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If you want to maintain a high quality of life and an active life into old age, you are going to need to lift weights. Or a similar equivalent exercise that provides impact to preserve strength and bone density.

The sooner one starts the better.
Yeah, it like someone went two years into the future and brought back this chip.

As a Chromebook fan (and I used one as my daily driver), it seems like Apple has out-Chromebooked all Chromebooks with the M1 MBA. Unless AMD or Qualcomm pulls a rabbit out of their collective hats in the next 6 months, the MBA will be my next laptop.
Nextdns + Firefox reader mode makes it ok. Couldn’t find any other way to get rid of this “what’s new in macOS” video that was taking up half the page otherwise.
The Americans would never tolerate a hard border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Too much time, effort and blood went into getting the Good Friday Agreement. The border with Northern Ireland still exists, only it got moved to the Irish Sea.
Ozymandias it is, it wil live up to me for decades, such a good script.
No. There's been the Common Travel Area since 1923.
Don't think that's gonna happen with OpenBSD. At least not any time soon.

[1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=157819616927844&w=2
The Wire does live up to it's hype.

Keep going beyond the second season, it gets better, when the lines between the gangs and the government blur
People can disagree with you all they want about the app. I figured out how to play with both hands at the same time with Simply Piano. To me, that is magical. Also, it's fun.
I am using a M-Audio keyboard, which senses speed and was good to get started, and now I feel proficient enough that I want to buy a digital piano. Looking at Kawai, but can't visit a music store showroom because of COVID lockdown.

Maybe in time I will change my mind, but I think it makes perfect sense to use a basic MIDI keyboard to learn the keys and notes while deciding if it is something enjoyable and worth a substantial financial investment.
I remember in early(ish) Linux, the terminal programs had a setting to be at least partly transparent, so your desktop background (and other windows? I forget) could show through.

Wound up constraining what desktops you could choose, and how you had to set up your terminal colors. And since I prefer dark text on a light background, it didn't work for me from the beginning.

I imagine those programs still have those settings, but I don't see that behavior in screen-shots of programs any more.
Continuum – The Platform for the Future of Work
I'm building something, MVP is up. Thought I would post here for eyes and feedback. Submit your email on the site if you are interested in a beta invite. Thank you.
And there goes the professional services industry
I think one problem is that wanting to not die seems fucking logical. No less logical than any other want, anyway. If you don't have to justify pullimg your hand out of a fire, I think you don't have to justify an aversion to non-existence.

All the arguments about it actually being okay make me suspicious that they're a coping mechanism, from people who wouldn't actually choose physical degeneration, pain, and death if they had the choice a priori. (who would?)
It depends on how many apps you pair with the watch.

My colleague gets 24 hours battery life on her series 6. Still uncomfortable compared to the usual week+ battery life Garmins.

On the cheaper side, another colleague has an Amazfit Blip Lite which lasts 30 days on a 2 hour charge and can withstand up to 30 meters underwater.
The series is excellent, and this is the only example I can think of (at the moment) of a movie based on, or continuing, a good TV series that was actually worthy of its inspiration. Chiwetel Ejiofor almost steals the show, he is so good.
Which ones? DragonFly BSD has transitioned from CVS directly into Git back in 2008.

OpenBSD probably has no plans to transition.

NetBSD has been testing Fossil, Git, Mercurial, for about over a decade now, yet somehow as of 2020 the sight is currently set on Mercurial (even though the current Git export is done through Fossil, continuously since at least 2011); whilst CVS still remains the only official master repo. http://wiki.netbsd.org/github/
Can confirm, Reeder is an outstanding app (for RSS feed reading), and as soon as I saw the new version notice, I promptly updated.
This is something that actually turned out to me meh for me. I think cable internet was the huge jump.
There are ripple effects from discovering that you're capable of doing things that professionals get paid to do.

Good ripple effects.

My wife has not only embraced me doing more things around the house (and to me, this is getting to do more things) as she's seen what I can do, but she's also embraced her own capabilities more as she's discovered what she can do.

There's also cases where professionals have different skill levels, or just a bad day, and make mistakes working on your issue. But when you did the initial build or repair yourself, you often learn enough to come in and troubleshoot an issue that arises, without having to schedule a troubleshooting session (or five, as is the case of my brand new roof that still has a new leak after quite a few visits and failure to identify the cause.)

The more capable you find yourself, the more you can readily learn to shape your immediate environment to be the world you want to live in. And arguably, there's more satisfaction in that than paying others to shape the world for you.
Ah yes, the extreme. Allowing poor kids in inner city schools to share information that rich kids have access to, using property their parent(s) purchased with their own money. How extreme. Pointing out that a new book is literally made entirely of symbols invented thousands of years ago and contributes nothing of value in comparison, how extreme. Saying that we shouldn't prioritize selling bad medicines over good ones, how extreme.
Having spent the majority of my days typing at various applications for the last 30 years, I have developed a great appreciation for UI longevity.

I'm a vi person by muscle-memory, and the stability there means I've learned a thing or two about it. But I've used emacs enough that I'm comfortable there, too, at least to a point.

Don't get me wrong, I love playing with new toys. But I also love not having to think about my tools - I'd rather think about what I'm building.
There are special provisions for Northern Ireland, the so-called “backstop”, in the EU withdrawal agreement which was signed a year ago.
You think that people aren’t already hiding their views because of social consequences? And this is progress? You’d rather that people hid what they really think?

Your entire view handicapped by your inability to see past what is and what is not allowed by law. You seem to think that only legal methods, instead of social or cultural changes are the only way to encourage a culture that values the freedom of speech. You are too shortsighted to see that freedom of speech is both a cultural and legal concept. More importantly, by arguing legal semantics, you don’t seem to understand why freedom of speech is necessary at all. Freedom of speech is merely an implementation detail. Has it never occurred to you to ask “what problem is it trying to solve?”
The Americans were not part of the negotiations.
Uuuugh, classicists are so boring. Not everything has to be classical piano. Thelonius Monk didn't have anyone correcting his finger position.
The article makes some good points, and I’d be inclined to agree with its conclusion, but I think what it’s missing is the speed that orbital manufacturing will happen. There will be exotic materials that can only be produced in orbit. This will encourage a lot more extra-planet activity, and bring more and more capabilities off planet. As these capabilities increase there will likely be increasing economic pressure to utilize extra-planet resources further increasing our off planet capabilities. I see a positive feedback loop that is sort of inevitable in the next several hundred years.
Ah right, I might have missed your point, if "subscription" is the only thing you're objecting to.

First, it's obviously a scam. I'm not getting extra value in exchange for money, the product is done. It's even worse than various software subscriptions - at least there your code is continuously being improved and updated to the latest version. Therefore, literally the only reason the company is doing that, is to scam me out of more money.

Second is the trust issue - and I'm not just talking about legal scams - e.g. changing terms and conditions in the future - which could in theory be solved via courts / customer protection laws (but in practice, won't be) but more about the fact that the car company has the ability to disable (parts of) my car! So I wouldn't be buying such a car (asterisk) even if they gave me a "special offer" of $0-forever subscription! They can still change the terms at any point in the future, and it would require massive effort on my part to fix that.

Edit: Having said that, paying $2k up front for CarPlay is also a scam - but at least it makes it easier to estimate the total cost/value of the feature, hence reducing the risk (and mental drag) of owning it...

Edit2: Btw, I have this objection with any "subscription" service... e.g. buying leasehold (subscription) house (although even buying freehold (ownership) house isn't without risk in the UK, you never know who has a preexisting claim on the property...)

(asterisk): assuming other options are available... which is the whole reason we must fight against this, sooner or later... in M$ Office and non-smart TVs, this train has already left the station!
I wired a Christmas tree with 500 LED lights and calculated their 3D coordinates
I reported the bug about recommending songs that I had downvoted. Apparently I had more thank 5k downvotes so it didn't consider them all in the filter. The "fix" was bumping the limit.

I used to pay for Google Music and transitioned to YouTube Music but eventually gave up because it has so many issues. I also tried Spotify but didn't like it much so now I don't know what I will use.
I recently moved from a M.2 750MB/s SSD to an M.2 NVME one that does about 3,750MB/s.

That was an amazing boost that I'm so very glad to have purchased. Ironically enough, it was to have enough space to install Cyberpunk 2077 :)
There's a difference between being honest and clear and being a jerk.

Most humans are not so bad at figuring that out.
The Wire is the greatest show that has ever been made in my opinion. It features thoughtful examinations of schools, corruption, media bias, policing policy, labor, drug legalization, addiction, politics, drug organizations, what it is like to be poor, and much more. The Wire also features the single most accurate portrayal of what it is like to exist in a large organization and how individuals within those organizations drive organizational momentum, policy, and culture at all levels. People complain about it being a little slow because real life is slow and the Wire is emulating real life. The ending of the show is also perfect in that it's absolutely not spectacular in any way. Season 1 is my favorite season.
And it created a wonderful narrative device to revisit scenes and references from several other filmes. Marvel movies never positioned themselves to be hard scifi.
Normally we don’t think of trade in terms of “winners” and “losers”, at least in absolute terms. Any restriction on trade reduces the overall level of possible economic activity, so a situation that reduces trade relative to the alternative is an overall loss.

We can talk about “winners” and “losers” in relative terms, if we accept that “winning” just means “losing less than the other side”.

Of course, this isn’t a purely economic question: people who voted for Brexit did so in part because they valued other things (e.g. restrictions on immigration, national sovereignty, national democratic self-determination) more than the economic cost that comes from having them.
Happens constantly, I believe it was Dominos who once lobbied the UK to allow more unskilled migirants in because the UK unskilled workforce basically won't work for them. There will still people willing to do it but not at the same scale. You can see this in other labour markets where migrants are the bulk of the workforce because locals refuse to do that work at that price. Lots of people will choose to be unemployed than work in an unskilled job with unfair wages.
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Yes, the Brussels effect:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect

One could say the UK has given back control...
Mostly agreed, but the CP2077 Soundtrack is hard to beat.
Paths of Glory is one of my favorite films, after hearing David Simon speak about how it's essentially a movie about middle management and the dangers of being giving a task that's impossible to complete yet will still let down the people who look up to you!
I looovvveee Interstellar. That "No Time for Caution" sequence is the exact point in time that I granted Christopher Nolan apotheosis. Doesn't hurt that I'm a bit of a space geek too. It's as if Interstellar was made with marketing crosshairs aimed at me.

However, I think it's still in that "only time will tell" phase. Like Cameron's Avatar---mindblowing during it's time and for a few years after but now just mostly remembered for the implications of Na'vi anatomy and the lazily named unobtanium---Interstellar might yet be remembered more for the cheesy bits than its storytelling.

I still have very high hopes for it though! But I'm giving it maybe five more years, at least a decade. Fingers crossed!
That does not mean no border. That just means that Irish and British can freely cross the border but may need to show passport/id.
The story is garbage, nothing happens. It's video game questing set in a cool universe. It's hard to feel for any of the characters. It's a bummer because the nailed vibe and visuals and all they'd really need to do is attach a more compelling story to it.
Printing was complicated in those days because a computer couldn't hold a bitmap of a printed page in memory and still do anything. Early PostScript printers were also much more powerful than the PCs that drove them, often with 32 bit RISC CPUs, dozens of megabytes of RAM and some even had SCSI disks.

Now that most computers can hold a page in their L2 caches, it's easy and much faster to render in-memory and send a bitmap over to the printer driver to let it print with whatever options it wants. All the driver needs is to accept a bitmap and print it as well as it can and you can safely ignore most of the printer's own PDL.

Most of the thorny issues in printing are with special-purpose printers - thermal, barcode, embedded text only, etc.

Apple uses CUPS and it should work fine with older printers. Last time I checked, CUPS could handle an HP Deskjet 500 (if you have the parallel port)
well, certainly the information is publicly available after it's used
The Series 3 has better battery life than the Series 6 (from my experience owning both).

I think the difference is the Series 6 screen never fully turns off. I imagine disabling "always on" mode would likely push battery life much higher, but that's just a guess
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25527902
These things are common in similarly-classed vehicles and have been for many years.
Look for proofs, details and independent sources. If you see something short, flashy, buzzwords, slogans, it's probably not very solid. Propaganda still follows Goebbels' scheme, you can simply reverse it.
As strong believer in EU, at this point I am quite unsure what the EU it is all about. It is just being able to freely move between countries without officially need a VISA?

As if the problem of moving in a new nation is the strictly bureaucratic one and not the cultural one.

In my understanding from this article UK got everything from they wanted AND they control the supply of their currency. What is the advantage for Italy or Spain to stay in the union?
$100 vs $1000+ is a big deal.
Tesla. Or rather, TSLA. (So far)
Gatekeeping????? That's the most absurd use of that word I've ever seen. It's a hobby. Hobbies cost money. People don't have the god-given right to play piano, just like they don't have the god-given right to fly a plane. Pianos cost money. Pianists need money to make a living. It's not gatekeeping, it's just the plain economics of a highly complex musical instrument.
s/UK/GB/
I’m an avid Factorio player. It is rare to see such commitment to craftsmanship that the Factorio developers demonstrate. Every aspect of the game is continually refined and improved. The game is very performant even when there tens of thousands of entities moving around at any moment.

The multiplayer gameplay also reveals a lot of fundamental truths about collaborative engineering as the player must debate architecture, prioritize and balance between the short term and the long term, join individual efforts into a group product, discover Schelling points, and so on.
Somewhat related to that, Termux on Android. The few times I've had to use it, it's been a joy. Being able to use a bluetooth keyboard with my phone hooked up to a monitor via USB-C to HDMI was very cool.
> All are _very_ strong.

That's the problem. To learn, we need an AI that can be just a little bit stronger than humans, but at the same time we need an AI that makes natural moves, not an AI that makes great moves 90% of the time and clear blunders 10% of the time.

And playing go, the AI should be able to give handicap stones and play reasonable teaching moves.
> I'm not getting extra value in exchange for money

Wait, if you're not getting extra value from the product every extra month you use it, then stop paying the subscription! That's the beauty of it!
Dr Andrew Ng's courses on machine learning and deep learning

Beautiful explained lectures. I can't believe what a great instructor he is. I feel he truly embodies the Feynman learning technique.
ABOUT: Built by guys with Russian surnames . . . .
Considering the utter hack job and the travesty that was the last season (and a half?) of Game of Thrones, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss really are not any kind of a selling point for me personally. I'm still incredulous it got made and released in such state. So, frankly, it's quite the opposite. What's the visual equivalent of "not touching something with a 3.048 meter pole"? "Not observing a thing with a fiber-optic cable"?

I jest, sure, but that bitter mental taste in my brain still remains.
What an enormous waste of time and money for everyone involved Brexit has been. To think this entire farce followed from a non-binding referendum with a 2% majority in favour.
Consumer products no, but commercial/industrial products yes
Two parts of this I feel need stressing.

> The trade agreement – running to 2,000 pages – ... a week before the end of the Brexit transition period.

2020 was supposed to be the transition period. We've been told by the government for the last few months that we need to prepare, but for what future circumstances would we have worked on before today? There is technically one work hour left before Tuesday.
Really? That would be news to Ambassador George Mitchell, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_J._Mitchell
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Factorio is freaking amazing and is my goto game. I've just gotten into the multiplayer aspects and it's completely rekindled my love after 1400 hours of game-time (according to steam, far bit of afk here to be honest). There are train worlds, mod worlds, pvp worlds, so many new and unique ways to play. One of the best parts of this game for me has been that both the depth and speed of it are totally up to you. Although many people simply try and speed run rockets or automate their factory, this is all completely optional. You can create works of art, music generators, blinking lights, even straight up computers!

One of my recent side projects has been building out a modded multiplayer server that allows me to sell plots of land to players. My idea is to create a city of player-owned museums and shops, all with the backdrop of a custom story narrative in a high-end designed mall of sorts. My inspiration for doing so has been from watching first person videos of people walking in Japan, wanting to experience that but being unable due to the lock-downs. My favorite aspect has been creating an in-game 'paid' train line that lead the player out of the dense concrete shopping district and into one of the beautiful blue and green tree parks, the visual switch-up makes the experience fantastically enjoyable. I'm not really sure I'll end up making any real income from it but the process has been a complete blast. Playing the game in this fashion feels the same as Minecraft did, just with more automation and potential for world building.

Although not strictly Factorio related, something else I've pursued within the game has been setting up a semi-interactive self in my room. I have a few small monitors all linked up playing, and I just set my character to hang out in various places online. One game sits in a train-world just cruising along, another sits in a beautifully animated forest, another still hangs out on a pristine beach that I found. Sitting inside a small room day after day due to the pandemic has been brutal but this setup has greatly improved my sense of connection to the outside. Apart from getting to look over and see something that is visually appealing (and green now that bleakness of winter is here), I'll occasionally see random people join a server and become friends trying to build something together, it's awesome! My shelf has become an interactive, aquarium, IRC, hybrid, all thanks to this game.
No trade deal will ever come close to the deal we had as full members of the EU.
The thing with doing one thing and well is that you are missing on all the other cool things in life. What if you chose the wrong thing? Why is being in the top 99th percentile so much better than being in the 90th percentile? Is it worth the extra 10 years spent working on that if you are still not in the 99.99th percentile? I don't think you should focus on the pay-off or the "OMG, I got so good at this!" part, you should just enjoy the journey and learning process. If you are ok with learning very slowly but always progressing it might be better than spending a tremendous effort in a short time just to quickly reach your ceiling and than hate the thing that you do.
> The UK, for historic reasons, doesn’t believe in private property for the common man

On the contrary, the UK is deeply obsessed with house ownership! The key word though is 'house', the Grenfell related scandals have all been about large blocks of flats, where the residents will almost certainly be leaseholders, with the actual building owned by someone else (probably a company)
Definitely not true for me. My most common scenario is "can you please send me all the photos of the trip/dinner/... in the original resolution" in a car park/train station/street corner.
Why not stop tipping if only a portion goes to the waiter that is serving you? The loss of income argument is no longer valid for your server because you don't have a tipping responsibility to that particular waiter but rather to the entire staff at the restaurant and unless all waiters are ganging up on you they have no argument.