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I’m a proud Gamecock, and maybe that’s why I’m all over this thread.

I just replied to a guy a few comments up about how I unironically chose a red car over orange (one of my favorite colors) because go, fight, win, kick ass, fuck Clemson!

We can all agree the SC state flag is pretty, I guess.
I don’t know, but the cost of a scoop of ice cream in the states is like $4… maybe more. In Amsterdam, you get it everywhere for €1.50 to €2. So, when it is summertime, an ice cream a day is pretty typical consumption. Meaning, it has become more luxury to have ice cream in the states. (Maybe I’m wrong, this is a sense I have, open to correction).
Have you tried it? Journalctl does skip bad entries and prints out the rest automatically. If you've found a case where it doesn't, you should report that as a bug.
I am a bit skeptical about this article.

There are no technical details on language/framework/problem domain. No code examples.

Surely those "Google" (or jiggle as another post said) programmers had some understanding of coding.

Otherwise they would get the wrong Stack Overflow answer and things would inevitably go horribly wrong.

They were doing the right thing for the business for many months. They might not have been able to program from scratch but that is not required most of the time these days.

That is if it is stupid and it works it is not stupid.
The business dev guy who spits out an imaginary list of features (not backed with empirical data in any way) and then just sits there while I work hard building and building and building, and them claiming nothing or very little can be done until the product is finished.

In reality good business guys are rare (like good programmers), and the good ones can get money from investors and customers with the product in it's current, incomplete state (hint: it's always incomplete, the completed, idealised version will never exist)

Poor business devs sit around waiting for stuff to be built, interview 1 or 2 customers, and then say yes to all the customer requests (even illogical, ill-thought out ones) and then sit around more until the new features are implemented.

This can be solved with hard goals.

Technical founder has hard time goals of finishing X,Y,Z by this date, and business dev founder has hard goals of revenue A,B,C by these dates.

If the business dev founder is unable to reach the goals then 100% of ownership of the codebase that I just wrote (myself) is mine, and I'll go find another business dev who can sell it.

That way I'm happy to take all the risk by investing a bunch of my own time and resources into building it up front, and then if it doesn't work out, I can find another way of monetizing that effort.

This has allowed me to kick out some useless business dev's who are all talk, and get in the guys who are going to make it happen. This strategy changed my life for the better a lot.
mobile first css was really useful when stuff like grid wasn't well supported everywhere yet. you could stick stuff in a @supports block, and older browsers just get the mobile view instead, which usually doesn't need grid. But yeah, having done a good bit of both ways, I do think the desktop first way is just easier to write. You would think that "hey things are just stacked on top of one another by default anyway, so mobile default just makes sense", but mobile CSS tends to have a bunch of spacing rules you end up having to undo again, whereas most of the desktop stuff you overwrite is, in my experience, stuff you'd usually have two different rules for no matter what.

Plus, the desktop design tends to be the more complex one, so the HTML will be laid out to accomodate grids/flexbox elements, etc. where necessary. for the mobile view, you usually don't have to change the HTML as much.
> Windows 95 didn't have Swap

it did have virtual Memory and swap
I do understand you feelings, but I don't see how that's a technical problem. That's an entirely legal problem. The law could easily mandate that feature to any cryptocurrency which doesn't want to go to the underground, or remove that feature from regular banking.
> So what is the downside of crypto?

* Ordinary people being financially ruined along the journey.

* Environment being harmed by pointless mining.

* Investment money being wasted on companies that are simply cloning TradFi.
Read the whole post and I have just one small question... where the heck do I sign up? There is no link, no steps to follow, there is no update available for my clients that would perhaps spawn a subscribe button somewhere... how much does premium even cost? I don't get it.

I want to buy it, I've been wanting to pay for this service for so long (it just feels so shady this whole time, it's gigabytes of (unencrypted) storage for free? WCPGW), I just can't figure out how to buy this.
As a Gamecock fan, and a somewhat reasonable person (self described), I’ve been defending rivalries based on this exact case throughout this thread.

I completely agree with your speculation. It’s fun for me to even type: go fight win kick ass fuck Clemson. Ahhhh
What is Thiel's platform? Without just leaning on name-dropping? What are his actual views?
>So what’s the downside of crypto?

Ecologic vandalism, for one.
there is a lot of space between fields as it is hard enough to do one.
Yes I did lol. Thanks!
I agree, but that is way into the future. Cars are not nearly able to do this, and they only operate in two dimensions. Aircraft operate in three dimensions and are affected by more factors than cars such as wind and weather.
> I never used the AH because I was that against it

That's the key part. That was an important part of gameplay after all.

Imagine you would be a mac user and would be against right click and never use it. You will not beat hell as well :)
Velomobiles are expensive. They are recumbent bicycles or tricycles with a fairing (a hard shell) that decreases drag and protects the rider from wind, rain, snow, etc.

Last I checked they were around $5,000 to $10,000 (five thousand US dollars to ten thousand US dollars) but they look kind of great for touring to me. You can find myriad velomobile videos on YouTube.

Flags, pool noodles (yeah, pool noodles), and of course LEDs can make them highly visible.

For commuting the "Rotovelo" looks like it might be a good choice because it seems like it can easily withstand bumps, bangs, and scrapes. See...

Rotovelo Ice Hockey Match!
https://youtu.be/F_wXHFab5XU?t=108
> Why does science news suck so much?

Gee, back some weeks ago at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31463927

I presented my opinion:

"... the worst bottleneck in civilization, bad documentation of computer hard/software, ... "

And my opinion would be similar on nearly all less important topics, that is, not really bottlenecks for civilization.

Long my usual summary view has been that the MSM (mainstream media) has some traditions: Create narratives as in E. Bernays. Repeat those narratives as in Nazi Minister of Propaganda Dr. J. Goebbels and his famous

"If you tell a lie often enough people will believe it.".

Then have the media outlets gang up, pile on, form a mob, and repeat the most recently selected narratives over and over. Do this with deceptive "click bait" headlines to get eyeballs for ad revenue and, maybe, to push some specific political agenda. A little more generally, have the writing borrow from formula fiction and belle lettre, that is, with my view of such literature, create VEFEEE -- vicarious escapist fantasy experience emotional entertainment.

The technique is to grab people by the heart, the gut, and below the belt, always below the shoulders, nearly never between the ears.

Missing are, say, the standards of common high school term papers with careful quotes of credible, hopefully primary references, etc.

Also usually missing is a goal of providing objective, credible information as needed by an informed electorate or credible information for any purpose, science, cooking, parenting, software development, much more in careers, finance, ....

Also nearly totally missing is credible, meaningful presentations of quantitative data, e.g., statistical hypothesis tests with stated probabilities of Type I and Type II errors. Actually, far simpler than hypothesis tests, the media commonly is unable even to report percentages carefully. E.g., instead we get some

"up 7.60%"

without since when, measured how, by whom, reported where? And, why is this not just some case of cherry picking? What about corrections for inflation? What about over more points in time than just two? What about causes?

While generally I'm outraged at the writing and content in the media, apparently some people like it. So, my condemnations have to be just my own opinions.

E.g., my standard remark about the NYT and WaPo is that

"On paper they can't compete with Charmin and on the Internet are useless for wrapping dead fish heads."

but lots of people like the NYT and WaPo and disagree with me.

Maybe due to bad writing lots of old media outlets are losing readers and, thus, ad revenues and are on the way to massive change or just out of business, now to be replaced by new media on the Internet, media that gets to save on ink and paper. Maybe. I can wish but can't be very confident.

Let's give the Internet and its new media a few more years and see if some greater variety of content sprouts up from the landscape.
Not the original poster, but I think the worry is that how can a password manager survive in a passwordless future.

Will major players be too powerful that no competing solutions will realistically exist.
> Emojis can only be PG-13 and "wholesome" (like banning gun emoji and replacing it with water gun- where I live no one owns guns - and guns are irrelevant to my politics and everyone else's). Telegram's stickers are really fun and creative.

I appreciate stuff like this too. I hate being treated like a child.

Sometimes I want to express "just shot me" with an emoticon, which a watergun ruins.
I appreciate your input :)
Nah. Just having tons of manufacturing capacity on 14nm and 10nm and being able to sell cheap can guarantee Intel a place at the table for a while. They don’t compete for manufacturing at TSMC and this is their current advantage.

Apple M1 and Intel have continued to do well, because it was silicon you could actually get for the last two years.
Newer != better
But is there any evidence that the NPE would have blown up catastrophically without type checking? Is the NPE even related to type checking?

It seems you're describing an orthogonal issue, and it's unclear why type checking is a Bad Thing or even related to the NPE at all.

Let's say I work on an assembly line, and must place physical parts into a machine that assembles a larger part. There are many ways this machine can break down - I could put the wrong parts in, leading to a complete failure, or some part of the machine could malfunction independently.

- We could implement part validation on the assembly machine to make sure it's impossible to insert the wrong parts. This eliminates failures related to incorrect part insertion.

- Unrelated to this, a drive belt starts to wear out and slips every so often, leading to a slight slowdown in a conveyor belt, which ultimately leads to a botched item.

The way I read your argument, you would say that part validation is bad, because it's easier to diagnose a meltdown when incorrect parts are inserted by the operator than it is to determine that the drive belt is slipping.

Except the drive belt slipping is not related to operator error, and would have happened whether part validation was happening or not.

This is hopefully obviously nonsensical - better to reduce the overall error rate by implementing part validation than to leave two avenues for error. Before part validation, the machine could fail because of operator error (common) or drive belt failure (uncommon). After part validation, only the uncommon error occurs.

This is better than no validation at all, even if drive belt failure is harder to identify than the machine screeching to a halt when the wrong parts are inserted.

What am I missing?
There also has been a lot research lately in the field. For example, [1,2] has a lot of new methods on concurrent or space efficient hash tables.

[1] http://algo2.iti.kit.edu/maier.php

[2] https://github.com/TooBiased/growt
Can you expand on this a little? I’ve never heard of it. Also have you seen the bionic font?

https://lithub.com/will-this-bionic-font-help-you-read-faste...

Curious if that helps
I understand how it works. I simply don't "agree" with it. But then I
wouldn't, being the innocent party at the sharp end of arbitrary
"punishment".

One could be weak natured and claim to be a "victim of discrimination"
(but then ironically the problem is indiscrimination), or entitled and
say Cloudflare and site owners should do a better job. Both seem
indignant and unhelpful.

The problem is obviously complex.

Optimistically, better education of small site operators might help
them understand that when they employ a service like this they are
excluding significant numbers of the kind of people they might want
visiting. I think they should know that, and so supporters of
Cloudflare ought not try to muddy the waters or blame those who want a
better experience on the web.

On the other hand, some sites really don't want visitors who value
privacy, and that's fair enough too. Cloudflare etc provide a very
effective service for excluding us.
Maybe in 2002, but it's a USB webcam in 2022, if you're writing your own drivers from scratch on any platform rather than using the standards-compliant ones, I'd first wonder if you haven't got a case of NIH syndrome rather than an actual case of being constrained by the standards.

But maybe they genuinely cannot use standard protocols for some reason, then sure, writing a Linux driver might not be worth it.
This is my exact experience, except with an A6000 that I already owned. I wouldn’t recommend it for most people since like you said there’s a lot of accessories required to get a good result, but for people like me who enjoy iterating on their home office setup it’s a fun project.

My favorite feature of DSLR/MILC webcams is the depth of field effect. It’s pretty subtle, but adds an air of professionalism vs the default zoom background blur feature.

I’ll probably get key lights at some point but in the mean time I’m using regular floor lamps with Hue bulbs, which does let me do things like play with the light color. I’ve found a very slight purple hue in the background really makes the foreground pop.
We just use webcams to say "hi!" and all that stuff, then turn them off, someone has a powerpoint on, and even if someone else left their camera on, noone is looking at them.

So basically, a vga camera would be enough to recognize my face, smile and wave, and after that, it's audio only.

Laptop mics are a different story, especially with fans on high,... and bluetooth headset mics.. or cabled earphones mics... some seem to work really great, and some people seem to be talking from somewhere deep inside a well or even worse, and there is no seeming price/audio_quality correlation.
Or we could rearrange cooling so fans stay on the bottom of the machine with heat pipes leading up to behind the screen where the main board is

Or to keep the thermals totally on the bottom just move the GPU and CPU off the main board and put them underneath with the rest of the main board behind the LCD

This allows for a larger battery with more run time, better camera, and it should keep the balance of the machine while keeping hot stuff away from the LCD

There are options
Over optimize for SEO much? The articles on this site could be useful if 1) they were written a bit more tightly, and 2) there was less bold text on the pages.
I live in the US and I don't think I've ever paid $4 for a scoop of ice cream in the US, but I haven't bought a scoop in the last two months, so perhaps the recent supply chain/inflation issues have happened.

There is one place I know that charges $4 for what they call a single scoop, but it is about 3x bigger than any scoop elsewhere, and it's a pricey place in general ($8.50 for a malt).
Do you really equate product growth with a positive impact on people..? Developers working for Facebook or Google are fully aware their employer pays their salary by selling other peoples data. There is no excuse other than immorality.
Unless someone is living under a rock (at least anyone in the use-phone-as-webcam territory), they probably have an Android phone if they don't have an iPhone.

Any decent Android phone should work too. I'm sure there are many apps enabling this. While they probably have worse image quality than iPhone, they'd definitely be much better than those cheapo webcams.
Is there a good article. Pearly explaining the potential issue here? I don’t really know anything on chain liquidation, liquidators, etc.
Some men have love dolls they swear they have a relationship with. Lemoine confused LaMDA with a love doll apparently
They will start the rolling out in the next days.
It honestly doesn’t matter if you primarily use your webcam for zoom, teams, etc. you could have an 8k cinema grade camera and the image other people will see is still compressed to death dogshit.
I feel the same way about TikTok. I'd rather have a Hong Kong based company with a threat of Chinese interception because I don't give a shit if the Chinese have my data (at least I dont yet).

I do care about using US/Canada/UK/German/etc apps where you know at least 75% of your data is ending up in some database of a country you live in or your country is has a free-wheeling data sharing policy (with some rubber stamp exceptions which foreign partner interception easily bypasses).
Note that I said "is almost exclusively used to mean" and not "means". ;)
They do something with technology to either sell new kinds of insurance or sell certain kinds of insurance better.

That usually involves either

1. Coming up with a better pricing / risk model that lets them underwrite certain risks for less than their competitors

2. Coming up with a better way to provide / sell insurance to people, including better forms of brokerage (such as comparison services)

3. Selling things that do (1) or (2) to other businesses. Think of how post-Monzo a bunch of companies offer "challenger banks in a box".

When I worked in insurtech, we were doing all three.
I have no problem reading most scientific papers I encounter, at least to a certain level. I almost never check the numbers, and can skim over things that I just don't understand - a luxury of not needing to understand every detail professionally.

I'm not trying to one-up you; I'm sure you have far more capacity to understand papers in adjacent subfields to yours, and probably in other fields. I'm wondering what the difference is between our experiences.

I find scientific papers easier to read than most news articles - much more clear, informed (of course), they ask and address much better questions - and generally don't skip the obvious ones that I think of. The graphics in papers are so much better than in news articles, I wonder where scientists get such good training in visual presentation. Mostly I read papers in Nature, Science, or more highly-cited ones I find through Google Scholar. Maybe that population skews toward better writing.
I hadn't because I assumed Merlin used the same underlying code but I tried BirdNET out and it does indeed work really well, thanks!
You can buy ice cream by the gallon (4.5 litres!!) in the US. It can’t be that expensive! In the UK half a litre (a pint) is considered a lot of ice cream.
You're the first that I hear saying something has better UX than Telegram, and a Matrix client at that. Power to you, but from my experience with everything from Telegram to Threema and a lot in between, it sounds odd to me.
Yes, at least if you follow the weird requirements to qualify as “ice cream” in the US. The gelatos that Italians usually enjoy do not have enough butterfat to be considered “ice cream” by the USDA. So strictly speaking, people in Italy eat very little “ice cream” because their traditional recipes don’t use enough fat.

Incidentally, this is why places that serve Italian-style ice cream have to explicitly market it as “gelato” and not “ice cream”.

Total derailment from your actual question, but a
That's a really neat strategy for ownership! Did you write the contract that you use? Any interest in sharing it?
That sounds pretty cool, having access to all of your file from any computer that you login. But would guess that you'd have to pay quite a lot for such a luxury especially if you store more then just text files and such.

Thanks for the explanation! ^o^
I have bought Elgato Facecams for our offices. The image quality compared to the previos webcameras I had my hands on is on a different level. The sharpening effect was a bit too much but their software can be used and save the profile to the camera so you only have to fix it once. Otherwise the picture quality is amazing and is useable even in badly lit conference rooms.
At the end of the day, the use of gold as a store of value and medium of exchange is simply a social agreement that this is the case. There’s nothing inherent to gold, except perhaps some useful properties like rarity, that make it so — and if we all decide to stop believing that gold can be used for further exchange, then its purpose is immediately lost. There’s nothing really stopping us from choosing another subject as that medium.

Currency is largely a case of our particular choice isn’t that important, we just need to choose one, and everyone needs to agree on it. You have examples of other choices in prisons, where cigarettes and ramen are used, and the USD when it dropped the gold standard.

Crypto is just another choice.

Of course, there are certain things you want in a currency, that make some choices better than others, so you can’t just pick anything and say it’s the same as anything else (e.g. gold standard has a problem in that you can’t fully control the supply — if a new mine is found, then you just have to deal with the consequences of it’s existence; but this is less likely than say seashells. It won’t kill its wielder’s either, like say the choice of lead. Etc.), but you’re still left with quite a variety of choices, and certain properties have different impacts at different economic scales.

From that perspective, there’s nothing really stopping crypto from being a valid choice. The issue is largely in whether it’s a good currency (it has useful properties versus other choices), and whether it’s better enough that you can convince enough people to make the switch (you need people to believe that they get crypto from you, they can use that crypto to exchange with others).

The story however gets muddled because currencies can also be used as a speculative asset, driven by your belief in crypto being convincing enough to get people to make the switch. And you can also believe in other’s believing that it will switch, and bet on that. Which is where most speculation comes from — not the belief in crypto itself, but in that others will believe in it recursively.
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Whatever they are/were he had 4 years to propel them, but quickly fell out of the inner circle of Trump.

He's also all over the place. He claimed that competition is for fools and have to think long and hard to get in a sector without competition....but also said that we should abolish college because people should go with their gut, also somewhat regret the 80s when everybody was high on stimulants
Objection. Huawei has a webcam coming out of the keyboard: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/25/17050098/huawei-matebook-...
How is this any different than AWS/Azure/GCP (e.g. cloud functions) MITMing your users' connections? If it's not your hardware, it's not your encryption keys.
> I don’t know, but the cost of a scoop of ice cream in the states is like $4…

Only in hip ice cream places. $4 is about the going rate for those 1.5 quart (1.4 liter) cartons at the grocery store.