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>Sure you can have access to the “truth” in the west, but you also see a staggering amount of propaganda/mass manipulation/willful distraction and no easy way of differentiating the two.

The thing is, when you have access to both truth and misinformation, you still stand a non-zero chance of filtering out trash and getting to the truth. In that scenario, misinformation has to step up its game and compete with real information. It cannot be too wild and out there to capture the minds of the majority. Whoever spreads the misinformation has to carefully balance the strength of their misinformation vs. appearing legitimate.

On the other hand, when the truthful info is all blocked completely, the quality of misinformation and propaganda doesn't matter. If it is the only source of info, then that's what the population will consume. It can be as wild as possible, and it won't matter at all, people will eat it up. No need to balance the strength vs. legitimate appearance, you can put all your chips on strength.

One can argue about how much truth people are able to consume when it is mixed with tons of misinformation, but if truthful sources are blocked, the answer to "how much" becomes "almost none". And the situation is made even worse by how much more wild and more dishonest the misinformation can become if there is a vacuum of sources of truth due to them being completely blocked.

As an example, in countries that tend to block major sources of truth and where we tend to think that a lot of people are just mindless sheep eating up government propaganda, I personally don't think people there are just naturally too dumb to not figure out they are being lied to or they are predisposed naturally to be more susceptible to propaganda.

When you have a vacuum of info, it has to be filled by something. If all that's on the plate is wild misinformation, then that's all you will eat, it isn't like you have any other choice, aside from completely isolating yourself from society.
The problem with pointer arithmetic in C is that it's the default. Every pointer implicitly supports it, even though the vast majority of them point to a single object of a given type, and so it doesn't really make sense for them. So it's much easier to get an invalid pointer than it ought to be.

The obvious fix, as seen in e.g. Zig, is to have different types for pointers to objects and pointers to arrays. But once you have that, you can relegate the latter to the "unsafe" opt-in subset of the language.
You can't trigger cones individually. The cones are responsive to a wide-spectrum and they overlap, especially in the case of the L and M receptors. The peak wavelength of the L receptor (the "reddest") is about 580nm -- that is not red, that's yellow-green.

Color vision and stimulus is not a straightforward mapping of primaries triggering cones. If it were that simple you could trivially render all perceivable colors with 3 chosen primary colors. This is impossible to do.
You can mathematically define 3 primaries that cover the entire visible spectrum but they cannot physically exist (complete, but imaginary).
Any chosen set of 3 primaries is a compromise. For subtractive materials it is trickier, which is why photo inkjet printers will use up to 8 primaries.

You might find this informative:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080717034228/http://www.handpr.... The section starting with Maxwell and the "3 artist's misconceptions" especially.

But the only general definition of primary is basically just any set of colorants that can be mixed to get a useful gamut. In subtractive materials, this is why you won't see a painter messing around with mixing cyan, magenta, and yellow (better explained in the link).
Chinese came up with many inventions (gun powder, printing press, ocean faring ships) we consider civilization-defining and didn't do much with them. Meanwhile Europeans took them to new heights and conquered the world.

A level of individualism is probably the most important factor and fairly incompatible with totalitarian regimes but wide access to information isn't nearly as crucial as infovores assume.
Going via Åland is definitely practicable--the eastern side is about 80-90 km of shallow sea, which means you need basically a series of trestle bridges similar to the Florida Overseas Railroad (which was 200 km end-to-end). The western side is more difficult, since it's 40km at its narrowest point, which is slightly longer than the Channel Tunnel, and most of the sea appears to be about 200-300m deep. But if you detour around a bit more to the north, you could again use a trestle bridge for most of it, and use a large bridge only to cross the deepest portion of it.

The point is crossing via Åland is firmly in the category of "we've crossed these kinds of gaps before."
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What, you don't look forward to WWDC to find out what syntax got arbitrarily changed with no explanation?
> It seems to be my understanding that Linux will allow supporting any hardware or software API as long as at least a few people care about it. It doesn't matter how old or impractical it is.

It's not quite like that, there's quite a bit of hardware support that has been dropped along the way. It's not enough for people to care about stuff, they have to care about it enough that they maintain that support in line with kernel devs' expectations. That's not always easy.
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In the US, CO2 taxes would have to exceed $300/ton for new nuclear plants to pencil out, vs. new gas combined cycle plants. This means nuclear is an extremely poor way of reducing CO2 emission here. There's a vast array of alternatives that become viable at much lower CO2 taxes.

It's not climate friendly to be choosing uneconomical approaches. It's almost as if you're using climate as a rationalization for a position you reached by other means.
I actually went the other way. With autolayout is just easier (for me), to do UIs in code. Especially because IB does not offer 100% of what UIKit has.
I don't hate IB, it just become less relevant to me. Storyboards on the other hand… Never thought well about them.
IIRC that's fine according to spec. What you can't do is have a cable with female USB-C on one end.
I have a Dell 34" UltraWide curved and I love it. I upgraded from two monitors to a single UltraWide and not having a bezel is amazing, and the slight curve helps because my eyes don't need to refocus as I move from one corner to the other when looking at it. It has reduced my eye strain tremendously.
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I use an a 38" Acer 3840x1600 ultrawide.

For 2D windowed applications, it works exactly as you'd expect. Be sure to have tiling support in your window manager for the best experience -- I typically have two windows opened side-by-side, and the Windows 10 window manager makes this tiling easy to do.

Support for ultrawide resolutions in full-screen applications like games can be hit or miss, but it generally works, and you can always fall back into standard widescreen or fullscreen resolutions with letterboxing if it doesn't.

One downside I've noticed is that due to the curved screen, glare from bright light sources (e.g., the sun) that reflects off the screen is somewhat out of focus with whatever is being displayed, which is fatiguing to look at. I don't know if this is a problem with this display in particular, or curved displays in general, but something to look out for.

Overall, I'm satisfied with my ultrawide, and will continue to use a single large display over multiple smaller displays in the future.
FoxPro/Foxbase as well. In the Foxbase days predating FoxPro, there was even a “multi-user” version that, unsurprisingly, cost more than the standard single user.

And plenty of other file-based DBs such as Borland’s Paradox and the db engine, dBase; pretty sure FileMaker, too.
There are less than 5000 commercial banks in the united states and it is very rare a new one is approved. They've been consolidating and the total number declining for decades. Banking isn't a monopoly but it is a very limited, exclusive, club for those with lots of assets.

After all, if you're a bank you can create new money supply out of thin air by lending out money you don't have (fractional reserve). A money printing machine is a very valuable business. Every other service a bank provides is just icing on top of this.
I cannot go back to 27” - ultrawide is game-changing for me.

Basically, it comes down to working on 3 interfaces seamlessly, versus two with a single screen. Think REFERENCE, ACTION, SOURCE/DESTINATION.

Couple that with using Spectacles (for Mac) to move windows in position with the keyboard, and Mouseless App to master keyboard shortcuts, and you’re flying.

I considered ditching my ultrawide to buy the new iMac 5K 27”, but it was more geared to 2 interfaces, not 3, so I couldn’t. Even though I prefer the hardware over my MacBook Air 11” 2015 - maxed out.

I love my LG 34UC80-B 34-Inch 21:9 Curved UltraWide. The Sceptre C305W-2560UN 30-inch 21:9 Super Curved Ultrawide is a great budget option.
Yep, check out integration with helm for multiple apps:

https://gravitational.com/gravity/docs/catalog/#publish-an-a...

It's something we support right now, but still polishing UX, the idea is to add more support for Helm 3.0 in the future in addition to Helm 2.0 we already support.
Is it wrong to think of the mythical warriors?

Also, maybe someone should make a modest proposal to Bezos to rename the company "Orellana".
So is the regular Swix CH7 hydrocarbon wax a C6 or a C8? Should I still be handling these with gloves?
> Every action that a rich person takes to enrich themselves rather than trying to level the playing field is by definition taking from the poor.

J.K. Rowling was already a wealthy person before finishing her Harry Potter series. Each additional book further enriched her, but also enriched me because I got hours of enjoyment from reading another Harry Potter book which was a great trade for the ten USD or so I spent on it.
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not only is this an extremely exciting project that I've been following for what feels like years, but there is such a tremendous richness of stuff only tangentially related to the project that the author has collected as well (one example: https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/ExternalResources). this is clearly such a well-organized, thoughtful endeavor that i have absolute faith that great things will come of it. and he's an excellent writer to boot!
> In the meantime, you have to follow it.

You also would like to expect that if the law is unjust, it can't manage to make too much harm while getting repealed.

And repeals can take a long time. If people would easy organize for things like repeal a law or a government which suddenly become despotic according to majority opinion, we'd live in a different world. What we're trying to make here, banning face recognition, is to make mistakes in laws less costly - sometimes way less costly.
This is a nit, but there's a pretty big difference between refactoring and rearchitecting.

If you plan for an eventual migration of the app from a cross-platform toolkit to native, then often you're committing to a significant rewrite of the app. This means either you dedicate a team to the rewrite or you stop adding features while it gets rewritten.

Plus it will take a while for the native version to get feature parity with the cross-platform version, and you typically can't roll out the native version until you have parity.

I'm sure there are tools and strategies for getting this right, but I've seen this basically kill startups.
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I happen to be in the market for a home security system and was originally looking at Ubiquiti but after reading this article, I'm considering Ring since their Neighbors Portal is used by my local law enforcement.
Clickhouse seems to be another great option for what you've described.
Satechi always sounds funny to French people. Pronouncing the name literally means in casual language "it poops you".
I have a 49" with a native Res of 5120x1440 and can't use it with my MacBook Pro on MacOS.

Works fine in Windows but can't go past 4096x1440@70hz in MacOS...
As a computational scientist who knows C, Fortran, IDL, MATLAB, Mathematica, Pascal, Python, and R for about two decades, I can tell you that the unique advantage of (modern) Fortran (2008/2018) over any other languages mentioned here is in its great flexibility and high-performance for numerical computing and basically any mathematical problem. It has a coding and syntax flexibility comparable to MATLAB and Python, but the runtime speed of C, and in many cases, beyond C. It is the only high-performance programming language that has native built-in mechanism for one-sided parallel programming on shared and distributed architectures that can scale your code from your laptop to the largest supercomputers in the world (Coarray Fortran parallelism). Checkout the OpenCorrays software on GitHub and Intel's amazing Coarray-enabled Fortran compiler. Also, Fortran along with C, are the only two languages for which the MPI standard is written. OpenMP parallelism also has its roots in the Fortran language. Nvidia is also working on a new F18 compiler for Fortran which enables GPU parallel computing via the same Coarray Fortran syntax and rules. One parallel programming API for all architectures and platforms. No programming language has this capability that I am aware of.

Typically, simulations that I run in MATLAB, Python or R, take 100 to 500 times longer than the equivalents that I write in Fortran. I am sure you can achieve a similar performance with C as well. But the development cost in C is much higher for numerical computing than in Fortran, given Fortran's native array-based syntax, parallelism features, optimization hints to the compiler, and the new high-level string and memory manipulation tools that it has.

That said, every language has its usage and place in the world of programming. In my case, all of the post-processing analyses of my Fortran/C simulation results are done in either Python or MATLAB, and sometimes in R. They complement each other rather than being rivals to each other.
It's a file format with a very mature and nice library around it. At the end of a day it's just fwrite() and fread() with SQL syntax.
I've tried them but far prefer running triple-head setups (since the days of Xfree and CRTs). Triple-head is pretty easy these days and gives you one central monitor plus one either side to chuck windows onto. Current set-up is 3xDell U2715H for a total of (2560*3)x1440 (and 10 workspaces).

If you are going wide, consider vertical resolution/vertical size as well (to minimise swivelling side to side).
Interesting. Nice to know it wasn't just me. There was no one to talk to about it back then so you had to think on your toes.

SQL Server was a crap load easier to back up reliably
> what actually matters to the satellite is your exact delay, so there's a range of spots which look the "same"

That's potentially true for GEO systems. It's not at all true for LEO/MEO systems, where ⓐ that "range of spots" is rapidly moving over the surface of Earth as the satellite does, ⓑ you have AOS/LOS when the satellite crosses the horizon, and ⓒ you can get enormously improved bandwidth for a given power budget by using highly directional antennas on the satellite as well as the groundstation. Starlink is LEO.
I want a USB-C hub that's just one USB-C in to multiple USB-C out. Why is that so impossible to find?
Oh, I see. Sorry about that. This stuff is stupidly confusing.

For what it's worth, unless you're doing a constant full load on your CPU and GPU, 85 watts is probably enough.
I did this. (32" 4K -> 38" curved 3840x1600)

The pixel density of the curved ultrawide is annoyingly worse than the 4K. Otherwise it's better, more usable, but the low pixel density makes me want to go back.

I'd really like a similar form factor with 5K horizontal resolution.
True. However, the top 1% of users have 1000+ TB data warehouses where Postgres or MariaDB is not an option. These use cases do not require ACID/OLTP, though. This is why projects like Presto thrive. I think the next obvious leap for data management is bridging the OLTP OLAP gap and having the same database providing both, using the same query engine and different storage engines. Moving data from OLTP systems to OLAP always had its challenges; many companies, OSS projects, etc. wanted to solve it, with mixed results.
I doesn't work for me, but that's probably very application-specific.
I'm not a dev nor a graphic/video artist, my work is motly editing office docs. Why it didn't work for me:
1- OSes are rather bad at handling large monitors. You can't just dumbly Maximize anymore, which is what I always do. Windows positions don't get memorized so your screen is a permanent mess.
2- I need the doc I'm working on, sources, and social/comms/entertainment. That's an ideal setup for 3 monitors and a good stand
3- it's hella expensive.
4- it maps better to how my brain works ?

I want back to 3 medium, cheap monitors, and I'm happier.
This such an air-headed comment to make. You must realize that page describing how SQLite is “serverless” has been up probably longer than your entire adult life. It is important in its context, they are not trying to “redefine” (lol) the term.
Anker is good for their main product lines (chargers, cables and power banks), but the rest of their peripherals (mice, keyboards, speakers, data hubs, etc.) feel like afterthoughts that don't compete past the low-end of the market.
A counterexample would be that most other open source Unixes' "MVP-level" of hardware support meant that none of them gained much traction and market share. The real world does not run entirely on Thinkpads.
The world is also just learning how to deal with the damage. It reminds me of the time when the Flintstones were brought to you by some cigarette company.
Yikes! I mostly work with small providers that don't have the same resources as the big guys so I'm dealing with networks that are Node + 7 or more actives (vs the N+0 or N+1 the big guys do now) and anything about about 200 modems is when we start planning for node splits.
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It's not like you could just walk up to some preserved soviet microelectronics and compare their technical sophostication (e.g. metal layers, feature sizes, power density) to contemporary Western technology.
China has the technology to shoot down satellites. If SpaceX tries to circumvent China's laws they'll just take out their constellation, so SpaceX has no leverage there.

Smaller, third-world countries, maybe there are more chances there. Citizens would likely need to import and manufacture their own antennas illegally that connect to the constellation.
There is software to resolve issue 1 with keyboard or mouse/trackpad shortcuts for nearly all OSes.
There are people who want it. Those who know the value of each language.
This was years ago and I have actually now driven in the UK myself. Yes, I'm sure overall I'd be less likely to die if I were driving every day in the UK vs driving every day in Canada.

But let me tell you, the first day driving on the other side of the road is a real doozy. And I nearly died a couple of times. And I was doing my very best to avoid "magic roundabouts".

(I actually drove all week through rural Wales, which was a different kind of adventure)
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If they solve self driving they are undervalued. If they own the only self driving solution, they own the transportation industry.

If they patent a new battery technology, they could end up being undervalued.

If they are just a car company they are likely overvalued.
That's LOL level flaw. Personally I'd always go raspberry + motioneye + locally saved video + cloud upload.
Older x86 hardware is incredibly cheap and plentiful in my experience. Of course stuff goes up in price as it ages and gets rarer, but that's just expected.
> The US eventually did win the space race

They did _because they started a new round_. What the US did is equivalent to losing badly and then screaming "Last goal wins" repeatedly until you score the last goal. Yes, US sources claim a US victory. That doesn't mean they actually won.

> The US view is that they did all the heavy lifting,

The Soviet Union was responsible for ~80% of german casualties. The Soviets made a difference in Western Europe by winning in the east. It's what killed the german propaganda machine.
Thunderbolt 3 is the same form factor as USB-C, but there's different hardware in the cables themselves to enable higher data throughput. If you want to use Thunderbolt 3, the devices on either end need to specifically support it.

Note that in the future, Thunderbolt 3 is getting de facto rebranded as USB4 (no space). https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/09/usb4-is-coming-soon-...
Well remember what happens. Engineers get it working. It’s a success. Now let’s make some money. Happens with every job. I always seem to mosey on step 3 to another job :)
Kubernetes cluster is hard to operate indeed. Techniques that we always had to deploy before Kubernetes, for example package managers, don't always translate to operating a distributed system on a hundreds or thousands of servers.

Some of this complexity is definitely incidental, not all components are not always coordinating well with each other, e.g. docker and API server, networking layer during upgrades for example.

On the other hand lots of this complexity is essential - K8s is a distributed system with database, network and container orchestration layer solving a hard problem.
Although I agree with the underlying assertion, namely that TSLA is over valued, the author somehow manages to avoid making a single credible argument in the entire article. I find it somehow ironic that she decries investors as being, "not interested in the things we need for long-term development" and that "While the masters of the universe play the odds, the rest of us are scrambling, trying to figure out how to slow down the looming ecological catastrophe" while deriding a company thats pushing the envelope of electric vehicles and battery production, two things critically needed to move away from fossil fuels.

How is it possible for someone with a PhD to write an article about the market value of a company and not have a single sentence about the P/E ratio, cost of production or unit sales?

"They demonstrate the absurdity of a system in which the value of companies rests as much (or more) on their ability to tell a good story as it does on their actual track record." Ummmm, what? What the heck is even the difference between "telling a good story" and a "track record"? A track record is just one ingredient that people use to try and project how a company will perform in the future, i.e. part of trying to "tell a good story." Im a hard-core leftist, socialist, and generally enjoy the commie rag that is the Jacobin. This article is trash and the author should be ashamed to have her name attached to such low effort nonsense.
If it was possible, it's not anymore. I just went through, there's only the option of allowing "InMail"

https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/1584 says
InMail allows you to directly message another LinkedIn member that you're not connected to.

Note: If you have a Basic (free) account, you can only directly message LinkedIn members that you’re connected to. You must upgrade to a Premium account to use InMail
In English, "the Amazon" could also be a valid phrase apart from the river. For instance, you might have a course called "The Amazon in Ancient Greek and Modern Culture".
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