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I'm curious how you would distinguish that from her presence having zero effect, positive or negative, on a company. I don't see how you can possibly know that she made eBay much bigger than it would have been without her. It seems to me just as likely that it would have been the same, and that HPE and Quibi were both doomed no matter what. On what basis is she brilliant, a good manager, and makes a successful business more successful?

The good CEOs I've worked under, had a clear vision for the company and were good at selling that vision both to investors (private and public/stock market) and to the rank and file during monthly or quarterly all-hands. Did she do that?
password managers feel like vendor lock in. what happens if i need to move to another manager, or i need to sync everything to my phone. they go out of business, they decide to charge more. or if i pay for it and now i cant pay for it anymore.

if i sound like an idiot, id love to hear why btw! heh
If only there was a way you could mark an issue as "old, but still possibly relevant." Perhaps by adding a label, or something.... Doesn't all issue tracking software support either labels, tags, or custom statuses beyond "open, todo, in progress, closed"?

I think having a bot tag, but not close, issues over a certain age, seems to make a lot of sense.
> uncensorably Bitcoin

Bitcoin can be censored. Do to it's transparent nature, miners can refuse to add transactions to blocks based on specific criteria such as sender, receiver, and transaction amount.
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It is though.
Yeah, he was one of the first "heroes" I've ever reached out to; I thought it was pretty awesome that he was willing to chat with his fans, and never got to a point of feeling "too good" to do something like that.

Since then, I pretty much email everyone on the internet that I have any respect for; I don't know how annoying I am because of that but I think we can thank Randi for giving me the courage to do so.
They're definitely being made, just blocked by CORS. Firefox shows that 52 OPTIONS requests were made, which failed, so it blocked their corresponding POSTs.
The Facebook Container extension is special, it does a bunch of work to put all of Facebook and only Facebook inside the Facebook Container. Bits of Facebook trying to peak through outside Facebook (e.g. tracking pixels) are elided entirely. Which is exactly what I want. But ordinarily that's not the behaviour you get from a Firefox container.

e.g. I have that Facebook Container, and I also have a Slack container I just put together in the usual way by opening my Slack session (it's for the main social group I hang out with, during the pandemic) inside a Container with a pink theme and icon.

Suppose three friends send me a funny Youtube video of kittens, one sends it on Slack, one on Facebook, one literally sends me a postcard with the URL on it.

In Facebook, it's inside the Facebook container. Since the Facebook Container has no idea who I am, Youtube presents adverts and of course there's no way to add the video to my "Fun kitten videos" list. But if I tell Youtube to open this now the tab is not Facebook, a no-referrer link opens with the URL and now in my default context which has Youtube Premium, so there are no adverts and I can add this to my lists. As far as Facebook is concerned I apparently just left. Unless Google tells them I watched that video they are none the wiser.

Slack is inside the Slack container. So again, no Youtube account, adverts. But if I open the Youtube page that's still inside the Slack container, so still no Youtube account. I need to explicitly get the URL and paste it into a not Slack tab to get my default context.

The link from the postcard obviously I get to choose which context to type it into the URL bar, although maybe the UX of typing random Youtube URLs in isn't great.
I use keepass + dropbox for syncing. You can replace dropbox with another syncing mechanism of choice, but this works out great.
Note that speed is not being judged, I found it significantly easier to get 32/32 after realizing this might be the case.

For some reason I find +1/64th harder to distinguish than -1/64th, is it possible to have asymmetrical perception differences this subtle? or is it more likely software / hardware limitations?
It depends if it doesn’t gets neutralized by your stomach acid and can be absorbed by your intestines it will hit your blood stream.

Since most (if not all) animal venoms are proteins they’ll probably will be broken down by your saliva and stomach acid, tho I wouldn’t consider drinking them especially in high enough amounts to be safe even without wounds.
The phrase "by design" can be used emphatically and/or to mean in effect. Or at least that's how I also use it. Intetstingly, according to Webster's 1913 I'm using the word emphatically in an obsolete fashion.
Real tone-deafness (amusia) is fairly rare. Something like 20% of people self-report it, but the actual prevalence is only ~4%. What most people seem to mean when they say they have it is "I can't sing at all." But really tone-deafness is not about singing poorly, it's about not being able to discriminate tones. This includes you vocalizing them, yes, but it also includes you hearing them. In fact I would hazard a guess that if you are able to tell you are off-pitch while you're singing, then that might in and of itself preclude tone deafness (although my understanding may be off there).

What I do know is that most people with amusia cannot and do not enjoy listening to music. Many say it sounds like noise, or just sounds unpleasant. And People with amusia tend to have other, related issues -- difficulties discerning pitch in spoken sentences (was that intonation representing a question or a statement? that sort of thing).
let wasn't inside the loop, which is what made it weird.
Hah! I forgot all about that! Thanks for the reminder and the chuckle.
"Let me pay for it instead of watching ads" is the part that's said out loud. The part that's only implied is "and stop tracking me, stop making recommendations with the sole purpose of distracting me/keeping me here longer, etc". The part that isn't said is "stop treating me like the product".

No one wants to pay for something where they're still the product being sold. Youtube Premium still has all its trackers, still recommends videos not that it think you will find interesting but that it thinks will keep you watching (for better or worse), and still feeds all of your data into the Google ads network for companies to target you on other websites.
The preregistration of studies seems to essentially be a panacea for publication bias. This would require no changes except for simple audits to ensure timelines are as described.
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All geothermal projects in Canada will require a direct heat off-take to be viable. In fact the revenue from direct heat use will generally be more than electricity sales. The 5MW plant in Alberta I referenced was built around a proposed industrial park, with the idea being to create a district heat system that upgraded the heat in some facilities and donated it at other facilities.

The best use of heat is as heat, without converting it. The problem is that heat doesn't travel very well, 5-8 km is really the practical limit before insulation costs swamp revenues. And a lot of industrial heat is too far away from a viable user of that heat. If the facility can use the heat internally their process engineers have already incorporated that (through pinch analysis etc).

We have one project now where we're replacing a heat exchanger that is supplying process heat from the exhaust with a power plant, but then using the waste heat from the power plant (still 80% of it left!) to replace the process heat. Overall efficiency will be around 60%.
Do you think having high quality headphones makes this easier?
There are at least several apps for each platform that can work with KeePass files.
All the convenience and all the unsafety of C code while interacting with C code? Why not just use C, or C++ if expression power is needed?
I don't remember what the default settings are, but I do remember changing a fair number of them (and they are numerous). Definitely not the most friendly tool to casual use. But when fully configured, it is my second favorite addon (behind uMatrix).
Divesting (directly or via banks) is pointless. Its always good to use less plastic, so I guess we can try that though...
Yeah tried it without headphones with my phone pressed against my ear. I barely managed to catch the last two reference tones most of the time after clicking next. The 1/64ths were tough that way. I missed a couple of the first ones but started getting them after I got a good click, get the phone to the head to listen to the tones fast rhythm going on.

I recommend headphones at the very least.
That takes me back, I remember trying to switch my (then) Windows Live ID to the United States so I could test Skydrive. In doing so I was locked out the the account since I didn't have a US postal address, with no way to revert my actions. I don't think I was even a teenager at the time
> the cover of Lions' book: After 20 years this is still the best exposition of the workings of a real operating system

Fun fact: At one point in history, Lions' book had the status of being a forbidden book of knowledge due to copyright problems. After AT&T commercialized UNIX v7 in 1979, the permission for using the source code in classrooms was withdrawn, it could no longer be read without a UNIX license. But students continued to make illegal copies and study it illegally, who would later become the next generation of hackers and developers. This is also the initial motivation for Andrew Tanenbaum to write MINIX - as a classroom substitute. And he had to be as careful as possible not to derive anything from the original Unix code, such as Lions' book.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Lions_Co...

This picture from an Unix history exhibition recreated the historical atmosphere by showing Lion's book in front of a huge legal warning [0].

I found this period of history was amusingly similar to the worldbuilding of some fantasy fictions - In the world of magic, the original magic scriptures are forbidden to be learned, the books are sealed, reading them is a taboo [i.e. UNIX source code]. Instead, one must read "safe" textbooks to learn magic. These textbooks are written by great wizards, and it basically contains a second-hand and distorted rehearsal of the knowledge in the original scriptures, sanitized to the level that deemed safe for human, but it is not as powerful [i.e. Tanenbaum's MINIX]. And there are outlaws who want power and they ignore the taboo, however, attempting to read the original magic scriptures will cause irreversible psychological injuries [i.e. cleanroom violation, AT&T lawsuits are coming].

[0] This document contains proprietary information of the Bell System. Use is restricted to authorized employees of the Bell System who have a job-related need-to-know. Duplication or disclosure to unauthorized persons is prohibited. Outside the Bell System, distribution of this document has been restricted to holders of a license for the UNIX Time Sharing Operating System, Sixth Edition from the Western Electric Company. Use, duplication, or disclosure of this document is subject to the restrictions stated in such license from Western Electric Company.
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They are getting minimums, but maybe only minimums.

> "Original, live action dramatic new media productions which are less than 20 minutes in length and made for initial exhibition on a subscription video-on-demand consumer pay platform are not subject to” the tiered breakdowns that help set wage scales “regardless of their budgets."

Another interesting point:

> "While Quibi owns the licensing for its shows for seven years, those terms only apply to the short format. A feature-length edit of each show is also made, and after two years, producers/showrunners/other creative intellectual property holders have the right to sell it to distributors."
I don’t remember where I was sitting, but the connection was way better than expected - even in the middle of the tunnel. This was almost four years ago.
Frankly speaking, I had this impression too. The reason why JVM and JS uses own bytecode for implementing JIT-compilation is because main means of optimization are inlining and vector scalarization (convert complex object to simple ones). E.g. you have a container that hold integer and does nothing else, thus when JIT-compiling you can skip the whole boxing/unboxing and manipulate a single integer value stored in register. However, you cannot do that in a simple ways if your integer container is a C extension black box — you cannot "inline" the container's functions and reduce its store-loads.

This is why PyPy reimplements standard library in RPython — so you can JIT-optimize it. But it feels like Mark Shannon knows nothing about these efforts — which is kinda strange considering his position of core CPython developer.

>There are other lower hanging fruits, like optimizing core data structures (e.g: the implementation of python dicts)

Unfortunately, you cannot easily implement efficient data containers without rewriting existent python code. The latter one relies heavily on dictionary-based access to pretty much everything, and you cannot easily convert "string hash" access into "record offset" access, because you cannot know a priori what object has what structure and converting hash into offset is basically the same dictionary lookup. For example:

a = A()
a.field = varname + 1

What can you optimize here? What "varname" is? What A's structure is? Is "A" a class or a function? Not only you are unable tell the semantic of the code just by looking at the code — you can't even tell the semantic after you've examined the "A" and "varname" on some previous iteration, because somebody might've declared/modified those on outer scope or directly modified "A" or "varname".

Last year in my spare time I've been working on an unpublished library for python multitasking with shared memory structures (probably will make some blog post in few weeks and link it here), and I also encountered the problem of inherently inefficient implementation of python basic types. However, I'm yet to find the solution without breaking compatibility with existing code. For example, if you look at ctypes, they have some very efficient containers, but using them in a regular python code is a pain, and the c-python interface eats most performance benefits of efficient containers.

So what's really needed for optimization of python is some kind of python subset, like RPython but probably more human-friendly, so efficient containers can really become efficient while automatic optimizer can select or create automatically those efficient containers. Just like V8 JS engine does, which stores objects in records with static structure. It happens to works in JS for most cases. Countrary, in Python it does not work for most cases, that's why we have so much struggle optimizing the Python.
"Free" doesnt always mean "Free beer",

"Free Software" has a specific (and different meaning) than Open source.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

I think this is what OP meant not wanting their software to be available at no cost.
They work extremely well in almost every country in the world. The situation described in the article in India was an unusual circumstance, and obviously the bidders overpaid for the spectrum given that the ultimate customers have very limited financial means. It’s possible this may repeat itself in other similar countries with high population and low income levels.

That definitely doesn’t mean it doesn’t work elsewhere. I’ve personally been involved in Singapore, Belgium, Sweden and Mexico’s spectrum auctions and the results have been very successful. As further proof, if countries felt they weren’t successful we would see the number of auctions decreasing. It’s the exact opposite, the expected number of spectrum auctions in the next 2-3 years is extremely high. It’s a quick way to make some money for governments struggling to raise money right now.

(I provide the software used in many spectrum auctions in the world)
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Am I correct in saying that if I don't migrate my family's Mojang accounts to Microsoft accounts that I will lose all ability to play the game? How the hell is this legal? I would have no problem being limited to playing the last released version of the game and not being allowed newer updates, but to lose all access to the game is unacceptable. They are effectively retroactively revoking the right for me to use my purchase and keeping my money.

Also, I will absolutely not be creating Microsoft accounts for my kids. I want them as far from these centralized identity providers as I can keep them.
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The rules of chess do not change often, but the way the game is played changes all the time. Hanlon's razor is a boundary condition.
I don't keep track of which sites do it, and it's fairly infrequent, but if I happen across an example I'll let you know.
With what addon?
Amazon's Ion format is decent, albeit not so long in the public domain, i believe
It's not like they are content dominating just those verticals. Agriculture anyone?

https://x.company/projects/mineral/
Not lobbying, you’re thinking too Western. It’s given to family or family friends.
And doesn’t force you into non-local sync. Passwords are one thing I’m not comfortable moving to cloud. After using 1Password for about 9 years I switched to BitWarden this year - just for this reason.
Shouldn't articulation mean a certain breadth of intellectual perspective vs depth? Just a thought, be feel like those discovering novelties on their own might struggle to articulate their intuition.
The article suggests that the trick to high profits is really getting the depth for higher temperatures without melting the equipment. Because getting lower with higher temperatures dramatically increases the energy generation. As opposed to sort of current minimal viable depth/temperatures.

So is it possible that with some significant engineering advances the costs would go down and generation would go up quite a bit? To me the article is suggesting research investment to improve the materials and technology to go deeper less expensively.

Can you provide any insight into the feasibility of that type of research paying off? Do you know of any promising techniques, materials, designs? Or maybe you feel like they are insurmountable challenges? Thanks for any details.
Isn't that incentivizing companies without much existing market share in the area to just bid high revenue shares? At best they get some money and at worst they close up shop thus coming back close to neutral. Maybe they even get to screw a competitor for a few years as they stall build out. Of course the population gets hurt if the latter happens since they get no infrastructure.
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I mean, the issue is I can't choose to pay for quality rail service because it doesn't exist here. I can't take HSR from e.g., Boston to NYC, SF to LA, or Seattle to Portland/Vancouver. These are all trips I would have gladly made at 100-400 dollar ticket prices in the last year.
The names for Microsoft accounts actually are using Xbox Live. Names no longer need to be unique on the platform, instead the are suffixed with a unique descriminator such as appears on Battle.net
> YAML is better than XML but, it sucks compared to something like HTML or Markdown (which I can teach to execs and children alike).

I'm still regularly surprised by Markdown. I have to rely on previews and occasionally still need to check the docs.

My bulleted lists often break and I can never remember the syntax for links.

It's ok to like WYSIWYG even if you're a hacker.
They do learn if you clicked the links or not...
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TikTok is free.
You laugh, but I once threw a "tasting party" for my friends that went along those lines. You can buy a kit with a bunch of test strips with certain chemicals on them on amazon (search "super taster kit") and see who reacts to them and who doesn't.

Add in some miracle berries and weird food, and you've got a good time.
> Quibi pushed into new territory in a highly risky way - that’s cool.

Well, the thing is they didn't. Short-form content isn't exactly a new concept; I've been watching short videos for years on Youtube and other sites. And the way that Big Hollywood executives chose to approach making this short-form content appears to have largely been "make a regular long-form content and chop it up into smaller pieces" which is a high risk move only in the way of the "That's a bold move Cotton" meme.
not sure if this is towards parent comment..

I have seen ads in Win 10 start menus, and they recently pushed Office web apps auto-installed into Win 10 - it would seam to me they are generating revenue with ads and app installs at the least.
certainly they are using cortana data gathered to shore up other projects (maybe in the future)?
Win 10 looks to me like straight jealousy of google getting all kinds of data (and being worth big money) in exchange for free products - so it's going that route.

For me it's about comparing Win 10 to ChromeOS for this comparison.

I guess you could look at Bing vs Google search as well, and Edge vs Chrome - they are similar is data collection, ad selling - so the parent comment (to me inferring) that one could compare google being an AD company and Msoft being a software sales/licensing + company is not a good way to decide.. I think it needs to be broken down by the various products.

Both companies have done things to protect consumer data, but they have also done things to abuse it imho.

In regards to O - I think my suggestion currently would be to find alternatives such as Chromium, plugins like adblockers and noscript, and hardware like pihole or whatever.

Both MSfot and Google are collecting data, regardless if they say that they are using currently using it in nefarious ways today or not, they may intend to use it in different ways in the future, or could be compelled to release it one way or another in the future. imho.
>I recently wrote a C base class (https://jcristharif.com/quickle/#structs-and-enums) for defining dataclass-like-types that's noticeably faster (~5-10x) to init/copy/serialize/compare than other options (dataclasses, pydantic, namedtuples...)

YouTube also encountered the same problem. Their solution sounds kinda like "never use pickle, because it's slow. Use custom serialization".
The web example leaves a lot to be desired honestly.
True, but this is another dimension of tonal perception I think i.e comparative memory. Kind of like the musical equivalent of short term memory... until you get into scales and more recognizable sequences then that part of the brain seems to have way better memory abilities somehow.
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