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Interestingly, FreeBSD and Linux both started with the same audio stack (OSS) and both rewrote it twice[1], but FreeBSD has kept the original OSS API while adding essentially the same features, it seems.

The big selling-point of ALSA, from what I remember, was that OSS couldn't provide mixing to support multiple applications - but FreeBSD's OSS does that. Some of the main selling-points of PulseAudio are per-application volume, low latency and high-quality resampling, all of which FreeBSD's OSS claims to do as well.

[1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/Sound
Indeed. The biggest terrorist threats we face are domestic.
My spouse both leads and manages ~24 direct reports, each of which require near continuous instruction, supervision, mentoring and encouragement. Her role demands an advanced degree with on-going education and certification requirements; exhaustive planning; an endless well of optimism; extensive individualized communication with third-party stake-holders; detailed performance accounting and reporting to stake-holders and management; frequent conflict resolution; incredible time and resources management; quick adaption to unexpected situations; acute safety awareness; and to operate in a highly-political environment with severe budget constraints.

She's a nationally board-certified kindergarten teacher in a public school.
If a company developed a new kind of gun which they rented access to, and an artist wanted to leave it unattended to see whether anyone misused it, it wouldn't be surprising if the gun company refused to continue providing access to the artist.

Now, we can argue about whether the particular thing that this artist wanted to do was actually unsafe, and whether Open AI has a reasonable policy on this, but do you agree that technologies can be dangerous?
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A lot of $10 words to say “I don’t know anything so i choose to believe lizard people did it”
Frustration with Google sheninangans turned me into a mainstream user who now accepts defaults and in retrospect, I don't miss a thing. Wonder if this is by design.
There's nothing mysterious here. Once a column begins to fail, the load it was supporting transfers to other columns. If several columns are weakened simultaneously, the remaining columns are pushed past their safety margins very rapidly, and the building enters a progressive collapse.
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Sorry, maybe I didn't understand the question.
This service is a sandbox allowing to execute PHP code with SQL queries.
You can’t go faster than light for the simple reason that it would defeat the very many performance optimisations necessary to keep the universe running.
Use rclone and be happy.

Seriously, I haven't tried Google Drive for Desktop but I won't even bother, given their track record.

Rclone is simply amazing, the developers are responsive, it supports every backend on the planet. It's a single lightweight binary written in Go, runs on Linux, Mac, Win, x86 and ARM, every feature you could ever need, thoroughly documented… oh, and open source. I mean, what else could one want?
I'd heard this anecdotally in the past, apparently there's some meat to it.

The Marines have this number set to 3.

Marines obviously have different scenarios they have to deal with than most organizations. But it's still an interesting idea.

https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/the-us-marine-corps-uses-...
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Yeah so? It's offering it in a not-insane fashion, that's my point.
It has a way to push heat into it, some heat insulation, a door, and it's food-ready. The thing is basically an oven already, and 270K and 400K are just some 30% change.
How much is the reservation going to get per sale or per year? It'd be nice to see all the details because if history has taught us anything....the reservation people most likely got screwed.
https://www.teslarati.com/mcdonalds-piggybacks-tesla-firebau...
One day I had the stupid idea to replace the nasm macros of my toy compiler with generated Assembly directly, and to reduce dependencies rely on gas, back when Intel syntax was hardly supported, so AT&T it was.

Never again.
The show "The Looming Tower" on Hulu documents this well, would recommend checking it out if you want to learn more. It also documents how the CIA and NSA basically froze the FBI out of key intel. What I find super ironic is this freezing is a large reason why the attackers were not stopped earlier, but rather than solve this issue, Cheney and his lawyers gave way more power to the NSA to surveil Americans without encrypting their names or any details, further creating a siloing between the intelligence communities.
> you could have no symptoms at all. you could die. you could suffer serious cognitive effects which eliminate your ability to work, read books, or even watch TV. you could get sick and stay sick for the rest of your life. we don't know the exact duration of long covid, but there are plenty of people who got sick in early 2020 and haven't gotten better yet.

Why just apply this to covid? 45,000 people a year in the US die when they get behind of a wheel of a car every year. Does that number need to be zero to be an acceptable level of risk.
You whiny little entitled shit. People are losing their lives and loved ones due to this virus, and you're complaining that taking an easy precaution against spread is too hard because you " can't casually take a sip of water or eat a snack."

You quite well can wear one forever. The reason we are still plagued with this virus is because assholes with your same arguments stopped wearing masks early on, and wouldn't get vaccinated when that became available. So at some level, your attitude is why we have 1000 people dying per day again. Glad your personal comfort is worth that, and I hope you get it!
In my experience, the Manjaro and Ubuntu package managers make the PipeWire packages "provide" the necessary PulseAudio metapackages to avoid dependency issues. I guess that means even if you don't plan to switch, installing PipeWire right now may help you prevent your package manager from installing Pulse as a dependency.
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Credibility 2.0. https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/ecu/mayday-the-canister-on-the...
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This does not appear to be the usual approach of training the neural network on tons of data from the physics simulation. Instead they use the actual physics equations to form the loss function, which is a far more robust way of creating such an emulator. So physics based deep learning title is appropriate.
The position you seem to be defending (not «presenting the precise and most accurate information to the public») is dis-educative for its target (the not «as rational as you») and alienates the rest (the «as rational as you»).
Of course you can go faster than light, way faster. When it comes to physics there are no limits how fast, far or deep you can go. People constraint themselves with articifial limits and it's not necessary a bad thing. But real limits doesn't exist.

I'v heard someone saying space is a big ball and outside of it is nothing. I imagine nothing as a black space but that actually is something. So there is something after all. And however weird or normal these other places are, it goes like this infinitely.
What would happen if you had a very large rotor of let's say 50.000km in diameter. And let it rotate at 1r/s. The inner part would only move at very low speed and the outer part at near lightspeed. What kind of time dilation effects would be seen?
If you would sit on the tips for a few days and then stop the rotor, travel back to the center, you would see a very old one right?
In the extremely high-density, car-hostile world this advocates for, if you want a yard for your kids to play in, or you don't want to share walls with neighbors, are you just out of luck? Or what if you have kids in school, but the school districts within walking distance of your job are all bad?
Bias is unavoidable, but definitely reducable. Biases are the least harmful when they are well understood. The problem with just haphazardly collecting anecdotes is that the biases tend to be poorly understood becuase the collection protocol is inconsistent and poorly documented.
Yeah, lie to the public for the greater good. If lying gets more people to wear masks and get vaccinated, and can prevent thousands of deaths, so be it. What's wrong with lying?
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It doesn't, lunarvim lives in it's own .config/lvim directory
Taking advantage of a situation doesn’t mean you caused it. This is correlation != causation situation. Anti-vaxxers didn’t cause covid but the captured the moment to exploit it.
I have a probably very dumb question. If speed is relative, when we say something travels at... I don't know... 50% the speed of light, that speed is relative to what? how do you know it is 50% and not 53%?

How do we know we're not already moving at 99% the speed of light (like our observable universe as a whole having that speed )?

I love this stuff, but it is so counter intuitive for the average human.
Have you tried researching the long term effects of these medications? There is plenty of scientific literature available.

Be sure to consider the age which the treatment starts. A major aspect of concern for all drug use is how it affects developing minds.
I concur, good on England
Aren't we heading towards overpopulation? in the case... is that a... "good" thing? Seriously curious. 17B is alot.
> Angela Merkel (our chancellor) didnt even seem to care that the NSA had tapped her phone

That's because she perhaps knows better than anyone that Germany also spy on the US; work with the US to spy on other countries; or in general, all intelligence agencies spy?

https://www.dw.com/en/german-intelligence-spied-on-white-hou...
Thanks, that sounds like the explanations I've seen too, and that I hope to understand some day. Atm I'm at the point where I gladly accept that time may seem to dilate, but not that it actually does. Maybe I just need to dive deeper into it than I've been willing to do so far.
Trillions of dollars are NOT missing…never were. With 34 colors of money, subdivided by Fiscal Year (FY), and where the RDT&E is further divided by 8 budget activities (each also divided by FY), it becomes a task impossible to tell congress (who actually created this insane level of fiscal sub-division in the first place) that every single dollar was spent according to their scheme.

Think about it, there is not a single off the shelf enterprise accounting system designed to accommodate even a fraction of this maniacal minutia.

Note that the cited list didn’t account for JIEDO appropriation type (which also had a FY component) which was prevalent over the past 20 years, but is now defunct.

A major part of the problem (save the super fragmented parsing of the funding) is that each service has their own accounting & execution systems. There is NOT a singular DoD system.

https://acqnotes.com/acqnote/acquisitions/appropriation-cate...

https://ndiatvc.org/images/downloads/DAU_Training/dau_color_...
Unfortunately you are also 100% wrong.

For example, a care home in London recently held a trip, all individuals in attendance were 'double jabbed', and were required to bring a negative PCR test. The attendees were not allowed to board the coach if they did not bring a negative PCR test. Attendees also had their temperatures taken before bording the coach and were also asked about how they felt, and encouraged not to come should they even feel like they have any symptom/s. The next day, a member of staff tests positive.

Simply being double jabbed isn't a solution, because the vaccine, fundamentally, doesn't work the way you think.

Whilst a jab may remove some affects of Covid, it does not stop transmission; Covid can and will be passed from those who are vaccinated to vulnerable people regardless. This results in a quandry where advocating for proof of a negative test can not actually be proof of a negative test, and being double jabbed does not stop an individual from catching Covid and stopping them from suffering.

Forcing people to be jabbed is unethical; boys have been reported to be 6x more likely to suffer vaccine-related myocarditis than ending up in hospital with Covid. What groups are deemed more precious? Are our young boys worth sacrificing, or should we sacrifice those who's age is greater than the average age of death?

Excluding people from society because they are not willing to take a drug which is still experimental; The CDC may have approved it, but in the UK has not its approval is temporary and that lasts one year:(https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4759).

It also quite frightening to hear power hungry individuals advocating agency over anothers body; I find your comment regarding Texas ironic given the current abortion issues present, but perhaps you agree with that removal as well.

When rights are removed, they do not come back. we still remove our shoes when
travelling through airport security. It is important that we consider the our actions and implications for the long term, not just the current political cycle.
Also Discourse is written in ruby.
That’s fair but this is why I’m suggesting token penalties. Like parking ticket sized. People are extremely loss averse, so that’s enough to really bother them (thus deter behavior) while it shouldn’t be enough to genuinely hurt Jim in accounting.
imagine if we directed as much attention as covid is getting toward such a more insidious, and more tractable, problem like air (and water) pollution. we could really do something in a relatively short time (like 2-5 years). for instance, we could measurably reduce air pollution by replacing the top 25 most polluting power plants (coal). that might cost on the order of a 100 billion dollars, but that's less than 1% of america's gdp, nevermind the world's.
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No, 10% and 51% is a pretty substantial and material difference. Lying for the right cause is still lying.
I expect pollution to be as much of a driver of the push for electric cars as climate change. It's something that affects people directly, immediately and noticeably - it stinks.

If I had a vote whether to ban combustion engines from my city (cars, trucks, mopeds, leaf blowers - everything), with a relatively short transition period (say 5 years), I'd be in favor.

It would probably initially drive up prices of goods due to a shortage of electric delivery vehicles or the need to repack everything onto smaller local trucks outside the city, but I think it'd be worth it.
Yes, because everybody who works at starbucks knows wtf is going on with their crappy websites.
My memories are that Google Video worked fine without additional plugins, but I primarily used it to consume Google content (primarily their tech talks), documentaries, etc... YouTube really was all about short home-made videos.

The UX on Youtube was generally better.

One thing I did like in Google Video though, was that it allowed to download copies of the videos easily to save local copies. That appealed to the data-hoarder in me, I suppose.
What I don't like in standard HSV color picker [1] is that the colors are distributed non-uniformly. For example, there is a wide area of same looking green color, but just a thin line of yellow and orange. I didn't understand if new models solve this issue.

[1] https://bottosson.github.io/img/colorpicker/hsv-picker.png
We usually talk about several paradigms for data management and programming: navigational (e.g. CODASYL, OO databases/languages, most graph DBs), tensor-based (e.g. MOLAP, Matlab, TensorFlow, Pytorch), Map-Reduce (e.g. Hadoop and Spark before they started to disown their MR heritage). Semistructured (e.g. JSON) and dataframes (e.g. Pandas) are also important abstractions. These abstractions can be captured in the relational paradigm — in other words we can think of them as special cases and represent them as views on relational models.

It is clear from the last 50 years of our industry that the relational paradigm (eventually) always wins. It wins because it separates the what from the how and automates away a bunch of tricky programming that we have to do with the more imperative paradigms.
— the OLTP workload was originally supported by navigational systems and then switched to relational systems mostly based on 3rd normal form schemas
— the OLAP workload was originally supported by multi-dimensional array (tensor) systems then switched to relational systems based on star and snowflake schemas
— the Big Data workload was originally supported by map-reduce systems then switched to relational systems based on star/snowflake + JSON schemas.

I believe that the Graph (via navigational), Reasoning (via procedural), and ML (via dataframe and tensor) workloads will move to relational systems based on graph normal form (GNF) schemas. Those relational systems won't be built like the SQL-based systems of today. They will need new relational language extensions, new semantic optimizers, new optimal join algorithms, materialized views that are maintained efficiently, new data structures, etc. We are working on such a system at RelationaAI. We’re in limited preview now but hope to have an open preview by early next year.
Which vaccine? Collecting anecdata …
> IRC has chosen to sacrifice C (consistency)

Hm? Hasn't it sacrificed partition tolerance? A netsplit is a partition.
Last update in 2005.
I remember this when it was first online as a web app and it was a pretty big hit amongst Manga fans. I remember someone was finding the server costs but then they shut it down. I guess they had trouble monitizing it? I always wondered whether this could actually become a useful+profitable product.
at our current covid death rate, that 45K people happens about every 10 to 15 days. call it two weeks for simplicity's sake.

that 45K is also the most popular argument in favor of self-driving cars.

but none of this has ANYTHING TO DO with the argument I made, which is that the grandparent's estimate of a worst-case scenario was just wildly inaccurate.
Thanks for writing Jack! I love the fact that I can play something in vmpk, render using qsynth, process in rackarrack and record directly in audacity. The routing feature alone sets Linux apart from the competition and I'm happy it influenced pipewire to implement it.

Linux is already deployed in some commercial daws and it will soon be an RTOS. Hope music production will have more and better options because of this.
It’s the ages of 16 through 32. Most of these people are not children in the legal, emotional or intellectual sense.
You will be able to reach small ~100°C heating before everything starts failing and getting on fire, then you will get much larger temperatures, once. If you have a bad enough circuit breaker, you may even reach metallurgic oven temperatures for a short while!

The refrigerant gas failing isn't actually a problem for high temperatures. They are a problem to getting too cold, but if you get hot enough, anything will work. Even if it burns down inside your pipes, the results will still work (but your pipes won't).
> Does anyone know who Jimmy John Liautaud is? He's the founder of the Jimmy Johns sandwich chain. Worth over $1 billion, but people with like Paul Krugman, Glenn Greenwald, and Mathew Yglasis, who have huge platforms, keep dominating the discourse on important issues.

This seems naive to me. You imagine that Krugman's columns in the NYT, Greenwald's pontifications on whatever platform he's on now, or little Matty Y's ruminations on substack are actually "dominating the discourse" ?

Well, yes, of course they are dominating the discourse, but that's wildly different from dominating policy formation. To do that, you make a big donation an important politician, and then you follow up with friendly but firm reminders of (a) the size of your donation (b) the social importance of whatever it is that you do (c) your preferred policy direction.

Krugman or Matt Y will write a column about this later, post-facto, and you'll have moved on, smiling.
The german Minister of the Interior, Horst Seehofer, was allegedly not informed about it.

Don't know which possibility is worth, that they really didn't inform him, or that they did and lie about.
Nonsense, get monoclonal antibodies as soon as possible. The earlier the better.

All you said was available during 2020, and people have been taking vitamins minerals, etc. and dying anyway.
I’m personally way more worried about long-term cognitive symptoms than about dying. Obviously the jury’s still out on long term symptoms, but something like a quarter of people with symptomatic COVID seem to have some kind of cognitive symptom (mainly “brain fog” and/or short-term memory loss) 8 months later. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.18.21253633v...
The most credible theory in my eyes as to why they needed to invade Iraq, was that Saddam intended to boycott the US dollar, and rather sell Iraq's oil in Euros.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2003/feb/16/iraq.theeur...

There's a de facto global tacit agreement to sell oil in US dollars - on pain of unilateral sanctions by the US or military intervention by the US military. All countries who deviate from this agreement are in fact deemed enemies of the US. This includes, Iran, Venezuela, Russia and China, and (formely) Iraq and Libya. When they don't, that means that the US can't simply print dollars as they please and force other countries (who purchases that oil) to purchase US debt as well. Pricing oil in currencies other than the worlds reserve currency (the US dollar) affects the dollar value greatly. The US printed about 10 trillion dollars in two years. The rest of the oil-dependent world pays the price.
Damn nothing for sale. I was curious how much it is per lb
Ah this is very cool to hear, thanks for the clarification.
Why isn't it called index_t then?
Sorry I know this is off topic, but I must post the obligatory Pinky and the Brain from Postmodern Jukebox with the original voice actors in the background. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqMs9WsJg2k
Nah. It's much more plausible that he sincerely believed lead wasn't that dangerous.
Indeed. I see where everyone on HN is coming from. But if you're a physicist, and you've come across a lot of "deep learning applied to physics but the model has no physics in it" (and there's plenty of that), then the title may make perfect sense.
Public shaming works best if the people being shamed care about the regard of those doing the shaming. It works very poorly when the topic is polarized and the shaming can be easily brushed off. The more hyperbolic and over the top you make this shaming, the easier it is to brush off.
>Mind you we’re discussing an American company, working with American clients.

And everyone in this thread is discussing how that company could be using American laws to pressure workers. This thread is an indictment of an American system, no one is blaming the H1B workers.
For CLI fans, aria2c supports BitTorrent protocol.
When I was a kid I never liked plastic cups and glasses because it made the drink taste "plasticy".
I didn't stop wearing masks early on, I got vaccinated as soon as possible, and I've pleaded with everyone I know to get themself vaccinated as well. Please don't lump me in with COVID deniers.
You're correct, that is our understanding in NZ, mask wearing is almost entirely about protecting others by limiting the projection range of droplets. It works if everyone wears a mask.
If it had sacrificed P IRC would stop working in case of a net split. Instead it keeps working in an inconsistent state.
Neither of those are about organ donation.

If you think that doctors aren't likely to do their level best to save your life and to act in your best interests, you surely have larger problems that you, being braindead at the time, having your organs potentially used to save the lives of others?