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> iPad Pro 2020

against that? no thats about $1100, pencil, folio and ipad. The remarkable is a bargain compared to that. Granted the iPad can do a lot more.

Where it struggles is against an ipad air/mini and apple pencil. Its roughly the same price point, but the ipad does a lot more. Goodnotes is a very capable journalling tool. On the plus side you get the full iOS universe of apps and media.

On the downside the battery life is nowhere near as good, and the screen isn't optimised for text like the remarkable is.

I have no idea about the galaxy tab. I'm weary of android tablets as they are a mixed bag. Some are awesome, some are brilliant for the price, and some are just trash.
Stripe is cheaper than CCBill, so it makes sense to send more that way when you can.
Really good points, I especially agree about RDS.

I've been in companies that used managed service and running database on premises. As long as you used some kind of configuration management software and deployed tools like barman and repmgr, there wasn't any operational work. Only exception was a hardware failure, but that doesn't happen often and when it happens you spin a new machine and invoke few commands (these tools mentioned make it really easy) and are back in business. You also have more control over how replication and failover is set up (so it's tuned to your use case) or have ability to use all available postgres extensions. The only "good" thing about RDS is that management can't pressure you to do some things. For example you can say there must be a downtime to upgrade the database and there's not much that can be done about it.

You might run into performance issues, where you might need a DBA, but RDS doesn't solve this, that part is still exactly the same, and RDS gives you less control.

BTW: I also noticed that AWS really makes things so RDS service feels less attractive. For example if you want to create a serverless postgresql, I don't think you can do it from UI. I was only able to do it from cloudformation, the only version available is 10.7. If you allow instance to be put to sleep it requires 30 minutes to spin up, and AWS Gateway has 29s (yes 29s) maximum timeout, that can't be increased.

I think AWS wants to discourage use of postgres, and encourages everyone to use DynamoDB (which doesn't have 1:1 equivalent outside of AWS). I'm wondering if it's due to introduction of logical replication in version 10. The biggest asset of most businesses is the data, and not being able to get it out without a lengthy downtime might be the reason to keep businesses from moving.
Lots of discussion about degrees as signaling and such around. I didn't realize this was where we ere going.

If you walk out of a university only knowing how to code, you've wasted an opportunity. (and a lot of somebody's money)
I don't believe that is accurate. Homogeneous societies afford their citizens that opportunity, e.g. Japanese.
Hello, I'm a correspondent in the bay area for AFP which is a global news agency(https://www.afp.com/en/news-hub) and I'm looking for to talk with people who are moving out from San Francisco because of the pandemic/remote work now accessible.
Please, let me know if you are interested or know someone who may be. Thanks, Virginie Goubier
Not shipped in India :-(
It sounds pretty basic from what other commenters are saying, but you can install koreader, which is outstanding (and also supports PDF, DjVu, XPS, CBZ, FB2, PDB, TXT, HTML, RTF, CHM, EPUB, DOC, MOBI):

https://github.com/koreader/koreader
3nm by 2022. Is anyone in the US even considering a 3nm fab?
I believe you can achieve something similar with cheap tracker from xiaomi (like mi band) connected via "Notify and Fitness for Mi Band" (I use paid PRO version) or Gadgetbridge [0] (I didn't use it).

Gadgetbridge looks better in terms of privacy, but for some reason I'd chosen Notify and Fitness for my mi band 4 and some xiaomi body scales. Probably because it had more features than gadgetbridge.

[0]: https://gadgetbridge.org/
Yes! Check out our research on this topic: https://www.inkandswitch.com/end-user-programming.html -- although a simple API and Shortcuts hooks would be a good starting place.
I fell victim to this while implementing my personal website. An easy fix to be sure, and one that I think is worth it for the hidden scroll bars (which I prefer), but kind of annoying.
I recently setup a personal website. My intent was to migrate a few old blog posts from WordPress and, more importantly, make my notes public. After trying a bunch of note-taking apps, I realized that most of my private notes didn't contain any private information, so I thought why not just make them public as-is.

My setup is (almost) free, mostly built on open components (so, no vendor lock in) and pretty low-latency. See if you'd like some inspiration on how to setup something similar for yourself: https://ketanvijayvargiya.com/posts/58-setup-blog-and-email-...
Check my reply to the sibbling here but I think we'd have to pin down exactly what you are that's reborn.
This is a discussion forum. Users will exaggerate and get facts wrong. Some ammount of lenience is expected before completely silencing their voice.

With that said, where can one read about who is in Mozilla's Rust team? Is that information even public?
> In our lifetimes, economists largely balked at the idea that the housing market could collapse, and then boom, 2008 happens.

I don't buy that without citations. Everyone knows housing markets are like most other markets and go both up and down in cycles. Like most other markets, the bigger the boom, the bigger the bust that follows.

To say that a majority of economists believed otherwise seems like pure hyperbole to me.
> Is there a tool that makes it easy to buy Kindle books and strip them of their DRM

Yes, the most common one is Calibre, which is also great for converting formats and bulk operations. There is a "DeDRM Plugin" for it on GitHub that does what you're asking.

> Is the ReMarkable capable of running an open source OS behind the hood?

Yes, and there has been some success with this including Parabola-rM. However, there seems to be no open driver for the radio chipset (so no WiFi!).
Well, they really don't have much onus of evidence this time, but...

How often do governments follow economists predictions? Govs mostly react to things after they happen, much more so in monetary matters. When they do follow predictions, it's some stupid, politically based one, not an economics consensus.

Besides, we trust that guy on your scenario because he has a verifiable model of how accidents happen. For some reason, the people that make macroeconomics theories really dislike verifiable stuff, with very few exceptions.
> Is the market worth more now in Yen, Indian Rupees etc? Or are people just willing to part with more USD (that asset specifically) for the underlying asset (the stock)?

Those are...pretty easy questions to answer. The dollar is down about 10% since its March high compared to a basket of other major currencies: https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy
The piece that people are missing is the concept of SNR, or signal-to-noise ratio. These streaks are noise, which raises your noise floor and thus raises your detection threshold. Think of the way your eyes adjust to bright light - you can no longer see dim things around it even if they aren't obscured.
Depends on the implementation, with Stripe you can embed their widgets directly on your website to save some development time, but you can also implement in the backend. Even though you would implement it in the backend, there is usually some details leaking (on purpose obviously) to the frontend, like identifiers (Stripes IDs are usually pretty easy to spot) or even the structure of the data can tell you which provider.
It's too hard to fully explain how wrong this is, so just leaving the comment in case someone else reads it and thinks it might be right.

The investors are engineers. Full stop. They write code. The code makes trades. Everything else is noise to support the engineers writing code to make trades.
Adam Neumann thinks this article is nonsense.
A lot of companies won't ship to known freight forwarders because it triggers fraud measures (because freight forwarders are often used for cc fraud schemes).
Just downloaded this, looking forward to fitting it into my workflow!

It's a bit of a bummer that it only really supports landscape mode, though — I strongly prefer portrait mode when working on the iPad. What was the design decision to only (primarily) support one mode?
You're dismissing the very valid geographic argument completely by being snobby.
> Around here (US), some people still even refuse to wear masks.

A number of European countries do not mandate masks at all, or the mandate is de facto only enforced in the largest cities and not in smaller towns. In many places where masks are a mere recommendation, only some people wear them and other people don’t. Observance of the "safety distance" in queues can be very lax indeed, and among the supermarket aisles people move around each other as closely as they ever have.

I am always amazed at people from the USA speaking of Europe as if everyone on this continent is deeply committed to what these Americans consider the proper public-health etiquette, but that just isn’t the case.
This is a bit like when they cancelled the Rotherhithe walking & cycling bridge because it was allegedly going to cost 400 million. Powerful establishment lobbying groups ensure that government estimates for green projects make them seem unaffordable.
In what way? I find the lag on the iPad to be annoying enough that I've never bothered with it. I've never found any of the E-Ink devices to come close enough to paper to make me consider giving up paper notebooks - Though it's been about 3 years since I last checked them out.
>I went there personally. It was a defensive protest area with blockades against cars that had been running into protesters and aggressive cops.

This same group of people was throwing rocks, hitting people with sticks, permanently blinding people with powerful lasers, and other acts of violence. Whether you agree with it or not, they were violent occupiers of several city blocks, not just a park. And they were definitely armed. They even created their own "peacekeeping" force which walked around with AR-15s.

>I think it's callous and dismissive to speculate that protests about yet another unarmed black man being murdered by cops is about the pandemic.

George Floyd died of an overdose of fentanyl. He was complaining about not being able to breathe before he was lying on the ground. While he was still up, he begged the police to lay him down on the ground, which they did. It appears you are the victim of race baiting. It's a shame, because the police involved in this are almost certainly going to be found not guilty, but because this story has been ginned up so much it will result in even more violent riots in the streets.
> free markets

> externalities are untaxed.

??

Free markets are utterly and demonstrably unable to solve climate change.
Kinda tired of the proliferation of languages coming out of Google, whether they actually created them or not.

If Go is so great, why was Kotlin released four years later and made the standard on Android? It's annoying enough to have to use Swift and Kotlin for iOS/Mac vs. Android. Now Go? What happened to Dart?

Then there's Rust. What about next week?
It’s well known that TSMC is the only company at that stage. Nobody else in the world, let alone America, is close to 3nm.
their predictions are a joke and a 5 year old can extrapolate better if given the charts
What an utterly stunning bit of marketing. Some true talent in site building, set dressing, photography, and copy. Sheer quality. I’m heartened by it.
Well nothing stops you from doing that yourself.
Find a local small business CPA to handle your taxes and to review your books etc. It is not that expensive and is so worth it in the end. For a small business starting out you don't need some huge firm with 100's of employees or that is super sophisticated, just find a few good local CPAs that work with small businesses and interview them to find one you mesh with. Sometimes getting the first full non-audit review (and definitely a full audit) can be a little expensive if you've never had it done and have a few years of history, but it doesn't have to be if you do it early enough. They can also review your state nexus as well to make sure you are compliant in every state etc. Usually they can point out common issues in corporate governance as well which is helpful. Of course, if you do good you will out grow them but that is ok, at least you won't have broke the bank to start.

Outside of that (and depending on your current success & needs), there are CFO consulting services that do this work and much more. Of course, most of them work in small teams and are more strategic to support businesses that are say 20-30+ employees.
Thanks for checking it out! Trevor Wishart & CDP have been inspirations, I've incorporated some of his ideas surrounding waveset synthesis & transformations into pippi.

Primarily, pippi is the environment I use to compose my own music, and its features and approaches are driven mostly by my own compositional needs & wants. I work often from a "microsound" approach so pippi does have more of a focus on manipulating concrete sound than maybe other systems do.

Do the oscs sound good? I think they sound fine, but I haven't worked with any of the products you mentioned. Commercial synths & DSP I think tends to be focused on providing instruments via opinionated complexes of osc, filters, presets etc as you mentioned. General purpose systems like ChucK etc tend more toward facilitating the user in building their own opinionated instruments, so the path from oscs, filters to a sound you like might take more doing, and some more background in synthesis to arrive at.

That's not to say some opinionated complexes haven't made their way into pippi... but my goal is to allow myself to build instruments in a flexible way just as much as being able to have an expressive way to orchestrate their movements. I sometimes keep a small personal library of instruments I return to with pippi, but it never tends to last very long. I have a hard time fully disentangling the instrument building side of things from the compositional side of things in my own work.

That said, I want pippi to be fun, and useful for others, so including some more preset-like instruments along with the lower level building blocks is definitely in scope for the project!

Edit: FWIW the osc I use personally most often is `Pulsar2d` which is an opinionated implementation of Curtis Roads' pulsar synthesis, where both the wavetable and window stacks can be morphed over time. I often feed this with a stack derived via `wavesets.Waveset()` -- which will split a sound at zero crossings into wavesets, optionally at some interval, offset or some limit, so you can for example tap single cycles of some transforming sound over time, and reconstruct the movement of the spectrum of it in some way by morphing the stack as you like with the `Pulsar2d`...

The next set of tutorials is overdue and will cover synthesis (microsound and otherwise) in more detail!
Wiring together the work done in the Calibre project.

http://www.geoffstratton.com/remove-drm-amazon-kindle-books

Start by downloading the owned book from Amazon, targeting one of the compatible devices. I have a bunch of old kindles still registered under my account that I use for this, for which I have the serial #. Then just follow instructions.

All the steps described as using the UI can be done with some digging from the command line.

Shipping a PDF up to the remarkable cloud also takes little digging and wiring, but it works totally reliably.
I've been using The Lounge for quite some time as my IRC client. I run it in a Docker container. Its run really smoothly with no issues. I've been very happy with it.
Just bought a boox note 10 inch , same screen but android 9. Very nice device. You can even watch video on it with some ghosting.
I don't think the term "economists" refers to an easily generalizable group. In my experience there is more world-view variation among economists than one might expect looking at the differences between bayesians vs. frequentists, etc. Some economists don't embrace modeling as a means of arriving at policy recommendations at all, for instance. Others do of course, but influence doesn't seem as tied to quantitative assessments as other fields.
Doubtful many users of TT would notice or know enough about Oracle etc to care.
This isn't correct. Shaking the window again will restore the minimised windows, whether it's from the original mouse-down or a future mouse-down.

But I agree that it's a bad feature, and IMO it's a rare miss from the Windows UI team who if nothing else have developed excellent window management.
The iPad Pro is not an e-Ink device, however since the OP was speaking of it being better than anything else out there _including other eink devices_, I wanted to confirm that "anything else" refers to devices like the current generation of iPad Pro.
If we get rid of all of the lockdowns, and force people to act as if everything is normal (they won't) how will we handle the millions of people dying?
Yeah, I've looked into it a few times. Have to manage priorities. Would've been helpful to have some cooperation with upstream if you guys were into it.
The good news is that this case study means you were probably right to bring it up as a worthwhile consideration, and you will have these case studies to point to next time.
Iranian CS student arrested accused of opposition [Swedish]
I posted this because I think it's an interesting conversation. I do not agree at all with the "$500,000 bull case for Bitcoin".

There are IMHO some flaws in this analysis, that I encounter regularly.

1) USD, Gold, etc, are no longer going to be a good option as currency or store of value.

> Together, these assets represent $1.6 trillion dollars printed out of thin air.

Bitcoin, Ethereum, all crypto is ALSO printed out of thin air. That's not what makes them NOT interesting.

2) > Money is a technology. It was first invented thousands of years ago to solve for the limitations of barter;

So, explain to me why we need a speculative asset like Bitcoin, instead of simply a "digital" dollar, or "digital" euro, and so on.

3) > Bitcoin is the world’s first Internet-native money

No, Bitcoin is a decentralized form of currency; in fact, you could transact on Bitcoin even offline [0].

[0]: https://hackernoon.com/completely-offline-bitcoin-transactio...
They don't need a whole nuclear power station built around them though.
I recall that Let's Encrypt was somewhat untrivial to setup (but this may have changed?). And I liked the idea of just pushing a container/recipy with metadata and let the server handle the rest.

I should add that when I found out about Dokku and CapRover I was already using Traefik+Docker, so I was also simply biased for Traefik (Traefik is awesome).
"This (watch|car|toupee|smartphone|encrypted USB key drive) will totally make you more attractive to potential relationship partners!"
Did the whole country vote for FEMA to subsidize relief for terrorism prone targets?
If only there were some way other than GPS to distinguish between Portland, OR and Portland, ME...
Economists are a priest class that enables the ruling class to make stupid and short sighted decisions.
Same setup, 0 complaints!
It's funny how your comment immediately makes me want to buy it, because the description on the site with all these silly photos and such for some reason got me thinking like "looks kinda nice, but since it's obviously something very Apple-like, it will be as restrictive as it gets, I won't be able to use it without some obligatory shitty web-account and I probably even won't be able to read *.cbz comics on it, so... nah, no way I'm paying €400 for it, and it's not really worth to spend more time looking into it".

Now I'm not sure what effect this site has on the average customer, and if making it more selling for me would make it less selling for them, but they actually lost me, and after reading your comment I'm seriously likely to pre-order. And it's not about your positive evaluation, of course. So I've got a feeling all these marketing people do advertising wrong somehow.
But it is a rule and as such should be respected whether we agree with it or not, for the same reasons we don't ignore the other rules in that list. You can email dang and try to convince him to change it, he's an extremely reasonable person.
As a counter argument it seems to me that if you are an expert in a field you can generally predict disasters and be wrong and people tend to not care so much, but if you predict a more positive outcome and you are wrong people will never forget. I think this kind of societal reaction pushes experts to being more willing to give severely negative predictions.
Lockdowns and Mask Mandates Do Not Lead to Reduced Covid or Deaths, New Study
I wonder if it would be possible to port the OS interfaces for the bbc computers to RPi directly... putting the keyboard inputs into a modern USB controller interface and just run the whole thing off of an RPi or similar.

TBH about the only hardware I really miss are the better CRT options compared to how limited modern displays are or how much processing power it takes for a level of detail that looks close to as good. A lot of older games look better on a CRT than the same games scaled to 1080p or higher.
You can see more very exciting case studies of companies using Go here, didn't know until now Twitch or Facebook (and even Target!) uses Go a lot.

https://go.dev/solutions/#case-studies
Also, economies aren't easy to control: We can't even get people to wear masks even though the economic impact of not doing so is obvious and relatively straight-forward to calculate.

An economist could come from the year 2100 with 500TB of economic data and news for the past 100 years, and there's a 0% chance that the public would ever heed their warnings.
I do think age can play a role, or rather experience. As you live through more UI churn the less your willing to invest time into each new UI generation or fad.

If an application isn't either essential to me or incredibly obvious to use, I am unlikely to learn it's fancy new UI. Why bother?

This extends to APIs and DSLs too since there are often so short lived.
I do about 4-6 hours of research every week, mostly while working on my newsletter: https://weeklyrobotics.com/

In case of the occlusion - with rtk gps setup you know how good is the quality of your signal and then you can adjust some of your parameters to trust gps less when doing sensor fusion.
iOS doesn't do upgrade pricing very well, unfortunately.
I use 'briss' to trim PDF margins from a laptop, then send to a Kobo Forma (8-inch 4x3 screen) and read using the open source 'koreader', which also works with Remarkable. I was reading on an iPad mini before (same exact screen size), but that's collecting dust now. I expect with the Remarkable's 10.3-inch display you wouldn't even need to trim margins.
> Examples of regions that have peacefully seceded from a nation abound. Norway from Sweden, Greenland and Iceland from Denmark, multiple states from the former Soviet Union.

Czechia and Slovakia in 1993.
Have you tried the current generation of iPad Pro? They claim a 9ms lag, and coupled with their technology for up-rezzing refresh rate and touch sensitivity when using the Pencil, it's quite a substantial improvement in experience.

That being said, the iPad Pro is clearly a high-end general-purpose device, with a price to match. The device that fits our pocketbook is always superior to the device that is amazing, but remains in a box in the manufacturer's shop because we can't justify the price.