jasona99

> Allow me to point out the millions of immigrants that walk across a continent to try and slip over the border into America.

Sure, but even when they get to America, unless they already have some degree of monetary means, a large portion of those immigrants will end up stuck in low-paying, high-labor jobs, often in agriculture and heavy industry, without savings or means to move elsewhere for years. Those paths to better work, education, or location once in America are not going to be open to them as they will have no resources to draw upon. Not being a citizen also can be severely restricting. Most mobility is not seen for one or more generations and many immigrants simply remain in deep poverty indefinitely. Immigration is not a silver bullet to a great life, even if an immigrant does everything correctly. Would you say they get stuck here of their own volition after risking their lives and the lives of their families to get to America, or that it is systemically hard for an immigrant to rise out of poverty in America?

> Nobody there has their feet nailed to the ground.

I am trying to highlight that moving, especially to a higher cost of living area, is expensive and people risk being homeless for a non-trivial amount of time at an often slim chance of doing better. That can be very dangerous for a myriad of reasons and I imagine a risk that is simply too great for most, even if they are willing to do difficult things to do better. I would argue that this is not their fault for simply being born in an area with poor wages, education, and support systems, but that the area they originally lived in has a more systemic issue preventing mobility.

I agree to some extent that people can control their situation with choices, but I would like to push back on a few of those examples as I think it's a little disingenuous to say everyone can simply make choices in our society and do better. For example, living in a bad location also often means one would have limited options for work, which limits their income and prevents them from being able to just move out of that situation. Limited free time from working multiple low-paying part- or even full-time jobs to support oneself or others can make paths to gaining more education, whether free or not, just not feasible. Good luck getting a somewhat reasonable SBA loan with a criminal record! I know you are giving very simple examples, but many of them fail to account for the situation one would be in to require improving the situation. In theory, yes, I agree, there are ways out of bad situations simply by taking the correct steps, but those paths out may just not be open for people in the very situations where they might most benefit.

I've seen many truly impoverished areas of the United States (large swathes of West Virginia primarily come to mind, no offense to the West Virginians on here) where these paths are not tenable. Many of these areas straight up don't have regular internet access. These whole regions are lacking in education and options for mobility are severely restricted. I simply do not believe it is because everyone in that area has decided they just don't want to do better for themselves, but that there are systemic problems preventing these people from being able to take these steps.

Goodness, I'm blind, completely missed that shot. Thanks!

Does anyone know what NFC transponder they might be using? I might have filtered too much on Mouser and missed it, but I'm struggling to find an 8KB module with that case. I also can't find it on the site since there's no BOM.

I ran some electric circuit simulation/PCB design software through Wine for a series of courses that actually worked very well. I think the only installation hurdle was installing the Jet database engine (wasn't included with the install). Real-time simulations were a bit slower than they should have been on my machine (no less than some lower end machines I saw, though). Otherwise, it was on par performance and behavior-wise. That has been my most serious use of it, and I found it to be pretty frustration free.

On the flip side, there was an oscilloscope/fgen software interface that did not work at all thanks to some horrible drivers, but it didn't work on 50% of Windows machines either, so I didn't mind too much. There were alternatives in that case.

The tweet that contains the image is included. You must set the photo as your phone's background for it to have any effect, so it is safe to click.

I actually looked into this when I saw it in the original tweet. I tried with a current Android 10 emulator, crashed SystemUI. Tried with the latest build of AOSP, was a-ok. Whatever the issue was, looks like it got resolved already in either the Android color library or the ImageProcessHelper for the wallpaper (the piece of code that was initially crashing with an out of bounds error). I haven't spent much time looking into exactly when/where it was fixed, though.

Quick edit to add that, despite this, I do not believe those changes have made their way into most devices. It seems the error stemmed from the possibility of returning a value over 255 when a histogram was calculated from the addition of color values. As stated in the article, this seemed to result from the use of the Skia color profile in particular. I do not know about other color profiles. The code mentioned by gruez was what I got when the emulator was crashing.