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> which is even more saturated and competitive than the mobile market.

I disagree. It was the decline of PC laptop build quality that prompted MS to get into this game, after years spent vainly begging OEM partners to sell at least something whose build quality, finish, and overall appearance could compete with Apple's wares. And this strategy worked, as PC laptop build quality has improved a bit.

That market was huge and wide open for MS. But still Apple outsells them more than 4 to 1.
Thanks for making this point clear. I think a lot of people have been clinging to the idea that there is such a thing as privacy with online public services.

The parents quote I think is illustrative

> But for the “average person,” security does equal privacy, or should, so they find systems that could potentially expose their identity to be “insecure.”

And I’m not trying to pile on here, because I sympathize with that sentiment of “should”. But I think the two issues that make that never a real possibility are 1) privacy is actually a harder problem to solve than security and 2) companies aren’t incentivized to provide privacy.

Anything you provide online should by default be assumed to end up public, and as much as we might not want that, we all really need to assume that.
I think with IF it exploits the fact that your stomach can only take so much food at a time. If you restrict your eating to a small window, you can't eat a whole day of calories in that window just because your stomach can't take that much food. It's like exploiting the fact that your stomach is a buffer and you fill it only at certain times of the day.
On ubuntu's versions of bash and zsh `environ` symbol address is set to 0. nhi requires `environ` address to be specified, before program even starts (I can elaborate on that if you wish).

On every other distro `environ` address is set (I tested it on debian, fedora and arch). If you build bash or zsh from source `environ` will be also set to non-zero value.

I don't know if the symbol addresses are the only difference though.
Umm, no, they go GCP. At least in my circles.
I hope I am not oversharing but I definitely need my patterns to cope, I have ADHD so perhaps it is related to that. Maybe something along the lines of lessening the impact my poor impulse control has on my life by avoiding situations in which I could act impulsively. For example, I do not buy sweets and pretty much never have any at home because ignoring them in the store is easier than ignoring them at home. For me, it is an Herculean task to start a bag of sweets _without_ also finishing it in one sitting… but buying no sweets in the store? That is easy peasy lemon squeezy.
Disaster comes in many forms. There's a region in Oregon that just got 10" of rain in 2 days. On this date in 1985 a town in Colombia was wiped out by a lahar from a nearby volcano.
There are many winner-take-all markets where dominance by a single firm makes complete economic sense ('natural monopolies'). In such a scenario it doesn't really matter which firm takes the lead: one of them will end up on top and it doesn't have to be through foul means - the self-reinforcing dynamics of the market are enough.
Which is a good thing. A business model that requires paying net wages too low to compete is just laundering slavery. People working those jobs are losing money.
I agree. DNS is its own bundle of insecurity.
This seems like western propa. There is no clear defensive advantage to having nukes all the way out in western Belarus.
I’ve always been curious about both the CM and Feynman’s PDE based approach, but never found any clear writing on the topic. If anyone is digging into this, I’m happy to assist in any way I can (I have a theoretical physics background, fwiw). Feel free to hit me up (email in profile).
If are willing to go a little bit high, get anything by Asus. I can vouch for its quality.

If you need a discreet GPU, then Zephyrus or TUF Gaming laptops.

If not, then Vivobooks are fine.

Asus is very reliable in a way that it never dies on you suddenly or gives you rampant problems.

I highly rate Asus laptops right now.

Note: Not in any way affiliated to Asus.
A marginally related anecdote: I did some graduate work in the English department at the University of Virginia, which holds one of the Dunlap broadside printings of the Declaration of Independence from July 5, 1776. During a seminar on bibliography (the study of books as physical objects—not how to generate citations!), we had a couple of classes on paper and watermarks. At the end of this section, a librarian brought up the copy of the DOI. We all got the chance to touch it, which was cool. But the highlight was when our professor put a light panel behind the sheet so that we could examine the watermark: It was the arms of King George III. I still relish the irony.

In any case, the aims behind this Constitution purchase seem laudable, at least on the surface.
Ancient Wisdom From American English

-satisfied

-good enough

-choose

now you can use a wallet
MonitorControl 4: use your 3rd party monitor as it was an Apple display for free
MonitorControl is an app to control the brightness and volume of your external display like it was a native Apple display (via the native Apple keys showing the native OSD).

The new 4.0.0 version was recently released and has a huge amount of new features compared to previous versions (even though v3.x.x was alerady a feature packed release). App development was supercharged recently - if you did not try MonitorControl or you last tried version 2 or 3 (the latter was released this September), check it out!

Some new stuff among other things:

- Complete overhaul of the menu UI with Big Sur/Monterey Control Center style sliders.
- New combined hw-sw brightness algorithm that is closer then ever to the Apple native feeling.
- Smooth brightness transitions.
- A lot of customization options and tweakable DDC settings for advanced users.
- Fully supports virtual displays (DisplayLink, Sidecar etc) and non-hardware dimming.
- Custom keyboard shortcuts (+ of course native Apple keys)
- Brightness syncing from the built-in display
- Compatibility with BetterDummy https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDummy

+ all the improvements of v3 (Apple Silicon support etc).

The app is free and open source. :)
It being a waste is a matter of opinion. There are negative externalities in some cases, but profit and services generated by the use of crypto have value to people.

If the problem is the pollution produced by power generation, then it's disingenuous to single out crypto for criticism. We really should be enforcing accountability and forcing markets to price in the negative externalities. Carbon capture and other technologies are surfacing to allow for that, and within a decade or so we should see widespread implementation. Legislation will arise out of the consensus of voters and mate technology and regulation.

If the problem is that you think crypto is frivolous or implicitly a waste of resources?

"Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man..."
Are TPs still advisable, even the brand being owned by Lenovo now for a long time?
>In line with upcoming regulations, like the European Union’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), we will also be introducing a new age verification step over the next few months. As part of this process some European users may be asked to provide additional proof of age when attempting to watch mature content.

https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/using-technology-more-c...
It’s the part where you say that it provides no benefits - that’s where you’re wrong and your whole argument falls apart.
> provides no benefits

It's obvious that the science and health reasons are beyond you.
Protecting the virus is an argument from ignorance because the arguments used are provocative what if’s like: “What if mandates are used this way or that way” or “What if it’s not safe.” It’s a lot of hand wringing and cowardice when there is a clear right course of action here to get us out of this crisis.

To be against the mandate on moral grounds cannot be moral, because killing people is wrong and perpetuating the virus is anti-human.

It seems like there are a lot of people out here whose morals involve choosing to kill their own grandparents because there is an asterisk in an obscure legal document they can use to cover their cowardice.
A huge dimension concerning the decision on using "unvetted" and/or "cutting edge" technology is how MISSION CRITICAL the system you are creating is...

Building a new social media app as a startup? _Depends on the data you're storing for users and how you market the stability of the system to your user base.

Building a new Government healthcare system? _You better use properly vetted technologies.

This includes using cloud service providers as well.

Some systems simply need to be old school. Old school tech relies on structured data that can prove better for security and for testing. Methods that have been in place over years are not only more reliable, the ways of fixing problems when they occur are well documented as well. Countermeasures to security threats are also well documented for older solutions, yet we also have to acknowledge, the Internet in itself is still a relatively new thing for business and commerce, so things these days are really declared as "Legacy" by companies and individuals who are selling alternative solutions as a part of the "new money marketing" pipeline, not because they are truly "out of date" or "no longer viable"... I am not defending nor advocating COBOL or mainframe systems with that statement though... (Just to be clear).

With newer concepts/solutions like blockchain, using unstructured data, and even cloud hosting, they are vetted to an extent, but they introduce very new threats into the stability of mission critical systems, and they are not perfect solutions. These newer solutions also by nature dictate costly refactoring for many that locks buyers into platform-specific situations that they can't easily migrate back if the ideas don't work out well, and compromise of data integrity or security for mission critical systems is more costly than ever as data builds...

Not every solution should enlist "cutting edge" solutions as their backbone. Even a gradual approach may be a more reasonable option (like introducing new technology in "siloed" and/or "smaller" aspects as a part or feature of a traditional system before a complete refactor (for example).

There are some really good reasons why COBOL programmers still get paid a lot of money to this day, even though I am not one mind you.

Choose wisely my friends.
Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos
Many of us are insecure from being bullied as kids and being in a profession where we are often surrounded by people who are smarter than us. Also the extremely high pay creates an imposter syndrome, where we feel like society has "selected" us to be the most intelligent and we can only live up to that standard by having contrarian views on a wide range of topics.

The sad thing is most of us would be better off lifting weights or making money or going to social events than developing eating disorders.
They're pretty different things. Isn't the whole point of religious fasting that it is a different regime, and that the hunger felt is used as a reminder to focus the mind/spirit on higher things than bodily needs. Religious fasts are purposeful privations.

Whilst with IF it's about adopting a habit that stays constant and that negates the potential feelings of hunger by teaching your body that there's no point in complaining food comes in this time-period no matter how hungry it pretends to be. IF is about creating a norm that is no longer experienced as a privation.
Hm, strato, 1and1 and t-online only have one mx and spf record for all customers. Allowing you to send as anyone they have in their system and make it look authentic.
That’s what Tether is… ostensibly
My public key would still be published even if I only ever dealt with private repos, so this argument doesn’t hold.
If this is (as it appears it might be) simply a reflection attack of some sort, I'm not sure what crime could've been committed. Or at least what computer crime could've been committed. Impersonating a federal official is about the only thing I can think of.
> The battery doesnt seem great (8hr real use)

Eight hours of real use is fantastic. I've never gotten more than eight hours out of a MBP while doing actual work; it's usually more like 4-5 hours, if I'd doing things like running Docker and frequently doing builds and running tests. Laptop manufacturers stretch their battery life claims like crazy. My MBP will last 12 hours if all I'm doing is using a terminal to SSH somewhere and doing very light web browsing, but if I'm doing dev work, forget it.
You may be right, but... got evidence?

Here's Hanson et al. (2002):

In this paper, we examine the impact of enforcement of the U.S.-Mexico border on wages in U.S. and Mexican border regions. ... For a range of empirical specifications and definitions of regional labor markets, we find little impact of border enforcement on wages in U.S. border cities and a moderate negative impact of border enforcement on wages in Mexican border cities. These findings are consistent with [ed: i.e. either of] two hypotheses: border enforcement has a minimal impact on illegal immigration, and illegal immigration from Mexico has a minimal impact on wages in U.S. border areas.
Meanwhile the mechanism behind peri/myocarditis and why it mainly affects young males is still unknown. Needle aspiration, LNP, spike protein exosome... ? this all being bleeding edge technology and applied at such scale is really is amazing.
Just another 'theory' to seek massive funding for..
I remember when Web 3.0 refered to things more like IoT, which is still probably going to be more relevant to our daily lives and less niche than blockchain.
You're right that ethereum's fees are extremely high, and they will only get much higher. That's because, heading into the future, ethereum isn't intended for direct use by end-users.

End-users may expect to use ethereum's live & emerging scaling solutions, also known as Layer-2 networks or L2s.

The ethereum chain itself has become known as the "base layer" or, more commonly, "the L1". Only rollups, governments, megacorps, and extremely rich people will be able to afford transacting directly on the L1.

The good news is that L2s are becoming great for end-users. Some are live now (optimistic rollups), and the most promising of them will be live soon (zk/validity rollups).

For example, Arbitrum and Optimism are optimistic rollups L2s and have achieved a significant linear decrease in transaction fees.

As another example, zkSync 2.0 and StarkNet are zero-knowledge rollup L2s, also called validity rollups, that achieve a greater linear decrease in end-user cost than optimistic rollups, and unlock a (truly) exponential decrease in end-user fees by using a spectrum of off-chain data solutions. This fantastic result of exponential decrease in cost for end-users is achieved by way of an important new-ish branch of mathematics called "zero knowledge proofs".

Currently, zkSync 2.0 and StarkNet are the "Luke Skywalkers" of ethereum scaling. We are expecting great things from them, and need them to deliver to allow hundreds of millions of users to onboard to ethereum next year.

https://l2beat.com/

https://l2fees.info/

https://arbitrum.io/

https://www.optimism.io/

https://zksync.io/zkevm/

https://starkware.co/starknet/
> When is that coin coming our way?

Today. It is called USDC; but on the Stellar Blockchain. [0]

You will always know that 1 USDC will always be worth 1 USD and you won't have to deal with ridiculously slow transactions or incredibly high gas fees for every operation and it is not using PoW. [0]

[0] https://stellar.org/usdc
Regarding Elixir specifically, the situation is much more nuanced; I went to ElixirConf last month, and the impression I came away with was that most companies present, and most speakers representing their companies, were desperate to find Elixir devs. And most attendees who already knew some Elixir were not looking to move.

If there were a sudden event that caused a new army of developers to learn Elixir, such as a Harvard or MIT course switching to it, it might change this reality.

But for the time being, Elixir developers are in short supply in relation to demand, so we tend to be treated (and paid) well. Our interviews are probably less frivolous, as well, because companies can’t afford to miss an opportunity to hire folks who know Elixir (or can learn it easily) just because they can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard (https://mobile.twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768).

Timing-wise, this is probably the best time to get into Elixir, and get a head start before it reaches critical mass.

Lots of interesting companies are using it, the community is fantastic, salaries and dev satisfaction are among the highest in the industry (https://fossbytes.com/these-programming-languages-pay-highes...). And besides, it’s an amazing language and ecosystem in its own right.
Innovative tech companies are dominated by business analysts and product managers. Shoddy specs are commonplace, and it's crazy at work because big customers push hard deadlines that have to be met to prevent them from switching to That Competitor's app. They are not empty threats. Unstable software is just the reflection of an unstable industry.
That’s an interesting design. My only quibble is the 2600 degree “theoretical” max temperature of the building. That’s the just the melting point of steel, I’m sure something underneath the steel will hit it’s autoignition temperature well before the point that steel melts. For example the autoignition temperature of wood is 700 degrees.
At one time there was no number 0. Half of binary was missing.
"Maybe we could just have kept Rust as it was circa 2016, and let the crazy non-blocking folks write hand-crafted epoll() loops like they do in C++. I honestly don’t know, and think it’s a difficult problem to solve."

I think this is the most underappreciated part of this article. Since when did everything have to be async? There are other ways to represent concurrency that more accurately reflect what the computer is actually doing.

For example, an alternative to async is to represent a workstream as a state machine, where state transitions happen between I/O. Then, your state machine can be a struct, and each state transition can be an impl function on that struct that takes one or more completed I/O requests as input and emits one or more I/O requests as output. This saves you from having to implement everything as a closure, which this article rants about. Your top-level epoll loop merely services I/O requests from state machine instances, and invokes your global application logic to start and stop state machines to carry out business logic tasks.

I realize that many complicated workstreams could have many states due to all the I/O they might do, but the task of converting a high-level workstream into a state machine could be automated by the tooling.
I agree with you that people who have proven to already have antibodies should not be required to get a vaccine. That is a compromise that probably would have already happened if there wasn't a constant stream of insanity from antivaxxers clouding the ability to have normal, nuanced discussions about policy. Instead, the front lines of debate are on 5G causing COVID, microchips, space lasers, and comparisons of vaccine mandates to the holocaust.

But the data showing that mass-vaccination has reduced deaths and kept ICUs from overflowing is so blatantly obvious that you have to be exercising willful ignorance to not accept it. It's basically flat-earth level of denialism. You can see the direct correlation between vaccination rates and deaths/ICU intakes by looking at the data.
Love seeing a code example. It's one thing to hear "restic is fantastic, super easy to set up", it is another to see an example of HOW simple it is. Thank you for sharing.
You still have to abide by Calories In, Calories Out though. If you're eating 3000+ kcals but doing IF, you're still going to gain weight.
So to summarize, you are on Twitter enough to know that John Cleese is a Twitter crusader, but you are hardly ever on Twitter so you couldn't know whether someone whose views you agree with is a Twitter crusader.

Is that a fair summary of your argument?
Google is playing the long game with Dart and Flutter and betting big on Fuschia.

They are unlikely to bet big on Java.
Note that `restic check` only verifies that the repository metadata is correct, and doesn't detect, say, bit swaps in actual packfiles, which would render your backup unrestorable. You might be interested in the `--read-data` or `--read-data-subset` flags to help double check your backups!
All of the controversial stories about Google were long after Google took-over as the best (yes, actual best) search-engine.
Those types of papers get filed with the court. They don't simply shake hands (or exchange emails) before accepting a plea agreement.
It’s a scam that:

0. for many aspects of life you need positive credit history to live at all

1. debit cards don’t help you build credit

2. secured credit cards (your own money! not borrowed!) do

3. both function almost the same way, but the latter is much less equally available

And if you think “living on borrowed money is a fraud”, I suppose that means you think only independently wealthy people should own homes? Nearly no one could afford to buy a home anywhere without a mortgage.
disclaimer: self-promotion ahead, highly relevant but still...

> RE: resources for filling in the gaps

I recently published a book titled No Bullshit Guide to Mathematics that has precisely the goal of reviewing concepts form high school math for adults. Context: I was a private tutor at university for many years, so I know how common it is for university students not to remember anything from high school and struggle a lot, even though a few weeks of review would bring them back up to speed.

The book's websie is here https://nobsmath.com/ and you can see an extended PDF preview of it here https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSmath_v5_previe... (see my other comment for links to the concept maps).

Once you have the high school math review done and solved some exercises and problems, you'll be in good shape for the other two books in the series No Bullshit Guide to Math & Physics, which covers mechanics and calculus, and the No Bullshit Guide to Linear Algebra. You can easily find links if you search for them and see reviews on the amazons.
What happens when the fees due on collection get so high that the importer / final delivery company / final customer changes their mind about collecting the container? Who has to store and ultimately dispose of the contents? Do they get to auction it off and keep the proceeds?
It's been found empirically that IQ and educational attainment are moderately correlated.
>why would we expect an intelligence-focused eugenics program to be useful at all?

Are there no uses of a having a higher population average intelligence besides "does it immediately produce nuclear fusion"? Is higher average intelligence good for many many many other things besides producing fusion? Of course it is, this is an absurd premise.

Also, where did nuclear fission get invented? Are there correlated differences in IQ of people from this region? Did nuclear fission get invented in areas with low average IQ?

"An IQ is a just a number coming out of a test". Oh, but it does correlate with other group-wide achievements that aren't just numbers coming out of a test, does it not?

>Surely the majority of useful discoveries are made by people with above-average IQs

How it is not obvious then that increasing the average would also increase the level of the outliers and their ceiling?