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Small kids need smaller components, but it's hard to make small components reliable and cost effective. I really appreciate the folks who took the time to translate the same darn brake levers used all over the world to a size suitable for a 2 year old's hand. They're the cutest thing and they're the first thing I had to teach my son how to use after he was cooking it down hills on the balance bike. They get banged up first on a fall, they get merciless treatment, and they perform the same way I expect mine or any other to perform.
In Factory Farming a single variable (crop) is moved to one side of the '=' and the inputs are sorted on the other. The variables of seed rate, fertilizer rate, irrigation rate ( especially against the weather ) and timing ( herbicide before, pesticide after, fertilize at seed time? ) are complex enough, but worthwhile to study in abstraction, such that we have in the 20th century produced such programs at universities and funded them well enough that the USDA keep very good guides for many crops in many soil and climate zone combinations.
Crop rotation and even grazing rotation are even studied quite well for their soil-building (and thereby fertilizer supplanting) potentials. But what I see in practice around me is that the fields here in seven years are planted in cotton seven times. Most farmers would approach rotation with the same sense as if you asked a manufacturing facility to change from plastics manufacturing to use the space for printing and finishing work for textiles in order to improve the skill-set of the operators. Once you ( As a farmer) nail the timing and rates of corn, you don't roll the dice with 10k acres of your livelihood. Once you build the fences for cattle, you don't want to do it all again for sheep ( different line type and height )
The upside is still very attractive. There's just some serious work to do, keeping the lights on.
The basis for the ranking was a cumulative tracking of benchmark results that were required as part of commissioning bespoke computers. A contract would be written to buy a computer that could achieve a certain performance in operations per second, and in order to satisfy that the benchmarks were agreed to and codified in the contracts. Government contracts are to a certain extent public information so the goals and clout of successive performance were tracked in this way.
If you don’t need to satisfy a government contract, or don’t need the clout to attract engineers or funding, submitting results draws unwanted attention to what you’re cooking up.
If the redundant hardware and some ground rules they have in place have made the onboarding of developers better and faster, than perhaps it should be recognized that they seem to be prioritizing the DX - especially since plenty of applications in RT will also use redundant hardware and confine their hardware selection similarly to prioritize the performance targets of their application, SpaceX just added developers to the feature matrix.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/president-re...
https://www.politico.com/2024-election/results/
I didn't make any of these, of course, but these are among the usual suspects
Lee Strobel has a good take on the authenticity of the Gospel account in his book The Case For Christ [0] and as always the book is better than the movie
[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73186.The_Case_for_Chris...
But Lions. Lions are apex predators, and though they hadn't been seen, the trade routes would surely have brought their reputations ahead of them. Lions kill people, they eat camels, they devour. Kill one and you're mighty. Capture one, and you're very powerful, skillful and brave. Double up and you're formidable. Have a breeding pair and you're a warlord with no need for an army.
The Chinese Imperial story has a lot to do with being the presiding authority of knowledge and power. Check out the preoccupation with celestial events. The emperor made sure that he not only knew when and where an eclipse would take place in the realm, but he went there to make sure people knew that the mysteries of the sky were known by the Emperor.
If you want to cozy up to a ruler like that, you show him that you also know similar power, and you have enough to share ~ "tell your people you can make lions now, thanks to your friends in Persia"
Nowadays it just looks more like 5th gen fighter contracts.
Curation is something we intrinsically favor over engagement algorithms. Noisy is easy to quantify, but greatness is not. Greatness might have a lag in engagement metrics while folks read or watch the material. It might provoke consideration, instead of reaction.
Often we need seasons of production in order to calibrate our selection criteria, and hopefully this season of booming generation leads to a very rich new opportunity to curate great things to elevate from the noise.
I also like the "keep it separated" structure for work laptop and personal computer. I have a three-wide monitor setup, and the center is shared. I also use separate keyboard and mice, including a vertical mouse, because I found it helped on the right-hand setup to have a different angle.
I have a sit-stand desk that I find to be really great. You can spend lots for that part, but mine is a manual leg set and a melamine top to go with it from Ikea, along with a stool from Ikea as well to make sure I had a few options but none include 'too slouchy.' You may want a proper chair with a back, but I didn't want to find a place for mine when I wanted to stand and move more. I also find that I keep the desk in a pretty narrow range of height once I find a good spot and I keep it there for days. That's why manual is good for me.
I support collaboration tools, so I am on calls often, and have headsets and cameras sent to me to try out, but I find that I use a few things in rotation. I don't like having things in my ears ( so no airpods for me ) but I do like lightweight over-ear headsets. I'm currently using the Logi Zone Wireless Plus, and I've liked their wired version because it is even lighter (they were both sent to me for evaluation) but I still find myself using speakers for some calls, so I have a soundbar connected to the work dock and a stereo receiver connected to the other. I prefer having separate "out loud" connections, so that I don't have to scramble to set up for a meeting, and the headset floats, since it can handle multiple connections ( dongle, two bluetooth ).
I also have separate cameras, making sure that they have a microphone for when I don't want to wear the headset. Cameras can be a little finicky, most will want supplemental lighting to actually look good. The Poly P5 ($55) does really well in very low light, but I found I didn't like the sound of the audio magic it does ( it has great noise cancellation, but I'd rather use my headset) I find myself using Logi[tech]'s older c525 because the framing fits my desk area with little messing around, and because I have two of them atop the central screen, so the perspective is similar for both computers.
To ease the lighting for the cameras, but keep the lights out of my eyes, I mounted LED strips to the ceiling above me, controlled by WLED and a motion sensor. That ( and the melamine desktop ) provides for a soft "bounce" light to help for calls, without the "ring light" feel of staring at a lamp all day.
That's a bit of a book, but hopefully it helps with the decision process. Your desk is very personal and particular, and it is worth spending the time to evaluate along the way as well.
I'm not familiar with JAX, but the idea of providing an abstraction layer to more easily get to work on what hardware is available seems really valuable. Bringing back some competitiveness to the ecosystem will be a big win for workload mobility.
I suspect that price/performance across implementations will be highly dependent on contract details, but do you intend to publish some comparisons in the future?
There is a whole community of gravel-riding cyclists, seeking monster rides.
https://breckepic.com https://www.epic-series.com/capeepic https://thestartlist.com.au/disciplines/gravel/ - and other affiliated European and African races https://southeastgravel.com - a regional gravel race series https://www.granfondoguide.com/Contents/Index/1324/what-is-a... less competitive, long gravel
If you're asking them to test in prod ( not providing a local test environment for component testing ) or reinvent the wheel ( and get the wheel type right... should I build a bicycle wheel or a railcar wheel? ) then the first week of a new hire is spent trying to align to his or her peers.
A backdoor is one thing, but the technology is paper-thin when used alone.
RFID is an inexpensive thing-monitoring platform, great for tracking goods in a process (manufacturing or in some cases, warehousing) but it should not be relied upon as the only layer in a security solution.
My father had a community development organization in a blighted part of a southern U.S. city. They bought and restored 14 houses that were falling down and unliveable, and made them available with a very creative financing structure to attempt to alleviate the typically gentrifying investment of renovation. They took on volunteers and lots of other cost-savings for the demolition, but when it came to buying things they had worked out with their bank to finance each house with a construction loan, at a great rate backed by good-credit sponsors co-signing, with a built- in clause to provide for an exit for families who rent to houses to be able to take over the mortgage when they were ready, and it would “wrap” to the renters-to-owners. Their rent would effectively have been paying down the mortgage they would take on.
They found it easy to find candidate houses, easy to find families to rent them, and the families were interested in financial literacy training on offer, but none have yet taken on the mortgage.
When the jobs are terrible, or far away, houses aren’t the silver bullet. Not new houses, not affordable houses, not apartments, not single-family, not any category of housing on its own. More supply would sure be nice, but it isn’t a single line solution.
Experiencing that petri dish as an adult can be overwhelming. For the same reason that kids have a staggered plan of shots that lasts for a dozen years, you’d have to trickle in the resistance more or less that way that you came about it, or you’re not really “not overloading their immune system”
An alternative analog would be not noticing that a cow was acting up, and allowing a whole herd to contract tuberculosis because a farmer didn't contact the vet or isolate parts of his herd from each other or the neighbors. Some things just happen, and they suck. But some things happen when you aren't on top of good management practices, and that sucks but some of it is on the farmer.
For more on AFB, since the article doesn't describe it or the treatment protocols well - https://beeinformed.org/2013/10/21/american-foulbrood-afb/
Apart from rules particular to NZ, because I do not know them, a key factor is that honey and wax containing AFB spores can transmit AFB to other bees in other colonies. The reason this is important is that beekeepers ( speaking as one ) move equipment between hives to balance their growth and give more space to make honey as needed. This is especially true after the honey harvest, when we empty frames of honey and give the wax honey comb back to the bees for them to get ready for the winter.
That makes the timing of this crucial, as it will be less likely for the beekeeper to reduce the damage if the boxes have been removed for harvest, and disassociated from their hive of origin when AFB is discovered. If you can't say where it came from and where it didn't, then it came from everywhere.
It isn't a fun hand to be dealt, and certainly it is worthy of more visibility and research, but it isn't worth wishing he didn't have to destroy it. Even the treatments available need to be used before adding equipment that will be used for honey, because the honey will shield the spores from the treatment and preserve the transmissibility of foul brood.