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I run ZFS to mitigate half of what you say. I trust ZFS more than backups to keep my data correct - checksums ensure against bitrot. I also have snapshots, so unless I don't notice the file is gone for years it is there to restore easily.

What you say about protection from fire/theft is still real though. I'm looking for a good (which includes easy) solution for that.
The Carnivore Connection Hypothesis
Hands-On with the $59 Nvidia Jetson Nano 2GB Developer Kit
I worry that, culturally, we're too far gone. I, personally, hate driving in any place that's "downtown" by any measure. It's stressful, slow, the streets are never laid out in a sane way, etc. Kansas City, MO has a streetcar that runs north-south through a lot of the downtown area so that I can park in what city-dwellers assure me is "not downtown" right next to the northmost stop, then ride the streetcar to all of the attractions that are in the main night life district.

It definitely takes ~10-15 mins longer than if I just drove, but goodness it's just so much more enjoyable. I get to sit and look around at the city I'm in instead of focusing on driving.

I've dragged quite a few friends and family along and most people don't like it because:
1. it takes longer (have to wait for transport to arrive, it makes stops you don't need)
2. "iffy people" are on the streetcar

I laugh a bit at #2 because compared to almost any other non-car transport in the US I've ever seen, the occupants of the streetcar are just comically gentrified. Yeah there's one guy who's probably homeless, but everyone else is clearly out for a business dinner or a bunch of yuppies all dressed up to take the family out to dinner, and so on.

Thanks for bearing through me with this anecdote. But I hope it demonstrates two issues:
1. americans will put up with a lot if it makes their trip any amount shorter
2. americans vastly prefer to be annoyed and in control, versus less annoyed but not in control. e.g. they prefer car traffic where they're "in control" (can honk/drive aggressively?) vs waiting for public transport to arrive or waiting at stops they don't need
3. americans associate public transport with lower classes, the poor and homeless.

It'll take a lot of work to flip these around.
Spreadsheet capacity limit causes 16k missing positive Coronavirus test results
The issue there is the same issue that plagues sellers on Amazon or Ebay- brand loyalty is difficult to maintain when one operator often doesn't have the snack you want, or you can't find the operator in your area. Branding could help, but it's unlikely that most consumers will remember what operator their vending machine snack came from, just like I will never remember what 3rd party seller my Amazon product came from.
> I've tried this myself and failed.

I failed at it too, but then some bright spark wrote this script that works like a charm. Bear in mind that the VM might be too slow for normal use.

https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox
This was the point I was leading them to. Thanks!

A billion people are vitamin D deficiency. Many are asymptomatic.

Did you have a viral illness causing your symptoms and it got better? Was it the vitamin D? It is hard to say. Some supporting evidence would be you had a previously normal vitamin D level back at your old GP.
Might be BS? I’m trying to find the article but can’t. Would love it if someone could help me out https://journals.lww.com/pain/pages/currenttoc.aspx

Edit: found it: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.17.209288v2....
Serverless Computing at the Edge: Running Docker Images as Firecracker MicroVMs
During Pennsylvania's red phase, groceries and hardware stores were kept open (to name two examples). Mom and pop groceries and hardware stores were allowed to be open as was Walmart, which sells both. Pennsylvania has a lot of state-level corruption but that isn't it. The governor's overreach arguably prevented a lot of disease spread. Now tell me why the state run liquor stores were declared "essential."
Better to understand this as; What is the use-case of RPi combined with machine learning?

More specific; What is the use case of a battery enabled robot “brain” with machine learning?
also kde connect
There's a comic strip I can't find anymore that showed the progression of ergonomic work environments, ending with a workstation with the person leaning forward with their chest supported. Imagine someone on a sports bike, that's about what the position was.
The wonderful thing about having a language with a handful of core words and endless composition is that you never lack a word for anything. Make-un-government I'd expect.
This is the kind of contraption you really need a partner/roommates/someone within screaming distance around to use safely.
Disable Javascript
Blame DRM: https://goel.io/drm-ownership
Running this in the console removed that for me:

document.querySelectorAll('.freewall--disable').forEach(item => item.classList.remove('freewall--disable'));
Restoration of a rare vintage WW2 military watch
Cloudflare Automatic Platform Optimization for Wordpress Cache Effectiveness
In my network of friends and family, only 3 households have taken up using Google Home. I've asked what they use it for and they've all responded with, "I ask it to play jazz and tell me the weather."

I brought up the concept of Big Brother and concerns about privacy. 2 of them responded with, "Well I've got nothing to hide." The holdout said, "yeah..."

We tried asking Google Assistant an interesting question about the world and some rankings of countries. It disappointed.

I've asked them all to turn off the device when I'm present.
Uglier than having to find the record after the one you're inserting (so you can determine your new record's end date from the subsequent record's start date) and the record before (so you can modify its end date to match your new record's start date)?
Cloudflare Wordpress Plugin Automatic Platform Optimization
Kudos for OP scratching their own itch, but I'm wary of anything that makes it easier to spend even more time not moving.
Are you simply suggesting the removal of those non-functional commits to be called something else than "squashing"?
That ruling was overturned.
With the caveat that variance is infinite when N=1, life seems to have come about fairly early after our planet became survivable. That suggests that if the right conditions are present, life might not be so unlikely.
Yeah that's a lot to be said about being explicit. For example, what if even on a default contract you want to start tracking payment adherence, or maybe sales information and attributing them to sales' numbers.

Or maybe you start reporting and want reports on contracts vs default contracts.

And then things get messy. Because the real world gets messy.
Self Driving RC Car Racing
You’re kinda smushing together two different things: reliability and merit. The SAT (which is similar to the TJ test) is highly reliable—meaning that it’s measuring something real, and not just producing a “random” result.

https://joss.tcnj.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/176/2012/04/2...

> How reliable is the SAT? The College Board website reports that a student’s true score is within 30 points of his or her measured score (SEM = 30; College Board, FAQ, 2005). A test with a standard deviation of 100 and a SEM of 30 has an internal consistency coefficient of .91 (α = .91). In a study specifically investigating SAT I score change upon repeated testing, 1,120,563 students in the 1997 college- bound cohort who took the SAT I one to five times in their junior and senior years gained an average of 7 to 13 points on the verbal section and 8 to 16 points on the mathematics section (Nathan & Camara, 1998). Thus, a student who retested at the higher end of both ranges still would not breach the standard error of measurement, indicating high test-retest reliability. Additionally, in a study of the effects of commercial coaching on SAT scores, Powers and Rock (1999) found that the average increase in student scores after intensive coaching was only 30 points on the verbal section and 50 points on the mathematics section, demonstrating that SAT scores remain relatively stable even with intervening practice.

With an SEM of 30, there is less than a 1% chance that a 100 point difference, between a 600 and a 500 on a section is due to random chance. The difference between a median score and and a TJ level score is 250.

Validity, whether the test measures something we care about is a separate issue.
An open source YouTube app for privacy
Initially the state run stores were closed for quite some time.
Have a look at some used LTO4 tape-drives ~40$ they can store up to 1.6TB per Tape (compressed) and are the perfect thing to offline your data.
Unless someone managed to increase the energy density of battery tech by two orders of magnitude, I don't see pure EV reaching hybrid powertrain performance on most metrics (with obvious exceptions i.e. responsiveness).
Railway stations in the UK used to have cigarette vending machines, back before smoking ban.
> If this is part of your specification, have a DefaultContract entity of some kind somewhere.

Yes, but not in the database table for contracts. That's how I read this part of the post. I would expect the assumption that if the customer doesn't have a fixed contract, they are on a default contract to be encoded in business logic somewhere in an application that uses this database.
I was in the market for a desk and chair recently. Long story short: sitting at a floor table and on the couch all day was causing issues with my back and hamstrings.

I did look into the AltWork setup mentioned. At $7000 (or $4500 for manual option), it's quite expensive but not that bad if amortized over a 20 year period of working 8 hours a day. Investment in long-term health is worth it if the product works as it should and lasts the expected amount of time.

Aside from my wife not wanting it in our apartment (I understand), there isn't enough evidence that zero gravity workstations improve health versus just a good ergonomic chair (ie. an adjustable chair that fits your body) and desk (adjustable and gets low enough to support 90° elbow angle without hitting your legs). In all cases, one needs to take breaks to stretch and move around, not to mention daily exercise.

Went with a HM Embody (armless) chair and IKEA Skarsta hand crank desk instead; zero regrets and I wish I got them earlier (especially the Embody)!
Users may be unable to connect or experiencing degraded performance
Surely the real problem here is not when face retouching filters are on or off by default for your own photos. It's when other people use them and you don't know if they have them on or off. That's what quietly sets the new beauty standed because everyone sees these retouched photos and assumes they are representative of reality. What I'd like to see is something in the image metadata that stores what filters were used so apps could display that info. I can't see that happening though.
Hey now, having the words "cat" and "dog" printed next to the pictures of the cat and the dog is cheating!
I disagree with the author's point of view for the following reasons.

#1 Anyone fancy using a medical device MVP? (shudders)

#2 The author makes the point that a two-person team would be unable to finance the certification regulations and that would be a valid point except that trust me when I say that if your fledgling company had a fully working, well tested and well crafted/coded application and that all that you needed was some seed money to clear the regulatory hurdles then the VC cash would flow, especially these days.

Which leads us on to the issue of documentation. As part of due diligence, good documentation will help clinch the deal. As a small crew the documentation part of it would almost write itself in a weeks worth of everyone contributing if done at the point of serious VC interest.

So given that, I disagree with the author because any App, API, $thing is going to need a lot more QC than say Candy Crush and I’m happy for that to remain the case.
Then I was not clear. The prorated cost should be added to the fees charged to the developer. Developers would likely tack that onto the price of the house, so not a tax, but a develop fee.
This seems mis-leading. It's not "iPhone as Magic Trackpad". If it was it would not require software to be installed on the Mac. As it is it requires software on the Mac so arguably by definition, it's not a "Magic Trackpad"

Maybe that's a minor point but, every piece of software i install is one more vector for exploits., one more piece of software to maintain with updates, one more piece of software that stops working with OS updates where as an actual Magic Trackpad just works.
It's OK to self-care (transcript)
Apparently there's a big Software Defined Radio (SDR) community that appreciates the TFlops of floating point compute. cuSignal in particular.

Note that embedded radios / modems / codec manipulation is incredibly common. Usually its handled by a DSP (VLIW architecture), but I'd imagine that the GPU architecture has more FLOPs. DSPs probably have less latency, but something like SDR is not very latency sensitive (or more like: the community models latency as a phase-shift and is therefore resilient to many forms of latency)

Note: I'm not actually in any of these communities. I'm just curious and someone else told me about this very same question.
Importantly, these “date-like” things have important date-semantics. That is, it may be reasonable to expect your software to be able to handle varieties of precision or completeness of date metadata, in which case your date representation may need to be able to interact with DateTime fluidly without actually being one itself, despite it being tempting to remove these possibilities by making incomplete date information unrepresentable.
Stripe Destroys Small Business
Has anyone else had their small business destroyed by Stripe? I moved my tutoring business to Stripe as the sales team ensured me it would be the perfect invoicing solution. On our first round of invoicing they put an arbitrary tiny limit on how much we can invoice customers per week. As a result we missed payroll and are basically out of business as our entire cashflow has been hijacked by stripe. Customer support is useless. How could they have not mentioned limits when signing up? No way on Earth I would have used Stripe if I had known about invoicing limits. And they last for 4 MONTHS!
Not in the Netherlands anymore, as they'll simply bomb your house for the ATM
I go back and forth on this. The craft part is important and most of us take pride in that. However, often an engineer's part is to "take the craft out of the job" so that things become predictable and maintainable. Once the thing you're working on is large enough you cannot end up in a situation where everything collapses when the craftsman packs up their saws and hammers and takes off to a more interesting project.
If North America was speckled with machines vending hot canned coffee, I would use them far more often than e.g. Starbucks. I drank so many Boss coffees last I was in Japan, they're so convenient -- no line, not too-hot-to-drink, open 24/7, such as in the early dawn. Just a wonderful thing.
1) outline.com is the one that appears to be newer

2) people shouldn't expect to have a patent on generic English words
You can't possibly know that? Ferrari's F1 spend is not public knowledge.
I use my Kobo like it's "dumb"...but I generally have to use Calibre to convert epub to kpub for it to format right on the "page".
The git log isn't a release history, it's a development history. Squashing commits throws away context that could be useful in any number of ways.

There's nothing wrong with squashing a bunch of commits that really should have been a single commit from the start:

- Update X to do Y

- Fix typo in X

- Add "foo" option to X for when Y is a bar

But most of the time "features" consist of many changes: we add one function we're going to need, then another, then yet another... Then we change an API to expose the new functions, then extend the UI to make room for it and finally make put it into the application and pull all the strings together.

Squashing all these into one commit is just a bad idea. You can always do git rebase -i before merging to do minor fixups or even reorder your commits (like when you notice a typo after several other commits), but completely removing all granularity... just no.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_atrophy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_ulcer
A few months later, Will released Tyrade, an impressive macro-based DSL for type-level programming in Rust: https://github.com/willcrichton/tyrade

The README uses some of the same motivating examples as the blog post.

Type-level programming absolutely has its place. Rust's
`typenum` and `generic_array` crates enabled projects like `nalgebra` long before const generics. I recently used type-level programming to prototype an extension to Rust's type system — that's now an RFC (#2981)!
Lots of places had lots of government money funding.
They can, but

1. The large majority of PRs I've reviewed have a single contributor. Additional contributors are rare. When they do happen, they're often a minority contributor or simply consulting on a PR. It's net neutral when all PRs are squashed in the same pattern.

2. Even with multiple contributors, most features have one leader. It's much easier to talk to that person (and have them delegate) than it is to piece together multiple contributions.
I tried something similar after looking at what I really needed a NAS for: serving music and video to my home network, and via Wireguard VPN if needed. When I actually looked at the requirements in detail I set up a Raspberry Pi 4B with 2Gb memory, a 1Tb SSD connected via USB3/SATA and just installed Samba and MiniDLNA. Careful tweaking of the Samba config file ensured that it played nicely with all devices here, including Roku and Apple. It's simple, works well and is backed up to another, offline disk.
The US courts aren't as much burdened as India's mostly because the society in US works with relatively high degree of fairness, merit and justice in the system. For this reason there is also immense trust in the system. Its not exactly 100% but its high compared to India. I have personally lived there and it works for the most part. It is possible to impeach a president in US on grounds of merit. Try doing this in India without triggering a pogrom, or a major civil strife.

They don't have land sharks raiding and occupying lands illegally, or people faking documents to sell the same lands to 10 people, like its common in Bangalore. The system as a whole doesn't have as much fraud, dishonesty and cheating as much as India. When you have this your courts don't get flooded with pointless cases, which shouldn't even exist at the first place. This allows the courts to focus on real issues, and helps fast track clearance of cases and quick delivery of judgement. You won't have this in India until the society as a whole reforms and moves towards developing universal qualities of merit, fairness and justice. Im not talking of enforcing them, but these values existing and being respected in our society as a part of our culture.

>>India is far far more employee friendly than Europe and most parts of US.

Not even remotely close.

>>There is exactly zero cases of employees have lawsuits by their employers.

Hard fact! That's for a simple reason, these employees don't matter :-). Most hop jobs every 1 - 1.5 years. Until you land a big cheque from the VCs. Then you rewrite your systems anyway.

By the time you settle your case over a decade they might have hopped like 7 companies. The original case is largely meaningless.
1. Find a way to become road relevant again. I'd say the only way to do this is to skip Electric as Formula E is doing this already and go for hydrogen fuel.

F1 cars have more in common with jets than road cars and hydrogen is a dead end technology.
What they need is a legally required termination procedure, so when the company shuts down, or if business with a user is terminated, it MUST supply the user with accessible digital goods equivalent to their library, or else the company is liable for goods not delivered.
Compared to total land mass, sure. But (as that map clearly shows) most Mediterranean climate is not in California. If it's just about the climate, there are plenty of options.

...or more likely, the weather is not a critical issue.
Fancy 3D visualizations on screens of embedded devices. Image processing on camera feeds (both "traditional" and neural-network-based). Video encoding/transcoding. Complex UIs in high resolutions.

(strictly speaking any screen with higher resolution and/or expectations of smooth non-trivial graphics requires some kind of GPU, but I take the question to mean why one would want a powerful one)
Revolution in Researching Preprints Through AI
As usual, the hardware is way ahead of software.
This is a bit myopic - $200k for two people for what's basically a no-skill gig is a pretty decent income in most of the country. At that scale it's not a side gig anymore, it's your primary income, and I can imagine the hours are probably comparable to a normal job. And really, I can think of way less appealing jobs that pay worse with less flexibility.
Why reinvent the bed?
All you need for a lay down desk is a 12 inch orthopedic foam wedge and a laptop tray. Both readily available in Amazon. I've been working this way for years.
Ideally, that would give you the best of both worlds. But some places delete the old branches after they're merged. It would be nice if there were an easy way to hide or rename old branches so that the in-use ones stand out.
Not body weight, but deadlifts are a good counteraction. Glutes, lower back and upper back all come into play.
> have a DefaultContract entity of some kind somewhere

This is the OO mindset described at the bottom - the odd compulsion to have a reified entity for every concept.

A lot of people have missed that the representation you persist doesn't have to match the representation you present. In this case, don't store default contracts, but present them e.g. via a database view.
>Do you think the certified editions are fundamentally different from the normal ones? Hint: they aren't

Sometimes they are different (FIPS enabled etc), but that does not stop you working on that project.

>But they still take on full responsibility for each and every patch going into the codebase.

That's how ~every single OSS project works.
On the other hand, there's Ponyo - The Ghibli+Myazaki version, which has a disney-style happy ending where she just gives up everything magical to become a person.
I love how Excel has become a de facto database - even though it absolutely shouldn’t be.
Things like video analysis for security cameras for people who don't want to stream everything to the cloud. It's possible on a single board computer CPU but only with lots of compromises - you can't do multiple streams etc.
Exxon’s plan for surging carbon emissions revealed in leaked documents
That sounds pretty awkward for typing more than a few sentences. Do you have something to angle the keyboard somewhat?