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I liked the article. If you are gonna update it, please consider also mentioning technical aspect. Frankly, Amazon snooping on users is to be expected, but short mention of app for which platform have you analysed using which tools would be welcome addition.
I wouldn't count on GloFo being a leader in process tech. August of 2018 they announced they suspended work on their 7nm, 5nm and 3nm processes. It looks like they're focusing more on being a follower. This has also forced AMD to compete with Apple and others for the best 7nm that TSMC can offer. Intel is lucky that AMD can't meet demand.
Maybe OP works in private equity.
But maybe if education was actually about pursuit of knowledge rather than simply networking to maximize your capitalist potential, we would end up with a more educated populace.

Subsidizing college education ultimately opens up a spot in higher education for everyone.

It's short-sighted to view the wealthy people manipulating our institutions with their money as our providers. They literally paid for the opportunity for people to view them that way.
"I'd avoid ML/AI or anything 'cool' unless you have a particular interest or aptitude for it."

Ditto. I wanted to get into ML/AI so I posted for some roles internal to my company. It was not great. The hours would have been much higher with no salary increase. The company also wouldn't provide any real training (generic stuff on Pluralsight). Also, I would still just be coding like in other software since they only give the interesting parts of the work to people with PhDs - I'd be scrubbing data and testing models, not doing research and creating them.
I feel sorry for the postdoc here. You have a seemingly decent paper, but the press release really doesn’t do it justice. For reference, the Tweet about the press release https://twitter.com/princeton/status/1296779082663964673?s=2... vs the paper https://sci-hub.tw/downloads/2020-08-10/f1/10.1038@s41562-02...

The press release DOES have a very “machine learning ‘discovers’ trivial thing people already knew” vibe. The actual paper doesn’t - it’s not trying to “rediscover” anything, it’s just building on existing work, there’s none of the arrogance in the press release that’s triggering everyone on Twitter. The press release taints the actual research, which is a sadly common pattern, and I think a fair bit of that lies with the writers of press releases, not just the readers.
> The words Akigawa River sound a bit odd, as kawa and gawa, 川, are Japanese words for river,[7][8] so Aki River makes more sense, or simply Akigawa, perhaps Akikawa.

Wow, this is the most unprofessional copy I’ve seen on Wikipedia! Maybe someone meant to write this on the talk page and accidentally posted in the article? I guess it’s so small potatoes, there’s no editor watching closely.

Anyway, from a Japanese perspective “gawa” isn’t really different. It’s just a voiced consonant shift to better flow with the preceding sound. There’s a word for it, but can’t remember it off the top of my head.
It works pretty well except for the latest generation of Kindle DRM. AFAIK, it hasn't been cracked yet. There are workarounds but the workaround result in a lower quality book.
https://archive.epa.gov/sectors/web/html/map-3.html

Houston and Tampa are pretty similar in number when it comes to ecological disaster potential.
I gotta say, ditching a small airplane 30 miles off shore in the Gulf of Mexico is a hell of a risky way to collect $50,000 in an insurance payout. You've got a lot of faith in your ability to make a "water landing", much less that someone comes out and gets you before something goes wrong.
How many phones on Earth are not Chinese? Is it even double digit percentages?
> You don’t buy an iPhone expecting to install whatever you want.

I specifically bought an iPhone to facetime my family from another country. I'd love to be able to have my apps from my old android. Or, use facetime from an android...

But yeah, I'd love to install whatever I want and that's what I'd expect instead of having to buy everything twice when I switched OSes.
So one way to avoid all data gathering might be to keep your Kindle on airplane mode permanently and load/remove books via USB. Battery would last longer too. It also kills ads on the cheaper version of the Kindle.
Of course I'm not surprised, but I refuse to accept this as normal.
I now do the same. I never take it off airplane mode unless I send a PDF or something to the device.
I don’t think they said it wasn’t possible. I think the point was that Apple/iPhone users don’t care. Maybe folks who would want an iPhone if they could do what you’re proposing—but those aren’t the folks currently giving Apple any money.
Oh good, the Continuously Operating Reference Station network has always been something of a myst-...

Oh.
> One type of reader just wants the mechanics of the insurance fraud explained.

Exactly me. And I was not familiar with TexasMonthly, despite having lived in the US (California) for the last 8 years. (I am originally from Europe)
The page has many useful tips on how to avoid writing in a bureaucratic, distant, formal, long-winded style.

I see lots of text daily that fit the antipatterns mentioned in the article. Sometimes the writer doesn't know better. Sometimes they internalized some prescriptive hard and fast rules that are supposedly mandatory for pro writing (no split infinitive! No sentence started wit "so"!).

But more often, I think, obscure and pretentious writing is a feature for the writer. It creates distance, formality, passive aggressively signals "leave me alone" and "you are a small cog in a powerful machine", "we have authority over you", it allows for better plausible deniability, and CYA.
Or said in a different way from the writers point of view: if I wrote this too plainly, more people will feel compelled to write to me as if I was their buddy and will guide them through everything. By writing formally, I put up a wall and make my life easier. People will actually have to take time to decipher it all, so its also a natural filter for attentive readers.
Is that Kindle that promiscuous that it will literally connect to any open AP without prompting?
Exactly. Apple could build a fab and expend a few percent of their cache of cash.
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I was agreeing with you. Thats why I said, “if you do nothing else”.
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I don’t think we’d see the difference if everybody had roughly the same number. Ive seen people who have a few more slots than average and it appears quite inpressive, they keep on stacking up when I already overflow. It’s probably got to do with how they chunk their information though.. But a piece of paper and a pencil can do wonders
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I support that anti-Microsoft folks in the 90s should use Linux, Macintosh or an abacus. Plenty of choices. Vote with your wallet.
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This makes more sense and closer to the figure i kinda pulled out of thin air just based on the size of the playerbase, the 500M> figure was way too much considering that Fortnite only generates about 1.8b a year and it's revenue is going down.

Android is likely a much much smaller to the point of being a rounding error for Epic right now, there aren't many devices that can play the game right and in the markets that they actually get revenue from they aren't that popular.

I don't think Epic has any other games on the App Store tbh, and they probably didn't include licensing revenue.
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:-) Actually less yaml. Typically without an abstraction like Hyscale, for a micro-service you might end up having to write / maintain a couple of hundred lines of K8s yaml including things like sidecars, ingress, PVCs, config-maps, etc. whereas the same service can be described in hyscale spec using barely 20-30 lines of yaml consisting of higher-level entities/language that is intuitive to most developers. You also get simpler troubleshooting of deployment errors and worry less about having to deal with backward compatibility with each new K8s version.
Hmm, I'd also consider that it seems that the frequency, or magnitude, of these "events" is getting worse over time, because of global warming.
Cloud Foundry is doing the same thing and is even longer on the market than Kubernetes.
They started with their own container orchestration layer and switch over to Kubernetes.
see:
- https://specify.io/systems/cloudfoundry/features-and-usecase...
- https://www.cloudfoundry.org/

Its also backed by some serious enterprises:
- https://www.cloudfoundry.org/memberprofiles/
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> No downside whatsoever!

That's not entirely true if you need to support IE, in which case Babel (or whatever compiler you're using) will generate extra code for the `for...of` loop. But even then, I would still recommend using it for the reasons you mentioned.
Yes, and I believe TSMC does. Because the dose scales as resolution to the 4th power (or so), it is better to double pattern than to try to single pattern at massive dose. There are also cases where double patterning can reduce defects in self aligned schemes.
it's very hard to write well.

one of the best pieces of writing advice i ever heard:

your sentences should make sense enough to be taken out of a paragraph and put on a new line for each sentence.

if your sentences make sense on a line-by-line basis, then your writing is more understandable.
The better yields are because of EUV, that was expected long ago, wasn't it?
Thanks for the detailed reply!

> It would have to be something that can set their own taxes

In the US, at least, income taxes are levied at the state or federal level, not anything more local than that. Even sales taxes are generally limited by the state, if not set outright. I haven't lived in every state, so it's possible that there are exceptions somewhere, but generally I think such a test would have to come from elsewhere.

TL;DR: the smallest unit in the US that can set their own taxes is a state, making any test smaller than a state somewhat unhelpful.

> I'm pretty sure if you can get 10000 people that are broadly representative of the population at large and get them to fund their own UBI, collectively, and play it out, that'll be a good test in most people's eyes.

Ah, this strikes at the game theory heart of it! And yet still seems to be unworkable in the US. A representative cross-section would need to include both rich and poor, as the nation as a whole does. Either all are asked to pay additional taxes over and above their normal taxes, or the state in which they reside is asked to do with less tax income than normal, as some or all the taxes of those 10k would instead be redirected to the UBI trial. Both seem like a tough sell, either to the richest of the cross-section or to the state itself.

> unless we're talking about closed borders, which sounds anachronistic

Speaking of the US, while we're very poorly suited to doing a small-scale test, we're actually reasonably well suited for having somewhat closed borders, on account of being separated from most countries by big oceans. Movement within the US is trivial, while movement into or out of the US is very difficult. Presumably UBI would have some measure of buy-in that would exclude people who cross the border without documentation, at least initially.

It's even possible that we would end up with a situation like we have now, in which people working without real documentation pay taxes into social security, while never having the ability to draw on social security later in life.

Given the difficulty of finding a cross-section of volunteers and a willing state government, I wonder about alternatives. I think a case could be made that funding a UBI trial from normal revenue could still be instructive IF people participating in such a trial were opted out of all other benefits. That is, let's test the claim that UBI would be cost-effective in part because it would replace existing programs. Pick a cross-section of people, track how much is sent to them and how much is received from them, and make it closed system by denying them access to other support programs. We should be able to track what difference that makes for revenue and expenses, no?
To me 'TFA' means The Featured Article.

Is there an abbreviation for that which is as widely known as TFA which doesn't have a negative potential interpretation (The Fucking Article)?

'OP' refers to the user who posted, not the post itself. The word 'Post' is I guess an OK but not great alternative.
That makes no sense whatsoever. Why are you giving advice for users in a thread about developers rights?

90% of the youth market uses an iPhone and that's the same market Epic is in. Outside of youths, 50% of the US population uses an iPhone.
Yeah, most real work using tech doesn't care about platform/environment. Which is why things like Unix get so much usage.

These biotech people have such a higher appreciation for turning input into valuable output then most "computer scientists" have after 20 year careers.
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If so, I'll be jumping right on this - for me, Docker Compose (and Swarm) configs are easy to write, read and maintain. Compared to the swathes of config required for k8s, it's beautiful.
hey, I'm really sorry you feel that way but look closely, I've actually replied thoroughly to your comment with a few questions. And no, I didn't just comment now, I commented on it before you commented this. And I am really eager to getting user feedback. I even changed the description of the platform on the landing page after I read your whole comment. The previous description as I understand it might have been either misleading or not clarifying the question, a very basic question "What's DomeCode?". I genuinely want to receive some helpful feedback on how to better acquire users, how to plan out to monetize it and even how to get donors/ funding. I'm absolutely willing to take anyone who's along with me on this journey to grow the platform. Since then btw, the userbase has increased to 237 and the retention rate is doing well too. I have added several additions in terms of performance increase and ease of use to the platform.
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Tell me how that's a scientific trial of huge masses of people coming together?
They appear to have been taken down at the personal request of the intel employee. They were originally distributed by 'Retired Engineer' on twitter. See this page for some details: https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/ex-intel-employees-outs-di...
But google doesn't know I am the only one using it.
Perhaps I should learn this? ;)

Idk web assembly yet though, scanning to figure out how this could be useful for an amateur web-dev.
Yep, pretty consistent for e-ink.

Still, I think it has the best value proposition for an e-ink tablet at the moment, but I'd love to be proven wrong.
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good point - it's 1/2 of a duopoly, with google being the other part.
That assumes competent government in the U.S. which should not be taken for granted nowadays. Hong Kong fell without a peep from the U.S.
Absolutely agree. There's a ton of literature on how to get started etc but not a lot on "day 2", the "now what" experience in production. (Friend working on it: https://day2kube.com/ )
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I did something similar once with an essay I wrote in high school to see if the teacher actually read the whole thing. It turns out that he did read it and I got docked a mark for that.
This is very typical of mobile adware/malware to avoid triggering detection by the Apple App Store or Google play store.

Sometimes when looking for signs of malware the easiest thing to observe is either it’s use of Persistance or its checks for root/jailbreak rather than the malicious code itself.

I know there are many legitimate reasons for an app to obfuscate its code or to check if the device is rooted or running through a MITM proxy (such as banking apps for example) but I would think that if an app were submitted with these checks it should get flagged for further review at least.
I feel like a closer approximation of what’s going on is that there are perennial discussion topics that people want to participate in when they see an opportunity (e.g. “battery technology continues to improve, but it’s rare that we see the results trickling down to consumer electronics.”)

But just having a forum with “evergreen threads” where people talk continuously about perennial topics, doesn’t seem to work out very well, as people tend to get bored of topics when nobody’s saying anything new.

People might want to participate in them, but they won’t bother if there’s no expectation that their comment will be seen, let alone replied to. Nobody wants to post to a “stale” thread; it’s a waste of effort. And, in a vicious cycle, nobody wants to read other people’s posts on a “stale” thread either, because “thread necromancy” is almost never done by someone with something of value to contribute.

“Post a link and comment about it” sites have stumbled upon a fix for the problem of perennial discussion topics becoming "stale": by having individual threads focused on news articles relevant to these perennial topics, rallying points are created, giving people an excuse/justification to resume the larger ongoing topic of conversation within the comments of the individual news item, with the expectation that others will also be doing so.

The news itself is important to this process, as it offers a promise that fresh content (i.e. comments with a novel thought backing them) might be injected into the ongoing topic due to the news; thereby giving people a reason to check out this particular resurrection of the topic, even if they’ve read previous threads “about” it before.

But it really only has to be a promise that someone else is going to contribute novel thought to the conversation. Most people don’t want to be the source of the novel thought themselves. They want to participate on one of the existing sides of the topic, using what they already knew about the topic going in. They want to try out a “famous” debate for themselves. (And, if there's something new to know, they seemingly want to learn it by being told off by someone who has read the news, and so now knows something they don't.)

So the news article itself has about the same effect on the volume of commenting on a site like this, as public news regarding a company’s value has on the volume of trading in a market. A dose of “the real thing” certainly causes a surge—but so does the expectation of it, whether you actually end up getting the real thing or not.

And, just like speculating on a stock doesn’t require any insider knowledge, commenting under one of the “traditional” positions on such a perennial topic doesn’t require that you read the news that prompted the resurrection.

You can't have a stock market without real signal; and yet the market will always be composed mostly of traders with no access to (or desire to access) real signal. You can't have a perennial discussion without news; and yet the comments will always be composed mostly of people who have no desire to access the news.
Can you provide some sources for the numbers?
Probably drop the surveys and replace them with a sign up page. Surveys are low quality. Individual conversations will tell you more, and a sign up page requires action / intent (you can raise the bar as high as you like to increase confidence).
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As a non-native english writer, I found the article quite good.

It reminds good practices for clear communication, which I wish everyone applied in my org.

Notably around me, people excessively use passive forms.

So, you weren't interested, but it doesn't mean it interests noone.
A graph demonstrating that this claim is true would be super interesting.
Some books sold in China are edited for that market. If you highlight a passage that shouldn't be in your book, you could be in trouble.
Running lean is probably a lot better.
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Jerome Powell is without a doubt the most powerful person in the world. Elected leaders may control nuclear weapons, but Powell controls a death star - and he fires it regularly.

Even if Biden replaces Powell, the pool of acceptable replacements are all cut from the same cloth, and will continue piloting the death star until some rebel blows it up.
I'm a parcel courier and I know first hand that not many postal companies will accept or burden their staff to handle 20kg or over and the few specialist heavy package postal companies that exist both struggle and churn through employees by the day. The reason is quite clear all postal companies are using zero-hour staff on minimum pay, and if you're a job seeker you will be better off being an office cleaner for the same rate of pay than to be ordered to deliver 20kg+ packages for 11hours a day with no time off, work health care plan, and the employers right to replace you at will. It's simple economics of health and well being.
Agreed on binning, but all DRAM and all NAND are fault tolerant. Between all memory, GPU and GPU-like, and CPU....I have all but mobile, or about 70% of the market.
> you gave Amazon a lot more information when you purchased the kindle from them.

Kindles are sold in physical locations – at least in the EU, many Kindle owners got their device from a local electronics shop. You don't necessarily have to order them from Amazon. Then, when you unbox it, there is no requirement to register with Amazon or even connect to the internet at all.
I haven't seen any cheap budget tablet that even comes close to the quality of a Kindle Paperwhite for reading.
Apple might buy, but they'd have to raise phone prices, and the public would end up buying less.
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Broadly gym subscriptions aren't handled through apps. I'm assuming that there will be a tragedy of the commons, something Apple has only been moderately effective at preventing, that will reduce the quality of terms-of-service for users.

I too used to create small apps and games and share them with my friends. I still do that on a headless raspberry pi, which is a vastly superior environment than the one I had access to as a child. As the economic value of data on computers rises, I think we'll see a split between the device you use to conduct modern digital life and the device you do "old fashioned" computer stuff on. For people inclined to tinker, there will be platforms that enable that. But you won't do your banking on that platform because, as you say, idiots will side load malware. I've certainly made that split in my life (and in my classroom where we use the raspi as a teaching computer and every student has root on their own box), and it works out really well.
I see a lot of comments about not being too old to switch. I generally agree with that but just want to point out that it is different for everyone. So it's also ok to stick to what you know if you think that is best.

I'm a little younger than that and I'm already starting to struggle with constant stack switching and the much larger scope of the stacks (AWS DevSecOps using multiple services and languages). I didn't really have a choice since I was in Neoxam and FileNet. I think Angular is much more popular than those, so you should be ok for at least a couple years if you wanted to stick with it (my company uses Angular and has no plans to switch any time soon).
I agree. So far I"m still leaning towards "more freedom" part so I'm using Android...but in terms of security Apple does provide an added layer.
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