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I'm looking forward to all the hardware announcements. It's certainly looking like intentionally designed on device acceleration of LLMs for consumers is coming.
I bought a XPS 13 in developer edition, which came with a preloaded Ubuntu. I still have that laptop but it's only used for emails mostly. Machine has a nice Intel CPU, 4K display (touch capable, which works fine under Linux too).

The only issue I had was it came with a Ubuntu 18.04 and some stuff like launching Software would crash. It worked, but some stuff would crash from time to time.

All those issues got fixed when I moved to 20.04 (which came out a month after I got the laptop) and machine has been working very nicely since. The only issue is RAM is soldered and it only has 16 Gb of Ram.

For my current laptop, I went for Lenovo for one main reason : price... All the Dell configurations were 2k or over. The Lenovo cost me 1100 euro. For that price I got the 16 inches model, 64 Gb of soldered LDDR5 Ram (much faster than standard replacable DDR), 1 Tb Samsung EVO 980 SSD, a 7840U CPU and it came preloaded with Fedora 39...

Seeing the prices Dell is asking, there is no way they can compete with Lenovo on price for the hardware you get. And when you go check the Lenovo forums and report issues on Linux, you have someone there (Mark) that pushes those to the developers in charge of the firmware, or their Linux team. On the Dell forum, unless another user helps you, you're fsck because you cannot get in touch with ANYONE from the Dell Linux or their UEIF firmware devs.. There is a sharp and huge difference between what you see on the Dell/Linux forums and Lenovo/Linux forums.. Dell is clearly in a pit with their heads in their collective asses on Linux support.

For this reason alone, I will never buy a Dell again. This even comes before the price itself. Lenovo's support of Linux on their laptops is day and night compared to what Dell is doing.
A more likely theory is that the fob transmitter (and antenna) is tuned to put out max signal when near the body. This is it's normal use.

If however you tested it with the fob somewhat isolated it would then be out of tune.

eg in the factory it would be tuned at a set distance from a "dummy body".

It's the same with a walkie-talkie radio. The antenna must be tuned when held in the hand, as your body provides the missing earth or ground-plane.

You can easily demonstrate this. Mount an antenna on a ground-plane with a length of coax, a SWR meter and a transmitter. Tune the antenna so the SWR is 1:1 and then move you hand close to the antenna. Once your hand gets withing a wavelength or so, the effect of the "detuning" can be readily seen on the SWR meter.
In my experience, HA stories of Postgres are always buggy and disappointing for homegrown systems. None of these tools actually gives you a solid HA like proprietary databases do. Managed database services can reduce or eliminate some of the problems, but you can't put critical parts of your system on the cloud.
This is super simple and a great suggestion. Then I struggled with beginning because by default I was resorting to the comfort zone, where I don't need to begin at all.

To solve it, I made myself more "vulnerable" through a few undertakings. Then beginning and doing some work everyday is the only way out to not fail.
The first point equally applies to Alpine and any system built from Debian minimal install ("built" is too strong a word, all you need to do is `apt install` several packages).
The Myth of Absolute Confidence: A Life-Long Pursuit
To be confident you need your basics covered. You should be healthy, wealthy and happy.

The thing is there is no absolute healthy, wealthy or happy person. In your life you should always get healthier, wealthier and happier. So, if you tell yourself that “If I’ve six pack abs then I’ll be confident. If I’ve a million dollars then I’ll be confident.” Doesn’t work that way. Life is too short and you’ll always want more.

You should be confident in your potential. There will always be problems, but you’ll be able to learn to solve them.

Don’t try to solve every big problem you’ve at once. Take it slow. Babies don’t compare themselves to Usain Bolt when they learn to walk. Take baby steps.

If you’re afraid to talk to a woman.

Try to say “hi” to a man you don’t know.

Get the conversation going with the stranger man.

Give eye contact to a woman you pass by.

Say “hi” to a woman that you don’t know.

Get the conversation going with the woman.

Confidence is about you, not about how society thinks about you. Society doesn’t give two fucks about you, Doesn’t matter if you think otherwise. Life is a single player game. You should always get better in this game. Don’t delay your confidence until another day. Solve your problems one at a time.
Ive been working on cars and motorcycles and everything else other than airplanes for almost 25 years now, from motor swaps to transmission rebuild and custom suspension. The only time I ever use is a torque wrench is on engine internals, or smaller fancy areas into aluminum. Everything else, over the years, you learn by feel.

You pay attention to the size of the bolt, the material it's going into, and it's overall job. Yes you'll mess it up a few times a long the way. Hopefully you're a lot more careful when you see that the cost of making a mistake is a difficult extraction or alteration of some sort. Personally, I think you'll run into bolt/thread failure 10x more from improper insertion, dirty threads, corrosion, and overall entropy than you will from over torquing once you learn a few early lessons.

I've done countless brake jobs, tire rotations, oil changes, spark plugs, valve cover gaskets, shock and bushing changes, without a torque wrench. I've yet to ever had a problem from it after going a little too hard when I was 16 yrs old and learning what bolts and materials can hold what.
I'd take a few extra years with my family over a wood fire tbh. Very few things are worth years of your life when they have safe replacements.
Crazy coincidence, on a whim I learned a bit of polars this morning to prep for a data science interview. All I really wanted was "SQL but cleanly FFI mixable with python," and the API flowed nicely. Every time I said a certain function or syntax should exist, the dir() or help() info confirmed it existed. It was fantastic. Pandas was a nightmare trying to remember how to slice and dice everything, and this was a breath of fresh air.
Penrose claims that human intelligence relies on quantum effects and demonstrates certain structures in neurons that makes it at least a plausible argument.

It would follow that comparable intelligence would not be possible with current digital computer architectures.

I also think a lot of people are a little too fooled by the “intelligence” of current models which are mimics with enormous libraries of “knowledge”. It is not too hard to be frustrated by the enormous limitations of current models. Impressive, yes, smart, no. Though to refute claims of their intelligence is really pushing to refine the philosophical definition of intelligence which has been rather vague so far. We can’t just say “i know it when i see it” because computers pretending is getting very good.
The poster with the original complaint said they were paying about US$10,000 a year for their cap table service. Are there 25,000 startups using this service?
Half of developers in North America, and especially those at top tier companies, use Macs. You can't buy that kind of top tech mindshare with marketing. Also now with the M-series CPUs, Macbooks aren't PC Clones anymore, they're back in the game of being an exclusive platform, which will get even more exclusive as they add other specialized chips. Their sales share of the market and as you mention, their profit share of the market keeps increasing, so even on that alone, why would a bean counter decide to drop them?

Don't forget Apple's size... the AirPod business, stood alone, would be a Fortune 500 company. Even if an Apple business is a bit small compared to the iPhone, it's still a humongous business by any other comparator.

I'm not an Apple fanboy (e.g. I use an old Chinese Android phone) but I'm still awed by their business.
MacBook Airs no longer have ventilation
And advice how to stop the buzzing?
Yup, just happened to me yesterday. I was in a hurry and didn’t screw lid of a coffee thermos correctly. Luckily the mac seems to have survived.
Not good. Not good at all.
Shout out to the downvoters by the way.

Very odd that people who want thicker skin in our culture would find it so distasteful that I've simply shared some recent history and some first-hand personal experience without any particular name calling or inflammatory remarks. Can't a person share their thoughts anymore? Really didn't mean to offend anybody and somewhat surprised that I have seemed to.
Rinsed ny iPhone XS to clean off some dirt. FaceID stopped working and I could see fog on the inside of the camera. Guess the seals/glued parts no longer held up
It's probably worse in warm climates, but macbook cables were disintegrating everywhere for the longest time.
This is the same situation that millennials faced. Millennials were told to go to the best most expensive college they could get into and to not care about incurring debt to do so.

I do hope that this idea changes with gen Z. Student loans are a big setback to start out life with, and college can actually be pretty affordable if you choose to just go to a cheaper school and try to live with parents while attending. The price of an expensive college is comparable to a down payment on a house. If young people can save the college money for borrowing on a house, life seems a bit easier.
Glad this is getting some love. This is seriously good software. Have you guys supported generic substring search yet? I recall it was not supported as of a few months ago.
It's a QA process better than almost every other industry in the world...

Sure, it failed, and it isn't perfect.

But planes have had a long track record of being absurdly safe.
Searchable, Threads-Based Messaging via Terminal
Hi everyone, my cofounder and I are gearing up to launch soon and wanted to share our product here.

Hermes is a terminal-based application that allows enterprises to build a database of problems engineers have come across and solved while letting developers focus on development.

We do this via a terminal based messaging application, where developers can create threads which, by default, are semantically searchable by all other engineers across the enterprise.

As we get closer to launch, we want to gauge interest and see what kinds of features users would like to see. Feel free to leave any feedback or questions, and to sign up for our waitlist if you are interested!
How important it is to communicate your vision, mission, and value proposition to the world.
I've never owned a smartphone. I was always ahead of the tech curve in the late 90's and on. Before smartphones, I had a Nokia 770 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_770_Internet_Tablet) around 2008, its basically a wifi internet device. You could connect to any unlocked wifi network and surf the web (back then a lot of people left their wifi open or just used default passwords so it was easy to find free internet in an urban area).

Being aware of all the privacy issues in big tech, I just couldn't bring myself to carrying a smartphone on me at all times. As smartphones became the norm, I was considered crazy for not having one. Now all these years later I am proud of never caving in to the temptation or pressure of those around me.

I love new tech, but I am disgusted by 3rd party software and how intrusive it is
Byte position is a worse solution because it's worse UX for the user.

Given a byte position in a file, how would a human navigate there? Where's byte offset 6 in "おはようございます"?

The argument about big files is also pretty weak. Big files are the exception, not the rule. And line/col values happen on error paths, not the happy path. So processing time is largely irrelevant.

AND, this extra processing would be done offline anyway, since the parser always knows the line/col because it has to process the whole file every time regardless.

We use line/col instead of byte position for good reason: it just plain works better for our use cases.
What do you mean? What "management" was this created to fulfill the demands of?
I too only allow pubic key auth :P

More seriously, I don’t see why anyone would want to disable fail2ban (outside of purposefully being against the grain) because it seems like “free” protection. I’m sure there’s some situations where it may be beneficial to, but those seem like extreme edge cases.
Seeing "boorishness" and "pursuit of sexual gratification" as inherently bad things is indeed a cultural phenomenon. There are cultures that explicitly reward one or both of these.
I think water resistant is underselling what IP68 is a bit. The test to pass ip68 is to completely submerge the device in water up to 30 minutes. Sure that’s not water proof, but when people think water resistant they probably think “should survive water getting spilled nearby”, which is a level below “able to be completely submerged in water for up to a half hour”.

For most cases where it matters the device is waterproof for the average consumer
if they say they saw you stealing - yes, that's evidence. If they just say "you stole" then yes, the correct question would be "why do you think so, on what evidence" - but a first-hand experience is definitely evidence. Moreover, often it'd be the only evidence available (not all stores have 100% video coverage). Of course, as always, the purported witness could also be lying, but if they claim they personally saw you stealing, this definitely counts at least as evidence, if not proof.
I like the api for this much better than pandas but ymmv
I'm curious: in your many years of being a consultant to these bad teams, where the manager really thought they were top 20%, did you get a chance to talk to the rank-and-file team members, and did they paint a very different picture of the team health and software quality than their manager?

Also, did you run across any orgs where they basically refused to use a process like Agile, and instead just did ad-hoc coding, insisting that this was the best way since it worked just fine for them back when they were a 5-person startup?
Then again, the Apple II cost around $6.5k in today's dollars. [0] My hunch is that people caring less for tricking out their computers for gaming is about people not being all that interested in being able to have the top of the line graphics settings enabled when playing AAA games. But I think the history of PCs and gaming very much proves that even normal consumers are willing to spend the big bucks on technology when it enables something truly new.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II
You have failed your course in logic.

> you deprecated beck's work as 'mere software'. this presupposes that software is 'mere', which is to say, less significant than the other topics at hand. this logically entails deprecation of oberon, which is also software

Stating Beck's work as "mere software" (i.e. nothing noteworthy) DOES NOT mean all software (from others) is "mere software". A course in Set Theory/Propositional/Predicate logic is in order here. The set of software that Wirth produced vs. the set of software that Beck produced are completely different and a considered judgement of the latter cannot be generalized to the former. You get zero marks for doing this.

> similarly, you said that when i repeated dijkstra's judgment that boehm's work, indeed boehm's entire field (and beck's!) was 'snake oil', i was betraying only my own ignorance. but that would logically entail that dijkstra, whose judgment i was relaying, was led to this judgment by his ignorance.

This is a false statement and again betrays your ignorance. Dijkstra's comments as regards "Software Engineering" were general observations on the state of the field at that time and NOT a critique of Boehm's work. They are two different things. Here is a longish IEEE pdf A Conversation with Barry Boehm: Recollections from 50 years of Software Engineering - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/52/8474478/08474492.pdf for your edification. Here Boehm mentions his interactions with Dijkstra and others and how they were all working together to solve what was then called "Software Crisis".

I have repeatedly pointed out (my other comments in this thread) your ignorance of Boehm's work and their significance but instead of acknowledging and rectifying it by some study, you are only making it worse by your comments where you are merely "Arguing for the sake of argument" wasting everybody's time and risking being seen as a caricature.
How do you use GLT-4 frequently with how low the usage cap is?
I sympathize with anyone who doesn't like R. Even as a statistics/math DSL it's really wonky.

But it's a lot more fun when you realize that it's an homoiconic array language with true lazily-evaluated F-exprs (not Rebol/Tcl strings).
It's not quite my daily driver yet, but I have a 65C02 based "dumb phone". The modem is a 4G LTE modem, but the electronics and interface are managed by a 65C02. It's currently being emulated on an ARM SoC, using a hand written 65C02 emulator, but at some point in the future, I'll port the firmware to an actual 65C02.

The whole thing started as a joke. I ported WozMon to it, so that when folks ask me what sort of phone I have, I can call it an "Apple clone". But, I can use it to answer calls, send and receive text messages, and do very basic cardinal direction and distance based GPS navigation.
and here is a Polars library if you use R:
https://github.com/pola-rs/r-polars
The "disappointing" benchmark mentioned in the article is a shame for GigaOm who published it and for Microsoft who paid for it. They compare Citus with no HA to CockroachDB and YugabyteDB with replication factor 3 Multi-AZ, resilient to data center failure. And they run Citus on 16 cores (=32 vCPU) and the others on 16 vCPU.
But your point about "beefy machine" shows the real advantages of Distributed SQL. PostgreSQL and Citus needs downtime to save cost if you don't need that beefy machine all days all year. Scale up and down is downtime, as well as upgrades. Distributed SQL offers elasticity (no downtime to resize the cluster) and high availability (no downtime on failure or maintenance)
Rockstar fixed that bug because of this guy... Awesome!
Samsung Galaxy Book4 Features Intelligent Connectivity with Microsoft Copilot
Point of good interface is to hide implementation detail while guiding you towards your goal.
And this is why i don't touch Ai at all
I’ve been ‘going retro’ for years now with my cameras, but I remain on the cutting edge of my computing devices.

I lease an iPhone, which means I get to replace it every year. I upgrade my Apple Watch every two years.

My personal laptop is currently an M1 MacBook Air. I’ll probably try to run it into the ground, but my upgrade cycle will be determined by when it no longer allows me to work effectively.

Meanwhile, the newest dedicated camera I use is a digital mirrorless Fuji that I bought in 2016. I also regularly use a 35mm SLR, medium format SLR, 4x5, and 8x10 that range in age from 20 years old to 70 years old.

Pick technology that allows you to work effectively. If you can do that on some six year old tablet, then Godspeed. I can’t imagine working on a slow computer, but I also don’t understand the point of buying the latest and greatest Sony full frame mirrorless camera.
I'll +1 this, in spite of the overwhelming negative reception. Sometimes the vibe is right. Usually, people just want to get on with their lives and not be propositioned; but sometimes the chemistry is there -- and what is a person to do?
The answer posted with all the experiments is conducted with a 2009 GTI, which reminds me of my first car, a Jetta from a generation before that. Its manual included this helpful illustration of the full expected range of the remote:

https://imgur.com/a/1Pdfyg4

Yes, apparently they were only willing to promise it would work within about arm's length of the car! It wasn't that bad, but also it wasn't a heck of a lot better, either!
Yep, that's the first thing that came to mind for me too. It's a Brit thing I guess.
that could be a great feature of a new product - "your jira is full? time to move on to...." ))
Now planning to re-brand myself as a logarithmic CEO of course.
I wouldn't consider asking someone out to be harassment all by itself.

Do you?
Linear is the only thing saving startups like ours from using Jira ;)
I love tech and gadgets, but have been doing longer upgrade cycles. I also have automated a large amount of stuff in my house with smart switches etc. and love it.

My biggest regret has been the Tesla Model 3. The touchscreen, in lieu of buttons was a step backward. Also, they recently did an update to auto steer that gives you demerits if you have two hands on the wheel but spend too much time looking at the touchscreen (which controls everything on the car and has poorly designed menus that are not easy to use when driving). Basically if it doesn't like how you are using it on a drive it deactivates the feature for the rest of the drive, then after 5 times of it doing that it disables the feature for a week. That is a step too far, especially since my biggest use case for using the autosteer is to be able to find things on the poorly designed touchscreen interface on the car.. That is before you get into the higher insurance cost and the quality that is not nearly as good as my older Volvo and Audii. From that standpoint the older cars are much better.
Just physics of how the impact goes into the phone and the angle is a lot of it. Perhaps 9 out of the 10 ways you can drop an iPhone result in no damage whatsoever. That tenth angle is the perfect angle to destroy the whole back
Important point.

Nowadays, we write a pure pandas version, and when the data needs to be 100X bigger and faster, change almost nothing and have it run on the GPU via cudf, a GPU runtime that fully follows the pandas API. Most recently, we port GFQL (Cypher graph queries on dataframes) to GPU execution over the holiday weekend and it already beats most Cypher implementations. Think billions of edges traversed per second on a cheap 5 year old GPU.

We're planning the bigger than memory & multi node versions next, for both CPU + GPU, and while cudf leans towards dask_cudf, plans are still TBD. Polars, Ray, and Dask all have sweet spots here.
I never expected the sire of HP's test and measurement division to be posting entertaining casual YouTube content, but here I am.
No. If you are the person yo don't know whether it's true or not. It's just noise. There is no evidence.
I was part of a somewhat well known US based product company that set up shop here in 2022 and laid off their entire India team in 2023 too. I am still looking for a job and I am terrible at Leetcode interviews in general. Things are looking grim.
It's possible, in one of my jobs the senior project manager was found to hold a stake in one of the outsourcing companies working for us and was terminated under conflict of interest.
Resistive touchscreens work ok in that kind of environment, can be used with gloves… but suck quite a bit otherwise. None of the fun multitouch stuff, just a single pressure point to click with
Clearly our copyright terms are too long, and as a result the public domain is insufficient to train an AI, which seems to suggest it is also insufficient for a number of other uses, including the public good.