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Sometimes vendors don’t offer credit cards because their own credit is not good and they can’t get a merchant account. Or if they can it’s with huge per-transaction charges. This is particularly problematic when starting out and not having enough sales to get better rates Eventually when/if they grow they qualify. With the emergence of Venmo et al the chronically small vendor may never be motivated to get credit cards.
So as a phone it works great? I just want a device that calls, and having a bit of fun with Linux is a plus for me.

I wonder if they can’t use a raspberry pi like base, since in the Pi3-4 loading Firefox is quicker by a margin.
It's not like Microsoft couldn't have done that from the start. They were the software company, after all, so they probably should have done. They're both over 20 years into the game, now.
Wow, this is great for Blizzard games. Bliz has had the hardest time getting out of their own way for the last decade or so. The industry has moved from the "pay for the game + subscription" model but bliz has never been able to come to terms with that as a company. Hopefully Microsoft reverses this on day one and makes their games and content available with either Game pass or retail + Gold for multiplayer.
Same here. Our firm set records during the pandemic as tech layoffs were coming by the thousands in our city. None of our people were without clients. Some of the lower quality clients pulled back but there are plenty of companies with enormous tech backlogs.
This guy is a (inter-)national treasure!
Here my kids prefers the Java edition, for its mods.
That's a good point. The Gamecube was definitely underwhelming in it's library of games and frustrated a lot of consumers. I think the point I'm trying to make is that it was basically inevitable that there would be a new major console. The market was too big. I'm sure there was also a chance that this wouldn't happen, and Sega/Sony/Nintendo kept on ruling the market. But it just takes one misstep. And there were two (Dreamcast and Gamecube) right as gaming was really starting to explode into its present-day extent.

I'm not trying to argue about the specifics about what happened, but just in general terms, there was always going to be room for a competitor in a space that big, that was changing that rapidly. Imho.
Another big boy move. Satya Nadella is a proper CEO. Warms my heart to see someone competent up top at Microsoft again
> This doesn't just leave a bad taste in my mouth - it is also a giant waste of resources and causes initialization to be substantially slower compared to the alternative

I agree that shelling out on a whim that Kakoune does is a tremendous waste of CPU cycles as the OS needs to construct and tear down a whole process just to do something trivial. Having said that, in day to day usage, kakoune feels quite responsive. It's also easy to hack up plugins really quickly.

Shelling out is a crude way of getting some parallelism also. You might be surprised that constructing a new thread vs constructing a new process in Linux is not that much different resource/latency wise. Since bash/dash code is probably cached in the system memory somewhere already and libc etc are again dynamically shared, it may not be as bad to construct a whole new process. TL;DR it's bad but maybe not as bad as one thinks. It's definitely avoidable and I would not design it this way myself. I remember having to shell out once because kakscript does not know how to increment 1 to a variable and I needed dash to do that! That was one expensive +1 calculation! and I can almost imagine my CPU heating up!
We don't need small nodes for military/aero chips. It would suffice to keep some old fabs running to secure supply. The US needs fabs but they don't need Intel as a company.

Splitting out the fab business and letting it run into the red however could incentivize the government to save the fabs and the jobs with billions of bailout money while the other Intel continues to rake in money with TSMC chips.
A consultant should at least voice his opinion, I think, and not actively stay silent just to generate more billable hours. It might be slightly different for a contractor, but a consultant is, generally, hired for his knowledge.
Yeah, it doesn't matter from a tax perspective. You don't pay more on additional transactions.
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> it usually does so for at least half a year before getting cracked.

but do games where the denuvo isn't cracked early do get increased sales? I mean that's the (purported) claim that the various DRM schemes were to fight piracy, with the justification that piracy resulted in lost sales
Because after you spend $N billion catching up to Deere's manufacturing and expertise, they'll suddenly realize that yes, it's essential that farmers be able to control and repair their own equipment, and will use their massive war chest built on unethical practices to undercut you.

And when you're out of business, they'll go back to their old ways.
The title is just "a call to build models" not "statistical models".
With this strict standard, what do we do with 11+m illegal immigrants in the US? Getting paid in cash, are they indulging in tax evasion or in tax avoidance?
> I assume by "truly indie" they mean "bootstrapped or invested by neutral/disinterested VCs"

This is such a narrow, HN-ified view of indie developers that I genuinely have a hard time believing this is anything other than satire.
I think the one feature of Bitcoin that makes it interesting is its inherent scarcity. It mirrors gold in this sense, but it is a lot more flexible in that you do not have to deal with physical material.
Yes, some have encouraged people to stop using those for similar reasons. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/words-and-phrases-comm...
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Seems they're more likely to target the games than the engines though?

They have so much money they could easily buy Ubisoft, EA and Take-Two and make all major games Xbox and Windows 11+ exclusives.
No, they are there to get companies to pay them hundreds of thousands of $ in order to get them to unblock their advertising.

They'll also mistakenly introduce bugs to destroy your on-site metrics if you don't pay up.
How about when HSBC was caught inserting punctuation into entity names on wire transfers to evade blacklists so they could transfer around billions of dollars for drug cartels for years. No one got prosecuted, they got a slap on the wrist fine.
I do this, alongside a tool for finding duplicate files: https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes.
On the one hand, yes, it'd be nice to have faster options. On the other hand, yes, this is the best CPU that meets the constraints of the system (probably, "supports a SoC with drivers and datasheets available")
I don't see it as that much of a risk. One of the reasons Intel has so thoroughly dominated for so long was that they were at least at parity to slightly ahead on process nodes. If they don't get back there fast, they are in real trouble. Intel likes to command a price premium and you can't do that in second place.
I know them very well. And they were never called "open space". They were called state forests.
There's plenty of bluray drives still manufactured, mostly on each modern console. I hope I can find a working in 20-30 years, my PlayStation 1 is still working strong :D
People should be capable of understanding that the current laws allow deducting expenses for business purposes from taxable income.

If a small business wants to spend 99% of their revenue on expanding their business, they are welcome to do so and also not pay any taxes like Amazon.
Only when enforced equally, which is not typically the case in America
Also the tactic to use scandals for a drop in market cap before acquisition is quite common in IT. Last year they were valued for 30bn more.

Activision/Blizzard certainly had a big sales tag on their forehead.
Rambling is probably the right word, though for other readers here, you can probably get that yourself from reading the About page[1] or even just casually scan the newest post[2] for 5 seconds.

>> once i threw a party for the bay area rationalists, and the rules to attend were you had to be wearing a full-face coverage mask, and be naked. Many came; they all bravely stripped, donned weird masks... and then proceeded to sit in a polite circle and debate global trade.

Ah, OK. It's clear why this blog is recommended so frequently here now.

[1]: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/about

[2]: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/theres-a-time-for-ever...
Should we be paying the US government to send our young men to die in trumped-up wars that we have no reasonable hope of winning?

a) Vietnam

b) Afghanistan

c) Iraq

That's what your tax money goes to, folks.

Is that what Etsy moms should be paying for?

I pay my US federal taxes, because it's illegal not to.

But, at a fundamental level, it's immoral to do so.

I don't think all taxes are immoral. Just US Federal taxes.

Remember that the Federal government now exists almost purely to serve lobbyists and interest groups - not the people and not the states.
The problem with high-signal blogs is that they tend to be low-frequency…
If I might offer a suggestion, instead of using various git commands, you want to be able to just cp a folder to a mounted git folder, and echo the commit message to a .commitmsg in that folder, or something like that, right?
Supposedly barrels made with ECM (which takes about $200-$400 in initial investment to make, and under $20 per barrel thereafter) are about comparable to factory made barrels in accuracy. So not going to win any marksmanship competitions, but good enough for ordinary use. The FGC-9 uses ECM to make the barrel.
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As someone that has to file my own 1099s to people I pay, I feel this routine nickle and dimes me more than this new thing, since its so punitive to do and wastes my time.

This new thing is just the payment processors filing their own that just gives the IRS insight into which tax filings to match up.

A single mother selling arts and crafts already had to report earnings. Reporting doesn't mean there is a tax due. The single mother likely has many tax deductions possible just like the mega corps do.
>less product Intel pushes through its own fabs

that's the problem the article mentioned. Intel is an IDM. they developed their own tools/process and it gave Intel an edge during the early years of the semis industry.

however, it look like the industry catch up to Intel. Intel's own tools/process is no longer enough and in fact it became an technical debt.

Intel split into two allowed Intel's foundry to use standard equipment/software thus no needs to waste money on building its own tools.
You can manually specify the type of transaction through Paypal as either commercial or personal. If these payment processors are building an infrastructure to report commercial payments, I posit they can re-use the code for personal transactions as well. It might be as simple as changing a few boolean flags.

Realistically, a few years from now Janet Yellen will testify before congress that people are laundering money by flagging transactions as personal rather than commercial and that the Treasury has the authority to require Venmo, PayPal, and Zelle to report all transactions in order to go after tax evaders and people not paying their fair share. To calm any outrage, maybe they'll raise the threshold to $1,000 as a conciliatory measure.
It's totally accurate bc humans are a simple ape that should be living in bands of 50 to 150, but then we had several technological revolutions. Someday well be more like star trek vulcans, I'm sure.
> the technology is ripe to build houses that produce even more energy than they consume, but people simply don't want to live in them

It's called solar. Unless the house has a small footprint most can fit enough solar panels to more than cover their energy use.
It's not a monopoly. There are plenty of manufacturers in the market. However JD has significant, if not leading, market share in many markets along with being regarded as a premium brand, and has significant loyalty among a demographic where memories are long and loyalty counts.

They do make really really good machines, and their top-end gear is very highly regarded. All the above has allowed them to get away with some dubious practices. However farmers are also very cost conscious and there is growing dissatisfaction at the blatant lock-in.
Ah, cool cool, so when the IRS accuses you of committing tax fraud because you have $12,000 of undeclared "income" due to your roomate venmoing you their half of the rent, you just have to simply prove to the IRS that you aren't a criminal!
ender dragon in wow?
Actually that happened in every socialist country before they prevented their citizens from emigrating.
Right, and that's what would be supporting UBI: taxes. So either you're arguing that taxes are unjust because they take what is rightfully yours, or you're just saying that UBI will cost too much. It very much seems like your argument is the former.
There's really nothing stopping Democrats from proposing much smaller bills containing only the most popular parts of Build Back Better.
COVIDTests.gov has gone live a day early, letting you order 4 free rapid tests
Trillions of stimulus can lead to inflation.

Payment kill switches or other negative incentives can constrain money velocity in selected geo-regions or industries, as a deflationary tool.
>Do you know that this is the case or are you speculating?

I don't work in farming but I worked for an European HW manufacturer that's top in Europe in that niche and the CEO back then told us we're not aggressively pursuing expansion outside of Europe since US, China, Japan, Korea have their own local champions in this market and it's not profitable to go to war with them on their own turf, so he told us about this silent gentlemen's agreement where everyone keeps to his own market so we can all profit as "the pie is big enough for everyone, if we start fighting over it then we'd all lose". I assume the same business concept applies here.
My understanding is that the outrage is over spending time and money codifying new laws to collect taxes for small transactions instead of spending time and money codifying new laws to collect taxes from large tax-avoidant businesses and wealthy individuals who both are in a position to pay much more and who compared to average people pay basically nothing.
> I've found that the greatest benefit of cloud storage is not as a backup, but as our primary place to keep and look at photos. We started uploading and organizing everything in Flickr a few years ago, and now we spend more time enjoying our photos with Flickr's web and mobile apps than we ever did when they were scattered across our laptops and backed up to an external hard drive.

This is a good point. I was 100% anti-cloud for my photos, but have to admit the barrier of bringing out the external HDD and hooking it up to a PC means we hardly ever look at them.
Look how hard it was for Tesla to build cars. the Capex businesses are notoriously unattractive for VCs.

I suspect that it will take some other innovation to make this worthwhile to fund. Right to repair is not innovation, its just a single feature change, so nobody cares to solve it. It generates complaints, but probably doesn't hurt sales.

At some point, maybe electrification will be that innovation. Or maybe form factor? but, JD is not ignoring product development, they just have expensive spare parts.

A data point I never see is what JD reliability is like. Toyota has expensive spare parts compared to several of their competitors, but they are also very reliable. If JD's DRMs and expensive parts are concomitant with reliable tractors, then maybe this issue is really just interesting to techno libertarians and not actual farmers? I don't have any sense for the size of the JD repair market.
I am very sad that ES6 and Starfield will never run on a Sony console. Just like when some Gimlet podcasts I liked went Spotify exclusive -- this kind of thing is a net negative for the world.
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It's clear that the level of sophistication in recruitment, screening, and hiring in the tech world has reached new heights in the past decade. This has left me, and I assume many of us with a lot of absurd hurdles to jump to ever have a chance. It is, for me, a total black-box: I fail again and again, without any feedback of how to change. All I can do is try something slightly different the next time, with a new application/company, and see if I can tell anything from the changed variables.

While the problems with tech bootcamps need not be restated here, as an observer from the outside, I am always attracted to, specifically, the components of them that deal with actually forming a resume, getting recruiters, doing interviews, creating a portfolio, etc.

Is there a service that exists which can train people to apply to jobs? I just want someone human I can talk to, that knows the business, and can give me feedback on a given application, help me understand what I am missing.
What else are people going to do with their $3,000 Apple Goggles?
generally, yeah. it's always better to criticize some actual property of what you're talking about rather than try to make derogatory associations with some totally unrelated thing.

people pushing these ideas aren't "stupid", they have goals you disagree with. explain why the goals are harmful and the arguments are misleading.

in a more familiar context, if you are working with someone and they are making bad design decisions, calling them names isn't likely to be well received, but providing a better design is helpful.

here, in online-debate-speak: "stupid" is an ad-hominem
KYC is such a joke. Just today I got a form that says literally "I confirm that I am not using the services for money laundering or terrorism".

That's gonna stop them criminals!
There's also all kinds of probabilistic visualizations, which is maybe a third axis in that diagram. (I.e. call coverage, sampling profilers, various o11y approaches)

Research example: http://www.ijstr.org/final-print/apr2020/A-Hybrid-Weighted-P...

I think that will be an important field especially for software running at a large scale - because it allows to get a better understanding of large systems. It's also a loss of fidelity that has strong implications for individual interactions.

(And yes, I know o11y is already a large tool there. I'm just thinking we've merely scratched the surface of probabilistic views)
Also cranberries. New Jersey was the world capital for cranberry production with the headquarters of Ocean Spray juices.
When that 1 hour of food education is pitted against 10s of hours of immersion in an online dysfunctional-eating subculture, what prevails?

Perhaps children need 1 hour, or more, "don't fall in with the wrong internet crowd and let weirdos claim possession of your identity" education. I am not sure what form that would take.
I did use the reflog once, when I forgot to make a backup branch. It's not one of the commands I use regularly though.
> End-to-end encryption is valuable technology designed to keep our data and conversations safe. We are not opposed to end-to-encryption in principle and fully support the importance of strong user privacy. Instead, our campaign is calling for social media companies to work with us to find a solution that protects privacy, without putting children at even greater risk.

wouldn't apple's solution from last year be a pretty good solution for the way they're framing this?
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Synology has a built in app called Photos. It's relatively new (DSM 7), it has facial recognition which to be honest works half well at best. It might be the shear number of family photos we have but it does struggle to 'learn' as we tag people.

Provided the app is installed you can easily share the photo through WhatsApp or others on your phone. In terms of public access / link I have disabled this however its possible to expose through a cloud service (Synology cloud).

The photos app works well when exporting however I wish it has a backup feature however the flip side is my family wouldn't want all their personal photos sitting on our family nas.
Yes, great educational content and great interactive animations!

(Also, a constant reminder to learn WebGL. ;-) )
Assuming it is actually 60k, where in reality insulation is cheap. Having giant windows is useful for passive heat gain, but their mostly installed for aesthetics not practicality. Which means aesthetics are also increasing home values.

In terms of pure economics an extra 15k in insulation and 15k for a solar hot water system gets you further at much lower costs by actually providing hot water for showers not just lowering heating bills.
That's the same way I count cards.
https://youtu.be/DeazgPwP3D0?t=41
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Washington state in the US, which is near the bottom of US states in COVID deaths per capita (133.9 per 100k). Here's a graph [1]. In EU terms, we'd be right between the Netherlands (124.1 per 100k) and Germany (139.3 per 100k) on deaths.

Within most states in the US COVID rates (cases, hospitalizations, and deaths) vary quite a bit from county to county. My particular county has had 98.0 deaths per 100k, which would put us between Israel (90.7 per 100k) and Turkey (102.1 per 100k).

I'm old enough to not have older living relatives (my parents were fairly old when I was born) so that greatly cuts down on the number of living older people I've met leaving probably just former older coworkers that I'm not in contact with and whose deaths I'd probably not hear about.

My current company went full work from home a couple of years before COVID, and I think that everyone who works there is the type whose hobbies and other personal interests are mostly things done at home except for one guy, so it was pretty easy for most of us to largely avoid other people during the phase of the pandemic when vaccines were not available. There is one person who is into outdoors activities like hiking and climbing and camping, but I believe when he does those usually the only other people who are around are his family members.

Most ex-coworkers I'm still friends with would have taken good precautions, and they live and work in areas where the region as a whole took good precautions. I do have one ex-coworker friend who lived in a high COVID/minimal precaution state, and then moved to an even higher COVID/minimal precaution state, but he's in a city and county that takes it more seriously, and was eligible for vaccination early, so he's been fine.

My friends who aren't coworkers or ex-coworkers are mostly people I met in college. They almost all have an excellent understanding of science (the college was Caltech) and will have taking appropriate anti-pandemic measures.

Putting it all together, the result is that I don't know of any friends or acquaintances that had COVID, and if any of their friends did it wasn't a serious enough case for them to mention it to me.

I have had a couple people who came to my house to install or repair things who told me that they had had COVID.

[1] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...
If that's what the officials we elected decide to do, and we don't un-elect them, what else can you expect?

There is no "them" in this false "us vs them" narrative you're constructing. It's just us. We do this to ourselves.
> Concerned that I'll eventually be paying taxes on my rent and beer splitting.

You already paying those taxes through whoever bought the beer etc, so you wouldn't owe anything. But what I think could be a headache is now increased record keeping around those transfer payments -- ie; your S/O received net $x in payments from you and may now need to report and justify them.
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> The Mootrix

Well played, Sir. Well played.