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Underrated it is not, just search for Cottonwood Canyon traffic jams to see what skiing really is like here when the snow flies. 30 minutes no traffic, can easily be 3+ hours now.
This line of argument is really tiresome and comes up every single time in discussions like this. It's been done over and over and over again and I'm not really interested in arguing about it.

What I am talking about is the culture of defending free speech. The cultural value of defending the right of people you dislike to express ideas that you disagree with, because the value and importance of free expression goes beyond the short-term unpleasantness of ugly opinions. This is what we are losing / have lost and it is extremely dangerous for democratic society and civil liberties. It has nothing to do with the legal definition of free speech.
(How) Do People Change Their Passwords After a Breach? [pdf]
Seriously curious: Is there better looking mailing list viewing software thats "free"? I loathe stumbling on one of these links.
Show HN: An AMD GPU Fan Controller for Linux, in Rust
The UK situation is weird: on a day to day basis you notice almost none of that in most places, and while the gang problem is real in certain places it's also massively overhyped by right-wing politicians.

The big tensions are all anti-"immigrant" and of course Brexit and now the poor pandemic response. You can't tell people to ignore the deaths and hospitalisations of people they actually know. While most of the consequences of Brexit haven't hit yet, there is going to be a huge mess when the interim arrangements expire at the end of this year and the government has still done almost nothing to prepare.
Not that I agree with Apple’s pricing, but you have to assume this isn’t adding an extra 8GB, but changing the existing packages out for ones with double the density. That presumably is more expensive than just adding the same amount again of the lower-capacity packages.
Software Freedom Conservancy folks have good explanations for this, check their video presentations for arguments. Tl;dr a pacemaker runs a software that could be fixed with an update, but you don't have the rights to do this, no one has, since the company is already out of business, so the patient is screwed. That's a drastic example but clearly shows why the proprietary software is immoral.
Starship has a real potential to be accelerated beyond the schedule given because of the return to the moon.

NASA gave SpaceX a lump of cash a couple of months ago to fully spec out a Moon-lander variant of Starship, along with two other companies. It's outlandishly large compared to its competitors, but SpaceX has this knack for doing things cheaply.

Imagine what happens if NASA looks at all three plans and says "They're all equal in terms of meeting our goals, except that Starship has many times the payload capacity and is cheaper than the others". Add in SpaceX's pretty good record for success, and it could make the decision interesting.

If they are selected, suddenly there would be a lot more money in SpaceX's hands dedicated to developing Starship even faster. They could blow up 2 prototypes per month instead of just 1.
If Qt hadn't been taken up by KDE some other UI framework (such as wxWidgets) could've had much larger user base thereby rendering Qt much less attractive to developers and undermining their business model.

I personally prefer wxWigets over Qt, but I'm a user of both.
That's a bit weird. Sure it's an advantage if you can optimize the object function more easily. But the end goal is generalization, i.e. performance on new data. The objective function is only a proxy for that.
Look for "The Complete DX7" by Howard Massey. Very rare to find a printed copy, but a PDF scan of it is probably still up on Archive.org.

By far the best manual and sound design "how-to" for the DX7, or for FM synthesis in general.
By now this amounts to stating that Luis Vuitton doubles the price of the shiny lacquer upgrade on its entry range of handbags, i.e. more or less irrelevant since there is no direct relation between the cost and the imagined value of the object. Some will pay since to them the imagined value of the product justifies the price, others won't since they consider some factors to be less important, others to be more important in deciding the imagined value. Those who will pay the price tend to defend the rationale behind the price increase while those won't tend to do the opposite, i.e. the decision does not much to move the dividing line between those who are willing to pay and those who are not since those who value the brand will continue to do so.
I don't have all the solutions, but I'd probably find a working model from another country and try to find a way to apply it here rather then this nauseating, arrogant, and ineffective strategy of just dumping money down an unaccountable hole and never demanding any results. SF voters are to blame ultimately for enabling this behavior.
I think any decent programmer is also a decent hacker. Because it's hard to imagine someone being a decent programmer if they can't get the computer to do what they want. Which is the classic definition of a hack: to force the computer to do what you want, whether the computer wants to or not.
Wow. After >= 5 years of having a 8GB base model and expensive upgrades to 16GB (which are imho totally necessary today) i thought they finally improved a bit with the 2020 model by at least reducing the upgrade cost. Seems like they are back to 2015 again.
I have a working, unblemished thinkpad X61 and I’ve never seen a metal MacBook that hasn’t been dropped and dented. Dropping a MacBook on its corner basically ruins it. Plastic is the right material for a laptop.
The iMac, iMac Pro, Mac mini and Mac Pro all have upgradable components. The portables are generally non-upgradable however
I did this 4 years ago, with a move to Linux after well over 20 years of being a diehard Mac Fanboy. What did it for me was the fact that Apple hardware cannot be fixed except by Apple. I used to take apart Powerbook Duos, which were a huge pain and not made to be easy to take apart, but at least, Apple didn't actively work against you taking it apart.... LIke the Power Mac 8500, it was a really tight, difficult to get into design, but you could still do it.... Now, you open an Imac and it's broken by opening it. Permanently. On the motherboard.
> They cannot legally admit they looked at his code and copied the structure, because that opens them up to a copyright suit.

AppGet is released under Apache License 2.0, Winget under MIT, I'm not sure how copyright would be an issue.

AppGet's author addresses that point here

https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/#edit-to-clarify-some-...
Concerning the second question:
I assume it is displaying the placeholder value before replacing it with the actual value.
SpaceX Crew Dragon uses Chromium, JavaScript and C++
The goal is to allow development to happen on the OSS side. Unless you are a Google or Facebook with the ability to properly resource OSS, the 1st approach just leads to abandoned projects.

> this obviously takes more work managing the new external repo, cutting releases and the like, but is more valuable to the community at large.

I guess to gist of my question is how to keep the benefits of a monorepo while allowing a OSS development workflow.

It feels like OSS works best when there is a single Github repo that does not depend on a ton of other dependencies that change often.
Planes are much more expensive than ships. Unless you're shipping livers for transplant, you probably want to ship by ship.
I really like the look of this. And I really like the response here regarding "blockers" [0].

Is there any documented way to let users opt-out sans ublock:o (or other)? Or configure it to respect "Do Not Track"?

[0] https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics/issues/12
> It's not as polished as macOS still

But isn't this the most important thing?

Yes this RAM is expensive... but it's just a few hundred dollars for something I use every day for all my income and most of my hobbies and the alternative is something hobbled.
Cool looking idea.

Could be barking up the wrong tree. I'm not a game developer - just interested in seeing if there's any way to use it with my own use cases.
For comparison:

Lenovo charges $149 (regularly $170) for the same upgrade in the X1

Microsoft charges $200 for the same upgrade in the Surface Pro 7

It sucks that they raised the price (and I'd love to hear the story behind it), but it's on par with everyone else.
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I've made no particular efforts in that vein; you are an open book. In reply to this observation you'll whinge on about how mysterious and unique and totally-not-racist you really are, but will offer no discernible arguments in favor of that proposition. It's really an HN trope by this point: say something totally privileged and douchey, and then insist that you may only be criticized by perfect and omniscient beings when other people call you on it. You're not the first person to do it; you won't be the last.
Maybe mosquitos mate more than once, making this type of program much less effective.
Please let me know where I can buy an 8GB 2133Mhz LPDDR3 module for $30, because that's a very very good price.
Open-Source Corona-Warn-App (Germany)
You make a good point on the difference in censorship.

One thing has to do with government. It isn't "the government" but rather then "United States government". The individuals involved in this process are in other countries currently under the jurisdiction of non-US governments.

Your argument is that as part of the process to let people from other governmental jurisdictions into the US, the US government should not look at what those individuals say in public because it might lead to them to self-sensor.

> If the government requests all social media accounts your speech is chilled everywhere, effectively censoring you, the person.

If the US government looks at your social media and you live, for example in South Africa, you aren't censored as a person everywhere. That person lives in South Africa and not the US. That person may not gain entrance to the US. But, they as a person are not censored everywhere.

I point this out because _the government_ is often used where there are many governments instead of one. If there were a one world government the argument about censoring a person would be true. But, there currently isn't.

Do you think the US government should not look at what people publicly say as part of their entrance criteria to the US? If so, what about those people who publicly say they want to harm an individual or group of people? Should what they say not be considered for entrance? The US government has a responsibility to protect it's individuals as part of the entrance selection criteria to the US.
This was how I spent my Saturday. Needs a bit of polish, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, i.e. it works and my PC hasn't exploded yet.

There's an equivalent in Python that I've seen, but this felt like a good use for Rust to me. One feature I specifically wanted was for it to run the fans higher for longer, so that it doesn't just sit at a temperature boundary turning the fans on/off all the time.
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I was curious about how much salt was in the ocean. There is
approximately 50 quintillion kilograms of salt in the ocean, which is nearly the mass of the moon

From this website
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/what-makes-ocean-salty-and-how...
Nice, thanks for the quick reply!
France has had laws on the book forbidding religious symbolism on government property for over a century. The Mormon Church, on the other hand, is the most influential institution in Utah politics.

I don't agree with the reductionist characterization of Mormons but it's comparable to the Vatican not Paris.
> why do you owe them anything?

decency, morals, thoughtfulness, that kind of thing

> If I gave credit to everyone who influenced the code I write...

They directly ripped it off.

Big companies will try not to pay even when they have money. To not even give the minimum of non-monetary credit is even less reason for me ever to release code under a "what's mine is yours licence".
And if not for White Settlement, would there be Aboriginal Anthropologists and Aboriginal Scientists examining and treasuring the objects?

The article mentioned, vaguely, an object made of human hair. Unless sealed in a manner of an Egyptian Mummy, hair will turn to dust in a few centuries.

Look up how Aboriginal Australians hunted multiple megafauna species to extinction, and used fire to burn down gigantic sections of forest, to flush out and better hunt animals. Their concern for the continent is minimal.

Aboriginal Australians are provided a huge amount of welfare, thanks to things like the mining industry and the fact that the country was settled by the British.
Anyone know if this soldered Mac RAM upgrade receipe was genuine and if it's become harder since? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTsEJ49LLsQ&feature=youtu.be
Attics and cellars of retired, or more likely deceased, engineers probably. Most such books were never in ordinary libraries and would be discarded when the new edition came out. The American Radio History [1] web site looks like a good place to start.

I have Babani's 1st and 2nd Book of Transistor Equivalents and Substitutes [1] and several National Semiconductor data books and application books from the 70s, '80s and '90s.

I almost never refer to them any more but they were so central to my life as an electronics engineer that I can't bear to throw them out.

[1] https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Bookshelf_Bernards_Baba...
I suggest everyone downloads words with friends 2, video ads between every move. I would avoid their brand like the plague.
This isn't a phone, most likely the motherboard has free solder pads for extra RAM chips.
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I recently moved to SF with my wife (sponsorship NOT required). I'm primarily a Technical Project Manager looking to help teams build software more efficiently. I'm looking to move into a Technical Program Manager or Technical Product Manager role.

I have worn many hats having worked for startups and small companies. I started off building support workflows, tooling, and documentation for an emerging telecom product. I moved into DevOps and infrastructure after that. And in the past couple of years earned my Scrum Master certificate and took on Project and Product Management roles. Have a look at jonpurdy.com/work to see some of the projects I've built or worked on.

Aside from my technical skills, I have a deep understanding of the product development pipeline and SDLC, balancing stakeholder requests with what is technically feasible, and gathering user feedback to improve products over time. Thanks to my education background, I can bridge technical and non-technical teams, help team members improve and achieve their career goals, and communicate succinctly and unambiguously.

Ideally, I'm looking for a SF Bay Area-based startup that has built (or is close to completing) an MVP and is looking to scale the development team's size and efficiency, technical infrastructure, and product documentation. I'm also looking at working on teams at unicorns or FAANG companies that have already established products and workflows but want to improve cross-functional communication and work more efficiently with other teams.

Thanks and please email me if you have any questions or just want to chat!
I think you can still do that with the current Mac Mini although it is a fiddly job.
This hypothesis about the end Permian mass extinction is also quite scary:

http://burro.case.edu/Academics/USNA229/impactfromthedeep.pd...
I'll take three hours over 12 hours which is how long it can take to get to Tahoe from SF on a Friday when it's snowing.
Professor solves over 20 years of CS problems all in 4 hours
Because... Chrome.
I’m not an expert in this area but I don’t think the fed funds operations by printing money. They issue debt which people exchange for money.

Although lately the fed just buys that debt back with printed money so...
I think saying SF problems are due to "cultural swings" is borderline veiled racism. Sounds like something Hillary would say for sure. No, SF problems come from incompetence. No other city in the country spends as much per citizen and gets as poor results. Quality of life stinks here for the cost.

And no, you're erasing the voices of many locals who don't want more tent camps in residential areas when there are other city lots they could put them in.

Question--do you ever hold the city accountable for its vast and egregious failures? Look at how much money we spend and the results. It's pathetic.
Dammit, that's always the main upgrade I'd recommend to everyone.

I think I had previously noticed it was already $200 to go from 8 to 16 on entry level new MacBook Air -- at any rate, it is now too.
They have locations at larger US airports. I've used them a few times and never had a bad experience.
Particle(.io) looks like a promising platform. I've only used their devices and platform for some hobby projects and one small paid-for project. I like that it takes care of most of the hard stuff for you, which would be good for people who are wanting to build IoT businesses. This may help their success.
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Elektron is looking for a highly skilled graphics engineer with experience in modern graphics APIs and Rust to join our team working on a cutting-edge software platform which will drive the next generation of our instruments. In this role, you will carefully assess, build and take ownership of the graphics stack. The task reaches from low-level aspects concerning performance up to forming APIs used for high-level UI design. As part of this, you will work closely with the design team in order to realize solutions with superb aesthetics.

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Technical soundness is not light peer review. It's the core of peer review. Everything else is editorializing and selling "importance".

As a matter of fact you can get plenty of crap into the higher tier Science/Nature journals if you just tell a good enough story about importance. You can leave the real work to disentangle whether the story is true to others that can publish in lower impact topical journals.

Generally speaking I believe Science and Nature, and the role they occupy in academia, are a major problem for science. They are huge contributors to overselling and hype driven research.
I welcome this. The software industry should not turn a blind eye to this issue in the US. Solidarity.
It’s really remarkable how much downvoting one gets if one says “SV tech company cultures are strongly left leaning.” This is such a widely known thing to anyone who’s worked in that environment that I’m surprised it’s controversial. Perhaps people just don’t like having this fact stated?

The high ratio of downvotes to rebuttals is also telling: people want to anonymously disagree but not to disprove. (I have a comment further down thread to the same effect that got a similar reception.)
Much more. 90s were a pretty violent period, there was a lot of organized crime. It mostly solved itself by mid 00s for several reasons related to EU accession.
Unlikely, but how much of you wanting to keep a machine for 6 years is BECAUSE it's so expensive?
They also say the same thing when they ask if you are part of a terrorist group.
It is sold on DIMMs but laptops generally do not have DIMM slots these days.