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I manage Windows and Mac networks. Mac updates may take up to 5 minutes to discover necessary updates, resulting in 5 - 10 package downloads, even on machines that haven't been regularly updated. Windows, depending on the version can take upwards of 20 - 30 minutes, with up to 50-60 package downloads, and on machines that haven't been updated recently, 1 - 2 hours, and hundreds of package retrievals.

> OS X fixes needed have the same weird incantation like qualities as the fixes for Windows updates

I find your statement inaccurate. Even if the update operations are fairly similar in Windows and OS X, the latter's update system seems fairly efficient. OS X doesn't have the libraries and dependences hell that windows does. The update model fits well in to the OS X environment, not well at all in Windows.

Also, Mac updates that update system files are 'rare' and usually only require one reboot. Windows often requires 2 or 3 reboots. Again, I believe this is because of the dependancies and libraries Windows is forced to maintain and keep up to date.

Mac's don't hang on update or install, frankly, Ever, unless there is something very wrong.
Tilling makes more sense now the screens are bigger and high-res.
Love the work they open sourced in Clojure. Very sorry to see them go. I was a user of their app for awhile, but I tend to believe human led curation provides better signal to noise when it comes to content. It was a tremendous effort in trying to break that barrier and I'm thankful for all they contributed back!
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> The majority of people don't have a problem - you're creating a problem for them.

You keep implying or asserting this, but you don't back it up. I don't believe it (unless taken literally, under the premise that only the interests of people in the majority matter). I believe you don't think it's a problem, but I've read many things over many years that disagree.
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I like history and particularly the history of computing, but given how little respect Wolfram had with regards to the history of mathematical ideas that preceded his own work (and then claiming credit for those ideas), how can I trust any historical analysis he authors?
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What language are the .sol files written in?

I have never seen that file extension before, but the language looks to be C-derived.
How Jefferson and other Founding Fathers defended Muslim rights
Most ad-blockers are also tracking blockers. So, they already do.
Every time I read about Sinatra, I immediately recall the Doonesbury's strips back from 1985.

From the archives, starting on http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/archive/1985/6/10
You seem radicalized ;) XD (This is great btw.)
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Would love to hear the tools you used as you bootstrapped. It was nice to reach the escape velocity of Ramen-profitable and beyond.

Upwork - $

Profitwell - $0

Stripe (in hindsight would have used accepton.com) - $$

BeStunning(for dunning) - $$ ( but they have a boostrap plan)

Bootstrap (landing page - would have used instapage for landing page in hindsight) - $0

Zapier - 100 tasks/mo free. - $0, $15/mo etc...

Quuu.co - twitter & Fb automation - $

Canva.com - Ads creation

StartupLister.com or Promotehour.com

rapidssl.com

godaddy.com

Heroku

AWS

Twilio- message me on this one, I have good work-arounds. For European/more global customers as well, I wish we would have switched earlier off of twilio.

Intercom

Iubenda- good for terms of service.

Mixpanel - used their startup plan.

Google Analytics - The most important report in GA is 'google analytics full referral URL report'

Conspire

Elink.Club

Tweetfull, Crowdfire, Archie.co -- still toying around with these.
Like almost everybody who uses the term, the author never once defines "fascism" -- it's just a magic word used to shut down political beliefs he doesn't like (a fact implied by Eco's point in Eternal Fascism, that the word has a "fuzzy" or ambiguous meaning, which allows it to be used as a weapon).

As one example, take this:

> fascist ideas are beginning to take over societies wholesale (for example, 47% of Americans approve of Trump’s proposal to “ban” Muslims)

Keeping Muslims out of your country is a "fascist idea"? Does that mean any country that has ever kept Muslims out is "fascist"?

The whole essay would be vastly improved by dropping the F-word bogeyman and calling political trends what they are -- a resurgence of nationalism in the face of ever-increasing urbanization and migration, and a rejection of globalization and open borders.
It... works on zsh, too? Can you find a current distribution of linux where Z doesn't work by default?
Yeah, interesting. I'll just point out that my argument is not that AI can't affect the physical world. Clearly it can. It's that AI is still embodied in the physical world, and still subject to the laws of physics. We're so much more efficient and effective in the physical world, that we are not threatened by AI, even if it gets much more intelligent than it is today.
Baby born in Uber cab, named after firm
They don't get any subsidy. Possibly taxes, garnished wages and so on. This is not a completely fleshed out idea. How do we deal with twins, triplets and so on?
>it's not the right of ownership it's the right of enforcing a monopoly.

Ownership is a form of monopoly as well.

Just because a resource is rivalrous doesn't mean more than one person couldn't be permitted to use it, particularly when you're talking about capital goods.
+1 for vcsh.

I've got four separate repos: one for VIM, one for bash, one for SSH keys, and a miscellaneous one (.inputrc and friends).
Probably because his birthday is this weekend :)
Yes, Although born in Russia, I have the privilege of Dutch citizenship. Not quite remember what the category was but for the green card it was multinational executive or something along those lines. Truth to be said, 13 months to GC was insanely fast and even my immigration lawyer was surprised. However dealing with US immigration I didn't feel the fact I was from a European country mattered anything. Going in I thought I was special, but (good thing) US doesn't discriminate on this as much, if at all, as I expected.
Mysteriously missing from this: discussion of influential land owners, party hacks in some cases, who succeeded in steering routes around their plots.
My wife and I are both lawyers and spend three hours a day commuting. Having grandparents pitch in to take care of our daughter has been a huge blessing.
Car seats and bike helmets -- don't get them used.
Well, you can just keep it plain-text if you're going to be using SHA1. So don't worry about these people.
http://mediamatters.org/research/2010/03/31/ceis-horner-enli...
You might want to take a look at my solution:

http://dnr.im/tech/articles/dotstuff/

It lets you mix platform-specific bits in the middle of a file, do basic macro substitution, and some other things.

(Now that I'm using a mac occasionally, I use more of the multi-platform features than I claim in that post.)
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>All three are basically the right of ownership

They are not "the" rights of ownership, they are a particular set of rights of ownership.

Once upon a time people were included in the set of things people had a right to own, and ideas weren't. These things can change. The rights we have now are just those we currently think of as most correct.
> why not to just use a cheap but capable modern $200 laptop?

The problem is that those newer machines generally require some proprietary binary blobs in the firmware to be loaded on boot that are loaded and that is considered unacceptable by this FSF certification program. It happens that the hardware for these particular laptops work without any requiring any non-free binary blobs to be loaded.
I agree that one can work long hours and get nothing done. On the other hand, many folks can work long hours and get a superlinear amount of work done. In knowledge work the general trend seems to be that output(working_hours) is a convex function - i.e., the 60 hour/week guy is significantly more than 150% as valuable as the 40 hour/week guy.

One guy who can keep the entire system in his head is worth a lot more than two guys who can keep half the system in their head.

http://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2014conference/program/retrieve.ph...
Is the grid/menu/etc all custom, or are you using some UI libraries?
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How to build a better democracy in under a 100 lines of code
The US wastes 40% of the food produced
Why wouldn't I be able to?

And the whole point of me switching to vi is so I slow down a bit and get it correct.
My point is continuing extraordinary measures for seven years is contra to what these measures were initially articulated to address (e.g. emergency conditions != weak conditions).
W was the supported choice of the power elite. It would go different Kshama Sawant was polling high numbers and such photos came out.
They should compete by providing better conditions for ALL companies there not give subsidies to some well connected companies.
Thin air contains all the carbon that plants get their bulk mass from...

Extrapolate further, imagine a machine that runs on solar power, and creates whatever food you want from water, carbon dioxide, and human poop. Essentially short-circuit the whole raise-crops-feed-cattle-slaughter-get-meat cycle. Make the food out of the machine perfectly nutricious as well, because why not.

There would still be things to strive for, to work for, if you want. But baseline survival is just taken care of. Sounds like a good future to me.
I use Linux as my day-to-day work platform, but my GOSH I hate the patching hell to which popular distros (mainly Debian and RH-based ones) subject everybody.
> It's not much more of a threat to society than a handgun.

These drones could be programmed to target specific groups of people, for example of a certain ethnicity, and attack them almost autonomously. Short range slingshot mechanisms are several orders of magnitude cheaper to build than firearms. Moreover, the inhibition threshold is much lower if you are not involved in first-hand violence. There is also a much lower risk of getting busted and no need for intricate escape planning.
What subsidy? When you mentioned "society at large," I was assuming some hypothetical communal or kinship arrangements. You should be more clear.

The second idea is vile and destructive. Someone elects to have more than one child, and you come in storming to deduct from their payrolls and tax their income as if you deliberately want to wage a war of attrition against the parents' standard of living for raising a child.
Or if we want to be picky: Cloudcraft allow you to dump your own understanding into a diagram, which may or may not be correct.

I was hoping from the article wording of a tool using some form of read only grant to amazon to draw the diagram for you, but this is just seems one step above dia.
They have more mouths to feed, and you want to take away money that they would use to do that?
I do let the idea do the grunt work for me. But when I get down to writing the important code, I slow down and reason about it without an IDE.

I generally don't need an ide to keep popping up telling me what to type. I know what I'm doing.
Not that many people die from medicla mistakes. The hysterical oft quoted paper blamed every suboptimal outcome from a "medical mistake", ignoring the contribution of whatever cause put them in medical care in the first place.
The Knowledge isn't live. It won't let you know about accidents or traffic pile-ups you should avoid.

I suppose you get to learn traffic patterns over time, but without live traffic reporting there's no way to avoid getting stuck in gridlock around an accident.

Traditionally, aspiring London cabbies would buy a small scooter with a clip board and putt putt along the standard routes.

I'm wondering now how much of that experience can be replaced with Street View now.
Text-mode can help focus on the task at hand without distraction. It also facilitates speedy, transparent work on remote servers.

I tend to use a single maximized app in a GUI environment, often running emacs, though I do like to split the screen in half to allow two full-page, focused views (e.g., code editor and browser). And when helpful, I'll pull up more windows.

See also http://lifehacker.com/5689579/five-best-distraction-free-wri... for others who have felt the need for focused tools that remove the distractions of multiple window environments.
Already did, thanks. Didn't seem to have an effect, back when I installed it yesterday.

Today, after about 3h it found the updates.
I don't really think anyone here is qualified to criticize Richard Stallman's computing habits.
Markets don't necessarily have to involve property, which is generally considered a key element of capitalism.

You could imagine (as a quick, not particularly explored example) a society where there's only a market for labour, and the state leases all durable goods, and sells or provides all consumables.
I am working on import from AWS via a read-only role into Cloudcraft right now :)
> Compare this to an 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' or the OS X Software Update

There was a major update to Arch recently - due to GCC 5 changing the standard C++ library with binary interface changes. Basically every package written in C++ and compiled with GCC needed re-compiling and updating.

Mine took about an hour to update (6 year old machine) - with over 500 packages updated. Of course everything kept running, but I chose to reboot since it was such a major change and everything worked flawlessly. Kudos to the whole Arch team.

But take a minute to think about that - it's a major percentage of the whole system updated.

Updating my Windows machines in comparison is terrible - the amount of time and effort is so variable, plus having to be careful to avoid or remove the dreaded tracking updates backported from Windows 10.
The internet can never get more secure if it has to cater to the least secure.
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Not at all. Attacks against SHA1 on the HTTPS-context are really hard and mostly not practical to pull it off.
I think a lot depends on specific definitions: a manual test suite, where you have a list of tests with clear steps and a clear expectation, is definitely near-zero skill to execute. Actual exploratory testing, on the other hand, is skilled: especially if they're expected to write up tests (automated or not) that test code paths that haven't previously been tested.
It's for Solidity, a language created by the Ethereum folks for writing smart contracts.

https://ethereum.github.io/solidity/
https://solidity.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Malware found on Guardian article that asks if cybercrime is out of control
How is Elon Musk able to do what he does?
This is sorely needed and really well done thus far. I've always envied the beautiful AWS diagrams they feature in their case studies.
Wasn't Wal Mart selling low end Android smartphones for $10? That's a stocking stuffer.
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Indeed.

Not even Google manages to handle anything except for credit cards or PayPal – horrible.

I was thinking about writing a small JS IBAN verification lib that also format and shows the user the issuing institute and Country.
If most of what you do on a computer is write, text-mode is great.

I had my low-end laptop boot into text mode for years because I was more productive coding that way, and could always "startx" on a different TTY to get a GUI. Then I discovered tiling window managers and got a better laptop, but I still code mostly in a minimal terminal emulator.
Sounds useful. zsh has a feature for similar use cases: if you `cd dir1 dir2`, it will replace dir1 with dir2 in your path (i.e. a/dir1/c -> a/dir2/c)
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The USSR was capitalist too, it's just that the government held all of it. You have various kinds of capitalistic models, there is no "true capitalism" so I'm not claiming that all. You have mixed economies like France, Germany or the US where capital is shared between the private sector and the public one, then you have more free market oriented capitalism where capital flows more freely such as Switzerland or Singapour or Hong Kong where public sector holds much less capital. Note that mixed economies also have a decent amount of free market depending on the country. Crony capitalism is when most of the capital is held by the government and its cronies almost exclusively, this is probably one of the worst kinds of capitalism second only maybe to the Soviet model (and yes, they all have elements of cronyism but mixed and free market have much less).

tl;dr: the freer the market the better capitalism works. Just have a look at the top freer economies here, they're also the wealthiest http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
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And now lets talk about the toy. I thing that is ugly, smart and reasonably well designed.

In some countries to keep crickets as pets is not a such bizarre idea. When I was young I shared a few black shiny and big-headed cricket pets with my brothers. After hoping for hours in shorts, up and down the meadow, we returned to home and show our treasures: a wall lizard nest that we keep warm and wet until eclosion, three yellow and white butterflies, several grasshoppers and crickets... Males and females are easy to identify. Two males can not be put in the same cage and want to live isolated most of the time. We hunt and keep them for a while before to be released again in the meadow. Boys nowadays just keep excited pressing buttons all the evening instead, a really sad way to spend a glorious summer evening in my opinion. We liked to hear it singing in the balcony at night, is a relaxing sound. You could go to a news stand then and buy small plastic cages specially for housing crickets. (Cardboard boxes are just not good enough, because crickets will chew a hole in a coin and escape).

I can't help to point that this toy is a luxury palace for a cricket by comparison with our small cages. Well shaded with generous inner space and imitating a burrow. For most children living in a big city in a crowded apartment those are ideal pets for newies, more convenient and less demanding than a bored cat or dog.
And, of course, considering the weakness of MD5, assuming no untrusted party had an opportunity to manipulate the messages (unless a collision couldn't possibly benefit them).
> Some of us a really not wired to have offspring.

Some of us are really not wired to go to the gym!

> Parental leave for software engineers is easily a $10-20k benefit. Gym membership is a $100/mo benefit.

But people use the gym benefit throughout their working life, while they will use the parental leave benefit typically just twice (on average). Averaged over a 30-year career, the net cost of the two benefits is about the same.
Right, was going to mention CDPATH but searched the thread first to see if anyone already had. Also, as you have said, 'cd -' is useful; more so if you often toggle between two dirs, such as a src and a corresponding bin dir (e.g. doing C dev), or src and doc, etc. Then you only need to keep doing 'cd -' to toggle between them, as long as you are not going to any other dir in between.

For long dir paths that I cd to often, I sometimes define them as shorter shell env. vars. and add them to my .profile or equivalent startup file. Then I just do:

cd $short_dir_name_1 # or 2, etc.
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When I first finished reading the post-capitalism article, I was feeling some sort of hope. Now, after this, it's just emptiness.

Some time ago I read some metaphor a guy who build something that people really wanted, and then came another man with clubs and took it from him, build walls around it, and charged for it.
I feel the same, but would put a different "spin" on it. Gwern is still the same bright skeptical individual that you wanted him to be, but his imperfect track record might be as good as one can hope to expect from any expert.

Losing some confidence is appropriate if one was overconfident to begin with. But rather than restricting this update to future proclamations from Gwern, possibly I should reconsider my reliance on expert opinion itself, even my own.
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Why I have to listen to some "wealthy warmings" and not real scientists?

Why you make your argument not taking into account the actual science?
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Have you seen how zsh adds this functionality to plain cd?

$ pwd
/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex
$ cd usr usr/local
$ pwd
/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex

Edit: there is also a directory stack, and you can set zsh to always push the current dir to the stack. Then you can do

cd -4

to go to the directory you were in four cd's ago.
What I like about Digital Ocean is that I can separate out my "risky" servers (you know, when a client wants to use Wordpress, or when they mandate an out of date version of a library because it works with some of their existing codebase) onto $5 instances. I never put full Github keys on them and with regular backups, the damage is mitigated.

When you go with a single server any one hack can take out your entire database, like what happened here.
What kind of Candy coated, sheltered existence do you have?

Missing a childs birth is disappointing, not being able to feed that child is awful... Not being able to get that child medical care is awful, Children working $2 a day to make your $500 pants is awful.....
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> What subsidy?

That is the reason for this whole exercise. We'd create a subsidy to encourage more people to have a first child or first two children. I acknowledge that society needs children. I just think that we're better off if 80% of people have one kid vs 10% of the people have eight kids or something.

If you want more children, you must pull your own weight. I did say there has to be some kind of exemption for natural twins and so on.
At last, we've found the counter-example to Betteridge's Law of Headlines.
The grid and everything on it is custom made on top of HTML5 Canvas, that's probably 80% of the code, many of the elements are isometrically projected at runtime. The menus and dialogs are done using Material-UI (http://www.material-ui.com) and React.js
This article highlights the enlightened, thoughtful, respectful discourse which at the basis of the creation of the great nation that is the United States. Things were by no means perfect then. But certainly we can learn from the words and actions of many outstanding characters of the time.
It's a bummer they published this just before TensorFlow release...
Interesting, do you have any links about this?
In the spirit of openness, it would be great to see public responses to the downsides of this approach.

In particular, Bostrom Ch5.1 argues that the lead project is more likely than not to get a decisive strategic advantage, leading to a winner-takes-all scenario, which would mean attempts to foster a multipolar scenario (i.e. lots of similarly powerful AGIs rather than one) are unlikely to work.

In Ch11 he explores whether multipolar scenarios are likely to be good or bad, and presents many reasons to think they're going to be bad. So promoting the multipolar approach could be both very hard, and bad.
I wish this article were more particular about what cryptologists are doing wrong? What exactly could they have done instead? Without that info, it just seems like pointing a finger at cryptologists and saying, “This is your job! Do something!”
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Yes, that's what the last two sentences are about.