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> I feel like this deserves way more discussion, though -- how are they doubling the throughput of existing cables?!?!

Going back to the press release¹, I'm wondering how much weight "up to" carries. That is, I'm guessing that reliable 80 Gbps operation will require new, active USB-C cables, even though existing cables may realize some benefit.

"Up to 80 Gbps operation, based on a new physical layer architecture, using existing 40 Gbps USB Type-C passive cables and newly-defined 80 Gbps USB Type-C active cables."

¹ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220901005211/en/USB...
This also happened in Taiwan. A metalworks reused Cobalt-60-contaminated rebar and then hundreds of apartment buildings were constructed with it in the 80s. The government tried to find and buy them, but it seems that some people didn’t want to sell because of the amount offered. There are still some of them around.
Sorry, but matters of fact, in my experience, rarely are. Rather, they are typically assumptions, and personal and cultural projections about reality. It's a common trope around here to state opinions, assumptions, and unexamined ideas as fact as a rhetorical device, and when pressed, to avoid such an examination. At the end of the day it's not up to me to prove that they aren't; it's up to you to prove that they are.
True, it goes against the spirit of deep learning

Still the Transframer results are interesting and has encouraged me to look into it
I was working for a Venture Capital firm at the time, and it was during COVID when everything was remote so it was a VC platform for our VC to do VCing!
You're right it seems. Here's a non-paywalled article https://news.yahoo.com/china-reselling-natural-gas-energy-14...
The more water that is retained on the property, the less that is available for entering streams.
I think it reads like:

Even though people might worry about radiation from the device, the actual risk (due to all the shielding) is almost non-existent.
Access to iMessage so that I can text people in less than 10 seconds is the only reason most people need to get an iphone. Apple's incentives with regards to privacy are also much betters than Googles. Neither are great, but apples strategy revolves around selling marked up hardware, while Googles is 100% about getting people to use google products so that they can be served ads.
"Tedium" is an odd choice of words.

There will be AI-based music generation soon. Will you say "it takes away the tedium of playing music"? Playing music is a joyful activity. Learning to play it can be tedious but the performance itself is pleasant.

People learn to play a song and then they play it hundreds of times throughout their life even though they could just record it once and let the recording do the "tedious" work of making the sounds!

Drawing is also pleasant. It isn't "gruntwork", though there are tedious tasks within it sometimes. Mostly it is meditative.

The fact that you don't like to draw and you want something that will draw for you is a whole issue in itself.

Would you want something that will dance for you? Ski for you? Flirt and make love for you? Don't worry, you'll be "directing the vision".

It sounds like you don't want to make art, you just want credit for art having been made.

Like, there are people who will use this tool to do amazing stuff, but they're going to have to spend months or years "tediously" learning how to make it do more than what it does out of the box. You know that, right?
Better yet would be to use spotifyd[0] for this. I tried to set this up with my RPi a while ago but was defeated by Linux audio. Instead I just bought a Sonos. Oh, well.

[0]: https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his startup idea depends upon his not understanding it.

–Upton Sinclair, paraphrased
If the goal is to play music from your phone, then buy a phone with a headphone jack. Problem solved!

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except:

The cost of building a pool in France is widely given as being between €15,000 and €50,000. This is for the pool, and you need to add on the cost of the surrounds, whether this is a paved area or wooden deck.

Then there are maintenance costs, electricity costs, cleaning costs etc.

> taxed 200 Euros per year

that's an estimate based on the lower possible height (50cm and lower) because the images don't give you a sense of how deep the pool is.

The annual tax is proportional to the height.
That's more work than what I do. I cut the egg in half with a knife and use a spoon to scoop out each half. Works better than you might expect.
Not when talking USB. You have strict upper limit for pooling interval (1ms/125us)
I wouldn't call myself a collector, but I have a couple of pens and a few colors of ink. I originally bought them back in grad school (and continuing on in that year I was an adjunct professor) just as something small to make grading and taking notes a little nicer. It helped a little. Writing with a fountain pen is a pleasant experience, even when what you're writing is "you forgot to use the chain rule" for the nth time.
> The only way your comment makes sense is if you're suggesting it's a problem that white British being a minority is a problem.

Why don't you tell me - do ethnic minorities without a country of their own face any challenges or dangers due to that? Is there reason to believe that native Britons won't face those same dangers? Perhaps because they are so beloved by other nations they now share their country with, there are yearly riots of gratitude held in their honor?

They're not even a minority yet, and we already have a preview of what's to come:

RAF ‘Pauses Job Offers for White Men’ to Meet ‘Impossible’ Diversity Targets - https://news.sky.com/story/raf-pauses-job-offers-for-white-m...

BBC bans white people from job - but workforce already reflects country's ethnic make-up - https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/670266/BBC-advert-white-pe...
Pi's can also be used as servers and receivers for the open-source Logitech Media Server software. I've been successfully using it for synchronized multi-room audio. It has support for both local music and streaming services.
They managed to remove me from their user base.

Once upon a time I used to advocate for GNOME, including an article about Gtkmm on the The C/C++ User's Journal.

Now I just use XFCE on the surviving Linux netbook I still own.
Do you really trust the people running local governments to not mess things up? I certainly don't. I wouldn't trust them to look after my house plants.
Lingustic shoutout to Switzerland, where cheesecake contains actual [grated, hard] cheese.

For the German speakers: "Käsekuchen" (literally "cheesecake") in Germany, Poland and other countries of the region uses Quark, which is untranslateable, but is texture-wise somewhere between light cream cheese and pressed Greek Yogurt. It's not usually referred to as a cheese within Germany any more. So Käsekuchen is a sweet cake that goes well with red jam and fresh cream, or served with coffee.

Käsekuchen in Switzerland (again, "cheesecake") is a pie with a filling based on cream and grated hard cheese. If you want the sweet German cake, you have to order "Cheesecake" (using the English word!), not "Käsekuchen".
>Android you’re actually increasing your chances of false imprisonment.

That used to be true until apple implemented CSAM a black box that scans for hashes of straight to federal prison files. Without your consent or any way to audit it. No oversight.

Yeah I know its not 100% implemented yet but that is just a matter of time.
also missing is yet another aspect of a very complex system - parched soil has lower ability to retain water. These floods follow an intense heatwave during which large swathes of pakistani soil dried up. Come the rains and you have a massive problem.

Like you say, this is just the beginning. If floods like this happen in the Indian plains - and they will - the human and social costs will be immense.
By extendion, they need disincentives to make any trips, trains included. The most carbon-neutral trip is the one never made. Tourism, long trips for no better reason than recreation, can never be made completely green.
HPCC – High-Performance Computing Cluster
My friend is the CEO of a small startup. Her husband is basically the COO. They didn't really take mat/pat leave. They pulled back on their work a bit, stopped doing 1 on 1's for a while, and stopped traveling, but they were still both taking important meetings.

She did however have the benefit of both sets of grandparents being able to live with her during the first few months, so she had a lot of help.

So I guess the big tip here is, if you can get full time live in help take advantage of it?

Sorry if this isn't super helpful, but just another data point for you.
Lots of small water retaining walls and pits makes it so it doesn’t run off and accumulate in some low central area.
I've had the same. When I was using Teams for many meetings I would restart the desktop app every few hours to try and prevent these kind of issues. Not unusual for me to restart it after every meeting.
The idea in the article is to make wrong code look wrong, so it's even more important to make it easier for programmers to check code visually for errors in weakly typed languages such as C, where wrong code can easily get past the compiler. Even in strongly typed languages such as Haskell or Ada, it's still a good idea as it's useful self-documentation, and it also means you're less likely to get compilation errors.
You don't even need a graphical user interface, a web browser or the official Spotify app to accomplish this either - you can use open source projects that use the official Spotify API to create an extra Spotify speaker you can control from Spotify on another phone or PC.

There are loads of these projects, often in docker containers you can launch with a single command:

> https://hub.docker.com/r/flaviostutz/rpi-spotify

> https://github.com/qSharpy/raspotify-docker-compose

> https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd

etc etc.

I've several speakers integrated with various Spotify API based solutions around my home running on various RPi hardware. Some of these projects do even more, like add Airplay streaming too.
Efficient Methods for Natural Language Processing: A Survey
i haven’t visited your site yet, but i’ve long thought something in this vein has been missing.

imagine if taxi companies could make use of it, or a group of friends could start their own GNUber.

or a group of high school kids who want to deliver groceries/items to the elderly as volunteer work.

or a bunch of middle school friends wanted to do a lawn mowing service.

or…

of course, anyone in the industry knows how many unpredictable pitfalls reality will throw at it, but we also know very well these kinds of ideas, if followed through can be remarkable and truly can change the world.

it’s been like tiny little pinpricks at me for years that apps like Uber, Lyft, door-dash, etc… don’t have a scaled down open-source alternative — a decent Configure, Describe Services Offered, Spin-Up-An Instance and Go.

i’ll take a look later today when my schedule loosens up.

edit: just reread your post and looked at the comments, i misread what you were doing, sorry bout that. still sounds interesting tho, good luck!
Modern devices provide a wealth of telemetry completely autonomously. My pacemaker talks at least daily to a UFO shaped brick on my night stand via BLE. The brick has an integrated cell modem, and was given to me pre-configured. It has a bright green light (that turns off in the dark) to show that it's functional. It has a single button I have never pressed, for if I think something notable enough happened that my doctor's office needs to be sent a report sooner than every 90 days or so.
Show HN: Prehistoric, Repl Controlled Simulation
Interesting as water vapour is in itself also a greenhouse gas.
100% true. It’s a sign of evolving understanding of software engineering — in 2005, it was still common to believe that the best way to prevent errors was to help fallible human beings learn to detect them better. Now, well, it’s still common but we’re overall getting smarter about letting computers protect us from ourselves.

(And the kind of technique described here still matters because you should understand why the guardrails are where they are.)
I'm surprised at the pushback against ClawsOnPaws here. Why would you not want to make your apps usable by as many people as possible?
Their big mistake was how they communicated (or didn’t) that it was happening. The technical reasoning behind it was sound, and it resulted in actually prolonging the life of the device.

As the battery wore down, the phone would still function, just slower for peak CPU demand. Other devices would just die and people would buy new ones, so not throttling had the effect of people buying newer devices more often than needed.

The main issue is they should have alerted people that performance was degrading so they could get a new battery.
I think the chat function is probably even worse than the video calling.

It just feels brittle and flaky and awkward. Even small things like trying to insert an image often won't work because the format is unsupported so you have to screenshot the image first.

In 2022 there is no excuse to not support all the common image formats, it's not hard
I've always had some questions about graalvm so I'd like to hijack this thread, forgive the out of topic comment please!

I've got a number is spring web applications from which I create an uberjar (jar file with all dependencies) and run them in a Centos server using something like java -jar server.jar (it's a little more complex than this but you get the idea).

Would I be able to use graalvm to create native binaries from these jars? Is there some kind of tutorial describing the procedure?

Is this possible without a license/paying big money?

Finally, is this worth it? Will the apps become any faster?
That actually sounds right. Anything that treats people differently because of a so called "race" is racist.
By all means, let's laud the Chinese firewall with its twin guiding principles of authoritarian censorship and IP theft.
hack the planet!
Russia invaded Ukraine. What did the EU do to justify this? I don't mean what Russia's reasons are (NATO expansion) but what morally justifies it.
Technically Apple doesn't issue the card, Goldman Sachs does. It's also a pretty damn good product as far as credit cards go (and I've used them all). I ended up canceling all my other cards. The only feature the Apple one lacks is the ability to generate card numbers like privacy.com or whatever.
One thing that is lost in recent definitions of “great engineers”—to the detriment of the trade- is the fundamental understanding and expertise with the multi-disciplinary engineering team and process. Software engineers must be able to work concurrently with other engineering and science specialties/disciplines like a violinist works together with the rest of the orchestra.

If I sit down to interview a person for a software engineering position, I expect them to be able to walk me through the entire software system development process.

I expect to here about how they have worked with UI/UX or human factors, EE’s, computer engineers, PM’s, ME’s, systems engineers, QA, test engineers, etc.

I want to know how they would design a software system and then present that design for critical review.

It takes a lot of experience, expertise and professional training/graduate education to be a “software engineer”.
Source: https://github.com/Aperocky/prehistoric-simulation

This contains a semi-realistic market simulation driven by https://www.npmjs.com/package/market-transactions-engine
featured pretty heavily in femdom doujins. i thought it was just a kink of the culture like all the nipple licking
Isn't that exactly what people do.

This thread seems surreal to me. Rust type system does encode exactly what the later comments are complaining that isn't encoded. And you sate what code cares about the variable keeping its value through a code block, between a pair of braces.
> Well it’s not, Bank of America says it’s available to first time buyers of all races

That's what I was asking for above. Both the media reporting about this and even their own press release makes this story a bit ambiguous.

> so your insinuation is actually racist.

Normally I'd smirk in being called racist for advocating treating all races equally, but I'd like to simply state that the media reporting on what this program actually is has been extremely confusing. That's why I asked what this program was for up above and pointed out that a program that treated different races differently would be racist.

> On a side note, I can’t imagine a better reason for a government bailout— if it results in tens of thousands of first time buyers owning a home, many of whom would continue to do so regardless of the bailout.

I view this as penny-wise and pound-foolish thinking. The resulting economic fallout of getting people in homes that they can't afford in a downturn and the resulting bailouts that would happen is much worse for most poor people in the long-run.
In my experience, people who rush back don't end up staying at the job very long. There is resentment created/builds. Especially among the moms. There's been a few studies on % who return to work...much higher after being allowed to take a clean break for a child's birth.

Don't rush it. It's the 4 glass balls and 1 rubber ball rule. The only one that won't break is the job.
Amazon Workers Ready to Strike
Do you still work in the games industry?
Unfortunately the marketplace has pretty much standardize on 2K being 1440p (see links below)

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=2K+monitor

https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=2k+monitor&sprefix=2k+mo%2Caps%2C8...

https://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?N=&ca...

https://www.benq.com/en-ca/monitor/gaming/ex2780q.html

https://www.viewsonic.com/us/vg2756-2k-27-1440p-ergonomic-ip...
Indeed, the keyboard switch people have to produce a device that's manufacturable at scale for pennies per unit, and can be fitted in unforgiving environments by the untrained.
Engineers fix Voyager glitch, but find another
> I admire your ambition, but perhaps rein it in a little ?

Yeah, how dare they have ambition.

I bet they haven't even applied for their Ambition Licence or submitted their "permission to try and make something cool" (PTTAMSC) paperwork.

/s
Germany faced its horrible past. Can we do the same? (2021)
So how does this jive with the EU's USB-C mandate that takes effect in 2024? USB4 will be out before then.

It seems like USB4 can work in USB-C plugs, so I suspect it will meet the law's mandate but I'm not sure. Something compliance teams will have to figure out before they can consider using USB4. Shouldn't be too much of a problem for large companies with these teams.
> they can't hit an enemy ship that is five feet in front of them because the player ship is not exactly at the same elevation as the enemy ship

And that in a nutshell was everything that was wrong.

How to make Defender in 3D when you can't line up with the ships in three dimensions. For a slower game it would have been less of an issue, but at the pace we wanted it didn't work.
To be at that level you have to be making €300,000 a year, that level of taxation seems fair to me.
> It’s about bringing power back to the sellers.

But let's be honest here. What sellers really want are buyers.

That's why sellers list on Apple, Amazon, Ebay etc. despite the fees.

They are paying for the virtual equivalent of a shop-front in the premium mall. They get the payment handling. They get the anti-fraud technologies. And with Amazon they get the forward and reverse logistics.

Its about SO much more than how open the backend software is.
My heart sank when you mentioned a BLE-enabled pacemaker. Has technology gone too far? /s
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> what can we do ... as individuals

Nothing. An individual is weak.

> what power do we have as a collection of individuals to work

This is the right question to ask!

First of all analyze where does power need to be applied to change this practice. State/Fed lawmakers? Courts? Apple/Google? The data brokers? DoJ/State Attorneys General? The FTC? Police Depts themselves? All of the above?

Next, for each of these analyze what would make them change course. For example, via courts a relevant legal challenge and adequately funded counsel is obviously one element, but in truth Judges pay attention to factors outside the courtroom like public opinion, re-election campaigns (for elected judges). Not only that but in the long term which judges are sitting is something that can be influenced either by elections or the appointer.

Then consider how do we build organizations that get the power to apply that influence. For example funding the EFF, ACLU et al is great for the "a relevant legal challenge and adequately funded counsel" part, but they do a bad job with public opinion and don't even attempt the other parts. So you can seek out or start organizations that do those elements.

Or alternatively imagine you want the US DoJ to step in. Well, ultimately high level DoJ serves the political needs of the current administration, so pressure needs to be applied there. Sadly in the US this is a very difficult angle but it's possible (see: tea party!). For other issues I might suggest joining DSA or something like that, but I don't think that's relevant here. Possibly making a stink within the Democratic party would be effective.

As you can probably see, this fans out to a large number of different organizations with different strategies along the way. You can join and support multiple of them, but it's not really practical to do everything so you have to pick a bit. This is why you need to think through what you believe is a viable strategy and find organizations you think are effective.
What if the 'corrupted' telemetry feed actually contained an alien greeting back to us?
Far better would be a Pebble Bed Reactor, which more or less fits into a couple of shipping containers and provides a building's worth of power and heat for about ten years with a similar level of maintenance as a diesel genny.
I used a laptop made in 2004 that I bought in 2005 as my daily portable driver till 2018 lol. I still have it. It's a Toshiba Portege 3110ct that I added a USB2.0 PCMCIA card to, IDE SSD, and bumped the ram to 192MB. Ran a customized stripped down debian based distribution with a lot of customizing on my part. A USB wifi adapter. Has a 300mhz pentium 2 CPU. Did literally everything I needed on a laptop perfectly fine (ssh sessions, IRC, pandora streaming, light web browsing, note taking etc).

My current laptop is a ~10 year old Dell. Has a 4TB SATA SSD in it, 1TB secondary SATA SSD in the media bay using an adapter. I have two mediabay batteries as well as a BDRW drive I can hotswap whenever. Extended primary battery. 16GB ram, i5-3360 CPU. Express Card slot that I use with several adapters, USB3 ports, onboard gige, WWAN card, Wifi, BT, backlit keyboard..

If you aren't /needing/ the extra grunt of newer chips for gaming, video work, low latency realtime audio work, CAD, etc, or want the absolute best size to battery life possible, then there is no reason to not use an older system.

Oh, it has an NVidia 5200M 1GB discrete GPU as well as the Intel IGP and the NVS has taken a massive overclock without blinking when I do want to game and runs stuff like Minecraft and older AAA and even new independent games at playable frame rates without any issues.

Now, for /work/ I have a newer MS Surface Book that I absolutely adore. The battery life and display and portability are fantastic.

But it is my work laptop. Not personal. I refuse to buy a brand new laptop for home use lol.