Let them, let's see what happens when their sales plummet. GOG exists, & there's so many games in this world that it'll last me a lifetime to play all the ones that seem interesting to me. The market will be the judge and I think the final outcome will be favorable to the consumer.

If you could find an off-the-shelf ADC with those capabilities, I'd love to hear where. Last time I checked, I was unable to find anything that would financially make sense compared to just buying the entire oscilloscope, but I may not know where / how to look.

everythign covered by itar is super expensive

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/09/06/2024-19...

"A resolution of 12 bit or more, but less than 14 bit, with a “sample rate” greater than 400 MSPS;"

Nothing prevents the administration from changing the law then, last time I checked their party holds all three branches of government + SCOTUS.

Correction: SCOTUS is not owned by any political party. Activists can claim whatever they want about the voting record of the justices, but SCOTUS is above petty politics.

The purpose of the system is what it does. At the very least 2 votes on the bench are default admin votes. It's not the activists who are claiming things. You can look up overall SCOTUS approval trendlines.

The laws were written carefully with the full support of industry lobbyists for maximal benefit. These are not accidents.

Passing a constitutionally valid law through congress and then having the executive branch enforce it would not meet any judicial resistance.

I suspect the courts would welcome it.

Maybe they should stop trying to do illegal things.

Why would you give this administration the benefit of doubt?

No, just selective enforcement and maybe sending a message that if you don't behave, the administration may look a bit harder into you than it normally would.

I don't have evidence, I am operating under the assumption that e.g. folks behind jobs.now [1] did their homework. This is also what the OP of this whole thread claimed. [2]

[1] https://www.jobs.now/blog/unveiling-the-truth-about-h-1b-vis... "The Jobs.Now team has reviewed job postings from dozens of top companies like Meta, Block, Doordash, and Netflix which require unusual application processes like emailing or paper-mailing the application to specialized addresses, or using unbranded separate websites for collecting applications for jobs." + search for occurrence of "Apple" [2] "My understanding is that this is pretty much how everyone does it, no?"

No, it is meeting resistance from judges that follow the law. It is also meeting support from judges who dont care, including majority of supreme court.

This is the correct take. The better system is the one that you have intuition in - just keep using that one if building up intuition in a different system is not worth the cost to you. At least when it comes to temperature. :)

I have a kitchen thermometer for making caramel (can't remember exact number but ballpark is 200C). I occasionally use my oven at 250C. My wife fires her ceramics in a kiln at around 1000C. I don't feel like I'm "wasting" anything here.

> Celsius isn't granular enough.

This argument would be reasonable if we didn't have to cut inches into 16 or 32 parts to approach decent granularity. At least we use decimal for cutting Celsius up...

As you said, it's occasional. Temperature describes weather more often than anything else. And there's no advantage to Celsius for the ovens either.

Yup, because neither has significant advantage over the other. The only place where Celsius imo has a slight advantage comes from how often the phrase "below freezing" is used when talking about weather. That to me suggests that 0C/32F has some special significance, and thus makes Celsius a bit more elegant because it acknowledges that point. The granularity doesn't matter too much, as long as we agree to use decimals for ease of calculations, instead of using 1/32nds or some other barleycorns.

Do you mind sharing what (if anything) you're using to version that website? I'm wondering what folks use instead of git nowadays.

Back in the day people used to build a website without any versioning. Just make it and upload it. Make a change, upload it again.

Then people realized why that's such a bad idea

Why should it be? In my experience it depends on the case, and in my case it seems like an absolute technological overkill to version the site and have statichost regularly pull from some repository, as I update it perhaps once a year.

I mean, versioning is basically free from a technical / storage / time spent standpoint, and my experience says that if you don’t do it you likely will lose your code at some point

To be fair you can have versions and backups even if you don't use a versioning tool like git. Good old _v2, _v3, _v4.

Fair, but like, why??

Simpler. Or you work/collaborate on projects with people who really shouldn't have to learn Git, even via a GUI.

I'm a programmer by trade and do plenty of versioning via _v1 and so on when working on music with others, we basically send .zip files over Telegram and append some label at the end. Not gonna ask these people to learn something when basic "have many copies" does the trick sufficiently good.

If you're making static websites, there's no code to lose.

Second order code loss: make a change, realize you screwed everything up, unable to revert

Is that why even Google Docs has version control?

I use Git for version control, but not for deployment because I don’t want to bother making a commit every time I want to fix a typo.

Not really, I just use Emacs' versioned backup files that are automatically generated. As I said, I don't have to update the site that often, so it is entirely sufficient. An advantage for me, besides not having to write Git commit messages, is that I also don't have to version images in Git, which I don't like doing.

Do you really need to know other kinds of sleep in order to know if you feel like shit after waking up or if you feel fine?

If they have no frame of reference then it seems like their general contentedness is being measured (or as another commenter indicated, their willingness to gripe.)

Yes.

Even in your example, you propose an individual could know multiple kinds of after-sleep feelings.

I believe that how you feel after a night's sleep is mostly due to nutrition (long term, not just the day before).

that might be true unless we can define what nutrition can help with sleep. There's plenty of people who eat well and sleep like crap.

If you're eating "well" but don't feel/sleep well, are you really eating well?

> That’s why movies (...) can clear a billion dollars,

And yet somehow I still get 30 minutes of ads before a watching a goddamn movie in a cinema.

Go to a better movie theater and they don’t do that. Alamo Drafthouse movies have the old please keep quiet message, but if you show up 5 minutes late you’re missing part of the movie if they even let you in.

The closest Alamo to where I used to live in the USA is 2 states away. My choices were AMC, Regal, and Cinemark. And now that I moved, my choice is to either go to the only cinema around me (with ads), or try to fish something from the treacherous waters of the bay.

Part of this is baked into the experience though, if "ads" here are trailers for upcoming films. I don't know if theaters are now showing ads for products, I haven't been in forever.

I am willing to accept trailers but the split is closer to 25 minutes of random shit + 5 minutes trailers. Let's be generous and say that I'm misremembering & it's actually 20 + 10. That's still 20 minutes of ads that I'm paying to watch.

Theatres need a piece of the pie too :^)

I'm already buying their overpriced popcorn and soda!

Just take your seat 30mins later.

Personally if I had experienced that I would just take my business elsewhere. Companies will keep pushing boundaries like this if the worst outcome from them is that for some customers they won't be able to extract the additional profit.

Just tell me when the movie starts, not when the ads start.

There’s movie theaters that do that, Alimo is the chain near me which does.

by your account roughly 20-30mins in. You could also just sit there and read a book while you wait.

That's what I do! I wear a 10K lumen headlamp and read my elephant folio of Finnegan's Wake aloud, so everyone can enjoy it!

I just moved to Portugal and had zero issues installing a portable unit to help me survive the heatwave. For the hinged windows you just grab an installation kit that works with them and you're good to go. The only problem is that the portable AC I got is not a window unit (& it's single-hose), but I wanted to have it before the heatwave started and don't care too much about few percentage points in lost efficiency as long as it keeps me and my pets alive. Total cost was €320 with the installation kit for a 12000BTU unit.

I'm actually surprised you were fine with single-hose. I've never seen a single-hose portable A/C unit that did an adequate job. AIUC, the laws of physics make that rather difficult. In fact I've sometimes seen them actively make things worse. Whereas I have seen dual-hose do an adequate job.

Also note, "survive" is a rather low bar. We're talking about encouraging some of the world's top researchers to move from the US across the ocean. I'm admittedly not in their shoes, but I imagine mere survival isn't their criterion.

I had single-hose both when I lived in USA and now, and didn't have any issues with it cooling down the room I wanted to have cooled down. My bar is "survival of my pets" because rabbits supposedly can't handle more than 25C. Their room stayed well below that temperature both in USA (Seattle suburbs, west-facing in a house that wasn't insulated) and now in Portugal.

Ive seen a few single hose AC units that worked okay. I still don't understand why they exist though. The window installment at its minimum span is still putting the ends quite far apart and would increase efficiency.

Unfortunately, I could not find a dual-hose unit off-the-shelf in any of the local stores and didn't have any hopes of getting it in time if I ordered it online.

Pretty bad that there is no option of "I don't know". A couple of times I tried to guess the wrong word on purpose when I knew I had no clue what the word meant and accidentally got the right answer. I'd expect that admitting ignorance would be an option in such an app...

Yes. One would want to avoid false positives for the accurate evaluation of one's vocabulary.