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Thanks for linking this talk, it was indeed interesting. Especially the part where he said that "if the hack costs more than 10 games, we're fine". Indeed, you probably aren't breaking this thing unless you have millions of dollars worth of equipment and the expertise to use it.

But then video game consoles are special. They were always these closed, tightly-controlled ecosystems. General-purpose devices, like phones and computers, typically lack this kind of integration between their components. Yes, there's ARM TrustZone, and that's about it. Thankfully. And I'm not aware of anything similar on x86 PCs (besides the Apple T2, which was recently compromised).
You could just write down a Turing machine.

That captures all of the transcendentals we care about. The remainder (to be fair, almost all of them) aren't computable at all, even in principle.
> the idea of an educational computer for kids

Especially for poor kids in Africa/Asia/etc. Hope it will be the "educational iPod" for them.
Your points actually contradict each other. Do interest rates trump supply and demand and global capital movements, or not?

Here's a graph of median personal income:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N

And here's a graph of median house prices:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?id=MSPUS&nsh...

That is almost exactly an increase of 8X, compared to roughly 1.5X for personal income. Do you think an increase of 1.5X over forty years or so counts as "barely increased"?

Of course household income is higher because most households have two wage earners instead of one. But that's still around 3X to around 8X.

And the standard deviation for property prices has increased hugely.

This has nothing to do with supply and demand and everything to do with the difference between an unproductive rent seeking economy which sweats static assets - including the workforce - and a productive creative economy driven by innovation and invention.

For all the rhetoric, the current economy has a lot more of the former than the latter. And this is only good for a small number of incredibly rich individuals - at the expense (literally) of almost everyone else.
the advantage of F# over OCaml is that your ecosystem is way larger... you can always 'snarf' c# libraries.
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I have a list of functions for distance calculation with metrics on speed and accuracy. If anyone would find it useful.
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This is considered bad in .NET because callbacks can "Post" back to the original SynchronizationContext which depends on what async/await is being used for. For example, a call to await on a WPF UI thread will join to the calling thread so if you call Task.Result without configuring the task to not join back to the calling thread then you can deadlock the callback processing queue. To avoid this you would use ConfigureAwait(false) depending on your situation. It's the source of a lot of confusion in .NET. I don't believe that Rust has this "feature" and if you somehow wrote code to achieve the same thing as .NET does then it probably wouldn't compile in Rust due to the ownership rules.

Source: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/configureawait-faq/
Do remote workers need visas?
Pure speculation, but it's more difficult to fingerprint device users when buying used. Linux is obviously more protective of privacy, as is the entropy of having many near-identical setups.
> most other electricity storage mechanisms are stationary installations that can only time-shift, but not space-shift

It would be perfectly possible to space-shift by charging up batteries with Australian solar power, ship them to Japan and then ship back for recharge.

I assume that since it's not done, it's not currently practical.
If I see that something is written in Rust, I'm predisposed positively because I know it'll be a single binary I can easily install, it'll be fast and it'll usually be well-designed (Rust and good cli design correlate, for some reason).
China just put out a new set of regulation that will severely dampen the leverage available to Ant, and thus dampen their revenue and profit significantly. That will in turn lead to significant downvaluing of its stocks.

So, the next step for the Chinese regulators is to suspend the whole thing for the dust to settle.
> but designing the album cover and the poster for the world tour when you only play some covers from other bands is probably not the best way to make yourself a name in the scene.

I'm not sure it's not. And that's kinda sad...
This law damages the American economy. Now companies will just have people work overseas for far cheaper and that money will leave the American economy.
"Which will be just in time for the arrival of the Perseverance Rover on Mars, another mission DSS43 will handle"

Wait, so they sent Perserverance on it's way to Mars without comms in the southern hemisphere? Or is this a backup?
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"Purchase price" is not the same thing as costs and "revenue price - purchase price" is completely different from profits.

With a broad enough definition and inclusion of other, unrelated prices at that negative part, one can claim that in a time-frame of several years, both average to nearly the same. But that doesn't make them equal, and if you go read those tax-codes, you will discover the ones being discussed add to very different figures even on the long term.

I'll just add here another encouragement to go out and get an understanding of tax codes. Odds are they will be relevant for everybody that frequents here at some point on their lives, and odds are that if you don't know them, you'll only discover their relevance after the fact, when they have already caused you some problem.
Not every splitter can remove HDCP. Only some. It's a real problem because right now I am trying to get a PS3 going again. I've established that the HDMI port isn't burnt out because I am able to get it to show an initial screen but not past that point. I have a new splitter on the way, hope this one works before I test other things out. I'm pretty sure the issue is the HDCP is malfunctioning or is corrupted because I hot-plugged the HDMI cable while the unit was turned on. I also notice an interesting symptom, on my monitor when I attempt to get the PS3 going and then switch over to the computer, if I play something that requires HDCP the monitor will flash a brightly coloured static snow pattern before continuing to play. This doesn't happen if the PC and monitor have been powered down. So whatever is wrong with the PS3's HDCP is definitely leaking out into the monitor temporarily.

HDCP is awful. Thanks Intel.
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Check out Zarch on the Acorn Archimedes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNXypBxNGMo It's an awesome 3D game from 1987 (with truly awful sound). That was made 6 years before Second Reality, on a RISC-based computer. It's incredible.
> If so it seems like that's a relatively easy fix for Github, just check if the commit is actually contained in userB's fork of the repo.

It's not that easy. First of all, you'd need to define "contained in". The naive choice would be anything reachable by a named ref. However, all pull requests also create a ref in your repository, so you'd need to exclude those. But that would mean that if you make a PR and then delete the branch the PR is made from, the PR contents aren't visible anymore.

But even if you have the set of refs that you consider to be in a repository, that means every time an object is requested you'll have to walk the whole graph backwards to find if an object is reachable from a ref. That's an expensive operation, and Git is usually pretty fast because it tries really hard to avoid this.
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I thought they were easy to replace batteries and storage? I found my old iPod at the weekend and love feeling that I'm not being monitored
Don't forget HarveyOS!
AWS also takes good stuff, giving little or nothing back, and supplants solutions that fund the original. Hence the move to AGPL and similar licenses.
>The cover letters were then evaluated by 360 managers who make hiring decisions. They perceived that women who used more feminine language are more hirable than women who used less feminine terms. There was no difference for men. As for likeability, the managers perceived that women who used less feminine language were significantly less likeable than woman who used more feminine terms. Men who used more feminine language also were perceived as more likeable than men who did not.

It seems we might infer that "likeability" is considered important in "hireability" for women but not men. What I like is that there should be other ways to test this hypothesis that don't involve cover letters.
> Yeah, I get the feeling that this theory is mostly based on the fact that the consent of elected representatives is required to raise taxes, but not to print money.

It's required for both; the fact that Congress has delegated monetary policy and not recalled it, and not done the same with fiscal policy doesn't change that, it's just the mechanism by which it provides ongoing consent to the Feds decisions in monetary policy.
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Sadly they are US-only.
I don't see a problem with that if the value is taxed where it is created, eg via VAT.
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Why would eliminate tax arbitrage between states? I'd prefer to see states competing over taxes - it provides a great incentive for efficiency. And no, a company won't always choose the lower tax rate, there are other factors at play like: 1)where are the employees located, 2) will they even go to a state with lower business taxes, 3) what services do I get as a company from the state gov't, 4) what's the general business climate in the state.

I hate the derogatory use of "race to the bottom" since it's the reason why we have handheld computers in our pockets and 60 inch flat screen TVs that cost $300. Every company is "racing to the bottom" to provide as much value for the least cost as possible.
HKEX followed suit also.
This is a really good write up! I wish more companies and SaaS put this the cookie-less directive on top of their priorities.
We are do the same, expect we have a jwt-cookie, but which is strictly bound to our domain. Additionally we avoid third-party scripts and apps, fonts or things like the facebook commenting system. Basically all stuff sending user traces to foreign parties. We did a write-up about this here, if you are interessted, how we did it: https://www.tredict.com/blog/we_do_not_track_you/
Very effective.

Even if a big share of your ad impressions falsely target someone who already bought (see sibling comment) the remaining impressions lead to an increase in conversions at a comparatively low cost per conversion.

As you said, this will vary from business to business, but I have seen very successful retargeting campaigns in b2c e-commerce as well as b2b lead generation.
AMD's processors get very close to 5Ghz and their IPC are already better in a variety of workloads. Their core is smaller and more efficient due to tsmc's 7nm and due to not implementing full width avx512.

I'm still curious what intel is going to offer. But I doubt its anything to write home about
I read good things about F#, including that it is a first class citizen of Microsoft... but I have worries that it could become second class if some financial decision deems it not worth the effort to support for them.

From a functional perspective, I would think the two primary candidates would have been F# with its .NET ecosystem or Clojure with its Java ecosystem. Both are similar in more ways than other languages, especially considering the rich set of libraries available...

But to me the deciding factor would be ClojureScript for the front end. They stuck with ReasonML, if I read correctly, because they already had so much code (50k lines?). But at the same time, the previous post complained about the build tools. Plus it's still Ocaml...
Worth to mention that platformio is VSCode plugin.
Perhaps they should do a better job of taking ties into account somehow. But when there's a line a million people long, the rules need to be very clear and fair, else it's just up to the mood of the agent you end up dealing with that day.

And a problem with any path being a sure thing is that it turns into a route to buy residency. People will line up to hack it. There's a lot of low-tier colleges in the US. And are you including MS degrees? Apparently some can be done in a year, plus internships (CPT) which is yet more work visa.
> shifted CapEx to CapEx

or in other words, shifted nothing?
Founder of Simple Analytics [1] here. There is a lot of information around cookie banners that is just not true. For example cookies are not limited to the technology of cookies, it contains any piece of information that you can use the track a user. An IP address, localStorage, sessionStorage, ... You are allowed to add a functional cookie with a dark mode setting for example without a cookie banner. You can't use an analytics cookie without a cookie banner.

What you are sharing is simply not true and I will clarify. A cookie banner is required when you store PII data. This is personal identifiable information. This includes, but is not limited to an IP address, a cookie with an user identifier, ... You are free to collect data that is not part of this without a cookie banner. You are also referring to a URL as being device information, this is not device information but basically a page view. You are allowed to collect page views and URLs that a linked to this page views with a cookie banner.

You are describing retention for your business. That's only possible with a cookie banner. It makes perfect sense because you need to calculate retention somehow. If you can calculate retention and conversions you are tracking a user. So you need a cookie banner.

Cookie banners are also a thing that are implemented on the web in many wrong ways. You should always have a way to disable cookies. Just a "accept all cookies" is legally invalid under the GDPR. The e-Privacy was already in place before the GDPR and the GDPR is somewhat a clarification of it.

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Are people not fed up with the "equality" propaganda produced by those who neither properly studied math at school, nor understand the fundamentals of statistics like the difference between correlation and causation?
VirtualBox is GPL, that license is for the extension pack that really for most use cases is not necessary.
The low notes on guitar simply sound quite different from the low notes on bass, mostly because of the choice of string gauge, scale length, pickup design and amplifiers. Some genres such as progressive metal & djent find those sounds very useful!

For what it's worth, I agree with you, I find the bass frequencies on even standard-range guitars to not be all that useful. In my own music productions, that part of the spectrum belongs almost entirely to the kick drum & bass guitar. However, once you cut out the low-end mud, the rest of the guitar sounds very good!
If I needed something, I would strongly prefer something to be fairly priced and available for limited purchase rather than either of your two ideas.
Very interesting, I really think that http APIs are just a user management layer that could be easily abstracted away now that we can do so many things client-side.

How do you handle permissions ? or how do you pervent a clients to erase the database ?
This is a great article but I really wish that somewhere on the page it said what a Dark is and why I would want one.

I tried clicking homepage it wasn't there, I tried clicking demo and it tried to open YouTube which was not what I wanted to happen, then finally I found it in the documentation section. The first sentence or two from there, maybe as a subtitle or in the intro paragraph would help I think.
sure, but c# ecosystem is nothing compared to jvm, rails, go, js etc..
I'll give it a try. I have barely noticeable days and days that are annoying. It's worst at night and quiet rooms.
TIL we don't buy devices, we rent them indefinitely.
Cover letter is completely useless and a waste of both parties time IMO.

Look at experience.
Look at skills.
Do they fit the position.

If yes, interview.
If no, do not interview.

The fluff around everything else is just fluff.
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I find that surprising.

I've at least read the cover letters of those I'm about to interview, feels rude not to.
> so no wonder using "feminine" terms is less rewarded.

The article says the opposite?
Isn't China shooting themselves in the foot here?

I don't know the details of the situation so I'd be happy to hear from someone who knows more, but this deal could've been a huge win for Chinese financial markets. Down the road, unexpected government action like this could hurt investor confidence and depress the amount of money Chinese companies will be able to raise from foreign investors.
If you're interested in this stuff you might like:

- MacroVoices Podcast[0]

- The Market Huddle podcast[1]

Lyn has been a guest on the Market Huddle (so you can hear her talk through this article) and Stephanie Kelton has been interviewed on MacroVoices.

[0]: https://www.macrovoices.com/

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTNgTBKATr18Z7kR32rKOBw
I've still got a 1971 MGB. Apart from problems with the electrics - batteries go flat in winter, it's pretty easy to fix most things by hitting it with a hammer.
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Sale of labor should be treated as exactly that, a sale. There should be no special income tax rate.
Precisely, even with that significant slack, it still happens. How frequent will be the overloads in a system with no energy storage capacity, which is sized to handle the existing load peaks and already has infrequent overloads?

The average commute in the US is 50 Km per day and if that is the average it is reasonable to assume some communities will be highly correlated above average, for example if they are 40-50 Km away from a large economic hub, a large proportion of residents will drive the 100Km roundtrip per working day. The lower price of electric comute will prompt many residences to have two electric cars driving the average every working day, for a total, again, of 100Km = 20KWh. So double digit is not exceptional, it will be the average, an extra 3KW of power for each household for the entire night, assuming an outstandingly smart grid that can perfectly level off demand.

Combine that with rare events like hot nights and large movements, psychological reactions like panic, and you have an unreliable local supply that might trip every few months without expensive upgrades.
No. The original scalable solution to low growth is government R&D seed funding spreading out into innovation in the consumer economy.

You're not going to get much growth if all you do is educate people. You also need to give them something to do, and that requires a national investment strategy.

This is exactly the difference between the insanely productive post-war economy, which developed and then commoditised electronics and computing, and the modern lazy bullshit job economy which is built on financialised gambling-at-scale and ad tech rather than game-changing creative invention.
Since early nineties the Unix workstation vendors also had this problem - every now and then they managed to get ahead, particularly with floating point, but then quickly lost the lead, not being able to keep up with Intel. Most of them also loved weird hardware solutions - not just internal bus connectors, but also serial ports (eg the round Mac serial port connectors used by SGI) and sometimes just a "generally weird interfaces", like HP MUX boxes, or HIL keyboards/mice.
So I suppose that is also part of the culture. At companies like Basecamp or Twist, the cover letter matters way more than the CV.
OP's position doesn't work very well the more you generalize. I had OP's philosophy when all I was doing was low level C code. It doesn't work very well when you are switching between yaml, python, c++, c#, typescript all with different libraries, coding standards, and naming conventions. By the time you no longer need the reference to remember, the reference changes.
For what it is worth: The OECD has made a lot of changes to their transfer pricing guidelines, and starting in 2018, individual countries have a lot of leeway in re-assigning profits to other jurisdictions. The effect is not fully felt yet because the new guidelines are not evenly applied, but a friend of mine (who spent most of the 2000s building aggressive tax structures for multinational pharma companies) has spent the last few years mostly unwinding the aggressive structures again, in reaction to the OECD changes.

If you are interested in the details of this, Google "OECD BEPS transfer pricing"; it is quite a fascinating topic.

On a side note: The same updated guidelines, when misapplied by an aggressive tax authority, can cause all sorts of headaches for fully-distributed, fully remote companies, and the extent how this can cause trouble is underappreciated by the startup scene.
How is the dotnet virtual machine compared to the java virtual machine? (memory use, performance, startup time)
It's only fitting to put a link to the Deep Space Network (DSN), displaying what all the dishes are doing right now (spacecrafts, data rates...): https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
I tried to use their push CDN service but I could never upload a file through their API. I went back and forth with support but nothing got solved.

Also, the API for their dashboard was super slow for me. I mean waiting up to 10 seconds for every click on the dashboard or API interaction.
Non-rust programmer here, written in X does not tell me anything about the app.
I'm very curious how the system will hold up when 10s of thousands are using it. I think it will be a while until that happens though.