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I actually have an X280 in my hand. The reason why wanted it was so I would get 5 years of international warranty on it. Turns out most countries don't actually accept the accidental damage coverage from another country(I paid about $600-$700 in coverage, so for the first 3 years it's no better than an AppleCare, which is international as well).

Also when I wanted to switch it for an X1C because the new ones came out while I was waiting for the stock to arrive(and well they shipped me the wrong model without LTE). They wanted to charge me 15% restocking fee not only on the device, but also on Tax and Insurance.

Currently my touchpad randomly dies when the device goes into sleep. I suspect it's related to some recent firmware update that happened.

The amazing premium Lenovo warranty that everyone talks about must have been before my time.

But given that I want international coverage, I really don't know what options I have. Currently it seems better to just buy a framework laptop, save my money on the insurance and just pay for parts as I go.
I thought we were talking about "an antifa vs police standoff in Berlin" 15 years ago.

But if you insist on talking about America, let me cite a recent example of Antifa dishonestly labeling anything they oppose "fascist".

Antifa rioters attacked a protest against vaccine mandates yesterday in Los Angeles. They sprayed mace on the protestors and one protestor was stabbed. They claimed the protestors were fascists and billed their response as "no safe space for fascists".

However anyone may feel about vaccine mandates, I challenge them to justify calling opposition to vaccine mandates "fascist".

The really troubling thing about Antifa is that because they label everything they oppose "fascist", they feel justified using any measure to oppose it, like spraying mace and stabbing people.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-14/anti-vax...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/person-stabbed-vaccinat...
If that's your concern then have a look at Semantic Scholar who are backed by Paul Allen's AI For The Common Good [1]. They are as open as it gets and do interesting things with NLP.

That said I wish Fermat every success. Any way that helps you drink from the firehose of publications is a much needed step forward. Even if there is so much more you can still do in this respect...

[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/
Exactly. Both sides did this as it’s hard to defeat a country then build it back up when you exclude everyone who who was in the old govt (many who joined the Nazi party for non-ideological reasons).

If you dig into the history it’s pretty interesting. The USSR and France I believe were adamant about de-Nazification, but petered out quickly when they realized it was holding up rebuilding the country. The US and UK weren’t too worried about lower level Nazi’s once the leaders and major war criminals were handled.
>3. It's very tempting for novices to see syntax as the important aspect of programming, because it's what you can see most easily; but of course it is purely superficial. By teaching lexers and parsers as the first step, and thus implicitly the most important step, in writing a compiler, you're hurting novice programmers by reinforcing that misconception instead of helping them by ripping it away.

I'm newbie in those topics and I don't see it this way

for me lexer is way of building abstraction above syntax.

Syntax is important from perspective of language design team, meanwhile compiler is operating on abstraction
This works until the analogue of monotremes shows up to ruin your supposedly flawless categorisation.
@dhh you meant crutch not clutch
Hey there. I read this as "a fun-free platform" and was very confused for a bit. You might want to reconsider the order of your adjectives.
banks can buy port and number db data directly from carriers and refuse to authorise sms mfa (not calling it 2fa because phone/sms mfa is dogshit) from recently ported or modified numbers
Characterizing the want to "strive for something, especially when that something is as a group" as a "vile impulse" is a bad take. It's pretty hard to argue that that we would be better off just keeling over and accepting things as they are, lest we succumb to the awful human behavior of organizing to change something we don't like.

That very same vile impulse was, is, and always will be the way we manage to overcome humanity's greatest challenges. Trying to condition people to suppress it is not a good idea.
The Lord of the Rings has an index. Only one I can think of.
From a modern perspective they might. But that is because these days everyone designs flat toolbars. However in the early days of OS design each button on the toolbar looked like a distinct button. Microsoft then flattened the buttons while keeping a bevel on the toolbar itself (latter even that would disappear) — which is the effect being discussed here.

Back in the 90s there used to be a great discussion over the flat design (aka Microsoft) vs skeuomorphic design (aka Apple) in terms of usability with most designers vocally preferring skeuomorphic citing usability as their reasons. Albeit some did still think Apple took their use skeuomorphic design too far. It’s funny how flat design eventually won out across all platforms and not just at Microsoft and Apple; later Google with Cardboard (et al) too.

In the 90s this was quite a hot topic of debate.
I happened to be in a village where someone died. I was blown away by how different it sounded. The first person almost sounded dramatic(to me), but the choir that joined truly made something that was haunting.
Some of them could have even sailed in the opposite direction to Oceania, There are still indigenous people living in complete isolation on islands like Sentinelese[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese
For any kind of work that isn't drawing, I would recommend a MacBook[0]. If you don't need heavy stuff you can go with the Air. Put it in a shoulder bag and you are good to go. Bonus, you can put other things in your shoulder bag as well.

You are going to have about the same limitation with the laptop as the iPad, but more so. On the other hand, when you do pull it out it is also much more useful, because it has a keyboard.

[0]: yes you can use other laptops, I am assuming alooPotato is deep into the Apple Ecosystem.
What is intelligent about natural pattern recognition? /s

Sarcasm aside, your definition is too low-level, as if we called brains just braincells. Pattern recognition is a building block of AI like a logic gate is a building block of a CPU.
Bought a Lenovo laptop 10 years back with free-dos on it.

Installed Ubuntu on it, now at 20.04 LTS. This laptop runs 8 to 16 hours* a day; still on stock hardware except the CPU-fan.

* torrenting & internet-surfing
You can still use WebSQL in Chrome & Safari and use a polyfill backed by IndexedDB for Firefox using YDN-DB: https://yathit.github.io/ydn-db/doc/setup/polyfill.html
> However, for programmers, their job is not turning well-defined steps into valid code but understanding what the goal is from very vague requirements

The absolute vast majority pf software development is barely one step away from a CRUD. Do not deceive yourself thinking that developers solve some incredibly difficult problems unknown to mankind.

Your "vague specification for a form" is right now being solved by about 100k other developers. It's not unique.
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So, I just started writing a compiler for my toy language an I must say, the hardest part is not the lexing, parsing, compiling etc but just settling on a language syntax/semantics. I just can't let my poor toy language be - and keep on revamping it everyday.

Anyone who is just starting on this or has as poor self discipline as I do, I would recommend choosing any existing language to create a compiler for. Don't male your own language unless you have frozen down its details.
Changing the lexer and ST everyday just because you decide that you are switching to begin-end instead of curlies, is a special kind of hell in itself.
But GPT could well be part of a screenwriter's toolkit soon. Say I need a generic car chase scene. Why not have it generate a few variations and then use those as the inspiration? Seems a lot easier than starting with your own empty component.
Scientists Traced a Wooly Mammoth's Lifetime Journey, and It's Astonishing
As with any sensible advice about structure, the takeaway here is not that you must slavishly adhere to a set formula or risk ruining your story. This story circle, along with other popular story structures like the three-act structure, are simply tools based on observations of stories that have managed to resonate with readers over the centuries.

So story theories are stories themselves. How meta.
Honest question: how does this firmware spyware affect Linux? If I get a ThinkPad and overwrite the pre-installed OS with my own, would spyware like this be able to do anything on Linux?

I guess they could do the same thing, extract some binary from the firmware pre-boot and inject it to /boot to mess with the boot process... but does that give them viable persistence and ability to do stuff in Linux once the OS is booted?
What a shame. I was about to recommend Dell as an alternative, based on GitLab's public documentation that recommends it for GitLab employees and indicates decent linux support. [1]

I made the mistake of sticking with Lenovo due to the expectation of good Linux support, and while most stuff works, I can't say I'm particularly impressed. Aside from a loud fan (not sure if that is due to poor Linux support or just a property of the device), the service in the Lenovo online store was impressively bad. Wrong descriptions of the hardware, insane shipping dates that were pushed out over and over, refusing to simply remove the unavailable component without cancelling the order and going to the back of the queue, and last but not least, Lenovo defrauded me by first having me jump through hoops to claim their 'best price warranty' promise then simply refusing to honor it altogether.

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-technology/team-m...
Nice. Approaching the NoPhone [0] in capabilities and positive impact on society.

But seriously, I really like the idea behind the Lightphone. And also I think there are opportunities to really increase the attractiveness of the device. Why only focus on it being "designed to be used as little as possible"?

In such a device you can also focus on Really Good Privacy, Sustainable Design / Manufacturing (a la Fairphone), Open Hardware, FOSS extensions, Open Community (around the product). All in all a comprehensive set of USP's to be added.

(And talking about Privacy, the 11 trackers on the website can be removed first. This is low-hanging fruit)

[0] https://www.thenophone.com/
Don’t forget the Gravis Phoenix which was truly a high end joystick at that time and perfect for Descent.
Even clinical psychology seems to me a very dubious area. In many cases it is not linear to evaluate success when the main identification of the problem is based on necessarily limited, indirect and biased data (patient testimony) and the result of treatment is behavioural change. Who controls for potential unintended damaging consequences of behavioural change? Fixing one issue can't be the definition of success when dealing with such a complex system. The approach seems too simplistic. I have seen people coming out of "treatments" with their initial problems apparently fixed but with new perspectives on life that proved to be just as damaging. Some level of scepticism is probably a good thing.
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The significance of the first quote, is that in 1943, "computers" were people who did math by hand. His point was that 5 or 6 electronic computers could replace the whole world's market for "computers".
Elon has his own agenda and SpaceX is his vehicle to achieve it. If his plan succeeds, we'll have a self-sustaining commercial space industry.
At least with my young single male peers, trips to the store are primarily for beer or tobacco or sugar. The 1 & 2 of video game junk food cross sponsorship has messed up a lot of their bodies
What does near-photographic mean? Can you replicate a page of text after looking at it for one second? Can you do the same with a language you don't know?
You asked, "But what do you do with a company, even with good tech, when they’re not able to sell a product?" My inference was that this was intended to be relevant to my comment, to which it was posted as a reply. To make it relevant, I needed to infer some sort of unstated premise; I guessed that your hidden premise was that, if a company is mediocre at storytelling, it won't be able to sell products, because storytelling is an essential part of the sales process. Did I misunderstand your unstated premise?

I rebutted what I guessed to be your unstated premise by pointing at the example of Google, which, as I remember it, spent 7 years without telling its users almost anything at all about its products, much less engaging in the kind of masterful storytelling exemplified by the Chrome launch comic book. (They did have revenue before Adsense; Adwords was already in place in 02001.) They had no advertising campaigns of their own; they made almost no public statements at all. Yet they overwhelmingly dominated online search by 02004, having unseated well-known established incumbents.

So I think it's possible to get wide adoption without engaging in storytelling to users about your product.

I also think it's possible to be profitable without getting wide adoption. There are a lot of companies, mostly with fairly unique products or services, that sell to a small number of long-term customers, so their sales next year depend much more on the quality of their products this year than on the quality of their storytelling to their customers. That's actually where Google got revenue pre-Adwords: Yahoo outsourced search to them. I'm sure there was some storytelling involved in that sales process (I wasn't part of it) but I suspect that the more significant factor was that the people at Yahoo knew by experience that Google's search was really good, in fact, better than the crap Yahoo's portal was using at the time (maybe HotBot?).

I definitely don't mean to deprecate Google's founders or imply that they were mediocre at storytelling to investors or didn't spend a lot of time on it. On the contrary, I was simply rebutting what I took to be the unstated premise behind your response: that if a company is mediocre at storytelling, it won't be able to sell products, because storytelling is an essential part of the sales process. In fact, storytelling is not an essential part of the sales process (although it certainly helps), and so companies that are mediocre at storytelling frequently do sell products. How much investment Google's founders had raised is completely irrelevant to that question.

If that wasn't your unstated premise, then how was your comment, "But what do you do with a company, even with good tech, when they’re not able to sell a product?" relevant to my original comment? Because I'm evidently not smart enough to figure it out on my own.
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I see it in projects written in languages which aren't any of those. Even C.
Keyboard shortcuts were usually accelerators for easily discoverable menu items. Magic swipes don’t usually have the equivalent of a menu that can be used if you don’t know the swipe
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Look at any online benchmark? It runs at a similar clock and has twice the tensor cores, the AGX is a 2 year old 12nm chip. Why would anyone be surprised if the M1 was faster?
I've seen devs that came from the XML era treat json the same way, and I hate it. Exanple:

{
"key": "the key",
"Value": "the value"
}
The understated point is "valid" in "valid statistical methods".

Frequently, social sciences (and even a lot of medicine: basically, anything involving humans where applying valid statistical methods can quickly become unethical) rely on too small a sample set to eradicate the noise.

You do not have to model all factors, because it is impossible to do so, you just need to have a large enough sample to ensure statistical significance that's not out of "statistics in a week" course.

I've seen one too many 50-subjects study, that claims to have extremely high confidence.
The "anti-theft" firmware exploits a Windows misfeature where the BIOS can include stuff that Windows will simply install automatically at boot. So it wouldn't directly affect Linux just yet. But firmware can do other shenanigans that would render any system fundamentally insecure (e.g. via SMM).
There are still multiple causes of failure there though. Why was the chain manufactured with a weak link? Why wasn't the weak link discovered during periodic inspection / testing? Why wasn't there a second chain to add redundancy and back up the first?
This company is claiming to replace the steam with a plasma beam and turns the carbon into a solid so no co2 emissions. The process creates hydrogen on site so just pipe natural gas no distribution problems. https://hiiroc.com/
Debian 11 “Bullseye” Released
Defining the sw dev domain is a problem. Because I would argue that includes the social/human interaction domain as well.
Apparently this is about defending a particular way of life. Why would one expect to be payed at all?
I can't think of any better entry to programming than making games. You get the loop, the variables, conditionals, functions, and gradual sophistication grows organically. For kids, I would look for a programming language where making graphics is easy.
>to devise, by means of scientific modeling and [philosophical] inquiry into the aims and purposes of mankind, an image of the future that is sufficiently catastrophic to be repellent and sufficiently credible to produce behavior that will prevent it from being realized, barring an accident.

Trying to avoid the end of everything, can justify any actions, up to and including destroying the world in some other way.

This would be suboptimal if the alternate fate was exaggerated, on purpose or not.

I think this is the basic reason why people are skeptical of prophets of doom and not ready to give them true power.
That was not the goal of the Spanish inquisition. You can ask hundreds of thousands of Sephardic Jews if it was only about Muslims.
You could extend that with examples where specific type of loop actions are even abstracted further, such as filtering, which is aided by (standard) libraries, but also by introducing specific syntax to the language (think lamda's / closure's)
I think question should be: to what extent things can be automated?

Is it possible to create a automated process that will with enough non-coding input create a workable software? In that regard answer is yes, same as developers are recording requirements, one day machine will have enough "knowledge/intelligence" to do the same.
$299 for a featureless phone? Get a Nokia for $20: same cure for the addiction, less dinero :)
They’re storytelling.
VicII was and still is a great game.

I'm afraid they will ruin the franchise like they did with HoI if they ever release VicIII.
It’s a shell of its former self but if you like Descent there’s a few links to other community sites here:

http://warpcore.org
If you have good tests you can automate programming of code that passes these tests.
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> Bullshit. When your "minor issue" becomes something that kills people, you test the living bejesus out of it before you think of deploying.

At no point did I say not to test before rollouts.

> When even the slightest change in UI becomes a deadly operator error

Stop being dramatic, because it's part of the problem. Yes, UI's are critical, and these UI's are absolute garbage. You need to improve rapidly, not agonize over bullshit changes in Microsoft Office.

https://www.thedoctors.com/articles/electronic-health-record...

https://ehrintelligence.com/news/diagnostic-medication-error...

EHR's are killing people because they are so poorly built. To reiterate, what you're doing is not working.

> you make damned good and sure that those errors won't happen

You're not making sure those errors are not happening, is the point.
I bought one a few weeks ago and I really like it as well.

That said, if there's one beef then for me it's the hard limit of 8 channels. That limit makes it very hard to do anything with chords, somewhat limiting the kinds of genres it's suitable for. Growing up with FastTracker 2, it feels a bit like a needless limitation. If my 486DX computer could do 32 channels why can't a modern piece of kit?

Even with that, though, it's a very well thought out piece of gear. I'm impressed with the software UX, they clearly spent a lot of man-hours iterating on that. Once you figure out the button combos and shortcuts it's really quite productive.
This is both how I learned, and the only reason I even wanted to. Heck, sometimes it’s even why I get paid. I agree.
Kinda but not really. I just went through the process and talked to quite a few experts down here. It has changed a bit.
Boomer prosperity and juggernaut (un)stoppbability read as orthogonal functions on my chart.

It's fair to say that in major conflicts since 1992, and perhaps going back earlier (1980s, Grenada invasion), the US was generally more successful, though even that's somewhat conditioned. During the 1990s especially, it picked its fights and especially in Gulf War I didn't fight to occupation.

At the same time, it did see several notable failures. GWI was prompted by a failure to respond in an appropriate or timely nature to Iraq's beligerance toward Kuwait, despite a very obvious intent. There was the Blackhawk Down incident in Mogadishu, Somalia (1993), a largely successful though not unmarred campaign in the Bosnian-Kosovo civil war, the failure to intervene in Rawanda.

And then there was 9/11. The single deadliest attack by a foreign power on US soil in history, and against which the entirety of the US defence and intelligence establishment proved utterly ineffective. (A gay rugby player and a few civillians provided a more effective protective force.)

Since 9/11 the US has been engaged in a legitimate though ultimately futile conflict in Afghanistan, as well as the utterly illegitimate and disasterous Iraq campaign, as its principle boots-on-the-ground conflicts.

There've been numerous other engagements (Nepal, horn of Africa, Syria, Maghreb, Pakistan, Indian Ocean / Somali pirates, Somalia, Libya, Uganda, Yemen, and subsequent actions in Iraq, but all have been limited engagements, most strongly reliant on airpower (manned and unmanned) or advisory roles, geared more at suppression than conquest and control.

The conflicts in which the US walked in and kicked ass are largely limited to the Spanish-American War (1898), WWI (as a late and limited participant), and WWII (as a major and decisive participant). Unless you'd like to count numerous labour disputes in which US armed forces attacked labour on behalf of industrial and investment interests.

On nuclear / WMD adversaries, "MAD" is in fact the principle doctrine of the atomic-weapons era: mutual assurred destruction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction

I'm not making any arguments of ascendency or decline. I'm stating the historical military record.

(I did in fact study some of this in school, for what it's worth.)
> Run away.

"dead alley" means that you're not able to run away, and you are forced to face your opponent.

I am curious about Krav Maga [0], and heard it's very effective against this type of threats. Anyone wants to chime in?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krav_Maga
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For the previous version of Lyra, there was a concern that it would discriminate against some languages.