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> Your job was never "get home safe".

You raise some good points but this isn't one of them. Dehumanizing police is NOT how we build an effective police force.

Instead of grappling with the issue of their safety, you say "fuck you, you just shouldn't care if you die." What kind of police do you attract with a policy like that? People who have nothing to live for, that's who. And those are the people you LEAST want policing, because they probably don't give a rip if they go to jail.

Policing in America is fundamentally different than in nearly all other parts of the world simply due to the pervasiveness of firearms. That's a reality we all have to contend with, like it or not.
As a thought experiment, so the:

- 8GB Pi cost $75 (Geekbench score of 318 single / 808 multi-core)

- 8GB M1 Mac mini cost $699 (Geek bench score of 1752 single / 7718 multi-core)

This isn't too far off linearly price scaling.

The M1 Mac mini costs 9.3x more, but get 5.5x faster single-core & 9.5x faster multi-core.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/15902536

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/15912650
mostly just a glimpse of that talk, perhaps better suited is the one about programming he gave at Dropbox. In my opinion quite more in-line with what's being said.
Oh yeah? So what are you going to do with this heart attack model? Because I sure hope the answer isn't "model said heart attack so the answer is heart attack"
Care to provide examples of what these things were that you were doing to a storage pool? I guess I'm just not imaginative enough to think about ways of using a storage pool other than storing data in it.
Anyone else having problems with the shipping page? Says it cannot ship to my address, formatted incorrectly ...
The opposite for me, I'm one of those psychos who switched from VS to VSCode, and the majority of what I write is in C#. I decided I wanted to get extremely familiar with the dotnet CLI and how all of the tooling and build systems work, instead of relying on the conveniences provided by Visual Studio.
You don't think in a few years AI art will be indistinguishable for human generated? In 2012, self driving cars were a funny joke. A decade later, here they are. I think AI is somehow chronically both overestimated and underestimated
> It could as well be a deep menu that is still accessed with many button presses to drill down into it.

I think if I'm not driving, the usability of picking from menus by touch is usually nicer than using buttons to navigate.

If I'm really experienced with the controls, buttons are better than a meh touchscreen.

In a rental car, I appreciate the touchscreen menus.
We and our peers have been busy:

- Gov, especially cyber + analytics (we do graph ai + gpu viz stuff)

- Supply chain: A slowdown is happening, but COVID, regional conflicts, etc. makes needs for manufacturing etc. companies here super burning

- Cyber + fraud: The need hasn't gone away (more automated attacks every day!), though companies based around VC blitz and pushing their gaping tech + operational holes to acquirers are hurting as fewer people happy to give them free $

- Devops was hard and remains hard. Digital transformation is an ongoing process and still needs a lot of help.
60 days to occupy would be reasonable, same guidelines for when a primary residence mortgage is originated.
> I've used Mac for years, and still don't know what the yellow button does.

Minimize. That’s what the yellow button does. It’s as simple as clicking it once.
Wow, I wish.

I'm speaking as someone who put all his retirement savings into index funds year after year, but then married someone whose job is related to real estate. Real estate feels more concrete and understandable to her than finance, so that's where our money goes now.

It's not easy free money, and I don't know why you would think that any high-profile, low-barrier-to-entry investment would be easy free money. Half of my friends have either bought property or are constantly talking about it. My friends are part of a horde of first-timers who believe, like you, that it's easy free money, and their belief inflates prices.

And that's not just my amateur opinion: my wife and I sit in on a developer happy hour where experienced developers constantly bemoan that they haven't been able to work with certain types of property in years, because they get outbid by naive first-time buyers who don't have a plan for making money other than betting on the market going endlessly up. People who are looking for income rather than appreciation are not seeing opportunities at the current prices.

Thanks to my wife managing our properties herself and having a lot of applicable skills from her profession, we manage to make some money, but every hour she spends managing property is an hour less (or two, really) that she can bill her clients. I doubt that if we adjusted for that it would work out to be a wise use of time. It's work she enjoys and finds satisfying, so we don't look that closely at whether her time (or our money) would be more profitably invested elsewhere, but I'm certainly not quitting my software development job to double our commitment to real estate.

I'm in Austin, one of the hottest markets in the country, so in the end, it's possible that everyone regardless of how naive they are will be rewarded by continued appreciation. Income from real estate hasn't been a game-changing multiplier for us, but appreciation might be. Or not. That aspect of it is just a gamble.
Actually, I think we have already moved away from pure text a long time ago. Think about it this way:

If "text" (so only the sequence of tokens) was the valuable representation, then we would all program without any formating (no additional spaces and linebreaks).

Now, you might say well formating is important for readability. These spaces and line breaks do matter. But, just adding them randomly where they are syntactically allowed is not helpful either. There is some very specific structure to formating: The AST.

So, in other words we usually structure short snippets of text sequences in a graphical layout by ASCII-arting the structure into it. And, even with that, many people would complain about the missing syntax highlighting, another meta property that pure text does not have ...

Anyway, I think you are right about almost all tooling being build for text, so we are kind of stuck with it ("unchangeable fact of life"). However, that does not mean that it is the ultimate representation.

E.g. there is still one industrial nation stuck using the imperial system, and that is certainly not because it is more practical than the metric system. It is just that the infrastructure, tooling and culture has internalized it.
I’d propose going all the way back to NEXTSTEP and taking that as inspiration. It’s similar enough to OS X that it would feel familiar to Mac users, but without the 20 years of being "function follows form"ed to death.
> I have been recently intrigued by FinTwit arguments that an excess of demand spurred by too low interest rates is the real reason for many shortages

I don't believe this is the case as since 2008 the U.S. construction industry has not even built enough units to keep up with population growth. I believe this is a supply problem which is two-fold.

1) Restrictive zoning and permitting which really took off around the 70s

2) A boom and bust construction cycle which has convinced many to not risk it any longer and find other work (this which has been going on for decades but truly inflected after 2008).
No chance any of these models are sufficiently powered to even test the questions the operators are interested in asking
One of the biggest problems with dev environments is maintenance just like documentation. As a dev, when I am working on my local environment, if something breaks, I usually end up finding some hack to fix it and move on with my feature/assigned task. Most devs leave it to the "new guy" who is onboarding.
I also think having templates as code might be a way to alleviate that issue to certain extent.
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As much as I'd like to have a phone with a keyboard again, I have low expectations about an crowdsourced device of what will ultimately be a small production run Shenzhen phone.
Which ICs would you use for this? Do you have something in mind?
The problem for (1) is not the camera. It's very likely moisture in one of the connectors in the wiring harness in the tailgate. The fix is contact spray and taping up the connector with duck-tape. (You can test if this is the problem by opening and closing the trunk when you’re in reverse to see if that makes the video worse/better)
At least they let you know in the first paragraph but I agree even if it doesn't apply only to the Linux kernel.
While I can agree that if you want to make a device with mass appeal you probably should focus your efforts, this doesn't seem to be happening. As far as I can tell Pine does not put any significant effort into the software, but instead hopes that the community will do it. Now if you rely on the community, focusing only on a minority (manjaro users) of a minority (Linux mobile developers) of a minority (phone users wanting a Linux phone) might be a bit too much focus I'd argue.
> Why are capacitative touchscreens such a great fit for cell phones?

Because you are always staring at the display while using it?
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The definition of hypocrisy is:

> the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.

Andreessen has vocally argued (for years) that we should build more housing. Then when the opportunity comes to do it where he lives - he and his wife NIMBY their way out of it.

Pretty simple point to understand.

new airport != new housing is my entire retort to your argument.
There were a few initiatives in a few large cities, but largely police budgets have not dropped, and in most cases have increased since 2020.

It’s important to remember that in the US policing is incredibly fractured. Most cities in the US have at least 4 or so independent agencies that have jurisdiction (transit, county sheriff, city pd, state patrol), it’s entirely possible that there are more in many places. This makes it hard to know if police are funded or not
Assets are +, Liabilities are -. So a receivable is an asset and +100 is correct. when the money comes in, you need to +100 cash and -100 receivable.
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Working on old but popular software is where legends are made. You need to be methodical about changes. How do you make changes in a million line+ codebase without breaking anything for millions of existing users? This challenge is reserved for the finest engineers on the planet. These are the people you want your desk near when you start your professional career as a programmer.
Maybe there's already a way to do this, but it seems to me that it would be useful to be able to refer to the answer on a previous line, like the Ans key on a TI calculator. So:

2 + 3 (=4)

Ans * 2 (=8)
These were a big deal in the 1700s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_glass
No. They asked distros to ship their latest release as default version instead of recreating Frankenstein's monster holding onto end of life releases for ages backporting random patches without understanding the code they're messing with and blaming the upstream projects when their patches inevitably introduce more regressions and less features than any well maintained upstream project.

Of course this is a very one sided view. I've been on the receiving end of reckless upstream projects far too often not to understand why distributions which are expected to maintain compatibility with releases for years dislike a fast moving upstream for anything too important.

Manjaro Linux is accused of something different far less justifiable: forking upstream projects in all but name by shipping heavily patched packages without supporting them and even worse putting the support burden and blame on the upstream projects when things break (and oh boy do they break).
Weird it's working for me.
M1 machines do have better battery life (i think the m1 chip itself is 10W?) And a bigger battery by virtue of being in an ipad or a full laptop, as opposed to being crammed in a handheld. There's also the advantage of being an arm64 machine over a bloated x86_64, notorious for the complexity and power draw

But also you have to consider that m1 macs don't offer you 8 zen3 cores and 8 rdna 2 gpu units. Apple device are notorious for being less powerful than the competition, but making it up in software, which you can't really do when the task is gaming, since that is basicaly as close as a full synthetic benchmark you can get.

Disregarding the arm/x86 compat layer that would be needed to play most games and its overhead, getting anywhere as close to steam deck framerate would probably take about 25 W worth of m1 chips. For 20 W, this thing is actually a beast. Like seriously, it runs Elden Ring (almost) well.
I remember the 1990’s when morphing¹ was all the rage, and everyone was fascinated by the effect. (It was very common among those who could afford it, and could be seen in movies, TV shows, commercials and also, weirdly, on book covers.) Nowadays, the morph effect looks unbelievably crappy, and obviously fake. The same can be said to have happened to all older forms of special effects; we all now cringe at old movies’ stop-motion animation, rubber monster costumes, and plastic gadgets, but at the time, people thought they looked real.

I would bet that the same will happen with AI-generated images; people will learn to tell the signs, and artists will have to learn to avoid these.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphing
As an European Suburbs feel just wrong to me.

I've lived in small towns and big cities in Europe. Every time there has been a grocery store within walking or biking distance (5-10 minutes).

Suburbs don't have that. If you need more milk, it's a good 30 minute car ride away. Walking or going by bike are completely impossible.
I'm assuming they are only using this water as a heat sink – is it all just evaporating or where is it going?
Just give me modern and complete hardware drivers for plan9.
Three mile island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima were all extremely severe events. Also, the timing of these events does seem to support the estimated probability of a severe nuclear event somewhere in the world every 30-50 years.
Snipd is doing an amazing job with snips and automatic chapters!
Can't wait to see more from the team!
Fanduel is hiring like crazy right now.
You can’t buy one square foot of land in Scotland and become a Scottish lord
Do you think Raspberries without ECC RAM are fine to use for a Ceph storage cluster? I did some research yesterday on the same topic, many say ECC Ram is essential for Ceph (and ZFS too). But I'm not sure what to believe, sure data could get corrupted in RAM before being written to the cluster, but how likely is that?
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So a family on hard times should be forced to leave their grandmothers home when she dies and hope they can find a new one? Gentrification can easily push a property in the place they've lived their whole lives out of their price range. And the family home might not have been super well kept up so the "windfall" isn't as big as the property values in the area may reflect. This happens now with gentrification in big cities, it would get worse with what you are saying.

Being able to leave something to your descendants is a critical part of society. If people know they cant leave anything behind they start acting differently (and not in a good way). I understand a key part of communism is you and your family own nothing, but trust me you don't want people to have a use it or lose it attitude towards everything.
:) thanks for the kind words!
By definition, the carrying capacity of a small mountain town, is small.

Summit County is currently in drought. Where is more potable water for more residents going to come from? (That‘s a pretty big problem in most of the West as drought conditions show no sign of improvement.)

The cities are located where they are, because barring major changes transport costs going from cheapest to most expensive are navigable waterways > rail > road > air. Flying out of small airports is pretty expensive and not something that most Americans can afford to do regularly.
In terms of an interface designed for clarity, I think the epitome was Windows 95.

But that involved portable thousands of hours interviewing and videotaping regular people trying to use Windows and then addressing issues found.
> make the volume control a real analog knob that's directly in the output circuit

I don't miss noisy potentiometers :D

And having a bus with user operations being streamed to it means that designers can choose mappings and behaviors late.

The issue is the delay. I have a lot of amplifiers with knobs that are perceptually instant, even if they really are encoders behind the scene. Stuff is fast enough now that there's no reason for delay. I've built control systems that use encoders that operate at 1000Hz over slower embedded networks than are in modern cars.
> Do you want to be a Ford Factory Worker? maybe not but the implication is that there are others who will do it

Unfortunately the vast majority of data scientists I've worked with are already more than half way there.

Very few data scientists know how to actually model a problem. They only know how to take data, turn it into a matrix and run it through a grid search algorithm on a bucket of SKlearn models and parameters. In fact I'm sure there are data scientists reading this saying to themselves "wait, isn't that modeling?".

The frustrating part of this is, in my experience, there are a ton of important modeling problems to be solved at most companies, and yet the huge number of data scientists hired out there don't even see modeling problems that don't fit the form y = f(x).

A good quick sanity check of this is to ask a data scientist how they would model churn. An overwhelming majority will say "I'll take N days of data in the past, label who churned there, build a model and then predict who will churn in the next N days", which is absolutely the incorrect way to model churn. If you ask these people about censored data they'll just shrug their shoulders, completely ignorant of the fact that for decades people have been solving this exact same problem in the medical research community using survival analysis.

In reality there is only a small subset of real business problems that can be quickly modeled in SKlearn, and yet this type of "modeling" is the large majority of what data scientists are doing today.
Also can confirm as an accountant's kid.

It's kind of like being given a cheat code.
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raspberry pi's have ECC memory; it's just on-die ECC.

(this was a surprise to me too)
And stop having bizarrely chunky steps between volume levels, too. It annoys me regularly that so many of my digital devices have less than a dozen steps between minimum and maximum, leaving me with either too quiet or too loud, and nothing in-between.
So, /etc/hosts ?
Yep, you debit or credit an specific account, and to make things extra confusing, a debit on one account is always the same as a credit on a different account (and the other way around).

Somehow transaction intermediaries made some incredible bullshity product differentiation out of those words... and what makes everything worse is that, since they are intermediaries, every transaction is both a debit and a credit on their own accounting.
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I think (would love to know if I'm wrong) of it as: debit => from, credit => to
I wish AARP would offer email services to the elderly as part of their service offerings, with the ability to reach a human for support.
Excuse the simpleton question:

> When creating these TBG samples, we used to literally tear the graphene in half, to get accurate relative alignment of the two halves. It was very clever, but it imparts a huge amount of strain to the two layers, generally of order 0.1-0.3%.

Does "it" mean the mechanical tearing of the crystal imparts the strain? or instead is it the newly introduced surface boundary (in 1D) that is imparting strain?

[I ask because long ago I was familiar with some of the crazy surface physics that would happen in IV-IV and III-V systems, and just wondering what effects the 1D termination of the 2D lattice might cause.]
If you had to pay the tax you could probably just finance it anyway instead of paying it all at once so it would be just like having a new (small) mortgage.
Creating a GAN feedback loop in real life
I genuinely don't understand why you're getting down-voted.

Not only has it been true historically - there's a real reason to allow it: it incentivizes owners to maintain and improve their properties. Further... maintenance of that property requires investment, both in time and labor. If you make it so that owners have no reward or incentive for improving their properties, they WON'T DO IT.

Why invest money into fixing your place if the price of the house is capped anyways? Trying to prevent this style of investment has almost always failed, and generally makes neighborhoods that are nice/attractive places to live much less nice and attractive - because people stop maintaining and improving them.

I think the real question right now that needs to be answered is: Why are we not able to create new urban areas in low cost areas? What has changed so that we no longer create towns?

Because frankly - right now the issue isn't housing, it's housing in areas where economic opportunities exist. Why are economic opportunities so exclusive to high population centers? What can we do to change that?
How "general" is Rob Pike though, I wonder? I'd say he's exceptional, given his track record.
Maintenance invoice issued:

DR accounts receivable
CR income

Maintenance paid

DR bank account
CR accounts receivable

Each apartment is part of accounts receivable.

Normally accounts receivable has a DR balance (because apartment owners pay you AFTER you invoice them, so they are usually DEBTors).