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That doesn't make batteries better, it just makes ICE worse. Battery research is improving, but at the end of the day we are just trading fossil fuels for massive mines- especially cobalt and nickel (with today's tech, who knows tomorrow).

At least CO2 can be scrubbed from the atmosphere.
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Well legally speaking, it says "before" cancelling, but they don't specify a frame of reference so they might as well fuck off.
This isn’t necessarily so, though. I don’t see why unchecking the checkbox can’t create an Option<T> that is passed (int value, bool false). It just means that you accept this as a valid construction state, and that it must therefore be handled.

I admit that I might be missing something fundamental to this discussion.
The problem I'm most afraid of isn't people actually using deepfakes for nefarious purposes (although I think you are not nearly concerned enough about that... It would be very easy for Russia or China to alter local elections by making a grainy video of a candidate appearing to smoke crack a la Rob Ford, for example). I'm afraid of people internalizing the idea that you can't trust video at all. I agree with your criticism of the media on this, but from a slightly different angle... They are spreading that exact idea. True or not, it's a dangerous idea.
"After your license expires, the presentations you’ve created will remain in your account and keep their privacy status."

Did that change today?
Would that work well with zoom meetings where participants aren’t on the same latitude? I would think the difference in time of sunrise between them varies during the year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_equation). If so, repeated appointments would have to move for at least one of them. In itself that isn’t problematic, but if one also has appointments with people on the same latitude, non-overlapping events might start overlapping over time.

Also, why stop at sunrise, and discriminate against sunset? Do what the Romans did: always have 12 hours between sunrise and sunset and 12 between sunset and sunrise (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_timekeeping#Variation) :-)
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I mean, instead of adjusting the time, you adjust the coordinates. So Greenwich would move a bit and the real origin of UTC would be a little to the left or right of Greenwich. (We'll have to adjust it anyway because of tectonic plate shifting.)
They could just email the user a zipfile of all their presentations, and then delete them. No need for radio buttons, and IMHO this is the most user-friendly/intuitive option because it doesn't force you to make any hard choices but still leaves you in control. Want to re-subscribe later? Cool, you can re-import those presentations. Need the data for archiving? You've got it. Privacy? Preserved.

Let's be real, there's no benefit to involving the private/public setting here other than making the service more sticky / difficult to leave.
There are several coronaviruses that cause what's commonly known as "the cold". If you catch one and recover you're likely to be immune against infections from the same viral strain for some time.

For SARS-CoV2 and the COVID-19 disease it causes this means that even without the - quite likely - availability of a vaccine over time natural immunity will build up within individuals and the population as a whole, which has the potential of both making the resulting disease less severe and future waves spreading less.

If most individuals who contract the virus during the next few months can't get sick anymore and can't spread the virus anymore for the about 6 months those individuals are taken out of the equation, which leaves less individuals for the virus to spread to in the next wave.
Government funded research is responsible for much of the innovations, competition and successes of the 20th & 21st centuries.

Let's be honest: Every single company which is dependent on the internet has the govt to thank for their success. There's just no way that the internet would've been a success without govts.

I do agree that we live in a "corporatist economy" (neo-feudalist more like it) though and I agree that [1] and [2] are issues.

I believe that the solution is more democracy, more equality, and more socialism.
Yeah but RPi SoC is apparently lacking in PCIe lanes. I think they need a different SoC so they can finally have ethernet/storage/usb controller on the PCIe bus.
Oh damn, this really feels like it is nailing exactly the gap that the Pi was kinda designed to fill in the first place, IIRC: the small, cheap computer that a kid can dive into, and which a few future titans of the industry will fondly look back on as what got them started.
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The modern mass-media incarnation of propaganda in modern world, for sure. But ideological-purity regimes are certainly not new to the world stage.
It's not an energy efficiency problem, it's an energy density problem.

Burning hydrocarbons peeks out at something like 40% efficiency. Yet we are only now getting to the point where EVs have the same range as ICE vehicles, even though the battery->motor conversion is something like 90% efficient.

Why is that? Because the amount of energy that can be stored in batteries is MUCH lower than the amount of energy released from burning fuel.

Transport needs to carry all of it's energy with it (or, have something like a 3rd rail to provide energy).

That's the argument for biofuels in the future. Not that you can't replace 99% of transport with electricity, but rather some forms of transport require a lot of energy.

We are JUST getting to the point where batteries have enough density to power a prop plane for ~ 1hour worth of flight.

We are no where near the energy density where a cargo ship could sail from china to the US or for international flights.

One alternative to biofuels is hydrogen from something like electrolysis.

One thing I think we'll both agree on. Ethanol for cars/trucks is a terrible idea. EVs are the future there.
> The district couldn't secure all of the necessary Chrome Books, and some students have been left attempting remote learning via their parent's phone, or simply left behind. A cheap mass market device has some truly amazing potential to fill in these gaps at the same time that it enables more advanced S(T)EM learning than you could get with a typical cheap Chrome Book.

How many households in this situation have an extra monitor lying around to plug this into, or even a proper desk to have a desktop computer set up on? Plus they'll need a separate webcam (and I'm guessing finding one that just works out of the box on Raspbian without fiddling around with drivers and such could be non-trivial). This new Pi form factor is kinda clever but surely a $200-$300 chromebook or tablet is still significantly more accessible.

And how does a desktop enable more advanced STEM learning than a laptop?
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Yeah that's definitely a factor. There's part of it that's not related though – scaling out build capacity. Setting up a Jenkins build node is actually quite straightforward and reliable on the Jenkins side, similar to a BuildKite node for example, the issue is where is that node, how does it get provisioned, how is it managed, removed, etc.

For us, it was a bare metal machine where we had to email a sales rep to get a machine added, then spend ~2 hours setting up firewall stuff with semi-manual Ansible scripts. Add to that minimum contract terms and difficulty cleaning machines, and it was a pain to manage.

Conversely, if you've got a reliable autoscaling solution of some sort, and your build manager is capable of poking that as necessary to scale up and down (possible with Jenkins, but hard), then this could be really easy to do and BYO may be feasible.

Having a CI provider give us ~unlimited pay-as-you-go capacity that needed no management on our end and was always a clean environment, that was worth a lot to us in engineering time.
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That's what someone who's jealous about not having a 1:1 size Parthenon replica would say

Stay mad and Parthenon-less, friend
I wonder if it's possible to avoid that, once it gets going. Twitter already seems like it's in the "garbage site" category, and they won't be able to fix that without throwing away the network effect that they depend on.

Anybody can post anything they want on their own sites, or a number of other completely unmoderated sites. People don't go there because their friends are already on Twitter. The conspiracy theorists follow because that's where the target is. They don't want to just post on their own site, or on sites where only other conspiracy theorists will read it. Even if those sites weren't perceived as garbage, people wouldn't go there simply because they don't know anybody.

It feels like Twitter and FB have the tiger by the ears and can neither let go nor continue to ride.
Just wanted to say that I've been watching your Pi videos on YouTube over the last few months and I really enjoy them. Your video about trying to get a GPU working with a Raspberry Pi was particularly fascinating. Keep up the great work.
Block chain is the only one in your list that is actually decentralized, and it winds up de-facto centralized anyway because it's too slow.

BitTorrent is centralized around the search engines, because a content-addressable storage system can't help with content discovery. You need someone to delete torrents that claim to be video games but are actually ransomeware.

FreeNet is the same as BitTorrent, except that it has built-in support for updatable "freepsites," so the content directories are built into the protocol instead of being run as regular websites. Also, it's anonymous, and kinda slow. It's actually really cool, and horribly underrated, but it doesn't actually solve the schelling point problem. Which freepsite do you trust to have factually correct information?
John Deere has made prototype electric tractors. The battery operated one was a ~100 (150?) horse power tractor packed full of batteries that was able to do everything the equivalent diesel tractor could do - for about 1 hour then the battery was dead. Note that the above tractor is considered mid size, the big tractors that sell the best have far more horse power. The other is a tractor with a 1km (or longer?) cable to it can plug into the grid at all times. Neither is practical for real farmers, though they do work.

I'm a Deere Employee. I cannot talk about projects other than the above, but I wouldn't hope for practical electric tractors in the near future.
This is great and all, but I'd be interested what proportion of the entire cohort demonstrated a T-cell immune response, not just the 100 who tested sero-positive for SARS-COV-2. There is growing speculation that a significant minority of people may mount a T-cell immune response without ever contracting SARS-COV-2 itself, based on exposure to other coronaviruses. This would be great news since it further reduces the effective threshold for endemic equilibrium.
Easy for you to say. It's the people at the margins that suffer from the chaos changing these borders wouls cause.
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Winamp 5.666 and 5.8 have been out for years now. This blog is trying to pass them off as something new, which they aren't.
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Would y'all consider someone relocating from the US?
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It means both parties committed atrocities, and the position of some leftists that they hold absolute morality somehow is baseless and delusional.
How is plugging a keyboard into an iPad all that different from plugging a monitor into a Pi 400?

I left Apple for the hardware (butterfly keyboard, touchbar), and stayed away because of the software.
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A more user friendly approach would be to not need the user to make a choice at all, and keep their private presentations private (maybe make them read only, or hidden until the user makes a choice after cancellation). Although maybe this doesn't provide enough incentive to subscribe.
Two things:

1.) I understand this is a rhetorical device but it is disingenuous to ask someone to provide evidence of what another individual knew and when.

2.) Their terms are public. Your comment would have been more usefully informed had you bothered to read them.
There are a couple of things that I don't get.

Why are accounts suspected of TOS violations not simply put into read-only mode instead of shutting out users completely? If the identity/authorisation of the user is not in doubt it makes zero sense to not let people download their data before closing the account.

This simple change would fix all the consumer related horror stories with zero cost to Google. In fact it would become cheaper for Google because people would stop pleading with them.

Also, why is there no one-off paid support option that covers the cost of a human checking evidence and is expensive enough to deter mass abuse by fraudsters? Why is there no option to provide a photo ID upfront so that there is always a last resort to check whether a user is who they say they are?
> The "importance" of the mailing list I'm trying to emphasize is the Schelling Point.

You have said Schelling Point enough times for me to have caught that. It is, however, not correct to assign this to the mailing list.

(Also, as a side-note, "focal point" is a more natural, common, and much less awkard term.)

> The list also acts as a Schelling Point to coordinate and consolidate public discussions.

No, it does not. However, it does serve a similar (albeit unimportant) function: providing visibility into ongoing discussions for outsiders, as well as a way for people to join a discussion there were not otherwise introduced into by fellow maintainers.

As a point of reference, during the handful of kernel patches I have gotten upstreamed, the mailing lists themselves served no function. My only interaction with them was to Cc them, as per the guidelines. I did not read them, and all my interaction was with the individuals I To: or Cc:'d directly.

A key thing to note here is that historical discussions on a mailing list are not particularly important in mailing-list style development, as all relevant information should be in the commit message that the discussion culminated in. Likewise, being able to chime in on ongoing discussions are, on its own, not truly that important either—in the worst case, something bad is implemented, and someone upon discovering this starts a new discussion and possibly end up changing it.

In big, or long-standing projects, this happens relatively often, as no individual has the bandwidth (or interest) to keep up with every discussion, and relies mostly on being introduced to discussions when others find them relevant (with git history revealing if they are relevant).

> A mailing list also has a Schelling Point aspect where people can discover email addresses of maintainers.

> How would new people easily discover the maintainers' email addresses without any Schelling Points?

> I disagree. Today, if I notice a bug where youtube-dl is broken, I don't have a canonical place to report the issue.

These are all the same argument, which I will consolidate as: "You cannot discover the target address if the mailing list is down".

This is entirely false: the mailing list does not serve the function of email address discoverability in any form. Instead, the source is the source code itself, in which the target email addresses will be recorded ad nauseam.

Not only will you as holder of the source have the email address of every historic contributor and maintainer (including knowledge of who is relevant to what area), there will usually also be explicit listings available (README, maintainer lists, etc.). External sources might redundantly cover the information as well, but that is non-critical.

To carve it out: You, as a holder of the source code, will always be able to send patches, ask questions, as well as start discussions that others will organically be added to, using no other sources of information than the source, irrespective of mailing list availability, as long as you can send email, and that at least one of the maintainers or contributors of the source can still receive email.
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I don't want to be the wise guy, but you know that technically, the People's congress was elected correctly, right?

And yes, they had multiple parties until the republicans had two elections in a row, and managed to influence the supreme court so much that they could gain total power over new arising parties (declaring them illegal from the start if they do not represent the congress's opinion), up until there was no way to get elected because the media was controlled by the very same laws.

See any parallels regarding Fox News and the Republicans or say, Dick Cheney?

No? Maybe do some research on your own and sleep over this.

China is actually the only country I would compare US's democracy with, because a lot of candidates have no choice but to join one out of two partied to even get considered to be elected. And it's not the 1st vote that decides this, because democracy in the US doesn't differ between party votes and candidate votes (whereas most other democracies have moved on, for like hundreds of years, and fixed this).

Thr problem I see here is that the US didn't have a revolution. Europe had to be crushed a couple of times in order to learn how to prevent their architectural mistakes in future.
YouTube is trying to autoplay a Fox Business live MAGA event after this. I suppose they’re in the same category – misleading videos featuring Trump?
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Reminds me of the folklore.org[1] story about the Steve Jobs-requested, Susan Kare-designed bitmap embedded in the original Macintosh ROM to catch cloners.

[1] https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
We have a fallback coax connection going another way, it's only 500Mb/100Mb/s but it does the job if the fiber is cut. We are also working on having a 5G fallback just in case, as 5G bandwidth can be quite high on short range.
IDK, Ethernet over USB seemed really smart, as did self-hosting a little web server for upload/download. It's all pretty basic still though...

I don't want this thing cluttered up with a bunch of bullshit. This is why I really want access to make more modifications to it more easily. That said, I poked around the OS a bit and have access to root, so it stands to reason hacking on this thing isn't insanely restrictive already. Would be really amazing if Remarkable gave out their UI toolkit though.
Spitting Image just started up again after 14 years. It's not amazing but worth a look:
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You can already do that with fragment shaders. I've already caused my computer to crash and reboot by going a bit to crazy with the fragment shader.
I know relatively little about the Compute Modules... Are there any decent "racks" for these that would allow you to assemble many of them into a single unit?