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Agreed. I can't say I enjoyed learning assembly for x86. Basic was so much fun in comparison. Kids have it so much better these days with high level languages that can do pretty much anything without requiring arcane knowledge!
Not to mention that I'm pretty sure the USA doesn't want it's private companies running their own Navies and going toe to toe with foreign forces
Shout out to the XPS line. I have one as my development machine and it's wonderful.
Conferences (academic and industrial). If you’re a developer, going to a software conference like PyCon or Strange Loop (and being sociable when you’re there) will bump you up against lots of curious people.

Local chapters of academic societies (like INFORMS for operations research). Lots of people love to talk shop and learn what other people are doing.

Taking adult education courses at a good university will help you meet such people as well.

Meetups — hit or miss. Some are self filtering like functional programming or philosophy but if you go to a cloud computing meet up you’re likely to meet people who are there for professional reasons. They’re curious too but more for the sake of their jobs.

Bear in mind that these are people curious about specific things. If you want to find well rounded individuals that are curious about lots of things, well they’re rare and there’s unlikely to be a watering hole where they congregate because the intersecting set of interests between them is likely small. University clubs might be an avenue but if you’re no longer in school they’re not really accessible to you.
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I'll suggest that you don't need one. But if you do, I promise you that Yiddish ain't it.
I am not sure about the "I don't see that changing". CD projekt red has adopted unreal engine leaving behind the engine they built AAA games such as The Witcher 3. I can see a future where more gaming houses adopt the engine as well.
"Stealing" and "cheating" was also the US way before it became the top dog. Intelectual property on patents has always been used as a tool for the current world powers to try to cement themselves as permanent world powers. But it doesn't work, other countries are also sovereign, and they don't have to respect US laws made to create US monopolies.
Excellent point. Why does it matter?

If there is no god, then of course it does not matter at all.

And, yet, here we are, discussing it.
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What can be the real reason for Open Sourcing? That they have a hard time competing with the new machine learning based rendering?
I think WSL solves that problem
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In other words, complex machines are machines.
Thanks, really appreciate the kind words :)
Despite R being the most commonly packaged software on Guix and it being a GNU project and a "common lisp for dummies" lispy language which is used by millions of students, researchers and data scientists, the developers seem to have a noticeable animosity towards it (although not as much as the "snake people"). This makes me sad, as R users would be the first to sign up for what Guix offers if it worked well and the RcppGuile R package could be used as a template for bridging the gap between the spartan scheme infrastructure and the extremely rich and beginner friendly R infrastructure. I feel like this could also help motivate the Guix developers to improve the documentation and guile porcelain interfaces so they could be used directly instead of the copious bash code they all seem to relish writing.
httpa://grep.app often helps for obscure code searches on GitHub
FWIW, the iPhone SE still has the home button - https://www.apple.com/iphone-se/

Although, they've overloaded it's use - single press for home, double press for app switcher, fingerprint sensor, etc. (Or maybe that's what you were referring to with iOS 6/7?)

Agree with you in general, though: the single, physical home button that always did what you expected was great.

Android's back button usually takes you back to wherever you were before, although apps can break this (instagram, for example: if you open a message from a notification, you have to press back 3-4 times to get out of the damn app.)
I had friends who went and they saw the writing on the wall and left first thing Sunday morning.
I don't know if you ever read is but I'm really curious to know what font you're talking about.
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I hear more RMA horror stories about ASUS motherboards than any of their other products. That could just be due to a higher amount of MB failures though.
Exactly -- that's actually the most common reason for people to join Taro today. There's a huge emphasis on interview questions (DSA) and building side projects to get into Big Tech, but these skills don't help you succeed in the job.

One way we think about Taro is a way to "fill in the gap" for what students don't learn in their CS degree or in a bootcamp.
Depends. If it is proper spicy - think Balkans, Mexico or Thailand... probably less than you think.
It's to stop web scraping spam bots. It's not worth it for a web scraping scammer to take the time to individually decode his email address.
Why is Bell Labs owned by Nokia?
Like `data:text/plain;base64,SGVsbG8sIFdvcmxkIQ==`?

I must be too old, I do not understand the interest of this stuff compared to controlling a domain.
I've thought this for the last 10+ years or so. I even tried to not buy anything that was "made in china" for many years. I'm so amazed that people were fine with the recent higher gas prices because it would be helping the war in Ukraine. But yet no one wants to end trade with china because it would rise the costs of goods. Just 40 years ago there was literally nothing coming from china. They flood our markets with cheap crap that is made by burning coal, nobody cares that the end product breaks in mere days or weeks because you can just "buy another one". They've ruined the entire aftermarket parts industry for cars as almost every replacement part you buy at autozone is a chinese knockoff that will leave you stranded on the side of the road (my family runs an auto shop, the parts reliability issues are insane while autozone stock goes to the moon).

And then the main issue is all this cheapness is possible because workers are paid pennies a day and take meth so they can work 15 hour days doing tedious hand assembly because the person labor is cheaper than using a machine to automate. And now our media is flooded with news bites about how oppressive and racist america is while china gets away with literal slavery and everyone there believes all non-chinese are inferior.

Screw these people and their government.
>If the US is serious about protecting Taiwan

US isn't even serious about protecting themselves.

"Given the aggression we are seeing...and the FBI director...saying that China...is the #1 threat to the U.S. in the next 10 yrs, would [Biden]...caution companies from expanding...in China?"

"private companies...make their own decisions" - John Kirby, National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications

https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1555282788210860034

But the administration has no problem telling business what to do when it cares about the issue, for example telling gas stations to lower prices.
I’n not advocating for that, it was pretty clear in my OP.
I think it's only reasonable to place blame on the population if you figure elected officials are representative of their constituents, and that the population has a responsibility to make sure it stays that way.
Simultaneously you could make a pretty good case going the other way, or that we're well past that point.
I am working through Fluent Python as well but it's a long slog. Most of my Django code is dead simple from a Python perspective (altho quite complicated use of the ORM, etc).
Puberty blockers don't change gender identity in early onset puberty. Even removing sex organs doesn't change gender identity. David Reimer was castrated very young and raised as a girl. It didn't work. Similar treatments have been forced on intersex children.

Some people say so many gender dysphoria patients taking puberty blockers choosing to transition proves puberty blockers make them want to transition. Maybe it proves diagnostic criteria, professional advice, social factors, or other things keep people who wouldn't transition off puberty blockers.
That does sound shit, sorry you've had that experience!

But I believe lidar should be able to do the same as a camera in terms of real-time updates - from a tech point of view it's just a different type of sensor to a camera, there's no reason (other than difficulty/cost) why lidar robots can't be constantly scanning & understanding the difference between a chair that you've moved since 5 minutes earlier and a cat that keeps moving. Both camera and lidar products can be made dumb enough to fail badly, or smart enough to do a great job. After all, self driving cars have been demo'd using full lidar, it's not like that technology itself takes hours to image a room.
Isn't Meta kind of doing this with VR/AR? Spending billions every year on research with speculative future value..
How does anyone make $1M+ off a hiring thread?
Only with huge amounts of storage. So far there are no large, industrialized areas which have managed to build enough storage to maintain base load through multiple days of little sunshine or wind. It's a nice idea in theory but costs will have to come way down before we can afford to deploy storage at scale (especially in areas where the geography makes pumped hydroelectric impractical).
The USA has imperfect history for sure. But that doesn't change the fact that currently, none of those things you mention are actively happening.. whereas the critiques of the PRC are based on current events like the Uyghur genocide and removal of freedoms in Hong Kong. A nation is molded by it's history not identified by it. Nobody fears the Nazis when visiting Berlin today.

> the fact that PRC Taiwan and USA all legally recognize one China policy

Notice how you use the term "legally." You know that in fact, most nations around the world treat Taiwan as a de-facto independent nation. The USA's formal word on this is as follows: "acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China"

Notice how it does _not_ claim that the _USA_ thinks there is only one China. Only that it recognizes PRC and Taiwan do.

> Apple need to operate in the boundary of law

Apple need operate in the boundary of PRC law if they want to keep their Chinese factories, workers and profits, and that's what this critique is all about. Nobody else cares if they have "made in Taiwan" on their parts or products. In fact, I'd prefer if they did as it's more transparent!
So, can you tell us your secret? :)
You might want to check out the code. I was unsure at first, but have found the code to be well structured, commented, and formatted such that it is relatively easy to see what is going on and make significant changes.
> But hey, at least we got C and Unix out of it.

And transistor [0], laser [1], CCD image sensor [2] to name a few more.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_transistor

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Townes

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge-coupled_device#History
Yes, that is where I have lived most of my life - grew up in a town of about 4000 people. In Massachusetts though, so calling it “rural” feels a bit of a stretch, haha. But definitely feels as you described.
It's small enough of a code base that you can change things to suit your needs, too. Godot is definitely going to win the race long term, just like blender. People can use whatever they like, of course, but if you want future developer talent, youre going to need to use Godot.
The title of the article is "Forms in modals: UX case". Nowhere in the article does it say you shouldn't use modals as an absolute.
Even with WSL2?
I feel the UI/UX guys are slowly rediscovering issues that desktop operating system like Windows and Mac solved 25 years ago. But instead of using a standard implementation everybody rolls their own version with its own of quirks.
The title here is misleading. Actual title is: "Forms in modals: UX case"
I was just talking about this this-morning with a friend. We're discussing the on-going Alex Jones trial.

When I first heard that the moon landing was faked, I did stop to ask myself "Wait, could it be true?". When I first heard that 9/11 was an inside job and that the folks on the news were "crisis actors", I did pause and ask myself "wait, could it be true?" When I first heard some of Alex Jones' stuff years ago, I again stopped to wonder if there was perhaps some truth to any of it.

To be clear, I don't believe any of those conspiracies. And Alex Jones' stuff hurts my brain. But I have always been of the opinion that it is good that we have a few "crazies" who are "way out there" in our society to serve as a check on all of us. I agree with you: "to the extent that flat-earthers help others think more critically, I'm glad they're part of public discourse." It always felt to me like having a few of those folks around was a healthy balance, even if we mostly wrote them off. Somehow.... it seems like that balance is way way way off today. I don't want these types to disappear altogether, but I'd like to see us get back to some sort of balance.
Title is misleading. The article basically covers specific cases where modals aren't a great solution, but the title suggests they are NEVER useful. Clickbaity if you ask me.
And Cook mocked the US because we didn't have the right tooling to make screws for his Mac pro, he went all over the news and kept spewing how bad our industrial sector was.

One of the tooling engineers that had previously worked with Apple before they were offshored said, "Well, we couldn't wait around for him to come back to us, we have to eat too so we switched to making different things. He's welcome to invest in our production and we'll make whatever he wants"

Cook loves helping out China, not sure why. /s
I agree that removing 3D Touch makes text editing worse (presumably — my XS Max still has it and I’ll discover this fall), but if you step back, hopefully you can understand its removal. Adding an entire extra layer to the display was far from ‘free’ from a design perspective. That extra layer really limited design options and its removal saw immediate jumps in battery life attributable to the space its removal saved.

There are all sorts of things out there a lot of people don’t figure out, or old features that new users never discover, but they require maintenance of code — this required a component, and saw poor adoption amongst many, many devs. Apple surely deserves some blame for it never taking off, primarily for a lack of discoverability. They added this new interaction after 7 years of a well-established and simple model, and didn’t give any visual indications for where you should be trying to use it. Plus, it was never on iPads, and only made it to iPhone models for four generations (6S, 7, 8/X, and XS — and it wasn’t on the XR).

It was a great idea, and I still wish they doubled down on it, but it makes perfect sense for them to have let it go for other advantages that ultimately will be used by more people and sell more phones.
> I had to do 5 returns before they finally sent me one in a box that was not already opened.

Before this year, I've never had a defective electronic device (laptop, phone, monitor, camera, etc.) or encountered any issue that made me return a device. But a few months back, I had a similarly terrible experience with returns.

I bought a new lenovo yoga, it came with a defective spacebar. Got a replacement, it came with another defective spacebar! And this was a new laptop, still sealed. Decided to just replace the keyboard & upper case under warranty (which was the recommended procedure), and now the spacebar issue is finally fixed. But now I notice the new upper case had a raised crease above the "Esc" key. This time, I'm not bothering with another return or replacement, at least the crease isn't affecting any functionality.

I've never experienced QC this poor before on a brand new, >$1000 electronic device. The whole thing turned me off from lenovo laptops.
In my experience, you'll find people a lot of people like this at technical user group meetings, such as a local Linux User Group or Python Meetup.

The fact that someone chooses to spend their free time watching a presentation or participating in a technical discussion is a pretty strong signal that they love to learn. There are usually a few people who attend for recruiting or networking purposes, but that's pretty obvious when you meet them.

Relatedly, a lot of the people who present at meetings like this are among the most avid learners, assuming they're not delivering a sales pitch.
What was the standard of proof used in that one?
It's not surprising that the revenue is that low. LoRa consumer devices are almost nonexistent at the moment and office buildings etc who use LoRa devices have their own hotspots on site.

Since there are now tons of Helium hotspots everywhere, maybe that could be open up the market for more consumer LoRa devices? Not seeing much of it yet though, but who knows.
This is unsurprising. The reality is that the US, China and even much of Taiwan actually or effectively supports the One CHina policy.

It would be suicide for China to invade Taiwan. The economic damage this would do to China is immense. China may well collapse. Aside from that, it's not that easy either. China may well have a much larger military but a sea crossing is no easy feat.

Look at Britain. It hasn't been successfully invaded by sea in almost 1000 years (1066 being th elast time). On a clear day you can see the white cliffs of Dover from Calais (~17 miles across the English Channel) yet the might of Nazi Germany could never cross it.

Even though the US has legislation to protect Taiwan, if push came to shove, the US simply wouldn't trigger a direct war between nuclear powers in the sam eway that the US isn't getting directly involved in Ukraine.

And much of Taiwan is happy with the situation as is. Pushing independence is going to seriously rock the boat.

So everyone is happy with the situation of China having an official policy that Taiwan is part of China without anything actually changing including China.

I'm personally not a fan of Western companies being influenced by the CCP dangling the carrot of access to the Chinese market when it's a mirage. China will never allow a Western company to dominate the Chinese market. Yet we have Hollywood, for example, kowtowing to China.

China really took an L (IMHO) over the Pelosi visit. She's not the first House Speaker to visit (Newt Ginrich being the last ~25 years ago). By taking a public position, China really gave the US no choice but to proceed rather than back down. It's just mishandled all the way.

So we'll have symbolic things like "Made in --Taiwan--China" as retaliation.
you're gonna have a bad day if you're depending on random employees for testing a site used by millions.

instead, invest in:

- real automated testing (to the extent technically and economically feasible). One hack is to get customers and partners to fund it, then leverage outsourcing.

- feedback from users - make it easy, streamline responses, setup escalation. Understand that you can't nail down everything and quickly triage issues. Scale the team so at least you can do the triage.
It includes the cost of construction, which includes salaries of labour.
China suspends cooperation with US on some issues, sanctions Pelosi over Taiwan
> water

Even simple things like "water" is not just water but instead you need ultrapure water. The machines that purify water to the purity semiconductor industry needs it are not cheap.
What I don't understand is how iRobot, once an iconic innovator, could move so slow and innovate so little that Roborock, a company founded in 2014, could beat the shit out of iRobot.
It'll probably still be a bit of a pain to work out. I hate getting NVIDIA Optimus stuff working on a laptop for the first time, lol

You might want to consult the unofficial wiki: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nvidia

(You probably want PRIME in offload mode rather than Bumblebee, which wasn't available when I set up my old NVIDIA system.)
Not in my experience. If my neighbor now has a house party, I don’t hear it. Not so anytime I lived in an apartment. In an apartment building my dogs would have to be taken to a community dog park (often small and neglected in many apartment complexes). They have their own small yard here to do that in, and I don’t have to deal with people who bring an entire breakfast meal to the dog park and start fights. I like barriers between me and others.
This won't be their entire pipeline though. People will have to use the open source version in vanilla DCCs without all of Dreamworks' integrations, so will only be exposed to a bit of it in terms of configuring the renderer's options.
This isn’t really new. Architecture Definition Documents like this have been around for a long time.

All the same, it’s great to see the approach being promoted because there’s a very real need for ADD’s to exist.
If I had a dollar for every time I encountered a modal, tried to close it with `esc`, and fired up the settings for the SquareSpace site I unknowingly was visiting, I'd be able to fill up a tub with bills and roll around in them.
pi-hole the roborock subdomains. You'll loose starting via the app, but the robot stills works.
Here's a tangential thought I just had: One of the main selling points of robot vacuums is that they can work while you're away at work, so your house is magically clean when you get back.

Now that a bunch of people work from home, will the usefulness drop? If you're always home, when do you schedule the vacuum to run so it doesn't get in the way or make loud noises during a meeting? Or if you get the wet mopping model, when does it run so the floor has time to dry?
GCC changed long to 64-bits and x86 codebases had to accept that. The base integer types are designed to be variable sized and you code accordingly based on the minimum size guarantee. Assuming types are frozen in time is how you get things like LLP64.
As Neil deGrasse Tyson said: I don’t play golf. That doesn’t make me an agolfist.
> But why fix something that isn't broken?

Because this can be a form of brokenness. Someone would be hired for their aptitude and probably not because of something they have already repeated over and over (unless we include factory work). The ability to adapt and create (and be creative) is usually not described as such in SWE work, but a lot of the actual work does include that.

That said, if a job has a match based on OS, it would probably just as much be a good thing to explicitly know that you either will be or won't be a good fit based on what you are used to and what you think you can adapt to. Knowing this about a job or a potential hire saves everyone a lot of time.
exaggeration does not lend clarity .. an advantage is short-lived, like so many opportunistic moves in real life? the math says that the "severity" of the disadvantage is related to the change in difficulty at that juncture
> China has the 2nd largest military budget but only spends 1.7% GDP on it

Not really sure that comparisons of either GDP or state spending on a purpose as a share of it (even if GDP were comparable) are as meaningful as people pretend across regimes with vastly different degrees of state/industry integration both generally (because of effect on GDP measures) or in the field of interest (because of effects on spending measures.)

Unfortunately, there's not good alternative measures, either.
Can you expound a bit on the NFS infrastructure? I'm curious.

If you can't, legally, nbd.