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I mentioned this in another thread here before, but I've had 3 Pixel 5a devices completely die on me. Dealing with Google support was such a pain I gave up. My first one died nicely within warranty, and they sent me to a "local" authorised store. Who confirmed it was dead, complete motherboard failure, and then told me that google was refusing to ship them the parts they needed for a repairs. Google sorted out returns after a little badgering, and then the device just sat there collected but not being processed at all, no indications of progress or whatnot until suddenly a new device arrived.

Then my wife's one died a few days before the end of her warranty. They sent us to the local store, who again confirmed same issue. Motherboard dead. Google told them they'd follow up with us, and then after a few days I reached out to them but because that was now out of warranty they refused to replace the device. I completely gave up at that point. It wasn't worth it to get a replacement device that would likely die just like our previous two had, so we bought a non-Google replacement. That argument with google over warrant was so ridiculous and so frustrating, for an amount of money that they'd blink and not miss, we just swore off buying google hardware ever again.

Then just a month ago, my warranty replacement died in exactly the same way. Technically speaking I could get a replacement, as I understand it. No way I'm going to go through all that hassle again.
> Isn't there already a tool that has "Sketch" in the name?

> Yes, there are many!

So the justification for confusingly reusing the name of an existing product in the same space is just "there exists many other products with the same name"? Is it just me or does this not make any sense?
You can find a more complete list of "well-known symbols" here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Well, you only see that it's bent - you don't go all the way around. Might as well be an upside down wok pan.
And in this case they are telling a drug company that they cannot sell an unapproved drug. Are you okay with that?
NBA Twitter fixed basketball’s bad officiating
Unfortunately, it was trained with a tokenizer which squashes repeated spaces. Basically, this means it can't do code generation or any whitespace-based text formatting.

They had one job, and this wasn't it.
Note an interesting implication of the mask: on the most recent C++ committee meeting, the library working group working on simd<T> discussed whether == should return a boolean, as it typically does, or a mask.

I don't know if they decided, and if so how, based on this trip report: https://www.think-cell.com/en/career/devblog/trip-report-sum...
Recommending the same popular things to everyone is a bad recommendation system.
> the upside for the company is that if it works, they get the evidence of efficacy.

They don't, though. They need a control group.
The best thing I did to improve my car driving around motorcycles was getting my motorcycle license, which I don’t actually use. It was a fun 3 days learning how to ride a motorcycle, and it was highly beneficial to learn what motorcyclists are taught to watch out for. I believe a lot of what I learned should have been taught in driver’s ed. I think it would help avoid many accidents if everyone was aware of other vehicles on the road.
It was quite hectic but I did a startup and interned at a enterprise software company in the summer and did full time school. Depending on your goals, doing something like that might help you get the best of both worlds (def not for everyone and your social life will suffer, but great way to become more well rounded).
Intensification of the Nervous System: On “The Metropolis and Mental Life”
I just meant that RMS was not a code contributor to Linux, and that his primary motivation for insisting on "GNU/Linux" was ego and jealousy.

Some people do call it GNU/Linux officially, such as the Debian Project, but casually yeah it's not really used so much because its weird and awkward to say. 99% of the world just calls it Linux and that's fine.
Have you ever tried to move a large organization forward in a certain direction? It’s really hard. At some point you have to make a decision.
What’s the practical application of this? It makes sense in chess where you have two players using the same rules, so a comparison makes sense. But is Postgres a better database than Redis? Is The Godfather a better film than Lord of the Rings? These questions make no sense. Political candidates can’t get an increased value simply for being less popular.

So is the idea that you use this in a very technical space for, say, ranking jobs in a queue? Or is it intended for an e-commerce site to order by product ratings?
This is true. However, the blast radius may be smaller with a process model. Also recovering from a fatal error in one session could possibly be easier. I say this as a 30-year threading proponent.
Sorry I missed you out! I have used cutter.

It may be a sore point but I have a niggling curiousity did cutter previously work with R2 and there was some beef?
getting rid of useful features, and adding features no one wants or asked for...just another example of enshitification
Yes, but note that the blast radius of a PostgreSQL process crash is already "the whole system reboots", so there are not a lot of differences between process- and thread-based PostgreSQL written in C.

Rewriting in Rust would be interesting, but it would also probably be too invasive to make it worthwile at all - all code in PostgreSQL is C, while not all code in PostgreSQL interacts with the intrinsics of processes vs threads. Any rewrite to Rust would likely take several times more effort than a port to threads.
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There is no need to "convince" you of anything. This is simply how things operate in the industry. No one involved in those transactions cares what you think because your opinion means nothing.
Meta products have more users than ever
Author here. It's a simple agreement that makes the most sense when I pay you. My upcoming conference [0] states that travel is covered and they're paid (imo handsomely) on top.

Why shouldn't they sign a contract in this case? If you fail to attend I want my money back!

[0] https://handmadecities.com/boston
The latter. I don’t really consider it a charity since the people could easily pay for it (plus tube radios are so simple to fix). However, upon receiving it back, they are quick to realize the missing memories they might have given up.

Selfishly I do it to keep up my soldering skills when none of my amateur radio related radios need servicing. Plus putting a little good karma out there never hurt anyone.
I want to like the KDE UI, but margins, spacing and balance is all over the place.

Panels have massive areas of empty space, with all the UI elements huddling together in the corner as if for warmth.
Discoverability is worse now without a lot of public forums, blogs, and websites. That was the passer-by's way to find these things before The Great Consolidation. They'd search it up on Google when it still worked, find the website, see the IRC info or the forum signup, and hop on.

That said, Daystrom Institute formed a branch on the fediverse during the Reddit shutdown with some other Star Trek subs: https://startrek.website/c/daystrominstitute
It's funny how Hitler is winning by a very large margin.
Object-Orientation in Rust
Truer words couldn't have been said. Life isn't just using some API and then automatically get something done or delivered.
This sounds like the best way to do it.

The company would still need a blinded control group to be able to demonstrate the effectiveness of any treatment.

However patients should be allowed to enroll for free into multiple treatment trials at the same time. For a given number of people and treatments, enrolling in multiple trials simultaneously gives more science output, and more chance of success for the participants, if you assume that ineffective treatments rarely are very harmful.
It's a silly web site that means nothing. If you attribute hurt or sadness to the result on it, that's not the fault of anyone else.
I've had the benefit of working under several, wither as a direct report, or as an executive presence that modelled positive habits across an org (includes one CEO that I've worked for twice and would do so again if he decided to start a new venture).

I consider them good for a multitude of reasons that don't necessarily have a coherent theme (e.g. "Servant management" or other fun business catch phrases) and my bias is that they set me up to become a manager myself, when I didn't think that was something I was cut out for, but actually found I excel at in the right org.

There are three that I would consider essential to my own career, and they all had different expressions of the following:

1. self-aware: they knew themselves, and could use that to understand how others reacted around them. They could modulate their behavior to find the 'sweet spot' in situations they were involved in.

2. deliberate and thoughtful. They weren't shy about taking ownership of things, coaching individuals towards getting team goals accomplished, but looking into the potentials of folks to see where "unseen" possibilities may be.

3. calm but resolute: they keep it cool under pressure, but don't have qualms about pushing back when they see other forces stepping offsides.

4. they treat their teams as a 'meta' project that can in fact evolve as the abilities and skills of its members expand and change; rather than just settling into managing a fixed pattern of rigid deliverables, they know that nothing in this industry is 'fixed' or 'rigid' and can improvise or adapt such that it minimizes organizational disruptions.

5. They have personalities. Real ones with quirks, and don't sublimate them into the common trope of detached, milquetoast functionary. That doesn't mean they fly their freak flag and make a spectacle of things, just that they don't act so reserved and distant as to be an enigma. That makes them relatable/approachable, even when you have little in common in terms of practical experiences.

Other than the above, where Haswell said in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36390756 is bang on.
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I had no idea he was that good at chess.
It's a multi-decade ask from many PG users and a serious pain point for many deployments.
I search for a url I know was posted and it doesn't show it. It shows unrelated articles.
> And cheaper real estate means you are paid less and build less equity in a house. But like the car, people convince themselves they don't want it so they don't have to admit they can't have it anyways.

I used to have a car when I lived in Ireland because public transport there is absolutely terrible, even in the cities (even Dublin has only mediocre transport).

Here in Spain it's amazing. I really don't need a car, nor the worries of service, repairs, insurance, taxes, fuel costs, parking...

Driving to work in Ireland used to stress me out so much because the road design is stupid there too (too many roundabouts), which causes access roads to congest and people press their right of way really hard as a result. I've had so many near misses. I'm really so so happy I don't need a car now. And 20 euro covers my entire travel needs for a whole month. I walk where I can and for everything else that 20 bucks covers an amazing metro, tram, bus, train and cablecar network.

And equity is a paper thing. It doesn't actually improve my quality of life.

> A lot of it can be traced to our southern border and gang activity. Something I'm surprised Europeans don't realize considering the rise in violent crimes post 2015 migrant crisis...

Violent crime here in Spain hasn't really increased and this is where a ton of the migrants arrive and still reside. It's more in the Northern countries where they let mafias get out of hand due to budget cuts on policing, and their harbours being big targets of drug trafficking.
I'm sorry but this just made me laugh. Hoisted on their own petard!

Arbitration actually worked out well for me the one time I was sued, but the practice here of using arbitration to thwart staff has to stop.
that's some rich whataboutism
Concurrency isn’t a “nice layer over pthreads” - the most important thing is isolation - anything that mucks up isolation is a mistake.

— Joe Armstrong

Threads are evil. https://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q6 https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-...

Nginx uses an asynchronous event-driven approach, rather than threads, to handle requests. https://aosabook.org/en/v2/nginx.html http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
What a short cited attitude. Eventuality, the bigger contracts will start to leave because they’ll have no idea if they’re above or below that profit threshold.
It's still up... On Piratebay.

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I am mostly excited for cheaper audiobooks with consistent voices for different characters.
I'm not a fan of the FDA at all and the current clinical trial process. I was just commenting that I thought your statement as to what their responsibility was is incorrect.
While I am not a fan of the War on Drugs, butting into a country's internal affairs screams colonialism.
I don't necessarily disagree. And I'm not saying the US should or should not help Taiwan. However, if Taiwan is invaded, it will be worse than the pandemic for availability of everything from cars to computers to shipping.

The damage would also spread like wildfire if it is prolonged. Imagine if you are UPS and can't get new package scanners. Imagine if you are VISA, a part of your mainframe fails, and there's no parts to replace it, so transactions are delayed or have higher fees to go through. Imagine if you are Lockheed Martin building airplanes with 60,000 engineers. If 10% of your computers fail within 3 years, 6,000 engineers need computers you can't get except for subpar stuff, second hand stuff, often from scalpers, at ludicrous prices.

And so forth. It's just all-around terrible economically and it would be felt globally. Global economic depression is quite possible.
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> This also harms eveyone because all the money pouring into a treatment that was a scam from day one is oppertunitu y lost.

You guys remember Theranos? When Safeway announced their deal with Theranos in 2012, a bunch of companies working in blood diagnostics folded because they couldn’t raise money or because their investors clawed back entire rounds.

A couple of friends had just raised a series B round to commercialize their surface plasmon resonance blood testing device, which would have actually done what Theranos promised with onsite blood testing (except with proper blood draw, not a finger prick). They were getting the product ready for golden standard testing with a CRO when investors decided it wasn’t worth trying to compete with a Theranos already in the pocket of major pharmacies and pulled the series B funding.

Patents ended up getting sold to some patent troll shortly before the news broke that Theranos was a scam.

The people who funded Theranos weren’t even desperate, just greedy. Imagine what fingers they’ll put on the scales when they’re actually staring death right in the face? It’ll be a disaster.
Or 90s hotornot.com
There is no shortcut to getting a degree, but maybe that is not really what he wants and has only confused it with his true desire? He suggests that what he really wants is skills. There is, indeed, a shortcut to gaining skills: Start doing.
There are tradeoffs here, but the current approach seems to protect people's inheritances better than people's lives.

Selling straight up snake oil is still fraud, and letting money be thrown at overhyped but ineffective treatments is a smaller tragedy than forcing people to die when treatments exist.
This is arrant nonsense. EU countries are NOT busy dominating each other nor are they engaged in colonialism, unless you think the Brussels Effect is about colonialism instead of the EU punching above its weight in setting norms and standards.

The EU is actually a very effective mechanism for preventing countries dominating others. A current case in point is the EU acting as a restraint on the historic domination of Ireland by the UK.

The UK expected Ireland to be forced out of the EU following the UK's exit or that the EU would sacrifice Ireland (compel it to have a trade border with the EU in order to protect the status quo of the open Ireland/NI border). Neither happened. Instead the British were obliged to uphold the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement -- a change from the UK's customary bad faith in dealing with Ireland.

Very simply the UK couldn't and cannot afford sanctions the EU would impose if the UK repeated its colonialist behaviour.

You'd be better off reading up on how the EU came into existence and on how it actually works (why VAT for tax eg) than making unsupported assertions.
Yes. Repetitive, I know, but the standard reminder applies: we are talking about a man who deliberately attempted to down a commercial jetliner, and almost succeeded. There's no rationalizing to do here.

People cheerleading Kaczynski tend not to know this, and I think that's because for the most part they're not really engaged with the story; rather, it's just much more interesting, for Internet conversation purposes, if there are buried intellectual gems to unearth from Kaczynski's project. Because of the powerful bias towards "fun to talk about", there will always be people around to say "Mail bombs are mostly always bad, but what about Iraq, maybe he was right about some things."
If you have good information, and your facilities to make a good decision... yes.

Alas, the FDA and friends exist for a reason. Snake Oil, or even things that are downright harmful are out there, that people will sell as cures, or great things.

To strawman: People say all natural is great. I remind them hemlock is all natural, but you probably don't want to digest it.
This is no powerplant-level story, but sometimes there are high startup currents were you didn't expect them:

On one of my first IT jobs at a big manufacturing company my team was tasked to find out why there are regular power outages in some printer rooms (there were rooms with shared printers on each floor of the office building). There were always some tripped circuit breakers and the facility management had to dispatch someone to put them back on. Between those incidents were always some weeks were nothing happened, but when it happened it affected a lot of printer rooms.

In the end we found a monthly cronjob on a central printing server which triggered a testpage print on all connected printers. Took us quite some time since no one ever saw those test pages. Never underestimate the needed current for a room full of colour laser printers coming to live all at once.
I've never really been limited by CPU when running postgres (few TB instances). The bottleneck is always IO. Do others have different experience? Plus there's elegance and a feeling of being in control when you know query is associated with specific process which you can deal with and monitor just like any other process.

But I'm very much clueless about internals, so this is a question rather than an opinion.
Why do you think NordVPN maintains browsing logs? According to them, “NordVPN does not log any of your activity online,” and the company states that PWC and Deloitte have audited and verified that claim. If you have evidence to the contrary, I am very interested in seeing it.

I am also familiar with a recent police investigation where law enforcement subpoenaed NordVPN and the company replied, essentially, that they had no information connecting a particular IP address, at a specific date and time, to any specific user.
I think this bit of marketing helps too.. “95% of the Earth’s ocean is unexplored. You can change that.”

Their money is going to philanthropic activity exploring the oceans.
Why the Stack Overflow Data Dump Was at Risk
> “Using” assumes that resource is a local object but that’s rarely actually the case - as in the example of a DB connection - it’s just how OOP represents it.

Can you elaborate on this more? It would be hard to represent a DB connection without an object somewhere (or a closure that's effectively the same thing), and I don't understand how local or not comes into play.

> Using requires me to implement a new class to represent this resource

It just requires you to set a key. You could also have a function to add it or do it locally.

Locally setting up Symbol.dispose does require more boilerplate than `defer`. But if the dispose is built into the object then `using` is less boilerplate than `defer`. And if you use a function to add the disposal, `using` with an extra function call is also less boilerplate than `defer`.
This really sounds like an April fool's joke.
It is not a version of Arial! Noto sans is derived from Droid Sans and Open Sans, all by Steve Mattheson.

That said, I don't use Noto and I replaced it with Tahoma. :)
very much so, that's how I use it. Especially if you want your dotfiles/configs to come with it.
Unironically, I want this, but for restaurants/stores/etc, essentially a replacement for Google Maps' helpful but deeply flawed one-to-five-star (but actually 4.0-4.9-star) rating system.
His winrate is probably terrible, though
Tor is an acronym for "The Onion Router", it just isn't capitalised as such.

[0] https://support.torproject.org/about/why-is-it-called-tor/

[1] https://www.britannica.com/technology/Tor-encryption-network
And the source code for this one has....

...not been open sourced and cannot be found.

Sorry AI bros. Better read the paper this time.
This is the opposite of "pretty easy". (Apologies if I'm just failing to detect sarcasm.)
It's a large amount of water but the anecdote itself is only ~32cm² on my screen :)
The link you posted has a addendum which links to this: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/details-of-the-infant-...

In the more well researched followup by the same person, the author of Astral Codex, we see that the FDA did not block or slow the approval. It was that the manufacturer had no interest in even submitting a application. In fact, the FDA regularly granted usage exemptions, granted a broad exemption for research, and even directly funded one of the first trials even though they are not primarily a funding body.

The actual moral of the story maybe is that we should let third partys submit applications? It seems like there would be little risk of bad outcomes as they still need to do the approval process. It aligns incentives better as the people ultimately at risk can deploy resources comparable to their QoL improvement instead of the expected increased sales volume at current prices. There is a obvious problem that the production process is inextricably linked to the final output so a non-manufacturer has limited control and insight into a core component that introduces the possibility of regression, but it seems relatively doable to develop protocols for handling that if they do not already exist.

edit: To be fair, once the application was submitted it still took 6 years for approval. There are likely large procedural costs in doing the exemptions and testing that make inaction preferable. So, in some sense exemptions and lacking interest in approval may be problems of their own creation, but on net the overall outcome seems fairly reasonable. Actual improvements in procedural matters are likely too nuanced for a random layperson like myself to comment on.
Would this basically be a new front end? Like the part that handles sockets and input?

Or more if a rewrite of subsystems? Like the query planner or storage engine etc?
Kinda, yes. std::net::Ipv6Addr re-exports core::net::Ipv6Addr - it lives in core because you don't need an operating system to have network addresses.

If you wanted the [u8; 16] that's octets() if you wanted [u16; 8] that's segments() and those are both inline constant functions.