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I thought the claim about trees was a bit tenuous so I tried to find a citation. It may be the source for this claim is Treepedia

http://senseable.mit.edu/treepedia/

I had never heard of this site before. It is a fantastic presentation from MIT of an open source project for measuring Urban green space.
If Wikipedia is to be believed [0], India ranks third in the list of countries ranked by number of English speakers and it's only fair to regard Indian English as a form of the language that is at least as valid as those from other countries.

Having said that, one of the things that you have to learn when you start speaking with English speakers from around the world is to recognise which of the words in your vocabulary will be understood vs which are particular to your native country. I'd put words like "prepone" and "needful" into this category: you need to find an alternative when talking to people from places where those words aren't understood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...
Various parts, particularly in markets, from pricing quants to high-frequency traders. It is fairly widespread. Barclays, JPM, UBS, Morgan Stanley, HSBC are some of the big names, then you have loads of smaller firms.
Your ancestors came from Africa, why dont you speak your ancestor's African language?

Languages keep on evolving, you just have to deal with it.
You're aware that a significant portion of people and businesses in the United States pay essentially no taxes, right? Especially the more vulnerable parts of society?
> It does strike me as odd that people who run servers don't get o-lines, but a random group of people do?

IIUC it's the staffers/opers that actually run the servers - monitor health, manage the OS, perform software updates, manage ircd, debug issues, cordon broken machines, etc. That's the bulk of the work in order to keep the things actually running. The alternative, providing a server in exchange for powers on the network would clearly be an exchange, not a donation.

Plus, I'm pretty sure many machine donors don't want the extra work of maintaining the entire IRC/software stack, and are quite happy to exchange some spare organizational resources to a good cause. I know I would much rather donate spare rack capacity than to also spend hours maintaining yet another service.
Except HTTP 2.0/3.0 has very little to do with HTTP 1.0, and is more akin to use TCP/UDP directly anyway.

It just happens to get a free pass over port 80.
Life Lessons from a Board Game
I was about to write the same thing. I actually didn't like the ANC I had tried with various over ear headphones. The APPs though are great though.

Second would be the M1 MBA. Much has already been written.

Third, I upgrade my home sound with KEF Q series for the L/C/R. Such a huge upgrade from an old set of speakers that were damaged from a move and rattled all the time.
While you see it as problem, lots of people see this as a feature, just different priorities that's all. I do prefer distros which curate the packages they maintain to provide some logic and predictability to the way packages are meant to be used, where and how they store the config files, remove various nonsense from it and so forth. And all the issues you've listed just isn't a problem for me. "Well put together" system isn't an objective measurement and opinions vary.

And anyway your app based view is slowly becoming more prominent, with so much development dedicated to various app based solutions(appImage, flatpak etc). You don't see me complaining about army of volunteers wasting their time.
People work on stuff they think is useful to them, nothing to see here or be negative about.
Cafelat Robot - a manual espresso maker (despite the name "robot", it's not electronic at all, it just uses pressure). It makes awesome shots, it's super easy to clean, and it's just really fun to feel the tactile feedback you can get when you're brewing a shot manually, because you can re-adjust your pressure on the fly to make the shot come out how you want it.

My husband must have watched every James Hoffman video on youtube before picking it out, but it's been an awesome tool for getting into the world of espresso. We've probably been using it every day for the past 6 months, and it's probably the main reason we were able to break our former addiction to sugary, expensive espresso drinks. Turns out that well-made espresso is actually amazing on it's own, with tons of variance between different beans - but a lot of coffee shops ruin it.

It did take a month or two to get consistently good at pouring shots (again James Hoffman videos were a huge help), and having a good grinder and beans is supposedly another a important factor. We used a LIDO hand grinder at first, which was awesome because it was relatively cheap, but it takes a bit to grind - so we did recently invest in a nice electric grinder. Now that we're able to have friends come over again, that makes it a lot easier to pour a bunch of shots back to back. If you're just making one at a time, a manual grinder is not so bad.
My old roommate swears by his Nespresso. I need to check these out!
Yeah, it's much better compared to other languages pairs, where the diminishing returns set in hard after a certain point...can be rough for morale!
You think it is better that corporations received welfare?
Darknet diaries is not as technical as HN but it has good quality content related to the industry. I especially like the stories from the visitors.

https://darknetdiaries.com/
I'm not logging in as root directly.

But non the less with 5 people what audit system would be even available in which only one person has access.

All smart concepts cost either a lot of money or just don't work if you don't have enough people.

Should the only techlead have access to the audit system? Probably. Should the only techlead have access to VMs? Probably yes.

I made sure my systems are encrypted, 2fa wherever possible, no external systems besides the services.
I’ve never tried those round shavers, but I found that my regular 5-blades are faster and shave closer than my old electric razor, which often felt like it was pulling my hair. The crazy thing is that I last one blade for 4/5 months (although probably I could replace it a little earlier sometimes). Compared to the 3-blades I almost never cut myself.
Why sous vide? Does the food taste better or prepare faster or ...?
New Cannabinoid 30 Times More Potent Than THC
Noise cancelling headphones: I didn’t know about them, they’re a game changer in so many situations (office, home when there’s noise around or construction, airplane). I got the qc35 and it’s great.
Just a small tipp: Doing a pullup mostly depends on the latissimus dorsi muscle. It's about keeping a steady, stable body while pulling. Pull with your back, not only with your arms.
Plants. I didn't have many before covid/wfh, but they really make the place more liveable/ejoyable by just being there and this became increasingly important as i spent so much more time at home
Doesn't the New Yorker still hold the line, and print it with a dieresis? On the other hand, I knew a women who belonged to a food cooperative, and referred to it as the "coop", pronouncing it as if it were a chicken coop.
I think you are right. The closest I can come to a modern example would be Darkest Dungeon (made by 2 people) and Slay the Spire/Stardew Valley (both made by single devs) however owing to your point I don’t remember their names despite reading about them at least a few times. I would recognize John Carmacks face in a crowded room not to mention obviously unlikely to ever forget his name.
Consistent, good design is king-of-kings.

I weep often because I can see that people are making mistakes that make software less useable because they are either ignorant or arrogant and fail to uphold the guidelines that have been worked out over three decades of blood, sweat and tears.
It would be unfair and yet fairer than the PPP, which mostly benefitted banks and corporations.
Tis true. I use HomeAssistant with the f.lux plugin to do this, which wasn't too much work as I already used HomeAssistant.

Definitely a lot to set up though.
My favorite example of one of the difficulties of learning English comes from my friend who's an adult ESL teacher.

Multiple adjectives always have to be in the order: opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose.

You can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife, or a beautiful big new oval blue nylon sleeping bag. Those sound completely natural and intuitive, but any tweak to the order just sounds "wrong" to a native speaker. Try it!

If you have a "cardboard brown box", it sounds like the box is the color "cardboard-brown"! If you have an old little knife, it sounds like "little knife" is the kind of knife it is! Other tweaks change the implied meaning in a way that is completely opaque to a non-native speaker.

Why can't you have a "green rectangular French old silver little whittling lovely knife"?
First deemphasizing Amp and now this, I like it. But why is the fruit company not facing any of this "regulatory heat"? They are playing god atm.
This goes the other way too.

I've definitely gone with `consecuentemente` in Spanish because it's an English cognate and I couldn't remember whether I should have used `porque` (=because), or one of the annoyingly similar `por que`(=so that), `por qué` (=why), or `porqué` (=a reason).
Monthly subscription with Classpass (App). Discovered several new workouts I really like, HIIT and spinning classes in particular. Did them almost daily before lockdown happened here. Can't wait to get back at it.

Their subscription model is really fair as well, at least from the customer side. No dark patterns, and automated account freezes during the lockdowns so I'm not accidentally paying without using any in-app credits.
Landlord sues WeWork for $1.8m, saying it abandoned its largest coworking space
Definitely. Some ARM processors can switch between ARM and Thumb mode for example, and I think I've seen it on different types as well, but not 100% on details; IIRC things like chips that were compatible with 6502 or similar, but had a native mode with more capabilities and a different instruction set.

Of course, it helps if the ISAs are at least broadly similar in terms of register space and available operations and memory ordering specifications. And the performance is in the details.
Moccamaster. Both my partner and I are both working from home these days, I'm not returning to an office and she's likely to be here 1-2 days a week even in a post-covid world. I used to use a chemex, and while I do prefer the coffee from the Chemex, making a batch in the Moccamaster is so much more convenient, and makes enough for us both for the entire morning.
The author seems to be missing this essential text: "the implementor may augment the language by providing a definition of the officially undefined behavior."

Making a system call is undefined behavior in the C standard, but it's not undefined behavior in clang-on-FreeBSD, because the implementors of clang on FreeBSD have defined what those system calls do.

Ditto for "asm" (UD unless/until you're running on a compiler which defines what that does), all of the tricks which make "malloc" work, and all of his other examples of acceptable uses of code which the C standard does not define.
Exactly! When the government starts handing out money, we should expect a mix of legitimate and fraudulent applicants. I’d be shocked if literally anything else happened.

The key is to get the money quickly to the legitimate users and to ensure the fraudsters eventually do not benefit (and ideally suffer).

Eventual consistency is fine for the fraudsters, but you need immediate relief for the legitimate users.
NFTs: Are they the future of the music industry?
Relaunching verification and what’s next
I don't disagree with your comment but I think “nerds in bedrooms” is possibly what works for tuning a particular open source project. GCC and other popular open source projects should have been a room full of Intel engineers because it's a hard problem and their revenue from their proprietary compiler & libraries was a tiny rounding error of the amount they spent building Itanium.

Back when I supported computational scientists, the total cost of the servers + compilers was so steep that even if everything had worked as well as the Itanium salespeople promised it would have needed to be many times faster to be worth the hassle of changing toolchains, especially since you had to pay up front for the hope that with a fair amount of work you'd at least hit the point of breaking even.
As a friend once said, "You can't software your way out of a process problem."
Citizen app sparked a $30k manhunt for the wrong guy
This is why I love my macOS keybindings. I can not believe what a waste the Windows key is compare to the Command. I use extensive AutoHotKey scripts and hardware keyboard macros to compensate.

I mostly SSH to Linux, but when I use a Linux Desktop, I struggle to get the key bindings to my taste.
There is a DeDRM plugin for Calibre but it doesn't work very well on Amazon's KFX format. People get around that by getting Amazon to deliver the book in an older format but then you lose the typography improvements that come with KFX.

It feels like this is the beginning of the end for ebook DRM stripping.
>I commented earlier on another thread about enterprises being intent on very specific implementations and premature optimisation, which leads to very bespoke and therefore expensive software.

This is often because enterprises look at total cost, whereas you're focused on software cost.

>We have a customer who "needs" to see their branches "scores" on the main dashboard regardless of the fact they could get that data somewhere else. We had to build a feature to win this customer that is only used by them and now have to maintain it forever.

Depending on the size of this customer, the frequency of an employee needing this stat, and the amount of seconds/minutes saved per lookup, productivity/salary costs of not implementing this feature might easily dwarf paying someone to maintain it.
Well alrighty then, that would be it.

Watched the movie a couple weeks back, and it's disturbing in the same way that other society falling apart movies are. There's an ambiguity over if the people are doing it by choice or if they're forced, or if they're just choosing to because the have to, and it's easier to not hate things that way.
Visualizing Power-Law Distributions (2019)
No. I was extremely driven for the first half of my career.
But I would bet that those only use the GET or POST functionality of HTTP, and that the real reason it's used is because it's easy to quickly get something up an running.

It's a short-term gain, but quite inefficient in the long run.
ZeroMQ is a perfectly valid replacement for HTTP in internal networks. There's no reason for everything to be human readable.
Headphones:
While Working at My Desk: Bose Noise Cancelling 700. Life-changing for me.
While Working with Powertools: The ISOTunes SafeMax. Absolutely excellent for protecting my ears and they sound great when playing music through them.

Slippers: Gecko-Man. The arch-support was very necessary. Turns out spending an entire year in regular slippers was bad for my feet.

Bread Book: "Flour Water Salt Yeast". I've baked everything in this book at least twice and some things tens of times. Almost every loaf and pizza pie has been excellent and my sourdough is going strong at around 2.5 years old.

Chair: Herman Miller Embody. High Quality, super-comfortable, with a 12-Year Warranty - costs about the same as buying a new chair every two years.

Mouse: Logitech MX Master 2S. Excellent all-around. The scroll-wheel is my favorite part

Keyboard: WASD with the Cherry MX Brown switches. Never a problem, always great.

Office Fan: Vornado. Tiny and powerful. A bit loud, but for the price, it's excellent. Great as an outdoor fan as well.
Manual focus lens for my camera. It requires a satisfying amount of attention to use.
>Makes me very worried about the adoption of DoH

Yes, this is what made me look closer at what happens at my LAN and got me into this mess. It is a loosing battle but I try to block things like DoH and DNS IPs via blocklists[1]. Pfsense add-on pfBlockerNG does this pretty well. I then strictly only allow DNS over TLS from the DNS server out on WAN.

>how many devices do you have in your network that you need a load-balanced Pi-Hole setup!?

I can see it wasn't very clear in my comment but it wasn't the amount of devices that caused the problem. It only takes one or two misbehaving devices that hammers pi-hole to make it hang. Pi-hole worked wonderfully until I forced all DNS requests to be redirected to it. I then got many many requests a second from some devices (Edit: because they didn't like the NXDOMAIN reply they got). Try refusing access to Google DNS if you have some Cromecasts. As far as I can remember they really don't like this. Any Android phone with only one DNS IP set will also default to Google DNS as a secondary DNS IP...

1:
Blocking DNS servers really isn't easy. Not only do some devices use other ports but they aren't all well known. I had requests to 216.239.32.10 for example and had no idea this is yet another Google DNS IP (ns1.google.com?).
It’s nice but it quickly becomes gimmicky I found (besides the ability to easily say “hey google turn off the lights”)
"I grew up with three languages, as my parents did not share the same 'mother tongue' " Madani says. "And, in any case, how would this manager know what language I grew up with?

The careful omission of a statement whether English was one of those three languages leads me to believe it was not. The manager knew he didn't speak it from infancy because Madani spoke it fluently but without the style of a native speaker. Perhaps the difference in that position would be irrelevant, such as a STEM job. There are positions, however, it would matter, such as sales or public relations where that last one percent can mean everything.
Thanks. Not too familiar with school system lingo in English.
Hmm... been shopping around for a new firearm. Living on a farm means needing tools like this. My old revolver is getting pretty worn out.
Had the same fix to a wildly different situation. A long running Spark job that accepts 100s of jars and runs 1000s of stages over its lifetime was having intermittent massive GC pauses. Too intermittent as it happens, practically periodic. Turns out Spark runs System.GC() every 30 minutes by default. DisableExplicitGC fixed everything right up.
There were many possible options other than "do nothing" and PPP.
Do you mean that you had an issue with freenode staff and now enjoy their discomfort.
Just bought one with your recommendation - thanks!

Those things are going like hotcakes. Looks like they are perpetually sold out. Their "Limited Daily Stock" - released daily at 9am MTN time - went from 7 to 3 by the time I finished my purchase.
> One fairer approach would have been to just refund everybody's 2019 federal income taxes and let the market figure out how to use it.

Wouldn't that mean those with the least income would also get basically no support, and the wealthier, with the greater capacity to create and maintain a slushfund, would make out like bandits?
I'm surprised.

There have been many failures in the past to outdo ARM's cores: Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Samsung, Qualcomm. Granted, some of those are ancient history or were more management failures than technical failures. It seemed to me that with ARM finally focusing on developing high performance cores, and the success of N1, the industry would coalesce around that. ARM has control over the ISA development which can influence and be influenced by microarchitecture designs, though they do work with Apple and Fujitsu somewhat. ARM gets to combine license fees from many customers into a single large R&D budget, much like TSMC. There's a huge risk that you spend billions for years and end up with custom cores that are worse than what ARM puts out.

So why design custom cores?

Maybe it's a necessity for a viable CPU company. Maybe it's too easy to create a custom CPU with stock ARM cores so unless you can do substantially better than that, all your biggest potential customers will just make their own: Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Baidu, Google, Tencent, Alibaba, are all perfectly capable of putting some stock cores together. Yes, the devil is in the details but I don't think the details are enough to base a company around. Maybe even if making a better microarchitecture is unlikely you have to try or be doomed to failure in the long run.

Maybe they believe their engineering is better. It's tempting to discount the value of individual contributors in projects involving hundreds or thousands of people. Maybe Ampere believe their engineers and/or managers are just better than the competition, and can beat them with fewer resources.

Maybe it's not as hard as it used to be. The received wisdom after decades of Intel dominance was to not even try to compete. Now we seem to be reaching a plateau in microarchitecture innovation. Yes, CPUs are still getting faster but the designs seem to have converged a lot. It certainly seems easier to catch up given that Apple, ARM, and AMD have all succeeded recently. Ampere also starts with an A so they're in good company.

Maybe it doesn't actually have to be substantially better. Maybe the N1 license fees are high and they just need something similar for less money. Maybe they just need something different that their sales team can sell as being better.
No, it's not gone. You paid $50k for the miner. Miner has $50k, you have a lottery ticket, and no money was created or destroyed.
nobody's figured out a UX for VR yet so far as I know
You can definitely find dialects that are "pretty much incomprehensible" in the US just by traveling around Appalachia.
You gave a dog a home. That's an overall net good. It's not like all breeders are puppy mills. Sometimes specific breeds have specific temperaments, and that's a reason to specifically look for one.
It’s not as recent as it seems in my mind, but Notch is a relatively well known game dev. And in the younger crowd he may be even well known than Carmack.
This is an incredibly short-sighted view.
Chia is basically taking a cryptographic proof that would normally take a long time to run, and running them in advance and storing them in a sort of a backwards space/time tradeoff. The farmers keep collections of millions or billions of these in hope that they'll have a few winning lottery tickets over time.

If you accept the premise of cryptocurrencies at all, it's not as stupid as the pure proof-of-works, which essentially require endless scaling to eat any improved capability and efficiency. Big if there though.
If the purpose is to keep payroll flowing to individual people for a while, yes, that’s exactly better than a system that is fairer-sounding but doesn’t accomplish the stated goal.
Well, malloc and free are black boxes as well. And in typical implementations can potentially take arbitrary amounts of time to run, too. (Though they usually don't.)
Write Rust lints without forking Clippy
Because of the deterrent effect? If you set the expectation that $2000 of fraud won't be prosecuted because it costs $3000 to do so, then baddies will start doing tons of $2000 fraud.
In the UK, electric kettles [0] are in every household, and even the puniest of ones boil 4 cups of water in about 3 minutes.

[0] https://www.dualit.com/products/lite-jug-kettles
Schools Struggle to Get Students to Return After Months of Remote Learning
By sheer coincidence, one microWales is about the same area as one kiloKillerWhales — 20,000 m^2

(Skin area of a killer whale approximated as open ended cylinder 6.6 m long 0.92 m diameter: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28area+wales+in+squar... )