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Very hard sell. Most people love not sleeping in a box, and love their double or queen size beds.

And how would ventilation work? The box is powered, with its own climate control? What about safety such as waking suddenly in the dark and cracking your head on your sound proof box, or needing a quick exit in emergency?

Nobody wants a very large ugly thing in their small bedroom, used only sometimes. Can it be folded away? Unlikely.

Sorry, but a sound proof box for sleeping in is the worst idea I've heard in a long time!! Funny though. A better idea is noise cancelling headphones which can be worn in bed - soft, no hard edges or wires so can sleep on your side without issue.
> if there are more opportunities and better pay?

Frequently there aren't. The subject of this article is an artist, so cue your STEM lord "do you want fries with that" jokes now.

However, this can occur even in fields like math and computer science. You graduate with a PhD in math and a specialization in topology. Who will hire you to do that? No-one. Plenty of people will hire you to do something you can do, but what if you really want to continue research in your specialty?

I'm working on a PhD in CS with a specialization in programming languages. Google came to do a PhD recruitment day and essentially asked "so what kind of PhD are you getting, machine learning or systems?" and we said "programming languages" and the reply was "wow what is that?"

So if you want to work in your own specialty, you might need to work in academia.
Street noise can slowly wear down your nerves.

I live in SF, and when I was dating my GF (now wife), she had an apt on a busy street (Oak Street); I live in an in-law garden unit. The first time I slept over at her place, I got barely any sleep. When she slept over at my place, all she heard was birds, leaves and the very occasional Harley or emergency vehicle. When she slept over, she woke up feeling so much better. So when it came time to move in together, there was no question where she wanted to be!

On that topic: I wish we could have acoustical limits on vehicle noise. Those loud motorcycles with the fat pipes: they seriously need to control those.
If you've read Kasparov on playing chess with machines, he has some really interesting observations on practical and philosophical aspects of man vs. machine. His most interesting observation is that it's neither the best human grandmasters, nor the best chess machines, but rather the best algorithm for humans working with machines that tends to win. It does make for nice headlines when a machine like Deep Blue or Watson trounces the best human in a particular artificially-constrained test. But in the real world of unconstrained problem sets and complexity, my money is on the proper pairing of human and machine rather than one obtaining any lasting advantage over the other.
Before you go looking for "character" in David Brooks' book, remember that he was an enthusiastic backer of the Iraq War, and belittled and sneered at those protesting the war.

His comments after the House voted to restrict NSA phone data collection: "I'd say it's a moral victory for the wingnuts. And, you know, you look at the moment. What are we faced with? We're faced with a rising libertarianism, both on the left and the right."

I'd look for my "character" elsewhere.
Urmm, going by the filename ("GIFEncoder.class.php"), that's just the GIF Encoder. This post isn't about the ability to generate GIFs using PHP (as that class does), but about varying the content of the GIF on a per-request basis (in "real-time").

Looking at the git commit history, this was created ~2 days ago.
At one of my previous employers, they built a massive "cloud" storage system. The underlying file system was ZFS, which was configured to put its write logs onto an SSD. With the write load on the system, the servers burnt through an SSD in about a year, i.e. most SSDs started failing after about a year. The hardware vendors knew how far you could push SSDs, and thus refused to give any warranty. All the major SSD vendors told us SSDs are strictly considered wearing parts. That was back in 2012 or 2013.
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And finally reduced to TX monitor. Rinse and repeat.
Not to mention that when renting a unit, you don't have the option to put in central air. So you do what you can - stick a unit in a window.
The Roxen [1] web-server had a much more advanced example of this for a site they produced for a watch manufacturer.

The watch on the home-page displayed the current time with moving hands that were behind reflective glass. It was a server rendered gif. (c) 1996 or '97.

[1] http://roxen.com - now an Enterprise / Newsroom CMS.
If your SSDs were wearing out after a year, and were warrantied for a year, I'm guessing you weren't using "enterprise" SSDs?
Noise is one of the factors we considered in buying a house. Through some experiments, we derived some metrics. We realized that anything closer than .25 miles from a highway and we would hear the noise during rush hour. Also you didn't want to have a house right adjacent to any of the busy streets. Its amazing how when we walk just one house away from a busy street how much the noise is attenuated. The peace and quiet when sitting in your backyard is something to value.
Does anyone know if The Supermen is available on audiobook?
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The refugee problem seems external, rather than internal. Kudos to Sweden that they are being a humane country and offering refugees help, even if it comes at a slight personal cost to the Swedish people. I wish all countries were so kind.
I, for one, don't want to spend thousands on a home theater system that can deliver an equivalent experience to a movie theater, so I will always go to the theater for movies that I think are worth the ten bucks. If you go to a smaller theater, the chances that the movie is ruined by idiots is small.
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> There is none

There isn't a singular spec, no, because REST describes an _set_ of architectures. A family of them. But there is a pretty easy test: do you follow the 6 constraints (though one is optional)? If the answer is yes, then it's RESTful.
http://2doapp.com can filter by location and tag. Tags can be paused/unpaused and there are SmartList (saved search filters). Available on Mac, iOS, Android and will sync to 3rd-party or self-hosted open-standard CalDav servers, in addition to the usual cloud services.
damn that must be hard. just like that trump guy who grew up in brooklyn with nothing but his hands, his brain and 1 million dollar.
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"Lunar lava tubes may potentially serve a role as enclosures for human habitats. Tunnels larger than 300 metres (980 ft) in diameter may exist, lying under 40 metres (130 ft) or more of basalt with a stable temperature of −20 °C (−4 °F). These natural tunnels provide protection from cosmic ray radiation, meteorites, micrometeorites, and ejecta from impacts. They are shielded from the variations in temperature at the lunar surface, which would provide a stable environment for inhabitants."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_lava_tube
What's wrong with the government propping up labor market? It sounds wonderful. The state takes money from for-profit enterprise and uses it to employ scientists and engineers for the greater good. What could be better?
Only 256 colours per frame, but they don't have to be the same ones, and can be combined to use a wider palette - for example: http://notes.tweakblogs.net/blog/8712/high-color-gif-images....
Kind of stupid to end with "Since CPUs aren't getting faster, making storage faster is a big help."

CPUs and storage exist for completely disjoint purposes, and the fastest CPU in the world can't make up for a slow disk (or vice versa). Anyway, CPUs are still "faster" than SSDs, whatever that means, if you wish to somehow compare apples to oranges. That's why even with NVMe if you are dealing with compressible data enabling block compression in your FS can speed up your IO workflow.
I learned the importance of trichromacy when a friend and I came across a patch of wild strawberries. I'm partially red-green colorblind and for every strawberry I found, my friend found ten. They were almost invisible to me. It's neat to see that the fourth cone's response curve peaks right between the red and green cones' curves in tetrachromats. I bet they are amazing at finding berries.
Was that the same operation that used a battalion of US Marines? Might have been Dole, but I think Smedley Butler was the Officer in Charge.

See the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars Banana Wars
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One would hope. Yet, SCM security is so lax and such an afterthought that Wheeler had to write a whole piece on it:

http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/scm-security.html

After all that, only one OSS project responded with claims to meet many of the requirements. I figure the commercial situation isn't much better with most "benefits" existing on paper rather than with strong security.

To top it off, anyone defending against nation-states must remember they always attack what's below and around the software. Possessing 0-days in OS or management software should let them bypass build-system security to insert stuff in. I'd say OpenBSD, memory-safe implementation, and highly-assured guard for protocol-level at a minimum if better stuff wasn't available.
> Sending logs off as they're written to a centralized logging server or a time-series database would have been useful in this context.

Schneier & Kelsey's paper Secure Audit Logs to Support Computer Forensics[1] seems relevant here. At the time I know that they wished to patent the work; does anyone know if a patent were granted, and if so when it expires?

[1] https://www.schneier.com/cryptography/paperfiles/paper-audit...
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On the other hand, the example of other countries with oil makes me feel lucky that mine doesn't have.
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"It's just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state," -Friedman.

Well that's not necessarily true. If you have welfare in which those able to work only qualify if they are actively seeking work, and an economy in which increased demand leads to increased need for workers, and thus increased jobs, immigrants don't have the option of not seeking work and literally create new jobs that need to be filled, ending up net contributors to the state.
A small convenience/grocery store in a dense urban area.
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I don't think you're correct. Yes, you can't avoid reading text, but you spend far less effort reading it than you would trying to decipher icons, which you also can't avoid doing if you want to know how to use the program.
May be SSD should add something like "raw mode", when controller just reports everything he knows about disk, and operating system takes in control the disk, so firmware won't cause unexpected pauses. After all, operating system knows more, what files are not likely to be touched, what files are changing often, etc.
Starting a business is really hard, these people experienced just one of a near-infinite and surprising way that new companies fail. The good news is that should they try a new concept that is more community-oriented they'll have more leverage with investors and potential partners since they can clearly show they have potential.
Atomic Accidents

This is a series of detailed retelling of accidents involving nuclear power, weapons, and radioactive materials generally. It starts with some 19th century hunters wandering into a cave full of radon and ends with Fukushima. The twist here is that the author is a major proponent of nuclear energy and research. It's fascinating to see someone take an in depth look at the flaws of a cause they support, it has just the right amount of technical detail for me, and it really sheds light on how the wildest bugs get into any system.

Dept. of Speculation

A mostly unflinching look at a difficult modern relationship from a woman's perspective. There are some hard truths in it that are surprisingly easy to swallow.

Moby Dick

I read this novel in high school but it didn't have much impact on me then. It is an unbelievably rich experience now, filled with all the wonder, terror, joy, and boredom that comes from trying to find your own meaning.
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That's not quite correct. Where one cone type has a peak response, another may respond with a signal that is only one percent or less of its peak response, but the frequency regions in which hey have _any_ response basically overlap. Given the sensitivity curves, that difference is academic for blue versus red and green sensitive cones, but not quite for red versus green sensitive cones.

What differs is the amount in which having a fourth type of come allows one to get rid of metameries (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamerism_(color), a term that the article surprisingly doesn't mention)

If your fourth come type has a response curve that is very similar to one of te 'normal' three, there should still be _some_ effect, but it will be hard to devise an experiment that shows the ability to discriminate additional colors.

But given the impact that not having red or green cones with their fairly similar sensitivity curves has, I suspect having a fourth curve, even if it falls between the two, will have a measurable (in the lab) effect on one's ability to discriminate colors.
Nonviolent communication is a precise and liberating way of talking. You can be exposed by watching this talk too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwXH4hNfgPg

It's three hours FYI. But my sales pitch is: Marshall Rosenberg is funny when talks about miscommunication. I haven't laughed out loud at a three hour youtube video before reading this.

In case you cringe at the term "nonviolent communication": Marshall Rosenberg dislikes it too, and he coined it!
Hot air is definitely the right way to do it for SMD/BGA, and I find it much easier than through-hole because you don't have to solder each pin separately -- just aim the gun at the part and wait for the solder to melt. The surface tension means the part will actually self-align into place over the pads if you get it close enough.

BGA is not that much more difficult; look online for videos of the phone repair shops in China which can swap BGA chips in literally minutes.
I don't think it's confusing because it says exactly what it is supposed to say. 'Stateless' is not a property of the client, or the server, but of the relationship between them, and that relationship is expressed in the protocol they use to communicate.
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And they continue to beat up on the guy in the comments: "You represent everything that is wrong with the food industry in Los Angeles."

Can you imagine that? Who is he, Stalin? (I'm giving Hitler the day off.)
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The other perspective (mine) is that everyone of these 'institutions' should have failed. These were poisonous organizations, criminal parasites. We would all be better off had we simply allowed them to burn to death in the fire of their own making. Then we rebuild our financial system in a way that makes sense, devoid of the influence of the criminals who caused all the trouble.
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Interesting, I'm growing my e-book library but it gets harder to find DRM free books. So I find myself buying a print book, cutting off the spine and scanning it instead. Now with the Surface Pro screen in "clipboard" mode it is pretty much 1:1 from scan to screen (although smaller books get naturally enlarged).
I was an early adopter of ebooks. I still enjoy them from time to time, but the number of typographical or OCR errors in even mainstream, retail books has made me jump ship. It's frustrating when you pay close to the same price as a physical copy only to find that the company didn't even bother to check it over.
RESTful is not a spec, as has been pointed out: it's an idea. It's much more like other large-scale design patterns than it is a protocol. Think "object oriented," or "procedural," not "http" or "tcp." There is only one correct way to implement/use a protocol, but there are many valid expressions of a pattern or idea. It's more or less accepted, I think, that the vast majority of "RESTful" implementation don't obey all the original (15 year old!) guidelines.
I must mean 8.6. I think I am confusing it with 8.5.1.... It has been 16 years..... 8.5.1 and 8.6 were the greatest, though...

Anyway, the great thing about hosting on Classic Mac OS is that there was nothing to exploit. With no remote admin capabilities beyond some Appletalk-related stuff, even if someone did find a way to compromise your system, the only thing they could really do was freeze it. I threw a Mac OS 7.5-ish (obviously I am forgetting numebrs) Mac up on the Defcon LAN and put the IP on the whiteboard for targets, and not a damn thing happened. Not even a hang...
Their description of Jira ("like Asana") and Confluence ("like SharePoint") are far off the mark.

Confluence does not equate to SharePoint except possibly in the limited case of a SharePoint Enterprise Wiki site. SharePoint is more like a web-based RDBMS with both list and file-metadata schemas, a web-based RAD environment to assemble schemas and views (where pages are separate citizens from other data types), centrally managed metadata, and .NET support for enhancement.

Asana is task management with folder and hierarchical organization, Jira is practically a RDBMS with a web-based RAD environment, its own de-facto scripting and query languages, and... Wait a minute, it's actually closer to SharePoint than Confluence.

Source: I've run a SharePoint training and consulting company for over a decade, and actually use Jira, Confluence and Asana in our own internal systems (because we'd be remiss to naively assume SharePoint is ideal for any of the things we use Jira, Confluence or Asana for, and we're not apologists for Microsoft but rather evangelists for business collaboration). I know very well how both proverbial halves live (the MS crowd and the non-MS crowd) and they're not as different as they'd like you to believe.
I've worked halfway through "The Elements of Computing Systems" aka "Nand to Tetris" and it's fairly high on my already way too excessive todo list for 2016. Great recommendation :)
Indeed, but you need those for-profit enterprises to prop it up. The business economy is lacking in market diversity, and much of the country's most successful indigenous businesses have sold large stakes to foreign multi-nationals. With this, Sweden's current business culture of expensive labor and comparatively low output will not sustain their social state in the coming decades. Between a nearly a decade of university (seemingly everyone has a Master's) and generous retirement, Swedes spend more of their adult life on the dole than they do producing for the economy.
Attempting to define REST is the best way to troll web developers.
According to the DallasFood article, it looks like these guys have been saying so many lies
and this can be classified as a false advertisement - which is punishable by law, no? What if all who's unhappy with Mast Bros simply go and sue them? or complain to the authorities at least
Your process spends some amount of time waiting on various resources; some of those may be CPU-bound, some may be disk-bound. Speeding either of those up will make your process faster. In fact, you can even trade one for the other if you use compression.
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That's pretty interesting. Reading Rand (only read Atlas Shrugged, don't enjoy the writing style all that much) had the exact opposite effect on me. I started to appreciate the passions of other people more.
"2015 was the beginning of the end for SSDs in the data center." is quit a bold statement especial when not discussing any alternative. I do not see us going back to magnetic disk, and most new storage technology are some kind of ssd...
...unless you are Fusion-io, in which case, most of these problems don't affect you.
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And now we must rely on each OS to implement their own version of a virtual firmware, and do comparisons between different implementations, etc. etc. etc.
Would depend on what you're sending. If you take make good advantage of gif interframe transparency and are just sending small updates the result could be very small. That still leaves the problem unless I'm mistaken of the browser hanging on to the old gif frames.
It's called Darwin: Mach + kernel-mode components for things like graphics and networking + some modifications. Mach used straight-up as a microkernel wouldn't have been fast enough. I've heard people on their developer side admit Mach was a mistake and want to ditch it. Just would be hard at this point.

Animats and I both thing QNX was the best microkernel of the period, used successfully from embedded to [briefly] desktop prototypes. Managed to get microkernel advantages while being fast and deterministic. People working on new one's should take lessons from them. INTEGRITY RTOS's have some nice design choices, too, like making apps donate their own resources to kernel functions they call and using only predictable instructions in critical paths.

Mach is crap compared to the competition. Despite all the attempts to make it not so.
Ignoring "What exactly does'Lisp' mean?"

The comparison to Common Lisp ignores its past {faulkner_quote}. Common Lisp has roots in the days before including a standard library was common practice. In part this is simply a design decision. In part it is the fact that compiling "remove-if-not" to binary implementation of the compiler/interpreter saved compile time; disk space; and facilitates REPL development. It also probably made distribution simpler in the pre/proto internet days when decisions were made.

By the time Common Lisp was standardized, it had many years of deployment in the field on commercial projects. The standard reflects use. Haskell's standard reflects a closer connection to Computer Science than to working programmers, e.g. threads are not part of the Haskell language standard, they're an extension incorporated by the ubiquitous Glascow Haskell Compiler [1]. ANSI Common Lisp rolled up similar extensions from a diversity of commercial and open compilers into the standard. It's an industry consensus document that results from commercial success. By contrast GHC maintainers are perhaps "benevolent oligarchs for life": a person who is offended by the impurity is free to "write their own Haskell compiler and make it popular.

[1]: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.0.4/docs/html/users_gui...
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Very cool. My wife is from Taichung. Her parents built a house on the outskirts of town in the early 1980s. It was the only three story building around and had a clear view of Toko-kei river from the east side. It now has a clear view of a ~10 story building inches from it. The river is a long green park. And the city seems endless.
Some people cant tolerate ear plugs for long periods of time. They block the throat tubes and lead to painful infection.

If you are sitting, then noise cancelation headphones are a hygenic alternative. But this does work for mosr sleeping positions.
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A useful trolling technique is to find a heated thread from a year ago. The day and month date stamp will be the same. You post something to bump the thread, and watch as people don't bother to read the timestamp and get sucked into fresh arguments.