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Having seen how some startups operate, I'd say the biggest issue is marketing &sales. People get dragged into unimaginable depths of technical stuff just to avoid anything related to sales. Companies with complex tooling and processes can't figure out basic marketing plan or establish a sales process that is replicable across the board.
I think people here have a different definitions of rural btw.

Where I grew up - small town of 4000 with no major city within 3+ hours drive. Nearest “city” was 100k people about 100 miles away.

Even in that - I didn’t feel it was super rural but compared to most people - that is seen as remote. May as well live in the Alaskan wilderness in their eyes.

Some people consider a suburb outside of Indianapolis as “rural”.
Long drives in SUVs are no ways better than in a decent sedan.

The real dynamic is carmakers promoting huge trucks as Patriotic and American, with super bowl ads showing these trucks moving houses around.

That leads to a significant number of people buying these massive vehicles.

And once these vehicles are on poorly designed American roads where safety is barely an afterthought, everyone driving in more normal sized cars feel even more unsafe, leading them to replace their sedans (which are already oversized compared to Sedans even a couple of decades ago) with CUVs, SUVs and trucks.

You will see this dynamic play out in household to household where people are essentially being forced into buying bigger, harder to handle, and more expensive cars because it truly feels unsafe to be driving in a normal car next to these monster trucks.
F-me.. responded to teh wrong thread...
It's hard to blame any one piece of the system for inflating grades - everyone "wins" short term, and that's all this country cares about, from top to bottom. Students get their piece of paper so they can have at least a not-hopeless life, schools get their way overpriced tuition, administrators get their raises, companies get to pretend they hire smart people, etc. Governments know everyone wants their kid to go to college, so they make it easier to get people degrees.

If college continues to be a requirement for most of the basic jobs people receive then this will continue. Most of the workforce doesn't need a college degree. The things they learn in college they will never, ever use, and most of the jobs don't actually require critical thinking like is constantly waved about whenever these conversations come up.
True, all of the top schools have a problem with either attracting or nurturing unethical clowns of blockbuster proportion.
If you don't have your phone, how do you know where the nearest public service is, especially in a foreign land.
It is, among other things like username or user e-mail address.

This is also, together with backend scalability, a major selling point for JWTs. Otherwise one might just as well use regular session ids in cookies.
Is Stanford different? I've heard that in this year's NLP class (CS224N), 93% was only good for B+ which doesn't sound like grade inflation at all.
I can't figure out from Wikipedia if NixOS is a systemd user or, like Guix, has a custom services facility.
>Boot Clonezilla and duplicate your old hard disk onto the new superfast drive. Optionally, start SystemRescue and use GParted to resize the partition. Shut down, swap drives, and you're done

If you're booting into Windows, also check that the BIOS setting for SATA operation of the new disk is the same as the old (ATA, AHCI, or RAID) or else it'll BSOD at boot!
> The fear being that if Canada deregulates fully and opens critical sectors like telecomms etc. to full competition we will completely lose these industries to US (or Chinese, etc.) interests.

I have never understood the reluctance of successive governments to allow foreign competition in our telecom markets. Telus, Shaw, Bell, and Rogers are all widely held public companies. They answer to global shareholders.

Yet, I can accept the argument writ large that some degree of sovereign relatedness for significant industries is sensible in a world where many foreign companies receive illicit government support for strategic reasons.

The best solution to bring down prices while protecting corporate sovereignty is a state-owned provincial provider. Mobile prices in Saskatchewan are significantly lower because of SaskTel. At times, yes, even a boring state-owned telecom is a good thing. Rogers/Telus/etc resist this notion, yet prices are evidentially a great deal cheaper in that province.

IMHO, the feds should create a fund to help provinces and municipalities build their own public broadband and mobile infrastructure, with the stated aim of competing with big-telecom.
Windows has the best handling for when you run out of memory. It almost never kills stuff, and has a reasonable swap by default.

Macos will just kill your latest app and throw an idiotic dialog box that's of no use now that the biggest offender has already been killed.

It seems Linux has similar issues.
I think that's sort of what he's talking about. Had you not had the experience of calculus and diff eq at a university and your only exposure to it was at Stanford with middling grades - perhaps it'd probably lead to more existential questions of whether you really wanted to do STEM in the first place.
If you're on debian/ubuntu, you should be able to install "minimodem", which allows for this sort of thing with the usual wide variety of command-line parameters.

echo "hello hacker news" | minimodem --tx 110

yields a nice classical "telemetry" sound.
Having a really hard time bringing myself to sell, even though I feel like more extended doom & gloom is a near certainty.
I remember being naïve and thinking the Internet would solve the issue of spreading high-quality information far and wide. What I (and I think many others) completely neglected to realize was that it also made misinformation exponentially easier to spread.
On this topic, has anyone here used direwolf (https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf) to communicate between two computers without radios?
do you want to talk about it? or is there anyone you trust who you can reach out to?

is there anything we can do for you?
It's interesting to consider that the total global human population could possibly peak within our lifetime (although more likely around 2100). Global population growth rate has already peaked at 2.1% in 1968, and has since dropped to 1.1%. [1].

In the last 60 years, total fertility rate has dropped from 5 to 2.5 [2], and most industrialized nations are hovering right around replacement rate of 2.1 or actively shrinking (Japan, 1.4, Germany, 1.6, South Korea, 0.81). Albeit during COVID, the 2020 TFR in the United States was only 1.64, and has declined for the last four years in a row [3].

With technology, I'd still expect the overall "size of the economy" to grow, but it will be interesting to see how growth is affected by substantial changes in demography that play out over the next 100-200 years (if only I could stick around to watch!).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/us/us-birthrate-falls-cov...
So this happened on a system that serves up user provided files; clam(d?) was doing some ram intensive things and oomd decided to kill it without much ceremony, this workload while ram tight worked without issue for 10+ years but this also could be a Ubuntu requiring more ram usage compared to previous versions. If I didn't notice this the end result could have been a bit rough.
Well, if we're doing pseudo-philosophical soundbites, then hell is other people.

Better to rule than be ruled. At the very least it gives you a bigger safety net when you fall out of power.
were cell phones that common in 2001? i thought payphones were still more commonly used at that point
When it comes to extra terrestrial life, past Earth experience cannot be reliably used as a good predictor for the future. We need to map possible future scenarios and apply logic and reasoning.

This is like ants arguing that life outside their ant hill will likely have 6 or 8 legs because all the life they've seen so far have had 6 or 8 legs.

Maybe we cannot be certain that AI can exist, but it's certainly reasonable to predict that AI will surpass us, given the fundamental principles involved. Much like people who predicted that the Earth was round before it was circumvented. We've only seen a fraction of what AI can do, but there is no fundamental barrier to AI cognition.

Also, the only conclusion you can draw from SETI is that no one nearby is actively sending a signal too Earth. We aren't able to pickup "background" EM activity beyond a ~20 light years - which is only a handful of stars. Moreover, the notion of ET omnidirectional broadcasting so inefficient, it would be difficult to explain (thus unlikely).

My guess is that we are surrounded by quiet AI observation nodes, either in elongated orbits, or extra-solar transients. Probably near impossible to detect. There doesn't seem to be any great harnessing or storage of stellar solar outputs in the galaxy, so either their efforts do not involve large amounts of energy - or they've found some other means to capture it (maybe that's what dark matter is).
Could you help me understand the argument for longevity helping growth? I'm generally a fan (after all, I don't have a deathwish) but it's not clear to me how longer lifespans would lead to more productivity. I could theoretically see a scenario where as we continue getting more specialized we spend increasingly spend the first ~40+ years of our life in education (although hopefully new methods can speed learning rates) and then the next 40 years working and having longer productive lives would be better, but do people contribute significantly more in their last years than the rest of their careers?
you misunderstood the reference: "this" was meant to mean the recommendation in the parent post. I edited my post to be clearer.

concerning the intentional breaking of the windows updater and then using a third party update tool: such workarounds don't make the recommendation less bad. The question is: why break the onboard updater in the first place? And all those other features? Sure you have an alternative to office365 and to onedrive and live without the companion app is possible and happy, and maybe you even have a third party crl updater as well and a workaround for the side effects of blocking oscp.

But honestly if you want to replace everything because microsoft is bad and can't be trusted, then start by replacing the kernel.
Payphone seems to be like public toilets: you don't want to use one, when you have to, you are glad they are there.

3-4 years ago I got stuck in San Francisco with a dead cellphone and broken car. I remembered my spouse's number, I don't remember of I forgot my wallet somewhere or it wasn't accepting cards, but I do remember asking a random woman on the street for few coins. Anyway, I was able to call and even to get a call back in few minutes.

It can be a public safety matter, hopefully no-one needs it, but when one does, can be for a good reason.
> ambitious students who are children of Ivy league educated professionals

This describes Bush to a t. I left out the smart part, but I'm not convinced that W is some sort of idiot.
Correlation is not causation. It's funny that folks point at vaccines while ignoring pre existing conditions, yet with COVID it was the pre existing conditions and not COVID that were killing people.
Shocking. Here's something to compare it to. It is rumored that engineering courses at University of Toronto never have an average above 70, and if they do everybody gets curved down. Confirmed by my probability professor who showed us the effects of the curve on everyone's grades.

A 70 corresponds to 2.7 GPA:

https://undergrad.engineering.utoronto.ca/calculate-gpa/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UofT/comments/672fj3/what_is_the_av...
Part of why I reference the talk is that he was advocating for it in a broader context because he found it simplified the architecture and reduced memory and execution time for his project which isn’t a game. I would love to see more exposition on the subject in different contexts so people get a feel for what DOD might look like in different spheres of development especially in more general programming environments. I don’t yet have much experience with it myself but I know that each time I have explored a different design pattern I have learned useful things so I look forward to learning more about it and finding ways to use it.
It depends, but probably not as much as you would think.

With a grade curve that high, a B usually means one of the following:

1. Tough weeder course.

2. The person does not really understand the material, especially for upper division courses.

3. Something personal (illness, family issues, personal issues, etc.).

For folks who care about grades, like hiring officials or graduate admissions folks, they typically know about the grade inflation.

It might be a benefit in law school admissions that mostly use a strict formula with gpa as part of that formula.

Anyway, if someone is choosing Harvard over another school due to GPA inflation, then I have a feeling that they won’t gain that much at Harvard or the other school(s) that admitted them. That seems to be optimizing for something fairly minor in the scheme of things.
I think the other reason for small cars is the illusion of safety, and distance. Smaller car with a smaller battery, means less range, or rather a perception of less range.
Isn't a decent auth library boilerplate at this point?
But at Harvard that kid can get in good with future elite, which is probably more valuable than any silly degree.
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> What were they even right about with the vaccine?

The things it was tested for. Preventing hospitalization and death from Covid. Which the Pfizer, Moderna and even J&J shots are terrifically good at.

> credibility is going to be lost if we don’t pull heads out of butts

So? The people who matter mostly got the message. People who wanted protection mostly got it.
Nope, on the transcript it's /4.0. It's absurd I know.
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Do you mean co-depending from anonymous internet opinions and advice is a form of mental illness? I agree.

Have to see the mistmach though you point out.

I just see some scientifically based decissions, recomendations and solutions to really well studied problems, and also see lot of people making noise since the 70s about vax, chemtrails, MMS, Chakras, ivervectine, himalaian salt, bach flowers, ozone, and whatever looks like shiny new to solve all your problems all together.
And cash! :)
“What do you do when you cannot copy text between computers due to lack of internet connectivity? “

Literally what Minimodem was created for :)

http://www.whence.com/minimodem/
Very bad. Struggling dealing with an autism / aspergers diagnosis and trying to understand how to re-enter the workforce after a few years of being under or unemployed.

It's a complete nightmare. I want to work but I struggle with communication and being understood (or understanding) the world around me.

I have been waiting on news about a job all week and not a peep. I'm pretty sure they are waiting till EOD Friday to tell me no.

The idea of starting the job hunt over again makes me sick and trying to concentrate and focus when I'm stressed like this every single day is destroying me as a person.

I got to go fishing yesterday though, that was nice. My life would be perfect if I could find a way to stop failing as a person. Every day I'm afraid I'll lose everything because I can't "make it happen" and turn things around.
but that's a problem everywhere that doesn't build enough new units to meet the demand. and i don't think it is any easier to buy a place. nor is it any easier to find a place to rent in the US.
> People dropping out of engineering isn't anything new [0].

What is new is: students were told all their life that “they’ll make it” in life.

Spoiler alert: not everyone does. Most will never make 7 figure compensation as a SWE, for example.
Don't know if this thread is sarcastic or not, but Europe is not catching up.

https://obesity.procon.org/global-obesity-levels/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_r...

US ranks very high

12 United States of America 36.2%

First European country is Ireland at #51, first continental Europe country is Greece, at #54, my country is ranked #107.
I would love to compare these rates against other common respiratory viruses. Long term effects from viral infections is not unique to covid. The only thing unique about covid is we are watching it 1000x more than anything previous to it.

... if you look for something, you'll find it. Test everybody with a pulse for the flu and then track the long term effects the same way we are with covid and I'm sure you'll see a very similar result. It's just nobody gave a shit about it until covid put it on the radar.
Tons of people have atrial fibrillation or other easily managed or mild heart conditions. Many people have no idea they even have issues until they get an Apple watch and it starts alerting them that their heart rate is fluctuating unexpectedly.
Perhaps $6/gallon will nudge some new passenger rail projects forward.
Is it this one? https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/08/nation-sized-battery/
The problem with a study like this is that they probably aren't doing a good job distinguish true long covid from psychosomatic long covid. And there is a lot of evidence that "long covid" correlates much more highly with pre-existing anxiety levels than disease severity.

I think long covid exists I just think there is also a lot of psychosomatic long covid and until we have a good diagnostic criteria to differentiate the two it'll be really hard to study it.
> I'm amazed at how a prestigious university brand helps marginal candidates get through the filter to an on-site interview 20+ years after graduation

Is there evidence for it not remaining a strong signal?
Very Good.

In the middle of selling and buying a house. Good problem to have, but very stressful, and it's a great way to see your savings disappear. "Someone wants another check for $3000? What's this one for? Never mind, I guess it doesn't matter."

Very good because it'll all be over someday, and this is a problem I asked for — indeed, worked for years to have.
"A" post-biological intelligence? Why would there only be one?

A post-biological intelligence would want to migrate to another system so it can build its own hosting substrate and increase its own resources without fighting with someone else. (Well... at least initially.)

Explanations based on "oh, they'd never want to do that" need to explain not why "a" post-biological intelligence might conceivably under some particular circumstance not want to spread out, but why all the post-biological intelligences never do. That's a much harder argument to make.
If I have to learn a programming language just so I can use a single thing, then it might as well be an application-specific language.

That being said, I will look into guile anyways. I have a little project I'm working on that could benefit from a lisp-like configuration file, and I've currently implemented a crappy s-expression interpreter already.
I've see this kind of service offered in a few private hospitals in Lithuania. So basically they assess you and depending on the complexity/uncertainty of the problem, they'd form a panel of specialists to discuss the case,etc. This allow to skip that idiotic chain, where you bounce like a ball from one doctor to another whilst none of them talk to each other. I don't know your condition or budget, but I think there are quite a few countries in Europe where you'd get something like this.
> In fact, the greatest threat to long-term economic growth might be the slowdown in population growth... Without more brains to push technology forward, progress might stall.

Well you really only need a small number of very talented brains. And continuing to grow the global population is probably not the most efficient way of getting them.
> whose purpose is to feed the cancer that is called advertising

Pay phones were the same way. The quarter payment was just on top of the money from advertisements.
This could also just be Ubuntu. So many distros are based on Ubuntu and it’s pretty clear that Canonical doesn’t really care about Ubuntu on the desktop.

It’s little more than a sales funnel for them to make sure people use Ubuntu servers as well, at this point.
You mean the non-proportional "code" font?

Indent the line by a few spaces.
This is totally right. There are two kinds of classes: those with a specific set of learning outcomes to meet (eg. a prerequisite course) and those where by the end the in-scope knowledge is essentially unlimited (eg. courses where it's not unreasonable to prove named theorems on homework or exams). The former should be graded with 100% being all the knowledge, the latter in a way that gives a fair distribution and then scales.

Of course, my fellow university students always push back on me when I support the latter :) At the risk of armchair psychoanalyzing, I think a lot of them don't want to reckon with the fact that there's such an overwhelming amount of information out there and so many perspectives to explore it from that "100%" in say introductory topology is almost completely meaningless as a measure of how much topology one actually knows.
A comment and reply from the Reddit thread on r/fpga here - https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comments/uz2u0a/write_synthesi... -

"Sounds all very nice, but isn't it just hdl with a C++ syntax then? I am fluent in both C++ and VHDL, but I wouldn't think of trying HDL in C++ because the way of thinking is so different. I can see the purpose of HLS, but if this isn't HLS then what is the purpose?"

Yes, it's HDL with a C++ syntax. That's the point. Lower learning curve, easier experimentation, incremental conversion from general-purpose C++ to Verilog-compatible semantics, smaller code, faster simulation, easier debugging, no conversion pass needed for C++ testbenches. Metron source files are plain C++ headers with no special language annotations required, so you can start writing "hardware" without leaving your C++ IDE.

The way of thinking is very different, but with Metron you can get from "procedural" C++ to "hardware" C++ incrementally. Metron handles a lot of the plumbing details for you so that your converted modules behave more like C++ classes, though you can fall back to explicit port defintions if you need more control.
There was a research paper that described AI robots the size of a toaster traveling from star system to star system (and galaxy to galaxy).

It is difficult to imagine how we would detect those - even if many orbited our sun. ...but if they exist, they likely already detected us and have relayed the fact of our existance.
> AFAICT it can't handle large datasets containing large unstructured data like images and video and multi-billion data point datasets are hard to store in a single machine/file

Images and videos can easily be yeeted in as binary blobs (same as with any other standard DB), and SQLite DBs scale into the hundreds of TB range as a single file. Are you comparing the single file strategy to something like a sharded cluster of DBs, or is your thought that a DB that stores objects as independent files is somehow superior?
It is completely insanity. It starts by assuming that the affected user has or could ever be available to have facesomething, instasomething and whasomething accounts,

and that said user could ever be convinced to open some,

and that said user could access them on a machine apart from the infected.

They are completely bonkers.
When it comes to automobiles and the US... are there any similar countries?
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