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Does Webex allow you to wait in a virtual waiting room until the meeting starts by now?

I've been forced to use Webex for our governmental client a few times and the experience is awful compared to all alternatives on the market I've used (Zoom, Teams, Skype for Business, Hangouts, LetsMeet, etc.)

In the example above, say your meeting starts at 11:00. You want to be professional and prepared (and rule out issues with the client) so you try to open the meeting at 10:55. With all other products, that's perfectly fine, you'll see a spinner until the meeting actually starts.

With Webex I had to wait until the organizer logged in. If I tried to open the meeting before that it would show a message indicating the meeting hadn't started yet and completely close out the client.

The virtual background feature is woeful too and exactly as GP described. Barely enough to satisfy a check mark on a comparison chart, nothing more.

Audio and video quality was subpar compared to the other alternatives too. It was a grating experience and I 100% ehco what the person you were responding to has said.
>I suspect the same for 1986

No, in 1986 Ukraine was one the richest and most developed states in USSR (Baltic states were close) and probably quite well-developed on the European scale. But since it became independent it gradually became the poorest country in Europe.

I would say that a sign of development is an ability to build reactors, not to run them. Today countries can easily order a reactor if they have sufficient funds for it and a certain level of political stability. A producer country probably will be even willing to give you a cheap credit to finance the construction.
Been using LTSpice for the last decade or so and am just fine simulating everything from Buck to current sense circuits to battery monitoring systems to HBridge. Don’t know what your beef is with LTSpice but still can’t get around the fact you quit your discipline for the lack of a better tool. If you didn’t like what you had to deal with why didn’t you pivot to CS and invent a better simulation tool. Just saying.
Kids can't code is the effect of the block. I don't think this is in any way editorializing. The issue with blocking general programming functionality is that it takes away educational opportunity from students. Regardless of intent, the side effect of that intent is anti-education and has no business going on in a school.
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Can anyone explain the potential benefits of accelerating electronics simulation?

Do they want to generate efficient FPGA programs?
thanks for the feedback, I'll tune the sound quality for the next episode
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> is this how things get “cancelled”

Yes, associating tangentially-related controversies with previously innocuous topics is how things get canceled. Bringing up topics like this on a post about emoji emails implies that you want the conversation to flow in a certain direction; that's how conversation works. It's only missing Twitter and the word "problematic."
There’s one in northern Maine along Route 1 from Houlton to Presque Ise. Very cool, I annoy the kids with my excitement every time.
The question to ask, is why your dad and in-laws live so far away from civilization. Probably because cars make it convenient. No matter the weather (excepting extreme conditions) they are not far from any of the comforts of civilization and benefits of dense living. In a way, their relationship to density is parasitic… they receive a great deal (electrification, roads, security, plus many other benefits) and pay relative pittances. Even their votes tend to count for a great deal more than urban votes (which perhaps explains the large benefits they receive).
I'm somewhat surprised twitter hasn't gone ahead and implemented something like this themselves. Kudos for building a solution!
He said "Said developer got called out in a meeting with many others present and didn't even appear to feel embarrassment or apologise."

In the noted case there was no overt penalizing (at least that we heard about) nor was there shaming (the person was apparently "unshameable"). Therefore your post falls short of it's target.

That said, in general, I agree with every word you said. I especially like the "frankly [it] is just plain rude." - good manners (etiquette) can make a world of difference in a workplace but have largely fallen by the wayside in our culture.
Well said, nuance and meter are the best measures of intelligence / reason I've come to find in the real world. Many VC types or intellectuals in the Bay Area also think this stuff is insane if you know them well enough. Otherwise, many of them are willing to put up a facade to avoid being taken down by degenerate morons without a real moral or ethical prerogative, other than attention seeking.
Check out nonduality. It’s amusing that we insist that consciousness, which we experience firsthand, must be created by matter, which we experience indirectly. The image creating the screen.
>So if you aren't going to engage, why open source it?

I'd argue engagement is only a medium part of open source: plenty of projects publish code and never accept requests/issues, and are very popular. It is always nice to open source even if you don't accept PR's/review issues, because it gives me more trust.
Drilling down into the reasons of high Linux system load
> As a dev, I almost always miss my GitHub notifications unless I'm constantly checking the platform in my browser.

But why would anyone be constantly checking GitHub notifications? Isn't that a distraction?
I just deleted them because we don't condone using our tool for this use-case. Basically they're tutorials on how to use replit to build proxies. Basic stuff you can google.
It's Arc but for prose.
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You have smaller logistics costs for smaller reactor, yes... But you don't have reduction in marginal logistics cost per unit of energy produced.

While reactor vessels themselves are most expensive single piece in the nuclear power station, they are not going to save much on them by making them smaller, and they would not get any cheaper from mass manufacturing.
Why does anyone listen to this half rate essayist anymore? He's just looking for attention.
It doesn't work in every app sadly. Qt based apps for example
I don't see any confused thinking here.

This is not run-of-the-mill ontological reductionism; this is a rejection of ontological realism, which nearly everyone takes for granted (including you, from the sound of it), but many philosophers do not.

The connection between ontological anti-realism and relational quantum mechanics (Rovelli's brainchild) is pretty straightforward. I think Rovelli is arguing that the quantum measurement problem is only a problem if we assert things ontologically, in terms of what's exactly here and there, rather than an expression of a relation between the measuring device and the system.
I was over here wondering who Julia is
That's incorrect. CDs can reproduce anything that a tape can with higher fidelity and much more dynamic range. You could "master" from a cassette tape and not be able to tell a difference between the CD and the cassette tape without signal analysis. Humans claim a lot of things but those claims fall apart in double blind studies when it comes to music and wine.
What fix would you suggest?
SSH into the rocket and restart services?
> can get these kinds of speedups at around 1% accuracy

Shouldn't this be at around "at around 99% accuracy" or "within around 1% accuracy loss"?
This seems very promising to me
One big part of circuit simulation is solving differential equations.
That's the whole inducer, resistor, capacitor thing.
Julia has hands down the best toolkit for differential equation solving.
Most circuit simulators today are going to be using old methods invented in the 60's-80's.
Neglecting the state of the art developments.

Someone made a blog post recently comparing the time to simulate with LTSpice vs writng and solving the system in Julia
https://klaff.github.io/LTSvDEQ_1.jl.html
this is a very simple circuit, and they still got a 100x speed up.
Sure that is neglecting the time it takes to actually extract the differnetial equetion from the circuit.
But from what i hear that kind of thing is something this DARPA project will be working on.
And sure LTSpice isn't state of the art.
But still I find this indicative and promising.
I'm not really a physicist, but I can suggest better terms than "analog" vs "digital." The words you're actually looking for are "continuous" vs "quantized."
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Opening untrusted SQLite files tends to not be safe: https://research.checkpoint.com/select-code_execution-from-u...
The algorithms that underpin Facebook’s business weren’t created to filter out what was false or inflammatory; they were designed to make people share and engage with as much content as possible by showing them things they were most likely to be outraged or titillated by.

I find it interesting that this article does not even mention some of the other platforms that have also grown off this strategy, and have contributed to the societal problems named in the article.

I joke with my wife that you can innocently watch a YouTube press conference featuring our moderate Republican governor discussing COVID policy one day, and before you know it you're being recommended videos by rabid anti-vaxxers and QAnon deep state conspiracy theorists.

It's not just a Facebook problem or an "AI" problem, it's a platform problem which requires wider solutions than the broken internal approaches described in this article.
Machine installation manuals, "Create machine" shell scripts, manual docker, script launched docker, VM management tools... Well, technically, puppet and it's kind are there too, depending on whether you consider them viable or not.
> Can someone give me an example of this problem? To me this feels so "extra"... Maybe I'm missing something.

The business value of missing a notification or meeting can be really high. I feel like businesses would happily pay $10 per user-month to have all their employees on time to a meeting. Or even just closer. I imagine similar logic can be applied to other notifications.
I’m too young to have used one, but from what I’ve read, it’s the programming model of a single machine with the scale and resilience of a distributed system.
It's yours for $71M.
It's also weirdly editorialized, since the original title also says "Julia Computing"
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> Think about components you rely on for your service. How long would it take you to stand up or migrate to an alternative.

Architect at a F500 here.

It would take us easily 2 years to roll out a solution, get migrated to it, and have it implemented, tested, and signed off. Probably another year (or more) to work out all of the kinks or handle the stuff that wasn't in the initial build (e.g. phase 2 expansions, etc.).

There is a reason we do 5 year TCOs, and it's not just cuz of the depreciation schedules. Also the reason we lean to things with 5-, or 10-year maintenance cycles. 1-year notice is not enough, full-stop.

Not talking about rolling our own solution here either, this is COTS being deployed in a 99.999% environment in multiple countries.
I'm really just being cheeky, the writing was on the wall for me about three years in that EE wasn't for me.

Granted, I make a great living writing software and honestly have really benefitted from my 67% complete EE degree. Software ppl generally have zero idea how computers work / how to really leverage hardware bits to accelerate certain workloads. The ideal CS education for me is based in EE but also starts with both lisp and C. NOT Python. However, I was a horribly distracted student throughout college so I really should be the last person giving recs for coursework.
It already happens in medicine. Of course, a lot of it is "I'm afraid of getting sued so I'm going to cover my ass with all these tests." but, still.

When I was younger I had a pain in my abdomen I had never experienced before. My grandmother told me to go to their family doctor who was probably older than they were. He pushed on some things and tapped on some things and finally diagnosed me. "It's gas. Go home and have a big fart." Sure enough, hours later, a big release and the pain was gone.

These days I'd have been sent in for at least an MRI or CAT scan to go along with all the blood work that they would do.

Now, I know what some of you are going to say. "But it COULD have been something way worse!" Sure, it could have been. But this guy had been a doctor for a long time by that point and knew from experience that it was gas. Just like when I recently had to rebuild a really old server and was getting errors that suggested missing class files but, after 25 years of doing this, I knew that it was actually missing a PHP module.

Less is more and experience is golden.
> I pulled my son out of the school.

You seem to be an individual that acts on principle.

Did you pull out all of your kids from school? Was this public school? Did you weigh the costs of private education against the cost of "use your own computer"?

I get the feeling you don't pick your battles rationally.
Thats a good question since there's no official blue check to verify on the blockchain that its really them but the NFT exchanges show a blue check with his ETH wallet id.

https://opensea.io/accounts/beeple
"[I]t focuses on efficiency and effectiveness of communicating the intended idea as unambiguously".

Is this true? Since the 20th century, there's been a marked subset of literature dedicated toward ambiguity, absurdism, and surrealism brought on by the idea of the subconscious, the theory of relativity, WWII.

In fact, most of these titles arguably don't even have an "intended idea" to impart. E.g. T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland", Joyce's "Ulysses", Camus's "The Stranger" to name a couple off the top of my head.

"'Beauty and 'inspiration' are subjective...I find simple...language much more elegant than...'literary' styles of the past" Sure, in your subjective opinion you think older literature is not as pleasing to read, but these works objectively changed the use of the English language: that's why they are regarded as literature.

Canonical literature changed not only the way future authors wrote, but also how future generations behold and conceive existence. Both the ideas, and the way they are expressed are the source of many derivative bodies of text including your and my own comments.

Modern works that repackage these ideas, styles, and archetypes in a more diluted way to satisfy one's personal taste and level of reading comprehension does not qualify them to be more "literary" than the original works which created those artifacts. In this sense, the idea of literature and the value of those works is well defined. To reduce literature as merely "verbose" and to quote the word as if it is illegitimate and lacking consensus is highly ignorant and, given the lack of substantive evidence or original arguments supporting it, completely asinine.
Exactly. There is no element of conspicuous consumption here to signal to others you own this expensive, one-of-a-kind thing. No, you bought a JPEG file and millions of it exist and you have no legal control of its usage by possessing the NFT.
I worked for a large retail company that had mainframes, our own DCs, and a large cloud presence. There was and still is an ongoing project to retire the mainframes. From what I heard, the mainframes don't always solve the problems we have today, such as realtime information about all the stores and inventory. They are also harder and harder to get people that know and understand them to fix issue or work on integrating them into newer systems. Finally, there was a serious power outage at a DC after I left and the backup generators did not kick in properly. And the mainframes and other older hardware was not booting properly. That is a major risk that you don't have with the cloud, or even more modern application design with your own hardware. As long as you have the data, you can just provision new hardware and go. It would be expensive and time consuming, but this is a Fortune 50 company and they can pay the cost if it happens.
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Related:

https://github.com/GorvGoyl/clone-wars

Also:

From HBO's "Silicon Valley":

"Jian Yang, are you copying all of those companies for the Chinese market?":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km5XQxRrQvw

(Jin Yang erases "New Pied Piper" from the whiteboard... <g>)
1000x sounds nice, but can you trust the results?

Also, why doesn't the funding go to more general linear algebra (and related) solver software, which can then be used in many physics packages?
The ecosystem is fragmented between four competing "standard libraries" that overlap in functionality but each one has some feature the other doesn't have. So you can imagine the mess and frustration all this causes.
I'm not sure deleting the posts is going to solve the problem.

There was a whole google page full of threads on this. I picked the top three results...

You can't just delete some forum posts and expect the knowledge to go away.

They'll just post it somewhere else.
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you can't classify something in the public eye
Oh, those are in Debian, as a matter of fact!
Yes. The only way to solve the riddle is to accept that everything comes from Consciousness.
Then there is a clear breach of the terms of services from your bank, and it might be easier to get issue on their hands.
But you are right, the best solution would something in between.
Scandalously underpaid is putting it lightly. We've basically transitioned to scientists being minimum wage workers, with the main incentive being permanent residency for the legions of foreign phds.

Of note, engineering other than software also pays like shit compared to the cost of living.

If I had to make a bet, I'd say there will be a lot less innovation and cool new stuff being invented outside of software due to brain drain. If I could be a mechanical engineer and afford a house in a big city, sure, but that's just not doable, whereas I can easily get a job that will cover my rather prodigious mortgage payment.
I believe CockroachDB can do that. Would be a suitable as it's mostly postgres wire compatible.
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Interesting ... when I first wrote the "Our Philosophy" section I was guided by showing the reader the things that are guiding us in how we are building Webiny. Never thought of it as being a benefit, but I see what you mean. Thank you for your feedback, I'll give it more thought and see if we can push it out to the homepage somehow.
Why ditch the mainframe? It sounds like the software is the problem here, not the hardware.
Exactly this. Fossil-based energy is enormously subsidized by a deferred carbon tax. No fossil/nuclear comparison is really meaningful without internalizing that externality.
Both you and the other responder just completely ignored my question though. I'm not asking if humans will stop evolving or if other species have gone extinct. I'm saying that if we somehow used CRISPR to stop genetic mutation (let's assume it's possible), but in every other way remained the same, are you saying we would no longer be life?

I'm asking this question because the aforementioned definition of "life" is flawed in my opinion. Evolution has nothing to do with it.
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They're basic tutorials on how to build proxies. Some of them are pretty neat technically actually and pains me to delete them. But we also don't condone use-cases like this. If I had more time I will build the infra for taking down posts and leaving a message like you suggest.
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I think the essay is clearly about _non-fiction_ writing. It's arguing about how best to communicate ideas (he uses the term 'ideas' several times).

Sure, fiction can be trying to communicate things, and sometimes even ideas, but to me it's pretty obvious that the essay isn't trying to give advice for fiction writing in general.
Note that while Julia Computing and Julia are different entities, the former is the employer of most of the top contributors to Julia. Lots of this grant will probably go into paying for additional features for `DifferentialEquations.jl` or compiler work necessary to speed up some of this code.
seems like he's arguing that the pinnacle of communication is the API spec
"In 2017, Chris Cox, Facebook’s longtime chief product officer, formed a new task force to understand whether maximizing user engagement on Facebook was contributing to political polarization. It found that there was indeed a correlation, and that reducing polarization would mean taking a hit on engagement. In a mid-2018 document reviewed by the Journal, the task force proposed several potential fixes, such as tweaking the recommendation algorithms to suggest a more diverse range of groups for people to join. But it acknowledged that some of the ideas were “antigrowth.” Most of the proposals didn’t move forward, and the task force disbanded.

Since then, other employees have corroborated these findings. A former Facebook AI researcher who joined in 2018 says he and his team conducted “study after study” confirming the same basic idea: models that maximize engagement increase polarization. They could easily track how strongly users agreed or disagreed on different issues, what content they liked to engage with, and how their stances changed as a result. Regardless of the issue, the models learned to feed users increasingly extreme viewpoints. “Over time they measurably become more polarized,” he says."

Facebook has repeatedly shown that it will maximize its bottom line and growth (in particular, as measured by engagement metrics) above everything else. Fair enough, they're a for-profit corporation! I just can't really take seriously their claims of 'self-regulation'. They simply can never be trusted to self-regulate because it's just not in their interest, and they've never shown meaningful actions in this regard. They will only respond to the legal stick - and it is most certainly coming.