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> I know this is controversial but one solution would be to break their monopoly up so that smaller companies could handle consumer contact.

I think I lean in this direction, too. Customer service should go hand-in-hand with having customers in the first place. If you have grown so outrageously large that you have no feasible way to plumbing some of your astronomical profits to servicing those who facilitate your profits, then maybe you have grown too big.
No-one is stealing my baby again!
For a long time I've wanted to build an alarm for my motorcycle, that also tracks lean angle, acceleration/deceleration and (of course) wheelie duration. If the bike moves when it shouldn't, an alert should be sent to my phone. Here is the first embryo to this project, built with open source Toit:

https://github.com/nilwes/mcalarm

Any other features you can think of?
We tend to measure a dog's intelligence by obedience and trainability, but dogs like huskies and beagles do not follow that rule. There is a reason there are always beagles readily available for adoption.

My beagle growing up extremely smart--he knew every trick you can think of; he could remember specific objects by name; track someone's scent in an instant if you said find XXX; and seemed at times to understand whole sentences. Unfortunately, he also was stubborn, independent, and had an insatiable drive to follow scents.
Eeeeh, maybe if you're extremely experienced in Unity you can have a shippable game in a month. There's a lot of jank in Unity that is non-obvious to inexperienced Unity users. I don't even mean inexperienced programmers. Between un-/under-documented features, surfing the wave of continuing to use "deprecated" features versus their incomplete replacements, and the general architectural problems baked deep into the core of Unity, it takes a lot of Unity-specific expertise to get a good game together.
I think they have stars counter table which they refresh or reset when a repo goes from public to private. But, the real question is, why not Github alert you by saying that the switch will make you lose all your hard-earned stars?
The engineers at NASA, JPL, et al are could implement HTTP/S client in their sleep with their hands tied behind their backs.

That they're fine with a product that's just "off the shelf" speaks volumes about curl.
AWS Polly looks interesting! I wish it supported some more languages, for personal reasons. Maybe I'll try to set something up that reads ebooks, tweets, or news articles to me with this.

Do you know if there are any similar quality TTS tools for less technical applications? I mean, where you can just type in the text you want and get an audio file with a high quality voice?
Sign in with apple has an option to obfuscate the data being shared with the devs, so we get this random relay like 89yzx94n77@privaterelay.appleid.com. We ask for name and email again in case
Is banding people together and creating powerful memes behavior that marks an antagonist, though?
I've thought for a while if you want to stop drunk / impaired driving, that the system could be reworked.

1. Require an electronic drivers license that stores data on your driving skills, reaction time, and some metadata about solving problems.

2. When you get into the car, you have to solve a medium complexity puzzle. Eg hit a certain color in a row on a touchpad - think simple simon. Or a math, quiz, something.

3. If you can't solve it, the car won't start. Or have an emergency button that allows you to start the car, but then it turns on the hazards and honks the horn while your driving (showing that you haven't proven that your reflexes are up to par). This allows everyone to watch out for you, and can bring the attention to LE.

Eek. This is just captcha for driving. I don't like it. But it might save lives!
How did I know it was a tesla before I even opened the link
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1000% agree. My wife is into Lego creator/expert sets, in particular buildings. So I typically buy her a new one at least twice a year, for her birthday and Christmas. I'm having to work harder now to find sets she hasn't already built, and having to pay more because they're out of production already and Lego isn't building new ones too often.

I accidentally bought a Chinese knock-off set, and it was surprisingly good. The brick quality was totally comparable to Lego. The part that was lacking was the build methodology -- it was damn near impossible to build successfully the way the instructions said. But there's more variety in the knock-off sets, more accessories like lighting and such, they cost half as much (and probably still have a ridiculous margin). Lego should be worried, and they should step up their game. Becoming known for collectibility seems to be their strategy right now, but it is going to make people like me look elsewhere.
> how backdoors in general can be abused. Probably acceptable for a car but not for one's life information.

While I agree about encryption generally, I'd say it depends and it depends on your definition of a backdoor.

Probably the most straightforward question for which there is not a universal answer is whether you want the entity storing that (encrypted) information to be able to provide you with access to it if you have lost access to your password and standard recovery mechanisms.
How different is Blender to 3DS Max and Maya? Anyone have experience with both?
The Border Collie is indeed intelligent. It is overwhelmingly the sheepdog preferred by Welsh shepherds. It is also loyal, good-natured, and pretty safe around children. This breed doesn't suffer health problems due to inbreeding, because it isn't a (UK) Kennel Club breed; there's no such thing as a "pedigree" Border Collie in the UK.
"I hope they still invalidated that key and got a new one, because I don't think simply git reset and force pushing to overwrite a commit you already pushed to a public repository is sufficient to make sure someone didn't already capture it."

-I totally agree you.
You're playing with words. The rest of the paragraph in TFA does describe the life of hunter-gatherers, not just one "golden rule" (which is never enunciated).

> If you happen to be blessed with muscle, don’t throw it around. If you happen to be a great hunter or a dazzling beauty, don’t flaunt it over others. Be one of the good guys, in other words.

This is completely gratuitous and unsubstantiated. It's ridiculous. And then there is more of the same.
I don't know if this counts, but a lot of bulldog-like dogs can't give live birth because they're so deformed and unnatural. They can only give birth by C-section.
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White text on black is terrible with LCDs, but with OLED it is wonderful. Imagine dimming your screen just right, the only thing you can see is the text you want to read. It is much more easy on the eyes than even paper or e ink devices IMO, as long as the display isn't turned up too bright.
I don't understand the downvotes.

My comment is in response to a 100% scientifically false statement. It's like saying that heat flows from cold to hot. Saying that viruses "want" is as false as that, if not worse.

The correction I posted is 100% scientifically correct, does not personally attack anyone and isn't even pedantic. Are we in favor of misinformation now?

To be fair, articles like this one [0], don't help when they get loose with language and say things like "SARS-CoV-2 is one smart virus". Ironic, when the site's tagline includes the term "academic rigor".

At one point in the article they say:

"Of course, viruses and bacteria don’t have brains so they don’t “think,” per se. But like all life forms, these particular living creatures are trying to maximize their chances of reproducing and having their offspring survive and reproduce."

That starts out well. The first sentence is accurate. The second sentence is false as can be. A sad failure for a publication that claims to have "academic rigor".

Viruses don't "try" --which implies a directed objective, thought, intent, goals-- to do anything. Evolution is brutally simple and ridiculously stupid. It has no intent. It has no objectives. I doesn't say "let's make an eye" for a million years until done. It just happens. I know this is hard for some to understand, yet this is the truth.

I can understand how people who have not studied and understood the scientific theory of evolution by natural selection can develop false ideas about how it works, particularly when exposed to material, such as this article, that mix false statements with accurate information.

That second word, understood, is important. Every high school student learns about evolution. I don't think I can say most of them understand it.

SARS-CoV-2 is as smart as a key with 30,000 teeth. Evolution is a process with stochastic mutation that cuts the teeth in different configurations. If a given configuration happens to be effective at penetrating human defenses and do damage, it can be serious. Other configurations could penetrate and have little to mild effects (this, so far, appears to be the case with Omicron). And yet others could be completely ineffective. The mutation isn't directed, it's stochastic.

Above all, I think rigor is important because, without it, crazy ideas like "intelligent design" can find footholds that can be used or further distorted to support them.

[0] https://theconversation.com/think-like-a-virus-to-understand...
Ideally, yes ... but in large orgs with different internal agendas and politics it might be problematic to get through :)
but they can survive without us, just be less prosperous.
Given that vaccination reduces asymptomatic infection with SARS-CoV-2,2,3 it is plausible that vaccination reduces transmission; however, data from clinical trials and observational studies are lacking.
It was a joke. The rumours were real though.
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Weirdest one yet:

>> So he chained her up in her room and he chained up hundreds of angry wolves in the other side of the room. [...] But he made the window and the doors big enough so that the fierce beasts could move in and out and chase her away. And they lived happily ever after.
20ms latency is about average for a text editor: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

(Not that that's a good thing...)
It's $5 for the first month and $15 for each month after that. Each user gets a personalized onboarding call with a human coach ($5), with the option for weekly calls thereafter ($15) to reflect on the past week's data and plan tasks and habit goals for the following week.
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Yes. This is an interesting article, and if the author had resisted the tendency to generalize and just drawn the cultural conclusions available from his research I would have enjoyed it more. Unfortunately, I think in some circles it's too politically charged to say "Western cultures," because people will react badly to that phrase.
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That's a good question. A portion of the exam is just FCC rules & regs and operating procedures. That stuff is, IMO, fine to "just memorize" because there isn't much theory to begin with. The main part where there is some theory (at the Technician level) is some basic knowledge of electronics and just a hint of some stuff that would probably be covered in a Physics 101 course (electromagnetic radiation, frequency spectrum, etc.). I don't know of one consolidated course that covers that from a ham radio perspective specifically.

In my case, I'd been dabbling with hobby electronics for nigh on 40 years when I took my test, and was always a little bit of a physics geek, so I mostly just had to learn the FCC rules and procedures bit. The downside is, since my knowledge was cobbled together from many sources over many decades, that I can't give you a good reference to a nice, consolidated, comprehensive course on this stuff.

That said, here are a couple of books that might be useful for picking up some of the theory, without going overly deep. Also note that "going deep" isn't a Bad Thing, especially if you want to progress beyond the Technician level license, as the subsequent exams do require deeper knowledge on some of the electronics/physics theory stuff. You don't have to be an EE or a physicist to do any of this of course, but just be aware that the theory component does increase a bit as you progress.

https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Basic-Electronics-Softc...

https://www.amazon.com/Radio-Theory-Handbook-Beginner-Advanc...

https://www.amazon.com/How-Radio-Signals-Work-Sinclair/dp/00...

https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Communications-Electronics-Jack...
Couldn't an attacker exfiltrate over ssh or over an incoming HTTP connection instead of an outgoing? Or is this a defense-in-depth thing, not meant as a "hard stop"?
I always cared about how it looked too.
But the dealer doesn’t have a stock of duplicate keys. That would be even worse!

They might be able to lookup the key codes from the manufacturer to be able to either (a) fabricate a physical key and/or (b) program a new key fob. This would make more sense because then, at least, the manufacturer would have a record of who requested the information. And if a car was stolen, they’d know who to go back to. Also, the manufacturer would know of a particular dealer was making too many requests that something could be fishy.
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Good question.

That's why I integrated pomodoro framework and didn't make a plain butt triggered alarm and so Butt Pomodoro is a time-management + health application not just a activity alarm.

I was already using Pomodoro schedule for time-management/productivity albeit triggering it manually now Butt Pomodoro helps me to trigger it automatically and pomodoro breaks are now for walks.
>People work and sleep in factory floors during periods of overtime in some places in China.

lol - then you go on to complain about free markets? China is NOT a free market!

I don't care how many fast food joints colluded, no one is going to work for $1 an hour. Heck with all the COVID bucks floating around I see fast food joints advertising $15 an hour jobs and STILL not getting any takers.

Your position is utterly nonsensical. This isn't the turn of the century. Workers have never had more mobility or information. If anyone tried to set up a "Company town" in todays economy it would be empty from day one.
I had a Malinois for 15.5 years. She was a wonderful dog in most respects but frankly required a significant amount of management despite years of training and socialization on top of a large fenced yard and ample daily exercise.

I would heavily caution people to deeply consider what owning high-drive and super-reactive dogs actually means in day-to-day life. Dogs with these temperaments do have wonderful (and fun) qualities but simply require specialized environments and handling.
JAX/ XLA seem quite popular, especially since you can use them in Colab on TPUs. IIRC, there are people who have managed get jax compiled with ROCm support.

Tensorflow lets you deploy to quite a few backends.

oneAPI support in GPUArrays.jl seems to be coming along.
Do you have a source for that? This is the first time Ive heard someone call it a hoax that was an antivaxxer. Most antivaxxers are hesitant due to the speed at which the vaccines were made, the new technology used to make them, and the fact that the companies making them can’t get sued if they kill people.
Unfortunately this is somewhat ingrained in the sales cycle. I finally understood it at a prior company when they bought Saleforce. By the time they realized SF wasn't going to be a good fit, they were 50k in and had already signed a multi year contract. Charge obscene amounts, and offer steep discounts the earlier and longer the company is willing to contract for. It becomes a sunk cost and bonus points if the company starts developing competencies in it (negating that many people are sufficiently detached that they don't even realize its a bad fit). Its a relatively advanced skill knowing how to navigate such a scenario at the various stages.
No it was based as ocdtrekkie said on supposedly internal leaks about Google wanting to be a leader soon or to give up the cloud market.
Will a site laid out for a desktop browser even be readable on a phone?

Does a site laid out for a phone like gigantic on a desktop?

How does it react to different aspect ratios?
It's such a dumb take because natural immunity requires you to contract real Covid. I wish this was obvious, but it seems required to state it outright? I feel you should take this revelation straight to the vaccine makers and tell them they wasted all their effort and should have hosted infection parties instead.
The first step is to agree on what it is.

I've never actually seen rules or guidelines that were:

* Non-trivial - e.g. not about spaces or line lengths or something.

* Objective and specific - e.g. with a vague principle like "single responsibility" it doesn't take much to trigger an argument about what constitutes a responsibility.

* Actually made it more maintainable - I remember some of the DDD guidelines were non-trivial, objective and specific but they 3-5xed the SLOC.

I tried writing some of my own, but it's a lot of work, doesn't generalize very easily and is as likely to spark an argument as it is to actually help.
It's funny but pretty sad actually...
I bought my spouse a MacBook Air. It just worked and I haven’t had to unfuck it once.
Certainly. I was imagining a more forward-looking requirement with grandfather clauses for existing systems. EV's will only become more widespread, fires will naturally be an occasional fact of life, and it seems untenable to ban keeping them in garages forevermore.
I really like the crispness of actual black.

Note: the font you're reading right now is #000000.
Condos and apartment buildings are going to be a significant barrier to widespread ev adoption (esp in metro areas where these are more common). It's 2021, my condo hoa has no plans (even 'someday') to add ev chargers. They don't even have the electrical infrastructure in the garage to allow owners to install chargers at their own expense.
...this is a good point!
Well, emulating† x86 on ARM is excruciatingly slow, just as emulating ARM on x86 is (turns out I do both, routinely, so no need to believe when I have data: it's about an order of magnitude slower than native)

† Rosetta 2 is not emulation.
> I don't think that captures the full detail of exactly what a transcendental is

I completely agree but I think it captures the spirit of what a transcendental is succinctly.
The designs of those kits from the 80s and 90s were also very flimsy and would break easily if you started to play with them. So really, the original build falling apart and becoming spare parts was almost expected.

This really changed once they started including Technics pieces as structural parts of builds, rather than as a totally separate product line. Most things I've built in recent years are far more robust than what I built as a kid.
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This has an interesting set of tanning processes, but it's funny how SEO saturated this topic is. There are some video results that are probably useful, but 99% of my searches are turning up commercial garbage, and nothing to do with actually making mushroom leather.

Iirc from a podcast, sodium carbonate is used to soak amadou mushrooms for a felt-like material, which Paul Stamets uses for his hat.

You'll probably need to learn the jargon and terms of art specifying the exact types of mushroom fabrics and materials that can be produced.

Good luck!
Plain real world experience. So one way is:

1. Learn all the guidelines/rules/principles out there (or at least the ones that appear to be the most important or popular ones)

2. Apply them in real projects (and keep working on such projects for at least N years)

3. Realize how painful is to maintain some of your solutions. Unlearn what you have learnt

Point 1 is important (otherwise you may miss other people's good solutions). Point 3 is important (self-critic, self-introspection, let your ego go away)... but for me the most important one is point 2: unfortunately most fellow engineers out there jump from job to job after 1 or 2 years and they don't end up maintaining their own code (so, they usually don't get to experience point 3).

Where N is at least 3, in my limited experience.
Read it, and I think you missed the irony that the right of "physical integrity" could also be, and is more likely to be, the right to not have the government control your body, such as forcing people to take a vaccination. If you believe that the right to physical integrity in the German constitution is to make it your right to not get sick, how much more is it the right of others to not have you make medical decisions for them?
I would love to own a harpsichord but unlike pianos, which are available at all price points and easy to find, harpsichords seem to be very expensive (there is a builder in my town who charges 25k-35k for a new one, with years of lead time) not to mention very rare. Given this for now I just use VSTs with a normal midi keyboard, but that of course has a different touch and it’s not the same as having an “analog” instrument available.

Roland used to build some e-harpsichords years back (C30 etc) but from what I can find they weren’t incredibly well received and have been discontinued for some years now anyways.

In term of VSTs I enjoy most the physically modelled harpsichords in pianoteq, I do feel that Bach sounds a lot better on harpsichord than on piano, hence why I am hoping maybe some day I’ll find one for sale at a price I can justify given that after all I play (badly) just for fun.
I recall reading this once before, but I quite like full black backgrounds with full white text on them. I think it looks clean and sharp. Even on my IPS monitors.

I've always been annoyed with dark modes using grays instead of black. Thankfully OLED stuff is getting more popular and I can use the setting meant for them on whatever screen I want.
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