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I've been thinking this exact same thing too. But I think it is also a survival instinct. We don't just believe anyone, we believe those who we perceive to have more power, be it a violent mob demonstration, or someone we see on TV a lot.

Those in power are well aware of this. You will notice that all the propaganda on TV is designed to make people believe that "everyone believes what I believe, I am in the majority". And when election time comes and hard facts seem to prove the propaganda wrong, they very quickly pivot to "Ok sure, but those other people don't count, they are 'uneducate', 'poor', 'evil'... they have no power"
Yeah I can't tell if we actually think differently, or if we just observe our minds differently. If I frame the question to myself as "do I know the words for what I'm thinking?" then the words for what I'm thinking about instantly start arriving. But if I frame the question to myself of "what do these thoughts feel like?" then my thoughts feel a bit formless and instinctive. (Or if I catch myself daydreaming, I can't remember any "inner language" for hours).

I'm not convinced our minds are actually different in kind, as opposed to just having quality differences in how we perceive ourselves. We can run the experiment right now. Does anyone actually have an internal voice narrating the feeling you get watching a sunset?
I get that remark in the absolute, but here we are talking about an article about how to get and compile CDE from source on a Debian 10. In which case your fear that setting up Xft font rendering via X resources is an insurmontable task to get a modern and usable system that you are literally building is maybe a little bit off-topic.
> ...It's just that we all have different ideas about what that is.

This in a nutshell is why all progress is always a god awful painful mess. No matter how modest.

I used to be self-proclaimed advocate for change. Technological, organizational, political, all of it. Everyone marching arm-in-arm towards our glorious future.

Now I'm happy when any one manages to change anything at all. I no longer even care how good or bad an idea is. Better to try and then learn from failure than never try at all.
uhm, hate to break it to you, but the depth of the pool for the one two combo of fomo and greater fool theory is quite deep.
Based on my interactions with Rogan fans, this just confirmed biases that ivermectin works and is on par with, or better, than actual treatments like monoclonal antibodies.
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Every time I setup OS X I like to go through my osxsetup.sh bit by bit to see if there’s anything I didn’t use, change or update. Takes a little longer but it’s nice to take that time every couple years I go through it
> Joe Rogan is also fantastic.

Supporting a kook conspiracy peddler sort of kills his whole argument.
price reductions are seasonal in real estate. Peak new listings are around Super Bowl Sunday and Labor Day. There are very few price reductions in that period. The best quality homes at attractive prices sell first. By late October, the total number of listings on the market starts to decline, and price reductions become common.
That’s consistent with using low quality heavily processed plant based food with artificial flavor. The delicate flavor can be significantly altered with cooking methods that would not ruin real food.
Does this help?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/019126...!

A simplified theory of kinematic waves in highway traffic, part I: General theory

Also:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/019126...!

A simplified theory of kinematic waves in highway traffic, part II: Queueing at freeway bottlenecks
This is the current norm.

Most Tech Directors or Tech Managers at my massive media company were previously front end or full stack devs who were good at coordinating (asking questions and never internalizing the answers).

Since they talk to so many people and have great rapports, they can easily manage people and conversations but they cannot manage a technical system because they think they can negotiate with it.

Usually the shit they need to know is 2 bash scripts and what build is in what env. Simple enough if you are so well educated with a degree and half a brain.
The first part of this is correct; the second part isn't. Rather than earning a profit, Zillow's current situation is the result of the invisible hand of the market correcting its economically-irrational behavior.
Shouldn't stocks go up with inflation in most cases?
Honestly, the worst part about Debian is the name. Everything is deb-this and deb-that. Packages are .deb. Which is his ex-wife. Can you imagine getting a divorce and then for the rest of your life have this massive thing associated with your ex and will never go away be named after you? Yick.
+1 for tc. Used to run a network testing lab of about 12 racks of network gear and tc was my go-to for simulating network level performance impacts for both small and large test scenarios.
There is always something really cool being shown in the TCL community.
Tobacco kills 7x more than opiates in the USA every day, week, month, and year.
Tiny correction: it's 320x240 also called mode X [0], an undocumented VGA graphical mode discovered by Michael Abrash which made him famous at the time. One of the big advantage of the mode X is that the pixels are square, unlike mode 13h (320x200).

It was previously used in the commander keen series and was in great part to credit to their success because for the first time on PC a game was matching console graphical quality. It has square pixels. IIRC Carmack improved on the mode X and him and Michael started a correspondance.

Who knew such a great story was behind such a tiny mistake: nothing less than the advent of games on PC.

[0] http://archive.gamedev.net/archive/reference/articles/articl...
For me, friendliness and competency tend to correlate. Maybe because I am naturally attracted to competent people, as you can learn a lot from them. Another thing with competent people is that they have nothing to prove and don't have to rely on deception. For example, they are less likely to steal other people work because they are better off doing it themselves.

As for trustworthiness, I didn't notice much correlation, but competence can make up for it because competent people have an easier time fixing their mistakes.
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this is like telling someone that if they lose their keys, or if a light bulb inside their house goes bad, they will lose their house and all their possessions, and then say 'you should insure everything you own'.

Its a ridiculous decision by Apple made purely for profit
Well, i also used CDE years ago so i don't know. As i wrote i wouldn't call it modern either but again the reason would be different :-P

Some of the stuff i mentioned (and some you did) might be possible with 3rd party applications - i think the panel can embed small X apps to provide some functionality. In Window Maker (which is what i use) there isn't really tray icon support by WM but there is a "dockapp" (essentially a tiny X app that lives inside the Window Maker dock) that provides it. Something like that (or exactly that dockapp, it is an X application after all) might work for CDE for providing tray icons. Similarly for udisks and pulseaudio.
I work at a software company that works with medical data. We used to be much more agile before we were bought. After we were bought we went for government validation of our product. Once our system was validated, it really hindered our ability to change it. Every change has to be validated, and the system it touches has to be retested. It has really slowed down how quickly we get out updates, and I can see why software just stops after awhile once it is good enough
"Metaverse" is starting to sound like Zombo.com.
the reward for your pacifist approach is that you now rent, with a young family.
So he is HR and not a manager? A manager can evaluate your performance, if he doesn't know what you are working on then he isn't a manager. Whoever is evaluating what you do is your manager. If nobody is doing that then congratulations, you don't have a manager, you work in a so called self organizing team!
I agree that livable land is finite, but far from scarce. The US has an enormous supply of livable land, it's just that everybody clusters into hot zones. It's obviously not easy to break that pattern, but I consider it the only real solution.
They're prob gonna join local gambling underground circles though. So that money goes to those peeps instead of being concentrated and hopefully the gov uses it for a better net on society
I think the SEC would view that as an unregistered put option (only legal for accredited investors), though I can imagine a gentleman’s agreement to quietly settle it in cash.
I agree. The Arizona company has a right to the trademark for selling their computer gear - - - but no right for an all encompassing stretch to include social networks . . . .

not to mention the fact that Zuck and co. have the $$$ resources to counter-litigate this little Arizona company into oblivion . . . .
Cool, Corbin, known for helping developing Borland Delphi UI and the easter egg of him sitting on a big frog
Or, in case of failure, just enable loading the fricking EFI bios from an alternative source. It's amazing the kind of nonsense people write because it's an Apple thing - machines have been able to boot diskless for very obvious reasons and requirements ever since the 8 MiB memory chip, but in 2021 we should go without that?
I don't consider it evil. When you buy a house, fix it up, and resell it, you're essentially providing a renovation service to whoever will buy it next. There's no meaningful difference between you renovating a house and selling it and an owner-occupant buying the house and renovating it themselves.

In this case, Zillow bought houses too high and sold them too low. As a result, the market punished that irrational behavior.
Err, aren't you on a programming website? Half of the people here are hopped up on meth their doctors gave them.

We're as methed up as Germany in the 30's and 40's.
I think this was mentioned in a Haruki Murukami book (maybe Killing Comendatore?). It's one of those references I meant to dig deeper into but did not get around to.
All the fans I've met are Joe Rogan fans in the same way as other people are BTS fans or Ariana Grande fans. They don't really worry about precisely how smart or insightful he is - they just see him as a cool guy producing content that's fun to listen to.
Traditional boat builders obviously did not employ piecewise-rational parametric curves with off-curve control points.

But they did use physical splines to draw smooth curves long before car/airplane designers.
Me too but for a different reason. It replaced HP's VUE which had a much 'happier' colour scheme, sans-serif fonts and a nicer-looking 'dock'. HP buried VUE pretty deep after they moved to CDE (which inherited most of the visual design of VUE and some other stuff from the other cooperators IBM and Sun). VUE was what I looked at while studying so it has a strong nostalgic feeling about it for me :) CDE is too different visually to feel 'off'. The colours are too muted and the fonts too traditional. I can see IBM's influence there, VUE was way too 'funky' for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_User_Environment

VUE was never open-sourced sadly and there is no 'remake' of it either like NsCDE: https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE

But it's just for nostalgia. I wouldn't use it today. I tried recently (I still own an old HP box with 10.20) but it's just too barebones.
Assume Joe spends 3 hours of TV a night. How much of that time is uninterrupted focused time? While watching TV, I can cook and eat dinner, do a load of laundry, answer email, casually browse the web, feed and let the dog out and at least minimally engage in small talk with family.

None of that I can do when fully immersed in VR. Which is probably why Facebook cares about it. Ads on TV are time to get up, in VR they can fully measure you engagement. Fully engaged in game and hungry, food delivery is one button press away.
He’s believed in aliens and ancient alien civilizations and cited this book way before you noticed conspiracy theorists. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprints_of_the_Gods

I don’t know when you considered him mainstream but he’s the same.
I think this is what a midlife crisis looks like when you have dictatorial control of a multi-billion dollar corporation.
> I can't remember which company it was that launched a camera with face identification features, but that didn't recognize any face that wasn't lilly white like every single engineer that worked at that company

It was HP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DT3tQqgRM
Google shoving Chrome whenever it detects non-Chrome when you visit its properties is nowhere near as frustrating as Microsoft asking you to complete onboarding after every update and in the control panel, when the only step left in "onboarding" is to switch to their recommendations of Edge and Bing.
That makes obvious sense. Why isn't alcohol advertising illegal?
> whatever failure damaged the SSD is statistically likely to compromise the reliability of the rest of the board

I don't believe it. I've had several SSDs fail, and the rest of the system was fine in every case. SSDs can fail for lots of reasons. My wife's laptop had an SSD fail (Hynix). Unclear why it failed but the laptop was less than 2 years old. SSDs have super complicated firmware on them and can get in a permanently bricked state after sudden loss of power (for example). I swapped her SSD out with a WD one and it's been good now for 5+ years.
It is expensive to know what is going on. In military terms this is called 'Fog of War'. Front line managers quickly learn to manage up - know what their boss expects and present things in an appealing way. Same for middle managers and senior managers. They all hide the pain that their teams undergo. Senior managers and executives can have people write reports that show progress on some metric, and then they manage to that metric (or bucket of metrics in more enlightened organizations), without ever knowing, thinking about, or caring about how much it takes to get things done.

As a dev, it's my job to make someone else's job easier. Whose job is it to make my job easier?
Yeah 'modern' implies a lot of things. Anti-aliasing fonts? Nope. Hi-DPI? Desktop notifications? Configurability? Dragging items into menus instead of messing with config files?

But I like that people still maintain it. If I actually wanted to use it I would use NsCDE: https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE It's a CDE skin for a modern FVWM version which does have a lot of mod cons.
The whole point of the model is to find who not to lend to. You are always going to exclude people by definition.
This is an inevitable side effect of people's tendencies to over-subscribe to information sources. Once it's normal to try and follow 200+ people on Twitter, you're in need of an algorithm to prioritise content, and from there it's an easy side-step to inserting other content you haven't asked for.

Unfortunately even when you don't follow 200 people on Twitter, you're still subject to the same design principles.
"look no further than the rampant use of drugs in the entertainment industry. These actresses and rock stars can afford anything they want in life (especially counseling), yet so many still chase highs"

They can afford things that money can buy, but they may be missing much of what money can't buy.
there is ZERO benefit to users of soldering an SSD or any other part. Its done purely for profit.

Stop conflating the issue with backups, the 2 have nothing to do with each other. Even if you take regular backups you can and will lose critical data when any $5 part on your $3-4k machine goes bad.

Amazing how far people will go to defend Apple.
The main issue we had, and a big part of why it didn't get picked up, if you ask me, really came down to defining our user. The design team who requested it originally made it sound like it would be a tool that product-owners would use to build their sites, get approval from the design team, and push to go live, but I later came to understand that it was for the design team to design the websites so that they could hand the designs off to developers, which raised the question of what the developer would actually want from a designer to make their lives easier. I (the only developer in the conversation) requested an internal component library, but when I left 6 months later they were still wrestling with the question of how to give developers designs...

I hope y'all don't have anything to learn from that experience... at least y'all have gone to production =)
They are moving it between four different wallets and are attempting to cash it out. Probably with the highest exchanges with enough liquidity in small parts.

Looks like an incoming SHIB dump, which will take a hit with the prices.
> Because they would outbid people who actually want to live in those homes

If they outbid everyone who actually wanted to live there, who were they planning to sell to? :P

Buying things you think are underpriced and reselling them is not frontrunning. (Ever since GME, a lot of people learned the word frontrunning and started using it in every possible situation.)

Zillow's plan was to act as a market maker. Market makers make a profit by buying things and then reselling them for slightly more. The difference is called the spread, and it's how market makers make money. Another example of a market makers is used car dealerships. Despite maybe seeming like a useless middleman, the reason market makers can exist is because they provide a valuable service to the buyer and the seller. They provide liquidity: you can go to a used car dealership and buy or sell a car today, instead of having to find someone to trade with directly. (If finding someone without a middleman were just as easy, the buyer and the seller would both benefit from just trading with each other directly. But they don't, which indicates that used car dealerships are actually providing a useful service.)

Zillow wanted to be a market maker for homes. They have a lot of data and thought they could use it to find homes that were underpriced, make a cash offer (benefiting the purchaser by giving them more liquidity via the faster sale), then quickly resell it. Their pricing algorithm didn't work, though, and they lost money. C'est la vie.
And a slight barely-noticeable drop shadow and some transparency with blur effect just light enough not to notice it but still put a big load on your GPU :)
The offline analysis is for now used only for transient detection (so you can split by transient, and potentially "conform" a transient-laden track (e.g. percussion) to fit the tempo).

I wanted to use VAMP for tempo detection as part of the new clip launching features, but found that the code it uses really doesn't work well on short (1/2/4 bar loops). I ended up (for now) using Minibpm, a single-file implementation from Chris Cannam, who is responsible for both rubberband and VAMP. It's not perfect. but for the most part it works really well. Even the Live manual notes that they will sometimes "guess" the tempo incorrectly, typically by a factor of 2 in either direction.
you will have time.
it will be your workday.

pack up bed. unfold desk. eat breakfast. put on headset.
take off headset. eat dinner. pack up desk. set up bed.
go to sleep.
Yeah, the US is at a point where there is a lot of built environment that is underutilized because job opportunities are concentrated in other places, never mind the large amount of land that can readily be developed.
Unfortunately those in charge at Zillow didn't feel the real pain -- that went to families trying to find homes, being outpriced by Zillow.
Personally, I enjoy sushi on shrooms quite a bit. Especially that feeling of wasabi. Mmmm. Just elevates the experience. Wine is good. The taste sensation changes quite a bit but the texture awareness on psilocybin is unmatched for me.

It’s a gastronomic loss that people don’t experience this.
> But it also has the negative consequence of putting additional financial strain on the people who already have the most financial strain and it's hard to tell if the added funding to schools cancels out the additional financial strain placed on the lower classes.

This reads as patronizing. Somebody wants to buy a lotto ticket, that's their business. The alternative to lotto are the numbers games they replaced which were backed by violence.
Cable is irrelevant for many people since it’s used by older people who still buy cable and watch news.
> It has been used as ammunition in reviews against me.

Quit. This is a sign of a broken and unfixable workplace.
China’s Climate Goals Hinge on a $440B Nuclear Buildout
When I was young I learned how to use UNIX by telnetting into sdf.lonestar.org and in my mind the flexibility of the shell caused me to imagine UNIX in my head as this powerful thing that made Windows 9x and Mac 9x feel like toys by comparison.

So when my school offered UNIX classes I gleefully signed up and they sat me down in front of this. When I saw the CDE Solaris desktop for the first time I thought "what is this? this can't possibly be UNIX, it looks something that was built by people who punched in their time cards and were forced to follow orders to build something that looks like Windows 3.1.

A superior operating system deserves a superior graphical user interface. I thought Enlightenment circa 1998 was a much better look for UNIX: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/2bcmol/enlighten... since it felt more true to its hacker base. It's a shame the old enlightenment desktop is no longer maintained, and CDE is. But thankfully, I think Steve Jobs corrected this error for us all with OS X. I felt just as thrilled when I first saw that, as I did when I first saw Enlightenment.
Is it me or this just leads to mediocrity?
> Overpaying for a house is not a problem in an appreciating housing market. If you overpaid for a house, just wait for its actual market value to catch up and voila, no loss.

The price you pay when entering the housing market is substantial. It corresponds inversely to the capital you'll have later to do other things. If you pay $900k for the same house your neighbor paid $600k for, your neighbor has an extra $300k to work with over 30 years, which is significant.

But inflation being as high as it is today...that $300k will be worth much less over time, and you aren't saving it all at once if the down payments are the same.

That isn't even to mention selling at a loss or close to it if you have a pressing need, which will hurt your chances of getting into the next house.
Anti-aliasing looks great on a screen with high enough DPI so you can barely see the pixels. On a low-DPI screen it does look fuzzy.

On my 4K 24" turning anti-aliasing off makes it look less crisp though because the letters don't look just right.