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Without IP laws, you would be even more screwed. By virtue of your existence, you would be there as little fish literally to be eaten by larger one's.

For every time a large company trolls a smaller one, there are 100 times one company decides not to infringe on some other work.

For example, I work with a hardware company that has patents. We freely send our products to larger competitors. Why? Because they know we have good IP, and were they to copy our approach, it would be a straightforward infringement on us, and it would risk their entire business.

Admittedly, we are luckily that infringement in this case would be fairly clear because that's not always the case.
I live in Germany and When I moved here I sensed animosity for America. When I asked my local friends they said It was made a lot worse after what he leaked.
Lol I only glanced over the source article, not sure if it mentioned all this. But inded. It is absurd :D

Thanks for the explanation, it was really a good laugh!

I wonder what they were thinking at netscape.. Why not just ignore invalid values... :/ And of course some words are actually parsed as valid values (like red, blue etc) which makes it even more complex.
I only managed to drop drinking a shit tonne of Red Bull once I started Ritalin.
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Something that you'll want to help them with is educating them that the software is quite a bit more valuable _with_ you than without you.

Sure, another developer could come in and take over (and the acquiring company will probably want to get their own developers on it if they have an in-house team), but finding that trustworthy developer and getting them up to speed will be non-trivial for them without you.

Being open and transparent has served me well so far in the professional world. Tell them you made a mistake and ended up doing the original project far below your usual rate and that you're now currently busy with other projects. Let them know how long the original project took so they have expectations on how long new modifications might take.

Tell them that although you like working with them, in order for it to be worth your while and to turn down other opportunities, you'd need it to be in line with your usual rate of 80€/h.

You'll also probably want to get them to agree not to let the acquiring company know what your hourly rate is, as if they are enterprise-y you can definitely increase your rates (which is also warranted, since you'll be dealing with a lot more bureaucracy).
I bought one too, and when it forced me to provide my location during activation I just laughed and promptly returned the speaker.

First, nobody needs to know my location for me to listen to music.
Second, when Sonos goes out of business in the future, they want their speakers to become landfill?

Nobody should support a company like that. There are too many great dumb speakers out there.

I ended up getting a Xeo2 speaker from Dynaudio. So much better quality anyway.
DLNA and external speakers are 2 very different things. Suffice it to say you should choose and buy the kind of device you want.
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I've used TinyPICO Esp32 modules. They're even smaller than D1 Minis! They lack the metal cover, though I don't quite know what that's for (mumble EMI?).
Also German law doesn't make easy allowances for employee ownership / stock options. There's a hack to get around this where you write a contract for a percentage of the eventual exit, but this limits what sort of exits are possible.

European laws, regulations, and investor culture are all setup in ways that hurt startups.
I'd like to see more examples of clearly commented out clever algorithms
Agreed with this. One big thing that is missing here is teaching. If you are an amazing teacher, things will be much better for you longer term. You will also enjoy the job a lot more.
This reminds me of the joke:

Three logicians walk into a bar.

The bartender asks: "Do you all want a drink?"

The first logician says: "I don't know."

The second logician says: "I don't know."

The third logician says: "Yes."
Journal referees are about as far from "real world feedback" as you can get.

There's an interesting clash of incentives -- the grant-funding agencies optimize for stuff that is low-risk, but they claim to want highly-novel work, which also what gets published in better journals. So often what you must do is dress up incremental progress as revolutionary progress. It's soul-sucking.
>I would [..] host untrusted customers in [...] Xen HVM any day.

Intel doesn't recommend running untrusted code even in a separate VM, according to their official explanation of Spectre/Meltdown. At least we can do it on RPi now.
> There's an assumption there that its not possible to design and build things that can be adapative and function across a much longer timespan than a modern big box store's typical lifetime.

But that assumption is, by and large, true. If you look at hundred year old buildings, by modern standards they're extremely flawed. The insulation is typically poor or non-existent. They often had higher ceilings due to the limitations of contemporary lighting and HVAC systems, which are now a liability with respect to heating and cooling.

There is little reason to suspect that progress in building design has been discontinued, so a building from today would be expected to be similarly deficient by the standards of a hundred years from now, which means there is little reason to design it to last that long.

But the biggest flaw is often that the building is the wrong size. Decades ago you needed five stories and now you need ten. Or you needed five stories and now you need one. The obvious solution to that is to move to a bigger or smaller building as the need arises.

> There's also an assumption that the cost of have an imperfectly adapated building is higher than the cost of multiple building efforts over time.

Not at all, because the replacement building doesn't have to be on the same lot. You don't have to knock it down to build a new one consistent with your current needs. You can build a new one and then sell the existing one to someone who may be able to make productive use of it as it is. But then it's not the state reaping the benefits of any unusual longevity.

And that assumption may still be true in many cases regardless. If you have a five story building which over time comes to be surrounded by skyscrapers, it could easily be cost effective to remove it and make the lot available for another skyscraper, or for the new owner to do so and in so doing yield two dividends to the local government -- one from the sale of a lot with a high property value, and then another from the increased property tax revenue from the taller building.

> Claiming that private entities are immune (or at least, less susceptible) to the same problems of temporal discounting that clearly affects both individuals and many north American governments seems without foundation to me.

Temporal discounting isn't a problem, it's what you're supposed to do. An expense today is much more costly than the same dollar value expense in 50 years, because if you don't spend the money today, you get 50 years worth of interest on it (or don't have to pay 50 years in interest on having borrowed it).

> I'm thinking more about what their construction actually represented in terms of a society's willingess to invest (inefficiently!) in the future, and in a more-than-barebones aesthetic.

In which case you're essentially asking for the state to fund architecture as art with tax money. But if that's what the taxpayers want, why don't the buy it directly?

More saliently, spending tens of millions of dollars to re-tile a subway station isn't doing that anyway.
A global clock can't exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity
For a lot of complex reasons large infrastructure projects are much more expensive than they used to be. Plus, replacing infrastructure is generally more expensive than building it new.
The thought process of your post forms a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Of course if you build with only a single mode of transport in mind, the majority of people will opt towards that mode of transportation. Unfortunately, many suburbs and small cities have made that mistake and also chose the most expensive mode, hence the article.
It's a bit annoying that Logitech killed the squeezebox, which made it somewhat more accessible, but I believe that thanks to that the code is open source now, so there's that.
Not quite. The Laplace transform only works for constant coefficient linear equations as far as I'm aware. And it is inappropriate for many boundary value problems, because it solves a problem over a domain from 0 to infinity when that might not be what you want.

With this being said, I'm a big fan of integral transforms in general (Fourier and Laplace particularly) and have used them many times to solve both ODEs and PDEs.
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This is also a great answer.
Next up: Trade in water is trade in grain, corn, dairy, meat.

120 gallons of water for an egg
4000 gallons of water for a bushel of corn
11000 gallons of water for a bushel of wheat

That is..2 lbs or baked bread is 1000 gallons of water.

You are wearing 650 gallons of water if you were wearing a cotton shirt.

And wait for this: 135000 gallons of water for a ton of alfafa(which btw we exported cheap to China during California drought because it was cheaper to send that in empty shipping containers going back than truck it to a
California dairy farms)
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Factorio is a lot more fun for me when I turn enemies off entirely. It stops being a game of extreme panic with that single change, and you can focus on resource collection and construction.

(Valid responses to that approach are valid. I'm not going to try to predict what everyone will say and address those responses before they come. Or at all.)
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Man, I hate it when a mean old big company comes along and offers me more money to do my job than what I currently make.
Angiosperms have a lot to answer for.

They invented fructose to trick animals into preferring their reproductive organs over more honest, glucose-baited forms. Fructose is cheaper to make, offering fewer calories per unit sweetness than glucose.

Fructose being such a recent development, its processing is poorly integrated into our metabolism. One of its more nefarious features is that consuming more fructose does not make you less hungry, unlike glucose, starches and fats.

Sucrose is half fructose. Corn syrup starts out as glucose, and is industrially catalyzed to fructose for the soft-drinks industry, because it tastes sweeter when cold.
What do you suggest here? Git surgery to rebase through all 1700 commits looking for large files, or blowing away the repo and starting from scratch? Neither seems particularly appealing for the benefit of saving a few hundred megabytes of developers' disk space.
I've always found it difficult to imagine the emergence of self-replication. The idea of two RNA-copying molecules encountering each other feels eye-opening to me. Thank you!

One thing I'm still unclear about though: Isn't it the case that these RNA-copying molecules are made of proteins? If so, I assume that another necessary ingredient would be the existence of proteins that synthesize new proteins according to what is written in RNA molecules (and also: RNA molecules that describe such synthesizing proteins).
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A good illustration of the western world sabotaging itself.
Looks like the pocketbeagle has two 'programmable real-time units' PRUs @200MHz which could be used to run the sensors while the main CPU handles video+I/O. Could be a good option for 'multithreading' without having to insert another module. (caution: I've kept to the rpi for weird little side projects, so haven't actually tried this. Double super big caution: Never add hardware before profiling your current system to figure out where the bottleneck is... it might just be a matter of changing your 'main loop' a bit.)

http://beagleboard.org/pru
That's... spooky. I was working on this exact project a few weeks ago for the VM/370 source distribution tapes (and WOW the VMFPLC2 format is a pain). Shame OP didn't preserve the on-tape file structure, it would have been interesting to see how things had evolved.

Anyway, if you're looking for more info about CP/CMS and VM/370 or the systems they ran on, bitsavers has an absolute treasure trove of manuals:
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/370
It's not really odd at all. For one, we're testing at about 10x the rate that we saw in the first wave, while we're at 3x the number of daily infections as during the first wave.

If you test 10x more people in period B as in period A, and in both periods you have the same infection rate, you'd expect 10x as many confirmed cases. The fact we see only 3x as many daily confirmed cases despite 10x more testing, means the population is actually far less infected now than during the first wave. We simply test more.

Second, the demographics of the infected has massively changed between the first and current wave: https://datagraver.com/thumbs/1300x1300r/2020-10/nl-heatd-02...

As you can see, most confirmed cases consisted of elderly during the first wave. These are now much more insulated. Young people are now mostly infected, and survive. This translates into far lower mortality and hospitalisation figures per infected. Lastly, even though there is no vaccine yet, most people survive and this requires various treatments, we've seen small improvements in these treatments, but this is mostly a matter of increased throughput due to shorter hospital stays.

In short, there are actually (currently) fewer infected than during the first wave, and a lower infected to hospitalised/mortality rate.

None of this is to argue that things are okay or that the current policy is sufficient. Not at all. But it's entirely not true that the current wave is worse than the first wave, even in terms of the number of infected. And there are very well known and sensible reasons for why the current wave has a lower impact on health or mortality figures.
What makes you think that "educational funding" is a problem, or that other countries have "centralized control and funding of schools?"

In all but a few states, poorer school districts receive similar funding to rich ones: https://hechingerreport.org/in-6-states-school-districts-wit.... In several, poor school districts receive more funding.

Also, the U.S. is more comparable to the EU than to any individual EU country. Obviously, EU countries make their own funding decisions. But many EU countries push funding decisions even further down to individual localities. Germany and Sweden, for example, have highly decentralized education systems. The same is true for Canada. Indeed, in Canada, an even smaller percentage of school funding comes from federal sources (just 2%) compared to the US (about 5-10%).
Ignorant here, why do people use ham radio instead of the internet or cell phones?
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I think those people end up in research work at large companies. Essentially doing academic work in the private sector.
What happened to the Soviets in the end?
The Phoenix Project was great, I’d recommend its sibling book The Dev Ops Handbook, and the more recent The Unicorn Project (the same narrative story focused on the dev side).
> Again, you're talking about the EU officials, that's not something I would consider.

Not consider? You linked to the Wikipedia article on it saying that this is what you were talking about.
I initially thought this was a guest post by Elezier Yudkowsky as well, but I believe this is Scott Aaronson’s post and the previous post on his blog was a guest post by Elezier.
Sounds like Zone-H, which keeps a leaderboard of stats + visual archive of hacked websites that skids contribute.

http://www.zone-h.org/archive
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It depends on how you're using it. It depends on the resources you have for such things. WP can and will work without them.
The kids that really cause trouble aren’t usually “jocks” because in many states you have to pass classes to play sports. To play sports you also have to be disciplined and listen to instructions, and not get caught with drugs or arrested for armed robbery.
> One of the main ones is that national policies around employee equity vary throughout Europe and are often severely disadvantageous (particularly Spain and Germany). Lots of European entrepreneurs are calling on policy makers to both normalize this within the EU, as well as making the policies competitive (e.g., [1]).

I would also add that employee perception about the value of equity vs salary varies across countries in Europe. High stable salaries could be preferred over equity in good welfare states with employee-favorable legislation where firing people is harder (Germany & France for example).
Very fun game. One thing I liked about Factorio that I'm not sure if this has in the main version (or possibly just somewhere I haven't discovered yet - ~1 hour in), is the stats feature.

I'd like to see how many blocks of each kind I'm producing. I loved driving those metrics up in factorio, and it felt immensely satisfying to raise production to orders of magnitude higher than I previously had them once I was done with some refactoring.

Likewise, I feel it would help gameplay to understand the relative throughput of each of each of the pieces. For example, when painting it seems a few extractors are enough to provide all the paint I need compared to many extractors to get the shapes. What are the ratios here? Is painting faster than cutting? How long does rotating take, etc.
I had no money to buy Windows OS.
Well depending on what is broadcast, it might have a regular structure and perhaps there's some reason you'd want to randomize the broadcast signal. Maybe some highly specific noise in the environment that happens to resonate with the signal structure?

Alternatively there might be protocols which have mandatory encryption as part of their specification. Or you might be using a combined encryption-authentication mode, but only for the purpose of authentication on ham radio.

Those are all a bit of a stretch though.
"Oppressing" is a much more fraught judgement, I agree. But it seems clear that the architects of this policy think there are too many Asians and want to see fewer of them, and I'd characterize policies aimed at excluding specific racial groups as disenfranchisement.
We're not animals

so the engineers went to greener pastures

...for grazing?
There are 100 companies that decide to infringe on your patents in China anyway.

This way we get the worst of all possible worlds.

Had we been more desperate and not using other peoples money we would have started negotiating with car bombs as our Eastern European engineer suggested.
They also just announced that will continue to be an IndyCar supplier for a long while. F1 power units (including the hybrid components) are more efficient than the Indy counterparts. This isn't _actually_ about carbon-free anything... It's about F1 being expensive.
Use opus?
His main complain is that it costs money, which it no longer does. I think the rest of his argument really falls apart because of that.
This move all but guarantees that Bad Boys for Life will be the highest grossing domestic film of 2020 and, for the first time since the silent film era, a non-American film will be the highest grossing film of the year (The Eight Hundred).

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/#tab=year
It's to determine if the videos are deep fakes.
What would you propose as an alternative to peer-feedback? I really enjoyed academia and didn't find it soul sucking. Does it suck to get rejected sometimes? Yes. Does the work eventually get out; yes? With pre-prints these days, most of the people that are in the field already read the paper before acceptance if it's good. So the journal/conference name itself is largely a symbolic judgement of your peers.
Social inequalities and limited access to higher education created a high barrier of entry. Economy was strong, positivist, the status of doctors was still high and they had more agency into how they spend their money, overall, assessment of productivity was less of an issue because there was enough money for science.
HAHA a $200,000 pee year UBI is definitely how I would describe most of these jobs...

Most of the interesting things in our field can be done with passing json objects around a network and persisting them in whatever way is durable, a bit secure and easy to develop.

What we really need to see is the advancement of computer vision, robotics, and dynamic, goal-based software decision making capabilities. And I suppose battery technology and radio networking too, but that's more about electricity and physics than software.

When that comes, you will see many mundane human tasks go straight to the robots, and hopefully every family will be permitted to own one (politics is all about limiting people from doing things for sane prices, right?)

If a family's robot could till the land, grow food, cook it, synthesize medicines, build a home, serve as physical security and defence, play games for entertainment, transport the family from place to place, etc etc... then quickly the only world industry still in existence would be semiconductor manufacturers :)
We are animals.
Why the fuck people insist on claiming otherwise is beyond me.
The notion that he gave up his highly paid government contractor job in sunny Hawaii in favour of becoming an international fugitive, for personal gain, is clearly nonsense. You really think an apartment in Moscow is worth all that?
I didn't even know about | for dict merges, that's pretty cool.
But I feel the same, even in my private code I'm a bit hesitant to use :=, and any pip installable packages I almost feel obligated to write in more compatible ways. Not sure what the solution is really.
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Yeah it expands the whole concept of wage slavery.
Here’s the problem with GPA: it penalizes the chemical engineering and economics double major who finished in four years and rewards the peace studies major who finished in five, but with a higher GPA.

A standardized test has the feature of being standardized.
Absolutely. Though even the base salary pay differential between European hubs and the Bay Area are substantial.

I think the firing people thing is good to point out, but many startups end up not needing to fire individuals: they just go out of business :).
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Several people have commented about having this nightmare. In the American university system, bad things happen if you fail a course?
This is interesting from a pedantic point of view. From an engineering point of view, I'd not look very kindly on the person who checked in a random number algorithm that required 300 lines of comments to understand. There would have to be an awfully good reason to use it, and here there really isn't.
My guess is as good as poop.
> Representatives from each company met to explore a possible acquisition but Apple ultimately passed.