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I'm using an Nvidia RTX 3090 on Linux with the proprietary drivers for machine learning and man it fucking sucks as a desktop lately.

So my best guess is nobody at Nvidia uses the Linux desktop as a workstation.

1) My HDMI screen hasn't been able to wake from sleep for over a year now, the only way to make it wake is to switch to a text tty and then back to X11.

2) Wayland still isn't supported. The default Ubuntu 18.04 gdm doesn't even work so on first boot with the proprietary driver everything seems broken.

3) Since Firefox 89 switched to accelerated rendering by default, windows randomly disappear and various video players have lock contention, drop frames at 60fps, and downscale video on a fucking $1600 video card.

4) HDMI audio crackles and pops with a 2 second delay after a few hours and I have to restart pulseaudio on the command line.

5) I file support tickets on Nvidia's website and the company never responds, they don't even dupe them with some other old ticket.
For all my important photos I use par files. Using command-line tools like par2create and par2repair is simply part of the routine of storing photos from the camera on the NAS.

I also use it for music files, in the past too many mp3s got broken.
https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/32383
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Please don't build software just because Google published a paper. First off, it's not like it's a great design just because Google created it, they've churned out some real stinkers. And it's not like the code is guaranteed to be good; because you're not a Google engineer, you can't possibly be a God-like super-coder who designs nothing but perfect systems. (Or so you'd think from the way people fetishize FAANG papers)

The most frequent design mistake I see is an engineer with a "hammers before nails" complex. They want a perfect design that will work for everything (that they have so far thought of) in some beautiful and hidden way. So they build the thing, and they think it's great. And then they go to hook it up to products... and it doesn't work well. The user story, the context diagram, and the mock-up all need to come first, not the code.
They’re saying TPM 2.0 is required. If so, many Windows systems from before 2017 won’t be supported, and even some Windows systems since then may have it disabled in the BIOS/UEFI settings, and many brand new built-from-parts systems may lack a needed chip. See https://mspoweruser.com/turns-out-windows-11-does-not-need-t... for some review of the situation (which seems to be “official docs say 2.0 is recommended but actually only 1.2 is required, but the app is currently enforcing 2.0”).
Not much, but there are some games where the Windows version is like 80fps and the Linux version becomes unplayable
I hope it ruins the brand. This sort of incompetence and gross negligence ought to cripple companies.
I certainly understand that from a team / larger organization perspective. But since I'm the de facto maintainer of these apps for the rest of my life, it's quite nice to have written everything myself and know the strengths and weaknesses intimately, from the UI to the database. And it wouldn't be so bad for someone to take over. I maintain contingency "if I get hit by a bus" documents for each active app, accessible to the client and containing keys, links to source code, and helpful pointers. The framework has evolved to be readable, relatively simple in practice, and well documented. For what I charge, it's been a good deal for both me and the clients - mostly smaller businesses with custom needs that can be iterated over time. When Salesforce reps come knocking, trying to scare them about the dangers of technical debt or future migration costs for custom platforms, it's pretty much like, "we'll switch eventually if we have to, but why would we pay you guys three times more to migrate and manage it, when we can already request new features whenever we want?"

The truth is, no one will ever have to maintain them, because when I'm gone they'll just rebuild from scratch; they've already gotten their money's worth over the years of operation.
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News at 11: Google search results are now almost as bad as what they replaced, sometimes worse.

I've said some time ago already that there is a multi billion niche waiting for whoever wants to do what Google used to do:

- input field in middle of page

- user types text into field

- software shows list of pages that contain said text. Modifiers can be used to influence exactly how exactly the matching will be

- the company is nice and reliable and goes out of their way not to be evil
Is privacy-preserving analytics a use case for FHE? I can imagine them working on that as a backup plan.
Hmm, append-only delta writes?
What do you all do to manage this? For example, do you take 2 laptops when you travel? What other habits make this practical?

Here's what I do, as a compromise. I know it exposes personal data.

* Any personal projects are managed in the cloud on an EC2 instance. Personal development is remote via SSH. Only local artifacts are ssh keys
* I have a separate chrome profile for personal. All personal activity is in that profile.
* With few exceptions, I avoid storing personal files on the device itself. Personal files go into the cloud / google drive.

I know that my cookies and browser history are being recorded, but I haven't yet found a reasonable way to avoid personal access on my work device.

Any tips?
Normally if your eyes and hands are synchronized to do an operation, it can be automated.

Sometimes problems come from trying to automate at the lowest level, when maybe screenshotting a vm and sending a click at a specific position if the pixel colors change to the error condition could be done a bit faster.
Did I say bitcoin? Forget about bitcoin! It's going to be a tiny part of crypto in the future. Bitcoin is 12 years old, but that's the reason why things haven't progressed as much in the last decade. We're slowly getting over speculation & wild-west phaze and moving to the next phase, and discovering many new uses along the way, which I've listed in my parent post.

Why I say it's still early?

Currently most of the projects are infrastructure and protocol development - kind of like when the internet was still developing. We're still on something like HTTP 1.0 and HTML 2.0 when it comes to crypto. The internet wasn't built in a single decade. It took multiple decades to get to where it is now, this is exactly the same thing playing out now. The amount of building and development is only intensifying.

I'd urge you to take a look at what a16a has been investing in https://a16z.com/crypto/
This just goes to my general theory that you have very few options:

1) you (inside your walls) are fully NIST 800 series compliant (good luck)

2) you trust Google, Apple and other blue chip companies whose entire brand depends on protecting their user data

3) just accept being a chump
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In this particular case, there were My Book drives and My Book Live. When the Live part was configured, you would be creating an entry-point into your network for WD to run code on your drive. I know this, because I purchased one, and read the small getting started guide that came with it.

Needless to say, I never ran any of the Live code. Several of these sorts of things have come up in the industry that always made me recall how happy I was to not have those drives with their backdoors on my network.
I've been running Gentoo since March 2020. The mediacenter is still running Winblows. That's about it.
> Win 7 Aero only had rounded corners.

Except that the rounding only happened on the window decoration, which took space. The client rendering area was a full rectangle. Now, they’re cutting corners out of the client rendering area.
Not true. Big neural nets like these are still dog-slow on CPUs.
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For what it's worth, elementary schools in Vancouver, BC were taught about residential schools as part of regular curriculum. I know our classes had it.
Ah okay, so Devise does lookup the user in the database to authenticate. I guess it's not applicable to my premise then.
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Amazon just announced AWS Cult-As-A-Service. For the small fee of just $0.05 per Gigabyte per month they will store your data in three separate cults located in geographically distinct regions.

(Data transfer charges not included)
Isn't CTCI basically just a workbook? It has ~20 pages of intro and then problems and solutions. So it's not really a book you 'read' anyway, it's one you work through. I think the way you get really good at data structure/algorithms problems is by doing a lot of them and there's no way around that.
I'm sorry, I removed support for 32-bit a while ago. While the code could probably be made to run on 32-bit still without too much trouble, it be quite a bit of work to reintroduce it.
This. Nowadays products tend to named too generic name.
And if you are in a high security organization (DOD, banks) … good luck.
> in exactly the same way that if you care about your backups, a single drive failure will not be a problem

0.85% is extremely high. I've rolled enough 1s on d100s to know that I wouldn't take those odds!
This is much much less of a problem for consumer workloads. A pair of hard drives can last a household a decade of moderate use without needing replaced.
I've traveled a fair bit, but I've read travel books for many more places than I've ever been. Mostly Paul Theroux, Graham Greene, Pico Iyer. I've gone to a lot of the places I've read about, but will always read more than I travel.
I think it would be wise to slightly change the design so as not to look so similar to Companies House.
What's wrong with the Finder? I don't have any complex requirements beyond an occasional regex file renaming, but I'm curious to know what file manager capabilities Mac users are missing out on.
You could pay for the template-producing company to monitor the template-using ones, like an auditing company or any sort of certificate-issuing one.

It seems the companies on LTSE are not bound to be traded only there so it doesn't seem like the trading would mostly go through it, since it's bound to have less liquidity than traditional exchanges.
I would agree if't s a non-EoL products. This, not so much.

A company should not be permitted to just declare something “EoL” if it is still in widespread usage. They made it, they support it as long as any customer still has it.
So one wouldn't want to have an NAS with WD products (although the bare drives are fine). Is Synology the only good option now? Seems like a good time and place to ask if anyone can link to a good tutorial on a good NAS setup.
This is one place where you can, maybe, shed a tear for management. Imagine your CEO keeping a separate calendar. Don’t you want them inviting investors over for dinner?
English is already a counterexample. As for orthography reforms, well, they don't affect language as such, as languages are primarily spoken. An orthography reform won't ever change how people speak, so whether the German one was successful or not is irrelevant. And the fact that orthography reforms in particular may not be often successful is not surprising either since written words tend to more conservative as they have facilitated communication through time. Just look at the discrepancy between English speech and writing.
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or the reverse, "Opps, 5 minutes of class left, where does the time go. Well everyone can pack up, while i finish up some 'emails'.
What you realize when you do that is how people actually adapt. I dont mind both, I have phases when Ill be fully plugged and answer work email at 1am, which starts to create a super fun action-oriented life where it's a denser and denser tunnel of things to do, fix, answer.

But then when you stop (I got a Huawei phone which cant install most of the corporate things for national security reasons), then wow. When I leave I leave, I do dilletante stuff, eat out with my wife and nobody cares. They just call someome else. I get probably less cookie points at annual reviews but a few rushes at the end of the year can usually compensate.
You can rollover to get around contribution limits [1], and the government gets your money now rather than later,

> A Roth IRA rollover (or conversion) shifts money from a traditional IRA or 401(k) into a Roth. You can get around Roth IRA income limits by doing a rollover. You'll owe tax on any amount you convert, and it could be substantial.

Limiting the max amount would reduce near-term government tax revenue. So I don't think it would happen.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/how-to-do-a-rothira-rollover-47....
Incredible! They finally built a tool to 'Draw the Owl' [1]

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-to-draw-an-owl
Yeah yeah, I've heard the same story many times. So where are the fantastic new discoveries made on mass lab statistics, then? Because epidemiologist have had access to this same data since a long time already, and they are not any less capable than industry "data scientists". The saying goes: "90% of diagnoses are made on patient history". Most of labs require context for interpretation, so the vast majority of what is collected is statistical noise.
Wow. This is amazing! I'm not holding by breath for Mac OS support as Apple isn't very fond of Nvidia. I'm sure there will be clones in future for MacOs/IOS, Linux and Android.
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I totally agree with you in regards of complexity. The main issue behind a server's level of security is probably more related to using a memory safe language than we care to admit.

I have the feeling that way too many libraries and implementations written in C use a linter or any kind of mechanism to catch the obvious type errors.

Everyone loves typed languages, but nobody uses their obvious advantages in regards to security. Kinda ironic when you see a -Wall all over the place.
"...full stop."

What insane arrogance. Do you have evidence or is this some gut feeling you're having?

Or "common sense"?

Or because you said so?

Edit: accidentally a word.
Can't they just shut the cloud service down instead of telling people to disconnect?
Doesn’t seem to be what’s happened here.

These WD devices were phoning home on scheduled intervals and it appears that got issued a factory-reset command, but only at the “quick” format level so everything might still be there but will need to go through a recovery procedure.
It works on your backup drive so when you try to restore from the backup, the ransomware on your system can't encrypt it.
This is a "normal 'GNU/Linux' distro" (well if NixOS is normal for you).

Just like NixOS doesn't prescribe a user interface, it is left to the end-user to choose what they want to run.

As such, this is meant to allow you to run the "mobile first" desktop environments like Phosh and Plasma Mobile. As many other non-Android Mobile Linux distributions do.

So to answer more succintly: no, it doesn't run Android. Yes, some other UI, at the end-user's choice.
Maybe. But I'm not sure if there are any takers.

My data is much more important than a 50$ rebate on a storage device.
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Well, you could always alter the laws of physics so that a zero entropy state corresponds to the data you wish to store.
I did a quick study on an Epson Ecotank printer 3 or 4 years ago, and I found "random" colored pixels that were added (for example a single cyan dot in a large circle of pure cyan changed to a pure magenta dot... like that is a natural mistake if it occurs multiple times on a single page with different colors, and different positions), fuzzed black lines (not really fuzz, but holding data in the "noise"), and a few horizontal lines shifted by a few pixels every once in a while. So I believe that most of the other changes are real.

Edit: If you want to check your printer then: print something to a piece of really white paper, scan it, and then use a diff tool like in Gimp after resizing it to easily spot the differences. If you are using off white paper you can scan it also before you print on it, and attempt to remove the paper's natural color variations before "diff"ing it with the digital version.
This happens? Can anyone else confirm it?

The only time I have seen actual people in the loop was on two rather large GCP users and even then it was sometimes just "have you tried restarting it?"-level of support half the time.
They use “can’t”, meaning “can not”. Unable. That’s misleading, and no doubt intentional, to create more drama. The more accurate word would be “haven’t”, or “haven’t yet”, but that’s not alarming enough.
Agree, but love this idea. Just change the maximum sale price to something like $25,000.
How is this even possible. Shouldn’t these devices be behind a NAT? How did the hacker even reach these devices.
Asana has been an incredible upgrade from JIRA. We switched two weeks ago and it's the best project management solution I've used by miles, nothing even begins to compare.
I find it funny that we simultaneously work in places that understand that software requires constant maintenance and charge customers a recurring fee for it while being gobsmacked that we have to pay indefinitely for the same.

You go on-prem for the same reason you work does. Because the software licensing plus the amortized cost of hardware is less than the subscription.
Seagate Exos drives are solid. All of HDD drives intended for consumers are 1 year warranty bottom of the barrel shit
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This is a particularly awful example of Americentrism. Going by season names is bad enough (this is a habit of Americans, Canadians and Europeans, which doesn’t work much beyond the northern hemisphere’s temperate and sub-arctic regions), especially for “fall”; but people in the rest of the world will normally eventually be able to figure it out. But this use of “holiday” is utterly unknown to most of the world and is nigh impossible to figure out without someone telling you what it is. As an Australian, I only learned about it last year, and my considered guess as to what it meant was wrong—I guessed somewhere in the middle of the year, when school is not operating during the summer. (We call the breaks between terms “school holidays”, most significantly of the summer break, which for us is mid–late December until the end of January or so.)
I suspect they still produce NAS devices though. I wouldn’t buy one
Tesla's upgrades are definitely new: between OTA firmware updates and a slow body refresh cycle, there is much less difference between a 2020 Model 3 and a 2021 Model 3 than between spaced Honda Accords. I don't really see, though, how this is fundamentally different from the way BMW, Mercedes, Porsche nickel-and-dime you for various packages at purchase time: if anything, it's better because it lets Tesla release features developed in 2021 to people who bought a car three years ago. But, as long as this doesn't turn into a subscription model. I don't really see the analogy to SaaS.
"mix of acetic acid and water", aka vinegar. Soy protein and vinegar. That's pretty cool.
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Imagine running `rm -rf` and not just wiping out your data, but all of your customer's on remote devices too.
apps that go beyond the compute budget of the wasm/webgpu layer will be native and everything else will not because nobody is going to be able to turn their nose up to the incredible advantage of launching everywhere at once with a single binary. Especially after the brand of “new web apps” gains momentum and it becomes a part of the lexicon.

The overhead is low and modern computers are very fast. The budget will be very healthy indeed.
whichever engineer blocked, should’ve blocked ‘^(china|chinee?)’ instead of ‘^china’. There are results for ‘chineese’ and they are racially insensitive.

Making gif search safe is an endless cat and mouse game. The moment you add to the blacklist, folks will be associating the same gif to slight variations of the banned keyword.
Didn't incremental GC exist before CS work even began? I certainly remember seeing it although it was not default. Or is this a different implementation?
The last bit of the post is interesting, in the author’s qualified opinion this heat wave would have occurred regardless of global warming, but global warming made it 2 degrees F hotter.

The anamoly causing the heat wave is independent of global warming.

Before anyone interprets that as a political stance on global warming, it is straight from the article.

It’s gonna be real hot!!
> the comparison to Kaggle is added by the OP, I don't see it mentioned on the website anywhere

It's on their github page,

https://github.com/Cloud-CV/EvalAI#platform-comparison
https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-di...
pfff....barely. A state-level uncontrolled observational study? I don't see how it's possible to control all the confounding variables.
The conformists don’t want you doing anything new. They (and everyone who is generally conservative - in the adjective sense, not the political sense) don’t want things to change.

The world you’re talking about is undesirable to them.
If you go back a little more, they used to launch one or two film-based disposable spy satellites per month.
I'm just here for the bird.max() operator.
Worked well until every administration let them re-merge back together
> Then again buy or lease a BMW and you'll need to pay a lot of money to the dealer for simple parts to be changed, because a, the parts are pricey, b, the parts are hard to access. The Tesla at least doesn't have that -hardware- issue.

But you can buy parts for a BMW. Its not even an option to buy OEM or aftermarket parts with a Tesla. That simple fact cuts out a huge segment of the market from even considering one. You have the crowd that can afford to keep a late model car still under warranty (soccer moms, yuppies, suburbanites, etc) and then you have everybody else who drives used cars or runs them for business. That second group needs to be able to buy parts and the realistic ability to fix them themselves, independent shops, or fleet service. Without that teslas are disposable vehicles. Most people aren't going to buy a second wrecked tesla and park it in the side yard just so they can keep their daily driver running. They'll just buy a different car unless Tesla can sell theirs so cheap everybody will be able to buy another every couple years.
There's nothing new about historical fiction being a popular genre in books, movies, and ATV. I guess the author's point is that all of a sudden, historical fiction novels are winning major awards typically given to books in the genre that is named literary fiction.

Here's the thing: it's not that historical fiction has come up in the world, or suddenly gotten good enough, or popular enough to be noticed. It's that literary fiction is largely irrelevant to most people — even the fraction of people who still read at all — and has been getting less relevant for decades. Most other genres are more relevant than literary fiction: to the culture, by sales, whatever.

By which, I mean that it's not that these authors and awards committees are deigning to dip their toes into genres they wouldn't have before, it's that they're jumping on board a bandwagon rather than getting left behind.