Haha, exact same thing happened to me a couple weeks ago. You probably had the same issue as me. The driver dropped support for older cards and you had to switch to a legacy AUR package. I fixed it with some frantic googling while my friends waited a half hour. Not sure how you would know this without subscribing to some arch news feed or something. Not ideal.
That's exactly how it's supposed to work: Arch expects you to check the notes on their news section always before you update. The NVIDIA driver issue and solution was posted on Dec 20th.
I'm not saying I'm reading these regularly, just that yes it's the expected way.
So it wouldn't be incorrect to refer to Arch and Arch based distros as 'well, if you want to have fun with a broken system, otherwise avoid', just so it could be mentioned in a succinct way when talking about what distros one could try.
No, I don't think that's a fair way to put it. People regularly report having quite old Arch installs without stability issues. And people also regularly advice Linux newcomers not to pick Arch.
If you check their news section, it's a reasonable number of notes, 13 for last year. I think it's fair to say it seems to work well if you are willing to follow their procedure and already know what you're doing.
How bad it is exactly? Resistive heating sounds cursed, when the houses are (I guess) not the fancy European newbuild.
I'm looking at something like 1000 kWh on a heat pump a year in a mild weather, where kWh is around 0.30 eurocents. I don't however own the pump, energy company leases it to me, so I pay about 150 a month the whole year (cold months are about 4 GJ, but it totals to 18-ish in a year). Then there is another 10-30 a month for normal in-house electricity consumption.
When I had actual district heating (powered by gas, when the gas was expensive af) and the house was "leakier", I looked at something like 50ish GJ a year and paid close to 350.
I live in Scotland. It costs me a lot more than the equivalent of thirty Euros. Nearly double that. I couldn't reduce my electricity bill much more if I tried. I don't watch TV, use my oven and don't heat my home most of the year (I haven't once this winter so far, even though I am cold some of the time.)
I don't work for Snap, but they do use some software I wrote, so I guess that's close enough.
I find all of these "social media is bad" articles (for kids or adults) basically boil down to: Let humans communicate freely, some of them will do bad things.
This presents a choice: Monitor everyone Orwell-style, or accept that the medium isn't going to be able to solve the problem. Even though we tolerate a lot more monitoring for kids than adults, I'm still pretty uncomfortable with the idea that technology platforms should be policing everyone's messages.
So I sleep just fine knowing that some kids (and adults) are going to have bad experiences. I send my kid to the playground knowing he could be hurt. I take him skiing. He just got his first motorcycle. We should not strive for a risk-free world, and I think efforts to make it risk-free are toxic.
Pouring the resources of a company the size of Snap into addicting as many kids into their app as deeply as possible is not the same letting them communicate freely. Besides that, I don't know of any parent that would want ephemeral and private communication between their child and a predatory adult. Snap is also doing nothing to shield them from pedophiles, drug dealers, and arms dealers that are using the same app as a marketplace.
The damning part is that these companies know they harm they are doing, and choose to lean into to it for more $$$.
Thanks for your response. Your open source contributions are perhaps less damned than those of an actual Snap employee ;)
Are you not willing to even entertain the notion that communication platforms could influence the way that it's users communicate with each other? That totally ephemeral and private image based social media could promote a different type of communication compared to something like say, HN, which is public and text based? Sure you take your kid skiing, but presumably you make them wear a helmet and have them start off on the bunny hill, I agree that a risk-free world is an insane demand that justifies infinite authoritarian power but there is a line for everyone.
Yes, I make my kid wear a helmet. I make sure his bindings are set properly. I make sure he's dressed warmly. I make sure he's fed and hydrated.
I am the parent. The ski resort provides the mountain, the snow, and the lifts.
He's a bit too young to be interested in taking pictures of his wang but I'd like to think this is a topic I can handle. Teaching him to navigate a dangerous world is sort of my job. I'm not losing sleep over it.
> Let humans communicate freely, some of them will do bad things.
That’s just normal phone calls - no one is complaining about those.
But social networks have algorithms that promote one kind of content over another.
I keep getting recommended YouTube videos of gross and mostly fake pimple removal, on Facebook AI generated fake videos of random crap like Barnacle removal, and google ads for an automated IoT chicken coop.
I have never searched for these things and no living person has ever suggested such things to me. The algorithm lives its own life and none of it is good.
You have a very different experience than I do! My Youtube algorithm suggestions are wonderful, full of science and engineering and history and food and travel and comedy and all kinds of weird esoteric things that would never have been viable in the broadcast TV I grew up with. I am literally delighted.
Maybe you're starving the algorithm and it's trying random things? Look up how to reset the YT algo, I'm sure it's possible. Then try subscribing/liking a few things that you actually like.
If you're within a standard deviation or two of the typical HNer, look up "Practical Engineering" and like a few of his videos. That should get you started.
I thought you had changed the subject to Youtube? Snap is person to person communication, Youtube is broadcast to the public. I don't think Youtube knows who my friends are. I wouldn't call it social media; it's just media.
It makes no sense to group these things together; "youtube leads to sexploitation" is nonsense. What I think I'm hearing is ennui about technology in general, which I can understand, but keep your arguments straight.
Exactly. It's marginal benefit vs marginal harm. Teens can "communicate freely" over text, voice, and video calls, including sending each other photos... TO THEIR CONTACTS.
There is no need for location based recommendations, streaks, nudges, etc. They should be building their social networks in the real world. And if they need friends outside of school, that can come through parentally facilitated activities like sports, clubs, etc. Later you start playing Magic the Gathering at the nerd shop or go to "shows" at the VFW hall.
I’ve worked there, maybe my 2 cents: at the end of the day I have mouths to feed and honestly I used to be idealistic regarding employer moral compass and so on, but coming from the bottom in socio-economic terms I will exercise my right to be cynical about it.
I have some support to the Trust&Safety team at the same period of the whole debate about the section 230; and from what I can tell Snap has some flagging mechanisms quite good related with people selling firearms, drugs and especially puberty blockers.
The thing that I can say is that a lot of parents are sleeping at the wheel with teenagers and not following what is going on with their child.
Seems possibly similar to the anti-myopia glasses for children that cause blur around the periphery, which is expected when not staring at a screen. So maybe that could be good?
While at a stop sign, a car veered off the crossing street into my car at about 40 mph. My pregnant wife and 1 year old were in the back seat. Our car was destroyed and the other guy drove off, never to be found.
No permanent injuries on our end, but what you said about walking on a thin crust of ice rings true. And feeling like there's another reality where things didn't turn out OK. All the best to you, I am glad your daughter is OK.
I am a MATLAB and Python user who has flirted with julia as a replacement. I don't love the business model of JuliaHub, which feels very similar to Mathworks in that all the cool toolboxes are gated behind a 'contact sales' or high priced license. The free 20 hours of cloud usage is a non-starter. Also it seems that by default, all JuliaHub usage is default cloud-based? on-prem and airgapped (something I need) is implied to be $$$.
Open sourcing and maintaining some components of things like JuliaSim or JuliaSim Control might expand adoption of Julia for people like me. I will never be able to convince my company to pay for JuliaHub if their pricing is similar to Mathworks.
I don't think this is really a good comparison. Matlab is a $150 for a personal license for the language itself ($1000/year for commercial), and if you want any packages, all the packages are extra on top of that. Julia is fully open source, and has a strong open source package ecosystem (I think we're up to 10k packages by now). Juliahub provides some enterprise systems like JuliaSim, but the language itself is totally free.
The most efficient way is a filter bank technique. Key words to Google would be "reconstruction", "dechannelizer", "synthesis".
A power of two number (N) of equally spaced frequency channels can be efficiently combined using a short fir filter on each channel followed by an fft where one sample from each channel is input to the fft per frame. Then you get N samples of your output. There is a bit more nuance but the author's bandwidth and number of channels are trivial to handle with this method.
Since each channel is already assumed to be spaced in frequency, you are essentially already in the frequency domain and only so only one fft stage is required.
LPR is really tricky because weeks of "good behavior" can be undone very easily with one wrong move. It also took me years to figure out it was LPR because it doesn't have traditional acid reflux symptoms and can also look a lot like allergies or other things my doctors labeled it with instead. For me it was especially debilitating because it inflamed my Eustachian tubes, which meant my middle ears filled with way too much fluid, and i'd have 5+ hour long vertigo attacks where i literally could not move a single inch and was vomiting the entire time and sometimes only had a few minutes of warning before this started. if this happened in public, which it thankfully never did in a way i couldn't get home or to my car quickly (to pass out in the back seat and barf out the window), it would have been absolutely awful. the other shitty symptom as i said was extremely dry eyes, like painfully dry, which i think was actually more just them stinging which feels identical to dry. no amount of eye drops helped, and i tried like 6 different types.
anyway lots of tips online for LPR that are true for me:
* nothing carbonated. this is one of the worst things i can do
* nothing acidic. some fruit juices like pineapple in particular are really, really bad for me. coffee, even with milk and ice and sugar, is also really bad for me. overly acidic foods (vinegar, tomato based stuff, etc) are also bad.
* anything spicy is really bad too
* no caffeine
* stopping eating before i feel full. this is hard for me because i've been a "eat until i'm stuffed" person my entire life and it's really satisfying for me to do so.
* stopping drinking helps but i got symptoms to go away pretty well even with moderate+ levels of drinking. but mostly just sticking to liquor and no cocktails or beer or seltzers. wine seems okay.
* sitting upright after eating for at least an hour or two
* not eating for at least a few hours before bed
* exercise helps a bit but isn't critical for me
* daily allergy pill and nasal spray, even missing one day sucks
dry eyes are my first symptom that i did something "wrong". once i learned to listen to that it helped a ton. if i do "wrong" things for like a week straight, the constant dizziness starts, and if i go on much further than that then the vertigo attacks start.
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