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Of course, you're right.

It boggles my mind how so many people install alexa, ring, samsung tvs and all the brightly colored google things. Of course they'll buy whatever phone has neat features.

Human nature is human nature, and people want convenience not privacy.

But take it from me - one curmudgeon to another - after you've been hit over the head with ever more audacious privacy policies year after year, this phone is a relief.

I don't mind lowering my standards for functionality as long as there's a way forward.

I would recommend you try running a librem 5 or maybe a pinephone in a year or two. (though from pinephone videos I've seen, the librem stutters less if ever)

Back to normal people, I guess I was thinking of some of my friends who have bought phones and literally never installed an app. But some of them are millionaires who probably are tracked everywhere they go by the default apps and the default privacy policies. They get popups all the time and their phone rings with spam.

This phone is expensive for what it provides, so maybe it's a hard sell.

Out-of-the-box - the main functionality is a phone app, a messages app, a web browser, contacts, alarm clock and an app store.

There are a few more, and more pop up in the app store, but some core things are missing.

The ones that I hope will come out soon are a camera app, a maps app and some sort of media player. I'd personally like a todo list and a shopping list.

I think if you got those going, you could hand it to a normal person and they could use it. I don't think it would be that different from a basic android phone.

But what I REALLY look forward to are the things other phones aren't allowed to do.

I would like to see:

- smarter call handling - I think there could be smarter blocking. But I also wonder could your phone take a message and put it through if it meets conditions?

- rolling wifi - could you have a wifi access point that changes ssid on a timer? and your phone changes too?

- location based wifi - could your wifi go off when you leave home and come back on when you get nearby?

- a smart firewall - whitelist your traffic

- per-site web-browsers with sandboxing - could you have an icon that launches a web browser in a sandbox and talks to one and only one site? That might be the solution for big services - they all have web access, use that but control it.

- rsync your entire phone when you get home
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There is a big difference between having anxiety about something and the thing itself. Your anxiety can go away without the thing you are worrying about going away or not. So it doesn't matter whether or not something goes away, you can still lessen your anxiety about it.
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> The researchers said little is known about the effects of caffeine on wildlife, but the caffeine in Puget Sound is so diluted it probably has a minimal effect.
Yeah this remains Gradles main advantage. You can author inline code to do interesting things or even full plugins by taking advantage of the buildSrc functionality.
> Mathematical reasoning originating in the West

Well, the form of mathematical reasoning that's prevalent was actually first developed during the Islamic Golden Age. Most of Western math is actually imported from the East. Symbolic logic, also is of Islamic origin.
"Researchers in Japan reported a 100-fold improvement in their solar energy conversion method

<...>

Still, despite the 100-fold efficiency jump, BaTaO2N isn’t quite ready for prime-time hydrogen production."

...A 100-fold efficiency jump, and on the IEEE site at that! One wonders how small it was before. I wish that supposedly authoritative sites such as the IEEE's one would actually publish verified data other than what to me seems like over-exaggerated hype just to gain news headlines.

I'll take all that back if or when I see verifiable quantum efficiency figures taken before and after the breakthorugh.
Is it going to be diluted on land and the diluted mix pumped to sea, or pumped out to sea undiluted?
Anger as woman researcher walks away empty-handed from hacking contest
Why did breathing through the straw cause that reaction?
Seemingly used the most these days in the Zungenbrecher ,,Zehn Ziegen zogen zehn Zentner Zucker zum Zoo.'
Found the NIMBY!
>, instead insisting that they are suffering from undiagnosed physical ailments.

It took me time to realize, that my headaches and back pain at the same time were not physical symptoms, but from the times when I was (even extremely) worried and it was hard to come to that conclusion, that they were not part of physical problems, because pain was real. So, it is more about how person is experiencing these symptoms.
The water will be treated properly, the tritium is going to be diluted to less than 25% of the maximum level permitted before being dispersed.
Product companies can't solve everything. I appreciate that they're trying different things. Netscape trying open source sowed the seeds that produced Firefox.

That said a browser is such a large undertaking, becoming the modern day operating system. It would be nice if they made clear their commitment to carrying it forward.
The End of Ad Tracking?
That is a very interesting event. Its like she knew exactly what was going to happen to you. The stopwatch and everything.
Another way to get a feeling for the error (simpler than fully fledged interval arithmetic) is to toggle the rounding rules from the usual (towards even, or so) to up and down, and observe the change in result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754#Rounding_rules
While I don't know the answer to your question, a term that might lead you toward the answer is "sidereal."

A sidereal month is 27 days plus a bunch of hours and minutes. That's how long it takes the Moon to go around the Earth. But a full Moon phase as we see it because of the Sun (New Moon to the next New Moon) is 29 days plus some hours and minutes.

There is also the fact that the moon isn't in a perfectly central orbit, which is why we have super moon events. And then there is tidal locking that tends to act as a stabilizer. Surely that impacts this all, but I don't know if and or how.

But with the two cycles - moon phases and sidereal months, you can probably work out if there have been deviations beyond that generalized pattern in the past, or if our leap years and seconds counter the effect. The timing between sidereal months and the moon phases is bound to show the patterns if there are any.

Interesting question for sure.
> It is huge, I agree. But ridiculous in comparison to what? How much energy/CO2 does the traditional financial system consume/produce (incl. buildings, production, transport, security)?

I've done the math before, but I've forgotten the precise results I came up with. The results are in the realm of "Bitcoin uses more energy than that which is used to produce all the US [maybe all the world's] currency." Like, it's not even close--I think shipping gold bars on an airplane may be more energy-efficient than Bitcoin now.
Which did you move to? Is their compensation more democratic?
Did you really expect Mozilla to care about Servo?

I'm sorry, but to them it was a experimental toy that didn't make them any money and they saw it as a cost center.
I think your view on Mozilla is what both the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation have considered their view since day one. It's a bit odd to read it with expectation it was ever something else to be honest.
Sure, and for hardware this old the FPGA could re-implement the CPU (which ran at <4MHz) and the shift register at almost the exact frequency (or whatever frequency is necessary to reproduce the original behavior) of the original as necessary. Then you can run the original software without modification and get much closer to identical behavior and performance characteristics with much lower resource utilization. Granted, it won't be nanosecond perfect, but it will be a lot closer than you'll get on any current CPU.
(This is a bit weird)

50 year old Brit here. I lived in a land called West Germany for several years in the '70s and '80s.

Pfund (pound) was routinely used in markets ie street markets but not generally in supermarkets but it was understood. If you asked for ein pfund pfeffer salami you got 400g or so of peppered salami. Back then Germany was pretty much fully SI and decimalized but just like any other country had some old units still left hanging on.
That's why you need to do yoga. Relaxing the body is so important and Meditation, without yoga, can be harmful. Simple, long holding, hatha yoga, beginning with deep part by part body relaxation and pranayama prepares you for meditation and allows you to handle the energies that can be released during mediation.

So much stress is held in the body. Western productization of more eastern traditional practices unfortunately often seems to divide them up into small consumable pieces and deliver them stripped of an awareness of both their larger context, their interactions and the importance of how you need to do some together. It also seems to teach people advanced techniques as if they were nothing, which can be extremely dangerous.

I meant to make this comment on that story about a woman who had committed suicide after a mediation retreat. Yoga is required if you're going to do mediation. Unfortunately, much of the yoga practiced in the west is nothing more than sort of an aerobic mindset, like pilates or calisthenics. Even when teachers stick to traditional sequences and focus on breath, they seem to miss the point of how important relaxation and only going to your limit is.

I was lucky that i had a fantastic teacher from India when i started yoga in Sydney 20 years ago. The difference an excellent teacher makes is amazing.

I watch videos on Gaia and see teachers doing advanced locks and hand positions, combined with meditative practices... These things can be extremely dangerous because you're unlocking and accessing all sorts of energies you're not used to. Doing advanced stuff before you're ready, or doing any stuff without a solid grounding in hatha yoga to allow your body to handle it, is toxic and unhealthy. In the productization of the yoga and meditation industry in the west people have forgot to focus on the basics, and have forgotten the advanced knowledge that allows you to do advanced techniques safely. Practices have been divided up, stripped of awareness of how to do them safely, and delivered in little consumable pieces. It's fucking dangerous, but everyone's out there practicing yoga and meditation like it's calisthenics or pilates or a warm up for rugby, and even the teachers who aren't mostly don't have the awareness or knowledge of the energies they're accessing to do it safely, or to do it with the most benefit.

This probably came across as saying yoga will cure your anxiety. I'm not saying that, just that if you do mediation, you also need yoga. But doing yoga well will probably make your anxiety better... Maybe an actual psych therapist can help unravel any beliefs and stories you have that you're reacting to but aren't actually true, or maybe if your fear has a rational basis (ie, you are actually in danger or at risk in some way, and the things you fear keep happening and you keep getting hurt) then you can adopt some practical strategies to create better boundaries for yourself so you feel safer and are safer.
I had some time to dig deeper into the methodology of the paper used as the basis of the claim. One curious thing they did was normalize income in a way that a single person making $58k/yr was counted as making $100k/yr by the nature of them being single. Now that makes some sense in the context of the way poverty is defined in part by the number of heads in a household, but it can certainly be misleading when defining classes by income. Here’s the strange part to me: a couple with no kids need $163k combined to meet upper class. Add me kid to the mix and they need $256k combined. According to their methodology, these all equate to the same standard of living.

This ends up skewing the intuition of the definition of “upper middle class”. Traditionally, the top quintile means you are upper middle class. By this definition it requires about $87k/yr. This is exactly 50% above the papers definition for a single person. I’m not saying their method is wrong, just that it doesn’t fit with how we traditionally talk about economic classes.
I'm not sure what you mean? You named a handful of languages that have survived, most of which are still in decline even if they still have substantial numbers of active speakers. The only one that seems possibly positioned to 'win out' in the long run is Guaraní, and even in Paraguay Spanish is steadily making inroads.
Mozilla is an activist group at this point, why else would they be writing blog posts egging on de-platforming and adding politically charged news suggestions to the new tab page?

Firefox is merely a cow to be milked to fund the social agenda of the CEO.
Hmm... weird. You’re right, it wasn’t described in The Communist Manifesto . Maybe I’m mixing up my sources (it’s definitely not in Das Kapital), but I remembering him describe the commune where nobody owns property anymore, and the relationship between parent and child no longer exists - i.e children sleep e.g 50 to a room and are cared for by the commune and no longer the parents
Houston is also hotter than the forges of Hell in summer and almost as humid as New Orleans, mixed with the occasional hurricane which is usually a total disaster. Culturally, Houston has never been marketed as the weird, offbeat town that Austin used to be, which makes it less attractive to Californians seeking new experiences. While there used to be money in Houston, and there probably still is, it’s oil and shipping money, old and conservative, which had its dreams crushed after the oil booms of the 80s. Enron was the hammer that drove the final nail in the coffin holding the withered, dessicated corpse of Houston.

Sooner or later, it will be Austin’s turn.
One really great way to think of MiSTer is as a living documentation project that results in documented and working system hardware vs MAME which is focused on documenting working system software. It just so happens if you have working hardware you can run the software meant for it (MiSTer) and from the other end if you want software to work you need a pretty good idea what the hardware is supposed to be doing.

They're basically similar efforts but approaching the problem from a different point of view.

Given how hard FPGA programming is, the work in MiSTer is quite magnificent.
Amtrak generally averages about half that, so it seems pretty good.
Oh no, those nearby better not drink the dumped water: it be deadly. The sea water I mean, not the radiation.

If anything the current tanks of drinkable fresh radioactive water are being polluted by the deadly sea water from a drinking perspective.
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If I were an employee at Mozilla who had any ambition, I would leave and go somewhere else after reading this. This lady has no vision or specific market understanding that can lead to any progress.
And "first and only computing device" pales to insignificance next to "first and only bank account" which they also are, in a way. That's huge.
Designed like a snake, the teeth all point inwards, so the 30% fee can never escape....
I am called apon to investigate database performance problems.
Teams using Hibernate sometimes send me the Hibernate query. This is not enough to understand the SQL which has been issued.
I would also need to see all the entity objects, and maybe some configuration parameters. Without the SQL, which nobody can exactly predict, it is difficult to performance tune.

So they turn on logging, get the SQL, and email that unreadable mess. In most of the cases I have seen, the SQL is fetching much more from the database than what the code really needs.

The first step when optimising SQL is to only ask for data that you actually need. Hibernate, as I have seen it used, defaults to fetching too many columns. I cut the SQL down, and come up with a performant statement. The developer has the challenge of translating the performant SQL back into Hibernate.

Hibernate makes easy things easier and harder things harder.
VR is at its peak due to Oculus quest. VRChat has to turn off server features to handle the surge of users on the weekends now. There's competing social games like chilloutVR, xbox and playstation are coming out with new VR this fall (in conjunction with valve so these are probably real headsets).

Consoles can finally run VR, so I expect there to be a big boom there. Lenovo has some sort of prototype office vr glasses that allow you to have a bunch of virtual screens you work in.

One use for VR I would have is such an infinite screen feature. I'd like to be able to have multiple windows open when debugging so I can see all data at once. I don't believe this exists yet.
The Manhattan Project also used 10% of the US electricity capacity
it is a totalitarian state, just a weak one
>> It is huge, I agree. But ridiculous in comparison to what?

> The current system, which is far more efficient.

You keep repeating that. Do you have any sources to back that claim?
Pocket comes enabled by default and they do plenty of telemetry. It's 10,000x better than Chrome's use of the 2 but it's not nonexistent.
This will bring a whole new level of pain to hardware upgrades.
Mindfulness based interventions outperform most of the mental health interventions we have for anxiety / stress-- across a variety of relatively high quality trials.

Nothing works for everyone.
How can they even maintain a secure browser as they drift from Firefox, much less innovate? Pale Moon in particular doesn't have the best security track record.
I think the setup in, for example, US equity markets makes it clear why blockchain is used for any kind of “securitization” of assets or contracts. You have a single company, DTCC, that physically owns all publicly traded stock certificates and so settlement of trades is just shuffling numbers in their ledger.

Blockchain is just a ready-made DTCC for whatever asset/contract you want to securitize.
Me too! I don't understand why a music CD on Amazon is cheaper than an MP3, particularly when the CD also comes with a free MP3 download!

Both are digital, of course.
Try breathing through a straw (or two put together) just after your heart rate's been raised (i.e. via exercise). It's very anxiety inducing.
I'm nearly 40, and didn't relate to anxiety at all until I was 35. Until then, I would use lots of different words to describe how I simply wasn't good at being in a number of situations. I now believe that was a better way of thinking, because once I identified what was happening to me as anxiety, it actually got worse. "Anxiety" is something that should be treated and actively managed, which puts fuel on the fire. The less I frame my mental health in terms of anxiety, the better off I am.

I'm sure there are any number of reasons why this way of thinking won't help others, but I totally get why lots of ADHD sufferers have started calling it "bees in my head" instead of ADHD. What we call things affects how we think about it.
It's a heuristic. A single counterargument does not disprove it. It just shows that it's not a law, which was obvious to begin with.
So good to see a story about the physical aspects of anxiety at the top of hacker news!

I’ve struggled with anxiety my whole software career. I finally identified the big triggers for me - morning standup when I was late on a ticket, when a test would inexplicably fail, when a coworker wound comment in a PR asking me to redo a chunk of work that I knew would take more time. And I identified them based on how my BODY felt.

And once I could identify the actually environmental triggers, I could start to resolve them.

A lot like this article talks about! My conscious mind wasn’t in control of my anxiety, and the looping thoughts in my head didn’t even have much to do with the trigger. They were the symptom, not the cause.

Another software engineer friend and I are starting a company to help software engineers reduce stress and anxiety! We’ve seen some pretty miraculous results so far.

We’d love to hear from all of you anxious software engineers :)

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I’ve been in Austin 18 years and I personally loathe each and every summer. Once in a while, there’s one that isn’t a sweltering Hell, but it’s not often.
It’s not a resume builder. Your interest is the only thing that matters here.

For example, I could care less about Typescript but that is part of resume driven development.

Elixir is not part of that at the moment.
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Some of us have not found the psychological "advise" of experts to be helpful, and taking advise from a writer seems as potentially helpful as anything else.

The slate star codex blog has a post about the gulf between therapist book and reality

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/20/book-review-all-therap...
I'm not sure that was the selling point but that doesn't make it a scam, right? Especially because if it did work as a selling point it means that people were also benefiting, so it couldn't really have been a scam.
Hard pass on that basis alone.
Gradle properly supports multi project build. Maven support is just weird.
You have a baby in the next months. Don't worry if your career holds water for a little while. That baby will take more than enough of your energy.
Yes. The tricky bit is who benefits. It’ll continue to be very uneven I suspect.
That is overthinking it horribly.

The problem is that the user wants to write 1/10 and 2/20 and 3/10 but those numbers aren't really in the binary system.

The user gets some numbers (let's call them A, B and C) that aren't the same but they fool people at first because they not only deserialize as 0.1 but the they also serialize from 0.1. Trouble is that A + B != C but some other number.

Excel tries to hide it but the real answer is to keep the exponent in base 10 if you plan to read and write numbers like 137.036 or 9.1E-31. How the mantissa is doesn't matter, it could be base 7 for all I care -- it is just an integer.

Interval math is for much tougher problems like recursion of

k * x * (1-x)

is easily proven to have periodic orbits of infinitely long period, but if you are using 32-bit floats you can't have a period longer than 4 billion. That kind of qualitatively difference means that there's no scientific value in iterating that function with floats, although you can do accurate grid samples with interval arithmetic.
FB claims[1] Quest 2 sales drove Facebook’s Q4 non-advertising revenue to $885 million, a 156% increase year-over-year

More than 60 Oculus developers have reached $1M+ revenue

Quest 2 has sold more units that all other consumer headsets combined for the history of VR.

It’s possible we are early in seeing VR cross the chasm. Or perhaps people are adopting VR due to shelter in place and will abandon it after the pandemic.

[1] https://www.roadtovr.com/2021-vr-forecast-key-indicators/
this is the real problem that caused this all of this catastrophe for Mozilla.

we are now in Mozilla's downfall.
God-

My workflow for such things is so complicated it hurts. I have to remember whether or not I found the <audio> file in the inspector...then download it, then upload it to a separate transcription service I bought LTD from AppSumo. I have found I learn best by reading (retention etc) so I miss out on alot if I don't follow this workflow. Most Podcasts don't automatically provide transcripts etc.

So this would be aces.
I lived in Austin in the 80s when it was a small, fun place. It had become unrecognizable only a decade later.

The arrival from the Valley only looks like a flood because the Austin region is still a small place. Net migration from the Bay Area in 2020 was about -0.16%.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote... has been built-in for nearly two years, and new privacy-protecting features are frequently being added.

(Disclosure: I work for Mozilla but not on this)