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I think ereaders are a worse UI for all but wholly linear, light reading. If I’m reading some trashy fiction, ereaders don’t bother me—anything else, and they’re worse than a real book.

The two-page-at-a-time interface is a ton better and enables features like facing-page translations or setting a full-page illustration or other graphic opposite some text. Got two (largish) books, you can have both open and visible at the same time, four total pages. Footnotes are a lot better in a real book. Typesetters can control formatting—text placement on the page, were page-turns fall, that kind of thing—much better, so poetry texts may be better in a real book. I find holding or marking an endnote or index section and flipping back and forth to that faster, and less error-prone than doing the same on an ereader.

The book being a distinct physical object aids with memory. You see the title and author as it sits on the table in a room you’re occupying, even if you’re not reading it (I’ll often forget who wrote an ebook I’m reading, even if I’ve spent hours with it). Spatial memory is powerful. I not-uncommonly use it to locate parts of a book kinda by feel, like tracing a familiar but poorly marked trail in the woods. Ebooks feel like trying to find a particular spot on the open ocean, with no stars and out of sight of land.

Full text search is the only directly book-related feature of ebooks that I think gives them an edge, but that’s no replacement for a good index, and if I had to pick only one of the two, I’d take the index. It’s pretty good, though.

What remains in their favor is compactness, and boy is that a big advantage, so I do read ebooks even for some books I’d prefer to read on paper. But IMO the UI is, overall, a whole lot worse than a real book.

[edit] oops, sold ebooks short on one point: you don’t need to hunt down separate large-print editions, with them. Same thing that makes them so bad for text that benefits from a human having taken care with text formatting and placement, makes them great if you need large print.
> As far as tasks go making the world quiet is probably more difficult than adapting your home to be a more sound proof and climate controlled.

I mean, probably not, since other countries have greatly reduced the problem without much issue.

> My advice here is the only one actually guaranteed to improve the problem. It also costs less than bribing politicians to passing a law for you or inventing bespoke technology and deploying it to the sides of every road.

No one is denying the existence of bandaids solutions, but that doesn't mean we should stop at bandaid solutions. Frankly this sounds like libertarian ideology. We don't just let people do bad things because we can choose to insulate ourselves in a fortress, instead we focus on fixing society first and plan to one day remove the bandaid.
They said decreases, not stays constant
They have a way to view your printer's camera iirc. Open ports on your router aren't a good solution anymore especially with individual v4s being removed in some residential deployments.
Lenovo’s answer to Steam Deck, Legion Go, sports Switch-like detachable controls
7-day-old comment, but the company I work for (not a startup) flat-out bans creating a dependency on AGPL code.
This feels like a good thing to know about co-workers. Feels like you could avoid a lot of misunderstanding by just understanding which culture they more closely ascribe to vs. things like Meyers Briggs or True Colors. Might implement this as a simple question for onboarding.
Pedestrian safety is to self- driving cars what child porn is to encryption. It is the excuse used by government to conceal its true motives. How many millions of dollars of traffic fine revenue will government be deprived of when self- driving cars follow every law governing it?

This isn't about safety. It's about money.
Testing fast charging damage to smartphone batteries
Renewables are one of the reasons fusion (particularly DT fusion) is unlikely to succeed economically. Of course it never fails; it a centrally important part of discussing fusion.
Not OP, but although Zig is pretty good, it is arguably a relatively low-level language for application development. Thinking about pointers, for example, is tiring and unnecessary for most apps.
If you want a deep dive on drought - this is a good recent book by someone who knows what they're talking about:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Drought-Interdisciplinary-Perspecti...
Doctor-chemist here. You are correct. The carbon-fluorine bond is very inert to metabolism. Ingested Teflon would be almost entirely eliminated unchanged.

Takes pretty harsh conditions to break Teflon, but interestingly it can react with explosive violence, as I have witnessed, when combined with small particle sized Mg.
>Forests once deemed resilient are suffering surprising die-offs. To predict the fate of the world’s woods in the face of climate change, researchers need to understand how trees die.
Are you quoting someone? I did ctrl-f and found nothing.
This is one thing I strongly wish that the EU political arm could throw all its weight as it did with GDPR: Create an insanely strong law like GDPR making businesses have simple non-lawyeresque Terms of Services.
> David: Isn't that unbelievable? This is so the opposite of Silicon Valley.

Some of the most impact technological developments post-WW2 were created from government-funded research:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entrepreneurial_State

Silicon Valley was built on large government cheques being written during the Cold War:

* https://steveblank.com/secret-history/
i don't see why it isn't a viable business model either

just make people a printer and you don't need to develop a massive IT overhead

wouldn't this give you the ability to sell a cheaper product while marketing yourself as "not selling your customers information"?
ABC, the predecessor from which Python took many syntax features, was. I wonder if Python also took a lot of the ABC implementation, given that it is still copyright CWI.

I agree that its popularity is very odd, but academics take what they are given when attending fully paid conferences (aka vacations).
> Solar requires way more concrete and a bunch of mined rare earth minerals, nickel and cobalt, and is not green.

Wow, you've concatenated a string of lies into a single sentence. What a density of mendacity!

Solar requires none of those things, and is quite "green". Solar doesn't even need concrete for footings -- steel earth anchors, or even laying modules flat on the ground, are both practical and cheaper.
Pretty bad UI, I just thought there were more outfits.
Well, speaking for myself, I was against them from the start. Maybe the rejection of distributed objects (when it came) was a hot trend also but it didn't make it wrong.
I am a "just send text" guy. But you are correct; users like HTML and no one, like the author of this blog post, even remember that Internet messages are all plain 7-bit ASCII. I don't mind the HTML as much as I mind the Javascript inside them, or the web bugs that are included. Those are privacy and security issues.

So I've adapted to the reality that "email client" is now a web page on a service somewhere, and "email message" is another web page. I don't have to like it, I don't have to use it, but raging against it is a waste of everyone's time.
Sure, if things get really bad and I couldn't convince friends to use libre-supporting services and/or texting no longer works, then I'd have to choose my main pocket device to be locked down. I'd probably still try to carry the libre device as a secondary one to have access to trustable apps while out, but I can see that being too inconvenient and giving up on it.

But my point was that still doesn't indicate moving to a "dumb" phone. A dumb phone is just a locked down device with even fewer capabilities.
Are weights code?
> "...[we] could not imagine that these same corporations would turn the internet into three boring, humdrum walled-off corporate gardens?"

One word: AOL

(Okay, technically CompuServe as well. The point is that the public was aware of and perfectly fine with corporate walled gardens even back then.)

> "...[we] could not imagine that corporations would just siphon up all that free labor"

Say what now? The FOSS crowd were literally begging corporations to adopt Free Software with slogans like "free as in speech and free as in beer" with the aim of killing the "evil Micro$haft monopoly" (sic), the much hated Business Software Alliance, and supplanting proprietary software in general. Every adoption of FOSS or Linux by a business got celebrated on /. as if it were a great triumph.

Them later acting surprised that businesses only ever cared about the the "free beer" aspect and were taking them up on their offer because of that and the eventual sharp U-turn from FOSS into open core and other totally-proprietary-but-we're-going-to-pretend-it's-open software licenses has been a source of endless schadenfreude to me ever since.

I was there in that era too. Those who could not imagine such things were being utterly blind.
On a tangent, wouldn't it make it safer if you didn't start a NAS with a bunch of identical drives, but you got them from different manufacturers and models?

They'll still fail, but hopefully they'd be less likely to do it at the same time.
Dumb license. Useless.
They mostly hire people in US these days.
There are lots of hardware features that enable cutoff (such as thermal runaway detection) but that's irrelevant to situations in which the environment has not been prepared for printing.

For example, your workshop may be well ventilated during the day and completely closed up at night. All the safety features in the world don't add up to a 100% safe usage experience for any piece of hardware. You don't want your printer doing this for the same reason you don't leave your table saw running when locking up for the night. Technically safe, but unadvisable.
I remember a magic school bus book with this exact smell.
There is nothing accurate about describe it as "stolen", no one is depriving you of your art when training a model, like no human is depriving you of your art when learning from it.
SSDs in raids famously all failed at once. Spinning disks basically don't, outside of (typically) firmware faults. Out of 100000 spinning disks I've managed, I've never had them fail at the same time.

Mechanical things don't fail as evenly as digital things.
I find it’s not that complicated, particularly if you've had exposure to these firms:

1) They exhibit an exceptionally risk-averse stance from a legal standpoint. Consequently, matters with even the slightest chance of legal repercussions (usually revolving around privacy) undergo an exhaustive examination that can take years. Often things get killed just because of the spectre of legal/privacy review.

2) Gaining unanimous agreement within the company for a particular course of action, especially necessary for projects demanding substantial resources, can truly be likened to an arduous Sisyphean endeavor.

3) Anything that doesn't immediately and unequivocally exhibit the potential to evolve into a multi-billion dollar industry is met with significant doubt.
WESTern PACific:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_Readiness_Center_Western...

* https://www.navair.navy.mil/frcwp/
It's kind of amazing that you think it's not a 1% status to have an assistant like that.
They’ll likely just decide it’s not different enough. Courts aren’t computers; they can look at intent.

A classic essay:

What colour are your bits?
https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
Where do we price up externalities! We surely need to in manufacturing, construction and such, but I don't see us doing it in any meaningful way now, so I am a bit surprised by your statement!
Thanks.

“AD109 targets two neurochemical pathways which control the upper airway musculature during sleep via a dual mechanism of action”
I own a Bambu P1S and Bambu does not deserve the benefit of the doubt in this case. The cloud (anti-)feature is entirely unnecessary and gives them free license to use all recordings from the webcam in the printer.

The printer has to be connected to the “cloud” in order to access the webcam, control the internal lights, and control the print head and heated bed from their Bambu app. However, part of the initial setup process requires you to connect to the printer via Bluetooth in order to setup the wifi connection in the first place! Clearly it IS possible to communicate with the printer without an internet connection.

They intentionally ruined the user experience in LAN-only mode to persuade people to connect their printers to the Bambu cloud service.
Maybe it's time to retire the term? Sounds like it's extremely prone to misuse.
> does not run on the GPU

both Cuda and the Metal shader language are C++, so is OpenCL since 2.0 (https://www.khronos.org/opencl/), so is AMD ROCm's HIP (https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP), so is SYCL (https://www.khronos.org/sycl/)? C++ is pretty much the language that runs most on GPUs.

> no vector instructions,

There's a thousand different possibilities for SIMD in C++, from #pragma omp simd, to libs such as std::experimental::simd (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental/simd/simd), Eve (https://github.com/jfalcou/eve), Highway (https://github.com/google/highway), Vc (https://github.com/VcDevel/Vc)...
And almost every cheap 3D printer does this. You won’t have trouble finding one.

The reality is that Bambu makes a premium product, in part precisely due to the cloud features. Which you can turn off, or never activate, but no-one does.

Printers like these really genuinely do benefit from cloud connectivity. Unfortunately that doesn’t mean you can skip on QC…
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> In other news, all of the WDRed CMR drives in my ZFS array started throwing read errors simultaneously so I've ripped them all out.

Is this multiple drives purchased around the time failing at the same time? Or is it a bad cable or controller?
> bloggers can provide partial RSS feeds that contain only snippets

This plays well with federated microblogging (mastodon and friends). RSS can play both the role of signaling that new content is available and (if desired) providing that content. The signaling aspect is more fundamental imho.

A user-centric web should aim to help people manage information overflow without dependency on gatekeepers and their opaque and manipulated algorithmic timelines. There is a certain catch-22 with supply (of RSS feeds) and demand (users with RSS readers).

The ideal would be that users could consume and share RSS feeds with the lowest possible friction and highest possible privacy, e.g. have feed readers integrated into the browser (live bookmarks [1] sadly removed from firefox) or their email client [2] (thunderbird offers this).

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/live-bookmarks

[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-subscribe-news-feed...
Eh? I've been admining raid arrays since before SSDs were a thing. Making sure you build your array from disks from different batches to reduce the likelihood of simultaneously failing has always been the advice.

I make no assertion as to WD quality, but failures like you describe have been the bane of sysadmins quite some time.
Yes it does support local connection, although in my experience it hasn’t worked well possibly because I have my IoT devices on a separate VLAN.
Not to be THAT guy, but I'm getting a definite ChatGPTish generative text feel from that article. The short sections, the FAQ restating the details from the article three paragraphs ago, etc. I hate to lead a witch hunt, but...
It is up to them to prove originality/provenance if they want to enforce copyright.
Agreed. It's an impressive and practiced talent.

Art comes from another place.
This hub-and-spoke architecture is the core of acme, the editor of plan 9 aka "unix if it had evolved using its own mantras and didn't choose pragmatism all the time". That editor has extremely basic functions built-in, and more complex operations are done by external processes plugged to acme and accessing all buffers directly, with a good, mandatory usage of the mouse. Unfortunately it doesn't have all batteries included by default, so it's not very famous today.
One interesting fact in the article is that for the top spots at least, you did it once for a year and then you were barred from that office for like 10.
The worst part is how many people in the other comments are begging for this to be brought to their city too. They've been trained well.
> Give us wasm and precompiled, sandboxed binaries from crates.io!

Even a precompiled, sandboxed WASM binary is already too opaque. Sure, it cannot directly do bad things to the build machine (because it's sandboxed), but it still could inject malicious code into the final output of the compiler. And since it's a binary, it cannot be easily audited (through things like cargo-vet), unless it can be re-created from its source code through a reproducible build step.

And if it can be re-created through a reproducible build step, then it's not much more than a cache. Which points to the true issue being deficient caching of some intermediate build steps; distributing precompiled binaries should not be actually needed.
> How about we have appliances without remote controls?

The Bambu systems work just fine from a microSD card without an internet connection at setup or in use. The Cloud is optional, and I think that any user who decides to use the cloud should be aware of the logical risks included.

> Couldn't all the same features be offered with local computing? Isn't "cloud" just a route for trouble for almost all users?

Many can, including viewing the cameras, which now work just fine with LAN mode on Bambu printers. However, I would argue people want to remotely check on their prints (what if I started a 12-hour print, left for work, and want to make sure it looks good at lunch?). The alternative there is opening ports on their router which, for the average person, is a much worse and less secure idea.
> unprincipled

> lmao at the courts

I see this a lot on HN: the idea that courts rule based on principles. It’s a strange viewpoint. There are courts of law. They rule based on law. To the extent law is messy (it is), court rulings will be messy.

There isn’t a court in the world that would make a ruling based on your, my, or anyone else’s principles.
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Android app that uses the NOAA and NWS APIs. No ads, no user tracking and includes the forecast dicussions and the nowcoast visual.

https://nwsnow.net/
> 2. Any person working in this agency is banned for life to work in the private data sector for life (it better be lucrative to work there).

What about the other way around? Can someone who works in the private data sector leave and go to work for the agency?
Because a print can take multiple days, you’re supposed to keep an eye on, and you might want to leave the house.
I think the point he was making was that in the winter in Finland there was "only" a drop of ~40% in cycling. I say "only" because for many people, myself included, my winter cycling drops by ~100%.
In what cases of repair is having the right tools not a good idea?
Your partner hears it, you may hear it when it has moved a bit and the air is leaking, you hear it when you try to go to sleep and the overpressure safety valve is next to your pillow and making a wheezing sound, when you end your sleep cycle and could go to another one except that the mask moved a little and it's bothering enough to wake you up (and then you have to find sleep again), you worry about keeping it and yourself in just the right position that will allow you to go back to sleep, effectively preventing you from falling asleep because of the stress...

And I have a few reasons more,if you really need.
I really appreciate the people doing this work. It's the only way I've run these models without any headaches. The difference is so stark, even with CUDA and Linux it's bad, with AMD and Windows it's miserable. I'm pretty sure it's not just me..
Reminder the Bambu works just fine printing from a microSD card without the cloud. No cloud connection is required to set up the printer either.
I don't see why we wouldn't make a robotaxis pass driving exams. Also, I don't see how would this help. Most accidents are caused by licensed drivers
Well enjoy the noise and the heatwaves until the government gets around to resolving the problem for you.
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in the coastal USA and elsewhere, increasing number of "wealthy people" do not form stable relationships and do not make children. Increasing amounts of legal requirements for anyone physically near them, and 24x7 media contact with other, wealthy people far away.. seem more likely. Not everyone likes this - the "no children" part, so for example on the highway from UC Davis into Sacramento state capital, there is a large color ad for "securing your future" which is apparently, for "wealthy" women to freeze their eggs, since they have no time-partner-place to make children now.

Italy, Japan, some USA and some others are following this new pattern, of high-competition people making a lot of money, but the cost is no family, no children.
> Why stop the sarcasm

Because every single random opinion seems to be held by somebody. (So, if you state something, it is possible that you hold that literal whatever opinion.)

And because statements without justification are like random statements - also with relevance to the topic. Some agents in fact use the proposal of any odd idea as desensitization, towards atrophy of judgement.
Rust devs push back as Serde project ships precompiled binaries
... and because i'm not into 3d printers, i rightfully assumed it's there to make you pay for a subscription or something ;)
Imagine they’d have this Ford patent implemented and the car would have just impounded itself with no reason. This proves it’s going to happen, it already did.
Not as mind boggling as the obesity rate.

I’m very aggressive towards friends about cpaps. I bother them until they do a sleep study. It is life changing for many of us.
Burden of proof goes the other way. If someone copyrights AI art, you copy it, and they sue you… it’s going to be on you to prove it was not original.
Only my Model M has a full keyboard
Well, people asleep listening to ads, should technically be great due to the continuous subconscious delivery of the ads.
Loud bikes slightly disorient me when I'm driving my car. If anything, I'm more likely to have an accident when they drive up near me
I'm curious whether those with more professional exposure to rust are concerned about this or think it's noisy for no reason?

I'd also be curious if anyone has any good explanations as to why a choice like this would be made?