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Since Covid, it seems like everyone bought a car.

Our busses have always been partially full, but since Covid; it seemed like every bus I saw has 1, or 0 people riding.

Traffic in my county (Marin County) is more congested than pre-Covid.

If anyone from Marin Transit reads this, how about free fares on busses, and the ferry? You might gain some customers?

Your agency has always had problems convincing commuters your service makes sence on any level.

Why not offer free service for a year?

(The high tolls from the Golden Gate Bridge, and state/federal funds have supported our busses for decades now.)

This is the time to offer free rides.

Oh ya, put that Marin-Sonoma train to rest. We all passed the proposition. We had no idea there would be no where reasonable to park, and those salaries for management would be so high. Take the fences, and tracks down. It was good idea, but it didn't work out. Nix it.

Or, try free rides for a year? I'm tired of seeing two coupled trains with 0 people riding.
To be fair, "New York is dying" is a big editorial cottage industry that's been around for decades, people in SV are just less aware of it. It's definitely active now.
You know there isn't.
Haha yeah sorry about that ;) To be honest I actually found it really interesting to be exposed to lower level concerns like thinking about memory allocation, runtime complexity, locking etc. after working in higher level languages throughout my career, but there’s no doubt that it can be a frustrating language at times.

One thing to watch out for is that the language has evolved a lot recently, but a lot of code samples are still written in an old style. You want to make sure you are using “modern” C++ (e.g. post C++11) features where possible e.g. smart pointers. It can be a bit confusing as some JUCE classes have been superseded by the C++ standard library, they date back to the days before “modern C++”... but I wouldn’t stress too much, using the JUCE versions is usually equally fine.
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I think that’s obvious. Probably they even have agents with EU citizenship that can move freely around Europe.
Same in Berlin as well, the Schonefeld/BER airport is just outside of A+B zone, which requires a more expensive ticket.
I'm suspicious of the downvotes your comment has attracted - I suppose I'd like to challenge whoever is feeling so negative to explain why they think UBI gets pushback, if not the sustainability aspect?

I think everyone agrees that if we all got infinite amounts of free stuff that would be great. Failing that, finite amount of free stuff is good. There are good reasons that despite that we have a pay-as-you-use economy.

People keep trying to come up with financial perpetual motion machines where everyone gets lots of free stuff. Much like perpetual motion machines, there are broad principles the limit what is possible - people on average just don't do things if there isn't a reward for doing it, and we need people to first produce the stuff before it can be given away.

There are grave questions about whether a UBI can be simultaneously effective (ie, a meaningful amount of money) and also sustainable (ie, not catastrophically dis-incentivise working). It may be possible to do both at once, but that is really the only aspect of the debate worth talking about - otherwise it is a bit of a no brainier for everyone to get free stuff.
As far as I know, the author's ultimate goal was libertarianism, but believed democracy was sub-optimal for achieving it. I suspect be saw in Urbit a non-political technological means of realizing his ultimate end, which was libertarianism, and not dictatorship.

On the subject of his views, my opinion is that the only way to really secure liberty is to inform the whole public of its value, and have those ideas of liberty receive a democratic sanction.

That leads to a genuinely libertarian society, that if fragmented, would lead to the emergence of new libertarian micro-states, instead of collections of serfs, who without their master, immediately revert to tyranny.
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A gigabyte mailbox space was revolutionary when many competitors only gave 20 megabytes for free (and you could pay and upgrade to 150 megabytes or so).

That was an example where a simple change in a number turned into a qualitatively different service.
Right on the money! Interesting/scary times ahead. But maybe there will be unexpected gifts in the form of open source dev around zircon
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If I recall correctly, it’s more or less enabled by default in gVim on Windows for mouse selection (see ':behave'). I’ve never seen anyone deliberately invoke it, and I’ve definitely seen people avoid that behaviour on Windows.

I would definitely consider it a misfeature, given how it complicates things, muddying modes when invoked, and when a simple c or s from any visual mode has roughly the same effect.
One of my old bosses literally put an LED countdown clock on the wall for our next major version release date.

He simultaneously refused to pushback features and kept adding new features well in to beta phase.

That product shipped buggy and no fucks were given on our side.
I use an ftp-server on my Android phone, works great!

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/be.ppareit.swiftp_free/

I guess you can install in on multiple devices (Android phones and tablets), then use a file explorer that supports ftp or use a dedicated ftp client, to then transfer between each other. But accessing my phone from my computers via ftp (Fedora and Windows 10) is a piece of cake and reliable - don't even need anything like filezilla.

To stop changing ip's:
I recommend having a static ip range in your router instead of using dhcp (or some routers/dhcp server can allocate the same ip address to the same mac address), so all of your devices ip's stay stable (on newer phones, you have to disable the random mac address feature though).
Greece doesn't check ID at the airport either, beyond matching your boarding pass to your name.
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Why did Google choose to fork QEMU?

I had a brief look at the setup information and there’s nothing that makes it clear why there’s yet another piece of highly Google-specific (though presumably open source) software that people would need to learn to use while they learn about Fuschia.
...which is exactly how stack-sampling profilers work. They just automate doing this thing (and recording the stack trace) every x milliseconds.
I am (kind of) in research on the CS side, and I wish I was on the medical side.

The grant hunting, bullshitting, old-stuff-in-new-covers is all the same, but the problems and the topics are just so much more approachable, relevant, interesting, and the community seems to be "nicer".

But then of course, I know people that are in that area an were getting into research, and they did not paint a nice picture. And the community obviously can suck also once you're on the inside.
And being a "researcher" without clinic duties is really not easy getting into in Europe it seems. Also, who wants to stop doing clinic completely, when this is what he trained for so long...

There are upsides and downsides to everything - I think it really depends on where your interests are.
I'm definitely in agreement here that there is that threshold, but what I'm not so clear about is where that threshold lies. It's one of those things which I feel the boundary is nothing but grey. However, one area where I think might be relatively easy would be the case of crime + health. Rather than jail, forcible internment in said mental health facility might be a better alternative.

On an aside, it's funny how "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" had such an impact on mental health treatment, and how mental health institutions were viewed.
Give an ftp server a try https://f-droid.org/en/packages/be.ppareit.swiftp_free/

Works great, see my other comment for explanation.
What you're advocating, without realizing it, is a two-tier society where rich people get all the good things, and poor people have to make do with the leftovers.

In my opinion, that's a terrible way to run a society.

I believe it's better for everyone if those who can pay make sure that *everyone* has decent or good things, instead of a few having excellent things and the many having mediocre or bad things.
But I don’t use them any more only brave
Maybe they should apply to the king of Italy for relief, since it is from his divine right to all the land that the fief is granted to his vassals.
> JUCE

I would add to that VCV Rack [1] is another great starting point.

Very low barrier to entry, see developer manual [2], hundreds open source modules to learn from. [3]

[1] https://vcvrack.com

[2] https://vcvrack.com/manual/PluginDevelopmentTutorial

[3] https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=vcv&s=&type=Repositories
I can somewhat relate to this story... especially the part about procrastination: Even back at school i could not bring myself to do homework or home-projects on time, there were entiry years where i did no homework (at home) at all. I did the homework on the train to school or before class (and it turned out most times really well). A teacher at some time told me "You are unbelievable lazy... but sadly to intelligent to throw you out". So, this carried on to my professional life, even today i always procrastinate up to the last possible moment to then work my ass off to finish a project right at the deadline. The anxiety thing is another of this really annoying things i can also relate to: At the moment i have two calls i SHOULD have made last week... nothing dramatic, just some status updates with a vendor... but since last wednesday i keep pushing the matter to the next day. Why? I have no f**ing idea.

I think i can be really happy to work at the place i am at. As the "Head of IT" for this company i can (mostly) manage to somehow juggle the problematic things around so that things (mostly) turn out well.
On the contrary, I was excited to finally get it yesterday, even though I already had immunity.
* Valhalla DSP Blog - so many good articles on the real world idea. https://valhalladsp.com/blog/

* JUCE for making VSTs. https://juce.com/

* ELK Audio for hardware / audio. https://elk.audio/

* Find open source projects that meet your needs / desires.
> aRxiv / bioaRxiv / medaRxiv exist, are free and are backed by extremely well known names and institutions in the scientific community. They do not require some random coin, you can just, well, upload a preprint of your work

yeah, but they don't use crypto :)
I'm glad you've maintained a passion. If you're familiar with any good pieces of info regarding the environmental consequences of hydrogen vs. electric cars, please share any and all. Specifically of interest would be info on precious metals and the production of vehicles. Energy conversion efficiency info is easier to find.
Not to discredit the effort, but saying you've released your own fork of QEMU to run your own OS, creates an impression that you're perfectly happy to (prefer to?) create a parallel universe for yourself, with your own tools and its own ecosystem... Which will obviously all be controlled by Google. Not very good optics, IMO.

If you want promote Fuschia as a useful, general purpose computing platform (and not just an attempt for Google to avoid the GPL), you probably want to work upstream with existing projects to improve support generally instead of creating your own suite of forks.
Just downloaded the beta. I was hoping this meant that right clicking on selected text in Firefox on macOS would let me look up the word in the macOS system dictionary (e.g., in both Safari and Chrome, if you right click on a selected word, the first result in the context menu is `Look up "<word>"`).

It's such a convenient way to learn new words (and even works across multiple languages). Alas. Maybe in a future update!

(Another, similar, gripe is that both Safari and Chrome, along with most other native macOS apps, will select the word under the cursor with just a right click—no need to even double click to select first and then right click. Firefox doesn't do that.)
It would, in the middle of the night. The lens on an iPhone is not slow compared to your average lens.
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Counter-example: Netherlands has had crammed trains again, despite there being a pandemic. Trains here operate more like trams / subways though, they're very frequent and the railways are occupied to capacity.
FEMU is really AEMU, it forked from QEMU many years ago for a variety of reasons.

Today this configuration offers Vulkan support, which will hopefully make it's way back to QEMU eventually.

We use both QEMU and FEMU in our work, if you checkout Fuchsia you will find prebuilts of both in //prebuilt. QEMU provides broader control over hardware and broader emulation features, often useful to the kernel and driver teams. FEMU provides Vulkan graphics, more useful for teams working on GUI applications.
100% handled with N*2 would be hard realtime.
The back button is still larger than the other buttons right now. Not anymore in the new UI, though.
Every now and again I get an email about a bug I commented on sixteen years ago that was opened 21 years ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57342

It's kind of nice to see that they will, eventually, get round to issues like this.
Nice, I hadn’t looked into building VCV Rack modules but it’s a super fun piece of software - there’s also an iOS port called MiRack, personally I love making music on the iPad so I use that more.

I saw this the other day that lets reuse gen~ code from Max as a VCV module: https://github.com/isabelgk/gen-rack
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Meh. It's just a method of filtration.

When you can only tackle so many things there is 0 point in having a bug tracker that will only inflate and with little in the way of automatic triage determining the priority it is a borderline impossible task to wade through them.

Allowing duplicates is fine, the important stuff comes up again whilst the unimportant bits die off.
While not completely alien here in the UK, using brand names for generic concepts is a bit of an Americanism (perhaps because of a cultural tendency to glorify private business?)

"Band-aids" are plasters (short for sticking plasters) here, and "Kleenex" are tissues (even if they're actually kleenex branded).

Having said that, to "google" something or to "photoshop" something are both in common usage here. I suspect the difference has to do with the dominance of those products in their respective categories meaning that chances are you really will be using google or photoshop when you look something up. Although I can't imagine someone here using "google" in the context above to denote a specific, clearly non-google, search tool.
Probably correct but not sure Russia’s rule applies here? SAS is Swedish/Danish and Norwegian is, well, Norwegian.
IIRC Hotmail was only 2MB at the time of announcement.
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The more straws you have, the harder it becomes to discover the largest one, and to actually pick all of them up and bang them. At some point you will likely end up foul of fundamental limits related to mass and energy and the speed of light, and that limit will probably come well before 2^32 elements.

Edit: This is usually the problem with analog algorithms: you can easily tell apart 100 items, but scale it up and you find you need so much energy to differentiate that you'd collapse into a black hole before successfully measuring the differences.
You seem to be thinking that I am arguing that you should use an iPhone instead of a DSLR. Not sure where you are getting this idea from.

The argument is that DSLR software is lagging far behind what an iPhone can do. The point is that DSLR software needs to improve, not that you should use an iPhone.
But but.... There is no data. There is only XUL
I did not know that. Some websites claim US nationals do not need a passport to travel domestically https://www.skyscanner.com/tips-and-inspiration/editorial/pa...

and while in 2021 europa.eu website says EU nationals do not need a passport to travel within Schengen this has already been not true before covid. Arrive at FRA or MUC or CDG and you will end up having to show your passport either at a manned booth or a machine (but the concept is no different: there is a queue and your name/geolocation entering the system ... actually even worse with the machine when they capture your biometrics)
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The storage, the spam filtering, the interface were massive improvements over the status quo of the day.
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Any fan of mechanical keyboard here? as said here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27265275 , lot of us are working remotely. Having a great chair is very important, having a great keyboard is important too (IMO).

Can you recommend a good mechanical keyboard? (200$ at most, ship to europe)
I think nowadays it's just easier to develop SPAs and make changes along the way. Frontend and backend teams can be separate and work more independently. Most of the issues mentioned here why people dislike SPAs (e.g. no back proper button) can be fixed.
You can just use the search option in the right-click menu. Google will give you the definition of the word for most words you actually want the definition for.
Which is kind of my original point, these tech commentary sites are focused on sf and the bay area. If there was genuine curiosity in how cities function I would think there would be more diversity in the cities we talk about. But there seems to be a bias towards negative sf bay area news, I think some it is driven by insecurity.
> Is there any incentive for reproduction of experiments?

There're several incentives to make your research as obscure and unreproducible as possible. First, you want to keep most of the details private to your lab. Why would you help other labs? So that they can make a discovery before you? No way!

Next, suppose it was easy to re-run your whole data analysis pipeline outside your lab. So there's someone you don't even know who tries it, and finds and tiny bug in your code that invalidates your results. Now you have to publish a correction, or even retract. You don't want that happening ever. So you publish some undocumented and unrunnable code so that nobody would even bother reproducing.
I was going to say, another reason why public transit isn't free is because of abuse. Some people are bored - I know I went on the tourist tour buses just to pass the time or get around, pretty decent deal that way. Others because they have nowhere else to go. But those factors are mere symptoms of different problems that should be addressed as well.

I'm all for free public transport, it's great, it allows social mobility, it allows people to get to work, to not be bound to their location and transportation, and it reduces congestion and pollution - assuming it's electric and has enough capacity, of course.
It would be terrific to find a way to reproduce this.

What do you believe is the likely reason for the link to be deleted? Do you think that the organizer (your friend) did something at his end that caused the link to be deleted everywhere? I.e., he wanted to delete the link. In that case, it should be possible to reproduce this.

Or do you think Facebook or WhatsApp disapproved of the link and therefore deleted it? Was it something controversial or against Facebook rules? It could be possible to reproduce that as well if a group of users shares an equally controversial link.
Reminds me of the Daoist parable about the "useless" tree that never gets cut down.
What’s the problem with getting back on at the last stop
prof. Julius Smith has a huge amount of music dsp resources available freely [1]

1: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/sitemap.html
FWIW, my own measurements tell a somewhat more complex story. Not hugely for reads, but writes. And less so for the higher end drives (with plenty fast cache). Plenty real world, write heavy, scenarios can benefit from having merging in positions other than head/tail (which noop can in the right circumstances). While FTLs are getting better and better, flash density is increasing (the number of QLC disks is growing, SLC ones are shrinking), and small writes are getting evermore expensive. This is especially bad for workloads involving fsync/O_DSYNC writes, because on drives with volatile caches they defeat all the efforts to shortish small write costby

Of course there also a lot of write workloads that'd still never see merges, making a scheduler just unnecessary cost.

This isn't helped by none of the current Linux schedulers really working well for local low latency storage. mq-deadline has completely antiquated heuristics and default constants, that clearly come from the spinning disk age. Bfq is too complicated (but works surprisingly well for higher latency / throttled storage).

Nor helped by the fact that nearly every storage benchmark ensures that no merging ever will occur outside of "plugging" (basically sets of IOs submitted together). No wonder they never see any benefit from schedulers :(
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Yeah very interesting but I had trouble with the units too. Had to jump out to convert imperial to metric a few times. It really seems like very little effort to provide both units (metric could go in parentheses if imperial is default) I would hope that that wouldn't perturb the target audience too much, but who knows?
On Windows, no app looks "native". There seems to be no standard native Windows look left after years of idiotic redesigns and missteps by Microsoft.
I don't known them, but it looks like they both introduced the same concepts, so either of them is probably right.
At my previous workplace some of the copyright headers said 1991.

However, it had been through the source control of Theseus; CVS -> SourceSafe -> SVN. When I left there was talk of moving to git, but since the build system checked in binaries that was a serious obstacle. The bug tracking similarly had been through at least one reset.
I am building one currently :)
The only situation where I think letting bikes go through red lights makes sense is allowing them to turn right (in countries which drive on the right).
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They seem to be sloppy:
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If you are on macOS, AudioKit is a nice simplified layer on top of CoreAudio and CoreMidi: https://github.com/AudioKit/AudioKit

It ccomes with many Xcode playgrounds for interactive exploration of the SDK.
> Rewards for contributions are proportionate to how valuable the community perceives the actions to be - as measured by upvotes.

> This is a terrible idea and you should feel bad.

Especially considering this is exactly how science works now. You publish, get a ton of citations, and get bigger grants.
mix:analog do that: https://mixanalog.com
A big change in the Netherlands in the past decade or so has been the introduction of a chip / card based checkin, instead of tickets or whatever. They were able to effectively seal off train and tram stations everywhere unless you had a valid ticket, changing the whole system from "you need a ticket to get on board" to "you need a ticket to go onto the station". It's improved safety by a lot as well - less belligerent travelers without a ticket getting aggressive when their ticket is validated.