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There is no Standard US English accent. Even people from the US Pacific Northwest speak with an accent.

Interestingly, there are AI apps to make your English accent [1] more mainstream, but the fact is that judging a person by their accent is xenophobic.

Anyways, I practice my pronunciation for a foreign language using speech recognition software/apps.

[1] Class Is in Session: AI App Schools on English Pronunciation: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/06/26/class-is-in-session...
Agree that one of the major downsides of most unikernel projects so far has been how difficult/time consuming it was to create each unikernel -- oftentimes for each application. That's one of the explicit goals of Unikraft, to make it much easier, or seamless, to run a wide range of mainstream applications and languages.
> The average user is giving up nothing by losing the right to run arbitrary code, because they never were running arbitrary code.

"The average person is giving up nothing by losing the free speech, because they never were saying anything."
Does this type of content really fit on this platform?
The "share an AirBnB to be able to afford the conference" part seems particularly damning to me. That seems entirely premeditated and predatory.
In what way is info's interface "impenetrable"? It takes two minutes to look up its keybindings, most of which happen to be mnemonic: h-help, n-next, p-previous, u-up, l-last, q-quit, space-scroll down, shift+space-scroll up, tab-next link, shift+tab-prev link. You probably wouldn't ever need anything more than these 10 keybindings.
> "As more cars turn EV, unless Tesla maintains their marketshare, they will become less and less significant."

No, that's not neccessarily true at all.

Let's imagine that in 2021, EVs are 2% of car sales globally, and Tesla has 50% of the EV market. That means that Tesla has 1% share of the entire car market.

Now imagine that in 2031, EVs are 50% of car sales globally. And Tesla's share of the EV market has "shrunk" to 20%. But that's still 10% of the entire car market. Even assuming no market growth, that's an enormous 10X (1000%!) sales growth for Tesla over 10 years!

Even though its share of the EV market has shrunk, Tesla is selling 10X more cars and is a far more significant company in 2031.
I don't know anything about it, but this starts to look a bit like public lynching.
Per a comment I saw the other day by sugarwater:

> It's worth mentioning the the CEO Austen had a post on here (now deleted) proclaiming to have creating a bot army via stealing people's pictures on Instagram.

But it was not actually deleted, as pointed out by wheelie_boy, it was edited to be a different username.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26949343
>How are people still getting away with this kind of abuse? How?

It's quite simple, really.

You know that phenomenon you see here on HN with big names like Steve Jobs or RMS, or Elon Musk? The phenomenon where people give them a pass for being disgusting, abusive assholes because "he's a genius/luminary/visionary" or because "his contributions to $thing are so great"?

It's the same phenomenon with people like Jon Pretty.
This was my intention as well so I tried familiarizing myself with PlantUML code (made a small contribution as a result), but in the end, I came to the conclusion that the overhead of getting to know its ins and outs would be greater than to get a new project to a usable state from scratch. PlantUML is, unfortunately, burdened with years of development choices that make it tough to modify in a way to conform to what I need. Most of these functionalities were (I'm 100% sure for the multiple threads and customization of the visuals), at some point, mentioned in various forum discussions as "possibly under development" by the developer, just to be followed with years of silence on the topic. And if they aren't able to deliver those, I'm not going to be, for sure.
Seeing it spelled out like this really puts things even more in perspective.
This actually... makes a ton of sense.

Just as one example, automatically stashing and unstashing when switching branches is so obviously convenient, in hindsight I'm puzzled as to why git doesn't just do this automatically.

So whatever happened to this project?

In the same way SourceTree adopted git-flow with a few special menu commands, I'd love to also see it be able to adopt a "gitless" mode.

Because the great thing about this model is that it can still remain the more complicated git underneath. It just makes using it more straightforward.
You're paying THEM to update their servers at a price point you could easily match or come in lower on YOUR workstation upgrades. I don't understand how people are trying to justify this cost.
Yes, it is certainly acceptable to ask for that. Not arguing that.

Merely pointing out that there is no evidence for the assertion as stated.
This. In addition, you can use "Custom Search Engine" extension on Firefox to create custom search queries on Amazon, YouTube, etc. with keyboard shortcuts. For example, if I want to search for something on Amazon, I type "AA{space}USB Dongle" and it automatically searches the Amazon for "USB Dongle". The neat thing is that I customized the search URL so that "AA" also filters the results (shows only +4-star products, New, and Prime).

I've done similar thing with YouTube where I type "YY{space}" from anywhere and end up searching on YouTube.
Doesn't suprise me. My wife is from a rural town in NC, and was told by her high school teachers that she needed to lose her southern accent if she wanted to be taken seriously in college. When she was working on or master's degree in Maryland, a writing professor commented "you speak and write so well, I never would have guessed you're from the south". That kind of discrimination is very prevalent in academia and media in general, but nobody cares.
Yeah no cookie banners and all it takes is giving up any control of how you experience the web client side!

The thing about privacy is really interesting. Based on the price I’d think this is targeted at enterprise, but how many enterprise clients want their employees’ full browsing history going to a third party? It’s not like tech companies haven’t broken these “commitments” before.
> In June, Heather noticed that I was upset at a dinner after ScalaDays. I shared with her about what happened. She warned me to stay away from Jon Pretty. And she wasn’t the only person who told me that. Even though my experience in Berlin was awful, it was difficult for me to accept that someone, who seemed like a good friend, mentor, and ally, could be so selfish, manipulative, and cruel.

It sounds like people knew about him and didn't do anything. If the community is allowing it to happen, then the community is as much at fault as the sick individual doing the abuse.
I can't phrase myself better than you do!
This is just downright disgusting, does somebody know if there have been consequences? I usually go to general or Go conferences and wonder if there is similiar stuff happening, but i have a good feeling since at least the go conferences alway emphasize inclusion. Lets hope this is true.
It takes a critical mass of accusers to break past the inherent power differential and take down an influential figure without getting blacklisted. There are various reasons this often doesn’t happen. For one, it’s a coordination problem and second e.g. this post describes his clever choice in targeting immigrant women who don’t have much knowledge of western sexual norms and can be gaslit more easily.
Not everyone is happy, which is why many of us wish it had a better UI.
Also worth checking out Linus Tech Tip's Secret Shopper series, where they buy a Dell PC over the phone while masquerading as an "average" PC buyer (hint: the experience is pretty shitty)

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz7WMF4wWko&t=430s

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2kCUbY4ZWs

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ViO0ETvfEc

I think those of us in the industry often miss out on how confusing PC buying is for normal people. Things that are obvious to us is just cryptic technobabble for the general public.
The 32-bit mode is optional; M1 doesn't even support it.
What about the sharpening of that tool? seems to be inverse than on a Pulaski, it works good anyway?
Just a nit/aside: I'm sure the OS you are using has much older software built in. Iif on Windows, imagine the legacy that's stuck there for backwards compatibility. If on Linux, most of that is really old, updated recently perhaps, but created a long time ago. macOS is similar to Linux, though arguably worse as they dont update software that changed from gpl2 to gpl3, iirc.

There's a lot of really old software you probably use anytime you are on a computer. can't forget all of that!

as an avid calibre user myself, yay there are dozens of us! :)
That would be a good outcome: less transportation means less pollution, plus redundancy in production, which is seriously needed.
Because people don't believe victims. They insist that somehow they gave consent, or that somehow the assaulter just couldn't have known. Or they blame the victim, saying that "they deserved it" or "they shouldn't have been in that situation in the first place."

I guarantee you that someone will post in this thread, if they haven't already, that she should know better than to get an airbnb with a man she doesn't know well. No, this isn't her fault. The dude should not have abused her.
Last update I heard on black holes was that the space inside of them increases at the speed of light. That's a hell of a lot of space inside of an event horizon.

I'm still fond of the theory that our universe is in fact inside of a black hole, and that the big bang is 'just' the moment we went supercritical.

One thing I don't understand about naked singularities - if you were inside of one, the lack of an accretion disk would allow you to see out of it, right? Could you detect that you are looking out across an event horizon?
> The Google Play system has declared DroidScript is Malware and accused us of committing Ad Fraud! Needless to say, we are extremely upset and totally flabbergasted at this shocking allegation!

How is this a hyperbole? The first sentence is literally and completely true. And the developer seems legitimately upset and shocked.

It's not hard to imagine truely being extremely upset that something you probably spent hundreds of hours on got shut down for inscrutable reasons outside your control.
The thing about Dgraph (and potentially other graph DBs) is that it knows the "cardinality" of the relationship, because of the way it stores data. So, it can make judgement calls on the best path to execute a query.

I might have a better write-up about this in a quarter or so.
Huh?

This is a critique of the conceptual designs, which is valid. And an improvement upon them IMHO.

I don't understand what you're arguing.
What you describe seems to be very close to phases in Mercurial. There, the repository keeps track of whether commits were pushed to other repositories. And you can mark commits as secret, which will stop them from getting pushed out:

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Phases
real difference here is American issues are more often fatal
I'm not sure I follow your opinion on the quote... I don't see the oil/gas companies as "tyrannical" entities. Nor would I personally apply this to companies from tobacco to Google...

"they have known about climate change" and those who know about it also have said we'll be dead in 1980... 1990... the seas will rise a dozen feet in 2000 and the snowcaps will be gone in 2010. If the "tyrannical" companies are wrong...

https://nypost.com/2020/01/09/glacier-national-park-removes-...

https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-poca...

If you want to go that route that Oil Companies are Robber Barons... that would make the GCC doomsayers the "good" guys who are as bad on the other end - and have no problem being as bad with their lies and happy about it because it matches their conscience.

what does that say about the doomsayers? Exxon knew? When did the doomsayers know that their predictions were bunk? They are the "omnipotent moral busybodies" who have no care that all of their predictions are wrong and the damage - past, present and future - of their lies? Who cares because they are "Saving the Planet"...
Once I put a book into Calibre, and make sure the metadata is correct, I delete the original. If there's any important info in the original filename I put it in the metadata. Is there a reason I need to save the originals?
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Clearly these ads are simply bidding the most. Why show you "better" ads that generate less revenue?
similar stories are emerging:

- https://killnicole.github.io/statement/ (edit i see she has added it to the article itself)

- https://twitter.com/brianclapper/status/1387115214064193537?...

- https://twitter.com/adelbertchang/status/1387090351626723329...

there seems to be some coordination here, as this came out pretty much at the same time. https://typelevel.org/blog/2021/04/27/community-safety.html

Yifan also linked to this piece on What You Can Do: https://hypatia.ca/2014/08/05/what-you-can-do/
Not to discount her story or what happened to her, but I’d be interested to hear his side of the story.

I know nothing about this other than this one article, but I do know someone who committed suicide after a false rape accusation that stuck even after the accuser admitted to making it all up.
I don’t know. I’ve bounced off it multiple times and just given up.
The community has allowed this guy to continue to be influential, so while the perpetrator is just one guy, it’s a community problem.
My guess would be that there must be something to do from an investing angle -- but also that industry insiders and specialists who look at such things dedicatedly and professionally would have already priced in or arbitraged anything far ahead of a layman's understanding and participation.
You can think of the VMM as the toolstack that executes the moment you send a command to start a VM up. Once it's done it hands over execution to the actual VM (i.e., the OS within the VM). Thus the total boot time is the sum of the VMM plus the actual VM boot time. In the past, both of these took a long time. With the advent of unikernels, which can boot in as little as a few milliseconds, the focus has also been on reducing VMM time.
I think I know what you are trying to say and I agree but I’m also on the camp that Richard Stallman didn’t say anything necessarily wrong, just awkward.

On the one hand I want people to be able to to speak their minds but on the other hand this guy might be a sexual predator at best and a serial rapist at worst. and he is getting away with it!
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I'll admit that there are times when I am both stunned at how well the compiler will optimize, and times when I'm stunned at how poorly it does. It would seem you can never make an assumption on what will happen--hence my addiction to godbolt. I don't have my exact code, but I work heavily with math operations, so it may be that I do encounter an especially easy types of loops to vectorize.
I work with RISC-V, it has a lot of features that are not yet well explored. In particular the instruction set extension mechanism is extremely robust and capable, allowing much more FPGA fabric integration that you currently see on ARM devices. As we move towards more programmable logic it'll be a massive advantage going forward.
no, a lynching is a murder by a racist mob

this is a community realizing that John Pretty is a predator and deciding that they don't want a predator in a position of power

frankly, it's weird as hell for you to be confusing those two things
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"seems" doesn't mean "is", we have law systems to deal with those kind of issues. Judges are for determining where the line between "shitty partner" vs "rapist" lies.
Well I think the only problem with the title is that "harassment" is not a strong enough word.

About using the word "community", the first paragraph of the open letter explains why it's relevant:

"We, the undersigned, have become aware that, for some time, Jon Pretty has abused his position of privilege and stature within the Scala community to sexually harass and victimize women. He has used the community’s conferences to target women who are new to the Scala community, offering mentorship, access, and other forms of support, and then abusing the trust that he has established."
Jon Pretty sounds like a complete creep and yes, based on this account, a predator.

That being said, there is a court and criminal justice system for a reason. While I empathize with the author, and utterly despise the archetype of high-status men who use their status within programming communities as a tool to target women, I find the nature of these kinds of posts to be counterproductive. Therapeutic to the author? Likely. A way to mobilize support? Certainly. But the method can be abused. Imagine a letter like this targeted at you one day, except unlike Mr. Pretty, you are innocent. Ask yourself if that's a possibility, and if you think that there is a zero probability of anyone maliciously weaponizing accusations of sexual misconduct.

My brother was a victim of a vicious smear by a female colleague, who falsely accused him of stalking her as a result of him calling her out one day for stealing his project and presenting it while he was traveling to the funeral of his wife's grandfather. He was able to show video footage of him picking up his son and daughter at a daycare the very moment the woman claimed he was at her house, but by then, the HR department couldn't turn back, and he was fired. (He was later sent a large gift basket by several of his coworkers who had heard from someone in HR that the charges were false, but "optics" were the reason they had to move forward with his termination.)
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But there's no M1 chip equivalent for PC's.

It's fine to have an ARM version of Windows but there's no equivalently high-performance ARM chip to run it on. Unless you're talking about Bootcamp on Macs.
I actually used a MacBook Air 2011 up until summer 2020 as my main home computer. The only reason I even bought a new MacBook was because I couldn't get the newest version of macOS which I needed for the latest version of Xcode.

Finally sold the 2011 MacBook Air a few months ago for $300. I got so much value out of that laptop.
I never got a clip-on adapter working on later generation Broadcom devices. On previous ones I shorted the cs-pin to make the nand chip disappear from the SoC. Then you could flash the chip.
Charge people for failing to deliver, dispense huge fines and jail time. Then rebuild it in a way to avoid mistakes why the previous solution didn't work.
With global shipping, semiconductor manufacturing, and food prices spiking, is this generalized global inflation?
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I disagree. This ideological segregations sounds absolutely terrible and it reminds me of the racial segregation narrative which is being pushed on under the guise of providing "safe spaces".

I would prefer people in society to be able to handle a political discussion without freaking out, calling each other names, involving HR or burning buildings down.
As others have said, the pricing seems completely out of range for the average home user. But for enterprise users, how frictionless is it going to be for IT and legal departments to sign off on a service that touches all of your browser-related work and data? Before you argue "Yes but Google/Amazon/Microsoft/Salesforce...." — yeah, but there's a big difference between entrusting a well-established cloud services company and a new streaming startup.

As a power user (who is, admittedly, overly anal about how many tabs I have open at once), this kind of dumb terminal doesn't feel that appealing. I need a laptop that's powerful enough to drive 2 high-res external monitors and do the data crunching tasks in the background, on top of web browsing. A potato terminal that can handle just the streaming isn't going to be much fun.
C'mon dude, 2017 was a totally different age where commanding your own bot army was as American as apple pie.

Nice job, dang and friends.
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If you've got 5 gen_servers and you cast each one a message then that is concurrency. The whole point of a gen_server is that it's a separate process doing it's own thing.

I can dump 1000s of things into its message queue and then do something else. It'll keep working away.

It's like saying threads aren't useful for concurrency because they can only do one thing at a time.
Because it is designed to lose money. The ROI window for digital transformation for cloud computing is pretty big. If you want to be top 3 in the industry (AWS, Azure, GCP) you've gotta spend, spend, spend. There are infinite things and features you can supply to customers. Have you seen those cloud consoles?
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That is not what she says there. She says she felt uncomfortable and taken advantage of.
This is trite, inaccurate, and proves you didn't read the article whatsoever.
It's shocking that there aren't many positive comments. I've met people who had 200+ tabs in their browser, using 10 GB+ of memory on Chrome. Good luck telling them to use a thin client/buy a faster computer/change their workflow. Do the people suggesting those solutions realistically think their advice will be followed, or are they just showing off how smart they are? https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wow%20thanks...

Suhail came up with a solution to a real problem (Chrome is slow so I get less work done), but just because you don't have that problem, it's absurd for anyone to want this? It doesn't matter if the solution isn't a sexy new technology, or there are cheaper clunkier alternatives, who cares, all I care about is getting more work done. $30-50/month is nothing, if I just get 1 hour back a month it already pays for itself. I know plenty of people who value their time way more than $50/hour - if they can get more work done with a faster browser, getting Mighty is a no-brainer.

Edit: comments like "Maybe rather than having 50+ chrome tabs open, people need to learn how to manage resources on their machines." in another thread drive me crazy. Ok, how are people going to learn this? Are you going to teach them? Statements like that are not helpful because nothing will get done and we will still be at square one.
Good thing. Wow, are they ugly. If they’re going to be all over the place, I hope someone figures out a better look, or keep them all offshore.

ETA: OK, I see there are helical ones that both dispel oscillating torque loads and are way better looking.
I'm not a court, I'm a random person on the internet commenting here.
What other method is there to gather nutritional data? The researchers either have to confine and monitor the subjects in a controlled environment, or leave them loose and rely on subject reported data. Maybe someday we'll have better technical solutions but for now those are the only practical options.

If you have a better approach for study design then I'm sure nutrition researchers would love to hear it.
ARM is destroying x86 across the board, not just at Apple. They've long won the mobile space and are now making significant inroads into the server market, long thought to be the last bastion of Intel/x86.
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