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Support is an enormous time drain and one-on-one support, be it over email or Twitter, is worse yet.

You should really consider doing everything possible to move support from 1-to-1 interactions to 1-to-many. A couple of simple things will go a long way - open up a forum and add an FAQ page.

Right now you don't have a place on the website where users with issues can go. If someone runs into a problem, they will be looking for the problem description, not documentation. The only option is to either send an email, which is slow, or to use Twitter, since you appear to be responsive there. It's literally the least effective setup as far as managing the support load goes.

Once you have a self-serve support options set up, you can funnel all support queries to the FAQ page first and to the official forum second. Redirect all Twitter and Reddit queries to the forum and answer them there. Do not engage in any support conversations on Twitter and Reddit at all. Chit-chat is OK, but no support talk. Keep an eye on what's the actual FAQs are and populate the FAQ based on that. In a matter of weeks you should see the time spent on support go down dramatically.

You'll get through this. Arq still got the momentum and the vast majority of Arq users are loyal. They still wish Arq well. I know I do.
He he he.

I'm much closer to 60 than to 50, and I played with my first "personal computer" (original Apple ][) in the late 1970s. I have over 40 years of experience with personal computers, servers, and embedded. I've been through bubbles, I've seen the pendulum swing from centralization to distributed several times. I've seen industry behemoths rise and fall.

I work hard to maintain a grizzled appearance, and I am an industry veteran. I have encountered ageism (and sexism, and racism) in the industry: it's like mould in blue cheese. It all comes down to the biggest problem in the industry, and probably outside the industry: arrogance.
This doesn't seem like it should be true, even if they claim it.

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In 2019, the European Union adopted the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. Article 14 of the directive states that reproductions of works of visual art that are in the public domain cannot be subject to copyright or related rights, unless the reproduction is an original creative work
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and on the digitisation of those:

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UK Intellectual Property Office confirmed that digital reproductions of public domain images are not protected by copyright, arguing that "according to the Court of Justice of the European Union which has effect in UK law, copyright can only subsist in subject matter that is original in the sense that it is the author's own "intellectual creation". Given this criterion, it seems unlikely that what is merely a retouched, digitised image of an older work can be considered as "original"."
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Presumably works from the early 19th C are out of copyright?

That said, I am all for supporting the BM- it is an amazing institution..
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Gotta capture the floppy drive sound too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7aogLweOac
Preindustrial peoples generally worked less than we do, and life expectancy after childhood was not markedly different; if you survived early childhood, unless you were born in a particularly bad time (like the Black Plague), you could expect to live into your 60s or 70s.

Pre-civilization peoples (if by civilization we mean agriculture and settlements) seem to have worked even less.
Compare https://epochtimes.today/12-singapore-michelin-star-hawker-s...

Ie we have Michelin starred street food stalls in Singapore.

Very affordable, like Into the Breach, but also limited choice. Many of them don't serve any drinks at all. You get drinks at a different stall.
> You probably shouldn't leave a sensitive device unattended anyway

I find this area fascinating in terms of how you protect devices that are both sensitive, and need to be left unattended in someone else's possession. One of the best explorations I've seen of this is Big Clive's tear down of a smart meter. The thing is absolutely full of anti-tampering measures, including several switches that will cut off the power supply if the casing is removed, but most interestingly to me the cellular modem being connected to a big capacitor designed to give it just enough power to send out a last cry for help even if the entire radio module is pulled off the meter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G32NYQpvy8Q
But that defeats the point of tamper-proof hardware: it should not be modifiable via software.

Unless you make adding your own keys a one-time event and then blow fuses, I’m not sure you can have a secure boot chain slung with control over the hardware keys.
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> shift this burden to the medium

This is beautifully expressed. Knowledge consists of connections across concepts but those connections are rarely shown explicitly in textbooks. Even wikipedia, while allowing you to traverse the connections back and forth easily, does not do a great job of giving you the bird's eye view of a subject or a field. Check out this "map" of mathematics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmJ-4B-mS-Y Every subject needs a similar map.

Besides visualizing the connections, we'd also need interactivity to the topic that helps with forming new mental models - which is the core aspect of learning. Jupyter notebooks, ObservableHQ, Mathigon are some of the good projects working on this aspect.

Disclaimer: I am building the open-source project https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn/ which is attempting to build the complete map of knowledge/skills. So I too am biased against books and in favor of digital/interactive tools.
I didn't know that open source software has no security flaws.
None of the mentioned books teach specific skill through. And I had success learning new skills from books, but those books were meant to teach that skills. They were not among top popular, because for whatever skill you have in mind, only few people actually want to learn it at the same time.

Not that all book that claim to teach skill actually teach it, but plenty of them do.
> Comcast wouldn't be able to send anyone out for a month

Is there a good explanation for how this can be the case in a developed country?
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"That's like 100ms per test. Are those devices that fast to put into uart mode and reset and wait for the result?"

Perhaps each run did multiple tests with the "execute arbitrary code / load_ram" CVE. And they are counting those individually as tests.

I don't know about boot time, but they are fast for a microcontroller at 160 or 240 MHz clock speed.

Edit: Various posts seem to indicate boot time is related to application size. I saw claims of 300ms for a small program, closer to a full second for larger apps.
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Slider-based colony management! Looks like they are staying close to the original. Neat.
It wouldn't be done deliberately. If anything, it's an example
of how electricity's invisibility and sometimes very counterintuitive behavior make it never wholly trustworthy, no matter how we've come to rely on it. I wouldn't change that reliance on a bet! Electrical power infrastructure is the most revolutionary human application of energy since the discovery of fire. But, like fire, there's only so far you ever want to trust it.
On a related tangent -

One thing that I learned from Gladwell's masterclass notes [1] is giving the reader (or listener in a speech) some candy. Candies are fluffy - but they also help readers/listeners retain more and also share more. Personally I've noticed myself using such candies to broach an idea with someone or a team - and the difference in interest is visible.

[1] - https://taimur.me/posts/notes-from-malcolm-gladwell-s-writin...
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> That's like 100ms per test. Are those devices that fast to put into uart mode and reset and wait for the result? Were they running this with multiple devices in parallel?

Whilst I expect they probably did use multiple devices, I regularly see reboot->uart in the range of 150-250ms.

That being said, depending on what you do (like undervolting), you can see up to an agonising 500ms.
I'm not sure what it is about Colonization, but the mood and atmosphere of it just hit the nail on the head for me, and kept me coming back again and again.
It's incredibly unfair to expect broad introductory books to provide deep understanding and insight. These books exist to mostly make people aware the field/topic exists and as a starting point. They serve their purpose. Article seems mostly about expounding his book tbh.
I'm curious if anyone has studied if brain activity during "awake surgery" is different in some major ways from normal brain activity (I'm not sure how you would measure normal brain activity to a comparable degree though).

It seems like "awake surgery" is an often cited tool for understanding how the brain works, but it is a pretty extreme situation, so I could imagine for instance, maybe the stress of awake surgery has a tendency to make the mind suppress certain types of thought which might otherwise be prominent.

Not saying this is the case, but if we are going to rely on the conclusions of awake surgery for important things, we should double check the method to make sure we are not overlooking anything important.
I worked at a isp back in the early 00s and we not only sold logged customer data but we would charge (separately) for the gov to colo a machine and get a span port.
In the UK we call this a PEN conductor fault. It's called a PEN conductor when it's used as a combined Protective Earth & Neutral, as in a TN-C-S earthing arrangement. The property earthing is bonded to the incoming neutral cable before the consumer unit ("fuse board" / breaker panel). This relies on the fact that the neutral side of the supply transformer is itself earthed (this is why it's called neutral; its potential with respect to the earth is ~0V). If the neutral supply to your property is broken, then the return current will pass through the internal neutral wiring in your home, back through any protective devices like breakers and RCDs, and then jump across your earth bond, back through the earth wiring in your home, and then to e.g. a water line or gas line bond, or in your case, coaxial; through the earth itself, and then back to the neutral side of the supply transformer, completing the circuit.

This has 3 important implications:

1) The return conductor (e.g. coaxial cable) may not be adequately-sized to carry the current you're asking it to, but your circuit breakers are rated in relation to the fixed internal wiring of your property, so they won't trip. This risks melting and subsequently breaking the conductor, leading to:

2) The exposed metalwork in your house becomes live. Screws at lightswitches, metal ceiling lighting pendants, copper water and gas lines, the works. All of it. This leads to:

3) An RCD (GFCI) or a device that contains an RCD (like an RCBO) will not save you when you come into contact with any of it, because the current is first passing back through that RCD on your internal neutral wiring, so there is no current imbalance from its perspective.

So yes, very dangerous. In the UK, we use concentric cabling for our street supplies, so it is very hard to accidentally sever the outer neutral conductor without also severing the inner line conductor.
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If the author (or anybody) really wants to absorb knowledge from books, it's simple and only takes two steps:

1. Take notes while reading, which usually also has the side-effect that you have to re-read passage around your note taking

2. Convert notes to Flashcards utilising SRS (spaced repetition systems like Anki)

Thus all the info you noted and found interesting will go into your long(er)-term memory.

But that's not why we read most books now, is it?
euro here, used sms heavily until the ott messenger craze set in my cicles (~2015).

nowadays mostly for contacts that either dont use a smartphone or dont have mobile internet connection (yes! those exist).

are u sure u are using sms? asking because apple overlays imessage and iphone penetration is said to be highest in usa.
Eviction startup gets gig workers to help landlords kick people out
shaped decorations which might be ironed on you would see the edge (you can lightly iron-on with a very flimsy bondaweb then stitch it for security, but you still see the edge)
Yeah I didn't think tech workers needed a union... until basically our entire marketing department got fired! Don't go to work without one
Given the owner has been described as "mortified" and "promising" never to turn a device used in good faith on again, nothing has been offered in return and the story is round the world, it sounds like its been handled quite badly, yes.
Well, there is still that old thing called universal election, where basically people can vote for their leader.

If other things are considered more valuable than proper labor law (like, say, building a wall), then I guess voters get what they deserved.
I consider Acer ConceptD CP3271KP, not sure how good it is... It's pretty new display and not many reviews out there.

Another option - Dell UltraSharp 27 4K USB-C U2720Q
Yeah, they just don't get it, they have stayed for so long in the enterprise java world that they can't comprehend that everybody else moved on from those bloated IDEs. On my case if I had a choice even between Notepad++ and IntelliJ (to pick an extreme example), I would still use Notepad++.

VScode is a very nice middle ground where the defaults make sense and you can get powerful extensions for everything else you want, there's a reason it's so popular.
If you are doing OSGi, Eclipse is the logical and optimal choice. Personally I have yet to see an OSGi project in my professional (US) work, but do see a lot of French (Sr.) devs with OSGi on their resume.
Not exactly changing app icons - it's adding a shortcut to open the app with its own icon. But it launches Shortcuts before the app which would drive me up the wall very quickly.

(Not disputing that it's a cute trick but it's absolutely 100% not "changing app icons"!)
1. Rupert Murdoch

2. True

3. We should pay Rupert Murdoch more money to take care of this.
What are you talking about? What exactly makes Spring projects unmaintainable? Have you ever seen or used it before?
> opposite of a voltage spike

"Voltage drop" or "brownout"
does it build a chart of the infrastrucuture? any infrastructure in AWS?
Open neutrals are no joke, here’s a good analysis of a similar situation that caused a house fire: https://www.electrical-forensics.com/Open-Neutral/Open-Neutr...

Here in Australia the coax connection from the street typically goes through a galvanic isolator to avoid this situation, rather than being bonded to the earth.
Good riddance. Don't let the door hit you on the arse, on the way out!
Surely "truly paranoid" people don't rely on a website using HSTS and hit it with HTTPS directly?
The US made a different set of choices to Western Europe with respect to unemployment. Europe (mostly) chose to maintain existing employment, while the US chose to make unemployment benefits much more generous.

In a short pandemic world, it's likely that the European strategy will perform better, while in a long pandemic world, the US strategy may perform better.

I do agree with the OP though, it's far too early to tell (except letting the unemployment benefits lapse in the US was almost certainly a bad idea).
> I've seen commercial ISPs (Orang France for instance) provide SFP connectors to plug into their routers.

Same here. I use the SFP module that came with the router from my ISP.

I was unhappy with the quality of the ISP supplied router, and the fact that it ran a 6 year old custom image which was vulnerable to the KRACK attack. Since my ISP does not allow upgrading the firmware, I decided to ditch their router completely. I plugged my ISP's SFP module into my own Ubiquity device and it works flawless.
any good alternative? the service looks neat, but it has been discontinued
Not just bug fixes, but a slew of optional gameplay enhancements and even mods if that's your bag.
It's funny, because I always complain about interfaces with just one implementation, I've never complained about an interface with dozens of implementations :)
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I strongly recommend this recent movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7142506/ which gives what IMHO seems like quite a realistic view on that topic (and no, it's definitely not the cliché Bollywood movie full of dancing, don't be fooled by any trailer).
I think that the article omits an important distinction: feature flags that disable some code before the compilation, or flags that are read by program in runtime to decide what behaviour to choose.

I strongly prefer the feature flags of the second type, because that way, you have at least the guarantee that program compiles with any combination of feature flags; and therefore, you can be somewhat sure that any such combination produces correct behaviour (as much as you can be sure of that in general with your codebase: obviously, results may vary from C to Haskell).
A few years back, when we had a load of wet weather, we had a power cut. It lasted about an hour before the power came back on again, only to go off after about 30 seconds. This time it was off for about 5 minutes, then back on for 30 seconds again.

On a whim, I wandered down the road. It had stopped raining. About 50m down the road there was a dry patch of pavement and a smell of burning plastic. Another 100m down the road was the electricity substation, with a guy from the electric company who said he was trying yet another 300A fuse. He said that often the cable can be shorted out by ground water, but connecting it up again may heat it enough to drive the water out and make it fine. I asked him after breaking three fuses already, how he thought another one would solve the problem, and would he like to know where the short was? Took a bit of persuading to get him to walk 100m up the road to where the dry patch and smell of burning plastic was, and of course by then the smell had worn off a bit. Another electric company guy arrived with a smelling device, which they bashed into the tarmac to try to identify the location of the break, eventually settling with exactly where I told them it was.

Within a couple of hours after that, a team had ripped up the pavement, dug down to the cable, spliced it, wrapped it up in waterproofing, refilled the hole, and relaid the pavement.

But I think your story wins.
I'm really confused. What this person is looking for is a "oscillating tangential knife". Lots of hobby CNC machine manufacturers offer it as an option. A medium sized CNC machine + knife will probably cost around $5k. Smaller machines are cheaper but you get less value per dollar.
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Yes, I think it's not so much a programming limitation per se, but a game design limitation. It's a much tougher nut to crack how to present the choices available to the player in a sensible and understandable way.

Notice how Frozen Synapse is otherwise a much simpler game with fewer elements than even just in the tactical mode of the original X-Com.
Wow, closest I can get to that mix is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VqUiSdd3yM
, an english band interpreting a finnish tango.

Swedish will have to be separate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hdUKZLQIuQ

(Are you a finland-swede or sweden finn? If either of those, I'm a fan of both Army of Lovers and Nightwish.)
You mean when they were bought by NewsCorp???

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/17/rupert-murdoch....
The upper castes are hardly 20% of the population. But they take up 80% or more of the higher education and jobs already.

The affirmative action in India is to reduce this gap so that their representation is comparable to their population.
The invisible hand of the free market did not want anyone there for a month. We all follow the invisible hand (like, instinctively, since it's invisible). You're not questioning the wisdom of the invisible hand, are you?
> Xcom 2 is a disaster due to the arbitrary time (or turn, for the nitpickers) limits in all missions.

You know, I hated it at first too but after a while I really began to appreciate how it changes the way you play the game. So I have to disagree there. Ditto the Alien Rulers.
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If the directors and VPs aren’t getting paged at 3am you need better leadership. The first thing that I did was subscribe to all outages. And I let the operations center to call me anytime if they need help resolving a production issue.
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I really would welcome this on my current stack as someone who now primarily works in GCP and is constantly updating architecture diagrams. I love any tool that will help create automated assets to assist with documentation as they really help prevent tribal knowledge and reduce that constant overhead of keeping everything up to date.
If only that were true, but political issues have crept into many technical topics in such a way that it is hard to avoid them altogether. Maybe a 'political' flag on politicised (sub)threads can help, together with an option to hide such threads. On some days it will be very quiet here for those who have chosen to hide politics but that only makes them more productive.
The amount of damage Facebook has knowingly done (and, is still doing) to democracies is off the charts. We're better off without them. So... good bye!
I’m a big user of C# and no, despite the language and the editor being developed by Microsoft, the IDE support in VSCode is poor to say the least. For one it doesn’t even support solutions with multiple projects which requires to open another instance of the editor for debugging. Then there is the constant red highlighting that appears in valid files. Then the installation of Ionide tools in C# project... the list goes on, with extensions not working properly yet being required for basic things like XML formatting, the annoying default settings that require Googling because of their naming, the poor performance because it’s an Electron app, etc.

VSCode, when it works, gives one a glimpse of what you be a good IDE (Visual Studio proper, JB Rider), yet is light-years away of being one.
It's $500+ per month.
https://twitter.com/der_rehan/status/1308242717307174912
Interesting, can you add some depth to that statement? I enjoyed the book, and found it useful in illustrating many cognitive biases.

I've gone on to read more of his work and agree the data is from, "WEIRD societies: Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic." (i.e. a lot of small study groups from ivy league schools) -- but nevertheless found the book enjoyable and useful
Thanks. How did you take tje stack size into consideration?
Simply put, lack of time maintaining it. It was rather a weekend-hack than a polished product.
Thanks for answering! I'd love to discuss your values in more detail but this really isn't the place to do that.

For now, I'd definitely ask you to consider if supporting the current party (which as you note is antithetical to some of your values) might damage the country or move it too far away from your ideals?

I generally feel let down by all the major political parties, so I've been attempting to vote for whoever will do the least harm but it's so hard to figure that out these days :/
> Ah, no. SNR problems in the shared medium is not something wathced or logged. I remember losing internet connection on heavy rains sometimes because an odd cable shorted at an underground gallery. It wasn't FTTX then, so it was not easy to find.

Even if SNR itself isn't logged, dynamic line management would surely result in dropped speeds, which would be logged, and would stand out as anomalous?