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A more powerful laser is only half of the equation for cutting metal effectively.

The laser only melts the metal, it doesn't move it out of the cut, and some metals can react in plain air to sputter back at the emitter optics. Gas is forced under pressure at the cut to clear it. With some metals and/or thinner (speaking from a commercial perspective) stock, you can get away with plain air at high volumes of normal air compressor pressures with good results if it's very clean and dry. Others require specifically reactive or nonreactive gases or blends of gases. That's true for most hot cutting processes though. Plasma usually consumes plain air to blow out the cut, oxy-fuel uses excess oxygen to reactively blow out the cut. Lasers with their extremely narrow kerf are more finicky, which can mean a surprisingly high consumables cost.

More powerful lasers also require the optical hardware to operate in a light vacuum. Plasma generated by dust and air itself will ablate expensive parts. Home shops shouldn't need that much power though. If you're cutting thick or difficult metals regularly, that's not a hobby any more.

Then there's the byproducts. Organics get blasted into all kinds of random organic-ish things that aren't great to ingest or emit at ground level near neighbors (PSA, this is true for current hobby lasers). Cutting metals can get really exciting if you don't clean often and thoroughly enough to prevent a critical mass of finely powdered byproducts. An iron or aluminum fire will wreck your laser. An iron and aluminum fire will wreck your laser, and whatever it's sitting on, and the concrete below that.
You may be right! They might not be able to do a "24 hour cooling off" period. Even sending text messages to that number once an hour for a day saying "TEXT STOP TO STOP SIM TRANSFER OR CALL 611" would stop a lot of these.

I'll have to google a bit and see if they are restricted.
Prior to uniformed police, law enforcement was a largely private matter, and private "thief-takers" were enlisted to apprehend criminals. My understanding is modern state-run police forces developed in response to public anger over misconduct and corruption in the thief-takers, such as the Macdaniel affair.

Particularly they were infamous for playing "both sides" by taking money from a victim to arrest a thief, then taking money from the thief not to arrest them.
I wouldn't, but I think a lot of people would.
Yes, and the police could drive them to the voting booth as well.
There is a pretty glaring logical inconsistency in this article.

- One set is enough to build strength

- Multiple are better to build muscle size

- Strength is a combination of muscle size and neurological signalling

These three can't all be true. I suspect that they mean that one set is enough to build the nervous system.
Necessity?
The problem is that windows has a lot of unremoveable stuff built into it (which could probably be removed with some effort) , that’s why spending 5 dollars is like putting lipstick on a pig. The OS is hostile to the user, why would I spend any time in that land?
Every analyst I respect has the same take. This guy even glosses over that it wasn’t a general on a tarmac this time, but a general in a consulate that was extrajudicially murdered. Iran had to respond in a show of force to reestablish deterrence, without escalating the conflict, drawing the US in.

Two kids are on the playground, one has a big brother. They’re both constantly bothering each other. The kid without the big brother has to ride a thin line to not look like he’s trying to kill the other kid (causing the big brother to run over) while still bruising him back enough that the other kid leaves him alone until next week.
I can't wait until 2 years from now they're touting how amazing and groundbreaking 32Gb is and how much better it is than those 2024 laptops with only 8Gb.
> This isn't an either/or scenario.

Right, it's already illegal to interfere with police.
I do not understand the universe in which “AI” is needed for this.

Putting aside the “remote workers should pay local taxes” issue, which even to me, a pro-taxation person, seems questionable (this is also different from ‘I claim to work remotely/live in another state but I actually spend most of my time in NY, etc’), it’s still not hard, and certainly does not require “AI”.

Checking for “business X reports paying person B, and person B’s tax return does not match what you would reasonably ball park it as (or they didn’t file a return you believe they should)” does not require “AI”.
> Life isn't fair. The earlier you accept that, the better off you'll be.

Life isn't fair because we make it so. The longer we keep accepting that, the longer we will delay in changing it for the better.
That's a barrier to switching carriers.
Microsoft has also been attempting to block StartAllBack and similar programs: https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/01/microsoft_windows_11_...
Hmm this never works. I’m in a similar position in my team at work. “Hey we should do X because Y and Z.” “Hmm no, I don’t like that.” Nothing gets done…
Your mom used to make malware? Never heard that one
Vista -> 7 generally didn't get such complaints either.
Solid-state batteries don't completely eliminate fires. When short circuited they heat up drastically, starting and enhancing fires.
Bingo. Body cameras are a technically-solveable problem.

Zero tolerance and enforcement should be the starting place.

(Coupled with adjusting policies and procedures to be more in line with actual experience, if we're going fully transparent)
"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste." — Steve Jobs

Still true now and probably forever.
Amazon working on behalf of individual interests and/or the government to strategically target individuals? Sounds about right.
>I get an annual allowance that I lose if I elect not to use it.

Found the ideal Apple consumer
You see a similar phenomenon with propensity for litigation and pushing to limits of the letter of the law in the US. "everyone"'s doing it, which leads to people feeling like they have a right to and like they're missing out if they don't. But in the end most people lose out overall.
I've been responsible for documentation in similar ways.

What I think is interesting here, is that with so much detail specified, tools could be created to write and check technical documents. I suspect with LLMs and the like becoming broadly available, that could also help.

On the other hand, I've seen technical documents that were accurate and correct, but they obfuscated more than clarified. One document I remember specified linker records with items like 0x54 instead of 'C' and end-of-record instead of '\n'. It seemed a little too pedantic instead of common sense.
But you're assuming Nazi ideology was coherent, when it clearly wasn't in almost anything. The "racial" anti-Semitism was merely a fig leaf provided by quack science of the times.

And yes, the Nazis viewed the Slavic peoples as "Untermensch", but didn't harbor as much animus towards them. They were simply in the way of the Nazi expansionist policy of Lebensraum. Whereas anti-Semitism was extremely widespread through German society and further inflamed by the Nazis.

And no, "anti-Semitism as we know today is very much rooted in racial science" is not accurate one bit. The majority of today's anti-Semitism is purely religious in nature. Oh, some white supremacists might try to invoke some bullshit the racial inferiority of the Jews, but the real hate is religious in nature. Combine that with anti-Zionism (which is often a mask for anti-Semitism) and it all falls apart.

And it's incredibly disingenuous to trot out the usual arguments about how the Nazis killed more Slavs than Jew, etc etc. These are part of the playbook that attempts to minimize the Shoah.

Finally, the bit about how the Nazis treated the Western countries much better, EXCLUDES the Jewish citizens of those countries.

I'm pretty sure you're not arguing in good faith at all, but you seem to be wanting to keep this going.
They telegraphed the attack by launching a wave of drones that took hours to arrive. One theory is that they were trying to do a combined drone and missile strike to increase the load on Israeli defenses.

If so, it didn’t work at all. So, allowing the Israelis to have hours of advance notice was either terrible tactics or an overt signal that they don’t want to escalate. I think it was probably the latter.
It’s easy, it’s free for the customer, and with feature’s like iPhone’s “code autofill”, it’s the easiest UX. Swim swapping happens to such a small number of people that it’s not worth the effort for anyone involved. I hate it myself, but such is the reality.
For the record, I think the fair realpolitik compromise with Russia would have been to let them have Crimea, and they already had it before the invasion. Total mistake/disaster on their/his part.
yes and no. the difference in cost between the weapon and the countermeasure matters, but it's not the whole story. the value of the thing being defended also matters. in the absence of a viable alternative, it's easily worth burning $1-2mm per interceptor to prevent a mission kill on a $2bn destroyer or a strike on a major population center.

not saying this is you personally, but people seem to view this kind of thing as being similar to RTS, where players start on even footing on a symmetrical map, and games are won or lost by stringing together resource-efficient "trades". real world conflicts aren't like that. western countries have relatively deep pockets and low tolerance for casualties (and collateral damage to an extent). as a result, they are willing to pay a premium for training, survivable equipment, and precision munitions. it's a different doctrine altogether.
PCAP Did What – A Mini Project to Visualise Zeek Logs in Grafana
If I'm on the ground and an officer is yelling at me, I do not want other people even within that officer's bubble of space.

It's unreasonably escalatory in situations that instead need more calm.
That’s called accessibility and backwards compatibility.
I think you vastly underestimate the complexity of metal chemistry.
One quarter thought out software project, mild overthinking conspiracy theory, and a non sequitur misspelled reference to Dunning-Kruger. This is like a parody of a Hacker News comment
XP was good for its time.

Vista was garbage but necessary.

Windows 7 was actively good.

Windows 8 was a dumpster fire.

Windows 10 would be good if it wasn't riddled with all the dark patterns which make it merely adequate.

Windows 11 is going to make the Windows 8 dumpster fire look good by comparison.
I’ve just started dabbling so take this with a grain of salt.

Overall, it’s great. I recommend it to people. The high signal part is what I would work on:

- deeper integrations with common OpenID Connect providers, with a pretty foolproof “bail to browser view that looks like Kinde or Clerk”. there’s only so much you can do, but it’s not trivial to get wired up to a bunch of pick-and choose SSOs.

- prisma should be front and center, the auth/public schema split is not a breeze, Prisma slays at being an ORM, Supabase slays at other things. It’s not obvious whether or not to use realtime or Pulse.

- force the env footprint on e.g. next or expo or whatever, it’s a little glue, it’s a lot of people who don’t pop out of the funnel.

- chat / dm is a common enough use case to be in the wizard (like avatars), Postgres handles it fine for small to medium apps, and arguably for big ones

- have a pass through mode for the local deploy that’s easy to toggle, you guys are fast AF, it’s often sane to dev directly against the instance.

- I’m sure you’re already building the kind of anonymized training sets that let you spot bad configs a mile away.

Again, nitpicks on a great product. I love Supabase.
If you stuck with 98 SE instead of using ME, XP was likely a worse experience on the hardware you had as well.

If you had ME, all bets were off.

Edit: On the right machine, ME was fine though. Much like Vista after SP2 and really late in it's lifetime.
You have a variety of languages (including different versions of Turbo Pascal) to choose from over at pcjs.org ...right in your browser!
He could've called it NextNext!
They needed to do more damage. iran looks really bad when after such a large attack they hit to little. Iran didn't suceed in any retribution. (other than money spent on a defense test)
Noah is a genocide apologist and kinda gross. The big take away is Israel needs help to defend itself and should be taking orders from the US, not the other way around.
This is splitting hairs in an attempt to minimize both anti-Semitism and the acts of the Nazis.
Why We Practice Magic
You don't get to choose when you are attacked. So despite your wishful thinking you need to prepare for war if you want to see results of your other actions.
Seedvault is not a good backup solution. The devs who promote it don't have a lot of credibility. It basically doesn't work half the time and they know it, but pretend it's great to pad their resumes.
I mean this is the Journal of Functional Programming... That being said, I wish more people had your response. Curiosity and openness are beautiful things.
The ads themselves are also particularly egregious masquerading often as news.

Very many times I’ve seen “BREAKING NEWS” only to click in and see something about some celebrity getting divorced or some other tabloid garbage like that.

Can’t believe this is the flagship product of a $3T business sometimes. And it’s such an easy fix too.
Sometimes I do get the feeling that he is just slowing down and innovation and change just keep going at the same rate. He seems to parrot the same sort of ideas over and over again.

I find he can get really fixated on certain examples, things he has seen an LLM do and he can't seem to get beyond it, as if the singularity is at hand. Where as a 22 year old I work with just accepts the technology and tries to get work done with it.
Is there a better way to read the post(s)? I don't want to create a Twitter account.
Thanks, I actually couldn't find it using Google's search engine.
This same calculus is mentioned four times in this thread as of now. It completely ignores the human cost, as in lives saved, and cost infrastructure not destroyed and capabilities not degraded. It almost like a concerted effort of bad faith actors to popularize a narrative.
I think there are other things going on. Companies love to gather a phone number for 2FA.

I remember when gas stations were sued because they collected the the zip code at the pumps for security, but then used them for marketing purposes.

(I don't know, does roku already require a phone number?)
The whole snippet, for anyone who hasn't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KdlJlHAAbQ

(It's great vintage Steve Jobs. He's trying to sound high-minded for a documentary-interview, but he really can't resist getting some digs in.)
I thought XP was a downgrade from Windows 2000.
This is here and needs to be thought about deeply. It won't ever go away even if it is 'banned'. Countries will likely continue to develop this type of technology with the 'hope' that they can begin and end a war in a few seconds and millions of golden BBs. The scary thing is that it may some day actually work as intended.
Doesn’t that mean the PIN and password are communicated in clear text?
Indeed. As I understand it (ianal), insanity is a positive defense, meaning that you have to prove to the judge/jury in court that you were insane, i.e., that you were functionally incapable of distinguishing right from wrong at the moment you committed the crime. This is because a mens rea, or guilty mind, is necessary to establish guilt and thus criminal culpability, in addition to the actus reus or the criminal deed itself; you have to be in a state where you know, or could/should have known, not to do what you did. Proving a negative, especially when it comes to this, is extremely difficult. You will have to undergo an extensive psychiatric evaluation by a psychiatrist and they have to come to the very strong conclusion that you were well and truly out of your mind at the time of the commission of the crime. Otherwise, just the evidence that you did the crime is enough to establish guilt.

Oh, and if you somehow successfully plead insanity, you will spend quite possibly the rest of your life in a mental institution instead of prison, which isn't much better.

And yes, it's good to remember that police procedurals are to criminal justice what Hackers (1995) is to hacking: a lot of stuff is distorted to make good cinema/television. In the UK, judges on cop shows use gavels (that is strictly an American custom); how can we expect them to get the details of rare events like an insanity defense right?
Also: “A City is Not a Semilattice Either”

https://doi.org/10.1068/a080375
I used ME for a while. I must say it was extremely performant, shaved off about 15-20 seconds of boot time (compared to 98 SE) off my Athlon XP 2000+ machine. A cold boot in about 25 seconds. Which was a real time saver because it crashed every 2-3 hours.
Same goes for Mint mobile. They are/were an MVNO now owned by T-Mobile. I have no reason to go into a store since the service just works and I never do much but confirm auto-pay is working. Looking at the site now, it's been T-mobilized with stuff like carrier-locked phones but otherwise I've seen no meaningful changes.
Vista was fine too. I ran it for years, never had a single issue. I've seen it said that the problem with Vista was the system requirements were way too low, which I guess makes sense but I can't really confirm or deny. I built a machine well above the minimum specs so I never noticed any issues.
Iran has no great options available to them, and of the terrible options on the table I think they picked the best one for them. Now if Israel wants to attack Iran directly they have to make a mountain out of a molehill and it’ll cost Israel public support at a time where public support for Israel is rapidly waning.
Titanium Backup has been working fine for me to backup and restore various apps. Are there features missing or problems with TB's implementation on modern Android versions?
Charger Reliability Scores
I'm not an expert on the matter but Apple went with 1.0 for full SDR brightness, so you have to query for the maximum display brightness and explicitly use RGB values > 1.0 for HDR. This particular approach might not be a good idea for TVs but this kind of mapping seems easy to reason about and just makes a lot of sense to me. And since this does limit brightness for non-HDR-aware apps and content people figured out they can cover the screen with a multiplying overlay to boost the brightness up to the max.
so is this like a Dropbox alternative using the bittorrent protocol?
Sounds like we need a treemap of treemaps!
or a eyeball scan like that sam altman worldcoin thing.
Unlike X, this thread renders properly without being logged in.
We've had the idea of directed energy beams, but I don't know. The US likes to spend big money at small problems. And then we're surprised when Ukraine (e.g.) uses low cost tech to make big advances.
It should - linux's simpledrm driver should work with uefi framebuffers using the "standard" user interfaces.
I kind of wonder if sometimes rewards programs grease the skids for these sorts of situations.
> And it’s such an easy fix too.

Yep, Steam Deck for games and PopOS for real work. Windows was already a pain in the ass before becoming infested with ads, I no longer choose to subject myself to it.
That says very little. Given the dynamics of military balance in Europe since 1991 due to the massive reduction of forces on the European side, what would the contents of such arrangement be and what would guarantee that Russia adheres to the arrangement more than they did to the previous one signed in 1975?

Unless you propose a major militarization of Europe (which no-one here is interested in, frankly), I don't see how this could mean anything less than a demilitarization of Russia, including almost total destruction of nuclear arsenal, to ensure a balance and equal footing with Europe, to correct the mistake made in 1991 when Russia was left with the huge Soviet arsenal of conventional and nuclear weapons.
Try unchecking that checkbox: https://www.howtogeek.com/742678/how-to-turn-off-animations-...

I’ve recently installed Win11 on my new computer, and immediately discovered Microsoft decided to implement keyboard lag in that version. Luckily, that “animation effects” checkbox did the trick for me.
Are they anthropomorphizing or are you?

First, can we say, "Look at those airplanes, look how fast they are!" without anthropomorphizing the airplane? Of course we can.

So why can't we say "Look at those computers, look how intuitive they are!" without needing to inherently anthropomorphize the subject?

Inherit to your comment is the idea that "knowledge", "intuition", et al, are strictly human qualities. I believe this is why you read Hinton in the way you do, because of your own qualitative understanding of how these words can be applied.
Are people using password only at risk?
> But you're assuming Nazi ideology was coherent

I very explicitly said it's not: "A lot of the Nazi rhetoric isn't even internally consistent and it was all a load of bollocks"

Are you even reading what I'm writing? Your unhinged ridiculous accusations which directly contradicts what I wrote suggests you're not.

I did not mention or talk about contemporary antisemitism. Don't try to twist things.

And yes, obviously "they treated the Dutch, English etc. better" excludes Jews. It also excludes communists, and gays, and some other groups. This is a boring "gotcha" type argument.
I already got off the Windows train as soon as Microsoft put ads into Explorer. As the article says they backed it out, but it didn't take a genius to see that they were going to keep trying to put ads into the OS after that. I switched to Linux, with the only reason I keep Windows installed being for games that won't work in Proton.
[dupe]

Lots of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40018948
Today it's commenting, tomorrow it might be watching a few bad videos
I've found a 100% correlation between the (believed) outcomes of those political opinions and the holder of those opinions benefiting from that outcome (again believed). Those axioms are almost certainly in the mix, people who think raising children is important will probably want children, and then hold opinions that benefit them as parents.

I'm no different, so now I spend my time wondering how to shoehorn, contort and caress my beliefs in such a way as to benefit others too. Better that than give up my dearly held beliefs.
I got mine from a diving (snorkeling/free diving) accident. Barotrauma damaged my cochlea. I think Covid played a factor too. I was severely congested recovering from Covid at the time.
Thoughts from 4 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23576063
After all XMLHttpRequest was a non-standard addition to the web API by Microsoft, specifically added for Outlook AFAIK. Firefox copied it though, so GMail could use it without sacrificing browser agnosticism.
Pretty surprised to see this kind of remark on Hackernews, which is usually pretty much /r/fuckcars 2 in terms of how people view city planning.

But yeah, we can just barely even program a computer. Planning a city to a high degree of granularity is out of the question. Best we can do is apply constraints, observe the results, and iterate.
I don’t know where you are from, but in the EU and UK, consumers get 4-6 years of hardware warranty, on all tech products. Look into the legislation. I got a MacBook replaced after 5 years.
A lot of those 'truth' sources that the author complains about being paywalled propagated the Iraqi WMD lie for years. Some still try to push the narrative that there are WMDs in Iraq.