kpmcc

Maybe donate to charity to help people who have lost a lot more than their investment returns...

"hurt by a trade war between the largest chip producer, the U.S., and the largest consumer, China"

This sentence confuses me. Seems like they have it backwards. Can someone clear this up?

Radio + Discogs.

Find an artist you like, look up the label they were on and see who else was putting out records around that time.

Find a dj or radio station you like and find the tracklists.

Music selections curated by humans have far surpassed what algorithms have given me.

I just received my light phone and while I haven't used it much yet I'm mostly a fan. I used the Punkt MP01 for a while and it's still pretty much my favorite phone ever. We'll see how I feel about the E-ink display on this thing after some real use. The blinking and ghosting is kind of annoying, but not a deal-breaker. Honestly though I think the main reason I liked the Punkt phone so much was the buttons. Buttons are seriously underrated. I've noticed this already with entering text on the light phone. The screen is purposefully small and trying to cram a full keyboard onto a tiny touchpad is a little iffy. I'm not so concerned about the lack of features at this point. I'd already though about coding up my own little text bot with Twilio to call rides through lyft or uber's APIs so maybe this will give me some incentive.

Edit: Yeah the flipping back and forth between landscape and portrait mode is pretty annoying. Devs if you're reading this please address in a future update.

Don't forget the part where the ratings agencies systematically failed to accurately assess the riskiness of the MBSs because they didn't want to piss off their customers (the banks / their mortgage issuance wings).

Yeah and even the 'experts' can't often see the cliff until they've fallen off it.

Think of how much better the world would be if half the money that went to funding this bs just went straight to refugees.

For people who are curious about FPGAs looking to dip their toes in, I’d highly recommend taking a look at cocotb https://github.com/cocotb/cocotb

It’s kind of similar to verilator, in that it lets you write test benches for your designs in programming languages as opposed to HDL. Whereas verilator lets you write c++, cocotb is python based.

Both of these are probably best to take up after spending some time with an hdl, so you learn to think from a hardware perspective.

Also check out the zipcpu blog

And while they cut pension benefits, this is what the CEO makes:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/05/new-ge-ceo-larry-culp-inks-s...

Completely agree. I want old school dials with needles on a regular dash and zero screens anywhere in my car. I just want the propulsion of the car to be decoupled from burning fossil fuels. All the other dumb tech can go.

The fact that part of this update puts Netflix and Hulu in a car is one of the dumbest things I’ve heard.

Car companies figured out instrumentation a while ago, it’s not something that needed to be ‘disrupted’.

Most of the dumb stuff seems to come from designing a car that isn’t meant to be driven. @ Folks who don't want to drive your cars, the solution exists, it’s called public transit, and the reason it sucks is because of cars.

"We believe that everyone around the world deserves good privacy controls." - Mark Zuckerberg

"There is no privacy interest, because by sharing with a hundred friends on a social media platform, which is an affirmative social act to publish, to disclose, to share ostensibly private information with a hundred people, you have just, under centuries of common law, under the judgment of Congress, under the SCA, negated any reasonable expectation of privacy." - Orin Snyder (Lawyer representing Facebook)

Definitely read this headline as "Can we fire our coworkers for liking the band Phish?"

I thought greed and corruption were good for industry...

I justified it to myself by knowing that I'd be saving like $30-40 a month by not paying for data. Idk where you're located, but there's a provider called Ting: https://ting.com/ that charges you by usage, so my bill is like $20 a month.

Ah, I didn't know they did that for the 02, pretty sure the 01 ran some custom non-android OS.

Nothing compares to the Punkt MP01 and MP02 IMO. I've had the MP01 for years and it's fantastic, the only issue has been with service and I imagine that would be resolved with the MP02 and 4g. https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/

There's also the Lightphone and forthcoming Lightphone II.

That being said, these won't really address privacy concerns per se. They don't support signal or other encrypted messaging (the lightphone II may in the future???). So the only way they would be more 'private' would be due to the fact that you'll use your phone for less and in so doing, share less data. Your texts and calls will still be pretty visible if that's a concern.

Seems more like a hydra than a Dragonfly at this point.

Are these trainings worth the cost? Has anybody reading this done them / would be able to provide feedback?

Also seconding the need to understand clock domains and metastability, timing constraints, etc.

Yes. 100x Yes. See Herman Daly on Steady State Economics. Also see https://newleftreview.org/II/111/troy-vettese-to-freeze-the-... for a critique of Daly's proposals as being not radical enough.

Reforestation. Stop eating meat. Stop burning fossil fuels. Use less energy unless your energy is 100% "green". Overthrow capitalism.

Not super concerned with security of my texts or calls personally. Obviously it would be nice to have those covered, but the whole point of a dumbphone to me is to use it less. I want it to do as little as possible and do it well enough to get by.

I justified it to myself mentally by thinking of the savings of not paying for a smartphone's data plan. I pay about $20 a month for service vs paying around $60 a month for a smartphone with data. Obviously this doesn't change the fact that it's a lot more expensive than other dumbphones, but I was willing to pay more to have a UI that isn't bloated with a bunch of bs apps and junk, and doesn't have dumb colorful bubble icons or the such.

Has anybody mentioned the Punkt MP-01? https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp01-mobile-phone/

I've had it for 2-3 years now and it's been pretty great. Granted service can be kinda spotty because it's 2G and I'm not sure how much longer it will be viable when 2G is phased out. It's also very expensive compared to dumb alternatives but I don't know of any other phone on the market that is so clean in terms of physical design and UX.

Punkt is making an MP-02 which will run on 4G I believe but I'm not sure if it will be as minimal. I think they're partnering with Blackberry to bring like secure email or messaging or something, which to me seems anti-dumphone, but I guess people expressed demand in a user survey...

For real though. We already knew that neurons can do binary logic, they either fire or they don't and neurons higher up the chain fire based on converging inputs.

Also what do those plots actually 'show'. The authors claim repeatedly that the plots show the existence of 15 clusters, but without stating p values relating to any sort of classification for many of the plots.

Is the nonprofit you work for affiliated with a particular University on the south side?

I can sympathize with having to deal with VBA. I'm working in a lab that deals with lots of questionnaire data and uses Access as the main tool for gathering said data because that's the way things have been done in the past, despite the fact that nobody in the lab really knows how it works.

I can also sympathize with having your network drives go down and render everything inoperable. Everything we use in the lab is stored on an offsite network drive, probably because of HIPAA compliance, and said network drive has dropped out twice in the past couple weeks. Once for almost an entire day, and once for an hour or two.

Best of luck with the job search.

Shoutout to borja