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There's still a fairly large stock of iPods being fixed up and traded around on eBay, plus Apple still supports every iPod at least up to Catalina, so I've got another few years at least.

I've been using a 5th generation iPod Video (2006!) and and an HD598 to sit down and listen to an album when I want to.

A few years ago it failed, and I popped in a new battery and replaced the spinning hard drive with a flash card. I'll have a hard time giving this guy up when I can no longer find parts.

If you're into this kind of thing, check out https://youtube.com/dankpods
A phone is usually less than 200g, a CRT monitor can easily be >10kg, so at least 50 times worse
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I don't think asking people to figure out how to manage files is a reasonable request. There's a growing number of people whose computer is a phone or tablet.
They do require a "tobacco passport" to operate, which aims to make it harder for kids to buy them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taspo

Then again, this is the same country where it's sufficient to self-certify by tapping a button that you're over 18 when buying hard liquor at the 7-11.
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> So, let's discuss my idea for a huge fleet of diesel-powered drones where the exhaust gases will be used to induce very reflective cloud formation to tackle global warming.

So this is how we get the sky from Highlander II (1991)(electromagnetic shield, so not really) and the Matrix

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12377/in-the-matri...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander_II:_The_Quickening#...
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It may not have the horsepower to actually do the learning, but it takes very little computing power to actually run a realized model that was made w/ machine learning.
There is no such thing as race. That's what makes this entire affair so frustrating; merely believing that races exist is racist.

If you can show me a society that is racist but that nonetheless ensures equal rights for all races, then I'll retract the point. However, from what I've seen, every government which thinks that race is real has enacted racist policies, so I think that the burden of proof will be hard to meet. CIMO, caste, aboriginals, reservations, blood quanta, and more; governments enshrine whatever hateful bigotry their people demand.

It is worth pointing out that, even if race did not exist, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 also bans discrimination based on national origin. This covers Central American foreign nationals being neglected and experimented on in our concentration camps; it covers Indian-Americans being rejected for jobs because of the caste of their last name; it even covers African-Americans being pulled over for driving-while-black. Ultimately, most racist practices are netted by the national-origin clause and the concept of race does not need to be invoked.
This is exactly the reason C++ was created. It has structs and classes. In theory, structs and classes are exactly the same, but conventionally, a struct represents some kind of data object while a class represents something with encapsulation and state.
FWIW, I got a review unit and it ships with a much lighter desktop environment (LXDE) this time and is has a swap file enabled by default. I guess that was needed to ship a 2GB version, but overall it seemed a little better thought out. They also include a wifi dongle in the box.

It still only has Python 3.6, but OpenCV and numpy are pre-installed correctly this time so you don't have to compile them which is an improvement.
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+1. Three words: per-user pricing. Teams buyers are accustomed to buying this way, stick with what they know.
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So it seems that it doesn't help very much if you already have a good setup.
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NVidia at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-sy... :

> connectivity: Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11ac wireless[1]

> [1] Not initially available in all regions

whatever the footnote means
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I go one step further and work entirely in get rebase -i where I build up a stack of tiny, incremental commits. This also lets me get small changes reviewed and committed on a nearly daily basis instead of building up days or weeks of work.

I've been wishing for a git GUI that lets me drag hunks around such a stack so I don't have to keep moving them by hand.
Climbing Mt Fuji in Japan is a reasonably serious climb (for ordinary people). At 3600m you need to think about altitude acclimitisation and it's best to sleep overnight on the way up.

The achievement is only undermined by the fact that there is a literal queue of people in front of you for the entire ascent, and by the fact that after completing the climb you are greeted with a vending machine at the summit!
I edited the title a bit to fit the 80c.

It was "Flawed algortithm..."
> It's not because they enjoy running DRM schemes

They sure do enjoy the lock-in that results from publishers demanding DRM.

Books feel like they are in a special class of digital good and I think most people would support legislation ending the use of permanent, proprietary digital locks on books.
I believe that ethics is pragmatic: What you believe shines through in what you do. You claim in (2) that there exist racists who never act on their racism, effectively; could you show me where those people are and explain some of their beliefs? I don't think that they exist.

Merely to draw the line between people is already enough of a divisive action.
Doesn't look like they added end-to-end encryption to the free plan?

I recommend no one trusts Zoom for private conversions. It's clear they intend to allow authorities to scour through them to find "crimes."
I'm the same as OP. I commit constantly when hitting a natural stop point or when taking a break and push up to my branch/pr. I hate having code locally that hasn't been pushed to the origin.

But doing this means I have many commits that don't mean anything or are unfinished and in an uncompilable state.

So I git rebase and massage the history to make more sense.
Trademark. There are a great many that are generic words. Fortunately they are limited to the markets the owner is participating in and the consumer confusion test relieves trademark squatting somewhat.
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Heh, that takes me back! In 1994, I was a high schooler volunteering at a famous west coast science museum (it was either that or work at Taco Bell, thanks dad), and one of my tasks was to make a searchable employee directory...

I don't remember if there was any other option on the server we had, but I had to write that sucker in C! Reading and parsing a .csv file, handling search options, working as a CGI program, what a pain, especially for a dumb high schooler like me!
This version comes with a USB wifi dongle in the box in North America and Europe now. I guess they had an issue with licensing chipsets in all regions.
That feature's been dropped in proto3, all fields are optional.
I don't think you have to consider the WHO a "conspiracy" in order to lose trust in them.

For example, many other sources (which tend to elucidate their sources and reasoning more fully) claim, convincingly, that the evidence for community mask wearing being a net positive is quite strong. When WHO claims that it's weak, I lose trust in them.
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I do want to do some integrations with them as well. Do you mean why not just use those instead? I would say because with this app you have control over a recognizable url, and these resume pages are mobile friendly, so someone can digest your resume quicker than trying to zoom in and out on their phone or computer.
I feel like you are missing the point of this post (or maybe I am?)

I think the point IS that you want things to be predictable and maintainable, so quit writing code that is supposed to be clever more than it gets the job done in a tidy and direct way.
> The report talks a lot about unbanked people, innovation in payments and so on, but I don't really see how those things relate.

You are onto something. Yes, they truly are clueless fools. But 99% of people won't notice.

Makes me wonder: if I'm underbanked today how am I going to get right-banked with digi-euros? Don't I need a bank account? Is the ECB going to create a no-questions-asked bank account for anyone with a phone, no KYC and similar crap meant for regular customers of private banks? Such innovation! Screw the sclerotic private banks - I only need to deal with the One Bank, the ECB!!!

It's for the children!
Yeah, so this is mostly unenforceable. Dutch law prescribes that a non-compete can never block you from practicing your profession as a whole, so at most it can block you from working in a very specific, limited sector of the market (e.g. direct competitors). The burden of proof seems to be on the previous employer to show that you potentially could do damage by working at your new employer. In addition to that, non-competes added to a limited time contract are invalid by definition. Non-competes should also be limited in time to a reasonable duration (commonly understood to be 2 years)

It's much easier to instate a 'relationship'-clause in Dutch employment contracts, where you forbid ex-employees from contacting customers/suppliers at their new employer in a professional fashion. Those are much easier to enforce.
The use case between K210 and Jetson systems is quite different. I've used the Maix Dock as a smart controller for a custom CNC system, and it performs beautifully. The Jetson line is more suited to systems that are video heavy (low latency, multiple feeds, mixing, processing, etc). The Maix boards just don't have the RAM to deal with that; I've only been able to handle two incoming video streams at low resolution.

That being said, programming the Maix is a piece of cake. The Jetson Nano was very challenging to deal with; the software is unstable in many cases, and the levels of abstraction are all mixed up, and discovering which Nvidia tools to use is an absolute pain (Gstreamer vs DeepStream vs ARGUS vs whatever else Nvidia pumps out this year). Also, I had way better support from the Maix community than from Nvidia. Nvidia's support model seems to be "unless you're spending tens of thousands of dollars, go pound sand, maybe a volunteer on our forums will help you, if anyone knows what's actually going on here."

Nvidia just has too much software, too little documentation, and holds onto their secret sauce so tightly that doing anything is a true pain.
If Apple isn't getting their developer license and hardware brought, they will find a way to make it impossible.

Apple needs to force developers to use their hardware or it won't have a native/refined feeling and developers will stick to Windows/Linux without the extra step of Apple.
$6.75 seems pretty expensive for a "ground-breaking" low cost test kit. What's the scaled cost of current tests without profit and overhead?
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For video playback, CSS3 transitions/animations, gaming etc., how much better is the GPU in the Jetson Nano compared to the one in the RPi4? Just to get an idea.
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It probably mostly died down because the battle really was elsewhere than in Europe. The EU does try to regulate American tech companies though; how successfully, that's up for debate.
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And if the merge of their commits interleaves with other commits from... teammates?
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No one in their right mind uses a spreadsheet for data analysis. It just too easy to make mistakes. As in that World Bank accountant who entered '25' under the impression he was entering a percentage (0.25). The spreadsheet duly carried the calculation which was off by a factor of a hundred. Not only that, as the size of the dataset grows, so does the time necessary to complete the calculations. Sometimes the whole weekend, as I recall reading somewhere.
We've got that in Czech too, it's a nice feature of Slavic languages.
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> No, those are the axioms that we use to construct a theory.

No, they aren't.

> what is "best" is judged according to our fundamental axioms

No, it is judged by the community of people who engage in the scientific enterprise.

> given different fundamental axioms the same evidence leads to a different theory

That is certainly true. From different assumptions, different conclusions follow. But the existence of an objective reality is not an axiom, at least not a scientific one. It is an explanation for the observed fact that science is possible in the first place. It is an explanation of the observed fact that there are things that nearly all humans agree on, e.g. the fact that there appear to be lights in the sky, the fact that everyone more or less agrees what the repertoire of lights is (one very bright one, one not-so-bright-one, and lots and lots of much dimmer ones), and that they move with enough regularity that their future positions can be predicted with astonishing accuracy. No axioms are required to make these observations, nor to come up with the explanation that the reason that everyone agrees on all these things is that there are, in point of actual fact, sources of light out there in some objective physical reality.
>Landlords extract the marginal difference between what people can buy and what people can rent. By participating in real estate markets, they leverage inequality of capital to overcharge renters beyond what the market would clear at without landlords.

This statement presumes that people, if given the choice, would always choose to buy. Not so! People rent for numerous reasons, many of which have nothing to do with their income or ability to buy.

>Small-time embezzlers are just normal people too! Loan sharks, shady mechanics, and bail bondsmen are also extractive everymen.

Fairly absurd for you to compare people who own a second home or a duplex to embezzlers or loan sharks. Give me a break.
The Jetson Nano is the "small" SDK for the Jetson Xavier series which is Nvidia's embedded ai platform for volume (ie they will sell you thousands of units of them for volume manufacturing in cars, etc) - that's always been the draw for the Jetson Nano - you use the hardware for prototyping and when you are ready, buy the larger and more expensive Xavier and that goes into your hardware product.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-sy...
> It deems agnosticism untenable

Agnosticism is untenable in some scenarios, sure.

E.g., when you have an oppressive status quo, and the options are to resist it and argue for change, or accept the ways things are, and thereby support them, then there is no agnostic position. This isn't a game: sometimes you simply don't get to sit it out.

> and inherently precludes the possibility of nihilism

I am quite happy to preclude nihilism entirely.

> It would be extraordinary - and flatly in tension with common sense - to believe/claim that agnosticism and/or nihilism were not live options for some domain.

I could give a lot of answers to this, but I think the simplest one is that what you regard as "common sense" is not necessarily the same as what I do, so I don't find that a very convincing counterargument.
This is why I like places like Humble Bundle, you literally get a download link with PDFs (as well as other formats). It encourages piracy of course, but then again the moment somebody else could view your content on a device you don't control - it was already copy-able.

If the ebook publishers were motivated to, they would encode unique properties into the text of each download that uniquely identifies the transaction. Then if you find copies online you know who to chase.

The point is, give me my copy of the file, I don't want to be locked into your system.
> My daughter is 3 weeks after first symptoms

She should be fine, unless immunocompromised. RT-PCR tests do not tell, in absence of symptoms, if you are infectious. If you have symptoms, the presence of a positive test correlates with actual, infectious virus in your throat until 7 days with milder symptoms and 15 days with more severe symptoms.

See https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/infectious-positive-pcr-test-r...

Also bear in mind, in particular for your daughter, that viral RNA takes a lot to clear, even when her immune system has already defeated the virus (IOW: you're seeing the "debris after the battle" and not the virus): the milder the symptoms, the longer it takes to clear.

tl;dr: Your daughter should be fine at this point, in general terms.

Of course, as an obligatory disclaimer, IAAS (I am a scientist), IANAMD, this is not medical advice, etc etc.
<rant>

Our models of computer timers are woefully inadequate. These things execute billions of instructions per second. Why shouldn't we be able to schedule a timer at sub-millisecond resolution?

Answer: we can. But the APIs are very old and assume conditions no longer present. Or something like that. Anyway, they don't get the job done.

Everybody seems to start a hardware timer at some regular period, then simulate 'timer interrupts' for applications off that timer's interrupt. If you want 12.5ms but the ol' ticker is ticking at 1ms intervals, you get 13 or so depending on where in an interval you asked, it could be 12.

Even if nobody is using the timer, its ticking away wasting CPU time. So the tendency is, to make the period as long as possible without pissing everybody off.

Even back in the 1980's, I worked on an OS running on the 8086 with a service called PIT (Programmable Interval Timer). You said what interval you wanted; it programmed the hardware timer for that. If it was already running, and your interval was shorter than what remained, it would reprogram it for your short time, then when it went off it reprogrammed it for the remainder.

It kept a whole chain of scheduled expirations sorted by time. When the interrupt occurred it'd call the callback of the 1st entry and discard it. Then it'd reprogram the timer for the remaining time on the next.

It took into account the time of the callback; the time to take the interrupt and reprogram. And it achieved sub-millisecond scheduling even back on that old sad hardware.

And when nobody was using the timer, it didn't run! Zero wasted CPU.

Imagine how precise timers could be today, on our super duper gigahertz hardware.

But what do we get? We get broken, laggy, high-latency, late timer callbacks at some abominable minimum period. Sigh.

</rant>
I believe the conclusion in Netherland is that it's mostly students, older teenagers and 20-somethings who spread the most. And mostly because they like to party and hang out together.

My son's secondary school just introduced mandatory masks this week. They should really do that in more areas.
Sunday morning...on the way home? What cultural thing that I'm not aware of would the population in mass be coming home...(church?) that would cause such a large queue at the cheese shop?
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Thanks for pointing this out! The idea here was that CI/CD systems (such as self-hosted runners) charge for the wall-clock time.
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> two different types of commits: working commits and release commits

??

git tag

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I have the 4GB version of the Nano and the 4GB Raspberry Pi. I like the Nano, but I use it mostly as a development machine and for that I would rank the 8GB Raspberry Pi at about $89 US the best deal. Substantially below that is the Nano, and almost tied is 4GB Pi. There may be cases where you absolutely need an Nvidia machine in which case I would argue for the 4GB version, but otherwise the 8GB Pi appears to be the winner by a long shot.
You can update it to Ubuntu 20.04 pretty easily. (using a Xavier as a desktop with that)

If you don't need CUDA, you can outright use regular Fedora, which uses nouveau. (no reclocking issues or such on Tegra)
The moment a platform becomes for “general purpose computing” they will be forced to open up. Especially Windows won’t be allowed to be a closed platform given its dominance. Even then, there will always be Linux.
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Blaming Excel for this or any of the other examples given in the article are like blaming the screwdriver when you strip a screw.
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Well, Houston St in New York is actually named after a person who called pronounced it "House-ton", not after the same Sam Houston as Houston, TX. This was the street's namesake, using an alternate spelling of the last name (spelling was in general less standardized back then):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Houstoun_(lawyer)

So, no joke involved in that case.
But don't buy the WRONG dongle. I just spent 15+ hours trying to convince the Jetson Nano that the rtl8822bu driver ought to compile on an arm64 system. It's definitely not like the Pi, where 99% of the software is open source and you don't have to deal with Nvidia's nasty hackish tooling to download special Jetson headers and such.
Is this necessarily the case? How can a species evolve without natural selection (the engine of evolution)? If you don't have natural selection acting as a 'fitness filter', how could a species change in any coherent way? It seems like genetic diversity would increase, but it's not clear to me that, when ~95.4% of a species survives to adulthood, there is any pressure that could push the whole species (or even a subset of it) in a given direction.[0]

[0]https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality