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I keep hoping that Apple will come around to making their catalog available losslessly. I don’t need or want “HD” audio. I just want CD quality audio. I can’t pick out artifacts in AAC 256 that some people claim to. But on the other hand, I (and this is unscientific) find that my ears get tired listening to compressed audio vs uncompressed streams.

Tidal and now Amazon offer lossless steaming, but I personally prefer the integration and UI of Apple Music with our various iDevices. I believe it also is still possible (though a little janky in the UI) to stream your own tracks back to yourself for when Apple Music is missing obscure recordings.

I keep saying it, but the perfect music service is obvious and nonexistent currently:

1. Good catalog of music

2. Lossless option (don’t believe it matters? Fine. Charge people who insist on it for the feature. I pay $25/month for a family Tidal subscription. You can think I’m a sucker.)

3. Let me add my own recordings with metadata and stream my unified catalog back to me in the same UI.
By itself no. But you can run an X Server just like you have on Linux machines, and start graphical applications that use it.
The Saud were still in power. If they lost power, all bets are off. It’s certainly not their sterling moral character that gets them so many free passes today.
It's a chuckle-worthy thought now, but I am willing to bed it will be reality for backward compatibility with historic games in the long run - cf. the use of DOSBox to run old DOS games in modern systems. Countdown to old Windows games delivered in full Linux containers starting now ...
Oil being cheap probabbly makes investing in renewables less economical.
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Reading this site reminded me of this:

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

It's also worth mentioning that TFA's webpage is broken.

Despite all his dozens of lines of javascript for his "dark background" feature, it totally fails to render (resulting in a blindingly white blank page, ha!) if you have cookies off (it's a static Gatsby site, which does not need and cannot use cookies).

For all his hard work, his site is a blank page.

(Here's why, if you care: https://sneak.berlin/20200211/your-website/)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG5ywz8OGqo
Different industries, different people. Saudi needs a higher price to pay for their country than frackers in ND and TX need to make a profit regardless of actual extraction cost. We were going to have a drop in price just because of the global slowdown.

Frankly, we need to get to the next generation of nuclear because renewables will not be enough.
In the near term, Fed buying oil for future delivery and instructing drillers to keep it in the ground.

In the longer term, the bankruptcies and capex cuts going on every day in the space--a lagging supply constrictor. Should be fuel to propel WTI to 80s when people start flying and driving again.
I lived my entire live frugally. I enjoy that. Working 40h weeks on the other hand isn't all that fun, even though now I have thousands of dollars to blow every month. If I had the choice I'd live frugally and not work.

I'm eating the same thing everyday, like to stay at home and hate to buy things. I'm working because I know it's necessary.
"Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online."

It appears they are being clear about what they are doing.
Reminds me of the "motte and bailey doctrine" [1]. You make a claim; when attacked you retreat to an easy-to-hold position; when attackers leave you make the claim again.

Example: "God exist" is attacked; speaker retreats to "but God is just another name for beauty in the universe, do you disagree with that?"

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-bri...
I find it hard to take any critique of socialism seriously when it's from The Guardian.
Tap water varies by location, but also significantly by season.

At least in the Northeast, the all the accumulated detritus (e.g. dog feces) from the winter gets flushed into the reservoirs in the spring, and the water districts tend to spike the chlorine levels to sterilize the higher bacterial loads.

Apart from that, in NYC, we have three main reservoir systems, each with their own cleanliness and taste. When one is being worked on, the water taste can change significantly.
I use https://github.com/michaelvillar/timer-app and TextEdit to write my pomodoros for every day.
Take 5 minute breaks, and a big 15-30 minute break, pomodoros of size 25-30 minutes (25 mins get prolonged a little if I need to stop in a wrong moment, usually just write a note what I was doing and force myself to take a pause). I end up doing ~12 pomodoros a day.

I don't like long stretches of work, it might be just me but I end up obsessing over unnecessary details the longer I concentrate on some problems, if I take a forced pause and then continue, I seem to use less time for the same amount of work.
Or get an office in a co-working facility of some sort. Most of my remote colleagues do work out of their house but I've known people who wanted to create that separation and weren't near a company office so they rented a space. Sometimes companies will even pay for that. (Don't know our policy.)
In this particular case it looks like FB promoted a CMU survey to certain people.
Note this only applies to things on the same subnet as you. Once you're off your local subnet routing takes over so you only need to know the ARP of the local gateway (which the OS handles as part of bringing network up).
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It's artificial.

You are forgetting the costs of running a city in the middle of a dessert.
They've been marked as "low in stock" for 2 years. It's obvious the writing has been on the wall for a long time.
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This is 100% correct. After about 6 months in the tank, ethanol gas starts turning into sticky garbage that doesn't want to burn. I have a few classic cars that sit a lot. A couple times a year I drive an hour to my nearest ethanol-free gas station with a trunk load of gas cans. I'm sure it is incredibly dangerous, but I haven't had any fuel system problems since I started doing it.
You don't necessarily get the most qualified people; you get the people most motivated by power and money. It's part of the reason 1 in 5 CEOs are psychopaths: https://www.psychology.org.au/news/media_releases/13Septembe...
Nobody wants to cut production, unless everyone else does so too. Otherwise they're just giving up a chunk of their revenue stream for a negligible rise in prices. It's a classic prisoner's dilemma game.

Anyway, OPEC+ did cut production, a little bit. The market is saying it's not enough, at least in the near term.
> Remote work will never been an absolute thing.

Well, not for you, of course. I'm quite happy working remotely and being productive in that favour.
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Is Tesla the ArchLinux of cars manufacturers?

By the way, why are you driving long distance during a lockdown?
The juicy question is how much damage is one entitled to?
I pay more for a Chipotle burrito (with guac of course, can't live without guac). This is incredible.
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The producers aren't gonna dump it (at least not in the US) because that is a surefire way to not only have the EPA bend them over but to have the EPA bend them over with the blessing of public opinion. Nobody wants to have their company be associated with pictures of oil soaked wildlife.
If payments are conditioned on the completion of assigned tasks then it's not UBI. The beneficiaries still have to choose to participate and actually do the work, so it's really just another job.
Not double, really. Phase change cooling is surprisingly efficient, you get a lot more heat moved than you'd expect for the power consumption (hundreds of percent).
Still a very weird practice, there are hundreds of books sold by this single publisher.
Either you are being disingenuous or you have a very naive understanding of the quote. I could just as easily say: "work sets you free" doesn't sound so unreasonable! How could anyone take issue with that?!
Yeah, well you could have asked politely what I actually mean before loading the big cannons against a straw-man of my opinions through the course of this thread. I don't feel particularly obliged to expound at this point, but rest assured I'm no pacifist, particularly not towards fascist empire builders. It's just that I have several other goals too - the survival of the earth, and our species, civilization and cooperation among peoples etc. It's probably too complicated for you. Have a nice day.
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You actually need to tell your broker that you want full execution of the contracts otherwise the default is for your broker to sell the contract before delivery. And even so, your broker will expect ability to receive the shipment before they allow that liability to go unchecked
I have my doubts. TX and ND can reopen wells pretty quickly, so there is a max limit on the price going up. Plus, fracking efficiency is going to go up with better techniques.
"I don't get why people don't just store crude oil and not process it for a bit (I'm guessing six to eighteen months)?"

It's the same answer as a lot of "economic mysteries" right now: At scale, everything is really hard.

If we have all this commerically-targeted food that can't go to the consumer market, why can't they just sell it in stores? Well, at scale, everything is really hard. You have to set up supply lines. You have to set up packaging. You have to get the stores to stock it and price it and just a whole bunch of things. Existing consumer supply lines can't be used because they're generally at capacity. Your commercial supply lines are different in numerous ways, from the companies that have it down to the physical nature of the trucks delivering it. And on and on.

The other problem you have is that even though bringing this all up is perfectly possible, it's highly risky. What if the companies spend all this money to bring up a new supply chain or massive amounts of new oil storage, only for the problem to resolve itself a week before it opens? You could build a big storage tank only to open into a market of record high prices for all you know. Sure, if you had a magic crystal ball there's probably all kinds of ways you could make make massive amounts of money from this disruption, but nobody has one.
What works/worked for AngelList isn't going to work for your team necessarily.

Choose your culture and incentives wisely and use an approach that helps you to solve problems.

If the consequence of shipping software that has an unknown and undesired behavior could cost your customers millions of dollars an hour you should probably invest in a team that is familiar with formal methods (or some other approach to ensuring you ship the right thing). Shipping the first thing that works on your dev machine that passes a few unit tests isn't generally sufficient when property or people are on the line.
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this would probably be a lot better as a link to the article vs an ask hn
This is a digital currency not a cryptocurrency.
Why? It doesn't impact them meaningfully. The instances only have a 200Mbit interface so it's not like you can saturate their pipes.
date -r 1577733633
date: 1577733633: No such file or directory

...

-r, --reference=FILE
display the last modification time of FILE

...

Is OSX's date command different from Linux?
I'm curious- what problems does your case give you? For me, once the computer is built, I rarely touch the case. My USB ports are on the desktop with a 7 port powered hub, and other than dusting the computer whenever I think it needs it, I don't touch it. So I can't relate, hence my question.
Yes! I was doing that for a while with a command-line tool. I couldn't make up my mind which way was faster. They were both required some sort of motor skill (e.g. switch to terminal, paste, enter) to perform the flows quickly.
So you're saying KSA has a higher military budget than 1) The US, 2) China, or 3) Russia?
Not only cruising ships, but many (most likely, most) commercial vessels are registered under a so called convenience flag. Usually Panama or Liberia.
> I'm a software developer, which translates to being somehow smart

I wish this was true.
I think it's to avoid US laws generally, but labor law is surely a big part of that.
EPA isn’t enforcing right now.
Because it cost them less, and they magically "present" that it's a good thing. They pay different (lower/higher) salaries depending where you are located.
Wow, that one really hit home. I knew I rarely get work done when there's upcoming events on my calendar, but I think _fear of being interrupted_ is the real source of procrastination there.
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The size of milk is easily explainable. I, a 230 lbs powerlifter am roughly five times larger than you at 50 lbs. My body requires more calories, nutrients than yours does. They can easily see that I am much larger than them, so it makes sense to them. As well as being factual.

I say this because my kids used to ask this often.
I don't think I can tell that much about a person based on an accessory.
Their vastly expensive polluting tourism isn't aimed at people with moral values, and they loosen the rules for tourists. They aren't dumb.
Man, I'm so sorry to read this. You are so young, god damn it. You already receive great advice in this thread, I can only wish you the best! Please don't let this bringing you down! Have a wonderful life, no matter the situation! Cheers.
I've seen some proposals for little drones on landings on other planets / moons and I always wonder about the air density + potential for it often being too windy to fly.

Of course I say this coming from my perspective of flying a cheap $100 drone here on earth.
Seems like this is something that could eventually be placed onto a contact lens (maybe just the reflective part) to help with alignment.

Also I wonder if a lightfield concept could be used to allow the lens in your eye to focus the image so you don't get that weird 'permanently in focus' effect that has to be somewhat jarring.
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Does it work with VNC and VirtualGL? If yes, this is my new favourite Windows thing.
You can start an X server on Windows and let WSL use it. I've used some GUI programs via Xming in the past. It's fairly simple:

https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2017/02/08/graphic...
The 'Residence Country' is listed on Page 7. Fair point on reiterating in the 'Methodology' section on Page 3. Thanks!
The other gas stations are profiting off of the spread until people realize they can get it much cheaper at Costco or other gas stations.

Costco reacts quicker because they probably don't care about making money on gasoline, and they have a goal to always be offering it at or near cost.
They've been talking about the House of Saud falling for decades now and it hasn't happened yet. Although I thought A few years ago the young prince was going to make a bunch of drastic moves away from oil in order to secure the economic future of the country?

Beyond a few articles in 2017, I haven't seen much of an update on that, anybody know if it was all just bluster, or are real things happening that would soften this blow coming?
No, learn how to listen to your body. Heart rate, temperature are side effects in response to an emotional block (e.g. anxiety, fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of the unknown).

We have been taught a giant lie that the head is separate, reigning over the “dumb” body. “I think therefore I am” is a load of bull, or a delusion. Your body is your subconscious, your stomach your primitive brain. Your body is chock-full of hard-learned lessons, all delivered to you subconsciously as instincts. Don’t ignore these instincts. We are animalistic creatures, heavily driven by instinct, and rightly so. To discard your instincts is actually irrational!

Observe what your body is telling you. Why is there anxiety? Think to a physical manifestation of your anxiety. Is it tightness in your chest or a lump in your throat, where do you feel that anxiety? Observe it. Do not rationalize it, do not explain it, do not deconstruct it, do not jump to any conclusions. The moment you reach to touch it with your fingers of reason, the truth (body instinct) will slip away. That’s why you just have to observe, non-judgementally.

As you observe and think more about the physical manifestation of your anxiety, see what thoughts and reasons rise up. The more in touch you get with your body, the less information you will be throwing out.

You don’t need external devices to tell you how you are feeling for productivity potential, you just need to A) accept that observing subconscious reactions is a huge source of information, B) your gut feel is correct, but it takes time to process and understand what the gut is telling you, and C) it will take time to get in touch with all your body.

Urgent but simple — have you considered how much of an emotional toll that takes on you? No wonder that can put you into a state where you feel maybe knocked off rails, or some kind of self criticism starts up and you’re beating yourself up for the root cause of urgent task or you’re lamenting the team situation that got you there. These are heavy background burdens, though they may be emotional, are still background threads your brain gives slices to. Now your brain scheduler has less brainpower available for your complex task. Another way to put it is: They are clouds in your heads sky, obscuring the sun of creativity and productivity.

Learn to feel the productivity window by feel, by gut. The same gut feeling will also tell you when to stop. Procrastination often involves avoidance of something, for whatever reason. The trick is to observe what you are avoiding and what feelings are there when you think about this avoidance.
You're right to point out that tankers are phenomenally efficient, but that's _for oil_. Just as LNG is much more expensive to ship than oil, because of the increased handling complexity, any shipping of hydrogen is going to lose that advantage completely to electrification.[0]

> there will be (very long) distances that you'll want to ship energy

This is probably the real crux driving the difference in how we see this.

The main reason we have to ship hydrocarbons long distances is because those resources are so concentrated. Wind and solar aren't perfectly distributed, but they are so much more distributed that local generation would be much more efficient than transporting anything much beyond what current HVDC projects can easily handle.

So, sure, we're not going to stretch a cable for 12,000 miles. But we're also not going to build a solar farm in Saudi Arabia to generate hydrogen to ship to Canberra. We're just going to put a solar farm in the outback instead.

[0] "Relative costs of transporting electrical and chemical energy" by Saadi, Lewis, and MacFarland, studies this very question.

Even in that report, you could quibble with a lot of their assumptions that I think bias it against HVDC, project lifespans, ignoring loading and unloading costs for tankers, etc. But it's not a crazy starting place, and HVDC still beats hydrogen on $ per mile per Joule. My takeaway from it was that if we're stuck with a carbon economy, sure, we'll keep using tankers. If we're talking about going carbon neutral, the difficulties of working with hydrogen relative to oil and LNG will probably tip us back towards electrification and local generation, except in the most highly specialized of situations (fueling Antarctica or something).

The report was a good reminder why we have an oil-based economy though. It is so obnoxiously practical and well suited to everything we want to use it for. Ditching carbon will be hard.
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Isn't there some real issues with the military being larger given the ruling family? Fear of a coup? I though they spent the money on fancy toys and not a big military.
I don't know what rock I was living under, but I finally tried it yesterday after a misadventure forced me to upgrade to Windows 10 to support a new nvme drive.

Tabletop Simulator, The Witcher 3, Endless Legend, all play perfectly. Haven't had the chance to try more.

Definitely a fantastic effort by Valve and Wine.
They can, but there is a question of whether they will. Even before coronavirus Wall Street was getting annoyed at how US fracking seemed to be a money pit with no ROI; these producers may not find it easy to get the capital they need to restart production.
Everyone who does maintenance work thinks they could do better than the original creators, most of the time they are wrong.

They go and decide to do a rewrite by committee to ensure everything is clean now, sit in endless meetings discussing the best way to do things, end up with a product doing half the things of the old one since they make even slower progress than the pace they would go at even with massive amounts of technical debt, and because their clean solutions actually are less flexible than the old "ugly" ones. Now we have two versions of the products to maintain since we couldn't migrate everything meaning we now have more technical debt than before. The result is roughly the same as if someone just sat and churned through everything on his own, just that you now don't have a clear culprit to blame.
> I'm a software developer, which translates to being somehow smart

* citation needed (I'm also a software dev)

On topic: I did actually study economics, but that doesn't help much in answering your question. As often: it's very hard to predict. Probably the current price of the future contracts are artificially low because it's more expensive to take delivery. So they are much more affected than the real prices. the real prices will fluctuate, but probably less than the future prices.

Prices could stay low, but there's a higher probability that they'll return closer to the mean after the calamities and short-term effects subside.
Surely when storage is full you do start to want to stop production?
Personally, I like Haskell's treatment of numbers. I wrote a comment about it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18565234

Don't really know much about surreal numbers, but I found the following library that defines Fractional and Num instances for it, so that should enable Haskell to work with surreal numbers as if they were native to the language:

https://github.com/Lacaranian/surreal

There's also this module on transcendental numbers:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/numeric-prelude-0.4.2/do...

auxym might be right, though, that you might be better served with a language that is specialized more in mathematics, rather than a general purpose language.
Storage isn't included when you buy oil. You don't actually get a steel barrel.
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What annoys me even more is thinking that because the world is the best it has ever been that there are no more problems to solve and that we should be content. You may not believe this personally, but I see this argument a lot, especially from people like Steven Pinker, who then seem to avoid the issues laid out by the other child comment, like stagnating wages and corporate profit.
I visit webpages with NoScript in incognito mode under a separate unix user account that I only use to visit webpages.

But since GDPR many webpages do not work, since they have a consent dialog that can only be confirmed with javascript. It is very annoying
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