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I think this person has no idea how much work goes into bring a product up. It's an incredible amount of work and time that goes into it. And that's with code from Intel/AMD/Qualcomm + reference designs. Designing the silicon and the board and the firmware in under a few years is absolutely ridiculous. To do so in 8 months is ludicrous.
>And if we're being honest, climate change will get us before the government here can

The future is FEMA
edit: I totally misread this. Sorry about that. The rest of the comment just included for context

I feel like this comment and the one it's replying to perfectly articulates the real problem. Vaccination has gotten pulled into the web of politically charged topics. Even just a few years ago the anti vac sentiments didn't really have a home, but now we quickly default to litigating literally the culture war. I know you're replying to someone who brought the wider issues into it, but narcissism is definitely not at the root of a desire to have more people vaccinated.
Well sounds like you should train regularly then :)

But overtraining isn’t just getting over exerted and having to rest for a few days or even weeks. It’s a very gnarly condition that’s ridiculously hard to get to. Most of us would mentally tap out long before.

It’s a lot like the difference between needing a break and being burned out. Getting tired and needing a break is normal, being burnt out is a serious condition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtraining
Intel's stalled mostly at the fabrication side. Since Apple is fabless, this isn't really a good comparison.
Thanks frantzme. I replied to your email however, for anyone else reading this, I don't have a Mac. That is a little of a handbrake.
> but narcissism is definitely not at the root of a desire to have more people vaccinated.

Correct, and I didn't think that's what my comment implied. I argue it's the root cause of why people won't get vaccinated, and why they push back, on taxes, vaccines, cancel culture, seat belt laws, and gun buying restrictions as enumerated by GP. Fragile egos, a grandiose sense of self-importance, believing they are special, and a lack of empathy, high level. There's a reason I linked to the Signs and Symptoms of that wikipedia page.
> In England, the Queen decides to dissolve the parliament - which she has the absolute right to do

No, she doesn't, at least by what appears to be the dominant constitutional theory (not having a simple written Constitution makes this...less clear than one might want it to be.) The Crown does, sure, but the particular category of Crown powers this falls into is that it is validly exercised by the Queen/King-in-Council; that is, by and with the advice and consent of the Privy Council, not unilaterally.

> Did the Queen/US commit a coup d'etat?

Yes.
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It's just a programming language. Like natural languages, what once seemed foreign and inscrutable before you learn it becomes natural and (not quite) effortless after.

I'm sure you can handle it.
For calculus, I like this book [1] for self-study. Also the Schaum's Outlines are great no-nonsense introductions. They're both gentle introductions, while still being useful.

For probability, I really like Morin's book [2]. It starts really basic (like, super basic), but builds up a coherent understanding of lots of useful distributions, where their density functions come from.

[1] https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691130880/th...

[2] https://scholar.harvard.edu/david-morin/probability
> because when I went to my crappy state school people always said "Oh, but you can always go to a top grad school!".

In engineering, you definitely can, and it's not unusual.

This doesn't conflict with your parent. Do not pay for it out of your own pocket. Get funding (teaching/research assistantship).
I think you captured it more elegantly than I did. I know it sounds like playing favorites but consider it’s not just me I look at out for. If our IT Business Analyst Jill helps all the people in our business and everyone raves about how helpful she is, I have a lot more trust than the guy who scolds his employee for taking calls at 4 that my be issues because it’s the end of the day and he didn’t want to stay late fixing issues (I swear on my life another manager and I overheard this badgering occur). If it’s Jill vs him asking for a headcount, Jill is getting it all day long.
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Those people are acting within their specialty. For the last year and a half the only voice in the room that was allowed was that of the doomsday epidemiologist. Whatever recommendations they said were taken at face value with no thought or regard to any other specialty at all.

Epidemiologists are not experts in political science, economics, mental health, education, public health, business, finance, behavioral health, law or anything else.

When these people make unilateral public policy decisions, they are operating well outside their expertise.

Unilateral myopic Technocracy ain’t what it was made out to be. It appears to quickly devolve into straight fascism.
“How All My Politically Correct Bones Were Broken”
I'm confident it's intentional at this point - they probably A/B tested alternatives and realised this gives them the highest engagement.
This would have been quite the test for the Biden administration. I'm honestly curious what action they would have taken had it succeeded.
One theory is that Trump feels like he didn't get enough credit for the vaccines so he and the GOP politicians and media are trying to discredit them entirely. It's not clear that he's directing this but check out any republican news station or politician talking about vaccines in the last month, it's unreal. Republican & far right influencers, some of the widest reaching influencers in any category, are publicly pushing back on vaccines daily now.

Another theory is that vaccines are an increasingly easy topic for victim complex radicalization. People like to think they are smarter than their doctor, there was already a growing grift industry pushing vaccine skepticism, plus it's new. There's probably no easier way to radicalize someone already in your base than to say, "Hey you know how you already didn't trust that new guy in office (and I've been saying he didn't really win for months)? Now he is forcing you get a shot you don't need!"

It's pretty wild to think that there are people today actively encouraging people not to vaccinate against this thing but then again there have been people pushing against basically every vaccine for many years. All of them selling something: books, event tickets, snake oil type "health" products or just pulling in YouTube ad revenue.

Some people will do literally anything to get what they want in life, I guess it's really not different from a president starting a war for personal or shallow political reasons or a destructive industry leader burying a damning report but it's still super surprising to see it in real time as opposed to decades after the fact.
I thought this was going to be about python INSIDE Excel. If MS ditched VBA for python, that would be incredible. VBA needs to honestly die cause it is just a horrible syntax to read. It's like staring at a SQL Procedure.
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Darling is more of a novelty at this point. Soon I'm going to try using it in my build system, if it's even remotely successful I'll do a write-up for it.
Fair enough. The distinction is the gulf oil states where both the parties are aligned versus the American petroleum interests which are more closely aligned with the Republicans.
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Seriously!

The 6809 is a powerful 8 bit CPU. In addition to just pushing pixels, the higher level engine is a master class in priorities, tradeoffs to maximize player action, given arguably limited resources. The better features in that CPU were all employed to great effect.

The sound system, plays one sound at a time. The right sounds happen at the right times, conveying a ton with just one sound channel.

Baddies are moved out of the field of play at times to keep frame rates up.

Single buffer, screen draw happening on alternating upper, lower regions to avoid display artifacts, tearing and such.

So many great choices!
I set up Tailscale on Android to use my Pihole from anywhere. Works pretty well.
Thanks for the anecdote; Makes me glad I have an e46. About the only thing that didn't make it 80k miles on my car was the plastic headlight reflectors. (and that coolant expansion tank that fails 5 years on the dot)

I'm also lucky enough to be trained in vehicle maintenance; The only service I've had done by professionally were recalls and when I didn't have garage available to do the expansion tank (and Pep Boys didn't have a supply chain, so I got my choice in parts)
I'm pretty the situation is not confined to Columbia. This is how crazy the film/movie world is.
I miss the good old days when conservatives would argue "Stop painting conservatives as anti-science! Don't you see how many anti-vaxxers are coastal liberals?"
From my school? Yes it is. To get into a top grad school you need multiple first author papers. Most research groups at state schools straight up don’t have that research capacity.

I had 2 2nd author papers and people that I've shown my profile to say I have straight up no chance at good schools. They then trot out the 'ol "It matters more who your advisor is".
Technically there's all the X versions which are boosted versions and are somewhat different internally.
Can relate. Been 3 months since I recovered. Sense of smell has recovered definitely but since the past 2-3 weeks I've noticed it's still not fully there. A rare house plant blooming in the night which for everyone at home triggers a strong sweet fragrance which can be sensed even on the second floor, for me it was like a lingering placebo. Additionally, there is this weird stench that permeates everything I eat. I can't explain it, just a kind of smell I've never come across but now have to every other hour because it colors pretty much any earlier-pleasant-smelling thing
One mans new cpu that’s as fast as the highest end Intel chips at the entry level is another persons not snappier. This is the Louis C. K. thing about Internet on a flipping plane not working perfectly and people being super entitled to nice things!
Are there any packages that exist on Brew, but not, say, APT or pacman?
Was Timnit's paper related to reinforcement learning at all? Not sure how you're concluding that the papers have much similarity.
Personally, I don't consider a single success story data, I consider it an anecdote.

But to reiterate my last point, I was expressing scepticism of taxpayer subsidized muni-broadband turning out to benefit everyone. If its cash-flow positive, that's a different scenario where I'm much less skeptical.
You make very good points. This kind of system only works with strong support from the CEO, where everyone is firmly “on the same team” and has designated positions to play (e.g. IT has to provide the IT stuff). Once you allow shopping around within the company or externally, you end up in a shitshow.

It’s still better than the typical approach, where everyone is just angry at IT all the time “because they are such a drag with so many expenses”. Outside of the extremely dysfunctional cases, charging everything back to business units is at least the more honest approach.
Seems that, since the right volume to adjust is dependent on so many contextual variables, the right thing to do is to display two sliders, one for app & one for the system volume, and let the user adjust the appropriate one.
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> You can generally exit at any time and immediately transition into lucrative careers in, for example, tech and finance.

This is what's known as a "dick move" in academia, and it's a good way to burn bridges. Generally, the academic who is putting down the money to pay your tuition and stipend is making an investment. In return for a free education and $30k per year, you do research, you study, and eventually you are expected to graduate. Good academics will make sure you don't fail at this. Then, when the academic goes up for tenure or promotion, the committee will be looking at among other things, the students who graduated under their tutelage. If you decide you'd rather not stick it out, that's potentially years of work they invested in you, gone.

All in, a graduate student can cost an academic upwards of $50-100k per year, and they are typically expected to foot that bill for at least 4 years, up to a max of 10. To get this money, the academic needs funding from grant agencies, whose funding rates can be as low as 20%. When submitting a grant proposal, academics generally do so with a particular student in mind who will do the research. If you leave in the middle of the grant, it likely spells failure (or at the least a huge setback) for the project, and possibly future grants, as it's too late to train up a brand new student to the point you were at.

Just something to think about before entering a Ph.D. program. Remember these communities are small and have a long memory. Best not start something unless you really are committed, and won't just pack up shop at the first hint of dollar signs from Wall Street or Silicon Valley.
It's like how redbull reps tell the barkeep to only pour half the can In the drink and give you the can to hold and carry around. It makes you into a billboard for the product talking to Siri in public.
A14 and M1 are from the same series.
Human beings can’t definitively define good or bad without human defined boundary conditions. Be VERY careful with these two words in their general meaning.
came here to say this, kinda.

m1 is a chip designed to fit into their current lineup. it makes sense to launch m2 with redesigned hardware or after a hardware redesign. ergo, the M2 will need to fit in the chassis of the new iMac.

hardware redesign + new in-house chip = a lot of time

I'd be amazed if this even drops this year instead of early 2022 with how long apple's release cycles are. think they'll prob roll out the smaller MBP, the Air, the mini redesigns in the fall/winter, while keeping the current 16" lineup. they'll launch the 16" and larger iMac at next summer's WWDC.
Not sure what the meaning behind your comment, but I found /u/downWidOutaFite's reply to be thought provoking.

Specifically, the original poster's paragraphs seem to contradict each other: the first suggests 'not fighting the good fight' because you have to appeal to consumerism, and the second blames Mozilla for not fighting the good fight and appealing to consumerism.

I also don't know why the account age has anything to do with this -- they're not pointing out a typo, they're pointing out a logical contradiction.
Everything is true even in a non-top school, except perhaps the "exit anytime". For that, I can easily believe Wall Street looks at top universities.
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Lots of good resources here already, so I’ll share an opinion and an open question instead.

IME the key concept while learning analog synthesis is understanding control signals. For most synthesizers, this mainly means envelopes (for one-shot changes), LFOs (for cyclic changes), and maybe the mod wheel (for help with learning how amplitude affects the control signal). Tying the control signals to “what you hear” is the big idea.

You mentioned that you have an iPhone. I’m assuming you have a computer that you can use to watch/read some of these suggestions with, and I encourage you to get the simplest analog-modeling synth app that you can find on the iPhone in order to “play along” and exercise each concept you’re learning. That live exploration and immediate feedback is very important, whether you’re using physical knobs or not. A simpler synth will cut away all the extra stuff and help you grasp the fundamentals more clearly.

Someone recommended Synth One. It is free and quite capable. I just fired up my copy and tried and failed to find an init patch to start building from. Its envelopes are not clearly labeled or intuitively tied to the things they modulate. I think it has multiple screens to navigate through. So I don’t think that’s the best option for your purposes.

This leads to the question: does anyone know of a simple stripped-down synth engine, preferably one that fits all on one screen, that brudgers can use along with a guide to dig into the basics? Asking for that on a phone might be too much; you may be better off using the phone to read/watch and the PC to play with a simple JS synth. If you have multiple screens, that would work just as well.

Key features:

1 or 2 voice oscillators (the available waveforms don’t matter)
Keyboard- or mouse- or touch-triggered note input option (sequencers muddy the waters)
Amp tied to an ADSR Envelope
Filter tied to an ADSR Envelope
LFO tied to something (pitch or filter cutoff)

The simpler the better, I cannot stress this enough! Brudgers doesn’t need a patch bay or customized routing to learn about filter cutoff and LFOs and ADSR envelopes. Cut out the noise, save it for later. It’s okay if those things are present, as long as it’s easy to get to an init patch and ignore them. “Subtractor from Reason as a web app” is a good upper bound of what I have in mind here.
What is country A likes it but B does not? Seems like a source of conflict.

Similar to the GERD but in the sky.
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That is why I have an IPSEC connection back to my home from work, so I can use my internal DNS with DNSBL blocklist. (be careful, few employers will allow such a setup).

The top list seems like a reflection of market share: fls-eu.amazon.de, sessions.bugsnag.com, googleads.g.doubleclick.net, data.mistat.intl.xiaomi.com, app-measurement.com, in.treasuredata.com ..
I would like the Alexa team to reward politeness.

Like if you say "Alexa, please mute", you could unlock a new voice or a funny joke or something.
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The overhead needs support. If you put up additional security where only IT staff can do x, then you need to ask for or transfer headcount to ensure it’s just as nimble as before. If you demonstrate that ability to manage change, then you also demonstrate that the limited funds are best in your hands.
First off, recognize that it wasn't the "firm" that did this, it was an individual developer. It never should have happened, but people love to blame the big corporation, and they do need to take responsibility for the actions of their employees, but you should thank the manager for taking down the code so quickly. That puts you on the right footing with the manager. Things went wrong, you've taken the first step of action, now what's next.

Let them show you that they are a respectable company. They don't want you bad mouthing them. If they don't play ball, then you can take out a stick and see how far it will get you, but I'd start by asking them what other actions they've taken to ensure the security of your IP, etc etc. Act as if you've assumed they've done it and if they haven't, then you can have an open discussion about what you think should happen.

You can take it as an opportunity to also help them make sure something similar doesn't happen to future customers. You don't want them out of business, just this contract didn't work out.
I don't think this is a story, but someone still has to fab them and they can stall
I remember having lunch with some google engineers who lamented that they would find clever optimizations and management would save them for future generations. It makes sense from a marketing standpoint, but from an engineering standpoint it drove the engineers nuts. I get it though, it offers a good path to having consistent gains.
We’re in a thread talking about college students, of which almost all of which are moving to go to these schools. It’s that percentage. And a whole lot more than 5% of American 20 somethings move for jobs or school away from home during this time.

It’s literally the most flexible and already mobile portion of the population, and the segment most trying to establish itself (while having some useful skills). They are the ones who are most capable and who will benefit the most from disruption.

It’s the folks too young to have useful (job) skills or capital, or who are already established in a place, or who are physically frail/getting more so, that will be the most put out and hurt by these changes.

And the human race will survive, as terrible as it will be. Compared to the world wars, the expected impacts are likely to be relatively mild - albeit more widely spread.
The Segway was a failure because it works against the lizard-brain in a way that isn't obvious. Didn't one of the owners* die riding one off a cliff?

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Heselden
Pretty much most of them. Anytime you hear people complaining about how IT is nothing but a huge expense (which is by far the biggest complaint made by business people about IT), they’re in a company like this.

It seems to be mostly the really large companies who have enough of an internal economy where they actually get to the point of internal chargebacks.
Nobody said we should kill the citizens of Saudi Arabia.
> Yes, you will likely travel, but research funding is more often than not very tight and restricted. As a result, travel conditions are not always ideal.

Tell me about it. I once had to travel to Japan for a conference. Problem was, I couldn't fly any carrier that wasn't American due to the conditions of the grant. What would have been a very long trip from the East Coast of the USA turned into multiple days and 4 flights (Philadelphia, Atlanta, LA, Seoul, Tokyo) just to satisfy the requirements. I was so exhausted by the time I got to the venue, I passed out for 14 hours and practically missed the first day of the conference.
The men involved in the PyCon dongle incident found other jobs quickly. The woman did not.
> I just can't understand how someone can go through 4 years of intensive training, and not once do a google search on starting salaries in their major.

Most college students are not good at gauging what a good salary is. They don't have family, and haven't dealt with expenses, and know little about retirement. When I was in grad school, $70K sounded like a lot to almost every student.
Only a minority of Americans are on a decent ISP, but that's still tens of millions with FTTP.

Backblaze also has data centers in the EU, where most of the population has FTTP and even the people who don't are much less likely to have data caps because the EU is actually pro-competition.
It would provide way more health benefit to have a treadmill at the desk and walk at 1mph while working.

Removing all strain would be the worst thing you can do health-wise.

Adding support tends to weaken muscles. Use it or lose it.
For ad blocking outside the home, install WireGuard on the RPi and configure it to use pihole as its DNS server. Install script should prompt you to do this automatically if it detects pihole is installed.

Then just connect your WireGuard client on your phone to the endpoint

Use something like freedns.afraid.org for dynamic IP address support
Some do, some don't. It really depends. I'd suggest it isn't bad marketing, but it can often be difficult to make a screenshot look appealing to the buyer. It might look appealing to the user, but that is often a different person.

If it is so consistent in the industry, I doubt it's by accident.
You are right that Google is aggressively pushing the web forward, but it's debatable whether it's a good thing; if you look at recent initiatives like FLoC, Web Packaging and Manifest v3.