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Work: Dell XPS 15

Home: Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro (the AMD one). Got it on sale last year at Costco. Runs Pop_OS! and it's not bad for a cheap ass laptop.
"Ex-Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson claimed he had computer science and accounting degrees from Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts. In fact, he only had the accounting degree."
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/5-big-shots-who-lied-on-th...
Home: A 13-inch Asus Zenbook from 2014 (UX32LN) now running Ubuntu (MATE) 22.04. It's still good!

Work: A recent 13-inch Dell XPS that shipped with Ubuntu 22.04. It's also great, but the function key row has been replaced with touch buttons which is not good at all (including the escape and delete keys).

Work, previously: A 13-inch Dell Latitude from 2017. I originally ran 16.04 on it, then 18.04 until the above replaced it. Worked very well. Had every port you can wish for, including ethernet. Eventually the battery swelled and the keyboard stopped working.
To be fair to who you're replying to, this did basically start with "new version -> production"

Not much room left for integration/development and so on

I pick these things up early in lower environments, as I suppose you do, so that the real production upgrade isn't scary... and we don't fall behind

Waiting forever for the community to QA doesn't work, you probably aren't running exactly what they are
>This is the only logical explanation for a lot of Apple’s decisions lately.

I dont think it is "simply" about simplification either. It is just very Tim Cook's way of operation. Cost cutting.

By unifying these platform, you reduce the cost of development. iPad, iPhone, and in the future, Mac, aren't all that different.

And reducing cost of development is something Tim Cook loves. It would have been much much better to leave iOS, iPadOS and macOS as three thing. Like in Steve's era. It would be more expensive, sure but it will be better.
Considering the "content" that seems to be on there, everything seems to work just fine and as expected.
Unix time is UTC-based, in that the leap second corrections applied to UTC are also simultaneously applied to Unix time (as people tend to use it).
Its dirty core could be hidden behind some pastel colored buttons perhaps
I've had a great experience with a Xps 13 and currently 15. I'm not even sure what the alternatives are if you want a high end Ubuntu machine?
Conflict free replication with CRDTs and RxDB
Some good points. Lets see what we can do here:

> The problem isn’t that you can’t trust people.

Good. It's always best to have an optimistic view of our fellows,
that's how we build good social structures.

> The problem is that people are defenceless in the face of
malicious hackers

So. Make then not defenceless. We arm them. With education and other
tools they need to defend themselves. Digital Self Defence (Or Digital
Literacy 2.0 if you want a fluffier title) is the project I am
committed to. Defensive tools belong in the hands of users.

> with vastly more expertise

We can balance the theatre twofold, by giving people more defensive
capability, knowledge and rights, and by attacking the knowledge base
and knowledge value of malicious actors. We must recognise that many
of our own institutions play part of the problem, from vendor malware,
and backdoors to security disinformation. Cyber-law needs radical
reform to give end-user better security rights, and "surveillance
capitalism" needs dragging to the dock.

> zero day vulnerabilities.

Starting maybe with an all out assault on "zero days", including the
companies, agencies and re-sellers of them, using the law.

> It’s that you can’t trust them to defend themselves from being
mugged.

Part of ones job then, is to enable them to defend themselves. You
cannot follow your children around for the rest of their lives in case
bullies pick on them. You need to teach them fighting skills so they
won't be doormats. That's the reality of the digital workplace today.
Also, don't give your kids gold Rolex Oyster watches and diamond rings
to mooch around scuzzy neighbourhoods with. Limit assets, practice
compartmentalisation. Half an ounce of sensible opsec is worth a ton
of authoritarian technical non-solutions.

> The removal of freedom is not the goal so much as a side effect.

The removal of freedom is NEVER an acceptable "side effect" of any
security action. Security and freedom are not diamtrics. Otherwise
"the terrorists win" and one may as well join the ranks of malicious
principles and directly attack our own people (which is the stance
many US agencies have taken since 2001 toward baby and bath-water
alike)

> real world ... borders armies police

But this isn't the real world. Its a digital one which is different.
The old military model of perimeters and weapons isn't working and
smart people in cybersecurity know that. The collateral damage of that
broken model is our digital economy and liberal democracy itself
(which are intimately linked in the American/Western mind if you
believe one jot in things like startups and entrepreneurialism).

We'll simply have to do better than handing over the responsibilities
of our elected guardians to unelected companies considered by some [1]
to be criminally motivated. We still have laws, schools and hopefully
enough common sense to avoid that.

EDIT: subtracted fulmination.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation
The existence of cloud->butt is kind of humorous. "Look, this thing is overhyped by people who don't understand it. What if we :s/cloud/butt/g, but like in an addon?" Yeah, I get it. Very clever.

I don't understand actually using it though. I mean, I sort of get it. Perhaps, deep down, everyone is easy to amuse; it's just a question of what domain are they easily amused by. But do you really want to give yourself programmatic word aphasia?

Doing it a second time, years later, feels more strange. Like watching a child who copies a joke made by an adult without understanding the structure or semantics of the joke, I find myself nervously smiling at the presentation before me.

And then you come along, "AWS employees ... extension installed ... wrecked havoc ...". Yes, that seems like a predictable result. Thank you for your anecdote, I kind of expected that to be the case and it at least feels good to hear that my understanding of the world matches someone's experience.
The independent theaters I go to monitor phone usage, talking, and sounds.
I think what you're pointing out is the point of the "test scores don't matter" argument actually.
Cold sores give you Alzheimer's.

Maybe.
I have just filled a job application with 33 inputs which 17 of these were textareas.
aint nobody got time for that..
The problem with that approach is that malware can bring its own signed driver to load and exploit.

Microsoft would need to blacklist the known vulnerable drivers to solve this problem, but then devices will stop working.
> seconds have not been defined as "a convenient fraction of the time it takes a particular large rock to complete a full rotation around its own axis" for quite some time

That is true.

> origin is set to an abstract event in the past

That is also true.

> which is not (as far as I know) subject to retroactive revision as a consequence of the vagarities of planetary or celestial motion

I'm afraid you are wrong on that. The unix time is synced with UTC. UTC has so called "leap seconds" scheduled at irregular intervals by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service to keep it in sync with the Earth's actual movements. So in effect the unix timestamp is wrangled to sync with the Earth's motion.

> if it is, I would be fascinated to know more

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#UTC_basis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
Depending on which products get flagged as a core platform service by the European Commission, the digital markets act (DMA) may already be hitting them.

It only affects EU users though.
I would put it like “changing languages has a huge cost, and most feature-differences between modern managed languages are superficial at best and don’t provide a huge productivity/correctness benefit, while changing to them often wipes clear a huge library ecosystem and the hiring pool”
Yeah I just moved to a Mac a few months ago. Hard to know what any company thinks at any moment or etc, but I'm enjoying it.
Yeesh. I thought the whole point was to make this easier? How am I supposed to take a photo of my phone screen?
My favorite bug was taking out all the loans you could right away (I think it was $30,000,000). Then as you became more in debt (as interest accrued) eventually an overflow error (I assume) would occur and then magically you'd have roughly $30 million in funds to build with.
Amazon and UPS know the output because it's an easily measurable menial task.

You won't be able to do that for knowledge work, and you'll end up using proxies like butt-in-chair time or jira-tickets-closed which are easy to game and push away the actually competent workers that have outside options.

Just do your job as a manager.
Ooh okay okay try me.

I had a 30 on my ACT my sophomore year then dropped out of high school my junior year. I was getting F’s my junior year because I couldn’t stay awake and had maybe like a 2.3 GPA before that. Would have reduced drastically if I’d stayed in school.

It was only that high because some teachers were always super annoyed with me, and a lot of them would try to bend the system to give me a better grade but some just were like “homework is the grade sorry” even though I’d ace tests. Also my stepdad was doing meth so that caused issues.

So am I an actual rarity?
Should I also breathalyse my girlfriend if she gets drunk and horny?

She tells me off if I suggest going to bed to have sex because it kills the mood. So what? Am I to give up sex because our views on consent don't match up with your views?

Have you ever actually been in a relationship? Or do you just have an aversion to sponteniety?
It's for labor savings, not aesthetics.
That's pretty neat. Like a will to specify who gets your stuff after you die, but for a company/customer relationship instead.
> it’s not like 9192631770 transitions/hz ... is some obvious, natural value

No, but it is a phone number in the Raleigh area.
You need to set up a working HTTPS certificate, if you want to estabilish any sort of trust or credibility.
I think it's as simple as this: At cheaper places everything is cheaper
> I see zero discussion of test scores and people with learning disabilities. Those who cannot be properly accommodated will be unfairly represented…

I have long wondered how these interact / can support people who are a couple of sigma out from what we have decided is the “norm”. I can see how additional test time can help someone with anxiety or distraction issues, which can help someone with other strengths shine.

But how can this work outside the academy? A trial lawyer has only so much time to work on the case before it goes to trial or before some response to a filing is required. An engineer building a rocket still has to get something designed before assembly. Arent such time accommodations are hard to implement in the “real world”?

There are nice counter examples to my question. For example dyslexic people struggle with all sorts of cases, yet technology can help many of them (e.g. new kinds of fonts), and not just current students but people already in the work force.

I can also see the school accommodation helping someone who is separately working on their anxiety issues — though mental health cost support is quite poor, at least in the US.

But at their root: do these accommodations help or do they provide an unrealistic hope to the student?

NB: I want everyone to have a fair shake, and am a fan of ADA accommodation and affirmative action and related diversity efforts. I ask this question within that context.
> getting ring0 by installing a terribly designed and dubious kernel driver

Given that most drivers are software written by hardware companies and, as soon as the device is sold, are just a liability, is this really going to be a huge barrier? How often do drivers get updated, say 1 or 2 years post release?

Same thing as many non-subscription wireless routers.
Pretty nice for a DIY project, but it turns out that the first guy in the article uses an Alpha e-tec boiler, for which the manufacturer also sells a "weather compensation probe" to adjust the heat output according to outside temperature.
It's just under £45.
Pidgin still has a huge load of libpurple plugins for different services.
Out of curiosity, what's the legality of using a brand name in a domain? Does Dell have any standing (copyright?) or is this covered (in the US, anyway) under existing free speech laws?
If he did lie about your performance, and if there were not documented examples of your performance to back up every single thing he said, that would also be grounds for an easy lawsuit. Tortious interference with employment. That's why most companies ask (beg) executives not to give any type of employment reference. They have a department or outside company who handles that by giving factual information only. Employed, yes or no, and dates. That's it. Even if you think you are giving a positive or "balanced" reference, something you say could spook the potential employer, and you could be sued for it.
I use an Asus Vivobook Pro 16x. It's got a big, beautiful OLED screen, decent keyboard and trackpad, and runs fast enough for most things I do on it. It was also 1/3rd of the cost of the Macbook Pro I had to return.

(Unfortunately, Macbooks cause severe eyestrain for me, for some unknown reason.)

This laptop works quite well for my purposes; and I agree with the sentiment from a few other people, that it's almost a relief to not have a "perfect" laptop. It just works -- good enough.

I have an external bluetooth speaker when I want good sound. I have a good webcam, if I want to look professional on video. If I buy a new laptop, these will go with it. Not everything has to be built in, it turns out.

I also have an overpowered desktop, when I need to do serious video editing.

I'm on Windows -- I just don't have the time to fiddle with Linux. Though, I do that sometimes anyways, it tends to be a time sink.
> What would the ε character tell me?

Smaller than μ. Still strictly positive but as small as you want. Nothing possibly smaller.
Apple Learning Coach now open to more teachers across the US
> you have no right to care

An employee lying on their W-4 about having multiple jobs can create a lot of legal and bureaucratic overhead.
Hardly a ridiculous law. It would be ridiculous if you could evade the law by making trivial changes to chemical composition, which is what was happening before the law was amended.
There wasn't broad levels of hate?

Da fuq?

People were being called plague rats, scum, degenerates, etc. At societal, national, international, levels, unvaccinated people were 'other'ed to an extremely disturbing degree - fired from work, separated from loved ones, locked indoors, bashed on national media at all levels.

People were talking, and still talk of denying them medical treatment, ending the Geneva convention, altering the Declaration of Human Rights, etc, to force people into taking "perfectly safe and 100% effective" vaccines. Which weren't that at all.

Anyone who spoke out for them was the target of immediate white-hot anger. Don't know where you live to have missed all this, but claiming there wasn't broad levels of hate is just gaslighting, and I don't like it.
Is this just an Escrow Live rebrand?
“How shall we delight our users today?”
“Through force?”
“Tell me more?”
“We force them to do something they don’t want to do!”

“Brilliant! Everyone loves to be forced to do things they don’t want to do. We shall do That!”
Would be worth sticking around since you don't need to keep the dead weight afloat any longer.
The point isn't to break causality or to make you doubt your own agency.

However, this also isn't just taking out the middle step. If it were, the advance of the slider would feel like it happened instantaneously as soon as we are aware of making the choice consciously. This is showing that our conscious awareness of making a choice lags the choice actually being made at a level we are not conscious of.
We're talking references here, so this gets very sticky. They're not just wondering "were you employed at X from dates Y to Z", they want to get that person's opinion on what kind of employee you are, then make a judgement call on whether that's the kind of employee they want to hire.

If you move a judgement call of that kind to after the offer stage, then the offer letter becomes a lot less meaningful.
But he didn't insult crop farmers, he placed the word in quotes.

A "farmer" (note the double quotes) is a gaming/internet culture term that denotes someone who does repetitive, boring tasks in order to accumulate some kind of value.

I'm pretty certain that intelligent people who comment here are aware of it, but are using mental gymnastics in order to justify the insults they'll direct towards the author of microwebsockets.

Is that not hypocrisy in its finest form?
> Apple changed their strategy to become a services company that values recurring revenue rather than one reliant on continuing product innovation.

Apple's hardware revenue, both in general and in specific categories such as iPhone, Mac, and iPad, is higher now than ever before. Plus now they have Watch, AirPods, etc.

Apple is pursuing "services" revenue simply because it can. It's a supplement for hardware revenue, not a replacement. It's easy money, because customers are locked in. The margins on "services" revenue are practically obscene.
I enjoyed reading this analysis, even if it is quite specific to a single situation. I agree with the writer's larger point that you need to do this kind of analysis for your workload, in your conditions, to draw the right conclusions.

> This does lead to a caveat with analysis, however: larger Lambda’s may actual process more quickly than ones that are more right sized, potentially leading to cheaper outcomes.

This is an important thing to include for compute-bound tasks (which is a suprisingly large number of tasks, at least up to some limit). There are some nice third party projects (like Lambda Power Tuning[2]) that can help find the sweet spot on price versus performance (with their own caveats, of course).

> Consider using Lambda without API Gateway

Yes! API Gateway can add a lot of value when you need it, but if you don't need it there's no reason to carry the cost. Other options are to use the SDK (as the article says), Lambda Function URLs[1], or Lambda with ALB.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-aws-lambda-funct...
[2] https://github.com/alexcasalboni/aws-lambda-power-tuning
many versions of iOS ago - if you deleted the autocorrect word, it suggested above the keys the original word it replaced, which made it very easy to get back to where you originally were.

they then removed this a few years ago.

utterly baffling how over-engineered and regressive it has become
I thought so too. Here's a picture comparison (first image, my article):

https://www.talospace.com/2022/05/mini-review-clockwork-pi-d...
There is a great difference between "true" Dell Precision series (e.g. the 7000 series) and those Dell Precision which are just rebranded Dell XPS and which are marketed as thin and light laptops.

The Dell Precision 7xxx have excellent heat management. I have a 6-year old Dell Precision 7510 mobile workstation, in which the CPU can dissipate in the steady state 60 W for hours (even if its nominal TDP is only 45 W), while the NVIDIA Quadro GPU also dissipates around 100 W at the same time, and this without overheating and without excessive noise.

Obviously, this is a rather thick and heavy laptop, not an ultrabook.
You should look for old rear projection TVs. The screen in these have a fresnal lens the size of the viewable area.
Based on your comment, I opened up the Lenovo website and tried to look at options/prices. I spent about 15 minutes in earnest just trying to use the selection filters (they keep unchecking themselves and freezing the screen) before the results failed to load then froze the screen. After several minutes, I gave up and came back here.

This is not the first time I've had this experience with Lenovo.

I have never bought a Mac before, but my next computer purchase will be one unless Framework fixes their battery issues first.
I feel like there's a control plane/data plane metaphor in there but I'm not familiar enough in either domain to pick it out.
Everything said here about dell is true of every windows laptop I’ve ever owned.
You are correct, but it won't be the last change we see with regards to ads, if this one sticks you'll see another grab 6-18 months from now. Right now they are bumping the temp up just one degree to get that frog to a nice simmer.
ThinkPad T480 with 32GB RAM and dual 512GB SSDs running NixOS.
"High tension line towers", or...hmm, I guess I don't know what the common usage would be in the U. S., southern or otherwise. And we live a block from a local Redmond, WA trail that follows the line of...high tension towers for miles in either direction.

But between my spouse and me, if we need to refer to them, we just call them "towers". "Pylons" are short little things, such as traffic cones (to borrow an example from another commenter).
Sounds like you waste a lot of time on Reddit. Might I recommend deleting your account and taking a break?
Get OpenRCT2.
I guess it depends how interesting your company is. If you have a great company, than maybe you can afford to filter out based on cover letter. I would suspect most employers don't actually read the cover letter and have it simply as a formality. It is simply another time sink for job applicants: scan the website, try to find out what this company does, insert a few custom sentences into your cover letter template about you are exited to work on the {insert specific tech} here. I don't buy that it signals much of anything, but I could be wrong.
It definitively is true of local universities. I've met people from the local university who have a master in machine learning, yet have never heard of docker.
You can also edit text files using notepad. Does that mean there is a cult around the useless vi?
My brother wants to learn programming.

I am mulling this over, but I think I will recommend python and django. He can learn to old school web apps, focused on serving http from the server. Then he can move into more interactive stuff with javascript.

If there was a library/framework similar in scope to Django/Rails with a lot of documentation I would recommend that one. Even though Javascript seems like a good language that you can achieve a lot of with, lack of one big framework makes it hard for new programmers to learn the ropes.

I am curious about opinions of others. My brother did program a bit in python, creating a text game that gave him a lot of interest in programming, but other than that has very limited knowledge.
It was the arbitrariness of academic work that got to me. Real world work tends to be clearly directed at a goal, and if you acheive the goal it doesn't tend to matter much how you did it. Academic assessments (poorly designed ones, which happens to be most of them in my experience) expect you to do things exactly in a prescribed manner. Essentially 50% of what you're doing isn't actually useful learning, it's domain-specific learning where the domain is "what my professor happens to care about".
this , and the worst thing seems that there are no humans to appeal to , only automated reply
Attending university is one of the biggest regrets of my life. I'd rather find a different job than have to have any contact with that scam world again.