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Yes, but that's neither here, nor there.

First, because we could also have server-class devices that are quite easy to setup (similarly to how consumer PCs where much harder to setup in the past and are much easier now). We just come to not expect it, but that doesn't make consumer vs server something that inherently justifies "more difficult to setup".

Second, because the "spend 1 hour to add an account on an iPad (and during an outtage at that)" is far from the common behavior of the iPad, to be representative of some inherent issue with it.

So, it's more like "I had a quite unlikely and unrepresentative experience with an iPad and it put me off from such devices, whereas I tolerate the same far more often from servers and desktop machines and don't think twice about it".

Which, put that way, is much less potent than "that damned iPad and Apple's walled garden wasted 1 hour of my life, I'm never going back to those", isn't it?
There are a few websites accepting it. It looks to me that "paying with bitcoin" is the minor use case.

It's seems just a tradable stock that goes wildly up and down because it's impossible to find a reasonable fair value. The whole industry is based on trading, but the underlying asset is mostly useless. No dividends. No places to spend it. No low-volatility. No inflation-adjusted.
Could you explain why you would choose Cloudflare stock?
One of the reasons to use housing as a financial source for UBI. An LVT-like approach could capture the full market value of housing (land really) and tunnel it back into the economy as a public dividend, an UBI.

It would be a bit different from the current inheritance based land value extraction since it would go to everyone instead of the lucky owners. I think it could be positive change though.
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Probably a pretty dang good reason. Just kidding, dang sucks.
So then the question is justified - how is it that if I go to gov.uk, the first popup I get is whether I accept cookies for data privacy. Yet they will seemingly get to send sensitive NHS data without consulting the respective owners of that information?

I'm certainly not pretending to be nowhere near knowledgeable about the topic, and it would be great to hear from someone that does, but it seems to me that the public has legal GDPR grounds on which to protest this data transfer? I, for one, certainly don't want Palantir holding my data.
How many Google Search* engineers saw this article on HN? I guarantee the number is greater than zero.

* Or people who talk to Search engineers regularly, etc.
you could stand up and change the oil if you have access to a car lift
Reddit

I used to read the frontpage and popular constantly. Now I feel like I'm fully off it and only use it to consult with niche groups that don't have dedicated forums.

Reddit went from a fine slashdot/digg remake to no better than facebook. I know reddit has always been a groupthink upvote downvote machine, but it's never been as bad as it is now. What would've gotten you a controversial back in 2013 is now just met with instant downvotes because it's slightly pro right wing.
If there is sun why not skip the middle man and use an array of mirrors for direct heating?
1 + 1 = 2 is based on conservation of particles. You put a marble in a bowl, then another marble in the bowl, you now have two marbles in the bowl. If you remove conservation then there is no reason why 1 + 1 should equal 2. 1 + 1 being equal to anything could just be nonsense in that universe, such a construct wouldn't exist and there would be no way to reason about quantities. That isn't a logical inconsistency, so such a universe could exist.
I haven’t had any trouble doing graphical debugging with VSCode and the C/C++ plugin. I get breakpoints, locals, watch, etc. The one thing I miss from Visual Studio is being able to easily change the watch window display format (e.g. showing a number as hex).
In modulo arithmetic, 1+1 != 2 can work just fine. We're not talking about the literal universe, but the space of possibilities that opens up when you change the rules. E.g. all the amazing power and complexity that comes from imagining the existence of a number i with the property that i^2 = -1. This was initially thought to be a logical impossibility.

True == False does seem pretty broken though. Not sure that can go anywhere.
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That kinda describes my experience. I was never formally trained in computer science; I fell into it in my late twenties and taught myself. I never took math at the collegiate level, so I don't really understand the fundamentals. However, I am able to get by for about 95% of the things I've needed to do. But the last 5% is always the most interesting, and I hate it when I hit those walls.
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Having 1937 next to the name of any modern day company would imply such.
Splitting H20 also means a free floating oxygen atom which will eventually form O2 and produce waste heat.

The quantum efficiency is therefore likely a meaningless number in practice. Though it’s handy from a scientific perspective.
We know, you can see it under a microscope. Take the simplest living structure, you'll see it will break down over time. Then go progressively bigger - you'll see the organism is doing work to keep itself together and well. These mechanisms are increasingly complex with scale, and not designed with that (or any other) purpose in mind, that makes it extremely convoluted and sometimes even counter-productive. The problem (from our point of view) is that there is no reason to keep doing this work after we procreate, that caused us to evolve workarounds instead of solutions (e.g. telomeres long enough for few decades, but not more).
It's just a fandom subculture thing, basically it's the equivalent of U.S. hackers writing Star Trek or Star Wars fan-fics about Unix programming.
Occiasionally it feels as if hurdles are placed specifically to make Google and Apple integration a pain. They're waging war and consumers are paying the price. We should hold them accountable, but the decreasing expectation of interoperability will make that harder and harder to do. The antitrust proceedings could help improve this situation, but consumer-protection organizations will have to fight to prevent the outcome leading to an even more hermetic oligarchy.
I often check my images to see how well there are appearing in the google search. Many times I have found to my delight one of my images clicked on it only to find it leads to another picture on Pinterest and is a completely different product and no link to me or my artwork or product. It is very upsetting that original source takes second place to third parties and these pins are vanishing and being replaced. I have no idea how they are doing this but it is making using Pinterest to show my original art and work a place to consider complete withdrawing from.
Thanks, it's a good source. Also on the financial front of how they organised finance and created a route to market.
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I recently gave Bing a chance after DDG being so slow and now I am quite happy with the result quality and presentation of Bing. Give it a try!
> "They seemed confused when I went to buy a Sim [card], their software kept freezing every time I put my finger on the sensor"
Well it’s not clear which datasets palantir have access to, so I have no idea if this contradicts our data privacy laws or not.
"In other words, are there any real life hacks that are not obvious that result in significant quality of life improvements?"

Get a comfy bed. Buy comfortable shoes. Spend more money on things that make you happy and less money on things that others tell you should make you happier. Housing is a great example, there is a lot of evidence that housing size doesn't improve happiness but living close to work and minimizing commute time increases happiness significantly.
Whatever people may think what mathematicians think, this comment describes the real situation best as I've experienced it.

Most pure mathematicians I've met/worked with actually look down (in a jocular way) on applied mathematics/physics. When Lagrange reformulated Newtonian physics, he was very proud of the fact that he didn't use any diagrams and arrows showing forces in his paper. In fact, of all the Physics I've seen, I found Lagrange's work to be the most beautiful and elegant.

I love how the commenter put it as "Nature is of no consideration whatsoever in some fields of maths". I'd restate it as "Nature is of no consideration whatsoever in pure mathematics" and I'm quite sure that the pure mathematicians would agree.
Since that’s not how any of that should work, perhaps either it was ID trouble related (ID troubles hit Azure/O365, AWS, and Google in Dec, Apple’s got company here), or there’s something odd in the setup you’re shooting for?

In the small, iOS devices are one of the few things I can set up fresh for technophobes out of the box and over the phone.

In the large, while bringing Apple ecosystem BYOD into a 15K employee bank, we got to see a good amount of setup challenges with various lines of phones, laptops, and desktops (main competing products were Surface, Microsoft’s first party line), and these are the ones that cost us the least to support.

The flip side of your experience are my wife and my phones which seamlessly and with zero telco/carrier interaction, upgraded both phones to new hardware (11 to 12) while bringing over both dual SIM card and eSIM plans.

First time I’d seen the “We found an applicable cellular plan that could work on this phone, want to bring it over?” (paraphrased) dialog box. There’s just no way clicking OK on that is going to make Verizon, T-Mobile, or AT&T do the right thing — but it does, in seconds.

Both also used the new device-to-device content transfer rather than iCloud restore from backup, with devices usable again in under 45 minutes from start, complete with watches and headphones etc repaired to the new devices.

Maybe I’m jaded, but damn this encourages me to evangelize their well-curated garden.
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> If I cannot use my eyes because they are too tired, they are “killed” for the day, in my book. As the other comment says, your own source makes the opposite point that the one you were probably trying to make.

We're clearly using different interpretations of the word "killed".

I have no memory of my eyes being "killed for the day" so I was asking for evidence that maybe I am accumulating eye damage that will eventually catch up on me.
freecodecamp is very beginner friendly and starts from scratch. Start with HTML/CSS and then Javascript.
even worse, while some folks have access to a second job or overtime, very few can scale their hours below 40 without angering their employer
Even if they change both the identity and the target, it's less likely they are going to succeed next time if the photos were leaked. People can read about the story in the news and it can affect the perception of this entire type of extortion in general.
That's both amazing and beautiful. Well done!
They also have made a big push into the data of NGOs and the UN. Many of which collect very sensitive data in some countries with some very complex political, economic and social issues. Palantir was often doing this for free. Maybe it's the cynic in me but in the same way I'd guess NSO Group does in the Middle East, somewhere something would be phoning home to Palantir's bigger customers (CIA, NSA) etc
Do you mean e.g. how company X (vendor) communicates with company Y (client to company X)?
That's going to help only if the radiator surface will get hotter than the atmosphere before the main electronics get too hot to operate.
One of the best animations I have seen. Although I am still left with one question: how come the impulse pallet misses the escapement tooth in one direction, but engages it in the other? This has puzzled me ever since I saw a cutout version at a watch exhibition at the Imperial Science Museum in London.
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I use compositions books. They are mostly used for strengthening my short term memory. At work I take a lot of electrical readings. Some of my coworkers are able to rattle off a bunch of readings right after taking them but I prefer to write it down as well as system state. Has saved a lot of time for everyone in y department when trouble shooting extends over a few days. For coding, sometimes I have an idea in the middle of something else do a few lines of pseudo code or sketches to help remember the idea fully later.
And in my workshop take down measurements and do calculations. If I measure the width of a board and then try to figure out the half way point, I can refer back right away. Also has saved some times on gifts when I’ve made one and then my wife wants another for someone else as a gift.
The other notebooks I like are the Dot journal ones, help keep everything lined up but closer to blank paper. I try to go cheap though because otherwise I stress if I’m putting the right thing in the notebook and wasting space etc.
It should always be a combination of biometrics; from fingerprint to retina, etc.

Even the tools or superglue I use prevents my fingerprints to recognized most of the time. And that is just for hobby.
My first thought was to Rusholme
A lot of the goalposts got moved there :)

You mentioned talented artists, not self actualization.
You are calling goods from jobs as invaluable - few may be. An iPhone is expensive but not invaluable. But art from Picasso is.

I think by moving the argument to self actualization - you’re essentially proscribing a wallE like lifestyle - the above talented artists might go ahead and produce greatness, but I don’t think majority is going to be doing any self-actualization. It’s going to be a party of consumption for most. But we are both guessing here.

That argument also assumes a post scarcity world which we aren’t even close to.

Finally succumbing to the myth of everyone chasing their passions while AI keeps up our lifestyle essentially is writing the end of our civilization as it is. If you buy that it ever happens, you should also buy that one day it will turn off. That day humans will be surrounded by magic machines they have no idea how to fix / work and in essence die off. Or at best, they get back to today.
You probably want to read the original (i386 version) instead if you're using it for learning: https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...
> we don’t care if you kill yourselves, as long as you don’t have any fun doing it?

This is actually a good summary. As mentioned in sibling threads, most pharmaceuticals that could potentially be enjoyable are formulated stateside in combination with things that will either make you feel terrible or outright kill you at high enough doses.
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I believe part of the attraction of Billy Graham was that many people found him amusing. Postman characterizes him as principally an entertainer.

In the chapter "Shuffle Off to Bethlehem," Postman compares the 20th century televangelist with 17th-19th century spiritual leaders:

> “Television’s strongest point is that it brings personalities into our hearts, not abstractions into our heads. That is why CBS’ programs about the universe were called “Walter Cronkite’s Universe.” One would think that the grandeur of the universe needs no assistance from Walter Cronkite. One would think wrong. CBS knows that Walter Cronkite plays better on television than the Milky Way. And Jimmy Swaggart plays better than God. For God exists only in our minds, whereas Swaggart is there, to be seen, admired, adored. Which is why he is the star of the show. And why Billy Graham is a celebrity, and why Oral Roberts has his own university, and why Robert Schuller has a crystal cathedral all to himself. ”

...

> “It would be a serious mistake to think of Billy Graham or any other television revivalist as a latter-day Jonathan Edwards or Charles Finney. Edwards was one of the most brilliant and creative minds ever produced by America. His contribution to aesthetic theory was almost as important as his contribution to theology. His interests were mostly academic; he spent long hours each day in his study. He did not speak to his audiences extemporaneously. He read his sermons, which were tightly knit and closely reasoned expositions of theological doctrine Audiences may have been moved emotionally by Edwards’ language, but they were, first and foremost, required to understand it. Indeed Edwards’ fame was largely a result of a book, Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls in Northampton, published in 1737. A later book, A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, published in 1746, is considered to be among the most remarkable psychological studies ever produced in America.”
> all it means is one photon splitting one H2O

It's not one H20. I read the graphic as:

110 H30+ + 100 OH- -- 350-360nm UV light + Al-doped SrTiO3 selectively coloaded with Rh/Cr2O3 + CoOOH --> 210 H20 + 5 H2

That looks like if it were paired with a cathode, you could take water and produce H2 more efficiently, but you'd need to keep the H+ sufficiently high or continue to supply it with more water, otherwise you develop higher OH- and H2O2 elsewhere in the solution from the H+ depletion, and that'll probably create some O2, but not at the rate you would with electrolysis, because the catalyzed reaction above would itself create a higher H+ environment, which feeds into itself from the H3O, but the H2 gas is escaping, depleting the H2 from the solution whereas the O2 is not gathering and escaping like that as much.

So, you could efficiently turn H2O into H2 source for a fuel cell.

But, you could also use this to make water more basic.

More detail:

Water is naturally a solution of H2, O2, H+, OH-, O--, H20, and H3O+, H2O2--. Except for H+ and O--, those are splitting and recombining most of the time while in liquid state, because the various ions in water and larger structures, etc. act as catalysts to the various reactions.

With light and the catalysts, the reaction above would seem to continue for quite a while, since the reaction produces H+ which will combine with surrounding H2O to product H3O.

Eventually, you're left with a greater concentration of OH- elsewhere in the solution (though surface of the catalyst near the reaction and the area above it that the H2 flows through would be more acidic). The reaction could stop if the availability of H3O and H2O would become too low, and at that point, the water would be more basic, because you wouldn't have sufficient free H+.
> to fit some executables into an image you can optionally compress the data with gzip and encode that instead

We already know such solution as "Rarjpeg"[0]: "letter file" + "letterbox file"[1]

Supported "letter files" (which could make box files selfexecutable):

- archives (selfexecutable): .rar/.7z

- other (not selfexecutable): any other files

Actually, supported "letterbox files" are:

- audio: .wav/.mp3/.aac/.amr

- image: .jpg/.png/.gif/.webp

- other: .torrent , .html

So, there are nothing new in your solution.

[0] http://lurkmore.to/Rarjpeg

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25329600
Where did we get 1 atmosphere/101kPa from?
ATV is not even a “walled garden”, app runs on lots of things, even Xbox, for instance.

Funny enough, I can’t get my dad to run the Apple TV app on his Xbox. He switches inputs, he can’t wrap his head around Apple TV being on or in the Xbox!
Too add: In materials research the term quantum efficiency, QE, implies that there are other efficiencies to consider.

E.g. in the OELD space, it is talked about that the materials developed have near 100% QE. This is useful terminology because researchers know that there are other efficiency losses that need to be improved on, and that this one can now be considered ‘finished’ (although, some even look at other effects to try to go above efficiency ‘maximums’ that appear fixed at first glance: https://news.mit.edu/2019/increase-solar-cell-output-photon-...).

Note: For OLEDs, although the QE is high, the light output efficiency is not very high due to internal light guiding effects.
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Why would a super-fan be targeting so many authors?

I could imagine one, or a small group of, obsessive book collector(s) trying to collect obscure literary content within a narrow focus or genre, but I have trouble believing they'd put so much effort into acquiring drafts by a seemingly random assortment of authors.

I'm partial to your nefarious scenario.

Or here's another one: GPT-4 has escaped the lab and is collecting more material to learn from in its quest to be the world's best predictor of human narratives.
Fascinating article,

Any suggestions where I could go to learn more specifically about this sort of genetic engineering and more generally about biology (University level and above).
No need to publicly tip your hand. Just follow that trail of evidence, then use parallel construction to produce a different trail that you reveal publicly.
I've worked across companies in shared Slack channels. And also linked Facebook Workplace instances.
You might wanna try Atom as this supports many languages and it's free to use.
Sorry the "1 atmosphere" should be "1 kPa" which is about 0.01 atmosphere. I didn't remember my chemistry units. Still, something you can get to with a normal vacuum pump in a lab.
More like- did you violate any eula’s or laws in discovering this so we can sue you and call you a “convicted criminal hacker”
I get so tired out by the constant filler in written and video articles of education. At the same time, the internet is becoming harder and harder to search for specific bits of information in lists, encyclopedias or other easily referenced and digestible formats.

Earlier today I was trying to find a list of all Alfa Romeo models to identify a car, and all the top results were ten paragraphs of SEO infused filler bullshit, with some smattering of half or less of the cars. Genuine enthusiasts get crushed under the weight of mighty marketing budgets seeking a pittance of adsense dollars.
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They might learn their lesson
Apple TV, in my opinion, has been a really expensive streaming device with a nicer UI. I only have one because it was a work gift. What changed for me in the past year was having young kids and letting them play freely in apple's walled garden - arcade. You get the benefits of privacy and lack of monetization. For the most part, the quality/gameplay isn't up to nintendo, but at their age I can see they're just as excited to play these games as we did with ones made for 90's consoles.

The next thing was seeing how well a fairly hardcore FPS ran on my iphone (it's the one with warfare in it). Put that on an apple TV with a new chip or variant of the M1 and you have enough tech capabilities to play the majority of last gen console games. You won't have all the graphics capabilities but I think the nintendo switch and the mobile market have shown it's not a necessity.

Total cost needs to include two controllers too - $200 for an apple tv plus $100. The one bit of accounting that consoles do, is take a hit on the hardware for licensing fees on games. Doubtful apple would play that game, but I could see them throwing some app store credits and package in all the services they have now. Fanboy or not, all these add up to a compelling future for the apple gaming console.