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The annoying thing I have with bluetooth, is with my headphones, I connect them up, set them as the sound source and just..... nothing.

I have to go round all of my devices and disable the bluetooth on them, because some other device is connected too and although that is not playing any sound at all, somehow has priority and doesn't allow any sound to be played by any other device.
They didn't sue the employees.
> And throw them on trains for electric freight without having to run expensive catenaries

I'd love to see the math on this, because I can't imagine it will cost less than electrifying railways (at least the heavily used ones) over a prolonged period of time (say, a decade or two). Batteries need to be swapped out which will waste time, and replaced every so often. Catenaries need maintenance and have a high upfront cost, but still..
> One issue I have with her is her insistence that alternative video platforms, such as Odysee/LBRY, will never have a chance against YouTube

Youtube is free to do whatever they want on their own platform, within the law. Arguing that they dominate the market brings antitrust laws into play here. On these grounds their TOS about ContentID (basically we'll decide whatever we want and you'll take it) can be evaded.
Probably, the key is this (in the article):

"Despite the advertising consultants’ success, as evidenced by increased product sales, many critics became concerned that their efforts would target white children, and so instead the tobacco companies turned their attention to Black consumers."

Wikipedia:

"Despite it being illegal at the time, tobacco marketers gave out free menthol cigarette samples to children in black neighborhoods in the U.S."

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

Rearranged facts/claims from another website, the American Lung Association's:

* When inhaled, menthol can reduce airway pain and irritation from cigarette smoke and suppress coughing, giving smokers the illusion of breathing more easily.

* Tobacco companies have relied on the soothing and cooling effects of menthol to make cigarettes more appealing to new smokers, youth, Black Americans and LGBTQ Americans among others.

* Menthol cigarettes have also been found to increase both the likelihood of becoming addicted and also the degree of addiction.

* Flavors, including menthol, are one of the primary reasons kids start using tobacco products.

* More than 8 in 10 of Black Americans who smoke use menthol cigarettes.

* About half of youth smokers ages 12-17 smoke menthols. That percentage is higher than the about 40% of adults 18 and older who prefer menthols.

https://www.lung.org/quit-smoking/smoking-facts/health-effec...
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A company's pettiness can know no bounds, and a toy company is just as capable of hiring firms that specialize in de-anonymization as any other company is. The company itself also has billions of dollars of revenue and can hire experts in the field themselves.

Companies do not just log IP addresses and email addresses, there are billion dollar ad networks that have refined the game of tracking users across browsers and devices, and they certainly do not rely on just IP and email addresses.

Many companies keep extensive logs of analytics data that their customers generate that amount to much more than IP and email addresses. If a company is motivated enough, there really isn't anything stopping them from cross referencing their own logs and employees/users' identifying data with whatever Glassdoor, and any of its partner services they've integrated with, collected from their users.

And it isn't just JavaScript that leaks identifying information, most browsers do it by default. JavaScript just makes it stupidly convenient, more accurate and opens the door for novel methods for collecting identifying information.
UK houses are totally fucking useless for cold weather too.
It wasn't the look and feel that was impressive, it was what you could do with it. You could book train tickets, pay bills, do most interactions with government, order from catalog retailers. This at a time when most transactions in stores were paid by cheques still! Even after the Web exploded, it took almost a decade to get even close to the ubiquity of being able to do things _ONLINE_ everywhere else.

As for the sex services, I can only assume that they were wildly popular given the amount of money spent advertising 3615 ULLA on every train and bus. Given the French penchant for adultery, I expect it was quite a convenient service.
Due to forward looking regulations, California (like China) is just about to have a dramatic storage boom over the next few years. They have 40GWh of EV batteries and are likely to quadruple that in a few years, but I'm not even counting that in the boom, basically every planned grid solar deployment includes a big chunk of batteries.

I feel like we're back at the point in the cycle were the detractors say "solar is a net negative" or "wind can never supply more than 17%". It's not based on science or economics just pessimism.

Fundamentally, solar and lithium batteries are cheap, abundant alternative that cost less than the next best thing. They're going to be a lot bigger than most people currently expect, especially in sunny regions like California with good regulations in the short term, and long term they will utterly dominate in Equatorial regions on market price alone.

Daily cycle storage has been a known solved issue for a while, we're just waiting for the pricing and deployment to catch up. And seasonal storage now looks likely to be green hydrogen, again solved before we really need it.

Just the queue of planned projects today in California, Chile and China is enough to show this is true.

Growth pains of a rapidly growing battery manufacturing sector should provide the opposite impression that people seem to take. Always with the "at current rates" stats to make change seem impossible.

Yes, new things that don't exist don't exist, that's why we invented them and built big factories to make them, because we wanted them to exist in large numbers.
Judging from other comments, there are still lots of bluetooth problems even if all if your devices are Apple ones.
Honestly, I constantly criticize journalists for not going any deeper than Wikipedia, but this author is staying well out of even the shallow end of the pool.
If we'll be fully dependant on other countries for our energy this will never pass. Energy independency is a must.
I would argue that 75% of middle class is no longer middle class then. Democrats are going to get curb stomped in November regardless.
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Thanks, that's good to know! Happy to see more competition in this space.

Really love being able to reason about a globally replicated DB as if it was in a single location with strongly consistent reads. The mental model is so much simpler than a single-primary read replica setup.

The cost in write latency is worth it IMO since it's still usually fast enough for most use cases, and nudges me towards using alternative replication strategies for use cases that are sensitive to write latency (instead of deluding myself into believing my app is fast for everybody when it's only fast for me because I chose a primary that's physically close to where I live).
I'm quite happy with my Ring security system. I wish they had a real human alarm response here in Europe though like they have in the US. Here you can only get automated calls to 3 numbers and we pay the same as in the US.

But still it managed to scare off the burglars that broke my door open 2 weeks ago. Nothing was taken, just the broken door. This was with the alarm. I have cameras too but I disconnected the microphone as I could hear myself word for word in the next room.

I totally agree that Ring's mix of battery and mains cams is a great one and I have both types myself.
In my country it is the same or worse. Not only banks but the public institutions in general, force you to use outdated browsers (IE, old Firefox) and Windows, coupled with installing sketchy plugins and unsigned .exes transmitted over unencrypted HTTP
Most of the comments here fall into two camps: work can be inherently meaningful, or work is transactional. I think most of us would agree that there are certain goals worth sustained sacrifice. The question is: when is work worthy?

There are life experiences such as team sports that are opportunities for great personal growth with objectively silly goals (throw the ball into the hoop).
For many young adults, the experience of being part of a passionate and dedicated community is itself intoxicating. It can be work, a religious group, or a Discord server. It may not matter what the goal is, the goal is the group. As people develop deeper attachments, have a family, this goal of belonging seems less important. We begin to reexamine the goals we have aligned our life around.

Eventually, it is human to question every goal. Why did I want to squat 400 pounds? To increase the world’s GDP? Why did I want to reach the moon? To reduce suffering? We may reject this line is thinking, or we look to those who have asked this question before us, and we find an explanation that lets us move on.
Bob Woodward on TV yesterday said that 20% of Republicans want Trump gone, 50% support him, and 30% just want to 'win'.

More than 1/2 of GOP Senators probably despise Trump, they see him for what he is, but he's popular. Meaning, he can 'have them fired' like he's 'firing' Liz Cheney by supporting her attackers. That's how politics works. Mitch McConnell utterly despises Trump, but he'll come out publicly and support him if he's he man.

All 'public' politics is posturing and populism, it's just a bit worse in the USA.
Who are you going to sue? You have no contract with Youtube requiring them to host and monetize your videos for you. You can't class action every single last dog and pony trollster one by one.

The flip side of Youtube being a free hosting service is that they have no obligation to host anyone's content. We think of Youtube as being a commons or community resource, but it's not, it's privately owned. You have no more right to put a video on Youtube than you have to put an advert on the side of Google HQ, it's their choice to make and they set the terms. It sucks, but that's the way it is.
There's some good stuff in the pipeline for Bluetooth. Auracast: https://www.bluetooth.com/auracast/ - this is essentially a localized broadcast bluetooth stream, and has loads of brilliant use-cases (think: commentary at a sporting event).
See also "Serotonin and Depression" from David Healy (2015)

https://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h1771

https://davidhealy.org/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-seroto...
Sony’s racing AI destroyed its human competitors by being nice (and fast)
tl;dr

Sony regrouped, retrained its AI, and set up a rematch in October. This time GT Sophy won with ease. What made the difference? It’s true that Sony came back with a larger neural network, giving its program more capabilities to draw from on the fly. But ultimately, the difference came down to giving GT Sophy something that Peter Wurman, head of Sony AI America, calls “etiquette”: the ability to balance its aggression and timidity, picking the most appropriate behavior for the situation at hand.
I did EE and I thought it was not difficult AT ALL - like nowhere near what the reputation is. The thing is I went to a shit university, did end up putting in a lot of time studying so that I could graduate top of my class (which I did) because I stupidly though this would help me stand out. I could have coasted by with significantly less work, there were people I helped out who honestly should have been failed out - barely understood basic circuits in 3rd year. I think the department was desperate to hold onto students and so nothing was made too tough. As I said shit school.
In the end I currently do "embedded" programming (all just embedded Linux not even bare metal). I really regret the whole thing - I should have done something completely different finance, actuary. EE is a completely stupid field. To have a "serious" EE career now you need a PhD or at the very least a MS.

Despite graduating top-of-my-class and honestly have a very good command of the material at the time, I graduated having ZERO skills in electrical engineering.
I went the software route basically because its something I could pick up and learn and get work with, what the FUCK was I supposed to do with my "skills" solving textbook problems?
As I said it was a shit school where the courses didn't involve nearly enough project work to build real skills.

The only people I know who went on to do legitimate EE stuff got a masters. Not sure how they are doing. I realized by the end of the degree I had zero passion for this shit, I wouldn't even know what I would want to specialize in. The only courses I found interesting were control theory and signal processing somewhat.
I though the actual electronics courses blew.
I mean, if I give you a hammer, and you use it to drive nails by hitting them with the handle, then it's not really the hammer's fault, is it?

What makes complex tech components like Bluetooth any different?

Also, Bluetooth isn't a single product made by a single company that dictates the standard and has the golden implementation.

To have Bluetooth audio between your phone and you PC for example, you can have different Bluetooth chips on each device, each with its own different firmware, then the OS on your PC and phone has a different driver and stack that interfaces to the Bluetooth chip and then there's the antenna design which links the two Bluetooth chips via the air. All these pieces need to come together in perfect harmony for you to enjoy seamless audio between two device.

If any of the manufacturers fucked up the antenna design, or the firmware on the chip, or the driver/stack on the OS, then your entire experience can fall apart and testing/debugging these thousands of permutations of various different pieces is nearly impossible. That's why Apple usually goes their own route towards proprietary tech they can fully control over the entire stack.
Wind capacity regularly drops below 10% in Poland. https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/PL
Looks like an automated email.
This.

I wonder if a big part of the problem is that depression and other mental illnesses are slightly unusual in that they are categorised based on symptoms rather than underlying biology, which are poorly understood. As a diagnosis it’s about as useful as ‘chest pains’

Maybe (I am not a clinical psychiatrist) there are 1, 10, or 100 very different underlying causes which would indicate different treatment if only they were better understood. But nonetheless the existing classification / ontology is established and will be hard to displace.
Wealthy entities are somewhat vulnerable to lawsuits. It would be prudent of YouTube to take the a very paranoid view of the law from a respectable lawyer - which is likely what they've done.

Judges sometimes take pride in interpreting a law to mean something other than what the words say. Let alone the risks of interactions with other parts of the law. Amateur understanding doesn't count for much.
As bad as those subreddits are, they did have a point that people were taking positions in undetectable ways, as Bill Huang so helpfully pointed out.

Perhaps some of their other points may bear fruit.
I tried really hard but I couldn't find any new spec for two way audio. It seems that the specification authority is completely ignoring that problem.
I’d imagine a pretty small scale. Imagine an endpoint that lists user accounts. You would have to individually decrypt each row! and you would never be able to do database joins of data in these tables because you it wouldn’t be possible to decrypt it until it had already left the database.
Model war as hostility between nations or fractions. The fact that this fraction can be internally consistent does not mean that war represents cooperation.
There's a prisoner's dilemma thing going on: if you meet someone who assumes good intentions, you can scam them at least once for free. Normally the incidence of this is low, but it has been rising. Politics has always had a flexible relationship with the truth, but now the dishonesty and bait-and-switch is getting to a point where people feel they have been scammed.

Conversely if you do have good intentions and you meet a person who has just been ripped off, do not expect them to take your "trust me bro" at face value.

There is however an odd effect where people take a breach of trust as a reason to give themselves over to an even less trustworthy institution. 2008 financial crisis means you can't trust banks? Why not invest in a Singapore-based defi organisation promising much higher interest rates? MSM trust lost after Iraq war? Why not get your news from the Russian state propaganda channel instead?
I have not seen a lot of carrier equipment in the DC/CO rated to 55C. Optical transport nodes maybe but not the Switches and Routers and servers etc. Temp ratings like that are normal for field systems in passively cooled cabinet shelters or tower sites and Industrial Ethernet and CCTV camera housings etc are even built to handle 65C. The Uptime Tier-1/2/3/4 builds overcapacity redundancy into the cooling facility itself to avoid failures like this and I don't recall seeing anything NEBS related to go beyond that either. This looks like it was a matter of intake air/water to the cooling system going outside of design parameters so even with extra capacity they couldn't meet the t/h set points.
There are degrees of wealth and the evidence shows they closely correlate with race in America.
Ring is also not really integrated. Even linking to an Amazon account is optional and I haven't actually done it. I like it this way.
Neuroethology of Toads (1993) [video]
Picking up a guitar might be easy; playing an instrument well is hard. They say it takes ten years; I'd say it takes about that long to be a good software developer. And like being a musician, most people bail out before they've learned. A few people stick with it and still don't get good (the management promotion route is this way!).

Let's pass over the cashier thing; I was a cashier exactly once, on an exchange trip, so in a foreign language. I got the hang of it in about 20 minutes.
Well, the Part I have en entire chapter enticing you to read Git From The Bottom Up [0] before continuing. So the author can expect that you know what is a snapshot.

[0] : https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/
So that they can have stable processes without tons of capital investment required to do something flexibly.
I have had problems with premium devices too. I have a speaker that will connect to my pixel phone but not to an iOS device. It wasn't a particularly cheap speaker, although not premium.

Ok, so that's a problem with the speaker Bluetooth, not the premium devices, in all likelihood.

But after so many years I'd expect even low quality devices to Just Work™ for basic things like audio.
Yeah I was wondering what the point was. This all sounds pretty well thought-through and reasonable. I was expecting it to reveal something sinister. But this is just what I would have expected of an acquisition discussion.

One thing I would be interested in and it doesn't elaborate on is why they are so focused on getting a foothold in the home security market and how this fits in to their strategy. But I guess this was a strategy defined at a higher level and these guys are just implementing it.
They might support it, but few actually run the validation suite for IPP Everywhere. My Epson printer ignores specified orientations and shits itself when you specify print quality. Another certified HP printer of mine does just fine.
> Note that while common, ACID is actually not a requirement for RDBMSes -- there are NoSQL datastores that provide acid guarantees, like FoundationDB[0].

Yes, most of NoSql provides some kind of ACID guarantees, however not as good as RDBMS. MongoDB also provides single document atomicity. But in RDBMS you can configure the ACID properties.

> but I want to note that the vast majority of apps do not have data too large to be held by a single instance

I agree with that. For me, the order would be:
1. Do not use database
2. Use SQLite
3. Use single instance RDBMS
4. Use single instance NoSql
5. Use single instance RDBMS + NoSql cluster
6. Use RDBMS cluster

> I'd argue that you should default to OLTP and only deviate when you need the extra power, but we'd probably agree to disagree there :)

Personally I would prefer NoSql when the business model fits some specific patterns. But I agree with you that.

The article of Highscalability.com is very useful, and also some other articles. I did not know the site before, thanks for sharing.
I'm not even American, I'm german, for what it's worth.

My point is, sometimes intervention is needed to stop massacres. Certainly worked for my country back in the days.
Interesting numbers. Isn’t Trump already gone, or do they mean the politics?
You could argue they’re a monopoly
France is full of refugees as well. Loads of countries are. Not sure what the point is.
What kind of scale does the company have from qps etc pov?
Amazing that you can look at kids being shot in primary schools and then try to analyze it statistically.

This doesn't happen anywhere else on the planet outside of war-torn countries. Saying that "actually kids are more likely to kill themselves" is just about peak cope.
Doctors aren't some magical people who know everything. They read the same books and studies available to you. They have their own biases, not much time for an individual patient. They often stopped educating themselves once reality of long work hours set in.

Just talk to you doctor might the worst popular advice on the Internet. My experience is the opposite: until you take matters in your own hands, experiment with various treatments and preferably find an open minded doctor who is willing to help you along the way (not only with advice but mainly with providing access to medication) it will not work. It might work if your problem is simple and typical but it won't otherwise.

The reason is obvious: you are likely as smart as your doctor. They might have more experience and general knowledge but they have an hour (if you're very lucky) for you and you have all the time in the world to catch up and figure it out.

Yeah, talk to doctors if you're the kind of person who drifts to homeopathy or other shamanism but please don't solely rely on them when it comes to your health of you have a bit of a brain.
Your experience is NOT typical. I have had random connectivity issues with every single Bluetooth device I have ever used.

My biggest complaint is bluetooth gamepads. They simply never work right for me... always registering phantom presses or just none at all. I always have to hold it above my head for it to work right which is unusable.
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For small apps, go with SQLite.
I'll give you another piece of 'hyperbolic trash':

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

;-)
I think this 'Engineer's disease' is just what society is now. Everyone thinks they know about everything, because they read something online/have access to google. Everyone is an expert.

You have people arguing very strongly about things they know nothing about and sometimes if you actually know anything about it, it's painful to read just how bad some of the things people are saying, being a logical person, I try to point out what they are saying doesn't make sense, but it's wasted because that person just doubles down on whatever it is that they believe.

The most powerful lesson from noticing this effect and the hardest thing to do, is not actually taking that step back and just not getting involved, it's also in realising that i'm likely doing that too, so it's better to try and step back and approach such comments with a more curious and open mind, rather than one of thinking i'm an expert.