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If you're interested in buying one of these, Unicomp (https://www.pckeyboard.com) purchased the rights to continue making Model M style keyboards once Lexmark removed them from their line of products.

If you want to buy one of the originals, https://clickykeyboards.com has them.

Also, the Model F (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_F_keyboard) is considered by many as being superior to the Model M. IBM made far fewer Model Fs compared to the Ms, so if you find one of these in the wild, it'll be really expensive. https://www.modelfkeyboards.com is trying to re-create the original Model F.
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The way I see it, non-fiction books are all about distillation of information. Yes most of the information from books is freely available online in some other form, but you'll have to dig for it in many places, and learn from many narrators.

The benefit of the book-length information product is that a single author went through all the possible sources and used their expertise to give a coherent story on a subject. You can think of the book as someone who read 100 blog posts for you and extracted the useful info from them.

If you have meta-learning skills like being to "orient" yourself in a new space, and you're able to judge the quality of information sources then you should be OK, and you don't need someone else to do the distillation for you.

Also the benefit of having the information all in one place reducing the need for "foraging" on the internet to find info might be worth the time saving.
"I wonder if I'm missing out?"
It depends on what you're looking for. If you are only looking to read about the most bleeding edge stuff, then keeping up online is the thing to do.

"Are books worth it? Is it more true for some fields than others? Is it more true for older books?"
Yes. Maybe. Maybe.

I love books because they always take the path of depth on topics. A book on psychology will offer more than a single post. From a book, I get list of examples that allow me to remember concepts better, ,and give me ideas on how I can apply those concepts to my own life.
Books can also give context to what's happening today. It's easier to catch up on a topic by a reading a book that summarizes a topic / field that it is to look for the information online.

And if the concern is cost, and you're in the US, consider getting a library card and download libby (https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby/). Free rentals of audiobooks from your local libraries.
If found software consulting a bit boring, but quite lucrative.

If you get a project that takes 3-6 months you make enough money for the year and a bit left for the next year.

This means that you only need one customer to say "yes" per year. If you contact only 10 per month your success rate doesn't even have to be 1%.

What I learned is, charge per week or month and never go for full-time.

The month charging filters out all the tiny fishes and the part-time always gives you plausbile deniability when you can't answer the phone.
Is it bad that now when I see a list of policy solutions for a problem, I automatically assume that even if it does have enough support, it will be hijacked and distorted by special interests to make problems with inequality and dysfunction even worse?
First of all no one remembers everything they read. If you spend time reading lots of books you will find things that stick out to you personally that you are surprised other people didn't bring up in the summaries you are accustomed to hearing elsewhere. You'll also find yourself disagreeing with other people's summaries and interpretations of books you've read.

So yes, I would say reading books is worth it. And the best way to start is for now is put aside your "must read" list. Instead think about something you're personally curious about right now this moment and pick a well regarded book that touches on that thing you're curious about. Don't limit yourself to nonfiction, if you're interested in memory maybe you could pick up Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow or maybe you could choose Tom McCarthy's amazing novel Remainder. If you're interested in live performance maybe you could pick up Viola Spolin's Improvisation for the Theater or maybe try Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater.

Then repeat, follow your curiosity again. Pick another book, maybe the first book you read pushes you towards selecting another. You want more from the same author or topic. And don't be shy about not finishing things, sometimes a book doesn't pay off on the curiosity that led you to it. I often start reading a handful or more of books at a time until I find one that really grips me. Or just keep alternating between reading lots of different things for weeks. Kindle & the kindle app are actually very good for this because you can send yourself samples of books so you can try them before investing in them.

I would also say in general, the depth of knowledge shared, and the quality of work put into a book tends to be much greater than 99% of what you find online. It is a lot of work to publish a book, the authors, editors and everyone else involved want to make it worth it. Not that there isn't great online content, but people work hard to make books worth the time investment.

You are missing out. At least try to get out there and read.
Paltry battery life for such a minimalistic device.
I have a Chromebook myself and the situation is much less rosy than you describe. It's not all bad, and I'd definitely like to continue to use a Chromebook as a secondary system if possible. But I'd also hate it if it was my only machine. I'd also shrug my shoulders if I could no longer use a Chromebook, e.g. if it was discontinued.

A big issue with ChromeOS is its only browser, Chrome. Google has repeatedly demonstrated it's willing to put its ad-tech interests ahead of user demands (reader mode, good adblocking).

Yes, you can enable Linux support and install Firefox. A very small number of ChromeOS users will do so, if they're even allowed to. Note that Linux support is beta and comes with a lot of known issues. For organizations that support Linux, there are better routes to getting Linux into their engineers' hands.

The cloud-oriented nature of the laptop is sort of secondary. Dumb terminals have always had a place in the enterprise, for so-called 'tethered' users. It's entirely unsurprising that Chromebooks are similarly popular, they're better designed than most dumb terminals, and the BeyondCorp (zero-trust) approach to security is a good one.

> journalists or hobbyists may have a hard time appreciating the OS

While there are scenarios (e.g. travel) where Chromebook may be useful for journalists, journalists who need to keep their sources secret would be particularly ill-served by Chromebooks. People who're working on stuff that competes with Google (or indeed Microsoft, as Office 365 also works on Chromebook via web/Android), may also worry.

In short, if you're a 'tethered' user at work and could conceivably use a Wyse thin client, Chromebooks are great and probably superior to most other dumb terminals.
I fundamentally cannot perceive where AI plays a role. Isn't it just a solvable geometry problem?
I'm a photography enthusiast and hardcopy photography books is A must. Period. I mean books that display the works of the photographers. Sure you can find some of them on Flickr, Instagram, etc. But to study the complete work, gotta buy the books.

For the rest, I'm fine with digital books. Take no physical space, can be easily read on phone/tablets.

To sum it up: for me, yes they are worth.
And that is insanely stupid.

Russia doesn't profit from war, but by selling gas. They can't sell it with profit to Russians, so selling it to Europe is very important to them.

Ps. I've never noticed the cut off though ( Belgium) and wasn't aware. So I think it's not that big of a threat.
I too have been to popular coffee shops without WiFi. You wouldn't have known just by looking. Everyone was tethering.

Lumping restaurants in there seems a bit bizarre unless he's just talking about SV.
I believe that the difference between sitting down and reading a book for an hour vs. browsing the internet is _exactly_ what makes books so valuable.

You're right, books are a lot of effort. However, they teach something that internet articles & videos don't, and that is delayed gratification.

In the digital age, everything is fighting for your attention and it is getting harder and harder to actually focus on anything. Clickbait titles is perhaps the most obvious manifestation, but you can see it in videos as well - many popular videos are edited in a specific way (no pauses between sentences, cut after cut after cut) that grabs your attention as often as possible.

Books let you practice tuning all that noise out and focusing on a single task for a long time, while still providing entertainment. For a knowledge worker, to be able to focus at this level is a very valuable ability!

Deep Work by Cal Newport is a non-fiction book that goes into more detail about some of these ideas concerning focus in the contemporary era.

Another great non-fiction book that really couldn't be presented in another medium is "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion" by Jonathan Haidt. The Righteous Mind is not an easy read because the ideas presented are complex and wide-reaching. It takes a lot of time to go through and digest, but it is definitely worth it. The Righteous Mind has had perhaps the most impact upon my understanding of humanity and politics out of anything I've ever read.

If you want to see what it's like to read for fun, check out the Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemisin - this is probably the best pacing I have ever experienced in a fantasy series.

And if you think science fiction would be more your thing, try to to take a stab at reading Dune by Frank Herbert. This is a sci-fi classic that essentially codified the genre, and some of the ideas in the series are what made Star Wars the phenomenon it is today. I think you can't get better proof that books can stand the test of time than this!
IaaS = your data + code to run it + create servers to run the code.

PaaS = your data + code to run it. Servers automatically provided.

SaaS = your data. Code and servers are automatically provided.

Serverless is just another name for PaaS where your bring your code, which can be deployed as a single JS function in a text file or an entire container running anything.
It is products designed, made and shipped from you in the past that help set your personal brand as a consultant. You show something so that prospective clients can assess and trust your potential contribution in advance. Portfolio is the name, right?
So you get several identities. How do you game the system?

Intelligent agencies have failed to keep their phone usage cleanly separated. It's not that easy.

E.g. if you want to avoid progressive income taxes by registering several companies, your burner phone stands out because it doesn't have any other contacts. That will be further investigated.

Then you need the name of a living person who doesn't use a mobile phone to register it because otherwise, he would operate two phones at two different places. Another red flag.
Later in the article computer vision and edge detection is mentioned... But I also feel this is more like a traditional control problem rather than ai.
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> So everybody goes to the same schools with the same curriculum with the same baseline opportunities.

I went to a Jesuit high school, and, due to this, had far better advantages and outcomes than anyone else in the same socioeconomic background as myself. I didn't get here on any merit of my own and didn't really pay attention prior to high-school, I just became a step-son to someone willing to spend the money.

Even if you want to talk about public schools, you can't say that everyone is on the same footing due to a host of reasons: poorer neighborhoods tend to have higher rates of lead in their paint which negatively affects people in various ways; better teachers will self-select for "safer" or "better" areas; or children might go to school and be unable to pay for lunch, thus harming their education. The notion of same baselines opportunities is unfounded. Similar curriculums, as well, aren't true: AP classes, dual-enrollment in local colleges, &c. are all enhancements to the baseline curriculum.

> It's not optimized for individual success at all.

You presuppose that a school system should optimize for individual success, but I'm not convinced that optimizing for a more cohesive, civically-minded, and educated population wouldn't produce better outcomes. This hyper-focus on individuals seems to be tearing society at the seams--by not imagining ourselves as a part of a community, only as individual agents, our conception of nation and society crumbles. Your idea of education seems that it would only exacerbate the collapse of community.
Right, but you’re misreading the context in which he said it. He disavowed some of the specific choices, maybe the idea of comprehensively enumerating them in a list. But he didn’t disavow the concept of a western canon or even most of the specific books in the list. “I did it off the top of my head. I left out a lot of things that should be there and I probably put in a couple of things that I now would like to kick out.”
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Convoluted? How? For all your talk of criminality and moral corruption, you seem to have no idea how to read a patent claim. You'd say it is all rather well known, but you cite to literally nothing.
I shifted from mostly fixed price to mostly hourly based billing over the past year, and increased the rates. It’s very easy to start a project with hourly billing, adjust the scope and expand as you go. It’s very difficult to do that with a fixed priced project.

But the biggest issue against fixed price is that companies are quite bad at pricing R&D activities (which is why they’re usually running late and require office heroics to complete).
When you try to put a realistic price on such an activity you may give your customer a sticker shock.

I still do fixed price at places but only when the work stands alone and it’s something I’ve done many times in the past.

Working hourly, if you spread the work across multiple clients and provide good value for each, creates a structure where you cost each of them slightly less than a full time employee. My experience is that this is quite sustainable for everyone.
I can't imagine anyone being anywhere close to an expert (meaning, highly familiar with the relevant scholarship) on more than a tiny fraction of this list - and do note that whole areas of world lit (East Asia, etc.) are entirely missing from the list, because they're so hard to even characterize in a useful way. Perhaps this is what illustrates the very real failure of this whole "canon" concept more than anything else could.
Why would you need to stop China? They have invested more into renewable energy and electric transportation than any other country.
Double ratchet was built on top of 2004 OTR's Diffie-Hellman ratchet. From what I understood the difference was using different, post-quantum, algorithms for this patent. The thing is, post-quantum algorithms haven't even been standardized yet: NIST competition is currently on round 2.

Generalized patent for using post-quantum cipher together with double ratchet takes two hard things that have taken a ton of hard work and basically makes the claim they were the first ones to discover they are compatible and that it's a good idea -- which is not the case, key exchange algorithms are trivial to plug into protocols. They are implemented separately to be used together. It's like trying to patent portable music player, but with open design headphones! It took the industry a lot of time to come up with portable music players, and good headphones also took time and effort, but a generalized patent for using them together is just nonsense.
> What would you expect people to do? Most people want a peaceful life with their friends and family, passing their time pleasantly until they die.

No they don't. Most people want success and to follow their passions when they're young, get knocked around a few times by life, get older and decide to chill out and focus on building their families instead.

They learn to be happy with what life has given them, which is generally a good thing, but it does not mean it's the only thing they've ever wanted.
One such (very lightweight) analysis: https://www.cnbc.com/id/43768488

It really is a great systems thinking story. Set the overall context and goal and then figure out how to optimize for the thing that drives results.
I sold AI software (for building expert systems) for Xerox Lisp Machines from 1982 to 1985 and the lawyers at my company complained that the $5K license price did not make up for the hassle for foreign sales (I sold to customers in Japan, Norway, and Germany). So, export controls are not such a new things.
I got tired of keeping score using pen and paper. Options on the app store lacked some of the features I wanted, so I made my own app. It's a PWA as I'm not a mobile dev. Figured I'd share for others who may find it useful.
>Your bank, or medical records, or even traffic light controls simply cannot move fast and break

Don't tell the banks and financial industry that (looking at you, Equifax).
You can be fine with looking at a few pictures and some wikipedia pages, but it is not comparable to making a real trip. Books are worth it.
Because, at the same time that this is happening, the capacity for a single actor to wreak catastrophic destruction or violence is increasing. If that "viable option" increases the number of discontented people who increasingly have access to WMDs (or that support actors who can, given enough of that support), you increase the likelihood that someone has the motive to blow everything sky high.

Also, you're wrong. Egalitarianism has meant a lack of luxury relative to what was possible at the time, but a better baseline for the population as a whole.
> The IRGC is separate to the Iranian military.

It's not separate, it's an official branch of the Iranian Armed Forces [0]. You are similarly off-beat with pretty much all of your other statements.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Revolutionary_Guard_Co...
Not an expert here.

In a spin lock, the lock state is checked in a tight loop by all waiters. This will be using some sort of memory fence. FWIK, memory fence or barriers flush the CPU cache and would initiate reading the variable (spin lock state) for evaluation. I would expect spin locking overheads to increase with number of cores.

On NUMA, I think flushing is more expensive.
Hence, spin locks have an additional overhead of having to load and evaluate on every spin as against being woken up for mutexes (like a callback)
On the contrary clothing is getting better all the time. I shutter to think how terrible it must have been to try to walk through a cold rain 100 years ago, or engage in any kind of athletics under basically any circumstances.
Regarding the photography books, how does a complete digital archive of a photographer's works compare to a physical book of the same content? Would you still prefer the physical book in that scenario?
It gives opportunities to practice with the tech in ways US can't which might make them gain a lead.
How does this compare to, for example, https://www.promes.cnrs.fr/index.php?page=concentrateurs-sol... (3000°C)? I personally visited one such site in Southern France more than 30 years ago.
And I am struggling to see how Signal/Axolotl does match every element of claim 1.
I lost my cat in my 20ies, which died of old age. I wasn't living with my parents anymore for years when this happened. I still sometimes weep when I think about it, decades later.

My father got cancer and lived with it for about 7 years before dying. Our relationship wasn't exactly close. When he was in the last weeks, I got so used to the hospitals and health issues that everything seemed so normal to me. I knew exactly what was eventually going to happen though. It only hit me two days before he died, and it was with the brutality of an instantaneous train-wreck.

You could have told me everything, exactly as I wrote it down now, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have made a difference.
Marcuse is using "classes" more in the traditional sense, social relations predicated (roughly) on ownership and control of society's gross productive capacity. But the point still rings true - in terms of media, for instance, there is a huge amount of overlap between what the "upper classes" and "lower classes" enjoy. Marcuse would have been very critical of the lifestyle and art produced by the culture industry today (see, for instance, his discussion on the sadness of seeing Freud in the drug store and Bach on the radio in the kitchen).
I think it really depends on whether you want to advance the breadth or depth of your knowledge.

If you want to go breadth, meaning touch a little bit of here and there, yes you can rely on the internet. There are many non-fiction books can help you in this direction, but you do not have to read them.

But if you want to go depth in a particular field, I think you have to read at least some most important books in that field. I do not believe you can learn an advanced field, say quantum physics, by just watching youtube videos or reading online articles. The reason is that many in depth knowledge are only presented in books.

For programming, I think yes you can definitely become a programmer by learning online. But then again, if you want to be an expert in a particular field of programming, you have to read books in that field. Even for data mining and AI those kind of stuff, there are good online courses, but I don't believe online materials can cover important details as in books.

The most cutting edge materials are usually presented in research papers or conference presentations.
Do you think people should stop working on LN? I think it's a good way to scale right now, regardless of whether or not it can theoretically handle the transactions of hundreds of millions of people.

There are probably going to be some big entities in the Lightning Network ("lightning service providers") that average users use to open channels in exchange for a fee. These LSPs need to closely monitor for malicious transactions, but the average user doesn't have to. The average user would only get ripped off if their LSP broadcast an invalid transaction. In that case, they could prove it to the network and everyone would leave the LSP. Eventually there will be long-standing LSPs with good reputation. People can open long-running payment channels with them. If on-chain transaction fees get really high, they could be set to timeout after a year. That gives both parties plenty of time to notice an invalid transaction. If they're paranoid about DoS or timing attack, they can close the channel a few days before it times out.

That's my understanding only from reading a few articles about how Lightning Network works, so what I'm saying might be ridiculous and I could be completely wrong.
Reading a book--a real, classic book, not a business, technical or self-help book--can literally change you as a person. Read the right book, and the entity in your body reading stuff on the internet might react differently afterwards.