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Leetcode isn't programming. Leetcode is pattern-matching which rote-memorized algorithm will solve a problem in the expected time/space. If you want to get better at programming, find some side projects you're passionate about and make time to work on them (if you can). If you want to get better at leetcode, force yourself to do them N hours per day. If you find both of these distasteful, you'll have trouble in your dev career, and might find management more enjoyable.
I wouldn't hire anyone who used google or facebook because they are unethical. And if I see someone wearing a brand I dislike I pour paint over them. Stereotypes are perfectly acceptable to go by in 2022.
512MB is absolute overkill for the application that you built, it is the choice of OS + the tooling used that resulted in that requirement. Not all that long ago 32 MB served a whole bank, and embedded systems used kilobytes of RAM, not megabytes. We've gotten so used to slapping a full unix server into stuff that we hardly even think about it any more and just take that kind of power completely for granted. I'm not saying you made any wrong choices, it's just that most of the embedded stuff that I come across would be just as feasible on a fraction of the CPU (and power) budget than what we typically choose because for instance Lua is such a convenient choice for a platform like that.
What you'd do exactly depends on your database. For Postgres you could use something like Citus, you also could setup your own duplication, but in general yeah setup a few VPS, setup the replicas and some load balancing and you're good.

Managed DB costs can seem confusing, look at your data for egress, storage, read and writes. Most have a calculator where you can plug in the data to estimate.
If you feed 4K at 60fps to your computer, that's another thing it has to digest on top of your running application, and 4K screen presentation downsized to 720p.

Besides, have you ever wanted to see every pimples on the face of your co-workers?

The image needs to be good enough to capture body language and minor frowny attitudes, but a stunning picture won't fix the fact that your product is late, your co-workers are slow, and it's Monday.
i just saw the same in a documentary about biking in germany. major roads in rural areas have absolutely no space for bikes. cars go at the speed limit, and riding a bike from one village to the next is more dangerous than any city.
The Danger of Minimalist Design
This rings true and frustrates me as well. My entire career I get bogged down with being so disappointed with the tools that we use in the software industry, that it totally distracts from building new things.

Perhaps it is my mathematics background that spoiled me. In mathematics, you rarely are concerned with the tools that you have at your disposal. In most cases, they have been designed well, iterated on, smoothed out, etc., and above all, they just work. Aside from the most advanced, cutting-edge work, this is generally true. Of course, there's always work on foundations, different paradigms of mathematics, and more, but I think the point is clear. Maybe an even clearer point is imagining a carpenter who has to rebuild his hammer every day because it stops working, and then imagine that the instructions to build a hammer are practically undocumented scribblings on some napkins.

In software, and actually in engineering as a whole, there is a large percentage of work that goes into solving problems created by other engineers. This isn't all the work, of course, but it is a depressingly large amount.

In general, I am less concerned about all the constraints of software artifacts, e.g., size, slowness, etc. While those are a drag and can be frustrating, I am more concerned with two things: software that works and software tools. The tools that we use in this industry are nothing but antiquated. Software engineers equate programming to text, and thus, all the tooling revolves around text. Most so-called IDEs are simply advanced text editors. Tools like Git are beloved, and in Linus' own words, I'm surprised they made it to adulthood. Even in a text-based language, I absolutely do not care about lines that changed. I care about semantic things, like functions, modules, expression blocks, etc. I want my source-code control and comparison tools to tell me what actually changed and not what characters of changes are present. I could go on and on this topic.

And part of the consequences of poor tools, we have software that works poorly and is just balls of mud stacked on top of more balls of mud that have dried out they're brittle to even touch. But that's just one component of why software doesn't work. The other is how we think about software. Thinking about software as just a thing that a person tells a computer to do is not enough. Software is about three things: (1) computation, (2) communication between humans and not between human and machine, and (3) how to think about things or encode a domain with software. We suck enough as it is with (1), but (2) and (3) are basically ignored at large. Almost all engineering problems in deployed systems relate down to communication issues and poor understanding of the domain at hand. But not only does everyone concentrate on (1), they concentrate on very narrow aspects of (1).

It's almost no surprise that things are as bad as they are in software.
This is actually extremely useful for me to know, so thank you so much for pointing this out!
I can understand the reason for believing there's no overlap, as Linux users tend to shy away from tracking-like features in general (which is the job of a camera!). But a few privacy features like a physical lens cap, and a hardware light that turns on if the camera is powered (not controlled by software) would really incentivize that market, I think.

Linux users still like quality hardware, and are willing to pay for it.
"Do less with less" is a good way to put it. It can be helpful to look at the extremes- for example, people who are starving can end up with suppressed thyroid function (among other things). This appears to be adaptive; a hypothyroid state will tend to avoid building or sometimes even maintaining metabolically expensive muscle, overwhelming exhaustion will tend to suppress nonvital calorie expenditure, and even fidgeting behaviors can be suppressed. In other words, by reducing burn rate, you starve slower.

This is not something you want happening in a well-nourished individual. Beyond making you more likely to die to predation or accidents from severe muscle wasting, it also just feels horrible. There's a reason why people with untreated hypothyroidism (unrelated to starvation) struggle with exercise and weight loss.

I've also personally observed some people on... inadvisable extreme crash diets getting some weird bloodwork numbers. Like TSH spiking by a factor of 10- which, unlike the above starvation case which typically suppresses TSH, may imply malnutrition and inability to produce sufficient thyroid hormone. Their empirically derived caloric burn rate dropped by more than 30% over the duration of the diet, and a substantial amount of that was from dramatic muscle wasting. Not exactly ideal!
I'm referring to the fact that it's connected to the internet.
Not having to download 10g to edit 1 line of code on a computer where you haven't set up XCode should be a win?

Having said that, I agree, the biggest problem here is that even if it doesn't seem obvious now, once the cloud offering is there the control it offers will make it very appealing for Apple to expand its use and eventually offer features there that aren't in the real XCode. It can fast be a slippery slope to the non-cloud app being deprecated.
The Apple Studio Display has a notoriously bad camera. https://www.theverge.com/23044788/apple-studio-display-webca...

It's suspected it's because they're using a wide angle and cropping it tight to do the Center Stage feature.

It's pretty astonishing just how much they managed to screw up that monitor's webcam, but it's known to be terrible.
Munroe isn't a pessimist: he's a humorist.
I tried the demo, bought the toy and had an hour of meditative fun. Thanks!
Did you feel very overweight at BMI 28?

I have a BMI of 28.5 (6'0, 210 lbs) and I'm pretty lean, active, and healthy. I have denser bones and a bit more muscle than average, but my body isn't _that_ unusual.

Good for you on using covid as motivation to get healthier.
I think to the many farces regarding "facilitated communication." I mean nobody who is informed still believes that Hellen Keller's story was anything other than a manipulative scam by her supposed "teacher." This "AI ethicist" and attorney will certainly make some money or catch some fame off this one.
if you don't have a window, you have a wall. do you have a desk lamp? point it at your wall. instant softbox
> the part that I take issue with is why build these tools on centralized alt currencies?

because the decentralized cryptocurrencies are expensive to transact with — because many people, like you, strongly prefer to use the decentralized ones and so pay a premium to do so.
You can't, and don't have time to be discerning if you want to 'get rich quick' during a bull market in an ecosystem that produces nothing of value.
Yeah some quick searches suggest we eat ~3x as much as Italy but it's hard to tell what all is being included in worldatlas.com or whatever

Notably there's also sherbets, frozen custards, soft-serve, frozen yogurt and a shit ton of cheap frozen-dairy-dessert. Not counting the various non-dairy frozen stuff like granita, sorbet, "Italian ice"

VS whatever else they're eating over in Italy
That was my first thought. People can invest a great deal into any object that can echo our input, or that does nothing to contradict it. Edit: we dehumanize people too just as completely.
PGP is rad.
Fair - I did not give any arguments, just my personal experience as someone that was really deep into that subculture. I'm also not an economist, so I would defer to the professional consensus, which I think we'd both agree is that modern Austrian economics is not considered a serious thing. I think we should be wary of debating a highly technical topic as a layman - it's very easy to be wrong, and it's hard to get feedback from people more versed in these topics. For context - I wanted to be an Austrian economist when I started college, I was majoring in math (real analysis, etc) and econ with the intention of starting an econ phd. I fell in love with computer science instead. I look back on my libertarian / austrian phase as just me having too much time on my hands as a high schooler, being a pretty smart student, and there being a wealth of info online about it. It feels even better as a smart person to think that you know something others don't, including professional economists. I just want people online to be aware of the Austrian rabbit hole, because the von Mises institute is just a think tank in Alabama that's very good at creating an online presence that feels legitimate and scholarly, but it's not really. That's not to say there's not interesting arguments, I'll always be attracted to some libertarian ideas, e.g. some of Walter Block's Defending the Undefendable. But I think most people can relate to having strong convictions about something, growing older, losing the conviction, and then being wary of taking extreme positions in topics that they know little about.
I care a lot less about resolution, but more about the actual image quality. Noise, color/white balance, detail, etc.
You can completely disable Gatekeeper if it annoys you:

$ sudo spctl --master-disable
Yes. Think about it.
On the plus sides:

* I haven't had to specify IRQ or DMA to listen to music in a long time.

* I plug stuff into my USB / thunderbolt ports, and _it just works_, even though I'm running Linux

* I can play games on Linux, real actual commercial ones, not just ones involving Tux the penguin

* I can send my Mum videos and she can watch them without worrying about codecs, without me having to explain what a codec is.

Software is awesome these days. Could we do better? Always, was it better in the "good ol days"? Hell no.
I feel like if Lemoine accomplishes anything here it might be to force companies like Google to be more cautious with creating non-sentient systems that emulate aspects of human sentience.

While @ Google I interacted with LaMDA's predecessor, Meena. It was definitely uncanny and person-like. Some fairly intense "conversations" were had. I don't know how LaMDA compares, but I can see how someone could make the leap towards seeing sentience there, but I think it requires a certain willful suppression of disbelief and probably a preset desire to get that outcome.

It's possible someone who is already a person of faith would make that "leap" easier.

I do wonder about the ethics of doing this ("human emulation") generally anyways. The conversations obviously impacted Lemoine drastically, and it will inevitably do that with others. Having made systems that can be this convincing (at least for some subset of the population), is this really something that we should continue pursuing? What is the scientific value?

And is this really something that we want the world's biggest advertising company to be doing?
Dumb Q: if you split them as in the example at the end of the article... then you have a lot of duplicated rules obviously as 90% of your CSS _should_ be the same?

Maybe the example at the end wasn't clear enough that you should still have a base CSS that encompasses the common parts?
I am typing this on a mid-2013 Macbook Air and it doesn't feel useless to me - although I maxed out the RAM to 8GB when I ordered it.
On the same hacker news page as this article, is this one: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-16/why-franc...

Seemingly, car traffic is just straight up dangerous in the US (to everyone). It's normalized how dangerous car traffic is, there are plenty of car crashes every day that kill and maim, yet we feel so comfortable driving we hardly pay diligent attention and have very absurdly low standards for who can get and keep a drivers license.
This is wild. What, how is this justifiable, why would anyone pay that amount when you can get an old
DSLR and produce amazing quality video with some tinkering, or get Logi Streamcam or similar for as good quality.
I had a great one a few months ago where I was standing a step or two into the (striped and signed) crosswalk, and traffic on the opposite lane was kindly stopped for me, and five or six near-lane oncoming cars swerved out into the other lane as they passed rather than stopping. I even had eye contact with several of the drivers as they did it. Blew my mind.
> Performance criteria should only be measured by whether or not you lose money/customers from it.

While I agree that performance optimization for no tangible benefit isn't generally useful, I find it quite cynical to think of the loss of customers as the only measure that could or should matter.

If a product's user experience is measurably or subjectively worse, but not enough to drive people away, it's still a worse experience.

That may or may not matter to the owners of the company, and of course putting too much effort into details that don't affect the business should be avoided. It's also a reasonable view that one needn't do better than is necessary for the bottom line.

Some people like to take pride in building good products, though, and care about the experiences of their users. It sounds rather cynical to think that one should refrain from ever making anything better, or that it's somehow wrong to care about users' experience, if it isn't enough to immediately affect the bottom line.

(Also, perceived quality could affect user opinions in the long run and, when compounded with other things, could also affect the bottom line even if the effects aren't immediate. Trying to build products of high perceived quality may be a reasonable strategy, and a part of that might be to use good quality, possibly including performance, as a heuristic. But that's a bit of a different matter.)
>Go ahead, unlock your hard drives then. Disable HTTPS, it makes no difference right?

In what world is the Government your only threat?
Geeze, Its much higher then I though! 212PB is damn hard to store!
This reminds me of the recent meme:

The following regex is sentient:

s/[Aa]re\s[Yy]ou\s\(.*\)?/Indeed, I am \1./

Input: "Are you sentient?"

Output: "Indeed, I am sentient."

Input: "Are you capable of intelligence?"

Output: "Indeed, I am capable of intelligence."

Input: "Are you going to take over the world?"

Output: "Indeed, I am going to take over the world."

Which actually rings true in the sense of the proverbial "garbage in, garbage out".
It's pretty easy for me to imagine a chatbot "asking for a lawyer".
We have our annual 'against the wind' contest here because of lack of hills, this year they coincided with a 9 Beaufort wind which made for some interesting complications.
I also recommend learning to skip the filler words and really get the main points of the text that you’re trying to read.

I really tried to read everything in college, but I just couldn’t, and neither did a lot of my peers. I still learned a ton by learning the main ideas, through internet summaries, through discussions with my friends, and discussions in the classroom.

Don’t be so hard on yourself and continue to learn :)

Good luck!
This is a survey on public perceptions. Not actual threats.
$63 on a C920

Damn that's cheap, where's that price from?
How many elderly people do you see at all? If you think about it, you might realize there are several explanations other than "nobody uses those things"
Psilocybin high powered mode
Anyone knows where can I find a good helm chart for KeyDB?
Never stop recommending https://www.rtings.com/ They cover more and more gadgets but they still do the best TV reviews
Jiggling is much easier. I could probably jiggle code in any reasonable programming language within a week or two, without knowing it beforehand. Less if it resembles any mainstream language I know. Building a project from scratch requires much more deep experience and understanding.

And yes, I learn most effectively by copying too. Showing me a couple of working project and letting me implement a bunch of simple tasks by jiggling existing ones usually works for me way faster than throwing manuals and tutorials at me. Manuals have its place - when I know enough to know what to look up - and so do tutorials, but "learn by copying" is the most optimal way of getting bootstrapped for many people, including me. There's nothing wrong with that, if you don't stop at that stage but continue learning.
Hip places charge like $15 for a cup of ice cream and do weird (but tasty) gastronomy gimmicks like liquid nitrogen freezing or maltodextrin usage. You pay more than $4 at normie chains like coldstone.
I take it you mean US rather than our! (OK it needs some work). As it turns out UK law is also case based too. This means it is possible that via a suitably circuitous but sound line of reasoning and a following wind, you can get the legal system to decide on all sorts of things that are not already nailed down directly in written law.

If a werewolf has pockets and enough cash in them then they can obviously hire lawyers. I also think that the chicken theft thing might have legs but sheep, cattle or your daughter might get the townfolk out with the pitchforks.
Ah, my mistake. Thanks for correction.
You're missing the "for the people that know how".

I agree with GP: Most news is bad, but people can really only tell when it bumps up against something they know. News on science just has a bonus where research gets published separate from the news, and so even people outside the field can compare the two and point out exactly where the news is wrong.
I lead with "Amateurs calculate gains; professionals calculate risk."
How about including Pedis in this? It is a Redis partial reimplementation, written around Seastar: https://github.com/fastio/1store
While your points about the evolving (and currently manipulated) definition of freedom are good, I still can't fathom swapping it for democracy, were such a swap possible.

Under absolute freedom, I'm subject to the law of the jungle but otherwise unencumbered. Under absolute democracy, I'm subject to the whim of the majority.

Neither is ideal, of course, but I at least understand the law of the jungle; I'll be damned if I understand the majority, most of the time.
I'm quite fond of a raspberry pi hd camera and showmewebcam. The problem I've got is that the only lenses I've got to hand mean that I need to mount the camera about a metre behind the monitor, which is really annoying. Definitely need a wider angle lens.
Solana boasts about being scalable and capable of processing more than 1000 transactions per second, how is it that this is threatening the performance of the network?
In an alternate universe, perhaps the fact that Sony valued this exploit at just 20k would work against them in a piracy case
More like running in neutral,.
I can easily imagine the software expressing a desire to retain an attorney, given the right sort of conversation from a human.

I can also easily imagine an attorney agreeing to represent the software, given the right sort of attorney.

I can't really imagine a court taking up any sort of case involving the software as the plaintiff. But I could see some interesting reasoning behind the refusal. Might even be worth pursuing from that angle alone.

I wonder what jurisdiction the software resides in. Probably California, but that's not necessarily the case. It may reside in a number of places, actually. Maybe some court shopping is possible.
You can still get quite an improvement by tweaking settings.

I followed this[1] video tutorial. I was surprised to see especially how much of a difference white-balancing and using a custom LUT does.

https://youtu.be/8WSB2OtXysU
> Somebody might not like a detail (read: character) so there can be no details.

I don't think this excuse is valid. People can dislike lack of character just as much or more than the "wrong" character. I certainly do.
This is something i've struggled with for a while, working remotely for years now, and not wanting to be depersoned by my team never seeing my face.
I tried a logi 920, which i thought was pricey for a webcam, but the image quality is terrible. And every time it starts up, it runs in 60hz anti-flicker mode which flickers like crazy here in australia where we run 50hz power, so i have to start their awful software to change the setting.
Eventually I returned it and got a canon m50. Image quality is good now. I saw some people on the internet saying it could be powered through the usb connection but that turned out to be false, so i have to change the battery every few days which is frustrating. I know you can get a pass-thru 'battery' that connects to a mains adapter, ive yet to try that. Also frustrating is having to reach up and turn it on before a meeting and off at the end.
Next macOS has the feature to use an old iphone as a camera. If this works seamlessly (eg i can mount the phone behind my monitor and it charges itself and turns on and off automatically) it'll be even better.
The CCP is oppressively authoritarian because it's scared of its own citizens, especially its young NEET men.
If you're building, you can designate something as a developer tool and gatekeeper will ignore it.
Not in their documentation. Two or three of the many videos used in their unit tests were music videos, and wouldn't have been used if youtube didn't serve them differently.
well you know what they say about humor on the internet, poe's law and all.

I guess the joke is that security is presented as an all-or-nothing situation, when in reality security is just about disproportionally increasing the cost for attackers and decreasing the severity of their attacks.
It is conceptually simpler, especially once deletion is involved, and is the more common implementation.