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> I think this level of automation in-between cruise-control and full self driving is incredibly dangerous and should be made illegal. It is well known that humans can't maintain focus on repetitive tasks for any significant length of time.

I would rather see conditional-use licenses that require full automation. I.e. maybe Tesla gets a license that allows using Autopilot, but only on highways with a speed limit equal to or lower than 55 MPH, and only when it isn't raining or snowing.

Then just require Autopilot to enforce those conditions. Have it refuse to engage if it's raining or snowing. If your route needs to take an offramp, have it loudly announce "Your route needs to take this exit, but I cannot drive there. Please take the wheel." If you don't take the wheel, it just keeps going down the highway or pulls over or something.

Then let them slowly increase the situations they're licensed for through some kind of testing process.

> My proposal would be to hold the manufacturer responsible for the behaviour of their products as soon as they pass a very basic form of automation

While I agree, I think this is a significant dampener on user-owned self-driving cars. It's really unappealing to sell a product where you're liable for what end-users do with it. Especially a product the end-user has physical control of.

On the tame side, what if they don't update it? On the more malicious side, what if they physically tamper with it? Or if they purposefully put it in terrible situations to see what it does? You just know there will be some kind of Tiktok fad involving doing stupid things with self-driving cars.

Most of those are far less of an issue with company-owned cars you hire as a taxi. The user doesn't have physical control, and the company can maintain control of the route. Makes it a lot easier to avoid problem areas, and prevents users from doing dumb things with routes like trying to drive through an airport or something.

I just wanted to bring up that that's probably the death knell for getting to own a self-driving car. Maybe it's still worthwhile.
Hmm, a MicroSD card is handy, but how about a MicroSD card to USB reader in the watch strap?
I've been a happy user of the (free) version of libib for ~8 months now. Android and website both work great for my purposes (800 books, manually added) but as parent states the service can be used with a barcode scanner for larger libraries.
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No.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/big-mac-cost-denmark/
The paper in question is by people from a variety of institutions (none of them being Veritas International University). Early in the paper there is this comment:

"After eleven seasons of excavations, the site excavators [i.e., the folks affiliated with Veritas International University] independently concluded that evidence pointed to a possible cosmic impact. They contacted our outside group of experts from multiple impact-related and other disciplines to investigate potential formation mechanisms for the unusual suite of high-temperature evidence, which required explanation."
And Actionable Notifications are gone?? On gmail for example, I could swipe to the left, tap "display" (I think that's what it was called) and it would show me actions like "archive", "delete", etc. Now I have to open the app. Why??
I use Libib as well. It has a blazing fast barcode scanner, though manual entry is a bit cumbersome. They seem like a good company, though longevity might be a concern. There is an easy export option, anyways.
I don't see why the FBI would have bad intentions here.

Everyone in the US, including the FBI and the NSA have in their best interest a functioning economy without companies being ransomwared to death.
Oh I'd love a chronograph with a compass and slide rule.

Btw, there are small compasses that you can attach to a strap, including many watch bands. https://www.varusteleka.com/en/product/suunto-clipper-l-b-nh...

Of course you an also use an analog watch + sun to orient yourself. https://www.gearpatrol.com/watches/a386344/how-to-use-a-watc...
I think the Soviet Union/Russia (in the modern era) let this genie out and it's not going back in.

If they use it, we may be able to impose economic sanctions for some time. If they get so sanctioned it makes little difference, like with Russia, then nothing will stop them at that point.
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Amazon deliveries in NYC are done by a mix of bikes with trailers, the US Postal Service, Amazon's own Sprinter vans, and third-party contractors using their own vehicles (e.g. Lasership). The bikes and trailers are replacing these vehicles, not a normal bike.
Yeah I like that idea!
It's easy to "hodl" when you have friends who can rewrite the rules if you need it, even easier if your central bank friends can just print money to pump your bags.
Am I too cynical in not giving this piece of overengineering the slightest chance to survive actual use? Just get a cargo bike. Or a car. I don't see what niche this is supposed to fill.

> Because the specially-designed drawbar with which it attaches to the bike is packed with sensors, it takes its cues from the towing vehicle and performs all maneuvers (braking, acceleration and maintaining speed, and turning) on its own.

At least they were smart enough to not try and wing it with cameras only. Even if the graphics in the article suggest it.
All I want is an e-Reader with USB-C. I refuse to buy any device which require me to use another charging cable.
iOS. If you see 'Unable to load remote content privately' at the top of an email
> I agree that ARM isn't going anywhere, as long as it can be licensed for less than it takes to design a good-enough RISC-V core, it will get used (with opensource designs slowly lowering the latter on average).

You don't have to design it yourself. The foundaries are working towards free hard cells of RISC-V cores in most of their PDKs. It's hard for ARM to compete with free.
Companies on extended support releases of versions distros want a specific version of packages with security patches for a product lifecycle not an increased frequency of OS changes.
What did Java move to exactly?
Web workers are real threads in the sense that they map directly to low-level threads (+ shared memory via SharedArrayBuffer which was only temporarily disabled due to Spectre).

The bigger thing is that the Python runtime has a GIL because that's kind of how you solved the problem when multiple cores started becoming mainstream in the 90s. The Linux kernel had a similar GIL. It's an easy way to technically support running in a multi-threaded environment while reducing maintenance issues at the cost that you can never use more than 1 core at a time. JS runtimes don't have this problem because the runtime support layer is almost non-existent & there's no multi-threading support at all (indeed, V8 by itself comes with almost no JS APIs - there's a clear delineation between language runtime & "app runtime"). Service workers is extremely thin & works on channels instead of shared memory, further simplifying the design. The JS GC is typically written to support concurrent multi-threaded operation to minimize the "stop the world" phase runtime whereas Python's cycle detector needs to stop the world due to the GIL. These are all small decisions that add up.
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That's true for some less-attended studies, but wrong for STEM, medicine, economics, psychology, etc. For most of those you have entrance exams (with a literature list to study up front) where only a certain top percentile passes. The first one or two semesters are also quite brutal, to weed out even more underachievers.

Once you've mastered that, it's very cheap (or free, if you are an EU citizen) to study here: https://studieren.univie.ac.at/en/tuition-fee/amount-eueeach...
Living in Vienna is also quite affordable, at least compared to Berlin or London.
Anyone here used it? How well does it work?
Sorry to break it to you, but plenty of people prefer stability over novelty.
Makes sense. I haven't checked lately how fast the version I played with was. I do still like the visualization I put up at https://taeric.github.io/DancingLinks.html. if you run the snippet to add for n of 14, it is fun watching the queen march across the middle. :)
Hard to relate to you, but you can try to understand.

Insulting to our ancestors? Is it really, if one's making this decision for the love of all life on Earth, wishing to reduce harm and suffering caused by our unsustainable way of life?

Pessimism. Optimism. About the climate. Not about the climate. Deeply off or deeply on. We can do psychoanalysis all day, but reasons for declining birth rates are well-researched. The world is not running out of humans anytime soon, while nature and other living beings could use our help (or lack of harmful actions) now. So let's do that.
Great, he’s back!!
I knew someone who had a secret hotline to the Google indexing team. For the rest of us it is "talk to the hand"
The screen size is important, as you say. I use a 9" reader and it is large enough, but it is a 7-year-old device. I got the impression that those larger screen sizes later disappeared from the market.

As for the back and forth scrolling, again correct that it is much slower than with a physical book.

You can pack a lot of technical books in your device but, in my opinion, the best ones it is a good idea to have them printed as well.
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> Aside from that, this machine is disturbing, but not more so than a reaper drone. I’m not quite sure why they’d go through the trouble.

If I understood the article correctly, it's because the Mossad didn't want to reveal it was them, which is why the gun attempted to self-destruct after use.
Candyman
I'm generally surprised that England is more expensive compared to the US.
Just like everyone else seems to think, this is the monetization model I can get behind.
The full thread is the most epic rant I've ever read, and I am not even finished yet...
It so good, <strike>I am going to go and check every response to each of the ops tweets after I do finish it.<strike> - apparently I need a twitter account for this.

Edit: Currently I am here:

"and my favorite part of this is that every time tumblr has fucked up and created some weird bug, the user base almost immediately weaponizes it."
Even so.

An audio player that played proprietary files by exactly one record company would be obvious bullshit.

Somehow publishing has allowed itself to be squeezed into the e-reader equivalent. The result is a predictable lack of quality in both hardware and software - never mind consumer choice and delivery options.
The Thing was designed by Soviet Russian inventor Léon Theremin,[4] best known for his invention of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument.

Little known non-fact: Theremin repurposed the unsuccessful theremin banjo edition as the passive transmitter.
At least there's a man page for those, there's no man page for crappy websites.
You don't need to create an Azure account to use Github Actions. It's not really refusing to use the service as much as using the streamlined one right in front of you.
That SuperBrain ad caught my eye as well. For a certain generation of people in my extended social group, the SuperBrain looms large because one was used as the console for the BBS they used/met on in the mid 80's and early 90's.

After the BBS went under, the SuperBrain was passed around between various users who wanted to hold onto that piece of shared history. Right before COVID I was able to return it to the original sysop who was shocked it was still around some 30 years later.
I'm from Austria. We have 0 (zero) tuition fees.

Sounds good right?

Well... actually... not that great if you are ambitious, because it means that Austrian universities are over crowded. It is extremely common to see "long term" students, essentially people who study for 10+ years so they get state benefits as a student. Ambitious people will struggle to complete their studies in the minimum required time (e.g. 3 years for a Bachelor's), because overcrowding means that there are long waiting lists for exams. Some students need to enlist to a waiting list for an exam before even joining the university if they want to have a chance to do an exam in time so that they can finish within the 3 years. It's just complete bonkers.

Of course, because the EU is led by fucking geniuses (not), they thought it would be a good idea if any EU citizen is allowed to study in any EU country, meaning that Austrian universities are not only overcrowded, but overcrowded by Germans who don't want to pay tuition fees in their home country. It's easy for them because we speak the same language and Austrian students miss out on spaces and miss out on exam opportunities forcing them to study much longer than needed.

Honestly, it's a perfect example of how two populist headlines such as

- free tuition fees

- any EU citizen can study in any EU country

sound great on the news and abroad when you want to make your country/EU look good but in reality are a complete disaster.

I would have preferred to pay some fees which then would have meant that I could have had a normal university experience, but instead I didn't finish my degree at all because of those dumb socialist-populist policies which put me in the difficult situation of either aborting my studies and finding a job because my dad died, my mother was ill and I had to help out or study for an extra 2 years and struggle for the most basic things in life.
Yep this is the thing (no pun intended) that I was thinking of. Unreal.
The resin straps also don't feel very nice on my wrist. I highly recommend a nato strap: https://natostrapco.com/collections/all-watch-straps/18mm

I believe any of the 18mm straps should work on the F-105w, but make sure to do your own due diligence.

edit: Make sure to check out this site for other kinds of nato-style straps: https://www.cheapestnatostraps.com/collections/paratrooper-s...
Certainly Thiel is easy to criticize. But he doesn't march in lockstep with the progressive Left, and unless you've really drunk the progressive Kool-Aid you should be happy that there are at least a few influential people like that.
I was getting ready to make this exact comment. Byte and Dr. Dobb's were both critical to me and my entry into computer science.
I've replaced my Kindle with a Remarkable 2 and am generally pleased with the overall experience. The larger screen is nice, as is the ability to read/annotate academic papers on the same device.

There are a bunch of little things that would improve the epub experience, like improved navigation and bookmarks (never really made use of these on my Kindle though). The biggest missing feature IMO as a Kindle replacement is the lack of builtin lighting.
To do so for single, large transfers it would require a system somewhere upstream to perform the download for you and split it between your ISPs.
If the connections were in parallel, it's easier.

There is MPTCP - Multi-Path TCP. I do not have experience with it though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath_TCP
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You have the option to do that. Keep up on the most recent Ubuntu. It's easier and saves you money and pain in the long run. Hopefully whatever train wrecks of organizations that need 14.04 are paying enough in support contract to help subsidize Canonical for the rest of us.
Do you have the specs for the infamous military Terrapin Snapping Turtle proposed to the Department of Defense?

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1056602.1056608

https://donhopkins.com/home/TurtlesAndDefense.pdf

>TURTLES AND DEFENSE

>Introduction

>At Terrapin, we feel that our two main products, the Terrapin
Turtle ®, and the Terrapin Logo Language for the Apple II, bring
together the fields of robotics and AI to provide hours of
entertainment for the whole family. We are sure that an
enlightened application of our products can uniquely impact the
electronic battlefield of the future. [...]

>Guidance

>The Terrapin Turtle ®, like many missile systems in use today,
is wire-guided. It has the wire-guided missile's robustness with
respect to ECM, and, unlike beam-riding missiles, or most
active-homing systems, it has no radar signature to invite enemy
missiles to home in on it or its launch platform.
However, the Turtle does not suffer from that bugaboo of
wire-guided missiles, i.e., the lack of a fire-and-forget capability.

>Often ground troops are reluctant to use wire-guided antitank
weapons because of the need for line-of-sight contact with the target
until interception is accomplished. The Turtle requires no such
human guidance; once the computer controlling it has been
programmed, the Turtle performs its mission without the need of
human intervention. Ground troops are left free to scramble for
cover. [...]

>Because the Terrapin Turtle ® is computer-controlled, military
data processing technicians can write arbitrarily baroque programs
that will cause it to do pretty much unpredictable things. Even if an
enemy had access to the programs that guided a Turtle Task
Team ® , it is quite likely that they would find them impossible to
understand, especially if they were written in ADA. In addition,
with judicious use of the Turtle's touch sensors, one could,
theoretically, program a large group of turtles to simulate Brownian
motion. The enemy would hardly attempt to predict the paths of
some 10,000 turtles bumping into each other more or less randomly
on their way to performing their mission. Furthermore, we believe
that the spectacle would have a demoralizing effect on enemy
ground troops. [...]

>Munitions

>The Terrapin Turtle ® does not currently incorporate any
munitions, but even civilian versions have a downward-defense
capability. The Turtle can be programmed to attempt to run over
enemy forces on recognizing them, and by raising and lowering its
pen at about 10 cycles per second, puncture them to death.

>Turtles can easily be programmed to push objects in a
preferred direction. Given this capability, one can easily envision a
Turtle discreetly nudging a hand grenade into an enemy camp, and
then accelerating quickly away. With the development of ever
smaller fission devices, it does not seem unlikely that the Turtle
could be used for delivery of tactical nuclear weapons. [...]
All good comments here...

I think the reason we have so many fe/js/options is that no one option has jump out as 'x10 better' than the rest.

Svelte for me at least gets close to 'it' - ymmv

Sidenote(sorry for highjack): The ninja hackers/coders out there please code this next:

Like you know how we have tree shaking for dead js/ts code ?(Really cool and impressive btw)

I want to get "html tree shaking" - Im putting it in quotes since what Im after is:

The least amount and/or optimized html that will generate the same 'view/end-result' of my current unoptimzed html.

Maybe a case for optimal-auto-encoder ?
We have been using Netflix Conductor and it has a ton of features that helps with glueing systems.
1) is no barrier at all to a residence. Maybe 30x30ft is all you need at most for a small family sized structure.

2) Is only a barrier in rural areas, otherwise hauling in water into a tank is still a lot better than being homeless / having all your wealth extracted by a landlord.

3) is merely an artificial restriction created by the government. We shouldn't be restricting property owners from building a residence.

4) If you're already ok with living far from anything you can already find a few counties in the US with virtually unrestricted building codes and zoning, so this is a non issue.

I have found some land that only suffers from (1) and (2) and (4), that is close to a city, and has no building codes in a western state. It's been a long haul getting there because there are so few places in the US that allows it, and this is the only county in the country next to jobs I've been able to find it. Believe me, I understand, and truly lament how much we hate for people to freely build their homes here. We'll probably move there within the next 5 years, but it would have been a hell of a lot easier if everywhere was like that so I didn't have to slowly acquire jobs and contacts closer and closer to the one area like this. And now that I've _finally_ acquired the contacts in this area, and a job reasonably close, and my partner has obtained all the credentials to work in the area, they are talking about closing off the option of self certification of meeting code here! So we will be back to square one. This is how people get locked out of every owning a home, because frankly my family can scarcely afford to even rent a badly run down home in a bad part of town where we live currently.

You watch property prices rise and rise, the number of places allow bypassing codes dwindle. And then some asshole comes around saying "Well the codes and zoning are there to keep you safe!" What about all the years lost working to buy that "safe" house? It's better to risk a 1/20 death in a horrible house fire than it is the certainty I'll lose 1/10th of my life completely if I slave away to buy a slightly safer house. And these people also don't seem to realize I have an incentive to not kill myself or anyone else, code or no code.
Two, even. Two reasons:

1) Too many languages don't have native enumeration and set types to make a clean and elegant solution even possible.

2) Too many developers don't know how to do it, even if they use a language where it would be possible; some because they couldn't figure it out, but most probably just out of rote habit.

And yeah, sure, not quite everyone. But most, AFAICS. And I haven't seen any coherent argument against it from anyone actively claiming it's bad (Idunno, are there any besides you?), so feel free to try again and contribute something more convincing than your previous attempt.
Well, interest rates have a bit of complication. There's at least 4 things they're a function of:
* Time you're looking to borrow / lend at.
* Duration of the loan.
* Period that the rate is in.
* Compounding frequency.

e.g. you'd want to specify something like "The 10 year interest rate on 2021-09-22, in percent per year, continuously compounded".
There's a certain rare, out-of-print book that took me a couple of years to track down. It shares an ISBN with another common, inexpensive, in-print book whose only similarity to the rare one is that it came from the same speciality publisher. Every time I found a copy of the rare book on various used book websites, the common one showed up on my porch instead. Apparently there are a lot of people who treat ISBN as a primary key. A non-trivial number of sellers thought I was trying to pull a return scam on them because they could not be convinced that ISBNs are not unique. The fact that the book I tried to buy generally listed for around $300 and the book I was actually sent went for $15 used really made returns difficult.

My search finally ended when a copy showed up on eBay, complete with listing photos. I suspect the price I paid was much higher than usual for a book with similar desirability and rarity because the ISBN collision made it much harder to find.
Thanks. To clarify what I said earlier (for possible future readers): Life is still hard at times. Those things make it also good. (More info if desired.. :)