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I may be in the minority here, but I actually like the windows desktop better.

The window manager in osx is just terrible for me, resizing and laying out windows is awful compared to Windows in my experience.

The 4 finger swipe thing is great, but Windows has that now as well, and recent Linux desktops.

I like the flat square design of win 10, I love how well wsl2 works, I love how easy my complex multi monitor setup is to configure, and how great the auto window layout stuff works across monitors and then also works when I unplug and carry the laptop away.

99% of the development I do is for Linux, it's vastly superior for hosting web servers, etc...

But for a productive and enjoyable desktop experience, nothing beats Windows.

(I also do a lot of development on mac M1 - super fast nice little machine, but the window manager is still sub par for me).
The last minutes they have published was for the May meeting [0], and there have even been talk about making the release of the minutes faster in some of the ones that are published.

[0]: https://foundation.rust-lang.org/meetings/
And that in turn puts a very good incentive on companies to design systems where a single employee can't falsify the data!
Lots of clones are targetting "Pi people"

One giveaway is "Pi" in the name. Other is having a similar now familiar PCB format.

And there were/are a ton of them: Lichee Pi, Bannana Pi, Orange Pi, FriendlyARM Nano Pi, Olimex stuff, Pine64, Libretech boards, Firefly boards, Radxa ROCK Pi, Hardkernel ODROIDs,...

And many more. All either have Pi in name or have copied Rpi form factor.

I think Rpi has the "first mover" advantage too, other than good marketing and very well funded foundation. Also early cooperation with large component suppliers surely helped a lot.

One of the marketing tricks is that whenever someone talks about alternatives, someone will always come and state "oh, but community, and support is much better for Rpis" without knowing anything/very little about the other alternatives.

All the diferences for normal use are abstracted away by OS. Anyone can blink their LEDs, drive I2C/SPI, use USB, etc. pretty much the same on all those boards. Only major difference is "how I'll boot this?" and "where I'll get kernel updates/is it mainline?" If that's figured out, it's possible to run any uptodate ARM distro on any of these boards. And that's how it always was.
The architecture name is also Arm. A lot of people never got the memo about the recapitalization of the company name in 2017, including, apparently, the journalist who wrote this article. The text which is a quote from the company spokesman gets the capitalization right, because it will have been cut-and-pasted from an email from him; all the uses of ARM are in journo-written text.
A gallery of examples would be nice.

Else, it's too much effort. People are gonna just close the browser tab, like I did.
true, but regulations are primarily bad when corporations capture their regulators and use them to shut out competition. Which is once again the corporations doing something immoral. There's a whole issue with ineffective or overreaching regulations too, but that's bog standard incompetence rather than malice.

Could you give an example of a regulation in the US that is straightforwardly evil? Generally speaking when I think of evils propagated by government I think of wars/colonialism, oppressive social policies and benefitting businesses at the cost of citizens' wellbeing. The US does all of these in varying degrees but I'm curious as to how the US is actually oppressing its corporations; from my perspective, the US seems like the most corporation-friendly country on the planet.
I am looking for an exam proctoring solution at my employer (an accredited online university). What are my best solutions? Any solution can be hacked (i.e. workaround it’s limitations). And without proctoring there is no guarantee students will not have someone else attempt the exam on their behalf or send the exam to someone to solve it for them. The only approach I see, but not favored by the Deans, is testing centers (prometric, etc.).

Any suggestions?
The difference between Munger Hall [2] and the new UCSB dorm [1] is vast. For starters you go from a 7 person common room being your nearest real light to a 60-70 person common room being your nearest indoor natural light. The Michigan dorm has a fraction of the people living in it total, larger rooms and amenities that would be hard to include in the UCSB simply because there's so many more people in that doom.

You expect a quality difference between graduate apartments and undergraduate dorms but saying one is well received (with complaints about the lack of windows and lights in the bedrooms btw) so this different design must also be secretly ok is stretching things.

[1] https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2021/11/munger-hall-univer... [2] https://i.redd.it/81yfb7wkxby51.jpg
A template project that builds a SDL application programmed in Zig to Android f
>rather that they’re not communicating in the exact way you prefer.

Nail directly on head. I am trying to figure out how to reasonably make a case for what I think will work best. I am making attempts to communicate and I'm concerned that my attempts are either not conveying information properly, or people are not interested in the information I want to discuss.

I am socially awkward and dealing with stuff like this is exponentially more difficult than the technical work I am trying to schedule meetings for.

Paul Grahms essay on Maker / Manager schedule encapsulates this perfectly. How do you convince Managers to at least be aware of the Maker schedule and how different that is from theirs? How do you get people to care about this without coming off as whiney and demanding?

It's not about email / phone, it's about styles of thinking and order of processing. Social awkwardness has been a thorn in the side of my entire career and I'm trying really hard to do better at this opportunity.
As a teacher you're pretty expected to know the problem you just asked, and there's no amount of body language which can replace an answer to the asked problem.
There are roof rakes that you use for getting the snow off of roofs. I assume they also remove snow from solar panels.
If the education were worth a damn, people would be climbing over each other to get into those dorms.

The juice not being worth the squeeze is not the dorms' fault.
No.....?

Or was that a lie.
It appears that Gilbert Bourgeaud or "Bob Denard" may have been part of Katanga militias in the "Siege of Jadotville" (now also a film from Netflix).

A militia force of about 3000 laid siege to about 156 Irish UN troops, who held out for 5 days before surrendering.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Faulques#Congo_Crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Denard#Early_career

It's hard to confirm if he was there, Roger Faulques his friend and leader of the militia force certainly was.
And all the stoner gamer students with the blinds down cheered.
> and claim they own it.

But that claim means nothing if the in-game asset is not recognized in the game, and that copied artwork is for some crazy reason not recognized by other interested parties as the actual original NFT. None of them are the original NFT, minted by the creator.
This exchange is a very good illustration of what happened with the #metoo movement: a woman explains the toll that street harassment has on their life, and a man that has never experienced that brushes it off with a #notallmen.

While I agree that having small talk with strangers once in a while could be very healthy, I also try to remember that a woman has to unwillingly interact tens of times a day with male strangers just by walking in the street, sometimes with very scary outcomes, and being like "yeah but I am different" is not an appropriate response.
Amazon has 100' rolls available in 10ct for $36 or so. I guess that's not "super cheap" but it seems cheap to me, for $40 I get way more labels than I can use in several years.
>well-received

By whom? A suspicious site with terrible English and reviews like “you’ll get used to it” and “grat (sic) room”. If Amazon can’t keep scammy reviews away, how is some site like “veryapt” supposed to do so? It seems there is plenty of criticism of the Michigan project (even from residents)[1], but it also differs in a key point, in that all the rooms are suites, whereas the proposed project is even denser, with 8 bedrooms sharing 2 bathrooms a piece.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/UCSantaBarbara/comments/qkmp5h/i_wa...*
> It looks like I can go to one of their regulated test centres and take the exam there.

ProctorU is absolutely, positively insane, but the alternative sounds quite reasonable.
I think the environmental impact is overstated. It's often conflated with the environmental impact of Bitcoin. I haven't touched Bitcoin in years. Also POS chains have active NFT ecosystems, like Tezos.
The market dictates the value. As a test, create and mint an exact replica of a Bored Ape NFT and try to sell it for the current minimum price of 32 ETH or around $150k.
Not sure how this is relevant to the discussion at hand. Either you think it's valuable, or you don't. I happen to think NFTs are not as valuable as others seemingly think, but they do have some use cases (apparently).

What is reality anyway? We have a distributed, decentralized database (Ethereum) that people can set/get data in/from. Now we also have a abstraction on top of that that allows us to have unique data. What can we do with this? Fuck should I know, also I don't really care. Think of it what you want.
Things are bad in particular ways - software that is more likely to falsely punish people of color does support the continued dominance of white people in a real, material way. Noting how things are bad seems useful and important to me.

That being said, there's a rotating list of "badnesses" that are in the zeitgeist and I agree that it's annoying to see them flogged at every opportunity (often w/o much insight).
Fundamentally, Bandit just does a lot less work than Cowboy does. Particularly with HTTP/1 requests, Bandit uses a single process per connection in contrast with Cowboy's 2 per connection. This allows Bandit's handler code to be very 'linear' and free of coordination complexity; for the most part, an HTTP/1 connection will go from initial connection to Plug call and back again without having to leave the process at all.

More broadly, there's just less functionality in Bandit (by design; it's a very focused library that doesn't need to do a bunch of the stuff that Cowboy does). All that stuff ends up adding up when you're doing it 100k a second.

This correlates with Bandit's relative numbers being better in HTTP/1 (up to 5x faster than Cowboy) than they are in HTTP/2 (a paltry 2.3x faster than Cowboy).

In terms of the 32 concurrent connections peak, my hunch here is that it's due to the server the test is running on being a 32 core VM (see https://github.com/mtrudel/network_benchmark for details of the benchmarking process). Truthfully I'm no expert with benchmarking & this may not hold a lot of truth; at the end of the day the test is pretty apples to apples so I think it has comparative merit, but the absolute numbers are a bit murkier to me.
Of course! Calling this out makes you a free-spirit and free-thinker. Definitely not brainwashed at all to be oppositional to that list of things that are obviously terrible.
Articles about this mention Chinese "publish or perish" researchers spamming journals to keep their jobs.

Chinese government is very image conscious and draconian. These offenses are public by nature -- the perpetrators' names are at the top of the bogus papers. Is Chinese government responding to this news and cracking down on the (purported) researchers? Or, dare I suggest, reforming its "publish or perish" expectations?
I have two laptops. MacBook Air 2013 and a thinkpad (I think w540?) and both run Linux perfectly. Way better than either macOS or Windows 10.
> “This comcast outage is a great reminder of why it's still important to download and own physical copies of music, movies, etc.,” @krakinov tweeted.

This is a bizarrely overdramatic response to one provider being down for an hour, and I can't imagine why the author felt the need to include it, other than to further dramatize their own dramatization of a rather innocuous situation.
Ultimately the system will evolve toward more centralized entities which can verify the providence of items. Whether that's an auction house, or a twitter verified badge. The sites which allow "viewing" and "transacting" the NFTs will display this "chain of authenticity".

Thus, its baked into the price; plenty of counterfeits exist, but the "real" one ("this is the one Deadmau5 tweeted about") will be worth the most.

The argument that this is antithetical to the distributed goals of blockchain are missing the point; its a marriage of old-school centralization and new-school peer-to-peer. Centralization is great for some things, like verifiable providence. It's been a negative force in other things, like limiting or taxing access to financial services & marketplaces.

Furthermore, if you're in the camp of "zero centralization"; it's great for that too. Imagine an artist publishing their GPG key, creating an NFT of a piece of art, then signing some part of the content of that NFT with their GPG key.
The quoted person expands on their arguments on those topics in the linked article. If you think they're needlessly "playing a card" why not engage with the actual argument?
It’s genuinely interesting how poorly companies perform when you gauge their ability to cost out a successful attack. Pre-attack, many seem to make an economic decision not to mitigate it. Post attack, the fifth CISO in four years gets fired, the CEO vows to do better and the cycle repeats all over…
Haha that's the rabbit hole. Two weeks later you're compiling your own kernel from sources just to be able to get that specific version of libc so that you can get libfoo working so that you can get libbar working so that you can get... You get the idea.
wow I didn't know about the workspace file, replace directives are messy. It seems like I'm going to remove 149 replace directives of my own, what a nightmare.

grep -rnw '.' --include=\*.mod -e 'replace' | grep "" -c
149
With NFTs you don't have to ask.
There are github repos to harden VMware against VMProtect, let alone KVM
Not a developer but a system admin, running Windows with WSL because there are a few utilities that I need to use that are Linux only.

- Work, all of the servers and workstations we have are Windows, management tools are Windows only.

- Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat are just some of the programs that won't run on Linux. Our remote access tool won't run on Mac or Linux. I can technically RDP to a server but at that point I might as well be running Windows.

- It just works. I'm running a Surface Laptop 4 but we can buy any computer on the market and guarantee that Windows 10 will run flawlessly on it. Driver support is first class, and backwards compatibility is amazing. We can run 20 year old CAD software on 10 with no issues.

I must be the luckiest user in the world, using Windows 10 on all my devices and I've never had the issues other people report. My files have never deleted themselves, it's rock solid and fast, never crashes.
It's not that hard to store solar power as Hydrogen and turn that back into electricity. The end-to-end efficiency is not as good as for batteries, but building something that can hold Hydrogen for a few months is cheaper than building the equivalent amount of batteries.
Yes because to do otherwise would be exclusionist.
This is already possible if you just download a cracked version in the first place, and it is technically more demanding (of the users), and more inconvenient. So what is it achieving exactly?
> Think about the ecosystem.

Again, if the ecosystem provided an opportunity for real decentralization, FAANG companies wouldn't be investing in it.

I can brainstorm about federated technologies and Open clients that actually solve problems: Peertube, Mastodon, Nitter. I can brainstorm about legislation that actually opens up APIs and makes it easier to move data around. There is a ton of stuff to be excited about on the web, you don't need to waste your time trying to turn NFTs into something positive. There are already interesting things to invest time and money into.

> We actually have real money flowing into a space that no one ever cared about

We have real money flowing into a specific space that is fundamentally not designed to democratize the web, and that in some cases may actually be harmful to attempts to build real subversive technologies.

Be more of a grouch about this, and focus your attention on efforts and paradigm shifts that have more potential. If the people running around having "fun" with NFTs took that energy and devoted it instead into exploring/developing more federated communities and technologies that actively repel centralization, we could radically transform the web.
I traded the walk in closet for my bed and desk space in my freshman quad. not having windows was a small price to pay for not having to share the air with 3 other freakin weirdos.One of them could only sleep with a desk lamp on, which didnt bother one of the others who was 100% nocturnal and went into an absolute rage if you woke him up before about 6pm. The third pretty much lived in another room
My impression is that there was a drive for 'growth' that lead to a bunch of 'creative accounting' aka juicing and in some cases lying. This worked for a while, but came crashing down as it always will... eventually. You can hide the rot for a season.
https://library.auraria.edu/sites/default/files/images/fancy...
Property is social consensus. Blockchains offer a more convenient and useful way to record that social consensus.
Military testing starts the contractor testing and progresses into development testing and operational testing. As acquisitions pass through the wickets, there is an increasing amount of oversight from the both the Services and from independent testers.
Must it always be a game where cards are to be played? Things can indeed simply be bad, such as your ideas about the text you are quoting.
I have to say I think this is a little overkill. Email gets used, but conversations drown in gigantic threads.

I'm hoping to get on a few weekly calls with these guys, its just hard to know when to schedule them. Should I just propose a time and let them say no? I am used to being deferential to other peoples time so it feels awkward to claim a spot on someone else's calendar without discussing it first.
You're right, see 100s of examples posted by users here: https://twitter.com/ak92501/status/1457033482115420160/retwe...
That feature is in the backlog, we are working on the confetti that rains down in the app if the stock price goes up this sprint.
Specialist Electric.
> proctoring is a modern surveillance technology that reinforces white supremacy, sexism, ableism, and transphobia.

All you can do is laugh at this point.
KVM is probably your best bet on Linux and VMware the best on Windows.
https://github.com/hzqst/VmwareHardenedLoader works for VMware but doesn't work against some modern anti-cheats, but KVM universally works against anti-cheats when configured properly with RTDSC spoofing and such
Maybe it’s 15+ years of cluster? Combination of overextended finance arm, too much diversification and complexity, and a history of doing any accounting tricks needed to meet the next quarterly number. None of those involved meeting customer needs. You can only go so far on financial engineering. That’s better for dismantling the company rather than growing it.
Rollercoaster: Communicating Efficiently and Anonymously in Large Groups
Children have very few rights in a school setting. It's a serious constitutional problem.

These are devices handed out by the school. They shouldn't be using them for anything other than school. We have a rule in my house - all school-issued devices must stay closed and in the backpack unless they are being used for school work.

But we are "rich". Low income households don't have alternate devices for non-school work. And these devices "work" like real laptops and tablets, so it's very tempting to use them for non-school activities.

If you want to help, make more of your web sites work well on low-spec smartphones. In the US, the primary device for a low-income household is a smartphone.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/06/22/digital-div...
Yeah, this seems like an article about the blog post with not much extra, except a related reference to a similar Twitter social engineering attack (which, to be fair, I was unaware of). I don't think it adds much, though
We have no knowledge of what those castings were used for. It's impossible to judge whether the requirement for these parts was excessive/copy-pasted, or not, and if it was, then by how much.
Yeah, even a small % of sulfur can shave off 50% or more of your strength. A small amount of phosphorus (<1%) can raise the DBTT above 0°C. The average ocean temp at 200m is 4°C, so you could understand why the steel chemistry is important in subs. Luckily, these can be tested for non-destructively.
they still have to interact the system, and make system calls.
That makes sense. The ones I do know that are selling - they're not tied to this area by family/jobs/other commitments and they probably see an easy cash grab because of that. One family was in their house for 9 months then sold it for $80k, or ~25%, more than what they paid for it (according to Zillow). Honestly not a bad payday but how long can something like that last?
"Fuck! We have to train them now?! Its bad enough that we have to PAY them!"
I bombed once an interview at a major bank when the hiring manager insisted what I would do if something happened to the system, and there would be no internet to search for answers. When I answered that nobody would notice the system was crashed if there was no internet didn't please him very much.
>> Any time "science" supports large corporations making a lot of money, you should look more carefully.

Is there anything, any issue, that doesn't involve large corporations making lots of money? If we second-guess science just because it profits some corporation with a product to sell then we won't ever get around to making real changes. California just halted sales of small IC engine (leave blowers and the like). That's a boon for all sorts of battery makers. But it is still a small step in the right direction.
“Modernity” is the definition of driving society through rationality, ie science.

So, whoever can drive science, can drive politics and consumer choices. Politicians, lobbies and companies have understood it long ago. So, there is such a pressure on “science” to deliver some results, that the processes cave and give in to influence, at least by the simple fact that one side is funded and the other not.
Dartmouth medical school accused 17 students of cheating; they found over half of the accused students was due to erroneously generated data.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/09/technology/dartmouth-geis...
Yes, U.S. Navy nuclear submarines go under the polar ice caps somewhat frequently -- as did Soviet (and do Russian) nuclear submarines as well. It's a good place to hide from prying eyes, as not only can ships not (easily) follow you there, but the sound produced by all the ice moving and grinding makes passive sonar quite ineffective.

The YouTube channel Smarter Every Day recently had a video series on a nuclear submarine under the arctic ice.
He's not an artist as he mentioned. He's a tech guy that says artists get paid with NFT's, while he earns money with NFT's.

See the contradiction?

I'm pretty sure his art in a normal situation wouldn't have much value. It would surprise me if anything else has been done than copy/pasting or creating an avatar.