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If they skipped the rock splitting contest they would play exactly to your expectations. By showing the actual events you might believe Elrond has a plan or a way to win. I didn't know what would happen. And that made that scene better for me.

The entire story of this show is well known in advance. If you know anything about LOTR you will know who Isildur is and what's going to happen. So should they just skip the entire show?

It's the characters and their interactions, atop the beautiful visuals, that this show can establish itself with.
Seems to me a good comparison between inductive and deductive reasoning.
- with a simple logic puzzle like this, both are fairly comparable
- especially when some adults (me included) start with the wrong assumption, like two can't be in one node, which will slow down the process
Smells like Cane Toads.
I love it! Works fantastic under Brave (nee Chrome). I'll consider adding it to my arsenal. I can think of plenty of intro/outro use cases!
> They also have no communication at all.

Their radios are (or were) unencrypted, and you can listen with the radio scanner apps.
Gold advice. Thank you.
> Wayland is not GNOME, what you describe is not Wayland problem, but GNOME problem.

Which in turn is the biggest problem with wayland. We are fragmenting the ecosystem with every window manager dealing with shared problems in their own custom way, because wayland only takes responsibility for a tiny fraction of the common things that every window manager does.
> Many jobs that don't require a college degree hire college grads because they can get them

Exactly, that's the scam. Requiring a 'Tax' that you pay the college that is nothing but a useless piece of paper, that makes you lose years and enslave you in debt.
Nice blog! Do you have a link to that XFCE mac os theme in the screenshot? Would love to try it out
Columbia is $85k/ year. Do 4 years undergrad plus a 2 year masters and you are past $500k.

I’m sure people get in to that much debt, but it’s going to be rare. The largest number I’ve known of personally is $320k from undergrad, law school, and an MIS.
BART discovered conical instead of cylindrical wheels in 2018[1]. This is dawn-of-railroad technology. You can accuse BART of many things, but competency is not one of them.

[1] https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2018/news20180606

Edit: Clarified what the issue was.
I'm not sure if my note taking system is considered "too extreme", but I think its fairly simple.

I use CherryTree. I screenshot paragraphs, import them into gimp, highlight text, then drop them into CherryTree. After that, I do a vaguely engaging title above the screenshot. I.e. "What is LSASS and what does it do?", and then I finish by trying to reword the text that was highlighted. This basically forces me to read the same information 2 to 3 times, and think about it while trying to reword it. It also helps in making it searchable, should I ever need to Ctrl+F something in the future.

As far as structure goes, I just do: Module -> Topic -> Subtopic. If something feels like it belongs on more than one Subtopic area, I just put it in both. Seems to work fine for my needs.

I'm not really sure what else you could possibly be trying to squeeze out of the thing. Table of contents?
I think OP was talking about frame interpolation aka "soap opera effect", which is both horrible and enabled-by-default on most large TVs nowadays.
I don't know if I agree with the GP, but the existence of the energy is all but irrelevant. You almost might as well quote the amount of power the sun produces from fusion, the amount of wind, the amount of uranium, whatever. For everyone to have a hot shower, you need indoor plumbing, clean water, water heater, etc, all of which implies a standard of living which I think is the point.

While there might be a weak rebuttal about outdoor showers, that would be "begging the question" - the point is that equality in standard of living is not possible (not agreeing or disagreeing, just pointing out that incident solar energy on the earth is irrelevant)
Why does this keep getting reposted?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32859012

In the future, consider emailing @dang about /pool, rather than resorting to submitting dupes. On average, you'll see better traction.

It's actually a pretty cool article!
xrdp is so much more comfortable to use than X forwarding. A PITA to set up though. VNC is a sensible choice too.
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None of these salaries[0] seem obscene, especially given the CoL in the area.

[0]: https://www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/Salary%20Sched...
Video taken down.

Got a lot of attention when it was up.
> Does anyone distrust the government by default anymore?

reddit - at least w.r.t police.
Every major public transit system in the world has employee unions and most of those systems are a lot nicer than BART.

The problem is that the United States is not good at building this sort of transit, and it's going to suck no matter how much money we spend and how much we pay the employees because the systems are not well designed or maintained.
Android makes very little money for Google. It came out in the Oracle lawsuit that Google had only made $27 billion in profit from Android from its inception through the trial.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oracle-google-lawsuit-idU...

Android was already dominant as far as market share. Also Google is non existent in the worlds largest mobile market - China. That’s Apple’s biggest market.

Apple has to be making more from Google on mobile from the money that Google pays Apple to be the default search engine (a reported $18 billion) a year than Google makes from Android.
That's certainly going to make room for more mining operations. Over time, the price will drop as more mining operations come online.
Which ISP, phone company, or electrical utility company works like that? They don't, because we have (hopefully) regulated them. There is a point in which a product stops becoming a choice and starts becoming necessary to function. You could argue that operating systems are one of those things. Lets put some ideas together for regulation in these spheres.
I would say it's unethical as long as the seller doesn't consent to it. But legal. I see it as similar to pirating it, though piracy is illegal as well.

Are the seller's terms unethical? Perhaps. I don't think that justifies being unethical in response, though.

Arguably the PayPal trick is more ethical because they decide it's not worth chasing the cancellation fee.
Done. Thanks for mentioning the paste service cli, had no idea and am definitely going to be using it!
Might be splitting hairs, but I’d characterise them more as client states or even puppet states, rather than colonies. A colony would imply more direct governance.
> Adobe aren't buying Figma to kill it. It's their future.

That's for sure. And I can be sure that Adobe knows they are stuck having driven down a wrong road for some time.

The big question is: can they revamp? Figma is designed from the ground up to be cloud<-> web, while Adobe's big money spinners have a long legacy of all-on-the-desktop. It's very very hard to retrofit the latter into the former. And they have a huge legacy customer base most of whom are unlikely to want to change.

It will be interesting to see how they proceed. Use Figma as an excuse to "eat their own lunch" (instead of, say, porting Lightroom, build from scratch the competitor to Lightroom that someone else could have written?). Or try to retrofit Lightroom?

My suspicion is that if they try the retrofit path they will not make it.
Maybe CorelDraw could be a good replacement for Illustrator.
Disclaimer: I did use CorelDraw but not Illustrator (at least not significantly), so maybe I'm missing something.
This comment baffles me. I don't find anything in the article to be remotely controversial. HALs, testability, and avoiding spaghetti are just straightforwardly good ideas that a significant number of embedded developers don't know about because they haven't read a programming article since they left college.

As an example, have you not seen virtually any embedded project that doesn't do something like this?
Your phone and your car have no reason , absolutely no reason to be connected to one amnother

You can just do a one time log in on all your accounts via the car OS and stay logged in on your phone at the same time.

The rest of the world doesnt have this dependency because they dont communicate via calls and iMessage but via Whatsapp/wechat calls and whatsapp/wechat texts

If anything the high reliance on a tyrannical ecosystem such as Apple underlines the high sensitivity of the public toward corporate cults and the power of advertising over masses. Ridiculing people who have android phones because of the “green text” is a national pastime which has by and large surpassed baseball

which in fairness was already evident in the era of Windows complete dominance over the desktop OS market …but at least the Microsoft ecosystem is free of charge (if you know where to look for it) given that from the early days the philosophy at Redmond is to turn a blind eye on piracy.
I'm inclined to split the difference. He had legitimate criticisms and for the most part his ultimate goals seem beneficial, but at the same time he's self-interested and seems happy to ensure he's the one making the buck in the process.
it is more complicated than the gp makes it seem, but 30 year mortgages are absolutely a creation of policy in the form of federally owned corporations that rebuy mortgages that were written according to a standard policy.

https://www.grarate.com/article/history-30-year-mortgage
Definitely agree. It took several days to figure out the exact environment variables needed to get basic applications working and scaling properly. For example, if you want “click link and open it in default browser” to work in, say, Slack, you need environment variables to get it working.

And since (like you say) basic profiles are not executed on startup, it’s very difficult to fix anything.

I completely disagree with the Sway author’s approach to go batteries excluded for the project. It means that next to nothing works out of the box, and that you either have to put in hours of work to fix undocumented things, or rely on a distro to package everything exactly right. And there really aren’t any distros packaging Sway right now.

Sway would benefit from integrating more of these things out of the box and it should rely much less on end-user configuration and other software to accomplish basic desktop behavior.

One excellent example is that you need a separate Lock Screen app like swaylock to lock your computer. And since you’re in charge of configuring all its settings, it’s difficult to know if you’ve done something insecure.

Otherwise, I really enjoyed using it.
This is the point where people run in to say, "College is MORE than just career prep! It's about producing well-rounded citizens!"

Which is a fine sentiment; the problem is that it makes no sense for people to be going deeply into debt to become well-rounded citizens. If you're gonna end up with tens of thousands of dollars in the hole at the end of an education, at the start of your adult life, then yes, it's reasonable to need that education to reliably produce economic dividends.

Like, just think of all the other things that can help people become more well-rounded or better citizens, like community service, or international travel. Once you have the list in your head, think to yourself: how many of these would you recommend that young adults spend years of full-time labor in, and go into major debt to pursue?
Thanks for the +1 Justine <3 You're my flippin hero
>It should be virtually free to go to college

If you are going to invest into something, it should be good investment that gives returns. An Useless degree clearly do not give enough returns not even to pay for itself.
Bought a mid tier bravia from best buy and loved it at first, but the ui has become so slow and is bombarded with ads. Also cannot disable featured ads and app suggestions/channels from Sony. I hate it.
Taxpayers do not subsidize most mortgages in the US (with the exception of Ginnie Mae programs). Having a guarantee against default and fixed interest rates are two different things.

Government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac guarantee conforming mortgages that they securitize against default. They might ultimately be backed by the US Treasury and thus US taxpayers (if not in theory, then in practice).

However, when inflation is high, the burden on the borrower of paying off their fixed-rate mortgage goes down (as their income increases faster over time). Therefore, the borrowers are less likely to default during high inflation. Thus, having the GSEs guarantee these mortgages is not a subsidy that protects middle class borrowers from inflation. High inflation essentially eliminates the need for the guarantee by itself.
The mbtiles have a different tag schema than the pbf (and they add layers and zooms). If/Once there is a widely used data conversion, there will probably be some centralized service providing it. But that doesn't solve your problem if you want a different schema.
What are your overrides? Thanks!
If war comes in Taiwan, everyone is screwed. Google depends on servers and components made in Taiwan. Amazon and Microsoft also depend on servers.
Can you point me to an example of a $500k USD degree on French poetry in the 17th century? Or anything similar?
Bart station attendants make over 3x the median rider. They do nothing but sit in the booth. They don't sell tickets or monitor fare evasion, and they are infamously unhelpful at answering questions.
I'm surprised this top comment has basically nothing backing it up. There are plenty of people with degrees in things like Geology, Psychology, Biology, and Architecture (all 'STEM') with a ton of loans. These degrees tend not to be that lucrative without further higher education.
Pennsylvania does this in 3rd, 5th, and 8th grades.

Taking standardized tests in my youth was always a nice break - massively easier than the actual schoolwork I was doing.
The first part of your argument is true, but the 2nd hyperbolic one is factually false and detracts from the first.

Consider phrasing it differently.
> You get the benefits in exact proportion to how much you invest in it.

So if you started off poor, you have nothing to invest and you will be poor forever. Nice.

Are you even arguing in good faith? Do you think this encourages hard work?

You know what you are encouraging? Crime. Or a revolt.

Because thats what people do when they realise that playing fair won't let them get ahead.
This is modern marketing. Provide information "for free" to make it seem as if it's in the best interest of those reading, but the reality is you're building a case for your product or service. All of this content is useful but the goal of the post was to show that it's much easier to just pay ZenRows to do this for you. Not bad.
>The deception is the government guaranteeing these loans and then the students defaulting on them, which results in the taxpayers paying

Who got deceived here? If you were told that the government would be guaranteeing loans, then it follows that they're potentially on the hook if the loan goes bad. That's not something that's hidden, it's literally part of the definition of what guaranteeing loans mean.

>Furthermore, the colleges continuously raise prices because they know they will get the money, regardless, if the student defaults.

That sounds more like unintended consequences than deception.
the overwhelming majority of leaders are careerists. If anything the one thing they have in common is that they tend to have the ability to progress through institutional positions quickly and tend to have uninterrupted biographies. If anything they're the opposite of bold risk takers, they tend to be methodical climbers.

That's why the overwhelming majority of representatives, both in the business sector as well as governments is lawyers, public servants, academics, engineers, long time party members, and so on. And of course inheritance is the other big factor. The most common form of business is the private family business.

Even in democratic politics inheritance is arguably one of the biggest factors. The Trudeaus and Bush's are your stereotypical leaders
If they depend on direct hardware access, there are other operating systems that can do that. And if they can do multi-tasking, they can switch to pretty much any other operating system.

But in this case I bet it's a combination of them not actually having any option other than to comply with the requirements of some old piece of software that is outside of their control. If they were to demand that all software used in those systems were delivered with sources and compilers, they could at least maintain it and port to newer operating systems and hardware. But they don't.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaacbarnes

What have they / he done other than get awarded the contract?

No offense intended, I welcome any contenders to the Gov Ring! It sure beats Safra Katz / Oracle / Amazon / Google being whiney little bitches about not winningg the Pentagon-Pork JEDI contract.

The existing players are all Pathetic. Their clouds are crap, rife with outrages and cost cuts.
> Safety comes at a hefty price, however, as the tower’s tuned mass damper cost $4 million to build.

A paltry 4 million for a project which cost almost 2 billion (USD); and I imagine it resulted in some measurable reductions in insurance cost.

But I wonder, what happens if the entire land that it stands on shifts and is no longer level? That pendulum won't help right a tilted building, and in fact it will move the center of gravity of the building much higher, putting more stress on the structure (when the entire structure is leaning).
"Nothing is free" is an aphorism. Read the comment again: the direct cost of attending university in most developed countries is close to $0. In other words: it's free for the attending individuals, because the country understands that investing in education is in its own self interest.

Whatever your particular country's failures are might be unfortunate, but they don't counteract the track record of success here. It might be worth considering whether both of our countries would do well to change, rather than presuming that your country's failure will also be mine's.
It's almost like the people in charge aren't really affected by it, and therefore don't really want to put any focus and effort (money, time, attention) in to making it a bit more reliable and attractive.
The book of Spitznagel, even if it's about investing, is a great introduction. If you're aiming for something more broad, the Incerto series by Taleb has much more than you need but it sets the right context about risks and philosophiccal thought (remember Hayek above all was a philosopher). Then I would jump to his books. This may not be the perfect approach but it worked for me.
Reports are that the 6800XT runs ROCm pretty good now. I don't got the hardware, but it seems like it took AMD a few years to get things sorted over to RDNA / RDNA2.
You can't "go into psychology" really with just a bachelor's.
The original question was - is the money in corporate warchests being used productively or is it lost to the economy.

Noone has demobstrated it is beong used productively. O am illustrating that some investments are terrible for the economy.
> 14.5W when on and 14.0W when in "power savings mode"

A software upgrade that saves 3% across hundreds of thousands of people doesn’t seem that pointless in the aggregate.
Powerful Typhoon Thrashes Japan, with Millions Told to Evacuate
Last time I looked average student loan debt was around 30k. Not 500k. Yet we still hear all the time about how that is crippling. So much so that we need the taxpayer to come in and pay off all these loans for college graduates. So even at 30k it sounds like these degrees are not even adequate to pay off those loans.

I wish we'd normalize furthering your education later in life after establishing a career and having more funds to do so. It should be less about advancing your career and more about improving and expanding oneself anytime in adulthood.
A classic film? The little mermaid is not a classic film. It's a kids story.

Anyone debating the skin colour of a character in a kids film has mental problems
You need a mutex to actually use condition variables. So, even if Rust's Condvar were just as bulky and complicated as the POSIX one offered by glibc, you saved on the associated mutex.

However from a quick glance Rust's Condvar is much smaller than pthread_cond_t

Condition variables per se don't seem that difficult. Mara did the Linux and Windows condition variables, both are pretty elegant. As with a graceful swan, there is lots happening out of sight (in the futex code Rust needs to cope with the fact that when people do futexes for $notLinux including OpenBSD and Fuchsia they inevitably put a spin on the idea, adding something they thought was cool or ignoring a hard problem they didn't fancy solving) but the general idea is very simple.

In contrast the glibc implementation is fiendishly complicated, but that's not because of POSIX, it's because they decided to do something fiendishly complicated, it hardly seems fair to demand that everybody who didn't need that complexity should respect how difficult it was anyway.

Example, glibc promises if six threads A, B, C, D, E, F wait on a condition variable in order and then it is signalled exactly four times, threads A, B, C and D are definitely woken and E, and F are definitely not woken. That's potentially useful for some purposes, but it's expensive, what if I don't care about this? Too bad, the price is baked in even though POSIX says nothing about this feature.

Rust doesn't care, so, if A, B, C, D, E, F wait on the CondVar and then it gets signalled exactly four times, well, four threads wake, but it could be any four. If A always waits again, signalling four times could just wake A four times, and each time it goes back to sleep. That seems useless, but if you wrote A, that's on you.
> I was hoping that DEI would be more about inclusivity toward majors and not merely about one’s genealogical expressivity.

Just like nearly any corporate initiative, DEI is about what corporations can do to appease their critics, and right now that largely means gender and ethnic background.

Other forms of diversity, based on career path, religion, ideology, or even nationality, are not considered priorities.
Been away from linux GUI systems for some time but isn't that resolved now with ozone in chromium which brings wayland support. I remember using electron beta with ozone and building vscode with it for proper wayland support. It worked quite well then.
I wonder how hard it is to just sell a GPU and say it's CUDA compatible. Google built their own toolchain over PTX, AMD could do the same, and have CUDA compatibility if they wanted. I think the difference here just might be that Google's still buying A100s, while AMD wouldn't be.

HIP/ROCm support should absolutely be better supported on all AMD hardware for more adoption, instead it seems to barely register like OpenACC or Vulkan compute. Intel might have better luck with OpenAPI.
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There is gold in specializing in 40+ year old technology and programming environments for some lucky consultants.
Adobe has been slowly moving to the cloud. Almost imperceptibly. A version of Photoshop lives in the browser. Same for Express. I just think they realize Figma is light years ahead and they want to shorten the gap with an app that fills 80% of their collaborative needs. Then they sprinkle in their font and other technologies they’re good at.

Me? I hate browser apps. But that’s just me.
I do appreciate this stuff and actually enjoyed doing it as a teenager. But reading this made me realize why a macbook pro is so very worth the money.