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>updating a gba game is literally impossible.

Not quite. The Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire Berry Glitch bug was fixed by connecting to games that had a patch program, such as Pokémon Emerald, the 3rd in the Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald series.

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Berry_glitch
Honestly, beautiful maths mostly starts “after Calculus”: Analysis, Abstract Algebra, and beauty is in proofs.

Although, you can check Combinatorics, Geometry, and Number Theory up to some point.

A good book I could recommend is Concrete Mathematics: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_Mathematics
And Vancouver is notable for its lack of freeways through the city. Just lots of big roads.
Is Philanthropy Undemocratic?
Check out this January 2020, award winning android movie app [For Movie Lovers]
sqlite databases are binary blobs which don't have meaningful diffs if you check them into source control.
Another interesting article from the same site, about one of the men who survived the 1961 explosion and returned with his family in 2015:

https://www.lakesuperior.com/the-lake/maritime/54-years-afte...
Lucky you. My library seems to double as a day-care facility. The local coffeeshops are quieter.
Also what I was thinking. Their minimum wage is double the US and even fast food is quite a bit more expensive there.

On the other hand they must be getting fish dirt cheap. I have heard even the youth hostels serve entire salmon for breakfast.
Unless he hoards wealth and assets in a third party area, like Mars, Antarctica, or his private home with a hired army
I think it would be sufficient to just indicate if it has a long cable or not. You can tell from the pictures generally.
Dim sum restaurants can do this well because they can crank them out in volume. A stack of 4 piece dishes gets snapped up quickly as the cart makes its way through the floor. It's also why the larger dim sum palaces are usually so much better than smaller a-la-carte restaurants.
Why does Amazon care if your package got stolen? Isn't it your problem once it hits your door? Never thought about this I guess
Starlink needs special phased array antennas. Unless those become commoditized they can just ban imports.
The thing costing Firefox users is the billion-dollar advertising push and heavy promotion on Google properties. That won’t be changed by trying to satisfy a small number of critics who are not exactly jumping to contribute significant effort to the project, whereas the Mozilla team inevitably has solid answers about maintenance costs bashing their decisions.
I'd agree with this except that they are not selling those TLDs for 10 bucks or 12 bucks - if they like the dictionary word for it or its short enough the .dev tld will charge you 720 dollars per year flat even though there's no pressure on the demand of a million different tlds.

Just checked google for a word earlier this morning that was free and balked at how stupid this TLD land grab is, unless you own or manage one.
I just got a 32" 4k curved monitor. Without the curve, I think the head movement would be too much. I had a 40" 4k flat. The head movement was extreme and contributed to my RSI. I downgraded to a 27" Apple thunderbolt first. I'd say 28" or so is probably max for a flat panel with 32" or so being max for a curved panel for comfortable use without painful head turning. His complaints about scaling are unfounded and simply false. Too bad because this is a real issue with monitor sizes, focus, and back/neck issues. I too found my focus increasing when I dropped down from the 40", but the 27" and 32" are roughly the same for focus. For me, that's much better than any smaller monitor.
People took what I said as a joke but they should talk to some librarians and tech support of public libraries.
> Engine braking occurs when the retarding forces within an engine are used to slow down a motor vehicle, as opposed to using additional external braking mechanisms such as friction brakes or magnetic brakes.

> The term is often confused with several other types of braking, most notably compression-release braking or "jake braking" which uses a different mechanism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_braking
I am quite skeptical most of us could do that given all the time in the world.
> The same business prowess and attention to detail you need to make a buffett run profitably could get you very far in another industry.

If you have the industry know-how, money and time to change industry, sure. In reality...
I've been unpleasantly disappointed by the Overdrive app. It seems like nothing I want is available through it, or the tie-ins to the libraries are convoluted and difficult to navigate. My experience has been that it's great if you want classics or fiction (I think I borrowed "Old Yeller"), but for books like you'd read about on HN, I've struck out.
There shouldn’t be should a such standard program. It’s up to you to implement it in-process so you reap all the benefits of sqlite’s speed and lack of dedicated server process.

In the case of Erlang/Elixir where I most actively work in the last few years, it’s really easy to centralise write access (dedicated actor receiving messages). With other languages it should also be fairly easy.
SpaceX has already said that Starlink hardware will be offered by partners for countries outside the United States, in order to abide by local laws (i.e., in China, the hardware will have to route through the gfw)[0]. It won't be a magic bullet for censorship, unfortunately (unless you could smuggle a US router into another country, but there may be some kind of DRM or something to prevent you from doing that).

[0]: https://spacenews.com/spacex-plans-to-start-offering-starlin...
Making a Virtual Machine in Google Sheets
This is a fantastic idea! I might start a checklist (hmm, or a recutils db?)

I've been using emacs for a couple of years now and every couple of months I find something new and huge buried in it that surprises the heck out of me... how can these things hide for so long!
haha been there, should have left for a different company with our cto thinking xamarin was the best.
Fashion Retailer H&M Says Data Protection Breaches Unacceptable
How does this work with container/ephemeral services such as typical K8s deployments? Can I trust the file system mounting via resources like StatefulSets or FS mounts? For that matter, Heroku, App Engine, Cloud Functions, whatever?

Our current setup is having all our services in kubernetes but our databases in stateful VMs. I do occasionally stuff job-reports and similar data into postgres rows since it's already there, but I've been unhappy with our ETL setup and would be interested in hearing techniques to improve it.
Clever. Stacking necessarily requires a loop, so you can just use unidirectional data flow and you don’t need 2x cables. Or perhaps they use a proprietary half-duplex implementation over the single channel, which would allow for it to continue working with a device out.

I can’t see why, though. It can’t be cheaper (and they have to license the HDMI spec).
isn't sqlite doing the same ???
> So what? TLA+ still achieved something that no other formal logic had before it (AFAIK).

What I'm saying is that either TLA+ wasn't the first (Z was earlier), _or_ TLA+'s success has much less to do with anything especially accessible about it and more because a high profile company wrote about it.

> because I think TLA+ has much bigger problems than how you launch some program. [...] I also think that some of the complaints about the tooling might be about something else altogether, but I'm not entirely sure what it is. Simply doing what beginners think they want is rarely a good strategy for product design. You get the feedback, but then you have to understand what the true issue is

When I asked "what would make TLA+ easier to use", tons of people mentioned better CLI tooling. You told them all that they don't actually need that and they are thinking about TLA+ wrong. Maybe you aren't actually listening to the feedback.

I've also heard it from tons of experienced TLA+ users that they'd like better CLI tooling.
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> does not operate on a client-server architecture

That was never a common usage of the term serverless.
I think the insane price of ebooks is to blame for this. I've recently purchased print books for this reason -- the ebook was actually more expensive.
I've spent half an hour or so looking at this thread, and my take away is that you're largely just confusing matters even further.

> It's just a file format.

This is clearly incorrect. It does encompass a file format, but it also contains code to manage that file. The existence of sqljet does not change this, it's merely a different database management system that uses the same file format.

You also seem to mostly ignore that the data it's managing is a relational database, not some other form of data. This is why you can't compare it to python's csv module or python-docx, neither of these do anything to restrict you to a relational data model, nor do they provide a system to query them as if they were a relational database. On the other hand, if for some unknown reason you rewrite the storage engine of postgresql to use the either the sqlite file format or csv/docx, I assume you agree it would still be an RDBMS.

Ultimately I think you're just adding to the confusion by saying that a project with 139,000 lines of C code is "just a file format".
The small time farmer is a myth in this era. It's industrial farms. There is no need for politicians to deep throat the .05 percent of the economy that is made up of small farmers
Earlier this weekend I was doing experimental performance testing of an idea I have for a wiki solution[0].

This, or SQLite could be really useful to embed data into pages.

[0]: yeah, I've had to dig beneath the surface of Confluence lately and Confluence has this weird property of immediately making me motivated to try writing a decent wiki
I wrote a SQLite <-> Json converter for this reason. Ended up coming up with a weird convention in the Json to represent relations. It might be cool to instead write a recfiles <-> SQLite converter. I want to use SQLite from within my app, but want to check in readable data to a source control system.
>It should also be noted that the total atmosphere (dry + water) is about 3% water vapor by weight and H2O makes up the majority of the greenhouse effect.

This is actually an incredibly important point, because higher temperatures mean more water vapor in the atmosphere. However, that also means more clouds, which counteracts warming to some degree.

The impact of clouds on climate change is one of the biggest difficulties in modeling climate change. The IPCC report goes into it a bit. My understanding is that computationally it's a bit like predicting the weather into the future - a lot of uncertainty due to the chaotic nature of the system.
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> Neo-Serverless: The database engine runs in a separate namespace from the application, probably on a separate machine, but the database is provided as a turn-key service by the hosting provider, requires no management or administration by the application owners, and is so easy to use that the developers can think of the database as being serverless even if it really does use a server under the covers.

I’m having a failure of imagination here.

What would I use a database for that I could reasonably assert to my peers and superiors that no maintenance whatsoever is required? Backups and restores count as maintenance. Multi region is now common, if not pervasive.

Are there public datasets that are so common that it would be worth it to provide it as a service? What other service would behave like S3 but look like SQLite?

I get that one might be safe to assume that “serverless” isn’t just pure functions. It could reach out to other services that are not serverless and still not consume (further) resources on a set of machines while not in use.

But a severless database... I’d have to have something aggressively read-mostly, written to S3 at intervals and read from serverless processes. But is that a new thing or reading data from S3?
"We were discussing this in today's Triage meeting. Our current plan is to turn Metal on soon. This will increase the size of our engine by ~200KB. We can eventually reduce this by removing the OpenGL code but (a) that would drop support for <iOS10, which we don't want to do anytime soon (Skia only does Metal from iOS10), and (b) would require some work from the Skia team (OpenGL can't currently be removed from the codebase)."

Seems like it will be solved 'soon'
CTE doctor Bennet Omalu has profited selling distorted science?
I believe that. I bet comedy does, too.
This term "astronomical" applies no more to the scale of renewables needing built than it would nuclear. The existence of a somewhat related pdf doesn't make the prophecy realistic, that big challenges are more likely to show up for future renewable builds than for nuclear builds. The actual situation is nuclear can hardly get built currently due to "economic, regulatory, or environmental challenges" while renewables can and already have big fleet sizes.
Qualcomm 8cx cpu is based on smartphone one but optimized for laptop use.
There hasn't been much research, but Stephen Seiler has done some studies with polarized training down to 5-8 hour per week athletes which works well in those situations.

https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts177/#tab-con-16

I think the reasoning is that there are 2 main signaling pathways for endurance adaptations, one from high intensity and one from low intensity and you want to stimulate both for maximal adaptation.

The other part is that if you have more time to train, you simply can't do more and more HIIT without burning out. There are pro cyclists who did very little intensity until race season and just do lots of low intensity.

From what I remember, even elite rowers generally follow an 80/20 polarized model and their events are in the 6-7 minute range.
Thanks for the hint! Will add them:)
Groq is claiming 1 PetaOPS on one core with new AI accelerator
Huh, cool. Does anyone know how this worked? I know the carts themselves are mostly write-once so the bug and patch must have been related to the save portion or some hardware specific to this cartridge, right?
ISTR my Dell USB-C dock can do that (but check for yourself, I might misremember). No idea how well it works with Macs though.
While I agree with the general awesomeness of sqlite, I worry about the blanket statement that you've claimed.

If you read the documentation 'Purpose' [1], it says, the issues with databases, like SQLite:

- The stored data is not directly human readable.
- The stored data is definitely not directly writable by humans.
- They are program dependent.
- They are not easily managed by version control systems.

I just want to say that I also love sqlite, but I cannot avoid worrying that when the asteroid strikes and the ocean men invade, I will not be able to program a sqlite driver on a homemade 8 bit computer.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/Purpose.html#Pu...
One of the main skills a good executive needs is evaluating the competence of people they hire without knowing those people's jobs. Bezos is one of the best people in the world, and I'm sure he can smell bullshit better, and from farther away than any of us here. An inebriated baboon can see that these people don't know what they're talking about. Bezos likely has hundreds, if not thousands of industry-leading security experts working for him at Amazon. A five minute due diligence check by them would result in advice to hire someone else, and likely in a recommendation on who to hire.
This effect can not be over stated. Plantation owners never invented the cotton gin in spite of the vast numbers of them and decades of cotton raising.

I suspect there were additional social issues at play as well. For example, plantation owners, being at the top of the social hierarchy have less incentive to invent. Also that tier typically views tinkering and mechanics as lower status and so would avoid it on principle: prestige was based on land size and number of other people owned. Certainly not number of new ideas.
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This article is an obvious hit piece, but some people versed in the science seem to agree with it.

What's the truth, here?
How can production be not carbon neutral? When trees are cut new trees grow in their place, unless the place is used as a construction site or something.

https://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/mass-t...
EU, China and 15 others agree temporary fix to WTO crisis
Flutter is quite good, what were some of the issues you experienced?

The one PITA for me is state management, but once you understand how to solve that using BLoC or Providers then it should be relatively usable
It's not as black and white as you might think: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/02/po...
Power Delivery is already implemented, but you have to choose that the hub has to have at least one usb-c port. It it possible to have power delivery without having an usb-c(likw) port?
Thunderbolt 3 support is on my todo list:)
Do you mind explaining a bit more why this story is a problem? I assumed rightsholders would sign a contract with Pandora and it's their business what rate they negotiate. If they think it's too low, they can just not sign, can't they?

Apparently there's some government specified royalty for broadcasters, which includes Pandora, of $0.00176/play [1]. So maybe they're not allowed to demand more??!

[1] https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/02/28/will-pandora-media...
A GCP Persistent Disk Incident Snowballed into a 23-Hour Outage
> what is your immediate reaction upon criticism?

Sometimes mad, sometimes I have to pause and take a breath and think about what is happening. Sometimes I know I am wrong and in the heat of the moment I hope someone says something, and I am glad when they do.

> Do you respond to the issues raised or do you refrain from reacting?

Sometimes I can say sorry immediately, sometimes I argue for a bit, or explain myself and what is going on. Nothing happens in a vacuum, so there's other events occuring that need to be addressed. (ie other people's behavior)

Very very rarely do I feel the need to step away and cool off, though my wife has historically preferred this. But the more control over situations I have gained over the years the less she needs to "cool off".

It's like if anyone in the room has a cool head and can calm others down and it's generally agreed in the group that this is the goal, then it only takes that one person's input and energy to affect the situation.

> how do you react when the criticism stops to be respectful?

No one is perfect, and I express this. I say "you know I want open criticism, but do it respectfully please". Or something along those lines. The reason this works though is that I acknowledge when I have failed along the same lines.

I often have to say "sorry, I overreacted, but the main issue is still important to address...".

I have an expectation of failure in my interactions now. This means if a child attempts to intervene with input or criticism, the first thing that child gets is praise for the attempt. Even if everyone is still angry and yelling, I will address the child's successful choice in trying to do the right thing. Their heart was in the right place, then second they get a criticism for their poor behavior in their attempt. And then I respond to their specific statement. (usually requiring a change in my own behavior or an apology)

This is all logical and easy to say, but it only works because I've been practicing it for a long time. And I openly state (even when failing spectacuraly) that it's important for all of us to get good at this. And that we will fail repeatedly, but that's ok.

Keep in mind that the more I do this and the more my family does this, the less situations occur where these kinds of actions are needed. It's a curious quasi-paradox.
> 5. When you're boostrapped (which is where this report is skewed toward), you don't have the time or resources to provide support to non-paying customers.

I'm highly skeptical about this one. Very, very few freemium services actually struggle due to the cost of supporting free users. Unless you're doing something unusually resource intensive or nobody is paying, the infrastructure costs of having free users is usually a rounding error.

I'd estimate that around 99% of people who use the tutorials on my site do so for free, but the only cost I even really notice is for my email provider. Even at 100x the current usage, I'd still be on the same $10/month server.
```But even as the purchase of Lighthouse was going through, Sun was already turning their attention from DOE/NEO on the back-end and OpenStep on the front-end to "Java everywhere". Java was seen as a better solution to infiltrating Sun into the applications market, as it ran on all platforms, not just those supported by OpenStep. Lighthouse was soon moved into the JavaSoft division, becoming the Java Applications Group.'''
Tangentially related, does anyone know if there is a DisplayPort-to-USB-C/Thunderbolt cable one could use to connect a GPU (DisplayPort) to a monitor (USB-C/Thunderbolt)?

I'd like to connnect Titan RTX (DisplayPort) to LG's 31" 5k2k (USB-C) but all I see are cables for the opposite direction, i.e. USB-C/Thunderbolt to DisplayPort, for MacBooks. Other DisplayPort on LG is already used by another computer (gaming PC with 2080Ti) and HDMI can't do 5120x2160@60Hz.
The linked article was written in 2007, for your information.

Software development didn't begin or end with web dev and the cloud.
In GNU Emacs SqlMode is not as nice to work in, whereas recfiles integrate out of the box with org mode. Doing the same with sqlite works, but is not nearly as nice.
Do you generate the file from scratch every time or do you modify the previous one as new data arrives?
Numberphile on YouTube is good
This isn't a service that provides financial data. It's media providing entertainment.

There's a thin line between the two, but last year, this point has been discussed a lot. I can't point to a specific episode, but in the podcast Animal Spirits, it comes up every now and then.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/animal-spirits-podcast...
Someone posted that the average margin for a public company in the US is 7.7%.

There's an economic 'law' that basically states that the return on investment of a business in a mature market (read perfectly competitive) will always trend towards the interest rate (plus the cost of whatever sort of barriers to entry are in place) because of the arbitrage principle. If a business makes higher margins, everyone will pile in and undercut the incumbents until the margins are reduced to the cost of entering the business.

For most sectors of the food industry, there's very little product differentiation. Some restaurants do make higher margins, but they're typically small and highly differentiated.
It threatens their business if customers aren't comfortable having products delivered at home.

But obviously it's a new revenue stream with myriad additional business opportunities for Amazon to capitalize on the paranoia of its customers WRT having their packages stolen, to sell surveillance products to them (and access to law enforcement, ad/marketing interests, etc.).
Indeed, CCS is the inherently, a-priori, the least efficient possible way to prevent carbon from being in the atmosphere. That's basic thermodynamics.

But things are sounding really bad and carbon capture technologies may be necessary once ordinary methods of reducing carbon production are exhausted.

But geeks getting excited about carbon capture now reminds me of a guy eating a burger and saying "sure, the cholesterol is bad but I can just get heart bypass".
No it isn't unless it's signed for. Even if a video / photo is taken that doesn't prove the person taking the photo took the package afterwards.
This stuff is in drinking water which seems bad, but what are the dangers of Teflon and Gore-Tex clothing?