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> Local legend has it that 100 percent of the people who have fallen into the Bolton Strid have died.

Official statics, anyone?
It always warms my heart that The Strid is internet famous. My memory is walking by it and my grandad, not one for hyperbole, telling us how dangerous it was. Miss you gramps!
Cool concept. I use the integrated timer in ClickUp to achieve something similar. Starting the timer acts like a mini psychological commitment that prevents me from diverting my attention until the task is done.

It could be worth considering how your concept could be integrated with existing task management tools, as task management is notoriously personal and everyone seems to already have a favourite software tool for doing it.
> God forbid you try to change the audio device from speakers to headphones in the middle of a call.

I've been using it for a couple of years, and I have never had this issue. I can switch between my built-in soundcard and my USB headset without any problems. On Windows FWIW.
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Sadness or anger. A lot of people don't understand what they are missing so they aren't sad, but they are angry a lot because they aren't getting along with people and they aren't happy with what they have in their life.
If you liked his review of Spirited Away, you will also like his review of Metropolis. I liked that he enjoyed movies from all genres as long as they accomplished what they set out to do.

> The movie is so visually rich I want to see it again to look in the corners and appreciate the details. Like all the best Japanese anime, it pays attention to little things. There is a scene where an old man consults a book of occult lore. He opens it and starts to read. A page flips over. He flips it back in place. Considering that every action in an animated film requires thousands of drawings, a moment like the page flip might seem unnecessary, but all through the movie we get little touches like that.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/metropolis-2002
Minecraft worlds inspired by Frozen Planet II
Ha, (USA - MS here), my mom lives 17 miles(27 km) away and I visit her regularly, and prior to my current job, I commuted 44 miles (70 km) daily for 3 years.
"becoming prime minister"

He was President.
i have a similar situation, used to game a lot of friends, lots of us have kids now, would like to game 3-4 times a year. Dont want to bother getting a full on game setup, and I have a macbook for daily use, so not very gaming friendly. Decent streaming setup would be perfect.
Maybe Saturn is edible. I think the only significant component of the the mantle that isn't a gas at STP is water ice, though maybe it would have enough ammonia dissolved in it to be unappealing.
General purpose computing (and particularly Free Software) is about empowering users, not developers.

Empowering users is also making it easy to install what they want or need to install, not just what a distribution decides to offer. To give an example, many people need Slack for work, but distributions don't offer it, because it is non-free.

This quickly becomes important when interests misalign, for example when developers want to push incompatible update to users and stop supporting previous version,

Why should a distributor decide what my interests are?

Also, this argument is kind of strange, if a developer is pushing an incompatible update or stops supporting a previous version, will the distribution continue to maintain the application? Not really. Usually, it just means that the application is frozen in time and you can only hope that security updates are applied. If the application happens to be (e.g.) in Ubuntu Universe, you are usually out of luck and you just get to keep a bunch of applications with known vulnerabilities.
* The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo

* East of Eden - John Steinbeck

* How to Avoid a Climate Disaster - Bill Gates
Yes. This protects your data against a malicious app. Your proposal gives a malicious app a workaround to avoid this.

Is there a reason you don’t want this on by default?
> So why doesn't it?

Because microsoft saw competitors that look scary and so decided they needed an all new project released in a hurry. If they have been willing to spend a few years before release they could have a good product, but instead they rushed things to production.

Lync (later skype for business) worked pretty good, but lacks a lot of features (others have mentioned various chat things before then). If they had invested in that all along they probably could have made a stable teams, but the temptation is to call something done and milk profits out of it until you are behind someone more innovated.
> Promoting openness was anathema to their Product people "Why would you want people to see what you say? Privacy is the default". I got the impression MS internally is not a safe space to speak, and Teams has that same cultural baggage.

This is really weird to me too and makes collaborating within an org difficult. One of the big advantages of teams should be that we’re all in the same org and get paid and background checked. So there’s a base level of identity.

I can’t tag someone unless they are in a team. So yesterday I was in a thread in an R user group and couldn’t tag someone not in the group even though they had a relevant project. This was stupid.

So I would have to ask him to join the team just to talk on this one thread. And that didn’t happen so the thread was worse off.

That and the notifications are horrible and I have so many from the 30 teams I’m in (partly because of the above problem) I just ignore them.

If someone IMs me, I don’t know it unless I manually go to the pain that shows notifications that is usually behind other meetings.

I suspect no one at Microsoft uses Teams realistically. So it’s just full of met requirements on paper and not in reality.
Fair enough, although being content and discriminated is not mutually exclusive. In fact, even if you are satisfied with your numbers you can sympathize with those who are not.
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> And here's something wild: At those energies, there are only three forces of nature, not four.

oh ok

does this field just lack words to convey a shared concept?

I often see these language anomalies only in reference to physics and outer spaaaace. Its like a bad attempt at skeumorphing when different words should have been used from the start.

Like in this article “Did you knooow, this is so interesting, that space-time has cracks!? I know right! at these energy levels electroweak force (appropriately named) merges!”

Why are PhDs communicating like this? How does this article conveyed a shared concept (the point of language) to anyone except a few people that went to the same school? who is this for?
Thanks for the voice of sanity, Drew.
> is that really cheaper than porting a calculator os to a modern CPU?

There was a whole OS and programming environment in there, very closely tied to the CPU architecture. All the calculator's advanced functionality, including graphing, equation editor UI, equation solver, compiler and decompiler, etc., was written in the OS's own stack-based system language. Porting all of that to another CPU family would definitely have been much more work than writing an emulator for the old Saturn CPU. Performance must not have been a problem, thanks to ARM and Moore's law.
Presumably there can be more than one, like real life airport checkpoints? What are you even trying to say?
Maybe with the sky high 4090 pricing it would make more sense for gamers to go to the cloud. But then they'd be expecting 4k high resolution streams on 4090s which might mean high COGS anyway.
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Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government?
Dockets:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65365093/willis-v-meta-...

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65352415/mitchell-v-met...
I'm not sure I share the view that Teams is terrible although I do occasionally have problems but I think it does share a lot of traits with modern software that I will call "spongeware" because it feels spongy.

Back in the day with pure desktop apps, you had crisp quick feedback when you clicked things, a window would open or be dismissed. It was hard to cause serious timing bugs because 1) Most things were written in code compiled to platform sdks and 2) Not much was network based 3) THe app worked more quickly than your clicking

What happens when you add not only network, but app frameworks that feel more like browsers than desktop apps, you click things and it takes a second to spring back, you think you clicked a button but nothing happens so you click it again, maybe the app is sending telemtry back to base or maybe it is needlessly loading a dataset from the network instead of just a local dll. What does it add up to? 1,000,000 unrepeatable bugs based on random timings and lockups, based on people doing things they didn't realise like double-clicking at the same time that anti-virus is scanning the network or your internet provider is having a blip!

There are still apps from the old-school like Notepad++ on Windows which feels solid and which auto-updates really easily instead of dynamically updating when you are trying to work but somehow they are not cool or don't tick the promise of "cross-platform development" which mostly means it's a bit crap on all platforms instead of great on one.
I’ve had lots of small annoying problems with Meet and find that the only people who use it are Googlers.
English isn’t my native language, so I mixed up those two terms.

But that’s what I meant, the UK and US plugs (as well as switzerland I think?) theoretically have one pin always be hot, one always be neutral.

With Schuko, you can reverse the plug, and it'll still work, which is on the one hand awesome when you've got a tight space and want more plugs to fit, but can also require higher costs, as you've always got to switch both wires instead of just switching the hot one (although this is best practices everywhere, as you can never know how well the electrician followed specs when wiring your apartment 90 years ago).
Wait, which models don't envisage a period where everything is hot enough to unify the fundamental forces? If that happened, you need some mechanism to let the universe cool off without producing these kinks...
New iPhones. It's very common to buy secondhand in these markets. The satellite-able ones will need some time to "trickle down" but it's going to happen - especially if it offers this feature.
Colombian president's offer of total peace with gangs creates a new turf war
I should have added this at first but I'm not saying this policy is bad, I'm not even against layoffs in all cases. Sometimes you hire a lot, sometimes you cut, that's business. This policy does seem better than direct layoffs.

I was just commenting on the turn of phrase, not laying people off but 'terminating their positions and making them look for a new job' (which sounds pretty dang near being laid off with garden leave).

The term "layoffs" is obviously toxic, so companies go to lengths to avoid using that particular phrase, even when that's what seems to be happening. I've been at a company while this happened: lots of reductions in headcount over a short period but "we're not doing layoffs."
Meta and Google have "sales" but it's not really the backbone of the business. Sales is largely via automated systems, not personal deals.
I wonder if United will now take down the Boom advertising they have (inexplicably) scattered around various airport terminals.
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> Microtransactions, real money loot-boxes, gambling, NFT marketplace, battlepasses

I feel like I'm out of the loop here. Didn't those come more from mobile gaming and Asian free to play MMOs or Battle Royales? Didn't Valve make the "traditional" buy-once games like Half-Life, Portal, HL-derivatives like Team Fortress/CS?

As for milking its users, Steam (the platform) is an incredible value (for purchases, refunds, reseller ecosystem, etc.) and an awesome utility (community mods, auto updates, reviews, cloud sync, streaming, Proton, multiplayer APIs, etc.). I think the one fair gripe about them is that they take a pretty large cut from developers and force them to use the Steam payment processing, which takes another big cut. But for end users (players) it's a wonderful platform, especially compared to its peers like GOG Galaxy, the EA/Ubi/Microsoft clients, the Epic Game Stores... none of those come close in usability.

Individual titles within the platform might choose to use lootboxes and other crappy monetization schemes, but that's on them, not Steam. There are thousands of games that have better monetization models, and Steam helped revive the dormant indie PC gaming industry and then blew it up a thousandfold... almost none of those games have predatory pricing models.

As for cosmetic skins, what's wrong with that? Who cares how much they charge for those if it doesn't provide a gameplay advantage of any sort, just blinky particles? Compared to any ACTUAL predatory P2W game, I'd so much rather support games that only sell cosmetics.

It seems so unfair to reduce all that Valve has done for the PC gaming to "lootboxes and high priced skins". Without Steam PC gaming would probably have died by now, and with it the most amazing renaissance in indie titles since the shareware days.
Any technology that enables us to do more things tends to be a good thing. But we are suspicious of it because we know it remains to be seen whether the tech will actually be used to improve our lives
It's just a simulation with geometry, physics, detailed textures and ray tracing.
Or, as many people since ancient times have believed, that we live in a universe created ex nihilo by a being capable of doing so…
It's hard to explain why I love it so much. I enjoyed that it wasn't so interested in plot machinery, it was more like the story of her summer. No one's season follows a strict rising action to a climax in the third act/month, but taken as a sum, you get a story about Chihiro learning about friendship, courage, love, and forgiveness. It's kind and gentle in a way that's never cloying or saccharine. I'm thinking specifically of the scene where she gets some rice from Haku and bursts into tears. It's a simple and moving depiction of sadness, homesickness, and fear being chipped away by a small gesture of kindness. But I don't think it's bad at all to have not enjoyed it.
> got the impression that he shares a lot with early Christianity (and also Buddhism)

Schopenhauer revered the Upanishads (foundational Hindu texts), and was one of the first thinkers in the West to share key aspects of Indian philosophy.

He was very critical of Christianity, and was a staunch atheist.

Bryan Magee's 'The Philosophy of Schopenhauer' is an excellent companion to The World as Will and Representation and well worth reading.
no that's just the mandela effect again /s

(but actually thanks for pointing that out, I corrected it)
I've been trying Whisper on my old setup (Mac Pro 2012 running Mojave, with Radeon RX 580), and it's a pretty amazing tool.

Unfortunately my system is not ideal for today's AI tools. Whisper runs only on the CPU, and it's slow.

I know PyTorch recently added Metal support, but only for M-based Macs. Has anyone found a way to make it work with Intel Macs?
The I am your father, Luke - effect.
Hi, author of q here.

Regarding the error you got, q currently does not autodetect headers, so you'd need to add -H as a flag in order to use the "country" column name. You're absolutely correct on failing-fast here - It's a bug which i'll fix.

In general regarding speed - q supports automatic caching of the CSV files (through the "-C readwrite" flag). Once it's activated, it will write the data into another file (with a .qsql extension), and will use it automatically in further queries in order to speed things considerably.

Effectively, the .qsql files are regular sqlite3 files (with some metadata), and q can be used to query them directly (or any regular sqlite3 file), including the ability to seamlessly join between multiple sqlite3 files.

http://harelba.github.io/q/#auto-caching-examples
And just hours later, we're starting to see reports claiming exactly this: "Hidden paragraph of Putin's decree allows to mobilise 1 million Russians".

Granted, that's a Ukrainian news article, but I won't be surprised if the true scope of Putin's claimed "partial" mobilization ends up being far more than they're masking it as.

[1]https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/09/22/7368607/
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This is a problem with how we treat backwards compatibility on mobile operating systems. Imagine if this was an app for Windows. Would you still be scared of updating?

This is why no one ever pays more than a couple bucks for a mobile app. That would be a terrible investment, as the app could break at any time!

Similarly, this is why mobile will never be a good platform for traditional single-player video games.
Yeah that's the "something else". The scientific establishment has garnered quite a bit of credibility, resulting in society giving it more power. But now people who are only interested in the power are seeking to have their ideas perceived as scientific instead of political.
LED streetlights are increasing blue-light pollution in Europe
RPL tokens were addresses of machine code routines (stored in 20 bits)
That sounds more like Baader-Meinhoff. Which I just had to look up earlier this week for the first time in probably a decade. xD

(I’m one of those old heads that still capitalize it btw)
Perhaps the entire universe is like a Game of Life space in which the observable universe has emerged as ongoing complex activity, with patterns of stable and chaotic oscillations forming emergent functional parts, which then interact and join to create more emergent functional assemblies now with more features to interact by, such as mass and gravity. This would explain the apparent expansion of the universe, as the observable universe could still be forming new ”massy assemblies” at its periphery, thus increasing the gravitational pull towards the outer limits of ”our bubble”.
I find Shareapoint versioning pretty terrible in that it versions every change and doesn’t let me do tags or releases. So with office auto save I’ll have 700 versions of a file as people changed one sentence a minute for a few hours.

I actually prefer a network drive over SharePoint because there are fewer lock and sync issues.

Especially compared to Dropbox or Google Drive (or even OneDrive) it’s so hard to use for file sharing.

I literally would prefer mediawiki from the 2000s in terms of ui and support ability.
Right now, access is limited as we continue to build. We are collaborating with a small group of early access users from our community as we develop certain use cases and features. We will be expanding access in the coming months as we expand to new use cases and capabilities.
Brandon Sanderon's Stormlight Archive series!

It's a fantasy series that doesn't shy away from topics such as Mental Health, and all of the characters are extremely well written.
I’ve thought about building a messaging app the doesn’t depend on cell networks, it could be useful for example if you are on a snowboarding trip or mountain biking and need to communicate with a group of friends, but in a place with spotty cell service. I’ve played around with Apples P2P networking framework but it was pretty clunky, this looks like it would be much easier to use.
Really, really creepy to watch. I kept gritting my teeth when he was climbing on the mossy rocks, wondering how easy it would be to join his camera. :(
If you're the one in charge of the budget, paying $12.50/month for each employee does not make sense if you're already paying for an alternative. (Assuming Business is sufficient; Enterprise would be a lot more.)
I'm going to reply in support of your post. To add my voice to your chorus.

I really fucking hate the "Mandela effect". It's a symptom of a much greater problem: people refusing to be wrong.

Now when someone can be shown clear evidence that their memory is in error, they can claim that fucking reality itself has been changed. Apparently the only thing that is rock solid, 100% sure is our own memory. That is sacrosanct. Can't question it. Our own memory is a 100% accurate recording of everything we've ever experienced and cannot be influenced by anything ever.

Except for all of the evidence that shows us the exact opposite.

So how about we all be humble enough to say, "Ah, guess I was wrong" from time to time.
Remote workers are wasting their time proving they’re working
And I think you forgot we're just commenting an article on hacker news, not publishing to a physics journal :) By skipping to the metaphor I'm doing a small inception in your minds, you physicists out there. Now this idea will never leave you :)
Starship E2E (earth 2 earth) will make in-atmo supersonic pointless.
> That screening is entirely voluntary–you have the right to say "no"

The child doesn't, though, and, if you'll excuse my frankness, I think the abortion affects his/her future the most out of all the parties involved.
Yes, Dubai in particular is notorious for this.

https://www.cloudwards.net/whatsapp-ban-in-dubai/
It is certainly a bold claim. But there simply is no security problem to be solved without introducing new dangers through facial recognition and there are better alternatives for any other case.
Teams seems to consistently make me think I’m fat fingering things and I have to go back and type again when I open a new message and start typing. I seems like it’s storing something in a buffer then spewing it async out all at once in the wrong order when it catches up with my input. This happens multiple times a day on a 2017 i7 laptop.

Maybe Teams is an Intel make work program? Have it run slow on all but the most expensive new Intel processors?
>People claiming that it’s even possible that you could believe that is offensive since it implies his most effective years and actions never happened.

I think that is reading into it too much. There are lots of other less offensive implications.

People are often unaware, uncritical, and misinformed. You can think this about a significant number of people while personally agreeing that Mendela had a large impact
Existential Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom

This book originally was for therapists, but later it got very popular and simplified for the common reader. I think it helps better than anything if you want to grow your soft skills. Because it does not have some generic advice on common life scenarios. It dives deep into the root cause of many issues any conscious living being will have. I find the mirror it holds to your face very healing for a lot of issues.
I hope you're not talking about that propaganda piece from Oliver Stone? One time I spoke with a dog. It told me humans are pretty low level for not understanding the importance chasing balls.
I've always regarded Slack as "IRC, but non-geeks will use it as well."

This model is not by any means entirely accurate but it's been an extremely effective heuristic.
> How do you measure “sustainability development goal,” or living
> standards of a person? [...ad nauseam]

Here's a wild idea: perhaps you should figure out the answers to these questions first?
>Starlink iPhones can’t come soon enough

Yeah, authoritarian governments will just allow that to happen, let alone the cost of such a device is out of reach for most of these people.
Or you cross the river Styx [1], depending which mythology you believe.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx
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NASA and Hideo Kojima team up for a Ludens-inspired watch