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Citizen is another Japanese watchmaker and the eco-drive solar technology has been around for about 30 years.

You can get a low-end Citizen Eco-Drive for about $100, sometimes even less on sale. Solar powered, very durable, and they look great. Most are water resistant as well.

I've had one model running continuously for 11 years. I love never having to charge it or change the battery.
Parent talked about simple solution for address shortage. Like IPv6 is mere IPv4 with 128bit addresses.
Stripe Revenue Recognition
I don't know. It's not something I've ever given too much thought to because it's too expensive to realistically consider.
Very cool! Have read the books twice. This has to be an abridged version based on the time. Will be a good primer before the movie.
It is both.

RISC-V has some big names promoting it heavily.

What open ISA would be a real competitor to RISC-V?
oh good, just in time for the holidays.
For me personally that's a con. Not specifically being caught off guard when the book ends, but not being able to physically tell how far along I am.

I am currently reading "the way of kings" which is a very thick book. My progress is very slow, but I really really enjoy my bookmark work its way down the stack of pages.
Here's just one of many anachronisms from the bible.

"Last week, archaeologists Erez Ben-Yosef and Lidar Sapir-Hen of Tel Aviv University released a new study that dates the arrival of the domesticated camel in the eastern Mediterranean region to the 10th century B.C. at the earliest, based on radioactive-carbon techniques. Abraham and the patriarchs, however, lived at least six centuries before then."

https://time.com/6662/the-mystery-of-the-bibles-phantom-came...
https://MyBookList.club
Scan the ISBN and it adds it to your library.
Then you can also export to CSV if you want.

Disclaimer: I made the app. Happy to give free promo codes to anyone interested in trying and give feedback!
The equivalent would be telling other actors to audition for roles at [big studio] because they pay way better than [indie firm/commericals/etc]. And then everyone else coming along and being like "pfft why even bother".

A lot of people think they can't get jobs at high paying tech companies, when they can. Or they think it'd cost them their work-life-balance, when it often doesn't. Or that they wouldn't be able to handle it, when that shouldn't be a factor at all.
The average student loan debt for a US undergraduate degree is ~$37k, which lines up with that $9k/year.

When people talk about tons of student loan debt, they are invariably including graduate students getting professional degrees, like law and medicine. The average student loan debt after medical school is ~266k. But compared to the earning potential of a doctor (starting salaries between $200k and $500k), that isn't some unrecoverable debt load. The only people really screwed are the ones who decide they don't want to be a doctor a couple years in.

https://educationdata.org/average-student-loan-debt#by-educa...
Best Marketing Strategy Ever: Steve Jobs Presents “Think Different”
> We're just now starting to really optimize the compiler; there's definitely a long road ahead of us, but our preliminary investigations suggest that we'll be able to get the thing to emit really quite good 6502 assembly.

Is there any part of this optimization work that might be upstreamed to LLVM itself and benefit other architectures? Or is this stuff purely 6502-specific?
My point was that downloading the whole thing compared to using the API could be thought as a form of caching. Since it's with data that doesn't change much, the usual difficulty that comes with caching is not here.
Does polynomial growth actually have applications in finance? I would be surprised to see one, but I like to be surprised :-)
Indeed. It's almost cheaper to buy a slightly larger house and get an au pair.
One reason I don't use e-readers more is because I wish the screen was bigger. 10" would do, 12" would be better.

Of course it doesn't have to be either/or, but I suspect a lot of older people would be very happy to have larger readers.

I also suspect the margins on these readers are insane.
There are other operating systems and CPU architectures. It's a boon for open source projects to be able to have CI on all the BSDs, and illumos, and Plan 9, and even weirder things.
How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum
Here is an example: https://drexel.edu/drexelcentral/cost/tuition/undergraduate/

18k a quarter for tuition alone.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=home%20skill...
> which more conventional scripting languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, PHP, ...) fall down at thanks to the various global interpreter locks

For what it's worth, each instance of the new "Ractor" concurrency primitive in Ruby 3 has its own interpreter lock: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/doc/ractor_md.html
Heartbeats and Heart Attacks
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Sourcegraph Code Search – The Developers’ Gold Mine
This times a million.
Yes, why would that be an issue? Maybe if you're standing on it weird. I have a scooter that I use to ride to work every day (ePF-1); I usually stand sideways with one foot in front, and as far as I can tell, braking is pretty stable in that pose.

I could see braking being an issue if you're standing with both feet in parallel because it throws you onto and over the steering bar. But that's why you shouldn't stand that way. If you're sideways and you lose balance, you just jam your hip/thigh into the steering bar to stay stable, same as you do when driving one-handed.

edit: I just google image searched "how to ride a scooter" and holy shit, are people suicidal?! Practically everyone in those pictures would go flying over the handlebars in an emergency brake. If that's the norm, I can see why people think escooters are dangerous.
Yes, the “auto-only” base Seiko movement is pretty annoying, if you’re not wearing it everyday. For anyone who hasn’t experienced one, imagine that when you want to wind your watch, you have to turn it dial up in your hand and rotate the whole watch for 30 seconds (the so-called seiko shake) such that you spin the rotor inside.

I ended up swapping my SKX movement out for a hacking / hand-winding movement too, much better.
Snopes is a poor fact checker and should never be relied upon by someone who can use google. Here is a more accurate article that consists of actual reporting:

"True, a Big Mac here costs more — $5.60, compared with $4.80 in the United States. But that is a price Danes are willing to pay. “We Danes accept that a burger is expensive, but we also know that working conditions and wages are decent when we eat that burger,” said Soren Kaj Andersen, a University of Copenhagen professor who specializes in labor issues.”

https://scm.ncsu.edu/scm-articles/article/the-price-of-a-big...

Bottom line, everything has a cost. Higher wages do need to be paid for with higher prices. Wise people understand that the world has trade offs and they make those trade offs with open eyes. Foolish people pretend there is no tradeoff.
Gone is office with "just one quick question" which was a lie, always a lie.

Good riddance! Hello productivity.
Thanks a lot! The hardest part was to figure out how to get source code access through js from the browser without browser's own modifications. It seems that all browsers process 'document.documentElement.innerHTML' in different ways... That is not good if you want to have this file in version control for example.

In the end the solution was to put as much as possible between <script> tags, including html + css, and then it can all be accessed perfectly with 'document.currentScript.innerHTML'. Then I just hard coded the two lines that could not be put inside the tags. All this just to ensure that the updating does not affect the source code in any way :D
DeSo: The Decentralized Social Blockchain
Each of those "firebombings" were conducted by 50+ B-29 bombers. When you see so many bombers show up on radar, you dispatch the fighters, you know things are about to happen.

When you see a SINGLE B-29 bomber, you ignore it. Its just a scout, and one bomber can't do much damage... Until Hiroshima happened. Its unbelievable: the "rules" of the war changed overnight, in a dramatic way that no one in the Japanese army could have possibly imagined. Every __SINGLE__ bomber "scout" could in fact be, the next nuclear bomb.

Japan didn't have the resources to fight against singular bombers anymore. They focused only on the groups of bombers. At this point, it was clear that their air-force was soundly defeated.
Dear god no. If upgrade cycles slow down to like 3x what they are I'd be quite happy
What progress is it holding back?
Then it's probably faster and easier to rewrite it in Go from scratch.
The contracts the unions negotiate in the nordics apply to everyone in the sector. So it makes no difference whatsoever for the pay of anyone if they are a union member or not.

The main benefits of being part of an union here is stuff like union lawyer being made available to you if you have a dispute with your employer. And obviously more voice in who will represent you in the negotiations between the government, employers and employees.
Repairing Underground Power Cables Is Nearly Impossible
No, they still work great
Some time ago, I heard of another theory for the Sodom and Gomorrah story:

An asteroid clipped a mountain in the Alps, causing a landslide in Köfels (but no crater). The asteroid's trajectory had a low angle, which made the mushroom cloud arc over the Mediterranean and over the Levant, raining down fire and such. This asteroid was actually recorded by Assyrian scribes on a clay tablet, but its trajectory wasn't plotted until relatively recently (2008-ish).

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2008/212017945233.html
This discussion is all wrong - nuking an approaching asteroid is like shooting an approaching freight train - it's too late to stop.

The asteroid needs to be pushed with a nuke, or another method, while it's still in deep space, months or years before it would strike. It would be many times beyong the orbit of the moon, millions of kilometers.

ICBMs are for ground targets, their "reach" is a thousand kilometers or so, they have no navigation or tsrgeting for space.

Instead a spacecraft like Rosetta would to be equipped with a nuke and launched on a normal space rocket like Falcon 9 or Ariane or Soyuz. We only need to produce a couple of them in case of launch failure, we don't need thousands of them like we have ICBMs. The launch would not look anything like an ICBM launch, it does not come back to earth.
Here's a Guardian article on the topic: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/20/co2-crisis-...

The Guardian article has more details on how big of a problem this is -- it seems solvable, and there's no 'official' government warning. The OP headline seems to be misleading.
Sounds like someone chasing Russian bonds in 1997.

Good Luck UBS. You are going to need it.
> In practice, these huge models are, in laymans terms, fucking awesome and work really well

A similarly surprising result from an adjacent community, Bayesian Statistics, is that in the case of hierarchical models, increasing your number of parameters can paradoxically reduce overfitting.

The scale of parameters in Bayesian model's is no where near that of these deep neural nets, but nonetheless this is a similarly shocking result since typically adding parameters is penalized when model building.

It's a bit more explainable in Bayesian stats since what you're using some parameters for is limiting the impact of more granular parameters (i.e. you're learning a prior probability distribution for the other parameters, which prevents extreme overfitting in cases with less information).

I wouldn't be too surprised if eventually we realized there was a similar cause preventing overfitting is overparameterized ml models.
That's what I thought, it just feels weird to do a bunch of ifs, and then invoke this behemoth of a construct.
Working to fix things in the long run. I don't see an issue here.
Nice, thank you! I might actually consider upgrading, I have no other complaints about G-shock. It is somewhat bizarre though that a watch in the 2020's lists a battery indicator as a feature...

I had an analog solar watch before. While it was beautiful it couldn't take the beating I seemed to give it time after time, and gradually the hour dots were broken loose and one of the indicator hands also got dislocated. Thus, I decided to try the digital G-shock with no moving parts and it was great. No matter where it hit, nothing broke. Got dirty? Wash it while showering. No problem. Now if it comes with the battery indicator then I must simply choose another thing whose ROM to dump and disassemble :)
This is a common misunderstanding, but NYU is not a public school.
National Preparedness Month
Yes! I can think of several examples of people I know at the state university I attended.
Q&A with WhatsApp's Will Cathcart
You're wishing the Kindle wasn't a Kindle. Amazon clearly has 0 interest in making an open-ish e-reader.

Yes, you can dislike the Kindle, but to say it's a bad e-reader is like saying a bicycle is a bad car.
The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
For those who are interested, this is the official ZeroTier response.

https://www.zerotier.com/2021/09/21/incident-response-to-sep...
Wasn't Jericho the one where they brought down the walls by making noise in the biblical story? I wonder if that could have been inspired by finding the wreckage of the city with the East wall destroyed.
I absolutely agree. I read with a mechanical arm that holds the book for me so I can read on my back while I try to sleep. I would love a way to turn pages with a little remote.
I'm curious why you chose to quote an early draft of the monologue.
It's hard to just take this union story by itself. It may be true that the unions managed to push McDonald's into this wage deal, but unions do other things as well.

This is just to balance the conversation a bit, because at the moment it reads like unions are always reasonable.

If you look at recent years in Denmark, there's also been cases where unions have employed strongarm tactics with firms that are already unionized. There was a case a few years back involving a restaurant where the staff were members of a smaller union, and another union came in and told the owner he needed to do a collective bargaining agreement with them instead. They blockaded the restaurant during the conflict.

https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vejleg%C3%A5rden-konflikten

Plus there's stories about scaffolding being torn town when the employer decides to go with un-unionized labor.

Also there's currently a conflict with the nurses, who want more pay. Now you'd think that maybe people would be grateful to them right after a year and a half of covid, but in fact the government passed a law forcing terms on them, which many of them are not too happy about.

It's not like it's simply a free market, nor is it entirely centrally decided, so you can ask yourself whether the system is really as positive as it sounds from this article. There's pros and cons for everyone.
To me it could be. I've seen disordered eating in my family (and have done it myself). to me, it's not a good idea, and anectdata on something like my health isn't what I suggest when people are looking for advice.

Running right into "don't eat for a couple of days" is a lot more extreme than, "take a good look at your diet and make small adjustments, over time". I know it's not sexy or provocative, but it does work.

And that's why I preempted my post with, "talk to an expert" rather than dismissing the whole idea. ie: don't trust some random person on an VC tech forum.
Deadbeats and companies.

The latter fully control their lending standards, and can pull back on lending to poor credit risks.
Why are workers striking for their "friends" in the form of sympathy strikes illegal in the land of the free?
Billy Mitchell’s Old Website Now Debunks His Controversial Pac-Man High Scores
indeed.
The simpler a string is to use, the more abused it will be. Programmers, forever, have used strings to represent other types, including really complicated types, with machinations of various appending formats; eg: PROJECT-33/3293, where code is built to pull apart the string to get values. This is awful. Strings are not type safe in the loose sense of the word. (Nothing is intrinsically mandating the format, so invariably you will find other code doing PROJECT-33-3293, or PROJECT/32/3293 or whatever.)
This is especially seen as map keys, rather than just using a first class, class. An obviously especially bad form of this is,
String key = storeId + partId;

as you can't differentiate between 12 + 3 and 1 + 23, but the compiler won't tell you this.

Finally, although not particularly important, all this string formatting parsing is far less efficient than just simple bean classes.

It is all done for the laziness of the writer.
I don't want anyone having those weapons. But they exist, and worse, old ones exist and are unaccounted for.

But who should judge which regime should have them, if only some should?

Most of us are born into a belief that our people are the best, the right people, and others may also be right... and many are wrong. But regardless, we are most right. As such, we often don't question some things. This is one of them.

So should we decide we are the best, most trustworthy holders of such technology and use just about any means to prevent others from getting the technology? However you narrate this, it is an ongoing history which visiting sentient beings would probably marvel at.
Windows Update was practically malware at the start of Windows 10's life. I don't miss those days.
This is quite interesting; how long did it take to complete this library? Also, it would be great if low-end phones could cater to high-fidelity graphics and never get laggy.
I've lived in Amsterdam, Berlin and SF. SF is easily the worst, especially if you want to go biking with your family, even if that family includes an older teenager. Managing 3 people traversing a city shouldn't be as heinous as it is in SF.

I've had fun in SF on a bike, bombing around solo -- but it never felt safe.
Many doctors prescribe ivermectin. Many pharmacies refuse to fill the prescription. What then?
It's the first Google result for 'joe bourne github twitter'. He's not trying to keep it a secret, and I don't know why we should keep it secret for him. Is he supposed to be embarrassed about it?
Here’s the thing with unofficial Android upgrades: they don’t have complete coverage in their security updates.

LineageOS and Amazon can’t generally provide security updates for older chips. Only Qualcomm can compile new kernels for the Snapdragon 800, say. And Qualcomm stops giving you updates after four years (recent change: it used to be the three).

The updates LineageOS and Amazon and anyone else provides are updates to Android’s open source components. That’s all great - but they’re not complete security updates, and driver issues are a big vector.
A lot of German states don't have tuition and are not that overcrowded. So this can't be the whole story.

Also: raising tuition to prevent poor people from getting educated is not a cool way to prevent overcrowded universities. Proper financing and staffing is.
I'm curious what you mean by 'an obfuscation layer' and the use case around that?
Unsuccessfully though. In the end this just added harm with no benefit.
Four Essential Team Tasks for Software Engineer Managers
lol it would be funny if in a few years... Google(crawler) becomes good enough to read all text from images(they are probably there already and beyond)

And instead of rendering html or static site generators...we just export everything as one or a few(for responsive) jpeg :) ?
I'm not sure this study is allowed to be published. The authors should be cancelled right away. Their climate change hesitancy is on full display.
Meanwhile a printer somewhere was unloading a rainforest worth of paper all over the place.

(thinking your CTRL key was stuck and activating the print shortcut, but unplugging the keyboard rules that out)
> The author, who does not seem to have come within a thousand miles of any other work than armchair pontification, is one for thinking it'd be great to have such labor unions everywhere.

Thinking it's a good idea to have strong trades unions, if you don't happen to be in a union, does not mean you are a "champagne socialist".

Trade unionism and state socialism are not the same.
Yes, I also strongly advise not riding dirt bikes either.

With that said, over countless hours of riding the ‘burbs, rural back roads, and trails; I never had what I considered a near-death experience on a dirt bike versus having at least three on street bikes. I was undoubtedly lucky, but if you avoid competitive motocross, don’t try stupid stunts, wear a full complement of protective gear, and limit your time on the street, I suspect you are safer on a dirt bike than a big street bike. Even so, I wouldn’t do it. I’ve seen dirt bikes put friends in the ICU and I now realize there are better ways I could have spent that time.

Here are a few leisure experiences from which I have received greater fulfillment with far less risk:

- Volunteer to help someone in need.

- Actively support a cause that makes the world a better place.

- Learn a new skill.

- Backpack remote areas with interesting geology, wildlife, and skies that are so bright with stars at night that it is difficult to find the constellations. Study the route beforehand to fully appreciate the area and know where to look for fossils, prehistoric artifacts, interesting minerals, geological formations, plants, and animals. For an extra challenge, pursue ultralight backpacking.[1]

- Travel to places with unique cultures. Hang out with the locals and get to know them. The lowest-profile people tend to have the most surprising and interesting life stories. Learn some of the local history and language beforehand.

- Learn to sail. With sufficient qualifications, you can rent sailboats all over the world. Fly to a beautiful location, rent a boat, island hop, travel the coastlines, and explore.

Even better for me was to start a family and focus on giving them a wonderful life.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultralight_backpacking
why don't more of these people trust the government? were they wrong or perceived that they were wronged in some way? seems like a public relations image nightmare tbh.
I'm an unorthodox reader by your definition. I've never, ever, connected my Kindle to the Internet and use it as a simple ebook reader. I've uploaded hundreds of books over the years through Calibre and the experience has been stellar. I don't give two fucks about syncing since it's my primary device for reading ebooks. I also have a tablet that I use only for pdfs. As for your last point, why would I want to jailbreak a device that works perfectly for what it is?
Button presses are often handled by state machines at a driver level so that a single “press” only registers as a single press. Otherwise, it will register as a lot of presses because the physical switches bounce on contact. They call this debouncing. Probably, a drivers state machine did not transition out
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Why buy a Kindle at that point? I have a Likebook Mars that has an SD card slot that I use to load books on to it, which I have never connected to the internet.
In fact quite a lot of commands also respond to -?, which is my guess for what inspired this.

Either way, even an extremely imperfectly honoured convention is better than no convention at all.
Lots of old documents with rules about writing ridiculously large parts of them in ALL CAPS. For no reason at all, that I can determine.