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That last one is exactly what a friend of mine did. IIRC, he contacted a business broker and told them what he was looking for and they found the company.

He bought a literal Mom & Pop outfit that made thermocouples for a specific application. The "Pop" was going blind and Mom wanted to retire. They were barely making money but my friend realized that it was mainly because they were underpriced and their marketing was nonexistent.

He bought the business for a song and immediately called all the customers and told them he was raising prices to market rates. After turning things around, he sold the company about five years later for a healthy profit.
What about basketball as another example. Height is probably the single most important physical attribute of the game and the height advantage men have is overwhelming. HRT after puberty has no impact on height.
This was attempted in the 2000s and it was a massive disaster.
For all the vastness and detail in it, this world is still only a partialy complete single solar system and an even tinier fraction of what was originally promised (about 100 handcrafted star systems). At the same time it is empty, desolate and devoid of fun things to do. The sheer size of everything, which sounds so cool on paper, is a fundamental curse for the gameplay: PvP relies on players encountering players. PvE or anything with NPC involvement needs to be handcrafted to be fun. Generated missions always have a bland structure and get repetitive and boring fast.

The end result is that there is no really good way to actually make use of all that empty volume that the game already has. And that ratio is only going to become worse if all the other solar systems get added. And Star Citizen revels in that available playground with excessive travel times, low ship ranges, few ways to discover and intercept nearby ships, etc.

For comparison, Elite: Dangerous has an even vaster playing field, but it does three things that make it work: the vast majority of the galaxy is designed for lone explorers cruising out there and trying to survive without assistance. The rest of the gameplay is contricted to "the bubble", a tiny part of the galaxy that contains civilization. There, all the PvP and PvE gameplay is concentrated. Little tricks help focus most of the gameplay on very few spots in each solar system, forcing encounters to happen quite naturally. Arrival in a solar system is always at a specific point near its star. Likewise, trading and resupply happens at only very few places in each system. These are the places you need to reach as a miner or trader to make money. And these are the spots to stake out as a pirate or bounty hunter. Supercruise also turns the vastness of space within a system into a playing field of reasonable size that also reveals most of the traffic.
> Add: and Signal's centralized server IPs banned. Signal is really weak here; shouldn't have been centralized to begin with.

Here is Moxie's talk about this very subject, and why he thinks that decentralized products can be much weaker products.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj3YFprqAr8
Drones are fun, but there might be no need to fight weeds so much. They help plants get stronger and kill off weak ones. Farms are overrun with pests and weeds because ecosystem is incomplete and natural cycles are not followed. Some type of permaculture approach like Fukuoka farming could be a more robust alternative to zapping.
People don't do it because each hour you spend in your garden is an hour you could have spent doing something else. The problem is not that you have to spend half an hour a day to do it, the problem is that it takes weeks of spending half an hour a day to get anything. And as a beginner, there is a good chance that you're going to screw something up.

A lot of people prefer spending half an hour a day learning italian, or rock climbing, or whatever...
What I learned after one year of working remote from the mountains
You add value by modelling thought process to the learners, as you solve problems which are relevant to them.

Consider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCs5OvhV9S4 or anything of this kind.

And ask: what is David doing as the narrator (of his own thought process) ?
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The whole point of bringing up historical child mortality rates - which again would be higher in aboriginals due to malnutrition, poverty, and lack of immunity to diseases - is if the number of deaths isn't higher than the base mortality rate, then there is no evidence of any kind of murder here. Your assuming something without any evidence and getting all upset based on that assumption.

I'd guess that your trolling me and nobody is that bad with logic, but you seem so sincere.

> There are certain topics where any whiff of denial is completely unacceptable.

No. There is no idea so sacred that it cannot be questioned. The ability to reason logically is what separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom. It is our most human trait.
There's always that one deal-breaker on linux. Some hardware that you need just doesn't work or the software does some very minor thing that makes it unusable.
I guess, but "no, you have to really think about it" is kind of a defense you can put forth about anything, so it's unsatisfying.
Everything that matters to Games has a stable ABI: glibc, OpenGL, Vulkan, libasound, libpulse*, Xlib

If you need other support libraries that don't interface with the system just ship them yourself. Or let Valve do that for you with the Steam Linux Runtime.
My impression of what is being prised is improving access to food for poor people.

Maybe the Mayor thinks this is effective at that end and by paying to McDonald's they can normalize their situation and help improve access to food to poor people. Seems that so far they didn't do a very good job if they have to rely on a nonprofit.
>videos, which I'm sure they are using the actual camera

This is why when you start recording a video on Snapchat, there's a delay before the recording starts, and usually also a short delay before audio recording starts (especially noticeable if you have audio playing from your phone at the same time)
> make tradeoffs between realism and fun

Isn't part of goal for SC to be far more realistic because that's only way to be immersive?

I don't know how much truth there is in it, but I've read that there's a planet that has player spawn in one area, with space port where their space ship is being in other area, and you need to get to train station, wait for the train, ride the train to space port to get to your ship, entire process taking 10 minutes to complete?
> Nothing was ‘outsourced’.

What do Foxconn and TSMC (and 100s of others) do then?

* - first relevant factory operations in 1988 and 1987, respectively.
- "The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics" by Leonard Susskind. I'm reading the entire series and it's very clear and interesting, definitely recommend if you want to get into physics.

- "Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)" - Really good intro to natural language processing.

- Kar by Orhan Pamuk - not a technical book just an intriguing fiction book in turkish I want to read to work on my Turkish;.
It's funny to think the development of Star Citizen started in the same year that Falcon 9 first launched.

I like Star Citizen for being the one constant thing in life. Wherever I am, whatever I do, I know there will always be a Star Citizen roadmap to look up.
Sure, in general, that would be something to take into consideration - but in this specific case, the maximum is not an outlier.

Apparently (based on the comment I was replying to), labcomputer does seem to think the maximum is an outlier, and that this false generality applies here.
You’d need some kind of inter frame consistency also, would probably jiggle quite a lot.
I'll never forget Intel for lying about OpenGL support in some old laptop drivers for Windows.
I also hate how when your phone or other device (i.e. I have an old Chromebook) is no longer supported there is no indication whatsoever that it is the case. You have to surf around the web to find EOL dates and every producer has it different. It should be visible and more in your face or at the very least it should be in "About" or Update settings.
BTW... years ago I was rather supportive (albeit not having voiced it) of the argument that false positives lead to unnecessary interventions and thus screening should be itself gated.
Exactly, it's just the evolution of work based on changes of the working environment, mindset and needs. In the past we had only manual labour, then the (bad) machines came along and we had factories/industries, then the (bad) computers came along and we have remote working...and so on...
Your belief has no representation in medical science, which is mostly evidence based. A lot of data has been collected on this, studies (many) have been conducted and the general consensus is that more testing absent symptoms does not lead to improved patient outcomes.

That you want to have some kind of theoretical argument in the face of this evidence might be interesting to you but it isn't to me.
Good find, I think I'm going to take this out with me to go drawing this weekend and see what I can do.
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> If you’re filling up everywhere you park you only need fast charging on several hundred mile trips.

The GP does have a point there. A lot of vacation travel in Europe happens by car - the traffic jams at the summer holidays on the route from Munich down to Slovenia and Croatia or from Munich to Italy are legendary, and this one drive and how it works out is what determines the purchase decisions for many Germans.

I'd love if the railways could be used - but the network especially in the Balkans is shoddy, international booking is a nightmare, it is about 4-8x (!!!) as expensive as a car ride for a family of four... so yeah.
I think the real question here is - do you buy the cheapest phone or do you get a decent one that fits your needs.

Because Microsoft _is_ releasing a version of this operating system that fits your needs. You just don't want to pay for it.
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I meant charing stations in the cities, where people usually park their cars around the block where they live. Those are basically inexistent. What are they gonna do? Leave it overnight on the highway and walk home from there?
Here's a very rough estimate. This is how long it'd take for someone who's familiar with the steps. E.g. if you've never tried soldering, it could take much longer.
- Days/weeks of waiting for components to arrive. (:
- ~20 hours of 3d printing
- 1 hour of soldering
- 4 hours of cable assembly (worst part) (:
- 4 hours of assembly
- 4 hours of installing software
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TBH for my indoor garden watering it by hand is fine (really good for my mental health honestly) I just like the idea of playing with the robot.
> high end manufacturing

Exactly. High end has higher margins, and a simpler distribution chain.

It isn't worth it to do the small stuff here, but the small stuff is a really big deal. There are many American households that have nothing made in the USA. China knows this quite well.
If you come in to my kitchen that I already abandoned, I wouldn't even know let alone care.

I have a dead car out back, and a other car I value. They are both my property. If you come and try to take the one I actually value even the slightest bit, I will come out and object. If you come and take away my trash, I will not object.

Where are the cops sent by McDonalds to object to this tresspass and theft of their valued property?

Lastly, private property, especially land, is routinely reclaimed by the public from private owners, any time the goverenment decides it needs to. No one ever really owns land. It is all ultimately owned by the state.
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>Judging by what's being accomplished, the often-repeated reasoning of "it's just very complex and ambitious" is not enough of an explanation.

It's not. You grow your game organically and incrementally and release early if it is too complex to be ready at launch.
Yeah, :D But when someone hands over a storage system, temptation is high to store everything on it.
I've heard that the reason is the abundant availability of green energy from hydro power.
I think for pancreatic cancer early detection just means it gives you more time to enjoy a slightly longer bucket list. For bowel cancers however, this could potentially buy many extra years since it's currently difficult to detect early.
> and there is a hard 60 FPS lock for everyone, so no tearing as well

That's not how tearing works.
It's a bit of coup out to jump on the British where somehow everything negative that happens is due to Brexit.

As counter anecdata, I am in the Netherlands and I am (now, as much as before) receiving calls for job opportunities from UK based recruiters. They are for the majority concentrated around London, Oxbridge, Bristol, Manchester. Depending on where GP is based in the UK, the landscape and opportunities can be quite different.

Irrespective of the politics and bitter emotions, London's VC funding scene is arguably the closest we have in Europe to SV/Seattle/NY and it will continue to play a role in making the UK relevant in the tech scene.
That's your choice, assuming you live in a developed country.

Assuming the United States see here:

https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/prevention/screening.htm

and if elsewhere consult your local CDC equivalent.
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Snap. I am also a physicist trying to learn math.
In my case it's:

- Introduction to Analysis (Mattuck)

- Elementary Differential Geometry (Pressley)

both chosen because they have solutions in the book, which I find important for self-study.

Also just got (hot off the presses)

Visual Differential Geometry and Forms (Needham)

Looks fantastic!

Topology is next on the list...
I never jumped on the “everything IoT” bandwagon, but recently I’ve relented a bit.

I own/use exactly 4 “IoT technologies”.

I have smart radiator thermostats that turn on/off the heat based on family presence, as well as “predict” the heating needs based on weather forecast, sunshine hours, etc.

I have a heat pump in my vacation house that is remote controlled by the internet. Not strictly needed, but very convenient in the winter.

To keep an eye on my vacation house I also have a camera that uses HomeKit Secure Video. Requires no infrastructure on my end except network.

And finally, like a lot of people I have Hue.

I control it all through HomeKit. I also keep everything on a couple of IoT VLANs, one for “trusted” devices (AirPlay, media, PlayStation, etc), and one for “everything else” with client isolation, filtered dns, IDS/IPS. No upnp/nat-pmp, no tunneling (if detectable), and no other dns servers but mine (until dns over https becomes a thing with IoT)

In the future however it might become more or less impossible to avoid. Our neighbors recently purchased a new oven, which of course comes with internet connectivity. Their new washing machine also has internet connectivity.

In the very near future everything will be connected under the pretense of providing useful feature, when in reality it’s all about pushing adds and gathering telemetry data.
So anyone have access to the report & can summarize what was the actual phrasing of the question?

Vulnerabilities come in all shapes and sizes, and unless you stick your head in the sand you end up doing "vulnerability management", ie deciding which ones are release blockers and which ones should be treated like other bugs and defects in your app, and what to do about ones that are outside your control in eg platform functionality. Not to mention CVEs in your dependencies that might surface any time.
And maybe a couple of par files
Does the Google Play Store allow you to install apps without an account? I can't imagine it would
China fears free speech because their ideas are like rotting corpses.
Are you seriously asking why they don't start a highly technical multi-billion doller project in Albania?

I would much prefer the well organised environmental/bureaucratic issues in Sweden compared to the 'issues' you would have in Albania.

Northern Europe population is far better educated. Power is cheap and green. Easy rail and ship connection to central Europe where most car factories are (far easier then from Albania). You have many battery mines developing in that region. Talga Resources has graphite mine right there and battery materials mining is developing all over Northern Europe.

In fact there is a huge explosion of battery related industry in that same region. Northvolt is just company that will soon be operating around the Baltic and Northern Europe.

> b/c it sounds like the may business will be battery recycling

For a decade plus their main business will be battery cell production.
Do they even have a flight model yet? Last I played (a few years ago) the flight model was worse than that of Asteroids.
The Soviet system was “expensive needs, non-existany wants, faked numbers to fool the useful idiots in the West”
I read it as "we're protecting your privacy by increasing the number of people who can monitor your activity on our browser." Presumably, the users will be well-endowed and tax-advantaged institutions who could have just bought the information from data-aggregators anyway. I'm starting to see a theme of papering over their technology products with a lot of modern art and hyperbolic language.

"Computer scientists, social scientists and other researchers will be able to launch groundbreaking studies about the web and invite you to participate." Wow. I'm about to make history with a browser add-on!

"Our first study is “Political and COVID-19 News” and comes from the Princeton team that helped us develop the Rally research initiative." Groundbreaking! College students can now make sure that I am adequately fact-checked if I err from the path of truth.
Completely missing out on the whole AMP mess was a nice plus for me honestly.
Yeah, it's weird on mobile. I had to drag a very narrow column from the very left side to the right to make the point cloud visible. Thanks for the feedback, I'll add some images!
That sounds like a "Pro" feature. Too bad MS isn't releasing a "Pro" version of Windows 11. Oh wait.
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Ask: Am I (once again) somehow banned or throttled or whatever? If go to Chrome unanymous, I do not see my submission(s). It really does not matter, I can go somewhere else, if my my opinions do not matter. Just a matter of wasted emergy.
Lots of people in the UK can't charge at home. Many people live in terraced houses and can't always park on their own street never mind outside their house.

In the evening this road will be full, bumper to bumper. There are many streets like it.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Fk68kARYkuxS6FnN8

There are things that can be done about it, e.g. lamp post charging but it's not simple.
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Software is very different than making bicycles. Anyone can make an open source project in their attic and promote it. You cannot do that with most (or any) other of those other examples as it takes actual factories etc.

That is the GP example. If I make 1 bike by hand and put that somewhere on the street, and someone takes it and breaks their legs, that is not my fault. Nor should it be. If I sell that 1 bike, that can be another story.

It will kill open source imho as if you, in your underwear in the attic are responsible for some code you write and put on GitHub, you won't write that code anymore because of the risk; but I don't want to find out who is right here.

Responsibilities should befall the person deploying the software. Aka if you write some software and throw in on GitHub, that should not do anything. But if I take that software and put it in my app or backend and takes people's money because of some bug, then I am the one who is responsible. And this is already the case anyway. No changes are needed.

I think we agree though as I think we are talking about the person who writes and deploys/sells the software: they should indeed be responsible and already are.
I suspect, based on a type of ecological-thermodynamic reasoning, that china will never be middle class.

I think the "global class structure" we have today might be the peak of history.

The relevant calculation:

Annual US Energy Consumption per Capia: 7,000 kg oil equivalent. China: 2,000 kg.

So you're looking at +5,000kg per capita * 1.4bn people annual.

So you'll need to add that energy capacity to the world, ie., a c. 10 trillion kg oil eqv. -- it's not clear we can do this.
Maybe the multiples only seem high to you, and others are anchoring on other market assumptions? (Different market assumptions being a key driver of trading in many things.)

Markets are crazy right now, and #3 could fairly describe transactions in the stock market, housing market, commodities market, etc. occurring now.

Also for sub-scale businesses, it may not be useful to value them based on revenue or profit multiples. For example, if the app is not making much money because there's been no money spent to promote it, how can one know if it's "expensive" or not? I might instead look at it and decide that I would need to spend $25k on development to build the app, so spending $5k to accelerate launch is cheap. Value really is in the eye of the buyer.
This is a ridiculous statement. Every Windows install is unique as well in suble ways, as is the hardware it runs on. The differences between Linux distributions don't really matter that much if you bundle your dependencies or use the Steam Linux Runtime to do that for you.
The sad part is that even when the vendor certifies their product for linux it's still not a sure thing.

Have a Lenovo Thinkpad P1 gen2 + Thinkdock thunderbolt 3 dock for Workstations at work that's certified for ubuntu. Windows gives the ocasional issue with dock connected monitors blinking, but on linux one monitor wont work at all and dock USB seams to not work properly half the time.

Thunderbolt 3 are just unreliable, but still work better in windows then linux. Not that I blame linux for it but I need to get work done so I'm still sticking with windows+wsl2.
Don’t give up just yet. I’ve had ups and downs at different companies, different levels of seniority, different cultures, different quality of people in the team etc. I’ve worked at a few toxic places as well as good places but with toxic managers - and some of those really tested my resilience. They can make you get low very quickly.

First thing I’d suggest if all three have been FAANG is to try a different type of company. There are plenty of other industries that need tech staff - think banks, consultancies, consumer goods, insurance, retail. Almost any type of company these days.

Try to find a good culture (as difficult as that is through the interview process!), a good manager, and build your confidence back.

Often friends and contacts that have worked somewhere are the best way to find out if a company culture is good. Take “Top places to work” surveys with a grain of salt.

Good luck!
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And how exactly do you plan to install software on this Mac? It is becoming more locked down every day.

You will need an account.
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