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I don't think this is a case of that. I honestly think it's the author just looking for battle-tested things that have been around for so long, erroneously concluding "they've been around so long, there must be potential for disruption here!", and then scouring for evidence to support this. Almost mindlessly searching for something to improve.
> Right, yeah, that's why I said _copyrightable_ samples.. e.g. sampling a sound from just about anywhere and slotting it into a tracker or drum machine is probably fine.

I was talking about copyrighted samples. eg

Fatboy Slim - Rockafella Skank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLjgXPDzeZo

Daft Punk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MhmnKUOxB4

Prodigy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIMQtMSnpBA

...and these are just 3 headline artists. Sampling was common place in the underground scene too. eg The Amen break is a percussion loop that basically invented Jungle and early Drum and Bass, and that was a copyrighted loop too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFKMtv8tU0U

> I do agree the waters get muddy once it's multiple seconds long.. IANAL but there's the famous vanilla ice lawsuit, and I think there was some fair use wiggle room if it's under some amount of time (forgot the exact limit), it is fine to use.

Fair use doesn't cover sampling. Artists need to clear any samples used. If a sample is used creatively enough then there is a chance it might sound different enough that it goes unnoticed with anyone accosiated with the original artists estate. But that's a calculated risk the sampling artist chooses to take rather than their automatic right under copyright law.

> Good point about the DJ mixtape thing. I am guessing a lot of composers/producers got the raw end of that deal, but you are right, it helped a lot for promotion and growing the scene

Producers (nobody calls those kinds of artists "composers") didn't get the raw end because it wouldn't have affected their sales; if anything, it helped promote them). Bare in mind that mixed records on a cassette mix tape cannot be used for anything other than home listening (DJs didn't work of cassette players) and dance tracks didn't typically make for good home listening because they'd have long intro and outro sequences purposely designed for beat mixing. So mix tapes served an important role.

The only caveat some artists would have placed was any unreleased promos stayed off mix tapes (unless specified otherwise) because those promos were often secret weapons for headliner DJs.
That's a very interesting point, I think you are probably spot on about why Squid Game seems to resonate with people more.

Funnily enough, the inclusion of so much of the outside world is actually one of my bigger personal gripes with the series. The game itself seems so detached from reality and just formulaic that I cannot suspend my disbelief enough to reconcile that with an outside that, as you say, is so close to our own.

I think for me, such a setting works better if it is mostly self-contained, like The Platform or Cube from 1997.

But I guess that's just a matter of taste. Thanks for sharing your perspective.
Yours isn't a low end bike and this might be the price point for you if you aren't enthusiastic about it at all. I don't know a lot about town bikes, though. I prefer road bikes (even for commuting and getting around town with panniers).

Higher end bikes don't have any "features" that yours doesn't have. But you could also spend half as much as you did and still get the same features. Higher price points get you lightness and stiffness. This translates into speed or less effort, depending on your preference. You also get higher quality components that will last a long time or you can swap out and sell if you wish. Low end bikes tend to be disposed of as a unit as they are not worth taking apart.
> But it’s true

> Apple devices lock users in solely to Apple services by being designed to be incompatible with all other options

incompatible with ALL other options

Can you use an iPad with Gmail? Yes. Can you use google maps? Yes. Can you use the non apple internet? Yes. Can use non apple services on an OSX? Yes. Can you use dropbox? Yes.

I wont keep going as the list of non apple services you can use with an apple device is bascially infinite. In the time it would take to write them all down many more would have come into existence.

So it is demonstrably false, not even remotely close to being true.

There are legitimate issues, you dont need to litterally make up shit to make the case. It is either lazy, or just shows that the people making the case are too retarded for the nuance needed to actually highlight the real problems that exist.
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i started a new project 30 days ago, after pivoting from coaching I started doing video deep-dives to get around timezone and availability issues.

there's a few people who will "roast" a landing page. But I'm trying to go deeper by looking at every aspect of a product - UX, UI, onboarding and the landing page.

I've worked in product for 10yrs, including IBM (Watson) and a few fast growing (and faster imploding) startups.

It's been a wild ride. It's nice to be able to share what I've learned to help others.
The media and communication spending efforts of these two families were instrumental in electing specific individuals that directly enabled the shifting of GDP accrual from labour away to capital. (In particular getting people elected who reduce corporate tax/capital gains tax/upper-decile income tax, limit unions, limit minimum wages and individual social protection.)

Yes, lots of other billionaires are individually union-busting, underpaying, colluding against workers in their companies - but the ones above suborn legislation in multiple countries to do it for them.
Right now we are going in the opposite direction. Web developers on HN refuse to learn proper embedded programming, and instead stack abstraction on top of abstraction with MicroPython and using Raspberry Pis for every job under the sun.

It is a shame that Arduino/AVR never bothered implementing support for the full C++ library. If the full power of C++ is available to the end user, then perhaps alternatives like MicroPython would be less attractive.
In my opinion, LinkedIn's most valuable assets are the ability to get discovered by recruiters/hiring managers and as a way to conduct outreach. I would not recommend posting resumes on Indeed, as that may cheapen your brand a bit.

Let the recruiters come to you. Optimize your LinkedIn profile so you get incoming traffic. Make sure keywords that a recruiter would search for are on the profile, in the body and skills section. As an example, a recruiter is less likely to search "software engineer" (too many hits), but rather might search "Python" to get a narrower result, or even something more narrow like "Numpy" to reduce the noise. Also be sure you have a fair amount of connections, which expands your ability to be found. There are additional settings.

Working with a couple recruiters can be useful if they are good at what they do and aren't just looking for a quick buck. You should be able to tell the difference (are they asking what YOU want, or are they just pitching every job to you and hoping you agree to be presented?).

Also use LinkedIn for outreach. Did you see a job posted somewhere that interests you? Write a short message to a recruiter at the company on Linkedin (instead of applying) to find out how to get some dialogue going.

Source: Former tech recruiter that now writes resumes and gives job search advice with a focus on tech.
Sounds a little early for me. I personally wait at least 1.5-2 years and I'd definitely start interviewing as you near your 4 year cliff which incidentally is why I have started interviewing this past month.
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They are not infringing copyright. They definitely qualify for use under several parts of the copyright law.
And then you won't have a TV, and Samsung will keep making these abusive TVs without giving one single fuck about your return.
Did you read the article?

The lesson is that when you compare centralized and decentralized systems you need to consider them dynamically, as processes, instead of statically, as rigid products. Centralized systems often start out fully baked, but only get better at the rate at which employees at the sponsoring company improve them.

Centralized platforms often come bundled at launch with compelling apps: Facebook had its core socializing features and the iPhone had a number of key apps. Decentralized platforms, by contrast, often launch half-baked and without clear use cases. As a result, they need to go through two phases of product-market fit: 1) product-market fit between the platform and the developers/entrepreneurs who will finish the platform and build out the ecosystem, and 2) product-market fit between the platform/ecosystem and end users. This two-stage process is what causes many people — including sophisticated technologists — to consistently underestimate the potential of decentralized platforms.
At last those bikes are clearly in the subset of veblen goods where you need more than just cash to gain the status. A bike not ridden "adequately" (whatever that means) is like owning art without even pretending to know something about the art in question. You could do it as a provocative statement, but that would get old quickly.
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The players could be different colors from each other.

Memory addresses 704d-707d are the color registers for Players 1-4.
Zee is our preference at Cerbos.
Finding a Senior Dev is much harder than finding a Junior one, so maybe they charge a percentage for simplicity because the former simply has an higher salary and it would be too complex to charge different flat fees depending on the position category.
It’s interesting because in my 5 years in the Netherlands, the general opinion was the opposite of this: bike theft is such a common occurrence because everyone rides the same, probably stolen and resold, black bike that you should ride a new, design bike that stands out, like a VanMoof–because no thief would be dumb enough to go for it since it would be obvious where you got it (and more importantly, almost certainly registered/traceable vs an old clunker).
> a reprogrammable keyboard where the letter shown on the keycap can change with reprogramming.

Indeed. I imagine e-ink keycaps would work well for this. Get them integrated with QMK and you've got the keyboard of the future.
We're currently developing a Supabase app that's backed by PostgREST.

For our MVP, we built out everything that we could in SQL procedures (they're honestly not that terrible, especially in Postgres, just a bit verbose), we could also use `pgv8` and write them in JavaScript. If we need to trigger some special logic, we push data through webhooks to another service that also has access to the database. It works, but it's kind of messy and I'm somewhat worried about the performance of the HTTP client bundled with Postgres. This mechanism could also be implemented with the `LISTEN`/`NOTIFY` interface.

It feels like the better way to do it is having an API gateway / a separate API accepting the same JWT requests as PostgREST and others. We'll try it for our next project and maybe we'll migrate this product too, if we run into any issues with HTP requests.

It's been great for CRUD-heavy apps. Optimizing the RLSes sometimes gets tough, but you can always work around them with views / functions that avoid them.
> Like I'd have to set up Colemak everywhere I go, if I sat at someone else's computer or a public computer it would be back to Qwerty, if you ever look down at your keys for reference (something you want to do a lot when you're learning a new layout) they're telling you Qwerty, etc.

I use Dvorak. One of the first things I did when switching to Dvorak was buying a keyboard with hardware Dvorak layout and a black skin. The hardware layout meant that to use it on any computer all I had to do was set the computer I wanted to use to US English. The black skin meant I couldn’t cheat and look – it was painful for a short while and it was extremely effective in forcing me to learn the layout.

The fact that other computers are in QWERTY don’t matter. In fact on my laptop I use QWERTY when using the builtin keyboard. On my phone I use QWERTY. But with my keyboard I use Dvorak. You don’t need to unlearn QWERTY to learn Dvorak. In fact it’s better to keep using QWERTY on the side like I do, because you still reap the benefits of Dvorak when you use Dvorak, without becoming incapable of using “normal” computers and devices.

The original keyboard I bought when learning Dvorak was the TypeMatrix 2030 USB ortholinear keyboard with an all black skin.

My current keyboard, that I’ve been using for the past few years, is the programmable mechanical ortholinear keyboard ErgoDox EZ Shine. All black.

For my ErgoDox EZ Shine I created a custom Dvorak-based layout that I use: https://github.com/ctsrc/ergodox-ez-shine-dvorak
> In orthogonal layouts, for example, the rows of keys are no longer offset, but are arranged in a linear grid.

The word is ortholinear
ACA has accomplished a lot of what it was intended to, despite multiple efforts by some politicians to sabotage it at every turn.

"Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a new report that shows 31 million Americans have health coverage through the Affordable Care Act – a record. The report also shows that there have been reductions in uninsurance rates in every state in the country since the law’s coverage expansions took effect. People served by the health Marketplaces and Medicaid expansion have reached record highs."

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2021/06/05/new-hhs-data-show-...
I'm talking about two keyboards, one qwerty (theirs) and one dvorak (mine) both plugged in.

Back in the day, it's a (Windows) OS setting per session, so both keyboards would need to be the same. Is it now USB driven? Does the Mac or Windows support two different layouts simultaneously?

Fiddling around with keyboards isn't something I do (nor running Windows tbh).
Blind people can’t see. Alt tags don’t change that.

How do you sell paintings to blind people? Maybe the answer is — you don’t.

If you’re selling charts to visualize data, blind people aren’t your audience.

Just like if you’re selling shovels to dig ditches, you’re not marketing to people in wheelchairs.

Just because some people can’t use a product, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be allowed to sell it.
I had two stolen over the years I owned one in Amsterdam. The first one was recovered in about a week. The second was never found, but they replace it when they don’t find it as a part of that guarantee–which is why it’s actually a really great deal.
Also, the Lindy effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
I’ve actually found it mildly useful because I can use all the search engine operators to cut down all the shit and actually get a moderately specific query. It’s not perfect of course, but still way better than most sites.
Here’s a review from 13 years ago: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ5rX6WpxTk
Sure, that's happening, but some of us are also tempted to use Rust for applications where an easier to learn, more popular language would be good enough.
Yeah, it's more of an implementation detail.

But indeed, if I implemented this myself I wouldn't use GIFs. It's a joke of a format which produces bloated files, very limited colours (slightly less limited if you employ some creative hacks), no proper alpha support. We should put it in the bin and move on. Whether that's <video> elements with no controls using something like AV1 (neat but no alpha AFAIK), APNG or VP9, I don't really care.
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Unless auth is concerned. There are loads of tools I run that I want to just be me. Not whatever user is configured in the image.

And learning how to manage that mapping was a heck of a time sink.
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We are, in this very thread, discussing a reason why Apple's phones are worse that people have been duped into putting in the pros column. They are also worse for privacy, yet Apple markets their devices' privacy. They are worse for security, yet Apple markets their devices' security. The shoe fits.

Apple has been a marketing-driven company for decades now and is better at it than any other tech company by a country mile. It's why they bought Beats, not for their technology, but for their marketing prowess. The other companies you listed pick features that are better on their devices to market. Apple's marketing department figured out long ago that no such restriction is necessary.
I would also be curious, I've got giant forearms from daily exercise because I never wanted carple tunnel, anyone else who exercises their hands regularly here who can testify to the efficacy of maintaining your body even with a cush job like programming. In my experience I have only gotten body aches and pain when eating too much sugar and not exercising daily. In fact when I start to feel old I do a fast and realize how much of this pain is diet.
In my recent search using mostly Linkedin, I'm getting around 60% completely ignored and 25% automatated decline emails.
That was an April fools' day joke by the company that manufactures it [0]

https://www.facebook.com/ballistol/photos/ballistol-hat-f%C3...
LinkedIn is pretty good, however I really do hate the photos. The main reason we don't have photos on resumes in the West, is because it opens you up to discrimination. My physical appearance should have nothing to do with my hireabilty

I also very much hate how people keep trying to turn it into Facebook. Stop it. Get your validation somewhere else.

Now with that said, I've found almost all of my recent jobs via LinkedIn. It's the first place I go when I look for work. Recruiters will hit you up once you have at least a few years of experience.
Would performance with video be better than gifs?
Better to open a crypto account or savings account for my children?
Hi,
I am a young dad who starting to save for my kids. I was wondering whats the smarter play - Should I set up recurring payments into a tax-sheltered savings account (e.g. junior ISA in the UK) or get a crypto wallet and start saving Bitcoin? The idea is that I can get them a head start about learning about the space as they get older and have an initial investment. On the other side, there is a natural downside risk of the volatility of the asset. Curious to hear your thoughts!
Art. Lebedev Studio had a line of keyboards with OLED displays on the keys, which were reprogrammable. It's more of an design project rather than a mass produced product, but they did sell a number of these really expensive keyboards[1].

[1] https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/
>The fact that wargamed invasions of Taiwan are so costly for PRC

I don't know what wargames you've been reading but recent western ones finally comport with analysis out of PRC from last few years that a PRC-TW confrontation would be relatively expedient and low cost for PRC, militarily. Current assumption is PRC will secure air dominance within days and enable a lot of relatively uncontested actions in absence of US intervention.

TW barely has enough ordinants to arm their prestige military aquisitions. They certainly don't have enough missiles to damage PRC coastal cities without venturing into warcrime scenarios. It's why currently US is desperately trying to pressure the island into adopting porcupine strategies to bleed PRC in case of invasion. But island isn't biting, the establishment is actively stalling reforms because reinstating civil service and telling population their only hope is to fight like insurgents is politically unworkable.

>invasions of Taiwan are so costly for PRC

The invasion itself isn't and hasn't been for a while. The concern has been dealing with US intervention, i.e. SLOC blockades and potential trade sanctions. Taking TW with relatively little cost is almost forgone at this point. Not to mention PRC has host of other strategies without formal invasion like blockade/quarantine they can do right now without single boot on the ground. There is almost no one except the most deluded actual shills that gets paid by TW (i.e. Ian Easton) who thinks TW can put up much of a fight against PRC anymore.
This, exactly.

"Ooohh ... Shiny!" is quite common, these days. It has resulted in some ... entertaining trainwrecks.

Every now and then, though, something new does work, and it then becomes ... something old, as it is mainstreamed and adopted.

Circular steering wheels are an example. At one time, they were new and radical.

We didn't need keyboards, until we needed them. Maybe, one day, we won't need them.

Until then, there's absolutely nothing stopping people from designing new types of text input devices. There's no "QWERTY Cabal," killing off alternative keyboards. If someone designs something that really works (not just in the technical realm; but also in the social, educational, manufacturing, cost-relevance, and distribution realm), then, it is likely to do well.
> To the point they did a blog post trying to defend their use of C,

I do a lot of Rust work, but C still occupies a prominent place in my toolkit.

In fact, this is fairly standard among all of the professionals I know. The idea that companies need to abandon C and only do Rust as soon as possible is more of an idealistic idea on internet communities.
> and so popularity is often a negative indicator

And that's what bothers me so much about those types of people, disliking because something is popular and then thinking that's better than liking something because it's popular. They're just doing the same thing, but they're following a different crowd. A more negative, gate keeping crowd at that.

I've never liked Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones was popular. Those things are separate facts and I will never go on the internet to tell people that Game of Thrones was bad because there's some obscure book or movie that might have some resemblance to the story line. I just didn't like it, I ignore it and enjoy the things I do like. It's really that simple.