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Since the GPU starts before the CPU, you need a blob to boot the GPU before you can start open code on the CPU. There is open GPU boot firmware being worked on but it isn't ready yet and relies on GCC support for the GPU, which isn't mainlined yet and the authors don't intend to mainline. So probably RPi will need blobs to boot for the foreseeable future.

https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware
https://github.com/itszor/vc4-toolchain/issues/7
Totally agree with this. Beauty doesn't necessarily translate to easy of use and ergonomic. Specially for people who uses computer for hours, ergonomics is more important than how it feels/looks in short term.
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What makes PSYOPS appreciably different from PR? If foreign governments are going to engage in PSYOPS campaigns against US citizens then it doesn't seem unwise to permit the US IC to do the same.
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I've done 5 years, with about a year of half-office-half-home. You readjust and I think it would be really hard to fit in the commute into my day now. With covid I'm sometimes thinking it would be nice to go in for a day but that is probably just a general desire to do something outside of the safe routine.
> In 2008, miners used CPU's,

Umm. It's not that old, testnet maybe but not the public blockchain.
Strugatski brothers' Monday Begins on Saturday is aslo a difficult translation from Russian. I really love Russian literature, especially modern writers like Vladimir Sorokin, it's so different.
Well in a sense, I do "know better". There is a real benefit to setting up a VPS "fully exposed to the Internet (another thing that some struggle with); A real benefit to taking a day to investigate each day's lesson; A real benefit to getting into the habit of ssh-ing daily.

But hey, having run this for a long while, I'm well aware people are coming from all sorts of backgrounds, having all sorts of crazy things going on in their lives etc - so however they do it is fine by me.

So, those that simply read it through - OK. Those that run it in a VM on their laptop - OK.

Peace,
It's churlish, but I'd honestly rather the rent money spent on commercial office space went to me, and that the space itself was redeveloped into nicer, more spacious homes for the young people without offices.
Looking at the replies here, I wonder if this was application of that meme where to get the right answer, you need to say the wrong one convincingly to get others to tell you how wrong you are.
I try to avoid that term, but this is almost the definition of a fanboy: Actively ignores obvious shortcomings of a product and argues it should be loved for a non-functional detail (its marvellous look).
(I'm a Developer Advocate for LaunchDarkly.)

There's a huge amount of value in being able to flip a flag value and have the app react without a restart. The most basic scenario: being able to separate deploy from release. Deploy code with each major code change turned off; ensure the deploy's gone well, then turn the changes on one at a time (or whenever the feature is meant to go live). Not only does it make problem diagnosis much easier, but it means you don't need to rollback if one of them is buggy - just turn it off again.

But these are only feature flags in the simplest sense. Modern feature flag systems also allow targeting rules, which allow the flag to evaluate differently based on contextual attributes (e.g. something about the user). They also stream these rules to a simple local rule engine within the code so that evaluation isn't blocked on I/O. Then there's access control, experiments, multivariate flags...
Why everyone keeps glossing over the sequel, Magic Carpet 2? It's not the most innovative game ever, but it's very solid, and adds a lot of content in the form of monsters, spells, and spell upgrades via experience.

The single player "campaign" has a couple of very tedious cavern and maze levels though.
Added to this, their economy has boomed due to not having to invest in future generations. At some point of course these chickens will come home to roost when the current population hump gets to an age where they retire, but for a good 20 years it can be a massive economic boon.
> at the time, sha-1 was more popular

but also had known limitations; the 'writing was on the wall' at the time that it would be obsolete 'soon' by most people reasonably up to date on the current state of the art - I wouldn't take this as too much of a 'sign' on its own.
Beautiful to look at, awful to use - the polar opposite of Microsoft's Intellimouse Classic.
I spend my commute on a train for an hour. No more.
15 is the minimum... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ChQK8j6so8
Why are we still using passwords anyway?

I want to log in everywhere with my iPhone. My iPhone has my FaceID stored locally, so in order to log in somewhere with my account someone has to be in possession of my iPhone first. That's the 1st factor.

Secondly they have to be me, or at least somehow fake my face so that my iPhone can match my FaceID. That's the second factor.

That is already a super convenient two factor authentication scheme. Why can't websites not send a request which invokes my iPhones two factor auth model to log in?

Passwords AND password managers should be made redundant.
rpi is one of the most closed SBCs there is. Even basic materials necessary to write OSes and drivers for the device, namely datasheets and register manuals for the SoC have never been published. Unlike every other SBC I'm aware of they don't even publish full schematics. The "schematics" on their website are abridged (try and find the USB ports on them).

Arguments that Broadcom is forcing their hand on this simply don't add up. It's not Broadcom that's stopping them from publishing even basic schematics of the board; that was their decision. Sure, they'd never be able to open the chip itself, but nobody is particularly asking them to (it's not like people have fabs in their garages).

Moreover it's pretty clear at this point that Broadcom is making SoCs custom-order for rpi at this point; see their original announcement on the rpi4, which makes it quite clear they were involved in the design process. Based on what I know about Broadcom's MO, it's simply not plausible that with that amount of money on the table, release of datasheets and register manuals couldn't be negotiated; it seems clear it's not a priority for rpi.org.

And as mentioned, rpi boards include vendor-lockin DRM in their binary blob boot firmware designed to prevent people from using third-party camera boards.

Not only is this unacceptable in itself, it also means rpi is actively depending on this boot firmware remaining closed, else people could easily remove this antifeature. People have been hoping for years that the firmware blobs required to boot the boards will eventually be opened, and pointed to some vague noises in this direction which were made by rpi.org years ago, but the fact that they're now relying on the fact of it being closed to enforce DRM causes me to find this increasingly unlikely.
Remote wasn't that rare in Seattle at least even before covid.
Hi, I'm a Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly: https://launchdarkly.com/

Obviously I'd like you to use our service, but I'd rather that you find the one that best suits your business needs. There are plenty of good open source feature management systems out there. Just - whatever you do - don't fool yourself into building your own. Your time's worth more than that.

If you want a deeper argument, I wrote it up here, along with some examples of good open source systems: https://launchdarkly.com/blog/feature-management-platform-bu...
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Name one, please.

EDIT to add: with a link or screenshot.
DKIM works well for what it does. Assuming that what the author describes as “revocable authorization” is a desirable feature (I don’t really get why a user wouldn’t just filter them with a block list or white list approach, but whatever) - how is this possible without a centralised provider?

If it’s only possible with a centralised entity like Twitter, it’s not going to scale to last centuries like email will.
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Minigun was the default weapon from somewhere around mid game.

Some levels had enemy snipers. The last level had gauss gun enemies. That's it as far as level variety goes in that game.
I can't change my face. I can change all my passwords, though. Also, I don't own an iPhone.
Of course a certified accountable login screen engineer with a personal defense lawyer and a group of analysts, who make you a form:

Please login
Username: __________
Password: __________

for $5.7M a year is always unpopular in business circles, for obvious reasons.
10 years?? Is the pen refillable or just never used? Having a pressurized pen seems cool, but somewhat short shelf life, no?
> The only way that the dollar can and will be dethroned is if some other currency becomes widely used in commerce.

Ultimately, it boils down to: 'do the people want a deflationary or inflationary currency?' Stability is subjective but purchasing power isn't. What's a fair function of money for society? Not a clue.
And when you've got a respiratory infection, wear a mask.
Apple, great products, terrible mice. Particularly this one. And the hockey puck one. And the Magic Mouse. Surely there was a good one at some point (maybe the ADB mouse?) but, I've been using third-party mice for too long now...
Sometimes, the multi-touch swipe functionality can be quite annoying due to the sensitivity of the mouse. For example, I could be trying to swipe left to exit a webpage but instead it is controlling a slider somewhere on the page. When I am editing text, I can't save the document because the swipe gesture on the mouse is unintentionally controlling another active window. I can somewhat live with this, but its annoying.

As for Apple's standard keyboards for Desktop Mac or PCs, I hope you have a lamp somewhere as they still don't have any keyboard backlight functionality. Even some third-party USB-C wireless mechanical keyboards have this and are much cheaper than Apple's keyboards.

Given Apple's typical expensive pricing with their keyboards, and the lack of a keyboard backlight, you might as well say you're left in the dark.
Not really, many people still have to go to work, even with childcare closed. WFH is a privilige, not burden.
As someone who is again at a company doing SAFe, I am genuinely curious as to the relevance of story points.

For estimation, hours is a good measure, even more so when there are external consultants that get paid by the hour.

Developer velocity can be measured by tasks/features completed compared to the estimate.

Could you elaborate on why story points are useful or perhaps point to some resources on the topic ?
Jeez where’s that, a city in England?
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The site is down for whatever reason, but daily return data isn't really highly correlated. The auto-correlation and partial auto-correlations are close to zero regardless of the lag you use. Monthly data shows slight acf and pacf for the previous period for most equities.

Moreover, if you are just looking at the direction of daily movements (up or down), the series of moves fits a geometric distribution very well, with a slight bias in the up probability than the down one.

But regardless, the fix you're suggesting is correct. You can't just take random days out of order.

Even though daily returns show low acf/pacf, stocks show trends in the magnitude of their returns, but not necessarily their direction. For example, a given stock could be popping off with strong upward momentum, and still be down half the days. It's just that the returns are greater on the upside than downside.

You see this kind of incorrect thinking a lot with people who don't work in quant finance: they try and predict the direction and sometimes magnitude of returns.

In real life, no one actually does this, as it is practically impossible. Instead, you try and construct a portfolio in which you are exposed to some factor in which you think is correlated to out-performance.

I personally think believe that forecasting direction and magnitude to be literally impossible with ML methods in daily data. I (and everyone else) has come to this conclusion after many failed attempts with every ML/AI tool in existence.

Fortunately, it turns out you don't really need to forecast returns to deliver alpha and superior risk-adjusted returns. It's just the most obvious thing to do for people new to finance, but experienced with ML.
I think they are trying to envision every possible scenario. For example, and unknown singer could upload an original song to Facebook, sell the rights to the song, become famous, and have a billion views on Facebook. The owners of the song could then be owed performance royalties from Facebook, according to the current laws that apply to internet streaming.
> Why is paying the CEO more a better use of money to paying an employee more?

I think the problem here is the one who decides who gets more is the CEO.

They tend to believe the employee will keep working for the same amount until they leave.
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They'll have hard time doing so as their time has passed. They should evolve or they will be obsoleted like dinosaurs.
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The JS code is under 500 lines so this is at least simple and auditable.

I didn't see anything about encryption based on a cursory read. Does WebRTC have some built in or is this unencrypted?
>I think it's either Hal Finney or Dave Kleiman.

You must be a new bitcoin user. Before Craig Wright came into the scene, has anyone heard of Kleiman? Legit question. What evidence is there of Dave? Dave wasn't even around then, zero evidence exists outside of CSW's claims.
I meant I don't know what specifically they meant by "consistency guarantee". Does that mean a double spend? Or a 51% attack? The Nano main net has been running since 2015 without any double spend incidents or a 51% attack.
Really interesting website, thanks for linking that.
When I was using the Magic Mouse regularly I bought a rechargeable battery replacement that charged via induction on a little pad that plugged into the computer via USB for power. It worked great. (That said I’m using a Corsair Scimitar now and running Linux on my Apple hardware.)
You can't avoid that if you want to punch through NAT like all of us have to do.

Or can you?
> Regardless of what you may think of the Apple Pro Mouse, I believe that there’s something admirable about its stubbornness.

This reminds me of Porsche 911 engine placement.

Famously the 911 engine is at the back of the car which is about the worst location for it, except that Porsche are good at engineering and have persisted in making that location work very well for them.

The no button mouse might not be great on its own but it leads to the no button track pad, which I’d argue is.
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I build my partner a PC in the Node 304(not 804). I made a mistake on the number, sorry. The 304 can only fit 6 3.5" HDD's.

I recommenced it if you only require 6 HDD's, and I don't put ITX into ATX cases haha. I've always had fun building ITX systems.
I see it as a long-term project. For now it's mostly me and a few other nerdy friends, and otherwise it's mostly like a "new IRC".

Maybe in a year or so it'll be mature to bring people over.
I agree the ideal solution is to fix the UI but sometimes there are limitations. Like in this case.
> Segwit has been implemented

Segwit adoption plateaued around 60% and has been steadily decreasing ever since. It's a piss poor substitute for real scaling by increasing the block size like Satoshi had intended. Even if it had been a good idea, the core devs butchered the implementation.

> The lightning network is growing.

Not even close. The lightning network is the ultimate vaporware. It was promised as the solution to Bitcoin's scaling problems NINE YEARS AGO ( https://twitter.com/starkness/status/676599570898419712 ) and is to this day considered unsafe and "experimental". It failed to deliver on just about every promise it made. Even the core devs have abandoned it for Liquid.

> No mention of sidechains like Liquid

Finally, we get to see the reason that a handful of Bitcoin core devs have been holding Bitcoin hostage for ten years. Liquid is a centralized Bitcoin sidechain that allows exchanges to pay extra in order to clear their transactions faster than would otherwise be possible on Bitcoin's now neutered base layer. Liquid was recently criticized for being fundamentally insecure after this embarrassment ( https://www.coindesk.com/blockstreams-liquid-network-sent-8m... )

> No mention of Taproot.

Wake me when it's merged. The sad truth is, ever since some of the core devs formed Blockstream and hijacked BTC, they have added almost no new features on the protocol level. The only one they were willing to work on is Segwit and only because it solidified their power over BTC. They have no incentive to make BTC better. If BTC worked well, nobody would want to buy Liquid.
iOS 14 is announced to include a platform authenticator for WebAuthn that does exactly this. Pixel family and similar Android phones already do this.
One thing that always annoys me when I read a Troy Hunt blog post or when he tweets something is how stubborn and unable to admit that someone else said something clever or that he did something wrong.

The comments of this blog post have some really really good suggestions how someone can much easier explain a hash that even children would understand:

> A hash is like a fingerprint of your password. Your fingerprint tells me very little about you. You might be a man or a woman, tall or short, young or old. But if you show up, I can tell that you still have the same fingerprint. Likewise a hash doesn't tell me your password, but if my computer keeps guessing them, it can know when it is right. And my computer guesses really, really fast.

Troy completely dismisses this because it's not 100% scientifically correct in the analogy. IMHO it's good enough for the layman to understand though which is the point of his blog post no?

It strikes me that he's unable to admit that someone might have done something slightly better than him, or just give credit where credit due.

Reminds me of so many other blog posts where this happened as well and his infamous claim that HTTPS is faster than HTTP and when people call him up on it he argued that HTTP2 is faster than HTTP1 and going in circles...

Arrogance annoys me so much that I actually dislike reading his posts...
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Interesting that Asian countries, as a rule, learned from SARS lessons that we didn't. With a little luck, we will learn from this cluster….
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I would rather say it's the opposite of a vertical mouse, which is a total eyesore, but as an ageing developer I can assure you that it is ergonomically far superior to all standard (horizontal) mouse.
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As little kids we used to play Theme Park with a friend of mine. After we got bored with the game we used to create parks called sth like "Filthy sh*tter" and try to make them the most hideous places ever. No cleaning service, garbage lying all around, kids throwing up on the pathways and so on. For some reason this felt as rewarding as building a fully functional park...
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> Bitcoin cannot fulfill its original promise to be electronic cash.

Not as long as the Bitcoin core developers are actively sabotaging BTC's development so Blockstream can sell you the solution. Bitcoin was hijacked and it may never recover.
But it is clearly not happening - is it?

China is the only major economy that is projected to grow this year. And Corona-virus crisis is under control there whereas in eg. India it is still escalating.
Sure, you can turn up your nose at this "trick", shrug with resignation, and tell yourself "Well, nothing we can do about it!"

Or you can get off your high horse, try something new, and see whether it solves this problem.
Syndicate was their best game - thanks Sean Cooper
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Nicely explains why conspiracy theory nuts are on the rise.

"What if the trauma of living through real conspiracies all around us [...] is making people vulnerable to conspiracy theories?"

https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capit...
You can still use all of those things, so what have you lost?
"The music was new, black polished chrome
/ And came over the summer like liquid night
/ The DJ's took pills to stay awake
/ And play for seven day"

Jim Morrison.

I always thought that song was prescient, considering the the "waves" of rock and roll in the following decades. Ideas emerged, often from the underground. Some were true, and they upended old, stale ideas that had descended into hack mimicry packaged and sold to the unwashed masses.

Novelty is a quality and it only lasts so long. Johnny Rotten's antics would be trite cliches by the 1980s, just as he himself had been disgusted by the trite homages to Jim Morrison of the last 70s. Authenticity, originality and rebellion don't generally follow clearly signposted roads.

Movements have cycles. In retrospect, Mike Oldfield didn't really suck... but Johnny was right at the time.
Good design is the elegant marriage of form and function.

This mouse has a nice form.
Agree, data labeling app in Django will be interesting. It will require a front-end with a lot of features to make it usable.
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Probably be easier for usa to do that if they didn't keep starting random trade wars with other democracies.
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"Like minded" probably means either "white" or "vassal" states of USA. USA had a great opportunity to play a constructive role in Latin American and use their vast manpower for its benefit while benefiting those countries as well. Mexico, Brazil could have done what China did. However USA constantly tried to destabilize its neighbors and focused on playing petty games instead of constructive allies.
The article is wrong. From the book itself: "The older group, ranging in age between sixty and eighty, were off by forty seconds. Not far off, but if we were to extend the counting for, say, one hour, it would amount to more than thirteen minutes."

That's 30min + 13min.....they are counting slower....not finishing the task faster...
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