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Shaper Tools | San Francisco, CA | Full-time, Intern, ONSITE

At Shaper we are developing a revolutionary line of computer-augmented power tools, starting with a handheld CNC router called Origin. We're growing and need help from skilled software, electrical and mechanical engineers to help us build the future of power tools.

We are looking for:

* Senior Software Engineer, Algorithms: https://jobs.lever.co/shapertools/0dc7ccc9-9d50-4f45-9879-39...

* Senior Software Engineer, Applications: https://jobs.lever.co/shapertools/564d8411-89c3-4009-b2e5-69...

* Manufacturing Software Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/shapertools/2eedd4b4-aff1-45bf-a97d-1e...

* Supply Chain Manager: https://jobs.lever.co/shapertools/d2689023-0462-4639-a11d-75...

* Hardware Engineering Technician: https://jobs.lever.co/shapertools/2ff3a61b-d636-4f54-94af-63...

* Web Software Engineer - Intern: https://jobs.lever.co/shapertools/c2235f2b-cc4f-400c-a1a3-69...

* Electrical Engineer - Intern: https://jobs.lever.co/shapertools/b0bd0fa8-12fd-4fba-99db-ef...

* Mechanical Engineer - Intern: https://jobs.lever.co/shapertools/9452b707-13d2-473c-a7da-c7...

* Tool Software Engineer - Intern: https://jobs.lever.co/shapertools/08d24d8e-a3a7-413f-9d1e-1c...

More about us: https://www.shapertools.com
> Free Coding Curriculum for Beginners

Behind a Medium login/pay wall...
Based upon past travel hosts' interactions with him, having him visit to speak on the topic can involve you needing to burn the sheets he slept on.

Yes, that has material impact on the organization; it decreases people's willingness to hear its leader speak on the topic of what the organization stands for.
This project is really out of left field, especially as someone who doesn't tend to wear tinfoil hats. I wouldn't mind if it was marketed more as some kind of lightweight OS though.
I have some answers

1. Yes; 10C reduction in temperature means doubling of life. I've known pentiums to last 10 years at 60C+; just running processors at 30*C instead is 80 years minimum. Main thing is to use leaded solder so you don't get electromigration problems.

2. Solar panels and batteries. Battery voltage is chemical and fixed by physics; nickel-iron batteries can be rebuilt and last forever. Solar panels can be oversized to provide enough energy even when they degrade over time and/or the computer can just be used at a lower duty cycle.

3. Make it big and hard to move in a sturdy box.

4. Flash can last that long if it is periodically rewritten, kept cool, has redundancy, and isn't updated often.
I'm sorry, when was the last time you rented something to put into your "library".

The way they sell these subscription services doesn't make it at all clear to the users what they are buying.

P.S. plus think about who this model helps the most. It's surely not the artists themselves, especially if the songs I know and love can't be played anymore. What artist would want their work to become inaccessible to those who love it?
Back in high school, my best friend wanted to have a legal copy of Photoshop (we were broke kids and pirated everything back then). He eventually found a copy of Photoshop 2 on eBay for cheap, got it and it's CD key and then purchased the upgrades to eventually get to Photoshop 5. I think he was able to pull it off for under $100 or pretty close (I think it retailed for like $300~$400 back then?).

I too miss when you owned a copy of the software, licensed to a single machine, that was on a physical transferable medium. Jetbrains at least allowed a fallback license, which Adobe doesn't have (and honestly that's because Jetbrains couldn't get away with that shit with a tech focused customer base).

Take about crippling certain business in Venezuela. All this is going to do is encourage piracy (and potentially malware).
Inexpensive, unpatched phones put billions of users’ privacy at risk
VeraCrypt 1.24
Sorry if this is a naive question, but if the assumption is "doomsday", how would one know how to access vault and that it even exists?
What if computers caused the collapse though? Doesn't this risk reseeding the problem? Maybe it'd be better in the long run if we have to reinvent.
What's the most plausible explanation? My wild guess is inherited wealth. The lucrative businesses come after retirement, as far as I know.
Sure, but taking part of a political games, doesn't make him a favor.
For a game where 95% of the revenue is made in the first year after release, the cost:benefit ratio probably doesn't work out. Especially for games where the rights situation isn't clear or the publisher is defunct
Affinity is "thinking about" a digital asset management tool.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/78025-when...

If they do make one, it may or may not have editing features built in (vs shipping you out to Affinity Photo).

But I'm in the same boat. Stuck on CS6, couldn't stand DarkTable, haven't bothered trying any other alternatives.
Dynamic memory allocation is not always a desirable feature. If I were running a service like Arxiv, I would much rather have fixed memory management than dynamic.

Similarly, if I was running TeX in web assembly, in a tab in a browser I'd much rather hit "TeX capacity exceeded, sorry." than have it try to scuttle off with all the swap...
>We have a capitalist economic system, and it works pretty well for us, but that doesn't mean anyone has an inherent natural right to their capital. When it comes down it, property rights are all fictitious and exist only because society says it does. It's hardly wrong for society to decide to recoup some of what it has created.

I fundamentally disagree with that point. Government exists to protect people and their property. People have a natural right to themselves and to an extent their property - rights do not come from society, rights are internal and society functions to abridge them where beneficial.
Humans have no incentive currently to be neutral, articles will have to be written by an AI to be neutral it seems.
so they're forcing people to pirate their software? interesting
Now read one step above[1] my remark.

The parent made a false assertion (the claim of "highest saftey (sic) rating of any car") while specifically citing IIHS ratings. I corrected this assertion with fact by citing a higher-level IIHS reference. That's not cherry picking...that's proper constraint.

In contrast, you'll have to do a lot better than actual cherry-picked Twitter garbage, blog spam, and self-referencing Telsa press releases.

> Along with NHSTA and IIS in the U.S.

Remind us who IIS is again??

I'll be happy to digest any independent NHTSA OVSC test reports on the subject that you point us towards...coincidentally, I've been shits-and-grins analyzing a bunch of FMVSS 106 and 218 test reports in preparation for next year's racing season, so I suspect they won't put me to sleep...to be sure, not that I really care for Tesla.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21182264
This is so much more egregious than what China is doing within its own borders.

Famous country also blacklisted Cuba from trade and uses the prison for illegal detentions. Talk about bullying.
I've suspected that notifications of upgrade opportunities and advertising of new versions may track with Apple's desire to pace rollout. For example, I'd be surprised if they hit every available device with the upgrade notification about ios 13 given 13.1 would be available only days later.
Well, the memory limit of a WebGPU process would be the limiting factor for training. In addition, the bandwidth between the nodes and the parameter server, if doing training in data-parallel fashion, is another limiting factor.
It's not like Israel is - not talking about the truth of that claim here - denying the very existence of their neighbouring states. On the contrary, palestine and part of the palestine people are branded as great evil. Being branded as _anything_ is being "known". Famously or infamously.
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2013/08/when-airport-...

New York Airways also flew to Wall Street (ground level landing) from Laguardia for around 40 bucks in today's money in the 70's.
FYI you need a MacBook Pro 2016 to use sidecar.
Bad news on that seed vault. [1]

1: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/19/arctic-s...
IMO a better choice would be a cookbook app where you input a rough location & it takes that and the date to determine what's in season, then lists recipes using the probably-available ingredients. The "normal" flow (figure out what you're making, get the parts, make the thing) is preserved, you just do it with in-season ingredients.
There are specific reasons for the things you're talking about.

For Antarctica (which is not the Arctic, but I assume what you meant - Scandinavia is quite self sustaining!) you have the Antarctic Treaty System. [1] The TL/DR there is that pretty much every form of development in Antarctica is illegal, and you're not allowed to leave any waste whatsoever. When an antarctic researcher is on a mission, they're required to bottle up their feces/urine and bring it back to base. The urine is processed and then returned to the sea. Feces are generally returned to the host nation for local removal. Mining and other industry is expressly prohibited.

But something even more interesting is comparing Antarctica to Mars, even ignoring the treaty system. Mars has two big things going against it: radiation, and a negligible atmosphere. That means you need to limit your exposure outside, and when you do go outside it needs to be with appropriate equipment and clothing. Of course the exact same requirements also hold true of Antarctica, though to a lesser degree.

But it also has quite a lot of things going for it. Mars day/night cycle is identical to Earth and it even has near identical seasons owing to a near identical tilt. Antarctica, by contrast, has what is basically a 6 month long day/night cycle. And the weather is absolutely vicious. There are genuinely violent snowstorms, as well as temperatures that average -30F, and much lower on the inner areas away from the coasts. By contrast temperatures on Mars (depending on what part of the planet you're on, and when) can get right balmy. Summer on the equator? It gets up to about 70F, though the nights are still extremely cold owing to no atmosphere.

But the snow storm part is one of the more interesting comparisons. Maybe the biggest thing is "The Martian." The key plot event there was a terrible sand storm on Mars ravaged their base and setup the plot for the rest of the film/movie. The Martian itself is a hard sci-fi book. This is one of the very few things that was intentionally faked. The worst sandstorm on Mars would feel like a slight breeze owing to the negligible atmospheric pressure. Think about that - a hard sci-fi book had to resort to fantasy to create a meaningful disaster!

There's a lot more to say/compare as well, but this is already getting a bit too long. Suffice to say, these issues are extremely counter-intuitive, but also extremely interesting to explore!

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Treaty_System
But the issue is that putting together a collective to lease the facility at no profit plus take over everything else he's doing (finding insurance, handling janitorial and maintenance work, marketing, etc.) is a lot of work, and it's work that aspiring chefs don't necessarily want to focus their time on. That's why they come - he's providing a lot of value. Whether you think the amount of value is worth what they're paying is up to you, but the fact that he's still able to find tenants says that a lot of people think the tradeoff of not having to worry about all those ancillary things is worth the money.
In the scenario proposed, they would be lying to you about the rating.
"R is only great if your data is already great."

Disagree. R has an incredible ecosystem for parsing, cleaning, and manipulating data. Even ignoring the tidyverse, base R provides more than enough functionality to clean and analyze data--you just need to spend some time learning it. If you use the tidyverse, it's even easier. The only other ecosystem that comes close to R is Julia, which was designed taking many of the best parts of R into consideration.
>A quick google says that [0] he made $11m in 2016,

The amount he made in 2016 is the point of contention. Sure he made 11m in income, but for that same year, BRK.A increased a staggering 25% in share price. Even if Buffet owns a 1% of BRK.A, that represents a paper gain of 4 Billion dollars.

Now, sure, he might not have sold any stock so that won't count against his capital gains tax, but to me, its a bit deceptive to say that Buffet only made $11M.
With that logic, my commute to work should be paid too. I'm not getting paid to drive there and they won't let me work from home.

If I'm not mistaken, airline flight attendants don't get paid until the door shuts, bet none of you that fly regularly are outraged about that.

And as someone that worked in a facility where I had to park off site, ride a bus unpaid, clear security unpaid, ride another bus unpaid then I could clock in (on time, 1 second over was late which was penalized) then had to repeat it in reverse... I was more than happy to have the job and quite fine not getting paid doing that.

Every prison guard, anyone working at UPS/USPS/FedEx sort facility, etc (not to mention people in state and federal court houses, the white house, the CIA, the FBI etc) go through this same thing every day.
You say you didn't have "a safety net." What was your actual situation? For example, were you liable to be deported if you quit your job?
I do in fact use macOS, but I'm more preferential towards kitty[1]. Sadly, OpenGL is getting deprecated in macOS Catalina so I will probably crawl back to iTerm2 eventually.

I'm quite familiar with asciinema[2] as well, which I've considered using for creating animated examples. In general, I like to err on the side of caution, and optimize my website for people with poor/metered connections.

Also, I didn't expect this to get this much attention! Mea culpa for not putting more work into the post itself.

1 = https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/index.html
2 = https://asciinema.org/
As a long time macOS user[1], I've always installed on public release and I've only ever experienced issues maybe once or twice. Rare enough that I can't think of any specific issues.

[1]didn't really pay attention to version numbers before 7.6, but I guess "install on public release" didn't begin until OS X...
Are you really saying that most users don’t know when they stop paying for Apple Music or Spotify they will lose access to their music?

The iTunes Music Store where you buy music and pay a one time cost has been around since 2003 and has been completely DRM free since 2009.

That’s like saying people don’t know content isn’t on Netflix forever.
You could have a perpetual license to content that is hosted in the cloud by one or more providers.
The country's minimum wage in January was $6.70. A month.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-wage/v...

I don't think it's unreasonable to guess that there aren't too many people paying for Creative Cloud licenses there.
As a Venezuelan I am very aware of the population of my country and how even medium size business get their software from (Pasillos de la UCV).

Was your reactionary comment sponsored by the PSUV?
Apple's threatened moving a lot of production to India (which has its own problems, but shows moving is possible). The new Mac Pro is to be made in Texas, and I think Apple at one point was considering a chip plant there for the iPhone too.

China holds a lot of weight, but a company with a trillion dollar market cap also can make its own decisions.
How does this compare to a robust Splunk infrastructure?
Control was taken from China in the first place.
Reminds me of the anime series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Stone
I wasn't planning on updating, but this is the one thing that might actually make me go for it
Thank you for summing up.

What I still don't quite get is: did the mod reject singular they a) when preference was unknown (ie: prefer to rewrite), b) reject singular they, when preferred (someone not identifying as male/female), c) Choose the conventional "he" over singular they when preference was unknown?k8s

From what I've read it's a) - and it's pretty hard for me to imagine a scenario in which that seems like a good reason to drop a moderator.

Also, is this a volunteer being kicked, or is it some kind of paid position?

Ed: from tfa: "Second, we hurt a longstanding member of the community and an important volunteer moderator." So I guess that answers my last question.
Reminds me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Stone
"Content Overload: Accommodations have very rich content, e.g.descriptions, pictures, reviews and ratings."

Laughed at that one. Booking.com is so full of dark patterns that I dread using it.
In Venezuela you never know, when a company is owned by the state. In the US, on the other hand, we know that the state is owned by the companies. Much easier this way.
yes, Linus made a clever move and kept his job(at least until some email in the future is misquoted in the press).
You already get this with either Redis or Keydb. The problem is that to avoid the disk being the bottleneck you must write to RAM, then later to the disk (you can't wait for confirmation that it was written) which means that even though a key may successfully be written to the DB, it hasn't been confirmed to persist.

Basically redis can't necessarily guarantee data safety - which is perfectly fine for it's normal use case as a caching layer and data you don't necessarily care if you lose (for example rate limiting relies on tracking the number of requests/s within say an hour - if you lose the data you don't really care). User sessions too, worst case people have to log in again, meh whatever.
Yup but lets be hones that does not count for side business (rebuscarse) which is often not declared/measured.
Aren't we all. I've had an online presence since 1995 and had a blog at times. Put all my eggs in one basket making shareware games and only got out of debt at 40.

Nobody tells you this, but the thing isn't the thing. It's the living expenses you need to generate to get to the thing.

Still the biggest open problem on the internet IMHO.
Yeah true. Though they could have made a strict verifying process so that they ensure only non-govermental people can be their customers. However that would also be very expensive to implement.
Accelerating compute by cramming it into DRAM memory
I think for the way most people use excel it’s adequate and in some ways superior (e.g. I made a cute weekly chores-tracking sheet with photos on it for the fridge), and presume that’s why Apple appears to have stopped work going on it.

If you’re even a halfway serious user of Excel than indeed, Numbers is a complete joke. But if google sheets would work for you numbers probably would too.
>>>I have two chrome windows open, one with 14 tabs, the other with 2

I'm sitting at 5.8/16GB used with 87 tabs open in Brave.

I usually leave tabs open as a sort of "soft bookmarking", and a reminder to go back and read something later. For example, I have 7 tabs next to each other from the EvolutionM.net forum, and all those little Mitsubishi icons on the top of my browser are a constant "At some point you need to study how to properly maintain your dual-clutch transmission instead of paying Mitsubishi $1000+ for a fluid flush."
I like the Collapse OS concept.
I once typed Fig Forth from a booklet I ordered from America into a Sharp Z80 computer.
Society was in the main computer free at the time. It was like the post collapse era.
To restart the software industry from scratch; I recommend etching a modern version of that Fig Forth booklet onto stone tablets; perhaps provide a scheme interpreter written in forth as well.
They will never need anything else.
Well, I'd say it's the following, based on what I've read and heard:

1. Successful companies in the area, especially ones which started as venture backed startups or pay really well. Many new startups are founded by people who got paid a lot of money in their tech company careers, and many of them seem to be backed by entrepreneurs who made it big in the past.

Also shows those wanting to start one that there's success to be had in such a venture.

2. Lots of 'easy' money going around for new companies. This is one major reason it's much easier to do well with a startup in the US (especially Silicon Valley) compared to Europe; the former has people willing to spend millions on a moonshot that's unlikely to go anywhere. The latter won't back it, and will miss out on the next Google/Facebook/Uber/Netflix/whatever because it's 'too risky'.

Also, when I mean lots of money, I mean lots of it too. Note how much your average US startup seems to get from VCs, then compare to how much your average European one gets. You need a lot of cash to get the best engineers/designers/whatever involved. $50,000 funding probably won't cut it.

3. Access to good education nearby. Not quite nerds as Paul Graham says, since I feel it's more those in university who are best placed to get involved in startups. They've got a lot of time, no real commitments, a bunch of other smart people nearby in a similar situation, and enough oddball ideas to turn into businesses. Actually, when I think about it, universities seem like the best place/time for a lot of young people to get involved in a lot of crazy ideas for the same reason; note how many YouTubers and internet celebs got started in college too.

Oh, and maybe a cultural attitude that treats being an entrepreneur as something to be respected, and building a company as a good life goal to have. Way too many places still have this idea of 'success' as 'get a job, work up through the ranks, get married with two kids and a dog and live in the suburbs somewhere'
Unlike Google, Apple is hardware company and has a massive amount of manufacturing in China. It would be almost impossible for them to bail on that infrastructure.
Some useful security improvements, for example OS files now sit on a different read-only volume from all the users files and programs, making it more difficult to insert worms, Trojans, rootkits and other things that can compromise the actual OS. And all apps installed on the Mac are now checked not just that they’re trusted, but for known security vulnerabilities too.

To the extent businesses care about reducing losses from cyber attacks, that’s probably useful.
There are many forms of fungi (mold, various rot) that can feed on wet wood. There are not many forms of fungi that can feed on cured adhesive, which also functions to prevent the wood that is there from getting wet. Thus, I'd expect engineered/laminated timber to be better at repelling rot than standard untreated timber. Done well, it could last longer than steel.
https://www.newpower99.com/ has replacement batteries for a lot of Sansa players.
That might be true. I only really know my own experiences. I don't even have an engineering/CS degree, and have just taught myself everything. But, maybe I have some special experiences that others haven't had.
The only reason the supply chain is at risk is because we dispose of a lot of electronics simply because there's a new version.

When the product lifecycle changes from 1 year to 10+ years, you'll find that people will just keep their stuff around longer and the demand on the supply chain goes way down.

Plus, there will be a shitload of data centers with capacity that will no longer be necessary (because of reduced devices making requests, segregated internet, less connectivity) in apocalyptic scenarios. Those can probably be re-purposed.

We haven't had to get clever about computer conservation because there's been so much supply.
Is there any relevant documentation/discussion available?
You should be able to open Illustrator files directly in Affinity Designer.
Found the vicious bureaucrat.
As the old saying goes, you don't create a HideTaiwan() function, you create a HideCountry() function and require Taiwan to be provided as a parameter.