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Does that mean that if I have a struct with #pragma pack(push, 1) I can't use pointers to any members that don't happen to be aligned?

I wonder if it's intentional and making everyone get copilot is the goal

Speaking of new outlook, has anyone else had search just...not work? I'll search for emails sent from myself, to myself (of which I know there are hundreds) and get 7 results. Same in the web app, but outlook classic works fine. Mind boggling

I recommend this technology connections video which dives into this in wonderful detail https://youtu.be/DTsQjiPlksA?si=gx18FGOcjsv5PpNg

I gave up on the onedrive client and switched to rclone to access SharePoint at work. It's more manual but it always works! The onedrive client was great when it worked, but when it started misbehaving there was no real way to fix it besides reinstall and start over

For what it's worth Canadian Amazon also has them DRM free

But as a consumer I don't want to have to check the price/mass in every product everything I shop, especially if I'm buying the same brand every week.

I received a similar email from Type Founders despite the fact that my website does not provide or even specify a specific font to use (besides things like size and sand serif). I got the impression it was either a shakedown or a very broadly aimed and poorly executed attempt to recovering licensing fees.

Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khet_(game)

I once entered 'sudo echo hi" or something similar on a large HPCC and received an email back from a sysadmin that just said "hello".

Yeah the author glossed over this a bit in my opinion. In infinite precision math you're correct, but at some point the signal in those higher frequencies is going to be reduced below the precision of the storage data type, never mind the dynamic range of the monitor and camera he's using.

Not GP, but 0.5% == 0.005, not 0.5.

Just to add a data point, I had trouble accessing fastmail early this morning (around 7 EDT). I haven't had any issues since then.

If they're using a botnet of compromised servers then I suspect the marginal cost is negligible.

https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools works pretty well once setup. Allegedly...

I have a meteorite wedding band and we were passing it around outside the bore to feel how strong the pull was. A grad student lost their grip and the ring shot into the bore like a bullet. No damage luckily but it really drove home how dangerous these can be.

My (now) wife picked out her engagement ring on Etsy. It's an antique ring with a sapphire gem. Of course that took away some of the surprise from the proposal, but we were of the opinion that the fact one wants to get married shouldn't be a surprise. And the time/place of the proposal can still be somewhat of a surprise, or at least special.

"I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." -Ezra Cornell.

I'm not sure if they're offered anymore, but they used to have Basic Rifle Marksmanship and Epee de Guerre. My friend once told me he thought my major was "weapons".

Ah nevermind I see this was addressed in another comment.

Cool! I'd considering adding CMA-ES [1], which as far as I know is the gold standard for derivative free optimization.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMA-ES

The author states their intent at the bottom

Author's note: Some people have read this blog as my utopia or dream of the future. It is not. It is a scenario showing where we could be heading - for better and for worse. I wrote this piece to start a discussion about some of the pros and cons of the current technological development. When we are dealing with the future, it is not enough to work with reports. We should start discussions in many new ways. This is the intention with this piece.

For anyone else who had never heard this and wants some background: https://hackernoon.com/how-the-nintendo-switch-prevents-down...

It's unfortunate how (blatantly) political this announcement is written, as opposed to scientific. I think announcements from FDA/CDC etc should be about the science, not the politics. But maybe I'm just being naive.

I was just told it wasn't possible. So I cancelled my debit card (take that, paypal).

Yeah basically. I'm still not entirely clear what the British rules are.

Not spelling, but my wife (Canadian) and I (American) recently had an interesting discussion about the placement of a comma following a quoted portion of a sentence. Americans are commonly taught the comma /always/ goes before the closing quotation marks, whereas in British English it depends on the context. You know it's a good weekend discussion when the Chicago Manual of Style gets involved.

And maybe this has changed, but I think the Microsoft support forum used to show the "accepted" answer twice, once in the thread and once in the accepted answer section. Or something similar; whatever it was I felt like I was reading the same thing twice.

Thanks, this was very helpful.

This is a key difference between US policy & Canadian policy that I have informally noticed while growing up on the border (with family ties on both sides).

My wife's Canadian and I'm American, and we've discussed this point too. My theory is that Canada's parliamentary system generally puts one party in charge of the executive and legislative, so it's easier for that party to get things done. Of course there are times when a party in the US controls both branches and we still struggle to get things done. I would assume that most larger changes happens on this scenarios though.

And of course the US seems to suffer from partisanship in general more than Canada, but I can't back that up.

I'm not in favor of the bill, but a warrant is still required (at least for domestic stuff).