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Thanks. Those are very enlightening. The fraction names are really nothing like what you'd expect them to mean! Now I realize why when someone was trying to explain a circle of fifths to me and how it was like a clock, it wasn't a 5-numbered clock!
Can you explain this? Aren't file names on unix platforms essentially blobs, sans a few delimiters ('/', '\0', maybe '\')?
Very interesting.
Must admit I don't understand the calls like el.lowshelf( ... in the example.

Is el related to the user interface or does it already describe signal processing in some declarative way?

At first glance, I thought the actual processing is invoked when core.render is called.

Anyway, maybe I just have to read more about the project or watch the video.
This is a case of ‘working the numbers’ into something that sounds incredible or absurd. Here’s how it goes:

The H-O bonds in water have an energy of 9.5eV.

If you break and re-form this bond, you get a photon of 130nm.

A blackbody would have to be 22000K to achieve this emission peak.

Therefore, if you ‘measure’ the ‘temperature’ of this phenomenon with a spectroscope, you can get a ridiculous number.

The surface of the sun is generated by fusion at 5700K, so obviously this temperature (22000K) comes from a tiny supernova generated by a common shrimp.

I would like to see a science journal that publishes unvarnished brutal takedown responses from reviewers along with every submission. The WWE of science. At this point, it seems the journals (maybe universities) are fully in the entertainment industry anyway.
The term doesn't originate with computers, so the mono in monochrome doesn't refer to the 1 bit, but to the one colour. One dimensional colour isn't necessarily grey so monochrome is only greyscale when referring to black and white images.

If you make a cyanotype print of a black and white image the colours are blue, white and all the blue shades in between. One colour, but it's not greyscale.
Interesting problem - we're going to have to downgrade people's aspirations if we're not going to import people to do base-level jobs. Will cause social unrest.
I read his comment as "I hate the 1000% markup on clothing"
Mindjet Mindmanager, but quite expensive these days :/
Sometimes I think the claims are overstating things, but since nobody can use the claim to actually do anything it gets a pass.
Or just a real browser not a repackaging of other browsers/engines.
Yes, X may be their only option. X sucks, and it’s not what anyone with options would choose. Well, except for Y, which is even worse.

You’re arguing that X shouldn’t exist, leaving only Y. This, in your words, “makes you sound like a complete asshole who doesn’t understand that” this is a step up.
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The standardisation of medium of exchange is not only ancient, it's also universal. Shell currencies are found in isolated North American tribes and standardised silver ingots have been found in ancient Chinese digs. Fungible currency seems to be an absolute fundamental in any human economy.
I like this browser because it's one of the better options that runs on Haiku OS!
I wondered if they were just looking at how Uniqlo operate. Here in the UK, Uniqlo only have stores in London. You can find one or two other cities - Oxford, Manchester, but that's it. For anywhere else you have to shop online.
Well it makes more sense to think about memory in pages or at least words (or cache lines if you think performance), disks in blocks and network in packets anyway, memory is very rarely byte addressable natively... not being picky, just to underline that power of two adressable bytes does not sum it perfectly either.
Maybe you can help me - I need a mind mapping tool where I can build a tree not only in top to bottom direction but vice versa. For example I have b=>c=>d and I want to get a=>b=>c=>d . I have tried several mind mapping tools but none of them can do it.
Reminds me of GQL [2]. Anybody know the differences and or similarities?

[2] https://www.gqlstandards.org/
Isn't the issue here that APFS doesn't enforce policy and instead lets the tools resolve encoding details, resulting in differences by the different tools?

Most tools expect Form D.

Disk Utility doesn't normalize to Form D.

Terminal uses a different mechanism.

Spotlight doesn't support Form C names.

If anything, it seems like an argument against the X design principle of "tools, not policy", as increases the possibility of bugs, with no apparent advantage.

The essay links to another essay by the author at https://eclecticlight.co/2021/05/08/explainer-unicode-normal... , including the observations:

> In its original specification, APFS was billed as being non-normalising (the original phrase referred to filenames as just being a ‘bag of bytes’). ...

> When APFS was first released, chaos ensued, not so much with languages based on Roman alphabets, but worst of all in Korean, where there are a lot more normalisations. ...

> More likely and more serious are the conflicts which can occur when using different methods of accessing non-Mac file systems. Thomas Tempelmann has demonstrated this using a share on a NAS, which he mounted first using NFS, then created a file with a name in Form C. When mounted via SMB on a Mac, as that filename is un-normalised, it can’t be accessed, as he has described here.
From the outside they must look cold since they can't radiate heat any more than light. That doesnt imply anything about the inside.
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Consoles these days are just glorified PC's though so they are totally boring IMO.

for me at least the fun in consoles was that they were so different from your average x86 PC. it was fun to learn about the internals of the PS1, PS2 or SEGA Saturn back in the day precisely because of their arcane and custom built hardware.
I also use uBlock Origin in the same way. But my friend, who's a great developer, didn't know you could use uBlock Origin to hide elements, so I created a plugin that streamlines that process for her most addictive website.
Sadly still a thing.

Wire transfers in Canada (even domestic ones) are not available in online personal banking. You have to show up in a branch or call. Either way you will have to pay stupid amount of money for one. Someone receiving one will also have to pay "administrative fee" for the privilege - iirc it was $10-20 per wire transfer.

All you have are "email transfers" using Interac, which are usually capped at $3000 per transfer & per day.

So cheques. For everything that you can't/won't pay with CC. Rent? Write your landlord some cheques, preferably in advance for the duration of the lease, etc.

After moving to Canada almost a decade ago it felt like I was experiencing late 90's EU banking all over again, except European banking was rapidly evolving then and the only improvement I've seen in Canadian banking in close to 10 years were:

- I could set online banking password longer than 8 characters and use characters other than letters (I'm serious)

- I can cash a cheque by taking photos of it with a mobile app

The only 2FA available for personal banking is still SMS and you have those dumb "security" questions everywhere.
Crypto newsletter or cryptocurrency one?
Or primordial black holes with such a small mass actually do exist, who knows...
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This is great. Looking for similar tools I found a helpful list[0] on Github

https://github.com/humanetech-community/awesome-humane-tech#...
Being part of a medium-size company I realise the reason to not have QA is to save money. When an outage occurs because "oops, we didn't catch that bug", the issue is fixed within minutes. I suspect this is fine for the company and I imagine that the cost of these outages is cheaper than the cost of dedicated QA teams. Besides, this "culture" of "developers should own their products from conception to deployment, including QA" is becoming more ingrained in all new companies. It almost seems as if developers should be in charge of almost everything... and certainly it does cut costs (at least in Europe where we don't have such salaries as in the USA):

developers should know about frontend, backend, databases, now the cloud, devops, developers should have a "product mind", they know monitoring, they should do paid on-call rotations, they should do QA, they should help in technical interviews, they should mentor juniors colleagues, they should do "dojos" and "katas", they are encourage to go to conferences and "share knowledge" when they come back, they should help onboarding of new colleagues, they should organize "tech talks", they should... and all with the excuse "we care about you growing as a professional".
If this plugin gains traction I might add more features such as leaving the top comments from being hidden.
You still need a real keyboard and monitor to be productive (Steve mostly increased consumption) and the best solar panel and battery will always be the tree (the best fusion reactor is the sun).

All the inventions that enabled the final medium; the 3D MMO, where invented in the 70's (personal computer and TCP) and 90's (HTTP and OpenGL).

Refinements to both have now peaked, the Jetson Nano (10W) as client with OpenGL ES 3 that has VAO and the Atom 8-core (25W) as server with 1Gb/s fiber home hosting.

Enjoy this while it lasts, and please; make something open that others can use to make something!

Also stop chasing infinite growth, instead settle on the peak.

Finally; own what you do!
Well those areas with low water shouldn't be used to grow cotton, like almonds shouldn't be grown in water-poor California to make vegan milk ersatz.

Instead, cattle adapted to grazing in those arid areas could be a better and more environmentally friendly use of the land.
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I know, and they also failed on the primary goal of the project.
Exercising agency usually brings a lot of uncertainty and risk with it and I think a lot of people don't like that (as in owning decisions).

If you look at what people do in life, very few pick professions or businesses with high agency. Pretty sure that is not just some function of upbringing but risk tolerance and attitudes vary and not everyone wants to be a surgeon, trader, entrepreneur, racing driver, etc.

A lot of high paying professions actually are fairly agency free, e.g. consulting and other professional services - so as far as putting a price on it, agency is not necessarily rewarded much
"any browser that supports the standards before they became Google-ified because it is churning the standards so much that its weapon of monopoly is effectively change --- Firefox can barely keep up, and Microsoft already surrendered."

Almost all if they're abusing their search monopoly to force their preferred web "standards" on the rest of us?
This might help https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/169886/black-hol...

A black hole merger of this size is unlikely to have any significant quantum aspect
Have you sent it anywhere for archival? I can imagine archive.org would want it.
Unfortunately, this isn't how (web?) devs work. For a whole host of reasons, devs always prefer the new thing. This is likely a combination of factors: fashion (the same general social tendencies that make fashion a thing in any other industry), youth (new people are continuously joining the profession) but probably most of all: curiosity and a desire to learn new things.

You can try and model things on the idea of rational experienced senior devs all making tech decisions based purely on hard evidence-based demonstrations of material benefit of new tech over old tech, but reality is much softer than that.

Another factor is that Google's hold over SEO allows them to drive change through SEO requirements. E.g. there's always been a lot of overlap between new tech introduced and Chrome and requirements for Google search indexing, and that stands to increase with things like Core Web Vitals,

> rapid change in the standards is not really a sign of monopoly

Your statement here seems to be just picked from the ether and not actually based on anything in reality: there's no reason rapid change cannot be associated with monopoly.

There are many differences between how Google is approaching tech and how Microsoft did in the late 90s / early 00s but the its worth noting that second E in their infamous Embrace, Extend, Extinguish strategy most certainly involves rapid change in standards. This is hardly the only example, but it's notable I didn't even have to pick a different industry to find one.
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Request: can somebody please elucidate technically why this technology is failing?
I never buy clothes online (apart from t-shirts). Have they fixed the problem that returned items are thrown away instead of used again?
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Old Navy doesn't exist in the UK, though. Primark is something else entirely - it beats everyone on price, but attracts a different shopper.
Would you mind explaining your reasoning. This statement about climate for instance:

"the bigger the temperature extreme the SMALLER the contribution of global warming... "

Is it wrong? If so, how so?
> "cheque de banque"

This is usually called a "bank draft" or a "cashier's cheque" in other places. But yes, there are still probably some use cases for it.
I think Zen is also a fiction and certainly doesn't read like a self help book.
Same in the US. We used a check to pay for some work recently but for smaller household services they might accept Venmo.

In the US we have cashiers checks which are pretty much the same as you described. I’ve used them to buy cars.
> I'm still not quite sure how this addresses my question about how using biological pronouns instead of preferred pronouns somehow "ignores the existence of the intersex" as you earlier asserted.

My point, perhaps poorly delivered, was that not every person has a “biological pronoun”. How do you even define it?

There are people with XY chromosomes and female genitalia (and usually female identity): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_gonadal_dysgenesis

There are also people with male characteristics and two X chromosomes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XX_male_syndrome

Addressing these folks by their “biological sex” (of you mean chromosomes) would be hugely insulting, besides the fact it’s not like we got our chromosomes written on our forehead.

Lastly, there are people with ambiguous physical characteristics. Often gender assignment surgeries are performed shortly after birth. Those folks usually get addressed by the gender a doctor chose for them when they were infants - and sometimes this turns out to be the wrong choice and doesn’t actually match their identity. They also don’t have a “biological sex” that neatly fits into the male/female schema.
I worked at a Pac12 (Pac10) university that had this 30+ years ago. The system-of-record alias database (and dorm rooms selection process) ran on a server behind my desk. Celebrities and kids of powerful people who might be targeted were given this option. It seems also fair to protect people who might be targeted the other way around: from powerful forces, regardless of origin.
This is all broadly true, but the fact that 'Ozymandias' is frickin' Ramesses II does undermine the message of the poems a bit. Or more generously, it adds another level of depth to the point that someone's future fame can't easily be predicted by looking at their current fame.
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>They allow anonymous payments and they're slow to respond to takedown requests.

things that might also be liked by non-scammers.
The USA was defined by how superior it was to the rest of the world, how their companies were the best and standard of living the highest. I still remember an episode of the Simpsons laughing at how few dollars you get in exchange of a bunch of foreign coins and bills.

That reality does not exist anymore.

Reaganomics, discussed in the book, and low taxes in the USA created a lack of investment for the past three decades. Meanwhile Europe has become the place in the world with the higher standards of living, and China the fastest-growing economy. Both thanks to investing in infrastructure, education and health care.

How to solve it? It is hard. I am from Spain, a former empire, and there is still people that does not want to accept that Spain relevancy in the world is pretty low (even that it lost its colonies more than 100 years ago). Can the USA catch up with the new reality fast and recover? Or does it needs to sink lower before taking action?
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Yep, Gap is good for talloids like us.
If you were running a business, and wanted someone to do tech talks, or design/run interviewing for tech candidates, or have mentoring for junior devs, would you prefer non-developers to do it?
I recently started a new job working on a Elixir codebase. While it took me a while to understand the architecture and conventions (just like with any language, I guess), dealing with types was not a concern when it came to navigating the codebase.

Granted, the codebase uses pattern matching, type specs and Dialyzer extensively, which all definitely contribute towards making the navigation easier. Without those tools in use, I can definitely imagine navigation being more difficult.
Iirc they're switching to that model (google uses it's own key) but they need the developers' keys for older apps because android won't allow changing the key when an already installed app is upgraded.
I vaguely recall a study where they took suicidal people and employed them as lifeguards with great results.
Well, how can we teach copilot to avoid raw string interpolation in such cases? Sure, some people will correct it, and the AI might improve, but I suspect that the majority of the developers will never notice it, and that'll just reinforce the AI's bad habits.
> It took, like, a whole 15 minutes from the first sign of smoke to, all of a sudden, there being fire everywhere

"There are currently 67 fires burning in British Columbia and 44 of those have begun in the last 2 days, according to the B.C. Wildfire Dashboard. To date, the province has experienced 450 fires this year"

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/01/americas/canada-town-evac...

Looks pretty much like arsonism to me. Is a possibility that they shouldn't discard still.

Intentional or not, to have a wildfire must be a spark source somewhere. 450 sparks in this case. Discarded bottles acting as lenses, gas spilled from a car crash, cigarettes... something.
Any time you feel like you have too much money and spare time, you should get into modular synths - I think you might really dig it.
Placebos can be very effective. Just giving patients some pill will in general show better results than giving no pill. Giving a bitter placebo pill works better than a sweet pill.

So it is important that we know which placebos were used in a medical study.
This does NOT seem to be the actual code.
There was some translation program in the middle of the process that changed some of the text.
For example, look for &GT; which is an encoding of the GREATER THAN symbol.
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My bold claim: author didn't ever execute first 2 code snippets in the article.

Proof: int main (int argv, char* argv[]), i.e. both parameters are called argv.
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Yeah models assume future data can be predicted with past data, which of course is not always true in real life due fundamental limitations of statistics, such as very fat tailed distributions in stock markets.

Competent data scientists must be able to spot those cases quickly.
Seems like it's an object that contains factories for instantiating new audio processing stages and connecting it to the graph at creation-time.
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How did it recognize the moves performed by the human opponent?
Milton Friedman is a good example of an economist who actively tried to influence economic policy
The leviathan tax law is a constant and rapidly increasing overhead cost (time, money, fear, economic distortion) of being an American. These lawmakers have no idea how much damage they are doing to their country.
I want to live in a Smart Real Just Free America that has common-sense and isn't divided-and-conquered with intentionally-manufactured consent and ignorance. Fuck hate, fuck PC, fuck classism/snobbery, solve most inequality, fuck for-profit essential human rights strip mining like US healthcare and PPP's, and fuck tribal factions.
Oh I do too.

But there's two separate approaches for people who hate that markup: lowering the markup or increasing the production cost. Given current industry standards, I think the second approach is reasonable. It's also very easy to do, if you can afford to.
That just sounds like they maintain an exclusion list that triggers a manual review or additional checks.

Nice, but it's effectiveness depends on the completeness of the list.
Inditex has revenue of about $23 billion, Gap is around $16 billion, Primark is around $8 billion. They're not as far apart as you think.
Very interesting! They look a bit surreal, as if inverted maybe.
Reading your comment, I can't help feel you have more story about this era than all the articles. I'm sure others would be fascinated to know more of that time - any blogs or books down the line?
This is the only data point the poster had which supported their argument and it was factually incorrect, whether you look at inflation adjusted or as a percentage of GDP. Now, whether to use inflation adjusted or as a percentage of GDP is a valid argument, but doesn't change the fact the poster is wrong, and I don't think this is the forum where it really is going to get resolved.
I always though the basic hypothesis is the other way around: the populations with low alcohol tolerance used methods other than brewing to generate safe water (e.g., boiling as in tea) and hence no selection for alcohol tolerance.

If there really is a selection against alcohol, why did that not kick in outside Asia, too? The selection mechanism postulated would need to be fast... are 2k years or so really significant?
They'll survive. It is common to overvalue yourself when leaving the company but the reality is the company will adapt just like it always has and if it doesn't it would have died even with you there from choices that didn't allow it to adapt.

Just accept the offer and move on. It is the best thing you can do for a company like this.
You don't necessarily need the complicity of Bin Laden, or that many people.

You just need your intelligence agencies to keep track of what he is doing and allow him to continue because the attack suits your purpose (e.g. finding an excuse to attack Iraq).
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I would never prefer to buy anything online except in cases when it really is much cheaper this way and there is a pick-up place available during evenings. Delivery is never convenient (as I rarely am at home when they deliver) and pick-up places, when available, also tend to work very inconvenient hours.
Totally unrelated to the discussion. VA budget and the DoD budget are different line items and this is not what the OP was talking about, so does not matter in this context.