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This article feels like it written specifically for me. I have a strong nostalgia and affection for shortwave radio while sadly also forcing myself to come to grips with the fact that it's a dead medium.

I was a volunteer in rural Central America from 1998-2000 and shortwave radio was an important news source for me (but already a VERY niche medium, even then). Nights I dialed in VOA and then found a lot of other interesting things too, from Cuba to broadcasts from Spain, Germany, and Indonesia. It was all fun and exciting.

Ten years later I began a decade of work overseas in rural West Africa. I dutifully brought my shortwave with me, only this time I found close to nothing on the airwaves. Some crazy religious broadcasts here and there, but nothing. I looked around and can confirm that in ten years of living in Africa (with a lot of West African friends and colleagues) not a single one of them had or used shortwave, or even really had any awareness that it existed. The number one media source even then was FM radio tuned in over cheap Chinese FM radios or over FM radio apps on cell phones.

I've still got a shortwave and occasionally scan the frequencies from my hammock here in North Carolina. But there is really not much there (religious stuff still being one exception). I ask myself, if rural West Africans aren't listening to shortwave anymore, really who is?

This article answers it: a few pockets remain, like Nigeria and Myanmar. But the shortwave era ended: everyone who left shortwave never came back, even when newer methods failed. Guess it was fun while it lasted :)
I was going to say 'You meant Cray' but apparently Amdahl also tunnelled.
My version, better alignment, grayscaled icons, eliminates duplicates on navigation:

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EGS also required highly specific geological conditions, so each site would have to be evaluated for suitability. That's not an argument against considering it, but it does mean that EGS isn't a drop-in replacement for every site. For those where it would work? Sure, let's do it.
Yes, but we can not get more users by reducing price as it would not be $X any more, but 0 or -$X per search.
Raises price every year, stops password sharing (within family), trashes contents. My nightly routine becomes surfing Netflix one title at a time, 10-15 minutes a title for about 40 minutes until I give up and just rewatch old shows, movies. I start to reconsider my subscription of Netflix now.
Yes, but how does that contradict my statement? We would go after the biting species first and species that somehow are causing humans 'harm'. Don't think anyone wants to wipe out 800 species on a whim. IF the tool scales, we can selectively apply it
Unfortunately, there is no algorithmic solution to this. It's like porn: hard to define, but you know it when you see it.
"Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it"
I have an XPS 13 9310. What's this crucial tweak? I've been running it on a vanilla Arch install for about a year and haven't noticed much battery drain on standby (maybe a few % per day left sleeping?)
CVSS is a completely meaningless Ouija board that says whatever the person authoring the score wants it to say.
Julian Assange: UK court issues order to extradite WikiLeaks founder to US
I've grown to hate icons for lists over time.

Visually I find them messy and not helpful for filtering.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I’ve accidentally damaged my own brain engaging in chemical warfare against insects.
Russia "helped" Syria by committing multiple war crimes.
I'd agree that a rotten shark in a tank has more substance to it than an NFT. Shame it's in embalming fluid. You could eat it if you fall on hard times otherwise.
I don't think everyone who engages in crypto is evil. Some are, to be sure (as some are in any human endeavor), but for the most part I think they're just credulous. I think that's a belief shared by a lot of anti-crypto people, which makes me wonder if the toxicity stems more from exasperation with evangelism of a thing people find ridiculous. Like, yes, we know about crypto and we think it's silly; please go away—that sort of thing.
I normally don't participate in these type of discussions on this one I will make an exception.

Macs are extremely bad in terms of thermal management in the long run. Yes sure, they will work absolutely fine in the store but they will slow down with your dev environment installed.

1. The Apple store is cooler and has better airflow than your cubicle/desk/room.

2. The vanilla operating system runs fast on any computer and os

3. intel CPUs are getting extremely hot when doing everyday ops on the computer (too early to talk about M class CPUs)
4. Random freezes are a real thing and there isn't much you can do about it.

5. Logic board changes are also a thing, I've witnessed temperature sensors breaking because of the bad thermals.

6. fan noise is awful. yes it won't run in the store or when the computer is new, but you will definitely notice once the issues begin

7. macbooks are not made to work with monitors - they support them. the primary usecase for a apple laptop is to work without a monitor. so be surprised if your monitor is not supported.

8. on pre m1 cpus any external monitor was also triggering the radeon gpus to fire up, causing thermal throttling to become active very quickly. kernel_task anyone?

This is a long one. recommended workarounds are:

- disabling turbo boost (why buy a "pro" computer in first place?)

- buying an egpu (external gpu) with an average price of $700

- use custom fan programs that ignore the SMC reported temparatures and dictate their own fan speed (can cause further thermal damage)

- using a specific 4k monitor (does not work)

Here are some interesting videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX6kZ3-UBuE

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=macbook+pro+int...

Try taking your intel macbook to the apple store and ask about this problem. they will really tell you that they have never heard about it. now try searching google and you will see thousands of people with the very same issues. apple will absolutely stonewall the issue and claim that you are the only person in the world experiencing this problem.

the list could go on for much longer but I'm too tired for that.

Do yourself a favor, if you are not planning to travel with the device, buy yourself a decent desktop computer with sufficient cooling for half the price.
And even after that, Lenovo still stumbled with the Superfish/SSL Hijacker incident.
Never had too much problems running linux on Dell or Lenovo laptops. The fact that no matter where I am in the world I can find parts or support was a strong point to me to go the traditional route.

Now I make do with a Mac M1 and a companion samsung book pro, a machine that I choose because I wanted a very light (in physical weight) intel evo as a companion mobile machine running linux for when I feel that using linux is better than using Mac OS.

I run fedora on it, and other than the fingerprint sensor that doesn't work (at least out of the box, never cared enough to figure out if I could find a workaround).

I find it great that there are all those niche sellers out there, but I don't think going this route is cost-effective for most people.
Based on my experience there does not seem to be a strong (positive) correlation between masters degrees and muscles. Might depend on the Master of course.
The answer is this - a slightly inflationary currency offers the greatest good for the greatest number. It encourages people to _invest_ their money so it doesn't lose value.

Deflationary currencies encourage people to _hoard_ money as a viable strategy, and the more people hoard, the more valuable it becomes.

In a society where the most profitable and safe strategy is simply to hold your money and do nothing with it, no business ventures will start.

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So many questions people ask about crypto could be answered in a first year economics course - or simply by sitting down for a while and working out strategies with poker chips.

If people weren't so pugnacious about their complete lack of knowledge of economics, it would be rewarding to explain to people why things are how they are.

I hasten to add that as a socialist, I have a lot of issues with modern economics, but pretending that it's nonsense or that its mathematical models aren't useful is just silly.
If you are a beginner everything works. But if you want to look "like you go to a gym" and not like a powerlifter, you will need to switch to more hypertrophy based programs.
We know the current hw doesn't.
+1 for zephyrus (though I'm using last year's model). Thanks to the hard working asus-linux community, most of the hardware features are controllable seamlessly through GUI software (fan profiles, switching between gpus, keyboard lights etc). Goes well with Fedora because they have the latest kernels with stable releases.
I fail to see the difference between what I said and "Bitcoiners hate NFTs mostly because they give the whole space a bad rap."

Anyway, you have your choice of what money to use. I prefer USD and Euro myself. And I really still don't understand any use case for someone in a first world country to use crypto.

I grant that 3rd world countries without banking systems may, may need it, but I don't know why we just wouldn't start banks there.
That’s the great thing about software - it’s already able to do whatever I need.
Bitcoin fanatic here. No, it's literally about taking money printing away from corrupt governments worldwide.
The study talks about 'rated' strength - how strong people thought an individual was, not how strong he actually was, I don't think this invalidates the conclusion that looking strong correlates very well with attractiveness.
But once you are married, the muscles are gone.
So it was not that important after all?
Just some observations but I have seen this multiple times in my group of friends. They were good looking but on the skinny side, single, did not really work out and a bit frustrated on the dating market. Most of my friends seriously work out so I think there's a bit of an incentive in my group of friends to try going to the gym and work out (I think this is important, a few years ago I didn't really know anyone working out and it didn't really cross my mind to do it). They took it seriously, after half a year really made progress and either are no longer single or have more dates than they used to.

I never really worked out but due to my friends I also started to take my body more seriously. Progress is not that hard, it just takes patience. It's also really increased my quality of life, it's a good way to release stress and a good balance to sitting in front of the computer. Also it's great to just stay in shape, you can do physically demanding things just for fun. In the past I wanted to not be superficial because I thought it was stupid to care too much about looks but working out is really more than gaining more muscles, you really take care of yourself and your body.
Near zero consequences of which we are aware.
Also using a Librem 14 as my daily driver but less happy with it.

The machine seems to lose track of its charge level pretty easily, so it tends to power off suddenly, especially if it’s been in sleep mode for a while.

The hinge feels a bit flimsy; I’m hoping it’ll hold up long-term but there’s some give to it that makes me a bit nervous about its longevity.

The keyboard has been disappointing; my experience with it has been that it doesn’t register key presses until just after the tactile bump. Suffice to say this has led to a lot of missing keystrokes and frustration.

Also, something (I think some wires) seems to catch on one of the fans on the underside, leading to a rather annoying noise (and I suspect reduced fan performance) when any pressure is placed on the bottom panel. I’ve cracked it open to see if I can shift things around a bit, but the cable routing is tight enough that I’m not confident I can without damaging something.

I really wanted to like the Librem 14, because it’s goals really resonate with me, but… it isn’t as polished as I’d hoped it would be.
Yes, this was called "The Disney Vault" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Vault

It continued right up until the release of Disney+
They might be referring to the dev mailing list. I've only tried the user mailing list so far.
Another part of it is that people have spent so much money buying into the Mac eco system and they find that its not the heavenly like existence they were led to believe it would be.

So they need external validation for their choice, which they get by seeing everyone else switching to the Mac ecosystem as well.
Matrix or XMPP server. There’s plenty of clientside JS apis.

I’m sure Firebase can do it too.

There’s a ton of options, you won’t go wrong.
Not sure about Miso and Marmite being similar - I'm in the 'Hate Marmite' camp, but I have to stop myself spooning too much dark miso paste direct from the jar when I'm using it in cooking (and boy, do I try to use it in everything!).
"Ultimately more powerful"

As a previous BSD engineer please explain further, this entire thread is just horrendous and should be downvoted to oblivion.

Nobody cares what laptop you decide to use, nor are you incapable of doing your own research. My grandmother calls me for laptop recommendations.

My M1 Max 14" MBP has 64gb ram, mucho cores and is the fastest machine I've used. My gaming/dev desktop is a 12core ryzen with 64gb and I prefer to use the Macbook which can sit on my lap without even having a fan running.

Did I used to hate Apple? Yes. Do I have a $2500 Dell XPS 13z sitting in a closet that I never use because it throttles so horribly it's useless? Yes.
AIUI mosquito-borne illness is estimated to have killed more than 4% of all of the humans that have ever lived https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2019/10/03/has_malaria...
On the other hand, I had over time a few credit card disputes, and the existing system worked just fine.
If you need to type that fast, get an IDE to autogenerate the boilerplate so that you can get to the more interesting bits.

I’ve worked with people who chicken peck, etc and is just not an issue. Clarity of thought is much more valuable.
this is how I used to have marmite on toast
> More than money or its earning power? I'm skeptical.

It’s considerably easier to lie about money than it is physique if one’s aim is just getting laid.
The West Coast has a glut of coder bros. In NYC men with a college education are the buyer's market.

I remember a very strange reading from a "geek girl" years ago, where she went on and on about deriding the men who were, by all measures, her own peers, and she went on and on about how now that she's realized her own worth she's pulling jacked scientist-adventurers and such and the other guys were losers all along.

I remembered this after thinking about how my lowly bachelor's degree and a pretty face have earned me a warmer reception by the Academic community outside the campus than inside where I'm currently living (despite being at the moment a terrible catch). It clicked.

I wouldn't, however, write a spiel trash talking women with the same level of education and a similar physique to mine just because I can, say, bat above my own league right now.
Could we get tech companies to step up and beat the fashion company then? Because on many, many, many comparisons the fashion company makes them look completely inept at making tech products. I know, they've only had 20 years, it seems like a ridiculous ask.

Besides raw specs of CPUs and GPUs, which the fashion company is encroaching on too, my non-fashion product's trackpads, screen color quality, sound quality, screen hinges, heat dissipation locations, power efficiency, keyboards, case flex, case materials, weight, size, storage speeds, and upgradability are just some of the things that all suck on my Lenovo, Microsoft and Asus laptops my household owns and that my fashion laptops consistently do better.

My non-fashion products manage to put better refresh rate screens in, and I can get gaming capable discrete GPUs, and one of them lets me upgrade the RAM aftermarket, but for the most part they're all worse products that have lower utility than the fashion products. The perception they engender with me is that they're the only company that builds a product they don't secretly loathe.
I prefer my TLDRs up at the top
You have not been "cancelled": you were being "noisy" - distracting on pretty weak basis of a joke as old as mold - and brought to margin. "Cancelled" is someone who found a nice theorem but boo, a bad guy cannot do culture. There's a difference, and again quite some proportion.

On the other hand, as you may see in the page, I have been called an AI and a "fake account" - which, you know, also tends to be quite insulting about one's person. Anything wrong with the air today?
Posture is positively affected by lifting too. You need to do something to balance muscular development through your body, it doesn't need to be lifting.
Why the number goes backward?
Bitcoin will only be "sound money" when I can pay my taxes in it. Or at least pay for my oil change. Sure it's artificially limited in quantity. Great! Doesn't make it money. It's a commodity like any other.
Which still means that more than 5 out of 6 computers are not Macs.

Which is as diametrically opposite of the industry standard as you can get.
You can still read WSJ articles by posting the link into archive.ph.
Problem is that wages did not increase with economic growth. Those that benefit the most are a small minority, so yes, now both parents would need to work to achieve the same.
I prefer Bovril myself, but to first approximation the same is true of the entire hackernews site…
I remember in the mid 00's many of the web design shops in town were developing applications on Ruby on Rails which codified a set of conventions for building "real" applications on top of web forms: particularly the reification of form elements as something that exist on both the client and server and the ability to render one of several different "views" in response to a form submission. (e.g. show either the next page after a form submission or re-render the same page with an error message if it fails validation.)

Not long after I saw the same people were struggling with Angular and they were telling me that their customers only wanted to pay for SPAs.
Yes, when I migrated from one phone to another when the screen died. The listing for several tracks is still in the library, but the listing is greyed out and tapping on them pops up a dialog box stating "This song is not currently available in your country or region." Apparently buying a track is not a perpetual license to listen to it. I've lost 67 tracks that I had bought previously.
The place where the CDC left us on Zika is kind of strange.

It seems like they basically stopped surveillance and left up a snapshot ( https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/zika-travel-information ).

As far as I can tell, the current travel recommendation is that if you visit the Caribbean you should avoid conceiving a child for 2-3 mo (the guidance would also apply to Puerto Rico except I don't think that counts as "abroad"). But surely no one is actually doing that...?

And there now is evidence for widespread teratogenic effects ( https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2101195 ) and we just... Gave up?

Kind of wild.
but, you're wrong.

there are forks of bitcoin, to be sure... but the majority of "cryptos" out there are GPU mineable coins, because there's hardware that can be exploited to mine "profitably". not to mention the need to pre-mine shitcoins so they can be given to grifters and shills who pump & dump.
Linux and Windows users are not much different. Just depends what website you happen to be on.
Your comment is currently on top, so instead of laptop recommendations, we have yet another navel gazing meta discussion about HN and it's tendencies.
> something the whole industry uses

Citation needed. With actual stats to back it up.

The reasonable answer at the end of the day remains

> Cool, use what works for you.

There are use cases where Macs are useless or such a PITA to work with (ugh native compilation), others where they're kinda necessary (i.e. iOS development), and there's been no info about this from OP, so the most reasonable thing to do is still to acknowledge they have a good reason, and stop forcing Macs into the suggestions, even more so by using baseless arguments.
> Take those away and I'd just go back to buying used Windows laptops on Ebay, putting Linux on them, and being sad.

Same.

It's also interesting to think of this in terms of the real $ value of the OS. If I had to choose between a $1000 Windows laptop or a $2000 macOS laptop, I'd still go for the macOS laptop, even if they had the same specs. The specs of a laptop matter far less to me than the OS and surrounding ecosystem.

Same as how a $10K Mac Studio would still be useless for gaming. Could have the world's best GPU, and it would still have no value to anyone looking for a gaming computer.
That's how I tried marmite for the first time as well. I was told by my friends that you need to put on a thick thick layer. They found it hilarious, of course.
IMO, just start with Starting Strength and skip 5x5
As a former email professional this hurts bad...

Why validate? JusT SpAm!? It's quasi-legal. Bounce rate? Who cares!! Not like we are monitoring ip reputation anyway amirite?
Screen size. They had a 13 and 15.

Now they just sell their second-generation flagship, the 14.
Obviously, they aren’t going to stop. Why wouldn’t you just give up and get another email address and set up forwarding? Life is too short to yell at clouds all day.
I'd argue that, given the downside of not moving quickly, cost is a secondary consideration. If a basket of mixed sources, including nuclear, get us there sooner than renewables alone then cost should not be the main driver of the discussion.
Thanks, that was really helpful.
He spared no expenses, but only had one IT guy. They also drink champagne from water glasses even though there are champagne flutes right on the counter!

I think that Hammond didn't really know what he was doing.
> "If you don't need to look at a trick to know it's X, that would suggest that your position is tautological"

No, it wouldn't. Also, don't misquote me.

Please, this is getting embarrassing. I encourage you to watch the Amazing Randi's talk I and others linked to. He specifically singles out Derren Brown as someone employing misdirection. Also, re-read Wikipedia on Cold Reading: it's all tricks.

Between Randi and you, I'll stick with Randi.

PS: I don't know what a "gimmick" means in this context, I never used the word. Please don't argue with me about words I didn't introduce.

Actually, don't bother replying: we are going nowhere and I don't like your debate tactics.
I think if you're worried about what a judge and jury would think of something, you probably shouldn't do it.

I'm not worried about firing someone for lying on their CV.
IMO we should do the opposite. We should bombard those countries with our shit. Our cheap services, our shows, our food, our way of life. Hire their engineers. Give them tech like Uber and crupto to create a nightmare for their control freak governors. Erode and drain their funds. Capture the hearts of their young. But instead Russians are listening to their government say "See I told you they hate us".