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Amazon strikes a deal with Affirm, the buy-now pay-later provider
I switched from only LR to only RawTherapee for all new shots going forward about a year ago. Never looked back. Might not be suitable for a professional expecting smooth conventional workflow, but excellent for an enthusiast who enjoys full control and nerding over raw data interpretation.
Actually, it's better than you describe it, I think. Most components are FOSS. The default GUI and the framebuffer driver are proprietary closed source. However, the framebuffer driver has been extracted from the GUI service by github user ddvk and faciliates the development of independent interfaces (look for "launchers") that can launch further independent programs, e.g. harmony https://rmkit.dev/apps/harmony

There is also an opkg-based package manager and repo with many packages: https://toltec-dev.org/

The binary patching that you talk about is only one mod that can be installed to improve the functionality of the original GUI. It is true that it would be awesome if that had plugin support, as you stated, though.
It would be rocky.
the wireguardification of the kernel! just kidding, I applaud this welcome performance boost, it's always been tricky to extract the most performance out of Samba, especially over high-latency links, although that's more of an SMB protocol issue than anything else, but hopefully ksmbd helps in that regard.
>Both are fully recoverable unless you do something really impressive.

really impressive like what?
Nobody thinks it's France v !France. Its big national corp (Orange) vs a little guy. The court sided with the BigCo. That's the issue.
Interestingly, the exercise is so boring (add authentication to a website with tests and documentation, for an outdated framework like Angular) that it probably selects out people who want to have a somewhat interesting job in addition to those who are incompetent.
>I'm not going to buy a second one.

I suspect the % of people who buy a second one for themselves, their spouse, kids, friends, etc. (or recommend someone else to buy one) is higher than the % of other people who buy one for the first time. Neither number is large but as long as the former one is slightly larger it makes sense to pay money for that advertising.
Mounting folders to a Windows Docker container from a Windows host
“Inescapable” Covid-19 Antibody Discovery – Neutralizes All Known Covid Strains
Yes. I think I’ve even seen this implemented.

Certainly some drive-in theaters in North America worked like this. There would be signs telling you to tune your car radio to such-and-such frequency to hear the film audio. Here’s a picture of one: https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3186/2718300357_ec1b9f3f45_z.j...
I mean, maybe. It's a rather philosophical question in the end. Can there be true randomness in the universe or is everything in some way deterministic, but it's just that the underlying system is so complex that it can never be computable. And is a deterministic, but uncomputable, system actually deterministic?
Electroconvulsive therapy – they still do that?
Why do you think they would be detectable from space? That doesn't make any sense.
It was actually a few hundred years after the modern scientific method because scientists attempting to apply the method failed to spot confounding factors and interpreted their results incorrectly, something I think is hardly impossible even today in even the hardest of supposed hard sciences.
100$ but it's a day to day job and I am not well informed about salaries
Could we geocode the lecture-snippets, so the statements persist at location? That way, one could advance at ones own pace. Or map it to a route of ones own design, while keeping the pace..
I wonder how Blizzard is feeling about throwing in with the CCP right about now
Could be done with WiFi direct on phones that support it.

The fact that WiFi didn't originally ship with (and in many cases still does not support) simple P2P with nearby devices is just unbelievably stupid. Apple still insists on their own stupid standard instead of the actual standard too, at least on iOS devices. (I think Macs can be coaxed into the standard mode, but Macs are real computers.)
It has a lot in common with other fields (most of which sure, are not “technical professions”, but that's because this is not about broad content) in which there is an oversupply of talent at the low levels, regardless of the conditions at the top of the industry.

The reason is because — between the people with the genuine love of the field plus those drawn in by the lure of the high-end pay — there is such an oversupply.
While expressing many special forms using just IF does not lead to a great reduction in performance, so this may be an acceptable choice when an interpreter of minimum code size is desired, implementing IF using only LAMBDA and function invocations is very inefficient.

So this is just interesting as a theoretical possibility to reduce the number of primitives.

Not having IF as a primitive has the same nature with the fact that a CPU does not need conditional branches if it has an instruction to jump to the address value contained in a register.

If you have such a jump to register instruction, you can just compute the address where you need to jump at every branching point from the program structure.

However, that is much more inefficient than implementing conditional branches.

The same happens with LISP. Because the arguments of a LISP function can be themselves functions and you can invoke those functions, after perhaps performing some computations on the arguments, this implies that there are ways to implement any kinds of program structures using just LAMBDA definitions and function invocations.

For the implementation of IF, the most well known solution is to choose an inefficient, but valid, representation of "true" and "false" as 2 LAMBDA definitions of 2 functions of 2 arguments, which return, respectively, their first argument or their second argument.

Using these definitions for T and NIL, you can define IF as a function of 3 arguments that applies its first argument to the second and the third arguments.

If the first argument of IF defined in this way is T, IF will return the second argument, otherwise it will return the third argument, exactly what you want from IF.

Obviously any predicate, including the primitives ATOM and EQ and your "null?", which is defined using ATOM and EQ, will be defined to return T and NIL as the functions defined above.

The desired order of evaluation and any other form of sequencing is enforced by the fact that the arguments of a function are evaluated before the invocation of the function. This is what makes the IF definition from above work as intended. Avoiding the evaluation of the arguments to the IF is based on the fact that the semantics of LAMBDA is that its arguments are evaluated only where the LAMBDA definition is invoked as a function, not where it is defined.

The "define" special form is not strictly needed and it is omitted in some dialects of LISP.

It is equivalent to binding a LAMBDA definition to the variable "length" (in your example) and that could be done using the same syntax used for binding any other kind of value, e.g. an integer or a string, to a variable.

You can find more details about such tricks in the "Lambda: The Ultimate ..." series of papers from the creators of the Scheme language.
The good thing of being an old dog at this game is seeing technology of the same caliber as Electron, whatever that is supposed to mean, come and go every couple of years.

So I just tolerate it, while the pendulum reaches its point of maximum displacement.
Unity taught me how to program, and even today it's just the easiest way to get something done fast.

For example if I want to build a platformer, with tons of special effects, I can do this in about 2 days with Unity.

The asset store itself is Unity's biggest advantage. Want to make a game about finding Easter eggs in the woods, buy Gaia and you have your forest.

From a technical point of view , Unity is amazing. My one concern is the business seems to want to extract more and more from users. You went from being able to buy Unity to needing to subscribe, and subscribe to a bunch of other auxiliary services.

That said, C# is C# so your skills are easily transferable. I'd love to see another commerical C# driven option.

I'm not a big fan of how Godot tries to support 3 or 4 programing languages. This fractures your userbase and makes finding tutorials much harder. Although I will admit my very first programing language was Unity's JavaScript implementation.
Totally agree. But I've got to the point where I'd like to start hacking on mine.

I have a folder full of startup ideas. I really want a Lean Canvas page template to go with that (and be able to mix page types in a single notebook would be cool, but I'm not sure that's possible yet).

I want to create a "meeting notes" type of notebook, that automatically adds today's date, and lives in a "meeting notes" folder organised by date.

I'd love to be able to sketch in white on a black background.

I keep meaning to get around to learning how to do this stuff... but life has been getting in the way. Doesn't mean I don't want to ;)
A lot of tour buses catering to speakers of foreign languages do exactly this.
So, there is a tradeoff in rate vs. several other factors. If you charge higher rates, you are more likely going to be working for financial or other large corporate firms. Maybe that's ok with you, but if you don't prefer that kind of customer, it's a thing to keep in mind.

Another factor is how much of the year you expect to be working. If you have a customer who's going to want 30+ hours a week for months, it would make sense not to charge as much as a customer who needs 4 hours work for an emergency bugfix.

That all said, hundreds of dollars per hour is something I have seen in database administrator contracting, especially on Oracle databases (where the customers tend to be large corporations).
Sorry I meant role instead of group. Ah so tags are tied to a role, all good then. But you could still give permissions for a role through a tag. Like Someone in "Engineering" role can apply a "source-code" tag to a file, which will grant permission to person A, person B, person C but also to people of Role 1 and Role 2
What about the actual output? Are 3D games written in Godot comparable in performance to commercial products?
Physics Seeks the Future
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What's wrong with getting paid more while being able to live in a place with large homes with large yards and wide road ways...

Electricians in the US easily make over $70k early on, and over $100k with in a few years. And that isn't even the best paying trade job.

An experienced Programmer easily can get a job making 120k+, and that isn't even in the valley.

That being said, I wouldn't want to move here either. You get paid more, the homes are nicer and more private, and you fit a big SUV down any road. But the medical system sucks, and really takes a toll on take home $$. Especially with kids. Along with that you have idiots that think trump was the second coming of jesus. And do nothing more than cry about thing that will only hurt them in the long run.
Mastering Drag N Drop API Using VanillaJS
Sadly when I hear news like this my first reaction is wondering when it’s coming to the US :-(
Like with Bitcoin regulation, good luck to the governments with enforcement.
I think it only does this until the catalogue has been indexed, depending on what options are enabled. For instance, if face matching is enabled then it has to process all of the pictures for faces and group them.
Have you considered that the targeted ads might have worked on you without you realizing it? You might have clicked on an ad and it was such a non event for you that it never made it into your long term memory.
It is the first order effect we are able to measure. It is often the second or higher order effect that are impactful. Quality, product market fit, etc
hehe, true. I'm OK with that for this case.
What's the future of OpenTelemetry – and Splunk? [video]
Get a job then. Open Source is for people who want to have their cake (be their own employer / business owner) and eat it too (not actively compete in the market, just ask people to pay for their work since they are doing a service to the community).

Then they shouldn’t get shocked when it works against them. If you are releasing open source (especially under permissive licenses) you are relinquishing your rights - so do it from a view that its charity to the world, but don’t expect to get all the compliments for doing OSS work but also _expect_ market rates for the work you did. No one agreed to pay you for it, no one agreed to pay you royalties for using your product in theirs and so forth.
I wonder why China feels so afraid of games.
Within a distance you can walk, it should be pretty easy to find a band with minimum interference even in a crowded metro. Also, quality won't be as much of an issue as range. There are pretty low limits on how much power you can use on the FM bands without a license.

Source: I drove all over a crowded metro in the early 2000s with one of those fm transmitters for playing audiobooks to my shitty car stereo. 3 station presets was enough for the whole area.
3% is a good conversion rate for a selling page. So 97%+ of people who looked at the buying page were interested but didn't buy. Getting those people to come back is a major target and most companies don't care about the 3% loss in re-targeting those who actually bought.

So re-advertising to people who already bought is not evidence that they aren't "evil-overlord". Evil overlords only care about what benefits them.
Funner-fact: you can lock any car that's unlocked by opening up the door and locking it.
Ah... that will make it very hard to detect even with the largest telescopes, unless we have some specific coordinates.

Makes you wonder if maybe the interstellar space is just filled with tons of these little rocky planets.
Understood, but I wasn’t talking about “arbitrary metrics.” I was talking about the concept of data-driven, feedback-generating optimization, and metrics are just a part of that.

There’s also the concept of “triaging” for “waste.”

One man’s garbage, is another man’s treasure.

I have learned not to summarily dismiss a lot of practices and artifacts as “waste.”
And how much does it cost... if this is cheap, it seems that insurance rates on Honda/Acura vehicles are about to increase.
There's no way they will make an off track midlevel a team lead. We can't time box switches to two weeks because prd issues and fixes pop up faster than that. They aren't interested in fixing the context switching (told me so).
Yeah, if Orange was willing to do this once, the chances are that their tech stack would be swiss cheese if they had to excise all the GPL-licensed tech they are using without rights. The precedent is more important to them than the $3mm.
I think what we call rationality is the most likely (aka most active path, when some cost timer in the brain runs out), one can restart it and train it for long periods, but usually its attention is fleeting, because attention is expensive and should be on important things, like food, group, booty and nothing.
Thank you.

They really wouldn't need to spend so much on hosting fees if they were willing to do a text-only version - the main website is heavy as hell. I'm sure many people would be willing to pay for it.

Also these days I don't consume regular content from sources that do not provide an RSS feed.
I had a quote that I think was around 600$/Hr. This was for someone to build and tune a PID model for an IMU we were using.

Admittedly the person had a ton of experience doing this, so they were probably well worth the money.
I left work and became a full time student. Took through real analysis in the math dept, and ended up getting a masters in statistics. Now work full time as an ML researcher.
It's too bad that AGPL wouldn't have been more effective; this seems like a dead end for copyright-based copyleft in France. We'll have to make extra effort to phrase things in terms of contract-based copyleft.

Although, doesn't this suggest a meeting of the minds? Free Software is usually proffered and consumed without such a meeting. So was a contract actually formed? I'm skeptical.
This is what I thought would be a good tip when I first learned about CTEs. Turns out I use them sparingly and much prefer to create views to represent steps of data refinement. The benefit of doing it this way is that I can inspect intermediate results. Often I use *.sql files for this so I can keep the SQL formulations for later; also, as long as stuff is still experimental / under development, I start out with `begin transaction;` because then I'm guaranteed I do not permanently change anything in the DB I'm working on and also I can repeat all steps without having to care about `create or replace view ...`.

Oh and lest I forget you can't just re-use a CTE in another query. But you can of course re-use a view. Also given what another user here remarked, Postgres might internally treat (and optimize) CTEs like views, so to me that makes views superior to CTEs in more or less all respects.
"please, why repeat the same !"

Because I'm not going to lie.
FWIW, the hidden-variable theory, that the universe is deterministic and we just lack all information to predict it, has been considered and rejected by physicists.

https://www.askamathematician.com/2009/12/q-do-physicists-re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden-variable_theory
I know one man shop that charges $160 per minute for simple phone call. Offshore accounting and structuring.

I did $1500/hour on blockchain related stuff. Pretty narrow skill
This was explicitly covered in the article, actually.
Freelance rate or agency? I worked at an agency where we charged not only the cost of a person, but the overhead of running the agency. I think my personal rate as a tech director was as high as like $450/hr which was close to the peak of what we charged for any role. Some of the account managers were close to $500 but they only billed 8 hrs/week to a given client at most.

A top shelf creative director could get similar or even more. Webflow expertise however seems pretty ridiculous. I can get that out of Ukraine for like $25/hr.
I do. Usually. I love the work I do and do similar projects in my free time. After others, who are along for the trip, are in bed, I'll do some work. I'll also check emails as it's much easier to handle them in bundles rather than all at once when returning to work. If you dislike your job or are bored by it, I can see skipping out. For me, I enjoy it.
Given how far out they are, how far off the solar system axis, and how small, it's definitely possible that there are multiple objects.
Using what technology? I can imagine in some future there being the means, but I find it hard to believe we have that level of tech available to the sort of packages we can aloft into orbit now.
The free and open source Profile Switcher for Firefox extension, paired with the connector app, adds a browser profile menu to Firefox similar to the one on Chrome. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28356472
So the submarines can't use active sonar, because their number one priority is to avoid detection... but then these subs are all parked in the same "parking spots" in the ocean. If the favored parking spots for submarines are so rare and small that collisions happen more than once, surely that undermines their stated number one priority of remaining hidden? If someone wanted to locate enemy submarines, surely they could just send a bunch of underwater drones to swim through these parking spots?
There were other people present, making it not "unsupervised". By ignoring this distinction both you and the above commenter are spreading disinformation for what appear on the surface to be nefarious political goals.
Would this be fixable by adjusting, somewhat, the terms of the GPL? If the issue is that this is a contractual violation, would it be possible to put preconditions before granting a license in the first place -- such as requiring that legal claims for both copyright violation _and_ contractual violation are explicitly allowed before the license is granted?
Thanks for the SEO feedback, definitely something we will look into! We currently use Stripe, and I don't think Stripe has any plans to bring back crypto payments :(
imagine if this comes back to bite the CCP in the ass...the uprise of the gamers
They're hardly detectable from Earth.
They are addictive and conditioning and thus compete with the social conditioning from the Chinese government.
How to Tell If a Lion Is Happy
> Happy to see they finally ported from vulcan to openGL

Why are they doing this? And why does it make you happy? I don't know much about the difference, but from what I've seen it seems like a lot are going the other way (OpenGL -> Vulkan). For example, isn't Godot 4 going to be primarily on Vulkan whereas the current version is all OpenGL?
Fwiw, on current Hondas the engine will only run for a set period, I believe 10 mins, unless the fob is used to reset the timer or the driver enters the cabin with the fob and presses the brake and start button.
What If People Don’t Want 'A Career?'
I heard, some people charing 1000€/h for very specific AWS related stuff.
Why not a 'tour guide portable FM transmitter' (less than $100) and a bunch of dollar store FM radios?
> Remote unlock is a safety issue for assaults.

Remote unlock actually doesn't work on [most?] Honda vehicles if the engine is running.
Helix: A post-modern modal text editor
At least is not targeted with user data.
I have mixed feelings about this.

Younger me learned a lot of problem solving skills and most importantly spent a lot of time learning how to read by playing RPGs and games that required lots of reading. My reading skills would not have been as advanced if i wasn't playing text heavy games that had a lot of plot like Square Enix games and the CRPGs of the time.

Modern games though are clearly designed to get you as addicted as possible and to play as long as possible to an extent that made the old school 90s RPGs grinds look tame and mild. (the grinds in those games basically existing to make sure you had to play long enough to not be able to return it to the store or beat it via rental)

Modern UX of games is designed so that you dont have to really read or understand the game mechanics even to be able to play and get into that feedback loop. To the point where when a game comes along like Dark Souls that asks you to learn the game systems to beat it, gamers go gah gah over "how hard" it is.
I've seen $600/hour rates for individual engineering work on mission-critical systems or high-revenue systems.

There are two massive factors impacting rates: sophistication of the buyer, and sophistication of the contractor.

I used to make $200/hour doing Drupal development for really small outfits: tiny real estate agents, restaurants, etc. My budget rarely went over $4000 and the sites were templated enough that 20 hours was honestly doable. They didn't want much and therefore wouldn't pay much because the return on investment for a website honestly isn't much for some of those places. Restaurants derive more foot traffic off Google Reviews than their own websites.

If you're dealing with a mission-critical system that costs you $100,000 per hour that it's down, then paying $1,000 per hour for someone to do it right is a no-brainer. However, that also means that the consultant has to inspire the confidence that they can get it under control. BCG/Bain/McKinsey/Deloitte/etc are masters at inspiring that confidence which is why their rates are so high.
Did Orange then "distribute" the library to users as part of deploying this authentication service, or was this purely internal, SaaS use? If the latter, it makes sense that the counterfeiting claims were dismissed, since these only arise when the software is "distributed".