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You can build anything with AND and NOT gates or OR and NOT gates.

https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/logic/universal-gates.h...

Epson have a line called ecoTank that let allows you to refill from a bottle which are also economical.

>What if I want to make and sell my own original one?

Then you're free to do so if you aren't putting artificial sweeteners in them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_Directive_91/71/EEC

I've dealt with this quite a lot in the last couple years and what I do now is not engage with the supplier on their terms. I live in the UK though which has reasonably strong consumer protection laws so companies can't just take money from you without your permission. Also I don't think it's a coincidence that most of the companies I've had problems with weren't operating out of the UK.

My thinking is that I've signed up for something via a form on the web then I should be able to cancel the same way. If I've supplied a credit card to pay for the service via web then I should be able to remove that payment method via the web as well.

So if they say I have to cancel by calling them on the phone I won't do that anymore. I will instead just send an email to their customer service address informing them (rather than requesting) of my cancellation. I also specifically tell them that I withdraw my consent for them to charge my card (I don't actually know if this does anything). If they respond by telling me to contact them via phone I just tell them no.

I additionally sometimes cancel the card they have on file so they will be unable to charge me. If I have a direct debit in place (this is a UK thing) I just log into my online banking and cancel the direct debit.

I did recently have a case where my card was billed again because I didn't cancel the card and they justified it by saying their terms and conditions contain a 30 days notice to cancel (this was a b2b SaaS). I responded by reiterating that they didn't have my consent to charge the card they had on file and I then filed a chargeback with the bank and got the £400 back.

I’ve written software like this for as long as I can remember but I don’t remember ever learning it or being taught. It’s always just seemed like easiest way to compartmentalise complexity.

You can sometimes buy it here dried but it’s normally sold out.

https://www.maesymush.co.uk/

If you haven’t yet developed your emacs muscle memory I would suggest remapping your keyboard to swap the left-control and caps-lock keys. Your pinky will thank you.

In macOS you can do this by going to Settings->Keyboard->Keyboard Shortcuts->Modifier Keys.

Hmm okay I see your point now.

>Not even considering that new macbooks if locked are unusable on the secondary market and get tossed even if the hardware is perfectly fine. It's as if we have given up on "solving" climate change in favor of short term profits...

Making this argument without acknowledging the impact it has on the market for stolen Apple goods makes it an intellectually dishonest one I think.

I thought the same until I developed shoulder and back pain from carrying around too much stuff all the time. Be thankful that it still doesn't matter for you.

I believe the OP is implying that the interview itself is marketing. By claiming the brand brand is not driven by marketing the unstated message is that brand is successful due to quality and innovation. The interview itself is a fantastic bit of marketing if you think about it.

Actually I think I use gradient descent in a lot of situations.

Consider the act of adding salt to chicken broth for example but I can quite easily think of dozens of other things.

Maybe this wouldn't matter to a lot of people but the M2 Pro Mini has HDMI 2.1 while the M1 Studio does not. You need HDMI 2.1 to get more than 60hz out of a 4k monitor.

>Also for some my phone screen show as a black screen when using my polarized sunglasses

If you rotate your phone 90° you'll be able to see the screen.

The Los Angeles Angels baseball team is the same.

Deleting was my first choice but I’m on one group chat that I don’t want to leave.

>your colleagues don't have an obligation to you or the company to hold every conversation in English.

English isn’t my first language (I struggled to learn English as a kid) and I rather heavily disagree with this statement.

There’s nothing about the situation that’s acceptable. Communicating well is arguably the most important thing in any knowledge workers job and this is already a difficult task for some people even when they all speak the same language.

Obviously in this case it’s valuable for the team to be able to explain things for the non English speaking employee but that shouldn’t turn into a situation where Mandarin becomes the default. Additionally they are doing a massive disservice to the employee who isn’t yet comfortable with English.

It should be possible for OP to express such a view from a position of strength without coming across as an asshole (https://youtu.be/HbvYeLxMKN8) and without feeling self conscious about it as many monoglots seem to be in these sorts of situations.

I’ve worked closely with a multinational technology company based out of Germany that had a lot of Spanish, Italian, and French speakers and there was most definitely an obligation to speak English, even at the headquarters in Germany where the number of native English speakers could be counted in single digits.

I just counted all of my signal chats that have had activity since the beginning of September and there’s 34 of them. On WhatsApp that number is 29 and on iMessages(not SMS) it’s 21.

The best way I’ve found to actually get people to keep using signal after you’ve got them to download it is to respond to their WhatsApp messages on signal. It won’t take long until they stop initiating conversations on WhatsApp.

You've left out a key detail I think, which is did he get the loan?

It sounds like one of your goals is to make a lot of money (which is fine of course). If that's true then purposely eliminating wealthy (and lucky) people from your social circle seems like an act of sabotage.

In terms of having friends that are very successful I simply feel proud and happy for them. Envy just seems like such a damaging emotion that I just won't let myself feel it, to the point where I can't remember the last time I did.

I dunno maybe? I don’t think the outcome is obvious.

It’s easy to imagine Ukraine coming out just as big a loser as Russia even if they “win”. The EU is in for a tough time too.

I do wonder where we’ll be in 12 months time.

It's a a reasonable assessment if you accept following three (I think easy to accept) items.

- That the US has a long term goal of preventing a "peer competitor" from arising.

- That the US has a financial and strategic interest in causing the collapse of the Russian Federation.

- The US leadership is capable of intelligent long term thinking (so we have to ignore Trump/Biden).

https://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1346.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Chessboard

https://www.dw.com/en/chinas-rise-and-conflict-with-us/a-550...

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/nato-versus-russia-in-u...

A quick quote from the last link sounds like classic US policy to me:

"A much more truly ambitious apparent long-term US ambition seems to have been to instigate the breakup of Russia into smaller manageable countries, paralleling the emergence of nations in eastern Europe after 1989. It could then deal with a reconstructed historical Russia of smaller emerging statelets run by competitive elites at odds with each other. These new polities, anxious for revenues, will then, presumably, be eager to sign lucrative commercial deals with US corporations since the entire region is extraordinarily wealthy in raw material resources."

And if we look at the result of the current crisis (I'll quote myself from a post above):

"- Potential collapse of the Russian Federation and the economic benefits this would bring (for the West)

- Solidifying EU support of NATO

- Increased energy sales to Europe at higher prices

- Increased military sales to NATO countries due to new threat

- Increased budget for "the military industrial complex"

- Further the long term goal of preventing a peer competitor from appearing by both weakening Russia and making the EU more dependant on the US both economically and militarily.

- Mutually beneficial German/Russian cooperation is pretty much dead now so no threat of such an alliance appearing in the future."

I think its pretty well played on the part of the US; nothing to be ashamed about. I'm interested to see what happens next.

I didn't believe the Nazi claims that were being thrown around at first but I found these short documentaries on the BBC Newsnight YouTube channel a while back about the seemingly rather large Neo-Nazi influence in Ukraine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEKQsnRGv7s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SBo0akeDMY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE6b4ao8gAQ

>but an analysis of the war needs to be rooted in what’s right and what’s wrong.

I don't think such an analysis is 100% useful because because that's not the main criteria that countries use to make their decisions. The main criteria are strategic and economical considerations. Ethical considerations are nice to have but they are more often used to justify a decision based on furthering strategic/economic goals. The US has played a blinder on this one.

>Europe is trying to get away from being dependent from Russian gas for strategic, not humanistic reasons.

I think the truth of this statement increases with a slight modification.

The US is trying to get Europe away from being dependent from Russian gas for strategic, not humanistic reasons.

Western European countries, and Germany especially have had to be pushed into supporting Ukraine.

Cheap energy is great for Germany's energy intensive heavy industries, and strategically important. Russia and Germany getting cozy and growing together economically couldn't have made the US or the UK very comfortable and I believe this was at least a part of the US motivation to pull Ukraine from Russia's orbit. I mean it makes a lot more sense to me than the US actually giving a shit about Ukrainians and their freedom. It's very well played on the part of the US.

After all the point of NATO was to "keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-agenda-idUSKBN0FB06B20...

>Ukraine has inherent freedom to join NATO.

>It needs NATO's permission because that's how NATO works

Sorry to be a pedantic asshole but those statements are in opposition to each other. What you want to say is that they should they should have the freedom to apply and join if accepted.

>but it doesn't need Russian permission

In an ideal world they shouldn't need Russian permission, unfortunately we seem to live in a world where might makes right.

Sorry, it seems I misinterpreted your comment.

>Point is that Russia has no say over Ukraine's ambitions...That Russia must simply accept and move on.

Well, that's the crux of the matter isn't it. They've not accepted it and haven't moved on and unless/until they are expelled from Ukraine they have a rather large amount of influence over what happens there.

It's interesting to watch that's for sure. One way or another the world is going to look different when this is over.

Mearsheimer is way more of an authority on the subject than you are, so if you're going to dismiss his claim as bullshit while claiming you're trying to combat the claim you could at least provide a link. Also even if Mearsheimer is wrong in that claim it doesn't make it propaganda.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/11/06/did-nato-...

>the former Soviet president criticized NATO enlargement and called it a violation of the spirit of the assurances given Moscow in 1990, but he made clear there was no promise regarding broader enlargement.

More regarding Mearsheimer in case anyone is interested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mearsheimer

https://political-science.uchicago.edu/directory/john-mearsh...

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-john-mearsheimer-...