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> Don't forget that you've probably also studied holy wars in considerable depth, too.

This prepared him/her to understand the great conflict of vim and emacs users no doubt.

I was hoping for pictures of the secret tunnels and hidden crawl spaces :(

I appreciate you doing these tests, this (and your last article) instantly answers my question about "how will this perform in one of my rpis?". Please keep doing them as new cards(with their marketing claims) are introduced!

These sound like night exercises from infantry school.

The idea that exercise cannot prevent obesity without a proper diet is very misleading. Yes, if someone eats 7k calories and does not train like an olympian, they are going to gain weight. However, you can consume 5k calories a day whilst exercising(properly) 5 days a week, and remain very trim and "cut" as the term goes. Proper exercise is not popular though, because if it was easy....well everyone would do it.

The idea that "you have to burn more calories exercising than you eat" is 100% false. The calories you burn while exercising make up less than half of the calories you burn because of exercising. Lean muscle mass maintenance caloric requirements exceed adipose tissue requirements by an order of magnitude. Simplified: the more lean muscle mass you have, the more calories your body will burn with zero effort to support that muscle mass.

That said, a proper diet is a great idea for a ton of reasons. I replied only to point out that proper exercise carries a lot of weight(no pun intended).

If you have available vertical space, I've printed a "cooling case" that works great with my pi 3b+ without heatsinks. It's shaped like a flower vase(wide top, narrow bottom). The top is open(think of it like a large, open drinking cup), and the pi sits in the very bottom. Two funnel-shaped openings(large inlet, small outlet) allow outside airflow directly onto the CPU and wifi chips.

So far it works at full load without throttling for at least the time span of a full length movie(my use-case is a plex media server). The concept is that exhaust heat leaving through the larger opening up top is heated(and expanding) air. The depressurized vase pulls cooler ambient air in through the 2 funnels, which strike the CPU and wifi module for a poor-mans "active cooling", albeit at much lower speeds than a motor-driven fan could provide.

The downside is required vertical; the case is 8 inches tall. This is several times the vertical height of the board itself, so it's a bit of a non-starter for small embedded device use-cases. If you have space to spare though, it might be worth a shot depending on your use-case.

> This attitude frustrates me.

CEO's making market-wages (100k+) "working for charity" frustrates me. At that wage, they aren't charity workers at all. Every dollar they accept is someone remaining underfed, while the CEO gets resume-flair.

Protip: Charity's do not need a CEO in the sense that a company pushing a product to market needs a CEO to manage various business units. They need someone who cares about the net impact to the impoverished at reasonable expense to themselves.

> I never understood when bigshots force deals with companies they used to work at

It's the devil they know. It's not likely malicious or anything conniving, and just something they feel comfortable talking about when making the pitch for their integration.

It depends... were there any markers already present? In a past life I worked as a surveyor, and if a marker was present(it looks like a silver-dollar on the ground, with a spike holding it in place, these can last 100+ years), we would use that to measure from. If, however, they set up what looked like a tripod with a oval-shaped dish on top, that's a GPS receiver, and could be affected by this outage.

Link: here are some survey markers for sale, linking it so you can see a picture of what they commonly look like: https://www.berntsen.com/Surveying/Survey-Markers/Aluminum-S...

I speculate the parent comment was referring to the frequency of core dumps: that he/she experiences more of them compared to the Python tracebacks you mentioned.

Disclaimer, I'm speculating that's what they meant, because I feel the same way. It's more common(for me) for Python to refuse to run than to run anyway and later crash, compared to C++. That said, Python isn't a good analogy there...Rust or Golang are more likely to refuse to run for bad code instead of running anyway and crashing later.

If wholesale energy cost goes up because of reduced demand, wouldn't that financial impact fall mostly to people below the poverty line? IE, those people who cannot afford to install solar/wind/alternative power sources and only have the grid as an option - those people would be forced to pay higher and higher rates(widening their financial gap to ever get off the grid).

> Don’t do this if you’re an American—it’s illegal to bribe anywhere in the world.

Is this a US-citizen thing? I haven't heard that before and am curious.

If spreadsheets work for your use-case or industry, then by all means keep using them. Occasionally, I'll use one myself for some business purpose. However...the problem with spreadsheets is that people routinely use them for the wrong reasons. Those wrong reasons are the cause of the spreadsheet hate. It's not spreadsheets themselves that cause this, it's people with limited knowledge and limited ambition to learn how to use the correct tool for a task.

The saying "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" applies.

Often, someone using spreadsheets will suspect that their task may be better accomplished in some manner of programming. This leads them to try to do it. If they are in this situation, chances are, they are not a professional programmer. They are going to have a poor experience, and likely fail. This is due to sub-par or non-existent software engineering skills, and not due to spreadsheets being the correct tool for every task.

> What is the best way to deal with something like this?

Bribe them, it's business as usual there. When approached by officers, this is what they are likely expecting.

> UpWork doesn't do filming using your camera, only takes a picture every ~10 minutes.

And how can I, the person being filmed, verify that?

Hrm...we don't deploy code in to prod in 50ms, but we certainly deploy to dev/staging/testing in <1s, and promote to prod once we are 100% sure we want to do so. We use the boring, industry-standard tooling and process everyone else uses (Jenkins, k8s, Ansible, nothing bleeding edge). I'm unsure what advantage their product has that makes it stand out among the battle tested tools already in use. Would someone elaborate?

disclaimer: working for a l2 network provider, and a mistake costs us infinitely more than an "Oh we're sorry!" can fix.

I'm really happy for your reply - I wanna ask you some questions, and compare to myself.

1) When did you start exercising(what age)?

2) What shape were you in when you started?

I'm speculating those could affect whether or not you get the endorphin high. Personally, I started when I was 18(I enlisted), and I was very out of shape when I began. By out of shape, I mean I started exercising before I enlisted, and was unable to maintain a run around a city block.

Regular exercise has a hugely noticeable effect on my ability to concentrate and keep multiple mental plates spinning at once. However, it's not available in pill form last I checked.

You can do it anywhere, anytime, at any intensity. It's as easy as taking a walk around the block, or as challenging as 50 pull-ups. You control the difficulty, handicaps, and every aspect of the activity. Bonus attributes are it's addictive. Once you do it long enough, your brain will begin to encourage and reward this healthy behavior. Sometimes, it will even punish you for trying to skip exercise with negative emotions and nature's great motivator: shame.

The best TV infomercial for mental well-being would be a 72 point font that reads: "turn me off and get off your butt!".

EDIT: If you want some help or initial instruction, there is an app for most smartphones that can help you get started at any level. There are many variations of this type of app, but I like the "Johnson & Johnson 7-minute workout" one. You can customize it way beyond 7 minutes, and it has helpful video instruction and voice prompting. Link to homepage: https://www.7minuteworkout.jnj.com/

I got a touchbar model immediately when it was released from my job. It arrived shipped next-day-air in the morning, and by lunch, I gave it to another employee who wanted an upgrade. Haven't touched another Mac since then, and this reinforces(to me) that I made the right decision. I don't know any of you work with those things... That design decision solidified for me that Apple wasn't interested in my demographic(sysop/programmer/etc) using their laptops.

That said, I did get a lot of "oohs" and "aahs" from other employees coming to look at it. Those went away when I'd open vim and ask them to take it for a test drive.

Strange nostalgic memories of "AOHell" and "LuciferX" come to mind... If I remember, a lot of them were visual basic apps that would use SendKeys() to control AOL via keyboard shortcuts. A little like the wild west back then...

> I don't know yet who will buy the leftovers of a company once it's not profitable so they can massmail "due payment notices" to all former customers, making a profit from those who fail to object in time.

Is this a common practice? It sounds very unethical, but the cynic in me can imagine it happening.

Darwin doesn't even remotely resemble MacOS. It's the kernel and open-sourced user-land components. It resembles(but is not at all) a very old FreeBSD-ish system if loaded.

Sadly, news these days involves a lot of "we've invented <X>, to kill people that disagree with us". Often the word "disagree" is replaced with "undermine" or "threaten". It's all the same human-life-ending bullshit. I don't feel at home in this world any more. When I was 18, I enlisted in the armed services and "did my part" as people often say. What a fucking mistake, I'm humiliated and embarrassed every single day to have played "my part" in any of this. The modern-day me wishes I could go back to the 18-year-old me and turn my weapon on my masters when they were all gathered to cheer us on. Unfortunately, I'm sure dozens would have stepped in to take their place as quickly as I ended them.

> Seconded guessing hard decisions is a privilege of existing in the future after those decisions were made, a privilege that one might not otherwise have had

I dunno... I think a very small percentage of people alive at the time of using nuclear weapons on Japan would have actually done so. My own opinion is that the same percentage today would advocate for using nuclear weapons on another populace. The problem is that the people in charge of these things aren't in the majority - they are psychopathic power-hungry war mongers. Have you ever heard of an instance where a pacifistic head of state ruled a nation, beyond Tibet? I have not - those types of people tend not to interested in becoming head of state in the first place. People who aspire to dominate a nation(ie presidents, prime ministers, emperors), don't have a huge moral leap to make(if any at all) before they are willing to murder another nation's people.

tldr; anyone who is capable of being made a leader of a nation, should never be allowed to do so. they tend to be willing to murder people to get what they want, and that's generally bad for the rest of us living on planet Earth.

> People say, but psychology, fear, unknowns, will require human supervision indefinitely. Of course that's true.

The humans that supervise that will become the new radiologists. The "best" of those humans will have cross-field disciplines in ML model development and traditional radiology. My capitalist side sees a huge opportunity here in consulting and helping the existing radiology departments(who are interested) bridge the gap from current practice to a hybrid approach.

Adapt or die, etc.

> I throw all my notes out as soon as I finish writing them.

I do the exact same thing, and haven't met anyone else that did it. I thought I was a weirdo all this time! My learning process is (as theorized by me):

1. Hear/see instructor say something

2. Mentally digest and understand it

3. Write down the product of understanding it

I think #2 is the most important step, and the big purpose of step #3 is validating that I actually performed step #2.

TLDR; machine learning == "AI", just as much as colocated servers == "cloud"

I'm happy to help you see some reasons! For starters:

- More humans available to identity bugs and undefined behavior

- Innovation in the form of programmers improving software on their automobiles and sharing their modifications

- Regulators are no longer the only group (other than the maker) with access to source code. This allows new entries into the automotive space without (badly) re-inventing the wheel. This breeds competition, and is a win for consumers.

Hopefully, this doesn't cause fear mongering around raspberry pi devices. It's not a stretch to imagine a bureaucrat reading articles like this, seeing "a raspberry pi was plugged in", and forming a negative opinion of the device and people that use them.

You don't need special permits and legislative buy-in to help people either, which isn't the case with mass surveillance. I think this billionaire isn't motivated by philanthropy, they are motivated by money. This is an opportunity to make it, and government officials have an opportunity to suppress undesirables.

I don't feel at home in this world anymore.