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Peloton Hires Amazon Web Services Executive Liz Coddington as New CFO
Imageoptim is my go-to tool for crushing PNGs. It strips metadata and then tries multiple methods in combination to get the smallest possible file.

If I am OK with reduced quality then I will run PNGyu first to reduce it from 32 bits per pixel -> 8 bit or lower.
Well that is going to fucking suck
Standards happen by committee. They're not disruptive and that's the point.
Where does this argument stop? 1 trillion, 10 trillion?
> Innovation, particularly disruptive and / or breakthrough innovation, does not happen by committee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD#History

Never make an absolutist statement. They're always wrong. :-)
Unfortunately, the first assumption is incorrect, maybe at the level of quantum physics. More macro definitions of "reality" get even more fuzzy. Blue vs black dress etc. Sometimes heterogeneity is the reality.
Hertz on the discovery of radio waves: “I do not think that the wireless waves I have discovered will have any practical application”.
I find this comment interesting as a single example, especially with the data that's available on the topic. So many studies showing that remote and flexible working arrangements result in objectively higher productivity. At the same time, recent surveys show that people don't trust their colleagues to work hard while remote.

I'm sure we've all encountered someone we perceive as a lazy colleague. I'm also sure most of us will agree that data trumps anecdotes. If we accept that the the studies and surveys are all correct, this means that we're all being pretty tough on our colleagues despite their (overall) high performance.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/working-hard-or-hardly-working...
It's a Minnesota thing.
Not directly related to this API, but I’ve begun wondering if the next revolution in speech synthesis is to integrate with a natural language model like gpt-3 in order to gain semantic awareness, and use that context to produce emotional expressiveness and inflection that is attuned to the meaning and tone of the text.
> What is the best lossless image format?

For which application? Otherwise you can only say "depends". Tiff is good if you want to save data fast to disk in Blender. EXR is great if you want 32bit color depth, etc.
I've researched order preserving encryption before but the tradeoffs (mainly that the attacker can tell the order and use that to narrow the search space) always seemed like high risk.
Faster can mean less clock time (Zoom will almost always win) or less “involved” time - each person reads the thread and responds when they have time, which uses less of their time but more clock time.

It can work either way, depends on the type of discussion. Often the best is to hash as much out in chat as you can and then meet to finalize.
Well, I was joking a bit, but I would consider it dark fiber when you lease the fiber and run the equipment on both ends, and lit fiber when the owner of the fiber is running the equipment on both ends and selling you IP transit.
I ended up lucking into one at MSRP that pretty much checked every box in the 'need' category at a dealership 5 minutes from my house. They wouldn't take reservations or holds, just happened to be able to get there quickly whenever a truck rolled in with Tundras on it.

Another dealership offered me a TRD Pro Tundra, with a $16k dealer markup. I passed, but from what the salesman told me later the very next person (I was #1 on the list) he called bought it with that markup without hesitation.
Cheetah qualifies, too. The last step is like 95% of the work.
Because some portion of cost of living will expand with it..housing prices, other financial assets and therefore wealth of those investing in them, and in the future, costs of commodities and other consumption items as investors drain the stored energy in these "liquidity capacitors" and the money flows into the real economy.

"mitigate the potential negative effects of" I guess..

>How is it a hedge if it moves in line with liquidity?

I don't know what you're asking? Liquidity expansion inflates assets, and BTC inflates more than almost anything, especially over a multi-year time frame.

It hedges just holding cash. It hedges the opportunity cost of not investing while invest-able assets are going up in value, and wages on a relative basis are not.

>Why is expansion of liquidity is something one would need to hedge against?

Sort of a philosophical question lol. Maybe you don't. If one wants to invest at all (why though?) this is a framework for thinking about that process.
Yeah, I have a few key passwords (email and password manager being the main ones) memorised, and also stored written on paper in a safe place. Password manager also explicitly doesn’t have 2FA enabled so I should always be able to access that so long as I have an internet connection.

Now that I think about it, I might need to rethink my 2FA strategy for email to ensure that’s also accessible.
Or maybe Nintendo just decided that they didn't care. I really don't see how any technical specification could be expected to physically prevent everyone in the world from deliberately implementing it partially or incorrectly. I don't doubt that USB-C might be technically complicated and confusing compared to alternatives and predecessors, but I find it very difficult to believe that Nintendo engineering gave it their best shot and simply couldn't manage to do it correctly.
Fed Delivers Fuzzier Rate Message as It Gauges Impact of Hikes
It's a fun hobby even without cut fibers. :)
ASML is prohibited from shipping its newest machines to China by the Dutch government, because of heavy US pressure. I'm sure China would love ASML to be fully based there.
> but it was developed after this post was written

The article literally compares it to others. It might not have been finalized at the time of writing, but it's not like the author was unaware of it.
> This is antithetical to the whole idea of crypto.

There is no singular idea of crypto currencies. You have ideas ranging from BTC to USDC.
European money for European manufacturing staffed exclusively with Europeans and making chips for European products used by Europeans in Europe.

The question OP asked is why it matters to you that the company that owns the fab is not European? The local investment is what should matter, no?
TPM is supposed to be a secure enclave that's resistant to electronic access, so non-duplicable (in theory). So as much as anything, you're pricing access by the signing of a file with the TPM. That means continuity of 'proof' -- perhaps we'll get to the point where famous people perpetually film themselves using a third-part verifiable module to sign the data, just so they can show "that wasn't me" (ie technological deniability).

I don't think you can show the reverse (it was you), nor can you make a 'proof' without an established chain (you're only proving that you verified something with the same equipment you previously used).

Reputation seems like it could become much more a part of social media, like, this video was signed by all these witnesses to endorse it as a true account.
Why do new Macs and iPads have USB-C, then?
The goal is to keep expanding these trials until labor law ratchets the work week down for everyone to 4 days. It will take time, but it will happen.

If you as a freelancer want to work five days a week (or more), by all means, spend your life in such a manner. The rest of us work to live, not live to work.
I can't recall a GCP outage in my 2 years using it. I can recall 3 separate AWS outages that affected one of our SaaS platforms.
Game dev here ( with significant experience in engines with significant idTech ancestry ) - the goal is, generally, to avoid mallocs _during_ a frame - you alloc everything you need during startup. I'm surprised there's that much ongoing allocation.
I'm sure it's infernal.
Careers are about opportunity. Come into the office less, and you’ll come across fewer opportunities. As someone said, “eighty percent of success is just showing up.”
Right off the bat, the third sentence looks much more like what my data looks like, and the kind of text I wanted people to use it for. Where is the line from?
yes, but first the dilute it with water until there's no gallium left.
SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 Released
19 hours to openSUSE LEAP 15.4:

https://www.opensuse.org/
Yeah, that's how I ended up getting one. Working from home and living 5 minutes from the dealership.

The sales manager told me while they finished prepping the truck, their system is so messed up right now they don't even really know when they're getting deliveries. Trucks loaded with cars just show up randomly on the lot and they work the phones to get them sold.
I realize my huge mistake calling it the "stock market". It's the real estate market.
I memorized a very long password, so if everything digital burns, breaks or is stollen, I can go online and retrieve the rest of my passwords.

That very long password is made by applying an self made algorithm, so in case I forgot it, I can recreate it.
> It's easy to monday-morning quarterback a result that was successful and unexciting, but imagine how intolerable the world would be if we'd chosen not to verify it.

I once read a paper complaining that the most of psychology experiments are trivial in the sense that their results are predictable in advance. It is like all people know that angry people tend to make other people angry and so if angry person try to communicate then oftentimes communications ends with a conflict. What the point of making an experiment from this?

I'm not sure how much of a psychology fall victim of this, but sometimes I read a paper and think that I've found one more example of this. I personally get nothing from reading such a paper. I can get some ideas while reading about methods researchers used, but it means that the paper is not about how human mind works, but about how to measure psychological phenomena, or how to conduct an experiment. I bet that the most interesting part of the hypothetical paper with angry communicating people would be the trick researchers used to make people angry without violating ethics.

There is some value in experiments that try to prove something that everyone knows already, but not much of a value. So the question is: is it ok to spend $10G to conduct such an experiment?
The same was once believed in south Korea with regards to online commerce and ActiveX. Their law left their infrastructure rigid, less secure, and incompatible with the rest of the world when everyone moved on.
Especially when it comes to despotic life-long leaders. After 2018, Xi no longer has to worry about the pretense of term limits. We can only hope the state of Russia after the Ukrainian conflict is a convincing enough lesson.

Invading Taiwan...the risks are substantial and the gain is legacy. Hardly a convincing for a nation, but potentially convincing for a man facing mortality.
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Reminds me of Gambas sort of
I have seen it in some forums as well, but do you have any explanation links about why that may be ?

I have trouble finding relevant information that is not some random dude on a forum speaking very confidently one way or another without much data to back it up, and I don't see why that would cause any harm other than charging more slowly, eventually to the point of discharging if you consume a lot of power (which is a pretty tolerable downside).
Climate also plays a part. I was just on Spruce Knob last weekend and saw lightning bugs in late May. Never in my life have I seen them before mid-June and this was at 5000 ft elevation. This disruption to their annual cycle can’t be helping numbers
Noise Free America: A Coalition to Promote Quiet
They get screwed, in most cases.
There's no opining about it. It was the best solution at the time and removing it eliminated the last remaining dam preventing absolute corruption of our money by the state.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
If you’re able to remember a password, then why would you need to call support?
I dunno, I'm holding one in my hands right now and it is a pretty solid li'l device with a cute plastic exterior and a unique input scheme.

You do realize that the crank isn't for charging it, right? It comes with a color-matched USB-C cable.
A company could even be staffed 24/7 and yet nobody work more than 32 hrs a week.

What we really should be trying to normalize is most everything shutting down an extra day where possible.
It's so hard watching the Keeling Curve go up 3ppm a year.

500ppm is really not far off. Crossing 400 was so scary. Seeing it march relentlessly up is wild. How can the CO2 more than double in my lifetime? Egads.

We talk about a 1.5C critical rise- but what about after? Does the CO2 go up forever? Does it go to 800 in 2122, where people are just fatigued and fuzzy all the time?
Some deployments might be able to leverage GitHub Enterprise, which is a $231/user/year GitHub-in-a-VM-image. It's pretty much the GH source code (running through a modified copy of Ruby so the on-disk .rb files are scrambled).

https://github.com/pricing

https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.2/admin

Active/passive HA is possible: https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.2/admin/enter...
> Can't tell if this is satire or not

Me neither, I’m genuinely confused
>The usefulness of firearms extends beyond killing people

Not really, not for the vast majority of them. For hunting or sport shooting a bolt action makes sense, but a 9mm pistol is a tool specifically designed to kill people, just like an automatic rifle is.
Did the hacker(s) bypass 2FA here? Or was it not set up on this account?

If 2FA wasn't in use, then maybe the account was hit with a password brute-force attack.
The collapse of the Bretton-Woods system was really bad. It got so bad that Nixon had to temporarily suspend exchange of notes for gold. It eventually dragged all currencies into a death-spiral. You can read all about it in the history books. Why should it be repeated?

The Austrian school of economics radically simplifies economic theory to an absurd degree (I assume that's what you're signalling you follow given your statements). It treats empirical evidence as heresy. The only driving force behind all of their conspiracy theories and racist/anti-semitic dog-whistling is a belief that governments are evil and all inflation is bad. It's really reductive and anti-intellectual.

Inflation isn't inherently bad and not all inflation is the same.

In terms of geopolitics the collapse of the Bretton-Woods system has had many benefits. Much of the world eventually recovered by the mid-80s by the economic crises of the late-60s. Also in the history books.

War and debt are bedfellows. Everyone knows this. Also well known are the economic consequences of creating such debt by going to war. It turns out mostly authoritarian psychopaths will go to war or make crypto-currencies official currencies despite the economic consequences and impacts it would have on their citizens.
> 1+1=2 presumes a reductionist and somewhat capitalist view of the world

Hopefully, not all Chinese engineers think that...

> mathematics is a subject that invents abstract concepts and rewards

Not according to much of the history of math. Mathematics was borne of practical needs, and it has been extremely useful in science and engineering. (Sure, you can think of the number 2, say, as an abstract concept, but to most people it is a very concrete thing - as is the definite integral, etc.)

Yes, a philosophical journey can be a journey down a rabbit hole, so one should be careful...
My links from London to Delhi (Tata) and Nairobi (WIOCC) had issues starting 12:24:21 GMT, losing leased lines and internet over the course of a couple of seconds then. Delhi internet resumed quickly (less than 2 seconds) with an extra 9ms rtt. Private wire resumed about 15 minutes later.

Nairobi however remained unreachable for hours -- outgoing internet traffic to some places worked -- if I tracerouted from the office it would die in LINX, but from home it would run from London, New York, MSP, Seatle, Tokyo, Singapore, Djubouti and down to Nairobi, mostly on Hurricane Electric

WIOCC tell me a fibre cut between Marseille and Djibouti. They've got my circuits back up at least, although still routing on WIOCC as far as London.
> But what you are working on is completely useless for humanity. Knowing that there is a quantum foam is knowledge that brings us nowhere. If someone could answer to this "and so what?" in a meaningful way I would be glad to change my mind. For the time being, the energy scale we are making these discoveries is not useful.

How many things were discovered by ancient Greeks that only became useful in the last 100-200 years? The Sieve of Eratosthenes comes to mind - I can't imagine that was really helping anyone out until we had modern cryptography.
>Why would anyone pay $80k/month to solve a problem that could be solved with 0.5 FTE?

I'm not sure who's the bean counter here. Maintaining a service, with the same availability as Github, is 3 FTE minimum, unless you are expecting your 0.5 FTE to also be on call. "I can hire an intern to replace $X" seems like the bean counter attitude. Do you have an SLA? Can management claw your raise back when your bespoke system has more than a day of downtime? If you go on vacation and the system goes down, can management expect you in the office on the next day? Remember they are paying you an $80k/yr "bonus" for three nines of availability. Or are you just going to tell the other 10k employees "hey it won't go down while I'm in Tahoe, just trust me."
One of my favorite papers. I was part of a 1960's consulting collective (Polymorphic Corporation) started by Marcus Byruck. Coroutines and the Separable Transition-Diagram compiler pattern were part of our secret sauce.
Are you claiming that no knowledge or technology has come out of CERN that benefits humanity in any way?

I find that hard to believe considering how much technical innovation came out of the space race that has had an impact on our everyday lives [0].

[0] https://www.aii.org/how-the-space-race-built-todays-technolo....
I agree, that would be something
It has nothing to do with innocent Ukrainians - but if we start to deliver heavy weaponry to any people who got innocently attacked and slaughtered by a larger aggressor, we would be at war with the United States within the week. We cannot claim to act out of a moral imperative for Ukraine and against Russia if we do not supply the same level of support for, say, the Kurds to defend against Turkey. This is why I have compassion with Ukrainians, but think we need to stay out of this as much as possible.

If you don't treat similar situations similarly, the only option on how to act is in your own interest.

> - This is an unprovoked invasion of a country that unilaterally disarmed under the promise that Russia wouldn't invade them.

Even if that was in any way relevant to the current situation: How long do you think such a promise should be good for, and should it still be good for countries that have had a less than stellar track record when it came to international relations afterwards?

> - Russia is testing NATO's tolerance for invasion and conquest, which is also something China will be closely watching as they consider annexation of Taiwan and likely many other countries.

Note how both Russia and China do not need to test tolerances, as both of them are capable nuclear powers with primary and secondary strike capabilities. As Biden is unlikely to sacrifice New York for Kiev, or San Francisco for Taipeh, this is a moot point.

> - Many civilians who have nothing to do with global politics are being killed, again for absolutely no reason. Russia's entire pretext for this invasion was the warming relationship between Ukraine and NATO.

A warming relationship that was started by a clear US intelligence operation with Euromaidan and likely still is heavily supported by money right out of Langley. Maybe Europeans, the designated battlefield in an US/Russia war, should not fan that fire any more.

> Russia has been waging a cyber war on NATO countries, especially the US, for years.

And still, whenever we look at proof for this, we see explanations like 'the code has some cyrillic script in it', which is easily fakeable. I've yet to see definite proof of successful Russian hacking that goes beyond 'script-kiddie' levels. On the other hand, we do know of not one, but several US units that openly plan and execute hacking attacks (Stuxnet, anyone?)

> They are openly hostile to NATO countries.

They were friendly enough delivering gas while we were still paying them.

> None of the rest of your comment suggests this at all. If you have compassion for them and so do most European voters, why shouldn't Europe act on that compassion?

Compassion also can mean not speaking in support of a war that eventually will be lost, heavy weapons or not, but will still kill hundreds each day.

So why do European countries still send weapons? Because that's the perfect opportunity to get rid of the old trash and buy some shiny new toys (and the US hopes they're going to buy American).
Sure, but there's an argument to be made that credit is such an underpinning facet of society that it's unwise to allow the decisions to be made in darkness.

The obvious example is housing, which requires a loan for the vast, vast majority of people. These decisions have concrete implications for who can buy a house, or what house, or where. Redlining could be enforced almost entirely via lending (and it was, iirc). I'm not claiming that happens currently, because I have no idea, but it's a possibility.

There are also workarounds. IP law could be used to restrict competitors using the models. We could make the models be open and operating under a fee basis (i.e. the creator of the model gets 0.1% of the loan amount as a payout). There are likely other options.

I see it as a parallel to utilities. They are necessary for society to function, but no one will build them out if they have to share. So we hand over a monopoly with a lot of restrictions on how they can operate. I think the same could be true here.
If it is Platinum you go bankrupt.
Future of Reading Depends on the Future of Learning Difficult to Learn Things [pdf]
> Sure as hell beats getting involved in an actual shooting war.

Until it backfires and creates the potential for a nuclear war.