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Apple Magic Keyboard Wireless. It's small and light and has decent travel. The only setup is to remap caps lock -> ctrl so that I can use emacs-style keybindings throughout macOS.
That's not always true. Take the case of a company that determines the cost of fixing a flaw is worse for profits than letting the flaw continue into production. Remington famously allowed a flawed trigger in one of their rifles for decades, even after being made aware of it and its 5 cent fix by the designer of the rifle, before it went on sale.

https://www.guns.com/news/2016/11/18/trove-of-internal-docum...
> A lot of it was to create an environment where workers worked longer hours and thus the firm got more productivity out of each worker

Also known as: working for free
I think you are right. I never think about my keyboard at all. None of my co-workers do either <shrug>.
Perhaps we should be selling dummy physical goods with our software then. E.g. software $1, coffee mug $100.
Could you explain why this is "literally so stupid" when this appears to be what is happening?

If lockdown measures, social distancing, mask wearing, etc. were the true cause of the massive reduction in flu cases, we would expect to also see that countries and US states that failed to enact measures would be reporting high flu numbers to the WHO.

This doesn't appear to be happening. Instead, "the drop-off in flu numbers was both swift and universal." (article quote)

This universality suggests a data problem to me rather than an environmental change.
Safer how exactly?
ergodox ez. i like nearly all of it; i want another vertical row of keys on the outside of each side.
okay so you don't know who coined the term "app", got it
BCG/McK/Bain are not Big4 consulting. It's not all roses, but I'd argue that they operate pretty differently - the fact they charge 2x-3x more should tell you something.
That's interesting. The etiquette where I work has sprung up to keep yourself muted unless you're the one talking, and if you're talking you're not typing, so it's less of an issue.
I think this workload is big enough to saturate a lot of machines. But I should have read the original paper instead of the article. The article says:

> This latest Google-led research... defines the footprint of a model as a function of several variables. They include the choice of algorithm, the program that implements it, the number of processors that run the program, the speed and power of those processors, a datacenter’s efficiency in delivering power and cooling the processors, and the energy supply mix...

This, in my opinion, would be absurd. There is no way to directly map the choice of algorithm to energy consumption. But in fact, this is not the paper's definition of the footprint, it is only a list of things that influence it. The actual definition is

Footprint = (electrical_energy_train + queries * electrical_energy_inference) * CO2e/KWh.

In other words, the definition only uses total energy consumption. They compute electrical_energy_train by directly instrumenting the power consumption per machine. It's not a formula involving quantities like "choice of algorithm".
Kinesis Freestyle Edge here. More traditional layout, but is a split keyboard, and each half tents upwards toward the center for a more relaxed wrist angle while typing. Really enjoy it.
> The idea of a "motel" is to be cheap.

The term just means "motor hotel"; a hotel oriented at motorists, usually with an external-facing door for each room.

Even in their heyday, there were cheap ones and nice ones.
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I don't think a lot of people work in fulfillment centers, construction, fast food, or retail because they love the job. Most people are there because they "need money". If employers think otherwise they have been drinking too much of their own coolaid about "passion".
As the article says YouTube made certain demands of Roku to be able to continue hosting the app that Roku didn't want to be required to follow (including about hardware). As such they don't really have the choice to just play "dumb hardware" and let you install it.

Shield TV is a better device though, I'd recommend it. If you go Raspberry Pi/mini PC you don't have high enough DRM levels for a lot of services and the ones you do you'll get lower quality streams (again, see aforementioned requirement demands).
I am assuming this this doesn't count major expenses like housing, insurrances, childcare, regular bills etc. After the stuff that everyone pays for, my top monthly expenses are:

1. Kids Ninja Warrior style gym: $109
2. Dog's Health insurance: $50
3. Home security company: $18
I agree with this except I think if you know a stock or two is good, diversification is unnecessary. I’ve only had two stocks in my portfolio for the last ten years.
same, after having issues with pain for a while I love how little effort the Apple keyboard takes to press the keys. I just wish the Magic Keyboard came in black.
Triller never seizes to entertain with the wild stunts they're trying to pull to pivot their business

Imagine if this was planned out. "Yeah let's host an event that will be pirated, and then sue the piraters to make it profitable"
But what are you investing in? The probability to sell (dump) <something> to someone in the future for a better price?

> Objectively, the big publicly listed companies are growing and have stellar financials.

If you don't invest for dividends then it doesn't give intrinsic value to the stock you own, it's just a proxy to the odds of your bet to dump it for a profit in the future.
If you borrow against your investments, you never have to sell, and your investments will simply grow faster than your borrowing costs. Wealth must be taxed, taxing income alone is insufficient.

We have property taxes for property, there’s no reason we can’t have investment taxes for securities.
I'd say crypto have the bigger chance. Good or bad, leave that up to the reader.
The "free stack" you are using is partly only free because someone else is paying for it (your employer/IBM...) - so they actually are subscriptions in my eyes.
(slightly off topic: Germany tax authorities would see it similarly: The benefits you get from work could be called "monetary benefits" in Germany and the value added to your income for taxing purposes.)
Are you saying that people don't ever zoom in on images on the web? Because my wife does this regularly to look at details in photos.
The home screen and side bars are all fully customizable. It's a little annoying they turn them on by default as they add channels but you can turn them off easily.
No, its not optimized for cost. Manufacturing is optimized for _profit_.

>they don’t do that to make it harder to repair

you mean cryptographically linking lcd screen to motherboard is done for cost, not to stop third parties from being able to repair it?
Zoom does have the ability to stream the a/v to an RTMP server. https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115001777826-Live-...
The main difference with Microsoft is that Apple does not have a monopoly in phones like Microsoft had with PCs. Apple phones make up only 13% of the phone market.
I have no opinion about the intentions for boxes found in the pyramids, and no evidence to cite. But the idea of boxes never intended to contain actual, physical corpses is demonstrated not to be an absurdity.

The Rosetta Stone's uneven lines are markedly better-made than the crude inscriptions lately applied to the Saqqara boxes.

The quality and precision of stonework seen in the boxes at Saqqara most resembles that of the best archaic and pre-dynastic jars.
I recently came across this comment by Philip Greenspun:

“if you bought an asset for $10,000 in 2000, for example, the BLS says you spent $15,700 in today’s mini-dollars; if you sell it for $15,000 in 2021 you’ve actually suffered a loss, but will owe capital gains tax nonetheless” (https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2021/04/29/economic-wisdom...).

I’m not a finance person, and this had never occurred to me. Does he have a point? Should the calculation of capital gains take inflation into account?
A friend (who has consulted for a long time) once said that there are three parts to being a successful consultant:

* finding the work
* doing the work
* getting paid for the work

When you are an FTE, the only thing you have to focus on is doing the work. That's one of the reasons you get paid less as an FTE than as a consultant.

I've transitioned twice from FTE roles to long periods of consulting.

Things I'd consider if I was doing it now (some advice only applicable within the USA, sorry):

* have savings. I think 12 months is too much, I'd probably aim for 6. If you have a house, open a HELOC now and draw it down.
* more important than the number of months is your comfort with your runway and your planning on how to exit consulting if things don't go well. Don't wait until you have no money left to apply for jobs.
* if you want to buy a home, talk to a mortgage lender while still employed and see what the options are for self employed folks. When I last checked (years ago) you needed to have two years of self employment income to qualify for a mortgage.
* Depending on your skills, you may be able to find part time work pretty easily. For instance, if you are devops person and want to do training, there are opportunities out there. Training on cutting edge tech, if you like to teach, pairs quite nicely with consulting.
* Reach out to past colleagues and ask if they have any needs for extra hands. These folks who know you will be a great source of work and you won't have to spend as much effort selling them--they know you are great.
* cut your costs now. If you aren't watching your finances closely, take a look and plug any leaks.
* discuss the risk/reward with your family, if you have one. You'll be taking on additional risk and stress. Don't have that be a surprise.
* start a blog about your specialized business if you haven't already. This is a great way to 1) showcase your expertise in a scalable manner and 2) keep you on top of your game, since you'll be researching to write the posts.

Best of luck!
I've had this one for six months and I've never felt so enamored with a PC accessory: https://drop.com/buy/drop-alt-mechanical-keyboard

I had a Das keyboard before this for ~6 years, and it was great, but I just didn't love it like I love this one.

Things I love:

- The body is weighty aluminum. It feels really solid and looks fantastic.

- The keys are made of very high-quality plastic (Doubleshot PBT) and feel noticeably more premium even than the ones on my Das, almost like they're made of metal.

- Each key has an independent LED, and the border around the outside is made up of 38 more independent LEDs, all of which can be configured

- Key switches (not just caps) can be swapped out without any soldering. This is a very unique feature; I don't really take advantage of it personally, but if it's something you care about it's great to have.

- There is no background software that ever has to be installed on your computer for configuration or otherwise. There are some prebuilt configurations you can toggle with the keys alone, and then for detailed layers/keymapping/LED mapping, you use their web portal to generate and download a whole new ROM and then you flash it directly onto the keyboard. The process is pretty straightforward, and this means it works across OSes and you never have to worry about what else a local daemon might be doing on your computer. You can even program it yourself by hand using QMK, if you're feeling adventurous.

This is a 65% keyboard, so if you need the dedicated function keys and/or Insert/Home/etc, there's an 80% (ten-key-less) version called the CTRL which has everything except the numpad (and all the same wonderful traits above)
The way to respond to a mob mentality is to respectfully supply correct information and patiently make correct arguments. That may not work, mobs being what they are, but the solution is not to lash out in frustration, call names and fulminate. That's worse in every respect: it inflames the mob, damages the commons, and gives readers even more reason to reject whatever truth you're advocating (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

Discrediting your minority/contrarian view while at the same time damaging the community we all depend on is self-defeating behavior. The only reason we do it is because it's extremely frustrating to feel outnumbered by people who hold a wrong view (or one we feel is wrong). We all need to find ways to process that frustration in ourselves, before we can't stand it anymore and get propelled into the comments to seek relief. The relief of venting is short-lived and soon comes back worse, in the way that addicts need a higher dose the next time.

I don't mean to pick on you or mumblemumble personally. We're all addicts in this sense, and it's in all our interests to find a better way. This experience of frustration is extremely common, as we all know—the internet being, to a first approximation, wrong about everything.
you can engrave the stone at specific depth inside (i.e. not on the surface) by using proton accelerator.
Maybe this is a semantics argument but if you have to add something additional to the TV for it to play well then it doesnt really seem like that speaks to the quality of the TV UI.
yeah good luck collecting on that
Not enough people appreciate how stable, reliable, and battle-tested Audacity is as an audio production tool. The fact that it's free software only magnifies its usefulness within the audio space.

In a former job capacity, I personally oversaw a group of >40,000 individuals all over the globe, who relied on Audacity to make a living. With Tantacrul on the UX side of things, my hope is that nothing too radical is done to negate the expectations of these users, as many of them are not tech-savvy and learning a new interface for them is basically the same as learning a new tool altogether.
Thank you for giving me hope that common sense still exists!
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I would put OOP's solid theoretical foundations at the Liskov Substitution Principle invented in ~1988. This seems relatively late compared to OO's popularity. It was less than ~10 years between "structured programming" and the structured programming theorem (and lots of useful formal steps on the way), vs. 20+ for OOP and LSP (and at least at today's distance, LSP along with Meyer's contemporary substitution principles seems more like a sea change).
This is part of an ongoing trend of things from the 80s and 90s being rebranded as upscale for millennials who only have fleeting memories of it or family stories about it.

Millennials now have real jobs and real money now so there's money to be made by turning things from that time period upscale experiences for them to relive with nostalgia.
There’s fixed components to the cost as well as variable ones. Storage/CDN distribution is relatively fixed. I would say so is access to developer tools and APIs. What’s variable are services that an app may take advantage of, such as push notifications, geolocation queries, iCloud access, and App Store approvals. More established companies tend to release new versions on a weekly or bi-weekly basis.
I'm not so sure "cryptocurrencies" is a bad word: it's basically cryptography everywhere. But transforming "crypto" to mean "cryptocurrency" is bad I agree.

Ethereum seems to be very serious about moving to proof-of-stake. It is a big project and they don't seem very concerned about the papers saying that "proof of stake cannot possibly work". I don't know if PoS can work or not but it's going to be costly for attackers to try to find out (as they'll get they staked deposit slashed if they try to attack the blockchain).
I'm using keyboard.io model 01, with the quiet switches, and in general really like it. Took a little getting used to, and I periodically find the lack of a right-hand Cmd button/left side option a little inconvenient, but overall it'd be _really_ hard to move back to standard layout kb.

Other complaint would be that self-serviceability of the switches is pretty poor (I broke a kb trying to replace a bad switch and doing a lazy job desoldering, destroying a pad, and having a hard time finding a suitable trace to try and run a wire to). Sounds like serviceability is something they are rectifying in a new iteration that should be getting released sometime this year. I'll be picking up one of the new ones when they are available. On balance, has been the best overall KB experience I've had.
Perixx Periboard 507ii (that's the European version): https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07DTKF8SK

It is a little noisy, and I have problems configuring the buttons as a mouse while keeping the trackpad as a trackpad, but the finger travelling is good, and the layout feels very much like the old, renowned MS Natural keyboards.
I use two Das Keyboard 4 Professional keyboards, one Mac/MX Brown and one Win/MX Blue. They're pretty much perfect and I love the media controls.
That is correct, but that is a special discount program you have to apply for, wait for judgement, and get approved for in advance. It's not the default.

It was a great step forward, but I don't understand why they made it so complicated with an approval process, when Google did the same thing afterwards and could just say "the first million dollars a year is 15%, after that it's 30%".

The total revenue difference for the different companies is probably negligible.

(or... outside of the App Store you can sign up for a PayPal account and accept payments at a 3% rate instantly)
It’s such a fundamental contradiction you see it everywhere. The quote “buy low, sell high” says we should time the market. Even the classic “percentage of bonds to stocks should be your age” requires us to time the market. And if you just buy stock when you happen to have spare cash, that too is “timing the market.”
Quiet modern keyboard with those weird spaced out keys.
It would be great for the taxpayer if you could do that but the government would lose out on so much revenue. So I think any such proposal is dead on arrival.
Wow, I have to zoom all the way up to 200% for that div to go to the bottom. And I am just on a good-old 1920x1080 display, nothing remotely modern. What kind of display are you on?
> inflaiton is very low

No it isn't. My rent is up 80% since two years ago. Food costs are up 40%. Healthcare is up 200%. Good news though: fuel costs are about the same!
I find it funny that I have no idea how to open a pdf file in a Linux terminal.
Like owners of John Deere tractors? The ones who all got DOXXED?
The disadvantage compared to Bitcoin is that it’s hardly meaningfully different from using Paypal or something.
This was the argument used by the auto industry, it was wrong then and still is wrong.
Kinesis Freestyle Edge. I got it about half a year ago and it's been really nice. No complaints, and the key remapping is super nice. Obvious caps<>ctrl but also switching backspace with \ is nice (that makes it more like a Happy Hacking Keyboard which i also like for traveling but isn't as effortlessly easy on the hands as the Kinesis)
Just wanted to recommend Keeb.io (not affiliated in any kind, just a happy customer). Probably the best place to get kits for ergonomic and somewhat exotic keyboards.

I am using Quefrency and Sinc and couldn’t be happier
Yes, and you can expect relatively steady compounding returns at the risk-free rate (the clue is in the name.)

When you see return rates higher than the risk-free rates that still seem like they exhibit low variance, then one of two things are true:

1. Either you have found something that produces way too much reward for its level of risk. This is for anything publicly traded somewhat unlikely.

2. Or you have found something that's prone to rare, but incredibly big swings. The fatter the tails, the more likely it is you'll get a long, good run followed by something that completely wipes you out.
Have they started selling NFT on those stones yet?
hear, hear

http and www and html are one of the most effective technologies keeping long-lived devices usable and useful.

it's why i've made a point of testing in netscape 2.0 and up.
imo this is one of those things that makes sense on paper but doesn't work out in real life. the extra lifetime earnings from a first job in hs/college are indeed insignificant. the value of a job is that, for many teenagers and young adults, it is the first time they have to navigate an environment that isn't specifically designed to cater to their needs. this is how most of life is when you finish school.
Audio, in particular, is much less likely to "just work" on a $100 computer than a Roku. Ditto things like HDR.

[edit] by "audio" I mean, in particular, sending the right codecs to get surround sound for a particular source, when you ought to have it.
HP Wireless Elite V2. I have one for home, one for work, and I've been using it for about a decade. Best keyboard I've ever owned. It's a scissor-switch keyboard like the Thinkpad keyboard or old Mac wireless keyboards. It's satisfyingly clicky with ultra-low travel and keyboard keys.
Absolutely. But really there should not be capital gains tax as it is double taxation - you have already paid income tax on the same dollar.
Electronics used to come with full schematics as part of the documentation.

As an example, this (1) is how the manual looks for a ~1970-1974 stereo record player I have. You have diagrams of the boards and lists of parts as in individual caps, etc.

We should strive to move in that direction, not away from it. Permanently locked bootloaders, DRM for componets, etc. are a move in the oposite direction.

To move the overton window even a little bit towards where it was before, the demands have to be disproportionate. I say those demands are still reasonable. We should demand that any device and any component in any device be second source-able (just like AMD was a second source for early x86 chips). And for that matter since I am from Europe, any component should be second source-able from Europe. If IP transfers worked for China, they should work elsewhere.

(1) https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1012672/Pioneer-C-5600dfv....
> Now "right to repair" includes not only designing devices to be easier to repair but also includes legacy software support?

Well, I would say it includes publishing the software interface of your hardware, and not making it impossible to replace the software. Those are the main roadblock on updating old tablets and phones.

I do really read those lines as fighting closed boot loaders, DRM on real goods, dependencies on the manufacturer's servers, and all kinds of purposeful hindrances that are so popular between the large industries nowadays.

I would really not include the "design for repairability" and software upgrades into the idea. But one does not need to include those to agree with the article.
> What would the price of food be if all the farmers could collude to charge the profit-maximizing price?

I don’t know, what would the price of food be if unicorns were real? Who cares; this is not a realistic scenario. Defection is handsomely rewarded in almost any realistic market, outside of a few narrow cases that have extra physical constraints (e.g. power and water delivery).
A Durgod TKL (cherry brown) and a Ducky One 2 TKL (cherry blue). In general I prefer the brown keys. For me TKL is a must as I like having the mouse close to the keyboard, and having the keyboard centered.

For the durgod, the + is that it has a USB-C connector. For both i wish that the connector was deeper so that the channel to guide the cable on a side would be usable without an angled cable (which they don't provide).

I also like that both are no-hassle. They don't have any fancy features and are relatively inexpensive (wrt other mechanical keyboards).
TL; DR: The Linux developers did not approve of pro bono process vulnerability assessment.

They want to know that there is an experiment going on. But knowing this would affect the outcome - developers would pay extra attention to potentially-"hypocrite" patches.