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It should be a warning to the world how Germany botched DAB:

They introduced DAB among the broadcasters as a cost saving measure. DAB needs smaller transmission power due to the digital transmission and error correction, so they could get away with far smaller transmitter power (factor 10) than for the same area coverage in FM. But they misestimated the power reduction, reduced too much and now area coverage is far worse than FM even in areas that should nominally be covered.

Also, they first introduced DAB. Some people bought new equipment. Then, a few years later, they introduced DAB+ in a complete switchover, no more DAB stations. Thus everyone had to throw away their new expensive radios.

Therefore no-one trusts the coverage and longevity of digital radio, so no-one buys it anymore.

Oh, and even nominal coverage isn't anywhere near where FM is after two decades.
I'd argue that your definition of an abstraction resembles wrappers (which IMHO is the weakest form of abstraction) rather than abstraction in general. I think it's better to take it as modelling a complex system in a simple way to solve some specific problem by stripping the unnecessary details. For example, design patterns are abstractions but I don't think they all qualify as simply collecting a larger interface into a smaller one. Similarly, a virtual machine process like JVM is an abstraction for the hardware details which is also a lot more than simply reducing the size of the hardware interface. Still, a useful article. Thanks.
Denotational semantics are a great way to capture the meaning of a programming language. If your language provides a denotational semantics it's a nice exercise to implement them in a functional language. For instance, here's my implementation of R5RS Scheme in Haskell following the spec's semantics.[0]

A lot of toy Scheme implementations omit call/cc for instance because it can be hard to reason about and do correctly, whereas following the spec made it really easy.

[0] https://github.com/siraben/r5rs-denot
That's right. DAB is digital over AM, but there's another much more exciting technology called DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) that uses the SW bands to deliver 72kbps (currently HE-AAC but xHE-AAC in the future) over the Shortwave Bands. This has the potential to make use of very efficient transmitters with very long range. The encoding and bitrates are comparable to DAB+.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Radio_Mondiale
Oh yeah! Nothing like a bunch of old poorly thought out "render props" style high level components getting mushed together with a bunch of new poorly thought out custom React hooks :-)
Not sure if it's because of my settings but the back button works as expected on Firefox mobile even after scrolling all the way down in the article.
The difference is only significant if the radio station uses a sufficient bitrate. There are some with atrocious quality in DAB because of their low bitrate.
I always use second hand laptop, but only ThinkPad and stay away from used Dell's.

The reason is that you can get used ThinkPads , recent enough and at a significant discount but still covered by warranty, and Lenovo will honour such warranty.

Dell instead (Dell Italy, specifically) asked for the original purchase receipt to honour warranty still valid according to their website and plain refused to honour warranty without it.

Other brands, I don't know, but since I get a "new" laptop only once every three years at least, I wouldn't risk it.
The graph view in Obsidian would become particularly powerful if you could progressively filter brightness of items based on a search term. Or, for example, if you could make matching items brighter based on clicking / typing a tag name.
> Compared to any other western style democracy, and the differences become clear.

And yet still can't be seen to be having a major effect on black voter turnout, which implies that either the issues are not actually that common or the effect is inconsequential.

Also, this one is a blatant lie:

> An electoral college and a senate that gives more weight to votes from states with a higher percentage of whites?

The states with the highest percentage of black people are Mississippi and Louisiana. They're both over-represented in the electoral college. So are Maryland, South Carolina, Alabama, Delaware and Arkansas, which are all have a higher than the national average percentage of black people.

The states that get most screwed over by the electoral college are California and Texas. They both have below the national average percentage of black people. So are Pennsylvania, Ohio, Washington, Arizona, Massachusetts and Indiana, which all have below the national average percentage of black people.

And most of the states that get screwed over and do have an above average percentage of black people are only barely above the average.

Exercise for the reader: Of the 17 states with less than proportionate representation as a result of the electoral college, which one has the highest percentage of black people, and which party are their Senators?

> And arguing gerrymandering, proven to benefit one party only at the disadvantage of people of colour, is actually a good thing, is just plain manipulative.

It benefits whichever party was in when they drew the most recent lines. You can hardly claim that's "racism" just because that was most recently the Republicans and the result was to elect fewer Democrats.

And you called it "manipulative" without actually explaining how it was wrong.
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Respectable, pro mathematicians don't obfuscate. But there are definitely math professors in non-top universities who get kicks out of torturing students and think "this is supposed to be hard" etc. I'm definitely a math enthusiast but I have personally met people like that. Typically the exams are under strong time pressure and are more about rote learning of fixed types of exercises and remembering definitions.

On the other hand, I had math profs who radiated curiosity and fun and the exams were just a few questions, but you had to think to solve them and you weren't under much time pressure.

So while mathematicians aren't purposefully obscure, the math people (teachers) the average person interacts with are sometimes purposefully obscure.
There's almost 200 comments here but no one that I have seen has actually mentioned who in Washington "did something about it" and Ken's post also left this out.

Hawaii Senators Dan Inouye and Dan Akaka, along with Ted Kennedy were the driving forces for many of the provisions from 1990 to 2010 that sought justice for Filipino veterans. Rob Simmons (R-CT) pushed for the 2003 extension of VA benefits to Filipino vets. Jackie Speier (D-Bay Area) continues to introduce the Filipino Veterans Fairness Act which would extend that to more veterans every session but never advances. The Filipino Veterans Family Reunification bill once had a chance but now also stalls every session. Obama created a program in '16 to allow the family members to stay here while awaiting green card status but Trump ended the program last year.
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> apology of the mistake

This is not an apology.

You should not have to apologise for mistakes.

This is part of the problem, it's ok to make mistakes and most mistakes don't need an apology.
Are AM listeners and FM listeners likely to find and respond to surveys in the same way? I would expect older more remote AM listeners would be under-represented in your survey.
There is no way that something that is not enforceable will succeed though.

Plus forgiveness works only on then forgiver side, nothing stop others to keep doing what they are doing after you forgave them.

I would argue that the main reason we get along is laws, not forgiveness.

Any society has written (laws) and unwritten (social rules) norms that regulate the interactions between members.

People don't yell in public, usually, because they've been taught it's wrong and people, generally, tend to respect what they've been taught on certain degrees, especially when it is easy to verify those teachings: nobody yells in public, those who do are reprimanded, it must really be a wrong thing to do.

If you forgive someone yelling at kids because their basketball ended up in their garden you could feel better, but are enabling bad behaviour that should be challenged instead.
Are widgets stateful in any way? Could this be used to create more efficient (and constrained) client side apps without JavaScript?
Thanks mate. It never harms to try indeed.
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Yeah they should really do something about that
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The iPad Pro was 64Gb until this year. And that’s the “pro”.
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Entire civilizations have operated without wheels. You guys are just arguing on behalf of what you're familiar with.
That’s Google’s motivation for almost anything. Especially Chrome.
BTW, if you want your mind blown, check out Penelope Gouk's "Music, Science and Natural Magic in Seventeenth Century England". It deals with the magical ideas that were present at the formation of the Royal Society.

Note that we consider magic today to be "that which doesn't exist". Natural magic then was "that which works through unknown forces".
Not always, due to shutdown I revived my old WoW account, and the latest content is far more engaging for me than the original content. But that's a game you're already expected to pay monthly.
Any brand wants potential customers

And social networks have hundreds of millions of them

Do you think Coca Cola cares if KKK members drink it and bottles of Coke are shown in pictures of their rallies?

Brand awareness is more important to them

Starbucks cups with name spelled wrong are the perfect example: people think they are funny and post the picture of the cup with the Starbucks logo making the brand more popular

So what seem an honest mistake is actually a well thought brand awareness campaign
I know a few, 1- Young guy, full time online poker playing 6+ games at a time and uses software to assist, based in Australia, bought his house outright a few years ago. 2- Retired guy who bets on local club matches, has encyclopedic knowledge of local clubs and is banned from placing bets by bookie chains. Pays people to go place his bets. Also plays poker. 3- Used to manually arbitrage Betfair but it took a lot of effort, was worth a few hundred euro per month as a hobby. Betfair has an API so might be worth looking at to see if you can find a gap.
What about every individual person being responsible for what they say and do?

There is no scheme where this responsibility can be shifted to someone else.

Would you do it? Would you take up the responsibility to correct and monitor and censor and edit what your neighbor says or does?

Are we so afraid to judge people that we need a "system" to express that for us?

But here you see the results. A very condescending "don't worry your little head about it" article written in "good faith" to redeem the "sins" of "misguided" people on social media to "correct their ways".

Preaching, preaching, preaching, and nothing but preaching. Even the harshest judgement is miles better than that.
Hello, I still haven't found a mentor
In high school I was told I wouldn't fit in until grad school, I still tried to fit in but didn't work. In undergrad the prof / coach I had felt the most comfortable around explained in detail his philosophical justifications for me to be murdered while he was in the driver seat and I was in the front passenger seat on the way to a debate tournament where I ended up crying my eyes out and deciding to quit debate.

I got into the #1 ranked grad school I had dreamed of but my advisor had nothing to say and no words of encouragement when I told her my life's story... I held out hope for so many years to make it somehow and she had no advice about anything, how'd ever be able to afford a home, get a good job, have a family, NOTHING??

The tried to get CS degree and was #2 in my class but #1 was a terrifying sociopath and when profs started openly trying to make students cheat to make quotas, as in PROFESSORS WERE LITERALLY BEGGING STUDENTS TO MARK DOWN OTHER ANSWERS TO CHEAT AND STUDENTS REFUSED BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T CARE ABOUT THEIR GRADES AS MUCH AS PROFESSORS I hoped out and hoped to find someone that was in a more healthy situation that maybe I could be mutually beneficial with.

I've been trying to find a mentor on this site since 2014 now and after all those years of people making posts of wanting someone like me I've hardly even got a response. Best "job" offer I've gotten for CS work was $500 for three months - I literally got paid better than that when I was picking fruits in vegetables when I wasn't even 10 years old yet, so somebody please tell me why I tortured myself through almost 2 decades of school under people saying it would be helpful when literally no one gives a shit.
However you have to debug 75% of the websites you visit to enable back javascript.
Isn't just using CSS position: sticky more simple and more beautiful?
https://css-tricks.com/position-sticky-2/
The few times when I've had an online relationship, just having someone to say goodnight with has been so much more comforting and sleep-inducing than any of the medications that work for a bit until they don't.

2005 or so was the first time I had a really special relationship, online, and when I tried to meet the other person like they seemed to want they kinda backed out. It's 15 years later and no matter how close we get and the other person says we need to meet, when we want to meet and I'm so ready to meet them they instant or slightly-less-abruptly ghost me.

Um I really need a job where I could afford somewhere to live and it'd be helpful to have a job where I don't have to work 7/365 since I haven't had a day off in over 5 years and so I don't even know who I am or what I'm trying to do anymore.

My best friend is someone over 2500 miles away and 10 years older than me but they text me on discord about life and we watch movies sometime.

How do I find a place where there are one or more adults who could help me find a way to survive, afford a home and food and the rest on this planet? Is there somewhere else I could find someone or a future?
The terms are getting diluted to meaninglessness.

For many, just recently "White Supremacy" now equates to "Western Supremacy" which is left to the readers imagination. I suspect that, for example, advocating for democracy, defending the idea of innocent until proven guilty, criticism of repressive regimes, promoting free enterprise or espousing about the sanctity of the individual, or perhaps just Christianity could be seen as promotion of western standards and therefore a supremacist. Where before a white supremacist was just literally a neo nazi, now they might or might not be any politician from 30 years ago.

No one knows anymore.
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It is terrifying to think about what present day slavery would look like if it had been further enshrined as a right of the southern states.

Or, if Lincoln had simply allowed succession.
Sure if you're actively working in that subfield. I took abstract algebra in university and remember we treated groups and commutative groups, but I can't tell you what exactly rings were or what Abelian referred to. (But just like knowing the names of things is not the same as knowing things, forgetting these labels is not the same as forgetting the materials.)

Naming things is important. Yes it just takes one googling, but in many cases you are interfacing with many different topics and just reading straight up the useful descriptive name would allow keeping the flow without having to look up stuff.

Maybe this is more of a stumbling block for some than others. Often I find I have to make up mnemonics and other strategies like "the longer word is the one that ..." or "put the two terms in alphabetical order to match their descriptive names' alphabetical order".

Again, this doesn't happen for terms we use every day. But if you use it every year or so, it's a stumbling block to have to ask "which one was that again?" when the descriptive name would immediately clear it up.

I think it's mostly vanity and a "respecting the elders" and credit assignment thing that so many things are named for mathematicians instead of descriptive names. Having something named after you is like one of the biggest "awards" a mathematician can get. But this has no concern for didactics.
I’m trying to evaluate ethical licensing so that we can have a flourishing Commons of code projects to build on.

https://ethicalsource.dev/

The hard problem is multifaceted:

I would argue that open source as we know fails to balance the market. We now have monopolistic tech incumbents in the “GAFAM“ companies, that thrive on open source while paying little tax and outcompeting actual tax paying businesses. I see maintainers either burning out or selling out to venture capitalists.

I want to believe in free and open source, but I also see that it fully enables surveillance capitalism, casino capitalism and tax avoiding monoliths.

So, I realize that I need to move past classic licensing and consider ethical licensing that try to remedy society’s inequalities and injustices.

Call me a cyber hippie, but if I want to build cool stuff in my spare time to share I want to maximize its chances of doing something good in the world. To that end I’m evaluating some ethical licenses.

There are many ethical licenses out there which are evolving. Presently, I’m evaluating this one: The (Cooperative) Non-Violent Public License: https://thufie.lain.haus/NPL.html

After the weekend I’ll try to get in touch with a Lawyer to review the license implications. It’s arguably not open source in definition, but maybe more so in spirit.
Interesting. On a somewhat related note, I wonder how much work it would be to port scheme in a grid to racket, or somehow get it working on modern distros/os' (it's been abandoned for a while, and uses a ui toolkit that's been abandoned too):

http://siag.nu/siag/
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I saw this behavior (with a space between two headers) on some websites so i have implemented that model
Sometimes it does make sense - check out this website for example
https://www.examtopics.com/exams/
It depends on the content

But anyway both thresholds are customizable. They can be set to one number
I think with modern editors, the cost of code duplication is lower than the cost of a tight over abstracted code linked everywhere in your system. You can easily find and replace instances of duplicated code as it would be isolated and can be automated to some degree.
Like the idea, though I think hypotes.is might be a more familiar way of social reading, albeit for academics.

Just a thought, if it’s even legally possible, or people a in fact still read print, add an option to send each other your copy when done... and save the planet on the way... perhaps a book for a book.
And of course the best of all hexaflexagon videos: https://youtu.be/GTwrVAbV56o
I go around the few places I'm not too paralyzed and ask for help and I know all these years later it doesn't make sense but it's hard to imagine anything else I could get my body to do. My best friend has given up on finding a relationship but I don't wanna give up yet...
Yeah that sounds interesting. Hopefully I'll be a participant of it with growing sincerity. Thanks.
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I pretty sure the author passed away from what I remember.
I can confirm that the pinout, memory structure he shows remains true for current WD HDD drives still.
That can be true and it could still be higher than the rate of deflation.

Right now banks lend businesses money because the business is projected to be able to make payments at an interest rate higher than the federal funds rate. People have to buy food. People will buy the new iPhone. People pay rent. People like to travel. All of those things happen no matter what the value of money is doing, so there will always be economic incentive to start businesses that can be profitable.

My point is that it's not so one dimensional. Deflation doesn't have to be bad. You can create value without reducing the value of everything else.
There's been minimal discussion of:

- deaths due to an economic collapse

- the longer term affect on health outcomes due to the economic collapse

- suffering and deaths due to delayed health care

- increase in deaths due to suicide

- increase in suffering and deaths due to substance abuse

- suffering and deaths due to domestic violence

- Increase in obesity and diseases related to lockdown

- And so on...

- And so forth...

There's an unsubstantiated narrative that dictates that Covid 19 is public enemy #1. The disconnect is that narrative is in truth a balloon grab. There _are_ plenty of negative and deadly side effects from blindly embracing that narrative.

This isn't about Covid 19 being real. It's a headon realization that the aggregate side effects of "going to war" with Covid 19 is producing significant collateral damage. Assuming the former is more significant than the latter is naive and negligence.
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Thanks for the feedback. Synonyms is on the immediate roadmap, but not available at the moment.

> Is it also possible to control typo sensitivity

You can control overall number of typose with ?num_typos=1 -- there is no way to define min chars for a specific typo. The engine does make some intelligent decisions to optimize. For example, for a 2 letter query it does not use a num_typos=2 even if that is specified.

Glad to hear about the setup. Will continue to improve.
Seems like an odd place to put this comment. Nobody's talking about Filipino vets on this sub-thread, much less how they should feel or who is bad or wrong or should be mad. Am I missing subtext?
> currently HE-AAC but xHE-AAC in the future

So another switchover like DAB to DAB+ where everyone throws away their new radios yet again? That point alone kills every consumer appeal it might have ever had...
>if I play this video during a walk in the nearby mountain in Japan

I know you're probably joking here, but since it's an important area of honest lack of knowledge I really want to point: please please don't ever do this everyone. Not just this video specifically but play any bird song at all outside. Many of the guide apps these days for example have collections of bird songs for each species as another aid in identification, and sometimes people play them to try to attract said birds to see them.

But this can genuinely screw things up for a few poor birds and be another pebble of human caused misery added onto species in trouble. Birds use song in part as a gauge for health and thus mating and territory. This is intuitive if you think about it: to produce more, better song requires a strong healthy respiratory system, syrinx and so on. But no bird can match the output of speakers, and recorded song samples are often chosen for being particularly clear and high quality. So if you play it, females may spend their time searching around for this incredible magnificent perfect specimen of birdliness who doesn't exist, and refuse to mate with other males. And other males themselves may just leave the territory.

If you've got a single well fit earphone or something of that order and play at low volume that can work, or else make recordings of the songs then replay them and try to identify them after getting back indoors. But all those songs are just for show and fun, they're an important part of bird life cycles, so please be careful to enjoy them without disrupting them.