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The reMarkable 2 comes close but is disappointedly limited and expensive for the features it provides and some of the basic features now are under a subscription, when I compared it [0] with the recently introduced PineBook.

Thus, the reMarkable 2 as it stands makes it a no deal due to all of this: [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28190987

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28847714
reMarkable is dead. See all the other posts describing their new subscription model.
Can you provide more details? It's a bit unclear what happened. You bought it, asked for a return, and then what? I don't know what non-movement means.
> if someone else finds a permanent protection, then people will stop using your product and start using his

That's what patents are (abused) for.
If you're interested, but want to skip the noise on Twitter, uou can read most of his work in regards to Bitcoin and its humanitarian impact here: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/authors/alexgladstein
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> I have no idea what you're talking about. You can use gpl code without being the owner of said code.

When I use GPL code in my projects, that forces me to publish my projects under GPL. That limits my freedom as a developer. This is indeed thinking about my needs more than thinking about general needs.

> I think that safeguarding user rights is a virtuous method of improving the world.

I agree that the world would be better if more/all code were open source and user-modifiable. I do not agree that the ends (user freedom) justify the means (GPL or other copy-left licenses). I think the means are harmful because they are coercive. If we look at the effect of GPL on the ecosystem, e.g. ZFS, you see that people re-license to GPL because the alternative is untenable maintenance wise. This re-licensing is not happening because people agree with the license, but for practical reasons. Essentially a few people have decided "this is exactly how things need to be" and through copyleft licenses, they are twisting the arm of everyone else. That is not how I think it should be decided how intelectual propert rights should be improved.

In the ZFS case, essentially what GPL was meant to prevent happened. There was an open piece of software (ZFS), people were making improvements to that software (ZFS on Linux getting development), but they could not be used upstream.

GPL is a one-way street in the open source world. It sucks up code from other open source projects but it cannot give anything back. In some cases, I think this makes GPL a net negative for the open-source (using the wide definition) community.
I think the only defense GPL can offer here is "but that part of the open-source community is wrong and harmful". I think it makes sense that the non-GPL parts of the open-source community are not happy about that stance.

In general "if you just do exactly as I want there is no problem" is not how we should treat each other in my opinion. We should leave room for different viewpoints and some form of discussion. Rather than saying "my way or the highway". If you take that stance, then don't be surprised people don't want to cooperate.
Okay, sure, but this would be quite the feat of medical engineering to hack the immune system to the point where it no longer operates as normal, as the normal function of the immune system is what determines the immune response to a vaccine and the resulting immunity.

I mean they could make one that turns you green and then mark up the one that does not also, that has not been the case, and generally vaccines produced by private companies without government involvement have significantly outperformed every vaccine made with government involvement, and every government action in US and most of the west in relation to these covid vaccines has been to favor pharmaceutical companies that make them over it's own citizenry, so basically it seems that the pharmaceutical companies that made these vaccines are much more deserving of public trust than many governments.

I mean if the pharmacutical companies abducted your children in the middle of the night and ransomed them back to you that would also create a steady revenue stream, not sure why it would be something to consider.
I used them as examples.
Thank you for these, quite a few were insightful. My favorites are 5th and 6th as I often fall into trap "you can't really _know_ anything for sure".

> Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Is this one to be taken as, if a person cannot even approve something, you are better off working around them instead?
> much more space than storing the text

In other cases it’s the opposite. Convert a model from millimeters to inches, and that 1.0/25.4 multiplier gonna cause decimal representation to be much longer than 8 digits. Mechanical engineers are doing things like that pretty often.

> when humans enter data in some specific units

I don’t think it’s a reasonable expectation for a human to type 100 MB, or 1GB of numbers. People do work with triangle meshes that large. These models were made by specialized hardware or software tools, not by entering numbers. It’s the same story with images: they have too many megapixels now, and people aren’t entering millions of RGB numbers. Instead, people using scanners, digital cameras, and Photoshop to deal with these volumes of data.

> Text compression of number data is extremely efficient

The most expensive part is not compression, it’s printing and parsing. That code is very hard to vectorize or parallelize.

When software reads or writes large continuous buffer of binary data like std::vector in C++, the throughput is often limited by physical disk. On many modern computers that’s at least 100 MBytes/sec, often much faster.

I think it’s borderline impossible to print or parse float numbers that fast. Especially given that in 3MF, there’s some XML producer/parser down the stack who needs to escape/unescape these strings.
For clarity, yes I did say certs. But even good old SSH keys are a million miles better than passwords.

I guess I should have said "Public Key Authentication" since that would be more reflective of a desirable baseline SSHD configuration.
It's used routinely in clinical psychiatry and psychology. And you listen to your psychiatrist, even as a psychiatrist and especially as a psychologist.
Some requirements for long lasting house building in the climate I'm living in:

Houses should be raised from the ground and the underside ventilated, to prevent mold and indoor air quality problems.

Roofs should be strong so they can handle snow, and tilted so water and snow falls off. All seams on the roof should be made so that water doesn't go in there and freeze. Concave structures on the roof should be avoided, as they collect water that freezes.

There should be eaves and rain chutes on the roof so that water from the roof doesn't touch the walls. Water should be diverted away from the base of the building, so the house should preferably be on a hill, or should have drainage built around it. Overall the building walls and base should stay mostly dry.

Most materials of the house should be moisture permeating so that when water gets in, it can dry out. The outermost layer of the roof and the foundation are an exception.

Anything that touches the ground should be stone like granite, or some other material that can be in contact with wet ground for centuries with no changes.

Now, the house could be any shape you wish for, as long as it fills these requirements. I see a lot of the new ideas fail a number of these requirements - they seem to be fanciful dreams not taking the reality of local conditions into account.

So, to turn it around, what if one started an innovative house design from these requirements? A house wouldn't necessarily need to look like old-fashioned houses that have been built for centuries here. It could be weird looking and could still not be a moldy and leaky health and financial problem, with either constant repairs or just bulldozing after a few decades.
PyCharm has its own engine and while not perfect, it's fairly good.
Where is the evidence for this? Where is the evidence that you can and should mix config management all of the way down the OS stack? How many containerization concepts do we need? Docker, lxc, VMs, and now NixOS? If it were a legitimate abstraction layer, then wouldn't it have caused fewer problems in implementation? And wouldn't it have seemed more intuitive to Unix experts? Yes... Reinventing the wheel again. I'm open to nicer restructuring of the Linux fileystem, but this is really re-inventing the wheel trying to polish over ugly parts that are ugly for a reason. Keep useful abstractions separate!
I know they design their parts, but do they actually assemble them ? If not, how many fabs can build ARM boards compared to POWER or SPARC boards ? Is the performance/power ratio so important compared to the price of being tied to fewer companies ?
I'm curious, does anyone know how this compares to Yandex Odyssey or Pgpool?
My own kids do a lot of crazy, sometimes destructive, things which make think "how the hell do you even come up with that and not realize it's a bad idea? It's as bad as when I was a kid and... Oh."
I sort of understand that point of view, but I still think that killing should be absolutely last resort in a civilized society, and that society should find other ways to deter crime and/or protect and help the victims. In a broken (or broke) society, it might be the case that violence and vigilantism are your only choices left for deterring and preventing crime, but that is not a state of affairs I would aspire to.
As a vegan how do you reconcile the thousands of insects and field animals that get culled during harvesting those lentils?

I don't really have a problem with vegetarians but I do struggle to understand the lines they seemingly draw at random.

Minimising harm should be a given for all but that doesn't rule out all meat eating that veganism somehow does.
I have the recent version but I have to say I'm not happy with it. While the writing / drawing itself is great, the responsiveness of the UI and some actions (like erasing content) makes the whole experience super frustrating for someone with ADD. It also lacks some features that would make it a worthy Kindle alternative, like structured text higlighting. You can highlight fragments using Highlighter, but it's not smart about indexing and browsing those higlights afterwards, it's just a dumb overlay over the document.
Don't install updates then! I don't understand this line of logic - you don't want ongoing service but you're using the ongoing service to get updates?
"PostgreSQL's model of one process per connection doesn't scale, so let's build a connection pooler that uses one process per connection."

Certainly sounds like a strange concept. How well does it scale with thousands of connections?
That is so obviously false. You can be an expert on one distro and moving to another distro can be a breeze & breath of fresh air. In the rare case that I distro hop, this is always my experience.
as opposed to the sound of hunting season or “firearm discharges”.
> Currently the 15mph / 20mph disjunction means that some idiots still try to squeeze their cars past relatively fast-moving e-bikes (which then often catch up with the car at the next set of lights...)

To be fair, this behaviour isn't one-sided. Often bicycles, e-bikes and motorcycles squeeze through small gaps between cars moving slow'ish in packed traffic.

Now, of course car drivers should remain vigilant and continually check their mirrors, but nobody is infallible, and I'm sure there are plenty of drivers that do not take proper care.
I am surprised to see so much comments without mentioning the reason of that (written in the thread)...

* It's the new AirPlay server capability.

* It can be toggled off.

* Those ports are the defaults for AirPlay.

It might've been nice to allow simple way of customizing the ports though..
That sounds frustrating. Have you tried providing feedback to them?
> But the FDA can’t simply turn the documents over wholesale. The records must be reviewed to redact “confidential business and trade secret information of Pfizer or BioNTech and personal privacy information of patients who participated in clinical trials,” wrote DOJ lawyers in a joint status report filed Monday.

> The FDA proposes releasing 500 pages per month on a rolling basis, noting that the branch that would handle the review has only 10 employees and is currently processing about 400 other FOIA requests.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/wait-what-fda-wants...
My point is that a system which claims to be highly decentralized ultimately has similar flaws to existing implementations when it becomes dependent on centralized trust in the real-world e.g. "humans manually verifying things".

I'm aware of YouTube's specific issues and almost brought it up as a point against NFT's. YouTube is not useless, no. But, its automated copyright system is draconian and serves elites and lawyers more than it does individual content creators (who it often actively harms). This issue arises specifically because YouTube operates at massive scale and because Google refuses to hire enough people to deal with content moderation and copyright complaints _properly_ and would prefer to automate things as much as possible.

I don't think NFT's would present these exact problems; but I guarantee you similarly horrible inequities surface in NFT markets.

I don't believe currency should be less regulated. I believe financial regulation should be drastically increased as e.g. tax loopholes is one method that the ultra-wealthy use to remain that way - at the expense of everyone else.

I would be _substantially_ more interested in cryptocurrencies if institutions were up to the task of regulating it to prevent abuse. I've seen a bit of this lately but it's honestly not enough.
Among other things, Toit uses the selector-based row displacement technique for building a compact method dispatch table that can be queried in constant time.

If you're into fast virtual method calls - also for dynamic languages - you might want to take a look at Karel Driesen's excellent PhD dissertation on the subject:

https://cs.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/documents/1999-24.ps
They get power savings from reduced capacitance by reducing the distance from the memory to the CPU from a few cm to a few mm.
What's next? You don't own anymore the CPU, you just rent it, the same way the software today is using subscriptions?
Marxist fighting words like "stolen surpulus labour" have barely anything to do with the problem.

Protecting your property is an innate human tendency. I'm pretty sure even in a marxist utopia, I wouldn't shed a tear for home invaders getting shot.
I have one, and I find the writing part nearly perfect. But there are a couple of downsides mentioned in the article that mean I barely use it:

- Searching and organisation is really difficult. I wish everything would be OCRed transparently and you could instantly search for it (while keeping the original graphics)

- It's unfortunate that the OCR runs on their cloud. It would be really perfect if it was a web app that you could install on your own servers, if you have hightened security requirements for example

- In the UI, there is an on screen keyboard and you have to press keys. Why can't you just write in the text fields?

I think most of these problems come down to the fact that the OCR is some "secret sauce" provided by a third party. I wonder if there is any viable free handwriting OCR one could use instead to build a better experience (open source, source available, or even just some research papers)?
even with the free subscription I still access it over ssh aha
The highlight for me in highschool music class was learning to use Hammerhead for an assignment. I was horrible at the recorder and dreaded music class because of it, but creating beats was fun.
It's the same as in Java.

Java never broke this weirdly though.
Yes, which avoids all compression artifacts that come from the cross-frame compression that mpeg does. There's a reason DCP is used in cinemas - those kinds of artifacts become a lot more noticeable on very large screens and are hard to avoid completely. But for now, you can't even get Blu-ray quality video over streaming which would be sufficient for everyone with nice TVs. Netflix takes a 250GB master and compresses it down to about 10GB. The dark scenes in most Netflix content make me want to cry. Macro blocking on moving scenes, and so on. It's the video equivalent of listening to 64kbps mp3s.
I bought one, then returned it. For the price they're selling it at, the following points were a deal breaker for me:

1. Custom file system: this means I can ssh into it, but I can't rsync my bibliography into it, since it won't display regular pdf files whose name is not hashed and registered in some sort of index. Moreover, the lack of a Linux client meant it was very hard to put my pdfs on it, or extract my notes from it.

2. Left hand support is ridiculous. They just flip the screen left-to-right; which means you lose the nice bevel and it becomes very uncomfortable to use in "handheld" mode. Finally, the "close" button gets placed on the top-left corner of the screen, which is the first place a left-handed writer touches.

3. The lack of some sort of backlight and slightly gray background means I can't read under suboptimal light. Sure, I get it, its e-ink; but for the price they charge, it would be a very nice-to-have feature.

I ended up returning mine and went for the Samsung Galaxy Tab s7 and that thing is amazing! Plus, I get to follow through bibliography immediately without needing to go back to my computer and get another article then do the whole sync'ing dance again.
I don't really understand what you mean by that. They're completely different families of drugs used to treat different diseases, and have different side effect profiles. Opioids are typically used to treat pain, while Benzodiazepines treat anxiety disorders.
It is possible but not as simple as you suggest. Take a email/notification service being part of monolith, changing that to a new language / arch. is lot more complex then a similar micro-service connected via Kafka/GRPC.
Oh, and full disclosure: I'm the author of the blog post.
It says they are going to do that as well - in the first paragraph.

Did you even read the article?
I am interested in how to improve one's writing, especially in creative nonfiction. Unlike programming where you can get feedback immediately from the computer if you make a mistake, it's usually not easy to find a mentor to give feedback if one's writing is improving or regressing.
NixOS claims to be "reproducible", "declarative" and "reliable".
Yet there is no way of "declaring" which version of given package you want to install, which might be seen as hard requirement for some build to be "reproducible". You might need to stick to some old (but tested) version when building "reliable" system.
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With ARM you have a World of resources, with POWER or SPARC you have 2 abandoned platforms. There’s a reason they are “open” now and nobody wants to hold that bag.
I'm going to answer with what is cool with a Remarkable against a paper notebook when it comes to writing : you can easily erase shapes, strokes, undo, resize, copy, paste, add pages between... To me that's a lot of advantages only for the comparison of the actual "writing tools" even not taking into account the "extras".

Disclaimer : I sold my remarkable because I had a tiny but noticeable "gap" between the stylus and the "ink" and I wasnt able to tolerate it. But I'm missing the edition features.
This is the 2nd jab at unions you take in this whole thread. It's a bit mind-boggling as if unions were the demise of automakers then Audi, Porsche, Volkswagen, Mercedes and so on would never have been profitable given Germany's union environment...

It's a cheap shot that you seem to like to reiterate. What's the source you have that unions are the most problematic issue to automakers' profitability?
> I want to mostly focus on development and skip the marketing

Please don't. More often than not, better-marketed products win over better products. It's unfortunate, but that's how it is.

> I like building products after all.

Most of us do, but you're unlikely to gain any traction without marketing, and after failing to see tangible results, grow resentful towards your project and start losing interest. Been there, done that.

If you want to minimize time spent on marketing in the longer term, your best bets are word-of-mouth, referrals, and SEO (if you're after low-competition keywords). However, not all businesses are conducive to these strategies.

Regarding tools, pick the ones (1) you're familiar with, (2) don't have complex billing, (2) and don't lock you in (in that order). There are exceptions, but this is a good rule of thumb (and that's the rule I have been sticking to in my current business).

Don't get bogged down in minutiae. Ship it!
The main reason I care about the length of strings is to limit storage/memory/transmission size. 1) and to a lesser degree 4) achieve that (max 4 utf8 bytes per codepoint).

2) comes with a log of complexity, so I'd only use 2) in a few places where string lengths need to be meaningful for humans and when stepping through a string in the UI.

* One (extended) grapheme cluster can require a lot of storage (I'm not sure if it's even bounded at all), so it's unsuitable for length limitations

* Needs knowledge of big and regularly updated unicode tables. So if you use it in an API chances are high that both sides will interpret it differently, so it's unsuitable for API use.
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Do you suggest to also avoid security updates? Does not sound like a good advice.

For this reason, I prefer devices running exclusively free software. I can be sure that I will always own them and that security updates will never end, if the device is still used by the community.

Debian clearly separates security and non-security-related updates. I wish more projects did that.
If they're selling them to a shady repair shop it's not to use on another vehicle it's to launder the stolen catalyst so it's coming from a "legitimate" source. Thieves don't carefully unbolt anything, they dive under a car with a sawzall and a metal cutting blade or an angle grinder, rip it out, and take off. A garage would need to cut and prep the stolen catalytic converter, cut the flanges off of the old one, weld it to the stolen one, and spend every night praying that none of their customers ever looked below their cars again because a used frankenstein catalytic converter will stand out and it's illegal to slap a used catalytic converter on without it being tested and labeled as such.

Why would they go out of their way to commit a felony that's much more likely to get caught than just buying the catalyst at half price to drop off at the scrap yard later? Also there's tons of vehicles that have been driven on a misfire for too long, improper mixture, coolant contamination, etc that can reduce the efficiency of a catalytic converter but not be immediately obvious. If a garage is doing this dozens of times there's going to be a bad catalytic converter that trips a P0420 300 miles down the road and any mechanic looking at it is going to know what happened after a quick chat with the owner. There's no way they'd get away with it long term, people are already distrustful of mechanics so being charged for a new cat and getting franken cat bolted on is going to get the cops involved sooner or later.