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Does making tools more expensive really benefit anyone other than the companies which own the patents which make them more expensive?

Of these 30,000 injuries per year, how many happen when the blade guards are removed? How many happen when a push stick is not used? How many happen when a person stands in the direction that a piece of wood will be thrown by kickback? Once all those are subtracted are there enough injuries to count?

What if all tablesaw injury cases were tried by a jury of shop teachers?

The best advice I got in shop class was to slowly and quietly count to 10 on my fingers before throwing a power switch and in doing so to envision the operation from beginning to end and all the forces which would be involved, and to remind myself, that I wanted to be able to repeat that cut when the power was turned off.

SawStop goes on about how they will license their patent, but the licensing being offered is a very narrow one and doesn't seem to include the entirety of their patent portfolio, and they have fought very hard to keep tools with similar capabilities out of the U.S. market claiming patent infringement.
The purpose of the commercial is to create demand where there otherwise would not have been. Do you think that demand comes from the parents or the children? Which parts of the commercial do you think are most important for fomenting this demand?
Interesting - I remember working with someone that told me that they'd seen an ALGOL codebase finally get decommissioned in 2005 (the replacement system had run in parallel with it for a few years first) after first going live in 1979.

It surprised me because people talk about COBOL and Fortran being dead, but ALGOL always seemed really dead, and I couldn't believe that there was still ALGOL running this century.
I've rejected most of my pain into a black hole, but as the person who wrote the Ansible scripts to bring up dev machines, I had nothing but loathing for nvm. It someone always managed to find bold new ways to misbehave & crud up. It was incredibly unpleasant to work with.

Someone else suggested we switch to asdf & what a rapid & happy migration that was. Good riddance nvm.
Well, this time (the 2022 invasion) the US and British got it correct while the French and Germans got caught with their pants around their knees.
Return-to-work mandates are an invisible pay cut
You can do graphics in pure C though. Really, file i/o is all you need for anything. Anything.
Usually those fancy 3D displays are miserable on my phone, but the ones on this page pretty much just work. Lovely surprise.
Yes, you can still click through if you don't hover, and the account is gone.

Presumably, the code that shows the preview just doesn't handle deleted accounts gracefully.
> Time is limited. It does matter what we spend it on.

Definitely. Knowing this does make choosing what to learn easier though!
Indeed. The linked project is quite verbose in fact. Just checked my old ncurses clone in Python and it had 280 lines. JS clone based on Pixi had less than 200. It wouldn't be much more if translated directly to C.
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>Isn't lady gaga catholic?

I honestly don't know since I am not interested in celebrities let alone what they do in their private times. I just rattled her off as the first thing to come to my mind for a recently popular western celebrity.

>Any random catholic who wants to be there is a better choice

Again, this was a party for the powerful and rich. This was an opportunity for France and the Church to bolster its political and diplomatic capitals. You need powerful and rich people to come down for that.

>than these neoaristocratic freaks.

Occupy Wall Street was 13 years ago, that kind of sentiment didn't lead to anything constructive then and it's not going to now either.
The stone likely may have been painted, originally too. I asked a tour guide at Chartres about the why the floor was so rough and the walls so perfectly aligned. She said that the walls were not perfect, they painted over the stones and drew lines of perfect boundaries because the walls and ceiling represented heaven (perfect), while the floor represented earth (imperfect), so it used rough, variously-sized, unevenly fitted stones.

(Incidentally, this is related to why there are gargoyles on cathedrals. The church building is a microcosm of the cosmological universe. On the outside is untamed wild, which is where the monsters are (a monster being something we do not understand or cannot integrate, hence the abundance of chimeral combination of multiple animal and/or human parts). Inside the church is where the Kingdom is, with a baptistry at the beginning, because you enter the Kingdom through baptism. Then, the masses of the people in the Kingdom. And originally the altar was behind a screen, which represented the holy of holies, where God is; now this is often represented with a raised platform for the altar.)
Oh, one other thing I just wondered: has there been any progress on interacting with Nyxt from Emacs? I saw something about that at some stage.
The Fragility of Bluesky's Difference
"Buying a politician to vote in a certain way" is not really how it works most of the time. It's more "buying time with a politician so you can give the best possible explanation for your case without any counter-argument". Turns out, that is surprisingly effective, especially when there isn't really an organised counter-movement with similar funds to get politicians ears.
aka: pretty much how the
HA hardware devices (yellow/amber/green/blue) work by default.
Gopher never went away, it's still there if you want it.
>An even better idea is simply nationalizing medicine, top to bottom. That's unlikely to happen, but would result in the biggest drop in healthcare costs.

In the immortal words of President Ronald Reagan: "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

Which is to say, no. Obviously this is a long-brewing problem in need of a solution, but more government is not it.
> Everybody involved in this should get fired.

I don’t disagree but the events in question took place and were discovered over 30 years ago. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/01/04/Appeals-court-Sherif...
I think definitely a matter of taste sprinkled with nostalgia.

I wanted to get the incandescent opaque-paint-covered lights I grew up with but the power consumption - and the number of outlets required if you follow the "don't chain more than 2 or 3 strings together" guidance - was (unsurprisingly, in retrospect) WAY higher, so I just found the closest LED version I could find.

They look pretty decent at the end of the day, and one pro is that you can get more brightness and vividness out of them (helpful if you have other newer, bright-LED decorations).
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I replaced motion sensors with human presence sensors which solved the shower timeout issue.
> My (maybe incorrect) understanding is that Zigbee devices can't independently pair with each other

They can! You can bind clusters from several devices together, I have a couple of such devices. For example, you can bind a two wall light switches together.

The problem is that the UI for it is typically hidden and/or absent.
You're not required to purchase them if you don't want to. Personally, I have a stopsaw. It has never triggered, so beyond initial purchase price, it hasn't cost me a cent extra, but in the unlikely case where I do something dumb or have an accident, I feel better knowing it won't be life altering and all I'll need to do is replace a blade and a $99 cartridge. That's worth it to me.
> So you're saying ordering any food from a fast food restaurant is an eating disorder?

No. I explicitly said “ It absolutely is a disorder to eat to the level you described in your previous comment.” Because you previously said,

> … Triple burger, large fries, large drink. People are doing this once a day every day of the week. Then they go home and order more high calorie food with high calorie drinks and constant snacking.

What you described here is textbook disordered eating.

> Blaming overweight Americans for their overweightness just lets you personally feel better about yourself while doing nothing to actually identify or solve the problem

> most people are too stupid too ignorant or at least two uninformed to know about it and even more so do anything about it.

And I’m victim blaming?

It’s hilarious and ironic that you both decided to place these two sentences next to one another, and also felt the confidence to attack my character for using the term eating disorder. Take a look in the mirror.
How do you think libwayland-client is implemented? Or even SDL?
Just use jsonnet if you want this IMO. No need to change json into yaml.
To be fair, other companies haven't been trying very hard. I hate Felder for this. They have their own tech to drop the sawblade when they sense fingers. And they use it as a form of market segmentation, only offering it on their $30k+ tablesaws and not on their less expensive ones.

> The best advice I got in shop class was to slowly and quietly count to 10 on my fingers before throwing a power switch and in doing so to envision the operation from beginning to end and all the forces which would be involved, and to remind myself, that I wanted to be able to repeat that cut when the power was turned off.

It's great advice, but injuries tend to happen when people become complacent with the operations.
“It’s a hard knock white.. dwarf dust!” Is the joke
There's a few others: humidity sensor switches (bathroom/laundry fans), and the "auto-timer-off" button light switches (for the front entryway/exterior lights).

_back_ that with an additional "Shelly" dongle (wifi control that is installed _behind_ the switch-plate), and you get both direct switch control, as well as direct WiFi control.

AFAIK the switch will override on/off when you hit it from the wall, and the WiFi will override whatever the current switch setting is. You never lose control from the wall-plate, and only gain control via WiFi.
Upvoted. But...

There's so many reasons why it's hard to say this is really unwanted. Atrix was a boutique not mainstream product so who knows what would have happened had it been generally usable.

At the time we didn't have anything like usb-c, so it was all special peripherals and displays. Now though a decent % of displays do have USB-c with power, and that's totally different starting conditions. Especially if that display also has a keyboard and mouse plugged in, which many do!

Commercial success requires paving of cow paths, needs a low impedance route to mass success. We haven't been in a spot where that's ever been remotely possible before.

Do I think Android on display is going to totally take over & dominate soon? No, no I don't. But mass availability and a world capable of supporting - making use of this capability has just arrived, and this really lets us get started with these ubiquitous & pervasive computing ideas that, so far/until now, have had to be bespoke offering.

Different but also similar, it feels like game streaming has some reasonable popularity too now, and it's another case of using interconnect across devices & peripherals that I think a lot of people have really grown into & deeply enjoy being able to do. It's still a small segment of people, relatively, but to me it speaks of adoption curves & how success is often extremely slow, how there are real fans who feel great joy & happiness, without the rest of the world being much tuned in or aware.
I think we’re still missing a breakthrough in synthetic data generation for code in order to LLMs to come into their own. Something can ingest the documentation of all the different ecosystems and generate fine tuning to improve the accuracy of recall.
This sounds like so much fun. Thank you to the author for writing this up and sharing the blow-by-blow.

While fascinated with the network stack, I've only gotten as deep as reading Illustrated TCP/IP and pretending I understand tcpdump. I would love to rovel around in BGP and, um, all that jazz.

Any suggestions on how to get started? My vague understanding is that most people get apprenticed into this stuff through work. Are the relevant systems involved just too expensive and locked behind corporate walls to be amenable to autodidactism?
Why's that? I used to mainly game on the 360 and I've never particularly found them a hindrance to my enjoyment, or thought game designs were being altered negatively for their sake - despite not being really much into getting them myself.

Do you have some examples of games that have been made worse by the inclusion of achievements?

Now, in game purchases, on the other hand...
Scripts (OSX ships with Python, Perl, Bash, Zsh, and I think JS) bypass all of those.

Also I would not be suprised if editing scripts in runtime based apps (like electron) still bypass all of those.

Last I looked at code signing in MacOS it was weaker than Windows in places. With code signing checks enabled in Windows (they are used as a smart screen signal but not required by default) you actually need to sign shell scripts to run them.
Twenty years ago a good question was why did they quit having direct access to the hardware in 32-bit PCs?

For a while there if you had the same business-class machines under WinXP as with Win98, the difference in speed was phenomenal. XP was just a dog and it was a loss that has never been recovered. And now you just have to live with the fact that NT5 was actually not nearly as slow as NT6 has been :\

After careful consideration it was largely attributed to the existence of a Harware Abstraction Layer in the NT form of Windows.

For the longest time this was also a major speed advantage that Linux had over Windows on the same hardware.
I started work at a credit card processing company at the end of ‘96 as an assembler programmer on OS/360 IBM mainframes. The company simulated the date changing to the year 2000 and we saw everything that broke. We then worked over the next couple years fixing everything and Y2K went by without a hitch. If you were involved with it you do tend to resent the people that say it was over blown but you also understand the feeling that it was over blown by the media because it did play upon public fear to sell products and views.
Which presence sensor are you using? One of the mmWave devices?

I've had an Aqara FP2 for a while but haven't really found a killer use for it. Maybe the bathroom is that case.
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> Of these 30,000 injuries per year, how many happen when the blade guards are removed? How many happen when a push stick is not used?

Seems like you don't buy into the swiss cheese model of accidents. Because other safety mechanisms and good practices exist, it doesn't mean that there's not reasons to add additional safety. In aviation, we always blamed the pilots for a long time, and it wasn't entirely wrong. However, no matter how much we told pilots "stop crashing and dying!!" they didn't seem to want to stop.

This is there for the day when other things go wrong-- when a tired operator reaches for something he obviously shouldn't; when a blade guard is out of place and someone slips; when someone who isn't sufficiently trained doesn't realize he shouldn't use the table saw.
Larrabee might be a disaster, but sometimes it takes a while to get things going.

What other market was Intel chasing that would have yielded a large new market? Oh right, Mobile CPUs. I mean besides that? An actually well-done Linux distro that helped showcase Intel's hardware without waiting for Windows to release 9x+1. Ok, besides that? Good laptop hardware. Ok Ok Ok.

But it still stands, even if 1.0 and 2.0 are a disaster, iterate and work on it.

The big problem is that Intel is a quarterly earnings focused company. Well, and even if Gelsinger is good, the middle management is pretty clearly totally dead sea. If middle management is bad, they can't attract talent, and can't retain talent, and can't support talent. Without talent, no vision or execution.

Intel doesn't value intellectual labor. It's the bottom line with the company. An arrogant technically competent leader is still better than the alternatives.

That said I have no direct or even indirect interaction with Gelsinger. All my strong opinions are derived from 30 years of being in software and PCs.
Because that will expose that significantly more than 14% of managers also get nothing done.
The saw manufacturers all blew off SawStop because they were worried that they would now be liable for any injuries which still occurred.

Simply make table saw manufacturers liable for any injury from the saw and this kind of mechanism will instantly become default.
Aha! Makes sense. So why might those three countries have the highest stomach cancer incidence?
I continue to blame both he and Michael Dell for the demise of VMware. So many bad acquisitions and failures to innovate (ESXi for ARM anyone?)
Sure, we can do those things in C, but they are easier and faster to do in Rust, and safer, largely because of Rust's enums (algebraic data types, not as simplistic as C's) and traits, and because of crates: a lot can be done in Rust by gluing together a few well maintained crates.

The only language that comes close, AFAICT, is python.

Add the fact that Rust's memory safety brings thread safety for free (once you've grokked Rust's memory management model) and yiu get quickly written type safe memory safe thread safe high perfomance code.
>I feel like I'm seeing a lot about how Gelsinger's decisions were the wrong move for Intel

The narrative machine for Intel is in full force given how much monies is in play, I wouldn't take anything that seriously.

>What is (or was when Gelsinger became CEO) the move for Intel to get back on top?

Whatever it takes to drive stonks up up up, obviously. If there was one thing Gelsinger could legitimately be blamed for, it is that he wiped out Intel's market valuation. Nothing else matters, because his "interim" replacements are both beancounters whose literal job is to drive stonks up up up.
> Does making tools more expensive really benefit anyone other than the companies which own the patents which make them more expensive?

I would pay thousands to avoid losing part of my hand. The increased price is a very good value, tens of dollars.

Look at rearview cameras. Cheap tech. Used to be a 1000+ USD option. Now that they are government mandated the manufacturers figured out how to include them for a couple hundred dollars.

Price goes up, but just a little. Money well spent.
The Eufy / Govee outdoor light strips are probably the easiest to install and setup.
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I don't buy 8GB VRAM GPUs of different form factors, but GPUs as powerful/efficient/cheap as I can get with a standardised form factor.

Business don't want standards because they care about selling non-practical bits of the car for a price, like how good it can make you feel because you think it's cool, even if it's dumb (dummy exhausts, fake carbon, LED logos and fashion oriented design)
Are you suggesting that injuries don’t count if the operator’s actions contributed to them and they’re not worth preventing?
There's fantastically few phones with multiple USB ports. Some of the Lenovo Legion gaming handhelds are the only ones I can think of.

But we are seeing some signs this might change. And insure hope it does, in a big way. A hub can be ok, but with the need to mix display out & peripherals and power, in fancy ways, USB3 really is a limited option. And alas USB4 fixes many of the constraints but is way too high end alas alas alas. Anyways here's an upcoming very cheap tablet with multiple ports, and reports are a lot more are coming. Given the marginal cost of ports, it's about frelling time! Do it! You won't ever have adoption if there's no (or almost no) option! https://www.techradar.com/pro/this-tablet-has-a-genius-featu...
Anyone who has worked in an office for any length of time can tell you that that number is significantly higher than 14%. And even more so for managers.
HugeSCM – A next generation cloud-based version control system
HugeSCM is a next-generation version control system written in Golang that relies on cloud infrastructure to solve the problem of repository scale. It can store particularly large files and is very suitable for AI model storage. It draws on the experience of Git and gets rid of Git's historical baggage.
Wait, so is it a one time function? Can the wire be reset?
That’s an interesting way of looking at it. When this happens, it means your eyes are crossed too much. I solve this by relaxing and catching it before my eyes get fully straight. Doing this is usually easier than seeing it the first time.
For a basic timestamp use a number.

If you need more, you enter territory that is much too complex to build into the "simplest data format" spec.
They should all receive the same sentence as someone they arrested for making and selling crack cocaine would.
Boffins build diamond battery that lasts millennia
I own a Soundcore Motion+ and can attest to it to be terribly sounding, even for a Bluetooth speaker.
My car also emits different sounds when it's malfunctioning, but I don't go on to ascribe it an emotional state such as "mournful wailing."
Basically, the trend is you have human rights.

But moving anywhere at all by any means at all is a privilege. Driving is a privilege, walking is a privilege, flying is a privilege, biking is a privilege.

Of course electronic payment systems are a privilege, health care is a privilege, internet is a privilege, school is a privilege, jobs are a privilege.
I figured that sentence was a little tongue in cheek
IIRC you need to replace the brake cartridge and the blade.
This isn't a space I pretend to understand in detail, but Cantrill's objections to Larrabee here seem confusing. With hindsight, Intel abandoning Larrabee has been a disaster and they should have sustained the effort to develop a great GPGPU chip. Without taking any position at all on Gelsinger's execution his strategic vision seems to have be supported by what happened in practice after his attempt.

If Intel had been practising making discrete GPU from 2009 to 2024 instead of giving up then it does seem quite reasonable that Nvidia would be a quarter of its size. One of the obvious mis-steps Intel made over the last 20 years was failing to keep trying Larrabee-style chips until they figured out how to make them work. Ok version 1 might be a disaster and version 2 might be bad. But we're looking back over almost 20 years! There was a lot of room to figure out how to be good and tap in to the huge new market that was opening up.
because his "interim" replacements are both beancounters whose literal job is to drive stonks up up up.

That seems like the opposite of what I've heard before and what NVDA have been doing. Is NVDA's stock soaring because the bean counters stifled any innovation before it could happen in order to drive the stonks up?

Bean counters can bring stock value up temporarily. The trick is to get out before shit hits the fan. For a comparison, see Boeing. Where shit is hitting the (turbo) fan right now as well.
AFAIK all sawstop catridges are one time use only and also destroys the disk. This is not really a bug.
Switching from JSON to Jsonnet to get comments and trailing commas is like switching from a butter knife to a chainsaw because your steak is too tough. Jsonnet is literally Turing-complete!