Dropping in to add that the Venu 4 is an amazing watch as well. Battery says it'll last 14 days. With Pulse Ox enabled at Sleep, it drops to 11, but I'm happy with the tradeoff.
Workouts like running for half an hour drop it even more, but comparing it to an Apple Watch, it's no match.
It has a flashlight as well and looks like a normal smartwatch instead of rugged. All in all, if you care more about health features rather than watch<->phone connectivity, a Garmin is worth it.
So many comments about how Linux isn't ready because of some admin task requiring to run a CLI command.
Then Windows apologists tell you that actually all your problems are because you didn't edit your install ISO or pirate a IOT enterprise edition. Because that's normal behaviour.
And it's becoming more common with Macs.
I remember Snow Leopard was genuinely amazing, and a massive improvement over everything else. I had high hopes after Mountain Lion that we would get a feature release and then a performance release, because the performance releases just made everything so much better. Alas I just seem to get more whitespace.
A 1040 form, while intimidating looking, is trivial to fill out. Once you've done it a couple times, it takes about 5 minutes.
The only arcane bit is the law. The tax prep software knows which forms to use for which financial detail.
If the law were written clearly, there would be no need at all for any special software, you could fill out a couple csv files and send an email...
Even without the law, you are right, the actual flow of the tax prep software, for most people, is something a 16 year old could probably cobble together in an afternoon or two... however the problem then becomes how to provide a public service at low cost (to cover hosting/bandwidth costs) while govt funds are explicitly forbade to be used.
To me the solution is obvious - a third party non govt player that receives specific allotment of funding, no questions asked. However, see the rampant issues with lobbyists mentioned in the article...
what are the longterm implications of easing the journey of a swarm of insects, does it reduce the attrition, and if so will that have an impact on pollination and predator success at the terminus?
in what less obvious ways does it ease the journey such as energy stowage (in hover flies I presume they depend on their pollen panniers?)
Meanwhile, in my 25 years of living in the US (NJ, SoCal, and NorCal), I can count on one hand the number of times I've come across them "in the wild".
I started collecting them in 2004 by keeping every one I ran into in person and I now have: 3.
In our case, instant on-boarding of devs with no host setup needed. It's a large, complicated repo with a lot of unusual system dependencies. We build a multi-arch base image for all this and then the devcontainer is built on-top. Devcontainer hooks then let us do all the env setup in a consistent, version controlled way. It's been a god send for us and we'll never go back.
Thank you, Igor, for making me aware of a setup issue! I'll reach out via mail directly.
And the issue is fixed now: hr@goodchat.com is available to all interested applicants!
In the UK, for example, if you are a simple case (PAYE employee, no other sources of income) they just do it, you never interact with HMRC at all in the ordinary procession of things.
Here in Australia everyone must fill in an annual return, but it’s a fairly well automated online system and they’re probably already already have most of the fields filled in, you just need to add anything more complicated or any deductions you think you’re owed.
Where it's mattered for me has been in supporting family like my Grandmother. She's passed now, but ran Linux on her desktop for web and email for about a decade. I set it up for her after her Windows install got a nasty virus. I appreciated that she didn't have to learn that "Safari" meant "the internet" and so on. She didn't even have to know she was using Linux. Just how to get to the web. And Linux desktops made that a little easier for her.
2. Batteries age faster in the beginning and then their ageing rate plateaus. It's the same for electric cars. E.g. a Tesla can lose 5% efficiency in the first 30k miles, but will lose the next 5% over 60k+.
I ultimately thought out what would be easier, a decade political fight to make massive changes to nix, or a fork of it to improve auditability and security, or starting over.
I had many RFCs that would have followed this rejected one if there was any change tolerance... so my fastest path to prove out my ideas for a distro with decentralized trust was to start one with that explicit goal.
If I wanted to make things maximally auditable and portable to different build engines, a published dead simple spec with multiple competing implementations that most software engineers already know how to write would be ideal. People could review an engine they use, or ensure all existing implementations on any operating system get identical results and are thus trusted that way. If it natively supports a ton of features to make deterministic builds wildly simpler, major bonus.
OCI was a check on all fronts, and some early maintainers and I riffed on design patterns and realized the OCI ecosystem already had specified multi party signing and verification, artifact integrity, smart layer by layer caching etc etc. This fit our dev experience and threat model perfectly and we could just skip implementing the package build and distribution layer start writing packages, like that day. None of us needed to learn or invent a new language or ask auditors to do so or fork nix ecosystem to have proper signing support and write a sane spec... that could be years of wheel spinning.
The time saved by choosing an existing widely used and implemented spec meant we were able to put all energy into full source bootstrapping, universal multi party hardware signing on every build, change, review, and reproduction. Just full source bootstrapped linux from scratch in containerfiles with OCI native multi party signing if all parties independently get the same oci hashes from local builds. Oh and we are going LLVM native like Chimera next week. Big sweeping changes like that are easy with our ultralight setup.
I would note that the features we need for deterministic builds in docker, the most popular OCI implementation, only landed a couple of months before we started stagex, and the full source bootstrapping work by the bootstrappable builds team only got a complete build for the first time a few months before that.
If stagex had started before 2022 I imagine we might have used a heavily hacked or nix ecosystem or more likely guix, which is much further along in supply chain security but scheme would have been a very isolating choice. I think stagex got lucky starting at exactly the right time when two huge pieces of the puzzle were done for us.
At the risk of making it more complicated than it's worth, you really need multiple indexes. Population and GDP are possible metrics, but they still don't capture everything. If we take universities as an example there's an absolute rank, but then there's also a rank within sub-colleges to tell us that while Harvard is a high ranking university, it's comparatively much more renowned for law than for computer science.
> That is wildly disingenuous.
assuming you're referring to numpy as to have anything to do with python spec, i totally agree with you. only it isn't. so isn't pytorch and pandas (and good so).
> you get an nxn identity matrix by...
no, man, that's how you get it. really advanced technique, kudos!
i get it by:
id:{...} /there are many ways to implement identity in k, and it's fun!
id 3
+1.00 +0.00 +0.00
+0.00 +1.00 +0.00
+0.00 +0.00 +1.00
but if you can keep a secret, more recently we've gotten so lazy and disingenuous in k land, and because we need them bloody matrices so often now, we just do it like so:
(but of course before we do that we first install numpy, pytorch, pandas and polars - not because we need them, just to feel like seasoned professionals who know what they're doing)
Researchers at Aalto University have connected a time crystal to an external system for the first time, opening potential applications in quantum computing and ultra-precise sensing technologies.
The team, led by Academy Research Fellow Jere Mäkinen, demonstrated that time crystals can interface with optomechanical systems whilst maintaining their unique quantum properties. The breakthrough could enable memory systems for quantum computers that last significantly longer than current technologies.
Not sure whether is a matter of efficiency. Efficiency is more about the desired outcome. Insects are small and very low weight. So I would assume wind will give them more push and can carry them for much longer distances even without doing anything on their own. But the price is a lack of control; they have probably little to no influence where they will end up.
They’re great to use as board game coins; much nicer than plastic chits.