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Its in Intel HEX format so you cant see clearly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_HEX

You have to convert to binary first

xxd -r -p sb.hex > sb.bin

and then look at strings

strings sb.bin

lot of garbage
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92 Anchor Electronics Co.,

This is some Taiwanese clone schlae is talking about in his presentation. There is another SB 1.5 clone firmware floating around for "ATI Stereo F/X ISA Sound Card" dumped by MAME people https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Num... https://archive.org/download/MESS-0.151.BIOS.ROMs/MESS-0.151...
MAME guys also dumped SB16 firmware and its available (ct1741_v413), but afaik there are no public Creative SB/SBPro dumps.
Yeah when your top 6 includes an auto-renewal dark pattern but none of the big social media companies it's not super credible.
True "prepping" (beyond the basics for realistic disasters like utility outages and hurricanes) has always seemed to me like a deeply depressing obsession. Spending so much of your real-world time and money grimly preparing for a far-flung end-of-the-world scenario so that, in the very best case, you can... what, eke out a survival for a little while longer? In terms of maximizing the amount of happiness in one's life, it feels like a terrible waste of resources and energy. If you actually want to increase your number of years on this planet, go on a diet. Go to the gym.

Now: I think (looking at this from the outside) that for some people it's really just a hobby. They may not admit it as such, but I think some people just truly enjoy running through scenarios and stocking things up for the sake of the process. If so, I can't judge them for that. I spend plenty of money on useless things at renaissance fairs because I enjoy the roleplaying aspect. If prepping is just someone's preferred flavor of expensive roleplaying, then have at it. But for people who genuinely spend all waking hours trying to guard against a single, narrowly unlikely catastrophe, I have nothing but pity.
Nice write-up. Might be even easier to just use pkill accounts-daemon and gnome-session-quit:

pkill -SIGSTOP accounts-daemon &&
nohup bash -c "sleep 5s; pkill -SIGSEGV accounts-daemon; pkill -SIGCONT accounts-daemon" &
gnome-session-quit

I think that should be equivalent, but haven't tried (my desktop is patched).
This is a great idea!!! It's on our roadmap. I really like the JSON builder that Firebase has.

You can also upload other types like Strings, Numbers and booleans.
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Even the CDC recommends you keep an emergency go bag with some food, water, important documents and other basics. You should also keep your home stocked with a few days of food and water, decent medical supplies you are able to use, and whatever else you need for your situation.

Zombies is unlikely, bad weather or a forest fire however...

I had a family member who was within 2 miles of forest fire - no ready bag, no extra supplies, nothing. "Well, I can just stop by the store if I need to evacuate right?"
My experience is that Windows is just as bad. HiDPI doesn't work right unless the developer goes out of their way to support it. Random combinations of software hard-crash the entire OS. (My current easily-reproducible example? If you use PowerToys to tile windows, and a tiling operation happens concurrently with a DPI-resize operation, the computer blue screens! Fun!)

I was an early adopter of Linux and used a lot of weird hardware with it, and no combination of dragging windows ever caused the computer to reboot. What annoyed me most about Linux is how I got used to the brokenness, and it got fixed without being able to replicate the brokenness I was used to. For example, circa 2012 I got an early 4K monitor. It was implemented as two scalers connected to one panel, with both scalers connected to the same Displayport interface. Basically, it appeared to the computer as two separate and totally unrelated monitors, but was of course a single monitor. I could not for the life of me get Linux to treat both panels as a single monitor. But I used multiple monitors in the very early days of Linux, before XRandR, and I could never get it to treat my two monitors as separate devices -- windows would just pop up right in the gap between two monitors; X had no awareness of where the boundary was. I longed for that behavior, but the option was simply removed... because who would ever want that brokenness? (I did end up getting it working. There was a bug in the Nvidia driver that allowed you to turn on two options that caused all XRandR related functionality to silently break, and then my one monitor appeared as one monitor to the OS. Of course, even though my graphics card had 3 more video ports on the back, I could never connect another monitor. And I was always worried that a driver update would fix the multiple-interacting-bugs. But it never did! Or at least I replaced the monitor before it became a problem for me.)
> The whole world shut down

White collar work shut down.

All the people that actually make the supply chain function got labeled "essential" and got to go to work anyway.
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Glenn D. Frazier. Google search rank 5 for If you kill me, I will haunt you. Who knows what went through that Japanese officers mind.

https://www.us-japandialogueonpows.org/Frazier1.htm
Seen from the other side of the pond prepping looks really odd.
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I mean with the list that some in Congress are suggesting, that's a definite possibility
I'm a little worried that Trump wasn't just an aberration, but rather was just first of a new breed. Thinking back on the Republican playing field in 2016, I don't know that any of the other candidates could have handled the media abuse as well as Trump did, and in failing that most first prerequisite for a republican president, they couldn't have gotten very far.
So why would splitting Apple up hurt you? Just buy hardware and software from the two Apple companies and you are set.

However I am pretty sure a lot of people with less money than you would like to buy a cheap phone and put Apples software on it.
> That said, Apple won't make their chips available to the greater market.

I wonder if this could potentially be a good time to bring back Xserve...
> Judging nuclear power by Chernobyl is an absurd proposition.

Exactly this. Nuclear is held to an absurd different standard to all other forms of energy generation.

If we consider damage to wildlife: fossil fuels, in particular oil, kills millions of birds and fish. Nuclear? Zero as makes no difference. If anything, nature is thriving around Chernobyl. Wind farms routinely kill birds, and no outcry, but cover the birds in a bit of oil, and it's front page.

Deaths mining uranium again, practically zero since such little is needed, vs the thousands of deaths mining coal, or drilling for oil.

Deaths through breathing in pollution? Fossil fuel plants have and are killing millions of people, and quite literally, the planet.

I believe Chernobyl + Fukushima accidents combined have directly killed less than 100 people. Greenpeace would have you believe that millions will die from cancer, but that's strongly disputed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...
Is it sustainably faster, or only for a few seconds until it throttles? Searching for "10900k vs i7-1165G7" showed the 10900k as mostly faster with a few exceptions.

I'm curious about next week's launch and benchmarks, Apple's claims compare it to a 1.2GHz i7, which I expect to quickly throttle. That's why I also expect the parent comment to be right, current desktop CPUs will still be faster.
> Trump "taking on the deep state" isn't even a conspiracy theory, he literally made that a major part of his 2016 campaign

You're misframing this. The conspiracy theory is not that Trump is taking on the deep state; it's the existence of the deep state to begin with.

>If deep state/swamp/etc is interpreted as a vague reference to the Washington/New York professional classes who populate government in huge numbers and tend to share very similar worldviews and beliefs

Speaking of grotesque distortions of the truth, that is not what the "deep state" has ever referred to. It's always been, by definition, a conspiracy theory. It generally posits that the country is actually run by a group o unelected individuals in secret that orchestrate events in this country up to and including the selection of presidents.
Did you mean to comment on the main thread? This has nothing to do with the parent comment.
> This doesn't give ARM chips an advantage over Intel CPUs at executing Javascript for obvious reasons, once you know why they added it.

I believe the point is that it's one example (of hundreds, maybe thousands?) of performance paper-cuts addressed by Apple hardware that result in significant performance-per-watt advantages over devices not using Intel CPUs.
> Any musician has to learn their instrument

I don't have the time or resources to 'commit to that". Ableton Live is NOT my instrument, I would like to just use it as a tool.

It takes years of practice to learn any musical instrument and become a musician that other people would want to listen to. Maybe the same applies to Ableton? It takes years of hard practice to master it? If so it would be proper that their sales literature would be up front about it. You will need years of study to master this instrument in order to produce something that other people would want to listen to. You will need to commit to it :-)

The difference between Ableton and "ordinary musical instruments" is that Ableton runs on a computer, therefore its use should be easy enough to not require years to learn.
Cheaper how, though? It does seem that a lot of the costs have been externalized or have gone otherwise unacknowledged. Factoring in the losses sustained by unrest, despair, missed opportunity, rent and interest, and so forth, I think you come to see a more accurate model than the "stocks go up" one that outputs a much rosier picture of America's economic wellbeing than is reality.

At the very least, the War on Terror blows a $6 trillion hole in whatever the calculations are; a less anxious, more homogeneously affluent America might not have acted so rashly following 9/11, and might not have even conjured the political and economic global paradigm that gave rise to al Qaeda in the first place.
Real in the sense that there is some sort of evidence of actions that have crossed the thresholds of legality as per American laws. The data security/privacy community, I think generally don't see TikTok for example as any much more egregious an offender than Instagram for example.
> I'm interested in the real reason they're doing it

It is as simple as Trump, personally, saw a TV pundit at 6am that said TikTok was bad and the president should do something about it.

Did someone at Facebook PR plant that story in the pundit's program, which is for sale? Sure. I don't know, who do you think gives a single fuck about giant companies fucking each other? Not a single normal person.

What will courts say? The matters could all be resolved in 10 minutes. They're just going to say that if there's a problem, it's with the way the order is written - Trump could issue another order. They articulate no legal problem with the order, because there is no legal problem with the order.

Truthfully, the court's resolution of the matter is the least interesting part here.

The president's power is being used to affect a corporate acquisition. You can go have a debate about mercantilism, it's settled. Nothing of substance to normal people will change because 100% of the spending inside social media apps is surplus, they could disappear tomorrow and absolutely nothing of value would be lost. People would just buy ad inventory elsewhere, as they always had for all of history.
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We touched a bit of that. As an aside, when I was a student, we also had an applications module called "Numerical Analysis". We went through a bunch of algorithms (Cholesky, Seidel, Newton-Raphson, Gauss, etc.) and ran them by hand. We basically were "human computers". The exams were also solving problems using these algorithms, and given the iterative nature of many of them, if you make a tiny mistake it'll ripple and ruin everything for you.

As an aside, my background is in optimal control/control theory and instrumentation, and operational calculus, state space representations, and matrices were a huge part of the "Jiu-Jitsu" we did. Tinkering with RST control, robust systems, finding optimal systems and sequences (Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman-Pontryagin) with matrices flying around on our exam papers solving these systems. It was a nice abstraction.

Very, very, powerful tools that command immense respect for Laplace, Lagrange, and people like them who invented things to solve problems we're facing now.
I guess 'it depends'.

Integrated steam generators might be safer, as you say, as the primary loop never leaves the pressure vessel, and thus less pipe joints etc. that might fail.

OTOH the pressure vessel becomes a lot bigger, which limits how big you can make the entire power plant. Making big pressure vessels if fairly tricky, and there's only a few forges in the world capable of making current large reactor pressure vessels. I think this is one of the reasons why the Nuscale reactor is so small (60 MWe IIRC), which might make it hard to get the economics to work out.
I'm trying not to be snarky, but, with all due respect, is "Why do you think the US is moving closer to authoritarianism?" even a real question considering what is currently going on? We have a president who is completing rejecting the results of the election, while providing no evidence for the fraud he is alleging. In 2016 the margin was virtually the same, if not slightly smaller, in the other direction, and in that case the GAO gave Trump's team resources to start the transition the day after the election. More worrisome is how Trump is installing his most sycophantic cronies at multiple levels in the Defense Department.
Fake easily debunked propaganda doesn't work. Because people can easily find out it is fake. You can't claim china is exterminating muslims when the muslim population has skyrocketed in china.

The ugyhur nonsense is exactly the same nonsense we had in the mid 2000s about the falun gong. The same exact debunked nonsense. I know because I believed it.

> I am very curious what issues regarding China you do think are legitimate.

You know REAL issues? Trade deficit? Environmental protection? Peacefully reintegrating taiwan into china? North Korea? Not bullshit about "stolen organs", this nonsense about genghis khan, etc.

The only thing missing is this go around are the fucking dams. In the mid 2000s, propagandists, similar to the ones working at bitterwinter, were telling everyone that china's dams were about to collapse. Something about poor construction, corruption, incompetence. The whole of china was going to be flooded and china was going to collapse. Boy was I convinced and boy was I duped.

When congress is united on something, you know it's wrong. When john oliver does a piece on it, you know there is something not right about it. That the first casualty of war is the truth and we are in a trade war means almost everything about china is probably a lie. And if you notice that this is just a rerun of what we going 20 years ago, then it all makes sense.
the question is "for how long" - if it heats up and throttles after a few seconds, desktop CPUs will still have a major advantage for longer tasks.
> Unfortunately, she had a poor relationship with her father which is a no-go for me due to past bad experiences.

Genuinely curious why this was (for you) a leading indicator of a bad relationship?
> because the unibody can form crumple zones. A ladder frame doesn't crumple.

Ladder frame can crumple just fine. It's a prerequisite technology for airbags.
The UK Government certainly does:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/preparing-for-eme...

As does the Scottish Government:

https://ready.scot/how-scotland-prepares

And that's not even covering the Covid-19 pandemic where there was a lot of community based help groups checking that older people were OK etc.

Edit: Mind you some UK gov self help schemes were less well received:

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1500124311
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That is the "curse" of Linux I always had difficulty to understand: something does not work at all or the way I like it - switch the god-damn OS (= distro) where it works instead biting the bullet and trying to fix it. It's insane...

This is only personal observation, not direct remark to your case. I've just seen similar scenarios too many times.

On the other hand - I've played with Arch since early beginnings, but last time more than 10 years ago. Although minimal, simple and straightforward, I have never been able to grope that rolling-release core philosophy.
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>1) policies advocated by people in the D party like Bernie Sanders, e.g. social safety nets for such job losses in manufacturing as described. Isn’t this part of the progressive dream?

Bernie didnt get the nomination. It's President Biden.

>2) How working class voters end up aligning themselves with a party that is less likely to care about them, e.g. by cutting taxes for earners well above the working class income bracket.

There's a huge amount of misconceptions and misrepresentations by how progressive taxes work. There's a very clear understanding as to why "all tax cuts are for the rich" which is a true statement. The thought experiment goes: Imagine 3 brothers who earn exactly the same wage in exactly the same industry. Except they work different hours. The first brother works 20 hours, second brother 40 hours, and third brother 80 hours.

They all have a shared project that costs $30,000. The fair split of the cost is $10,000 each. the first brother exclaims he cant pay it, he doesnt have the money because he doesnt work enough. The middle brother then devises the 'progressive' system. Since the third brother works so many more hours, he's to pay for over 2/3rds. The first brother agrees because he gets benefits without paying anything. The second brother designed it such that he pays less. They voted democratically that the brother who earns much more money pays virtually all.

That's exactly how society breaks down. If you look at real tax rates net of spending. Even the middle class who 'pay taxes' actually receive more back from the government than they put in. Therefore when you look at 'who pays taxes' it's always the rich. That's why "all tax cuts are for the rich" is a true statement.

>To be fair, it doesn’t seem like either party does a _great_ job helping the working class. Populism comes in ‘left’ and ‘right’ flavors...maybe it just happens to have come from the right (Trump) at the right time.

Did you also know that the real tax rate has pretty much not changed in the USA for >40 years. Politicians have come and left all changing the way the tax system works but fundamentally have never actually changed taxes.

The rich pay the taxes, but they also have the ability to make everyone else pay the taxes for them. High taxes benefit the rich. This is why you keep hearing about mega corps who pay no taxes.

The rich get all the power because they are who control the spice.
Perhaps I'm not understanding what "initiative" could mean, but there is a website: https://www.ready.gov/ and as a "prepper" I find it to be very realistic and helpful.

Though I agree that self-sufficiency and disaster preparedness is lacking in the USA. The infrastructure of our cities is such that self-sufficiency and community preparedness are the best paths towards surviving a disaster. For example, Houston (my home city) can't have an effective hurricane evacuation. There's simply too many people with too few paths out, and this a city that if you zoom out looks like a spider's web of freeways.
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If I wanted a more or less as-new 486 system to run old DOS stuff on, what are my options? Are there companies that do custom builds, possibly in a more modern case, or places I could get unused components? I've considered this as a project for a while, because DOSBox only satiates my nostalgia to a point.
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> Regardless of whether it's an intentional trick or an oversight, I don't think that the benchmark showing the mobile chip is better than a desktop chip in RAW PERFORMANCE is true. And that means that a lot of the conclusions that they draw from the benchmark aren't true. There is no way that the A14 (nor the M1) is going to be faster in any raw performance category than a latest generation and top-spec desktop system.

The benchmark is true but misleading. It compares 'Intel vs Apple Top Performance' meaning essentially the speed it could go at max. It is not a real world number or result and exists purely in a vacuum. If your phone ran at that speed for an extended period of time I guarantee it would melt. I think the only conclusion to be drawn is that Apple's mobile CPU's are very capable and well designed, and ARM has a lot of untapped potential.
That's sad. It was your recommendation that led my company to be a customer of DO for more than 5 years.

I'm sure they've gotten 10x more value from your recommendation than they realise, and it fueled their early growth.
DirectTV was sold to AT&T in September 2019. My experience is : they call up, I say "Do not add channels, do NOT add a channel that I have to cancel later when billing starts. REPEAT: DO NOT ADD CHANNELS. Thanks for calling. Good bye."
And they add channels. NFL and other sports need to team with Youtube, hulu or netflix next time.
>What happens when someone drills a hole in their gas tank? Probably similar.

They get wet.

Gasoline doesn't come with its own ignition source (and a drill bit isn't usually enough to provide one) whereas puncturing battery packs starts the chemical reaction that quickly results in fire.
The government has an interest in ensuring that there is a clear way to handle you should you be unable to. If you are married and are in the hospital your spouse is automatically someone who you trust to decide how to handle difficult medical decisions. If you are not married who decides? If you die your spouse more or less automatically gets everything - what happens to your stuff if you are not married ends up being a long court battle in many cases (kids are also a factor here of course).

there are many other areas of life where it is useful to government to have a backup person responsible for your life. Note that if you are not married but living together that might be because you don't trust the other person with those decisions...
In the UK it's generally been that funding is decent once you're up and running but poor at the angel or earlier stages.

So this tends to reinforce the class system in the UK as rich kids who are connected by going to private schools can obtain funding via various routes (including SEIS etc.) from rich friends and family whose capital gains are offset by the investments. These rich kids can fund a startup into potential angel/seed stages and if it fails all the money is written off against capital gains for their investors.

I've met a few people who either worked as VC's or received good levels of early funding for their startups and they were either privately educated and connected or were Oxbridge educated. It's not everyone for sure but people at the top like to lend to people like themselves in the UK more often than not.

The US is a pretty special market - 5 times the population of the UK with much more money per capita gives new businesses a large market to instantly go into and raise money against.
If you define the people who disagree with you (even about masks) as sociopaths, then you are part of the problem.