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I don't think we'll ever see the Count of Monte Cristo assigned in US high schools. It's too long.
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Charging standardization is only a small part of what was promised via USB-C though.
No, but if you are a robber and suggest to people who complain about being robbed by you about how to reduce the problems associated with being robbed in the future it makes you sort of a hypocrite.
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You got an .ipa? Cannot find one anywhere.
Woah dude, so deep! *rips bong*
I’ve also seen this done on fines; it seems the fine is set by legal statute but, (and it’s just an impression), they get around this here in California by tacking on court fees, etc..
Opinions don't change historical facts.
The reference to "arc wars" in the original article seemed interesting. I did a quick search and was pleased to have found these at textfiles.com

http://textfiles.com/computers/sea.txt
http://textfiles.com/computers/arcsuit.txt
As someone not at all familiar with modern JS: why the hell would a UI library have a key of any kind??
It would be much easier to spot a TV flickering through a window. My guess is that's what they did, and then claim that they had detected it with their super duper high-tech antennas.
I would start n goroutines select'ing on the same bounded channel, which I find much simpler... or did I miss something?
Also sellers must declare to tax administration to whom they sold TV sets. The administration sets the checkbox for you automatically ;)
Not since 2013 it seems:

https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/business...
The neural field literature has also been exploiting (attempting to exploit?) connections between quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics (at least in the loose sense as used on this blog).

Readers may be interested in the works of Buice and colleages¹²³⁴.

You might also enjoy The Complex Chemical Langevin Equation⁵, which uses complex-valued particle counts to handle negative particle counts in a stochastic model.

1 https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?rev=1&id=10.1...

2 https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.75.05...

3 https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/neco.2009.0...

4 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S007961070...

5 https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.4885345?casa_to...
i wonder how it would ever tell the difference between broccoli and a mushroom cloud
He missed the obvious point: sell it to the pharma companies as a platform to promote their products. Guy could've been a zillionaire by now.
The TV license collection & enforcement is outsourced to a terrible consulting company (Capita) which employs goons on commission so they have an incentive to lie and misrepresent themselves or what they’re allowed to do in order to sell a license.

This makes me feel bad for the people who actually do need and pay for a TV license since a chunk of that money is wasted on this scum instead of being used to fund the BBC or whatever the license is supposed to fund.
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you wouldn't download a car
You're thinking too much like an engineer

Here's my TV detection method: look at their windows and see if there's a light flickering pattern that looks like a TV (if behind curtains) or maybe you can see the TV
> Receive salary > pay bills, buy food etc. > all the rest, transfer to a investment account

One thing that has worked for me is to “pay myself first.” [0]

If £4000 comes in and your monthly outgoings are around £2000, invest the remaining £2000 immediately. The main benefit this gets me is that it forces me to budget better and come up with other streams of income (usually eBaying stuff) in case I come up short.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/payyourselffirst.asp
That's down to the (obvious) fact that job performance and working ethics is not equal but distributed among practitioners.

I think this is especially visible in software "engineering" with people joining the craft after a few weeks of boot camp. (think engineering vs programming)

However, we put doctors through an especially rigorous and long training and certification process to minimize the amount of unqualified practitioners.
They're quite cleverly leveraging the invites to give them exponential growth, so it has exploded this month - it looks like everyone is being given 2 invitations. I'm London based and signed up for the waitlist in maybe September last year and then forgot about it - someone I know bumped me up at the weekend (which doesn't cost an invitation). Within 2 days of my joining I'd say about 10 other people in my contacts have joined too. I'd say it's less big names and more FOMO.

Interestingly the person who bumped me up appears to have had an outsized effect on which rooms I see.
Oh, don't tell them that. This will unleash several levels of DOOM on you.
The article doesn't say she was a professor, so it's hard to say. It really is a garbage article. As far as I can tell everything in the article is hearsay, which doesn't help. Even the evidence is based off of hearsay.

>any relationship between a teacher and their student is non-consensual

That's because teachers teach students typically under the age of 18. Professors teach adults. She obviously wasn't a high school teacher. Some universities have no policy against professor student relationships, though in the last 10 years that has quickly been changing.
At least in the UK there is content on TV worthy of watching (I got addicted to snooker while there, also some quite interesting shows like "Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole"), also, when I moved overseas they paid back the licence fee for the remaining part of the year, no questions asked.

Now I'm in Austria and the "content" on TV channels is just ridiculous. Targeted at 70+ pensioners, but why should I pay for their entertainment...
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The trick is to watch the smaller "third programmes" or the programmes with special focus, not the big two (ARD and ZDF).

Then you'll see a plethora of really well-made documentations about regions in Germany, regions in the world, culture, archeology etc.

The third programmes are also where new comedians, hosts and artists are given a chance to refine their show concepts and prove themselves.
Doesn't it feel like the fact that it is debatable and not at all clear-cut mean that we should err on the side of free speech.

And if we imagined the government doing such a thing and taking it to the Supreme Court, can you really imagine them coming to the conclusion that it was incitement to violence - having them consider all the legal precedent also.

Companies can do what they like. People can say what they like.

Is it good for society. I don't think so. And does the tech world stand for free speech - it can no longer be said. But students of history will clearly see the precedent that is developing although we are certainly breaking new ground.
A bit off-topic maybe, sorry.

I am not from the UK, but quite a large chunk of things I watch on YouTube are british panel shows. I'm just in love with them. Which seems funny to me, because as a non-uk twenty year old, I don't think that I'm the target demographic for these shows.

"8 out of 9 cats does countdown", "Would I lie to you?" and of course my favourite, "Taskmaster". Thanks for all of these great shows. "Blackadder", "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" and "Monty Python" are great as well...
> But given the complaints from the "moar ports" side and the complaints from the "USB-C all the things" side, one thing is clear: There's no pleasing some people, there's doubly so not pleasing all the people, and Apple has to make its choices and be done with it.

Knowing Apple and their quirky fanbase, I daresay that the "remove all the ports" people wouldn't exist, if Apple wasn't the manufacturer removing the ports. Nobody ever said, "hey this headphone jack here? I hate it. This HDMI jack? Hate it. SD card reader? It is killing me."

Same with "VGA port? I hate it. Give me a proprietary port and a dongle"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking

when i read that article years ago i went in to a huge rabbit hole about side-channel attacks. A lot of the information from that reading spree has stuck with me
Very interesting. That said, sample size of 59...
I believe the idea is to raise interest rates so people will hoard more money reducing the supply in circulation.
There's also the problem of of a company working on multiple construction sites in parallel.

In software engineering, this also happens of course, especially if you develop in house. And you also need to factor in the maintenance, as it's usually performed by the same team.
"Even though the study collected samples years after the births actually took place, study authors say these initial findings open the door toward many more questions."

Many pregnant women I know do change their diet a lot when pregnant, either consciously of because of "urges". I wonder how that plays into this.
The original study contains a much more legible (no pop-up ads for one) summary of results in its introduction:

https://bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12887...
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I think it's a great idea but looking at the product I'd say that the value proposition isn't enough for anyone to buy a subscription. Maybe an ad supported website (like WebMD) that licensed professionals could check to validate their own assertions.

Also "$0.50/year per user" is actually a great amount if the site was made for a global audience.

And as an AWS cloud engineer I'm actually curious at the AWS cost breakdown. If done properly this kind of data processing and site hosting costs would be trivial.
Hi _ah, thanks a lot for this input, it really helps. I wish I read some of these points a couple of weeks ago, but ok, can't complain.

You are right, especially about user-research. I will do that.

I got some people interested, but again, you are right, feels like a blind date.

And of course it feels really weird to just publish everything. So, how would you tackle it? Just publish and hope nobody does it?

Thanks again!
I like how the result text switches from white to black depending on the brightness of the selected background color. does anyone know how this is done? I could use this algorithm in other projects
Yeah sure, I more meant “I can’t piss off my voters” as an argument in legal proceedings. This gives me the chills.
> With respect to HDMI, it's very common in offices and for people speaking at events, but most consumers wouldn't use it much.

Completely false. Most cheaper CONSUMER monitors today come with only two inputs: HDMI and VGA. More expensive ones come with Displayport in addition. All TVs have HDMI ports. What else, aside from monitors and TVs, are consumers connecting their laptops to??
Thank you! This is definitely something we should look into in the future (hopefully with community help); as of now, training infrastructure and model convergence are the highest priorities. That said, we welcome all ideas of ways to motivate more volunteers to join the experiments, because Learning@home team comes from a distributed DL background with limited volunteer computing expertise.

Also, I believe that for some projects (e.g. GPT-3 replication effort) people would want to join the network regardless of the incentive mechanism, as demonstrated by Leela Chess Zero [1].

[1] http://lczero.org/
Why has it been so difficult for the Fed to increase inflation? Couldn't it have just printed more money?
I bought a new TV and got a phone call from Radiotjänst a couple of weeks later, asking where they should send the bill for the TV license. Busted!

Now that the fee is discontinued, and it comes out of tax money instead, I sure don't miss getting those invoices.
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Legend goes that back in the 80's DR (the Danish "version" of BBC) would buy ads on top of taxis, placing a funny looking widget and text on the side saying "This is a TV detector van" to scare people into registering for paying their TV license.

According to the story, DR never had the technology (or new it existed) to do an actual TV detection.

I heard the story from an old interview from a retired DR manager, who said that they did this. So source wise it is pretty weak, but still a funny story none-the-less.
Sounds like me trying to learn "V"
House boats are thing.
Yeah, this is the kind of project that could fly really well as an "indie hacker" style. Just one person running it all. Today's cloud tools allow that.

edit: but I don't think that's what the author wanted. Not really sure what they wanted, to have full success by month #8? Drop it all for an idea not even tested yet sounds very very amateur.
Son starts company. Mom somehow gets a job there and 25%. People start saying things like "It was his product, but it was her business." That mother-son relationship feels a bit off...
> A German explained to me once that the forced payment by non-watchers is justified as it benefits society as a whole.

Do they really believe these things?
This is the Kool-Aid you have to drink as a society, in order not to go crazy when you pay for things you never use and benefit from.

If you ever move out, make sure to let them know, otherwise they will keep hunting you for ever.
IDDQD, IDKFA and I'm in.
While the `(made for static sites)` is probably meant as selling point, I'm afraid it can be a limiting factor.

E.g. Stork can be used on your WordPress, Drupal or whatever site, quite well I presume; I don't see why not. It would require hacks and some tradeoffs, sure.

Many OOTB CMSes come with "search", but that search is poor, the performance problematic and the results are awfull (searching is hard; searching dynamic generic content even more so). I've helped many a Drupal and Wordpress site implement ElasticSearch or SOLR/Lucene back in the days. For the vast long-tail of websites such setups are not an option. Meilisearch is the first that gets closer to a viable option for those.

Stork could get even closer. And (unfortunately) the amount of WordPress blogs that would need Stork (alike) for search is vastly bigger than static sites.
> And is basically nothing compared to the value of "exploiting" this bug.

Out of interest, how do you think you'd go about monetising this bug?

I agree that the information leakage is definitely bad, but exploiting that to turn it in to cold hard cash seems tricky at best imo. I presume this factors in to Google's payout calculations.
Unpopular opinion: I agree to and support the BBC TV license.

I think most of their TV and radio programmes are as good as they come. The Brits are lucky to have it.

"But Netflix, Prime!.." - sorry, that's 99% dopamine inducing mindless entertainment, Idiocracy-style. I want more than that, for me and my family.

They can never replace quality programmes done without so much pressure for investment returns, engagement etc.
I think that adding a feature to an existing software product is more like adding a new floor to an existing house.
How much would these machines have cost when they were new? Just trying to get an understanding of the price break vs the "risk" with older equipment. Time goes on and I imagine the motors + other mechanical components improve.

But maybe that's a bad assumption from working in tech for too long?
> I decide I want to have this program, spend a week writing it, and have the program.

How do you decide you want 'this program'? Why not a slightly different program, or the same functionality implemented with a different approach. It boils down to research and learning, especially for non-cookie cutter projects.
Although in Z_2^n, "addition without carry" and "subtraction without carry" are the same operation.
No appreciation for real art by this AI, it seems.
I agree that we should work to undermine the forces of radicalisation; outreach and social justice efforts may bear fruit in decades or centuries. Democracy is at stake today.

We must acknowledge that all the rights and privileges we enjoy in a democracy exist because they are backed up with recourse to an organisation that can defeat anyone else physically. There can be no leniency when someone threatens the government itself with physical violence; it must respond to the threat totally and severely, or else it will cease to be the government. Perhaps that plays into the hands of someone trying to divide the populace; it doesn’t really matter. This is what an existential threat looks like.

If the government does not enforce its monopoly of violence, every week you will be fighting gun battles outside your courts and legislative assemblies, just like those other failed states we’ve all read about.
Emacs is meant to really be a text-editor. I'm all for utilizing Emacs and Vim to do unique things, like ledgers and time tracking, since those are essentially markup formats for text editing. However, crosswords just seems more or less like playing games in Vim. It is cool and all, like I said, but it seems much better suited for at least a semi-interactive text-based CLI app.

I applaud the developer regardless, but I personally would be much more keen on using this if it was standalone and not dependent on Emacs.
Did they account for stress? Did they account for potentially deliberate changes in the diet of the family because they want to put their kids on a special diet? Doesn't look like it so can't take thr results too seriously
Oh man, this hits home so much.

I used to lead a software department in a small company that sold software to, mainly, the construction industry, so the go to comparison was building houses, which according to my boss, were always on time and on budget, unlike software.

The funniest thing about it was that our software was used by huge projects: Hinkley Points C, HS2, etc ... which obviously have an great track record of being on time and on budget ಠ_ಠ
That's it, the name rings a bell. I was in 6th form in the UK (high school) in 1985 so the timing matches.
> Like, recording the video and distributing it?

Yeah, exactly.
Hi, you are absolutely welcome to contribute and later I'll make an API to fetch and display contributors from github there.

Cheers
Yeah, what’s that “business partner” thing about?

We have that as well but no one could ever explain what’s the difference between a regular HR role and a HR business partner role.
Fixing car mechanics is a known process - you got calibrated expectations, developing a new algorithm or drug is an unknown, so it can be described as a learning process. It's search for new values as opposed to exploiting known values. What we are learning is the concrete process at hand and its affordances.
Looks like frontend:

>Thankfully, YouTube has a solution for this as well, the YouTube Player API. This API allows you to just add a JS library to your site, and then simply create/modify/control the YouTube players on your site however you’d like, using JavaScript. For example, if you want to pause a video, you can just call player.pauseVideo().
> I don’t believe there has been a single conviction based upon evidence gathered by these vans

According to the article they were not intended for convictions but instead to get a search warrant and then gather evidence for a conviction.

So who knows how many convictions were started because of the vans. Though I agree that the fear factor probably did help more than the search warrants.
It’s very easy to be nice. For example by saying that you shouldn’t just think about yourself, but also your parents and grandparents.

What isn’t nice is then to say that that is an ageist thing to say. Even though it is a perfectly valid thing to point out real people who are affected by certain online threats.
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> The trick is to watch the smaller "third programmes" or the programmes with special focus, not the big two (ARD and ZDF).

To be fair, The Big One is actually just all "third programmes" with some additional programming such as news.
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Hey Oras. Thanks for the questions, I'll answer them one-by-one. (and if you want to ask me a question privately, feel free to reach out to me on Twitter; https://twitter.com/jochemgerritsen).

- How do you form these small groups? like what is the ratio of first time founders vs seasonal founders?
It depends on the group. We create groups with people who are more or less in the same stage of founding a business — that way, they're struggling with similar questions and can help each other well.

- I haven't joined any paid membership group before so I would like to see more comments regarding the pricing. Is that in the low/med/high range?
I guess I would be a bit biased answering this, but I'll give it a shot anyway. Our non-mastermind membership is in the low range (€30/m) — other similar communities often ask a bit more. The mastermind model (€75/month) is low to mid-range. There are mastermind groups (especially in the US) that ask thousands of dollars per year. But also, there are smaller groups that ask anywhere between €50-€100 per month.

- In your Mastermind Member features, you have "Weekly check-in to hold you accountable for your business goals" are these check-ins automated or there is someone actually doing it?
There is someone actually doing this, and sending you a message through our Slack server.

- Same membership, you have "New motivation, ideas, and growth" what does that mean?
These 3 things were most often mentioned by members of our mastermind groups. Specifically, that means that: 1) You get motivated by fellow members to work 'on' your business instead of 'in'. 2) If you're a solo founder (or even if you have a co-founder) you're often stuck in a bit of tunnel vision. So by sharing your situation with fellow founders, you get new ideas to tackle these challenges that you would otherwise not get. 3) Due to each person holding each other accountable, and giving each other new ideas and feedback, you grow faster both in terms of your business/product and on a personal level.
Gotta keep those numbers going up, lest you break the illusion that everything's just fine.
It happened to me too. I didn't own a TV at the time and explained that at the doorstep. I invited them to come inside and look around the house to confirm, but they declined.
I believe the technology used to detect the signals as described in the article was also used during World War II to detect radio transmitters of spies and other operatives.
It’s very real technology.