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Thats rough. Not surprising considering almost everyone is tightening their budgets.

What does the long term strategy for alternate cloud providers like flyio look like? Cater exclusively to startups/small firms? Supplement existing cloud providers by letting some teams build/deliver quicker without being blocked by infra issues?
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>Recent immigrants tend to earn less than U.S.-born workers because of their lower level of education, lack of English, and in some cases because they are working without permission. They might also compete with existing workers with less education and put downward pressure on their wages, too.

This is my biggest problem with immigration. It is a handout to corporations. If we think about the poorest Americans, this is doing them a massive disservice. Not that there is any shortage of jobs in tech, but you also have to wonder where the salaries would be at in tech, and how many more citizens would be training for these roles if it weren't for H-1B visa.

For the most part, America serves corporations through legislation and policy though. I dream of a country where the politicians serve the people and not companies, but I also have to wonder if the U.S. would be the economic power house that it is if things were different.
S0 standby sucks. The laptop inevitably turns into a fan heater in my backpack and when you get it out to use it the battery is dead. You can spend ages on google finding obscure registry keys to tweak to turn off network in S0 and tweak hibernate settings which partly helps but it's like we've gone a big step backwards here.
I don't get why the author blames bad drivers on the standby mode.
I remember similar issues with S3 back then. You had to jump through many hoops on FreeBSD and Linux to make it work without draining your battery while still being able to resume from standby successfully. Disabling some drivers, but not others, etc.

Thus, a faulty implementation of a device or driver is not to blame on the standby mode. FWIW, Modern Standby works fine on my Thinkpad X1 Titanium Yoga with Windows 11. The only device that drains more battery than necessary if not disabled is the Qualcomm WWAN modem. That stops once you disable it, like in the "good old days". So for me, it's nothing negative, but actually adds convenience because with Modern Standby, my device goes to sleep and resumes much faster than the devices ever did with S3.
> because it has served the creator well with his way of working (and surprisingly the philosophy applies to many of us). Japanese “engineering” at its best, so to speak.

Indeed. I read that the Howm author, Prof. Kazuyuki Hiraoka, disliked the tediousness of manually organizing notes (folders, tags, etc.), and wanted to make a somewhat “self-organizing” system where we can work lazily yet remain organized. He called it lazy, I call it efficient :)

> As Howm has become such an important part of my everyday digital life, I will certainly write my own blog article about it one day.

I would love to read more about other people’s Howm workflows. Currently, there’s still very few sources about this in English.
I get where you are coming from, but from a user's perspective I really struggle to see the benefits of S0ix.

More parts are kept on, for the sake of updates and notifications. Notifications that you will get on your phone anyway (and that the laptop won't be able to get if it's not connected to a wifi anyway), and updates that will likely cause too much excess heat to be safe to perform inside of a bag.

If you see the benefits more clearly, perhaps you could elaborate on what they are?
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> It wastes a lot less space than the taskbars in other desktop envionments.

Gnome also has a task bar which is even taller and wastes a huge amount of screen height.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-prev...
Apple does this during sleep when connected to power, so maybe Microsoft thought it needs that as well?
I usually had some overlapping technical expertise with the candidates I was interviewing, so my approach was to prepare a line of questions relating to some obscure or esoteric technical issue I’d dealt with in the past. Usually I’d get to an I don’t know pretty organically.

One time I had a candidate who didn’t not know about a single massively obscure thing I’d asked him. He was a DBA for a Chinese ISP that had more subscribers than we had total population in the markets we were operating in. That guy was probably the best hire I ever made. He was always in an incredibly genuine good mood, he was always happy to help everybody, and he’d help people learn how to solve problems rather than just doing the solving for them. Everybody on the team got smarter and more competent working with him, and he was so good at his job that he never even got behind on his own work due to helping other people all the time. I hope he’s still doing well now, before I left that company I managed to make sure he was being paid bucketloads of money (which wasn’t something he ever seemed to be seeking out independently, he was always just happy to come to work and do his job).
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I suspect that the real reason for this change is to ensure that Windows gets updated even if the laptop is sleeping, and that this is a change that enterprise customers have asked for.

In the past where a computer would be connected to the corporate network all the time you could usually get Wake-on-LAN to work so you could boot computers at night to apply updates and ensure that users weren't waiting around forever. With laptops and people working remotely you need a new way to ensure that the bulk of the updates happen when they won't interfere with users trying to work - this is the solution.

Microsoft may well tout additional potential benefits, but that's more about selling it to consumers so they don't complain about changes as much.

And, of course, some manufacturers do a better job than others at implementing this. --I haven't had a problem with any of my Lenovo laptops or even the Surface laptop. Dell, on the other hand, doesn't seem to implement it well at all.
Will we still have the happy days of bad guys getting demonetized? Or will respectable companies and customers accept unfortunate ad placements as a fact of life?
> I don't speak enough Portuguese to read all the original sources without machine translation, but I saw enough that I'm pretty sure I got the gist of it, even if I didn't go through all the procedural details.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/03/world/americas/brazil-sta...

> The move was the first sign of any backing down by Mr. Musk in Brazil since he began battling with the authorities there last month. X has been blacked out across the nation of 200 million since Saturday because of a dispute between Mr. Musk and Brazil’s Supreme Court over what can be said online.
Starlink escalated the fight on Sunday when, according to Brazilian regulators, the company declared it would continue allowing its 250,000 customers in Brazil to log on to X, defying the government.

I don't know if Musk really thinks to be above the law or someting, but sure he has shown the maturity of an 11yo.
Had the backpack problem for some time... my current fix is a bash script that goes

while true; do pm-suspend; sleep 12; done

I just ctrl-c it when i need to use it and then restart it when i am done. Dirty but it works..
Yeah it seems like Microsoft is executing its exit strategy on Windows.
I have to restart my MacBook every few days unfortunately because sometimes it just has weird issues (like usb devices or networking stopping working).
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> - Clone a passport -> why cloning if you can issue new ones - getting risked being detected while using a clone (2 entries in 2 different countries, and you also need to look like the person) not to mention you have to destroy the passport

Well... not really. ICAO compliant passports do not require storing a photo embedded in the chip, as long as you can forge the physical part of the passport (or obtain blanks) you just need the digital certificates from a "donor" passport of John Doe, print "John Doe" and his personal data (birth day/place, nationality, issuance/expiry data) on the human readable and MRZ fields, but crucially the photo of the person using the forgery.

Also, there are no centralized, cross country stores of entry/departure. Lots of places don't even register it for visa-free border crossings.

Some national ID documents, e.g. the Croatian national ID card "osobna iskaznica", do store a photo embedded in the chip, so that indeed restricts a forgery from being used by a non-lookalike.
And probably more of a curse than a blessing. Having to listen to Kind of Blue with the awful knowledge that it's 1/3 of a tone flat from concert pitch: that's something I'd rather live without.

Among professional musicians who have perfect pitch, it's considered more of a curse than a blessing.
Senators were designed as senior statesmen representing the interest of State Governments, and as a check against the popularly-elected Representatives in the House so that the smaller states could have a voice.

That's why general public couldn't even vote for senators until the 17th amendment in 1913. I wonder from time to time the ramifications of turning Senators into basically super-representatives.

I think it's always good to keep in mind that the Founders and Framers really did consider the individual States as semi-autonomous entities bound together in a tight FEDERATION that would cooperate on interstate commerce, mutual defense, and foreign diplomacy.

And so, Wyoming, Maine and Rhode Island get just as many senators as New York, Texas, and California because they are just as important to this Union as any other state.

Edit: Apparently (but not surprisingly) there is some partisanship surrounding this issue and I want to make clear that 1) I came to this thought via just some first-principles thinking 2) I do sympathize with the motivations behind the 17th and the challenges of reverting to pre-17th (in the same way we really can't go back to pre-12th Amendment style POTUS elections).
You're missing the point entirely and brought a plate of red herring to the table.

I could roll keys for my own computer, but freedom 3 falls flat on its face when everyone elses private key is kept secret by one company. People unknowingly trust one company for their "security", while in fact the "security" in this entire scheme boils down to securing stock gain. You can hardly blame the consumers for buying computers that come pre-compromised with vendor-specific keys as the change was touted as "more secure". Secure, again, in the sense that it secures even more money in already deep pockets. Those who can't change their OS or can't easily tick a box on a security checklist will stay on the prerolled platform.

Not being dependant on any one party is an effect of having freedom. Not a prerequisite.

And you conflate software freedom with personal freedom. The four freedoms you call narrow and fundamentalistic, apply to software. You argue no privilege is taken away from me, which is correct, but that also applies to the four software freedoms. I choose not to buy games that don't work on the OS I run. That's personal freedom. The software I write is free on its own to end up on anything from a roll of toilet paper to critical mission control systems. I don't care because it's free as in freedom on its own.
Same! It's unfortunate that the names collide. I was also totally confused.

From the article,

> Traditional Sleep requires all system hardware and software components to work together. The operating system must support Sleep, as well as the hardware (e.g. CPU) and the BIOS/UEFI. According to the UEFI to Hardware Interface Standard (ACPI), this usual form of sleep is referred to as S3. S3 is a Sleep State in which all system components, except for the RAM and CPU Cache, are powered off.
AI will replace all coding
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16823/intel-accelerated-offen...

According to their own roadmap from a few years ago they should have been able to use their own 20A process node for this CPU.
I'm yet to come across a "leetcoder" type who can write even basic code without constant help, even if it's mostly algorithmic in nature.
> "you also have to wonder where the salaries would be at in tech, and how many more citizens would be training for these roles if it weren't for H-1B visa"

On the flip side, you have to wonder where the American tech industry would be without immigrants.

Nvidia was founded by the son of Taiwanese parents who sent their children to live with an uncle in the US. That's one of the many immigration paths that the MAGAs want to close.

Was the creation of Nvidia a "handout to corporations"? Intel sure would be happy if Jensen Huang had never made it to America.
>Why do we accept being spat upon and treated like basement bums when we put our money on the table???

Tell me you aren't in the target market without telling me you aren't in the target market.

Microsoft will never, ever, ever be able to make everyone happy. I do not agree with the direction they are going either, because I (as a long-time developer on Windows) am not in their target market.
I got halfway through the article and the font suddenly switched to an unreadable monospace! (Sorry for bikeshedding but it was a uniquely bemusing experience.)
Those scroll-to-top links/buttons have always seemed a waste to me, adding page weight and visual clutter. I never use them on my sites and have almost never used them when browsing, IIRC, in decades of surfing...
> 1) It saves power

Shutting down and booting are intensive operations, it's likely that for short enough periods of time, sleep is actually more power-efficient if it works well.

I don't have numbers though and with SDDs and fast boot times, maybe booting is way less power hungry than before in the end.

Can't argue with 2) of course.
> Even then, there were rumors that Apple was going to cripple non-Apple brand chargers.

They tried, but the EU shut that down real quick and forced them to use the actual standard.
Last time they sent me a replacement for free. This was for a problem with generating ssh keys.
There is a law, and it gives FTC broad authority to regulate unfair and deceptive practices in most "commerce", with carveouts for a few industries like airlines, packers and shippers, and finance/banking.
Closing the lid and putting it into the bag has the same effect for me.

I've my own ritual for preparing myself for the "I am done" phase. Doing the last commits, writing down a few sentences on what should I do when I go back to work and closing the lid.
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> Justice Moraes blocked X in Brazil because Mr. Musk has refused to comply with court orders to remove certain accounts on the social network, and then closed X’s office in the country. Mr. Musk has criticized Justice Moraes for months, accusing him of illegally censoring free speech. The justice has said Mr. Musk is obstructing his work of removing hate speech and attacks on democracy from the Brazilian internet.

Rightful or not, a private company has no authority over a foreign government, and Brazil government has all the rights to do whatever they want within their country's borders.

Musk is no information robin hood, he's just an arrogant rich infant.
This triggers connected screens to wake up despite no signal every time it does it. Unfortunately you cannot disable it on Apple silicon Mac’s…
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MacBooks aren't immune to sleep issues either though. Mine used to forget the external display about a fifth of the time, and forget it has any display at all once every 20 or 30 lid close->open cycle.

The solution happened to be unplug and replug for the first issue, and force reboot for the second. I've enough people having issues with external displays that I don't think it's an isolated problem.

For comparison a Surface Pro failing to go to sleep or getting hot in the bag hasn't happened to me in 2 years of owning these machines. It might surely happen, but it's far from a regular occurrence I think.
This is an entire class of attacks known since almost forever. So yeah, some of us already considered this so we'd like to gross over it this time.
I noticed my laptops kept turning themselves on and sitting at login screen during sleep. Several brands. This is apparently a feature?
Are there any musical instruments with the notes arranged in a circle like that? Notes are in a repeating cycle after all. Different octaves could be further in/out layers.
Living in a country with strong workers rights, this is not how pensions work. The pensions people receive every month are literally paid by the taxes which are collected from everybody and every company during that month. Pensions are not saved money from companies you worked for, but money coming from the economy at the time of your retirement. It’s a common misconception that the state has a big pile of pension money sitting somewhere that you then get your pension from. That’s just not how it works in reality. Another difference from pensions to receiving money from a company just by owning parts of it, is also that you don’t continue to be on a company’s paycheck when you quit. You need to reach a certain age to receive money and you get that money from the state, not the companies you worked for. That’s how pensions work.
Tangential but I found it amusing: today Windows rebooted while encrypting my disk with BitLocker, and decided that now would be a great time to retry those updates that bricked the laptop last time...
Waste is inherently problematic, regardless of how we manage it. While burning plastic for energy might seem like a solution, it's not ideal. We can generate clean electricity through other means that are cheaper and less polluting. Burning waste still releases harmful toxins into the environment and contributes to greenhouse gas emissions – even if it reduces landfill methane, which is a potent contributor to climate change. Ultimately, the best approach is to minimize waste generation in the first place, as this prevents both environmental harm and the need for costly and imperfect solutions.
My company laptop has sleep _disabled_, and all the caches, cookies, browsing history etc. are cleared when I log off or shut down. I guess this is due to security reasons. No updates while "sleeping" in my case.
Piling our waste on/in the ground has 1000x less harmful side effects than the waste we burn and spray into the air from hundreds of millions different locations.
#2 I have a Python script to close all my open windows.
If you want high salaries you can just multiply all the financial numbers by 100. Then workers all get to be millionaires. Doesn't help much though; "high salaries" are one of those distractions from what matters - high living standards.

The question is really whether a migrant will produce more or less over their lifetime than the resources they consume. If they produce less, then the balance has to come from existing citizens. But it has nothing to do with whether more labour is a net win for corporations or not. The problem is if they come in and do low productivity work that wasn't going to happen at all in a counterfactual where they didn't migrate.
The problem is, you're focusing on theoretical dangers that have like 0,0000000000000000001% chance of happening, instead of assessing what risks are actually probable. Basically the attitude "I don't allow my child to be out alone because there was a kidnapping case ten years ago on the other side of the country".
AMD is working on it (heterogenous dispatch). Roughly EOY timeline.
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