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Vertical Farming, Quantum Teleportation, Apple and Tesla
XLights enables you to design, create and play lighting displays
Thanks!

My focus is on speed and easy of use.

I already have some features that pretty much no one else has:
- Custom Music Visualizers -- the ability to have any part of the video react to music,
- Epic Focus (which is Pan and Zoom, but with an extra twist -- for instance, zoom in / out with a blur effect
- ability to play an audio track only simply by hovering and pressing Space (or Shift-Space to play all tracks)

The hardest part is allowing to edit any control properties, anywhere in the timeline. It will still happen with keyframes, but a lot easier than Adobe.

And mask editing -- the way I will allow it is not present in any existing program, as far as I am aware of.

The last two things - will probably take an additional 3-4 months to implement ;)
I would buy a big hardcover book of these, if it existed.
This is nice and all and I am being 'that guy' nit picking but I hate the use of 'OS' when this is actually a Linux distribution. It is really confusing as in some cases an 'xxxOS' really is a new OS but more so these days it means 'xxx Linux distribution'.

Also given their links to fsf who insist on 'GNU/linux' it is amusing to see the name contain neither GNU nor Linux.

As a huge Linux fanboy (I contribute to the kernel minorly as a hobby) I can also see the positive side - using Linux is such a foregone conclusion that we don't even need to mention it any more :)
I think reaching the correct solution is one of the least important parts of a technical interview.

I've interviewed candidates who will write the equivalent of enterprise level fizz buzz [0] and get to a correct solution, and candidates who will write much simpler code, but not quite solve the problem (it's a longer problem than fizzbuzz). I feel like I get better signal off the latter, as we can spend more time discussing their ideas, Vs writing boilerplate.

[0] https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
What I mean from non-bullshit is the one that worries more about the problem that he is solving than his career.

It is more about tech innovation
I couldn't find that source, please elaborate.
Oh don piano.
I wish piano methods would offer me the choice of genre (jazz, latin, classical, ...) and that they would start with songs that are perhaps technically simple, but still interesting from a musical viewpoint.
From the very beginning, the web was multimodal. Why can't you navigate it with just a keyboard?
Are you in the US? There’s not many companies outside of FAANG (and the FAANG-alike like Uber and Snapchat) that pay software devs with 5-10 years of experience over $300k/year. Perhaps financial companies in NYC?
I wonder if that's true and how you would measure it. Germany, like the US, was an alliance of different states. If you read Buddenbrooks, there's lots of ethnic humour about the Bavarians and their strange accents. I don't think Germany had the same level of mass immigration - until the 1920s and 30s, when it led to the anti-semitic backlash.

The more important point is just that the Nazis were explicit, avowed racists, while the US and Britain had a stronger ideology of racial equality and tolerance - though there was still plenty of racism in both those countries.
Thanks! I did check MS Photos app a while ago, and I've got pretty much all it has (and a lot more ;))

However, I added it to my todo list to take another look ;)
Thats a lot of pixels for what is a tremendously slow SPI interface.
Indeed no... Légion étrangère is very often front-line, opex, desert, jungle... A very special and strange military corps that meddled with politics in the 1960s...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers_putsch_of_1961
And nowadays they select at the entrance.
What is usually interesting from a musical standpoint in your personal music taste. Jazz is very interesting, but not everyone's cup of tea, etc.
I think it means the hue stays the same, since it's angle in polar coordinates, which is scale invariant. Saturation (chroma) changes though.
I'm glad a big-budget production is shining a light on that part of history. Extremely under-depicted and necessary to review and reflect on, especially right now
I get the feeling that a successful visual language really requires the ability to group multiple primitives into a single visual element (building a chip). I just get the feeling that a lot of visual languages are looking at the implementation of instruction and not programming in the large.
In fact it's been so long since I've seen anyone use it for powerpoint slides (or anything really) that when I came across the "Wearing the hair shirt" talk recently I was hit with a nice nostalgic feeling: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/wearing...
... right up until the series had no books to adapt, at which point the consensus seems to be they took a steep dive in quality.
I use SVN at my job and I gotta say I kind of prefer it to Git. Feels much lighter and the commands make a lot more sense to me
there is some pretty good sci-fi about intelligent octopuses[1], one of the coolest ideas is how a society might evolve in a way that reflects the animal's nervous system, i.e. more of a distributed thing than our centralized one.

(Though one should put in the time to also read the novel of which this is a sequel, which is about intelligent spiders, and is also pretty nice.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Tchaikovsky#Children_of...
And then everyone stood up and clapped.
I use the DuckDuckGo browser on iPhone and Brave on desktop, and Gizmodo (along with most of the web) is not bad. Occasionally, I have to do something from my wife’s computer, and it’s astounding how crippled the web experience is without a decent browser.
I have the WD15 connected to a 2016 MacBook Pro and it is incredibly unreliable. USB devices stop working randomly (mouse+keyboard), ethernet comes and goes as it pleases and the display output works for one month before stops working all together. The only thing that works reliably is power supply.
Number 12: if its unclear who has to pay for something, no one will, even if potentially millions of lives could be at risk.
200th 'Narco Submarine' Added to the Covert Shores Database
I am not questioning the clarity of your expression, but your narrow interpretation of the metaphor. It does not imply that judgements about racism are purely a matter of optimism or pessimism. It already incorporates the fact a person's influences cause them to make those judgements.

Of course someone who is at risk of experiencing racism is more likely to judge an act to be racist, but that doesn't make them right. In fact, they may be more likely to attribute innocent acts to racism, just as someone who rarely experiences racism is likely to make the opposite judgement more often than is justified.

My point is that we are arguing about something that was already expressed by the parent under what I believe to be a more generous interpretation of their use of that metaphor.
Of course. Space elevator were suggested more than a century ago. Arthur Clark made the idea popular in the sixties.
The problem that I see with Nim, is that it transpiles down to C.

So, does it mean, that Nim can inherit these unsafe behaviors of C? Or did the Nim language creators safely avoid the pitfalls of C?

Whereas a language like Zig and Rust, compiles its code down to LLVM.
Thanks, it's good to hear from someone with first hand knowledge. I wasn't aware of the vesting structure and I think you're right that a shorter term planned tenure makes people less risk averse.
WebAssembly on Roku
Yes. If he is updating the display every minute, that's 25% of the time spent in refresh, where presumably the display is unreadable.
The thing that strikes me about this issue is how unhelpful and, well, rude the author is. Terse, minimum viable answers to questions, no contextual detail even when it is obviously needed, and an air of expectation, as if the maintainers owe him a solution.
Embrace the Splinternet Without Flinching
What justice is there when a killer gets sentenced to life in prison at his 70th birthday, for a crime he committed when he was 20? What good is it for a man to be acquitted of a crime, when he has already spent 25 years behind bars? What good is it for a family to receive millions in compensation for some wrongdoing, when they've been living in destitute state for more than a decade?

In all those cases, the victims have not received "justice" for a major, defining, part of their life. That's what the catchy slogan tries to capture.
Neal Stephenson has a lot to offer in the Seven Eves
Er, just click on the blue "Download PDF" button.

https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=0051060861021170...
Thanks!

> In every editor I used, they usually miss YUV support and OpenEXR support (monochannel 16bit images for example). It would also be terribly useful to me to be able to zoom anywhere in the frames and get the precise color values and location of any pixel.

From an implementation standpoint, this is not that complicated to implement. I will add it to my todo list, but very likely sometime in the future. I need to know people want this, since it will definitely take a while to implement.

Also, it would not play nice with a lot of optimizations I've done so far - but that is a different issue ;) If there's need for it, I'll do it :D

> A fast way to open two frames of the same file or of two different files side by side to compare would also be extremely useful!

This is also doable. I'm curious why you want this, and how you'd like to visualize the differences.

> It is terribly painful to compare two images :)

I know :D A looong time ago, I implemented a very advanced zoom on images, so I know :D
Same.

1.
The philosopher's disease of always asking "why?" and critically evaluating things is a strange one. In Western countries this is how we are taught to think and it has many benefits, but physical happiness is seldom one. I have also found the line of thought to lead to a deadlock of "But why should we always ask why?". That question can ultimately only be answered by stating that "Asking why?" should be considered an axiom. And the matter of stating those axioms is up to everyone. In other words, like you say, trying to find answers to statements instead of questions is nonsensical.

2.
I have come to like the idea that I am merely an organism programmed to survive and reproduce and all my needs and wants branch off from that. That may sound somewhat hollow, depressing and like giving up, but it has helped me a lot. Makes me question things a lot less. At least it gives me some kind of answer with which I can justify and understand my irrational behaviour.

Also, the moment I am around people more often I find that 1. flies out the window and I completely forget about it – only living by 2.

Just like point 56. says it does.
Unrelated: I always post when I see e-paper display and e-ink articles that I think baby monitors should be made from this type of screen. The lack of an emitting light all night while trying to sleep would be amazing. The battery life would be greatly improved and less likely to die when you have the monitor unplugged in other areas of the house.
This article is out dated as of the year 2020 and soon to be 2021.

It’s all Leetcode or bust and anyone telling you otherwise is straight lying to you.
Don't think u/gorhill would be inclined at the idea of handing over the reins after the uBlock.org fiasco. Forks may survive, but the extension looks to be all but dead.
That is until you start branching and merging a lot. If you just develop on trunk and basically only do update and commit, then of course svn is more ergonomic. The problem is all the drawbacks of trunk based development: difficult code reviews, no gating so trunk build can break.
Robinhood Financial Hit with Class-Action Suit for Selling Stock Orders
Yes, thats how ddevault is.
Then I have something to look forward to, haven't I? Living abroad, outside of France, may change things again. Maybe next year, but I keep telling this myself for 3 years now. Hopefully kids and house will make that white marriage thing easier!
> Every now and then (maybe one out of every 20-30 songs) I will discover a shiny new gem of a song that really resonates with me. So I drag that song up and add it to my slowly growing playlist.

I take a similar approach, but I've found that the recommendation algorithm is pretty bad, so as an extra step I click on the artist and spend a bit of time listening to their other songs (and add those too, in the hopes it'll affect the algorithm).

> This approach has worked pretty well for me so far, but I really wish that there was a way to explicitly tell Spotify that I "dislike" a song and to never recommend it to me again.

That's one of my main issues with the 'recommended' algorithm. 90% of it is stuff I already have in other playlists, or stuff I keep skipping. I really wish the algorithm did a bit more with all the data it has, but I imagine they optimize for sales (to us or promoting artists/labels) over our actual desires.
I'd recommend the Remarkable 2 tablet. Runs Linux, active hacker community, gorgeous epaper display.

Sony makes a nice one as well, but it's a lot more expensive and a lot more locked down.

These Waveshare displays are more suitable for Arduino projects.
VT520 here too, can you share your custom terminfo?
The delay is a tactic to protect the guilty. Nothing is being or will be discovered about Grenfell that wasn't publicly and widely known within weeks. They're waiting until the public anger has dissipated enough that they can weather the reaction when they announce that no one will be punished. The British always do this to save their toffs, see Chilcot or Hillsborough.

Everybody has to report on the initial disaster, and after each wave of the media cycle, more outlets decide to stop reporting on the story (or for many, decide if they can get away with stopping.) The government press releases get fewer and trickle to a near stop, so now the only press releases they're getting are from victims groups and lawyers which are easy to ignore. Eventually a report is released that condemns everyone for incompetence and nobody for malice, and a recently retired fall guy is chosen to have some moderate consequences, like a retroactive reduction in rank that slightly affects their pension.

If our rulers weren't protected from consequences, they'd have to be competent. Endless delay got Epstein night-jail on a child sex trafficking case that started as one of the most observed prosecutions in the US.
The suggestion assumes most of the asymmetry between you and the company is not informational. You should strive to be well informed about what the salary range is. For well known tech companies, this is easy with sites like levels.fyi. Otherwise you can ask in your own network. It follows that you should also strive to be well networked.

Negotiation is an adversarial game played between humans. Therefore there can't be any simple advice except to get better at the things that make you more competitive at negotiation itself. Instead of subscribing to basic rules like, "never give the first number!", put yourself in a position of being well networked, well informed and experienced. Then you can decide how to negotiate well on the fly according to the context. You will probably earn vastly more by focusing on those areas than you will by diligently following simple rules of thumb.

For example: I received an offer from Stripe and got them to add a $100k sign on bonus to it even though I previously gave the first number. Which party gives the first number doesn't matter.
I mean the book literally shows a democratic "optimistic" society doesn't work and an authoritarian "pessimistic" one is the only workable outcome, I don't see why the PRC would have anything to object to that.
Alternatively, make the UI malleable enough that the user can conform it to their usecase. A lot of applications used to try and allow that sort of thing, but the trend for the past 15 years or so has sadly been exactly the opposite. Case in point: bespoke "dark mode" has replaced the near-complete control over colors and fonts we had in the 90s. Instead of customizable toolbars and re-arrangeable MDIs with sub windows everything is a fucking electron app with giant shiny buttons for mobile users regardless of the platform it runs on or even if mobile use is suited to the tool.
I can see why. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel.

Most startups are desperate and strap for cash. Added to the fact, they don’t have a lawyer on payroll, makes it a easy target for abuse.
0400 is 4AM, not 4PM, and has nothing to do with banking hours.

4am is the cut off time between “days” for TFL (London Transit) services - if you buy a ‘day travelcard’ it is good until 4am the following day.

It is guaranteed that if you make several transactions in the same day on TFL (by swiping in/out with a contactless card - or an Oyster card - at the ticket gates), the amount paid will be capped at the value of a day travelcard. I’m quite sure no employee is involved in any of this, and computers handle it end-to-end.

Banking in the UK is actually quite reasonable - largely because companies like Monzo have pushed it forward.

It’s a constant surprise to me quite how _bad_ banking in the US is in comparison though - and most of your points seem to reflect how US banking works rather than UK banking - as indicated both by the spelling of “cheque” and the notion of using them in the first place.
I think one of the biggest problems we have today is that we use the same word for estimating or evaluating a characteristic or ability of a person, as we do for evaluating the person themselves. I am evaluating your ability to perform this complex task in this situation, and it has nothing to do with my value for you as a person.

You may not care whether I value you as a person, but at that point, that's your problem and not mine.

I'm not even exaggerating, I believe this is a major source of strife in modern societies.
As well as being syntactically correct, it also reflects the contextual patterns of the tokens used to train it and then prompt it, which is perhaps limited by both intelligence and knowledge in humans.
Is NERVA TSTO possible, strictly in technical sense? Yeah why not?
2020: The year TV leaped into the future
I hope you're standing straight now, because... you know... "To stand up straight with your shoulders back means building the ark that protects the world from the flood, guiding your people through the desert after they have escaped tyranny, making your way away from comfortable home and country, and speaking the prophetic word to those who ignore the widows and children."

As much as I love metaphors ("Metaphors of Movement" concept and therapy by Andrew Austin or in general metaphors explained by Lakoff in "Metaphors We Live by") - Peterson is simply fantasizing. It might seem to be deeply thought out, but it's not. Would love to share with you great article about his book, but it's unfortunately in Polish. If you care to know then google translator might help https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&u=https:/...
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Square Is Said to Have Discussed Acquiring Jay-Z’s Tidal Music Service
“I’m not the kind of person who does things like that”

This can also be not misbehaving or betraying your own values. It's not about you though. It should always be about actions. Not about "is" but about do's and don'ts

Self-identification manifests the ego. You want to identify yourself as others do, based on your actions and not an idea you have about yourself. And especially not an idea driven by impulses. These build the worst egos.

And those who generate ideas about others can be the most dangerous. They will embed an ego they can fight with their own, and even choose to fight it just so they can win.
Nice try but this will likely be self defeating. Fewer people willing to work as waiters and a decline in the quality of service equates to fewer customers and less profit.
Fired Googler says she was told heavy Baltimore accent a “disability”
In Google, it seems to remove w3schools results.
Candidate thinks they're worth $250k. Employer pay bracket is $200k. Options:

1. Bend policy at hiring. $250k. $250k. $250k. $250k. $250k. $250k (no raises)

2. Follow salary brackets. $200k. $210k. $220k. $230k. $240k. $250k (low initial salary, catch up over time)

Having been on both sides, it's nearly impossible to make the case for bending policy further at annual reviews. Over time, employees converge to pay brackets. If you were hired with a on-off exception, you're getting no raises for a long time.

No raises feels shitty to a lot of people. It also brings risks.

True story: I was hired by a not-for-profit doing good work. Pay was maybe 1/3 of Google, and I'd be the top tech person at the org (not by ladder, but by skills). Pay was about 85% of what I needed to cover cost-of-living. They stretched brackets to get up to covering my cost-of-living exactly, so I was almost 20% over the upper cap of my pay bracket. Come next re-org, what do you know, they re-jiggle salary brackets standardize things, and my salary comes down 20%.

Fortunately, in the meantime, my cost of living had come down, so it worked out okay. I'm doing important, fulfilling work, and it's fun. So long as I'm doing that and making ends meet, I'm not tempted to jump ship to FAANG.

And no, my employer wasn't simply f-ing me; I understand the organizational structure, psychology, and dynamics well enough to understand what happened, how, and why. These were dynamics well above anything my boss, their boss, or their boss has any influence over, and I'd rather spend the social capital of going to their boss on something more important (e.g. making sure everything I do is open source).

A common career mistake people make is to assign intentions to places where the other side has no control. If you're worth $350k on the free market, and you receive a $180k offer, odds are the other side isn't low-balling you or doing anything mean or improper. They're operating from their constraints. You're operating from yours.

If you need $350k, and they can spend up to $500k, you'll be hired, and how well each side negotiates sets at where you'll get paid. If you need $350k and they can spend up to $200k, you're not getting hired, period. It's good to discover that earlier rather than later, but in practice, that usually comes up after the interview. In the no-hire $200k/$350k case, although you might not get a job now, things might change in five or ten years, and it's good to leave without bad feelings, and I'm not just talking about expressing bad feelings, but about what you're actually feeling. If you come out thinking "low-ball exploitative !@#$%," that's not very healthy; if you come out feeling "good people; no fit; difference in expectations; maybe next time," that is healthy.
Has someone here picked a musical instrument seriously for the first time in their 20s and managed to self learn? If yes, it would be helpful if you could point to resources that were helpful to you and any daily practice schedule you followed?

I have tried learning piano and I found a lot of stuff irritatingly hard to get right and got bored. Like for some reason I am not able to transition to other keys well when I am using both hands or when some finger involuntarily moves because of motion of neighboring finger. Also, I seem to get finger fatigue which is surprising considering the amount of time I spend on keyboards anyway.
This should be obvious, but there is so much wishful thinking out there about this that essentially boils down to praying that we discover a magical propulsion system that doesn't follow physical laws. It's simply not feasible, and a basic understanding of gravity and the rocket equation should disabuse anyone of the notion that we will ever be mining in the solar system. This also applies to anyone suggesting we might leave the solar system at any point, at least while maintaining life on board.