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The overused acronym aside, MS does seem to seriously have issues building quality software because they lack focus. They always seem to get hijacked by forces in their own organisation dragging them off-track.

Like totally screwing up Windows 8 because some part of the company wanted to sell more tablets. Ruining Teams by adding so much functionality to it without a clear vision that it's become a slow and confusing mess. Now this, undermining the push for a clean and fast browser with what is probably just one VP pushing this to make a quick monetary win for his team.

This is one thing where Apple under Steve Jobs would shine. The company had one direction, one that was sometimes not what everyone wanted but once it was set it would not let itself be dragged off-track.
This has actually created a huge bias in my company. People try to solve problems with parts from McMaster because it’s so easy to search, but we often overlook other company’s (e.g. Cole-Palmer) products (which may be much better suited for our applications) because it’s a pain to find them on their websites.
Hmm, I disagree it’s not being debated here. There’s certainly a lot of healthy debate. It just happens to be centered far more towards the “principle of boosting the disadvantaged” (so our concern over the immuno-compromised, the infirm and weak, the underprivileged, etc), whereas the debate elsewhere kind of sidelines them, or at least puts the concerns of healthy privileged people at the same level.

Not sure my point is getting across. I’m not quite sure what my point is. Still trying to figure out what makes California (and especially San Francisco) different without resorting to simple left vs right language.
My first car was a 1985 300D Turbo Diesel. It spoiled me for all future cars. It drove wonderfully and had a ton of charm.

Not great in the cold, the controls were weird as only German cars can be, and acceleration was paltry by modern standards, but it was a tank that could seemingly drive forever. You still see some on the road.
There used to be TOFC (trailer on flat car) cars that had little flaps that you could lower so that you could drive between cars. They don't have those any more, for the most part. They found they could make them less heavy with a "spine" kind of design, which you can't drive across.
Various versions of the kindle. It's got excellent battery life, is easy to travel with, feels great in my hands, and is just what I want from an e-reader. Especially the new version w/ the metal body and yellow-back light.
I'm currently in a country where I can't read the language and memorizing push vs pull feels so unnecessary when you could just design a door with obvious operation mechanics
With the exception of having to occasionally replace the print head my mk3s are excellent. No leveling problems, solve all layer height with live z. Flex filament works great
IMO, the REPL is really nice for exploration. I would never write code in it, but it serves as a really good doc search tool and quick way to check things. It helps that the Julia REPL is more inspired by the Lispy ones than python/R.
I don't think my point is to argue against cognitive distortions generally or against any specific mental model (as that would likely be ridiculous). (And I'm very aware of what CBT is.) It's just ... specifically this focus on 'intention' that seems to be in a certain vogue right now (or I should say newfound focus) as counter to the notion of institutional or systemic causes.

Something can be a clinical phenomena, but that does not necessarily reflect the deployment of the generalized concept of such into the broader world. There is a gap between persons being debilitated, to one degree or another, by patterns in their cognition and 'overly-sensitive' college students rejecting 'reality'.
Canada produces something like 70-80% of the world's maple syrup, and as the article says Quebec alone produces around 70% of the world's maple syrup. I imagine our flag combined with that most maple syrup people are consuming definitely give the impression people here are incredibly into maple syrup.
I’m not sure about the best designed things ever, but here are some purchases in the last year, that I’ve really appreciated:

Corona 10-inch Pruning Saw

I had been using an old pair of loppers to trim most of the low hanging branches in my yard. This pruning saw is so much easier. It can cut through a 4-inch branch like nothing. Also it folds up so there’s no need for a sheath.

EGO 650 CFM Blower

Electric lawn tools are amazing. No dealing with fuel and oil. Plus they are so much quieter. This blower has been a life saver this fall. Planning to purchase an ego mower soon.

Leatherman Skeletool CX

The skeletool has replaced my pocket knife on camping trips. It’s not like most leatherman tools with 100 functions. The skeletool has about 7, but pocket knife, pliers and bottle opener cover most of my needs.

Outdoor Voices Sunday Short

Bar none my favorite pair of athletic shorts. Extremely flexible, comfortable and they look pretty good. I can wear them working out, lounging around the house or out to run errands. I probably own 6 pairs.
I had https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobuntu on both a laptop and a desktop, and then replaced the laptop with a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook_Pixel after those came out because I wanted to see The Future!™
>Sony MDR7506 Professional headphones -- haven't changed since the 80s (on which a lot of classics have been recorded/mixed with).

Agree. a great pair of headphones
As a business user, I’d like the price filter too. For instance, I might be okay with any material for a valve in a prototyping application as long as it’s the right size, I just need to find the cheapest one (with one day shipping of course!)
Anecdotally, did not have Siri get auto reenabled after system updates in the past few years. Last month after retiring from backup new phone didn't get it reenabled either. At some point I had to go to settings to enable push-to-talk-to-Siri because it's useful.
I think Slack is using deno now.

https://api.slack.com/future/tools/cli
I do like the maple doughnuts at Tim Horton's though
The Aerostich Roadcrafter single piece motorcycle suit. It’s not the best protection, it’s not the most weather resistant, it’s not the warmest in cool weather, it’s no the best ventilated in warm weather, but it is the best all round motorcycle suit I’ve worn.

Best of all you can step into or out of one faster than most people can take off a jacket. Every time I put it on I feel a rush of joy and satisfaction.
Unraid is closed source. That’s fine, it’s an amazing product and I’m happy to pay for it. But they are increasingly adding cloud bits to it. Like a profile required to sign into when activating the product. More cloud features are on the way. I’m fine paying subscription fee. But I don’t want my home server cloud connected.
Notably absent (at least in the docs) is a Hash/Map datatype, a struct type may be beyond the goals of the language. I do see how it straddles Python and TypeScript in character. One thing I miss from TypeScript is the Union/Sum type which is far underutilized in languages.
> but taking a course on programming languages, studying grammars, lexers, parsers, etc. helped make everything click and feel less shaky.

I'm currently trying to learn all of this and wish I had completed my CS degree since you have peers going through the same thing, and a professor for office hours. I find it a little difficult to get through on my own, but I hope to get far enough to participate in PL.
thanks as i had not known proper terminology to search for that
It seems like the linked Microsoft announcement was hardly proofread at all, which seems surprising. I'd have guessed anything remotely related to finance would be thoroughly reviewed by the legal team prior to going live:

> Applying BNPL could take time, you need to sign in with zip every single time. With BNPL in Edge, you can simply link your Microsoft account with your zip account with one click and then bypass sign in from Zip side. It can expedite the application process for you.
Very cool, but can someone’s hair or clothing get sucked into it?
I don't think this have been downvoted, this is a really really obvious thing to do with the raging success of both Apple Pay/Shop Pay/Android Pay/Samsung Pay/Paypal and Afterpay and it's clones. From the financial perspective of the big three companies that make browsers they're nothing more than shopping portals and all new user-facing features built into browsers support the user-stories of people buying things.

Paypal & Shop Pay have the problem of getting people to let them store their CC info to upsell them on afterpay type stuff and CC offers -- browsers and $Platform Pay already have it so MS is bootstrapping their $Pay service via the thing they can control.
Dystopian sci-fi is for mental immunization, not emulation.
These are not ideologies, but compatible principles from separate concerns. One relates to protocol errors, the other to information validation & verification.
Nothing goes through you like air through your screen door or water out your faucet. What you are made of is the medium of interaction. The outside of your atoms stays the same while the stuff on the inside interacts. Conduction and convection act with just space mediums like air and water. Electromagnetic radiation acts with space mediums and time mediums. Nature does this because it has no mind. It does things as easy and lazy as possible without the need to make sense.

When you do the double slit experiment with an interference pattern, little bits of matter are not emitting. The light bulb filament and the projection screen are using their own internals as a medium of interaction. They're called particles because they have a definite start and a definite end. The temperature knob sticks while the visible color frequency stays the same. With neutrinos, the atom is staying the same temp and color, but it's loosing mass. Nature can do this as well as a bunch of other things because once again, it has no mind.

Why this matters in the real world:

There's a lot of things held back because of medical ethics. Porcine organ transplants for one. We don't know what diseases would occur in the real world. Genetics are today's microprocessors. Won't be surprised to see organic pharmaceuticals to follow the typewriter. It would be really nice to predict genetic mutations with a really good measurement of the sun.

It would be even better to control them with absolute certitude. Emit a particle beam around the earth. Interact it with a leaky heart valve, blood in the brain, a tumor, or the cellular mitosis of a porcine organ transplant like a really good radiation machine hooked up to an antennae. The earth sees tissue bonded together with hydrogen bonds at 98.6 degrees F. The universe sees tiny little bits of quark matter and sucks it right out in a beam of plasma vapor. It would negate a lot of ethical concerns and make them trivial. Humans won't be betting on that we covered all our bases. We would have built something very real outside of nature.
And also every other smaller cloud provider provides at least 1TB of free transfer (OVH, Hetzner, Vultr, Digital Ocean, etc).

Even AWS's own Lightsail (which is so throttled that it's a far inferior solution to most of the other VPS/"cloud" providers) includes at least 1TB of transfer for free.

https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/
K2 Cinch bindings. If you snowboard with skiers, who are constantly complaining about the time it takes to do up your bindings after getting off the lift, these things are awesome.

https://k2snow.com/en-us/p/k2-cinch-tc-snowboard-binding
Is the risk really highest right after fundraising? Theoretically they just got a huge infusion of cash, so you should be relatively confident that the money will allow the company to survive at least for a bit.

My understanding of equity grants is that you're entitled to a specific amount of shares. If that's the case, it's not worth deferring your employment. If I plan to sell the stock 2 years from now, it doesn't matter when I got the stock (as the price 2 years from now is unrelated to when specifically I receive my shares).
Julia is generally in the same ballpark as Numba (depending on the application they should be within 2%). The difference is that Julia is a full language, while Numba breaks if you try to use it with anything else.
I ran into a door today that had a handle on the push side. Not even a crossbar - an aluminum folded-over handle, one on each of the double doors. It is, unmistakably, a pull handle, and it had "PUSH" written above it and even underlined, and still it gave me pause.
I haven’t read the books, but I found Gaal Dornick and Salvor Hardnick’s storylines very difficult to follow. The actors felt miscast and the character development felt extremely rushed.

Possible spoilers:

One minute Gaal arrives and meets Raych Seldon. Within an episode, somehow they’ve become lovers? Um. What?

Hugo is possibly the most pointless character.

Salvor comes off as a heroic, protagonist, but it doesn’t seem earned.

The “Empire” is the only interesting plot line. Brother “Day” is casted very well. The rest of the show made little sense.

Overall the show has extremely high production quality. It’s looks like a beautifully seared, delicious piece of steak. But when you cut into it, it’s a glob of fat.
Interesting, maple syrup is super popular where I'm from, I think it would be odd to not see maple syrup on a breakfast table in NWO.
Being on the other side of a bus or train from someone, both wearing masks, allows way more of a humanizing connection than being in a completely separate car bubble.
Bank transfers as a payment method
Not to mention the vaccines are still experimental (released under Emergence Use Authorization) and might actually have much more side effects as originally thought.

And at this point I believe we can’t even be sure on the long term side effects. E.g. a Danish paper stated that in theory the spike protein used in the vaccine could increase chance of developing cancer, though as of yet this wasn’t observed yet in animal tests.
Say it aint so. Next, you'll tell me Canadians don't like beer, don't like hockey, and they aren't funny either.
Maple syrup is a whole different ball game in Quebec. It's basically a food staple in most Quebec households compared to the rest of the country.
>I disagree - I don't think there's anything wrong with having a computer built-in to a TV

The problem is bloat and bugs. And I like my peripherals to be peripherals. I don't think we need to go into discussion of the common user here. They were fine with set-top boxes.
OTT (ottsonic.bandcamp.com)

maybe also: Shpongle, Entheogenic, Bluetech, Younger Brother.
"The novel intervention ... is based on an idea pioneered by the late John Sarno, MD"

John Sarno's book "Healing Back Pain" saved me from truly agonizing torture and made me functional again in just a few hours, though I went to it with extreme skepticism. It's great to see formal research being done on this approach.
I actually thought this thread was going to be about CIRA’s amazing set of Canadian stock photos, which includes references to the strategic maple syrup reserve:
https://petapixel.com/2020/01/23/canadian-internet-authority...
Super cool. I am just getting into drones, and I am surprised at the flight time limitations of most commercial drones. This unit for example, to scan a mine network, would take constantly repositioning an operator to charge the unit as you make your way through the site, as the reach required will get longer and longer as you scan more of the site.

What in others opinions is the fix for this? Is it a technology that doesn't exist or is it a technology we aren't allowed to use (tiny nuclear?)

Of course it's always a design compromise, there are huge drones with 40min flight times, fast drones with 5min flight times, and much inbetween. But I guess I see the practical application of drones challenged by the flight time limitations.
iPod touch: for $200 you get an extra screen that looks great on a device that's almost ethereally thin.

RayBan Stories glasses: for $299 you get functional wearable normal-appearing glasses that take pictures and make 30-second movies. Wonderfully easy to set up and use.

Ultra Heavy-duty Scotch tape dispenser: https://www.amazon.com/Scotch-Invisible-Photo-Safe-Engineere...

Giant Foot doorstop — works with doors with up to 2" clearance: https://www.amazon.com/Giant-Foot-Heavy-Clearance-Yellow/dp/...
So while Kazaa and the like eventually got the ability to actually download from multiple sources, and be able to see that a particular source is popular, as I recall from the early 2000 days, back then it was pure point to point. That is, if you chose to download something, you also were implicitly choosing what source to download it from. So even if five people had the file "Foo", you chose which one to download, and there was no way to know that 4 had the same file "Foo", and 1 person had something else, with no way to know which was what you wanted.

Torrents avoid many of those issues; you can see how many seeds a file has (though Kazaa and the like later added that). And you had to have gotten the magnet link from somewhere, which would have its own evaluatable trust. It's the difference between downloading file called "Foo" from random internet user's computer, and going to a website, that you know, and downloading a file called "Foo" that you also know has been downloaded, and retained, by X number of users.
I recently borrowed a Fiskars x25 for the first time, after reading about them for many years. They really are better.

Splits better than my maul and weighs less. I was surprised to find that the latter was more important. If it takes less energy to cycle, you can split the same log more times without it feeling like a burden to do so.

The next time I need to split more than a trifling amount of wood, my first step will be to acquire a new splitting axe -- the overall time to completion will be faster.
> because android tv boxes are such junk

Which one did you buy? There is a huge variation in quality, e.g. nVidia Sheild/Google TV vs. a Mi Box / FireTV, etc.

I think you have to compare Apple vs Apples. Compare the Apple TV to a equivalently priced Android TV.
If only the East coast weren't so darn to get to by boat from Asia?
"The currency is only as good as the government that mediates its exchange."

That's an interesting way to conceptualise it but I see it from a different broader perspective: A government is only as strong as its ability to issue/acquire meaningful amounts of a valued currency.

Anything that negatively affects these activities will be killed or subjugated to contribute towards them. Bitcoin in its intended form is detrimental to both of these activities so it will be sabotaged by governments one way or another until it is not.

Bitcoin has unique properties that drive it's adoption but all these properties can be diminished or undermined by laws.

"Which means the original intent of crypto only works in this honeymoon period"

If Bitcoin had managed to gain widespread adoption and a large enough percentage of its users held their private keys then it would have been too difficult and unfavourable for governments to start attacking it.

The unsolved technical issues hindered adoption so Bitcoin has been relegated to a volatile store of value giving government the time to realise the threat and act accordingly. Regardless of how unreasonable, harsh or onerous a set of laws are they can be effectively implemented if the portion and power of people they affect is small enough.
I hope the second photo ( https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/11/25/gettyimages-5720... ) doesn't suggest that sap is collected with leaded pipes.
Oxo's old style ice cream spade (apparently discontinued?) https://www.surlatable.com/oxo-ice-cream-spade/PRO-208926.ht...

Solves all the problems with an ice cream scoop. Critically, this version had a rounded front. They seem to have moved to a straight front, which I can't imagine being as effective?

40s/50s Gillette Super Speed https://www.badgerandblade.com/forum/wiki/Gillette_40s_Style...

Shaving was a cheaply and effectively solved problem by the 1950s. Everything since then has been bullshit.
I joined a startup shortly after a big raise and this is the basis for my comment. I have also been on an internal team that was (simplifying) speculative investment, meaning we got to try a lot of stuff without being immediately accountable for revenue. It's only two data points.

Pros are that exuberance is at a high point and it's a period of growth, investment, and optimism, so you will get to do all of the fun stuff and ignore the boring stuff (unless the company is really well run). Don't discount this - it's really cool to be able to try lots of new stuff without having to be under constant pressure. Even if management is more frugal than the places I was, it's a whole different thing to be somewhere during the belt tightening phase where reality sets in and positive results are due immediately. There is a rewarding career to be had jumping between places that are in growth mode.

Re options / equity, value them at zero unless you're senior leadership (unless I'm misunderstanding and there is a liquid market for the shares pre IPO or acquisition). My options were worthless, even in an acquisition. There are countless ways they can lose all value, and unless you're a key part of steering the company, consider them a lottery ticket, not part of total comp
The question is, what kind of parking? A lot of the available parking is in structures that cost to park in, and involve some overhead getting in and out, such as getting through a gate, wandering around the structure for an available space, etc. Not conducive to being used by an Uber or cabbie to wait for a call to go pick someone up. Finding on-street parking is much more dicey.

The commuter and residential parking doesn't free up for Uber drivers if it's not being used by its primary customers.

Disclosure: Extrapolating from how it works in my town.
One of the things I hate about tech is seeing useful things slowly being repurposed into ad-spammers:

- A “notification” is not supposed to be for ads but it seems every other app uses it for (almost) only ads. To hell with that.

- A pop-up alert message is not supposed to be for ads but guess what happens.

- When you mistype a web address, Internet protocols prescribe what the correct response should be; guess what your ISP does instead?

- When you launch an app with the intent to do some specific thing, instead of the app allowing you to start doing that thing, your intended action is usurped by an at-launch screen (i.e. ad for something completely unrelated to what you launched the app to do). Bonus points if it manages to forget the on-launch context entirely, e.g. conveniently forgets the document you asked it to open and just stares at you blankly after the launch-ad goes away.

- When you pause a few seconds to gather your thoughts and haven’t gotten around to doing something, guess what happens now? OH THE USER IS IDLE, BETTER SHOW THEM STUPID STUFF. (Thanks, Netflix.)

- If you use anything, seems like you get E-mail later that day, and the “unsubscribe” is now just “manage your f*cking preferences” where they present you a page of 50 checkboxes for the INDIVIDUAL UNWANTED THINGS (all pre-enabled of course), that you have to uncheck and “save”, that then “take 3-10 days to take effect”. I want these people fired and banned from their industry.

Every other action now is clicking-away, swiping-away, tapping-away things I didn’t ask for and don’t want, with no option to turn most of it off (or if it is, the option is ultra-buried and conveniently forgotten on the next update).
Call it adware after the company starts to derive the majority of its revenue from ads, like Google and Facebook.
West coast ports likely move cargo from Asia onto trains destined for much of the central US, which avoids canal fees and bottlenecks, as well as wasted time backtracking.