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> Woodstock’s management, to maximize their profits, required attendees to exchange their currency for wooden scrip which they’d use to purchase merchandise from vendors.

Not in '99 they didn't. There were ATM machines everywhere, and famously, they were the first things to be set on fire and plundered.

If they had, seems like there would be more memorabilia of keeping these tokens? There are many from 1994 - are you misremembering?

https://www.google.com/search?q=coins+tokens+woodstock+94
I think this depends largely on the collection and how it's promoted, but just selling an art NFT imo seems like it would fail the test.
The Car Connectivity Consortium recently standardized Digital Key Release 3.0 (see https://global-carconnectivity.org/) which leverages UWB to provide precise, real-time spatial data that promises to be very effective at preventing relay attacks. Replay attacks, on the other hand, are mitigated by the application protocol through short-lived ranging keys.

A few cars implement Digital Keys 2.0, which uses NFC (Notably BMW in all their new models, but also some models in the Hyundai-Kia group). I expect most manufacturers implementing their own Bluetooth variation to switch over relatively quickly.
Very expensive equipment.

Ultra high precision set up of the equipment.

Storing, using and disposing of some very toxic chemicals.

Convincing ultra specialist, high demand/skill/income engineers to relocate to place X.
The entire premise of the article rests on the context that most coverage about Woodstock 99 are exactly those things you're criticizing this for not being.

In addition to all the lessons learned, both by society and this author, it still also functioned as a teenager's music festival experience. Just with seeing more shades of humanity than you get at a flawless festival.

The very point is that there are people who don't recall the event the way you want them to discuss it: as a sterile learning opportunity where every word they speak must be chosen to maximize the societal value they are able to impart.
I've heard this explanation so many times but it feels like it has an enormous missing piece, like, maybe I just have fucking ADHD or something but never in my life has doing things and going places I don't want to ever gotten easier with repetition or consistency, it still needs motivation because ability to get up and do things is what motivation _is_.

Unless by discipline people mean literally disciplining myself when I fail I'm just gonna remain confused.
You're completely misunderstanding what I don't think is a difficult point.

Don't look at sales of the folding phones for example... look at sales at the very first folding phone (low production Samsung model)

Look at sales of not 120hz screens, but the first 120hz (spoiler: It was a low production Razer gaming phone)

Look at the laptop linked here... clearly it is not meant to sell in mainstream numbers like a Macbook

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Other companies seem to be ok with releasing what are essentially prototypes with production bodies. There's bound to be teething issues, but they're ok with that.

And the feature might have mainstream appeal, but the entire device they release it on does not... at least not in the current iteration.

Apple on the other hand seems to only want to release once they can release in full force and maximum widespread appeal.
China's long bet is that greed will outstrip any desire for North Americans to intervene with their autocracy. So far they've been absolutely correct.
[Article author here]

FWIW I tried to explain why that was the important aspect of the tech in the article.

I also covered it in some depth in my most recent FOSDEM talk, which is linked in the article. As is the script if you don't have time for the video.
>In my experience no matter the field breaking into it via ops is almost a certain way to never get to where you want to be. Cloud Engineering/SRE/MLOps are so in demand a company would be foolish to let you move up unless you really, really made a stink about it.

You need to pick better companies. If the place you work handles employee growth and development by saying this employee is to valuable to support their career then gtfo.
Hopefully the incentive schemes help with this: part of the reason for Unity’s feature churn is that they’re more incentivized to create new features (to acquire new customers) than maintain old ones. You’d think this approach would backfire, but with the amount of lock-in engines have they can afford to piss off current customers at least up to a point.

Godot, not being beholden to shareholders and quarterly growth targets, can hopefully make more clear-headed decisions around product roadmap.
Same here. That's sad.
I’d really like to hear more about this. Is there a way I can contact you?
I think the author is mostly right. Embedded development does not work well with agile. Hardware does not work well with agile.

You're dealing with vendors, supply chains, hardware revisions, manufacturing pipelines... It's classic waterfall. Agile is a recipe for burnout here.
Came to testify the same, lol)))
Both tried to get some of the largest bands of the counterculture, the sixties version of that had far more "peace and love" vibes. They could have done a new Woodstock where they went for reviving the hippy festival, but it was more profitable to go for relaunching the massive festival. Plus a billion hippy festivals exist.
I am trying to use my tablet for writing down notes while thinking, it kind of works, but I really miss the sound and feeling of writing with a fountain pen. Somehow writing with a fountain pen in a quiet room makes me feel patient, and less stressed by problems.
Either, but the developers aparently say "go dot"
same here, the hug of death from HN I guess
Not my field of work, but I'm curious.

From what I'm hearing Unreal is establishing a big lead over the competition with things like Lumen, face model generation (Metahuman?), asset libraries, ML assisted images/video to model converters, very polished editor tooling ,world builders, ...

All things that take a lot of money to make.

Is there any chance to compete in the near or medium term for things like Unity or Godot? Outside of small indie studios or hobbyists that is.
I would hope investors are doing more research than reading short Washington Post articles.
This hasn't been my experience. A lot of people say they think the moon landing was fake because they have a general distrust of anything the government says, and are particularly skeptical of anything from the cold war era. But they may still be willing to listen to reason if you approach the subject with a compassionate mindset, not shaming them for questioning authority but instead acknowledging the basic legitimacy of their anti-authoritarian skepticism. After all, the government has done shady shit before, it just happens that the Moon landing isn't one of them.

The depth of publicly available information about the Moon landings helps a lot too. Most people have only seen a few minutes of video footage at most, and may conclude that Hollywood could fake that video. But the amount of documentation about even the most minute detail of the Apollo program is staggering. If it were all fake,it would be the greatest most detailed work of science fiction ever created. Seriously, it would put Star Trek/Wars to shame. No fiction has lore with such fractal depth of detail as NASA, not even close. Not even Silmarillion comes close.
I think I should've been more specific in my first comment. Significantly more students are working full-time, with a non-significant amount indicating they are working at all.

I have data!

So at our institution, for the 2019-2020 academic year (most recent relevant data for comparison due to covid changes/temporary layoffs), 23% of our incoming students indicated working at least 36 hours a week, and an additional 52% indicated working between 5 and 35 hours a week.

For the upcoming semester, 47% indicated they were working at least 36 hours a week, with an additional 30% indicating they worked 5 to 35 hours a week.
Apple has about $40 billion cash on hand. A nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is about $10 billion, plus another 6 billion for the aircraft (taking a Nimitz class with 90 Super Hornets). Add in ammunition, crew, training, support craft, operational expenses. Buying more than one would seriously strain Apple's budget.

And all of that to expose it to China's anti-ship missiles and dare them to shoot. Seems like a terrible way to spend that money.
This is not really like Nimble, it's more like Picard renderman
People are different. I have friends that live in Miami and NYC, both absolutely love it there but whenever I visit I always want to ask why in the hell they are paying so much rent for so little. Likewise my friends visit me in Colorado and wonder why I'm so obsessed with going outside.
Last year i went in the other direction: analog to digital.
Onenote is my tool of choice - it's basically a really awesome piece of paper:
you can write per hand on your tablet, you can type to text, you can create lists, tables, convert handwriting to text, insert audio, photos, shapes, screenshots, first text, copy text to and from other apps, tag information, hyperlink other pages and notebooks and even pieces of text; you can host in in cloud or locally, the page is unlimited and you can cluster notebooks into sections and notebooks, move and copy pages around and even collaborate with other people in real time. It's on all devices you use, synced.
It's everything your notebook is plus so much more. Hands down best room I've ever used.
based on the doc that sounds about right lol. For me, it was the stupid smiley faces on the porti potties that add salt to the wound.
This author is clearly hostile towards Uber. That doesn't mean that their analysis is wrong, but you should read this with their bias in mind.

Personally, I find it disingenuous to say that Uber offers a worse version of traditional taxi services.

The mobile application, ease of payment, and review ability were all genuinely large improvements over traditional taxi services.

I'm less certain about the two-way marketplace model being an innovation but I think a reasonable person could come to that conclusion.

None of that means that Uber will be a financially stable company going forward nor does it mean that they're a good investment.

But it's a little unfair to pretend they've never offered anything of value.
Here's a Wayback Machine link of the article, just in case: https://web.archive.org/web/20220805154013/https://godotengi...
He didn't think it was important to put in the extra time then. He felt adequate results could be achieved with less time, and that the extra time to make sure quality and completeness was up to some standard was unnecessary.

So, try it. See how well you can do in 0.8 times the time. Probably not as well, but maybe still adequate for the boss's standards, or maybe not. Either way the impasse is solved, as both you and your boss will see exactly what can in fact be done in 0.8 the time.
These processes are so complex that it takes months for a single wafer to be processed from one end to the other, and wafers aren't like a fine wine that's left alone for long.
Actually neither, it’s “Guh-doe”.
Granularity of Serverless Functions
Hi,

i primarily use FaaS (like az functions, lambdas) really just for small, lightweight functions with a somewhat self-contained functionality - usually for events on queues etc. In the past, however, i came across quite a few different libs that would theoretically allow me to host entire apis/webapps within just a single lambda - for instance for some lightweight python stuff like flask.

so i was wondering what is the typical granularity people use these days in their azure functions, lambdas etc. Is there anyone who really deploys entire APIs inside a single lambda, what's the benefit of this or is this widely considered an anti pattern?

best,
pon
Not if you’re more worried about the American government than the Chinese government.
Not really. Normal people don't care if we're in a recession or not. They care if they're employed, and maybe to a lesser extent if their purchasing power is decreasing. If I'm working and getting a big raise things are fine. If I'm unemployed or not getting a big raise then something needs to change.
You can experience that every time you fill a form online. If it works, it's a joy. Saved time and energy. So much more efficient.

If something goes wrong however, there is no flexible human to fix it, give you an alternative solution, or perform a workaround. You are now in for a long and painful trip.
People thinking pen and paper is simple have intentionally made it simple. Have you considered how many different kinds of paper/notebooks/slides/cards, kinds of pen/pencil/brush? Soon you'll start fiddling with your pens and papers, as some comments here have already started suggesting their personal favorite, including making your custom "eye dropper" pen.

Taking the same approach to pen and paper, digital interface is extremely simple, a keyboard and a display. Your system: text files. It's liberating. You open your note.txt,

ed note.txt
,
my previous notes
more notes
...
my last notes
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now just write you new notes down
don't worry about anything
don't even worry about editing previous lines
just write
and done
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And that's it.
That's exactly the same comparison I've been making regards the W3C VC and DID specifications - we're basically repeating the bad parts of the WS specifications.
A smartphone is probably the quintessential "Chinese only" product.

Nevertheless, there is one smartphone made in the USA (Librem 5). None of its parts appear to be sourced by Chinese companies, but some of the parts manufacturers have factories in China (I would not be too surprised to find out that the Samsung front-camera is made in China, for example). I can't say for sure that it's lacks any china-manufactured items in it, but it's at least pretty darn close.

I don't have one because I don't want to spend $1300 on a phone. If that's not me choosing cheaper Chinese goods, then I don't know what is.
The first thing you have to understand about fountain pens is that the ink basically has the viscosity of water, it isn't like other "ink" in ballpoint pens or gel pens. A fountain pen has to essentially function as a controlled leak to write... while not leaking.

When ballpoints came into the picture and steamrolled fountain pens (as the utilitarian writing tool) the methods of creating a vessel to hold ink inside a fountain pen without creating a mess/leaking were pretty primitive/unreliable by todays standards. A common solution was to just fill the hollow body of the pen entirely up with ink and then put silicon grease on the threads where the nib screws in (it could leak out). The easiest way to fill a narrow, light cylinder with ink you REALLY dont want to spill is with an eyedropper type device, hence the name eyedropper.

People still do this with fountain pens, apparently fountain pens are decently popular in india and a lot of indian fountain pens are eyedropper pens.

Most fountain pens these days are what are called "cartridge converter" pens. The name is weird, but the original innovation over crude rubber sacs that you would squeeze to suck up ink (itself an improvement over eyedropper style filling) was to make plastic cartridges that could be filled with ink, sealed with wax and then inserted into the pen.

Another big innovation was piston filler fountain pens that have a piston on the inside of the pen body that can be moved in or out by rotating a knob at the end of the pen. Not only is this an improvement because you can stick the pen directly into the ink and just suck it up through the nib by retracting the piston, ink can be manually advanced out into the nib/feed if the pen was writing dry, and in the opposite sense there is always a bit of suction keeping the ink in that you can adjust. A fountain pen's "feed" is basically a big capillary force engine, and it is nice to have a counterforce with the piston that can be adjusted to either aid or inhibit it.

So then someone took the whole piston filler idea and minituarized it so it could slot into pens designed for cartridges, hence the name "cartridge converter" pens because these self contained piston fillers were called converters.

Eyedroppering pens is something people do for fun still, its an ok way to fill a pen if you dont care about the pen heating up as you hold it, creating a pressure differential and "burping" ink out onto the paper occasionally.... its actually far safer to keep an eyedropper pen mostly full so that there is less of bubble of air to heat up and cause this.
From the tagline:

> Did it cost them their souls?

No. At least no more than anything else in this modern society.
The author confirms that it was not.
I sure didn't vote to permit labor and environmental arbitrage, to usher in Dutch Disease. It was painfully obvious what would happen, who would win and who would lose, but the money swooped in and demonstrated who really owns the country.

It's wild to watch the people who pushed for it slide down the Narcissist's Creed. It's fine! Oh, it's not fine? Then it isn't a problem. Oh, it is a problem? Then it isn't a big deal. Oh, it is a big deal? Then it's not my fault. Oh, it is my fault? Well, I didn't mean it. Oh, I did mean it? Well then you deserved it.
Honestly reads like some bizarre social experiment by the organizers. Conditions degrade for a few days and then put Limp Bizkit on stage to play "Break" for an angry audience. Give everyone candles and then have RHCP play "Fire". C'mon.

Crowds are incredibly stupid and malleable. Someone knew things would get out of hand.
I've come to the limited experience conclusion that Zettelkasten is a great tool if you are doing detailed non-fiction writing, blogging, or research, and plan to for more than a year. Outside of these scenarios its just storing information that you may/ may not ever refer to or recall.
At my job about 8 months ago, since we're rewriting our application to modernize it, I suggested we do our RESTful service rewrite in Node (since we're using a React frontend and having everything in one language would make the transition easier). Leadership immediately rejected the idea with no explanation other than "another team once used Node and had problems with it, so we're not letting anyone use it anymore."

Fast-forward 6 months and, by talking to someone other than leadership, I learned what the "problems" were: the team had used Node 5 years ago and couldn't get it to scale because every route blocked all incoming traffic from being processed. And I was just like, ".......you know that Node has threads now, right? And that would solve the problem you just mentioned immediately, right? And if leadership had said this 6 months ago, I could have told them that and we could have avoided all the Java service development we've been struggling with the whole time... right?"

Just a "fun" little anecdote about Node multi-threading :D
Curious, because I often see Fed capitalized as FED as if it’s an acronym, is there an acronym I’m unaware of?
Dead Doctors Don't Lie
Not really, I would consider them a broader opposition to the current regime
I'd been using iPhones without that feature since 2008, and there was really no reason for me to assume there was a fundamental change. Everything else was basically the same until I tried to delete some apps.

I suppose if my first iPhone was one that had this functionality, maybe I would have figured it out.
I mean they also booked Guster, P-Funk, and Jewel - not exactly powderkegs for revolutions.
[Article author here]

Yes, and the FOSDEM talk that the article is partly based on mentioned that. I linked it from within this article.
Bunnie Huang [1] has written/spoke on this topic. I think he mentions it in the Shenzen documentary [2]. Quote from the documentary page:

> We examine the unique manufacturing ecosystem that has emerged, gaining access to the world’s leading hardware-prototyping culture whilst challenging misconceptions from the west. The film looks at how the evolution of “Shanzhai” – or copycat manufacturing – has transformed traditional models of business, distribution and innovation, and asks what the rest of the world can learn from this so-called “Silicon Valley of hardware".

1: https://www.bunniestudios.com
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY
Ken Griffin added to Twitter-case subpoena list with Goldman
I see ordinary family houses built around me. There's maybe a timber frame (or not). Then there's a bunch of guys laying bricks one by one, sticking some insulation on, putting pipes and cables through it all. Surely some of it is prefabricated, but it doesn't look like a bunch of Ikea-esque bits being just attached together.
My parents used to collect old sears and roebuck catalogs. Looking at the various house kits for sale ($2k at the time!) Was one of my favorite parts of those catalogs. They really sold some very nice house kits.

One detail though, they were really more like house kits, not pre fab homes.
A lot of it depends on shaders and lighting.
It sounds like "good old days" and "back in my days" to try to imply that there was only consensual sex and no violence at the original Woodstock.
It is funny that we can have years and years of crazy increases in prices of land, healthcare, education, etc, but the minute wages at the bottom start going up faster than asset prices, the Fed is concerned about wage inflation and the government is getting ready to pass an "Inflation Reduction Act".
LOL - because a bundle of companies has a different risk/reward profile?

I only bet on high-growth companies. I'm not interested in making money the slow-and-steady way.
This is only sort of true. If you load any 3D model into Unreal Engine for example, the lighting and shaders will make it look pretty good without much modification. Godot is getting a big upgrade to its lighting and shader engine in 4.x
I'm replying here to both OP and you, glad to have a chat
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I’d rather get a R5S. Imperfect but at least has 2.5gig
If the US dollar keeps getting stronger relative to other currencies, it will be better to manufacture things offshore and import them.

That is what a strong currency does.
It implies a major problem in their org is/was pesky developers working on things that weren't assigned. Why weren't those things assigned? Bad PMs who don't care about the pain developers feel? Not enough developer freedom? The fact that the roadmap is completely disconnected from what's actually important for the business/developers? It's a product for developers; the developers should know better than anyone what the right things to work on are.