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I feel video conferencing is a sidetrack. It is an approximation of a physical meeting that never captures the spirit of the real thing and prevents us from moving on to something better.

The real power of digital communication is that it is searchable, remixable and that you don’t need to be at a specific place at a specific time to take part, and yet we now all have slots in our calendar requiring us to be in something that has none of those benefits. This is an anti-pattern.

Group communication needs to be async, written and structured for easy access. The linux kernel mailing list is a much closer approximation of how it should be than any video conference, but it too is a high friction system. No tool so far has cracked this, although some like discourse and basecamp are trying. Google tried to once upon a time with wave, but they’ve given up and joined the physical meeting proxy club.
thanks for the thoughtful reply. mistakes are expected in any field; you are too humble and should give yourself a little more credit. :)

could you share what arguments the hedge fund manager made?

do you find any companies interesting now?
Screen-sharing on Teams has been pretty solid -- after all, screen sharing is an enterprise's bread and butter. As someone who averages 10-15 meetings a week, most of them with screen shares, I think I have a pretty good sample size to come to that conclusion.

I can't comment on aesthetics since that's fairly subjective. I can't comment on integrations either since I've only tried a few, but I find it integrates fairly effortlessly with Azure Devops (ie Microsoft's attempt at replicating Github in what was previously Team Foundation Server) [1].

Here's the thing about Microsoft stuff -- generally things work well if you remain in the Microsoft ecosystem. Otherwise, you'll likely have to do extra work.

That said, Teams has improved drastically since 2017. Microsoft's philosophy these days seems to be move fast, ship crap and get better quickly. Not in every product line, but I've definitely seen this happen with Teams development and I've actually come to like what the Teams product has become today. I have to confess, Microsoft under Satya Nadella is a very different company from what it once was.

[1] We're not allowed to use Github in my organization (bigcorp, IP etc.) but I've found Azure Devops to be quite a decent substitute. It plays well with a git pull-request workflow, has almost full feature parity with Github as far as I can tell, plus has a built-in kanban board.

I like Github -- it's more tightly focused and simpler -- but I've been able to carve out a part of Azure Devops that is similar to Github and maintain my previous git workflow without much trouble. Azure Devops is not the dumpster fire I'd expected it to be -- it's actually fairly good in parts.

(the only pain-in-the-neck with Azure Devops is licensing cost -- it's not free. In the enterprise, it has named-user licensing which can get costly. I wouldn't have used it if we didn't already have it and couldn't use private Github.)
What is the realistic alternative aside from being jealously paranoid hiding of all our works for fear that with effort somebody else might use it for evil? It essentially already requires guilds to remotely enforce and works to make the whole field weaker. The approach of deliberately keeping everyone ignorant as possible is in itself what many including myself would call evil.

It is already a field of tinkerers, enforcement would essentially require a "guild structure" in a world that already doesn't cooperate and any who could enforce it in themselves would be evil.

I can't help but roll my eyes at many of the so called ethical quandries because they are such obvious cases of scapegoating the actions of others. It is like trying to blame an olympic shooter for writing a book on safety and techniques for because the guy decided to spree shoot. How about blaming the original bad actors instead of leaping down the degrees of separation?
There was a really good podcast on this on Planet Money a couple months ago called "Life vs. the Economy". https://www.npr.org/transcripts/835571843

It discusses various ways that the value of a life have been calculated and how it has been used to determine whether product labels are worth changing to save lives. They suppose that the shutdown could have saved $10 trillion worth of lives.
Imagine being Chinese and having your fruit renamed something else by foreigners.

Aussies are trying this bullshit right now with a Bolivian fruit called achachairu. See how this entire article calls it a made up name. And this is supposed to be a news website: https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2014-06-19/gallery-achacha...
If you think about it, there could be no shame in using a toilet or sex, but there we go.
so, should I buy?
Most people aren't good presenters....so in that way it seems pretty authentic presentation wise.
I try to use social media to improve myself. Which means improving others and writing something up to be criticized.

But social media is used mostly for "personal branding" these days, which is someone writing material consistently, several times a week, to make themselves look good. There is no genuine discussion - it's either praise or putting people down. You end up with arguments on why concatenation is stupid and how template literals are the only way to do things.

DEV.to is a nice implementation of a social network though. Github was good until it became a resume item, after which a lot of fake/flexing behavior started to appear. Codepen is also nice if you're into CSS and programmer art.
There is always at least one guy in any group more then a handful of people. It is terrible what kind of bullshit women have to go through in this industry.
What's stopping me from putting a PWA in a webview and call it a app clip? Is that possible? From the app clip docs it seems like they didn't prohibit that.
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"no less than median" doesn't sound equal to me. Some some will be paid above median, the h1b median will be higher than the overall median.
I think most of the presentation swapping that happens is because various teams or people want to be out there...
Fujitsu, Preferred Networks, and PEZY for designing chips! (from today's TOP500/Green500)
It certainly does - I know when it comes to evaluating free or open tools the last to be checked are "custom licenses".
If you just need 12.5 MB/s (100 MBit/s) unlimited traffic and are from Germany there are options going as low as €4/mo. Of course you won't get much video streaming from that ... but that's the case with 40 MB/s, too.
What’s the problem with graduating from a state college in Florida? Can they not produce valuable research or innovate for this country?
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> Subway ridership is up 75% since 1980. The capital budget during the 1980s averaged $3.4 billion annually in 2020 dollars: https://wagner.nyu.edu/files/faculty/publications/rescue.pdf (fig. 5). The 2015-2019 capital program (5 years) averaged about $6.5 billion 2020 dollars. So a 90% increase in capital spending for a 75% increase in ridership. Punchline: MTA is so massively wasteful, that wasn't enough. The system deteriorated the whole time leading to catastrophic failure in the last few years.

Just because the spend per rider increased over that time doesn't mean the system is getting what it needs though. A newer system will usually function better than a starved system years later naturally because of deferred maintenance and other aging infrastructure ailments even if the per rider numbers have increased. Comparing it just on the per rider spend assumes that the earlier number is enough.
Which is a copyright violation, no doubt...
You are lowering the level of discourse by bringing persecution into this. I almost want to ask if you have an allergic reaction to Taleb's point of view but given your hyperbole, since I did say general and not all, fair discussion is out of he picture.
It’s no coincidence! Apache Kafka is named after Franz Kafka. From Wikipedia:

> Jay Kreps chose to name the software after the author Franz Kafka because it is "a system optimized for writing", and he liked Kafka's work.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Kafka
> instead of shoveling money down the pockets of people who don't even like America or Americans and would go back home if they could.

looks at account age
Yup, one of my first jobs out of college was at HAL.
Palette stretching was important for a number of platforms. PC Engine (Turbo Grafx 16) had 16-color palettes from a total of 512 colors, which didn't leave much room for shades and gradients. And it showed in their flagship game "Ancient Ys Vanished" in 1989. While it was super impressive as an early CD based game with (sort of) motion video and CD quality sound, it's informative to compare it to "Dawn of Ys", released 4 years later (1993), which made use of dithering, raster and scanline timing tricks to improve the visual quality.

Title screen:

https://cs11.pikabu.ru/post_img/2019/03/11/6/155229530917353...

https://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/387326-ys-iv-the-da...

Lilia:

https://blog.gurkgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ys_01-...

https://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/387337-ys-iv-the-da...

Bar scene:

https://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/554866-ys-book-i-ii...

https://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/387336-ys-iv-the-da...

Dark Fact:

https://cs10.pikabu.ru/post_img/2019/03/11/6/155229702414087...

https://www.ysutopia.net/images/ys4pce09.gif
This is a good time to point out that the US is the only country in the world with no federally mandated parental leave of any kind. [1]

1 - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/27/maternity-le...
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Not only that, there were also early versions of iOS compiled for PowerPC, for running inside the iPhone simulator app on PowerPC-based Macs.
Hell the US Navy was caught pirating commercial software on warships before.
I totally understand your situation. I meet my parents twice a year (well, was meeting before COVID-19), my working options severely limited, however I'm not even for a second was feeling regrets of my decision.

Hope these restrictions are temporary, also AFAIK after being actually married, your spouse would be eligible for K-1 US visa. Wish you luck in any case.
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As the demand increased for the programming frameworks, many companies started releasing mobile application development platforms/frameworks, which created confusion for the developers in choosing the right one.
Article is blocked behind a paywall. :(

Can someone provide an alternative link?
What about them? Are world class American engineers harmed by proximity to their foreign colleagues? Are world class American engineers so numerous that we can't find anything else for additional world class engineers to work on?
I'm curious to know how much faster than Gzip compression on a modern multicore CPU this is. The AHA webpage says "Compresses and decompresses at a throughput rate over 5.0 Gbits/sec" (that's 1.2 GB/s). How fast can you gzip compress on a 16-core Ryzen CPU, for example?
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The good news is they don't seem to be forcing everyone into a buggy paradigm. You can still use C# 7 and the monobehavior stack at least. ECS is overrated anyway. Just skip the hype, let it bake and ship games.
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Care to elaborate?

I’ve had the opposite experience. Zoom is far from ideal but Aside from a twice-daily freeze (that I suspect has something to do with my audio driver) Zoom works wonderfully.

Google meet, on the other hand, has been miserable. I’ve had cases where the group could hear me but I couldn’t hear them, even when the “test audio” button in the browser client produced sound. Even after calling in using a mobile phone I could then hear the group but then they couldn’t hear me. It feels like an alpha product as far as reliability goes.
This is the big gotcha. A lot of people see the incremental cost of the CPU as the cost, but the actual cost is:

`(development cost + (units sold * incremental cost) ) / units sold`

But a lot of Macs have higher end Intel CPUs so the per/ unit cost of Intel CPUs is pretty damned high.
How else would they do it? Starting companies is not exactly a science, is it? AFAIK MBAs teach you to run businesses efficiently and maybe understand how markets work but they won’t tell you how to build a firm.

You have to start somewhere. Seems like the cargo curling involves a bunch of relevant advice mixed in with a fair amount of virtue signaling.
I feel part of Zoom's initial foothold in the market was that inside of a conference room it "just worked". Or at least more so than other options I'd tried, especially a couple of years ago. Even earlier this year I had issues getting Google Meet to work in our office's conference rooms. Minimizing or removing the "fiddling with the AV software" phase of meetings is huge.
These are all pretty easy to find in Los Angeles, New York, and the Bay. How many other things do you see if you actually venture to SE Asia?

Central America has all kinds of things that I never see here, eg. canistel or black sapote, as well as variants of mango, corn, and banana that don't sell in the US.
It puzzles me how the smell of durian, which I find very aromatic, can be disgusting to some people.

Also dragon fruit is a 'bland mush'? I've must have been eating the wrong fruit. There's also a red dragon fruit which is a little tastier.
Whether Sokal understands postmodernism is besides the point; his hoax was more about a process rather than about an argument
"XFCE" is a funny way of spelling "i3wm."
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> From your own source, China also has a greater proportion of the populace in third level education than France did in 1970. In fact, the chart for China looks very similar to Brazil.

Yes, China got rich so it started spending money on education. That’s my point. An educated populace is a consequence of a rich one, not a cause.

> Does Schooling Cause Growth or the Other Way Around?

> Barro (1991) and others find that growth and schooling are highly correlated across countries, with each additional year of 1960 enrollment associated with about .6% per year faster growth in per capita GDP from 1960 to 1990. In a model with finite-lived individuals who choose schooling, schooling can influence growth, but also faster technology-driven growth can induce more schooling by raising the effective rate of return on investment in schooling. We consider a variety of evidence to determine the strength of these channels, with two main findings. First, faster-growing countries have at most modestly flatter cross-sectional experience-earnings profiles, consistent with a minority role for the channel from schooling to growth. Second, we calibrate the model using evidence from the labor literature and employ UNESCO attainment data to construct schooling going back well before 1960.

> We find the channel from schooling to growth to be too weak to generate even half of Barro's coefficient under a range of plausible parameter values. The reverse channel from expected growth to schooling, in contrast, is capable of explaining the empirical relationship. We conclude that the evidence favors a dominant role for the reverse channel from growth to schooling.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5194368_Does_School...
She can always marry a guy who makes less money than her and is willing to be a stay-at-home parent who takes care of her kid.

But she'd rather whine.
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And even then there is the issue of multiplicity of uses of tools. Like the classic cyberpunk quote of "Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human." Tracking wildlife and growth could be applied to humans and chasing squatters.

Of course it still works on a direct and personal level in the same way you would microchip pets but object to doing it to humans.
I am afraid solution for a cancer so serious as this (let's not forget Steve Jobs died of this inspite of arguably endless resources) is not in information search. She needs a good doctor aside from her oncology team.

I have lost a colleague who sat 6 ft away from me at work, and 6 months younger. The end comes pretty fast. My heartfelt sympathies.

There is one variant which can be cured. Jobs had that actually. If she got that and
it did not metastise she may survive. It is her best hope.
If you want to play in hard mode, figure out how to get video calls working for someone calling their grandma in a nursing home, when she doesn't have a laptop or smartphone.

It would have to be a device that's as simple to use as a phone. Not a cell phone, a regular phone that sits on a desk, the old-fashioned kind.

I bet a whole lot of people wish that they had something like that working during the pandemic.
American citizenship is most often granted on a person's first day in the world. It's ludicrous to say that one newborn baby is more deserving of anything than another newborn baby.
"Peoplesoft is a curse on humanity"

I would love to know the story of how this wretched piece of software seems to have embedded itself into nearly every college and university in the United States.
You're probably right. The FPGA is probably the most expensive part of this board by far, and maybe they figured the FPGA and the PCIE bus can handle enough traffic to keep two compression chips busy.
> The H-1B is a nonimmigrant visa,

Again, it’s dual intent and is functionally the only way for skilled immigrants to get green cards to become citizens outside of family unification (which the admin also wants to abolish).
It's Talos all the way down
This can be hosted online right ?
Comment is just saying that MIT and any Florida state school are all nonprofits.
Profit is not a meaningful metric for whether or not a company should exist. When your cash is on the line I'm sure it is very easy to have flexible morals, but making returns on death and oppression is not a world I want to be a part of.
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This could mean the following things.

1. If done correctly, non-Apple laptops may become significantly less attractive. Just like Android phones.

2. Intel may be in for a tough time, especially with AMD winning big on the console and laptop fronts recently.

3. AMD and Intel may have to compete for survival and to save the non-Apple ecosystem in general. If AMD/Intel can consistently and significantly beat Apple here, it may mean that the non-Apple ecosystem survives and even thrives. It may even mean that Apple looks at Intel/AMD as an option for Pro MacBooks in the future. However, this does seem a little less likely.

4. This could also herald the entry of Qualcomm and the likes into laptop territory.

Looks like a very interesting and possibly industry changing move. This could potentially severely affect Intel/AMD and Microsoft. And all these players will have to play this new scenario very carefully.
Hence an easy solution to traffic is increase the cost of driving. Which Seattle already has dynamic tolls which change in price:

https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Tolling/TollRates.htm
They gave no numbers because the developer kit is not using the ARM CPU the first ARM Mac will ship with.

Just like the first Intel Macs shipped with Duo core while the developer kits had Pentium 4's.
Interesting observation. While I maintain tech isn’t friendly to families with children, I do agree it’s not a driving factor in SF losing this population. The cost of housing and schools have a lot to do with it.
This might be for apple to introduce touch screen on macs.
How does this affect free speech?
Without iOS enforcing Safari, Google will own the web. Safari being a requirement adds "test in other browsers" to the requirements list of any web app. If you can just tell iOS users to install Chrome, that development step goes away, and the incremental work to support for Firefox will also go away. And then we will have the real Internet Explorer web again, where it is owned by one company.
They are super loss making, which is unusual for a tech provider (and that too, running on Salesforce).

Is this because of the Salesforce tax ?
Sure, so give me a number. Eventually somebody[1] has to make a high-level decision on which strategy to pursue. And they have to give directives that can be followed by people who don't know your entire thought processes. That's what it means to be a bureaucracy. So which is it, will you choose an imperfect quantitative model where some numbers are pulled out of your ass? Or will you just let every low-level functionary pull entire decisions out of their individual asses and hope something resembling a coherent strategy will emerge?[2]

[1] Well, ideally. The US response to covid was pretty much [2]. If it wasn't clear, [2] was a rhetorical question and you should not do that.
This seems to have been written by someone unfamiliar with real estate, local government, natural resources, or any other traditional line of business that depends heavily on GIS. I don't know what my county pays for ArcGIS but it's probably substantial, and I suspect there are multiple IT employees devoted to maintaining the system.

Replicate that across nearly every single political locality in the US, probably the world. The industry is huge.

Also, "long form twitter" is dumb.
I fundamentally disagree. The reason synchronous video communication continues to dominate is because it's more information dense than text in many situations, and more interactive than asynchronous alternatives.

Asynchronous communication has its place, and it's amazing what has been accomplished over the LKML and similar. Software projects tend to make this sort of communication ideal, since they are amenable to individualized contributions. But the prescription that efficient digital communication must be asynchronous and textual is incorrect.
Yes, 2 W/core. The difference is that at this power level, the A series chip will be a lot closer to peak performance than the Intel chip.

> A 4800HS at it's 4w/core all core load is also still clocking higher than an A12X.

This doesn't mean that much, since the range of efficient clock speeds depends on design choices, so they aren't always 1:1 comparable between architectures. Apple might well increase clock speed on their desktop chips, but unless it's only a few percent, it won't be as simple as pumping more power into the same dies; they have to actually redesign the core to operate efficiently at those higher speeds.
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Congrats on kicking the addiction.
Here's the Twitter thread from Trevor Bedford (head of the NextStrain project cited in your link) reviewing the work that discovered the spike protein mutation in the European strain that may affect transmissibility:

https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1257825352660877313

"Both Korber et al and our analysis show no measurable effect on patient outcome. Hence, the hypothesis at this point is entirely in terms of transmissibility rather than severity. 14/16"

The conclusion that mortality is higher comes from the higher death rates in European countries. However, there's a major confounder: when the epidemic exceeds testing capacity, only the most severe cases are tested and counted, and so the denominator in mortality rates (total cases) is inaccurately small. We know this is the case in much of Europe (and NYC): follow-up antibody tests put the number of total infections at ~10x the number of detected cases. That brings the mortality rate back in line with the ~0.5-1% that's been found in populations where everyone was tested.