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In 2020, Intel generated a record $35.4 billion cash from operations and $21.1 billion of free cash flow (FCF) and returned $19.8 billion to shareholders. They profited massively, and put their dividend up 5%.

They brought in Gelsinger and used that cash to build 2 new leading edge fans, and upgrade capacity on newer ones. Then the economic downturn happened, and sales dwindled. They're making less revenue but still funding the production of new fabs. That coincided with a weak roadmap. Sapphire Rapids is only just starting to ramp, after a nearly 3 year gap in their Xeon roadmap.
I'm a designer and use Windows. Not a big fan of designers who ram their idea of what good design is down our throats. You as a designer have to think about your existing user base and keep in mind how they work, their muscle memory and not taking away power user features etc.

Either they only tested with new users or somehow think that legacy users will die out soon - so let's copy MacOS because that's what all users like apparently.

But maybe the designers did raise these concerns about alienating existing users, but their warnings were ignored by the C-Suite.

Hopefully more Windows apps will be supported by Linux via Wine or maybe what Valve are doing to support games will also support other Windows apps? Haven't looked into it yet.
Lots of roads and bridges have a limit on axle load permitted on them. You can't do that with pedestrian bridges.
>where psychologists give input on how to make it more welcoming

I'm sure the psychology field is full of pseudo-scientific, un-replicable research into what makes something "welcoming"!
Bergen's population is just over 200k. European cities or even large towns have prioritised public transportation and liveable infrastructure like this in a way that only New York really has in the US. I don't think there is a single 200-thousand-person city in the US where you can do a single things without a car.
Kudos!

I cracked open (both out of curiosity and for recycling) my own 1999 Logitech QuickCam Express just a few days ago, then tossed away the parts. It was a decent webcam for the time, which was when Windows 98 was all the rage.

My desktop admittedly being a Windows system, I dabbled for a while trying to get the old drivers and software to work on Windows 11, alas, not a chance.

I liked the quirky thing especially for the physical visor that assured me nobody is watching me when the camera SHOULD be off, and saved me the masking tape (except for a single strip permanently glued to the inside of the visor, because for some odd reason, the thing was semi-translucent!)

I went out and bought a Trust webcam with Windows 11 support which astonishingly cost me less than three Euros (!!) new, at the bargain store. The Logitech, once upon a time, was more than ten times as much, not adjusted for inflation. Alas, the Logitech QuickCam had lower resolution, but still a better picture.

This was a very intreresting read, as I naively assumed that USB cameras had to follow some HID-like standard also for polling images off of it, like a scanner's TWAIN driver model back in the days. It was enlightening to read that they indeed seem to have had a unique encoding not shared with other cameras.
Deep Work - Cal Newport
It literally took a single google search to find out that you’re wrong.

FM transmitting for private use is completely legal for UKW frequencies between 87.5 and 105 MHz and transmission powers lower than 50nW [1]. You can buy perfectly FM transmitters for your car, etch

[1] (German) https://www.autozeitung.de/fm-transmitter-bluetooth-nachrues...
They do hold up better, but it's because of Spielberg who did the directing (I can't even imagine the cringe mess Lucas would have made - I'd rather we had a Tom Shelleck Indiana Jones movie, as was considered at one time, than a Lucas-directed one), Phillip Kaufman (who fleshed the story plot) and Lawrence Kasdan (who wrote the screenplay) rather than Lucas.

Lucas contributions were iconic, but not enough to get the movie to the level it is. From some dialogues I've seen between the whole team about the films [1], Lucas was more into throwing high level ideas, not about any core script work. So, the main concept, parts of the character design, and a high level plot summary. The rest had to make a full story, screenplay, and movie out of it.

[1] http://maddogmovies.com/almost/scripts/raidersstoryconferenc...
I’m not sure everyone will get your sarcasm.
Just “adding some GPT” is a good meme though.
> painfully slow performing world

Builder 7 was getting there too :)
I was just there looking for something and there is a flash sale going on. Go figure.
No, that would just set trailing 1s to 0. We want to trim them.

The idea behind trimming trailing 1s is that they represent a sub tree that is all smaller than the lower bound. By trimming those 1s, we traverse back up the tree to find the smallest number which is larger than or equal to the lower bound (aka the answer).
Why would anyone use voice recognition to authenticate users? It's too easy to fake.
I don't think there was a tone of forcing anyone to do anything.
Formerly Chuck Art
I have a similar problem, but it is literally every English word that is also a common name. I send texts like "I Will run by the store and May grab dinner for tomorrow, Hope to be home by 7". It's infuriating.
I'll take three broken ribs if that means I'm still alive. But yes, it doesn't quite meet the John Wick requirements.
My friends and I used to watch movies almost every night online during COVID and to decide on the movie I created a polling website that pulls information from TMDB. It was really useful because we could see the movie description, genre and length right there while voting instead of having to google for every movie title. I planned on adding new voting methods as well instead of majority vote like ranked voting, a movie randomizer that the chance a movie wins is based on how many votes it has and others. Unfortunately, we no longer watch that many movies together so the incentive to add those features decreased.
I think that language is meant for the case where someone takes an AGPL programs, slaps another restriction on it, and sends it along.

The last person in the chain can disregard the extra "conditions".

But this only works if someone distributed it under (only) the AGPL in the first. In the specific case with the software we are talking about now, that is not the case. It was originally distributed under this almost-AGPL.

But yes, the wording inside the AGPL makes it extra confusing exactly. It reads like those test where the instruction is "before you do anything, read all the questions".
Possibly a linear regulator (does the device get warmer than you'd expect?)

Although the LM7805 would need ~7V minimum

RE those chips: almost all general purpose components have a usable voltage range. From LEDs to MCUs, most components can tolerate a few hundred millivolts from its ideal V_{f}, some even dozens of volts - especially solid state stuff like CMOS ICs

The only time I really recommend not f*cking with aftermarket PSUs is if it's primarily charging or powering:
- lithium batteries
- super or ultra capacitors
Probably not as cool as everyone else’s but I made savonius wind turbine to learn more about the basics of wind energy. It was a fun jaunt!
Prompt engineering seems a little like an attempt to make it seem like this will be “a future profession” you could develop.

Seems more likely to me that NLP advances will just make the whole idea obsolete quite quickly ?
Given the thousands of developers there, I would assume it was automated. FB is known for having built great tooling for this kind of thing, like measuring how flaky each test is.
A toolset for learning Japanese with focus on listening comprehension. Most resources suggest a "writing systems first" approach, which seemed counterintuitive to me. So I started coding my own tools 10 years ago. First, a small spaced repetition system for vocabulary connected to forvo (pronunciation database) and lateron an addon for Anki (popular spaced repetition system). The addon is made for studying with movies and includes a dictionary and a parser for converting the original script to something simpler.

In retrospect, it was totally worth it: I reached a decent amount of fluency in listening comprehension and used the tools to create a Japanese course for others, which became popular on ankiweb: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/911122782
Because being unable to see how software you're using is implemented is a bad thing.
Next, train them to raid other houses for shiny things and deposit at your house.
Since people hate it so much and Microsoft is treating their OS like a website to be monetized then it wouldn't surprise me if the tabloid service gets embedded in the kernel, so as to prevent people from disabling or removing it.
At first I thought the article was going to be a story of a young driver embarking upon an adventure to retrieve a webcam from 1999.
I suppose when one's that rich they want friends who like them for themselves not for the gifts they distribute.
I wish I understood why my apple autocorrect stopped working lol
Oh, that sucks. Is the school any good in other regards? Or just sucky in general?

At my kids' school the tech is used mostly like I described, and it really does help to give a bit of needed challenge to them.
Sounds fantastic - I'd love to try it. I've been keeping an eye on Clojure and Datomic for years.

I always wonder if this sort of move portends an exit of some of the core technical team, who would very much like to fork the codebase and move on, but in this case with only the binaries being opened up, it feels more as though they want some more people to try Datomic out. Databases such as Neo4J do this as well - free to run, but you'll probably want to pay for support.
Hyundai’s New Steering System May Make Parking Jobs Way Easier
Artificial Intelligence Platform for Defense
Think the facelifted GSA "Star Trek" dashboard was my favourite.

I liked the control clusters it had instead of stalks.
Would you take that job for 50k/year? I wouldn't. Would you take it for 500k/year? I would. So, it is a question of money at the end of the day.
Is Nginx dead? Is Traefik v3 20% faster than Traefik v2?
Yes, this is true. Professional help is useful to teens (and all humans).

While true, it’s silly to suggest it in response to a problem occurring due to school laptops. It’s like reminding people that meditation and exercise are valuable.

It’s like when I’m menstruating and someone says “honestly it doesn’t hurt for a teen to have someone who they can talk to who is not their parent/authority figure.” Definitely true, but not relevant to the issue at hand. I think it comes from an intent to help and nurture, but it sounds like lalaland nonsense that just makes the conversation harder by spending time on something that doesn’t seem useful.

Of course, you don’t know who has availability to use healthcare to diagnose so it may help sometimes for people who truly have undiagnosed ADHD. Or for people who don’t know that it helps teen to be able to talk to people who have their shit together.

But I find that the problem is way more frequently that teens know how valuable it is to talk with people, but don’t have the resources or ability to find and use those people. So it’s like telling a homeless person how useful getting a job would be. Or a fat person that it’s possible to lose weight through diet and exercise. Yes, yes, let’s spend energy on actionable interventions.
One feeder for racoons, and another for crows! Then over time you scale it up by having feeders with cheap snacks and feeders with expensive snacks. Then have a leaderboard to see which animal brings in the most money!
Most have tools that will tell you if a provider is in network and what a procedure will cost at them. Most have a pre-authorizarion process to confirm coverage as well. Also, if your insurance is through an employer, HR typically has liaisons that can help.
Same reason why, at most UK banks, your online credentials (both user and pwd) are case insensitive: it's convenient to the customer. It costs less money to "pay" for the reduced security than it does in attrition causing customer dissatisfaction (which makes them leave), missed transactions, customer support hotline ("I can't login"), etc,
I think that it was originally up to the release engineers, but they probably automated it after they moved to continuous deployments. (chuckr, where are you now?).
Why it is becoming harder to choose a phone
The M1 MacBook Air is regularly on sale for $800 or less. I'm not sure how you can consider that an "over expensive toy". It's competitive and often beating Windows Laptops at that price. The M1 chip is 2 years old now, and still competitive.

I can understand hating the OS. But MacOS is my preferred OS, I really don't like Windows or Linux. MacOS just works. Linux and Windows always have some driver/kernel/etc. update that breaks something.
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Inertia mostly. It's a question every grad student asks at some point.

If anyone is actually curious: The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) started a Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI.org). Later, the Association for Information Systems (AIS) started a Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (SIGHCI.org) which has remained about an order of magnitude smaller in impact and comes from a different originating field (Information Systems). My impression is that nearly all the papers in one journal would also make sense in the other, but CHI sometimes has a little more design-y or consumer product stuff while IS-HCI has some stuff that's more from the perspective of an IT department.

The CHI folks can't unilaterally rename to SIGHCI without stomping over the smaller org, which means merging two different organizations, journals, and conferences run by different professional associations. Such a thing is occasionally proposed (e.g. http://www.bridginghci.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/chi-20...) which would be nice but in reality I think that's unlikely to happen because the cost exceeds the benefits.
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Sometimes it breaks because it breaks... you cannot predict icy rain (video above), terrorist attacks, war, etc.

Having an option to use other energy sources is great, because if you're out of power, you still have gas and vice-versa... if you're artificially limited to just one source, and you're suddenly out of that, you're basically screwed.
Moving box management system!

I used AirTable as a backend and UI, added boxes with a room, box number, barcode and contents details.

Before beginning I printed barcodes for the first 10 or so boxes. I used thermal shipping labels, sliced them into 3 stickers with 2 barcodes each and slapped them on corners so every face had one.

Then I just packed like normal and when a box was full I took a photo of the contents from the AirTable mobile app, scanned the barcode and jotted a note about the contents down.

My local machine was pinging AirTable every few seconds to look for new boxes with photos and would then print out 2 full size labels with the photo, box number large, contents and room name which I then put on 2 sides of the box.

Arriving was amazing, every box had a destination (room) so no double moving. Every box had contents on them so no opening boxes until you are ready. Plus the AirTable made searching for an item and it’s containing box trivial.
A shameless plug, my colleagues made a demo where you could create a virtually infinite amount of voices with some sort of control of how they sound like:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/Flux9665/ThisSpeakerDoesNotExi...
Siri rarely disappointed me because my expectations were always low and I trained myself on how to talk to it.

But now after some remarkable experiences using GPT-4 I find I’ve lost a lot of patience with all the different voice assistants. They are just so stupid in comparison. How much longer before LLMs and projects like Whisper run the backend?
I've experienced a bank more or less forcing me into accepting it
I’d be surprised if SIMD + branch to switch algorithms beats branchless binary search for data in cache. Were you comparing with that? Not saying it isn’t possible, god knows CPUs surprise in all kinds of wonderful ways. It’s not the outcome I would have guessed though.

4x AVX2 vectors of 32bit integers is 32 integers. So log2(32) = 5, 5 cmov instructions or a largely unpredictable branch + simd instructions and either more branches or more cmovs to get the result.

It's possible if you were testing on similar sized arrays in a loop that the unpredictable branch becomes 100% predictable, which I think would give the result you saw.
Do you mean that 200k is a particularly bad size of U.S. city? There are certainly smaller cities that have _some_ accommodation for cyclists, like Davis, California, or Boulder, Colorado.
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I use both regularly. Google assistant is far superior, coming in at annoyingly bad compared to Sirius infuriatingly bad.
I think what you mean to say is that there are few "medium" cities in the US where "techie and richer" people elect to voluntarily live without a car.

You absolutely can live without a car in a lot of these cities but if and only if you want to bike. If you want to ride a lot of public transit it's gonna suck.

What you can't do is do it in a trendy way that "befits your tax bracket" so to speak and prevents the white collar types from looking at you like you're inferior when you bike lock your cargo bike to the lamp post beside the liquor store.

As for bigger cities, you absolutely can live without a car in Boston, DC, SF, Atlanta, Chicago, and the list goes on but toward the bottom it's gonna require more biking and less public transit.
Yeah, me too. Had my brain in knots for half a minute.
Pico caps and appropriate impedance miss-match can be used to round-off square waves.

But yes, if you look at high-speed Pi GPIO with a Rigol it looks more like an EKG readout than the thing you might see on a logic analyser. Smoothing it enough to feed a line-amp is very lossy.
Yep. I realize that’s not going to resonate with many or even most people, but that doesn’t mean I don’t believe it and that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have merit.

Law firms don’t ask lawyers to litigate in a mock courtroom setting before hiring them. Hospitals don’t ask surgeons to perform a little test surgery on a person before hiring them. Engineers aren’t asked to build a bridge to prove they know how.

I think the reason we are so unique is because we CAN demonstrate our ability to quickly and easily, and without risking human life. CAN of course does not equal SHOULD.
Sto and Go, haven't thought about this play set in a very long time! Growing up, I didn't have one at home, but thankfully a couple neighbors did and I loved playing with it as a child.
Eytzinger layouts are great, but they require more space if one is not allowed to touch the original sorted array. Then again, if you are allowed to use extra space, lower_bound operations (aka binary searching) can be implemented in worst-case constant time for integer arrays.
This type of return fraud has a name - it's called "wardrobing."
> against car ownership and moving over to a shared vehicle model.

We already invented this: public transportation.
These situations are logically equivalent and the differences are fairly subtle. It would be interesting to know whether most people would be able to pick the difference between the two approaches.

I suppose it is a higher-status play to have spare resources available instead of having to deplete your finances to do favours for friends. Maybe one approach suggests a deeper understanding of other people's needs which is good signalling. But at the end of the day if you give someone something with no strings attached, that is what happened. The method isn't so important.
Games of what? were you running MAME or something?
This just got published https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-cloned-myself-with-ai-she-foo...
I have a wonderful group of friends from back home, ranging all over the age spectrum, who all golf together almost religiously every weekend. I made them an app that resembles the PGATour's live scoring, so folks can be on the course and input their scores on the holes and get a live leaderboard of how everyone is doing, factoring in everyone's handicap. There are some commercial apps that kind of do this, but the issue with us there are several members who for one reason or another don't. have phones to input their scores themselves, so my app lets one person in the group put their scores in for the other ones.

After I left the country, this has had the wonderful side benefit that I can still follow along with everyone's game, and has been instrumental in me staying in touch and connected to my friends, so that when I come to visit on vacation it's like I never left!
This is wonderful, but unfortunately only for Windows.

If you want beta testers for a Linux version... I'm more interested in the Manager with an API, not the GUI Browser.
This is very nice, It would be great to add other leagues and cups.
My issue is that these coding interviews tend to turn up a lot of false-negatives and sometimes even false-positives. And of course they do. There’s so much more to what we do than being able to implement A* in 45 minutes without a real IDE could demonstrate.
> A few milliseconds per query adds up if you're doing one query per item in a list with 100s or 1000s of elements :)

If you're doing this, then you need to stop :)
This threads discussing small hotels ("boutique"), not the large chains.

Most of the larger chains even have benefits if you go direct though.
I’ve had much better luck with 100% honesty. Just say you set up a 20m transmitter to improve the life of a 93 year old woman.

I bought a house in my very early 20s. Roommates of mine finished the third floor with no permits. Went to sell the house ten years later and the location it was in required a U&O inspection. My realtor told me to lie, apply for a permit and pretend I just did the work.

Instead I called the local building inspector and said, “Hello my name is xxx and I’m calling to confess.” He cracked up laughing, came to the house immediately to look at everything and told me I was fine.
The vacation home example somehow actually feels less awkward to me, perhaps because my visit doesn’t change the cost incurred by the friend when they’re renting? (Whereas the restaurant bill feels very awkward and transactional, because the increase is directly related to what I order.)
"It costs less" ... and the question is who pays that cost. If customers leave it's bad for the bank, if customers get scammed then the customers lose their money "well you should have protected your identity better, there's nothing we can do". So from the bank's perspective, customers getting scammed doesn't cost them anything.
Every few months, Siri decides I live at 123 East Foo street. Just adds the E when I say “directions to home” and tries to go miles off course. Lasts a week or two, then back to normal.

If I spell or type out the address, it still adds the E, with no apparent way to get to my actual home address.

As a bonus, last night I said “cancel my 6am alarm” and it said “you have 29 alarms around that time”, and proceeded to read through each of them. My wife nearly died laughing as it started to rattle them off.