tech5000 · HackerTrans

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I think what would be amazing would be if one day it is possible to run macOS on an Apple Silicon iPad. This seems like it would be something that many people would want, so I guess there are technical issues preventing this. In another thread, the absence of JIT support has been mentioned for example.

tech5000

5 lat temudiscuss

Encabulator inspired? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5-9Rfrui9A

tech5000

5 lat temudiscuss

Here is a data point: In the last ~90 minutes the external ping tool we use has shown the site changing between accessible then inaccessible 25 times.

tech5000

5 lat temudiscuss

Down for me as well. All sites completely offline and showing our CDN provider's Error 522 page on all customer-facing sites.

Same error as yours when I tried to log in and see what's up.

tech5000

6 lat temudiscuss

> I've been waiting for an ARM laptop that can run Linux for a long time.

I wonder if the Pinebook Pro would suit some Linux laptop use cases? Its an ARM laptop for $200, no fan, that ships with Manjaro Linux installed.

tech5000

6 lat temudiscuss

I have been debating a Pi400 vs a Pinebook Pro as an Xmas gift for a 10-year-old. The Pi400 looks great except that it doesn't support a webcam+microphone(+audio out?) out of the box and attempts to find an HDMI monitor with these things built in and supported by the Pi have thus far been unsuccessful. Is it odd to be considering a Lunux laptop for a 10-year old? The open source ethos of both machines, seems ideal for this use case.

tech5000

6 lat temudiscuss

Its possible that the shared values and commitment to public service inherent in choosing to serve in the military caused your father's co-workers in the military to see him more clearly and/or in a different light.

It is also possible that his leadership ability did not manifest equally in both settings, for example if he was more passionate about the military than his civilian job and/or if it was a better fit for his skill set.

Not to suggest that some institutions don't still discriminate against Asians etc, unfortunately. Hopefully things are changing for the better though.

tech5000

7 lat temudiscuss

All the people here trying to throw CBP under the bus, did you read their report?

If I have a 'terroristic' picture on my phone and I try to cross a border, and at the same time I tell CBP that I want to work in my cousin's gas station so that he will be freed up to do other things, it is reasonable to think that CBP might exercise their right to decline to admit me.

Commenters who are saying that CBP are lying: if its he said / she said, I am going to believe the person without the dead baby image on their phone. Not the person with the 5 year visa who wants to be away from their wife and child for three months for 'vacation'.

It seems a bit weak to me to call CBP liars absent any evidence (and here there is none) that they have lied.

Mainly what I want to say is about the dead baby image: if my 'friend' sends me that photo, we are having a talk stat about good judgement, he is not sending me any more photos, I am probably blocking him, and that photo is getting deleted.

And if I have that photo on my phone and I choose to tell some bullshit story about child safety PSAs etc, and about my cousin's gas station, I have to expect that discretionary decisions are not going to go well for me.

tech5000

7 lat temudiscuss

Same here.

tech5000

9 lat temudiscuss

As I write this, I am attending SILMO 2017 optical trade show in Paris. I've been attending for a few years and what you see when talking to industry participants is that there is real aversion to business models that can disrupt the industry to lower costs. Frame suppliers that sell to brick-and-mortar shops will very often refuse to sell to e-commerce players, for fear of alienating their brick and mortar accounts for example. Opticians will often refuse to disclose pupillary distance, as a way to prevent their customer from purchasing elsewhere. Many states/provinces/countries have pre-Internet laws on the books that effectively disallow selling online, and efforts to amend those laws to keep pace with technology are aggressively derailed by special interest groups.

As noted elsewhere in this discussion, it was expensive before. Independent opticians feel attacked on one side by e-commerce, and on the other side by Essilor/Luxottica, chains in general, and big-box stores The real issue may be that they can't see the value in changing how they have always worked or that even if individual opticians are open to change, they are stuck in a supply chain that may hold exactly the opposite view.

tech5000

9 lat temudiscuss

"Puliafito has no known criminal record, and public records show no blemishes on the medical licenses he holds in California and three other states. A review of court records in those states found no malpractice claims against him."

Wtf is wrong with the media that they can't let this person have a private life, warts and all. Sad.

tech5000

9 lat temudiscuss

I have some sympathy for the judge here. Though a sentence of one million years hard labor followed by summary execution is probably the correct one for a case like this, Gattani could change. He could be somebody who pays his debt to society, gets counselling, makes positive changes in his life, and goes on to have a healthy positive relationship with his daughter and the world. Keeping the case in the USA allows the court to stay involved and that might lead to the best available outcome for the victim and her child (aka victim #2).

If the judge were to impose a harsher sentence such that deportation post-sentence was mandatory, Gattani would then be outside of the judge's jurisdiction and the judge would have lost any ability to monitor the situation or get the best outcome for the victims for any future crimes Gattani commits.

In India Gattani may well have situation management options not as readily available to him in the US, because of the money he has, how much further that money sometimes goes in India, i.e. his ability to pay bribes, the degree to which corruption is present in the Indian judiciary [1][2] and police force [3], and differences versus in the USA in some parts of Indian society in respect of attitudes to spousal abuse, appropriate punishment, and to divorce. The availability in India of options which allow Gattani to avoid taking responsibility for his actions might act as an impediment to real, substantive, changes by him.

On the other hand Gattani got a minor sentence for a terrible crime. I sympathize with the victim here one million percent when she makes that observation. But its a judgement call by the judge and arguably there are no great options here because the best short term options and the best long-terms options are in conflict.

No matter what happens in future Gattani has to live with the knowledge that he abused his wife and his daughter. Its not an easy road for him from here no matter what. He has been publicly shamed in the media, and now he is a convicted felon without a green card. Good luck getting one now. Over and above the sentence itself imposed by the judge, these are consequences for Gattani of that sentence, and ones which the judge almost certainly aware.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_of_India#Judicial_co... [2] http://lmgtfy.com/?q=indian+judiciary+corruption [3] http://lmgtfy.com/?q=indian+police+force+corruption

tech5000

9 lat temudiscuss

CFCs were a smaller problem, with cost effective alternatives available. So its more feasible to avoid The tragedy of the commons. In the case of CO2 and methane, its harder to move to more costly approaches given that you know that your competitor is not doing so (and possibly does not feel they can do so) and so would have a cost advantage over you, possibly putting at risk your actual economic viability.

There is often a reluctance to support more costly non-CO2 producing approaches to energy production given that those approaches have been around longest and are often cheapest.

Some renewable energy technologies are gaining market acceptance and are cost-competitive with hydrocarbons, but unless Tesla and its peers take off in a big way, hydrocarbons unfortunately aren't going away.

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