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IS IT THE BEST TIME?
The landscape of our economy is rapidly changing. With the pandemic (COVID-19) we have seen many businesses force to close, while others pivot and adapt to new trends to stay alive and thrive

But as I see it the best time to start a business is when the world needs it the most. Time and time again, in moments of crisis we see the most innovative, and successful companies get built

Initial Components To Consider

Industry – remember that industries are bound to be diminished, especially in rapidly changing environments during COVID. So when selecting your industry of business research what the market is demanding, or looking for
Financial investment – calculate all costs, including labor hours spent on research to determine what your startup cost can look like.
Target audience – research what your target audience should be (big picture market) then drill it down further and further until you have a small pool targeted in which you can enter and dominate initially.
Assistance – there are multiple forms of gov, state, and local assistance that can help financially

Tips

Innovation doesn’t just live in the technology of your business, but rather in the strategy of it
The strategy used to approach and retain customers, that can then be applied to automation to create scale
When building out your startup save receipts for everything and account for everything, including man-hours, travel, R&D, ETC. When filing your first-year taxes, there are benefits that could apply to your startups in which can be paid back handsomely
As a startup validation is key for literally everything, it ensures growth, scalability, resource allocation, and target market. When building your product or prototype, test the market with it, who cares if it’s ugly, as long as it works you can beautify it up later. Spending money as a startup should be frugal
Except this is a PERFECT application of battery electric drivetrain. I literally can’t think of a better one. If this isn’t “good enough,” then precisely what is? What WON’T be sunk by short-sighted risk averseness (actually nothing risky here) or plain indifference if this can’t be electric?

And now they’ll have forced themselves into expensive conversions if they ever want to go electric in the next 3 decades.

It’s legitimately depressing.
I used Visual Interdev, but the debugger experience was bad: it was slow to start, and many times it didn’t worked (when it worked it was fine).

I’ll add that to the other valid reasons that you mention.
Did your parents buy a moon landing back in the 60s?
I’m at the point now where I won’t code without an IDE. Automatic imports, code completion, running a linter on save, nice git diff displays, finding all usages of a function - this stuff makes my life so much easier.
You can’t, that was his point.
And yet, the US still has problems with certain knives: https://www.akti.org/federal-switchblade-act/

No federal law, but brass knuckles are banned in many states: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/brass-knuck...
Plenty of examples in this recent article:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/signature-...
> A monolith becomes poor quality and unmaintainable when there is no entity enforcing architectural simplicity.

Having worked in a company where no single team "owned" the monolith, the term "communally owned" tended to come up.

It was generally understood within the platform teams that if everyone owns it then in reality, no one owns it :)
> I understand that pretty much the only difference between $3000+ "professional" GPUs that get certified for AutoCAD and other workstation systems are identical to $1000 "gaming" GPUs, just with a different on-card BIOS/firmware and e-fuses. I remember ages ago that people were able to simply re-flash their ATI Radeons into FirePro cards and that unlocked higher performance in some applications.

Yep. I have an old laptop with an Nvidia Quadro FX770M GPU that (hackintoshed) macOS sees as a Geforce 9600M GT and runs the included Geforce drivers quite happily on because the FX 770M so close kin with its consumer counterpart.

In fact, in a twist of irony for years the supposedly-more-stable Quadro Windows drivers had a power state bug with this card that would cause the laptop to bluescreen if the GPU tried to ramp down to an idle state. The only solution was to prevent the GPU from idling or to run a different OS with more generic drivers.
I miss the Maker Faire in its heyday, when it was mostly individual inventors and crafters showing cool stuff they had made and how they made them.
>Google's developer guidelines prohibit apps "that contain or promote ... any content or services intended to be sexually gratifying."

Very reminiscent of the language of the US Comstock Laws which started 148 years ago. One hundred and two years ago, a judge called those laws "haphazard and capricious".

Those words seem to fit in this case. And this is not the Victorian Era. I imagine Google would rather not be called to D.C. again to explain its behavior to a Congress that is unwilling to explicitly define it's expectations.
I believe the customer eventually bears the brunt of this.

It's sort of like net neutrality and your ISP.

You pay your ISP for access to the internet.

If your ISP is also charging others for access to you, then either:

- you will pay more for those services, or

- the services available to you will be diminished

same for apps.
By this reasoning nothing should ever change ever lest someone’s property rights be infringed?
The reasons in this report are like root cause analysis of failures in big companies. They are not usually false but still kinda bullshitty and rarely enlightening on why things happen the way they happen.

Simply saying that 6 billion dollar project will cost 400 million in Europe so a wastage of 5.6 billion is hilarious until they give detail breakdown of costs. Maybe they can come out and say all american companies, government authorities, public, politician/ political system are dumb or just corrupt. For now I will just say they are just repeating lazy, half-assed cliches and presenting it like a report.

From this report :

"Building back flexibly requires empowering low- and mid-level civil servants to work flexibly and at arms-length with private contractors."

What does this even mean?

Should they work closely? from far to maintain impartiality? just give them verbal directions with no written record to move fast? Or it is just put all good sounding words with no cohesive meaning at all.
Tonyhax – Software backup loader exploit for the Sony Playstation 1
Yeah, and then everyone took hadoop and threw it on a NAS or they provision it in the cloud and...throw it on a NAS. Always scratched my head on that one.
I run Pop!_OS on my T480 and it's amazing - really stable with great battery life. They've struck a nice balance between the stability of Debian and the modern-nature of Ubuntu. The only apps I miss from Windows are Office (mostly Excel) and OneDrive.
Bad hidden problem. One just waiting to bite you on the bum.

Git, GitHub and Heroku should be patched to make them case-sensitive.
You don't work in finance, blockchain can solve a lot just look at Amazon QLDB, looks like it can solve quite a bit. And now you just sound jealous and very regretful.
I have some personal Swift-on-the-server projects deployed in "production" (as in, I use them every day, but I'm the only user) and it works great for me. They're running in Docker containers deployed to Heroku; there might be better ways to deploy it, but I'm not a backend engineer anymore so this is as much as I knew how to do.

I haven't tried it on Windows yet, but I know that it is officially supported now.
You are also discounting the cost to society for all the works of art that are created due to copyright.

Copyright criminalizes remix culture and leads to evils like Youtube arbitrarily giving strikes because 5 seconds of a taylor swift song was in the background, suppression of criticism, and depriving the poor from access to modern culture.
Realistically if choosing between C++, Rust, Go and Swift for things that are not highly performance sensitive I would happily go with Swift.
My protection against phishing is my password manager. If the site is fake, it won't find the password for it.
Dunno about you guys but IMHO it’s quite hard to identify these traits in oneself :)
Usually the tenant would pay directly for electricity along with other bills, unless they are just renting a room.
Borderline indoctrination. You're not pledging commitment to it's "values" and young children are not at an age to have a nuanced discussion or awareness about what those exactly those values are, and make a decision about if they should be declaring a commitment to them or not.
I did rely on the assumption that some check exists. Of course it could be spoofed, but that could be hard enough to require reverse engineering the whole driver to figure out. Or the limit could rely on the identification done on the card itself and sent back.

Either way - my point is, we don't have enough details to say the original description from nvidia was wrong.
Regardless of the competition with hardware partners, GeForce 256 blew it with nothing on the 3dfx side to respond with.

Fun to read discussion here: https://m.slashdot.org/story/7743
> The TRU Score is primarily based on your activity on the platform and the community reaction to that activity

This part alone makes me not interested in this platform. As a software engineer, I do not want to be forced into some social dance on a networking site just to make me eligible for jobs, but it seems like these days that's what everyone expects you to do. We can't all be professional social media users and be good at our jobs too.
It does - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285396475_Taming_th...
Technology and engineering are universal achievements, and a main part of how society as a whole progresses. A sociology focused world fair would just be the words most hated and divisive fair ever, exactly the opposite of what it should set out to achieve.
In the simplest models, a cell can be identified by only an integer, indicating either the phase in phase transformation problems or grain id for grain growth or recrystallization. But, in the more complex models, a cell can include all kind of properties (chemical composition, crystallographic orientation, dislocation density...).

The number of neighbors we use also varies. Sometimes, even inside the same CA model, we use a different number of neighbors to calculate the evolution of different properties. Some problems are more related with the boundary between cells, and there we have to use first order, but other properties depend on the bulk and we use second order neighbors too (of course, weighted accordingly). Electron microscopy results are commonly obtained in hexagonal grids, so hexagonal grids are often used in 2D simulations.

If you are interested in the topic, you can see for example http://www.dierk-raabe.com/reprints/cellular-automata/
It's a wonderful feature - I've now been through 3 full system swaps with the same OS. The only exception is software that ties it's license to a kind of hardware identifier. Even then it's a very minor inconvenience compared with the Win 98/XP years. I have a few teenage memories of pulling all nighters just to reinstall my OS and programs.
I believe for GPL2, you could plausibly provide a link for copies of the source code.
my detailed analysis (searching for dave and counting them... 5.. and then multiplying by 50...2% of men are called Dave) tells me there are ~250 people on your service. I will join when you have 2.5 Million :)
I'm quite surprised if there isn't a binding arbitration clause somewhere, which blocks class actions
Get a job that pays. Not everyone is talented and lucky enough to be paid a comfortable wage for the products of their hobbies.
Squarespace raises $300M at staggering $10B valuation
Well then I have no idea how you and your mates do it. I know people who are in very senior positions at FAANG companies as well as couple big financial firms in the UK and not a single one of them makes over £100k/year. Two of them with PhDs in big data analytics and working in the industry. My own salary might be excused by being in the North East, but they work all over the place, in and out of London.
> it could affect their property rights.

I don't think "rights" extend that far. That's like saying if you buy stock in a company and then a competitor does something to drive the price down, that's violating your property rights.

It's a reasonable thing to discuss and bring up at a meeting, but it's not an issue of property rights.
The railfication and arguably much of the settlement of the West in the USA happened because the government said "here's a swath of land 20/50 miles wide, go hog wild". That type of activity isn't really possible anymore, unless the government itself steps in.
Link to the Ruby on Rails demo for anyone wondering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzj723LkRJY
It isn't condescension. You're just living under the misapprehension that I am trying to convince you. You're welcome to believe what you want. If you don't think it's worth the money, it's okay if you don't want to pay.
It's on my @gmail.com account.
> 1080p OLED

Yep. What's getting lost in this whole discussion over resolution and whether >1080p is necessary is the issue of panel quality. Most laptops have always had absolute shit that is useless for photo editing or color-accurate work. Even at the high end they rarely advertise things like gamut coverage.
Wow, that's new. A cryptocurrency proponent who hates video games.
The hope for the 2028 olympics in LA is more public transportation which is currently being built. It's exciting to see the new lines currently popping up.
I think you have your terms mixed up. Capacity refers to the maximum output. "Normal capacity" isn't a thing. You could say "normal output" or "expected output".
I see two items for today that I saw on the front page. I'm reminded of, back in the days newspapers and newsmagazines were king, seeing activist lists of "top stories censored by the corporate media" that inevitably included major cover stories.
i make lots of money doing it though
Not if you want 3d graphics it's not.
Seems like Google pixels. Just do an image search for the product name and you’ll see it for sale from “spy stores” that sell things like hidden cameras.
Maybe NFTs
The $69M JPEG
mosh + tmux
Same! I'd like critics to point out the downsides of Google not having this information too.

For me, the Google search is sometimes magical. Way better than any other.
Do you honestly believe that the person can look around any code base and find significant speed increases? Do you think he can significantly increase the speed of Firefox, or Excel, or SQLite? Maybe he is the solution to Mozilla's woes—just hire him for a month, he will increase Firefox's speed by 70%, and everyone flocks from Chrome to Firefox for the increased speed. At least, until next month that Google hires him and he increases the speed of Chrome and everyone flocks back. With such a valuable resource, it is unethical to monopolize—there should be a waitlist so every company can use his genius. By the decade's end, every piece of software will be running more than twice as fast.

Or maybe this was a case of a rare low-hanging fruit lying around for someone to find. Maybe the entire software industry is not one giant low hanging fruit waiting for the right genius to emerge and pick.
Well, that is basically why, as a society, we have devised ways to deal with disagreements over the nature of what should be. In US that does mean civil suits if all else fails.

Not to search very far, in Colorado neighbors sued for lowered property values due to marijuana smell from dispensary.

For better or worse, US property values do make a powerful argument for people to take their rights rather seriously.
The premise, that the postal service in the US only uses the special vehicles, seems to be incorrect.
Turbo, Tempo, Tesla: Elon Musk in Brandenburg
I am very much pro World Fair revival.

But

I am also very Cold War revival. We should be launching competitive science wars with each other, not unlike the Olympics. Set objectives, set time periods, when the time and objective expire all knowledge gained is pooled and published for the world, for free. National or International propaganda campaigns to recruit for teams. Spies, espionage, moles. Not just a science fair, but something a bit more dirty and fun.
With something like Elixir/Erlang, the distributed system is quite robust and reliable from my experience. A bit rigid and somewhat difficult to configure for custom topologies, but dependable overall.

>a plain-old set of services talking via a message-broker

That said, I think you're absolutely right with distributed Akka. I'm very hesitant to fully embrace it, and we use simple service-level APIs to communicate between nodes. I understand the developers have made a lot of progress on the functionality of remote Akka over the years, but it's just not as tried and true as I would like. Using Aeron for message transport for example, is something that may be the best tool available, but is really hard to sell to my org when simple services are more approachable and maintainable.

>actors "becoming" (the term used IIRC) other types of actors based on messages received

Yeah... I didn't understand why my org was using the Classic Akka instead of the new and improved Typed Akka for a long time. But cool-looking things like this just aren't worth it sometimes. Especially when Classic Akka "just works".
It seems like a good strategy for NVIDIA to prevent losing market share among gamers. They could maximize profits near term by seling cards at whatever the market will bear. But they'd yield their gamer share to AMD, and that would have long term negative consequences.
It's amazing to me that the World's Fair gave us so many iconic and wonderful structures, all of which are probably too impractical to build otherwise: the Eiffel Tower, Space Needle, Unisphere, Palace of Fine Arts, etc. It's unrealistic, but it's worth having a new world's fair just for an excuse to build another one of these!
In 1995, a self driving car drove 98% of the way across the country. Think what these same people predicting AI today would have predicted in 1995. They would probably believe we were 10 years away from self driving cars in every household. We still dont have a mass produced level 3 system in 2021.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_self-driving_cars
Yes, the US and the UK have done a good job ordering vaccine. The UK learnt a lesson about outsourcing and used the NHS for vaccine delivery. Delivery in the US is still shambolic, they just have an enormous supply.
But why would we not see "those who desire to have kids" out-reproduce those who don't have kids, within a few generations?
A long time ago I used to own a laptop that I bought from a friend after someone stepped on it and broke the screen. I removed the screen and installed some version of Linux on it.

It turned out to be quite fun and useful. Not a very good laptop if you want to use it where you don't have a screen, but it was kind of like a modern TRS-80. You could treat it like a keyboard and not have the laptop screen get in the way of the larger desktop monitor (back then it probably would have been a CRT) I actually wanted to use. In a sense it was actually less awkward than a normal laptop for the way I usually wanted to use it.
How many of those issues from your in-laws are due to installing programs from outside Google Play?
I find Docker Compose really useful for single server deployments.
Google Earth.

In many ways this was the killer app for first version iPads. It's still top-echelon, and a delight to use (mostly).
Yeah, people seem to forget those mining GPUs that were released specifically to prevent their resale in the aftermaket gaming community that people still managed to get to output video _despite the cards lacking physical ports_. They did it with a modded driver.
A regular taxi costs you the same as an uber? May I ask what country you live in?

In Australia, a taxi usually costs between 1.6ish - 2.3ish times as much as an uber or didi.
Well, that's the dirty secret, isn't it?

It's hard to get this crowd to admit that "growth" isn't infinite.
The Rise of Parkinson's Disease
The majority of artists will not be able to support their entire lifestyle with their passion.

Same as it is currently and ever was.
A counter argument I heard recently: all of the work and resources we need to have physical money is comparable in energy needs and environmental consequences.

I have no source at hand.

I’m also not sure what to think of it.
Surely we can find better reference material than tabloid newspapers. This line of speculation is interesting, but given that it's highly conjectural and comes from a hyperpartisan source, it's hard to take seriously.

This paper goes into some detail to debunk both US and Chinese conspiracy theories about COVID-19: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7445685/

The NIH has done some very good work on the intersection of disinformation and public health (eg anti-vaccination conspiracies) prior to the pandemic.
I agree with this. Real networks are networks of people you respect and trust. Trying to reduce that to a point system is a poor proxy.
Well, yeah... Exponentiation is O(2^n) (actually it’s also Omega(2^n)), modular exponentiation is O(n).
I would not call video games a waste of energy. Leisure is important.
It is a pointless comparison, both methods contribution to global CO2 emissions is absurdly minuscule.
I don’t. There is the consideration that more money comes with more problems. You can say that more money would fix those problems, but at the end of the day, you still had to spend energy thinking about it.

You can quickly approach a situation where time is the limiting factor. In this case I think that the private jet or extremely fast transportation allows you to get some time back. Beyond that you might have one or two projects that you really enjoy, like a palace, but you don’t really have enough time to handle much more. Elon is a good example: he’s got a few projects that he really cares about and does them at an extreme scale. He effectively has unlimited resources but he would not make any progress on his three major initiatives if he was much more fragmented than he is.

And if you run this to the extreme, the true cost of overconsumption creates the problem of environmental damage and negative externalities on others that can wind you up like Marie-Antoinette.

Plenty of other people are happy with minimalism. And that can be hard for some folks to understand if they aren’t minimalists.
Interesting concept, but my gut says it could lead to some malicious use cases.
Yes, and note how many laws are on the books ( and how many scams exist ) that deal with falsely inflating and deflating the value. It is absolutely a property rights issue. Just because it seems minute to you does not make it less of a right.
Binaries are considered work based off of GPL software, so the freedoms to copy, modify and distribute binaries without restrictions apply. GPL3 goes further and clarifies that if software is distributed with additional restrictions that those restrictions can be ignored.
Compared to what other countries?

I think a lot of waste and corruption is due to winner-take-all elections. A representative that represents one party has to answer to that party. If he does not represent its interests, they will elect someone else next time.

In winner-take-all elections, you vote for your least worst option and representing one perspective doesn't as matter as much. It's easier to sell your vote to lobbyists.

But people are convinced that our elections were implemented in the best possible way, so there is a reluctance to even weigh the options.
It is my hope that Docker will continue to be a self-correcting problem.
Micron to Sell 3D XPoint Memory Fab and Cease Further Development