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There’s a large conflict of interest when Visual Studio is a paid commercial product, while VS Code is free yet gaining marketshare even in C#/C++ work. When someone is willing to sacrifice the OSS-licensed product (even after the feature was already coded[0]), it shows Microsoft’s true colors in that they “embrace OSS” only to the extent select teams at MS choose too; the culture isn’t one that puts OSS first over sales.

0: https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/pull/22262
Exactly

The other day my mother asked me to check her pc for problems, while at it I was like

"...let me remove Chrome and install Firefox"

-"Don't do that" she said

-"Why?!" I was surprised because she is old and not technical at all, why would she even know what a Firefox is... Or have such strong opinion

-"Just don't do it, I don't like it"

-"Ok, I'll leave Chrome and you can try both"

-"Won't that use more space?"

-"Not really a problem as long you don't open both at same time"

-"Don't do it I have already tried it" and more or less ended there, but I am still curious why

Maybe I should explain her that now it is different because they have colors ways....

(with fast internet, low ram, and still HDD, I thought that Firefox with disk, and memory, cache disabled would be best)
The Texas legislature also has a component with finer grained population, the Texas House.

The Texas House has 150 House Districts, based on the 2010 Census. Each House District has a population of around 167,637 people.

https://www.txdot.gov/inside-txdot/division/transportation-p...
Yep, it's kind of a double-edged sword. On one hand an over-active immune response can be great for fighting cancers and opportunistic infections possibly. But too much inflammation will wear down our bodies and trigger auto-immune responses.
Probability theory is not math? (But sure, the same formula can be written in a more explicit way using subscripts and distinguishing random variables from their values.)
> management... all come from eng for a few levels until you start hitting VP roles.

And then where do they come from? Ivy league MBAs or IB?

No shade at those guys, just curious. I'm early-career and I've got interests in finance and programming. It seems like I see fewer engineers running the show, as if committing to programming as a career tops-out at a certain point because you're missing certain experience. Though, I don't know enough to know what that special sauce is.
Hey, this is a great project. I am working on a project that involves both hardware and software much like your CNC project.

I especially like how the README.md is exquisitely well-written, complete with images. May I ask - did you manually link the pictures and links while writing the README or did you use a program that let you generate the source md file from a WYSIWYG editor?

PS. I am a newbie here. So, I really hope this question isn't against the code of conduct here.
We've revoked your salad and it's now $0.63/minute to add it back to your plate, cancel any time.
You can't mine Bitcoin on these cards.
> I'd honestly be excited if they pulled it off. A robot driving like a real New Yorker, but presumably a lot safer? How cool would that be!

Part of the attraction of self-driving cars is that they will be safer. But as examples like these show, a significant part of danger in driving is completely intentional, especially in cities. You need to deliberately risk crashes all the time to get anywhere and to discourage others (such as pedestrians) from getting in the way. A lot of driving involves such violent threats. I don't know what fraction of crashes comes from this sort of thing, but it would be interesting to estimate, and it would provide an upper bound on the safety advantage of autonomous cars in cities.
If it takes you two hours to get back on track I think that whatever you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
Love this skit! The Hartman era was a good one -- also the jiffy pop airbag:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQm7EEnN-0E
Getting this on a residential internet connection in Sydney Australia.

Not on a VPN.
He also killed off Nuclear. For that alone he shouldn't have a 2nd term.
Perhaps https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/supporting-the-python-...
Massholes use this term as well, so, not too bad.
How effective can those arguments be? Quebec power is 95% hydro, you can argue about the remaining 5% but wait it's actually 80% (4%) wind!

I think there are arguments about sovereignty, not being reliant on a foreign country for power that could be made, but saying "what if we get the 1% diesel in the mix" is a terrible one.
I think part of it is a refusal to give them utilitarian toilets that can't be destroyed for aesthetic reasons.

e.g. toilets with no privacy and pressure washable steel
I work in defense. I constantly tell folks that we're doomed once/if tech companies start competing in traditional defense/ aerospace contracts. The only barrier for that I see is the supposed "opposition" by tech workers, which I'm not entirely clear is a opinion shared by the majority of the workforce.

Also once you start looking outside of things like satellites and space systems, defense companies end up looking pretty boring. Also we pay less than pretty much any other tech company other there, most of our offices haven't changed much since the 80s. Overall, it makes it hard to recruit good engineering talent.

A significant number of my coworkers I've worked in the past few years with have left defense. (Also seen plenty of folks move to SpaceX)
You're only saying that you don't care about the detrimental effects of masking children or disrupting normal education processes, because adults will have some minor unspecified improvement on their rate of catching covid. Ok.

I disagree that it's worth harming kids development to attempt to avoid spreading a coronavirus that is becoming endemic, will always be around, and whose spread can't be stopped. Not worth it.

Ohio total covid deaths: 24,763

Ohio total 18 and under covid deaths: 12

Ohio total 18 and under population (2019): 2,578,019

If this isn't a rounding error, what is?
Louisiana WWII vet's body dissected publicly
Not rushing to v1 is also important. There are plenty of benefits in reaching a "good looking" version asap.
> Are there really people who don’t remember Carter the deregulator?

Yes. 40 years of propaganda and hagiography of Reagan has left a significant minority of the US population in delusion about nearly anything political, including people who lived through the events in question.

Hell, a good subset of people are trapped in such an insanity bubble that people who had siblings die of polio in their youth suddenly decided vaccines are a giant conspiracy in 2021.
What is it with grafting type systems onto dynamic, interpreted languages? Can't we just leave them alone? There are plenty of statically-typed languages if types are required.
Yes, ray casting does not ever imply recursion, it’s simply referring to casting a ray to test visibility from one point to another. Ray tracing now most commonly means exactly the same thing, and expecting anything else will often lead to confusion.

“Ray marching” is also overloaded ;) but what you’re referring to (also and originally called ‘sphere tracing’) is a new and separate idea from either ray casting or ray tracing (if you’re thinking of something other than ray casting when you say that.) Ray casting/tracing is most often done using non-iterative analytic intersection functions, where the style of ray marching you’re referring to is a distance field query, not a point to point visibility query, so ”ray marching” generally implies a different traversal algorithm, and (usually) a different representation of the geometry.

You can use any/all of these to build path tracers, but they come with different tradeoffs.
It’s hilarious the GOP walked right into Murphy’s trap.

Murphy wanted Sweeney out, and this guy had the story and was in the right place at the right time to do it.

The best part is Duff or Fudd or whatever the guys name is going to get destroyed by the educated political elite of NJ’s legislature. It’s like a toddler playing sports with adults.

Next cycle that seat will have a D in it.
this is 100% false. Multiple billions of your supposed 7 billion people doing nothing are living in squalor and poverty. Their carbon footprint is negligible today and for the foreseeable future. The people who need to do something and now are mostly in the developed world.
I do. I'm working hard to end poverty. It takes a long time. Many people will die before the situations that cause gun violence are solved.
That’s because it’s a fundamental right that the government is strictly prohibited from violating. The Bill of Rights says nothing about your other topics.
Ehh I dunno. Hiring a top engineer for 500k would go a lot further than hiring 10 mediocre engineers for 50k apiece.

The bigger problem is the risk of corruption when you start hiring 500k engineers.
> I can't imagine [a PM] being successful in the job without that skill.

Neither can I! But I have to agree with the parent: the overwhelming majority of PMs (for any P) that I've had to work with are technically illiterate, at the level of software engineering. I spend so much time explaining the most basic things, often over and over and over. How the system functions, and models the world around it (and thus, what is possible and what is not, at least, not without major changes) just does not ever seem to stick.

My uncharitable take (and sorry, since it sounds like I'm about to criticize your profession; hopefully, this comment doesn't apply to you) is glorified JIRA ticket pushers and deadline trackers. That said, I did work with one once who seemed to actually pay attention (and thus, learn) and was a good person too, so thus far she's been my favorite PM. But when I ask myself what would be useful to me, as a dev? … oh boy does it not look anything like the real world.
> You are incorrect in your belief that a modern Linux graphical stack centered on Wayland ever resamples or interpolates a virtual or actual framebuffer except for compatibility with apps that have not been adapted for Wayland.

This can be true only if you use a really narrow definition of "apps adapted for Wayland". For example, a viewer of png files may not be possible to adapt to wayland? A png file is just an array of pixels (typically without a meaningful dpi). How are you going to ever display it without interpolating and resampling?
Thank you for explaining this better than I could have. Just looking at the total land being clear cut really understates the ecological impact.
The 'greenwashing' risk is real. They may provide their electricity via hdyrothermal, but could potentially resell energy from any other source connected to their grid.
"They" == "those who can do that", that is, developers under their employers direction.
Not every sentence containing "they" is necessarily a flat earth like conspiracy.
I'm not sure any of those are the same though. Everyone dies exactly once, and you can plausibly never need to invoke your car insurance, but a business shipping large amounts of good will surely incur some stochastic but average-able level of loss.
Maine gets swamped by Massachusetts tourists. I was on a rafting trip there. The guides made jokes about it to shit on MA (in good fun), and sure enough, 80% of the bus was from MA. I'm sure this is almost always the case. But I'm not sure people from MA are easy enough to identify vs. other northeastern states?
That's the risk taken with buying second-hand goods. Whether that's a graphics card or, in a case I'm very used to, bicycle parts.

Make sure you see a receipt before buying an EVGA graphics card for the time being, I guess.
Now I'm REALLY worried. Bringing in a large number of people like that at MS means they brought in A TON of managers, leads, and program managers. At MS these categories of folks get ahead primarily through political warfare, "networking", and stabbing each other in the back, and given large enough critical mass, that's what they'll continue to do, unless organizationally isolated from the rest of GH. Or at least that's how it was a little over a decade ago.
>You say that like the war on drugs is the solution?

I'm not saying that at all, that's you putting words in my mouth.

>Do you think that any of these people don't use drugs because it's a crime? It's just making their life worse.

Ultimately became an irrelevant point of view for my friend, who, fearing for her safety, moved away from Seattle.
Thank you so much for the extension. It was a real life saver back then
It’s an old tradition, probably dating back to when Maine was part of Massachusetts and they didn’t defend us from the invading British in the war of 1812, esp. during the sacking of Bangor and Hampden. This fueled Maine becoming its own state after the war.
At least in San Francisco a bus is king of the road. They will run a red light at normal speed and just beep beep to tell everyone that this is happening. An abrupt stop isn't possible because people are standing inside and might get hurt.

Same reason why a bus will not suddenly slow down to let you into their lane unless lives are at stake. Which at sub 30mph speeds they're not.

Best to treat a city bus like it's a train.

You can think of being a bus driver in city traffic as a constant trolley problem. As a professional driver, do you risk injuring 50 people inside the bus or 1 idiot on the road?
The 16 year incumbent who was at constant arms with the Governor who was just re-elected. It’s almost as if the dem party wanted to see Sweeney lose so he would get out of Murphy’s way…
I wish I knew your list of former companies - I'd approach them with proposals to improve everything.
Your polite and inquisitive message exemplifies the code of conduct here :) Welcome!
>GWB won a national election for the presidency against a man a least twice as smart as he was.

And who would this twice-as-smart person be?

Is it Gore? No; Gore's grades at Harvard were comparable to that of Bush at Yale. <https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/03/19/g...>

Is it Kerry? No; Bush (Yale '68) had a slightly higher GPA than Kerry (Yale '66). <https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/politics/kerry-grades-nea...>

I ask again, who is this mystery person that George W. Bush defeated for the presidency despite the handicap of 50% less brains?
Are you claiming that getting caught with child porn was "freedom fighting"?
I don't know that for a fact - but I do know that companies fuck me with warranties all the time when they want to get out of paying for things so that was my immediate thinking. If something is obviously not damaged and has been designed (as is typical in our modern era) to not be opened, lack of any clear indications of opening should not constitute voiding the warranty on its own.

the other poster's argument that it interrupts chain of custody is a bit stronger of an argument, but at the same time - this sounds like a great way to fuck customers who participate in the resale market even if the original company could theoretically fix a 3rd party sale of a core product.

Good luck recovering these, EVGA, have fun
We need to talk about techie tunnel vision
go deboonk somewhere else you communist scum
Do you not understand that literally every product that travels to you gets more expensive? All taxes go to the consumer. Your simple calculus doesn't account for the true cost.
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Nah fuck CMP.

You know what’s also bad for the environment, hundreds of thousands of Mainers powering their homes with diesel/propane generators for weeks every year because CMP and Versant are running the most unreliable power grid in the country.

My power is usually out for 4-6 weeks a year. My rooftop solar can cover my needs during the summer, but winter I have to use a propane generator
That and funding the mujahideen were big whiffs.
“Small business tyrant” is a term of art for a reason.
I’ll second that. Serious umami. Maybe it gets crowded, so go at an off hour. I go solo, no problemo.
Let the gang members kill each other; good riddance.
Crucially, Nat wasn't a "lifer". Crucially as well, whatever the reason is, he's giving up his $1M+/yr comp package to go work elsewhere. A MS "lifer" wouldn't have done that.
Not directly related to YouTube, but I found a site called playphrase.me that will let you search for text able show your clips on movies where that text is said. I love it and this comment reminded me.
Weekly status updates are probably enough if the team is 100% senior devs who know how to work independently and who know how to proactively reach out if they need someone else to get involved with something.

That is not the team composition most people are working with. The median developer in the industry only has a few years of experience.
“Big Tech’s elite engineers might be brilliant — but that doesn’t mean they are qualified to organise our lives”

Ok, but it’s not like journalists, politicians, economists, or activists are better.
Kids, wife, mortgage means I suck it up while actively applying elsewhere
What is the point of this? And maybe the US wins for not investing in dangerous or poor-ROI technology. Governments spending lots of money isn't always a good thing.

BTW, your namesake has a very different way of looking at the world.
Not always. At a college I worked at the contributions by the school to our health insurance cost was added to employees paychecks as a line item, then the amount of health insurance paid by the employee (a small percentage) subtracted, so the gross salary basically included most of but not all of the schools health contribution. This meant the employee ended up paying some taxes on the schools health contribution I believe. Every other employer I worked for did not show company health insurance contributions on the paycheck stub at all. Maybe this has changed recently (last 20 years?) because applicable laws have changed, or perhaps it only applies to nonprofits or schools?

This had the advantage to the school that employees knew how much of a health benefit they were receiving, employees paychecks looked bigger (until you got to the take home part), and the school paid less taxes (not sure how, but that was the main reason they did it).

It was basically an accounting trick to shift costs to employees, similar to the old trick of giving raises that match inflation; so employees think they are getting raises, and even if they notice the raise only matches inflation (difficult to tell if the business year doesn't match the physical year since official inflation figures for the entire year won't be published till later), what they don't realize is the raise only happens once a year so they are losing to inflation the rest of the year. A very sneaky way to take money away from employees and reduce company costs. I suspect this is part of how USA wages have been held flat for decades.
Although that would be a lie because Firefox is feeding your data to Google. You need to disable it in the user.js file
Personally I wouldn't love if my drivers phoned home to get the serial numbers of stolen cards.
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Well, yeah. Isn't that how it usually works? :)
That is a political argument as to whether a policy is beneficial or not. Do you know how to win political arguments? Here is a life pro-tip: One way to lose political arguments is to insist that the public has no choice but to adopt a tax, and that this taxation will be enforced against their will. People literally go to war to stop taxation without representation.

Now we can ask, why do the progressives constantly adopt this authoritarian messaging on issues, when they know it is a political loser? Or do they think it's a political winner?

It's a good question, and one that will make a lot of people uncomfortable.
If you wanted to go full data slapstick you'd set up an elaborate protocol on the ISM band between a cluster of Nordic nrf52 or similar where each SoC serves exactly one page from its flash memory. Want to update the about page? Flash it on a spare board, connect it to the battery and disconnect the old version.

It will have awful latency, likely suffer hard from the shared medium if ramped to nontrivial loads, but it will hardly use any power at all.

And it will drive people nuts who know even the tiniest bit about computers, but those who don't will understand it just fine: "I disconnected that new about page and plugged the old version back in"
I clicked one of your first links on the homepage and got this: https://justshowmethecode.com/browse-code-examples/python%20...

I don't know what this is trying to tell me.
(disclaimer: I work in a climate&energy R&D lab)

> since hydropower production emits no greenhouse gas emissions.

... that is incorrect. Hydro reservoirs emit a fair bit of CO2 and CH4, especially cold northern lakes with large surface area [1] that have inundated a fair bit of biomass. The emissions can be mitigated, but there is no economic incentive to do so, so it doesn't happen. The total is generally far less than, say, the CCGT equivalent, but not always.

The cost is not strictly proportional to the power output, so it's usually counted a sunk cost... :)

[1] https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/66/11/949/275427... - see supplemental data
Very interesting concept. I really do not understand the business model; what does it mean to "buy into the project" now? Distribution channels? Sustainability? Growth opportunities?
Yes, it's weird that infringement of the fundamental right to self-defense is taken more seriously than things that are not fundamental rights.

Weirdest thing I've ever seen. Those wacky Americans and their crazy belief in liberty, or like, not wanting to be a victim of democide.

Say what you want about Hitler and his whole disarming-the-Jews thing, but healthcare for everyone else was pretty top-notch.

And if you ever feel sad for all the people murdered by Stalin after being disarmed, just remember how good the USSR mathematics program was.
> Does WoW use LuaJIT? I thought it used the reference Lua 5.1 VM, simply because that was the newest version when it was first released.

I didn’t mean to imply WoW was using luajit, apologies. I was under the impression that over the years they have patched and fussed with code of the reference VM to resolve some performance pain points in the vanilla UI lua. Unfortunately, I can’t find the source for that.

Regardless, I’ve always assumed that they had little interest in both rewriting their vanilla UI to newer versions AND starting over from square one trying to resolve any performance hiccups they hit.
ETH is switching to proof-of-stake. Although the acronym is humorously "POS," it will solve the environmental concerns.
Hollow points are more destructive and dangerous to the person who was shot. They cause so much internal damage that the person will not survive a wound that may have been survivable otherwise. They are banned by the Geneva convention.
Usually new versions excite me, but with React Router I can only wonder: how much of a re-write will I need to do?
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