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I'm of the same opinion on the inflated assets, somehow the USG (or the Fed?) figured out a way to inject tons of borrowed and printed liquidity into the markets without hyper-inflating the CPI, but inflating assets like equity, real estate, crypto, etc etc some of which (like real estate) can hurt real people - especially the ones whose wage went from $15 to $15 in the last 10+ years.

However, this does not seem like some unforeseen accident or an unfortunate side effect of fiat money, it seems to be a deliberate policy that will not quietly go away if Bitcoin becomes more fashionable. In addition to outright bans (like the ban on gold from '30s to 70s), there are tons of more subtle ways to either suffocate daily Bitcoin adoption if it becomes a threat, or find ways to control it such as KYC, tax reporting, etc at the main exchanges. Also, even if Bitcoin does replace fiat as the medium, the lending regulation will still remain - to lend money to you, anyone needs to first know who you are, calculate your risk, and charge you an APR for that risk, and that will probably remain regulated no matter what is used to move the actual transactions.
As someone who owns an Asus and a work-provided Dell XPS, and has extensively used a 2016 MBP... Yeah, no. Build quality differences are minimal, and at least on the Asus and to an extent the Dell not everything is glued/soldered on so it's maintainable. And it wasn't Dell or Asus who shipped faulty keyboards they refused to replace.
I came to the conclusion that there is a generation shift that we don't often acknowledge.

For a long time public written word needed to be both entertainment and informative. Just like us watching documentaries: we kind of expect them to be beautifully shot and mind blowing at the same time.

Nowadays we have more written content than ever, but also more entertainment than ever, in all forms and shapes. Some people will still appreciate beautifully written prose on any subject. Most will expect respect for their time and conciseness by default, and entertainment and delight only if that's what they came for in the first place.

A lot of publication still strictly cater to the former public.
Unified memory is a performance/utilisation tradeoff. I think the thing is it's more of an issue with lower memory specs. The fact you don't have 4GB (or even 2 GB) dedicated memory on a graphics card in a machine with 8GB of main memory is a much bigger deal than not having 8GB on the graphics card on a machine with 64 GB of main RAM.
It can't be long, until Lego start to change the brick size.
I've been playing around with the Lego and Raspberry pi combination on and off through the years [1], with the goal of building a standalone tracked vehicle (pi on board) that can move around my apartment. There were various ways to do this already, mainly by using off the shelf motor controller boards and later the third party Bluetooth motor bricks. This was all for the old "power functions" system though, Lego has since revamped their lineup with a lot of new parts that all use a different connector. I'm really looking forward to getting one of these.

[1] https://www.colorfulwolf.com/blog/tag/raspberry-pi/
there usually has to be some "teaching, suggestion, or motivation" in the literature that it would be a good idea to combine A and B

There's the rub. Because patents get issued for things that are so obvious that you would never bother mentioning them in "the literature".

Take dragging a map with the mouse as an example. First, if you're doing online mapping, the first thing you think of is to just grab the map and drag it wit the mouse, so you implement that. (Even though some clown has a patent for the act of doing so).

But assuming you've gotten away with that somehow, now imagine the first day of implementing it, when you "drop" the map while your mouse is still moving. It'll stop in a jarring way and your first thought will be "That's ugly. What if it kept going with momentum and coasted to a stop." And that would get you sued out of existence.

Now, the patent system seems to suggest that the appropriate way to handle this would be to search the patent database for "dragging a map with a mouse", find the patent for "momentum", license that from whoever has it, read it and learn how to implement it, thus benefitting from some novel invention, saving yourself time and effort, and reimbursing the inventor for his effort.

But in actuality, you spend the time it takes to draw a breath thinking about the problem, then code it up in the next few minutes and carry on with your day. Because there are very few things in programming where describing the problem doesn't also describe how to solve it.

I've never seen an example of a software patent that covers an actual non-obvious "invention".
It's odd, I had no problem parsing the title.

It's clearly not talking about present day Austrians as it's 2700 years ago, and as Austria is a new country, and its name as a region only dates back c. 1000 years, it's clearly not talking about Austrians from 5000 years ago, as there weren't any, but it is talking about people from the region currently known as Austria.

I wonder if it's a language difference between English and American.
> Last I heard, there were graphics driver issues left to iron out.

Who cares in a server ?
I love backblaze too - but I don’t know why Apple haven’t copied their business out of existence (for apple users at least)

The original backblaze was literally Time Machine in the cloud.
I think the point is that you can buy fine fabric cloths like these for less than $5

And anyone who weares glasses will have them laying around.
> The jokes are pedestrian.

That's the joke.
How can you steal something from an account by looking at the receipt? I mean, receipts are being thrown out in piles, if that was possible i'd become rich just by digging in a dumpster near a convenience store.
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I'd assumed they were right-to-left and little-endian, as opposed to left-to-right and big-endian.

So if you were reading out digits in amongst text, you'd skip to the left end of the digits and read them out left-to-right?
Author David Thorne (of "Missy the Cat" fame) collected a number of especially remarkable ones out of his personal experience.
I happen to use Dvorak, so you must be kidding?
Yes, but my point is that they are by definition not neutral, contrary to what they claim. They get to choose who they do business with and their choices are not ethical.

You should consider them a hosting company, would you consider a hosting company an ethical company if they hosted nazi forums?
SD card isn't the problem, having a dedicated port for everything is. I really loved the USB-C-only approach:

Get whatever you need and plug. My camera has CF card, my drone has microSD card. So let's add them to the mix too. Also I never need the MagSafe port or never used HDMI port in my life. On the contrary, someone might need HDMI or SD slot everyday. My point is that they can't make everyone happy, and paying (not just by price but also the looks/simplicity) for ports that will never be used isn't the best thing to do.

USB-C solved this exact problem and what they did on this version is a major step back IMO, including removing the Touch Bar which had great potential for improvement.
But that’s just the marking phase, isn’t it? And most of it can be done fully in parallel, so while not all CPU cores can be maxed out with that, more often than not the original problem itself can be hard to parallelize to that level, so “wasting” a single core may very well be worth it.
have you noticed how screenshots and background images for iphones marketing material is chosen so that the notch is almost/totally invisible? it borders on false advertising. it's a design company, they know the most how ugly it is.
Wages are surging across the rich world
German luxury sedans are known for comfort and handling, but not build quality.

They break down a lot and are moneypits. Part of the problem is the heavy reliance on plastics that break down with wear, therefore modern German sedans are much less reliable than they used to be.

Another problem is the extreme complexity which also translates to poor reliability.

Another is the high prices of parts. A battery replacement on a BMW costs $300 because the computer system needs to be reprogrammed. A Mercedes fuel pump assembly runs $600 (for a Camry it's $200-300). An Audi headlight assembly is $1100 (for a Camry, it's $250). These are OEM prices.

The high maintenance costs are capitalized as depreciation and are reflected in the resale value.

In my zip code, the private party sale value (accoring to KBB) of a 2012 Honda Accord SE in Good condition with 120K miles is $7K (median). For a 2012 Audi A4 with the same miles and condition, it's $4.8K - basically one of these tricked out new macbook pros with the M1 max chip.

A 2017 Audi A4 with 60K miles sells for 20K - it loses half its value. The 2017 Honda Accord sells for 19K. So it overtakes the A4 in value in year 6.

None of the above is a prediction that an out of warranty Tesla wont also be considered a money pit. Maybe it will -- we don't really have the reliability data yet, and there isn't a robust network of independent repair shops yet, it's all very new. But the German sedans do not constitute a high bar to surpass, the Japanese sedans do.
I love a good stupid joke, and these may have been funny at the time, but as I mentioned, they haven't really aged well. A lot of them are topical. Nowadays most of these jokes would feel lazy (because they are).
In college in Washington, DC, in 1987 or so, drinking after hours in a bar (at about 3:30AM) we were having a argument over which was the capital and which was the largest city in Scotland. Not reaching any agreement, the bartender wisely realized that the British Embassy would have a duty officer on, who he called from the bar, and who quite happily answered all of our questions and settled the argument.
I was from Europe, but not from Germany. I was also taught to call black people "afro americans". It didn't makes sense, but apparently this was thought of as the only right thing to do.
Oh I don't think women were supported and encouraged universally. I'm sure there were moralizing puritans as well as those who felt their positions of power threatened, who took great offense to women using male pseudonyms back then. I don't expect the outcome will be very different in this case.
>are statistically disproportionately members of groups that are not traditionally insulted in media.

are you sure? In regards to HN, are there no negative stereotypes of nerds, geeks, computer programmers out there? How about those with autism, or ADHD - I mean I find myself insulted quite a lot in life, never mind in just the media.
According to free banking they would issue their own currency that would trade with an exchange rate vs the USD. The idea of pegging the exchange rate with the dollar while not having any meaningful dollar reserves is the absurd part.

Most countries that peg their currencies like China buy USD or "cash equivalents" like US treasury bonds. They don't lend out their reserves to a third party.
Redis as a main store is acceptable if you are ready to lose all data between two writes to disk, and you don't care about when data is actually written. It might be ok if all you're storing is likes and votes, but probably not if you're storing posts and comments.
I love cheese too. I don't currently make it (yet), but out of the same interest as you, I had searched on YouTube earlier. There are some videos there about home cheese-making. One guy I came across, in particular, maybe Australian, has what seemed like good knowledge, and a series of videos there.

Update: Searched again. His name is Gavin Webber. Just saw that he has launched an ebook.
HTH.
Apple are already planning multi-die systems, judging by their drivers. So yes. Rumors are they have a SKU with two M1 Max dies.
The MacBook Pro notch is (not great), and it better not start a trend
That's not a problem, you just turn off what's redundant. AMD did the same thing with their original Threadripper/EPYC models.
Take one of the "pro" markets—photographers. They sure have to deal with SD cards, and they often shoot tethered, which almost always means HDMI connection.
I don't think they are lazy. It's a lot of funny, original, creative and clever writing and delivery, it's very different from anything else, so I can't call that lazy. And I find it funny even without nostalgia since I wasn't born at the time. All of the humour being so unexpected is what does for me and much of it is hard to catch or understand during your first try, which also makes it intellectual challenge to try and understand everything.

I don't even think they are "stupid" jokes.
Initially, Dilbert's cat was supposed to be Dilcat, but that would've turned Dogbert into Dildog.
If alcohol were taxed on public health concerns it would be a tax based on the percentage of alcohol, not CO2 content.
CPU is completely dwarfed by GPU here.
Sure, if you need high availability + replication cross db, go for Kafka, but that's the thread point: it's not a common use case.

Most people don't need high availability, and most replication use the same db which comes with tooling for that.
What about the architecture? The alternative world drawn? The originality of the whole product?

You look at the pebbles and have not spotted the cathedral. You overworked the left analytic hemisphere and left the right synthetic one bumping for attention, you "I will only do pecs at the gym because legs are for losers" pedestrian you, comma slash jay.

The architecture is pure genius, the jokes serve it.
So what’s your proposal? How big would a “phone” be with all those features that an iphone pro has? I am by no means an apple fanboy, but the same way a modern car engine can’t just be tweaked the way it was 50 years ago due to all the miniaturizations that are in large part due to efficiency gains, the same is just as true of phones.

But at the same time, a single chip with everything included will also make these phones pretty sturdy, where it either fails completely, or remain working for long years.
I feel more ADD after reading this.
Build quality does not equate mechanical reliability. I'm talking about the way the cars are built, the chassis, frames, gaps, interior and the rest. Not the engines
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It does. If you have an old MacBook Pro 2015 and MacBook Pro 2016+ the difference is quite noticeable.

But the trade off from 1.8cm to 1.55cm is subject of your personal opinion. In a perfect world we would want a 1.55cm laptop with the same heat removing capability as the 1.8cm.
I've seen ducks mating. For their body size, they have magnificent penises. Flying with these things flopping around would not only be very difficult without getting caught in something, it would also be extremely irritating to people.
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/21/05/17/0225252/micro...
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One of the things I really love about Go is that Dependency Injection isn't idiomatic. You just pass in your dependencies, and I find that immensely easier to wrap my mind around when starting work on an existing project.
It's actually coming free with most off-the-shelf microSDs. And exactly that - SD as a physical format is more flexible, nowadays it can be used even for non-storage cards.
My problem with the paper is the data used and the implicit assumption of what the data represents: the covid incidence data is from test results. It does not distinguish between symptomatic and asymptomatic infection. Covid is the first time ever that widespread antigenic testing of large numbers of the population has been carried out. For all we know, if there was a similar testing of flu, we would also see no correlation between incidence of positivity and vaccination status. Or indeed the multitude of organisms that infect us but produce no symptoms.
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I don't agree. Patents constitute a serious moat for FAANG et al - sometimes because they can afford to license the silly patents, sometimes because they themselves hold the silly patents (like Amazon's patent on one-click buying).
Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera takes photos through thousands of straws (2020)
The underlying meta lesson here is anything taken to an extreme is probably not good. There's many axis on which people can fall prey to this. Here it's flexibility, but it could be robustness, speed, etc.
There’s definitely ways to access an SFTP drive on Android, but I’m not sure how well it’d fare offline.
It's much easier to have a great selection of feminist books than a great selection of books...good luck competing with the internet in the 2nd category.

There was a documentary about specialist stores popping up in Berlin, and generalist stores dying.
I think you should have a look at the projects we have written that support this launch.

https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/pathways/lego-intro

They're exclusively written in Python, some of them using Bluetooth for remote control, some using pollution APIs to display data and also TensorFlow for image recognition.
1. That segment of the population isn't that small and dying isn't the only bad consequence. Many long-lasting health issues as a result of a covid infection have been identified. Your link contains only 3 cases of dangerous vaccines, a few isolated manufacturing mistakes and the rest were disproven in further research. Regardless, while there obviously are dangers associated with vaccination, mass vaccination is also the only way to stop the pandemic.

Every instance of an infected individual in contact with a vaccinated individual is another roll of the dice for a breakthrough infection, which risks a new vaccine-resistant variant emerging. Just like you shouldn't prematurely stop a course of antibiotics because the remaining pathogens can develop resistance, you should not vaccinate only half the population because it gives the virus remaining in the unvaccinated population somewhere to thrive while continuously mutating and attacking the vaccinated until a resistance to the vaccine develops and we're back to 2020.

2. Children are a huge transmission vector. I know they're unlikely to have serious consequences from it, but they will pass it on to parents and grandparents who likely will. While yes, some most sources seem to say natural immunity is stronger, unless you suggest we put a bunch of children in a two wrek quarantine and infect the intentionally that hardly matters. If the infection is natural then the child will be spreading the virus around for days before they notice any symptoms (if they even do) and get quarantined. Congrats, now the child is slightly more immune that if you'd vaccinated them, but also 20 new people now have the infection.

And how can you say we don't have enough data - the whole point of the re-review is that we have now gathered more data and it indicates it's not that dangerous. What do you mean "take a cue from history"? We essentially wiped out many extremely dangerous diseases exactly by everyone getting vaccinated. Taking a cue from history, we should all get vaccinated ASAP to swiftly eradicate the virus before it gets a chance to mutate and become resistant.
Others have already written about this extensively but there is a difference between humor that punches down and humor that punches up. There's also a big difference between the joke being bigotry and the joke being that a character is bigoted.

In the Airplane! cockpit scene the joke isn't that the pilot makes the stewardess and kid uncomfortable by sounding like a pedophile, the joke is that he's supposed to be a heroic character but acts like a total creep. It's a subversion of expectations based on the tropes of 1950s/1960s Hollywood movies.

Likewise the scene with all passengers lining up to slap the woman while shouting at her to calm down doesn't make fun of women for being hysterical. It makes fun of the sexist trope of women being hysterical and needing to be "calmed down" with physical violence. The sexism isn't what's funny, the sexism is what's being made fun of.

The problem with modern comedy is that a lot of political punditry has moved to taking the form of comedy and "it's just a joke" (or for a few years on YouTube "it's just a prank") has become a way to defend actual bigoted statements.

When a conservative pundit who is opposed to gay rights calls a gay person a homophobic slur or follows a mention of them with a caricature of them wanting to have oral sex with a lot of men, the "joke" only works if you share the idea that gay people are sexual deviants and bad. It isn't really a joke, it's just mockery.

The reason a lot of older comedians find it hard to adjust is not that comedy has changed. The mechanics of humor have largely remained the same, it's just cultural attitudes and politics that have changed. If your politics have remained the same, you'll find it harder to do comedy expressing those politics now than when they were more closely aligned to mainstream.

In other words, if you used to have a close circle of friends with misogynist opinions a misogynist joke may have gotten a few laughs out of them. If they've all grown out of it and matured in their understanding that women are actual persons rather than just objects of sexual attraction, your old jokes will no longer work on them. They may not actually get offended, but they won't be amused.

Jokes work because they carry a message through a combination of context, content and subtext. If that message is expressing support for an oppressive social dynamic, it can be bullying. It's that simple.
I face the same choice around submitting expenses through concur. It is almost not worth the time you have to invest.
> With smart meters

So,

- it is a parallel grid for all intents and purposes. Because you will have to supply literally every apartment, every house, every building (and parts of buildings) with smart meters.

It's also funny how you don't see beyond this already weird decision. Example from actual reality: TV Pickup [1]. "A phenomenon in the United Kingdom that involves surges in demand on the electrical grid, occurring when a large number of people simultaneously watch the same television programme. TV pickup occurs when viewers take advantage of commercial breaks in programming to operate electrical appliances at the same time, causing large synchronised surges in national electricity consumption"

That's just kettles and microwaves.

Now, with smart meters you've powered down "cheapskates". When we have more power, we now... bring entire households back online. Good luck handling that

- it is a libertarian view: The rich will get the power while the unfortunate ones won't even be able to refrigerate their food. Medical equipment will fail. People will freeze in winter. Trains will not run. etc.

I absolutely love your "realistic policies".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup
MS has a full Windows for arm64 with a Rosetta-like layer already. It's been available for at least two years, although it only supported x86 at first (presumably because of the patents on x86-64). x86-64 was added recently (https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2020/12/10/introdu...)
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I wonder how the revenue in the book industry is split between men and women.
Not related to Cue, but "All is good now" simply shows how to shoot yourself in the foot with yaml and apply a nice patch to a wound.
That's not good at all.
They composite everything at nearest higher integer scale, with correspondingly large framebuffer (just make a screenshot of entire screen and check the dimensions). Then, during scan out, it is scaled down by output encoder.

This method does not need GPU at all and also saves memory bandwidth; no need to save scaled down framebuffer and read it out again.