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My parents used a Linux desktop for years in the late '90s and '00s, mostly because it was substantially easier for me to help provide support for. The only reason they no longer do is because tablets are simply a much more convenient form factor to do virtually everything they need to do on a daily basis.

There is a point at which usability is not about the specific interface, but that it's about applications and the OS being consistent. I, as someone using and programming computers for upwards of 40 years now feel that software is getting harder to use: it is less and less consistent while features are more and more difficult to discover. I hate the direction Gnome has taken where almost everything about the UI gets thrown out and re-written every few years, with features that I use simply disappearing. I hate newer versions of iOS where more and more gestures are added, while things like the home button are now gone and my phone pocket dials or turns on the light if I put it in my pocket the wrong way (which wasn't a problem in the first few generations). UI changes take mental resources away from the task at hand as one has to figure out how to do something that was easy to do before. An interface that that looks hard to use initially may well end up being easier to use if it is consistent and discoverable.

My number 1 UI complaint about GUIs these days is about the complete lack of keyboard shortcuts. Google Earth is one of the worst offenders: so many of the menus and dialog boxes have no keyboard shortcuts. The ridiculous part is that the Amiga did better on this measure more than 30 years ago. There was even an official Amiga User Interface Style Guide published in 1991 that spelled out how apps should look and feel. Even most MS-DOS apps had a consistent style to their interfaces and menus with shortcuts. MacOS may be one of the few in which menus remain fairly consistent and discoverable.

I now understand why the greybeards were grumpy with us young whippersnappers going and replacing the world. I am become one.
Climates and regions only have a mild correlation. How many regions would you need for a single state like California? If this were true, you would need seasonal ink in Wisconsin. Before selling it to you, they would have to ask a series of questions whether the printer would be in a climate controlled area or not, etc...
> Only if the authorities ceded their power to the blockchain, in which case this situation is unlikely to arise.

Great! Let's do it. It might take a few thousand years but this doesn't represent a problem with blockchain technology. The authority can and should still be around to enforce the blockchain, but they should still have to respect it.

>By replacing it with electronic fraud, which is much easier to do at scale and harder to disprove. If a good phish / zero-day gets you a house’s worth of money, even more people will try it.

This is an argument against electronic records, not blockchain specifically. They are side channel attacks.

> and you also have new problems like the possibility of someone claiming a malicious transaction years ago.

What do you mean by this? Maybe an example would help.
This is leaving out the real reason: they hold lots of Ethereum and were concerned that not enough people wanted to buy their tokens. So many NFTs have been made under suspicious circumstances that I wouldn’t take the stated goals at face value.
HP already burned their brand to the ground. I did pick up an HP color laser printer on eBay — but a model for which the toner-pirates have already hacked the chips. Apparently HP's more recent offerings don't have such a ready supply of 3rd party toner vendors.

Definitely a fucked up world we're living in. I feel bad for those less tech-savvy. Worst still for our planet though as I suspect that rather than lining HP or Canon's pockets, the less sophisticated users are simply tossing out these peripherals faster than an old VHS player.
Beware That Nocebo Strapped to Your Wrist
The NPM mindset.
The real problem is that showing a user what NFTs they own requires an indexing service.

Each NFT collection is represented by its own smart contract. So the only way to show a user what NFTs they have is to either iterate over all of the ERC721 contracts on the blockchain and iterate over all of the tokenIds calling `ownerOf()` for each one (millions upon millions of tokenIds to iterate through) or to maintain an indexing service that listens for transfer and mint events and updates state continuously for every wallet address.

Another issue is that someone can send an NFT to an address with or without being requested, just like an email can be sent with or without being requested. On cheaper networks, spam NFTs are a real problem. So OpenSea will hide NFTs unless they're from a reputable collection.

In my opinion, OpenSea's key strength is their indexing service. Beating OpenSea in a decentralized manner will require a decentralized indexer. Protocols like The Graph (https://thegraph.com/en/) are an example of how to do that in a decentralized way.
After. And i do think it will slow the spread. But cases will increase as long as people go to essential jobs and use essential services.

Omicron is one of the most contagious viruses known to man. It managed to spread everywhere despite countries initially closing their borders to SA, to the point where most people know relatives who are positive ~1 month in, whereas the original strain took much longer even in regions with few precautions. It has spread to a base in Antarctic despite extremely strict containment protocols. The only country I know of which has still managed to quarantine the virus is China, and even they are having some issues in the Xi’An province.
`Complexity is not a sign of intelligence; simplify.` couldn't agree more...
> The blast, which French newspaper L'Equipe said ripped through the floor of the vehicle before setting it alight, was not related to racing, the organisers added.

> Meanwhile Saudi authorities indicated there was no criminal suspicion.

Saudi Arabia is a joke, and the US is sustaining that joke.
Salting is useless if it gets too cold. So it’s only done at max -7C or so (if memory serves right). Here in Finland the southern parts are a salth bath. But the colder northern parts are not salted, and that shows in the average rust levels of cars.
You may be technically correct, but in real life where the rest of us live, it means this study can't be used to draw any conclusions.
And if bread rises to $100 a loaf?
You want to ban parents from financially helping their children?

Never going to happen.

You can argue for caps and limits, but insisting that parents can’t transfer anything to their kids is nonsense.
But rocket lake exists. You can avx512 on a 11 series
The shamefully cruel part is that some random exam can have long term consequences.
Salting of roads is only done a very narrow band of environments, the UK sitting in the middle of it. If it’s too cold, only a couple of degrees lower than a UK winter, then the salted melt water will re-freeze into deadly black ice. I believe the UK is fairly unique in how much we salt roads, most other countries will grit roads but not salt them.
Teenagers will be cruel no matter what. Finding non-shitty friends in Highschool is an important skill, that is pretty much independent of what phone you have.
As soon as money is concentrated a lot, it multiplies much faster, more or less automatically. This is called capitalism. This is the counteracting force to division of inheritance. Exceptional grit and luck is not needed anymore, it is sufficient to just be not exceptionally unlucky.
Yes, you'd need an automated way to catch the API breakage, which would be particularly tricky.

And even with very strict typing, the breaking change showcased in the article wouldn't have been caught, the API stayed the same, it just behave differently. Not every backward incompatible change is as simple as a function signature change.
Also all that hoarded unearned wealth can buy a lot of influence. Look around your city at who the civic leaders are and the agendas they are pushing with wealth that accrued just because great grandpa followed his manifest destiny and was in the right place at the right time to acquire tracts of natural resources or now-valuable urban real estate.
> This article has nothing to do with wealthy families losing their wealth after two generations. The 70% number is a complete fabrication, they couldn't even be bothered with coming up with a more believable number like 73%, or even defining what amount is losing it.

The 70% is said to be an estimate. Now it's true that they don't get into detail about the estimate (and that's a red flag for this kind of article - I'd prefer to hear more details - the article's pretty light on substance as it is), but just to explain: it's considered bad form to give more precision in an estimate than is meaningful. People might be mislead if they said 73.25345% of families for instance, as it gives an undue semblance of certainty and accuracy (even if that's the number that your method of estimation came up with, you'd be better off zeroing the part of the number that's just noise). Giving a round number is considered more honest and a better communication of the uncertainties involved. Though if you're not familiar with these conventions it might seem odd.
My bad! This is indeed what I meant, not native english speaker, in french we use the same term for both meanings
The US had an early incumbent SMS culture that never gripped most other countries, so iMessage is here to stay.

Outside the US I have friends in their 30s who have never even sent text message.
When I print artwork, inkjet is my only choice. I have an Epson for that.

For everything else, yeah, laser printer.
Around here a problem with discs and brake pads as well and forb electrical vehicles in particular.

Wear keeps rust at bay but when they don't get enough wear to remove rust it can make the discs uneven and at that point it can easily spiral out of control.
One of the first orders from Amazon in 1995 was from Bulgaria
Then how did OpenSea remove the NFT from Moxie's wallet?
It's where you take some anecdotes and then apply "most" and "the majority" to them that I really disagree with. There are a lot of serious computer users and professionals who would love to be using a FOSS OS free from all the bullshit of Microsoft and Apple, but are unable unable to because even if it is theoretically possible to do what they do on Linux, the headaches of doing so are just not worth it and it doesn't look like the Linux Desktop community is very interested in changing that because it is "good enough" as far as they are concerned.
You can tap someone's keycard or wallet with an Android phone and get the UID; here's an example app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nellon.mif....

That's much easier than picking even the shittiest lock where you'd need picking tools which have less plausible deniability than let's say a phone, and yet these "secure" keycard systems cost significantly more than a shitty lock.
Yes well that is exactly why they are ensuring the "NO" button is at least as large as the "yes" button. It's still not critical since the point, again, is to make them annoying to use; offering choice is secondary.
You scenario is conceptually close to the Liar cycles explained in paragraph 1.3 of the article. But what makes the crux of the paradox is the referential « pointing » between each statement which is a feature lacking in your example.
Overall great. It is important to me to sleep on a hard matress, without a pillow. Once I made these adjustments my Sleep improved greatly.
But I am only in my early twenties so probably not that great of an reference.
Also after hard physical work the sleep gets even better.
But its devices can still be used anywhere in the world, even if the company doesn't do business in certain places.
But zero sheep is not a flock.

(Besides, there's uncountably many things you have zero of in you room.)
Sad that "recurring customer" is not considered "revenue".

Maybe going the VC route is toxic.
If you use a type1 UUID, you shouldn't have quite so random distribution, particularly if there's only a single machine generating the UUIDs (which admittedly, kind of misses the point, but alas is done all the time).
But where has this led to actual savings for ratepayers?
It doesn't. Just demonstrates how nascent this space really is.

Decentralized exchanges for fungible assets already exist and work extremely well (and I prefer to centralized exchanges whenever possible), such as Uniswap (https://app.uniswap.org/#/swap), Curve (https://curve.fi/), and Sushi (https://app.sushi.com/en/swap).

Decentralized exchanges for NFTs are being worked on. No one has quite nailed the full end-to-end user experience yet, but it will happen. It's inevitable.
I don't get the negative comments. The results look alright, but they lack detail at this point. This will improve over time and there are probably a lot of applications that don't need this level of detail anyway. I'd guess this will put some 3D modelers out of a jobb x years into the future, classic disruptive tech stuff!
Here in Seattle the DOT is proud to salt the roads, in spite of the damage it causes to plants, cars and the dirty runoff it generates.

Considering we didn't let a current mayor make it to the runoffs over his mishandling of snowmageddon a decade ago, I don't think SDOT will be considering modern salt alternatives anytime soon.

It is kinda odd, in snowier rural Oregon they just used red rock cinders to deliver snow and ice traction effectively. But salt seems to be a lower effort solution?

https://www.theurbanist.org/2019/02/06/seattles-salt-addicti...
Couldn't make it through this. Author has the most obnoxious way of writing and rambling.
Maybe a better way to handle it is to abolish income tax-free inheritance (I'm not talking about a wealth tax). If you make a gift of property while alive, the recipient would, if they sold it, still owe income tax on any gain in the value of the property since your acquired it. But if you die and the property is inherited, in the U.S. there is a magical basis adjustment to the fair market value on date of death, so all that income is suddenly tax free, for no particular reason.
Ritual human sacrifice could alternatively be described as someone taking an approach to religion that you don't like.
I like Django: it’s admin interface is worth the price of admission, but encouraging people to put their database credentials directly into settings.py is setting developers up for failure. Anyone who claims “just be more diligent, bro” is someone who does not take security seriously.
It doesn't look like you're measuring factorization performance? OpenBLAS matrix-matrix multiplication is fine, it just falls apart when going to things like Cholesky and LU. Also it falls apart on smaller problems, like <100x100 cases.

> not the default, I've now checked

Whatever the Julia default build is doing, so probably not the recursive LAPACK routines then if that's how it's being built. If there's a better default that's worth an issue.

> That said, I don't understand why people avoid AMD's BLAS/LAPACK

There just isn't a BLIS wrapper into Julia right now, and it's much easier to just write new BLAS tools than to build wrappers IMO. It makes it very easy to customize to nonstandard Julia number types too. But I do think that BLIS is a great project and I would like to see it replace OpenBLAS as the default. There's been some discussion to make it as easy as MKL (https://github.com/JuliaLinearAlgebra/BLIS.jl/issues/3).
If you pick your hardware somewhat carefully you won't have to waste time into it.

I feel like the misconception Linux tends to break is because of Ubuntu. It's easily the most popular distribution and every time I had the misfortune of working with it I run into packaging issues and upgrade issues every 6 months.

Once I switched to rolling release distros I had way less problems.
Mice and rats are not humans. Sensational headlines with strong conclusions drawn from animal model studies is not good science.
um, I live in Seattle and I can tell you that even from here there’s constant new news of organized crime, cartels, and terrorist organizations operating out of Canada.
Don't step over dollars to chase pennies. If we were to filter people by their previous experience on running a 2.8t dollar company, or growing a company to 2.8t dollars, then Tim Cook is the only person that qualifies.

Apple made 94.68 billion while paying Tim Cook 98 million. They paid him 1/1000th of their profit. If Apple knew someone else could do 10% better than him, they would very gladly replace him and could even pay his replacement ten times more. Ten percent more of 94 billion would be 9.4 billion, while the replacement would make 1 billion.

I don't know if you are a software developer, but often they will look "up" at people making more than them and claim that they make too much, without looking around understanding that no company pays new grads $200k out of the kindness of their heart. The answer to why anyone makes as much as they do is simply because the market allows them to capture that much of the value they create. Emotions and comparisons are not relevant.
The best buck for money on HPC clusters, those supercomputers using Intel and IBM proprietary compilers, which are now based on LLVM on more recent versions, thus also need to support Fortran to finish the toolchain transition.
My car has 160k km since 2005. The problems are everywhere else except the engine

First - it is rusting a lot. Then the car door doesn't close properly when it is colder than -15 or -20. Then the car has decided that the esp is faulty 2 times on longer rides in cold weather and that the max speed should be 20kmh (luckily a restart of the car fixed that)
> Crypto has been solving technical problem after technical problem for over a decade but has yet to offer anything useful to a non-enthusiast.

https://www.investopedia.com/news/hyperinflation-produces-su...

https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-venezuela-bit...

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/turkeys-inflation-is-an-exam...

https://www.borgenmagazine.com/bitcoin-in-el-salvador/
> consequences of failing are too high and the risk will have a repressive effect on society

as a USA citizen I absolutely agree with this -- a rise in low-level legal cheating over money, and a marked decrease in arts and the lives of artists, are plainly visible now
> But the one thing they cannot do is seize your NFT without your volition

That’s not true.

I mean, even if the access to the NFT relies solely on material in your head, there are pharmacological approaches, among others, that while not necessary reliable, can cause you to give up information without meaningfully willing it.
This used to be the case, I'm not sure since when nor if that's how it works on every android phone as every manufacturer customize its own OS. I'm pretty sure this has happened to me on my OnePlus 3T and it definitly happened on my OnePlus 6. This is a bit problematic as my Google account has a generated password in my password manager, if I forget to remove it before doing a factory reset, I usually change my password for a simpler one until I have bitwarden installed back on the phone after the reset
It's actually secure in the sense that the lock is difficult to pick and breaking the window leaves evidence of the break-in.

In contrast, exploiting these electronic locks leaves no evidence - the same would apply to easily pickable mechanical locks of course, but at least the shitty mechanical ones are cheap.
The biggest problem I run into with webhook-based systems is that getting security exemptions to make them work is painful in some environments that we deploy into.

People are less paranoid about you making an outbound GET than being open to handle an incoming POST.
Is it that they truly want it distributed across the key space or distributed across the shards?

With MySQL, you're writing to a single box. Because of that, you'll want to be on hot pages. With Firestore, you're writing to many boxes. If you hotspot with Firestore, you're only writing to one box. If you write completely randomly to Firestore, maybe each box is bottlenecked to 400 wires/second (rather than 500) because there's no locality on each box. But if Google isn't charging you based on locality, there's no penalty for you since it'll scale up to more boxes (invisibly behind the scenes).

If you're only writing to one box, might as well take advantage of locality. If you have the opportunity to write to many boxes, you don't want all of the load going to one box.

However, one could imagine a distributed system where you could try and get both. Create an ID that has the ShardId to route it to the correct box and then something sequential after the ShardId. If you had 1,000 shards and 25 boxes, each box would be responsible for 40 shards so you wouldn't be perfectly sequential, but you'd kinda end up with 40 hot pages rather than randomly writing all over the place. It would also give you ample room to scale up your cluster.

So there is room to apply this technique to a distributed system as well.

Oh, one thing I'd note is that MySQL's InnoDB uses index-oriented (clustered) tables as they note in the article (which is why this is important with MySQL). PostgreSQL doesn't use index-oriented tables so new rows are (I believe) just written sequentially by default regardless of ID. It will have to update the primary-key index, but because the PK will be a lot smaller than the whole rows, you probably don't have to worry as much about randomly writing there. It's easier to keep an index hot than to keep a whole table hot.
Maybe BookStack can do fine for a company with a few dozens of employees. But Confluence can handle tens of thousands of employees. So I wouldn't label Bookstack as a Confluence alternative.

Maybe I'm missing something, but BookStack doesn't even have a notion of "teams" only roles. You can't give permission of a file to a user, only to all users who have a certain role.

But I'm certainly biased as I'm building a real Confluence alternative
>Assuming no green, and a perfectly unbiased wheel, black if a fifty fifty chance. Which means the next infinity sounds half will be black. If there were three blacks in a row, it doesn't mean red is more likely, as the rest of the spins half will be black

Well, the point is:

"black if a fifty fifty chance" and "the next infinity sounds half will be black"

doesn't sit well with:

"if there were three blacks in a row, it doesn't mean red is more likely".

The roll is independent, but in some sense either the roulette is unfair or red will increasingly be more likely.

In other words, since there is a statistical property working across many/infinite rolls (regression to the mean, black/red equally likely), this property makes sense to also somehow affect the possibility of individual rolls (as individual rolls are still rolls within an aggregate).
This is superb. Thanks for making this.

Looks like a good Notion alternative too.
Might be tricky, mostly due to how the transaxle works. Even if you find a space for the battery (the 2021 Rav4 PHEV has bit less ground clearance) the electrical motor of that generation might not be able to drive it on faster speeds without the ICE on. For normal city driving it might work just fine though, kinda like the old custom PHEV swaps for priuses.
NFTs can actually be the opposite of DRM. They are ownership without exclusivity.

It is literally impossible to prevent piracy, but we still want people that create art/music/games to get paid - NFTs are the solution to this problem. The artist gets paid, fans get indie bragging rights, and everyone gets to enjoy the content.
Do you have a better estimate for the percentage?

I share your skepticism because there's no source, and indeed the burden should be on the author of such an article, but you seem to be making strong unfounded statements yourself.

Probably Piketty has some relevant data?