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So for the first point about 'moral relativism is true' yes it's a meta-ethical statement, but at the same time, logically, you're affirming the set 'moral relativism'.

And the second point, I would argue that 'universal moral values' arise from 'absolute moral values', whatever that might be, if it's even possible to know it.

I also don't think that moral relativism is a logical negation of moral absolutism, more like an opposing view.
It's clearly a typo, and should be 5V.

But then you get 5V 5A ... 27W that is clearly incorrect too. So my guess is nobody is proofreading the technical specifications, and everybody that cares was kept away from that page.
One is the "smart" part of my smart TV. One powers my hifi. One connects my non-networked printer to the network.

One is an NTP server which gets the time from GPS, although that one will probably be retired soon, internet time works fine.

I used to have one inside a MAME cabinet but I upgraded it to a "real" PC because the Pi isn't really powerful enough for modern versions of MAME.
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Better batteries will improve current uses (phones/laptops/cars) but unlock future ones (aircraft, naval, satellites).
What makes you think their goal is "professionalism"?
Just a few days ago, version 1.0 was released. Release blogpost: https://librepcb.org/blog/2023-09-24_release_1.0.0/
Microsoft produces the most popular desktop OS, and ensures their browser (and search engine within) is the default there. They integrate it with their OS through Cortana. Still they lose the desktop market. The argument about google keeping them small through deals makes no sense. In the desktop market they have had a massive advantage since times immemorial. If bing was so good they would at least dominate the desktop market pretty easily, even if they lose in the mobile one.
Feels like they've been trying and failing to grow past their core product flow (send pics to friends) for a decade now.
It could become focused if the situation justifies it. It does not have to start immediately as the dark plot described. Let us say we have a massive amount of casualties due to some accident. So as an emergency the government suggests to create a new crop of humans to replace the dead as a stopgap solution to get the country running normally again in 15 years or so. I think you could sell that to the population and companies would cooperate to achieve that goal initially.

Now again afterwards you would need to somehow conspire to continue the program to undermine your democracy. Probably this extreme case will never happen. But we could get into a sort in between zone where we still have an immoral usage of the technology but not as bad as it could be.

Note however that existing dictatorships will definitely try to use this to further their own goals.
Yeah - I think it's "local" as in "localisation". It is a little overloaded.
It is the speed of change that is the problem. Rather than asking what is the correct number, we should ask how fast are we approaching either extreme. Historically these cycles lasted about 100,000 years, so we can safely consider that as the ideal. So if we are at 10% glacial coverage now, we ideally be at 10% in 100 years, too.
These are a minute fraction of the railroad tracks in the US.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Class1rr... shows the "Class I" railroads; just the big eight. There's a whole expansive set of Class II/III tracks. 160,000 miles total.
That is just Amtrak and apparently just long distance Amtrak.

Some commuter rail is operated by Amtrak but won’t appear I think.

If you have money you can get a private passenger train almost anywhere there are tracks.
This is a beautiful visualization, I still wish we invested more into this infrastructure.

Taking the train seems to double the duration of my trip over driving. Not having to drive is not a bad trade off though, if I have the time to relax.
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> I read that Microsoft also has an "AOG" crew, to fix broken critical software systems.

From what I know, back in the day (more of less 10 years ago) MSFT had some Premier Field Engineer (PFE) that operated more or less like this, at least in some places in America.

For databases, I saw some of those folks fixing quite complex scenarios of corrupted log shipping, spin locks, disaster recovery, fixes of corrupted of hundreds of GBs and so on.

I did not had access but I read in some docs that MSFT used to charge almost thousands of dollars for that kind of support.
Nah, those are type errors. Some languages use case so that FOO can never have the same type as foo. Nothing prevents a type system from similarly distinguishing between get_foo() and set_foo().
I'll agree that names like Google, Yahoo, and iPad eventually came to sound normal.

But for whatever reason, Bing has always sounded idiotic to me. Still sounds idiotic going on 14 years.

Was the same with Zune -- just never got used to it.

I don't think we get used to everything. Some names are just bad within a given cultural context, and repeated exposure doesn't make them any less bad.
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It's not that they 'already switched', but rather that early Russian aircraft had used the metric system for instruments and China acquired much of their early aircraft from the USSR.

In the West, it was well into the 50s before knots became conventional. Many (but not all) British and American aircraft used miles per hour, and most of non-communist mainland Europe used the metric system. I am not aware of whether there was some agreement to choose knots, but by the 60s almost all western aircraft had instruments in knots and nautical miles.
Mach is a product of altitude and we only have ground speed so we'd need weather information and heading to compare.
It is possible that the technique was not deliberately designed, but it evolved as a particularly successful result in scamming that was then replicated.

Maybe the scammers thought "I have tried 50 different mails, and this is the one that got me incredible results"; so this was the one that was popularized, even if the people doing it didn't understand why it worked better than the others.
True, and I wonder how the care & feeding of blue-necktied elite paratroopers is similar and different from red-fedora'd ones.
If it's important but you got time, you could always save the packets and crack them when quantum computing comes out for consumers. You have to wait a couple of decades probably, but maybe it's worth it
Soo good looking! Thanks for making this.
You are right that reading and writing can be verbal jousting but that is not the sole purpose of reading and writing. When dealing with the written word you have a record front of you that you can analyze and look for confirming information to see if the words are manipulation, truthful or outright lies. having words in front of you that you can go back and verify that your memory is correct gives you an opportunity to think more clearly and gather information so your better informed.

In a debate, the words fly by, they are half remembered and you come to conclusions that are not based on what was said but instead based on what you heard and half remembered.
I tried Bing the other day because I was curious if Apple was snubbing them legitimately (because bing isn't great and therefore would create a worse experience for Apple users) or illegitimately (because google offered more money). It's clear to me Microsoft still doesn't understand customers. They are still making all the same mistakes that msn.com made. It is just too busy. Microsoft does not understand UI.

Google won not just because of comparatively quality search results, but because of minimalism. I don't need to see a picture of the day. I don't need an attention grabbing onboarding/news/suggestion box. I don't need a full menu bar. Google is very good about only polluting the search results with extra information when it is confident that that information is relevant to the search. No boxes pop out when you're scrolling down the page on google.

On google, most things that are not the results are pastel, grey, and mildly faded. On bing, everything is thick lines, vivid colors, picture based content. After doing a google search I know exactly where to look. After doing a bing search there are 6 different UI elements all doing battle for my attention. I had to scroll almost 2 full pages to get to the first result that looks like what I expect when I use search on the internet.

Bing is obnoxious, and it's asking me to cognitively process 100 different things other than the only thing I care about: my search results.

More is less.

Microsoft also has a long history of poor security, being in bed with the government, and being a hyper-corporate business-first company. Given that Microsoft is currently loading their operating system with Ads and the history of being in bed with the government (skype), how can anyone trust the Microsoft brand?

Low trust brand + bad UI + par level results = "small" service.

Nobody is actively changing their default away from google unless they think it's to a more privacy respecting search engine.
Getting patched in 5, 4, 3...
"If it came out of thin air it’s performative to punish."

Nothing comes out of thin air, unless you're saying the fines are bull shit.

"Senior management and executives are the same thing in a general context."

Depends on how big the company is. At my company senior management is at least a level below the executive level.
> You would have to be really fragile to get upset about that.

Attitudes like this are what stop many new riders from joining cycling clubs, myself included.
I would only install it if I absolutely had to install a fresh install of an OS. Fortunately/unfortunately, this happens around every three months when my computer inevitably breaks down, so I'll install this instead of Ubuntu.
> life starts from the moment egg is fertilized

That is very much a religious idea and not something universally held. I certainly don't believe a jar of fertilized embryos is deserving of any special respect.
To me that sounds like the argument from a business department in an engineering org.

The solution is for your department to hire its own software developer(s).

I'd say the same thing for an organization that is heavily business-oriented and has an engineering department that gets kneecapped by the business-team-focused IT department that can't appropriately support the engineering department.
These guys could have bought an island and retired in luxury with all that FB money. Instead they jumped on the crypto train. I wonder if they regret this path yet?
It really depends on the field. On my shelf, things are pretty much just Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press, Routledge or De Gruyters. Oxford is very prestigious in the field of these books, and a professor seeking to publish a book would likely prefer Oxford.
How do they work around visa requirements for visiting engineers? Wouldn't that lead to few days worth of delay at least? They mention New Delhi in the article - Americans require visas to visit India.
so why would I use this Flightly app? seems it delivers messages all the same?
> If it's a popular product and

I find it quite weird to acknowledge in one breath that positive reviews have been paid for while also assuming in the next that a product with many reviews is popular and hasn't just acquired the mass of its reviews fraudulently. What steps are involved in determining legitimate popularity?
He doesn't have to address his debate opponent's points in their favor for them. He filmed an actual debate allowing them to do so themselves. He espoused in this article a willingness to discuss with his critics at any time in case they make a point that changes his mind. How that can be viewed as anything other than good faith is beyond me.
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Words of warning for anyone choosing to dabble in the cryptocurrency space - anything that you “have” on an exchange account is owned by the owner of the exchange, not you.

This is because whoever knows the private key to a crypto wallet is the owner of the funds. Usually, exchanges don’t give you access to the private key(s). And even if they did give you access, it’s still not safe because there’s nothing stopping them from moving the funds to a different account without your knowledge.

I wouldn’t recommend buying crypto unless you at least have a decent understanding of public/private key crypto
Well, except the fact that you lose out on spontaneous meeting points like someone heading to the kitchen while you're heading somewhere else and suddenly one of you remembers this one thing and a conversation happens in the hallway.
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In the promo content, all videos and photos are in portrait mode. Is it really the case? Can you do landscape?
> with a bit of back and forth you can get pretty good results that work with only a bit of revision

The problem for me is that the "back and forth" and "a bit of revision" steps very often end up taking more time than writing the code myself would have.
I'd be curious to hear what those skills are. My gut is you are correct that they exist, but I'm struggling to understand where the disconnect is on so many places I've been.

I'm convinced it is "the way" for many things, all told. Mario Maker and things like that are great examples. If what you are making is a Mario like game, you will almost certainly do better playing with that than you would making your own.

Same for visual things. I want to like parametric modeling in the likes of OpenSCAD. However, it is are far and away inferior to traditional CAD tools. And it isn't like those do not have parametric capabilities.
Not the OP or GP either :-) but while I agree that literally everybody has internal morals, by definition; there is such a huge correlation in western society between religion and opposition to reproductive rights / aids, that I can understand the question even if not the snarky tone.

I've seen very few (not zero but close) non-religious ethical systemic discussions against reproductive aids. As I said in another comment though,I'm eager to learn!
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Anything that can't supply 5V/3A is not a modern charger, that combination is mandated by USB-PD for anything that can provide 15W.
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Have one in my living room: 100 lb bright red deadweight. Does get excited questions from guests though!

I'm pretty intimately familiar with Android hardware devices having launched some myself and planned on creating for some sort of "jailbreak" (really you'd want to break into the Jamboard MDM system, not the OS) but it hasn't been a priority.

You can pick these up for cheap sometimes when people realize it needs a $1000 a year license to function...
I really do not understand the benefits supposedly of this tech over a traditional search engine. All it's doing is pulling the top hit from Bing and saying it back to you in a chat format. The AI doesn't understand what IP Scanning software is, nor does it understand malware, nor does it understand anything about what you're saying, it literally just doesn't. It takes what you asked, stuffs it into bing, and reads out the results to you.

I understand why people want AI search engines, the problem is, this is not an AI search engine. None of them are to my knowledge. It's just an ML bot mediating a search between you and the engine. The web page accomplishes the exact same task, without the unearned air of authority.

Like, the IDEA of an AI search engine, an artificial intelligence that knows all this stuff and can weigh in alongside you with insight and comprehension, that's incredibly cool. But this is not that. ChatGPT knows much but understands nothing.
The FAQ does not contain a direct comparison, but might answer some questions: https://librepcb.org/faq/

One of the main "selling points" is the advanced library concept: https://librepcb.org/features/library-concept/
I can't find anything about the RP1 online, do you have a source?
Love stuff like this, it's how kids get into computers. I used to make minecraft servers for my friends and I to play on when I was 12, which lead to a software engineering career. Sounds like you've got something similar on your hands
Unfortunately, Amtrak management has only expressed at best lukewarm support for long distance trains[0]. The California Zephyr in particular (Chicago <-> San Francisco) often runs with delays of 10 or more hours (two years ago, I was on a train scheduled to arrive in downtown Chicago at 2 PM and didn't get me there until after midnight -- Union Station is not exactly a bustling part of town at that hour.

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/us/amtrak-coronavirus-pro...
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> Every device has its own built in trust store, and especially on devices like TVs and DVD players, they couldn't be updated.

Was creating your own certificate authority and pinning it in the app not an option?
It's vastly cheaper for them to helicopter in (figuratively, usually...) and replace a single drive when the stakes are minimal versus deal with cascading fallout of multi-drive failures and data/system recovery.

This level of support is common for most high-end hardware systems - all the big players do this, including IBM, Dell, etc.
Any source for that? I don't think that category theory has even a minuscule influence on computer science.

Type theory? Sure. Logic and model theory as well. Set theory? Number theory? Heck, even geometry is used for dozens of algorithms, not related to geometry (convex optimizing in an n dimensional space, Hamming distance, abstract convex geometry etc). But category theory? Do you have any influential papers or books in mind?
It seems like the constant stream of innovations coming out of China directly refute "Nothing new can be introduced harmonious"
In what world do academics have power over which administrators can be hired? If you really think that some professor in CRT could take over a department, then you just show that you don't have a clue.
it means every non-python project now has to do pip, venv, and more, not just installing python, because you have to add a non-stdlib package

And not everyone uses or knows python...

So yes, this is a significant ask and lift for most projects.
> It would be better to say that, outside of ridiculously comfortable and easy financial environemnts, companies will prioritise investing in activities that make money (directly, such as making products, or indirectly, such as security) over activities that don't.

And these activities are designed to increase the stock price. Everything they do is for the price of stocks. That's how the system is.
I ported over my first phone number about 6 years ago, and it's been receiving SMS codes without issue ever since. I'm not sure if that's increased the reliability of GV in general though since it still reports via Twilio's number lookup tool as a landline.

GV is great if you need to spend an extended period out of USA because cell carriers will drop your service if you they see you spending most of your time out of the country. When I spent a few years abroad, GV was pivotal for getting into banks account. Also really nice to be able to make outgoing calls via the web interface with a number you won't lose.
This is why we have product teams.

Your experience is the norm, and no matter how much they may think otherwise, 90%+ of software teams are working in waterfall/delivery/feature teams.

Product teams are the solution, but very few orgs are willing to completely flip their structures to get there.
This is impressive, hilarious and cringe all at once.

We need to invent a new word for this sensation.
> session is RDP over a local socket (I think)

my understanding is that it's done via shared memory, and if that's right, it's very close to, if not actually, an air gap.
Ethernet was handy for moving the images off the Pis once they were captured.

The RP2 was indeed low powered compared to the Intel/AMD powered systems we were otherwise familiar with.

Outside of the bubble of people with EE skills, however big the bubble is, stopping to learn expert-level mcu programming from scratch is rarely the way things work in a software startup. Despite the obvious focus of this thread, the hardware we assembled and configured was all in support of our software.
Excellent, thank you for the quick response.

I'm guessing your recommendation for dealing with separate environments (dev/qa/etc) would then be a single collection with folders underneath and environments defined w/i that collection.

In that sense collections for bruno seem to be more akin to "projects" and are not really equivalent to postman collections in that sense.

That's workable, it good to know the environments are collection specific rather than global.
I'd argue antitrust should step in and make sure Steam doesn't offer exclusivity agreements or punish studios who utilize more than one distribution.

Steam is the big player with network effects, and anything more than "being better" by steam should be construed as anticompetitive.
Why not just use the hotspot on your phone?
For comparison, here is Europe’s rail network with high speed rail (≥200kph) in color and other rail (<200kph) in gray:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:High_Speed_Railroad_...
It's true, though we do have international arms conventions that have been partly successful in preventing widespread use of say, chemical and biological weapons (but not completely, e.g. Syria). And nuclear proliferation has maybe been slowed, a little. Hard to tell if those are 'guarded successes' or 'the best we could hope for' or 'just kidding ourselves' - so like the same for slaughterbots.
Why?

Do you genuinely believe it’s uncommon for applications to leverage this useful, trivial, long-standing platform API for its intended and explicitly documented purpose?

I can’t imagine why you’d believe that, but another commenter already provided the requested single example up-thread.
Here are several articles explaining[0,2] how that one phrase has been co-opted and misinterpreted to mean exactly the opposite of what MLK intended. If you're curious, Google can reveal many other discussions on this topic.

[0]https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/march-2018/martin-l...

[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20230410193113/https://academic....

[2]https://theconversation.com/ketanji-brown-jackson-and-the-co...
I have never come across a case where JSON can't take the place of YAML, but I guess there could be edge cases.
>I wouldn’t recommend buying crypto

ftfy
> "normal" USB-C power

I have no idea what kind of USB-C PSU one can call "normal", but allowing higher voltages would be really good.
How does this compare with HyperDX?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37558357
If you don’t think that this goes on at Apple, I have a bridge to sell you.

Just food for thought - why do you think that the ipad (with the same processor as the laptop) has not gotten more capable over the years? They can’t figure out how to do it? No one on the ipadOS team has the brains to make it happen, or it just hasn’t occurred to them? Or maybe there has been an internal conversation and they realized that it would drop the sales of Mac machines below a threshold where fixed costs outweigh the mac team’s ability to stay afloat (pure speculation on my part)?

Make no mistake, Apple is no paragon of virtue here. I love their products (though they also frustrate me), but the company is largely the same as Google and Microsoft in ethics.