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It looks like a decent device, but Onyx's attitude towards open source makes it a non-starter.

http://bbs.onyx-international.com/t/please-provide-source-co...

https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/hsyigm/on...

Huh, looks like a modern-day WinHelp. That looks like it's moving in the wrong direction though. I doubt many people want a big completely offline doc blob in this day and age.

Interesting to see that people do in fact receive this information. My guess is only the first key hires will be told this and not the rank and file joining after series A, for example.

In my experience laughter may be overstating it a bit, but the question is brushed off with an "it's confidential" and you are made to feel slightly stupid for asking. And these weren't fly-by-night operations either, but well-respected startups that went on to do very well.

And even if you manage to convince your manager to consider you for the promotion/transfer often they'll ask you to start doing the new job on the side for a bit to prove yourself. Now, how good are you going to be at something new that you are doing part time with nobody taking you seriously and supporting you? It's much easier to get the title first and grow into the job afterwards.

Kids versions don't come in anything higher than 1mg and one can make it a half-dose quite easily. It's really more of a last resort thing, and definitely not for every night's bedtime. How last resort? Maybe once or twice a month. Now that my kids are a bit older and bedtime rituals are established it's even more rare.

I realize that some parents reach for it every night and this is not something I'm suggesting.

Benadryl, no. But melatonin, sometimes, yes. My rule is to have a hard cutoff time after which it's better to take melatonin than to continue the cycle of whining, sleep deprivation, and next-day misery. The cutoff is late enough to have plenty of time to try all the other things involving wind-down rituals. It is not an every day thing. I found that having the consistency actually helps establish the rituals too.

Also, bedtime trouble usually means not enough outside time and physical activity during the day. Or that the kids want more of the parent's time.

Hmm, the weight loss definitely happens, but I wouldn't call it easy. Non-stop headache, complete inability to focus, and terrible crankiness. At some point one starts to wonder if it's better to just be chubby :)

Here's what's interesting. We take this "projects have deadlines" idea as gospel and if you dare question it you are an immoral heathen with a poor work ethic.

So you have a software engineer at Apple ruining his mental and physical health to chase a deadline. Only to have someone at Foxconn in China destroy their eyesight slightly sooner gluing digitizers to iPhone screens. Then we can all buy the resulting product for a commercial holiday starring an imaginary jolly fat man.

But is the new iPhone really all that different than the last? It has a marginally better camera and downloads stuff faster, but if it came out a year later nobody would be particularly upset.

I am certain that I am not the only one disillusioned with tech, and indeed consumerism as a whole. The implications of this will be interesting to see once more people work up the courage to say this out loud.

The Russian does in fact say the skin is made from large machined honeycomb panels (панели).

But an individual person is not a foreign entity, especially not if they are a US citizen.

There is the loophole for "representing interests of a foreign principal before US government officials" though, so I guess this is written broadly enough to snag anyone who may step on some toes.

Go look up the actual requirement for FARA before spewing nonsense.

In 1890s? In other words, soon after China lost the second Opium War. The British took Hong Kong and secured their right to poison the populace with opium. Are you sure colonialism was not at play?

That is unfortunate. I tried them out based on a blog post, so I knew about the monthly subscription after the trial period, but that is poor marketing for sure.

I have no relationship with that startup (other than being a user).

https://sunsama.com/ works really well.

No, companies can be rich and still have a culture of cutting corners and rushing stuff to market.

A lot of legal departments have a mental image of AGPL (and GPL) as a bogeyman that will steal all the company's code if allowed anywhere near the building. I've sat through a presentation one time that tried to paint these licenses as something only basement dwellers use for personal projects. I spoke to the presenter afterwards and told them about projects like Linux and Mongo, and how even AGPL is not as scary as they thought.

The lawyer seemed genuinely surprised and said they would read up on it. I'm pretty sure my bringing this up in a friendly manner caused them to question their assumptions. Had I picked a fight during the presentation I'd just be labeled a basement dweller.

However, this lawyer also told me something interesting. To some extent it doesn't matter whether I was able to change his mind. As long as other lawyers in the field have this bogeyman concept in mind, the use of GPL will get flagged in due diligence, etc. and it's easier to simply not use a component with strong copyleft when developing a product (unless it's as irreplaceable as Linux).

This is a long-winded way of saying that selling exceptions will likely scare off potential purchasers long before they are in a position to consider the purchase. Most shops have a blanket "no GPL ever" policy and a dev won't even bother with the component even for a prototype.

They are just really good at self-delusion or not very good at lying. Either that, or that's some really crappy meditation, book paragraphs, notes, or all of the above.

The real takeaway, for me at least, is the degree to which all culture is mass-produced by a small cabal. Books coming out simultaneously around the world due to work of nameless translators with timed bathroom breaks? Movie tie-in coming pre-packaged? Scouts looking for specific trendy protagonists? It's all junk really, the book equivalent of fast food. And apparently even the stuff that's packaged as high culture and wins prestigious awards is not immune.

The people who propose this kind of regime change should be honest about it. They should come outright with "first we'll kill a couple of atom bomb's worth of you, and the rest will live happily ever after". The human rights marketing is disingenuous.

Can you share any positive stories about a US-led outrage about human rights, followed by regime change, followed by prosperity?

There are plenty of examples of the first two conditions, but I don't recall any that meet the third one.

Medical interventions are judged by their track record. It's high time military and political ones got the same treatment.

Note that this does not make me a pro-Lukashenka bot. One can not be a fan of mental illness and still oppose lobotomy. Same principle.

FCC has issued guidance for manufacturers to protect against modifications that would break FCC rules. The easiest way to do that is to have a closed-source baseband firmware.

https://prplfoundation.org/fcc-open-source-router-software-i...

But it could have worked. At some point the hype cycle could have become self-sustaining. What you are calling pump and dump could be seen as starting an internal combustion engine. It's just that Clubhouse sputtered instead of firing up.

Come to think of it, isn't all celebrity news like this? People who are famous because they are famous?

Presumably the "you" in question would have to be an American resident though, which Assange is not and never has been.

My own view is this: money is a metric that our society uses as a measure of usefulness of a certain individual for others in the collective. Like any metric, it is imperfect and doesn't capture nuance very well.

When you optimize for any metric, be it lines of code or bank account balance, you generally get suboptimal results. Doesn't mean the metric is useless. It's just not the only source of truth.

In before the other comments to this effect:

- You are weak

- Your grandparents had it worse

- Think of the people working for minimum wage

- Some of us actually love programming so much we will happily sacrifice our health; this choice is morally superior because we say so

- I haven't had a vacation in 20 years and neither should you

/sarcasm off

ML today is what a website backed by a database was in the mid-nineties. This kind of CRUD website is considered boring today, but making one used to be taught in an MIT course (https://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/one-term-web)

There will soon be ML frameworks that are as easy to get started with as a basic web app, and most people will be using one of them.

Well, the whole article is about the flaws in the format :)

But the answer in this case is Huffman coding. The most common sequences compress to just a few bits, but backreferences and such are not byte-aligned, they just follow literals in the bitstream. Aligning things to bytes would significantly reduce the compression ratio.

Yes they do!

Compressed. The compressed stream isn't byte aligned. Normally this isn't a problem because an application will flush the output and pad it to end on a byte boundary before closing a file (see https://www.bolet.org/~pornin/deflate-flush.html for a good explanation)

Where this becomes a problem is when someone thinks "I'll compress my logs as I write them out". The next problem is what to do on restart. It's tempting to think "I can just append to the existing file because I can concatenate two gzip files". But if the restart is after a crash rather than a clean exit you get log salad.

But only if the first file ends on a byte boundary of course. Just to save someone trying this some debugging :)