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> This is the kind of full stack developer I'd like to be.

Me too. But I think we need to find a new term for “full stack” at this point. Full stack developer was kind of the trendy “I do JavaScript and server stuff too”—though when I visited with adherents I usually found that many migrate to one part mostly and cede the other areas to others.

I do the kind of stuff shown here, embedded C, mqtt servers, native mobile apps, etc, but I have been leery of using the term “full stack.”

But now I’m seeing the term used more often in a more general abstracted sense, like the above. I see this type of person as a polymath (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath). I’d propose the term polytech, but that term is pretty overloaded already, and polyeng just doesn’t role off the tongue very well.
Senet and Helium Announce LoRaWAN Network Integration Partnership
Not obvious from the title, but in this article Greenwald takes the opportunity to air some of the dirty laundry about why he left the Intercept. Worth reading.
Followed instructions for 21.04 (distro = "hirsute"), greeted with complaint about binder missing. Found some bug report on the web suggesting I must rebuild my kernel to enable binder. Noped out of there.

Looks like a nice effort though. Is this some problem specific to 21.04 kernel config?
We at $Famous_company Switched to $Hyped_technology (2020)
Yeah, great programmers are also great documenters and also process-oriented and detailed

Dennis Ritchie, Vitalik Buterin, Jeff Dean exist
That is all true.

In the context of the original comment, though, this does narrow down the market that can be addressed by a company running the Next/Apple playbook.

It seems vastly cheaper to solve these issues than to start a new company to produce its own hardware and OS.

If you did start such a company and prove there was a market, then you're making a bet that Canonical (or KDE devs) won't put you out of business.
Noted, and Thanks.
KDE works pretty well for me. The defaults are not bad, but it has lots of customization options. I mostly leave it on defaults, except for switching on focus follows mouse. You don't need to manually edit config files. It also has some nice (optional) animations. It's like a nicer Windows, with more customization and a more uniform UI (no mixture of historical UI elements).
The 51nb "Thinkpads" achieve three goals you may find useful: reuse, upgrade & repairability. In effect, you are recycling while upgrading!

In addition to repurposing some of the old electronics & the entire chassis, they have massive performance, complete repairability & upgradability, a max of 64GB RAM & 3 storage disks, all in a smallish (but thick) Thinkpad form-factor. Oh, and they come with two power supply options (USB-C and barrel jack) and have functional VGA ports and ethernet jacks. Batteries are a bit of a problem though.
I never saw news consumption for having something to talk about.

Obviously as a voting citizen, my vote ought to be informed.

If there is something IO should be outraged about, outraged enough to take to the streets and protest about, I want to know about it.

Also, for things like the environment, financial health of the country/world, I like to be able to see trends (or think that I do) and am less likely to be surprised by either a positive or negative turn of events in the future.

All that being said, I do not need a daily stream of news — something much more coarse than daily would be more than adequate.
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> Plugging in an external monitor may or may not work. Audio may or may not switch like folks are used to.

> Want to use bluetooth? It might work.

Sounds like the problem of installing Linux on a hardware designed for Windows. All those things work flawlessly on my Purism Librem 15, which came with preinstalled Linux. (Ok, I did not try Bluetooth, but saw reports that it works.)
So how did people learn in the 80s and 90s when no one had used a computer before?
> The vast majority of the studies about Ivermectin have been observational, run by front-line clinicians.

OK, so weak evidence.

> Prior to 2020, basically everyone on earth agreed (including the WHO, who STILL agrees) that front-line clinicians and observational studies are excellent signals that can lead to scientific investigations that can lead to medical breakthroughs.

Sure-- weak/crappy evidence and practitioner intuition can definitely point at worthwhile things to study rigorously, even if most of what they generate is trash.

> The evidence for IVM as a treatment for covid (and many other viruses) is quite strong.

??? Quite a leap you made there.
“Putting the needs of the users first” is but one tail end of a Gauss curve, and is certainly not at all what I claimed.

“Acting in bad faith” seems like the opposite tail end to me. There’s still a huge bell-shaped curve in between.
Shaming individuals for consumption confuses the political reality around us. It does nothing to actually bring about material change, and distracts from the real causes. Besides that, its tedious and rude.
This is such a dumb proposition. Even if you get military presence in a country for fab, a fab will loose the competitive advantage in just two years. And there are slots available in fabs that China could easily obtain for money/other deal rather than going for war.
Oh it's real, I agree. What I meant by "fiction" is that the success of waterfall, and the specifics of how waterfall are implemented, is fictional. As in during the "delivery phase", it is found that requirements were missed and so people will retroactively act as if those requirements were actually in the "requirements phase" all along. I did a lot of government contract work and saw the insanity in action.

Lots of retroactive changing of gantt charts, too :)
If it's like in Germany, you can reduce your staff for economic reasons - however there are rules to follow: if the choice is between a junior dev you hired last year or another who has been with the company for 10 years, you'll have to let the junior dev go first...
And in the meantime, if you buy into the crazed insanity of "pandemic! pandemic! omg we'll all die", then it makes tonnes of sense to treat people with a highly-available, incredibly safe medication that frontline clinicians all over earth are reporting success with, especially a drug that has been dosed ~4 billion times over two generations, that has been most often dosed by illiterate people and delivered by non-doctor NGO workers.
Microsoft announces Surface Pro 8 with bigger 13-inch 120Hz display, Thunderbolt
Please don't submit tweets that are just links to news articles.

Here's the official report: https://www.nksc.lt/doc/en/analysis/2021-08-23_5G-CN-analysi...
Yes. That assumption is baked into all standard economic models.

As is the fact that workers will try to keep wages as high as possible.
>customization and pretty animations with sane defaults

I got my fix of this with KDE, namely with Kubuntu 20.04.
It seems pretty weird to go to work everyday with bombs set all over the factory you work in. What if it blows up by accident or a disgruntled worker pulls the bomb lever.
Why is this linked to some random tweet that adds absolutely nothing instead of the article the tweet links to? https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/lithuania-say...
I agree that local news is a meaningful exception. Watching my affiliate station makes me feel more connected to my community. Furthermore, it does actually cover things in my life: the state fair, exhibits at my local museum, maybe some kid hit a bird with a baseball and played "Taps" for it so the mayor's gonna give him a trophy which I can then steal and sell as scrap metal because I know where the trophy is because I watched the local news -- stuff like that.
What Makes a Good Time to Use OpenZFS Slog and When Should You Avoid It
What are your thoughts on the pinebook. I'm trying to decide if I get a pinebook or a framework next.
“One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.”– Otto von Bismarck (1888)
This is super bad ass.

I made 8 LED icosahedra and 12 octahedra for a permanent lighting install in Boulder. They’re much larger (and thus were easier to make albeit much harder to handle ;) ) than this. I still gotta do the case study but some pics:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv0dYbdH0yw/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv-sF0oH4Rd/
https://www.instagram.com/p/B5czvt_n3ME/

[edit: less unintentionally self-aggrandizing]
… except Hacker News!
There are many reasons why someone might choose some hardware or platforms over other hardware or platforms. The paradox, though, is that if someone believes it's all or nothing -- that they have to tie their ego with a platform -- their judgment is likely suspect to begin with. When people do the "I'm leaving 𝑥" type declarations, it almost always comes from an unhealthy place.

Somehow I've managed to own an SLR alongside every system I've used for the past decade+ (though it sits unused to a much greater degree given how vastly improved modern smartphones are...). I have a Lenovo Windows laptop, a Windows 10 gaming PC, an Intel MBP, an M1 Mac Mini, an iPhone, an iPad, though I've owned a number of Android tablets and smartphones (including every Nexus device) before. Every server system I've deployed in the past decade has been to Linux.

No Apple stormtroopers ever busted down my doors and demanded compliance. Never did I feel the need to wave a flag or commit to a tribe, because why would I? The notion is self-sabotaging.
I have tried Waydroid in Manjaro Linux, and to my surprise, it runs smoothly. I even able to install Aurora Store and install Telegram from there, which also run perfectly. RAM usage was minimal, maybe because of it is running on a container.
The only thing I haven't figured out is keyboard input from my physical keyboard directly to the android.
> > Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is important to try to listen to them, and listening is an important part of growing.

> strike me as incredibly weird, almost like a verbal version of the uncanny vally.

I don't think that you have to talk to kids that you know like this, but it was important on the TV show that they not make assumptions (like that the child knows their parents) because they are broadcasting it to a huge number of kids with different life circumstances.
The author agrees with you that they do not have the same incentives and have products not directed by Product Managers/Owners who want to get a raise and are apparently technology people who share the same passion as them.

I just see two companies, that want to sell stuff for more than it costs them to produce, but what would I know.
Oh sure, trees is just the dumb go-to example/explanation for whatever reason. I don't think that changes my point there though? You can also do more of 'replacing inefficient equipment or processes' without it excusing some new extra pollution or whatever as though a zero-sum 'carbon neutral' is what's ultimately desirable.

I just think it's fun to think of DDG in this scenario looking at it like Oh we bought too much carbon offset, now we're carbon negative, we have a nice lot of negative carbon on our books, instead of issuing bonds let's raise some cash reducing our negative carbon assets.
If it's simple to set up, I'd like to use this for verifying and accessing private app data from Android backups without having to use a 2nd phone.

Does it support arm64 emulation on an x86_64 host? That way I could just run the backed up apks directly.
The asked for the papers to be revised because they found and presented specific clear evidence the data was invalid.

If by "don't like results" you mean "don't like clearly invalid and possibly fraudulent results", then yes. Correct.
Have you looked into Purism (https://puri.sm)? Purism makes its own hardware such as the Librem line of smartphones and laptops, and maintains its own Linux distribution called PureOS. Purism also funds the development of apps (https://puri.sm/fund-your-app/).
Liabilities of roughly $300B on the books only, but there is also their submarine debt which is said to be comparable to what they already have on the books, if not more.

They also practiced Enron style liabilities as assets disguise, so their real total asset-to-liability ratio would be even lower.
Dumb idea. It wouldn’t increase supply.
The Washington Post launches digital ad network
> Surrendering so much control to a computer might give some pause for thought

Not sure why this would be — a computer is going to be much better at controlling it than a human.
there are plenty of folk-tale rewrites that cast "magic" people as morally dubious, creepy and yes, servants of the Devil.. who wrote those? any agenda detectable?
They learned because if they didn't, they couldn't do much other than loading games. Perspective is a hell of a drug.
I stopped reading news. Often, it just looks like gaslighting. When I read content on a topic I’m familiar with, it’s clear that many journalists don’t even Google things they cover. But most importantly, it isn’t actionable. It’s inactionable stress.

Consider elections. When I get a voting card, I can just look up the candidates or choices when I have the most information. Frivolous minutia like ice cream scandals (Trump and Pelosi have both had ice cream scandals!) doesn’t even show up.

Frankly my experience of the world is drastically different without letting an entire industry wind me up on purpose.

People I know personally who are overexposed to the news look, to me, like they have been mentally poisoned. There is a kind of rage and demoralization. Left or right wing. They’re just wound up by different people. It’s frankly disturbing.

I don’t have a solution to everything. But aside from researching when things are actionable, one thing we have in Poland is the government just texts you sometimes. For example I’d get a text whenever they’d change the covid lockdown rules.

Maybe that’s a good lead. Some kind of actionability oriented news aggregator with push notifications. Maybe I should code that.
The turtle is saying with certainty, not likelihood, that no seafarers exist, analogous with the explicit conclusion (3) in the top level comment
Strings or panels of addressible LEDs would be a good place to start. Adafruit brands these as "neopixels" but the specific LED most of them use is a "WS2812", "WS2812B", or "WS2813".

With these you have a single data line from a microcontroller to control the LEDs, and there are libraries to help you do that.

I've lit some up and fiddled with them and they're pretty cool, but I haven't come up with anything more serious to use them on yet. RGB lights on stuff for the sake of it isn't my aesthetic. But maybe a clock and weather forecast station with animated rain effects or something.

Lots of info here: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-neopixel-uberguide

https://www.learnrobotics.org/blog/neopixel-projects-ridicul...
But they don't even amount to a rounding error. It might be a big personal sacrifice to give up your SUV or meat or whatever, but you shouldn't delude yourself into thinking you're doing anything for the environment because it's not even a drop in the ocean. It's literally negligible, immeasurable, etc. The only thing we can reasonably do is lobby our legislators for carbon pricing, including giving or volunteering with http://citizensclimatelobby.org.

All of the lifestyle changes we make that give us the warm fuzzies won't make a difference and certainly won't get us where we need to be with respect to global temperature change.
Yeah thanks to the fact that you need international collaboration to scale cutting edge semiconductor manufacturing it's very unlikely that a single nation, even if they discovered general AI, could terrorize the world with an autonomous robot army, because even general AI needs chips to run on.
Many governments most certainly do buy data and (not many but some) sell it too. Big tech buys a lot of data, but they primarily exploit it for their own profits rather than sell it, unless it's their primary business.

The mention of "China" above was in regards to data collected by a tech company in China anyway: Xiaomi.
Their access to the vaccine hasn't been marginalized.
The people are also unique and essential to the fab in a way they aren’t for oil.
> I hope the more science-literate proponents of IVM

If they valued and were capable of reasoning about the science, they would not be “proponents” — they'd recognize the current scientific understanding (no known mechanism or benefits, significant side-effects) and wait for a solid study before recommending anything.

The people you do see advocating it are almost always doing so for political or financial purposes and are thus unlikely to say anything critical since that'd be bad for business.
How Dolby Atmos Works?
> People are literally taking horse formulations of ivermectin

People are taking the horse formulation because most pharmacists won't even fill an off-label prescription for the drug, which - even if it has no effect on COVID - is safe and taken by a quarter billion people every year.

Let people take it. It's not harmful.

Or, make a big huge deal about people taking it and, well, then it becomes a big huge deal.
Complete BS. I had to do a public trust verification (SF85P) last year and they spoke to 3 friends, a neighbor, 3 old co workers, former and current boss, a coworker in the same office as me, and a former land lord. They even told me of it wasn’t for COVID all would be in person.
Free Tibet. I just typed that on my Xiaomi with stock MIUI, using Google Gboard.
Let's be clear, these people have been denying the reality of COVID, and a thing everyone forgets is that not only do they endanger themselves, but everyone around them, and taken even further the people who they vote for are mandating measures that make things worse, see Florida, Texas etc...

This is the same argument about alt-right. I am sorry if your belief system dictates that others must be eliminated maybe you don't deserve compassion.
This. Very much this.

I've probably fallen into the "10x" camp myself at certain points in my career, and it was absolutely due to these factors. I should also add that having a general expertise of the problem domain and environment are enormous boosters as well.

Of course the moment I'm considered "fungible" and moved to a project I'm not passionate about at all, I'm pretty sure this evaporates entirely.
‘It’s Become Increasingly Hard for Them to Feel Good About Themselves’
Not trying to be snarky, serious question: How does a design that requires everyone to purchase at least one type C module reduce e-waste? It adds manufacturing overhead, shipping overhead, etc to every laptop.

It only reduces waste if mainboard/laptops are discarded due to a failed charging port. Does that happen often with type C connections on mainboards?
I guess the reason doctors aren't prescribing Ivermectin is that they don't buy into "crazed insanity" and don't feel the need to try anything that might work.

And I can only speak for myself, but the attitude I'm seeing is "a lot of people are dying and we should try to work together as a society to stop that from happening", not "omg we're all gonna die".
There are many odd contrasts with the FDA.

For example, why are they even involved in a discussion of booster doses of the Pfizer vaccine when they've given it full approval? Shouldn't that be at the discretion of physicians or other prescribers?

Why isn't acyclovir available over the counter?

Why has cannabis been treated as a mortally dangerous substance?

Why have miracle berries inexplicably classified as an illegal undeclared sweetener (https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/can-mirac..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculin#cite_note-Atlantic-2...)?

I think the role of the FDA has expanded much too far.
As a counterpoint to the sanguine presentation of unions and “sympathy strikes”

https://apnews.com/article/58d7ba8ee9ebc8ae934a20722ecf05c3

The unions were basically able to shut the entire country down due to negotiations of 5 weeks of vacation versus 6 weeks of vacation.

From the article:

>The strike forced Scandinavian Airlines System, the region’s main carrier, to cancel all flights to Copenhagen, the airline’s principal hub. Some other airlines, including Finnair, were able to maintain service Monday but said they may have to cancel flights today.

>Many private bus companies and ferry lines stopped service, although public-run service continued, as did railroad service. But pickets put pressure on public-sector workers to join the strike in sympathy.

>In Aarhus on the Danish mainland, police scuffled with pickets who were trying to prevent vehicles from boarding the ferries to Zealand, the island on which Copenhagen sits. In Copenhagen, pickets from a private garbage-collection company briefly blocked public garbage collectors.

Now a lot of the majority of union members tend to be blue collar workers. In the US, those would be the biggest demographic that we’re Trump supporters. Imagine a general strike being called over “the stolen election”. Or a general strike over vaccine/mask mandates. Or in the future, a “sympathy strike” on behalf of coal workers harmed by tightening carbon restrictions.

Unions and especially coordinated unions across industries are a very powerful force. I do not have confidence that such a force would be actually used for net good in the US.
Fuji X-E4 + 27mm f/2.8 at 2" thick is quite pocketable.
> the Apple versions rose to success with all of these as competition by providing a better experience

At one time, Apple clearly was a better experience.

Now, with features removed and new "privacy and security" features added, I'm not sure they are a great experience. For example, my Macbook reminds me of Windows Vista, except for worse, every time there's a system update and I have to reboot to permission the camera for a web conference.

I've learned to dread OSX updates because instead of adding new useful stuff, it seems like we just move things around, change out the icons and add some more intrusive "touch the fingerprint reader" authentications... plus I have to re-permission half of the apps and hardware just to do my job. Then there's the whole reboot, unlock, install, reboot, re-lock cycle. It's seriously worse than Windows Vista. Anyone remember the I'm a Mac/I'm a PC commercials?
https://archive.is/yeNJ9
There was a regular helicopter service on top of skyscrapers, like a bus. There isn't anymore, because things that go up, must come down.

"Urban" and "flying" will never happen.

I'm regularly astonished that we trust people with shopping carts, given how well they use them. Nobody is going to trust any density flying over our heads. Not even with auto pilot. Sorry Fifth Element fans.
The preceding sentences explain the model that generates that estimate, including the 200 Myr - 2 Gyr number; that's not a case of hand-waving.

Is your issue with some aspects of the model or with the idea of trying to model this at all?

It's certainly early days for this theory, but it's worth not dismissing out-of-hand.
Two well controlled studies are required, so it really comes down to how the Phase 2 was structured and powered to see if it can count as the 2nd study.
Calling the investigatory and experiential evidence of thousands of highly-trained doctors (some of whom pioneered the standard of care for covid) as "weak evidence" is something that only somebody carrying water for large pharmaceutical companies would say.

Doctors in my area are prescribing IVM to treat covid because in their experience and that of their peers IT WORKS. They have fewer deaths, fewer complications.

But it's "weak" evidence just because Pfizer didn't sponsor a gigantic RCT to "prove" it.

"The only science is real is expensive science done by large corporations!"
> Same tactic as some nuclear powers' doctrine, “if our country is going to be destroyed, let the world end too"

This is a strange reading of deterrence. Both MAD and credible minimum deterrence.