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> However, if you don’t need the full bandwidth that four lanes can give you, a DP link can consist of only one or two main lanes resulting in two

This is how many USB C docks operate. The USB C connector also has four high speed lanes and there's a mode where two are assigned to carry DisplayPort data and two are assigned to be TX and RX respectively for USB. Until DP 1.4 appeared, this meant you were quite limited in display resolution if you didn't have Thunderbolt and wanted faster than 480mbps data speed. With DP 1.3, two HBR3 lanes can carry 12.96 Gbit/s which is almost exacly the requirement for 4k @ 60Hz at 12.54 Gbit/s. DP 1.4 adds compression on top of this. One more beauty of DisplayPort is it's point to point so it's entirely possible your USB C hub will carry the display data from the host to the hub as compressed HBR3 data over two lanes and then hand it out to two monitors over four uncompressed HBR2 lanes to each so a modern USB C hub can, without Thunderbolt, drive two 4k @60Hz monitors and still provide multiple gigabit speed data. It's a very neat trick. This needs full DisplayPort 1.4 support including DSC in the host, for integrated GPUs in laptop CPUs this means AMD Ryzen 4000 and newer or Intel Tiger Lake and newer (older laptops with discrete GPUs might have had it, too).

Handy tip: if your hub is DP 1.4 and drives multiple monitors then it's most likely using a Synaptics MST hub to do this (almost all non-Thunderbolt ones do and many Thunderbolt ones as well) and Synaptics provides a very very little known diagnostics tool called vmmdptool (available in the Windows Store). It doesn't replace a full DP AUX protocol analyzer of course but it's free and for that price it's really handy.

This topic is dear to me because I have fixed the USB C specification related to this and allow me to be damn proud of that: it used to erroneously say the USB data speed in this mixed functionality was limited to 5gbps but it is not, the limit is 10gbps. https://superuser.com/a/1536688/41259

Ps.: When I say Thunderbolt, I am well aware of how Thunderbolt 4 is just USB4 with optional features made mandatory. It's not relevant to the discussion at hand.

Pps.: DisplayPort is the native video standard for USB C, C-DisplayPort adapters and cables are basically passive because they just need to tell the host how to configure the connector lanes. Meanwhile all USB C - HDMI cables and converters are active which constantly work on the DP signal to become HDMI. DisplayPort++ alas is not implemented with the USB C connector. For this reason if any compatibility issues arise it's always better to connect a USB C device to the DisplayPort input on a monitor. A HDMI alternate mode was defined in the past but it remained paper only and it has been declared dead this year at CES.
Fixed, thank you for pointing that out!
Novices don't appreciate nuance that trained experts focus on ... yes, that makes sense. But children do actually have more papillae (taste buds) than adults. As we age, we may gain skill in describing what we sense but we also lose taste buds which give us the raw sensory input to start with.

Also on the plus side, children also lack bias and cultural filters and blindspots, which are hard to avoid in adulthood. Kids notice things adults do not and kids don't hold back from talking about details which adults have dulled themselves to or have been trained to not speak of for reasons of tradition or politeness. (Sometimes those things need to be said and we're all thinking them!)

"Out of the mouths of babes."
One of the main reasons I want to be better blogging than I am is because I want to see myself change, I want to change my opinions.

I want to have processes to review what I wrote, and review how strongly I felt about it at the time, and update my stances.

Personally I think the danger is far over-rated. We see the spectacular & loud exceptions to hundreds of millions of people actively posting & sharing & having fine undisturbed lives. Not everyone is going to have 15 minutes of being under attack in their life, but there's kind of a tacit assumption that having been online is all too likely to explode upon one's face at some point. And indeed, we do need to respect this possibility, make it a known idea, but this fear I think has way too much representation, & the opposing view, that it's very unlikely to ever be an issue I think is way undertold & undershared. As usual, subtle, nuance & complex gets sand-blasted away by something emotional & heart plucking & attention-grabbing.

And in the aftermath, we have humanity being silent. Humanity loses a shared heritidge it could have, for understanding itself better. Because it was, in my humble opinion, unreasonably afraid someone might attack their words. Personally, I strongly feel that values of onlineness & openness & democracy each should make us push back a lot harder.
An expert has discovered that Brazil’s central bank would have the power to block, drain, freeze, and change balances in users’ CBDC accounts.
Too much could happen in 100 years, so personally, unless your family or friends choose to keep it going and find their own friends and family to keep it going, all will die.

Hundreds of thousands of domains were here yesterday but gone today.. either due to lose interest or the person died and no one knew how to keep it going or even cared.

It is very likely that the major websites, such as Chase or Home Depot or Lowes or any of these types of business websites will be here to stay for as long as we do banking and use the Internet.

There are some things that can be done for continuity, such as funding a bank account that is specifically linked to domains and then you'd just have to account for hosting and the domain. If you leave it in your Will, you could keep that bank account going if you don't have greedy family members. In this case, you can set your domain to auto-renew and set autopay for hosting and just make sure you account for the amount you might want to keep it going though this could get expensive.

But unless there is a successor or someone who really is as passionate and cares about your project enough to keep it going, it is very unlikely that it will go on without you.
Wow to say the least. I have Predictably Irrational on my shelf and have highly recommend it in the past. Sad to see the whole field failing the irreproducibility task...

I'm very happy to see this type of scrutiny come to headline research but I really wish it begins at the beginning, with funding agencies and journals. And at the very least the moment a university sends out a breathless PR, the media all scrutinize the data provenance... A boy can wish
Oh, they worked really well; they were still used for numerical calculation even after Galileo. But they weren't a "demonstration of knowledge and understanding" of planetary motion.
from NASA: Space exploration helps to address fundamental questions about our place in the Universe and the history of our solar system.
Interesting timing for me. I just read about Malaya buildings 3 and 4, which have been declared unsafe, and everybody got a 30 day notice bc the only option is to demolish
Hills, sure, not too many of them. But there are sooo many bridges that require shifting. And the flat landscape can also give you terrible headwinds where again, shifting is very handy. So I don't think that /that/ is the reason for the lack of manual shifting.
Taleb wrote well about that, changed my view on science. Not that science should be discounted, but it’s not the single source of truth. https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1419843561286160397
Would love to know what law this is in violation of. Also laws can be changed if they're dumb.
The "montroser principal": "Enough with the animations already".
Right, but the post is "I'd really be impressed with a system that could figure out the closed form based on the definition." Point seeming that coding up a recursive process based on the definition doesn't seem to be the best reason to teach something that way.

This goes back to a ton of the talk on early compilers and systems. They would push that you should lean heavily on the system to move from definitions to optimal solutions. (This later got changed heavily to leaning only on the compiler, but the same idea applies.)
Whilst a solar maximum is likely risky for modern infrastructure, satellites, etc. I'd bet radio amateurs will be pleased.

Solar max generally means the ionosphere is in a much more excited state and that means good to excellent HF communications. Even low VHF frequencies get reflected by the E-layer.

(When I was a kid I recall watching NZ TV in Australia by sporadic E-layer transmissions during a solar maximum. Auckland and Dunedin TV could be viewed thousands of miles away in NSW.)
Huh. Maybe I’ll try removing it and onboard again.
> It's just not fun and quite dead for me. My crowed just isn't on mastodon.

Which is totally a valid stance. It sounds like you have your solution already -- stay on Twitter and don't use a federated system.
That's an interesting idea, and seems like a good implementation. I'll play with it.
My A.I. Writing Robot
Xbox chief Phil Spencer’s memo to Microsoft employees about the FTC win
Thanks for sharing your view. I definitely prefer a GUI editor, I’m currently using Sublime.

I was attracted to emacs because I like writing lisp and I hoped that the high level of customizability would let me smooth over any rough edges. But even though Sublime is not very flexile at all, it’s closer to what I want than I was able to script emacs to be.
For emergency situations there is a radio. OTA TV will die forgotten.
What I find most funny is that you're implying there are alternative solutions that you do know and care about.

And yet instead of addressing my actual objection - that screenwriters seeking to get paid more for co-creating IP would be unlikely to see abolition of IP protection as a solution - by articulating those alternatives and how it would allow them to get paid more, you chose to assert they don't get paid.[1]

I mean, I'm not the one advocating the radical change here, even though actually I don't "assume that the copyright laws is for the best in the best of all possible worlds". So it's not really incumbent on me to answer my own objections by imagining screenwriter-satisfying solutions involving the abolition of copyright. If you actually had one and were able to advocate it with as much zeal as you have defended the claim "most of them already don't get paid" this might be a more interesting discussion.

[1]doesn't really matter if you were doing so "specifically in the context of streaming platform residuals" since whether or not they get residuals from a particular media type is irrelevant to the fact screenwriters are not in favour of proposals which would entail them losing both the residuals they do get and their job
It's not even remotely on the same scale as the Saudis though. British monarchy is wealthy but compared to the Saudi wealth they are paupers.
Anything that is interesting about that in significance perhaps?
New C# 12 preview features
One way to handle that is through multiple user modes. A simple case is how MS office shifted UI many times, but the keyboard shortcuts remained the same and accumulated to some extent. The key sequences are still there to navigate menus that disappeared before ribbons, or even before MS bought out the originating product. Key combos are a common thing experienced users learn almost unintentionally to speed up a workflow, but it doesn't harm the discoverability for new users or of new features.
One other consideration is how much of that is simply "mission accomplished".

From my understanding, there's a sense SETI's raw dataset also just simply "shrunk" in the last several years. In the furthest distributed among general users period they were analyzing a lot of raw Arecibo data collected for other science needs and not already in the best shape for SETI experiments so a lot of it was "tedious grunt work". Between the shutdown of the Arecibo antenna and the stand up of dedicated SETI mission hardware (the Allen Telescope Array) built directly for their experiments a lot of the "tedious grunt work" just disappeared (and yes, as mentioned, doing more of the signal processing directly on site as the data is collected as part of the array design).

Relatedly, from how I've heard it, protein folding hit a number of key milestones and solved a lot of (most of?) the most common/most generic proteins and their various folds. The biggest remaining problems are supposedly just ad hoc specialty projects for specific experiments/grant sponsors (in which case they can include computation resources in the experiment design/grant sponsorship) or specific rare events (the massive distribution asked for during the COVID-19 processing period).

I think it is worth celebrating that apparently there was a good amount of "mission accomplished" science and that "use all the computation available for free from home users" period has mostly ended.
> To avoid that, the bot would have to be a high-ranking professional psychologist with an explicit purpose not to trigger destructive reactions.

Sounds fairly dooable, TBH, given what else they're doing reasonably well at.

> And that would fail the nature of a "consultant", which is something "under best effort to speak the truth" - incompatible direction with "something reassuring".

I don't think they're as incompatible as you appear to.
Here's additional insights regarding the repo https://devboard.gitsense.com/pddemo/demo

So far, my tool show 54 thousand issues were created by a single person in the last 6 weeks.

Full disclosure: This is my tool.
Just imagine if Boeing lobbied the government to pass a law banning you biking from NY to LA.
Seems like behavioral economics really just receives splash damage from what is the massive fraud at the heart of experimental social psychology. At this point I basically assume any catchy finding from the field is at best HARKed or p-hacked and at worst completely fraudulent.
The app itself looks pretty neat. But I don't know how much I can agree with "lightweight" for a full stack webapp that just stores and presents text.
IIRC, Keras was added officially added to Tensorflow as part of the version 2.0 release. With Keras reverting to its backend-agnostic state, will it be removed from Tensorflow? Is this a divorce or are TF & Keras just opening up their relationship?
Me too, then following my Ph.D at a relatively small school went off to a post-doc at a major research university where the grants are millions or you're worthless... That environment essentially forces you to commit fraud so I got out pretty quick
To me, the idea is much more like: everyone is unique & special & should be celebrated, everyone has their own amazing insight & views of the world, and we make society & the future better when we can share ourselves.

It can be a psuedo-nym, that's fine, but not sharing yourself seems like a waste of a life. And I think it misses opportunity to refine yourself, to ask yourself what your views are. Writing creates thought, writing creates perspective, and doing at least a good bit of it openly to the world - even if no one today is reading - is so valuable.
> am a deep believer in free markets

There are more people proffesing their beliefs in this thread, than in most discussions about the Catholic church.

In this entire thread noone considered - "let us have a look, which country has best railways" and maybe learn from Spain and China.

In public discourse, ecomomy is treated like a religion.
> Nowadays many people think podcasts just are on Spotify.

They do?? This blew my mind, and made me very sad.
The DesignWare History Thread
One little thing I think makes a huge difference is just using the user agent a bit more.

You can write styles at only apply in high-contrast or reduced-motion mode.

Use relative text sizes so you the user agent can use a value for the root font size that isn’t 16px.

Use buttons for buttons, links for links, and <dialog> for dialogs etc.

I’ve thought about just making more web apps that have nearly no styling, maybe just some layout, but otherwise relying on the user agent styles. That’s a ton of user customizability for FREE! And honestly, it usually doesn’t look that bad.
Ytbe.one is a tool to open YouTube links directly in the mobile app.

Why did I need this?

Major social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp do not open YouTube from within their own applications, but instead open it as a preview window in the browser, so when people watching the video want to like or comment on the video, they see the text "Log in" and leave without doing anything. status creates a bad impression on the viewer and does not bring any interaction to Youtuber.

Thanks to ytbe.one, YouTube links are opened directly in the mobile application, so that the user experience of the viewers is maximized, they can easily like or comment on you.
Yes. If I remember correctly, selecting a region with the mouse would cause it to error and only resume working when emacs was restarted.
This is an awfully petty hill to die on, especially for this website. The material difference between Postgres and MySQL for the overwhelming majority of users is insignificant. They're both good pieces of software and there are hardly any features missing in either that anyone who's not a DBA would miss when comparing one to the other. It's like arguing against using Firefox because Chrome "won the war". Who do you think you're convincing?
> I'm shocked that the Commission can do something like this by decree, without any review by other institutions.

the entire point of the EU is the transfer of power from member state elected parliaments to a continent wide appointed executive

and it's designed as a ratchet: once transferred it's impossible to get back (other than leaving the entire thing)
Save you a click:
It's unefficient and
"Compared to the multibillion-dollar solar industry — a mature, plug-and-play technology — distributed wind power remains the domain of small operators and DIY outfitters."
Open-source gymnasium for machine learning assisted computer architecture design
Canada's Crawford Lake chosen as 'golden spike' to mark proposed new epoch
"Don't bring your fists to a C++ spec fight."
Maybe use Resilio Sync (bittorrent-based) and force it to do LAN only syncing?

https://help.resilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/204754349-Can-I-f...
I guess? I mean, I would happily consider a Framework mini-PC, but buying literal laptop boards when I don't actually want a laptop, and then having to, what, cobble together a power supply and case, etc? I found it a lot more convenient to buy a barebones NUC, put in some Crucial RAM and an SSD... considerably cheaper too.
I once purchased a FireWire multi-channel audio interface with the express intent of reverse engineering the protocol in order to add Linux support. I purchased a specialized PCI card that was intentionally non-standard (not OHCI 1394) but could snoop and capture traffic between a device and a host. I chipped away at deciphering a register map for awhile, but eventually better USB audio devices came along that had more driver support.

Still trying to do the same sort of thing though with some audio related USB and Ethernet/IP devices so I guess I never really gave up the idea in my heart!
Scientists now say a new epoch – the Anthropocene began in 1950s
I believe the web currently possesses the capabilities to make a networked Emacs/Smalltalk style system, souped up with AI, targeting web applications that don't require downloads; I've been pursuing such a system for a while and hope to have a prototype soon. There isn't really anything like this - Emacs is stuck in Unix-land, Replit is tied to React/Next.js (blegh), and Urbit sees obscurity as a virtue.
> "unsimulatable"

Is so at least until it is known what it is. Opinions differ on whether that is knowable.

> un"real"

As the only thing you and I will ever have direct access to, consciousness is certainly real. Opinions differ on whether it is alone in that.

> turn to religion

I personally prefer philosophy, but you do you. To me religion seems about as capable of getting to truth as physics (that is to say, not very much when taken just by itself).
Why the Early Success of Threads May Crash into Reality
Was there such a whistle blower?
I dont think this is true, but suppose it was - so what? If I am travelling eith my daughter I often need advice from the ticket office folks. It does not matyer how they aquire it.

Additionally, often the ticket office gives better rates -

https://twitter.com/CraigJordanBak1/status/16786743395735101...

The fact that you dont know this, betrays the fact that you havw no idea how the UK ticket prices are actually set
It is akin to people adding weights to items to make them seem higher quality. Not in hiking gear certainly, but disassembly of held kitchen appliances or tools often turns up steel chunks used for that purpose.
Taste itself is a deception. Studies have shown that if you dye a steak blue, it will taste subjectively worse to the eater than if it were a normal color, even though the taste should be chemically identical. With taste tests of identical foods, where one is mentioned to be a higher price than the other, the person eating it will prefer the "taste" of the more expensive one.
if that is the bar to pass for content for public consumption, we're dangerously close to book burning, again.
I'll put forth that nothing of this sort, from the semiconductor age onwards, can be an artifact as we have far more readily available and detailed records to work from.

Such graffiti is only an artifact when it's purpose, history and other aspects are lost to time due to lack of alternative documentation.

In effectively all cases these days there is simply no additional value obtained from graffiti like this, unlike that of street artists doing murals or painting trains.
Reduced sentencing for cooperation with law enforcement
I think this blog post by the Newpipe team is a fine link to use to provide context + promote their CTA so people can help them, no?
The Ignobel Awards of Startup/Hustle Advice
I thought about it some more, you might be able to do this entirely with an off the shell SDR.

If you have a device that can record multiple bands simultaneously, and preserve timing between them, then you may be able to record both your target band and the GPS band and then use software later to reconstruct the time out of the GPS recording.

See: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-tutorial-gps-decoding-plotti...
I thought it was because their G-Sync modules had not been updated to support the new DP? That was what I heard.
> My reasoning if pretty simple: if a war is actively going on in Europe, European security is reduced. If a war is not actively going on in Europe, European security is increased (or at least stabilized). It's a weird inversion to me to think that prolonging a large land war somehow actually increases this hypothetical security

The thing kind of hinges on whether you consider the Russian invasions of (so far) Georgia and Ukraine separate, narrowly bounded wars with no consequences for each beyond their boundaries, and no context, or if you see them as a single expanding pattern of aggression directly responding to particular opportunities created by perceived lack of willingness of the international community to constrain further aggression.

Did the Munich Peace Agreement avoid a war in 1938 over the Sudetenland? Sure. Did it contribute positively to European stability and security in any but the shortest possible term? I think most would agree the answer is “no,” Chamberlain’s triumphant declaration of “Peace for our time” aside.
I think it's a necessary precursor to any future model. Would you want to spend ten times as much (or whatever) red-teaming the next increase in capabilities? And what would make you more confident in advance that the red team would spot everything?