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i have sympathy for human pain. i have several friends who have family in iran who are being persecuted for their beliefs, stripped of their rights, have their businesses destroyed, are denied access to university and are imprisoned if they share their beliefs with others. yet, none of them would resort to violence or condone others violence in their name. they believe and pray for a peaceful and constructive resolution to this ongoing conflict.
Isn't gumroad still a one man show? They publish their business numbers on Twitter afaik
Same goes with music. Since maybe the late 1990's, the safe bet has been the way to go for labels. No more risking an alternative artist that doesn't check the right boxes. Stick with a repeat of what worked before with a small twist to make spoon-fed ears feel like it's a new thing (yes, the ears are fed via spoon).
At my local theater in California, an adult ticket to see A Man Called Otto at 7:30 pm is $11.75 and a child is $8.50. So a family of four would be spending $40 - $50 to see the film.

Avatar: The Way of Water at 6:30 has the same pricing.

A package of candy from a local store will be $1.50 - $3. (Each.) There's no way you're getting up to $100. (You could spend more by buying food inside the theater, but you'd have to be stupid to go for that.)
Just my 2 cents, as I have been on the other side of the table:

- It could be that you misunderstood the argument. Maybe the engineer wanted to avoid the old 'static global global' structures, which are still omnipresent in embedded C code, and which is followed by especially bad engineers. It's not about memory at runtime here; it's more about encapsulation, state and testability

- If that is the case then let the engineer do it. Code quality can be measured by how easy it is to remove a feature

- I've went into numerous turf wars about code style. I lost all of them, even if I won some battles. At one company, they were paying one full time engineer to manually reformat the team's code.

Don't play this game. Slap on astyle or clang-format. Enforce it. End all discussions with "Then you change the style guide and check with other projects". You win in either case.

- Don't ever argue with people who organise their code in neat tables with tabs and spaces

- Don't you have a product to ship? Make that clear to everybody, break it top down, and let the engineers fix that stuff.

- Remember, they are doing the work, you are just organising. Why should the code be easy for you to read?

- Maybe that complexity just exists for you, not for them. An isolated system may be as complex as it wants to be

- I'm not always right. And other people as well. We need room for mistakes. That lets people grow. I did a lot of mistakes, and I will do more.

So even if I know for a 100% that my colleague has chosen a bad path with bad complexity and a lot of work further down the road, I still let him walk that path. He needs freedom. All I can do is support him and protect the rest against the fallout. Other people offer me that freedom as well.
Longtermboard seems down, if it's shut down it'd be neat to have it show a site telling that.
Congrats, your grandfather was part of nomenklatura (establishment), that's 2% of the population. They "repressed" each other, no surprises here. It had nothing to do with the "middle class" (in an alegedly "classless" society, lol).
Everything is getting brighter.

Headlights are brighter and aimed higher.

Paint and signs are getting more reflective. And there are more of them.

In my opinion all this extra blinding light has been making it progressively more dangerous to drive at night.

(Then there's the occasional cars with weird LEDs that rapidly flicker like looking at a screen with the wrong refresh rate. Not sure what that's all about.)

Makes me wish I could buy some nighttime sunglasses.
I'm actually curious

Is there any way or tools that can train our own ChatGPT bot without coding skills?

For example if I input the twitter content history of Elon musk, and along with his personal interest, work experiences etc, and hoping to create a bot that can talk like professionals in silicon valley when leaving replies in other twitter account, this will be very useful I guess
Procedure cost is a huge factor: AFAICT, it's generally cheaper everywhere than the US, frequently dramatically cheaper, for the same procedure, for out-of-pocket (non-insurance) cost.

Here in Japan, everyone has insurance, either private through their company, or public through the government, and the insurance pays a flat 70% of the cost, and the patient pays the other 30%. But the procedure costs are generally not that high to begin with, so the 30% copay ends up being pretty cheap usually.
“We be of one blood, ye and I” – advice to founders
I've learned that one of the important things in the early stages of starting my own business is changing my social circle
I think (extremely) rudementary CSS support would fix many of these cases. You don't need to support more than the basic layout constraints, but you need something so sites like DDG's search page without Javascript can work.

I believe Google will still work on very old browsers through something like user agent sniffing, maybe setting the UA to IE5 will trick it into rendering HTML that might actually work (though the search results will probably still be useless)
> I mean yes, it was continuously breeding and the result of that breeding was in the reactor and partially was used to sustain the reaction.

This is a lie just like the rest. EBR 1 had a separate core and blanket. It didn't run on the bred fuel any more than a PWR does.
As the engineering manager you should implement an automated code formatter in your CI checking. I think clang-format will do this for C. Doing this simply removes this whole class of conflict from your team.

This is a program that you run which will deterministically re-format your whole codebase. The CI checks on a PR should not pass until the PR diff matches what the formatting program says is the correct formatting.
Back in the glory commercial UNIX days, there was a devserver by department, which we either logged into via telnet or X Windows, then we moved into Citrix and RDP based workloads, now the browser as remote display protocol.

Everything old is new again.
Something else for people to avoid when walking, people wildly flailing their arms to dodge something in AR.
Uh, there is a positively huge difference between, say, Sweden and Greece. Sweden has almost no AC, Im sure Greece has a lot. Also a silly difference in insolation during winter. Ive seen on http://app.electricitymap.org/ that Greece has had some VERY good days for solar production lately, like above 60% of installed capacity. I suspect the installed capacity is not updated with reality, or theyre very lucky. Sweden produces maybe a few % of the summer figures at the moment.
I was expecting to see something like what you would see on windows when running defrag....
I have nitpicks and criticisms about Gemini, and it's not a protocol that I use very often (if at all), but I also don't see the harm in it. It seems to have a pretty strong grasp of what its goals are and (minor criticisms aside) it does a decent job of accomplishing those goals. Nowadays I tend to compare Gemini more to things like Pico-8 or Markdown rather than think of it as a web competitor -- and as a result I've started to develop a lot more respect for the project. It's not designed to replace the web or revolutionize how people share content, it's designed to be a useful medium for the community that uses it.

All that to say, I'm not sure I understand the criticism I'm seeing here. A Lynx-like browser with proper graphical mouse support and a couple of extras built in is a fine project. And support for Gemini/Markdown gives the browser a clear use-case beyond HTML that means it'll be practically useful for some people; it's not just an experiment in failing to render most websites because it doesn't support CSS, there's a category of content that you know will work, and a community of people making that content.

That's assuming it works well, but if it does -- I don't know, seems like a cool project? It's good to have more Gemini clients.
I can't directly speak to any particular work you're describing, but "smart" people don't usually add significant complexity and aren't hard to work with.

Their solutions tend to be obvious in hindsight and simple.

They work within the constraints they're given. They don't merely find one solution and push it through. They get satisfaction finding which fits best. If there's conflict, it's probably because they don't know how else to solve something.

It's true that sometimes there's only one solution, but that's rare and implies you're hitting bedrock fundamental stuff or have an over-constrained codebase that needs some refactoring. In those cases it would be apparent in other places too, not just when dealing with their code or opinions.
Unfortunately saying nothin used to be a thing. It was the wise thing to do. But just like how publish and perish became a thing, it is not wise to say little and selectively. Check twitter.

I don’t support the government in charge there. However the peace OP brings up in their other comment is extremely important, They tell us every other month they want to attack Iran, they literally did so three times in 20th century, and twice in 19th (and much worse when including russia, which was aligned with the english against the french).

Iran has not initiated any war since 1820s, and was neutral in both world wars. People die in wars.
>Next up: that power cable coming out of that wall is going straight into the GPU.

It kind of seems like we're evolving towards the GPU being the "main computer".

We need to keep an extra close eye on things like open standards and free drivers. nVidia's closed-source stack only feels like a minor hassle right now, but if you think of the GPU as the heart of the system it puts us right back to the bad old days of computing where cross-platform was impossible, compilers were vendored, and operating systems were closed source. We got into the current cushy situation of PC compatibility by sheer luck, and the "mobile revolution" is a warning sign that we can't take any of it for granted when the computing substrate evolves.
Yes. To this day Cuba is famous for having much better doctors, and even a pharmaceutical industry, than their poverty would suggest. I think it's fairly obvious that when the avenues for social status through entrepreneurship and initiative are limited, the avenues that remain do well - and medicine has been a high-status profession for a long time now.
Likewise, the fields people don't go into for money, like scientific research or performing arts, seem to have been fiercely competitive and high quality in the planned economy countries.
I think the answer is that it depends on what exactly you're optimizing for and what the workload is. I no expert either, but some of my predictions would be: DSPs and FPGAs will be great at compute per watt. FPGAs will have the highest initial cost. GPUs might beat FPGAs on floating point performance.
What's with the sudden barrage of FPLs posts in the recent days?
Look, who wants to be carreer party official.
one generous approach may be to steer that appetite for complexity towards tooling rather than the actual system.

it's not such a problem if they over-engineer too-smart tools to help maintain and administer your carefully managed, just-smart-enough system. When they move on, a 'normal' replacement doesn't necessarily have to reason about the complexity: if the tools break, or are too hard to understand, the next dev can revert to simpler tools.

it's great to keep really smart people around, but it's also great to have a business that is insulated from risk by minimising unnecessary complexity and engineering for maintainability.

if they're too smart to realise that, maybe they'd be happier elsewhere.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWy1FBArO7c

smart people are even more vulnerable to bad ideas, because they can convince themselves that their ideas are good, in extremely rational and rhetorical way
I expected to see one of the big orange things you see on the street
Strong agree with this. There’s a lot it does well out of the box, as well as the ability to customise to meet niche desires.

With the help of https://github.com/unifi-utilities/unifios-utilities it can also act as a docker host for most common home network services.
Though code is an asset as well... Just not as valuable as people might think. Code is not a liability if it is not used, the liabilities come from production usage.
> I want Epiphany and Firefox to allow me turn off JavaScript like I can allow/disallow {Audio, Video, Webcam, Location, Notifications...}.

uBlock Origin can do this, I believe. NoScript is a more involved solution, but it also still works. I don't know about Epiphany, though.
There's a lot more to it than that.

EU legislation establishes individual rights for all workers, with a maximum working week of 48 hours, paid annual leave of at least four weeks per year, rest periods and rules on night work, shift work and patterns of work.

Who needs unions with great labor laws already in place? Of course the right in the US want none of that.

A lot of EU law already in place is a wish list for US employees who join a union.
Make licenses based on weight as in EU? But hey, then you would not be able to drive your massive trucks...
It's hard to judge by what describe if you are the "smart engineer" or the others are the "smart engineers".

"In a past role, I got into a debate about code style with the smartest person I've ever worked with. It boiled down to me advocating for more whitespace..." - This example puts both you and the engineer and the company in a bad spot as it's a complete waste of time to discuss something like this (if it's discussions over discussions). The tech lead should should decide once and then everyone should comply with whatever way they decided (potentially after one short discussion).

If smart engineers consistently propose un-necessary complexity then Im sorry to bring it, they are not smart engineers and you have nothing to do but run. It wont help to discuss it and try to convey your message (unless you are the CEO but even that wont help as you can't monitor everyone so honestly if you are not the CEO just run and if you are the CEO just replace the team).

So really hard to tell without being in the place who's the smart engineer but if you are the smart engineer then run :) if they are the smart engineers then stay and learn.
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>Crossplatform all the way

excluding mobile platforms
>It doesn't matter if a few elite students win the olympiad.

It matters in the way that it projects an image abroad that the Romanian education system must be really good if so many grads from there win medals and go to ivy league universities. Even though this ads absolutely no value for Romania.
Why do you prefer having an app running (and owning the sole menu bar) when it has no GUI on screen?

I switched to Mac 20 years ago (when I started a decade-long stint as software engineer at Apple), and I still DETEST this behavior. Why the hell do I want some application that I just "closed" to continue owning the menu? Of course, this indicts the Mac's single menu bar, glued to the top of the screen. That mistake should have been fixed with the transition to OS X, but nope.

A related issue is Apple's half-assed implementation of Alt-Tab-style app switching. I was pretty impressed that they added this Windows-style feature, but less so after finding that it doesn't restore minimized apps. Again, why do I want to switch back to an app but not restore its UI? Fortunately there's a utility for that: Alt-Tab. https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app

It can also create a window for applications that lack them when you switch to them; this is a huge boon for Finder.
The captions idea sounds really useful. I've used live captions during Google Meet calls and having a ~1 second visible history of live conversation is indeed really helpful for conversation flow. Having that in real life conversations would really be something.
Culture matters a lot more than skin color. I am white and have way more in common with university educates black people than I have with white rednecks.
USSR was as much a classless society, as US is a raceless society.
Here in the UK, that happened to me on a roundabout. Elderly driver in front pulled out and then, for no visible reason, slammed on the brakes. I ran into the back of her.

It was deemed to be be 100% my fault. Here, if you run into the back of the car in front, it is always your fault. No exceptions.

It makes sense: you should always leave enough room to stop, so I couldn't really complain. But, if everybody did that on that particular busy roundabout, it would result in gridlock.
> and now streaming and internet have democratized access and content creation

Unfortunately this has come with a real decrease in artistic/creative value.

For all intents and purposes almost everything that Netflix now has on its platform is basically crap, I've last spent about half an hour trying to find something nice to watch but nothing. I would have settled on the spot for light but original comedy like "American Pie", but couldn't find it. The same goes for HBO Max (granted, the first season of "White Lotus" was ok-ish, but by the second season you could see half of the directorial and writers' takes coming from half a mile away).
German Windows users usually discover how to close applications by shortcut very quickly. Usually when they try to write their first email on a Mac.
Are there any proposed orthographies for Hawaiian that represent the glottal stop in a different way?

Seeing as the Hawaiian language has only 5 vowels and 8 consonants it seems a shame that they couldn't find a way of writing it with the Latin alphabet that didn't require adding a character which, to the uninitiated, doesn't look anything like a letter. And, in fact, for the purposes of capitalisation, it is not treated as a letter: the following vowel gets capitalised instead. Meanwhile, there seems to be more than one system in use for lexicographical ordering of the ʻokina.

Of course there's no immediately obvious alternative: H is perhaps a natural choice for a Latin letter to represent a glottal stop, but if H were used for the glottal stop in Hawaiian then a different letter would have to be used for the sound currently written with H: seeing as the currently orthography has been in use for some time one would want to avoid an incompatible change. So J, Q, X or Y instead of ʻokina? Hm...

Of course I'm aware that there's probably no point in thinking about alternative orthographies for Hawaiian, that probably there's no demand for a "solution" for this "problem" ... but it seems like an interesting thing to think about for a few minutes anyway.
So, basically Gopher.
> three years of covid have eradicated savings

Saving went up because of the lockdowns.

> The amount of content that Disney pumps out in the MCU is too immense to follow up - the cinema movies, okay

I would diagnose a radically different problem - the MCU only has a lot of content measured in minutes of film. Measured in plot, there's almost nothing. I watched the 2016 film Doctor Strange. That was a huge mistake. I couldn't tell you anything about the film other than "Benedict Cumberbatch is in it" and "don't waste your time; there is no reason you'd ever want to see this". Ask me what happened, or indeed if anything happened, and I'll be stumped.

It doesn't come as a surprise that with the decline of the idea that a movie should tell you a story, movies are getting less popular.
And if someone tells you these are the only options, thats how you know they are from the US.
Given that party membership was ~10% of the adult population, restricting the best jobs to party members didn't mean much. Ambitious people usually became party members, unless something in their background prevented that. Many people were discriminated against for various reasons, but otherwise the lack of party membership signaled lack of ambition.
Well, if a worker who spent 40 years in a hot zone of a steel mill is establishment, I wonder what other unorthodox definitions do you have.

He was repressed because of his ethnic origins, taken to labor army from a peasant family on 17th birthday. Is this establishment too?

I‘m seriously impressed by how some people jump to conclusions sometimes.
This is fascinating (and depressing of course from a quality of worker life perspective). I can imagine that if it would be somehow integrated in a theatrical play it would make for a very moving / haunting experience.
The other day I was driving behind a car on a country road, he did an emergency stop to avoid a rabbit in the road. I avoided hitting him, I stopped about 2m from him because I was careful to leave enough space. If I had hit him I'm sure the insurance companies would have placed blame on me and it would have been my insurance that paid out. But ultimately it would have been his "fault" for doing something utterly unpredictable and dangerously stupid.

If it had been a large deer, of course he should have stopped, at that point it's the safety of the people inside the car.

In law for insurance purposes it needs to be clear cut, person behind is almost always at fault. But that doesn't mean they are the cause of the accident in all cases. There is nuance to these things, and part of that is that braking for a rabbit, or using Level 2 automation, is increasing the chance of an accident happing on the road.

If the way you drive increases the risk of someone driving into the back of you, even if they haven't left enough space, you are at fault in my mind.
Agree, when the problem is presented clearly, engineer will try to find a way around it.
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I am one of those people - an academic type that likes to over-engineer, and at least partially work on embedded systems. What I've learned after two decades of experience is that it's best to apply most of that sophistication to tooling and supporting software - test suites, fuzzing, benchmarking, quality evalution, code and data generation, prototyping environments, automated reports, etc etc. All while keeping the actual shipped software as simple as possible.
Only if it will also support binary libraries, which so far all C and C++ replacements failed to deliver, thus failing to cover a use case that many industries care about.
> Then take the high road first.

The high road doesn't pay the rent. It doesn't feed your kids.

You're in an incredibly privileged position Walter, and unlike the vast majority of people you have actual bargaining power and the ability to negotiate terms. Most everything you've written in this thread is incredibly out of touch with the situation many workers, especially ones that would find themselves working at an Amazon warehouse, find themselves in.
Does https://search.marginalia.nu/ work?
This is another baseless conspiracy theory, sorry.