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The writer is a known rabble-rouser. The funny part is that no one apart from the Bloomberg editorial team takes him seriously.
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I've been looking for static site generator myself and, as often with OSS, found myself overwhelmed with the offer of seemingly identical yet subtly different generators. There's the old xkcd joke about solving the standards problem by creating an Nth one, but really that might be better than decision paralysis.
I think you misspelled that link. ;)

https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-more-p...

Edit: and here I was, thinking a smiley would clarify things. For the record, I'm of course not arguing against supporting sifive. I just think that in the context of this thread, what MNT are doing is much more directly comparable to porting Linux to M1
But they own the platform? You are free to set up your own server and host the content. What is much much scarier is the government telling you that you can't put up such content. Until that happens I'm not very worried.
Sorry, I just don't buy that you can summarize the life satisfaction & economic output of 140 million people with a single number, not to mention that GDP is a pretty bad measurement as far as single numbers go [1]. It's much, much, much more complicated than that.

Anecdotally, my experience living in Japan vs the United States is that it's much better to be poor in Japan than poor in the United States, for various social / economic reasons (for instance, national healthcare in Japan, car culture in USA). At least before COVID-19, small businesses in Japan seemed to be doing pretty well, compared to the United States.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/765781fe-f136-11e7-b220-857e26d1a...
I doubt a support person from a camera company even has the skills to understand the datasheets. 99.9% of their job is explaining things in the public manual and handling product returns. The only people with the skills to understand it would be the engineers and it would be a waste of time assigning them to investigate this unsupported hack.
You can see it immediately above [0], where two people, both presumably very familiar with PGP, could not do so.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25248465
“I know Apple A-series had some edge over Snapdragons, but was the gap between Android processors that big?”

Absolutely
The scrolling behaviour also exists in Windows and in Linux.

I believe (if I understand what you mean correctly) that the file system behaviour is also a Linux thing. Deleting a file that is open is completely fine in Linux.

I think UX between the three OSs is almost completely a matter of habit and familiarity these days. I for one can't see how anyone can be productive with the (what I believe is abysmal) window management on a Mac but millions of people like it so I'd probably get used to it if I wanted to.
It always seemed such a strangely constrained model. Their product range is restricted to houses and maybe condos, boxed into a specific geographic constraints (whichever regional MLS they're part of).

This seems like it's intentionally hobbling your reach for some customers:

* A house isn't right for everyone, due to finances, preferred location, whatever. Why not take your agency's understanding of neighbourhoods and also serve as a high-powered apartment referral service? I also don't know if they handle manufactured houses, which is again putting viable choices off the table.

* Anyone shopping at the border of your MLS territory. Yeah, there are 300 houses perfect for the customer's needs right across the county line, but there's no way for you to sell them without getting into a standoff. On the flip side, it also means you only have access to customers fairly late in the move process-- once you've decided "I'm moving to Gary, Indiana and will find a house when I get there."

A true national real-estate firm could do some amazing integrated services. Especially with the growth of "work-anywhere-there's-broadband" remote work, you could meet the customer at the "I want to leave San Francisco; where can I go that has good schools, municipal broadband, and four-bedroom homes on a $350,000 budget" phase of the process. Existing homeowners could orchestrate selling their old house and finding a new one through a single firm, even if they're doing a cross-country move. They'd also have the market presence to put price pressure on auxillary services (inspectors, title insurance firms, short-term investments to hold sale proceeds)
So what if one of those non-market making firms buys order flow?
A set of GearWrench metric ratcheting wrenches.
No. This would solve only one of my issues with using a Mac, which is that I want to use a Linux distribution. It doesn't affect the other issue, which is that Apple hardware, while very nice, is heavily overpriced and extraordinarily expensive to upgrade.
And this world’s a fickle measure
I don't think the "developers who want a high performance ARM laptop" niche is large enough for any serious hardware manufacturer to address.
Fascinating, but wasn’t... Dropbox supposed to have client-side encryption? If the backend is recompressing JPG images, that means it has full access to the file’s plaintext. That’s a bit uncomfortable.
Sustained-release melatonin. Minimum dose. Last meal 3-4 hours before bed or earlier. Blocker glasses. Etc.

Melatonin blunts much of degeneration triggers that occur with age and is balanced by vitamin D3 (+ K2; ensure magnesium sufficiency) in the morning.
That's not really a thing, but even if it was, it would still not be frontrunning. Order flow is purchased for the specific purpose of making a market with the wider bid-ask spread acceptable to retail investors. They tend to place market orders and don't particularly care if their trade is off by a cent or two.

You can quibble with the academic arguments on whether or not this facilitates liquidity and price discovery (and therefore helps retail investors). Or you can just place a limit order and move on. Either way, nothing illegal or nefarious is happening. Just because they're purchasing order flow and executing your trade doesn't mean the national best bid and offer (NBBO) is being violated.
> I would imagine a comparable number (if not more) speak with some kind of accent

Everyone speaks with ‘some kind of accent’.
Author here. I wrote this awhile ago so I wasn't expecting to see this here today but glad that it is. Happy to answer any questions.
Check out the lease rates relative to purchase price. It’s around 1% of purchase price on a gross revenue basis. After subtracting low property taxes on the farm land, you net zero or very close on a nominal basis. Oh, and the mechanized farming referred to upthread? It’s sucking the nutrients out of the soil and rendering it less productive year by year.
Whether or not the election is called is the only thing that mattered the week of the election since there was/is no finalization until the electoral college votes. I don’t understand why there’s any handwaving about this part other than the sudden encouragement by certain political actors that never had a problem with it before.
> but I still have a distinct bias against certain regional accents

Why? First thing you learn in linguistics 101 is that everyone has an accent and there is no "good" or "bad" dialect. What is so hard about internalizing this for most people?
I think it would make more sense to increase tax on gas cars and oil companies to encourage the use of EVs.
Installing these and burning games is what paid for my beer in college for a couple of years. Good times. I did brick 1, bought a used ps1, modded it and threw in a few free games to the owner.
Doubtful considering internet and television access.
Congratulation. Great work. It is such an ancient but important standard.

I just spent around one year writing Wolfpacs, a dicom load balancer in pure Erlang. (In my spare time).

Question: what is your take on the headers that are "undecided"? For example,the headers that have either signed short (ss) or unsigned short (us) value representation. Most of the parsing is "stateless" but a few headers require "rules". "If previous headers X is Y then VR=OW". I wished they could have made the standard better in that regard.
Cloud Foundry would be good for you
Alas, I'm generally unwilling to concede retrospective attempts to move goalposts.

I don't consider this exchange to be a dialogue. Regarding the scope of audience and participation, I see remarks from six participants. I'm aware of adjacent threads addressing related topics and angles. We have undisclosed N participants that've been variously upvoting, downvoting, flagging, and vouching comments, leaving many flagged or dead (i.e. collapsed to casual visitors).

It seems to me there is no common ground on the matter between you and I, not even agreement of the parameters of discussion. A collapsed subthread whose index topic has naturally decayed from the front page lacks any prospect of additional voices, and with no opportunity I can perceive for the Hegelian dialectic to resolve otherwise, I shall break off here, and wish you (and any unseen readers that have stoically endured thus far) a good day.
Any recommendations for a CMS that is as pleasant to write in as WordPress but designed from the start for outputting static files? I feel like that would have some advantages over trying to hammer WordPress (and more importantly its plugin ecosystem) to act as an SSG.
Hey, it worked for Kropotkin.
Presumably shared images?
Copyright will eat itself
You’re thinking of the bit served up by the priest, OP may have been referring to the swig the priest took before proceedings.
If you're defining "dumb" as "below average" then no, there really aren't.

If you're defining "dumb" as "below average for a programmer" then yeah that's... about half of us, turns out.

Programming isn't physics, but it is a profession that starts around +1 SD. Below that you're gonna wash out.
Real GDP does take into account inflation or deflation. PPP is tricky as it depends on a specific basket of goods. It does seem to paint Japan in a better light, but digging into things it’s not quite that simple. For example Japan’s housing is treated as more disposable than most of the world which makes direct comparisons difficult.

PS: Deflation is also a very very bad thing economically, trying to gloss over it is a very bad idea.
A very important chunk of those developers who improved Linux hardware support work at Intel, and it shows -- the safest choice for Linux-compatible hardware is Intel (GPU, Ethernet, WiFi, ...). It's very doubtful that Apple is going to do the same.
I haven't used homebrew but I use macports all the time without any issues. shrug
Did that too and it totally changed how understand programming (was a newbie back then).
Light doesn't exist, it's made up.
This is cool. I wonder if the damage based forwarding can be supported in X as well with the X server in the Linux VM.

I would also love to see this for docker/containers, possibly using Spice instead of RDP.

Is Weston GPL? Will Microsoft be contributing these changes under the upstream license?

Also, interesting to see FreeRDP used instead of a Microsoft implementation, since there's already an Android port of it.
Yes, of course. Native Californians often asked me where I was originally from based solely on my noticeable Midwestern accent.
This is wholesome. I realized how much I miss those days. Signed up - https://spacehey.com/offgrid365
Oh, that's fine, it's that a specific commercial organization was presented as the deciding authority that is the problem. That won't help convince anyone whose fundamental disagreement is a distrust in traditional media's authority figures. Google/YT could have put anything in that message, and they got the delivery all wrong.
And water is wet :]
Spotify sends home what I am listening to, why would I care if my speakers do as well. I can also control Sonos through the Sonos app or directly through Spotify.

Also these speakers have only improved over the years through software improvements which would have only been made possible having a connection to the internet.
> you can scroll a window without having to click on it to make it active

This works on Windows, and most sane Linux DEs are either default to that or can be configured to do that.

> applications don't refer to files using paths but file ids instead so you can generally move files around a disk while they are open without things breaking.

Do you mean they hold an opening fd of the file, which is also not special at all? Otherwise it is pretty interesting, please elaborate.
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Hi HN, I'm an editor at The Gradient. Coincidentally we were doing some server maintenance this evening so there may have been some downtime half an hour ago.

Apologies if anyone couldn't access the piece. Everything should be back up now.

Thanks everyone for contributing to the discussion.
I don't have a concrete source for this handy but I don't think this is totally accurate. For one, the plastic rails on earlier PS1 disk drives wear out and can be a source of error. Secondly, you still see failed disk drives on consoles without modchips.

I think burned discs are probably one factor but I think general hardware failure or dirty lenses are a more common cause.
Is there something that would make it impossible to write the equivalent of SoftIce for Win7/Win10, or has it just not yet been done out of difficulty/laziness/lack of market/etc?
We might have passed the "holocene climate optimum" already (haven't researched it much) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_%28period%29

During the holocene, (last 10,000 years, ie after the ice age) Northern Europe has seen much warmer temperatures than the average of last century. Finland had oak forests in the stone age five thousand years ago. And there were much colder periods than now in between etc. Currently there's a lot of old oaks only in the warmest most favorable locations and forests are mostly pine. After all they take centuries to grow. But oak is again spreading.
I know some tech support folks and consulting docs and specs is more than comfortably within their reach. In fact, it’s what they do at better companies where management does not preclude them from doing their job properly and provides access to relevant data.
That's a great point, but the maintenance techniques aren't terribly difficult to learn. One could easily imagine those skills spreading quickly in an environment where abandoned buildings are cheap to occupy. That presumes that buildings can be acquired before they have rotted into uselessness.
Everybody hates their neighbors and city folk hate the country folk. Such is the way of the world...
>After switching to linux for regular usage, I started looking into music production stuff, as soon as I figured out how it all worked, i was amazed. I couldn't imagine going back to a system where you're confined to a DAW. Your entire computer becomes one big modular DAW that you can combine nearly endlessly.

Most perspectives on Linux audio tend to come from an angle of 'working with what you got', and looking own it as some sort moral handicap. However your comment sings a different tune. I really appreciate you inputting your thoughts here, as it concisely put together what I've thought all along but never assimilated. There is no reason why Linux shouldn't be a percived as a first class audio production system. Perhaps the only thing holding it back is the time investment it takes to understand the modularity, along with learning Linux itself.
I figure the solution is sort of like fighting other forms of unconscious bias like racism with public awareness campaigns and corporate trainings. I imagine this might get more attention in the coming years as social justice leaders find new issues to spotlight.
Electron, probably. /s
Keybase also has the system where you can approve a new device from another. Why can't we have the same thing w/ Signal? Maybe tack on the PIN to make it a bit more secure.
I can think of one example of coming across someone with a very heavy "southern" accent, and what immediately struck me in this instance was the incongruence of his accent juxtaposed with his obvious competence and expertise. It was like being lectured on the finer points of computer science by a cast member of "Moonshiners". That was probably 20 years ago. Now what strikes me is that this is the only example I can think of. That is to say, there was this one guy with a strong southern accent, but how many others were overlooked? Hard to say. That being said, I myself have a slight southern accent, which I was amazed to discover when someone pointed it out. I was like, "wait, what? I have southern accent? No I don't!". But, upon listening to recordings of myself..., yeah, I kind of do. D'oh.
It's okay, not great. I use a second GPG key for the phone so as to reduce the number of passwords accessible there. While it works out of the box, getting it to work nicely needed a bit of plumbing[0].

Moreover, there isn't any support for Yubikey or smartcards.

[0]: https://captnemo.in/blog/2020/01/04/security-setup/#mobile-p...
I've used OSX a lot back 8-10 years ago and while it is in fact a Unix that doesn't mean it is just another *Nix distro, there were some massive disadvantages to it for my use cases (people who can stand constantly switching between touch pad and keyboard seemed to fare a bit better in this regard as their touch pads were excellent):

- modifier keys varied by application (was it alt-shift-left, CMD-shift or ctrl-shift-left I should use to select one word back in this app..?)

- CMD-tab only switching between applications is probably nice if you have good time to ponder your next move. When I only want to go back to whatever application-or-window I came from and I end up a completely different place because the last place I were was another window of the same application it breaks my flow and it is infuriating.

So yes. I'd very much want a Linux distro on it.
This is just an experiment to see how long it takes for a random comment on a submission currently ranking 533 will take if it contains the word "chinese bioweapon". Feel free to ignore if you happen to be in this thread on coincidence and sorry if detracting from real conversation.

https://thebulletin.org/2020/06/did-the-sars-cov-2-virus-ari...

A very troubling idea if true.
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If a congresswoman was provably a Russian asset, I would think that would be grounds for her immediate, urgent dismissal. The set of congresswomen would then only include women for whom there is no known compelling evidence of the accusation. And I believe they're talking about Tulsi Gabbard, who holds additional relevant credentials.

Also, there are two representatives who believe in Q. One won by coincidence, and the other has publically expressed that they don't believe in Q, having never said they do. They aren't really indicative of congress as a whole.
“hey this dnn said this image has a faulty sensor in it. why? is it because it’s correctly spotting the fault, or is it that random cluster of irrelevant 12 pixels over there?”
I guess this comment is snark, but I don’t know what the connotation of a Midwestern accent is in California to know for sure.

But anyway as you say, you do still speak with an accent even if it is a common one. We all speak with accents!
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Dropbox does not have client-side encryption; its servers have full access to the content of synced files. You can verify this yourself by uploading a common image filetype like jpeg and seeing that the website shows you compressed file thumbnails.

(I'm a former Dropbox employee who worked on related things, though not specifically the linked paper)
You could use a [WIM image][1]. They can be mounted rw or ro and have file-level deduplication. Microsoft's official tooling is necessary to mount them on Windows as [the only open source implementation I am aware of][2] uses FUSE for mounting.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Imaging_Format
[2]: https://wimlib.net/
I agree 100%, but more than anything for me was control: I had been using nanoc (https://nanoc.ws) for years and don't get me wrong, that's an excellent piece of software... but then I "left it" for a few months also because I stopped coding in Ruby for a while (and stopped blogging) .When I came back to it, I discovered that a new major version was out and I had to upgrade, potentially breaking quite a bit of things because I didn't keep the pace with the new changes.

While this is true for nearly all software, I missed being in control of when to upgrade, and I also missed a few little features here and there. The result? I shopped around for it a bit and then decided to roll out my own: HastySite (https://hastysite.h3rald.com) which now powers a bunch of sites of mine like https://h3rald.com and https://min-lang.org

Actually I ended up writing my own markdown processor and my own programming language before doing that (which also needed a Readline/line noise replacement, and wrappers for a regexp and compression library) but... hey, that's part of the fun isn't it? That's the very reason why I love being a programmer: it's not about the final result, it's about how you get there and what you learn along the way.

So kudos to you sir, I wish you all the best and that you build more things yourself.
I’ll avoid CL like the plague.
> literally the last thing on the video

The video starts, "This video brought to you by Nebula, the streaming platform for content providers like you and me."
I think you are trivializing problems that many people struggle with. From my understanding hyperfocus is not at all "being able to focus on a task at hand" but rather being unable to focus on anything other than a specific task. Often this task is often NOT what should be worked on during the allotted time.
It works perfectly for my S10. I think I read somewhere that only Samsungs are supported right now.
Author here. Sadly this is true. I don't sell modchips anymore because it wasn't very economical or profitable.

I did come up with ways to assemble the chips faster but I couldn't optimize it enough so that I could remove myself from the equation. I ended up selling enough to get rid of all of the inventory I purchased and making enough profit to cover any tool/equipment purchases.

If anyone knows how I could streamline the whole modchip creation process I would be very interested!
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Have you given Zettlr https://www.zettlr.com/ a try?
SpaceX is not profitable.
This is a joke, right?

Being taught something != actually feeling something. You can say "that's bad" and people will repeat after you in agreement. Doesn't mean the voice in the back of their mind actually agrees or can just flip like a switch. Decades of thinking that are slowly ironed in don't just go away in an instant.
I am not sure how fair is this?

You are complaining about "forward secrecy" and "deniability" being hard -- fair enough, but PGP does not provide either of those! So if you want to be "as good as PGP", there is no need to learn those concepts.

The "safety numbers" concept does need to be learned, but I think it is way easier to explain than PGP key management.

The goal is not to have the perfect system, it is to have something better than PGP. And this is a pretty low bar.
We can probably assume, charitably, that they meant relative to the predominant local dialect.

For what it's worth, as someone originally from a semi-rural area, I think there is some truth to the idea that some in SF have an anti-rural bias.