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Dvd Netflix[0] is still sending movies to your house (in USA). Many movies which are not available in any streaming service. They got worse with new releases since 2020, but for many famous movies of the past this is a decent service.

[0] https://dvd.netflix.com/
Toll roads charge more for larger vehicles. Vehicle registration may be more expensive for heavier vehicles or vehicles with more wheels. Meanwhile, toll roads may have just as much traffic issues and no guarantee of average velocity.

How is that not similar to ISPs throttling?

Not that I care much either way. I care more about localities and states encouraging or enforcing monopolies.
Wait, you completely agree, except you don't.

If you do agree with parent then you are simply communicating differences in what is worth what.

You then point out what you see to be RMS shortcomings, based again on disagreement with parent comment.

Don't get me wrong, all that is OK, just nowhere close to complete agreement to the parent comment.

Which is it?
On apple maps the app or on the web? Although I suspect that canvas + some homegrown vector engine it is.
This actually can become a problem in the future. Here in Montgomery County, Maryland there was an old rail line converted to a bike path but always with the intention of adding light rail to a portion of it.

20 years later, they started the project and the local cycling groups are upset because their path has to be split and rerouted in places to support the new line. Delayed the thing many years as a result.
I like to think of data transformation a chaining problem. Linq lambda syntax is kind of like that.

db.Table.where(x=> x.name == 'abc').skip(10).take(20).groupBy()

This is really hard in sql especially with temporary tables and nesting you need to do as soon as you need to do things a little out of order...

Etc
What are you saying? That they should have given people less severance?
The Mill weirdeness is weird in the sense that it's almost perfectly compatible with C-like code. It's not this that is impacting the project.

Instead, launching a new architecture is an herculean task. Trying that inside anything that isn't a huge company or consensus on the academic world has a history of nearly 100% failure since huge companies started building computers. (And even the consensus on the academic world is iffy.)
I don't "rent" anything online because the price is insane.

Let's talk $1 to watch something once. That's reasonable and a price I'd pay. $4-5 to watch something in my own home is not.
We use Spark extensively. We also use @pandas_udf to run some part of our Spark pipeline through some Python-only ML libraries.
This is interesting not only for folks interested in Roman coins, but also anybody interested in non-Roman history as well, as many cultures mimicked the Roman coinage, except with their own chieftains or kings on the head.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/historia/imitative.htm
yeah it speaks to your ability to create code people can understand, that doesn't change with types, they just illuminate it
Hybrid work where you're required to be in the office 2 out of 5 days with no further requirement of which two days, I think that is as you say "a ruse", and management demonstrating that they dont trust you to work from home.

If there's an actual stated purpose for those two days to be in-person days (like your team has designated day for in-person meetings or planning sessions or something, or there's some task that needs to be done in-person each day and there's a rotation of who is responsible for it) then it makes sense.
how much of a self-fulfilling prophecy do you think all this news about subscribers dropping off is for Netflix? I feel there a danger that, much like when people join something because in part other people were joining it (a big factor in me joining in 2011), it becomes something people are doing because they've heard others are; I know I'm definitely consciously evaluating how much I watch it now, but perhaps I'm just a sheep.
Isn't that all pretty much inline with China/Taiwan relations since the end of the civil war?
Funny how everyone talks about taxes being a brake on the economy when nearly the entirety of our earnings and time fly out the window for inconsequentials like.. commuting
Welded to my seat.
EDM Knives are all the rage these days, haven't you heard? They're like, made out of rubber.

https://getedmknife.com

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDMKnife

EDC knives are nice too, but they're only produced in Nevada.
The original content is 99% garbage. Every streaming service has this problem, though.

The series that are really well made are few and far between. E.g.
- Narcos
- Ozark
- House of Cards
- Stranger Things

For every good show, I see another few dozen that I can't bear to sit through. Stuffing the catalogue with filler is reminiscent of cable.
Here is a similar project with a time lapse video in Ottawa, Canada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDcMMPuk3Dw
Also, KVM, VMWare (and maybe Xen?) allow PMU access too (but not VirtualBox). Both VMWare ESXi and VMware Server/Workstation/Fusion allow PMU access, you just need to make sure it's enabled in the settings.

A quick way to check if PMU access is enabled is this:

dmesg | grep "Performance Events"

Edit: Oh, unfortunately VMware Fusion 12 (on Mac OSX Intel) does not expose the performance counters to the VM anymore, as it's using the OSX Hypervisor Framework instead of its own kernel module.
Given what the Russian military did to Grozny in the Second Chechen War and what they did to Aleppo during the recent Syrian civil war, it's hard to dismiss the reports of intentional depopulation of cities as an intentional Russian military tactic.

In isolation it would be fair to be sceptical of the intercepted conversations where commanders are calling in strikes on residential areas, but this is a recurring pattern with the Russian military.

It's important to distinguish here between the Russian military and the Russian people. Conflating the two feeds into the Putinist propaganda that Russia will be hated in the West no matter what it does.
Can you give an example of a scene or dialogue that poses a problem, and why it's a particular problem?
In addition to these things: the way the force us to browse content is awful and it's been copied by all of the vendors. Netflix and Prime are particularly terrible because of the volume of content, much of it absolute garbage, they have online.

1. I want to find my own shit with filters, not by scrolling through endless reams of D- grade cable TV quality shows.

2. I want major efforts from networks and studios, not homemade content. I know I may be in the minority here, but I strongly prefer HBOMax right now (which I get for 'free' with my phone plan) because the content is aligned here coupled with their own solid content, not D+ grade self-created content.
You can on most TV sets and STBs. UI is a bit hidden, but you can.
> That really does happen better in person

Says who? Some management study? My anecdotal experience tells me I’ve formed stronger relationships over zoom and slack than I have working in person with people I truly cannot stand. At least with zoom and slack, if I don’t like you, I can hide your window behind my IDE.

And there’s no rule that says I have to like everyone and everyone has to like me. There’s no rule that says I should want to spend my free time with so and so. How about, I choose who I spend my time with and you choose what I work on and pay me for that?
Yeah. For me, it's much more about the commute than being in an office, especially if the in-office time is flexible. If I lived in a city and had a nice walk to an office, I would almost certainly go in fairly frequently.
Why not look at what someone's actually producing? The fact that the only thing necessary was to "keep up appearances" gives me some strong 'Office Space' vibes. I think it's telling that the two companies mentioned are foundering in or out of the office.
There's something to be said for being polite and being a rude. There's also something be learned that want someone to address you in a specific way doesn't make when others choose not to do it.

I think Westley Snipes character said it best with, "that's who you remind me of an evil Mr Rogers" and "look, you can't take away people's right to be an assholes"

I think this professor is absolutely rude and is hiding behind his Christianity and using it as an excuse to offend people but free societies have lots of offensive people and "toughen up buttercup" is something people need to learn. I do think instead of people expecting the world to conform to them they should do a little bit of their own self-reflection and say they will accept that others are offensive and as long as that offensiveness does not deprive them of their education, in this case, or their participation in society then practice some of the acceptance and tolerance that they want people to have of them.

The smart student would simply begin to address the professor in a way that they consider offensive. Then when the professor attempts to discipline or correct them because of it they simply appeal indicating that as long as the professor will address them in a way that they perceive offensive they will address the professor in a way that the professor perceives offensive. Equality is equal for all. Then if the professor wishes to foster a rude classroom then a rudeness is the speech of the day.
It's a device that doesn't need to be cloud connected... that's cloud connected.

Smart home stuff needs a local network to the home, that's it. A server going down in Virginia shouldn't mean a person can't run their vacuum robot.
A lot of the techniques like text-banking were developed out of outsider campaigns attempting to dethrone existing power structures. So in an way it worked...just not good enough. AOC can't do anything when its only her and a handful of others. The party got wise and in 2020 put all their efforts to stomp out more AOC's. So yeah, you are not going to get real change until a large chunk of people start voting. Turnout in non Presidential primaries is typically like ~10-15%. Pathetic.
I'm curious what your take is on:

* Whether people should go into work

* Where the pressure to go into work comes from in an org
> There is a WoW (windows on windows) subsystem

Oh my god, I always wondered why the WOW6432NODE registry key was named that but was never bothered enough to look it up. Thank you for triggering the random insight.
> - there is too much political agenda sold even in children shows (Kids really dont need this kind of crap)

What do you mean by "political agenda"? Like open advocacy for certain policy position or political parties? Or just stuff like "gay people exist and should be treated with respect"?

Also, when I was a kid I would listen to conservative talk radio all the time. It's the only thing my dad would listen to while driving. And I don't think it was corrupting or traumatizing or anything.
That may be true in principle, but you’re simply not getting paid for contributing to open source projects unless your employment contract says exactly that.
Im not opposed to idling, brains need that. But I don’t think it’s fair to use your company time to work for something else, no matter how good the cause - I wouldn’t want my engineers to help out at a homeless shelter either, even though I’m generally in favor of that.
It's far less popular than the C/C++ bindings (at least at an end-user level), but NVIDIA actually has official support for FORTRAN on CUDA as well. iirc you can mix and match at the linker level, and there's a fair amount of library code that uses FORTRAN for performance reasons.

FORTRAN has tighter restrictions around what you can do in terms of aliasing/etc, which allows compilers to be more aggressive about optimizations without as much undefined-behavior "this looks correct and will run fine until we add another optimization and it doesn't" shenanigans. So in practice it can be faster than C, and it's actually quite popular among the HPC community and other performance-sensitive segments.

It's not like C has to be this way, with all the "undefined behavior" nonsense, it just is an artifact of a programming language written in the early 70s. C makes a lot of sense when a compiler looks a lot more like an assembler with a bit of optimization sprinkled in, and isn't performing super deep introspection and deciding that this entire function can be optimized away because of some arcane "undefined behavior" rule.
I wish there were analogous tools for sound design
As we march towards extending life - you are still welcome to choose death. You can even start a cult where you recruit followers to your doctrine of death. I’m sure you’ll find many souls willing to part with this world.

But you’re going to have a hard time convincing every soul to drink the kool-aid.
The algorithmic feed alone is reason to leave Netflix. Briefly, I had Netflix working on a 3rd-party add-on for Kodi. (it's since broken)

It was beautiful:

- There were no video previews.

- All selection was text-based only.

- There was no algorithmic feed: only lists based on category / genre / etc.

If Netflix offered this, I might actually pay for it. For now, I'm just using a relative's login, and I won't be paying if they boot us off.
I have some used oil I need to get rid of. I could drive the 45 mile round trip to the county hazardous waste disposal site and get rid of it properly. Or I could wait until we get a good rain and pour it into the drainage ditch in front of my house, where it will eventually end up somewhere in Puget Sound.

The amount of oil is small enough that it would have absolutely no measurable effect whatsoever on Puget Sound.

Would you say that it is therefore OK for me to dump it in the ditch?
yes, it is possible you are right, from what I read this ship usually has 500+ people , Russia did not want to specify how many were on board, and this days they showed the survivors in some kind of festivity and they were around 100 people. You could explain that maybe some were in hospital, or there were just 100 on board or maybe Putin send them into a special operation.

Anyway, for sure some died , there is evidence and I am waiting Putin video and his clever phrasing admitting it.
Or sunlight...
In my case, it's where they wrapped up the long-tail movies. Want to watch Airplane!....$3 rental. Spaceballs? $3 rental Cannonball Run? $3

I am not going to pay to rent stuff I used to be able to encounter for free by surfing channels...well, on top of my dish/cable bill
I only use loop if I'm iterating over multiple sequences or doing something tricky. Otherwise I use dolist, dotimes, map, mapcar. But it's nice to know loop is there...
In certain phase of life IMO probably most of us think about death, but until we are able to became "pure intellects" who can switch from an artificial-biological body to another witch means live forever from the single human being point of view we will keep dying no matter how we try to change.

One thing too many forget is that being alive is not the single target. Being alive but for instance in a wheelchair might not be that desirable, and that the most stupid example. So we add new category of research to push for instance old age effects in the future, and since we can't do that much we just mock them up like "hey menopause can be nice with 'treatments'" or "hey thanks to analgesics we can ignore back pain, articular pain etc" masking them under the carpet and often if we mask too much shortening our active life.

The most important fact IMVHO is living to live, enjoying their life, and that's the issue: balancing the today/short term pleasure to the longer term ones. I have no recipe for that, probably an entire life is needed to find the right balance and once found that will not apply much for a younger self so the game began again.
Since the rise of streaming services it have been surprisingly hard to get older and less popular content as less people are seeding. Also seems there are stringent laws present for content sharing than it was 10 years ago. I doubt that content piracy will come back in the way it was so that an ordinary citizen could say "It's easier just to pirate".
Most results would just be buried somewhere in the middle of a four page article filled with ads and popups about cookies and newsletters and the like.
Whenever an on-chain transaction occurs, MATIC, Polygon's native token, must be spent. It's usually pennies per transaction, but it adds up.
As the world stands today, it makes sense to use Datomic if you are writing code on the JVM and are willing to pay for the database and associated support.

In a hypothetical future world where the data model and query approaches have more widespread open source adoption it is competitive for a lot of the same use cases.
If you don’t Mind me asking: which french newspaper do you read/recommend?
or the aptly-named -funsafe-math-optimizations... fun and safe math optimizations, what could go wrong :^p
It would be easy to do that, but nobody wants to. Without cloud there is no recurring revenue upsell opportunity and no side revenue from selling user data to advertisers.
Came here to say the same. I cancelled two months back and I really don't miss it. On the other hand if HBOMax hiked their prices to $30/mo I wouldn't blink.

For me I associate the big red "N" with bad content. So when I open Netflix and see the red "N" plastered on every thumbnail the algo serves up, I immediately wanted to close the app. I eventually felt tired of batting away their originals to find good content so I unsubscribed.

I don't know how many other people actually feel the same way, but it seems pretty clear to me that their subscriber base doesn't like Netflix's original content as much as Netflix does.
This may be country-specific but here the Netflix catalogue is really bad. It’s basically only good if you’re really bored and happy to watch whatever they recommend (usually their originals). If you have something in mind and search for it, it’s almost never available.
I have absolutely tried it and worked on many code bases big and small before typing happened. I've also worked on other languages and paradigms and seen what works and doesn't.

In my experience its the other way around. Most people who are a fan of dynamic typing have worked in systems with types. The world is largely coming around to the view that types make more consumable and safe software
They aren't entitled to it. They get it because that's what most people are willing to pay.
China is engaging in a massive military buildup, especially in terms of its naval and amphibious forces.
Aha, finally after 100 articles talking about "banning math books" we get some example pages from one of the rejected books.

These selections were probably not chosen in an effort to find the most objectionable content, given both the authorship and tone of the article -- and yet the selected examples demonstrate exactly why this is a lousy selection of math texts. The book is focused on feelings, "mindset", and personal "biography" rather than on ... mathematics.

If these pages are representative samples of the pages of the supposedly-mathematics textbooks that were rejected, then good on Florida for rejecting them
No! a) these aren't the THC types so you won't get high and b) the hemp is a collector, so the nasty stuff would be in the tree.

This material is for industrial hemp, making rope and fabric and things.
Yep. It makes sense in his context.

Personally, I really hate all the tracking. But I also really need to advance some aspects of my life because time grows short and I ended up raising my granddaughter.

(She will either kill me off, or I get a lot stronger! Lol)

So, I pay. But will also contribute time and money to good causes. Not happy about all that, but I need what I need too, so does the fam.

Tons of people struggle like this. It has to be important to have the conversations sans the judgement.
Are we going to run into some kind of fundamental limit at around 500 million transistors per square millimeter or how long this can go on? Not complaining, just genuinely wondering.

The M1 Ultra is at 130 million transistors per square millimeter, and the processor in my first computer had 7000 per square millimeter, and that machine could already run Doom and Windows 95.
Computer history museum in San Jose is pretty cool.
BS. There is a very high correlation between imdb rating and if I enjoy something. Give me a sort by that and I will be very happy.
Well, it's USDC which is stable and probably is less of a headache to deal with than ETH/BTC. I suppose if not very many people use it, it might not be worth the engineering time to maintain it though.
In addition to what was said, Datomic Cloud automates a lot of the annoying and difficult to suss deployment for application dev, not just the database. You can deploy large scalable apps in minutes and easily deploy new code in minutes with no down time (or architecting a deployment system yourself).
I particularly hate the way they keep pushing serial killer documentaries, and there seems to be little way to get them to stop. When it's late at night and I'm trying to find something relaxing to watch before going to bed, the last thing I want to see is a serial killer's face staring at me and then footage of them starting to play. It ruins my night. Honestly that's been the last straw for me. They're happy to force their customers to see disturbing things, as long as it boosts engagement.
Definitely a ruse. The main value proposition of working remote is not needing to be within commute distance of the office.
The Man Who Accidentally Killed the Most People in History
I am going to post an alternative take to the general sentiment that saw this coming from a mile away. I think it is awesome that an organization as old as TimeWarner was able to launch a bold new product. Yes, it may have failed, but they tried.

Launching new products is insanely difficult, if not impossible, in large organizations - even in the most esteemed tech companies. And yet that is how many companies die, because they cannot overcome the internal inertia to launch something new.
Software engineering is a mix of collaboration and individual focused work. Zoom meetings are awful and the office is much better at supporting collaboration and human connections. The big loud open floor is a terrible place to think; WFH is much better at supporting focus. It remains to be seen whether we get the proportions right, or actually sort the right activities into the right settings, but it has the potential to be the best of both worlds.

Many were actually hybrid working before the pandemic. Regularly sending emails like “I have no meetings today and need to get this done, so I’m staying home.” Still physically and socially part of the team.
Netflix throws new series shows and movies up without any description or even a trailer. They are lazy promoting both their own content and others. Waste my time jumping between news and blog review sites to get even a simple plot summary.
Ah finally a mention for Altered Carbon! Loved the first season, and felt like they wrapped it up on the cheap the second season.
The info you've supplied doesn't support your premise. You say "it's very real," but you admit you cannot cite a single example, and your only evidence is some vague hearsay.
They are also cognitively intensive, so it may be worth it to code them in slower but more expressive language.
And the cost of ads? Seems like a deal to me.
Oh really interesting. I didn't know about that. I was actually going threw the old Mendat code base and was considering using that.

I would really like a pure Rust version of Datomic for embed use cases.

There is all also Datahike, that is going in that direction too. It is maintained and actively developed.

https://github.com/replikativ/datahike