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This is the perfect marriage of music and animation. I absolutely love it.

Here's a video of her creating an animation, the technique is called KYBDslöjd or Live Type In, I think all the key-presses get recorded, then the sequence replayed in time with the music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTh-3weZR8

The software was developed at demo parties in the Swedish demo scene.

https://17days.wordpress.com/2016/09/15/day-14-raquel-meyers...
Counter counterpoint: Samsung, Fitbit, Garmin and dozens of other players are still selling smartwatches. The majority of phones in the world do not run iOS, so you can't pair a Apple watch with them.

There is a still active market for 2nd hand Pebbles. There are things you can do with a Pebble that you can't do with an Apple Watch (e.g.: use it in a barcode reader, make your own watchface, etc).

At this right moment I have a Pebble in my left hand. I don't want to use an iPhone or Apple Watch.
"This API you use has changed, you have 6 months to update your code" is not unheard of.

On AWS, the equivalent is "We no longer recommend this, and it's not visible in the AWS console unless you are already using it or have asked support to enable it, but it will keep working indefinitely".
> What’s utterly astonishing is what’s going on in Shanghai in spite of this.

And ironically, with the case numbers vs. deaths we see there, it seems to strongly support the stance that the crisis is over. 7 deaths for 12k infected is ridiculous. They just cannot change course from zero covid without losing face, this is why they push through with this nonsense.
Home Builders Bypassing Individual Home Buyers for Deep-Pocketed Investors
no paywall -- https://archive.ph/nYGXa#selection-95.5-95.79
There are also people who forget Apple is using TSMCs best node exclusively. Don't get me wrong, it's impressive stuff, but nothing AMD or Intel cant do in the future.
Ad blocking support in Safari isn't great. A lot of the best extensions are a paid subscription, and the free ones seem to be noticeably worse the uBlock Origin.
With some "sympathy for the devil" I will make the opposite case that something happened (Auto-tune, loudness wars, over-production, the then 70 year old boss of Viacom deciding unilaterally that MTV wasn't going to play music videos anymore...) in the 1990s and music really did die.

At the time they blamed Napster for the drop-off in sales but I think the music really got worse.
Most of Europe has moved passed crisis stage, as they've gotten rid of almost all restrictions. It's hard to argue otherwise
Fate, Pepsi, faders. Good times.
>I want to house the homeless. The Dutch can do it, but somehow in the discourse here, it's "impossible"

I mean the Dutch don't do that. Homelessness in the Netherlands has been rising for years and is higher per capita than the US. It's also one of those "very hard" problems - SF spent something like 300 million a year to try and house 8,000 homeless people and failed at it.
Early on in the pandemic when we saw stories like this about entire families who succumbed to covid:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/nyregion/new-jersey-famil...

...I wondered if the problem in the U.S. is really an obesity "epidemic" and not a COVID epidemic. The statistics for non-elderly deaths seem to bear this out. (Of course, the NY Times neglected to comment on the elephant in the room.)

I was never a COVID skeptic -- I got vaccinated, and I wore N-95 masks, fitted as best I could, when indoors in crowds. I rarely ate in restaurants so giving that up wasn't a big lifestyle change for me. (I was fortunate to have a decent supply of N-95 and N-99 masks pre-pandemic because I often visit places where things are fabricated, and dust and particles are around.)

But I was skeptical about mask mandates for one simple fact -- whenever I was out in public, I'd observe that only about 30% of people were wearing masks in a way that could possibly do anything -- covering the nose and mouth, and not taking it on and off continuously / not touching the face. So we'll never really know if masks work on population studies.

There was a lot of "theatre" -- (I fly a lot for work, and still flew during the pandemic to Europe and the mid-east quite often. I have multiple passports so I could get into places even during times when tourism was banned). Airplanes never banned CPAP use in flight, even though study after study from previous airborne viruses showed CPAP to aersolize a person's exhalate and spread disease. (See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7298691/ ). United Airlines claimed that they were following the guidelines of the "Cleveland Clinic" for their covid mitigation, and yet that clinic warns about CPAP machines. (The reality is, the airlines didn't want to battle the ADA rules, so they put the public at risk.)
If it were just that victimhood feels good, that wouldn't be enough to keep this line of thinking alive. The bigger problem is that guilt feels good, and we have people thinking it's okay for powerful institutions to convince other people that they're powerless victims.
Half true. You can improve the situation within your sphere of influence, and if you so choose, grow that sphere based on time and resources.

Life is unfair though, no doubt about that. Find joy in making it less unfair when you can, we're only here for a blink of existence.
You could make `exit` quit the application when __repr__ is called.

Not sure if this is a good idea however.
It's worse:

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>> help
Type help() for interactive help, or help(object) for help about object.
>>>

Python tells you to type "help", but when you do it turns out that that doesn't do much. I get it, they want to make the distinction between help() and help(object), but I feel that could have done a bit more friendly.
When I setup a new iPhone, I do not think I am forced to expose myself to any social stuff other than SMS/MMS/Phone calls. And I think those can be disabled too, or at least the notifications.
Even if it was political bs, it became a crisis. We shut down adequate health care for serious health issues like cancer; in favor of covid policies.
Then https://archive.ph/ReX7m
We've allowed high finance to build tech behemoths that swallow up smaller, innovative companies and build powerful barriers to competition. We've also outsourced our manufacturing capabilities to other countries, partly induced by, and partly inducing, a race to the bottom for cheap devices and frivolous gadgets.
I downvoted you because what you said was simply wrong.
I wonder why you would think that it's normal. If something is unjust it should be prosecuted, regardless of the past.

There will always be criminals who get away with crimes, this doesn't mean that we should give up.
I've had google maps navigation read a road used by two routes such as "US-91/89" like a fraction, "Exit onto US ninety-one eighty-ninths."
There are plenty of good psychological answers here. Here's a philosophical one:

According to existential philosopher, José Ortega y Gasset, "true beliefs" are very old ideas that we have 'inhabited for centuries' and have come to trust implicitly - without question. What we call "beliefs" are "ideas" (about reality) that function as coping mechanisms. They help us deal with the crisis of 'not knowing'.

Both are subject to reinforcement/agreement or challenge from "the world", society or by individuals. We like reinforcement and agreement because it makes us feel safe. When someone challenges our beliefs, it threatens to throw us into crisis. It can make us angry because it goes right to the core of our sense of safety. I think a lot of political i.e. socio-economic, religious and tribal disagreements fall into this category.
Games nowadays are often updated for a long time (e.g. Factorio), so the initial launch date is less relevant. I would argue that indie games are doing really well right now, and the AAA gaming companies' reputations are in the gutter.

EA, DICE, Take Two, Ubisoft, Bioware, Konami, even the once vaunted CDProjekt Red's reputations are in tatters (of course, they still sell tons of games). Gamers are tired of copy and paste money grabs, full of bugs on launch and overhyped to the moon.

The accessibility of game development tools to almost anyone globally, the pandemic, and the relative ease of digital distribution is a boon to indie game makers (Steam, Epic, Itch, GOG, Indiegala....).

Valheim, Among Us, Project Zomboid (launched 2013, becoming much more popular recently), Escape from Tarkov are all examples of indie games doing well. Check out /r/patientgamers and related subs and you'll see more examples.
It goes even deeper, Legowelt is Xosar's husband.
It'll be fixed in Windows 12. Tick tock goes the Windows release cycle.

Meanwhile Windows 10 is turning out to be another XP or 7 for me. One needs to stick it out until the next "tick".
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> The US has used the prison system to persecute black people en mass for the past 70 years. Look at differing rates of incarceration and length of sentences.

Do you mean the absolute difference between rates (black people in prison for 1000, white people in prison for 1000) or relative to the crimes that people commit (X people getting a longer sentence on average than Y people for the same crime)?
The talking head in that video is Alan Jones, Australia's most notorious right-wing talk back radio host, or he was last time I checked. That's about as far as you can get in Australia from a reputable news source. His whole thing is stirring up ignorant lynch mobs by being inflammatory. Human flame bait.
Put the goal posts back where you found them.

>take our soma

Nobody mentioned anything about using drugs.

>encase ourselves in silent solitude

Normal people call it "sleeping".
See my take-away from your first paragraph is quite different from your second paragraph.

The point isn’t to argue about who’s counter-factual is right or wrong, it’s impossible to say.

At this point everyone has taken a position as to whether the “mitigations” were ethical, legal, effective, or not. There’s no point discussing it anymore unless or until people in power try to re-impose them.
> Nobody does a conference talk about the uninteresting boring work that gets done.

Id go to that
Interesting. Love your work
I still use them. Easier than fiddling with AWS.
As someone who has experienced both systems, the fact Canada covers all is great but there are big issues with wait times and coverage gaps (in some provinces).
I don’t think there’s a keyboard shortcut for it though is there?
I'm 22. I feel like there hasn't been any major technologcal shift since ~2014. Phones have gotten faster and more capable, but are still mostly the same. Social media has gotten bigger, but hasn't innovated in a meaningful way. "AI" has gotten better which is fascinating, but in the end it will most likely just be used for manipulation, surveillance and manipulation.
I can't really think of any technology to look forward to, that would improve my life or change the world (in a positive sense).
I agree: I’ve always been fascinated by the charts showing that Apple + Samsung sum to more than 100% of the phone industry profit, and have been mildly curious about the same thing in the PC market.

I just responded to that crap article on the basis it presented.
Well, for starters, you may lose important local services.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39516346
Bringing physical reasoning into statistical practice in climate‐change science
The D.C. Wine Bar Manager Who Started the Ukraine Biolabs Conspiracy Theory
> True, the scale of destruction in Iraq, Afganistan and dozen other countries is nothing like Ukraine military shelled and shot their own civilians then staged a photo-op.

Now we know what you are. I reference the on-going vast war crimes of Russia in Ukraine, and you talk about it being a self-inflicted, pretend photo-op.

The scale of destruction in Afghanistan? This is how I know you're flailing. The US spent an epic amount of money attempting to build in Afghanistan. The US paid for more schools and hospitals to be built in Afghanistan than the rest of the world combined fifty times over throughout all of Afghanistan's history.

Now Afghanistan is ruled by the Taliban, which was their situation before the US went in. The Taliban are promptly tearing down civilization, instead of trying to build it up.
Is it necessary? I've operated in Kubernetes environments for several years and not had a visualizer like this and survived just fine. If anything, it's neat you can do this in k8s relatively easily and "for free" on an existing cluster. The only complexity this calls out is that of microservice architecture done to an extreme, but not that of Kubernetes.
coughinternment of japanesecough
The ultimate bad faith argument is government propaganda, which definitely works wonders in shaping public opinion.
Stay on topic, this is about China’s abuses right now.
Am I crazy to think Gtk4 is now a viable cross-platform alternative to Qt?

The Gtk devs have at least given the impression that they want to support other platforms (for example, this talk: youtube.com/watch?v=FB2Y2Wk6FKE or this post: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/is-gtk-4-cross-platform/6144/2). And getting it up and running on Windows with MSYS was pretty easy. It also uses GPU-accelerated rendering if available.
Shout out again to the interesting perspective on the topic from the IpFire Forum. Some excerpts:

>Now, everybody is looking for a cheap ARM board with performance and loads of features. The Raspberry Foundation is a charity that pays probably no tax at all, but somehow is selling lots and lots of boards at an absolutely “amazing” price.

>Amazing because nobody else in Europe can compete with them. Paying no taxes helps. The second step is that they have almost completely outsourced their software development. They call it Open Source-ed, but that is not the same.

>Over many years, there has never been a release of that piece of hardware that was supported by a mainline kernel. Neither Linux nor any other of the *BSDs. They simply do not care what software runs on it.

https://community.ipfire.org/t/arm-sbc-support-discussion/26... Post number 4

Earlier discussion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504615
This is an odd reply - you're claiming someone is wrong by showing them that someone else on this website was also wrong. The commenter specifically mentioned the silly way we have to wear masks while being seated but can then take them off, even if we are less than six feet from the nearest table with other unmasked people. A LOT of people have this exact same complaint, and to write it off because those people are not "experts" is just ridiculous. How does it make any sense??
That thing looks T H I C C
Describing the US attacks on wedding parties as "a one time accident" rather than "our targets often spent years in hiding before finally coming into the open for a wedding, so we ended up bombing hundreds of weddings and calling them legitimate operations" is... ahistorical, to put it kindly.

No, it's not the same scale of evil as wiping out a city, but... pretending it's less than it was is an ugly look.
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That is only if you want to use it commercially.
> Companies also vastly overestimate their scale when their entire business could probably fit on a single commodity server.

Indeed, but that's completely leaving out the single most important thing: backups. With all of the major clouds, snapshots are easy to do both at a VM level and data level (e.g. RDS), and the cloud provider takes care that the backups are sufficiently spread to be disaster tolerant.

In contrast, when you co-locate you have to take care of backups completely on your own, and with many hosters you can't even influence in which of their DCs your servers will be.

If anything, OVHs SBG fire incident should have shown everyone how hard it is to build resilient systems.
> I finished reading the article here

So basically you stopped at the subtitle, which makes it dubious that you got the context. The author is an historian and is not argumenting but presenting.

> World religions tend to agree[:] no lying allowed

There is at least one major exception, the details out of appropriate place here, but again in a statement that some responsibilities imply managing, as opposed to informing with frank cold mindless detail. And in fact, looking for words for these statements, one sees that 'informing' is kind of crucial because with refined instruments you give form more easily and properly than with a mallet, which could deform or break. And in fact, the same religions also agree to "no violence allowed", some bring it to topic even before the "truthfulness" bit. But since, explicitly, there exists violent truth, things are actually some bit complex and this is valid even for those of us "who consider liars as lowlife and lying the most undignifying stain".

The said «agree[d]» message is more like, "you are mandated to the fullest, radical, absolute truthfulness inside: no shade of false should enter your being (which would be poison)". Managing situations intelligently, that is another matter.

Concepts are pretty subtle there, since the very shade of lying remains uttermost filth. Some use 'cunningness' for filthy instrumentality, so maybe you could use 'prudence', similarly to Pontano, to express performing one's duties with honest and clean and yet mature discrimination.
For me...

Significant daily fluctuations of pressure and/or humidity.

It's not the increase (or decrease), but rather the rate of change.

Once the weather stabilizes, headaches tend to go away.
> What is being described is beyond that

Instead of describing it, why not provide a quote with a citation to its context?
Technology is super interesting right now. Deep learning and computational optimisation in general just unlocked an important part of what was thought to be too hard before, and now we need to combine it with other things in the right way. Of course, if you think you can solve it ALL with deep learning, you will be disappointed. If you think of DL as an additional tool in your box, you just got so much more powerful.
I think even more than mailtools/fileservs and punters, my favorite thing about AOL progz was just being more expressive. When you hung out in TeenPoolParty13, you could be extra cool by sending text that was wavy, or mixed colors, or different sizes, fonts, etc when the actual UI didn't let you use that many options. But it let you embed HTML (and I guess UTF) so with a prog you could be more expressive, or just plain weird.

I've never forgotten how progz, Geocities, and MySpace all showed that people want to express their individuality and experiment if you give them the chance. But the boring commercialism of the 2010s internet killed the user's ability to be special.
Give away?

Use the right word: steal.
Occupy failed because the organizers were systematically jailed on the eve of the major protests, preventing them from coordinating and establishing goals like the ones you are looking for.
> There's also the fact that much modern tech tends to be very locked-down, discourages tinkering/creativity

But that also creates an inherent opportunity for open, 'hackable' versions of the broken, locked down crap. You can see this in much of the embedded ecosystem, where much stuff is unusably locked down simply out of short-term laziness and convenience but many of the most popular products are open.
Wait, really? I didn't know it had gotten that bad again; those are subprime crisis sort of numbers.
I think the bigger problem is for a cat to survive g-force on launch
I agree that this article perhaps veers a little too far into the kind of 'objective' territory that you mention, it's something I see and dislike often in similar pieces, though to be fair I think it's probably quite hard to avoid while remaining personally relatable to many people.

My strategy in general for taking in ideas is to simply pick and choose the bits that seem interesting and productive, and internally reinterpret those parts to remove the author's biases and excessions that don't seem relevant.

This tends to cause issues when I share things like this article though, people often seem to prefer to interpret the tone of the piece as a whole, and that overall or initial reading colours their view of the individual ideas that were espoused, making it harder for me and them to have a productive discussion about it.
Can absolutely recommend watching that video.
So, I think it's worth talking about CO2 and other emissions (particulates, etc) separately. I totally agree that wood isn't great to burn from the standpoint of all the other stuff that goes into the air. And I agree that it's not a very efficient energy source either. It makes sense to use if you're chopping down trees near your rural home and burning them for heat in winter, but not as, say, a source of fuel for a power plant.

But I think that it's accurate to say that when you burn wood, you're emitting CO2 that would have been released as the wood decayed anyway. In that sense, you're not really contributing to climate change. This doesn't count any energy used in harvesting and transporting the wood, which of course could contribute to emissions.

To use another example, if you grow sugar cane, and using green energy sources, turn it into ethanol, and burn that in a car instead of gasoline, that's basically carbon neutral. If you hadn't grown the sugar cane, something else would have grown there, and decayed, and released the carbon into the atmosphere.

It would be valid to argue that if we had let the field turn into a forest, it would trap more carbon than the sugar cane would. And we should let forests regrow, where we can! But it's a one-time thing -- once the forest is grown, it would stay stable in the amount of carbon captured there. To continue to trap carbon, we'd need to keep harvesting the trees and doing something with them to permanently take them out of the carbon cycle, like turning them into buildings or somehow turning the carbon in them into something that doesn't decompose and burying it.
The Raspberry Pi was basically only possible because of the Broadcom SoC. It is a capable chip, with approximately the right set of functionality for an SBC and at a good price (because it was already manufactured in volume). It was only available for something like the Raspberry Pi because Eben Upton worked for Broadcom and so could get to buy the chips and buy them at volume pricing - normally you'd have to have an established buyer relationship and be able to guarantee to buy far more than the Pi team was able to or expecting.

It's also worth remembering that originally the Pi wasn't maker/OSS focused - the goal was to have a computer cheap enough to be used for computing education in schools. In effect a modern day successor to the BBC Micro.

In the context of the goals and constraints the "minor" binary blob required to make it run was irrelevant. Even more so as basically every other similar SoC has exactly the same issue. The Broadcom parts presumably continue to remain competitive for their capability level and so they keep getting used but now thanks to the success of the Pi there is the will and capability of going full OSS.
I've used Qt for several desktop apps, both using Widgets and QML; I never used the python bindings, always used the C++ libraries directly.

Writing GUIs is not a ton of fun for me (whether with Qt on desktop, native development on iOS and Android, or Flutter for mobile/desktop), but I wouldn't say Qt Widgets are worse than other stuff. I'd say it's definitely better that Android and iOS were a few years ago, before reactive programming became widespread.

I didn't have a good experience with QML; I'd call it at most not great, not terrible.

I've been using Flutter lately for a desktop app and the GUI part is more pleasant to write, for me (mainly because of the general "immediate mode/react" feel); if the app had a reasonably complex business logic I wouldn't want to write it in Dart though.