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Consumer throat mics in the field get generally negative reviews. In particular if the transducers shift position even a little, the speaker become unintelligible. That ergonomics problem needs to be solved first.

I think the military throat mics are usually built into flight suits, so they may be less prone to shifting? I know in the lab, they are usually taped into place, which isn't really practical for the real-world.
Overleaf is very unlikely to be a good drop-in replacement for MS Office for your company because Word and LaTeX are very different tools (with different goals and different audiences in mind). The former is a user-friendly word processor and the latter is a fairly complex plaintext-based document preparation/typesetting tool.

I doubt that most offices would benefit from teaching their employees that instead of just hitting control-B to bold some text, they should now do \textbf{foo}, or that quotes should now be types ``like this''. If you need the huge array of features (which is typically only the case in the context of academic publishing), then it's worth making the investment to learn. But for 99% of corporate documents, Word likely can do what you need with much less pain.
I think the issue is that the word "challenge" has two common usages in English:

1. to engage in competition

2. to dispute the truth or validity of

And the article uses the word in both senses -- the headline is that Chinese physicists are challenging Google in the first sense. But the article body mentions that other researchers have challenged the Google result in the second sense. Overall, it seems like a confusing choice of words by whoever wrote the headline.
Python for serious game development. Python for browser scripting so we can have true, full-stack web development in Python. More aggressive expansion of Python into the embedded world. More Python for terminal scripting. Widespread teaching of Python to schoolchildren in order to make programming the new literacy. More aggressive attempt to make Python the lingua franca of the programming world.

Did I leave anything out?
Titles shouldn't be editorialised without good reason, as per the guidelines. It's no more than that.
Care to share more details? I'm very curious what this looks like in practice.
Razer has serious quality/longevity issues. Would not trust one of their machines to last more than 1 year.
In theory yes, but in practice the problem is that many people choose majors that have no value to society....

Or often we have a glut into 'trendy' major that have fuzzy benefits to the society (think marketing/pr). Since it is not a specialized skill, many do have trouble finding jobs in their field.

The barista at my favorite coffee place, had a marketing/pr degree... you just don't need a college degree to make coffee. If she never finds a job in her field, or something that requires college degree, it would have been wasted money and a loss to society.

If you have to give free college, it has to be conditioned to things that do benefit the economy/society (engineering, teachers, medicine, etc). This introduced a different problem, that is 'state planing'.
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This seems delusional. I don’t believe it’s possible to have eradicated the feeling of anger, no matter what you claim. It’s a fundamental feeling. Acting on your anger is a different story, but claiming to have muted the feeling utterly is preposterous.
Correct technical term is, AFAIU, "quantum supremacy". Ability to do computations using quantum computer which would take infeasibly long time on classic computer.
I rented in SF for the past 10 years, and bought earlier this year. I don't look at my primary home as an investment; it's me paying to live in a place I love. Obviously I'd prefer that my mortgage not end up underwater, and a capital loss when I eventually sell wouldn't be awesome, but that would be a small price for me to pay for housing in this city to become more affordable for lots of people.

But I'm extremely lucky that my financial situation is such that my home is not the bulk of my net worth. For most homeowners in the US, their home is not only the vast majority of their net worth, but it's the basis for their retirement nest egg (with the intention being to sell in retirement and trade down to a smaller home, keeping the difference in cash value). So while it grates on me, I can absolutely understand how homeowners will do everything in their power to not only protect their home values, but ensure they keep going up, year after year.

At the same time, though, it does feel a little greedy to see people who bought 20-30 years ago holding on to their obscene hundreds (thousands?) of a percent gains so jealously, to the detriment of so many others. But again... it's hard to blame them too much, considering how uncertain retirement finances can be in the US. Solving that problem decisively with a housing windfall is an attractive proposition.

I imagine there are some truly awful people who are very rich and continue to push policies that keep their home values high, even when they don't really need them to stay high to support their lifestyles. But I expect that's a small minority of people, if only because few people are that financially secure.
I dunno, I think I’m ok with a culture of fear around using racial slurs, and perhaps viewing them as “legitimate transgressions” is part of the problem?
This is no more a computer than my pool table is. I can simulate particular physical interactions to a very high degree of accuracy with it.
Related to this, I'm kind of shocked that there isn't a strong third option for OSes. We've got Windows and MacOS, sure, but the nix ecosystem is so fragmented and not as well supported as the other two that it's hard to justify switching.

Like you pointed out, Mac feels premium because of the software/hardware tight coupling, and it just works. Windows is the same, but for reasons can feel less polished than MacOS.

I turned an old Macbook into a Linux box, and it's fine*. It does what I need it to do, but it doesn't feel premium at all. I just wish I had really slick, solid, premium-feeling alternatives.

It seems to me that Microsoft or Facebook or SOMEONE with a bajillion dollars could afford to do this and really make a dent in the space and give us more alternatives. I guess the demand just isn't there. Very sad.
This advice seems excellent. I find myself running into this type of thing all the time when I introduce someone to something -- anything -- that's new to them and that I have a lot of experience with, whether it's technology or a board game or other.

It's such a distracting downer to lead with the warts and edge cases, but it also sucks to leave them off, and I end up feeling like I'm on the defensive and apologizing for whatever I'm explaining when they run into each issue themselves.
You aren't more isolated living in a suburban house than in an inner city apartment. Isolation mostly has to do with your desire/initiative/ability to engage in social activities.
I disagree with your premise that they "look the same" even at a casual check, but even if we assume that's true, we're talking about 10 days here. I think the "casual check" excuse expires around the 10 minute mark.
If it were a common, reliable procedure - yes. Yes I would.

We get surgery without blinking all the time in this country, and the most common types are incredibly safe. You make leg replacement on the order of knee or hip joint replacement surgery, and you’ll have people beating down your door.
Why not both? Seriously though, suburbs would be a lot nicer if they were built on a human scale with amenities within walking distance rather than a sea of house bounded by freeways. You just need mixed zoning really, model it after a small town with fully detached housing surrounding a small core of low density apartments and shops. Rinse and repeat, call it a decentralized city or some such, maybe it'll catch on and get some planner's attention.
What do you do with errors within the latest increment? A shelf of annual HDD's doesn't sound too bad otherwise.
The backward compatibility continued into the original DS - which was a phenomenal lineup increase - I also fondly remember the Game Boy Player for the GameCube - a precursor to the switch in some ways.
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Well, you are entitled to your own opinions.

I see another person in this thread already who must be as self-deluded as I am! Perhaps there are more.

I believe Buddhist monks are rarely angry. That's where I would start.
What is the splat key in splat-B?
I think one key to a better Meetup would be to solve the no-show problem. From what I understand this is the greatest issue that large-group organizing has on the platform, to the point that I've seen people regularly write sassy rants on event posts to guilt people into accurately updating whether they're showing up or not.
Sorry. First, I thought that you set out to contradict, rather than agree with, the person you replied to (since that is common). Then I was thrown off by your topic sentence, which seemed to lump together the two devices ("timers and stopwatches"). At this point, I think my reading accelerated to highway speeds and totally botched parsing the rest ;)
Firstly, I think you misinterpreted what I meant by "legitimate", and secondly, the point is that a mature rational society takes a proportionate approach to corrective behavior that doesn't include life destroying consequences.
They're the same Gary (I wrote this article).
i'm working on this as a browser extension. to get my feet wet i created Yet Another Speed Dial (https://github.com/conceptualspace/yet-another-speed-dial) which many people find useful, but the end goal is to apply the same kind of richness to all bookmarks and history
Term of art has been changed from supremacy to advantage, to avoid evoking e.g. white supremacy. It's pretty hard to find a benign usage of supremacy actually.
I'm guessing "splat" is the key with the clover shape on a Mac where a PC would have a Windows icon.
"fiat currency works in practice without the fig-leaf of gold reserves or the like"

The practices employed by Central Banks are not fig leaves - those rules are how we define money and are maybe the most important rules in any country.

Those rules give credibility to the system, without which, it would collapse very quickly.

When we move remove the central bank and politicize money, then, the economy is socialized by definition.

That's not 'propaganda', that's just 'what it is'.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation
Fuck climate change. If an asteroid hits Earth we will move back to the stone age, if we don't go extinct. What kind of technology do you think could prevent something like that from happening other than having the ability to divert it with a probe that can land on it?
Hearing aid technology. In the last decade, the biggest innovation has been to add Bluetooth to premium hearing aids. It's a total game-changer, but I'm very surprised that there hasn't been more innovation on this front. I'm profoundly deaf, and my hearing aid gives me so many cool features... but I can't help but wonder how much better someone with normal hearing would feel with those features as well. I'm practically a cyborg at the moment, with technology augmenting my crappy hearing. Why wouldn't a normal person want to be a cyborg too, and have tech-augmented super-hearing?!

Like many other things, I guess the demand just isn't there. And even though Bluetooth devices have made having things in your ear all the time way less stigmatized than they were when I was growing up, there's still a bit of embarrassment about having something like a hearing aid in your ear. It's a shame, really.
"IBM vs Memorex":

Memorex created a disk drive that was plug compatible with IBM mainframes. IBM of course refused to support any system that dared to use these drives. And sued Memorex for copying their design. Memorex counter-sued.

This all forced the court to rule that reverse engineering was permissible.

https://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/memorex-introd...
It is - the kicker is (and always has been) the media.
News compete for attention in a free marketplace.
The real problem is maintenance. Maintenance of software is about 2/3 of programming costs. It's counter-intuitive, but has proven true over time. Tools that make it easy to create the original application often make maintenance worse. They only help 1/3 of the total cost pie, pumping up the other 2/3.

Learning how to write maintainable code is actually harder than learning to code. You pretty much have to be burned by maintenance trial and error on your code AND others' code to learn this skill. There are plenty of books that teach "principles" of maintainable designs, but the principles often conflict with each other such that it's a balancing act between competing factors such that a simple list of rules fails.

I can give lots of anecdotes of people getting carried away with specific "principles". The necessary principles are a piano keyboard, but they play only a few favorite notes, making even cats cry. Knowing when and how to use which note is still an art.
I think that's the difference between EU and US. After living in both, in the EU, we shop nearly every day, while in the US it's ~ every weekish or longer.
How many people have these engineers been arresting? This is news to me. I'm shocked!! They don't have the power to arrest people. How is this being allowed?!
I believe a Buddhist monk who believes they have abandoned anger is self deceived. And surely my criticism of you made you angry, at least a little bit, somewhere deep down.

And what’s wrong with being angry anyways? The world is shit, there’s a lot that’s worth being angry about. When someone insults you, get angry! When someone bullies your kid, get angry. When hitler marched on France, get angry.

There is a blanket of guilt about anger on the internet, and I find it childish.
Maybe around an order of magnitude more. The big difference is that square inch of tape might be 3-5 orders of magnitude cheaper to manufacture.
Like I said about the Google supremacy/advantage demonstration: the line between quantum computer and physics experiment is razor thin...
> there was an image library for Gnome/GTK, IIRC

librsvg is one.

I think it was originally written in C, and it apparently approaching being fully Rust.

Rust claims very loudly, repeatedly, and apparently with honesty that "gotta go fast" and safety are language design goals and features. So I'd imagine even a developer who just wants to get their hands dirty with Rust would be willing to do battle with the borrow checker since there's a good chance they'll eventually hit those goals that they share in common with the language itself.

Does Haskell have "gotta go fast" as a central language feature? If not, that'd be a real gamble for an SVG renderer. After all, what's the use of a library that produces the output you'd expect, but also at a speed you'd expect for a kludgy, over-engineered, text-based vector image format?

> But everyone still shits on "Rust Evangelists" when they bring it up.

Yes, but the language forces them to shit on it for reasons other than "not being fast." :)

Edit: clarification
I'd be concerned that any fix that still follows typescript's design principles would do more harm than good. In practice, the unsoundness of typescript doesn't seem to cause much actual problem, although more than none. It's easy to create example programs that demonstrate the problems, but they seem to be comparatively rare in day to day code.
Eye witness identifications are very likely worse than facial recognition. There should be some other evidence than either of those.
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There is the Freedombox project.
Again, you are assuming that the line that says 'wait' is a busy loop, but they are just saying that the program doesn't turn on the heat for 15 minutes after it has run for 15 minutes. That doesn't mean they are using a busy loop or not using one.
You'd think they would just use the same 2FA methods that are popular for logging in. 'We sent a notification, click accept on it to continue' or 'read the 6 digit authenticator code' would be re-useable for their web login and there are a ton of libraries and info that make it easy to implement.
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I would argue that paid news organizations that still maintain a paying subscribership, still do have high-quality reporting.

The Wall Street Journal and The Economist are two I use regularly.
The facial recognition is likely 'only' used as a pursuit/detection mechanism. Presumably/hopefully when making a case in court they use traditional evidence like eyewitness identification, DNA, etc.

Novel evidence like this is probably unlikely to do well in court for the reasons you describe.
I always thought it was interesting that (as mentioned in the article) the GBA has two processors, one for GBA and one for original gameboy/game boy color games. Similarly, the DS has an ARM7 in addition to it's ARM9 in order to play GBA games, however it lacks the sharp processor to play original game boy games. The notches on the carts prevent you from putting an original gameboy game into a DS, IIRc.
> This seems a bit like saying "A hurricane will simulate a hurricane better and much faster than a supercomputer".

The crucial difference here is that we don't have a good evidence that the size of the supercomputer grows exponentially in the size of the hurricane. While, it seems likely [1] that classical computers take exponential time to simulate a BosonSampling computer.

[1] as far as research in the computational complexity in this area has yielded proofs or failed to yield proofs despite trying.
If you start mandatory parenting classes, you have to start mandating the ‘correct’ way to raise children. There are HUGE cultural, religious, financial, and educational barriers to implementing a one-size-fits-all parenting regime.

Good luck with that!
Why do you think people buy iPhones? Because the Apple logo on the back? Once you put a case on your phone, most people can't tell the difference between one brand and another.

People like iOS because of the software, both the OS, and the software which runs atop it. This is why WWDC is Apple's single biggest event of the year.

Likewise, people don't buy Macs because they are metal and have a shiny fruit on the backside. Developers were among the first to migrate to Apple back in the 00s when they discovered its Unix underpinnings made it great for doing web development.

This idea that Apple doesn't care about developers doesn't hold water. If they didn't care, they wouldn't have bothered to add Hypervisor support into the M series CPUs. This is a feature which has almost no purpose outside of software development or as a server platform and Apple doesn't make dedicated server hardware so where does that leave us?
That's exactly what https://taler.net is aiming for.
> However, this would result in 59.51s being displayed as 0:60, though it should be 1:00.

They would round it up to 60, the format it to be 01:00.
1) Full day elementary education.

2) Universal charging adaptors for electronic devices.

3) Charging for disposal of oversize trash like appliances and furniture. Reduce the bad habit of buying cheap junk only to toss them in a couple of years. This is how it works in Tokyo and consumers think full-life cycle cost of a product, not just the upfront cost.

4) Grocery trucks that make their daily rounds in urban neighborhoods so all people need to do is walk up and purchase fresh food. Reduces the need for grocery delivery which requires a lot of packaging. Basically same as food truck idea, but for fresh groceries.
> your minimalist home is basically now a prison cell

Went home for Christmas and as part of it swung by the nursing home where my Grandma lives.

She is basically in actual prison for the past nine months. For a good part of it she was confined to her room. It appears that they've relaxed the restrictions after Coronavirus ripped through the place and everyone that didn't die is now immune. She is at least allowed to go sit in the lobby area now and talk with the other residents.

Nothing quite like watching a 98 year old woman break down in tears every time someone reminds her that she can't actually come outside and give us a hug or talk to us in person.
piql is the company that did the github arctic vault. And they offer it as a service. Maybe not for general public but still .

https://www.piql.com/arctic-world-archive/
The DS Lite was top notch too. Both are my favorite game consoles and I still play them to this day.
Each point doesn't really bear the same level of "unsoundness". Most are actually not problems at all the way I see it.

1. I can live with NaN. When the source of something becomes difficult to track, use a debugger.

2. Map vs map? Just another homograph, like there are hundreds in all spoken languages, yet most people manage to communicate.

3. The overhead of negative indices might be acceptable in JavaScript, but most languages probably don't benefit from having them. I think negative indices are actually hurtful, they tend to hide bugs which would otherwise be caught very early at runtime.

4. This is actually a serious issue. I don't get why so many people are in awe with TypeScript type system. Anything based on duck typing is a red flag to me. But still, better than no typing at all...
Sex toys that are more than just a piece of latex with a vibrator.

There are tiny vibration units like the one in your phone, why aren't there sex toys with 200 of them and various patterns going through them?

Why are there no sex toys that use expanding or contracting materials like electroactive polymers.

The sex toy market is apparently 26 billion and growing.
FWIW, I fully support the notation `arr[-0]` as a solution to this problem.
> chances are at least a few zillion base their unit of time on periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom

Of exactly 9192631770 Hz...
I guess it depends on what you mean by “fundamental”. Anger is typically considered a secondary emotion, stemming from primary emotions. While I’m not sure it is possible to get rid of anger as OP suggests, it may not be outside the realm of possibility to create thought patterns that lead your primary emotions to secondary emotions other than anger.
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"The document invites immigrant college freshmen and sophomores who are majoring in finance, economics, accounting or a discipline related to business, mathematics, commerce or data analytics to apply for the chance to get one one-on-one time with Apple mentors."

It is unpatriotic for an American company to actively discriminate against American citizens in this way.
Victorian etiquette was on to this. You need social market makers who are skilled at knowing a lot of people, introducing them to each other, starting conversations based on common interests and butting out when no longer needed. Formalizing this process would help to some extent, technology could help with remembering names, interests, and whether people have been introduced. Somebody could build this, gamify it and make money all day long if they did it right.
Not going to happen. Once you think you've got everything locally, exponentially more will be generated anew by everyone.
It's pathetic and lazy to ban books because you feel they're "filled with hate". The thoughtful alternative is to encourage reading these books and teach exactly how they're harmful.

This isn't always the best approach; I obviously don't recommend that schoolteachers start having their students read and discuss The Turner Diaries or SIEGE. But if you think that an otherwise pure work (like Dr. Seuss) harbors bigotry of some kind, banning it will at best lead to the Streisand Effect and at worst result in further loss of whatever respect students still have for the public school system and teachers in general.