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I did the procedure in arguably the préfecture under the most pressure (Paris), and from the day I applied, it took 9 months to get the interview and 6 months to get the citizenship. That was it, less than 1.5 years in total.

It took roughly the same time for almost everyone that I know that applied. The only cases that I know of that took longer were people with "exotic" statuses, e.g. people who didn't live full time in France and owned businesses in different countries that they had to visit often to physically tend to.
Virtual reality.

Now don't get me wrong, the games ecosystem is still quite limited, but I think Half-Life: Alyx really showed what kind of phenomenal experiences the technology can provide when given a huge budget. If it ever becomes economically viable then there's going to be a ton more experiences like this on the market one day.

Against all odds, these super expensive bulky headsets with only a few games has shipped millions of units to early adopters. Even if it all fails, I'm happy to have been a part of it.
On further review the initial ticket even gave enough info to reproduce the error. Not sure what part you thought was rude or entitled.
I was watching The Mandalorian last night and thinking about what it would have been like to have a new Star Wars movie on broadcast TV each week as a kid back in the 80s.

I think most of my actual exposure was through toys and advertising. The movies were only on TV every couple of years. I remember listening to Star Wars on the radio
What an excellent way of convincing me to never buy a car from them.
Futher into dystopia. How long until facial scans and personalised public adverts that go wrong?
How are they foregoing their position as the market leader in handling and dynamics? They’re still miles ahead of Audis where it feels as if the transmission and the engine are fighting vs each other especially in 50 engines, and Mercedes where it feels you’re driving a barge rather than a car.
You can't compare the two. Look at each as individuals. They have each changed the game of basketball in their own way. There will never be a single "GOAT". Every generation builds on what the generation prior created. Dr. J -> MJ -> Lebron. All dominate players in their own era that made everyone around them, and after, better players.
My children (one is in High School and the other in College) don't get bothered by advertisements as much as me (are they desensitized?). I would rather pay for most of these "free" services if there was an option to simply opt out of having my data harvested.
Point taken - thanks!
I’ve said a few times on here that I think studying chess engines is about the best computer science education you could get from a single hobby. Definitely worth trying, and evolving from simple methods to more advanced over time.

I do think there’s also a big gap in the market for chess _tooling_ that makes learning and match prep easier. I actually think simpler more interpretable engines can be more useful as tools for humans in many cases. For example instead of increasingly inscrutable neural networks, or explanations of moves that are merely “after 10 moves this happens and it’s bad”, even a simple regression over some human interpretable features can give you an idea why the engine is suggesting a positional move (king safety, piece activity etc). I also think just pure stats and algorithmic stuff would be useful, like finding transpositions between openings, trying to work out what kinds of middle game structures or endgames a player is good or bad at, and navigating a path towards that in your preparation.
> I think it's just BMW for the 21st century

For people that look at cars as status symbols, sure. Also maybe for people that think straightline performance is all that matters.

All mainstream Tesla's are dogs around turns compared to even baseline luxury German cars.
A toned down version of what's in Minority Report does seem like it could be practical, while still being futuristic.

The heavily personalized ads the main character encounters are interesting as well.
I tried guitar in my 20's but it didn't stick. Then I picked it up again in my 40's and it did stick. I needed a distraction in my life. I used free youtube guitar teachers such as justin guitar and found songs to play along with. Initially I used tabs (written guides for what strings/positions to play) and eventually was able to figure out songs by ear. Most recently I've switched to bass guitar and am having a blast. I play most days. I think the most important thing is to have fun with whatever instrument you pick. When listening to the radio I listen for songs that have a good bass line. When I hear one I send myself a message or add a bookmark and try to play it later.
exactly why I keep feeding my 4Runner whatever parts it wants. it's too dumb to be turned against me, snitch on my speeding habits, or demand to get oil changes on its own terms like a Dodge Sprinter for ex.

Feed me gas, air, electricity, and 0.05 parts and labor, and off u go.
Blokada app works on Android.
Google didn't hire from any HBCU until 2014... while they kept claiming (falsely pretending) they wanted more diversity in the company. That is easily verifiable.
I'm working on something like this right now. Pieces that are accessible but not boring. Getting into jazz early can be tough, like how will you understand an extremely basic 3-6-9 voicing and how it connects to a 7-3-5 voicing in a circle of fifths progression if you haven't studied your basic triads, basic 7th chords and the circle of fifths? And not just reading about them but spending enough time to absorb them into your pianistic vocabulary. Sure you could do it by rote but that's about as fun as memorizing a page of Spanish and reciting it without any comprehension. Any who I don't want to knock your ambition, but rather let you know that from the other side of things I'm thinking of this as well. How do I build the best and quickest ladder of abstraction to jazz for amelius?
That's great advice. I had two piano teachers. One of them made me love going to the lessons and the other made me hate to go there. The latter was first so I quit piano and took a few years break before I found the teacher who gave me inspiration.
Is that another victim-bait story? Yes, it is.

No one really bothered to investigate the real reason for firing. Quite likely, it is the usual case of toxic-attitude and the management just had enough of that.

Nobody fires employees just because they speak funny or some other stupid background. Especialy after going through the extra "affirmative" effort and having in mind what kind of reaction the company will face after firing a black employee.
Isn’t the religion of Albanians Albanianism? Don’t Adjarians get along well with other Georgians? You picked the two least supportive examples for your thesis.
In 2001 I had a collection of old DEC terminals from Ebay arranged on my desk, all hooked up to a FreeBSD box over serial. They were already antiquated back then but still really useful - I had email and IRC running on separate terminals and kept the main graphical display for browsing. It was all fun and games until one day I came back from lunch to see everyone in the whole building standing outside with the fire department. One of the capacitors on the motherboard of an old VT320 blew and set off the smoke alarm. After that I wasn't allowed to bring my own hardware to work anymore.
A black woman from Baltimore was hired to be a affirmative action recruiter and her white manager didn't like her "Baltimore accent"? Well I live in Maryland and I'm not sure what a "Baltimore accent" is, so I'm just assuming she is referring to AAVE? I mean, sure, there are a few words people from Baltimore pronounce slightly differently (like "water") but... hardly enough to call it it's own accent or a disability.

This is yet another he-said she-said story that is impossible to judge for ourselves and stokes racial outrage...
My warranty status is not public.
It was just hard to start the 2nd season. But the ending was wild.
I remember the first time I used a computer with an SSD. Many of the performance issues I naively blamed on the CPU or lack of memory were really the HDD. I just never had anything better to compare it to.
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Exactly what i was looking for. Thank you.
Couldn’t agree more. I wish I hadn’t read it. HBP was the peak. In DH they just run around the woods for a while. I was extremely disappointed with DH.
Absolutely, it makes me think of this game where you have to diffuse a bomb (keep talking and nobody dies) I'm sure many here are familiar with. One diffuses the bomb based on directions from another who is reading a diffusing manual. Imagine that game on Fantasy UI, I'm sure everyone would die haha!
Prime Jordan > Prime LeBron, that's how I put it.
Zelda Breath of the Wild exceeded my expectations completely. I played it years after it came out and was gobsmacked by how good it was.

A strange mixture of pleasant, mildly challenging, big and awe inspiring world.
This is the same kind of logic that leads to whiteboard algorithm questions. Music theory and musicianship are not the same thing. There are many many great musicians who only enough to make the sounds they want to make. Sure they might be better if they took the time to learn, but not necessarily.
For sure this needs special consent regarding GDPR, no clue about Brexit though.
No it doesn't. MuZero does its planning entirely in its own latent space (it may not even actually think of the game in terms of 'moves' but in whatever steps it considers relevant instead), only the output is filtered for legal moves.

It's no different than a monkey operating a chess computer that makes sure the monkey only performs legal moves. Your suggestion would be akin to suggesting that the chess computer would be affecting the monkey's mind so that it can only think in terms of legal chess moves.
Now that we're being force-fed DoH (DNS over HTTPS) we're going to have a rough time with DNS-based blocking.
Thanks!

I wasn't aware of kdenlive, until a few days ago when it popped in my news feed :D I'll take a look :)
I thought that the Homeland series finale was in the same class. After a meandering few middle seasons, the last one was surprisingly satisfying.
>> BMW says that they won't store any personal or vehicle data in the system,

But that's pretty much exactly what they're doing. They probably feel the need to claim this in order to not break laws, but saying "We didn't put information about you on a billboard" doesn't mean they didn't do it.

This feels so much like fake news, I hope they actually do it.
:D

Currently not using btrfs by the way. But you are positive that BAM files should be self consistent? And when would you catch a bitflip then? What would it look like in a compressed file lake BAM? A much larger effect than just a cigar length mismatch supposedly?
Skeptic discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/kj8p3o/...
Excellent advice. Echoes my own experience.
Sorry but I have to disagree a lot. An app is not the best way to learn piano. Piano is not just about pressing keys. Does the app correct your position (important if you don't want to get fatigue and cramps), your volume, fingerings, etc? Does it tell you how to practice the parts where you're struggling?

> connect it to an el cheapo midi keyboard

Please don't do that. I mean, if you just want to give it a try to piano and not spend anything, yeah, go ahead, but a small keyboard with non-weighted keys will limit you a lot, even early on. The sound is terrible, you won't be able to control the volume properly, and getting a better technique to play better and faster will be far more difficult. Not to mention that at some point you will try to use the extra keys and if they're are not there you can't do anything. If you want to seriously take up piano, just buy a decent keyboard at the start, you'll end up needing it anyways.

Edit: Don't get me wrong, anything that gets more people into playing music is good. But I think it's also good if people know the advantages and limitations of the method they use to learn, and are able to choose the method that fits their expectations. If you just want to poke your nose into piano playing maybe an app is enough for you, but there are no shortcuts and no magic method.
it's been a while since i've done video editing

- Maybe you can look at (linear) music DAW's (reaper, cubase, logic,studio one) for inspiration on UI; track grouping/labeling, fades

- what I longed for years ago was an easy way to; (non destructive) editing on low quality copies of source material, and using their HQ originals for rendering.

- the use of VST plugins for the audio part

- A while ago i read about software to cut video files without rerendering / converting(dunno if thats common, or useful, but sounds interesting)
When was it? A few years ago, they added a new requirement that you don't apply directly to the "prefecture" but you have to go through an additional step which takes about a year.

My gf is applying for citizenship at the moment, I've described the timeline for her situation. It's been now more than 3 years since she started her application, including 14 months waiting for their decision. And she'd been living in France for more than 10 years before that and graduated from a French university.

It probably would have been easier to just get married...

BTW, congratulations for your citizenship. I'm glad it was efficient for you.
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What is a leaseholder in the UK?
I've been learning due to covid as well!

I would add earpeggio and music tutor for iOS (not affiliated, there are other similar apps). It's basically a Duolingo-like way to get used to reading sheet music and ear training respectively, you just put in 5 min a day and in a matter of weeks you're able to read sheet music relatively well.
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Spacex landing those rockets.
Ah, a longform troll
> I'm not aware of a project similar to Jepsen for filesystems

Not as elaborate as Jepsen, but there has been some work:

- Kirk McKusick's papers and work on BSD fs log semantics

https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Marsha...

I believe the term to look for is "soft updates."

- the BSD/NeXT file test program "fstest.c", used on local and NFS (Samba), which found many bugs in popular fs using simple operations. The ZFS team also has a version.

You can Bing versions of that by using quotes "fstest.c".

- the Luster/Gluster maintainers/consulting team used to just untar emacs on their distributed fs buildouts and see how many nodes left the cluster. (They lived off DARPA funding basically, and were paid to configure and install distributed fs for US govt/military supercomputer installations, and fix the underlying bugs as found.)

- Ironically, the Ceph team did not own any commercial storage devices, so just tested on regular linux machines.

- Reiserfs 3 was the first GA log fs on linux (default on SUSE), so I was one of the earliest US users in production.

SUSE's rep called me a liar at trade show, saying "nobody uses our distro in the US. :) It worked well on email server loads, and could delete 1 million files in a directory in under 1 second. I followed the development of v4, but the "wandering logs" and "dancing trees", etc. kind of wigged me out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_tree

Source: DBA and storage engineer.
I have tried reproducing the papers, with mixed success. I do not share your sentiment.
Well this event, if true, doesn’t even have anything to do with politics. I guess my point was more that this seems like a major screwup by a company that tries to project itself as a champion of diversity and inclusiveness, so much so that it’s hard for me to believe this lady’s story in its entirety.
"Quite likely"... yep, you made it all up.

We have the testimony of someone, which you blame as one-sided, but then you come up with your alternate story that is also totally one-sided. You do realize you are as biaised right? Except here, you're siding with one of the biggest corporation in the world to assume that they treated their employee fairly. Excuse me if i'm more likely to believe an employee that share the story publicly under her name, might alleniate future employer, etc. More likely to believe that story of someone who worked at Google for that many years, than an anonymous commenter on HN that just came out with their alternate theory to defend the corporation.

If you had read the twitter thread you would know the language is not the reason of the firing, so it seems you also didn't go very far in your "investigation".
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This for certain. The piano is way more fun to play with weighted keys and much more expressive. I bought my first weighted key piano, a Roland FP-30, this year and have been playing almost every day just for the fun of it.
coffee stain studios in general are phenomenal at delivering exactly what they promise. whether that's a balanced, fun factory automation sim or a game where goats lick stuff for no reason.
Look through that list, many of those kidney grills are modest deign elements with several of them including separate grills for air intakes. The silly giant kidney grills that most people agree look stupid are really an aberration.

Their US market share peaked in 2014 and their total sales peaked in 2015. I am not going to say their a declining brand, but their 2019 market share is only up to 2010 levels.
I think it could. In Baltimore there is a culture surrounded by giving cheap economical rides. It's called "hacking" or "catching a hack" https://afro.com/the-anatomy-of-a-hack/ .

I think an app that just allowed people to be their own boss and hail their own rides could easily upend uber or lyft. If the idea of the app is to empower people to be their own bosses. Let people set their own rates. Maybe charge a flat rate of $0.25 per ride. Drivers would benefit and so would passengers.

Obviously hacking/hitchhiking can be dangerous so the driver/passenger identity system would still need to be addressed.
I would say no cheaper than $500 from Roland, Yamaha, or Casio.
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> assume that they treated their employee fairly.

Biggest corporations in the world have rules and processes and to believe that the manager or corp was out there to "get her" instead of her just being toxic (or use whatever other word for "poor culture fit") would be a violation of Occams Razor.
iPhone is probably the best one. When it was annouced and I saw Steve give a demo it was clear to me that this was a huge leap forward for mobile phones, but I don’t know if anyone outside Apple could have predicted just how huge.
I wrote a chess game using StockFish, and had it play against another computer player that only made random choices. And what surprised me is how long it would take StockFish to beat the random player.
If you fire a white guy nobody cares.

If you fire a person you hired to fill a minority quota - there's a big risk of bad PR or a court case.

How do you think this influences people hiring minorities? It becomes "necessary evil".

BTW I'm Polish, my English pronunciation is very bad, never had problems because of that and I don't consider myself "minority" nor want preferential treatment. I highly doubt it would be different if I worked at Google (especially looking at accents of some people from Google I worked with).
There may be legit concerns regarding how Google handle themselves, but I can't help but notice the patterns of various, disparate and relatively sudden reports of Google's alleged discrimination. It almost feels like a concerted attack. Weird.
Don't really care about manufacture warranty (3 years... Really? The service packages the dealers sell in Australia are tricky, especially condition-based engine oil change WTF). Self and trusted mechanic friend can take good care of the car (thanks to realoem, newTIS and bimmerPost, BimmerCode etc.).

I didn't even buy (one-off A$395, LCI became subscription and later scraped) CarPlay for my original F87, because I bought F87 for driving pleasure, the engagement / communication with the car while driving it, don't have a spare hand to deal with the buttons or screen to be honest, not even music when doing spirited driving (50% of the time).

I like the classic FR models with straight 6, missed a used 1M coupe (colleague's, gone while hesitating spending 65k buying a used car), ended up with a compromise, OG F87 (not bad, probably the best that money can buy at that time with everything standard except heated steering wheel). It's like 3.0 CSL, 2002 Turbo, E30 M3(straight four), E46 M3, 1M Coupe with the right size, proportion, front kidney grills (not like the new M4's), what timeless design should be like.

Nowadays when looking at the modern BMWs on road, hope I can have a HUD to filter those :shrug.
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Something properly weighted. $700-1000.
Say what you may, but there was the famous Lenin Monument in Berlin, that was demolished post reunification, but it had certain majestic qualities, it should perhaps have been preserved.
I really appreciate the nuanced analysis! Thanks for the input!
> Although it isn't necessarily the most "user-friendly", pretty much every HTTP(S) client and server in existence supports using certificates to authenticate clients.

It's also not limited to HTTPS. Other protocols like SMTP and IMAP can use these as well.

One good way to get 2FA is to not only verify the client TLS certificate server side, but also require the user to send their username and password when logging in. Server side, the verified certificate could be checked against the credentials provided to see if they match.
This is, as the OP states, like soviet reeditions of the biography of Stalin, or the history of the USSR. The WHO is losing any authority it might have.
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I know that it's controversial, but I really feel using Comic Mono for coding reduces cognitive strain ... I've been using it as my main coding font for a while now.
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That's not the market way of looking at it. How will a bankrupt company retain their world class employees? They are one missing pay-check and counteroffer away from moving elsewhere.
The reason people migrate is to take advantage of the institutions and wealth built by French people, not because they specifically enjoy the climate there (although that's, to a small extent, one possible reason for migrating).

A good example of the nice institutions built by Europeans is Australia. No one really cared to migrate there until the country was all built and nice, and now it's coming from all over the world (mostly Europe and Asia). Before that it was (and to some extent it still is) a fairly hostile land.
The UK, for historic reasons, doesn’t believe in private property for the common man; almost all property in the form of land belongs to the government or someone with a legacy from the ruling class of nobility. Thus most homeowners don’t own the land their home is on, they just own a very long term lease from the actual landowner (not sure precisely what is customary these days, but imagine a 99-year lease) with N decades left on it. This is a leasehold.

Owning the land is called a freehold, and the owners are called freeholders instead of leaseholders.

Contrast the US where a lease of a home is typically paid monthly and contracted on a year to year basis.
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Try reading the article before spewing you bs here fuckwad.
I was a particularly anxsty teenager at the time, but I do remember there being plenty of hype and speculation about "LP7" in Radiohead fan circles before In Rainbows finally arrived.
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