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> JSON is basically perfect

Until you realize you can't actually store real integers because every number in js is a float...

Sure, but is anyone (who has an actual choice) actually choosing to do this? From what I can tell, carriers seem to run a lot of really stupid ads and keep the marketing money faucet flowing for a long time before they finally give up.

What's up with the yellow rectangle?

Ubuntu is cut from Debian testing, not Debian stable. If you want to move upstream, you should be looking at testing, not stable.

In my experience, the stability concerns are overblown, and it makes for a really nice rolling release system. I've had individual systems run for over a decade on a Debian testing install with rolling updates, and it's generally been far less of a headache than Ubuntu releases.

Other than the pay and the residual prestige from "this is the coolest place to work if you pretend it's still 2004" -- I'm not so sure I'd describe the average Google employee as "happy." "Begrudgingly willing to tolerate it" seems more common.

This is not how "to each their own" works.

I don't care about the shovels that you sell to developers, and you shouldn't care that some people want to have a little fun with their desktop. You don't do that, and don't think it's a "real" use-case. Fine, we get it. You made that extremely clear several times.

There is nothing to refute. We don't agree with you, we don't care about your opinion, and we're tired of hearing it.

> To each to their own then, whilst I continue to sell shovels to developers and turn over another ten to twenty thousand dollars a month for only that.

Okay?

The benefit is that it looks cool and a lot of people seem to like it.

e.g. see: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/

This is not an invalid use-case. Not everybody wants to be 100% focused on productivity to the exclusion of absolutely everything else.

If you want to have something as simple as a background image, the only way you're going to be able to see it when using a tiling window manager is with gaps or transparency. Small gaps is arguably less intrusive than transparency.

Both the author of i3 and the author of i3-gaps (who is also a maintainer of i3) originally opposed merging the i3-gaps code because the code was a bit hacky and had certain edge cases where it would break things (e.g. you couldn't enable both gaps and titlebars simultaneously). This was done deliberately so that the two codebases could be easily kept in sync. They weren't necessarily opposed to introducing a gaps-like feature if an implementation was deemed acceptable.

Unfortunately this state persisted for years, and it turns out gaps is a popular feature, so they both eventually decided to bite the bullet, merge it, and then work on cleaning things up rather than waiting indefinitely for a unicorn implementation that was likely never going to appear.

> - all matching socks. No more time spent pairing.

Relatedly, replacing all of my cotton socks with wool socks.

Haven't used it, but I've heard good things about Nordic's nRF9160 platform.

e.g.: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4753

I often refer to generic store brand Pomodoro as "The Tomatillo Method"

I don't really have a horse in that race... it seems like a reasonable idea, but I don't think we're anywhere close to having the tools to confirm/deny it, or even to just observe what's going on with enough fidelity to make a guess.

My view of neuroscience is that we're decently good at figuring stuff out at the very very low level (e.g. behavior of complex molecules, classification of cell types and basic low level functions), and at the very high level (e.g. "this region is responsible for speech"), but haven't really made the right breakthroughs for figuring out the mid level (e.g. "how exactly does this ball of 50 million neurons perform its function, architecturally"). This theory seems to lie in that middle area.

This is easily the best video overview on wavelets I've seen.

I've used wavelet transforms on and off for years for things like image compression, harmonic analysis, and currently brain research, and I've always been somewhat disappointed in the quality of material that's out there explaining how wavelets work and how to use them effectively.

There's a small amount of "abstract math" heavy material but relatively little that's focused on using it for engineering, in contrast to all of the amazing material on Fourier transforms.

> The issue is with the Tigerlake reference design

This. I have two T480 laptops that run Linux extremely well, but I have no intention of upgrading until Intel/Microsoft sort out their bullshit "modern standby" issues. Just let me fucking suspend.

They're sanctioned, they can't just "jump"

Because you're not in California, and the Canadian government hasn't forced an end to this bullshit practice.

IMHO, the tangy organic ketchup from Trader Joe's is the best ketchup.

No, this would not work.

Even if they released absolutely everything, there's no way to verify that the chips they actually make and sell conform to a design that they release without inspecting the actual chip. If you're really paranoid, you'd have to inspect every chip, and that's usually a destructive operation.

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i.e. "FFS stop writing reviews, but assume the worst is true and stay the hell away from these clowns"

Hm, maybe I was misremembering. Managed languages like Java do give you memory safety, but I guess data race freedom isn't actually guaranteed.

Now that I think about it, this must be the case, right? You have to get `synchronized` right in Java or else you won't get what you expect.

A dig against Rust I sometimes hear is "Oh, data race freedom isn't such a big deal, if you really need it, a garbage collected language like Java will give you that guarantee."

So now I'm hearing that Go, a garbage collected language, doesn't guarantee data race freedom? I guess it's garbage collected but not "managed" by a runtime or something?

Why go to all that effort to get off of C++ just to stop 30% short? These are C-like concurrency bugs, and you still have to use C-like "if not nil" error handling.

Why do people keep adopting this language? Where's the appeal?

It's an antibody.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dostarlimab

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

This is why we proofread?

I love what the framework team is doing and what they stand for, and I don't want to knock them for this because it's entirely Intel's fault, but like... S3 sleep?

I have a T480 that I really like, but I'm honestly pretty scared to upgrade at this point because of the S0ix clusterfuck.

When I close the lid, the battery should last a week, not a day. The OS kernel should not be able to just wake itself up and check for updates whenever it pleases.

Where?

> driven by DARPA to get Raytheon imaging chips working with Intel AI chips

Well that's a terrifying thought...

Diminishing returns over the last decade, as expected. It would be interesting to look at the energy consumed by each of these operations across the same time periods.

Wait, so you're telling me that lobster actually does stick to magnet?

[0] https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/lobster