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Well you never know. As per Reuters on Oct 28 [1],

> Hertz Global Holdings Reports Strong Quarterly Results
Oct 28 (Reuters) - Hertz Global Holdings Inc <HTZZ.PK>::HERTZ GLOBAL HOLDINGS REPORTS STRONG QUARTERLY RESULTS.Q1 EARNINGS PER SHARE $1.13.QTRLY TOTAL REVENUES OF $2.2 BILLION, UP 19% FROM Q2 2021.QTRLY NET INCOME OF $605 MILLION, OR $1.13 PER DILUTED SHARE.SEES Q4 TOTAL REVENUE PER UNIT PER MONTH $1,355 - $1,445.

And Hetrz exited Chapter 11 some while ago. As per Reuters on June 30 (also via [1]):

> Hertz Exits Chapter 11
June 30 (Reuters) - Hertz Global Holdings Inc <HTZGQ.PK>::HERTZ EXITS CHAPTER 11 AS A MUCH STRONGER COMPANY.HERTZ GLOBAL - OVER $5.9 BILLION OF NEW EQUITY CAPITAL BEING PROVIDED BY KNIGHTHEAD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, CERTARES OPPORTUNITIES.HERTZ GLOBAL - ELIMINATED NEARLY $5.0 BILLION OF DEBT, INCLUDING ALL OF HERTZ EUROPE'S CORPORATE DEBT.HERTZ GLOBAL - HAS EMERGED WITH NEW $2.8 BILLION EXIT CREDIT FACILITY AND $7.0 BILLION ASSET-BACKED VEHICLE FINANCING FACILITY.HERTZ - FOLLOWING RESTRUCTURING, CO'S CREDITORS WILL RECEIVE PAYMENT IN CASH IN FULL & EXISTING SHAREHOLDERS WILL RECEIVE MORE THAN $1 BILLION OF VALUE.HERTZ - SHARES OF CO COMMON STOCK WILL CONTINUE TO BE PUBLICLY TRADED ON OVER--COUNTER MARKET, UNTIL CO RELISTS ON A NATIONAL SECURITIES EXCHANGE.HERTZ GLOBAL HOLDINGS INC - NEW TICKER SYMBOLS EFFECTIVE JULY 1 WILL BE HTZZ FOR HERTZ COMMON STOCK AND HTZZW FOR WARRANTS.

[1] https://cn.reuters.com/companies/HTZZ.PK/key-developments
It also helps that housing values depreciates in Japan, making it less appealing for speculation.
*slurp*
Congratulations, you just invented capitalism.
I’ve been suing HACK for some time now, it seems a good fit to me, but have noticed it locking up recently, an easy restart fixes it, but it’s quite regular (daily perhaps) and only recently begun to happen. I tried a few other apps, but this one stuck for me
That music box record player is a perfect metaphor for distributed supply chains in global manufacturing. In fact, one could say that it is a representation of them.
Some of my most productive sessions are at night all quiet just me and my computer with no music playing and for sure no one would be talking to me. (Sometimes I do to myself.)

Maybe I don't care for tribemates?
Read Berger(1966). This is reification in it's most basic form.
They're called "Meta" because their business is selling your metadata.

-- Polychrome @ Mastodon

https://cybre.space/@polychrome/107191019622441552
I think this is one of the reasons Texas has remained affordable.(that and less anti development regulations) We have a high property tax which dampens the effects of interest rate changes on property value.
I felt exactly the same at first. But after using it for almost a week now, I got used to the thickness. The cooling and speed is absolutely amazing. I am never going back!

Somewhat unrelated, I was really on the fence between 16GB and 32GB of RAM. I ended up buying the 16GB because 32GB was a whopping $500 CAD extra. I’m happy to report that 16GB has been working extremely well. It’s almost as if the laws of RAM don’t apply to Apple Silicon. I can’t seem to max out the RAM, while I have and use 64GB of RAM on my desktop PC. It’s really odd.
It’s on purpose, they want soldiers to be able to function well in high stress and pressure situations. They do this so they train under the same conditions they would be in war. It is most definitely not healthy tho. I think the military does not really care about the health of its personnel during and after their duty.
The updated Fisher Price Tape Recorder got a similar treatment, the original played real cassettes but the modern one does not.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fisher-Price-Classics-Play-Tape-R...
"what reason do we have to believe that a mind in a simulated body has any less subjective experience than a mind in a "real" body? "

That reality is seemingly indefinitely complex and any simulation we have, very simplifying. I am pretty sure, for emotions and co, it takes a bit more sophisticated simulation - if it can be achieved digitally, at all.
This feels like something that would come out of GPT-3!
My second Roku from many years ago (first angry birds one) will crash occasionally using Netflix, will crash hard and reboot itself. Probably a thermal issue. Pretty anemic performance too. I think the software now just stresses the old hardware to the max. But to their credit, it was still receiving updates and worked. Finally retired it and replaced with new version and haven’t had it crash yet.
Me too. My numbers are higher, and I’m probably older, but as retirement looms on the horizon, the goal is simply to make hay while the sun shines.

The exit strategy is to sell the ridiculously overpriced house, fully paid off, which has doubled in price in the last 8 years, and sod off to a lower COL area. Since I’m a Brit, a small castle with grounds in Scotland ought to be on the cards, for less than my 1500 sq ft ranch-style house here.
I wonder which are the serious flaws of the IEEE floats in your opinion.

I am familiar with most of the floating-point number formats that have ever been used in computers and there is no doubt that as a general-purpose numeric format all the previous floating-point alternatives have been vastly inferior to the IEEE formats.

For special-purpose niches, usually when a low precision is good enough, it is indeed possible to use some other numeric formats suitable for approximate numbers, e.g. logarithmic numbers, fixed-point numbers, low-precision FP numbers, unums/posits and a few others, which may have certain advantages over the IEEE FP numbers. e.g. a lower cost or higher speed for a given (low) precision, but even for those niches using IEEE FP numbers is usually a decent alternative, not a vastly inferior one.
> a bunch of idiots who couldn't get out of jury duty

Maybe they are not idiots, just regular folks who take their civic duty seriously.
oh right, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

it was on bryan's youtube only
This is, and has been the cost for early-adoption in practically all successful inventions / products.

The reward was the fact that something you did had permanence in a way that allowed others who knew how to see or interact with "it".

Now anyone with a phone can create and consume (and acknowledge). Taking that for granted was the 2010s. I suspect the 2020s will be about getting paid for it - and what better fuel than a COVID imposed lockdown to stoke the young blaze?

I'm waiting for those robots too!
Does the power cable that comes with (previous generation) MBPs work for this purpose? I thought I remember seeing some talk of it being great for power but not for data.
These drives felt so amazing back then. I put two in RAID0 in the first PC I ever built and it seemed mind blowingly fast. Super expensive at the time compared to other storage, but it was the best you could get on consumer grade hardware (i.e. SATA). For some reason I feel more fondly about the Raptors than I do about my first SSD (an Intel X25-M). Maybe it's just age...
The chemical reaction of burning and its products are not in question, neither is the radiative effect of 'green house gasses'. Although of some practical concern by itself in another context, the ice-caps potential melting in the future is also not the issue of the posted video.

Senator Donalds is addressing with great skill and wisdom, in my view, the principles which hold the US together. It is about the means of how to achieve the desired policies calling out on processes (as he sees it) which should be foreign to not only citizens of the US, but in fact to all people who value civility (duty and law) over the totalitarian rule of law (no matter its outwardly stated intentions).

.. of cause, it is up for debate whether people should/would prefer to live by permission rather than by predominantly by self-determination. But that seems not to be even getting through, rather automatic assumptions launch a defense of the green-house effect.
So philosophy of the 'Metaverse' aside. As a developer the thing that sort of resonated in the demos I've seen was the displays on the 'walls' of your rooms. I haven't really tried VR in its modern incarnation yet. However, my day-to-day developer life consists of two monitors (Macbook, and larger display above), within those are a half dozen virtual desktops, and within those are several terminals, vscode usually remote debugging, and various database clients, chrome (with a million tabs), etc. So the killer-app for me would be an awesome interface to N 'virtual desktops', along with some amazing eye-tracking/hotkeys to lock desktops to my PoV, split to side-by-side, 4x4, etc.
Bonus points if I can experience my work environment the same in a coffee shop, work trips, etc. I often find myself working on just my Macbook's monitor and spend 30%+ of my time just switching between views on different virtual desktops. The goggles for me now look to clunky to easily use in a coffee shop, although if portable and running off my laptop then perhaps would be fine for working on the road in a hotel room.
Bonus Bonus points if there is an easy way to share views among team mates. I work for a fully remote company and we regularly pair program via Zoom. This generally means one of us 'drives' displaying one of their monitors and switching back and forth between desktops, etc. We've gotten pretty good at it, but there is still the occasional game of telephone where the person(s) not driving are trying to get you to focus on something and the description is just not clicking. Zoom's assume input control is kind of clunky, so we usually spend a few minutes talking until it clicks and the 'driver' realizes what is being asked of them, etc. Often shouting out a line number of some code that looks suspicious is used, but occasionally it goes by fast and your telling the 'driver' to back track, etc. An experience where another individual can piggyback on your view, or take selective control of specific 'virtual desktops' or clone them to adjust the view or try something out would be ideal. Probably, just a clean switch of control from 'driver' to 'observer' would be enough to still count as a killer-app.
Final thoughts; I described my workflow which is probably somewhat similar to many other developers and remote teams. However, I can imagine other types of jobs that would enjoy multiple 'virtual desktops' without having to purchase physical monitors. Financial types come to mind as well, but really any field where you have to synthesize multiple streams of input a la multiple monitors.
You can download EGS games on Linux just fine, so ostensibly you could build one of these right now. Of course, you probably wouldn't want to use ARM for a PC game console, but you're welcome to try it.
No, that's almost certainly not related. The relative volumes of the cube and the sphere is a geometric matter, not a topological one. Remember that topology uses much looser equivalences that do not respect such information.
Buy/build a bigger house? The point is to eliminate restrictive zoning, not replace it with new restrictions that only allow tiny houses.
Are you talking about the toy in the thread or actual turntables?
> It’s Zuckerberg’s attempt to distract Wall Street investors and consumers from Facebook’s growing problems.

Those problems, at their recent peak, are that – recent.
Yet I know, for a fact, they have been working on the new concept for very long now. I spoke to a FB insider about a year ago already and he, in very diluted way, described what we know as metaverse now.
depends on what kind of incentives

if you make people seek calm and good social bonds (through cultural creations mostly) you may avoid capitalism runaways
Housing is part of inflation.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/blog/2021/09/09/housing-price...
But now you have to model a judge's incentives to cooperate with the justice system, given that the DA's office and the police have worked to bring a case this far.
Hi there, author here. It was more than due to a 32-bit game running on 64-bit Windows and compatability mode didn't work.

Ubisoft changed the reg key of the base game from it's retail key to "Uplay Install 87" and the expansion had no idea to look for that key at all. If you used the Ubisoft copy of both games, the expansion pack would never have found the base game.
I remember I used to use a kanji memorization app on Facebook in the 2000s. It was pretty neat. Too bad stuff like that is gone now.
I’m not suggesting we select for physiological characteristics- I think eugenics is a very bad idea.

I googled the word untenable and I misused it. I just meant bad. Pregnancy is sucks and has always sucked. Most of the world was shitting in its own drinking water supplies until recently - pretty bad. But we invented plumbing and fixed it. I think humanity should do the same thing but for pregnancy.
cranking it up increases 'engagement', probably
I write poems. I write music. I write code. I build books. I play songs. I compiled this client.
They don’t know what it is, they know what it is not:

a baby.
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That’s totally fair—I was thinking more like a small nation-state being able to leverage a relatively small enrichment program rather than a private independent program.

I’m sure there’s all sorts of experimentally determined magic numbers that are only discoverable with testing.
> This is a tradeoff, because it does mean that the consumer pays more for copies than the "correct" free market price

Important to keep in mind that it's not just a tradeoff because it increases marginal cost, it's a tradeoff because it outright restricts the creation of new content.

In creative industries, it means that creators are sometimes unable to build on or adapt creative work to apply to new situations or to expand on artistic ideas. Many market consequences extend from this restriction for better and for worse -- there's a reason why Nintendo games don't work on PCs or have certain accessibility features, there's a reason why backing up save data for many of their games is still a giant pain in the neck, and it's because it's illegal for other companies to create those features for Nintendo games.

IP law also has the consequence of drastically raising the barrier of entry to creating new IP, since assets and universes can't be reused or repurposed without contracts.

And of course, this also has the consequence that certain utility innovations can't happen -- E-Readers in particular have been hobbled for a long time, not just because of patent law but because existing platforms are allowed to make it illegal to transfer legally purchased books into different ecosystems. This reduces market competition in the space, artificially driving up the cost of not just the content itself, but also much of the hardware used to consume that content. There are a lot of things we could build in the E-Reader space around universal annotations, accessibility features like live-reading, etc. IP law restricts a lot of that stuff, you may not build a competing E-Reader that reads EBooks purchased on Amazon.

This obviously has consequences for the market itself; by embracing IP law, we have chosen to effectively kill off and completely eliminate competition in several areas of the free market, while making it illegal to build some meta-layers on top of platforms without enormous amounts of capital and negotiation power.

But it also obviously has cultural consequences since building on top of existing work and sharing cultural experiences (including stories) is something that is basically built into our DNA as human beings.

So we can debate whether there are advantages to IP law and whether they're wortwhile, but I do want to push back a little bit on the idea that marginal cost is the main consequence of Copyright. It's not, Copyright is a choice we've made to artificially eliminate certain parts of the market and to make certain projects and innovations practically impossible to build by anyone other than the biggest players in the market. It's not just about books getting more expensive, Copyright is a system with real tradeoffs, it increases the production of a specific kind of art at the tradeoff of drastically reducing the production of other kinds of art, and at the cost of shaping how art gets distributed and consumed and what things we can do with it, even privately.
Not to be cynical, but I get the feeling they will require a Meta account? I'm half kidding but that's what first comes to mind.
I've got two if these in boxes (as spares) but the rack in my basement no longer has a POTS phone line available. Is anyone interested?
Roblox has been down for over 24 hours now
Once you need to load any parts of a file into memory you might as well compute the hash for all the bytes that you've loaded into memory. The act of loading the bytes from permanent storage (even NVME SSD) is likely to be many orders of magnitude slower than actually computing the hash. So it makes no sense to just "hash parts of the file" when in all likelihood the entire file will be getting loaded into memory even if you actively read only a few bytes from each 4k block.
I seem to recall looking into wooden blocks for my kids when they were a little younger, and finding not that they need batteries, but the new normal-tier wooden blocks are now kinda shit—small, uneven finish and size consistency isn't good, et c.—and you have to start looking into niche "premium" toys to get good ones.

We got some of those cube ones with the letters and numbers at one point, and they were noticeably smaller and worse-finished than the ones I had as a kid in the 80s, which I'm sure were just the only blocks of that type that some cheap local store had and were probably the same quality as all such blocks on the market at the time, not something special. The newer ones looked very similar in a photo, but were missing lots of textures (kinda, you know, a big deal to babies and early toddlers) and details that mine had, and the paint chipped more easily (probably a thinner coat, I guess, plus probably just lower-quality paint).

We bought our first kid a rolling walker/phone thing with some other features—yeah, electronic crap, but at least this one had a volume setting, unlike many modern ones that are just fixed to "deafen your child" with no other options unless you break out a soldering iron. By ~4 years later, between seeing other people's version of the same thing—same brand and all—they bought a couple years after ours, and seeing newer version at the store when toy shopping, we'd noticed that the "same" product, which looked nearly identical, had had a couple revisions, each one making parts that used to move or be interactive fixed & dormant, and otherwise lowering the quality.
> Many people in the US could easily have 10h work week, if they could just reign in their creeping lifestyle inflation and live like people did at the end of 19th century.

This is a dangerous lie that makes it sound like most people's money are going to luxuries. They don't.

Over 30 % of average household spending in the US goes to rent or other housing, with insurance and healthcare being next 20 % and transportation next 15 %. See https://www.elitepersonalfinance.com/average-household-budge...

You might think people are spending money on TVs and iPhones and cars but most people buy a TV or iPhone every month - to their landlord, and once in a while buy a new car to their hospital.
Have any evidence to back that claim up?

And even of its true, reducing VOCs still sounds like a positive goal
Yeah that's what I thought, similar to CD's couldn't spin much faster without shattering iirc, rather than being a head read speed issue
It's a tradeoff, though. The loss of explorability means that kids no longer have (with these newer toys) the same opportunity for exercising their curiosity that the older toys permitted. My sister never took our toys apart and reassembled them, that was all on me. With a toy like this one I would have (and probably did, with whatever equivalent I had) taken it apart and seen how the music box worked (the metal tines, the bumps on the record corresponding to notes, etc.). The new version removes that opportunity, taken or not. That is a loss.
It's pretty gross that in light of clear evidence of widespread discrimination you dismiss legitimate complaints with generic and shallow accusations of inceldom, white nationalism, and incompetence. Reverse racism is still racism.

Step back for a moment and consider what psychological effect such explicitly discriminatory policy may have on any demographic on the receiving end. Explicitly assigning disadvantages according to immutable characteristics fuels so called "white nationalism", as do blithe dismissals such as yours. You can't have it both ways - either you attempt to hire by merit or you acknowledge that you are motivating self-preserving movements in demographics which perceive discrimination.

There's also a certain selection bias among those willing to complain. Generally those with good career prospects are far more likely to keep their heads down rather than risk repercussions for speaking against top down D&I pressure - so the fact that the loudest may not be stellar examples of good soldiering does not imply that this perceived discrimination is not more widespread among otherwise competent personell.
This is the classic XY problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
> Housing is part of inflation.

It is, but the upthread reference to “housing” actually meant “home ownership”, not the “housing” that is part of inflation (residential rents, actual and imputed).
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20k rpm is relatively clunky F1 combustion engine territory.

I find it hard to believe spinning an electric motor and a relatively light and small disc that fast is much of a challenge to keep together, especially in such a coddled environment.

Even back in the early 90s my RC10 had a 38k rpm "modified" motor; the Motown Missile. That thing lived through hell...
I feel like you're about half correct here. For instance, most of these factories aren't "toy factories" they are "injection molding" or "pcb" or "electronic assembly" factories.

I would invite you to submit any examples of how you think modern toys are made of "mostly" standard tooling... that's not how this works. China has more mold designers, mold makers, and mold shops in many towns than other countries have within their borders.

I do agree with you that the old clockwork motor would be too expensive to manufacture now, but I think you should keep thinking about the rest of your thesis.
I get what they are saying but the b.s. part is how it is framed as an evolution of the internet. It is and will be yet another technology available to those who want to use it. Email is not an evolution of papermail, the internet is not an evolution of the telephone. It adds value, it does not displace the internet.

I would never want to use VR/AR. I like invisible tech not immersive tech. For example, I would prefer holographs to AR/VR if the tech was ready. I want tech that is just there and just works. When I browse an item at a store, I don't want AR to tell me info or let me interact with content about that item, I want the store itself to support displays/screens and gesture based interaction. I want less tech attached and connected to me. I don't like video calls or voice calls, just not comfortable with it even with telephones. I like text.

My point is, AR/VR and the tech describe by "metaverse" will exist but it will itself become obsoleted by better tech by the time it can entirely replace the internet.

Webgl has been around for a while and it hardly replaced regular html sites. PWAs are here and they will hardly do the same either.

Both authors are arguing a false dichotomy. It is and is not bullshit (schrodinger's bullshit?)