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> These camcorders use FireWire to communicate with the computer, so you will need a suitable cable.

dvgrab will work with USB via the -V flag:

-V, -v4l2 capture DV from V4L2 USB device (linux-uvc)

USB was mostly fine for interactive capture. Firewire has been smooth for unattended transfer of whole tapes.

Obtw - My Firewire port and Sony MiniDV didn't work with dvgrab until I explicitly commented out

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> Teams

Moving back to a full MS stack after 15ish years away from it is so disappointing. I’d assumed things had got better.

Their previously good products are now some sort of split personality monster that sort of work together but mostly just exist near each other and have a common logo. Teams is a mushy world between the distant parts.

Go on, try change a footer on a “Word” document or move an image. Try and copy a document and change its contents and re-upload. It might work, and it might work most the time. But when it goes wrong it’s devastating.
I wonder if you could build a modern-ish browser on Windows 98 and use it as a minimalist daily driver? Give me a modern browser, bash shell (perhaps an old version of cygwin?), and a decent text editor and I probably could for the most part. I'd have to really get in the '90s spirit and break out the cassette deck though because running an obese Electron app like Tidal would probably be difficult.

I guess you're limited to 3.5 GB of memory too what with Windows 98 being a 32-bit operating system which might be a pain, and perhaps a bigger problem is that no drivers have been written for a couple of decades.
Adding one more question to this list: what about those who don’t use WhatsApp? The website says “share invoices over WhatsApp and email”, which I take as native support or integrations for these modes.
> if "productivity" is the sole metric of an employee's performance, just wait until your employer decides to try and optimize it.

Productivity is the sole metric of your performance, it is the job of management to come up with meaningful metrics. If they try to optimise for something stupid like LOC or mouse movements or hours logged, they will get the hell they planned for themselves.

The very last thing I want to happen is being judged by how popular I am.
Most alarms wake you at a certain time, not a certain location.
Running openSUSE in a FreeBSD jail using Bastille
Lots need to happen and change in regulations and law around the world before it can be seen as a future I reckon.
I'm surprised to hear that!
> The sounds and vibe of the office have work associations in my brain.

You’ll find that once you’re not used to that anymore, reaclimating to it will be a nightmare (and very stressful)
I am using old Android Xperia 10 with Termux, Apple Bluetooth keyboard and Chromcast screen to 27 inch TV. With Termux I will ssh into my server (using mosh).

Pretty decent and stable setup… And free as I have just gathered some old hardware pieces…
While some may see this as a positive, I think it's of utmost importance to remember what this industry did to the world.

They didn't just lie their way into massive profits at the cost of millions, and millions, and millions of lives. They developed systematic FUD that has since been adopted by such lovely people as the oil and pharma industries.

I want them kept well the fuck away from cannabis. There's no need for them and their horror. Basically anyone can grow a cannabis plant, it's not like tobacco. Why trust these people to get involved in any way whatsoever.

Get them and their blood money the fuck off the planet. Let's remember that they are still advertising to children in parts of the world, among other atrocities.
Is big evil tech at fault though? I'm sure the vast majority of users asked Microsoft and Google to do something about spam.

Iirc at its height 90% of all email was spam.
Crane operators are actually one of the highest ranked professions in terms of job satisfaction.
What I was trying to say is the baby is growing faster. If you stay at average weight throughout your life, like you're tracking along the 50% line on the growth chart, then your fastest weight gain is in your first year. On average that's when you gain the most weight (even in absolute terms), despite the fact that you're much much smaller than, say, a growing teenager.
How Facebook chatbots help to Increase Conversions?
There's some potential in making a web-driven GUI with legit application repository, I can imagine offices using this for real work.
> we might lose a lot of forest.

Not a lot, all.

The ecosystem is changing towards the desert side. Forests need a minimum amount of water to sustain them. Could be replaced by arid forests, made to burn. But the humid forests will disappear or became relict. Is happening in California since several years ago.
> When I get a card, depending on what it is, I can finish it in 2-4 hours, and then I can focus on doing something else for the rest of the day (learning/training, other meetings, or just not work at all since I was able to be productive).

Aren’t you supposed to start the next card?

“Working at the office sucks because I have to work instead of doing my hobbies” is a shitty argument for working at home.
Flowdock was and still is a great product. Sadly, it was acquired way back in 2013 by Rally Technologies, which in turn was acquired by CA, which in turn by Broadcom. I think a majority of the original authors exit'ed at some point, and the product has seen rather little feature development ever since.

Lack of competent engineers in the product might also explain the extended downtimes last year. One of them apparently included a full-fledged database corruption where all conversations for a day or so were permanently lost.

I know at least one organization that is so deeply ingrained and accustomed to Flowdock that they haven't even considered migrating to Slack. I, too, still think that Flowdock is a superior product to Slack for the core chat feature. Adding simple video-conferencing would pretty much bring it up to speed with the modern day.
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Indeed. I really want to like GIMP, but it doesn't hold a candle to my old copy of Photoshop CS4 from ten years ago. From what I can recall, the GIMP UI has hardly changed since then too.

I suppose they're probably constrained by what is possible with GTK? Basically it seems like Linux needs a better standard for user interfaces -- I can't think of a GTK app that doesn't have awkard position/spacing/layout issues.
Of course, because they want to monopolize growing and selling of it, just like they did with tobacco.
i was hoping for an x-files or parallel universe type mystery myself.. that would really be something.
It's a discussion of their solution to the Thundering Herd problem. They reference this but don't give any reason for giving it a new name.
Minesweeper and freecell are basic system functionality. Putting these available only via a store^W package manager makes as much sense as replacing the UI with a flat interface suited for tablets and phones.

Actually I didn't notice the package manager. It's a bit slow to install, and after installing I get ZIP file error when trying to run dosbox. There are a billion minesweeper clones that likely are trivial to integrate.
Oh, trust me, I learned to program when there was no such thing as a "font" other than WHAT YOUR TELETYPE PRINTED OUT IN UPPER CASE BECAUSE THAT WAS ALL WE HAD.

Hey, any other old-timers here? Did that UPPERCASE TEXT make you hear the chunkity-chunk-chunk sound of an Model 33 ASR cranking away at ten characters per second? Cannot be unheard!

I don't know if I am more productive now, but as much as that sound makes me sentimental, I think I am glad to be rid of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33
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Blood Is the Harvest (1950)
https://www.geckoandfly.com/8529/smart-keyboard-pro-t9-keybo...
Text, voice, even video is not the same as a live human being: even-though it is communication in all cases, and I do agree we can have great tools, the tools can't replace the interactions you can have with a real human.
Just FYI, there is a fairly widespread issue with Nvidia drivers causing a slowdown (no matter how fast your PC). The game was basically unplayable for me until I found the solution.

The fix is to run 'd3d_windowscursor' in the game console.

See https://forum.faforever.com/topic/779/nvidia-driver-performa...

There is also a mod available through FaF that runs this automatically for you at the start of each game.
> only blow up when you execute one particular branch at runtime

On a related note: I'm a big fan of property-based testing, where each test is basically a function 'args => boolean', and we're asserting that it always returns true regardless of the given arguments (in reality there is usually more structure, for nicer error messages, skipping known edge cases, etc.). The test framework (e.g. Hypothesis, Quickcheck, Scalacheck, etc.) will run these functions on many different values, usually generated at random.

This works really well for 'algorithmic' code, e.g. '(x: Foo) => parse(print(x)) == x', but it can sometimes be difficult to think of general statements we can make about more complicated systems. In that case, it's often useful to test "code FOO returns without error". This is essentially fuzzing, and can be useful to find such problematic branches (at least, the "obvious", low-hanging fruit cases).
I think particular nice thing about this is that it is a bundle of nice libraries integrated together well, with nice docs.
Those libraries in turn also break down into other nice libraries and so forth (but many don't have does quite this nice) because that is how Julia is.

I can't seem myself ever using FastAI.jl (though I am sure many will).
But I absolutely can see myself using Flux + FluxTraining.jl which nicely brings together TensorBoardLogger and EarlyStopping and several other things.
(https://github.com/FluxML/FluxTraining.jl)
And I can well imagine many will use DataLoaders.jl + Flux.

I feel like this project has nicely rounded out the ecosystem.
Making standard tools where before there were a bunch of individual solutions per project.
(Like I currently do use TensorBoardLogger + Flux directly with my own custom training loop)
I deliver software for enterprise and there is no such thing. I even develop software for medical appliances that have an extended software validation process.

It is about minimizing risk and it is a process that acknowledges that risk cannot be removed completely. It just forces you to work carefully and eliminates neglectful practices.

No serious developer will ever commit to ship software free of bugs. On the contrary, that would give people false security, which can in turn lead to further neglect.
When it asked me to type the full log in with the server I made a guess and typed user@matrix.org.

I also think it didn't even accept user:matrix.org without the "@" in front.
Congrats on the launch, and certainly a space that needs better software. However to echo the other comments: what is your revenue plan? Looks like everything is free right now.

I have seen this model used in other large countries like Indonesia whereby the core product is provided free to merchants to juice adoption. This is of course subsidised by the VC funding. But what is the eventual monetisation plan?

Maybe this demographic of "customers" don't think about this, but if the product is free now, and later if you try to charge, what happens if you have lots of churn? And so to avoid that, revenue has to come from other methods, such as maybe selling customer data?

Would be interesting to hear your thoughts on this.
While I do think that the stigmatisation of cannabis has to come to an end, I am very uncertain what a widespread adoption would mean to our society. I would rather see students rage against an uncertain future as was the case in the 1968 instead of quiet acceptance due to the influence of cannabis.

I am anxious it is a measure to keep the masses silent.
How do you think the other people can a) build houses, grow, and prepare food effectively, and b) know what houses and food to prepare to provide the most benefit? Communication and organisation are extremely valuable, even if the structures we set up are not the most efficient at doing so and may have a tendancy to create their own busywork (but computers have made that efficiency skyrocket. You're paid so much because you replace a small army of people shuffling paper around, and there's not enough people who can do that well).
I recently went through the same thing with relatively good success, here is what I did

1. Turn off notifications. Originally my lockscreen was always flooded with notifications. Turning off notifications helped me to look less after my phone. My Gf and my parents are the only ones who can reach me immediately with a notification

2. Get rid off social media. I initially tried limiting my screentime to 30min a day for my social media apps. But 30 minutes for 3-4 social media apps does add up and it's hard to resist the urge of disabling the screen setting entirely. So drop your social media apps entirely. It also helps if you block/limit them on your computer as well.

3. Don't sleep with your phone in your bedroom/don't use it as an alarm clock. I usually used my phone as an alarm clock in the moring, which often lead me to scroll through instagram/youtube before even getting out of bed. Instead of using your phone as an alarm clock, get a radio alarm or something similar for cheap. Leave your phone in the kitchen or somewhere else for charging.

4. Leave your phone at home. Try to leave your phone at home when going grocery shopping or similar tasks. Don't try to go without a phone for a whole day in the beginning, that is a huge mental hurdle and makes it likely to fail. Take baby steps, but going without a phone for a day should be your goal.

5. Develop a coping mechanism. I mainly use my smartphone to fight boredom and stress. Identify situations that make you use your phone and find an alternative coping mechanism for those. When you're bored, start a sideproject, find a new hobby or start working out, etc. When you're stressed find alternative coping mechanisms like meditation etc.

6. Establish phone free days. This is one step further than 4.) but should be possible once you already saw some improvements. I spend one day a month entirely without a phone and go on a day trip with my partner. Try to establish such a day to, but make sure that such a day doesn't lead you to being stuck in situations where your smartphone initially was your coping mechanism. This would most likely result in a relapse.

7. Cancel data plan/limit volume. A more dramatic approach would be cancelling your data plan for your phone. Being able to reach someone via phone is enough availability when on the go. So a regular phone plan is sufficient. However, this approach is not really helpful when your main problem is being on the phone while at home.

Alternatively you could try quitting cold turkey, but in my experience this is super hard and basically impossible to maintain the success. The more gradual approach as described above might seem slower, but personally I was able to realize improvements much faster than when trying to quit cold turkey. It still required quite a bit of discipline, but it is doable at least in my experience.
good. we all get the best of both worlds then.
Thanks mate. I did tried Elastic before settling on AWS ES, it was slower somehow. As for Kibana features, im happy with barebones :)

> you use e.g. file or docker beats for collecting logs.

My setup is custom app reading from CW Logs.

But can Elastic cluster scale automatically on indexing latency spikes, so my apps writes do not time out? If yes then how, please?
I find it a lot more "transactional" to come sit at the office and be paid to be there until I can clock out. When working from home I'm clearly paid for my output, not for being in a place for a set amount of time.
I upvoted you, but I heavily disagree with you. Working with people you don't know, don't trust and/or don't like is hard. This hardship can be alleviated by "relationship building"

You can also cut down a tree with a dull axe, but why would you choose that over a sharp axe?
Yes, they are literal cancer.
> Why doesn’t he have proper equipment?

Oh, oh, I know this one! Because the equipment is standardized for the entire organization, meaning that it's optimized for the administrative branch who uses mostly Powerpoint and Outlook.

For the extra credit: Of course you can order specialized equipment, but it will come out of your department's budget (because it's non-standard) and there might not be enough. It may also take weeks to arrive, a business case justification, and/or quotes from several vendors.

Paying for it yourself also won't do - Bring-Your-Own-Device may be forbidden due to security concerns, and I have yet to see a company that allows me to buy more RAM with my own money.

There's also the question of what a "high quality headset" is, but that's probably a different topic.
Most people with > 3 jobs worth of experience will tell you that coworker-friends rarely transition to non-work friends after leaving said company. You will become too busy with making new coworker-friends at the new company, combined with non-work family/friend commitments filling the rest of your time.
My feeling is that if it was used in the context of cinema/feature film then yes it would be kitsch. But for the medium of TV of the era it strikes me as a bit of intelligent fun.
> They should have just gotten a voice actor who could do a convincing impression of De Niro in the 70s and dubbbed him in.

The director's focus was on the most genuine De Niro expression, not on the most impressive young De Niro impression.

Scorsese doesn't make tech demos, he makes stories with characters, and he respects his actors a great deal.

What could've been done here is use another AI technology, deepfake for voice, basically, train it on young De Niro's voice, and then reproduce De Niro's own lines with his younger voice, using the original lines as input (not just text). No voice actor could match a performance THAT closely as AI can these days.
I didn't check the library yet, asking here in case of the quick answer - does it support GNN too via GeometricFlux.jl[1]?

[1] https://github.com/FluxML/GeometricFlux.jl
> In life sciences the people are smarter than any developer but software is IT-captured so all they can work with is Excel.

That's not really proving your point about them being "smarter than any developer". Lots of developers are smart enough to build their own tools.
Printing a table to the console or log file. A very simple example from just this weekend for me is that I wanted to see how C++ was laying out an object in memory. I assigned the pointers to one and two character variables. When I printed out the variable name followed by the address, I actually had to go back and add an extra space before the single character variable names so the addresses would align. That made it much easier to see the differences between the various pointers into the object.
Or maybe the word was subverted after it was chosen to represent this concept? Not saying it was the case (I don't know) just mentioning the possibility.
I don't know what features AWS provides but in general terms logs benefit a lot from compression, so if I were to set up this on my own I'd probably want to try something like a VDO or ZFS backed storage system as well as compressed transfers (perhaps in batch if that's required).
"If Google needs to change an API, customers will now get a minimum of one year's notice ..."

That is not overwhelming.
Why do you think taking drugs makes people complacent?
funny fact - freedos does not support smartdrv even in 2021
It was intended to be broad :) Followup questions:

1. How does one produce a prototype? e.g. if you're in need for some custom part - do you contact to some manufacturer/factory, provide them some CAD files, etc... ?

2. Same question if you decide to produce a batch - where/how do you approach manufacturers/factories?

Also, how to make sure you are not going to be ripped off - e.g. those manufacturers can just produce your product and sell by themselves?
Huh?

The Republic of Turkey seems to meet the same levels of democratic dysfunction as usa, and uk. In many ways, better.
In comparison, Turkey never executed women for demanding the right to vote.
> Everyone’s job is different, everyone is different. There are productive engineers who are introverts and there are productive engineers who are extroverts. Making jokes in the office and having conversations does not take time away from doing good work - no dev is productive 100% of the time.

I would go even further than that in your criticism of the overgeneralisation: there are engineers who are introverts and want to go back to the office.

I'm sure this is very dependant on the local or office culture, but introverts can very much miss social contact in the office as well.
Thank you. Yes, we are using the UPI apps like BHIM, Google Pay, Phone Pay, PayTM etc.. And also if the merchant wants to collect payments other modes like Debit/Credit cards we are also giving them a payment gateway option as well which allows their customers to pay through any of the payment methods.
What is arsedness?
One time I wanted to tweak my graphics on Windows 3.1. Normal VGA with 640x480 was no problem to configure since it could use some kind of generic drivers. So eventually I choose one of the SVGA modes with 800x600 and after restarting the screen was just dark. Luckily I managed to undo the settings with the keyboard and a blank screen. IIRC the settings for that were quite exposed and it worked. However, countless times where I lost my system setup.

> usually the system would get into some kind of bad state after several months of usage (or at least mine did)

Sometimes some part of the bad state would go okay again for me after some more months of waiting. E.g. the system would only go past the Windows 95 loading screen after opening and closing the CD-ROM drive but at some point that problem would disappear.
Linux-malware: Tracking interesting Linux (and Unix malware)
My experience with some early Android sliders (HTC Dream and HTC Desire Z) is that the keyboards don't have all the keys I need. So in the end, typing the usual array of Unix and C graphics characters was a bit of a hassle.

For years now, I have used the Android "Hacker's Keyboard" on lots of ssh sessions.

Though I guess I would take a slider if it had a full (5 row) set of keys.
Needless to say I opened "You are an Idiot".

Wow, what a demonstration how far web technology has come.