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WFH is more widespread, but have you seen all those videos and memes of people attaching their mouse to a fan or whatever so their employer can't see that they're stepping away from their laptop? That would be unthinkable at my cushy tech job, but some employers are clearly using it as an opportunity for even more employee surveillance and asserting more control over their employees' time.

If you're sending data via advertisements, yeah. Otherwise, you want Data Length Extension.

If you live in the middle ground where you want to maintain connectivity, but sporadically send chunks of data on the order of a few to 100s of k, that's where it gets a bit tricky. BLE is still much better for power than classic in those scenarios, but the protocol isn't really intended for that type of bandwidth, and you might end up with a lot of custom stuff on top.

Oh hey CarVac! Yeah, PhobGCC was sorely needed and I'm excited to see where it goes. :)

I'm already on the Frame1 train, but I may end up building one soon just to check it out.

As someone who does firmware for consumer electronics, I feel like having such ardent fans interview you years after the fact must be a great honor. Hopefully, someday I can be involved in something that's just as exciting to me and others.

As a side note on the Saturn analog stick section, there's actually an open source Gamecube controller project called PhobGCC,that's using a similar technique for the analog stick. I believe it uses hall-effect sensors to magnetically detect the stick position, with some fancy algorithmic filtering (Kalman filters, etc.)

This used to be a lot more common with Pocket PCs and feature phones. Opera Mini was very popular for devices that couldn't render a page on their own, or wanted to save on bandwidth. I guess there's still a market for this on low-spec devices.

I got 4/6, missing on the last two. Interestingly, I picked 128kbps for those, and they were more "pop"-y songs. Maybe I'm trained to like some more compression on pop songs?

I was also listening on my work setup, which isn't ideal: Bose QC35s plugged into an O2 amp and D50 DAC. I'd like to think I would've gotten more right with some flatter headphones.

The main things I noticed when comparing were:

* low end was smoother on the bass

* clarity of high end hits ("pss/tss" sounds)

* some vague sense of better imaging, like the sound stage was better

I didn't notice much difference in the midrange or vocals, but that might be because of the gigantic V-shape of my headphones.

Competition in the portable market would be rough, although I would love to see Sony give portables another shot. Especially now that smartphone gaming is its own segment entirely.

Microsoft's strategy seems pretty solid, especially given their stumbles last gen. They're buying in heavily into Game Pass and making games subscription and cross platform across PC and Xbox. XCloud streaming ties into their subscription model and allows for continuity to mobile devices as well.

Good to hear! In particular, one comparison I would love to see is something like:

If I perfectly strafe and momentum cancel between every shot with a pistol, how often do I dink an opponent if my crosshair's on their head with a P2K, P250, CZ, and five seven? How different are the recovery periods where I'm strafing before I can tap again?

Agreed. It's a neat site, though! There has been some variation in weapon use in recent years, but I don't know if this site would have really helped in revealing those details.

There was that whole period last year where people discovered the SG and AUG were actually quite good, and then Valve nerfed them into the ground again.

Several years ago, the UMP was insanely accurate when tapping/bursting, and it was a great half buy and anti-eco gun. That got nerfed, too. The MP5 behaves somewhat similarly, but it's not really worth buying over the MP9 in a serious match.

There was a recent discovery with the Nova, where the first shot spray was found to be consistent, and you could hit headshots consistently from distance by aiming to the right of the head. That one's pretty fun, although the situations where you'd want that over a deagle seem niche.

I think the biggest missing with this site is that it's only comparing raw DPS/rate of fire numbers and not spread recovery. A big part of it is the "feel" of bursting/tapping guns while momentum cancelling, when in scenarios where you can't full spray.

eg. Clicking on the head with a P250 at medium range isn't super accurate, but if you manage to momentum cancel perfectly and trace, you actually have a pretty decent chance vs full armor. But I could also buy a five seven, which has better armor pen, accuracy, and sprays better.

I'm more or less in the same situation as you, although relatively early in my career. I would urge you to try and look a little broader at what situations people even just below "middle class" are facing nowadays.

From a personal finance perspective, I'm aligned with you. I shovel my money into my 401k and index funds, and still have plenty left over to survive and buy things I want and need. By doing so, I can participate just a tiny bit on the finance side of capital and take in a bit of the upside.

>I understand those below the poverty line may not have the luxury of opening a IRA, stock account, etc. or immediately starting their own online business.

It's not just people below the poverty line. The vast majority of Americans, especially younger ones, are not making enough to substantially invest or feel secure financially. If someone does start their own business (an incredibly difficult venture), it will be at their own risk, with much to lose. Dabbling in side projects is a luxury, and I don't think it's reasonable to expect people who are more overworked and less financially stable than you or I to realistically use that as a way to lift themselves up. It's also not really a solution that scales, in my opinion. You can't expect everyone to start their own side hustle. Most businesses fail. Some lose money for years until eventually breaking even. Obviously, more opportunity is good, and I want to see people succeeding in starting their own businesses and innovating, but isn't having financial and social safety the biggest factor in encouraging that?

>Make this article relevant to a middle-class person on track to retire in their 60s, who tinkers on weekends with a few startup ideas, and generally thinks their kids will be better off if they continue to have the same access to education, business and investing. Why should that person be personally concerned about income inequality?

I'll take a stab at this from a couple angles. First off, you either care or you don't. Like you said, you're doing fine. I'm doing fine. I don't think anyone really owes you an explanation to make you care, because you don't have to. But I have friends who graduated at the same time as me who aren't doing great. They're working way harder at whatever blue collar job they could find than I ever did, for less money. Mental health isn't great. I'm not particularly different from them, other than I happened to like computer science as a kid, and my brain is sufficiently configured to churn out some code for an employer for 8 hours a day. I don't think I could look them in the eye and suggest that they just invest more, or consider starting their own business, or try online learning, when they're already down. I never did any of that.

The other side of it is that the middle class is still significantly more aligned politically and financially in their interests with the rest of the population than the 1%. I'm making a lot of money, but one bad trip to the hospital would still bankrupt me. I still worry about rent. How about everyone else who is worse off than me? The truly wealthy are playing a fundamentally different game than the rest of us, however you feel about that. One interesting aspect of the recent push for more progressive policies is that much of it is being driven by middle class white collar workers, and not blue collar. I see it as a sign of the increasing income/wealth inequality trending over the last several decades. The middle class has typically been 'placated' by being able to live a decent living, but even they're feeling the squeeze now.

I hope that was somewhat coherent and didn't come off as too combative. I really just want to convey my personal experience and how it's different from yours.

I think GME is one of the freebie stocks that Robinhood gives out as a referral bonus, so many of those users might just have had one stock incidentally.

Ken's site is great. I don't like his photographs and I often disagree with his opinions on gear, but he's very consistent and knowledgable. I always check to see if he has a review before I buy a new lens or body, especially if it's film.

Yeah, I like my Hue lights, but they are quite pricey. Part of the cost is that are calibrated well, though. If you have a mixture of white temperature and RGBW lights in one room and set a scene, they will mix decently.

For more generic lighting, there's a reverse engineered firmware you can load onto a ZigBee. I used them to create some wake-up therapy lights: http://edwardsh.in/2019/07/22/hue-compatible-therapy-lights

This post doesn't quite do it for me. There is indeed a huge amount of low quality and low information news content going around. However, to me, the issue is not the lack of novel or high quality articles around a single topic or set of topics, as the bell curve bit seems to imply.

For one, frequency bias is real, and people aren't able to dig deep into every single issue they read about online. There's just too much of it. They read snippets and headlines, and cobble together responses from peers or sources they trust to build up their view. As time goes on, one might look into a given topic more and become more well informed. Ideology forms around the responses and ideology informs the responses. Just look at how the disinformation campaigns in 2016 went. The absolute volume of headlines and memes meant that you couldn't refute them one by one. But if you consumed all of them at face value, they created a coherent narrative in many peoples' heads.

And the other point that others have brought up in this thread is bad faith discussions. There's really no point engaging with these other than to rudely and flippantly shut them down. If they get you to respond seriously, you've already lost. They're not playing the same game as you.

Combining these points, I'm not as convinced nowadays that variation in viewpoints in what is needed. Transparency and accurate reporting, certainly, but not a wide variety of takes through some worldview or lens. The reporting from the BLM protests this summer is a good example. Video evidence of police brutalizing protesters and news reporters cut through a lot of the noise and made things clear. It's one thing to go back and forth arguing about numbers and policy, and another to view something, see that it is not what you want our society to look like, and work on actions to take starting with that as a basis.

The biggest issue for low light is sensor size. Smaller sensors means more noise, and that noise is smoothed out with computational photography. That's why most manufacturers are going for more discrete sensors with different lenses, instead. Samsung does have a "periscope" design for the super tele in their latest phone that mounts the sensor vertically. Lenses are more important than sensor for sharpness, and there's obviously not a ton of room in these phones to put big lenses. Camera bumps are already growing quite large.

Yeah, that's fair. My take may have been a bit naive. It is a bit like Enterprise software, though. Even if you're getting screwed, they'll be polite to you at least. When I badly broke an appliance, they replaced it no questions asked. Going through the same with my current individual-owner landlord would definitely be an event.

I think it's important to recognize that you or I may not be the ones at risk here, and the same convenience/safety tools that we don't think much about might have an outside impact on others. I was in a fancy managed apartment for a while and they had carded access, security cams, electronic package lockers, etc. That relationship is pretty unique in that I'm paying a lot of money for a more "luxury" experience, and I have more leverage if something goes awry. (This management company totally dropped the ball on making the actual units nice to live in, but that's another story...)

There are plenty of horror stories of landlords being shady, the classic one being coming up with an excuse to hold the security deposit. I really would not trust them with putting "smart" devices in my home. I once rented in a complex where the online credit card payment cost an additional $15 fee over walking to the office and handing over a check, because it was some service that they bought in that skimmed off the top. Rent-to-own also has a history of being predatory towards people with lower income. On top of the typically terrible value of renting to own, it's the same relationship as renting where a bad landlord could do all sorts of things, but now you have even more to lose since your money is locked up in the relationship.

It was such a good deal for GM that it didn't matter. They got 11% of Nikola, which they can start selling off after a year. And that was just to allow Nikola access to their IP, which GM wanted to develop and test anyways. I imagine they got such great terms because Nikola has absolutely nothing working in-house.

Yes, everyone can study for it, but generally the easiest ways to boost your SAT scores are to pay a tutor to drill you through the parts that can have the biggest impact on your scores, and to take the test multiple times until you get a score you like, both of which can get very expensive. Retaking the test is really helpful, as you'll be more familiar with the format and less stressed out the second time around, but a lot of students don't have the opportunity to take it more than once.

Ha, I'll admit that I'm one of those people. I shot on a Fuji mirrorless for years, but photography didn't really capture me as a hobby until this year, when I got into film.

I originally got a Mamiya RB67 because I watched a bunch of Youtube channels and wanted the "medium format look", but I didn't feel like switching off Fuji for full frame as a compromise. The experience of shooting on the RB67 was honestly eye opening. The big waist level finder, being able to actually manual focus instead of focus-by-wire, the highlight rolloff and colors of Portra. I picked up and fixed an Olympus 35RC for 35mm after that, and I had a great compact rangefinder I could carry around anywhere. Way cheaper than buying a Sony RX100 or Ricoh GR.

Part of the fun is just shooting on toy cameras and weird film, too. Despite being able to fire off way more shots on my mirrorless, I feel like I'm more open to experiment when I shoot film, and my digital photography has improved as a result.

It's kinda tough to really verbalize why film is catching on again without coming off as pretentious, but I do think that format, form factor, and the shooting experience are all important to the form of the art that comes out. When I record music, sometimes I'll record on my Zoom, or to a cassette, or maybe just my phone. I'm not trying to put out award winning studio produced albums, just trying to have fun and produce art that's hopefully meaningful to myself and my friends. :)

Along these lines, does anyone have any recommendations for a service or framework to create a simple personal site? I just want a basic blog, project pages, and photo gallery. I use Jekyll at the moment to statically generate pages to host on github.io, but frankly, I don't have much webdev experience and I'd rather just have something work out of the box at this point.

CSGO matchmaking is still rife with cheaters. Valve has put a ton of work into VAC, but if people want to cheat, it is still very possible. It prevents matchmaking from being taken seriously as a competitive ladder. Even when I’m just playing casually with friends, it’s stressful when I basically have a 1 in 10 chance of the opponent cheating, and I need to sus out whether they’re actually good or just cheating.

I pay for ESEA, an external service, which installs a kernel mode anticheat. ESEA also got sued for running a bitcoin miner on users computer several years ago. But it’s the only way to get any semblance of real, high level, competitive play.

This is the context for Riots anticheat. They need to provide a solid AC from the start to pull over players and provide a competitive matchmaking system that isn’t a total joke like Valve MM. It sucks, but I know who I’d trust more between Riot and ESEA. I just run my games in a separate partition and bitlocker my primary OS install.

Yeah, Xbox and PlayStation are basically differentiating on services and exclusive IP at this point. Things like ability to cross play, online services, etc. Xbox Live used to be huge, and then Sony caught up. Microsoft tried to shift the Xbox One into a home entertainment center and that failed miserably. Sony has stuff like the PSVR.

Nintendo's really the only one really trying to do something different and not just go for the latest and greatest hardware. They have the benefit of having a lot of beloved IP and ability to make great games around them, so raw computing power is less of a focus.

Tech work isn't a meritocracy, though. Even putting aside the issue of diversity and bias, there's a large gradient of working conditions and pay across the industry. There are plenty of really smart engineers online who have a popular following, and people are often shocked when it comes out that those people are severely underpaid relative to some college new grad churning out boilerplate for an ad company.

Also, do companies really value 10x engineers? Sure, the people who are truly at the top, well known, and know their worth have great negotiating power to work on interesting things and get paid a lot for it. What about everyone else? I'd say that most "10x" engineers aren't getting 10x the compensation. Most people who perform well will get a promotion or something, and that's it. The way tech companies manage workers and handle performance reviews isn't all that different from everyone else. Tech workers are capturing a fraction of the value they generate, and there's no reason for management to admit that.

WSL 2 is what finally made WSL usable for me. On WSL 1, build times were significantly slower for large compiles due to file i/o but WSL 2 is basically at parity with native Linux.

The 11 Pro camera is definitely really good; nice enough for me to forgo my Fuji XE2-S on some trips. When editing RAWs from Halide vs the Fuji (as a total amateur), I do feel like I get way more usable shots from the Fuji, though. I usually just adjust levels a bit and crop, and the iPhone shots were grainy and sometimes blown out. Definitely requires a bit more time when editing.

I do really love the iPhone when I just need to take a quick shot, though. All the computational stuff means that I'm almost always guaranteed to get a usable photo out of it in any condition.

The location services is likely due to both Android and iOS requiring location enabled for Bluetooth, as BLE Beacons can be used for location tracking.

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/marshmallow/and...

I was on topical mupirocin and then oral sulfamethoxazole for a couple months, both of which seem relatively pedestrian when it comes to antibiotics. It was my first time taking an oral antibiotic, and it probably nuked my entire gut flora.

I had horrible fatigue a couple years ago; I wonder if it's related to CFS at all. It was utterly bizarre: I had just come off some antibiotics, when I suddenly had no energy to do anything at all. All I could do was lay in bed. I also got walking pneumonia about a month after the symptoms began, and my roommate had the exact same symptoms. A test for mono came back negative.

The worst part was that the recovery was slow and gradual. After 6 months, I felt like I could operate as a human being again, and only just this year did I feel like I'm back to normal.

I'm chalking it up to it being the first time I was on antibiotics for an extended period of time, plus a run-in with some unfortunate mysterious disease. I honestly have no idea, though.