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It's not because it's "hard".

It's all about the nuisance created by human behavior. Calendar, DST, timezone, all the problems you never imagined can happen and can only be met in real life scenarios, and you will meet same problem again, struggle then found out the same problem have been solved long time ago by mature library, and the solution doesn't require any smart or advanced technique, just another corner case.


I disagree hard.

Firstly because I have a great imagination, but secondly because I am old and have a lot of real life scenarios to think about.

State-of-the-art here has changed a few times in my professional career: Once upon a time most time/date libraries used a single integral type and try to make it do double-duty by being both interval and absolute (whatever that means) time by taking the interval from an epoch.

Relatively recently however, that's started to change, and that change has been made possible by people using languages with better type systems reinventing the date/time approach. This has led to fewer bugs, and more predictability with regards to calendar operations in different programs.

But bugs still happen, so this approach is still unsatisfying. One thing I keep having to worry about is distance; I record RTT as part of my events, since when I am looking for contemporaneous events, the speed-of-light actually tends to be a real factor for me.

So I don't think this is solved simply because my problems aren't solved by existing libraries, and I keep getting into arguments with people who think GMT=TAI or something dumb like that.

It's not "all about" anything: Nobody knows shit about what's happening in the next room over, and if there are 12 different date/time libraries now, I guarantee there'll be a 13th that solves problems in all of them, and is still incomplete.


Agree. I think all the AI stuff need to be removed. Are you seeing lots of open positions asking for people use AI to code? And if you are applying for VR, make resume VR oriented. If applying for web development, make resume focus on for web development.

No need trying to show everything you know and every experience which could be overwhelming and the HR probably will not feel you are a good match to their narrow definition.


For windows, I like everything search https://www.voidtools.com/ It let you search all your files and folders instantly as long as they are ntfs partions, and there is no heavy background indexing needed(it still need to do index but it's very light since it use ntfs file journal to build it) .

I also customize it so I can click the folder in the UI and open it in total commander.


I used to use a firefox addon which have nice expression input and history. Firefox updates killed so many good addon, even yesterday the 97.0 is disabling my addon again.

Now I just keep a RStudio window open.


Intel will not get more favorable treatment from TSMC than AMD.

- Intel compete with TSMC for foundry services

- Intel try to get government subsidy by attacking TSMC's location, national security concerns etc, which caused TSMC original founder publicly respond with not too kind words.

- Let one customer buy capacity to starve other customers will hurt the basic business model and trust of TSMC as a foundry service, but people keep suggesting this from their imagination.


Another explanation might be dispose the old one before it was captured by other countries, otherwise the potential harm could be too great.


Page 15 of statement_of_facts The only other significant deposit to the account was an approximately $11,000 U.S. Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan advance provided in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

So they also applied for PPP.


A good ink jet for printing photos and greeting cards.

Previously I had bad experience with ink jet being the ink keep drying up, and laser is always better for black and white. However two use cases really make it worth to remember turn on ink jet and clean it regularly: - print photo by yourself, like passport photo, photo needed by forms. You may still need to adjust color/brightness a little bit, but it's way better than CVS. I didn't realize you can print 4x6 with this kind of quality. - print greeting cards. with quality paper it's looking very good.

I use Cannon MX 922, regular 4x6 photo paper. For greeting card I use 44lb Epson Premium Presentation Paper MATTE.


The disk could be simply transferred to another data center physically so they can move data faster/cheaper than transferring the data by internet.


Reminds me of the following quote:

> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

- Andrew S. Tanenbaum


The headline is accurate because that's one subject of the lawsuit. If I'm understanding it correctly after skimming through the filing(read especially page 6 and 9):

1. the plaintiff argues that in Boston case (page 6) apple store only took less than 10 minutes to identify the shoplifter, so they probably used facial recognition tech. Note the shoplifter left the store, apple found the incident, report it to police within 10 minutes, without actually detain the person.

2. I'm guessing the facial recognition is actually accurate because it was based on their previous security video, not plaintiff's real id photo(which apple probably don't have access all the time). So the facial recognition just linked one person with previous security video properly, and the id of person was based on previous record made by employee.

3. Thus there is nothing wrong here with facial recognition, but the title will definitely evoke fear and people's emotion since most people will not see the details.


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