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Lidar effectively turns to tradeoffs at different plane heights. You may also be interested in Synthetic Apature Radar which is a satellite technology that is very powerful but takes some knowledge to test the right things and understand the outputs
Shiba Inu or Dogecoin?
Right, you're likely never going to hoe so many days in a row that you develop RSI.

The guy who did develop it is likely the guy who invented the plow
I have a "How Web Apps Work" blog post series [0] that I specifically wrote to target non-web devs switching over to web dev, as well as newbies. It covers HTTP and servers, JS, typical client development tools and workflows, and HTML/CSS/DOM.

I also really like the HTML tutorials at "Interneting is Hard" [1], and the CSS Tricks posts on Flexbox / Grid for layout [2].

[0] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/series/how-web-apps-work/

[1] https://www.internetingishard.com/

[2] https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
Roblox has been down for over 48 hours
Identifying a “marginal candidate” assumes you have a hiring process based on objective standards and data. Otherwise it’s just subjective.

I have preferred to hire what the author calls marginal candidates who show curiosity and desire to grow and put the effort into training them. I know mentoring and training have gone out of fashion these days, in favor of the foolish idea we can wait for the perfect candidate to show up.

Hiring managers should demonstrate more willingness to grow people in their jobs (or “roles” if you prefer), and more willingness to take on some risk rather than hiding behind made-up hiring standards. Stop covering your ass and learn how to actually manage and develop people. There are plenty of talented and motivated people who might look marginal in an artificial interview process who can turn into valuable contributors if the manager would only invest some effort.
It's interesting to see this phenomenon appear in gaming. I'm familiar with "listening ahead" or reading ahead while playing music. It probably crops up in sports as well (though I'm not athletically inclined enough to say). Any skillful performance probably involves this kind of anticipation.
I don't understand your question, I didn't say it was just a matter of following this algorithm or process described in the book. You also have to possess the base knowledge that feeds into it, which is described in the book in a mathematical context.

Even then, it's a set of heuristics and guidelines. Neither the book nor my comment claim it to be truly universal.
> We can't afford more lockdowns and the Israel experience seems to be that vaccines only do so much to slow community spread.

- During the spike of infections in Israel (which is mostly due to the delta variant) only 58% of the population was fully vaccinated [0] and is still at just 62% currently. Portugal has vaccinated 86% of its population and #cases has only decreased/remained stable since September, despite most measures being relaxed.

- The rate of serious disease among unvaccinated over 60 year olds was nine times more than the rate among fully vaccinated.

- The number of deaths was significantly higher in earlier infection peaks (Sep 2020/Jan 2021) than in the Summer even though the number of cases was much larger

- For those who were vaccinated (Israel managed to do it very early), there is evidence that immunity waned after 6 months, which aided the latest spike. The 3rd shot has been extremely effective as shown by the rapidly declining number of cases [1]

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/20/1029628...

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-study-covid-booster-sh...
I believe we can to some extent have both: a culture that supports all people and also produces high end medical equipment. The point of mentioning other cultures is to point out that human nature allows it.
I think you are underestimating "these kids". Getting a low paid position position as a powerbroker is not as stupid as you think. A frightening thing to consider over halloween: If Time wont pay them, someone else might. It's a well known that powerful positions with low pay are a recipe for corruption disaster.
What does wokeness have to do with military preparedness?
thanks for explaining :)
NSLog does insert a timestamp into the log message, which can be useful.
Who has tried a voluntary form of communism focused on the use of automation to lower material costs of living?
You're going to make me cry :(

Seriously, the only dongle I found that actually solves the problem is CME WIDI Master[1]

It's a 5-pin DIN - to - Bluetooth MIDI dongle that runs off MIDI power (i.e., just plug and forget).

Brings you from the 80s straight into 2020s with no noticeable latency, and no wires.

That's how I actually connect my newer controllers (with Bluetooth midi, which, thankfully, does not require the other device to provide power) to old synths.

Can highly recommend, 5/5, etc., but it's frustrating that I'd need to go through Bluetooth and a dongle for devices that could be linked with one short simple wire.

[1]https://www.cme-pro.com/widi-master/
Vienna: Cancelled my last 10 late night rides after they lied about arrival times that usually turned into something between „driver rejecting me until one 30min away accepts me“ and „infinity“.

Running/walking to a taxi stand or just taking late night public transport is now generally faster. Also, it‘s not cheaper anymore. Uber is dead here.
In the last couple of version, updates are no longer differentials but full OS updates. They are shipped as a single signed package that is loaded into one of the protected volumes of the disk. This is supposed to be a security measure to prevent compromises of components of the OS. The downside is big slow updates. Hopefully they work on that and do more like the differential updates that they use for iOS.
> These prices compound, exponentially, and as a result younger generations spend much more of their money in wealth transfers to older landowners.

This is just factually untrue. House prices do not grow exponentially. The rate at which they grow goes up and down, but it’s never been exponential. The entire premise of your argument is indisputably incorrect.
Yes to all of this. MPE is good enough.
Well.. yeah. Hiring somebody who failed the interview is pretty dumb, obviously.

Although the author made one point that I think is inaccurate: He said it's wrong to hire a front-end engineer to do backend work. In my experience, most FE engineers are more than capable to switch to the back-end, but the opposite is rarely true.
LibreOffice 7.3 Alpha 1 Tagged with More Open-Source Office Suite Improvements
Oh, silly me. I hadn't noticed you need the `-t` flag to open the TUI and assumed that since the TUI didn't open that the error was from blinkenlights.
I think you're getting mixed up. Consciousness is obviously real (because we directly experience it) and is a hard problem because it's so weird.

The soul is not obviously real. There's zero evidence for it. It's just some random hypothesis that doesn't even explain anything. It's like reincarnation. Just a nice idea that someone made up with zero evidence, no mechanism and no use. Clearly nonsense.
I am really impressed by how quickly logseq [1] has been developed; new releases every few weeks with exciting features that are (usually) actually working and improving workflow. And it's open-source. Hooray!

[1] https://logseq.com/
> I haven't done enough research to really add to this discussion, other than I feel any reasonable or commonly-held belief is better discussed than cancelled

The problem is, what is "reasonable and commonly-held belied"? I'm certain theories that some "races" are better than others or that the Jews something something banks global domination are commonly-held ( certainly not by the majority of people, but a not insignificant amount of them nonetheless). What do you do then? Personally i don't think there's a point in arguing with such people ( you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't use reason to get into).

(Just starting a philosophical debate on the very serious issue by giving a dark example of how quickly it gets dirty. I think that the issue discussed by JK Rowling is much more nuanced, and i see her point, unlike the not hypothetical idiots who send racial slurs to footballers on Twitter whose point i don't see and think they deserve to lose their jobs and Twitter accounts)
I've thought about doing this very thing! But given all the other interesting projects I have/want to work in domains I'm actually familiar with, this is one that I'll leave to an expert.
In my eyes learning to programm is on of those things that is a out a stract connotations or ideas how we think something functions much more than actual experience.

When you learn gravity, of course you can watch an apple falling from a tree and fogure it out yourself. But you could also watch an apple falling from an tree, try to figure it out for a while and then get a fascinating deep dive in the physics behind it, and then take another dive at the issue.

Just by presenting the issue in the right way instructors can make the difference between people who struggle to grasp something and people who already have the right abstractions in their head but only need to figure out what it means in practise.

The worst peogramming instructors are those who are like: "It was nearly impossible for me to learn this, why do you think it would be easy?"
Depends on what OS you are running. In my case I am using TrueNAS so it is made for being a NAS and you can just tell it, hey here is a cache, here is a log drive, etc.

If you are talking about local storage for a workstation then I am not sure. Depends on your workflow. If you have a "work on this on the fast stuff, then when I am done I can move it to the spinning rust" then you might want to figure out largest project size for fast vs long term storage of the projects.

Sorry if this is not helpful.
The difference is that this requires the author to make their works freely available to everyone on the internet in the hopes that enough people will pay.

If you torrent stuff, you have to worry about legal repercussions (think about how many people talk about that as the main reason they use a VPN) and spending time on dodgy websites with a history of malware. This would avoid all of that risk and prevent ISP blocking since your traffic would be indistinguishable from paid downloads.

Similarly, this requires payment of not only the often considerable NFT overhead but also the maintenance of the content delivery servers because storage and bandwidth aren’t free and you can’t accept payment without the guarantee that someone will get what they paid for. That’s only “no cost to the creator” in the same sense as it is currently where it means lower net income. And, don’t forget, that means the author is paying to serve pirated copies out of their cut, which is unlikely to be a popular feature.

Finally, these are complex distributed systems to keep running. It seems far less likely that Amazon will break your Kindle library than that a blockchain network will become too expensive or even collapse.
AN OPINIONATED HISTORY OF THE MODEM

~1960s-1980s: critically important for HIGH SPEED LEASED LINE[0] MAINFRAME[1] MINICOMPUTERS[2] IMPs[3] and PADs[4] (~100-300-1200bps).

1980s-early 1990s: Hayes serial modem AT command set released.[H] Modems critically important for BBSs, UUCP, Amiga/PC warez scenes, early open source distribution. (2400bps/9600bps/14.4/28.8/56k)

~early 1990s: critically important for early internet growth which largely supplants BBSs (56k) and coincides with the initial popularity surge for Linux

~1995-2000: broadband grows rapidly in developed countries. It really kicks the llama's ass. Early P2P warez via Gnutella, MP3 and DivX. CD burning is rife. ISO images are a thing. Against this background, Sony's minidisc fails but accidentally enshrines funny Finns rapping as history.[5]

~1998 winmodem! KK System releases Fax U and popularizes negotiation sounds as art.[6]

~1999: Somebody picks up the phone[7] and the modem connection drops.

~2000-2005: potentially viable but declining option vs broadband (Mbps). Even China had >Mbps HFC broadband at this time. DVDs are mainstream. Steam, Valve's revolutionary harbinger of online software distribution for desktops, is released.

~2004: Artists use modems as current subjects.[8]

~2005-2010: poor countries and extreme desperation only. Physical distribution of software wanes.

~2010: 56k becomes slower than mobile data in most places. Many countries cease hauling copper pair due to mobile plus copper thievery. The developing world comes online without legacy copper infrastructure.

~2013: Artists use modems as retro subjects.[9]

~now = Amusing historical tidbit. Slower than mobile data that's 3 generations old.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leased_line [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicomputer [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Message_Processor [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_assembler/disassembler [H] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_command_set [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymNFyxvIdaM [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmQSROkTb3c [7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xphxPPQXJKw [8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJSQILBGoqk [9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfdZUnHkuuI

Phew. A nice Sunday morning dalliance: back to work :)
I don't know anything about egg, but presumably they don't advocate working on live household electrics.
> MIDI 1 was hard enough to implement

MIDI 1 is one of the easiest protocols I've ever interfaced with myself. Getting started on any platform is easy, the API is not that large and it's relatively straightforward. You can on Linux write bytes directly to /dev/midi and get up and running really quickly, and the specification is not that big. See https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~craig/articles/linuxmidi/ for some examples.

What did you find hard in implementing MIDI 1? Would be nice to hear the opinion for something I haven't heard in real life (yet?).
OSC hasn't really been designed as a replacement for MIDI, I think. It is really a generic data communication protocol. They only specified the syntax and omitted any semantics. As a consequence, each application has to specify their own OSC messages. And that's what digital mixing consoles, lighting consoles, DAWs like REAPER or computer music programs like SuperCollider do. There really is no common ground between how these applications use OSC.

To make OSC a suitable replacement for MIDI, you would have to come up with a set of OSC messages everyone can agree upon. That's not likely to happen...
I remember helping a friend a few years ago who thought he had truly bricked his MacBook. There is a restore process that reinstalls the OS when an update goes wrong. I don’t recall the process now as I’ve never needed it since but it is somewhere on Apples site. I seriously doubt these laptops are truly bricked. Obviously something cause the installer to fail but there are recovery options built in that are not part of the OS.

this is probably a good place to start
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/macos-recovery-a-ma...
On my 4K TCL TV, I've had quite a few issues with the Roku Netflix and Hulu appa... occasionally in Netflix it will just show garbled data whenever you try and play something, or on Hulu it will just refuse to actually start a show (I've noticed this happens mostly with only very specific series...) Solution is usually to restart the TV. Never had any issues while it's actually in the middle of playing anything though.
I'm sure they can find ways to monetize it but they will ever be monetized enough for Facebook's size as one of their major revenue streams. How much of Apple/Google's revenue is due to their payment systems?

When Facebook thinks of monetizing Whats App as one of their major/only assets, it needs to find a business plan that'd allow billions of dollars.
In the turbo-hybrid era the rules are as I have outlined, you cannot rebuild between races. The current engine is a V6 @ 15000RPM.

https://jalopnik.com/how-formula-ones-amazing-new-hybrid-tur...

In the past the rules were different.
You need a bit of continuous effort to be thoughtful of how you install software - not letting random make installs scribble over your install.
Ugh, alright so if you have a farm with animals it’s a 7 day a week job. I’m having trouble believing they had a shorter work week generally. Now, if we’re talking just laborers.. maybe, but the majority of people owned farms and animals in the pre-industrial world.
Thank you. I should say that critically, this scheme is not dependent on advancement in technology. It does take advantage of the fact that computers can perform labor for free, but there are examples of the elimination of hunger and equitable distribution of food without using any advanced technology. Specifically the Sikhs in India [1] serve over 1 million free meals a day in facilities all over India, and in Vienna Austria housing is built by the city and distributed equitably [2].

Advanced technology changes what is possible, but we can do this without advanced technology. 3D printed homes for example don’t really solve the problem as framing a home isn’t expensive: it’s the land and finishing the home that cost the most.

[1] https://youtu.be/qdoJroKUwu0

[2] https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr_edge_featd_articl...
> We did obey and suffer the lockdowns. We did get the vaccine. But it certainly doesn't look like we're getting our liberties back.

I mean, is the COVID gone? Is 99 % vaccinated so we have herd imunity? Do we have updated vaccine for the delta? Have we beaten the pandemic in any other way?

Why would you expect the measures to end, when the situation is still underway? Would you complain "it's been two days why can't I return to my home" while the water from the flood is still there, new water is approaching and new dams to stop it are being build as we speak?
Yeah, flaking of facades not repaired in decades used to be the norm, with some of them even still having shot holes from the last days of WWII! And all that covered by soot from all the many houses burning poor quality coal.

It took many years after The Fall to put things in order and now such a facade is the exception, not the norm.

Still, there is that one house with nicely painted iron fence clearly showing WWII bullet holes, from a long forgotten firefight.
Why AI Lags Behind the Human Brain in Computational Power
Indeed. Bash was used for sh emulation before, the reason given for the change to dash was that sh emulation was more correct with it.

(I think it allowed bashisms even when called as sh)
Is Genetics “Dark”?
NR750 went to 21 thousand

CBR250rr to 20, and those were actually street legal, and there are still a lot of them on the roads.
It’s also a lot more complicated, at least now. While some tasks are repetitive, the activities rotate throughout the year. But it’s even more than that. I worked for a farmer before joining the Navy, and talking with him was interesting. Incredibly intelligent guy who I believe could have went on to do anything in world if he wanted to. Why did he settle with farming? It was his family farm, he ran his own business, but the answer that struct me even more was this, he said, “I get to wear a lot of hats. I am an engineer, those tobacco barns, I designed them. I am a mechanic, my old IH tractor breaks, I fix it. I am a business man because I make deals with local restaurants to sell my produce. I am a scientist, I work with the state university on soil studies and have a plot dedicated to running experiments with the university.” He listed some more but I can’t remember them all. The point is, for him, being a farmer let him be everything he wanted to be.
Hey, i'm just responding to "Almost all of the parent has no foundation"
You cannot have "voluntary communism". The point of communism is to ban certain things -- e.g. make it illegal for private people to own capital. The entire definition requires that it be involuntary.

In capitalism, there are worker-owned companies living side by side with privately and publicly held firms. People can go off and create their own communist utopia and share their wealth. You cannot go off and create a capitalist utopian community in a communist system.

Because capitalism doesn't ban ownership structures (except for anti-trust against monopolies). It doesn't care about the outcome, it cares about the free choice. Economic liberalism -- for all its faults -- really is based on the principles of free association, enforcement of contracts, and voluntary trade. You can argue that the outcomes don't capture externalities, but you can't argue that they are involuntary.

Communism, OTOH, cares only about outcomes -- is this distribution of resources fair -- and does not care about free choice at all. This is because you have to forcefully take stuff from one person to give to another, and forcefully ban someone from running their own for-profit business. Of course communism couldn't do that perfectly -- there was always a black market of people who bought and sold for a profit. But they risked prison time for that, and sometimes were sent to Siberian labor camps.

Under capitalism you can create a contract in which people voluntarily pool resources and then distribute them according to some rule, say everyone gets a fixed payout irrespective of their position in the company. Therefore the economic system in which a group of people can choose to collectively own property is called "capitalism".
Neither system deals well with large projects, but my CF criticisms weren’t predicated on the project size. So at the end of the day, CF has all of the problems TF has and then some.

But I do think that it would be really interesting to build an IaC project, and you’re right that it probably would be doomed. :)
> The average homeowner should expect to spend between 1-5% of their house value in maintenance a year - and that amount begins to climb as the house gets older.

This is completely untrue. For a $1M house (basic small home in the bay area), you'd be looking at 10K-50K in maintenance per year! I can't begin to imagine how one could spend that kind of money even if you tried really hard.

Unless you buy a fixer upper, maintenance costs are minimal. Paint sometimes, the occasional water heater replacement, a sprinkler tube leak here and there.

In 2021 so far I've spent a grand total of $409.61 in house maintenance. As a long-time house owner (>20 years), it's a fairly typical year.

I do spend 2-3K a year on improvements, but those are strictly optional, things I do because I like.