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Most of the comments are anecdotes about experiences with Dell.

Perhaps more of us can chime in with anecdotes about good experiences we had with certain lines/models of laptops that we can recommend?

My recent experiences have been with Lenovo Legion gaming laptops.

One is a bit over 3 years old, the other is coming up on 2 years. My wife and I use them (almost) daily. They get picked up, moved around, run mostly plugged in but with CPU/GPU getting a solid work out as we play games. Other than needing a good wipedown (and mildly decreased battery life), both are indistinguishable from brand new in how they work after 2-3 years.

I did build 23° riser stands for each out of pine, so we often use them on the stands, with a board under the stand, sitting on our laps. This isn't due to heat, but because it raises the screen closer to eye level, decreasing neck strain, and works reasonably well with our arm/wrist angle, reducing wrist strain. Of course, it does open them up quite a bit underneath, so it no doubt does help with cooling as well.
Worked for a company recently that does test equipment for timing and sync.

I was surprised to see that very few systems other than computer (servers and suchlike) use unix timestamps. So GNSS systems have their own representation of time and the protocols that most network equipment uses is called PTP. Now-a-days most are trying to use the white rabbit protocol.

I was at a conference on this and there are a lot of crazy applications of these timing and sync technologies. The main is in 5G networks but the high frequency trading companies do all of there trading in FPGAs now to reduce time to make a decision so accurate timing is essential. Even the power companies are need high accuracy time to detect surges in powerlines. I spoke to someone from Switzerland who said they had serious security concerns as the timing fibres are poorly secured and open to easy disruption.

It was a very interesting domain to work in even though I only was do the app part of the thing. Didn't pay enough though and I was promised a promotion that never came.
But... what if I wanted to find programming languages without a name...?

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> At the end they were both let go once we discovered the deception (their downfall was neither of them were meeting productivity expectations, not getting their work done)

> After this, we heavily beefed up our pre-employment screening, which is all of what this person is complaining about.

So practices were already in place to detect and correct this.

That makes it quite foolish to distrust all applicants across the board, and make their experience worse, when performance tracking and correction was already a solved problem.
> Also does not help that our free time has been hijacked by the internet and social media so we are almost lobotomized.

I feel this might be the biggest factor. Hobbies were one of major ways to deal with boredom and mundaneness of life. Nowadays, there's endless content online, shows, video games, restaurants, concerts, travel destinations, gadgets that people can consume and basically never feel bored.
Er, you mean secure boot? UEFI is fine IME
Imagine only getting 5 min of battery to power a M1 Mac mini for $500

That Mac Mini must be so so so inefficient

Edit: in OP's case it would need to also power the modem and router but yeah, still. Way more than 5 min
It sounds like you're looking for TAI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time
Well, I can understand the position of long time gimp users, but ultimately you have to move on to better paradigms and years of UX research. If you match it with a legacy mode, things can be a smooth transition.

In that time I used GIMP a lot and was a good moderate level user probably, but the interface kept getting in my way (unlike Photoshop were I was able to reach almost a flow state of doing things at that time)

Eventually I just moved on, but I can’t fully shake the feeling that GIMP could have been so much more. Godot and Blender which others mentioned just have done so much better in that regard. Blender had the suckiest of UX/UI but even in the face of much/some “old timer” resistance they made something that most hail as a success now.
But is this really science? What they did was garden variety P-hacking. IMO that calls into question the entire conclusion, which means don't use it to confirm things heard elsewhere.

Nutritional science is hard. We either do it on animals and get results that may not apply to humans, or we do observational studies that rely heavily on self-reporting and extended timelines, with dubious value as a result. We can't do the same kinds of experiments ethically on humans that we're okay with doing on animals.
It's a good point, after so long why the JVM is not written in Java actually?

For example the Go runtime and I think C# as well are written in their respective language.

https://github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/runtime

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime
On different side it's very cool that atomic clocks are these days small and cheap enough to put on a pcie card https://engineering.fb.com/2021/08/11/open-source/time-appli...
Pixar almost deleted Toy Story 2 (2012)
I think there are a few things going on.

One is that the Internet makes showing off what you do so easy, and adding ads is just a small addition to a website, blog or YouTube channel so monetization is fairly straightforward.

Another Internet related phenomenon is that the availability of training, information and equipment online makes it easier to produce 'professional' quality work than in the past. I homebrew beer as a hobby and fellow hobbyists can make niche brews with obscure ingredients in stainless steel fermenters, with temperature control and even low oxygen processes. A few years ago this would have been very difficult. I think the situation is replicated in other hobbies.

So standards of 'work' achievable in hobbies are higher, partly through information availability. Sharing and monetising your work is easier.

If you're looking to change career then turning a hobby into a job sounds like a great idea. Otherwise it just seems like a way to ruin the pastime.
I think generally people are okay with the idea of sandboxes. It's issues around how sandboxes break existing workflows and make it difficult to customize to your needs, coupled with devs who are unresponsiven (or even hostile) to user needs. Flatpak felt like a nightmare until Flatseal. Now it's still a nightmare, but I don't cry myself to sleep after using it anymore.
>the only real benefit a private tutor could even theoretically have is that he could potentially find a few different ways to explain a concept until the student understood it.

Yes that's one benefit. Also with the focus on one student the tutor can gear lessons to best suit their learning style and current knowledge.

Really anyone who can afford a tutor would benefit from one.
"The people who need it the most are usually the people the Swedish government wants dead," Citation very much needed. Both on the claims that the Swedish government actually want people dead. And that this would need this protection _usually_ are in this category.

There are literally thousands of people that has this protection. 14000 women has this, commonly to protect them against an abusive partner (not the government). This page in Swedish provides more info:
https://jamstalldhetsmyndigheten.se/mans-vald-mot-kvinnor/sk...
Bottom line is: time is quite complicated, and things get messy when you try to overload different usages or engineering constraints. Including but not limited to:

- small, limited, and/or fixed data size

- compatibility across systems

- range of expressable times

- monotonicity (either locally or distributed)

- express absolute datetimes accurately

- express relative offsets accurately

- accurate over very short or very long timescales (or both)

- synchrony to solar noon

- synchrony to sidereal time

- timezones

- relativisitc effects

Pick any, uhhh, well pick as many as you can and try to shoehorn them together and you get your typical time implementation.
>"productivity as a whole is not where it needs to be for the headcount we have."

That happens when you've got people who admit or have admitted to doing two hours of work a day before leaving early.
I can only talk about this for myself. But I think I tend to look at this differently than a lot of people.

'Hobby', to me, means something I do that (a) isn't my main source of income, and (b) is done for primarily because I enjoy it. (I think some people feel that it should involve skill building of some sort, but I don't think that's a requirement.) So not making it a business is sort of definitional to me.

But, things cost money. So I do sometimes make things for other people for payment. But I absolutely will not treat it "like a business" - you are not my customer, you're a peer exploring this stuff with me, and the best way to become an ex-peer is to expect "customer service". Which results in me being very selective about doing so - a lot of people just don't seem to understand that mode of interaction.

I am exploring commercializing something I'm working on. But that is no longer a hobby - writing a business plan and chatting up people for instrumental reasons can be rewarding, but not something I do for fun.
I know a ton of people with hobbies who aren’t trying to make it their work, they’re everywhere. I bet you do too but those people are just not talking about it
> And yet, if you've seen any of these titles in action, there's nearly-unlimited 2D pixel-pushing power on tap.

I've only played Mushihimesama, but I have sort of the opposite impression. I'd be willing to bet a talented team could have pulled it off on the Sega Saturn[0]. Whether you want to think of that as the Saturn being strong or the CV1000 being weak is up to you, but it's probably a little of both.

Fantastic games, though. Must-plays for any shmup fan, unless you just can't stand bullet hell games. I'm glad that Cave has been slowly trickling out their library on Steam for us folks who don't want all the arcade boards, but I wish they'd hurry it up.

[0] Battle Garegga had a near arcade-perfect port: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgcz5GiRTWw
He says the Swedish government ignores GDPR complaints, because they're unconstitutional. I don't understand how that could work though. I mean, unless EU laws are like "You must follow these laws! Unless you don't want to".
Is deep learning focused on calculating the area under curves?
It’s an IQ test. Not a culture fair one, like Raven’s Progressive Matrices, but it’s as much an IQ test as coarse, quick and dirty one like Wonderlic is.

> Scholastic assessment or g? The relationship between the scholastic assessment test and general cognitive ability

> There is little evidence showing the relationship between the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) and g (general intelligence). This research established the relationship between SAT and g, as well as the appropriateness of the SAT as a measure of g, and examined the SAT as a premorbid measure of intelligence. In Study 1, we used the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Measures of g were extracted from the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery and correlated with SAT scores of 917 participants. The resulting correlation was .82 (.86 corrected for nonlinearity). Study 2 investigated the correlation between revised and recentered SAT scores and scores on the Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices among 104 undergraduates. The resulting correlation was .483 (.72 corrected for restricted range). These studies indicate that the SAT is mainly a test of g. We provide equations for converting SAT scores to estimated IQs; such conversion could be useful for estimating premorbid IQ or conducting individual difference research with college students.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0956-7976.200...
I'm soooooo nostalgic of pre-2011/2012 or so Google.

One of the most illustrative things for me is Google Talks back in that day, some of the people invited and subjects would be unthinkable for today's Google.

I wished I could have been a Googler in that period, kind of my dream job if I had any.
somehow I'm in disbelief. as in - why is this news #1?
Freedom of expression is actually relatively limited in Sweden, but freedom of the press is almost absurdly well protected. It's more about ensuring the dynamics between institutions than the liberties of individuals.
There's a horrible bug that makes most (if not all) new Dell computers, including some Dell desktops, unusable with screen reading software for the blind.

They install some audio-related bloatware from Waves which really doesn't like something about the way screen readers use the sound card. This is specifically a Dell issue, I've never seen it on a non-Dell device, and it occurs independently of what screen reader you use. The worst part is that, due to how the Windows 10/11 update mechanism works, this issue occurs even if you install a clean Windows image.

The issue causes the size of unpaged (kernel) memory to increase indefinitely, and when the memory consumption gets to over 90%, weird errors start showing up, sometimes the system hangs, sometimes it blue screens, sometimes it behaves as if a USB device was constantly being plugged and then quickly unplugged and so on. One way or another, the device becomes unusable. When trying to determine the source of the memory leak with poolmon, it's attributed to the Windows event logging system, out of all things.

There are workarounds, but they're less than ideal, one requires admin privileges and doesn't work on some models, the other disables the ability to handle headphone-port events, so, when you unplug your headphones, the audio doesn't switch back to the internal speaker.

I've personally started seeing this issue on my laptop around the middle of 2020, but other users report seeing it as early as 2019. It has been reported to Dell multiple times, including by the screen reader developers themselves, and nothing has been done. A couple months ago, a fix has finally been promised, probably to stop the hordes of blind people from complaining, but the issue hasn't actually been fixed yet, and nobody knows if it ever will be.
Homeless in Sweden? You'll be given a place to live in.
Not really, because they _were_ aware of being "about to push" the button.
Does he use it elsewhere or anything like that?

I would call players who expend time in lieu of skill "grinders." "Farming," on the other hand, is often a late-game playstyle which gets the best results (farming for rares to fully equip a build).

I mean the necessity to do this can be seen as bad game design, and maybe the players are dummies for picking bad games (although the Diablo and Destiny series are pretty well received), but this sort of thing is required to play at the highest levels...
This person finances.
This is a good thing. Opportunity costs are incredibly important with university educations because students have a limited time to learn.

Why spend the time futzing with a tool like docker? It's not foundational to machine learning, so learning that tool takes away from time that could be spent learning something more relevant. And the student may or may not use it when they get a job.
Maybe it's my ignorance of the Java ecosystem or a lack of imagination but how could a language that requires a heavy runtime be written in itself? Wouldn't you need a runtime for the runtime, and then a runtime for the runtime for the runtime and then...?

I can't quite imagine how you'd bootstrap something like that.
what are exclusion puzzles? the underline changes to be an outline, but i'm really not sure what to do. some help on the game would be helpful!
If rates go from a low of 2% up to, say, 9%, then in order to keep the mortgage payment the same, the price of a $400,000 house would have to drop to around $230,000. This assumes a 30-year fixed rate mortgage, and the details will vary depending on money down, etc. but the basic fact remains that house prices will need to fall by a lot, down to levels of 5 years ago or more, before the current interest rate hiking cycle ends.

I don't think most people who invested in housing in the last couple years, are ready to believe that yet.
Tangent - I think that my particular disability (ADHD) helped me with my test scores. I was terrible at studying, but on the tests I would hyper-focus and do extremely well.

On the other hand, on the GRE, the writing portion was last and I could not bring myself to care. I scored in the 50th percentile, which for someone who regularly scores in the 99th percentile on standardized tests (including ones with writing portions), is pretty bad.
So...compressed decision trees?
UNIX time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sort of lost the point when the author starting comparing coyotes and raccoons to financial misdealing's
Technology can help fix human problems; technology can destroy lives. That's what tools are.
What oils are not derived from seeds? Olive, Avocado, Canola, Safflower, Corn...All of these are seeds. Are you saying that we should not use vegetable oils? Just use butter / lard / tallow?

Am I missing something?
If the acquisition cost is lower, the value will be lower because you don't need to factor in the acquisition cost.
I have found, being on both sides of the interview table, the jobs that get applications have the following characteristics:

1. Salary range

2. A short list of “must have” with most items being in the “nice to have”

3. No bullshit form questions, maybe a quick text-only “cover letter” which is ultimately just a Captcha.

And this makes sense, why would I waste my time filing out some asinine personality test or resume re-entry when the pay makes this a non-starter? Being too greedy with your requirements prevents people who would otherwise be qualified for the role from applying in the first place.

A lot of these larger companies have had the luxury of having a high false negative rate but it’s one they are finding they cannot afford any longer.

Unfortunately the high entry bar coupled with the “sink or swim” once your in a company just makes people inflate their résumés and job hop once they get a better offer. We’ve seen it in tech for years and now we’re starting to see it in other industries as well.
Although Common Lisp is called Lisp-2, there are actually many more namespaces... I think I counted 5 or 6 the last time I tried. But it is pretty sensible to keep functions in a different namespace. For instance, it allows you to:
(let ((let '`(let ((let ',let))
,let)))
`(let ((let ',let)) ,let))
I think you are technically correct, however if the grids (or even just the substations) burn out, the still-functional personal electronics aren't going to get many chances to recharge.
The difference is higher inflation, which likely leads to higher pay rises, so actually the real interest rate is lower than it was.
My only experience with Robot was at Juniper Networks, where it was a poorly maintained bastard QA org tech. Would have been infinitely better if DEV’s and QA had a shared repo of python scripts.
Sorry, guys, only one new chat app this year.
I learned js in 90s and C in 2000s in HS. I would write <script> inside html files to code at first.

If I had to do it all over I would start with robotics and competitive programming and something with databases. Robotics is mathy and library heavy and deals with real objects. Code golf is super math and easy to get into a tight loop and teaches you to research algorithms. Databases are just so useful and are a better way of learning APIs i think compared to restful stuff.

I don't think the beginning matters really. You have you love it to do it for decades, and if you love it you'll get good at it. Dont have to look back and think "aha that path was optimal"
Well, metaphysics aside, SQL is declarative whereas Python is imperative. Imperative languages are a "show your work" kind of deal, mechanical. Declarative languages are more of a "trust the machine / trust the abstraction" expression of an abstract idea, so it's no real surprise that the feel of the act of programming is different.
I fail to see how the ability to have all the bits on my unencrypted uefi partition be signed is such a doom and gloom scenario.

Having a world writeable initrd - that is an fs image with executables to be run as root before any other security settings have been enabled (etc) has always struck me as a bad idea.

Yes I'm aware that this technology, like literally every other technology ever invented (from the pointy stick all the way up), can be used for evil. That is a human problem not a "this technology exists problem"...

> ...the groundwork for the creation of an allmighty authority with the ability to "sanction" some (parts of) operating systems, but not others

"We must backdoor/ban all crypto because imagine what the criminals would do with it!"
I get an undefined page. Does that link require being logged in?

There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, or search the related logs, but you do not have permission to create this page.
Not sure why topic link isn't https://www.dyalog.com/escrow.htm (which does have a working certificate).
Effective institutions, independent judiciary helps a great deal.
Is this a shill or do you work for Airbnb? The internet is overwhelmingly filled with negative Airbnb experiences...

Your experience is by far the outlier from the typical way Airbnb handles this.
Sounds like an argument for why Apple deserves the fee. They managed to get it right when all these others failed.
> There are a very small percentage of people of modest background who go to elite schools and then becoming someone exceptional via the school network, but that is extremely rare (for a number of interesting reasons, imho).

Would you mind expounding on these interesting reasons? I've heard a theory that it's because the truly powerful networks are established at prep schools such as Andover and Exeter, so the vaunted power of the elite university network is really an extension of the prep school network.
It's very rare, but nevertheless the kind of thing that corporate legal teams worry about. That said, there are lower-friction ways to deliver these terms - include them in your check-in paperwork, post them visibly in a public space - but that requires a legal team which cares about reducing user sign-up friction.
> Obviously you can only be conscious of what you have already experienced.

Can't one also be conscious of things that have not happened or that may happen in the future, i.e. things that you have not already experienced?
That sounds much more efficient, but it also sounds like a great way to freeze in the middle, when you're all wet but don't have hot water to warm you back up. Maybe in warmer climates?
You don't have to imagine. https://readwrite.com/top-10-tech-failures-of-2013/
>> Instead of investing 10 Billion in VR, seems like Meta should have built a phone as good as the iPhone but cheaper since advertising on phones is their bread and butter

> Brilliant. How did they miss this opportunity and double down on VR?

They tried building a phone when Facebook was more trusted, and it failed. A Facebook Phone project in 2022 would almost certainly be doomed to failure.

IIRC, VR was an acquisition and it's more of a wide-open area than phones, so it's more plausible (but still unlikely) they could see success there.
Job postings trigger a flood of applications. It’s not an efficient use of staff time to trudge through applications from people who couldn’t be bothered to create a login.
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