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I recently bought a half dozen large TVs, and I stream randomized playlist folders of non-television-programming video content to them from a server I keep in the garage.

Some just 24/7 display live streams from YouTube of famous places.

TVs are cool. Television is garbage.
Your Linux-example a) is by a long-term contributor having a bit of fun and b) is better quality than many of the spam commits in that it actually makes things a miniscule amount better. IMHO, actual typofixes in the scope of Hacktoberfest are okay - they help a tiny bit and they don't hurt much. If someone learns how to make actual PRs through that, fine by me.

compare e.g. clear spam, which adds a copy of someones website into the HTML specification repo: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/5972/files There is no scenario in which that is even a potential improvement.
It seems like some of the spam might have been automated. From this comment at least one spammer seems to do a regex for "website" in the repo's name.

https://github.com/promcon/website/pull/158#issuecomment-701...

Some people were saying this could also be used to detect repositories that have "auto-merging" in order to add vulnerabilities to them later, perhaps using Hacktoberfest as a cover for more nefarious activities. That's strange, I haven't heard of projects that automatically merge certain PRs from arbitrary accounts.
I am not talking about the demand for privacy, I am talking about the demand for dumb, inexpensive TVs. You are saying it is impossible to find a market that needs dumb, inexpensive TVs. But suppose all of those people saw an option for a cheaper TV that happened to be dumb. This line could even be sold by a major brand. Call it something like a "SimplySmart" line.
The Swedish healthcare system was not overwhelmed in part because they only offered palliative to the elderly.
Haven't they had a thing like this for years? Is this different to the thing before or just a renaming?
Yes, of course - if not now, in two years. Smart TVs rarely get updates for longer than that.
The spammers appear to be overwhelmingly Indian, based on the usernames in the screenshots. Which is somehow unsurprising to me (there are 1.5 billion of them, after all).
Why does google get it's tld?
Thanks for the details, very useful. Please write that post, I'm sure it will make it to the front page here :)
It's not an either/or thing. Statistical methods use calculus as a tool.

Let's say someone handed you a pile of data on some event that fires after some random time (earthquakes, light bulbs burning out, bacteria lifetime, etc). You're tasked with figuring out the probability that event is going to happen whenever.

How would you do that? You would probably say, oh that's easy! Add up each lifetime of each event that happens before whatever time, and divide by total number of events.

Congratulations, you just did calculus.
I use kitty on WSL via vcxsrv but I had to hack the OpenGL support. X410 should work.
https://github.com/MattIPv4/hacktoberfest-data
Honestly it's kind of psychotic.
> "how can you hope to understand statistics if you can't compute an expected value, which is defined as an integral?"

99% of humans would benefit greatly from studying statistics without the calculus underpinnings that greatly complicate the education for marginal added understanding, particularly as they relate to probabilities and risk. the more mathematically inclined can study the calculus in more advanced classes.

one of the great barriers to sociopolitical advancement is the gross misunderstanding of risk (covid being a good example) and basic statistical education can help ameliorate that.
Union's popularity has been falling for years and years: https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/480481-unions-decline-ag... and for a good reason - as soon as you don't force people to join, turns out not everybody wants to.

And the polarization of unions is far from a forced move. I do not think Republicans made this happen: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democratic-socialists-am...

It's more like that centralized top-down economy is much more comfortable for the union leadership than chaotic horizontal competitive economy. It's much easier to enforce certain policy by the power of the government than negotiate it privately with each employer. That makes unions a natural ally of socialists. And of course there's nothing like government subsidies and regulations - which can be exchanged for votes and donations - to hide the inefficiencies of inflexible unionized setups and deflect the competitive threats from more agile and enterprising newcomers. Again, here the unions are the natural allies of centralized regulatory state. And the effects of this are pretty obvious:
https://nypost.com/2018/08/25/why-nyc-is-priciest-city-in-th...
https://www.nj.com/news/2018/06/money_for_nothing_working_th...

That's not Republican party's fault.
I don't think he ever did it with the intention of being around to spend the money. He lives off his modest salary, drives an old vehicle, and still is in the same normal house as decades ago.

The money is more like points in a game to him I think, he just loves the game.
Can this be made to work on ARM as well?
I was really interested in how they measured power because there is a ton of nuance there.

They used the metric reported by a tool that limits average power via a programmable power limiter in hardware which an interesting way to do it. Totally valid but I really wish they provided more detail here. For example, did all workloads run at limit all the time? Presumably they did. Limit based throttling is a form of hysteretic control so the penalty part will be critical. How often and when the limit is hit will be critical too.
We're talking about a high-school curriculum. The vast majority of high schoolers do not wind up in physics or engineering, but those that do should learn some geometry.

Like... trigonometry is important. All the other nonsense I learned in geometry class was a waste of my time.
It seems that you can at least opt-out by sending them an email:

https://twitter.com/MattIPv4/status/1311366041897971712
The main reasons for the lack of minimum wage laws are because of a high degree of unionization and the widespread use of collective bargaining agreements.
Your chances are better when you can control the firmware yourself.

But ... DRM.
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Yes, thank you. I don't know why "they have dependencies" is a valid criticism. Literally any complex thing where the developer didn't write 100% of the code has dependencies. Most of the dependencies for the web components we use at work are... other web components, which is EXACTLY THE POINT of web components: reusability, portability, encapsulation.

I'll agree with a few of her points, but as far as this point goes, I have to wonder what components she's trying to use here. And if she wants to see the full markup of the shop demo, all she has to do is use "inspect element" on it rather than "view source."
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Or it was undefined behavior in your code, like depending on the evaluation order of function parameters, or one of mine, testing an array element before testing the index was within bound.

Broken: table[table_i].values[j] && j<category_map_count && to_i<category_array_len;
Fixed: j<category_map_count && table[table_i].values[j] && to_i<category_array_len;

Optimizer: "j was used to access values array, j outside array would be undefined behavior, therefore it must have been within the array boundaries and does not need to be tested."

Oh, and threading bugs where some variable that should have been mutex locked or made atomic gets moved in or out of a register depending on the phase of the moon, causing other threads to fail to notice changes to that variable...but add a debug line and it suddenly works.
If, as you say, css is style and visuals, layout is html, and interaction is JS, isn't there a missing data layer? I'm not sure I exactly agree with the categories you name, but I think there's very much an argument that if HTML is layout, then it isn't content or data, and the content/data (and its connection to html/JS) would then be a missing 4th piece.
It also removes context menus from app icons, reduced functionality on top of slower launch time.
Everyone doesn't win when competing localities of government try different things. What actually happens is Amazon shops around for enormous public subsidies for its HQ, bankrupting local and state govnerments. We're in a world of globalised companies and expecting some backwater county in Arkansas to negotiate with Huawei is just absurd.

For the same reason that Google tells Congress 'You need to let us run free to fight those Chinese giants', the US needs federal level regulation to play on the same level as those companies, if it had the guts.
Oh, Octave is still doing GSoC. I just haven't been involved with it in a while. I guess it's still working for someone else, glad to hear it's gotten better.
Yes. Of course. Because there's no inherently consumable parts. There's no reason that this shouldn't work 10 years from now (like original Chromecasts do, or first-gen Roku devices, or even 1080p TVs). Why bother buying into something with a limited lifespan?
another alternative is that Uber reduces compensation for some other parts of the company and budges and raises driver compensation and sucks it up.

It's not like there's reason to believe that the ride-sharing market is extremely competitive, in many regions it's mostly Uber + Lyft.
I guess he's one of those people that have spent so much time working on their business that he won't really retire until he's passed away.

Also, I suppose he has a whole team of people helping him make those kind of decisions, so perhaps this just reflects the company's strategy instead of a personal one? (as much as they can be treated separately, which they may not)
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I saw them a year or two ago positioning themselves in contrast to Redshift and BigQuery. I though "these guys are building something for Microsoft to acquire" (my thought was, something with a more modern OLAP architecture than SQL Server, which they can offer via Azure). Naive me, they were so much more business savvy than that...
I have great fondness for Fossil, used it a couple of times and wish it were possible to keep using it.

I tried to rally some interest on the mailing list behind separating the working parts from the UI chrome into a 'libfossil', which could be integrated into other programs. The verdict was that D. Richard Hipp doesn't really want to, since it's a classic C monolith where the allocation strategy doesn't make that separation easy. Someone started the job, but had to abandon it due to RSI issues.

I still kinda hope someone bites the bullet, because a "libsqlite for versioning" would be a real boon for application developers. Even for fossil's central use case as a code VCS, the monolithic bundling of everything into one program is a mixed bag.
I'm sorry actually to see that most of the names in the screenshot are people from India. Hacktoberfest to some degree has turned into a madfest with most college students here. Rather than actually contributing to open source, many new repos pop up during these times where fellow college students raise a PR for nothing.

It's the T-shirt that's the primary reason but also thr flaunting on social media as if I'm some kind of certified open source contributor.

PS: I've also been part of Hacktoberfest launch events where some people literally created their first PR.
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Sure, on the way there we can stop in '95 to pick up a copy of Bob... but you are on your own for getting it working.
Link to the actual study: https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress.yale.edu/dist/6/10...
I drive on average 8k kilometers per year. I doubt that this is amounting to all the rest, is it ?

a quick computation gives me, given that my car drinks roughly 7 liters of diesel / 100km if i'm not careful:

- 560 liters of diesel / year

- a liter of diesel is apparently ~10.74 kwh -> 6014 kwh total

- 6014 / 365 -> 16 kwh a day ? I don't see how this is making me any closer to 4000 kwh per day.
(Somewhat tangential to the article since its main point of advocacy was adding data science courses, but I've been thinking about math reform and wanted to expand on the New Math).

It appears that the New Math failed to catch on as a math reform because:

1) Starting with formal system and building from axioms on up is appealing to mathematicians but doesn't match children's psychology, which requires concretions rather than abstractions in the early years.

2) There wasn't a good enough plan to get parents on board with the reform. Mathematics was highly regarded yet poorly understood in U.S. culture, leading to pushback from parents (and teachers) when they saw a different mathematics curricula then what they had ("You can't change math! Math is Math!").

Math reforms will need to avoid these two snares. Perhaps a data science class at middle school and up would work well since it would avoid concerns about radical changes to the curricula.

One approach I'm considering is doing a history-based approach to mathematics. I don't have anything shippable yet, but explaining the history of the integral calculus has helped my students understand the difference between Leibniz's and Newton's notations, as well as provide motivation for why we're studying limits.
What numbers are you basing that on? Humans have jammed with crappy Midi gear and music software with awful latency since the 80s. The speed of light of a couple of hundred km doesn't strike me as categorically worse than that.
I never proposed that some code I posted to Gist be part of the C standard. I'm flattered however that folks are considering it for that purpose!
It is really just luck. For every OP with 6 figures in profit for their icon pack, there are a thousand more who dream of making $17 and will never see it. The reality of the world is that there are far more hardworking and talented people than there are successful people, and blindly toiling holding out hope of getting lucky might not be the best use of ones efforts. Imagine if OP never got the plug from the influencer. Would it be worth it to take time away from, say, working a full time job to make a grand total of $17 for all your efforts? Absolutely not, that is realizing a loss. Instead, people should be strategic about their efforts, and direct them toward whatever opportunities are available in your life that offer a return for little risk. Not busting ass and hoping luck will one day come in to pay you for all the labor you put in.
Do you then agree that Coinbase is forcing a certain set of politics on its employees?
I don't think people earning 5x-6x median wage, not counting stock incentives, are what Marx mean when he wrote about proletariat. Outside of Hollywood stars and top sportsmen, one would struggle to find a less oppressed category of workers.
> customisation isn't exactly a new phenomenon

Another classic example: https://skins.webamp.org/
That sounds nice, but how, and as importantly who decides what those boundaries are?
I don't see how this is a problem. This is what you signed up for.

I am also an open source maintainer, and would love for Digital Ocean to drive by my project.

Isn't this what we signed up for as open source developers?

Maybe I'm just lonely.
That PR unarguably makes the repo worse. That’s really bad!
I'm considering buying it to cover the things that aren't on roku like twitch
Except for Reader, Inbox, Cloud Print, the Nest API, Code, among many others I'm sure. It doesn't seem to matter whether they're successful or popular.
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maybe someone is able to recognise wall clock from promo video?
Calculus is wonderful but the way it's taught is abysmal.

Calculus should be taught by teaching professors, not research professors. It needs to be taught by someone who is focused full time on teaching. But wait, there's more..

There should be two levels of Calculus 1: long-term, or short-term. Short-term calculus is a regular class, taught by whomever is available and qualified.

Long term classes are smaller, meet more frequently (how about four times a week), and taught by a professor whose focus is teaching, not research.

To understand calculus IMHO (full disclosure I failed it three times. Fourth time was a charm) you need a mastery of algebra and trigonometry. I didn't get that, and I think less and less kids are getting that kind of mastery. Hence, a longer term of smaller classes focused on the premise that not everyone in the room has mastered algebra or trig, and teach from that perspective.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk..
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> None of this is unique to the US — the EU is similarly "interconnected", as is Switzerland.

I live in Switzerland, and the response here to the virus and most other incidents are far more federally managed than the cantonal system would imply to someone accustomed to US states, in my opinion. If forced at gunpoint to generalize, the simplest explanation I would use having lived in both countries is that in Switzerland the cantons have more independence in execution, while in the US they have more freedom in legislation.
That's also a problem that it'd be fairly straightforward for Google to solve by automatically spinning up smaller, entirely separate serving clusters for customers who are worried about such a blowout (for a fee, obvs). It's just the serving tree (+ whatever in-memory storage service they use to do distributed joins nowadays), no need to duplicate the rest of the service. The caveat is, a smaller cluster will favor query optimizations specific to that smaller cluster. Some of those "small cluster" optimizations could hurt query performance when deployed against BQ proper with its tens of thousands of workers.

Also, BQ does explain the query plan to some extent: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/query-plan-explanation. Not quite at the level of a "regular" SQL DB, but it does give you some info to work with when optimizing queries. If you haven't used it in a while I'd give it another try.
Memory usage matters too! Languages lacking shared memory multiprocessing will use more energy even if they're equally fast.
It's kind of like that episode of Pinky and the Brain where they finally are able to take over the Earth by convincing everyone who moves to a paper mache copy of the Earth a free t-shirt. People love free t-shirts.
One of the reasons for studying math is so that your tools, whether it's software today or formulas or tables in the past, aren't just mysterious black boxes to you but something you can understand and figure out from first principles if the need arises.
It seems that the person responsible for the project proposed this to be opt-in [1], but it never got anywhere internally.

[1] https://twitter.com/MattIPv4/status/1311391325443555328
On the official site they call it a wire flow or user flow tool, which feels correctly more vague and less misleading.
No, it really doesn't. Gitea is just your typical web stack built around forking git.exe processes.
There can be external candidates with that qualification. In general the standard is “Bona Fide occupational qualification” which means that you have a legitimate reason for the requirement. For a college hire this would likely not suffice ... you can teach a college hire what they need to know. For the engineering director running the project it very well might be.
Ha makes sense now, in my 40s so I got a bit defensive there :)
Goodness me, this is an exemplary example of the type of website that I just cannot abide.

Style over content, and the presentation just plain getting in the way of the information, to the point that the user ends up leaving rather than finding out what the site is attempting to convey.

Awful. Just awful.
Physical chemistry is a minor subfield of chemistry, one in which I have never had to cause to use, even though my field deals with the chemical byproducts of microbes.
Since SMS is the only non-phone-call protocol my phone supports, I can't see switching to anything else any time soon.
>it is just going to prop up the industry for another quarter or two, when I don't believe that demand for air travel will return to pre-pandemic levels any time soon

This is 100% correct. Even if a vaccine were to be approved by the end of this year, it will take until mid/late next year before most of the developed world has received it. In the meantime, companies continue to find new ways of working remotely (I'm a tech consultant and have spent most of the last 20 years flying every week on Monday and back on Thursday, haven't flown since mid March). Extending the CARES Act airline bailout for another 3-6 months is not going to solve the problem, and continuously extending it for another 12+ months is not viable and a complete waste of money. The government should be figuring out other ways of redirecting resources idled by the pandemic, not propping up zombie companies forever.
I think you can just ignore the interface / remote and still Chromecast to this, not unlike current Android TV implementations (integrated into Smart TV's and the NVidia Shield).

Would love if someone with more experience with Android TV could clarify though. I daily a Chromecast Ultra not Android TV.
Damn, that seems super annoying.
This is one reason why I generally open an issue first. Lets talk about my problem first. Maybe I add a PR / branch / patch as a PoC. Maybe it gets closed with "No" a few month later.

However, I don't see how that works with a hackaton mindset.
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I'm with you. Unfortunately, unless we change they system around so it doesn't have to grow forever, the weakest are the ones that get screwed as the economy shrinks.

You can't have it both ways, unfettered capitalism with continued growth and negative population growth.

GDP is not the right metric to show increase of quality of life, but it is a quick metric to show economic expansion and contraction.

There's a much broader conversation about how we want out system to work.
It doesn't have to be hosted on Github. Gitlab can run in I2P so it's possible to do all the development in the darknet.

Not sure how big the repo would be though...
> There is no fraudulence there.

Sorry, I was insufficiently explicit. "Indians who have lived in America for ten years" are past immigrants. They have already immigrated. A effort to "curtail[] future immigration" that allows deporting them to be part of it is fraudulently misrepresenting that past immigration as part of the "future immigration" which it purports to curtail.

The issuance of genuinely new visas (ie to people who have not yet immigrated) is a separate issue from renewing visas of people who have already immigrated, regardless of whether those are, on paper, both lumped into the single catagory of "[']temporary['] visas".

> Unfortunately, I cannot discuss this further.

Fair enough; good luck on whatever came up.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122 is good reading.
I was unable to find anything nearly notable for non-mac platform. My current flow on linux is just a terminal with p4merge as a mergetool with occasional lazygit usage.
Well done on getting that far, I gave up the fight against the interface well before the end!
Nothing is as powerful as having someone’s attention. If Brownlee can get this guy $100K with a tweet imagine what he’s pulling down himself.