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> Does M3 support carddav properly?

No. This would actually be a pretty killer feature, and if they've implemented sync properly(?) maybe that's something they'll add in the future.

> Also, can I add multiple mail accounts easily?

Yes. I've had no issues here, although I've been using IMAP rather than POP3 for the interim while I decide how well it's going to work for me. (On the other hand, I haven't been back on M2 for several months, so maybe it's time for the switch?)

> Are mails part of Vivaldi sync?

No. Contacts make sense to me, but mail across sync would be basically implementing IMAP for sync purposes, right?

There are things still missing:

* mail import for those of us who still prefer POP to IMAP and have a ton of emails on our system

* highlight-to-quote

* more configurable keyboard shortcuts

* default bottom-quoting

* tighter calendar integration

But on the balance, it's a pretty decent client. I'll look forward to improvements as they have time to commit, but working it into Chromium has been a much more significant challenge than they originally anticipated. The devs/testers talked often about it not being ready for prime time, but I think that had much more to do with the extension development than it did with protocols (for example). I would also suspect that they're significantly understaffed compared to other teams.

And, to be honest, I doubt there's really even a big market for mail clients these days at all: we're mostly on Gmail or Outlook or some other web-based IMAP with integration across all devices. In-browser mail clients without some kind of super-sync feature ... just aren't likely to gain any traction.
"Citing the attack from Macron and unfounded accusations over safety and efficacy, Bell [0] said the company could re-think its philanthropic stance. “There’s a point at which AstraZeneca could just say, ‘you’ve got to be joking, we’re going to stop [charging cost price] now because we’re not getting any credit for what we’re doing.’ The share price has gone down, not up. We’re making more vaccines than everybody else. This is a safe and effective vaccine, but nobody seems to care,” he said this week."

[0]: Sir John Bell, the Oxford University professor who helped drive the vaccine’s development
So did you switch from Dvorak to Colemak? I just did a typing test on code-like things, and my typing speed is much slower, around 45 wpm, although that's normally accelerated by an IDE. I started learning Colemak for about a day a few years ago, and then decided that it wouldn't actually benefit me over Dvorak, especially because vi keybindings are quite important. Is the big improvement that it leaves {} in their original place instead of the farther reach?
Nobody would be banning the AstraZeneca vaccine if it were the only one we had. But so long as alternative vaccines are available, there is a "why take the (very small) risk when you don't have to?" argument.

Driverless vehicles aren't a valid comparison. They're either safer than human drivers or they're not, something easily proven by monitoring and statistics.
> And that's with the M1 having 4 slow cores for better battery life / consumption (with 8 full speed cores it would obliterate the 5850U).

It's not really that simple. An M1 with 8 full speed cores would also consume significantly more power and would no longer work in something like the MacBook Air. On paper these CPUs are both targeting the same power budget, so if AMD can put 8 full-speed CPUs in the same power budget that Apple can "only" put 4 full-speed and 4 low-power then why shouldn't AMD get a win from that?
Facebook has a patent to fingerprint users via their camera’s images
This pandemic is basically this entire story. COVID deaths are much more visible than the missed cancers, the depression and drug abuse caused by lockdowns, so basically it’s an easy choice for governments, lockdowns are better politically.
Miniatur Wunderland: world record for longest melody played by a model train
Don't do business with people you don't trust.

Good luck.
There are more poliical angles around AZ than just Brexit. Germany has a bunch of elections this year, for example. A lot of our screwed up Covid measures can be traced to a inner-party conflict about the Chancelor candidate for conservative party, Angela Merkel's government party at the moment. The same party that is up to the neck in a corruption sandal over mask contracts, and quite likely contracts for testing its as well.

No idea how the situation in Denmark is, so. Just one example how vaccines are used for political purposes in Germany, the Bavarian Prime Minister, Söder, and one of the two likely candidates for the chancelor candidacy, just placed a pre order for Russia's Sputnik V. The plan is to produce 2.5 millon doses in a plant in Bavaira by June or so. Never mention that Sputnik V has no EU approval, no study was submitted (what was that again with "faulty" AZ data?) and by June Germany will get up to 260 million doses the EU contracts.

EDIT: I read the 260 million in an article. Numbers from Statista don't back that up. And the EU isn't publishing any schedules. The supply chain guy in me is crying for a year now, first masks, now vaccines. Really frustrating. I really have to get a new job, right I have too much time on my hand it seems...
> make sure you have n+1 pi & disk machine.

Why? The thing that could fail are the disks. So, one can use a RAID1 with two disks and this should, for normal applications be enough. I had a DNS-232 before as a NAS, it had 32 MB RAM, a tiny ARM CPU, and two large disks. It was working nicely over about ten years, and one could even run a web server plus a (slow) wiki on it (I had to replace the casing once, for a botched firmware update). The main problem I had with it that it was that it was impossible to update (I was running Alt-F firmware, which was developed by the community after the original firmware had constant problems with unneeded RAID synchronization, and the vendor had to release its code due to being bound to the GPL).

The Pi400 is wildly more powerful, has a much faster CPU which only draws a few Watt, and can easily be connected to several USB disks.

> Raid isn't going to help you here, you need redundant nodes.

Why exactly? My set-up is working well.... did I miss it needs to be somehow lighter than air (because heavier-than air flying machines are not possible, y'know)?
This comment is exaggerated hyperbole and oversimplification.
Was her phone number leaked in the Facebook leaks?
Abstract:

> Images uploaded by users of a social networking system are analyzed to determine signatures of cameras used to capture the images. A camera signature comprises features extracted from images that characterize the camera used for capturing the image, for example, faulty pixel positions in the camera and metadata available in files storing the images. Associations between users and cameras are inferred based on actions relating users with the cameras, for example, users uploading images, users being tagged in images captured with a camera, and the like. Associations between users of the social networking system related via cameras are inferred. These associations are used beneficially for the social networking system, for example, for recommending potential connections to a user, recommending events and groups to users, identifying multiple user accounts created by the same user, detecting fraudulent accounts, and determining affinity between users.
Correction: The risk is not 0 for men, only a fair bit lower.
I meant from all vaccines.
> That depends on whether they're rounding, or taking a floor or ceiling :). With proper rounding, it's a wash.

Agreed! If they are actually rounding it will be a statistical wash.

> Regardless of the rounding method, the fair way is to sum up purchases and compute tax on the total, precisely to minimize the loss of precision on rounding.

Again, agreed, this is why we do it this way in the US.

> Curiously, as far as I understand the Polish tax code (IANAL), the choice of the method to use is actually given to the vendor! The law recommends[0] that you calculate the tax by multiplying the rate with the total taxable amount, but also allows[1] the seller to choose to calculate per-item tax, and sum that. In both cases, mathematical rounding (half-up) is used[2].

US tax code, at least as far as income taxes go, uses the same rounding method (nearest decimal) however sales tax is can be quite a bit more complicated [1].

Also somewhat related, we quote our fuel prices to 3 decimals.

[1] - https://blog.taxjar.com/rounding-issues-sales-tax-returns/
If I can ask, what is so bad about black bars? (For video that is, for a modern game it's inexcusable)
> As described above, it is important to “warm-up” JavaScript when benchmarking, giving V8 a chance to optimize it. If you don’t do that, you may very well end up measuring a mixture of the performance characteristics of interpreted JS and optimized machine code.

Since unwarmed first execution is a very common use case on the web, and a very intentional improvement for WASM, it seems foolish to discard that when comparing. I understand for benchmark determinism warming is important in long-running systems, but when parsing/warming is a common part of every run, it deserves to be factored in. I can make WASM look better by removing intentional benefits from JS before comparing too.
I'm quite confused that this comment of mine is presently sitting at -1 score at the time of writing. I think I provided good evidence that a fundamental assumption of parent comment was incorrect.
"The Web is dead. Long live the Web!"

This website is so magical. It gives me a child-like feeling of true discovery.

The first website I ever visited was SGI.com. I saw it advertised in a computer magazine, but I didn't have access to the Internet. By chance, a few months later, I learned the central branch of my city library had one PC with dial-up. You had to reserve it. The waiting list was long. I still remember staring at the blank grey browser window, carefully pecking "www.sgi.com" into the location bar. Then... waiting, and waiting, and waiting(!) for all the graphics to load. SGI's homepage was full of these beautiful pre-rendered three-dimensional graphics. It was worth the wait!
DARPA chooses three firms to design nuclear-powered space vehicle
I've heard a bit about delimited continuations [0], like shift & reset [1], and about how superior they are to call/cc, as well as some general reasons why call/cc is itself a bad primitive [2].

Any thoughts on delimited continuations with respect to performance? Why aren't more people/languages using them?

0: https://docs.racket-lang.org/more/index.html section 11, "Continuations"

1: http://pllab.is.ocha.ac.jp/~asai/cw2011tutorial/main-e.pdf

2: http://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/against-callcc.html
This is simply because it has always been allowed. Even before JavaScript, a form could post to an arbitrary URL. So to remain backwards compatible, CORS could not disallow it.
> a lot of decisions around AZ are politically driven.

Well, in the end "everything is politics" I guess. But one must also see it practically. In places where AZ is a small part of the vaccine strategy, skipping it just means a small delay. It's not a huge or risky decision to either stop using it or use it only in older groups.

In places where AZ forms the backbone of the vaccination strategy such as the UK, it's a much harder decision. The delay imposed by stopping general use of AZ means more deaths because it's a longer delay.

So different countries reaching different conclusions is natural.
JS/WASM calls are fast in V8, and still seem to be improved from time to time (e.g. see: https://v8.dev/blog/v8-release-90#webassembly), not sure about any large data optimizations (TBH I'm not sure what this is about though, because usually one would use JS slices into the WASM heap to avoid redundant copying)
Yeah, sounds about right. Having elections only seems to make these things worse.
Dialing in system fonts with Dynamic Type
How horrible it would be if commercials had to be truthful.
There's a massive difference between centralized production of physical goods vs user-generated digital assets. Scale itself becomes the challenge.
Because it's a kind of a trolley-problem that makes people make wrong decisions because of how society assigns blame. If the vaccine kills 1 person, they can be held directly responsible for that death. However, if the lack of vaccine kills 100 people, their deaths are the result of COVID, and would not be considered the result of the decision. In trolley problem terms, they would be blamed for pushing someone in front of the train to save others, but not for their inaction leading to a larger number of deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
Yes. There are a lot of books, say "business" books, that properly fleshed out with examples and context are longer than any magazine is going to publish. (Lots of the oft-quoted concepts like Crossing the Chasm fit into this category.) But they could easily fit in something like 20 to 75 pages. However, publishing economics--which still broadly apply--dictate something like a 250-300 page work.

With my last book, I expanded on a couple areas in a new edition and I feel better about the overall information density. But in the original, I definitely felt I was padding here and there to hit a page target.
A lot of games do though...

https://levvvel.com/games-with-kernel-level-anti-cheat-softw...
I had to look up "AIUI" because I didn't understand your comment, it turns out it's a capitalization for "as I understand it", so you basically made your comment less readable to avoid typing 15 characters, which at a modest typing speed will take about 3 seconds to type. So if you've read this far it means it's already been a negative return to type the shortcut.
Starship: minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell
Cue HN on what a horrible language C++ is, and how soon enough everyone will be using Rust instead.
The evidence has consistently shown that the experts have a track record of making terrible decisions that trend towards covering their own asses, and then coming up with The Science to justify their decisions post-hoc.
Denmark has been slowly opening up the last month (schools/daycares/offices) and will continue to open shopping centers and restaurants the coming months.

A <72-hour negative tests is required for e.g. hairdressers and restaurants.

Plans for opening up travel to other countries and returning without quarantines during the coming months are in place.

We do very rigorous testing, and the number of cases/deaths has not risen over the last month despite opening up parts of society, so the assumption is that we can open up more (carefully).

Denmark is number two worldwide with respect to tests per inhabitant with 5.1 million tests for each 1 million inhabitants (i.e. 5.1 tests per inhabitant). Generally less than 0.5% of the tests are positive
Is it though? Let's do a very rough estimate: 500 hours of content per minute in 2019, lets say 1 reviewer can review 3 hours of video each hour (by increasing play speed/skipping etc.) and we have a global workforce in lower income countries working 3x 8 hour shifts + weekends. That's 50060/33 = 30000 reviewers, at a monthly cost of $1000 that's 30000100012*7/5 = $504m/year.
Youtube had $15b in revenues in 2019, so this represents around 3.5% of revenue. Now this is assuming that we actually need to 100% review every video before releasing it (which is not the case) and one reviewer can probably review more than 3 hours of content per hour with the right AI assistance so the real cost would be quite a bit lower. Even then, spending less than 5% of revenues on content review, moderation and support sounds very reasonable to me.
Fair enough, I appreciate the honesty & civility. I'd love to see a link to your open source project or related material in a reply, mostly out of curiosity.
The EU will phase out the usage of AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson's vaccines entirely, according to Reuters [1]. Instead they plan to focus on mRNA approaches like Biontech/Pfizer and Moderna.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronovirus-eu-vac...
> These decisions are being made by professionals.

sure, but there are "professionals" on the other side of the debate that say the opposite. thus, discussions will happen.

also, these kinds of bans automatically lead to people across the planet not getting the vaccine due to fear.

case in point: a hard-hit European country got 1.3 million AZN doses. 800k are unused as no one wants to use them. the population would rather wait for the "good" vaccines :)
> but in the end, this is a Microsoft device, built to run Microsoft Windows, Microsoft software

This is such an odd comment. How is this different from Apple devices or those 1st party Chrome OS devices?
The only problem with this metaphor is that tolerance to poison/lava is an individual tolerance whereas the parent comment refers to a species' tolerance over N generations.
One obvious reason is that, in all this time, none of these professionals have explained their decision in terms of costs/benefits. So either they are not thinking in those terms or they don't think it is worth sharing the basis for their decisions. Let's see their models.
Yup. After using 1Password since 2014, I'm now in the very painful process of migrating to LastPassXC and syncing locally with my NAS. The way they push you to use the cloud was incredibly souring. They lost a happy customer.
There are some medical and research use cases, but I have no idea if Iran is advance enough to need that.
Can't it be compensated for[1] instead?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-elsewhere_effect
Who's nitpicking? It's an objectively incorrect headline.
> does anybody know of a program or a library that takes standard SQL queries as input and outputs one or multiple equivalent queries using the SQL dialects of a set of DBMSs?

There are a number of tools that translate queries between SQL dialects. Google for “sql dialect translator”.
The algorithm can exist, but to run it at scale requires buildings and large teams and bank accounts and therefore the companies that use these algorithms are susceptible to regulation.

Otherwise it seems like an enormous waste of talent and resources playing cat and mouse, when we can just give them guidelines and fairly often they'll be followed.

Of course bad actors can exist, but that's not a reason to give up on social solution to problems.
There’s nothing to believe, he’s saying that when you live in an area with $8/hr jobs getting a $15/hr one is a boon. Thus it’s clearly not a reference to the area you lived in?
That helps you teach to people who are currently under 18 years old. Then you just have to wait 50+ years before they replace everyone else. Like a lot of things, we need imperfect interim solutions because we can't wait forever for a perfect one.

And good luck changing every educational system in the world.
Apple may have finally found a partner to build the Apple Car
weirdly enough, most Indian devs I come across write (and say) "Scrapping" for some reason. I gave up on trying to correct them. (Obv I'm indian too)
If that's the case, then none of the aforementioned issues matter one bit.

It's pointless to talk about the efficiency of public systems, for even the effectiveness of wealth taxes etc. if corruption is endemic, particularly in the financial sector.

If the banking sector is corrupt - there can be no real economy.

And FYI this notion of 'no mortgage debt' as something healthy is completely wrong. 'Credit' is the lifeblood of an economy, if you want to get people into good housing, it's essential. Mortgages enable people to spread payments out over time and are a fundamental artifact of affordability. Mo mortgages = bad housing and fewer jobs in the construction sector.

There can be risk of housing bubbles etc. but that can be effectively managed. Or should be, a lot of countries struggle with that.
I think the more likely scenario would be this:

Player with a multi million dollar skin inventory gets everything stolen and sues valve on the grounds that they were negligent custodians of their service.
From Norway, where I wouldn't be surprised if authorities arrive at the same conclusion in next few days, it can be summarized pretty quickly:

-Risk of death from side effects in <65 patients is estimated at 3x higher than the international consensus, based on local observations. Unknown why this is the case, but seems unlikely to just be a statistical anomaly.

- >65 population is largely vaccinated already

-Vaccines from other manufacturers are expected to be available for everyone shortly

-Covid is under control and new cases are few. Risk of dying from infection in a given month is extremely low. When risk of death from vaccine is estimated at the order of 1 in 50.000, (ballpark figure based on memory), the vaccination risk outweighs Covid risk by far. Would be a tough call if other vaccines wouldn't be available, but they will be. It's not a long delay.

-Given the above, it's crucial to make sound ethical decisions to maintain public's trust in vaccinations and health authorities. This is not the last time we need to trust health authorities with our wellbeing.

In closing, summarized very briefly: there is a lot of orthodoxy regarding vaccination strategy in the community of science-interested folks. It's very fascinating to watch part of this consensus being challenged with good scientific arguments.
Peter Schiff said it best “these kids are graduating with a mortgage and no house”.
I came to know about a similar situation in Bosnia a few years ago. People (freelancers, software devs and PO/SM) working for other European companies experiencing a difficult status. While living in an apparent "no tax" region, to whom willing to dive deep into legislation and taxation schemes it was very clearly a sort of suspended situation due to government agencies not willing to do their homework and try to figure out how to correctly categorize those workers. So a lot of them was keeping money for the time in the future they would start being asked to pay taxes.
But they are not stopping vaccinations, they will simply switch to Pfizer/Moderna vaccines. So I guess no one will die because of that decision.
Wow, the bots are out in full force on this thread.

I've seen the proof on twitter and elsewhere it was 100% an option in the GUI. Enough of your gaslighting, Synology.
Why would you buy BTC at all in this scenario? If you are going to an exchange you can just buy fiat-XMR and XMR-fiat.

Deposit money to Binance, covert to XMR, withdraw XMR is well under 0.1% total in fees.
Pretty much, but export to "rogue states and terrorist organizations" is still technically illegal. I suspect it wouldn't withstand challenge though.
Unfortunately I couldn't find any other source that would have the issue presented in a digestible format.

There is another one http://www.loanchargeappg.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/H...
Please, have anyone tried run GTA 5 on it? Will it run smoothly (at least on the lower settings?). Thanks!
Except this decision was made by the relevant authorities and not by politicians. If anything, Danish politicians are probably not keen on this decision, but have chosen to respect it.

It should also be noted that Denmark has a relatively low infection rate, which is probably why politicians has decided not to interfere in the decision.
You want to own all of those if possible, but for normal working people bitcoin is easy way to convert fiat into a asset.

Given each bitcoin breaks down into 100 million sathosis you can always buy/sell parts of a bitcoin. Doing the same with other assets classes is harder or not even possible.