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Relay has very good support for optimistic updates on the client.

When developing an app recently I added an artificial 1s delay to server responses (during development), but because of optimistic updates you would never notice it was there.
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wasn't there a scene in the fifth element where bruce willis had some talking box mounted under his rear view mirror that monitored driving and verbally announced when it was taking points off his license?

i guess the dystopian part of the future got built.

i wonder if ups has something similar. they've always been early adopters of technology and run a very smooth and equitable operation for customers and employees alike.
Looks gorgeous - i wonder how the trackpad is though, otherwise seems to be a solid contender to a Macbook...
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Well, the other reason is that customers don't care either. I certainly don't. The last desktop build I made 5 years ago hasn't had a single component changed in that entire time.
> always looks wrong

Only if you are mixing tabs and spaces in a strange way. If you use tabs reasonably then it looks right to each user's preferences.

I think the reason that spaces are popular are that it is more obvious when done wrong. We should probably just have better code review tools that highlight when tabs are used for anything but initial indentation. It is as simple as /[^\t]\t/.

The other downside of tabs is that you don't have a well defined line width, but IMHO line limits are a fairly silly lint anyways, you should make the code look reasonable. I find that formatters based on line length limits tend to make code very awkward to read.
Moon+ Reader has a built in cloud sync function and so does KoReader although I can't say more about KoReader as I only keep that installed on my old kobo.

Here's the link I followed to set up cloud sync for reading positions/notes/bookmarks:

https://raymondlamsk.blogspot.com/2018/03/moon-reader-how-to...

Calibre is a very useful piece of software regardless of what ereader you end up with, and there's this feature request about syncing back to calibre too but I haven't personally explored it. https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/3814

One annoying thing I sometimes run into is that if you keep wifi off, you'll have to remember to turn it to sync. But that's understandable.
The difference between a 15- and 30-year mortgage is around one percentage point, or a 30% difference.
None.

Even if (and it's quite an "if") you can get "the right people" to ensure safe and good use of AI, power corrupts. And even if those people turn out to be incorruptible, the next generation of people in that position won't be, because that kind of power will attract people who want to use it.
power efficiency? saving weight?
If you make it to the 8th paragraph, you may learn that "BI" stands for "business intelligence".
Personally, I find that the tap or swipe to turn pages functionality is insanely difficult when I have highlighted the whole page of text. I miss the world of tactile buttons for many things - get off my lawn!
"the author" here is well known writer Cory Doctorow. No one here seems to be making this connection, but pluralistic.net is his blog.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Wars

The reason why US unions are so antagonistic is that US corporations are antagonistic and destructive, any hint of collective action brings out the guns, historically literally.

This very essay talks about their approach to countries with constructive unions / labour, so does the behaviour of Amazon in Germany these days.

US unions have just been living in that environment with little support (quite the opposite) for 150 years, so anything they can get they will everything else be damned. They have no incentive to be cooperative and agreeable because corps will try to destroy them regardless.
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So the lower colony eats fallen ants, but not all otherwise there'd be no lower colony.

If they were stacking bodies, was this excess food or parts they didn't eat?
You want to talk to me about "nuanced" when you spout off the laziest possible take on politics, that "both sides" are just always the same? All politicians are liars, all government is bad, the world is simple, yadda yadda? That is 100% devoid of any nuance whatsoever.

The "both sides are the same" argument is disinformation just as harmful as Ivermectin curing COVID. It has never been and never will be true, in any situation, ever, and believing/spreading it is actively harmful to making the world a better place. The Confederacy and the Union were not the same. The Ottomans and Armenians were not the same in 1915. Police officers murdering black people and BLM protestors spray-painting buildings are not the same. The group that wants people to get vaccinated to stop the spread of a deadly virus is not the same as the group that intentionally coughs on people and throws temper tantrums in Walmart.

There is a group of people in America whose entire political viewpoint is centered around hurting the right people. Around making sure those people are disenfranchised, imprisoned, enslaved, and/or killed. That's the main political driver of everything they do: harm the right people. This group votes overwhelmingly (if not unanimously) conservative, and is a surprisingly large portion of the entire conservative party. This does not exist on the other side. At all. That doesn't mean everything the Democratic party does is good, or even that there is one unified set of policies in the party. But there simply is no "out group" liberals are trying to bind by law, but not protect. It does not exist. So fuck your "both sides!" argument, forever. You should be ashamed of yourself for spreading disinformation.
I've only taken a recent interest in history (specifically labor), but if you look at the grand scale of either direct physical enslavement or designed econeomical indirect enslavement (surfs to their rulers), you find so much of history dating back to the Egyptian empire of kingdoms that relied their econemy in significant part with labor enforcement.

You could try to argue about the right of withdrawing label just in context to American history, but I think we'd still wind up with a compelling case that so much of history had periods of significant unjust-by-most-standards labor compulsion.
That’s almost always the reality when a company “can’t” do something.
Thanks for the update.

Any plan for a careful audit of the code, considering that ZeroTier is a popular security product?
A desire for privacy is not paranoia.

You don't even need a threat to desire privacy. It's a human right.
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As a long time thinkpad user I love mine. Only problem I have now is my go-to OS Ubuntu does a really bad job of fractional scaling out of the box and none of the workarounds seem to really solve the problem. Sadly the crappy screens on my thinkpads more or less "hid" this problem from me for years.
I have a few thousand books myself so I wrote this.
https://github.com/konsbn/xlibris this is almost exactly what you want
But why the dongles? The go against all the principles of the rest of the design. They’re proprietary, consumable, and they waste space in the chasis. They limit what you can do with the USB-C they pass through too.
If a product manager is listening: you have my interest. I'll be excited when mouse buttons become available. It'll make my shortlist when it has Coreboot, and if Libreboot is on, I'll be obliged to give you my money.
Are McDonalds in Denmark franchises, or corporate owned? In the US, they are francheses owned by individuals, so painting it as a Worker vs BigCorp issue is a little disingenuous.
Funny, I stumbled upon this just today when I was looking for good realtime beat detection code.

Does anybody have experience, using some of this code for realtime detection?
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There is a saying that pessimists get to be right and optimists get to be rich. While I agree that UBS is playing with fire, they are taking an optimistic role here and will likely continue getting rich doing it.
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I wasn't happy with the use of "silently" but I kept forgetting to remove it. It's now been updated. Thanks for the feedback.
Can you find a source that disproves what they're saying? I'm kinda tired of this general idea that if you dislike the person/source that's making a claim then the claim itself is inaccurate.
Perhaps it, or some larger subset of companies, should? Co-operative style employee ownership is one way of achieving something along those lines.
As a daily kindle book reader there are two things I would like to see in a future model. The first is page turn buttons like the ones they had in the oasis. Touch screens are great, but the ones on kindles are not state of the art. And they work terribly if the device gets wet. Page turn buttons just work.

Very old kindles had a headphone jack. This was also always a nice thing to have.
No more than any other eink? I haven't noticed anything in particular, but I haven't been looking for ghosting.

It works great for my purposes.
Pull request has been merged and released as version 1.1.1 https://github.com/rknightuk/TrackerZapper/releases/tag/1.1....
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The author spent some time explaining the need to have a reliable laptop and spending $150 for 24-hour service and having two Powerbooks at once. But there was no mention of anything about reliability and repairs (well, replacement parts) for the Framework. I'm curious if he plans to keep a second Framework laptop in case parts are sold out, take too long to ship, etc.
Of course they have! Take a look at ARM. Or Apple's M1 chip. It's crazy what mobile CPUs can do nowadays.
AMD please? What about Coreboot? Nothing? Ehm...
I think it lets me know if the article is worth my time. I usually glance at the comment sections first because small titles often aren't enough to understand what the article is about.
>That tool – a small screwdriver – is also sufficient to upgrade the CPU

CPU isn't up-gradable without switching out the entire mainboard, which I'm fine with, once I get an AMD version that is :)
If it had been the norm since the 90s I would be ordering cat food from pets.com today rather than chewy.com. That site had like one unprofitable year and that was enough to close doors in 2000, even though this was clearly a brilliant idea. The concept of buying runway didn't exist then.
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> I change my mind when facts/reality change. What do you do?

Exactly this.

Which is why I remain skeptical. My elderly father had a massive stroke 3 days after receiving the second shot, which was administered right after he recovered from covid, which he contracted after the first shot.

I'm also certain his care givers did not report this to the FDA's voluntary MedWatch database, which is the only way the government is tracking adverse events.
You have to be careful. Relationships sour, and nothing is funny when read in court.

One thing is for certain, NEVER put jokes or sarcasm in writing.

I've read way too many of those in court.
I think my general concern still holds then: such a place will probably be shitty regardless of whether such a tool is used or not.
You're right it was more of a project for me try out some stuff rather than having a plan to release an app for everyone.
>You know, if it was that easy then central banks would have raised interest rates a long time ago. Probably shortly after 2008.

The Fed attempted to raise rates in 2011 which lead to the so-called "Taper Tantrum" where stocks plunged. The Fed either got scared, or received a phonecall, and promptly held off on increasing rates.
Doesn't matter how you stand, that forward energy has to go somewhere when you stop. Certain stances might transmit more of it to the tires but if you need to stop fast enough you're going to need lots of core strength to make sure enough does to not die or be seriously injured.

That's not a safe machine, in my view, if it requires an intense muscle reaction to save the rider.
Well, if all you have is machine learning, you're going to need a lot of trials. Hence the need for repeatable simulations.

From the article:

"Alternatively, one could follow the Tesla Autopilot approach and deploy their research code in “shadow mode” across a fleet of robots in the real world, where the model only makes predictions but does not make control decisions."

Does Tesla really do that? Has anyone decoded what they're uploading? How much upload bandwidth does each car use? Or is this just hype?
I'm quite sure that FB Messenger is not. They do have an option for secret chats but it is not the default and quite awkward to use (1 device and only mobile last time I used it)
I still remained baffled by the popularity of the laptop. Literally everyone I know works with them fixed in one location; their desk. Yes, some people do need mobility, but this appears to be a minority of consumers. We could’ve had all this repairability and modularity years ago if most consumers just admitted that really they wanted a desktop all along.

It also fixed complaints about keyboards.
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If, like me, you've sustained enough corporate brain damage, you assumed that's what it meant from reading the headline.
It sounds like the removal of guns was not only about bombs, but also about speed.

If you got shot at early, you simply drop your bombs (maybe over rural farmland) and hit the engines as hard as you can. You wanted to fall into the part of the sea where the US-Navy still controlled the area.

The bombers were flighting high enough that even if they were shot down... there was a chance of being rescued after a crash landing. But the crash landing absolutely had to be outside of the control of the Japanese. As such, more engine power, less guns, more bombs.

Drop the bombs if attacked unexpectedly, and drift towards the Navy.

If all goes well... with a bit of luck, you outrun the enemy on the way back as well. Your plane is much lighter after the payload has been dropped
I don't believe that Japan had limited ammunition quite yet. But they had limited ace pilots and limited fighters at this point of the war. (The strategic bombs targeted airbases, airplane factories, and radar. The longer the bombings continued, the weaker the airforce got).
Well no, you and people like you don’t, but as evidenced by all the people buying this there is a segment of the market that clearly does.
The one I like: the stock market is the only place where everything goes on sale and people leave the store.
I had written a comment that some sites just add KEPUB output into its CI/CD pipelines, but then I re-read your username and remembered who I'm talking to. :)

I imagine there's probably some sort of Sales Executive over at Rakuten that thinks keeping an inferior rendering engine present on the device is just enough incentive for the average user to do as much of their shopping as they can within the Kobo ecosystem.
While those are great points (thanks for writing them BTW) I do wonder if we need to have a more wide-scope approach to the various styles of code. Quoting the article

> Code that's hard to understand is often a result of an accumulation of things:

> The code was written at a time when the language/framework didn't do then what it does now;

> The code was written a while back and the fashions and "best practices" back then were different;

> Each line of code was written with readability in mind, but over time as more lines got added, the overall message was lost;

> People moved on and moved away, and now you haven't got anyone to ask about the business or technical reasons behind something (and of course the documentation is horribly out of date).

I would add:

> The code was written to meet a budget for time/latency/size and readability became secondary to meet those requirements. E.g. systems code/firmware/OS code often have a hard limit that they need to comply with. I've had to write code for an earlier job that had to fit within 16kb - compiled, and the code was anything but readable.
Back when I was making crap wages, I would get the cheapest laptops I could afford that would more or less give me decent performance (on the order of ~$500-600). It's not too hard to find a new laptop that performs well at a reasonable price, but you always run the risk of them reclaiming those costs by cheaping out on all the mechanics of it, and it's not like I was able to afford paying ~$2000 for a high-quality machine. Usually within 2 years, the laptop would just start falling apart, I would get sad, and then I would repeat the pattern.

After the fourth or so time of doing this, and after getting higher-paying jobs, I ended up biting the bullet for a more expensive computer, and it lasted me five years, and I only replaced it because I wanted more RAM.

Point is, if you're lower-income, it's fairly easy to get stuck in the "one laptop a year" trend, because, while probably a better deal in the long term, it's really hard for lower-income to justify a multi-thousand dollar expense. I'm a proper tech bro now so buying a good computer isn't the worst thing in the world for me, but that wasn't always the case.
Do you actually have any example of a corporation that makes laptops saying that it’s impossible to have slim laptops that are customizable? I would be very surprised if this ever happened, but I’m willing to be proven wrong.
Realistically, at that stage, the origin of the virus was far less important than the other research.

If the narrative that it was an accidental lab leak took hold (even if that really is the case), China would likely cease all cooperation on the rest of the science.

It is both reasonable and rational then for the virologists to condemn such theories, to avoid harming the more important research into how infectious the disease it, what the symptoms are, what mitigations might be effective, etc, all of which could be helped by cooperation with China.
Ditto.

My other deal breaker is the fit & finish of Mac's touchpad. The qwan of it.

If frame.work + Ubuntu come within striking distance, I'd buy.
Ignoring the (potentially substantial) environmental costs, if you do it "correctly" the total cost of ownership is about the same.

If you buy a $2000 Mac and use it for as long as reasonably, it's going to depreciate by several hundred dollars (let's say, roughly $300) a year. At a certain point it's worth nearly zero, and you must buy a new laptop. After 6-7 years your total outlay is $2000.

Alternatively, every year or two you can sell the old one for a few hundred dollars less than the new model, and buy the new model. You always have a new laptop. And your total outlay is still only about $2000. Plus you are covered by free AppleCare every time you buy the new one.

Plenty of people do this with mobile phones and automobiles and other things as well.

Please note that I am not advocating it. I was still using my 2015 laptop until very recently. But economically it is not necessarily insane.

(Assuming you are selling the old laptops, that is. It's not clear to me that the author is doing that. He says he's donating/rehoming them. Not sure if that includes selling)
Its not imagination, you can quantify these things. There have been thousands of studies showing the economic damage of something like a polluting coal plant and its not like we pass these costs on to the polluter ever, so of course the price of a coal plant looks low when you ignore the hospital bills and the loss of biodiversity. I'm not going to do your book report for you though.
Why is cost transparency so challenging for the CSPs? Is it planned obfuscation, or is it just that dedicating engineering time to billing isn't as interesting as building more impactful products?
Economies wouldn't collapse because people can switch to bitcoin. In free markets, people always try to switch to a stronger currency, when their own currency loses value. Bitcoin is volatile, but it's still better than a currency that loses value in long term.

Recently, the president of Turkey said that they are in war with Bitcoin. This is exactly what happens when cronies manipulate money supply for their own benefit, but they can't do anything to stop people from choosing a better currency. Cronies get demonetized and finally they lose power. Same thing is happening in Africa in many countries.
Yup, it's often a "Work To Rule" action [1], where everyone works exactly by the book. All shortcuts are eliminated, every break is taken to the exact second (instead of working through the breaks to get stuff done), etc. Everything slows down, and that is that.

And the point is that it is strictly legal - everything is being done exactly by the book. Even so, employers sometimes sue unions over "malicious compliance".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule
I did not expect it to work either, but it does. I'm sure they've got a runbook documenting which traffic situations lend themselves to cycle streets (probably some combination of heavy flow of cycle traffic combined with nudges to car drivers to take a different road if possible), but the ones in my city all work great without speed bumps.
My family has used ReaderWare for years. It's got smart cataloging across multiple sources (including LoC for old books w/o an ISBN) and runs on a number of platforms. We use an old USB CueCat.

https://www.readerware.com/index.php/products/details/books_...
Show me a general purpose computing device, like you are seem to be insisting every device should be, that has a month or more of battery life despite moderate to heavy usage, yet weighs as little and is as thin as the reMarkable. Products necessarily have trade-offs due to current technology limitations, so it's not just about "excuses".
If I understand correctly, were you just consuming Tumblr content directly from individual blogs?

The user experience was generally better in the dashboard (activity stream / feed for logged-in users). The dashboard was the vast majority of traffic; blog UI didn't get much staff/engineering attention as a result.

The "notes" feature on Tumblr was absolutely never intended to be a "comment section", btw. There intentionally was no comment section at all originally. This notion was part of the conceptual difference between tumblelogging and traditional long-form blogging.

Contextually, this mechanism came about at a time when comments (on blog posts, YouTube, etc) were complete cesspools of negativity from anonymous jerks. The Tumblr idea was that to respond to something, you would have to reblog it in order to add commentary. This way, if someone wants to spew nasty comments, their blog would be terrible and no one would choose to follow their blog.
Definitely. We've had formal design audits, informal audits, and open source audits (like the one that found this issue). Formal audits are in the works.

We're glad this was found and glad that this is the first significant vulnerability report we've received in many years of operation, but we don't want that to make us arrogant. Distributed systems are hard and cryptography is hard. Distributed systems with cryptography are REALLY hard. :)

We've talked to Pulse Security about hiring them in the future. The fact that they found this obscure issue is a pretty strong pitch.
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