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The PiKVM, mentioned about halfway through, is an absolutely extraordinary product. It's probably the only time I've ever thought "I used this Pi because it is above and beyond the best tool for the job not just because I had it on hand".

On the hardware usage side from the GPIOs over RJ45 physically to control the power/reset buttons to the USB OTG NIC/virtual disc drive/virtual USB drive/virtual serial/virtual mouse/virtual keyboard to the use of the Camera Serial Interface to the OLED status display over SPI to the exposure of the local serial as RJ45 for quick access to the use of the GPU for video encode every piece is just exactly what it needs to be not there by accident. It's built well, laid out well, and any monkey can figure out how to assemble it.

On the software side it's just prepackaged Arch Linux (which mounts in ro by default because why wouldn't it) you can actually upgrade or add packages to your liking unlike most remote access garbage with a clean and fast HTML5 interface that knocks any proprietary IPMI web interface out of the water. It even has all those macro/text pasting/shortcut related things the way you actually want them instead of "almost right". When you use the virtual drive stuff because it's not an embedded piece of crap you don't have to worry about slowly streaming bits of the OS ISO over the network as it's read by the device you just copy the whole image up and can leave as many as you want there for later.

Some things it has prebuilt software support I haven't personally taken advantage of are tailscale support, ipmi/redfish integration, multipoint hardware KVM control via GPIO, and 3d case models.

If I had to pick one thing that wasn't perfect about it it'd be the CSI limits it to 1080p50 bandwidth. Not that it really matters for KVM usage it's just not perfect.

Anyways long winded comment aside if you read this and think "that sounds like a really nifty setup/idea but more work than I'd care to put in for it" check out if you can get away with the prebuilt PiKVM.
If you want a keyboard, you can pick up an old 90s rompler for around that price. Love the keybed and build quality on my alesis qs6, but I just use it as a midi controller.

If you just want knobs and sliders, look at something like a used notation launch control xl.

If you want a full midi controller with keys, knobs, sliders, pads, maybe mpk mini? Nothing modern will have nice keys in that price range, though.

Plug in to your phone/iPad/laptop, download synth one or surge xl, spend some time mapping and away you go.

$100 is not a reasonable price point for good hardware that actually makes its own sounds, but who needs it when you have a super computer in your pocket.
We've been hearing the 'under-supply' argument for over a decade in NZ. StatsNZ shows that in the last 30 years the number of private residences relative to households has increased considerably (roughly 3.5% difference to about 6.5% from memory).

Our housing market is in deep trouble right now. Big falls in the major cities over the past few months (-20% in Auckland city). Listings where I am are up from 1000 this time last year to 3000. Prices are falling. Rentals up significantly too with prices falling.

A speculative boom creates excess demand. Just like Ireland did, we are seeing that the problem was not on the supply side, but the demand side. Speculative vacancies are now being revealed.
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She certainly could have kept it on display in her private residence without anyone knowing anything about its provenance except her.
Oh man that's amusing -- I'm not up on Rust internals, but it seems like it's used a funny test case for some other compiler ability?
This was a good read, but they didn't mention how much radiation is dangerous. The power output of the decay is not relevant to people who are worried about radiation. This XKCD chart is a much better representation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose#/media/...

If someone is worried about banana's just tell them that eating a banana a day is as risky as sleeping next to another human.

(Probably less appealing is the statistic that eating a banana smoothie each day for 7 months is the same as getting one chest X-Ray every 7 months.)
I'm not talking about people like you who make apps like yours.

I'm talking about companies that make everything they touch demonstrably worse if it earns them any money at all.

there is a very clear line between you and the companies I'm talking about. you provide a service; the companies I talk about are late-stage capitalism monsters who exist solely to provide value to shareholders, and they don't care if they create a dystopia by doing it.
Sounds like the decade of Linux desktop has finally arrived!

Also, some say China is doing that to minimize effect of potential Russia-style sanctions when they invade Taiwan.
Even within disposable consumer goods people stick random products from the 80s in plexiglass and call it precious and sell it for hundreds of thousands of dollars. There's an idea out there that actually "using" a product like an old video game is somehow debasing it. In the end though I don't think people have much choice on the consumer product side of things. It is what it is for various reasons.

But really I'm talking about broader social trends and what we do at the society level. Yes, architecture. Mustn't tear down that building that no one has been able to live in for 20 years, it's sacred. But also relics, ideas, monuments to even monumentally stupid and awful things, etc.
> Imagine trying to turn around an organization like that. Must be an interesting challenge.

Most good devops book tells you how to do that. You scan for people who have the right skills and who actually care, as opposed to people who are at the other end of the spectrum who think that if it ain't broken don't fix it and "why change it we will have to support this stuff later".

Then you go commando and secretly pick projects with low cost and high return that would not normally get the go ahead. People copying Excel sheets full time? Automatate their job away. Full time sysadmin setting up one server a day? Would be a real shame that you have a docker container ready to use when he has an emergency and doesn't have time. Bonus success points if you do things that also help your fellow devs.

In a government settings, and in any large organizations, you will need to have upper leadership support otherwise this will always fail and all of your efforts will be undermined and suppressed. Be sure to leave an employee review on your way out and name names to HR.
They are less frequent, but the What-If section has 158 entries so far. https://what-if.xkcd.com/archive/
Minesweeper is always fun!
The US is rotating from housing as commodity investment to housing as intergenerational asset, something which has happened in a lot of other countries already (see e.g. Western Europe, mentioned in other comments here).

House prices will remain up because any gain from sale will be plowed into the next home. It's a ratchet upward. Higher mortgage rates are somewhat irrelevant in this dynamic, because the home itself is not an asset to get capital gain from, but a claim to shelter a family for an _indefinite_ period of time in a chosen location.

USA was inoculated for a very long time, because horizontal expansion over cheap land allowed for expansion of supply. That era is over. Car and highway technology is no longer adequate to expand cheaply and still remain within viable commuting distance.

There really is no limit on how high home prices relative to income can be. When meemaw dies, her inheritance will fund the downpayment of little Sally. That's the perpetuum mobile in Europe, which the US is now cranking up as well.

Rents may still remain affordable, but home prices will detach.
If you like this sort of thing, then Osmocom has other great projects going on.

http://planet.osmocom.org/

This was where I first heard the term, “retronetworking”.
Makes sense from their perspective security wise. But from a performance point of view they will be hobbling themselves. Interesting to see how the trade off will work out for them.
PHP RFC: Deprecate ${} string interpolation
Pretty cool demo, if you want to make your own electronic music you should check out LMMS, it's free & fairly easy to learn the basics: https://lmms.io

I've been messing with LMMS for the past couple of years, zero musical training, following YouTube tutorials at first and came up with a bunch of stuff that sounds half decent in my opinion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsjzt5QLGOg&list=PL54E2psbCL...
Her and what army?
Because they aren't just sitting on the house, they are cashing out after buying and also taking advantage of the market with that money.
You won't even get a reply (from employers where folks want to work), such as Netflix, SpaceX, JPL, most other BigTech without a CS/IT/EE degree. Resume goes straight to /dev/null.

Basically anywhere where you have to compete with a lot of people, it is the first filter to cut the stack from 100 to 50.
Nim, if ARC/ORC reference counting is acceptable (which considering I'm using it in embedded firmware right now, it honestly should be, but I can understand why for certain cases it can't be). But it has the same small user-base/lack of inroads as some of the others on your list
Parole already says they can’t associate with known criminals it they can’t just say people can’t go the the park. It’s an overreach to ban people from a public space on the basis that it’s high crime.
You know what? Check out pleromapi, it does what it says.

A raspberry pi image that auto installs pleroma and you are greeted with an image within the first boot. No configs other than domain and passwords.

Try it out.
Shows produced outside of the US are generally better on the diversity of appearance front. UK content particular is much more watchable for me, as actors are closer to regular people you'd see on the street vs the very thin, athletic, impossibly white toothed American casting ideal.
Do you really get to set all the rules? This lists no terms of service at this point, but is there any reason to assume that the rules will be significantly more lax than e.g. twitter.com?

As a person who've had their VPS disconnected by OVH over a malicious link posted by a third-party on my service, I am very skeptical.

Additionally other instances could very well block all Togethr instances if they see abuse from customers, the same way they can block an instance if they see abuse from their members.
Opera Crypto Browser Integrates BNB Chain; Unlocks Access to Ecosystem of DApps
What were brown shirts if not sociopaths given a de facto political pass?
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Google is 2B lines of code and it's all in one place (2015)
question: how to know when is it better to buy?

- now: high price but low mortgage?

- later: lower price but higher mortgage? (or simply take this and later refinance at lower rates?)
> Locals in Boise are now competing with buyers from San Francisco and other big cities, who often have more money to spend on housing. That is driving up prices beyond the reach of many people earning a typical salary in those regions.

I’m always wary of “this time is different.” But sometimes, times are different.

If we assume a house bought by an exiting San Franciscan must be resold to a local, yes, the home value is askew. But if we assume it will be sold to another tech worker forged in New York or the Bay Area before achieving sufficient seniority to go remote only at high pay, the denominator is different.

I don’t think that explains the gap. And code fixes would burst the bubble; while there has been historical opposition to such tweaks, a carpetbagger-longtime local divide is about the best fodder for it. But local deviations from the national premium may be explained by permanent factors.
`sus` fits with unsafe better I think.
A housing crash only matters if sell your house during the crash. Prices will eventually come back up. And your fixed rate mortgage gets cheaper every year due to inflation. Certainly some people will have not choice but to sell. But a millennial should be able to ride out a crash - don't read the news and don't stress.
There really does need to be a standard way to update credentials that works on every site...
If you were China, would you bet that there isn't a "remote kill" switch on Windows PCs or Macs? I'm not sure that I would...
It does look pretty lame, but at least it is web-searchable. Using an actual common English name unmodified is worse in that regard.
I hate to break this to you but that's all documentaries in general. Every documentary has the goal of convincing you of something.
If the statue is the Drusus Germanicus I think it is, he was a Roman general and politician who earned the agnomen Germanicus for leading successful military campaigns in Germania.

See also: Scipio Africanus; he got that name for conquering Carthage.
I thought the DA said crimes wouldn’t be prosecuted. This may be in excess of civil rights but it’s still. If prosecution or jail time.

A charitable view would state: It’s as if the DA is searching for solutions but always lands on the worst possible one which is both illegal and ineffective.

The one benefit to this solution is that it reduces the DA case load, which it looks like is the real goal.
> If a library panics on invalid user data, that's a pretty serious bug.

I swear, sometimes it seems like Rust people are from another planet. What do you think "unwrap" does? It's not used in every library, but certainly in many of them.
> SFC has very-overpowered tools to remove heroin dealers from society, within the due-process framework of criminal law.

Therein lies the problem. The district attorney refuses to seek jail time for drug dealing or most any other offense not involving direct, physical violence. Thus the gambit by the city attorney, who handles the city's civil administrative matters.

The SF district attorney finally published statistics on case disposition. He's long been claiming that his case prosecution rate (as judged by the filing of charges) remains high and comparable to his predecessors. (Note that his immediate predecessor, Gascon, was perhaps the 2nd most liberal district attorney in the country.) But that says nothing about case disposition. It turns out that, as suspected, the percentage of cases resulting in jail time have dramatically dropped over his tenure. In particular, the percentage of criminal cases shunted into pretrial diversion programs has nearly doubled under his tenure. 43% of criminal cases are diverted. But things could be even worse than that because 1) for convictions we don't have metrics on punishments and sentencing, which by most accounts have been significantly softened, and 2) the data says "successful diversion", yet all numbers add up to 100%, so we can either assume that "non-successful" diversions end in convictions, or the definition of "success" is extremely loose. Also note that because diversions don't result in convictions they have less weight on subsequent charges--particularly less weight under this city attorney, by most accounts.

To those who say that less jail time is good, I would point out a fallacy in the common criminal justice reform narrative. If you compare person prison years, the U.S. is an extreme outlier. However, by prison admittances per year, we're actually not extreme at all, even compared to Europe. (Unsurprisingly by that metric we look alot like other Anglo countries, modulo crime rate.) IOW, what was extreme about the U.S. was the duration of jail sentences (i.e. severity), not the rate at which we used jail time for penal purposes. That fallacious narrative is leading us down a perverse, equally extreme road--we're swinging from extreme amounts of jail time to no jail time. Just another manifestation of a classic American dynamic, I guess. Neither the people nor their institutions are very good at modulating their behavior--it's all or nothing with us.
Most people who own are moderately content for their house to stay somewhat stable in price.

They definitely don't want it to go down, especially below the loan amount; but tools like Zillow make it way too easy to book "paper profits".

If you bought for $100k and later noticed Zillow say your house as $250k, and now it's saying $200k you can feel like you lost out even though you're still "up" - something that was more difficult before as you'd have to try to compare similar homes for sale.
PKM is not bullshit, but many of the people creating content about PKM do seem to be professional bullshit artists, for e.g Tiago Forte and his “build a second brain” method, a $700 workshop that can be summarized as a distinction between “projects” and “areas”.
For what it's worth, modern C# can evaluate top-level statements with no other ceremony. The following is a valid standalone C# program:

Console.WriteLine("Hello");

For REPLs, there are options like (my own) https://github.com/waf/CSharpRepl which stand on top of the Roslyn compiler infrastructure, which is quite extensive and can easily evaluate standalone functions and statements.

It's still nowhere close to the REPLs of lisp and smalltalk, but it's a step in a more flexible direction.
Change panic! to yikes! when?
They did this in the UK and and from time to time mentioned doing so in official briefings.
No way this guy earns his money back. There is no salary premium for a CS master's. Employers that want to see one are places you don't want to work.

I mean, if you want to do it just for fun, knock yourself out. Just don't delude yourself about what you hope to accomplish.
Houses in the US couldn't serve as intergenerational asset simply because they are built of wood with average livespan of ~70 years. While in Europe houses are generally build of brick or cement and last centuries.
For some reason, I expected a big search box for articles on the front page. It exists at http://unpaywall.org/articles but the link's hidden away at the very bottom of the page.
Sure they've been a publicly traded company for 20 years but most of the first 10 of that they were mailing DVDs to people. They've really only been in the original content game since 2012 so just about 10 years. And the latest incarnation of Netflix a full-fledged Hollywood studio operating in a very capital intensive, competitive and increasingly crowded environment is even younger still. The history of Hollywood is littered with companies that have gone out business. It wasn't long ago that MGM one the oldest(1924) and most storied names in Hollywood went bankrupt.
Some parts of the US have pretty high price per square foot and pretty low median incomes within that neighborhood though, so looking at things nationally hides a lot of the nuance that is important to understand the whole. Overcrowding is common among low income people in the U.S. as it is anywhere else in the world. I can take you to parts of CA that will make you think I'm referring to central america and not california with that abbreviation, and these aren't far from cushy white collar jobs and expensive white collar owned homes, sometimes within a couple miles or so. OTOH in areas where housing is considered cheap the poor often aren't faring much better, since social safety nets are either worse or nonexistant and wages (and sometimes even available unskilled labor) amounts to little after the mandatory costs paid in these areas (perhaps car dependency due to a lack of reliable transit to commute to work).
> nothing compare to FoxPro/delphi

Amen. Every so often I boot up Lazarus and lament what could have been. Even the best web-dev frontend tools and frameworks do not come close.

I wonder if there is even a market for those sorts of tools today, though. I wasn't there for the decline of Delphi (and FoxPro, et al), so I've no real reference as to why they declined.
(2015), would be interesting to see what has changed in those 7 years.
I’m curious whether anyone here is doing/has done OMSCS with a family in addition to a day job. I would love to do the program, but I’m not sure how realistic it is to take it on with young kids in the house. Does all of your non-work time end up being consumed by coursework?
All scholarly papers funded by public money should be made freely available. All of these paid for publications need to stop being the Intuit of their fields and stop making people pay for something tax payers already paid for.
Note that this is a serious language proposal, but with a funny placeholder name so as to avoid bikeshedding until the feature is ready.
I found a similar utility for Windows: https://github.com/TechieGuy12/FileWatcher
> "DO" for "{" and "OD" for "}" so that they could write C++ a bit more like Bash.

Bash (like Bourne shell before it) uses do/done. I think DO/OD was in an Algol (68?). I'm not sure where else?

Bash does do the reversing for if/fi and case/esac, though.
Non-linear association between sleep duration, cognition and mental health
It is if the jokes are really sophisticated or clever. No reddit style stuff.
i agree. and the other paradox i keep thinking about is everyone says houses are too expensive it’ll to buy, but every house sells within 1-2 weeks on the market
I went from being a straight guy with kids in a monogamous relationship to a woman, to an openly bisexual one with a family (that woman and our two kids) and a boyfriend. In large part I didn’t explore that other part of my life because I grew up in an era where things like my (very closeted, self-hating) dad talking about how faggots all deserved what they got and what happened to Matthew Shepard were basically unremarkable.

It’s amazing how far that kind of emotional and physical violence will go toward suppressing honest self-reporting of sexuality.
that is ridiculous on its face.
That is certainly one way of looking at it. The government confers reputability onto the press. If that is an appropriate role for the state in your view, you need not examine further.

Another perspective might observe that Pravda was similarly considered "legitimate enough" by the USSR.

Which of these best describes the information bubble you found yourself in at the top of the thread?
I'd like to put my hand up and suggest Magnet, too.

For ages, I used Amethyst, which is a "tiling window manager" for macOS, but somewhere along the way it got annoying to install/keep working properly due to some of Apples shenanigans.

So I moved to Magnet. I still use it daily, but honestly forget its there because I use it so much! Just feels like native macOS behaviour at this point.
The same way a lottery winner discovers the correct numbers
Tech stocks falling won't necessarily lower home prices. The number of tech employees is growing rapidly, but the number of houses for sale isn't, so if ten years ago it was enough to win the bidding war against the top 10%, now you compete with the top 5% and their finances, even with lower stocks, are a lot better. By 2050 it will be a competition among the top 1%.
Potassium-40 decay is also one of the largest sources of geothermal heat [0]. The cumulative energy released is within two orders of magnitude of the Earth's gravitational binding energy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_internal_heat_budget#R...
That was kind of his point though. In order to deactivate one side you have to program that in the UI. Also, if you provide this kind of forced directionality to the two temperatures, you now how to make the units toggle on each side ( otherwise you can only convert from one fixed choice to the other - eg. C to F but not F to C ).

As soon as you start asking these questions, the UI requirements change.
"yeet" is being used as a placeholder for a keyword which will rethrow errors to a caller. It probably won't actually be called "yeet"; they're just using a deliberately silly keyword to keep discussion focused on the functionality.

https://areweyeetyet.rs/
I think the problem in all those statements is how US law works (e.g. badly). In Europe, yes, I would agree with your assessment.