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> 4:3 screens

The 16:9 craze drives me mad: it's jack of all trades master of none, compromise every other way. Maybe nice to watch TV shows, not really good to watch movies, not tall enough for a single screen, not wide enough to 50:50 split left/right (each side is too narrow). Putting two side by side makes you face the bezels, and constant-tilt your head either left or right when you focus. Three side by side is way too wide. Probably why some folks put three but have the two outmost ones be vertical. Which brings me to 9:16 which is way too thin AND tall.

A triple head 4:3 setup was terrible for movies, but reaaaally nice for a battlestation. Maybe 5:4 would have been quite something but I never experienced that.

I do like the Ultrawide things though, 2.4:1 feels like two 4:3, only continuous, no bezel in the middle. 3.5:1 is technically about two 16:9 but feels like triple head 4:3. They're especially comfortable when curved, but damn, none are HiDPI, which kind of ruins it. And of course that's kind of a no-go for laptops (or maybe not, but I bet the manufacturer attempting that would somehow botch the execution)
I like cars and don't want to ride trains or buses. I prefer the freedom and isolation of driving my own large car. I'm willing to spend less on other things than to let go of my car.

When cars are illegal, I'll stop driving, so if you want that to happen you should try writing to your representative.
Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud (2021) [video]
First ever 64-bit version of Windows rediscovered and a C compiler for it too
Amex has credit cards with no annual fees, they have the same incentives as other networks and issuers.
I wonder if the MISTer FPGS running AO486 is fast enough, or the CPU is too low-spec and emulated slowly, or doesn't support physical ISA peripherals.
I spent an evening with Andy Rourke a few years ago. He was DJing a small bar and I was looking after him.

Man, he really didn’t think much of Morrissey!

He was a lovely man.
Consider the pro car propaganda
It's almost like there's more than one problem to be solved in American society. People being in that state is an indictment of the US mental health system [0] and the terrible inequality forcing them on the streets [1], not an endorsement of cars, a selfish band-aid that exacerbates the bigger issues.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1035561/mental-hospital-...

[1]https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002716220981864
I solved all levels using (always the same) two words ("remove lastletter") but can't solve all levels using a single word, did anyone manage that?
Meanwhile nobody is speaking about the real enemy here, which is data-brokers who will gladly sell any data of US citizens to evil countries.

We would be better served by a total ban on user tracking technologies.
I would choose Plotly or D3 subset of DAGs or something even like Meanim (3blue1brown) where you can have a proper depth dimension.
You realize that contracts can't contain illegal clauses right? They aren't enforceable in any court.
What does the government have to do with what apps I use in my free time? Are they also going to force me to read nonfiction instead of fiction because it's "the right move"? This sounds like some dystopian crap. What committee decides which apps are good for you or not and how long is long enough?
> If these customers do not have access to Raspberry Pi, then they are likely to "go to the wall". 'Should I zero some of those customers or constrain them so heavily that they go out of business or take very serious damage?'

The CEO of Raspberry Pi disagrees with you.
> This is surprising, shouldn't the number of comparisons be identical to the standard implementation?

No, to make it branchless (in an efficient way, it can be done regardless of course), you always take ceil(n / 2) as your remaining size, whereas the branchy version chooses either floor(n / 2) or ceil(n / 2) as appropriate.

And in fact, you don't want the number of comparisons to be identical to the standard implementation, for a branchless implementation. Because this makes the branch on loop exit unpredictable.

I did find that by changing the implementation slightly:

template<typename It, typename T, typename Cmp>
It lower_bound(It begin, It end, const T& value, Cmp comp) {
size_t n = 1 + end - begin;
size_t i = -1;
while (n > 1) {
size_t half = n / 2;
size_t m = i + half;
if (comp(begin[m], value)) i = m;
n -= half;
}
return begin + i + 1;
}

that clang gives slightly better code on the Apple M1 (avoiding an unnecessary add in the tight loop):

; %bb.0:
sub x8, x1, x0
add x8, x8, #4 ; =4
asr x8, x8, #2
cmp x8, #2 ; =2
b.lo LBB8_3
; %bb.1:
ldr w10, [x2]
mov x9, #-1
LBB8_2: ; =>This Inner Loop Header: Depth=1
lsr x11, x8, #1
add x12, x11, x9
ldr w13, [x0, x12, lsl #2]
cmp w13, w10
csel x9, x12, x9, lo
sub x8, x8, x11
cmp x8, #1 ; =1
b.hi LBB8_2
b LBB8_4
LBB8_3:
mov x9, #-1
LBB8_4:
add x8, x0, x9, lsl #2
add x0, x8, #4 ; =4
ret

which results in the classic algorithm beating the overlap method on smaller sizes, but not on larger sizes, on Apple M1: https://i.imgur.com/VjD5EK7.png
Jane Street/Yaron Minsky/at al came to similar conclusion with their formalized incremental implementation [0] - that this type of computation reappears in different contexts (build systems, ui, optimal data processing/display on large volumes of high frequency data etc). It's very interesting approach indeed.

[0] https://blog.janestreet.com/introducing-incremental
I was replying to a comment mentioning a 7800X3D.
That's a great translation of the corporate message
Boxed: Functional Types and Utilities for TypeScript
Many of my favorite games are older Windows or DOS games, such as Star Trek: Armada, Age of Empires, Descent, and Commander Keen.

If only I could get these to work on my M1 MacBook Pro. Now that would be something.
You could also argue that we should try to follow a formula where high population density = low car use and vice versa.

I live in a large European metropolitan region with excellent public transport and bicycle infrastructure - at least comparatively. While both leave massive room for improvement a car is not needed, especially as alternatives like car sharing exist for moving heavy stuff once every few months.

There is quite the large support to completely prohibit car use in the inner city aside from transportation, taxis and deliveries. There are hundreds of streets and places where cars have NO value, take a lot of room, blockade other participants in public life and actively worsen the urban environment for everyone. Getting rid of personal cars in these areas would free up massive amounts of space as parking slots can be reutilized and 3-lane roads become single lane.

I love cars and love driving but I hate hate hate them in inner cities. Dense, well-connected urban centers are very suitable to completely outlaw cars whereas suburban or rural areas are absolutely unsuitable to do so.

An improvement doesn't have to be 100% on day 1.
I've for a budget range Samsung tablet and Samsung dex works great.

Apple doesn't want to build a version of dex. I don't know why, it seems like an excellent fit, but they don't care. It probably has to do with the fact Microsoft's attempt has failed miserably.

If you care about this concept, I'd recommend considering buying a Samsung phone instead of an iPhone. Web browsing, office work, remote desktop, terminal stuff, it all Just Works hooked up to a compatible dock. The desktop feels a bit like a polished Linux environment, with deviations from Windows and macOS in the way things like the launcher works, but it also feels very finished.

The only real limit I've run into is the amount of RAM packed with these devices. The 4GiB of RAM my tablet packs clearly isn't enough to run multiple browser tabs, hires video playback and a fully featured MS Office at the same time, but I also imagine most computers would struggle with 4GiB these days. The S23 contains up to 12GiB of RAM, I imagine that'd be a breeze to work with.

I think people who care can use DeX for real office work today. I imagine the people who care are a minority, though.
Gen Z is in crippling debt and can't afford cars. Hmm how can we make this sound better...
I daily drive a 16" M1 MBP but I'm very much outside the Apple walled garden - I've never used an iPhone, no airpods or Siri or even the apps like Contacts or iMessage or iCloud.

I can still say, the new Apple Silicon Macs are one of the best computing devices I've ever used.
Because that's what they had on hand (at the right price) to get rid of all that old hardware, I suspect.
Interesting that the infectiousness of asymptomatic patients increased markedly during the omicron wave. Perhaps that’s why it was able to spread so quickly.
Arch does not do much spliting (except ruby where there is some kind of circular dependency)

Any way for:
python - 75M
perl - 59M
ruby - 25M
bash - 8M
dash - 0.15M
Politics is downstream of culture. if we wanted to reduce social media use, we could try to change internet habits and attitudes writ large. Something like a “put down the phone and talk to people” campaign, a la anti-smoking/drinking/drunk driving efforts of yore. That way it doesn’t feel like teens in particular are being targeted by out of touch adults. At least, not as much.
That’s great. Then you should keep enjoying your car. I just hope you don’t stop people from trying to enjoy a subway by supporting politicians that are anti-train.

Same goes for HSR. You can drive or fly between cities if you want, just don’t try to stop HSR development please. Lots of people want it.
Cheapest, oldest, slowest part fixed modern Mac
Java will be with us for many decades.
Former Twitter Employees vs. Twitter lawsuit filing [pdf]
Yes, but the people in favor of the law will just say that the senate approved of the law, and since they are democratically installed ...
Here's how the US Constitution works: the Executive is solely responsible for negotiating and signing international treaties and trade deals with no input from Congress or the Judiciary. Once signed, a treaty or trade deal is a piece of paper with no value.

Once a trade deal has been made by the Executive, Congress needs to introduce and pass legislation to implement the deal. They may choose to implement it as is, or more likely make all kinds of changes and implement something completely different. Once Congress has passed an implementation bill into law, the Executive develops all the rules and regulations associated with it and actually implements it, including enforcement bodies and committees to determine if the treaty or trade deal has been violated.

Then it's up to the Judicial branch to determine if the laws passed by Congress are valid or not, in terms of other laws and precedents, when asked.

So don't go off on some internet-based conspiracy rant that regular constitutional operations are trying to subvert Your Freedoms. Read opinion pieces on the internet in the context of knowledge and actual fact and in the spirit of click draws and eyeball sales.
Debit is actually terrible and I've never used it. If there is an error, it your money that is gone until it's fixed.

Slightly related, I never allow direct debit from my bank account for things like utilities. It's blanket permission to take money they think they are owed. A friend had a problem with his electricity, the public utility came out, said the meter was tampered with, replaced it and charged him $1000 right from his account.

Of course they were wrong. He got the money back, two months later.
Here's a sticker from a self checkout at a large supermarket (Føtex): https://imgur.com/a/w9sg1ey

It says (roughly) "Payment cards without fee: All Danish and foreign debit cards"

"Payment cards with fee: 0.9375% Danish issued; 1.75% foreign issued."
That's fine, but only if you agree that the current market failure should be fixed and all the negative externalities of personal car driving should be internalized. The society must cease subsidizing unsustainable means of transport.
Office Workers Don’t Hate the Office. They Hate the Commute
> Email exfil POC removed.

The POC has been removed from that file.
>"It would be nice if every developer had to run their latest build on 10 year old hardware while testing it out."

That is exactly what I do with my desktop product. I test it on really crappy hardware first.
Samsung has a feature to turn it into a WiDi display. It works, but the wireless latency and throughput limitations are a tad annoying. Maybe the Samsung laptops have optimizations for this.

The fact you can use the stylus that comes with the tablet on your PC through the second screen feature is kind of nice, but the wireless issues make using it kind of a bother.
Heh. The state of Pennsylvania mandates annual inspections and rusty holes in the floor are a no-no.
Depends on what you want. A useful approximation, or the latest approximation that is closer to how it really is.
Does it run 8088 MPH?

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=65371

Since it is presumably real hardware, it should, but it isn't a CRT, so the NTSC color bleeding trick to get extra colors may not work.
That's very helpful, many of these are new to me. Will check them out.
poor people have always been at the forefront of anti-consumerism!
It's astounding to me that someone could take having a car into their identity so deeply that they see suggestions that we should reduce car use as attacking them personally
I don't think the definition of a hacker is "made a few small web apps" or "one of his apps took off".

That would make him an entrepreneur and a web programmer.

Not a hacker, which (in this context) is about a great relationship with programming than "making a few web apps".
Speaking for Germany: A culture of risk-avoidance, a different attitude toward money and (by) those who have it (distrust instead of veneration), a terrible bureaucracy afflicted with paper document fetishism, significantly less venture capital per capita, lack of spaces to experiment - no "garage startups" because especially young people don't own/live in a house here, a focus on degrees, not entrepreneurial achievements.