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> You can tell yourself that it doesn't really matter, but it will eventually.

It's not a hypothetical, I've worked a lot with US companies (I'm in Eastern Europe) and it doesn't have to matter at all.

> We equate pay to seniority, so someone who is paid less is considered more junior even if technically they're not. That leads to getting the sucky work and not being trusted with complex tasks as much.

This has also not been true (I mean generally, it can sometimes happen, but actual cause might not even be the pay discrepancy).
seems like a good way to get lots of publicity for your concert. and apparently death threats as i guess we are all just done w nuance nowadays.
two cents basing on similar experience:

1. those disk might be SMR. there's a high chance they are. that might make performance worse.

2. those disk support sata 3 @ 6.0 gbps, but the network interface on the odroid (as well as most other SBCs) is a 1gbps. not surprisingly, the graph for throughput kinda reflects that: the best performance for network-based sequential read (jiva) tops at about 1/6 of local physical volum device. iops for sequential reads are similar.

Uh, i've said this many times, i'll say it again... Single board computers are very nice for small embedded project or very small server needs.

But if you want anything performant, they're pretty much all crap.

The author of the article doesn't seem to be aware of this kind of stuff either:

> I haven’t tried to tune the performance of Jiva and cStor pools, so most probably I could get more performance out of those disks after playing with some parameters.

According to this seagate spec sheet (https://www.seagate.com/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/3-5-barr...) the disks they are using (ST2000DM008) tops at 220 MB/s.

BUT on the physical volume benchmark, they only get 130 MB/s at most.

So... Yeah, mostly wasted money. Nice hobby I guess, but a waste of money, performance-wise.
This is 100% correct. Even our small business have rules like this: good customers will get refunds, discounts, etc. Bad ones (pathological ones) - we just try to get rid of them ASAP and no refunds. Because we do not want them to use our service anyway.

At the very beginning we were thinking that good vs bad should also include our support costs - not just LTV. But that is amazingly correlated: high LTV means that user has very low support cost (or at least a very nice people to work with).

It is very simple.
An influx of residents during pandemic strained cellphone and internet signals
You’d want to use frequent Google Takeout for backups of all of your data.
> It's not, but the burden of proof is still there. It's up
> to the claimant to prove that some activity exists, not for
> it to be assumed to be true and for others to prove it's false.

Of course, and I claim no proof. But we have no proof of gravity either, only very strong suspicion supported by loads of experimental data. Leaking a single keyword per day or per week would greatly enhance such systems' capabilities yet remain very very difficult to detect. Perhaps 52 new keywords per year is enough for them.
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Thanks for the recommendation. I found a copy here: [1]

I enjoyed the story, though the ending was a little weak.

[1] - http://sickmyduck.narod.ru/pkd035-0.html
They have had instances like that with iPhone where the upgrade to iOS was a backup and restore cycle. It’s a long time ago though.
The Snoop Dogg advertisement rebranding case study was pretty impressive to me, since there were obvious savings from reuse. Neat to see how this technology could be integrated in a subtle way with other editing techniques.

It seems to me that this technology could have immediate application to dubbing over curse words in movies (since that's already done in a not so subtle way today).

The next step I see in that progression is full dubbing for translation, which already exists in a very conspicuous form. The old meme about out of sync karate movie dubs comes in mind.

How close do you think this technology is to use for syncing lips in Hollywood tier movie dubs using real voice actors? What are the main obstacles left to achieving that?
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This sounds like what should happen, irrespective of the seller?

You can claim you got an empty box, but everyone's on the internet here, and pictures of an empty box with indignation as guide text gets you fake internet points on every social media site.

That alone isn't enough for any seller to take your claim as true until you take the necessary steps that come with "I've been defrauded", like filing that credit card dispute and police report. Which they did, after which Amazon accepted the dispute, so... where's the news angle here? "Store honours a $7k claim without questioning it" would almost be more newsworthy.
Best Buy, in some cases, fulfills using Geek Squad folks delivering locally. Was very cool to order two SSDs in the morning and have them show up a few hours later.
"NATO flew 26,500 sorties since it took charge of the Libya mission on 31 March 2011."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_...
Why the sun&#39;s atmosphere is hundreds of times hotter than its surface
It is difficult to distinguish genuine romantic feelings between two people, from the case of a superior using their position to get their genitals wet and a subordinate capitulating for fear of losing their job.

Since feelings are only a biological impulse, and we humans frequently suppress our impulses in the form of self control, it's much easier to look for that oxytocin fix in a more appropriate arena.

The military has been doing this for ages, forbidding officers from fraternizing with enlisted. And plenty of civilians abusing positions of power have proven the wisdom of such a policy.
You could focus on what China actually accused the US of, and whether that accusation has a point, rather than on the fact that the accusation came from China. Where it comes from doesn't matter: only the content matters.
No idea. We're not using the Kindle displays so we aren't affected by any proprietary waveforms.
My experience in building a Discord bot
Did the US government use completely "legal" wiretapping methods?

And their is nothing illegal about listening for keywords, even if the companies currently deny doing so. There really is no risk: The people up in arms about privacy will remain up in arms, and the 99% who don't care will continue not caring.
I know they say Ring devices are included in this. But can anyone confirm whether this applies to extremely old Ring devices? Mine can barely stay connected to my wifi, so wondering how it can reliably stay connected or send anything to Amazon's servers.
I just found the Berkeley Historical Plaque Project entry for PKD: [1]

Perhaps there could be something similar in San Rafel.

[1] - https://berkeleyplaques.org/e-plaque/philip-k-dick/
Saudi repression is super interesting, and I think we should talk more about it. MBS got off way too easily on his assignation of a journalist, and that the USA continues to ally themselves with him is despicable. Incidentally, we should be talking more about Turkey now, they aren’t going in a good direction, or even some of the crazy things happening in India right now. And of course, Myanmar has gone to heck recently.

China is a country on the cusp of development, they have the chance to go in the liberal society direction and it’s so sad to see them backsliding. That and their size is why they get the most attention, but because they are by any means the worst.
after having spent a third of my life in academia i don't see this happening: everyone want as many as possible articles, if possible in the most high impact journals. detecting fraudulent or irrelevant pieces is against that goal.
Just started reading it… very hopeful from the first pages that this might be the book I’ve been waiting for.
What punishments would you suggest for bullies?
>> The neat thing is, the next AI winter, we'll still have massive hardware rigs.

So the next big thing in AI will still come from brute-forcing solutions by sheer power of compute. To clarify, you say this is a good thing?
This is why I do not use gmail or any other online services from any vendor which might restrict me from doing things I do. My online dependency is limited to Netflix and Amazon. Amazon is easily replaceable. As for Netflix - there are other services and as an alternatives I'll just read more books. I might miss Google Gearch and Youtube but from my experiments those can be used in anonymous mode. For people who earn money on Youtube it is of course very different.
That was as long and rambly as a country drive. The author covers lots of incidental details like segregation and women owning the roadside diners.

I was reading with an eye for shortcomings and enjoyed the article. Well written!
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Yes, essentially yes. UserScripts used by GreaseMonkey are JavaScript. UserStyles in Stylus work analogously for CSS.
I had the same thought. It takes time for even a fast charger to "top up" an electric car, so taking a half hour or more for lunch seems natural. They might even serve tea...
The assumption is that the world will move on to EVs soon enough and we can wash our hands of the KSA completely.
In other news, Apple devices are not compatible with obsolete standards. Magstripe is insecure and obsolete and in no way a backup for nfc payments. Skimming is a thing.
Without a doubt I have an interest in history and an interest in geography, and Youtube knows that. It is the timing and the specificity that is so suspect. This video was also not from one of the few channels that I watch, though obviously it has content of a similar genre.
Make it simpler than GP — just allow people to cycle the unique email addy if they think they fucked up!

Cool thing, man.
One of my favorite professors started the year by telling us that the only equipment we need to work on computer science problems is a pencil and some paper.
> or anything like it

You can turn JS off, which is quite similar to allowing no scripts, but more pragmatically, 1Blocker is remarkable, give it a look as one part of a phone-wide strategy. [Note: from sibling comments, you hate 1Blocker. Even so.]

Consider the iOS management profile from NextDNS along with a good set of their filter options (minimally NextDNS + AdGuard), enabling 1Blocker and learning how to tailor it, and turning on Apple’s native anti-tracking — then with all three in place enjoy browsing the web with relatively less footprint.
I have a similar experience. I take all the precautions for disabling ads. I opted out from all the targeted ads. And still when my brother visits me, the ads on YouTube change.
i think you misunderstood what i was saying. I was pointing out that the echo talks to the alexa backend. so it’s evil device impersonator -> your device -> isp -> alexa backend
Hi,
I've mostly learnt guitar by going through JustinGuitar's excellent videos.

I put this together because I felt I needed a way to jump back to sections that I want to rehearse or reference.

Hope it can be of use to you too, and also happy to hear brutal feedback.
Comparing these personnel decisions from not only different universities and entirely different incidents but also an entirely different country seems unwise to me.
The reasons for a cellular Apple Watch.

For myself:

- Running without my phone. I can still track my speed, make phone calls and listen to streaming music and podcasts. I can even leave my wallet at home and stop by a convenience store that accepts Apple Pay.

- During the Before Times when I went to the gym (I have a home gym now), I hated carrying my phone around. With my watch, I didn’t have too.

- Even now when I am working out at home, I keep my phone in another room and just have my watch on to measure my heart rate while I’m working out and even control my AppleTV. If I do get a call, I can answer it.

- I was horrible controlling my “screen time” and would pull my phone out when I was with other people. Now, anytime I am suppose to be socializing, I leave my phone in the car. I can still be contacted. I ignore all phone calls though except from my wife, kids, or parents.

My wife:

- women often wear clothes without pockets or shallow pockets. She will often leave her phone in the car and just walk around with her watch and her AirPods on a key chain.

- she has a working hobby as a fitness instructor. It’s online and outside these days. She has her iPhone connected to her sound system and uses her watch to control the music.
i see nothing i disagree with here.

so either i’m doing OK, or we’re both fucked…
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Say you run 5 simulations and when comparing to the standard approach as a percent the samples are [-1%, -1%, +2%, +2%, +%6]. Your new method is not 6% better the standard it's at best +1.6% better.
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Of course a lot of abuse happens in private enterprise. But typically, senior management is much much more proactive about it than department chairs and provosts. There's very few Fortune 500 companies where you could publicly get away with the kind of abuse that's just part and parcel of being a grad student or post doc at a major research university.

It might still happen either because it's well concealed. Or it might happen at smaller or poorly managed companies. But at the typical functional, large corporation, egregious abuse of your subordinates essentially guarantees that you'll be terminated if/when it's brought to senior management's attention.

Academia is different because tenured professors are given far more independence and autonomy. By contrast middle managers are tightly monitored and controlled by their own line managers. The typical large corporation strives very hard to promulgate a homogenous corporate culture across the org. Whereas academia as a system encourages professors to be fiercely independent maverick. That has both pros and cons, but one of the major cons is that it tolerates a lot more abuse and dysfunctional management towards the non-tenured subordinates.
I didn't read the GP as making a statement about the _creators_ of Go, but rather about its target users. And Go is explicitly targeted at "Programmers working at Google [who usually] are early in their careers and are most familiar with procedural languages, particularly from the C family."[0] If Google's interviews gateted on the sort of programming language questions the GP mentioned, then Go's target users would have been very different, and Go would likely be a different (better? Worse?) language.

[0]:https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article
That is completely possible, and I did ask her. She, and the kids, say that they hadn't.

And honestly, I don't think that they had anyway. Maybe one of the kids will take an interest in dad's boring facts about the world at dinner, but the wife has long since stopped even listening!
Many of those machines are made in Germany, so you can still avoid them for a few years at least.
Bunch of straw questions, I don't care to answer them. Answer your own pointless questions.
I'll notice the look and feel and signifiers, but I go out of my way to avoid noticing the actual company name. After the ad is gone I'll sometimes try and recall the brand just to make sure that I can't. Usually I can't.
The company behind the Bitcoin race car driving in today's Indy 500
At least where I live it's the shippers (i.e. the manufacturers in your example) problem if the package doesn't arrive, not mine.

If they want to purchase insurance on their package, that's their choice. On the flip side if they want to "self insure" by not doing so, and assuming that on average they would pay more for insurance than insurance would pay them, that's also their choice.

Either way I'm certainly not going to purchase insurance myself, paying extra money to mitigate their risk.
That is horrible. I am glad I bought the 16GB cellular version. I would have bought it just for the extra storage even without cellular.
My wife got a news article pop up because it included a Getty licensed stock image that was from a location and time she had physically been present at.

The article itself was unappealing in any other way.
i was asking why you did it for so long, not why you retired :)
FUnny you leave out the part where he also said if you criticize a woman in the lab they cry...

He made a terribly misogynistic "joke" and paid the consequences for it.

You'd think someone with a Nobel prize wouldn't be so clueless
Firing people for cases like this is already illegal in most of the developed world. You need a cause and "people on twitter were angry" isn't one.
The model isn’t aware of that stuff. They feed groups into the model, it might be grouped by zip code. But there isn’t a variable for zip code in the model. The model just forecasts LTV and nothing else, from transaction histories.
Those anecdotes can also be explained by psychological factors.

PRISM was operating at the network level, as opposed to widely-available consumer devices. It's the difference between tapping a phone line at the call center, and going into every individual person's house and planting a bug under their counter.
Looks very promising, but I am curious regarding the fixed goal of €25000: according to a quick napkin calculation, summing up all the units up for sale with their respective price, that still is only €20500, how does it work? Will you add more units to the page down the line?
You mean China just returned the favor. China is very resentful about what happened to them especially in the Opium wars.
Xi never declared himself president for life, the National People's Congress simply passed a law removing term limits. Angela Merkel has been chancellor of Germany for twice as long as Xi has been president of China.
I mostly agree, but Kennedy and Khrushchev families probably had bunkers to survive. On the other hand, the families of the Colonels were probably living in a military facility that was a primary target of the counterstrike...

Stanislav Petrov decided to ignore the official protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
Likewise the displays are made in Japan or Korea no matter where the phone is assembled, the RAM is made in Korea or Taiwan or Japan, etc...the same proximity boost that China got when they started with assembly.
I'm with you, but I'm just assuming we're a minority. Otherwise all those companies paying big bucks for "boosted"/"pro" listings are really throwing money down the toilet.

Seriously, go visit Stackoverflow Jobs. Start scrolling. It takes me so much conscious effort to read those listings with the yellow background. I'm specifically trying to read every listing and I keep missing them. They just look like rubbish ads, so my brain has been trained to ignore them.

It's the same experience with custom adverts on eBay or real estate websites. Any non-standard listing, I keep missing and have to scroll back through several times to "find" them.
> I think most likely they aren't listening to microphones

Do you think that's a line that even Facebook wouldn't cross?
Academia is not protected because of some intellectual notion of 'innovation' so much as they are on the right side of the bias presented in most publications. Most writers and commentators I think have venerable views of academia and probably err towards supporting that narrative publicly.

While it's true that Profs may be under excessive scrutiny in some ways, which frankly might make them skittish - they are obviously not under 'the most important' kind of scrutiny which relates to the material legitimacy of their work in terms of 1) reproducability 2) fudging results and borrowing ideas and 3) misappropriation of credit 'up the chain of power' and 'from other peers'.

Hence this article, and some other issues of legitimacy within academia.

I think almost everything boils down to the fact that the low-hanging fruit have been had in science, and though there are 20x more scientists alive now than just a few generations ago, in many ways we're getting diminishing marginal returns - and even worse - it's incredibly hard to know which teams to back, and which not to.

In the fog of war for funding, it leaves more room for back-stabbing than in most other places, even in the corporate world where at least there is some degree of job security.
It's interesting that everyone defending this old coot is just memory-holing the clearly misogynistic comment "if you a criticize a woman in the lab, they cry" and are choosing to only mention the comments that are more easily defensible as a "joke"
That’s wildly incorrect.

A failure of a contract for lack of consideration would be if there’s no exchange of value contemplated, ever. For example if I made a promise to provide you a valuable service for nothing in return.

In this situation both sides agreed to exchange something of value so there’s obviously consideration.

They could make an argument that no damages have occurred and claim you have no credible allegation of being harmed, but that’s a different thing and far from automatic.
On MacOS there are great tools from objective-see. One of them, OverSight, notifies you when your mic or webcam is activated.

Failing that some tape works quite nicely!

QubesOS allows you to assign certain devices to Xen VMs , compartmentalising your hardware. No spying if there is audio/video device (a Xen hypervisor escape not withstanding) available to the guest OS.

I do like devices with physical kill switches. Some USB sticks and devices by Purism.
How often do you open Facebook and see ads about irrelevant trash? Probably most of the time, right? So why is it so surprising that occasionally that irrelevant trash might align with something that happened in your day?

Another thing to consider: How many times do you hang out with a friend and not notice any particular connection in the ads you see later? Again I'm guessing that's the case most of the time. If they really had such sophisticated matching technology then why not do it all the time?
so buying from a country which bombed multiple countries, started multiple wars, and do not buy from a country lifting millions from poverty and keep improving lives of their citizens. Thank you!
What do the numbers in a man page mean?
Hey! The rule is and always has been: Driver chooses the music!
There’s the magic phrase, “good faith”. Completely meaningless
You really want them to refuse your initial price and haggle. Then you know you're getting a good deal and couldn't have got any more. A little research and justification goes a long way.
Thanks for this. Just want to add, the "off by up to two" seems like a hedge for the author having his pick of three decks. Berglas couldn't remember or describe succinctly enough which of the three decks had the named card at the named index, but knew any of the three would be close.
Quite interesting, I hadn't even thought of it this way. In a way, VPNs could be pretty useful in this regard, as you share the same IP as several other people. So you'd be subject to irrelevant ads about the same topic that most of them are searching for.
It should be extremely trivial to show that some data is traversing the network you fully control.

While I would understand refusal to do so from non-technical crowd (e.g /r/technology or similar cesspolls), it's very difficult for me to understand this argument on hackernews.
This isn't true. Any promise is sufficient for consideration. Cash doesn't actually have to change hands for a contract to be in effect.

If this wasn't the case then every single financial futures contract or swap would be null and void. These contracts incur no cash flow on day one. They're merely a promise by one part to pay another based on some event in the future. If your legal theory was true, then one party could simply cancel any losses by voiding the contract as soon as the position moves against them.