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I hope you noticed "most". I did not say "the only".
There are many, many ARM SoC developers. Very few of them have the right to modify or develop their own ARM core.

It is also a question of what you do with your license. The cores in Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets for example differs quite little from the cores from ARM.

Simularly with Samsung Exynos. They are basically A7x with some other big.LITTLE combination.

Apple on the other hand have repeatedly shown that they are both willing and capable at doing their own micro architecture. I would like to credit the aquisition of PA Semi for starting this. But they of course are not the only people Apple have added to build competence and capability in this area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A._Semi
I love my Thinkpads. And only one of them is new (I bought the AMD version and I love it). I should have clarified that I was speaking more about the non-tech's perspective on something that "just works" versus something that needs regular tweaking, restarts, updates that halt all other operations for some time, and all the other joys of living with a Microsoft OS that we've learned to live with.
Once you install Big Sur this way, will you get Big Sur updates from Apple automatically?
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That's because Windows Terminal is not the standard Windows console. :P
I think it’s a big problem because many people do crime because they are poor or don’t have a solid family unit. Once they get into the system we don’t provide resources to rehab them but basically train them to become criminals. Or when they get out even if they satisfy what society asks of them, we make it really hard to recover with a felony on their record. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/magazine/felon-attorney-c...
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Amen. It's deep, and the UI is complex.

And then there is the regular updates/DLC thing, which often adds whole new, poorly explained features.

Still a lot of fun though. Breath Status: Held for CKIII
Unfortunately modern computing trends make "reuse" pretty difficult too, what with software bloat and increasing layers of abstraction ensuring that everything becomes slower and slower over time, possibly just so that you will buy new hardware. Wastefulness in computing is a decade+ long epidemic.

Not that long ago users here were talking about 3 seconds to launch a word processor being "pretty good", which is an insane statement to make when you're taking about multicore processors that can execute multiple instructions per cycle and run at 3 billion cycles per second. Modern software is the computing equivalent of burning rainforests to roast marshmallows.
Unlikely I’d say. The govt has not been forthcoming so far, and the company is mostly foreign owned anyway right?
Military, especially Navy SEALs, are a lot more trained than police are, so their standards of behavior are higher. In US it takes 2-6 months to become a cop. In Germany, for comparison, it's around 2-3 years.
In 2018 and 2019, there were over 30,000 assaults on police officers in UK.[1] In 2017 and 2018, there were over 110,000 assults on police officers in US. You can't just adopt this in the US, policing is more dangerous in the US.

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka/2017 https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka/2018

[2] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
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It turns out that there are multiple groups of people at Microsoft and these factions aren’t all in agreement all the time.

I’m sure that there are plenty of those at Microsoft that disagree with telemetry and updates that you can’t opt out of. I would bet that many of them are in the developer division.
I've bought early access book from Manning as well, and after few months of silence the author decided to drop the chapters that I was looking forward. Left a bad taste in my mouth.
You were clear enough I think. Imagine someone walking up to with you with a gun and bullet proof vest. This person also represents a clear a history of oppressing and killing innocent people for the sole reason of domination and imperialism.

The difference between a normal civilian and a cop is that essentially at this point, for your own safety, all cops should be considered guilty and dangerous. This is logical conclusion based on all evidence. If we are going to shut down society for something as dangerous as Covid, jesus, people should be sheltering in place in fear of the US police state.

The problem is that the job of police even exists. It is not a justice based institution.
Seems to be common amongst pythonistas. I've run into their tired bashing of perl for 20+ years.

I use perl daily. And Julia. And C. Python more like weekly.

Always select the right tool for the job. Changing code that works, and is critical should not be undertaken lightly. Most especially not of irrational dislike of the current implementation language.
I really haven't really heard anyone, even protestors, claim that police in the US should give up their guns. The recent high profile cases of deaths haven't been by gun, but with bare hands. Mostly, the discussion is around if/when deadly force should be used, no matter the implement.
Being a high school teacher is a far worse job than being a cop. Cops don’t even have to pretend they care about helping people.
It’s an investment in the same sense that American Express is investing in me.

I invested in an associates coffee shop. A pool of people invested for 60% of the business, with the founder earning additional share for hitting milestones and getting the opportunity to buyout.
Isn't that just for the boards and more awkward components though? It seems like it would be trivial to strip most of the surface mounted components off via just heating and shaking
weird game theory view here, would you not be incentivized to never finish the book because people might be waiting for that 1.0 moment to cancel their subscription?
It seems an excessively long window. Six hours isn't a "coordination window"; it's a workday.

It's reasonable to have a set time when you can ensure that everybody will be together, so that you have at least some overlap for synchronous communication every day. But one or two hours seems appropriate, rather than six.

Even within the US, there are workers who want to work shift like 10-6, or even 12-8, without seeming entirely out of touch with the staff. It's good to mix such people into your team: it means you get some kind of coverage later in the day for people working late, emergencies, etc.
I think that supports my point though right. Does anyone think the Zimbabwe dollar is a good currency? I think few choose to use it.
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When your mission prep includes pre-applying tourniquets to your arms and legs before you go for a drive.
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> no C++ build hell

> no C++ syntax hell!

> no C++ at all!!!

The author of this book has some strong feelings about C++.
> He's hinted that he could release the sources if the Steam/Itch sales make enough money that he could stop worrying about the stability of his income in the long term.

The saddest part of Tarn's decision to put the game on Steam is to make enough money to pay off medical bills for his brother.
A bench for bench-pressing.
It’s the single thing that I built and actually use.
I built a lot of software and never cared to use it myself (it never solved my own problems, always a customer/user.. )
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That omits overtime, which is a massive component of compensation in many departments. It also ignores after-hours gigs they can get because they're cops and pensions, which not so many get anymore.

OT in Chicago: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/1/14/18343141/editorial-re... :

"In 2017, a sergeant who apparently never sleeps made $279,612, which included $158,917 in overtime pay. A detective made $285,070, including $144,926 in OT. In all, according to a Sun-Times report on Sunday, rank-and-file police officers in 2017 pulled in about 60 percent of the city’s overall overtime pay."

Please point me to all the six-figure teaching opportunities.
Drone swarms for high-speed low-cost temporary housing construction --

A shipment of bricks arrives at a disaster area or refugee camp by
helicopter or truck, drones file into a holding pattern around it, the
bricks are dispersed into the air by explosives, each drone catches
one flying brick with a claw before it hits the ground, and then the
drones cooperatively build a structure by individually placing each
brick where it belongs. It's a great technical challenge and also
great for humanity.
On iOS the browser (Safari) is tied to the operating system version. Alternative browsers still use the same rendering engine as Safari, which means they can't patch bugs in the engine, they need to wait for Apple to do it in a new operating system version.
Have you had a look at the Nikon 1 AW series?

I think there are only two lens options, but apparently they are very good, and should be pretty cheap now, since they were a niche offshoot of an already niche (and discontinued) product line.
Web skimmer hides within EXIF metadata, exfiltrates credit cards via image files
Poor and sexy too?
My father-in-law was a produce inspector for 40+ years. He said that after a while, all he ever did was smell it. He could be walking up to the truck or rail car from across the parking lot and know if it was good or bad.
Yeah, the article was weak. I must have missed the compelling reason to switch off of a live language to the EOLed one.

And ... did they actually, really do that, for a critical piece of infrastructure, because someone dislikes perl?

That should worry bank customers, shareholders, etc.

Business and tooling decisions should be rational, and risk reducing. I don't see that this change met either of these criteria.
Not since the 60s. On paper its possible in theory during an era of low application numbers to become an officer in an obscure location with various waivers if you're lucky, but in practice the requirements to actually get hired as a P.O. are the same as military OCS.

You pretty much need a clean and successful record with a bachelors degree for both paths.

Degree inflation is a real thing, similar to how receptionists in 2020 need a degree in "something" whereas in the old days high school was enough. Boomer generation cops could get hired with a mere high school diploma but that was 50 years ago.
Yeah a programming language can have such a positive momentum, but the community is also a thing. I think the currently popular programming languages have really healthy communities, go for linting, clean code and modern solutions.

I always avoided PHP but on one job I worked with it after the company was bought. So I had to maintain a billing script written in PHP to be called from the command line. It was running on a huge FreeBSD server that would fail booting oftentimes and in the script you had to change the start and end date each month manually. Of course there was no version control although I was told there was a second copy of that server in case this one failed completely. I wrote the guy (the then CTO) a few times emails with questions but he never responded. Eventually I ported the code to Go with unit tests. I get the point that there is PHP 7 with modern frameworks but those are useless without adopting modern coding and deployment practices.
It’s not just about the percentage of false positives, it’s about how much easier it is to generate false positives.

Human face-matching accuracy is worse than software in many scenarios (“is this the man that robbed you?”) but it requires so much effort that the absolute number of false positives are low.

On the other hand, facial recognition hooked up to cctv can passively generate mountains of matches all day long for pennies.
>>> It's not hard to build RPMs of newer and/or supported versions of Python.

It's actually the hardest thing to do and to maintain long term. I'd say from experience that building your own is the #1 thing that was plaguing legacy systems in the bank and preventing to maintain them.

Developers built perl/python/whatever manually and distributed (RPM or whatever). It's de facto unmaintainable because it cannot be built again. Sure thing is, there were special build flags set and some extra libraries/plugins embedded into the build, but who knows? There is never any instruction left. Even if there was, these are complex software with huge web of dependencies, it's probably impossible to get everything to run/build 5-10 years later. (DLL hell is a major recurrent issue on Linux when upgrading the distro and some old libraries are gone due to googlecode/sourceforge dying).

Hence the solution to ensure that simple critical scripts work and can be maintained in the far future when required, is to rely on the /usr/bin/python from RHEL (and store everything in source control). Don't build your own interpreter.
Even accounting for that rate, police faces 5x "prosecutable assults" more than a "reported assult" on a normal person. We don't know what "prosecutable assult" statistics on a normal person so we can't compare them directly, but the rate is approx. 67%[1]. Clearance rate is 52%, so it shows that while policing in US, you get approx. 15x more chance of facing "prosecutable assult".

[1] https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/ascii/scpdvc.txt
Cooking for Engineers.com puts a compact table in the recipes, which shows the list of ingredients and the order of preparation and combination. I think he calls it "Tabular Recipe Notation" or something like that.

It took me a moment to grok the format, but once I did I found it to be really helpful.

https://coolinfographics.com/blog/2010/4/26/cooking-for-engi...
Of course, that’s reasonable that you would be happy with your luck.

Buying lotto tickets is irrational as well, but the winners are happy. Some speculators end up ok.

As much value has been lost by bitcoin as created (ie, someone bought at $20k and lost at $10k, etc).

I’m glad you made a ton of cash, I hope you can retire. But this volatility is really bad for currency.
Right to repair never covered upgrading an item. We cannot upgrade memory or storage in many devices so limiting the rule to say "this item type must allow for use upgrading" limits the flexibility of the seller. If you don't like their limits then buy the other brand.

One could make a good argument that circuit board repair is outside the realm of right to repair as in many applications you simply buy a new module or board; see automotive repairs, appliance repair, and similar.

It is the difference between swapping out the a water pump and repair one yourself. Right to Repair makes it possible to get new water pumps from any vendor as that is the extent by which the common consumer would need. So in the case of Apple products Right to Repair would include replacement circuit boards which could include a mainboard, battery modules, and any individual component which simply plugs in. Also covered would be the ability to open an close an item without having to damage it to do so to get at the internals.
I used Lambda and EFS for massively parallel processing
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If you get rid of bad cops you don't have to do anything to fix the unions.
> I suppose it could work if 95% of the police were engaged in something other than apprehending violent criminals...

I would be surprised if apprehending violent criminals was more that 5% of the job, personally. Wouldn't you?

To the downvoters; it is your right to do so, but think about it - Police are on patrol, taking reports of crimes that happened previously, they guard things, they help keep order at sporting events, they're on hand for political events. They're being traffic cops, white collar cops, they appear in court, all sorts of activities. And there's paperwork.

I would be very surprised if at any one time more than 5% of cops, or for a cop on average, more than 5% of their time was directly "apprehending violent criminals". It's important they do so, of course.
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Usually though, FYI, they specify 'chopped' in the ingredients list. But that leads to the equally-infuriating "Only takes 5 minutes of prep!" but the ingredient list hides the fact that you have to make a pie crust or chop two pounds of veggies not included in that estimate.
I've found Nautilus to (generally) be really great for that exact reason
Salesforce introduces several new developer tools,including serverless functions
Manchester United just paid a dividend. Looks like they're going to make the cut for UEFA next year. Man U is doing okay. Other Premier League teams have much scarier ownership stories.
After my GPU drivers were force updated by MS and caused blue screens, after my local admin account was disabled by an update, I decided to switch my network connection type to metered in windows settings. Now I am in full control of updates.
Windows hasn't required confirmations for deletions in years. And the Documents vs My documents folder makes me think it's your organisations setup that is to blame for much of this.

Don't use classic start either. Just remove the pinned stuff from the start menu and it's like your using Windows 2000 again.
I'm trying to see the benevolent aspect of these major updates that happen every 6 months, but I don't see it. Do they have to be so frequent? Do they have to be so massive (several GB downloads)?

And yet, 5 years after RTM, Windows 10 still has two control panels and an overall inconsistent UI and plenty of bugs. The whole OS is like a permanent work in progress.
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Thanks for defining. I’m missing something: what is the purpose of level 3. Isn’t level 4 all you could ask for?
At what point would you say Facebook is big enough that they need to be regulated?

In The Philippines, Facebook has a de-facto monopoly on communication.

There are only two major cellphone companies (Globe and Smart), and they essentially just act as last-mile providers for Facebook. Both networks are unreliable, so everyone just has two sim cards. Nobody texts, everyone just uses Facebook messenger and voice chat. Facebook even subsidizes free cellphone plans with access just to Facebook services.

City municipal services were all available primarily via Facebook in the city I stayed in. Cellphone numbers are seen as disposable, especially because the networks are so unreliable. Because nobody else can afford to subsidize the phone companies, nobody can compete with Facebook.

Facebook has an incredible amount of power. They can interfere in elections, and put people out of business with the push of a button. They could hold the entire country hostage.

Is it ok to regulate them then? Or should these leviathan corporations be treated like scrappy startups still?
Counterpoint: A critical security bug in Windows led to the power grid going down due to a worm. Maybe security updates shouldn't be dismissible for weeks and weeks?
I'm going to try and be not cynical for a second - in 1999 computing truly empowered a small group of enthusiasts. Yes, lots of people had access to computers, but for many it was a word processor with slow internet, and a ton of vulnerabilities and viruses. Now many many more have been empowered, but at a cost of less peak power.
This article is good reminder that "no code" doesn't mean "no programming." If a person can figure out the logic to wire something like this together, they are programming. The tough part about coding isn't syntax or typing, its architecture, logic, and dataflow and these "no code" platforms still expect people to figure all that out.
Since we're down to argueing degrees...

Of course it's not deterministic. If 100% (or even 15%) went bankrupt, no one would finance them. It's impossible to get to this point.

Every deal is a snowflake, but the reductive caricature of Bain and "private equity leveraged buyouts" is: "(1)buy a company. (2) get your money back quickly by borrowing on behalf of the company (3) profit on your free option.

This caricature is not that far from the truth, as caricatures go, and it's a pretty good guideline to speculations about what they plan to do with Virgin Blue. My guess is that a covid-related bailout or stimulus will provide the capital.

Again, situations differ, but generally these deals don't capitalize a company... lenders do. What they bring to the table is risk tolerance and a mercenary attitude... much of it related to the free option they are exercising.
Thanks, this is a good answer. The problem is that it's easy to start on, say, a game, movie, or the internet at 0930 and then stop at 1930. Or do hundreds of little microbreaks and get little done. 4-5 hours of real work is actually quite productive.
If you’re enough of a power user to notice, then you should be able to figure out how to disable them.

A quick google search finds several blog posts with commands to run.
Thanks for link!
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Wouldn't that private firm fall under a 3rd party?

From the article: The city council unanimously voted on Wednesday to ban the use of the technology and prohibit any city official from obtaining facial surveillance by asking for it through third parties. The measure will now go to Mayor Marty Walsh with a veto-proof majority. Walsh's office said he would review the ban.
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The problem is artificial market segmentation, not actual goods build cost.

Difference between primitive universal motor + Triac speed controller versus BLDC + controller one is max around $20 BOM. In return you get vastly better efficiency and quieter operation, but we cant have that in a low end product oh no, how would we upmarket the expensive ones?

Example modern product sold with realistic markup, $30 impact driver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AERn5japFs8
I've found that the best solution is: get (used) previous gen high-end (and popular) that has unlocked bootloader. Being popular means I'll find plenty of parts for repair and likely have options for firmware installs.

I got myself a S8 when S10 was about to come out. Fraction of the price and I can keep updating it beyond Samsung efforts.

I still own a Nexus5 5 which seems to be the target of most non-android OS development effort despite its age.

(Another aspect I try to consider is repairability, which phones such as S8 hardly make it easy which it's fragile curve OLED display)

We're past peak smartphones now, I see no need to run after the latest cpu increase or extra camera so that it takes bokeh better. But that's me.
So this made me curious about when the first life managed to live on land. This article claims it may have been 3.2 bn years ago. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0190-9
there are several counties in maryland where a teacher with an advanced degree and/or many years on the job can make around $100k.

http://www.marylandpublicschools.org/about/Documents/DCAA/SS...
Which is exactly why any Quality initiative has to be supported by management, or it's a waste of time.
Maybe we should start with at least a way to change the batteries of otherwise perfectly fine devices or at least a reliable way to have the information about that possibility before purchasing.
Being a police officer requires no qualifications and barely any training, and low intelligence is notoriously preferred [0].

Being a teacher requires at least a bachelors degree. The two jobs shouldn't even be comparable.

[0] https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...
Microsoft is permanently closing its retail stores