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But then the Japanese for Arbok is "アーボック" according to [1], but reversing the character order doesn't quite result in cobra. Does this have a different hidden meaning, or are people supposed to insert the r sound and reverse it like it's in English?

[1] https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Arbok_(Pok%C3%A9mon)
This is exactly how people treat someone being honest. You don't know what is his opinion after reading the article, so you can't say he reinforced anything.
> Like I said, the benchmark isn't against a monkey randomly picking a stock, it's against a passive portfolio.

At least we went from beating a fair coin with a crowd to benchmarking against a passive portfolio :)

The quote just means that the winning model was overfit to leaderboard. Not that there weren't better models submitted than the baseline, for else someone submitting the baseline would have won.

> If you whipped up a script but was 10 minutes late to the party, then you'd get zero gains

See, I really don't believe this. You can use the script features for longer timelines, then there is no rush. You are also not as much competing with the smart money, as you are joining them. I really don't think those few 1000s $ someone early on spends, are taking any action of the table. And the big players can't take it all.

> that almost sounds like "timing the market", which is generally known to not work for unsophisticated investors.

counter trading as in https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/countertrend.asp

but yes, would need both sophistication and time investment, else passive way more attractive. But you can use crowdsourcing on overhyped trends as information for this strategy.

> should tell you all you need to know about their "skin in the game"

I am not saying that newspaper stock pickers solved the problem of mindless hype. But skin-in-the-game or staking is an effective counter against clueless people following trends, and moves it further away from the coin flip.

> [insert joke about how economists have predicted 15 of the last 3 recessions]

[Insert fact about how those predictions cluster around the last 3 recessions]

> allows their alpha to be diluted and get front-runned

If anything, this would happen at the real front: hedge funds would contract someone to contract an expensive New York PR firm to meme and astroturf some stock, say Palantir, to something noteworthy. Then the open planning online for anyone to see does the rest. The private Discord channel of random traders (who bought into that group with 5 BTC to have skin-in-the-game) knows what's up, and quietly rides along.
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I think it's the same category as inflating conversions from the point of the advertiser (both are nasty, here it is more easy to prove criminal intent): if you are an ad buyer, make sure that you are adapting your bids and measure everything yourself.
CPU is probably not going to be the only change for Fir: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque....
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Tax havens are parasites on tax systems of other countries but tolerating a similar shtick within a single country is a separate level of fucked up.
He did not just technically not defend him, he literally called him a serial rapist and he definitely stated that the girl was being harmed.

This is not the only false accusation (which has been debunked to death, yet the blog posts and headlines are still there intact), he is also being accused of being a transphobic and a misogynist.

Also, he definitely cares a lot about abused women. I opened a random month of his political notes yesterday and just searched "women" to verify that I am not insane.

He might indeed not be good for a top leading positions for reasons I do not know, but he is being treated very poorly.

Edit since the post is dead:

Hackbraten:

> Even if we assume RMS never meant to harm people ...

Modern Civilization 101 and Law 101 care about the "meant" part. A lot. As for the amount of actual "harm", I am very skeptical.

Arnt:

> I hereby accuse him of randomly getting caught up in irrelevant controversies.

So you accuse him of something that is totally different from the actual accusations.

I will keep this in mind if someone wants me to sign a letter accusing you (maaaaybe falsely) of X, and I think you are Y (where Y << X, but this does not matter much) anyway. Joking, I won't, and I will call them out too. We should not take such crap lightly.

> What rms said doesn't matter, because it's harmful, whatever it is.

OK...
Yes. Not everyone shares your preferences.
I'm actually trying to help add a bit of serendipity to browsing digital photo and video libraries with my self-hosted app, PhotoStructure: when you browse hierarchies, it picks out random samples of the assets that match that hierarchy.

I've got a pretty large library (>500k assets), and never recreationally browse with apple photos or Google Photos, but can get lost for an hour at a time with PhotoStructure.

https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/#fast-and-...
Or the project is so profitable it is like money is falling from from the sky.
> It is not the big number—eighty—that shocks me (though I sometimes gulp when I utter it), but, rather, the banal image of an implacable hourglass, most of its sand heaped at the bottom, the last negligible pinch of grains sifting down, unstoppable, a finite amount, less each time I look.

That is such a beautiful description of facing one's own old age.
There is ALWAYS work for a senior engineer who keeps his blade sharp. Just because you have years put in, it doesn't mean you need to get into management. Dive deeper, become an even better engineer. You have years on the job, something money can't buy and companies WANT.

Just don't be one of those older engineer codger that still pushes for subversion instead of git and prefers php instead of something modern. That's a fast track to becoming irrelevant and unhireable. Keep up to date and SHARP.
Deutsche Bahn has a (quasi) monopoly on German long-distance trains and is state owned. It has to operate some connections at a loss. It also maintains the railways.

German streets a build by the state, not by Volkswagen or Mercedes Benz. Airports are owned by local governments and often a loss-leader, sometimes epic disasters (with the exception of Fraport).

It is extremely hard to compare trains and argue about whether they are competitive or subsidized.
Carbon offsets are not a structural solution though. Most offsets right now reduce emissions elsewhere, where it's either cheaper or technologically more feasible. However, eventually we'll run out of those, and offsets will actually need to capture carbon from the atmosphere. Since there's no feasible synthetic carbon sequestration process invented yet, practically that means you have to increase biomass, and ensure it remains biomass in perpetuity. That can only be taken so far, at a certain point you'll run out of space to plant forests.
It's far from just the infrastructure, if you're looking at HSR; Bordeaux to Lyon as an aviation route is mostly served by E190's, each seating 100 people, whereas a TGV Réseau seats 377 (which I believe is the lowest capacity of any current TGV). Clearly the train can have the advantage of intermediate stops, but you're starting off with much higher capacity to fill.

And sure, you could build a very short train, but a lot of the efficiencies of rail are built on transporting large numbers of people at once.
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Just tested Parallels latest beta on M1 and it couldn’t find an OS on a Big Sur ISO that I’d just created. Doesn’t appear to support virtualizing macOS on M1 yet.
"Planes take longer to travel city centre to city centre" always gets trotted out in these discussions, but it's the wrong comparison. People don't all live in the city centre. Airports are usually outside the city, but well served by motorways and public transport. I wouldn't be surprised if more people can reach Charles de Gaulle or Orly within 45 minutes at rush hour than can get to Gare de Lyon.
> I don't get how you can pre-program a contact to pay a percentage of your earnings.

You can't. Any agreement like this would still require a traditional, real-world contract to carry any weight. The contract would specify that the holder of the NFT is entitled to the benefits of the contract. Even in a hypothetical world where everyone gets paid on the Ethereum blockchain, the person could simply open up a second ETH wallet and collect payments there, because crypto wallets aren't people.

The unspoken catch is that these contracts would likely include a provision that the NFT is null and void in the event that it's lost or stolen. People entering into contracts aren't eager to give up their rights to hacks when they can simply add a contractual provision that limits it.

The NFT exists because it's a convenient placeholder to represent something that can be traded with commonly accepted (relatively speaking) tools.

A real-world contract would still be necessary to put any weight behind these NFTs.
> There's really no reason a human would try to fly instead of take a train.

My anecdote:

Some time ago I did a lot of business trips around Europe. All business travel was organized by a subcontractor. They sometimes wanted to route me through a crazy amount of short airplane hops to get me to the destination. Sometimes even when a direct flight was available they couldn't put me on it because they didn't have a contract with the operator or something like that.

For some reason they strongly favored air travel and fell back on other means of transport only when there was absolutely no way to get there by air.

One some occassions I was supposed to do 4 or 5 500 km short hops, which would mean a whole wasted day of basically waiting at airports and boarding airplanes. In such cases I just said no, paid out of my own pocket for a train ticket or took my own car. And then spent next 3 months doing paperwork to get travel expenses reimbursed.
I have 3 android 9 apps that are important to me. Running those would allow me to switch forever. I went to the anbox site briefly but didn’t quite see a list of images.
Not OP but I use an iPad occasionally to remote in to a linux box and work on projects.

I use blink for the terminal app and connect using mosh instead of ssh. I found that mosh handles the connection (reconnection) way better since iPadOS is pretty aggressive in killing the terminal app if I switch to a different app. I use also tmux on the server and just detach it when I'm done in case I want to work on it on my laptop or desktop. Overall works great, my only issue is that the 10.9" iPad screen is a _little_ bit too small for my liking so I don't do work like this that much. If I had the 12.9" iPad it would probably be something I use daily.
Most major airports in France have train connections built-in.
It's an easy replacement even if you need to change the plates.
I hope IntelliJ eventually figures out remote dev.

Benefits are more obvious on massive code bases that take a long time to build, test (or really just do anything).

IntelliJ will get stuck indexing forever and can be frustrating to use - having the code live on beefy servers that can run the computationally expensive bits faster can make a big difference.
Different crystals will pack differently, so a teaspoon of table sugar from brand1 will be different than brand2. Same between icing and table sugar.

And different syrups will have different surface tensions, so a 5mL flattish teaspoon will hold more than a 5mL deep-well
You’ll end up main connections and smaller ones to reach smaller destinations. This doesn’t mean it needs a single center like Paris. Compare the map to Germany where there are roughly 3 parallel fast North-South lines not focused on a single center.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_Europe#/m...
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The iPhone 8 was released in 2017 with 2GB of ram, the 8 plus with 3GB.
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I agree with you and I definitely don't think the up-front approach is great. I just wish there was a way to have some kind of forward thinking instead of low-gain requirements in that randomly appear.
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Its not, but thanks for your concern.
The entire line of thinking just seems to me like it is bending over backwards to avoid just... having income taxes and a social safety net.
Believe them, VS Code is a strange beast in that it's really powerful and has a very flexible extension system... but that's a double edged sword because it lets the devs easily ignore features with the excuse that they should be done with a 3rd party extension.

EDIT - child comment is right, the following paragraph is not true! I was writing from my phone and remembered installing this extension [0] but now that I've checked it is for counting offsets from the beginning of the file, not lines and columns. Which I'd concede is not so much of a basic functionality expected in any editor.

[0]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ramyarao...

And I mean *really* basic stuff... like a status bar label
that shows the line and column numbers where the cursor
is! Yes, you already need an extension just for that.
I'm in a similar situation. I want a new x86 laptop for development, but it's not super urgent.

Some laptop built around the new Ryzen 9 5900HS cpu [0] seemed like an obvious choice. But although it seems like AMD has released it, I'm having trouble finding any actual laptops that have it as an option. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough?

[0] https://www.amd.com/en/products/apu/amd-ryzen-9-5900hs

UPDATE: Maybe I just needed to wait a little longer: [1]

[1] https://www.ultrabookreview.com/35985-amd-ryzen-9-laptops/
I think we're watching the implosion of the cloud. Those leaks are not even illegal, yet they will lead to a lot of spam, a lot of phishing, and a lot of other clumsy actions by clumsy actors that will alienate users and make them more reluctant to give their information next time. At least, i hope we re post peak cloud and falling fast into the norm of the internet the way it was meant to be: pseudonymous
These keys are in different positions: "@#~\|

These keys are present on the UK keyboard, but not the US: £¬

Compared to every other common ISO keyboard layout, ISO UK and ANSI are very similar. For non-programmers, ", @ and (nowadays) # are the ones that matter. For a programmer used to an ISO keyboard, the UK layout may well be a better choice than the US ANSI one. (US ISO would be a good choice, but the extra key seems to duplicate symbols already present on the layout).
> medicine is a part of the game where the strategy is to take on a massive amount of debt, high risk and uncertainty for incredible returns.

Not really. It's exceedingly rare for someone to complete medical school and then not be able to find a relatively high-paying job if they want one.

The risk would be something like later deciding not to pursue a career in medicine, but that's a personal decision rather than an external risk.
I love this when introducing 'Big Data' to students - helps get the point across that no-one can know every tool out there and it's OK if everything sounds like Pokémon at first :)
Responses to the poll, I would presume?
I agree that there is a difference in the collateral involved, but the collateral mostly functions as a risk adjuster (which is why mortgage rates are on average lower than personal loan rates: if a borrower defaults, the house can be sold to recover part of the principal).

At the end of the day, a mortgage is a contract that allows the borrower to purchase a home in exchange for a share of their future income, paid as interest on the loan.

Personal loans also already exist today. The primary difference in the scheme in the article is that it is blockchain-based, instead of bank-based, and the trust establishment mechanism between borrower and lender is based on personal marketing, not credit agencies.

Perhaps a bigger factor is that if the currency in which such a loan is offered is deflationary in the BTC style, it is a disadvantage to the borrower who will see the cost of their loan escalate over time, so this should be accounted for by lowering the interest rate.
> What you're describing is just facetious and condescending to those with six-figure medical debt.

The point is that medical debt is a very good deal for the reasons you point out and because the doctor cartel in the US has forced prices up to dizzying heights.

Yet people bitching and moaning about having borrowed $300k at reasonable interest rates for the right to earn many millions with almost no risk (when was the last time you met an involuntarily unemployed doctor?) don’t acknowledge that.
The tax part is pretty inaccurate. If you use business IP and transfer it to Delaware you will not avoid California tax on income from that IP. The unitary business and formulary apportionment approach of California income tax (also the dominant approach of multistate income tax in other states) easily beats that strategy, by treating formally separate entities as one for taxation. The sort of income shifting described in the article works better in international taxation since there the dominant approach is a “separate accounting” aka separate entity approach.

Indeed, even the Geoffrey case the article notes is famous for Geoffrey losing in South Carolina, and having its income taxed in that state.

Nonbusiness income is taxed to commercial domicile, which does promote moving headquarters to a tax haven. But much less income is considered nonbusiness income than you’d expect, and further commercial domicile is a separate concept from place of incorporation.

By far the dominant reason for Delaware as a corporate place of incorporation is its well developed corporate law and courts. It is more favorable to corporations in part, but not excessively so—VCs would not be pressuring corporations to incorporate in Delaware if it purely screwed shareholders at the corporation’s benefit.

There are also estate planning and asset protection benefits of using Delaware (and certain other states) LLCs.
Essentially all this is is a tax on quality of life.
Quality of life will decrease for rich nations for nothing as all the environmental gains will be offset by emerging economies.

China will continue to build more and its population will also continue to consume more.
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> why did OCaml not get widely adopted in finance?

I think it has been pretty successful. The bigger success story in finance is F# though, which takes a bunch of ideas from OCaml.
I hereby accuse him of randomly getting caught up in irrelevant controversies. A good campaigner for a cause doesn't do that.

I don't think there's anything an FSF official could do or say about the Epstein affair that would help the FSF. What rms said doesn't matter, because it's harmful, whatever it is.
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Thank you. The indentured servitude character of this stuff is most clear when we look at the $ALEX example. Selling off a chunk of future autonomy and income in order to finance migration to a place with more economic opportunity is exactly what poor folks did circa the 17th and 18th centuries. Perhaps we should look at the history of how that went before replicating it.
The Nest sounds a loud alarm - that would wake people up and get them out of the house.

If I got an alert, I could call my partner and make sure they were already safe.

If I was at home and had my headphones on, my phone would vibrate. That will get my attention in a way that a traditional alarm won't.

I also hooked my Nest up to my Lifx bulbs - so they'll all turn on when an alert sounds. Again, pretty good at getting my attention and helping me see.

I'm not really sure why you're so against the idea. They do everything a traditional alarm does - but they add a few features which I find quite useful. To reiterate - a Nest Protect is a traditional smoke alarm, but it _also_ has WiFi.

As I said in my blog post, I wondered why other companies don't sell them. If, as you say, we're hard-wired to want these sort of "useless" things - surely there should be a market?

I hope you have a calm and pleasant weekend.
I don't know. If I'd buy a phone which I really could make mine, I'd love it to have a hardware which would still be well usable in about 5 years from now, even with my increased demand for resources as I expand my possibilities with the device.

At least 8GB RAM for all this stuff to remain in memory. Fat Python processes collecting GPS and mobile connectivity data (like RSSI, which cell towers are nearby), storing this in a MongoDB instance on the device, collecting accelerometer data and processing+storing it, there's a lot I'd like to do.
Yes, wash trading should be assumed to be ubiquitous in the NFT space. It's too cheap and easy to create fake trades of NFTs to trust that transactions are all real.

The tokens described in this article don't necessarily depend on the sale price of the NFT, though. Instead, these NFTs would represent the beneficiary of real-world contracts. Whoever holds the NFT collects the future income of the person, as enforced by a real-world contract.

Of course, nothing stops them from wash trading these NFTs in an attempt to flip them.
I've been paying for the JetBrains toolbox for a few years now, I'm a huge fan.

However, JetBrains unfortunately has nothing coming close to the transparency and speed of the VSCode remote connection, with your source living only on the remote side.

In cases where being able to work on remote, for example very particular configurations, or docker containers, or WSL2, this makes a huge difference.

For me this is mostly Python and TypeScript these days, where VSCode has grown particularly strong in terms of IDE features.
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I think what you linked to is different, but they recently announced working on a real remote dev option: https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/03/11/projector-is-out/

Their old server config is just pointing to a repo I think, but isn’t remote dev.

I looked into this last year before their recent announcement and at the time they said it wasn’t on their roadmap, but looks like that thankfully changed.
What's the point of trimming the edges when the real culprits get off lightly? No airlines in this league table of culprits.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/companies-carbon-emissions/
> why is flying so cheap vs a train?

In France, the answer is simple: the train company is basically a monopoly (owned via a very thin veil by the state).

They are therefore, like all entities not subjected to competition:

- expensive
- unreliable
- low quality of service overall (atrocious food, disgustingly dirty bathrooms, in-seat power supply almost never works, internet non-nexistant).
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This is my summary of Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow. It's funny, you can replace censorship with anything really and still argue the statement is true.
The half-life of commodity rechargeable batteries is significantly less than the half-life of Americium.

And people who don't proactively replace smoke alarm batteries are unlikely to proactively change the alarms...changing out an alarm is a bigger job than changing batteries.

A smoke alarm is not a consumer product.
Having similar / compatible personalities within your team is absolutely critical.

Diversity is valuable in so far as having diverse skill sets or diverse backgrounds. Not diverse personalities.

There’s no value in putting people who won’t get a long together in a team. Forming a tight bond and shared culture is ideal.