others don't see things their way.