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People are stealing over $10k in NFTs, and victims can't do anything about it
This may just be a "Just-So" story, but in NZ we've found that Euro cars tend to go to utter shit after six years, requiring their purchase price and then some in spare parts to fix, and that this lifetime exists, because in Europe, after 5 or so years of driving on salted roads, they're corroded to shit, so the cars are engineered to go great for those 5 or so years because afterwards they'll be rooted so what does it matter.

Really want to clarify that this is an Aotearoa urban legend, and I have no idea if it's true or not. I will say though, that finding a running 2005 BMW that hasn't required multiple parts replaced is never heard of. Whereas a 2005 Toyota, no worries.

I guess I like this theory because the alternative is that Euro cars are just built badly compared to Jappas.
Not even first to get in the market... Toyota had several PHEVs with solar roofs that could charge the battery, too. And it was almost completely useless.
I was at a graphic design tradeshow back in the mid 90's and there was a guy there demonstrating this Photoshop alternative called Live Picture or Live Photos or something like that. And he had a somewhat large, at the time, print image on the screen, probably 16mb or so, and was zooming in and out and resizing the window and it was redrawing almost instantly.

This was AMAZING.

Photoshop at the time would take many many seconds to zoom in/out.

One person in the group asked, "Yeah, but how much memory is in that machine?"

The guy hemmed and hawed a bit and finally said "It's got a bit, but not a lot, just 24mb."

"Yeah, well that explains it." Nobody had 24mb of RAM at that time. Our "big" machine had 16mb.
Blog author here, by default MicroOS comes with flatpaks so you can just use that as you want.

You can use either one you want but keep the same base OS, as far as I can tell openSUSE is the only immutable distro that lets you do that, which I think is pretty cool.
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By comparison my mortgage is 3 times my income, and that's not a high level.

Of course the other issue is that my personal "gdp" runs out when I retire - thus I have to pay capital as well as interest to continue to own the asset afterwards. That doesn't apply to countries.
When I lived in Detroit, I was happy when I would just have enough money to buy some (used) tires with tread on them at all. Another set just for winter was totally out of the question.

...and I wasn’t even the most broke of my friends, all of whom drove every day (because how else do you get to work?).
At this point NVIDIA seems to be motivated by shareholders value, and nothing else.

They shifted part of their production capacity to release dedicated cards for mining that have way shorter life-cycle, because they can't be used by anyone else.

They found a way to sell more cards with a higher price tag.
Buildroot is awesome! I have been using it w/ Elixir/Nerves to build a small rpi powered GPS tracker. I had to get under the hood to recompile the kernel to support a usb wifi adapter and honestly it was a breeze. Really impressed with the tooling here.
If Skynet emerges as a C++ compiler, it'll be trivially confused and obliterated by the first freshman CS student that it comes in contact with.
I think perhaps US being an exception, receiving SMSs is free even when you are roaming.

Many android phones have dual physical SIM cards, so when I travel, I still keep my bank-registered number on roaming.

But I totally agree with your point - of all places, Banks are probably WORST with 2FA. No U2F or even TOTP. There was one bank where I live that offered thise battery powered RSA physical tokens, but they are way worse in practicality.
Is this the same flexcube that caused citibank to hotwire 500 million dollars of premature debt? I remember a story here not long ago.
Yes of course, why would they pass on the savings to the consumer? If people were happy to pay 10 dollars for a simple meal, that is the baseline and you can keep charging that for a long time.

Unlike real restaurants, people don't see any value in interacting with real people when they go to McDonalds, so by removing that aspect you are not making the product worse, hence you can keep the same price.
Except for problems that are hard. I wholeheartedly disagree, Blow showed many times he has not the right mindset.
Does anyone know of any testimonials of this from people of Mediterranean descent? My hair gets very, noticeably, oily if I don't shampoo every single day. It's kind of gross.

I know many people who don't shampoo every day, but they're all of different European backgrounds: English, Irish, German, etc.
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Sorry to hear your story. I can sympathize as you see from my post above.
My point is that in the terms of the weird analogy, we are pretty much running the same operating system as the chimp. For instance, they studied the immune response to the mRNA vaccines in primates.
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>Sure, it isn't a from-scratch rewrite, but it's a very deep fork.

Not really. I contribute to Neovim and in my experience the architecture is the same as in Vim. The features that were added in Neovim first do have a different architecture and are better designed though. However these new features only make a tiny fraction of all of Vim's features.
off the top of my head

How I learn new things:

1. When I'm waiting for something, like build or a test run -
I', reading API references to the libraries I use right now top to bottom. This way I learn new things and staying in the zone at the same time.

2. I read all kinds of programming books in bed before going to sleep. It's a really good way to fall asleep, since they tend to be extremely boring and consist mostly of things I already know.

How I stay motivated:

1. I accept the fact that I can't be motivated all the time. Sometimes I feel sad and this is ok, just a natural cycle

2. I write code that inspires me. If I can't write such code at the present moment, I'm thinking about it, trying to figure out what can I do about my current task to make the result exciting!

3. When falling asleep, I plan my code architecture or thinking about the issues I were not able to resolve during the day. Thinking about issues in computer program is soothing, unlike thinking about issues that involve people
I have no idea how true this is, but my friend who claimed to have verified his research most thoroughly and was hell bent on attempting this against everyone's advice for he wasn't the outdoors man by any means, asserted the entirely legal possibility of building a cabin north of the arctic circle in Sweden and providing you could self sustain yourself out there for five consecutive winters the law would fairly automatically give you citizenship.

I thought to put this here just because it's such a romantic notion regardless and I'd love it to be true, but I fear my dear friend was never less than a true romantic soul himself and it may have been a genius line with the ladies fed up with London living...
Serious question, if you crashed in winter conditions, and you didn't have appropriate tyres or chains, would your insurance cover it?
Try Clojure after which there's definitely no going back.
Wow, so I can drop the regimen of drugs my psychiatry team have developed over the course of a decade that made me able to function despite my extremely complex mental health needs. All I have to do is train myself to think thoughts that alter the gravitational field in my brain which will change my brain's immune system and I'll no longer be affected by fake disease? I'm sure some of her many books will help me.

Actively harmful psuedo-science crap. I'm astonished to see this being peddled on Hacker News. You should be disgusted with yourself.
I've been using plain sql, materialized views with postgrest for network endpoints. Therefore I don't need to maintain a backend.

Is there any compelling reason to try out an ORM?
My understanding is that this "reaction" is just immune response, and since you likely have a strong immune system than your father you saw a stronger reaction, both of which would likely be less deleterious than if your father contracted COVID directly.
Are you talking wet or dry? Those are massive dry doses:

https://www.erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_dose.shtml
Ask the people of Montreal. They live in apartments and have a winter tire mandate in Quebec.
I've seen that many elderly folk prefer phones with tactile buttons to touchscreens, so they keep using non-smartphones.
Worse than feeling overly cynical is then having your cynicism validated.

I recognized this guy's name, so skimming over the twitter thread my cynical thought was "I bet ConvertKit is working on a Gumroad competitor", and sure enough, they already have one.
Indian here. My boss told me he had to apply for exclusive permission to modify a certain file from a boss. Code reviews were in pen and paper.
I got my first even downvotes for suggestion that it would be rapidly cracked in that thread, followed by a lot of 'Nvidia is full of smart people' comments.

There always seems to be a persistent optimism for the effectiveness of this kind of thing. For example how long DRM or anti-piracy methods on games will be effective for.
I'm an electric car driver, and I'm still skeptical.

It's hard to imagine a scenario where I accidentally run out of batteries and then can afford to wait for MULTIPLE DAYS before finishing my trip. Pretty sure I'd at least want to get a tow to the nearest gas station, where they would be able to plug me in if necessary. Even a plain old 120V 15A plug has much more power than solar, and works overnight...
Fair enough, the comparison itself may be useful as an "intuition pump" to start the discussion.
> At this point NVIDIA seems to be motivated by shareholders value, and nothing else.

It's for a long time. This is just the latest layer.
This is of course a really neat solution, but the proof doesn't really give me much value as a reader.

I am much more interested in an explanation of how to find this solution, than a theoretical solution of why it is correct. Specifically I don't understand from the article why the trick of raising n to the power of LCM(phi(3), phi(5)) works.
Ricin is not a plant. It is a chemical produced by the Castor Bean plant which is widely grown in gardens.
https://www.modernatx.com/about-us

> Welcome to Moderna. We believe mRNA is the “software of life." Every cell in the body uses mRNA to provide real-time instructions to make the proteins necessary to drive all aspects of biology, including in human health and disease.

What's the metaphorical software equivalent of "mRNA instability": undefined reference, memory corruption, incomplete download, installation failure, program crash, ...?
European cars, especially German ones, are built for company leasing markets almost exclusively. After the 5 year lease is up, it will be resold. To make more money for the manufacturer, it needs to start breaking down and requiring parts at that point. So everything is engineered to last exactly 5 years.
The US should take up the nice UK gender-neutral term of Postie.
I thought they were trying to stop used up cryptominer cards from flooding the graphics card market.
So this doesn't help Nvidia in that respect.
Before he got his sophisticated voice synth, he would communicate an answer to an associate, who would make the reply.

As the years went on, the answers got increasingly long, compared to Hawking’s communication.

I got the impression Hawking was saying something like, “Give them #43.”
Well, that would be bad, agreed. But as I see upside in the project, I certainly won't bemoan it as useless ahead of time.
I saw something about a trust score and some thing about investing on the site but I don't really understand how it works.
Magic Mushrooms were legal in Ireland[0] for a brief stint, then someone jumped over a balcony and died from the fall after taking them, presumably after experiencing a really bad trip. It could happen again in DC. Someone just gets the set and setting wrong and decides they can't take the mental turmoil and ends their life.

[0] https://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/how-tragedy-led-...
Citizenship after 5 years is far from automatic, and living north of the Arctic circle doesn't help your case I'm afraid... But on the other hand, if you sustain yourself chances are you can live your whole life there without anyone noticing.
The fundamental mathematical concepts revealed in this answer, especially the use of Euler's totient theorem, are worth pondering because it is this branch of modular arithmetic that Diffie and Hellman first proposed, and then Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman concretely used to produce, well, RSA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)#Operation

Sadly, quantum supremacy may mean this form of cryptography will soon be dead, but this curious application is why modular arithmetic is a favorite of mine. It was a branch of math that historically had a few niche applications, and then in the 21st century became an underpinning to global capitalism.
This is quite cool, just out of curiosity, are you planning to keep this to exclusively coding topics and skills or to also include other CS related topics too? I have a lesson I built in Jupyter Notebooks about ciphers for example, it uses code to walk through some ideas and concepts of how they work. Would you see these types of lessons as a part of the platform?
i'm pretty sure they did this to prevent a class-action lawsuit

limiting a product after a purchase, i'm pretty sure this is illegal
It depends on the region. In parts of the Rockies (and other mountainous areas of the US), they are seasonally required, sometimes only on certain roads.
TOTP is not good enough for banking where you really want to confirm specific transactions, not generate codes that an active attacker intercepting your session could use to do anything.
I think the process of a young person learning a huge amount of manual skills from their grandfather, putting in the sustained long-term effort and building something from scratch with your hands that has lasting value (like a cabin) is pretty commendable in this day and age.
Do we need a European Review of Books?
I suspect they where afraid of push back from the previous administration as well.

I am surprised they didn't look at using LNG instead of petrol.
I like the idea that a startup that fails to be a unicorn can still be something. The alternative are these companies vanish because they're not worth an enormous amount in a short time..

I'd argue the first issue is not being more direct / everyone understanding what it means to be an employee at a start up as it is equity wise.

I'm not sure some token Grumroad tidbits thrown old employees way really would change much / I'd argue obligations like that would complicate any such resurrections.
You confused me with someone that cares :)

Imposing vocabulary (in my case) === honesty.

About expectations, you totally missed it - I expect dummies to react unfavorably and I couldn't care less as long as I can express honest thought.

I mean, N minutes ? It insults the entire planet its just isn't immediately obvious :) I make it obvious.

https://pics.me.me/its-going-to-get-weird-make-this-weird-42...
Having a low nose is way more survival for people getting hit than a flat front.
Lacking a mandate to use winter tires, yes, they probably would.
There wasn't a change in Shakespeare's times? It would be like creating an English dialect with a different pronunciation. Easier than rewritting every text that exists today.
> Psychiatrists are really not fan of those things

They're usually seen as psychotomimetic[0], in that they mimic madness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychotomimetic
As others have already stated, though probably not the most informative, “main” is a reasonable choice in this context. Given that, your choice to label it as knowingly misleading for impact is itself more deserving of criticism than the thing your criticizing.
https://remyhax.xyz/posts/bitsquatting-windows/
> it's first-gen and that it will have a few bugs and quirks, we all know that.

That's not the general complaint. Most people don't think it will ever pay off the cost of the panel/electronics/waste, let alone offer any tangible benefit. It's not the sort of think you can iterate on, the roof is just only so big and the car uses a certain amount of power, neither of which they can usefully change.

> crowdfunding campaign to raise 50M EUR for research costs so that they can go to mass market production. They had ~13000 signups in that campaign.

Yeah, crowdfunding, where you go to find scientifically and financially "unsophisticated" investors. Solar roadways do really well with this crowd.

> Before that, most investors wanted a too revenue-focussed investment, and the company wanted to build an affordable mass-market car.

Well, yeah. If I give you money to make a product I want that product to be useful enough to sell for a profit.

They should put their time into developing the easy-conforming solar panels and let people put them in actually useful places. (And perhaps someone would have an efficient car and could stick the panel on it, but then they'd know how little power they were going to get and be happy with it, as opposed to your typical greenwashed consumer scammed into "helping" the environment.)
But the brand name is still protected; the last version of a product named Adobe Acrobat Reader is from last year.

The PDF standard is open, and there are plenty of reader alternatives with all kinds of licenses; if Acrobat was some kind of unique thing that was no longer supported or you could no longer get a legal copy, then you'd have more of a point.
I can also confirm that I've run multiple personal projects using something very similar. Basically I just deploy the binary as a `systemd` service on a VPS somewhere (Amazon or DigitalOcean traditionally) and I don't have to think about anything else. If it goes down I can rely on `systemd` to bring it back up, and I usually pair it with some kind of logging system such as Papertrail or Datadog.

That being said, some use cases do need more than just a binary running on a VPS. Recently I've been moving more towards the AWS stack. My issue with the AWS stack for personal projects is that the bill can get unwieldy very quickly. On my last personal project I actually ended up going for a cheap random VPS provider I found on Google and spun up my entire application for about $80/mo. Still pretty expensive, but it worked for my use case
Your entire comment is stipulated on the idea that it is hard to acquire land/permission. What big city do you live in?

In many parts of world it is pretty easy to acquire land out in the middle of nowhere and basically do whatever the hell you want on it.
Vaporware is a thing. As is clickbait. Also false marketing. The engineers don’t always control the marketing.

Maybe the commenter you replied to is simply not gullible.
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Yeah, right, so why do I still have to escape regex metacharacters in Java in 2021? That's just so 1988.
Yeah, and now imagine if you didn’t have to worry about simple things like memory safety or overflow or null pointer checks or so many C problems that Rust fixes.

The point of Rust is to enable newbies to write systems software.
I suppose one problem with this is when you release a new version that substantially overlaps with the previous version. If I release WidgetReader 2.0 that has 90% of the code shared with WidgetReader 1.0, and only sell new licences to the new version, should I be obliged to allow free access to WidgetReader 1.0? What about when I release WidgetReader 1.1? Or if I give free upgrades to all existing licence holders to 1.0? (Free upgrades are actually most likely when the upgrade is especially small e.g. a patch to fix some bug, but by your rules they're almost the worst because now there are no supported installations of the old version left at all.)

For that matter, what if I rewrite the whole code base but keep the same general functionality and target audience - does that change things? If so then you've just disincentivised certain types of refactors even though they have very little impact on the users.

Of course there is a big gap, both in code and functionality, between Acrobat 1.0 and the current version but it's still the same product in theory, so it leaves open the question of where to draw the line.
Many mountainous regions across Europe too, like the French region where I live. Tyres are potentially part of any routine police check. The region is a rather poor one, and many roads are simply not salted at all. With proper winter tyres (and AWD helps too, but it's not as important as tyres), you get through, albeit sometimes with poor elegance.

The amount of snow we get is never anywhere close to those American phenomena I see sometimes in the news, where snow gets half way up your front doors nearly overnight. Seeing that, I'm surprised to read that most people don't use snow tyres in such places : it feels like going against common sense even on an purely individual level.
Somehow I always have to think about the articles from a while ago covering Russian propaganda campaigns against Covid vaccines. Leaking emails would fit.
I did, I read their very optimistic estimates, and I still believe it being near useless with 250km a week.
I see one use case: leaving the car for extended periods of time unplugged, say at an airport parking lot.

Last year I had to leave my car unused for three months, after which both the 12V battery and the hybrid battery were completely discharged.

Had there been a solar panel on the roof this wouldn't be an issue.

Nowadays most of the cost of solar is installation, so I don't think such a panel would be very expensive.

The 860W panel on the Prius Plug-In is a €2000 option, so it's around twice the price of a rooftop installation, but they're using 34% efficient, monocrystalline cells, so most of the expense comes from that.
>To be clear

You know you're in a cult when you must preface your fealty before voicing the softest of logical hardballs. This entire thread is 50% prefacing. We've lost our ability for true discourse.
I'd rather have no salt vs rust.
I don't know why they thought that would work for their marketing though. Every tech news source I follow saw right through that. And it was reasonable to be upset at the restriction because someone buying the card for their gaming machine would be the most affected if they wanted to try to make back some of the cost of the card by mining when their computer is idle.
Did you click the link?
This is not completely correct, at least in the EU there have not been any emergency vaccine authorisations by the EMA which means that pharmaceutical companies will be liable for mistakes that cause adverse health effects.

In the UK there was an emergency authorisation which means that they will not be liable to the same degree.

As for why they do this: There is always a small chance that the vaccine will cause adverse health effects because pharmaceutical stuff is very complex. Minimizing legal risks is a completely normal thing in all industries and part of the negotiation process. I would not draw the conclusion that they aren't 100% convinced of their vaccine but instead that their team of highly paid lawyers told them what was a good business decision.
Demand that your landlords install sunlamps in the parking garage. Solved.
>soon

The earliest likely merge date is Q1 2022. The only exception is if the situation is urgent (miners attacking, or nicehash having a dangerously high percentage of hash) - in this situation the merge itself could be done in a month I think.