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a few comments from somebody who worked for many years for a competitor to Zoom.

The article author complains about some relatively minor details but completely misses the big picture.

I'm not going to talk about the availability and quality of the Wayland API, this was covered in other posts.

Here is what the decision looks like from the POV of someone building a product:

- Zoom is one of the few collaboration products which supports Linux with a native client. The native clients offer much better performance on every operating system.

- Some of the collaboration products (Zoom being one of them) implement 2 different codecs for the video streams and screen sharing. This is done to offer better performance, lower bandwidth, and better quality. For screen sharing the most important requirement is not which API is used, but if the text is readable.

- Zoom is a multiplatform product. All other platforms offer API for screenshots. Not all platforms have an API that captures the screen as a video stream. Using screenshots is the best way to cover all platforms.

- Collaboration products have high requirements for screen sharing: Capturing the entire desktop, capturing a single application, capturing a portion of the screen, excluding its own UI, etc. Support for multiple monitors, 4k, 5k support. Most of these use cases are not going to be covered by the Wayland API.

- This is a different use case than streaming your screen to twitch or youtube. Collaboration products have very low latency ( < 500ms). The presenter can change and any moment and clients can join at any time and they expect the screen-sharing stream to start immediately.

- Zoom supports h264 as their main codec. API which provides VP8 will require contradicting and encoding which will slow down the performance.

- Even if the video stream coming directly from the screen didn't require transcoding, it is still required to do a post processing. For screen sharing (with no video on the screen) it is wasteful to generate too many frames.
So sorry to hear that, condolences.
It’s a collection of short business stories from the day. It’s been a thing for at least a few years.
I guess it depends on how long the bad effects on the heart last after taking ISRIB. If it keeps lingering, you may need new pig hearts over time. Or.. Just keep taking ISRIB and just schedule a yearly pig heart transplant.
You seem to be using the legal definition of 'contract'.

We're using the computer science definition, which is simply "assuming it's correctly implemented, if you feed this program Foo, it'll do Bar".
But can we defend ukraine and taiwan at the same time? Can we afford to?
didn't try myself, but looks like the URL has been corrected now! :D
I spent a few years on a side project for a 'better' screenshot tool: https://www.bettersnipper.com/

Tried to sell it for $5 home / $14 office, but only got a handful of purchases. I still personally use it every day and have probably collect 10k+ Snips across all my computers. I converted the entire program from VB.NET -> C#.NET over a year which burned me out and I've kind of just let it wither due to lack of interest.

I aimed for the "10x better" than free tools, but most people are fine with the Windows Snipping Tool. :shrug:, on to the next project. I recently added an achievement system and a screen Gif capture feature, but haven't found the energy to polish+deploy those.
> The language is not diplomatic, in my opinion, since there doesn't appear to be any attempt at diplomacy.

Sorry, let me clarify. I don't see message-diplomacy as a binary thing.

The phrasing in that mailing-list message is way more diplomatic than comes naturally to me in such situations. Maybe that email has room for improvement, but I still benefit greatly such examples.
>Avoid the "My Computer" paradigm.

My Computer paradigm is long gone. They call it "This Computer" or just "Computer" now. There is no "My".
I know there are PCB manufacturers somewhere in the US. I don't know about packaging. Do you know which firms do packaging of the dies and why can't the US do it(It can't just be cost)? How hard can it be really? Its essentially plastic , maybe some metal, and gold isn't it? Maybe an argument could be made to locate at least one source of manufacturing for all these steps in a local area. But thats just the programmer in me wanting to optimize without understanding the realities of manufacturing costs.
No, this headline is very misleading. Blackholes eat everything that crosses the event horizon and nothing* ever escapes from that. But lots of thing near the black hole don't get sucked straight down.

Everything a blackhole pulls on already has momentum on it's own, so the black hole's tug causes it to spin around the blackhole. Angular momentum is conserved, so what happens to most matter is that the blackhole grabs it, and slings it hard in another direction, very little actually "falls" in. The stuff it slings out tends to move in similar directions, and that can cause things to clump together and form stars.

Additionally, all the spinning around the blackhole generates heat and radiation, this gets ejected in massive bursts coming out of the rotational axis of the black hole. This stream of energy can hit other dust, heating it up and causing it to condense. This can lead to a birth of a star.

It's long been thought that blackholes can form stars through those methods, but this is the first time it's been observed. Not groundbreaking, but does confirm a theory.

*: offer does not apply to hawking radiation
Or Mercury handling, for another.
Isn't it Web 1.5-ish? E.g., we have browsers but devs aren't satisfied with them as app platforms, so they use various techniques (in “original” web 1.5, applets or plugins or downloading a file that would be opened by a native app) to use web links to trigger running an app in a native, or at least more-to-the-devs-liking, environment rather than using web-native tech?
On the bright side, there have been reports of people getting their Framework to work with an external GPU.
Like, if you're Waffle House and short-order is your bread and butter, sure. But a lot of times the kitchen will pre-set up things so they can get them out as fast as possible. There's a lot of management and prep that goes into cheap Sunday brunch that gets tossed out the window.

Like I said earlier, it's fine during normal biz hours. But the 30 seconds of extra time the kitchen staff has to put into your special order during a huge rush puts all the orders behind it 30 seconds more behind. So a whole family ordering special orders can hold up 20 people's orders for 5 minutes. And that just builds up the more it happens.
Wouldn't you basically already have that telemetry if you tracked wifi/cell signals. I imagine that tech is already installed on starlink sats.

I haven't done much research on them though.
Yes. He also had a home in New Albany.
I was under the impression that spy satellites are put into much higher orbits to increase their lifespan but necessitating larger optical systems.

One of the advantages of a LEO based surveillance system is that the optics could be smaller at the cost of requiring more satellites with shorter life span.
I've had my laptop for a while now and haven't noticed any build quality issues. It definitely feels nice and light but it seems sturdy enough. I'm not in the habit of dropping my laptop on the ground but I do chuck it on to the bed from time and to time and it doesn't seem any worse for wear.
Is it formal methods to conclude that the vast majority of arithmetic, which for the software I typically write consists of iterators and buffer offsets dealing with fixed size buffers, can never overflow an int? Is it formal methods when I conclude that the 12-bit output from an ADC cannot overflow a 32-bit int when squared? Is it formal methods to conclude that a system with 256 kilobytes of RAM is not going to have more than 2^31 objects in memory? I guess I do formal methods then, at an enormous cost. Sometimes I have runtime checks with early bail outs that allow code later down the stream to be optimized.
At my last workplace, we had a service window of one weekend. Prior to this, an application had to be restructured to even make the schema upgrade able to finish in one weekend.
Would graphene nanotubes be considered a metamaterial?
Perhaps something like this under your feet:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Waterproof-Electric-Temperature-Adj...
I had a conversation with Apple support where they told me that the Chess program can not be deleted because it is needed for the Operating System to function properly. My first instinctive response was “today is not the April 1st, guys”, but apparently they weren’t joking.

If somebody told me this before I wouldn’t believe them, but here we go. Why would they do something like this?
I'm not a rust expert, but I thought rust without unsafes should prevent such things at the compile time. C# and Java will be compiled into WASM differently, I believe no less securely than JVM or .NET. Having information leaks is still better than arbitrary code execution.
A dnscrypt-proxy or similar tutorial is probably a good starting point
May you link that data book please?
Have your Node.js CLI tool up and running, accessible from everywhere in less than 15 minutes
Atomic Habits and Coding
A partial solution might be that games by developers without legal age verification can't utilize real money transactions via the Robux currency. That way Roblox isn't rewarded directly for it either.
I use for that Write from StylusLab. You have to sync the files yourself but I appreciate the fact that they are just .svg files that I can read later on with any program instead of some propietary format.

It's still not Notes/One Note equivalent (I'm in your same boat) but it's the closer thing I've found to use with my Android and Linux.
One is looking at it, another is polluting it and precluding others from looking at it. Surely you see the difference?
You may be interested to know about Planet Labs https://www.planet.com/
You're not going to learn electrical and computer engineering by reading stuff on Sci-Hub. You might get some knowledge, but so much is just simply never published that it's essentially tribal knowledge. Heck, even with professors walking you through every step of learning the topics, it's hard.

As for computer architecture, OSU is not heavily into computer architecture. It's much more focused on custom accelerators and ASICs as well as semiconductor research. And it is recognized as one of the best ECE programs in the world with one of the main problems with it being that the CS department is comparatively weak.

My graduating class, in a December, was still over 1,000 engineers. Spring graduation typically had 2.5-3.5K/yr.
There's a lot more to it than urban legends. A FEMA publication[1] from 1990 has a map on page 86 with assumed Ohio targets.

Tiny Waverly would have definitely been wiped off the map because of its fuel refining facility. There's a non-zero chance I keep my EMP-proof diesel truck running due to growing up in those times.

[1] https://www.jumpjet.info/Emergency-Preparedness/Hazard-Maps/...
If you are on the winning end of that bloat life is pure happiness and joy. But if you are on the losing end (ie. not employed/a beneficiary of these firms) then you are paying dearly for the joy that others have.
My comment addressed Covid-19 and the United States, sorry I was unclear.

Seems to me that if you follow an anti-inflammatory routine, smoke weed, and are physically fit, you stand a better chance than others of handling Covid.
Then I’m sorry. Truly. I was speculating wildly and incorrectly. My apologies.
The worst thing going for Ohio is the political landscape. An effort to restart passenger rail with a line from Cleveland to Akron was killed in the early 2000s, thanks to a small township of like 2000 people that would have had to hear a passenger train in addition to the freight rail traffic currently using the rail line already in place in their back yard. Regional planning is impossible with such a selfish and fractured political foundation, not to mention the gerrymandering done by statehouse republicans that maintains this state of dysfunction and pushes the state red.
Does this contain the land value tax formulas or is this much higher level than individual property taxes?
I don't think I actually made my stance clear before - the police are the people I'm scared of. They are the criminals I fear. And they regularly get away with murder, and essentially all of them help cover up crimes. I have no idea how you can defend them unless you are willfully ignorant.
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> A lot of Chemistry and Biology is full of exceptions (some might even say that exceptions are the only rule in chemistry)

What I meant by "exceptions" in my previous comment: if grammar books have to be "thousands of pages long," then at some point they're no longer listing rules but exceptions to them. I wouldn't expect this statement to even be controversial but since apparently it is, all the more it's worth clarifying.

Is the conjugation of the verb "to be" an exception, or is it covered by a very specific rule that only applies to that particular verb? I guess in the end it could be a matter of definition. But if this is supposed to be one of those "very complex — perhaps even unpredictable, or irregular [rules]," as the grandparent would apparently have it, then I have to question what his definition of an "exception" would be. Are there any exceptions to grammar rules at all?

As a matter of fact I agree with you. In fact, if you look at my original comment, I've been saying something similar all along. Philosophically, what we consider intrinsic rules of nature is often an approximation introduced to gain insight by reducing complexity. However, the discussion was in the context of linguistics, and beyond that I don't see any obvious parallel to the example from natural sciences you're bringing up.
Signal is just as smartphone-tied as WhatsApp. It's actually worse, as there is no web version and the desktop app is flaky. So there is no improvement here at all in this regard.
Hasnt the economic story of 2020-2022 so far has not been "lets see what happens when we open up" but rather "lets see what happens when we close down"?

How does 2022 so far imply to you negative evidence of "here's what happens when you open economies?" I am sincerely curious.
The reason the poor are discriminated against is to keep them poor. It’s pretty straightforward and often so reflexively implemented that it leaves room for someone to falsely claim it’s an unintended consequence.
YAML's parsing of `no` as `False` has not been part of the spec for 13 years now. It was changed in YAML 1.2 in 2009 to only be `true` and `false` (with variations in case allowed I think).
> was built by Les Wexner

I grew up near there. I guess I wouldn't quibble with the idea that Wexner "built" New Albany -- since it definitely isn't the same anymore -- but it was a town before he came along (two roads and a farm supply store, basically).

I used to go to summer camp at the old New Albany HS, and got my pickup truck stuck in the mud there many, many times while doing some odd job or another.
> There's no good reason anyone would intentionally want to keep the poor poor,

This seems naive to the point of being bizarre. Employers of lower skill and lower margin labor can get it cheaper if their prospective employees are more desperate and thus have less bargaining power. Low wages are the gift that keeps on giving because it keeps your prospective workers from saving enough to weather the risk of negotiating harder, quitting to look for better pay, etc.

If you look at places that have policies that seem to keep the poor down vs places less so, there's at least some clear correlation in terms of who the major employers with more influence in the state are -- those who rely more heavily on cheaper labor with lower profit margins, vs those who are much less exposed to that due to having higher profit margins or less of their costs come from commodity labor.

Just think about what the biggest businesses might be in say, Oklahoma versus New Jersey.

Another way to bring this point home, compare a middle class family in say, Mexico or India, to say, California or New York. Inequality is higher so the cost of basic labor is cheaper, which translates to people with the same middle class job in a place like Mexico or India being able to easily afford a lot more of the sorts of labor intensive services only wealthier people would have in much of the US, like a live in maid/cook, taking a long taxi trip to and from work 5 days a week, etc, stuff that a middle class person in the US would need to ration a lot more even if they do take some ubers here and there and eat out here and then.
> As a grad student, since I was teaching ugrad courses, I got paid, enough actually to live nicely

When was this? Nowadays the grad students are constantly complaining that they don't get paid enough to live and mandatory fees are too high.
I used my remarkable tablet to sign something once and it got rejected for looking too good. Had to print, sign, and scan with phone app to pass the must look crappy approval process.
The future in the datacenter is unikernel virtual machines scheduled by kubernetes.
You can also use a stricter subset of YAML that removes things like the "no" footgun. Plenty of such strict parsers exist across languages. Maybe it's no longer technically YAML at that point, but you get all the nice parts of YAML without having to revamp everything with static typing.
Senate panel approves antitrust bill restricting big tech platforms - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30014168 - Jan 2022 (110 comments)
This is so scary. Good for the author for sharing her experience
> 4.25 was nearly 25+ years ago at this point.

Nope! The minimum wage in Ohio was $4.25 in 2005, 17 years ago. It has however gone up since then significantly to $9.30 today.

I agree with the rest of your post though. The capriciousness and pettiness is very real, and doesn’t reflect super great on our society imho.
Are they forcibly injecting you? This is for people with desperate symptoms who are willing to take on more risk. I have no opinion on its efficacy fwiw.
An author of an open source project may do what they want, including using emoji in documentation like this.

On the flip side, I would never allow that code to be used in any of my projects, nor would I want to work with any contributors that think it is a "good" practice (nevermind "best"). To my mind, this documentation screams "unprofessional". I would be embarrassed to show it to any of my customers.

The code is not be the only thing by which a project should be judged. Bad documentation is worse than no documentation, because the author had a choice about the format and style that will be used. This project chose... poorly.
It has Ohio State University. One of the largest Universities in the world (50,000-ish students) and one that has been rising in the rankings steadily over the last couple of decades. It's quite a decent public school today. There are over a dozen colleges and universities right in and around the city.
The GP didn't mention that.
>Our plants are in rural areas and everyone is struggling to hire, from auto to bakeries.

This is a solved problem isn't it? Just pay people more and treat them with dignity and respect. The pandemic has given a lot of people the opportunity to realize that they do not have to settle for poorly paid jobs that treat people poorly. You should have realized and adjusted by now. If you cannot accommodate to these requirements, then you have no place in this market anymore. Just close up shop and move on.
Has live search, it's as quick as you can type.
Ahh, I see. I don't personally see what the big market is for anything blockchain related, so I went with one thing that seems reasonable.
Never seen one of these, but my dad used to have charcoal hand warmers similar to this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pocket-Hand-warmer-charcoal-includi...

We used to take them to football matches but eventually they became the sort of thing they'd confiscate cos fire and idiots don't mix.
The first thing I thought about was tornados, actually. That Amazon facility in Missouri was just totally flattened back in December. Given the cost of manufacturing chips, it seems like it would be a huge loss if it was hit.
I'm curious to know more, as both a potential competitor and customer :)

What's the name of your app, I'd like to give it a spin.
Elephants have multiple p53 genes.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18534
making an economic decision to make more money is different than making an identitarian decision to hurt a group you dont like.
IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29996614 - Jan 2022 (425 comments)
Maybe some interaction with iCloud Drive or Dropbox? iCD seems more likely to be able to take out the system, but maybe Dropbox does funky things as well?
>1. I think you are grossly underestimating just how many cables and cell towers would be needed to cover just rural North America alone (nevermind less developed places like Africa).

Not underestimating at all. Of course it will be a lot, but it has many advantages, and is by far more eco-friendly than shooting rockets into space.

>2. LEO satellite internet benefits more than just terrestrial clients. Ships and airplanes can now have more reliable communications.

There will always be a need for ship and airplane connectivity, but LEO being more reliable is still up for debate, and other forms of satcomms can be done with and order of magnitude less satellites.
Wow now I’m a fan of Denmark! This is the future of government!
I'd bet he could get funding from various governments by just hiring 1 astrophysicist and adding minimal hardware to the satellites. They're SDR so it might just be a software update.
They have actuaries to make sure they get their profit margin either way. Healthy insurance customers just make sick insurance customers happier since the price goes down.
Completely agree about e-waste, and as a result, I try to take good care of my laptops and use them for as long as I can (I used my previous one for about a decade, and it's still perfectly usable plugged in / for light tasks).
Because those making the decision are tasked with looking out for the health of everyone. I personally don't care what other people do until it impacts more than just their own health - which is why I'm also against drunk driving. Yes, I consider people's choice to not get vaccinated up there, morally, with drunk driving.

And no, obviously I don't think people should be rounded up and killed for not complying. But you are also aware your comment was not in good faith and not intended to advance the conversation, so the less said about your second paragraph the better.
Especially on a 13" screen. I have an XPS 13 with a 4k screen and I never use it at native resolution undocked because I'd need a magnifying glass to read anything on it.
What a $400 RGB Mechanical Keyboard Looks Like
That's all true on the spectrum of reasonable, honest dialogue. Bari Weiss is in the group not being reasonable, while asking for reasonable (determined by intellectual honesty, not political leaning) people's time.

Being tasked to reckon with the absurd and the deliberate muddling of issues is not, in my opinion, going to help much.