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The Wikipedia entry actually says 2, or something very similar:

> The rise of wages in jobs without productivity gains results from the need to compete for workers with jobs that have experienced productivity gains and so can naturally pay higher wages.

Supply of doctors doesn't go down only because hospital raise wages to compete with the new lucrative thing. There are plenty of people that want to become doctors, but only so many of them are people that you want to be doctors, and if you don't pay enough they'll do the lucrative thing.

You can have as much redundancy as you like on your RAID, but if you fat finger an rm -r it's all gone.

A real backup protects both against hardware faults and accidental deletion.

> Funny, how suddenly a tight, 1-2 sentence response on point is a sign of skill.

Wasn't it always?

Different DRM, the one in the kernel is Direct Rendering Manager, which is basically managing access to the GPU.

Yes, the keyword you are looking for is "tapparella motorizzata".

> Who is your enemy and why do they want to hurt you

It seems like the perfect occasion to quote Mickens' immortal words:

> Basically, you’re either dealing with Mossad or not-Mossad. If your adversary is not-Mossad, then you’ll probably be fine if you pick a good password and don’t respond to emails from ChEaPestPAiNPi11s@ virus-basket.biz.ru. If your adversary is the Mossad, YOU’RE GONNA DIE AND THERE’S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. The Mossad is not intimidated by the fact that you employ https://. If the Mossad wants your data, they’re going to use a drone to replace your cellphone with a piece of uranium that’s shaped like a cellphone, and when you die of tumors filled with tumors, they’re going to hold a press conference and say “It wasn’t us” as they wear t-shirts that say “IT WAS DEFINITELY US,” and then they’re going to buy all of your stuff at your estate sale so that they can directly look at the photos of your vacation instead of reading your insipid emails about them.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

This happens on mine if I don't let the scale calibrate before the first measure. The scale turns on if you step on it, so it's tempting to just put both feet on in quick succession while the scale it's still off. That will give you a wrong reading. If you step off, the scale calibrates, and the next reading will be right.

You should get two equal readings if for the first one you push on the scale with one feet, take it off, wait a few seconds, then weigh yourself.

> People aren’t ASCII or UTF-8 machines; “e” and “E” are the same character

They are the same character to you, a native speaker of a Western language written in a latin script. They are the same to you because you are, in fact, an ASCII machine. Many many people in the world are not.

Case insensitive matching is a surprisingly complicated, locale-dependent affair. Should I.txt and i.txt match? (Note that the first file is not named I.txt).

Case insensitive filesystems make about as much sense as ASCII-only filenames.

The problem is real though. It stands to reason that the people that know how planes can be built safely are the one building planes; otherwise you could get in a situation where "those who know, build planes; those who don't, tell them how to do it".

There is a similar problem with financial regulation; my understanding is that the knowledge transfer between industry and regulation there is solved by the equally problematic "revolving doors", where people alternate between regulating and advising companies (and thus as regulators they don't want to make too many enemies).

Just call "Mum" and be done

In dead rabbits.

> An AC cord, 3-pin (earthed) plugs on both ends

You mean it had PLUGS on both end? That's not a cable, that's a murder attempt!

> Unregulated and forced into the shadows, manufacturers lack accountability, and contaminants get into the supply chain.

I mean, "unregulated" is the whole point of alternative medicine, isn't it? If you take an extract from some plant, do a double blind stuy and prove it cures something, then sell it following government safety regulation, that's just called "medicine".

> 1. It's not important (in the grand scheme of things)

> 2. It's not a view that very few people hold.

And yet it makes the author feel a contrarian free thinker. It turns out, it's the prototypical Thiel truth!

> The full year might be nicer

The nice thing of being at the start of a millennium is that after version 99 you can just move to 100!

I want to point out also how unhelpful the release notes are. When I see ATS mentioned in Apple docs, I think of Apple Transport Security, not (I guess?) Apple Type Services, a font API dating back to Mac OS 8.5.

Again, this is before Android 12 - afterwards the app can declare that it just wants BLE not for location purposes, and not get access to GPS (and apparently certain kind of BLE beacons). Still it's mind boggling that this glaring issue survived so long.

Ships naturally drift to their lee, especially at low spend, so when maneuvering they must keep some leeway to avoid hitting stuff.

You can easily dislike the Italian left for a number of reasons, but being commies is definitely not one of them.

From the blog post introducing trurl:

> URLs are tricky to parse and there are numerous security problems in software because of this. trurl wants to help soften this problem by taking away the need for script and command line authors everywhere to re-invent the wheel over and over.

You can, you should teach your kid about the dangers of drugs and addiction. Still you wouldn't bring him in a crack house...

The current Italian government has introduced the "ministry of industry and made in Italy". That's what's it called, made in Italy, in English in the official name. I guess they're going to fine themselves.

SS came out in 2008, HLS in 2009.

Separate manifests and non aligned segments have a real impact on the ability of the client to switch qualities in responsabilità to bandwith change, and this to avoid stalling.

BTW, when I say "HLS is pretty backwards" I mean designed unergonomically and without clear requirements in mind, not a step back from what existed before. I would guess this is because the original specification was something like "whatever Major League Baseball can easily stream from their existing setup" (see the various Pantos drafts that ultimately became RFC8216)

I am comparing HLS with other HTTP-based streaming formats - DASH and SmoothStreaming. They definitely have their issues (DASH in particular is the epitome of the second system syndrome) but they fix the two most glaring issues with HLS: separate manifests and non-aligned segments.

Source: I write an HTTP streaming client library for a living.

H264 is not a streaming format. HLS is, and it is pretty much "Apple's format". It's pretty backwards, and everyone was forced to support it because it was the one streaming format you could use in iStuff.

I guess I'm from a -shithole- developing country myself, so can you explain to me how air-drying clothes is offensive to your sensibility?

(Again, in a desert; I can see how someone from Chicago might find it extremely convenient.)

I find it hilarious that we are talking about preserving the environment and someone complains that they need would need more electric capacity to charge their vehicle and run their clothes dryer in the desert. As long as US exists, the world stands no chance.

The Simpsons were joking on exactly this censorship happening 30 years ago, so I don't think it's caused by social media.

Having an account for your child schools is kind of a necessity. Using Minecraft is not. It seems to be a nice game and children like it; it sucks that Microsoft bought it. Still not a good enough reason to use Microsoft.