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Yes, this happens all the time. There are very few VC-funded startups that don't face VC-funded competition.
I generated a PDF using img2pdf. It's 4.8MB.
I've found GigSky cheaper than Truphone, but ill check out Ubigi
There's a few things to be aware of with svg favicons.

1. If a favicon is missing or in a format that's not compatible with the browser. The browser will look for a /favicon.ico file at the root of the site. It's worth having that as a backup or you end up with no favicon and 404 errors in the console.

2. Google now shows a favicon in some search results. I'm pretty sure it works fine with SVG. But, if you use an emoji you end up with a missing glyph character as your favicon. it looks bad.

3. If it's inline it won't be cached

I went a bit overboard optimizing the favicon of my site, and found that:

If you design your favicon as colored squares on a 16x16 grid, and save it as a 32x32 .ico file at https://example.com/favicon.ico

You end up with a smaller file size icon, that can be cached, doesn't have any markup on your site, and scales up perfectly on all the icon sizes.

here's an example:
https://doodad.dev/favicon.ico

it's just 625 bytes (261 minified)
the middle class gets to sleep in the house with master and eat buttered biscuits
Ha, good point. Since his accountant got charged just recently, I guess the fundraiser will say "Donate to my legal costs" and won't specify that it's not just (or even) to pay lawyers to fight the tech companies, but actually to pay lawyers to defend himself against the NY lawsuits.
No no no.

As a political office holder, he is not a private citizen. His speech is by definition government speech. Attempting to force private entities to broadcast government speech is...precisely the opposite of censorship.
I think you may have misinterpreted my last phrase (it was not an attempt at insulting you or calling you a scammer at all).

I'll rephrase it: "It's almost as if, if one is working in something blockchain-related, one must be a bad professional somehow (or, worse, a scammer)."

I don't disagree that the field is filled with amateurs (and, yes, scammers). It still doesn't imply that there isn't any serious cryptological research being done within the (so-called) field of "blockchain", which was the argument I originally replied to.
That's pretty amazing. A financial black hole.

A cool project, but if you think of the thousands of folks who didn't get funding so this thing could gobble everything up - these projects really become crazy budget wise (SLS did the same path).

I wish they would do pay for performance deals. We'll give you $4B if you put a telescope in space of X size that meets some basic specs.

If you look at commercial side, space imaging (earth facing) has just exploded and the cost side has gotten very very good. So it's clear you can get optics and sensing into space for a lot less.
For the record, here's what Pam Bondi said on related issues during the press conference today:

"When you have Mark Zuckerberg and others being called in front of Congress and being coerced and being questioned by all these congressmen, then you also have Mark Zuckerberg emailing with Dr. Fauci about COVID and in fact, a lot of their emails that we received have been redacted, not just because of phone numbers, but because they were trading trade secrets. A private company is communicating with the federal government and parts of that were redacted. They’re not immune anymore. They are not immune anymore. It was coercion, collusion, working together and they cannot hide from the first amendment."

https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-press-conf...
How would that alternative way of proving their unmaliciousness/identity not be a reinvention of the peephole?
That's kind of why I said completely.

Sort of, but to people not knowing anything about it it might sound as if it's impossible to do anything at all in vivo so I added some information about what is possible if you do not want a 'complete' recording.
While I love XKCD and am not a fan of Trump, limiting the philosophical idea of "Free Speech" to explicitly being about the Federal Government is a fairly dangerous idea.

When this country was founded Government was by far the most powerful agency in people's lives. Merchants where important, had a lot of influence but still could not be too aggressive with a regent.

Today the Government has far less influence over your daily life than large corporations and you employer. In 1776 most people where farmers, the only agency that could deny your livelihood was the government (they ultimately had control over your land). Today government policies have far less of an impact than your employer on your livelihood.

The fact that a handful of oligarchs can decided that Trump doesn't need a voice is not democratic solution to a politician I radically disagree with that I would like. If you feel like the list of things you can't say publicly without ruining your career is shrinking, that is certainly a threat to the spirit of free speech.
>Isn’t this the exact opposite though? Your data being used for targeting will minimize bad ads that you see.

Perhaps if it did what it says on the tin, but it usually doesn't, so no.

>(Facebook employee, never worked on ads or anything similar though)

Facebook is ads.
Maybe MGT isn't limited by diffraction but rather by atmospheric distortion (or residual distortion, because presumably they do what they can to correct it)? Just a guess, I'm not an astronomer.
I realize you are asking for online courses, but this in-person course from Decker was given to a lot of people at our company several years ago (dozens and dozens; hundreds?). Every. Single. Person. said it was valuable. I didn't get the opportunity and am still a tad sore about it :)

https://decker.com/blog/public-speaking/
> Likewise it's cold comfort for the consumer during the period when the company is able to jack up prices.

You mention Walmart as a good example, but their net income figures for the past few decades indicate that they have not been able to jack up prices.
That'd be cool. Those things make a lot of noise. Would be nice if the refrigeration hardware itself was located as far as possible from the living areas.

What if homes had some kind of centralized modular heat exchanging infrastructure? That way we could move heat from hot things that need to be cold to cold things that need to be hot. Move heat from my computers to a water heater or something. Gotta use all that excess heat for something, right?
Simple, outsource the moderation. Provide a common access API for third parties to provide moderation. Whether their home feed content resemble 4chan or the New Yorker is entirely up to the user.
I suggested something like embedding RFID tags in the road, not paint signs over it.

If you also embed trackers in the signs themselves, the depredation issue is easier to deal with.
Here's the video of the talk that goes with Greg Kroah-Hartman's slides:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeeoTE9jLjM
@dang Why did the mod team restore all the karma from sillysaurus' previously banned accounts? They haven't done it for others...
> If, as he points out early in the paper, common carrier status in the US would only apply to hosting, but not recommendation engines and the like, what is the gain?

There's something between hosting and recommendations, which the paper suggests common carrier status could also be applied to, and that's subscriptions. So youtube wouldn't have to recommend Alex Jones' videos, but if people subscribe to his channel, it would have to show his videos to them.

> Anybody can already find hosting somewhere.

Even if that's the case, taking away their current hosting disrupts people's speech.
He sued in Florida, despite terms of service agreements saying where any disputes must be settled, so the suits will be immediately tossed. But he's fund-raising off of this, and that's the real reason he's doing it.
Assuming you mean in the USA: a few. ASC’s (Ambulatory Surgical Centers) are more likely to do this in areas with a lot of cash payers. In Ohio and PA there are healthcare agencies that cater to the Amish and Amish-adjacent that will often have cash-price lists.

However, for a lot of health care the checklist you describe simply doesn’t exist. If I enter an ER/Urgent care there is no checklist that can be provided before I agree to anything. Insurance companies have extensive information about these costs, but that info is proprietary and not easily available (this information is used for a lot “prequalify before treatment” type things).

The one exception here is Medicare/Medicaid expenses. Both systems have exhaustive price lists for ICD/CPT/etc codes.
> Why are people so obsessed with picking some parts Tesla revenue

Because people (for the most part) aren't fools, especially on here.

People see a 600B dollar company and expect it to feel its presence in their lives each and every day.

They expect to use the thing, or their employer to use the thing or their supplier to use the thing on a daily basis like it happens with Exxon, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Salesforce, Oracle, IBM...

They all earned their significance by touching so many lives and making people lives a tad better and less complicated for their users, and the rise to riches of their founders has happened in lockstep or almost lockstep with the changes and the improvement they were making in people's lives.

With Tesla you have a 600B company and Porsches (which are a rarity on their own) are still more common then them on our roads.

People are suspicious about unjustifed enrichment, always been, always will be.

"What have you done for me to deserve that amount of money? What have you done for society to deserve that amount of money?"

Such question will always come up. Musk has been able to answer to such question up to now with:

1) "Give me time!" and

2) "Wait, neat things are a-comin" as well as

3) "Population wide morale boost given by the prospect of amazing future is the real product"

People are more and more asking questions though, and he keeps answering with postponements and future deadlines, while Teslas are still less common than Porsches
Device lock is hardly something unique to Apple devices. It's unfortunate you forgot to unlock it before you lost access to that email account, but all may not be lost - have you tried account recovery?
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204921

For anyone else reading this - take heed. It's better to ensure you can recover before you need to. Apple provides multiple ways to ensure you have access to an important Apple ID - with or without access to email.

You can generate a recovery key that will work whether or not you have access to the email or phones associated with the Apple ID: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208072

When you now create an Apple ID it nags the crap out of you to print and file it. If you created your Apple ID before they offered the recovery keys, now's a great time to go generate it and stash it away in a safe space!

You can also set up backup/secondary emails and phone numbers in your Apple ID - not a bad idea either.

It's easy to overlook this kind of stuff when setting up ID's, and not all vendors justify this kind of diligence when you create a new account. But with Apple because of device lock (which is a useful feature for theft deterrence or just petty revenge that a damn thief will get no benefit from my stolen stuff), any data or purchases you may have associated with that account it's well worth ensuring you will be able to recover your ID before you are in a situation where you need it :)
A "large" RTG puts out a few hundred watts of electrical. A very efficient electric car might consume 25 kWh/100 miles, so about 250 watt-hours per mile. If your car sits parked 6 days per week, it might work.

Also: RTGs are typically 3-7% efficient, so your trunk will put out thousands of watts of waste heat continuously. Hope you live in a cold climate.
"On Air Aerospace" being an inflight roaming [1] provider like AeroMobile, right?

I recall getting a text about that £7.20 fee during a flight a couple years ago.

[1]: https://www.aeromobile.net/inflight-roaming/
2 years minimum by law.
If you're referring to Officer Sicknick, he died of two strokes a day after being attacked with bear spray by Julian Khater and George Tanios and being subjected to the most stressful day of his life. Medically, he may have died of natural causes, but those strokes were the result of the riot, whether because he was sprayed with bear repellent [1] or because of the stress of the day.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/24/us/officer-si...
Related: If you're looking for a favicon generator, check out https://realfavicongenerator.net (I am not affiliated, just a satisfied user).
When you say misrepresentation of public interest, what do you mean by that?
If they break a contract you can sue, that leads to consequences.
I honestly can't tell if this is a joke. It's got some good ideas, but the way it's presented violates all of their suggestions.
> I find authentication the least problematic place where risk based on ip is used.

I’m not an expert on Risk Based authentication, but your Etsy example sounds exactly like RBA. They use IP address as a factor in determining the risk associated with allowing the login, and suspend accounts with random IPs to prevent the “attacker” from wreaking havoc.

RBA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk-based_authentication
Trump announces lawsuits against Facebook and Twitter
> TPM wtf is that?

Something of great value in the area of security. Generally a good thing to have, and so also a good idea for MS to want.

> apple .. know how to "transition"

I've just sold my M1 Air, and an updated ThinkPad is out for delivery. That's after nearly two decades of being a Mac user (alongside Windows and Linux).

And it is because of the Apple transitions (well that, plus even the latest [fixed] keyboards are only half as good as a ThinkPad).

First the then-latest OS (about a year ago; I can't remember exactly) made all my 32 bit games and applications effectively unusable, so I started collecting 64 bit ones instead. At which point we got the M1 to put x64 on life support too.

That's two rounds of lost software in a couple of years.

(Before anyone says it, I know about Rosetta 2. My M1 Air did indeed run x64 software - faster in fact that my Intel machine did. But I also know from Rosetta 1 days [PowerPC/Intel] that decent support for the deprecated architecture is probably to be measured in low single digit years.)
Speaking for myself, because I want to have a child and there are plenty of people not being told not to have children. I see this appeal on the same level as "how can one decide not to live an ascetic life in %CURRENT_YEAR%" while corporations and countries decide unilaterally to fuck up our lives for decades to come.

When I go to the grocery store and 90% of the produce is wrapped in plastic, I'm not going to take responsibility for buying what I need and throwing the plastic in the trash.
This presentation is wonderful for its PR value "people here care" but naïve bordering on malicious in its approach and understanding of Google's business.

11 years ago PG called the iPad the "hip flask" of the internet (1) and it's 10x worse today than it was then.

The incentives of every major ad-supported tech platform are the same - maximize engagement to maximize profit.

Every dollar of profit, every promotion, every individual incentive is tied to that metric outside of some lip-service like this to keep HRs job manageable.

If you don't like it, quit and work for somebody else whos business model is disconnected from engagement.

Full stop.

(1) http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html
"...quality is fastest way to get software into production"

Maybe, but what constitutes "quality"? What's the definition of "quality"? Back in the mid 90s, Bellcore sold something called "QMO", an all-encompassing development methodology that focused on "quality". Nowhere in the system did it define "quality", so QMO ended up as a system to call meetings, demand "artifacts" of people, and argue about what "quality meant.

Yes, software development is misunderstood. So is "quality". In fact, it's so misunderstood as to defy any understanding at all.
Clicking through we get this

"JWST is now estimated to cost approximately $9.7 billion and launch in October 2021, which represents cost growth of 95 percent and 88 months of schedule delays since the project’s cost and schedule baselines were first established in 2009."

So around $10B. Amazing.
it wasn't "Impromptu execution station" it was literally some redneck who spun couple meters of paracord into a noose shape.

>doesn't really sound much better

>sound much better

>sound

This is the problem. It isn't enough that "they made a noose and yelled for Pence to be hung" now it has to be "execution station" or "gallows" which are way different things.

I am not saying that that is OK either, but it is like saying "they had full-automatic rifles and anti-personel granades" when they really had couple of hunting rifles. Still terrifying and fucked up. No need to spread lies.
This is what worries me: I feel that the only reason that public opinion on psilocybin is recovering is because the drug is outlawed, so only the most motivated and prepared people would be willing to seek it out, and thus there is overreporting on the positive, life-changing effects that are impossible to be had without the drug. If the drug becomes more widespread, stories of "average people" taking the drug and experiencing negative effects could surface, causing mainstream public backlash, because there are so many more people taking the drug, some without the level of preparedness of the people willing to go off the beaten path (breaking the law, finding a distributor and a trusted copilot, being in a positive state of mind), so there are so many more chances that something could go wrong.

If psilocybin is legalized I feel that the responsible thing to do is to restrict its usage to the context of therapy. I have a feeling that this kind of legalization shouldn't be equivalent to marijuana where you'd be able to walk into a store and purchase some out of curiosity.

I haven't tried psilocybin yet, because of my impressions above, and because without knowing someone who could act as a guide I don't think it would be worth it.
Stop the Adness: How Blockchain Will Replace Advertising
Yea, I do think protocols, not platforms, is the way to go. I especially like the way Mastodon works because you can allow/disallow federation of servers without actually being able to deplatform others
And the consequences are quite asymmetric.

If you rub a Big Tech company the wrong way, they will disable your account and dramatically alter your online life.

But if they pull the floor from under your feet, you have no practical recourse, maybe a complaint on Hacker News.
Right, they choose not to invest more time and thought into something else. That's why the pattern of the social media bait and switch is frustrating.

The company made a promise. People bought that promise.

Company changes the promise and puts a bow on it and dresses it up. Company only notes the promise in the fine print. But because it already has the power and because people don't want to be on alert 100% of the time (because that can actually kill you), the deception works.

So you bring up a fallacy. The actual option here is "pay attention to every company you use to communicate all the time" or don't pay attention and accidentally agree to something not well advertised.

Interesting fact, Facebook has an F rating on the BBB's website.

Of course, the very first complaint on there is an interesting one that completely misconstrues the first amendment right, but again, that's just interesting.

(https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/menlo-park/profile/social-media-ma...)
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That was my reaction. Terrible UI with grainy graphics, took a long time to get to the point. Talk about wasting time! I gave up about 20 slides in too.
More sockets add memory controllers, but we can also think about moving HBM closer to the cores as a L4 cache or scratch memory that’s not expected to be synchronised with other cores/sockets.
I believe the unfurling of the solar panels is one of the tricky parts.
You can, but should you?
Doesn't that look unprofessional?
> To store an unambiguous moment in time ( e.g. when scheduling an international conference call) one can store it as a timestamptz but this doesn't gain a lot over just treating all time in the database as UTC and then converting from/to local time for input/display.

This "interpret tz-less time as utc" in requires discipline to treat it counter to the default human interpretation of the data type, so is error prone. DB client libs will default to using ambiguous time types like LocalDate etc. Wouldn't recommend it.
It's not at all like ATT kicking everyone off the telephone system. If the ISPs providing the bandwidth kicked people off simply because they don't like what they say, then it would be similar, but these are software as a service organizations, and you are free to use that still available bandwidth to use a different service, or even make your own. The gold is in the size of the audience, and that's what these companies have built, and done so by setting guidelines and providing incentives to bring the users.

There's absolutely no right for you or anyone else to have a guaranteed audience, though plenty of politicians try to make it so by using taxpayer money to let you know they stole some money from one taxpayer and gave it to a larger voting bloc friendly to them.

So, yeah, it's a few days of work to build a twitter replacement, but if you want that audience, you have to put in the sweat to build it, not just jump up and down and demand that you have a right to one that someone else built.
Great news for users that weren't going to have the problem anyways, horrible news for the 16x16 rendering issues otherwise.
>The advanced-educated-but-not-good-enough

It's not like those "advanced-educated" that are left out are hating on the top elite of the advanced ("the great") that are "good". For starters, because those are too few, and they don't compete directly, plus they can see their merits.

So, usually it's "advanced-educated-and-perfectly-good" vs "advanced-educated-but-lucky-or-with-connections-and/or-family-wealth" where the discontent lies.