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At school, kids would generally like English classes, and not like French classes not so much (both foreign languages). I learned both and I think I can draw from experience in what is easy and what is difficult with the both of them (french nowadays with lesser success, but both languages of diplomacy and striving to be world languages).

To us (germans) learning english was easier in the beginning. Not necessarily because words were often alike (sometimes the same words have different meanings, "false friends"). But of course in contrast to french, one does not have to learn conjugations, gender of words, etc.

But after having reached an intermediate level of both english and french, things started to change. Perfecting your English skills progressively gets harder, whereas after ~3 years you had completed the whole french language.

As it turnes out, English is huge. The english dictionary is huge. It is basically the size of the german dictionary and the french dictionary combined, as it draws words from 3 main sources French, Old Saxon and Scandinavic, and then was happy to incorporate words from all over the place. So you have the word "hunger" (germanic root, compare german "Hunger") and "famine" (romance root, compare french "faim" meaning hunger and "famine" meaning famine). To this day, using english on a daily basis and reading many english books, I see a lot of words I have not yet learned.

The next "advanced" difficulty is that of idioms and idiomatic usage, english is full of idiomatic phrases. Something like "to get it over with", "to make ends meet". Learning such idiomatic phrases is difficult but necessary to reach an intermediate level of english.

At the same level, learning French, one can perfect one's pronunciation (to the one, official pronunciation), catch up on a few corner cases of the conjugation system and enjoy having mastered a language.
Countless books have been written on this subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_about_video_game...

:)
Exactly. If there's one thing I hate about the direction of tech these days, it's this headlong rush to gratuitously shackle all of our previously-independent devices to a mesh of online services. My bike lock (to use this example) should NOT require an internet connection, and should not depend on some web service (run by a super trendoid startup which might not exist in six months time) to fulfill its function.

And don't get me started on phone apps which shift some trivial processing off into "the cloud" as a thinly veiled excuse to upload all of your personal data to the company's servers so they can then flog your details off to some advertising company.

/rant
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More like about 1.5m long, I don't think there are rabits that large.
That's great, music having effects on the brain is pretty widely accepted as true ("This is your brain on music"), but claiming that playing slightly offset frequencies into different ears causes "brainwaves" to synchronize with the difference in frequencies is where a lot of people are skeptical. I've done a fair bit of dabbling in the DIY EEG realm while hacking my own sleep, so I've seen (the absence of) these effects first hand.

Now that I read their website, the authors of this new-fangled music generator are also denouncing binaural beat brainwave entrainment, which would ordinarily be the stance I'd recommend anyone take who builds such a product.

I remember BWG (Brainwave Generator), a shareware binaural beat audio synthesizer software from the 90s-00s, having "presets" for inducing such phenomena as out-of-body experiences and lucid dreams. They even extolled the weight loss and smoking cessation benefits of brainwave entrainment. That software came up every so often on the LD4ALL lucid dreaming forum.

Art Bell would be proud.
Amazon's inventory supply chain is so many light-years ahead of the competition, especially here in Canada, I think they'll be able to screw up the UI for a decade or two.
Where do you live that rabbits get to be 1-3 meters long and up to 600 kg?
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He doesn't have Prime.
The archive.org links were used at the creation of the blog post. (which was not necessarily the release date ;-) - needed to find some time to write it)

So Wordpress is an interesting example. Because the CVE assignment date has nothing to do with the release date of the patches. Wordpress doesn't request the CVE on their own.

So we're still at a 4-5 day delay (https://wordpress.org/news/2016/02/wordpress-4-4-2-security-...) for security fixes for a web-facing software. This is still far worse than just enabling automatic updates in Wordpress. I have not much problems if that would be a locally exploitable vuln, but web software usually is exploitable via web.

When it comes to web software I believe it's unacceptable to add any additional delay. (sure those bugs were not that severe, but as other examples in the blog show the problem with delayed or never updated packages is inherent)
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You may have read that, but it's wrong. Actually, I think it qualifies as both wrong and not even wrong:

1. No two linguists would be able to agree on a definition of 'the amount' of information in a sentence.
2. Even for some arbitrary measure of information, it would depend on what was being said. Are we talking about banter between two friends meeting in the street, or a university lecture?
3. The idea that English is special for linguistic reasons is just wrong. It's a language like any other. They all have their quirks.
With Cmake one can keep around an archive of the library which is then unarchived, compiled and linked into the project. Cleaner and quite easy too.

Edit: this is done with ExternalProject.
You just have to clever up!

I managed to scroll down by invoking the Android text selector and be dragging the selector block downwards.

Android-CURRENT on Huawei Nexus 6P here :)
It was the British who backed the Saud family initially. Towards the end of the Ottoman empire. They gave the Sauds advisers and military support.
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Every event like the lavabit shutdown, the sybil attack on Tor and even the current Apple issue will add further push to the decentralization movement. Hopefully in the next year or two we will see many completely surveillance proof systems come up.
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Lots and lots. There are and have been any number of Kickstarters for whole books covering various older game developers.. Also another source that springs to mind is the Llamasoft blog [1] - Jeff Minter behind Llamasoft fits the profile above perfectly.

There's also a number of magazines devoted entirely to retro gaming, such as retroGAMER [2] that regularly have articles and interviews with the people involved.

[1] http://minotaurproject.co.uk/

[2] http://www.retrogamer.net/
I think it is because non-native speakers all learn the same basic 1000 words (initially) and same most-frequently-used grammatical patterns. Native speakers know thousands more words and all the colloquial phrases.

I can understand foreigners (Americans, anyway) speaking Chinese pretty easily, because we all know the same (limited) vocabulary and grammar. I have real trouble with native speakers because they use all the short forms of the words and the grammar patterns that you don't learn initially.
Red Hat seems to be very swift when it comes to security updates. They provide reports on this web page:

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/metrics/

Nearly all the vulnerabilities were apparently fixed within one day. This is the report of RHEL 7:

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/metrics/summary-rhel7-c...

One thing to note is that RHEL comes with far fewer packages than Debian (e.g. Wordpress and phpmyadmin don't seem to be in the main repository), so you may have to rely on slower third-party repositories.
> The next "advanced" difficulty is that of idioms and idiomatic usage, english is full of idiomatic phrases. Something like "to get it over with", "to make ends meet". Learning such idiomatic phrases is difficult but necessary to reach an intermediate level of english.

> At the same level, learning French, one can perfect one's pronunciation (to the one, official pronunciation), catch up on a few corner cases of the conjugation system and enjoy having mastered a language.

Are you seriously suggesting that French does not have idioms?
Perhaps it's just your mind getting easily tired from having to focus for large periods of time?
I thought about MMM earlier today at the grocery store (wondering if we were spending too much), so I was surprised to see him profiled on this week's issue.

In a way, his methods make me feel relieved that a particular income benchmark or the wild growth of a business is not needed to lead a happy/sufficient life, yet I feel anxious because 1) I didn't have the best start (law school debt), 2) I haven't cut down my spending/saved as much as I should.

Just curious, are there any anti-mustachians who 1) bust ass to maximize earnings, 2) have unabated spending habits, 3) believe they are happier to live such a lifestyle?
I think everyone is acting irresponsibly there.
Very interest article (yeah, it scrolls for me). And it mirrors some of my concerns with only basing yourself on EBM

Most studies are flat. They are concerned with "condition X and drug Y". They go to a finer granularity usually when it's obvious (like treatment A works ok but it is obviously a worse choice if patient has condition B). Getting too deep in conditions is a slow process

Added to that the elements of diagnostics, which more often than not is a "Plato's Cave" view of the patient's condition

"The first law is that a strong intuition is more powerful than a weak test. By this, he means that common things occur commonly and uncommon things, uncommonly... “If you hear thundering hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras — unless you happen to be in Africa.”"

Bayesian thinking!
It'd be fair to say that our customer base is mostly Chinese speaking in Taiwan.

But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be more friendly.

We have one app with a whole host of different options baked into it for each country.

* different graphics

* different mapping SDKs

* different languages

* different vehicle types and service options

I should give a technical talk in Taipei one day on it.

I used to live in Taipei, but moved full-time back to HK in September.
It never ceases to amaze me the price Samsung pays for sticking with shitty software. The main criticisms of the s6 and S6 Edge were:

* poor battery life
* you can't uninstall all the bloatware.

As someone who is running a custom rom on an s6 edge, I can confirm: the software us also the reason for the poor battery life. I regularly get 10 hours usage time out of my phone. It easily survives 24 hours of light use. My rom isn't anything special or battery oriented; it's just a version of TouchWiz android with all the S-features removed.

Imagine what Samsung could do if they shipped that way. Their 2015 offering would have been one of the best built phones on the market, also leading the pack in performance AND battery life. Imagine the S7 series if they didn't have to pack extra battery into the enclosure.

Their business plan must hinge on selling the extra data collected through S-crap. But I can't imagine it's worth more than, say, raising the price by $20 per unit.

Hell, they could offer a "vanilla" version of the phone for $100 more and get plenty of takers... And silence the critics.
I think there's a distinction to be made between advertising and marketing, at least the way I define them.

Advertising is about making consumers aware of a product or service that they may use if they were aware of it. This seems reasonable and generally beneficial.

Marketing is about using psychological techniques to manipulate consumers preferences such that they want to consume products and services that they otherwise wouldn't.

Unfortunately this segment of the industry had grown rapidly over the past few decades and techniques to exploit our cognitive deficiencies have improved tremendously.
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The majority of programming languages don't have UB as part of their standard.

It only happened in C, and its derivatives, because by the time ANSI C came to be, no compiler vendor wanted to give up on their hardware specific behaviors so it got all tossed under UB carpet.
Are you sure that wasn't a carrier thing? I had an S3 and don't recall that bookmark.
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That's not the point. Of course I can insure myself. But the price of my insurance and everybody else's is calculated with the knowledge that in case of a traffic accident they don't need to pay. As traffic accidents are the most common this significantly reduces the premiums. If more and more drivers are not appropriately insured they need to recalculate that.

This is shifting the burden to society, in the name of unnecessary high premiums for those who insured themselves.
If you don't have any issues with sticking to ARM https://www.scaleway.com/ have been working nicely for me, with the added benefit of it being a European company and unlimited network (capped at 200mb/s)
The scale by the drawing is 100 mm (4 inches), suggesting that the skeleton is 1.66 m (5'6") long, nose to tail.
Which is, in the literature about animals and feelings, considered evidence that an animal may have feelings. Did we read the same article? It says quite plainly that this response is considered evidence of feelings in animals, and the supposed lack of this response in fish was evidence that fish did not have feelings.

So, if the lack of response (in previous measurements) was considered evidence against fish having feelings, why would this better experiment, which did observe the response in fish, not be considered evidence of fish having feelings?
This.

Consumption of advertisements should have age restrictions similar to cigarettes.

We haven't had cable/etc since 2005 and there was a period between '07 through maybe '13 where out kids weren't exposed to any TV commercials except for while visiting grandparents during holidays. The few commercials they saw over the years left a terrifyingly strong impression and desire for those products; they'd remember many, many months later. We still don't have cable, but unfortunately the expansion of content available on AppleTV has meant commercials jammed into everything. Contemplating returning to Netflix disc-only service and ending subscriptions to streamed content.
I see you've been down voted, however I felt the same way, I loved the idea - then saw that it was in nodejs and while I don't discount it's merits I can't bring myself to try it out if it requires nodejs & friends.
From what I've seen, some of the Namecoin devs have distanced themselves from the project because they want to introduce some sort of zero knowledge authentication such as Zerocash to improve anonymity, but because it may be incompatible with the current network they want to focus on either making a parallel or competing solution.
Eight kilobytes is plenty of space. How about doing something meaningful in 128 bytes (yes, bytes!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD49RXnEGNE - it's a mouse-controlled 3d Wolfenstein-like maze. All with the code about half the size of this comment.
I don't think anyone cares about if a small minority twitches. You don't have to please everyone. In fact, you cannot.
I'm a "cautious skeptic" mustachian because MMM's net worth was fueled by the historic bull run in asset markets during the early--mid parts of his professional life.

I hesitate to be fully devout in the belief that asset markets will always produce outsized returns like it did for him.
I still love C++, in spite of its C underpinnings that make writing safe code an almost impossible task in large teams, unless one controls what everyone is doing.

However, whenever I see SFINAE mixed with type traits, decltypes and arrow return declarations, I am not sure if I still love it that much.
This is a real problem. It is a total joke to suggest that people move important systems to Archlinux though. Basically as an administrator you need to be aware of security advisories against the OS you run. This is already true because you need to know when to upgrade packages. If you are running Debian you should sign up for debian-security-announce:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/

There are equivalent mailing lists for CentOS. It would probably be helpful to have better tooling to warn about/mark packages with known vulnerabilities associated.

I'm not an expert on Debian's internal process but sometimes it seems that Debian add packages to their distribution without a clear plan for how to fix security issues in them. Sometimes upstream maintainers seem hellbent on making it impossible to offer long term support for software. Elasticsearch is a case in point:

https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3389
The archive.org links were used at the creation of the blog post.

I still find it disingenuous to use an archive.org link dated February 7 on February 13.

So we're still at a 4-5 day delay for security fixes for a web-facing software.

I agree that this is (far) too long. I just dislike the sensational tone of your blog post and subtle bending of facts. Linking to the Wordpress 4.4.2 release page and the Debian changelog would have been factual and convincing. Pointing to a week-old webpage, which was outdated on even the original date is just sloppy or manipulative.
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Humanities scholars tend to stay very isolated within their fields. The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music has been using these exact techniques since the 90s, and even published a "workbook" on it: http://www.diamm.ac.uk/publications/digital-restoration-work...
Exactly. There wouldn't be any need for the colons if the addresses weren't intended to be looked at or typed by humans.
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It's possible that I missed any concern the judge may have had for precedent when I read the ruling. If you know of any (or any other document I may have missed), I'd appreciate a pointer.

I think you're applying some fairly strict high-mindedness to the US legal system while others (myself included) worry that creative extension of intent appears rampant in cases that touch on technology or terrorism and therefore fall into your second form. Many of us don't, as a general rule, trust the courts, law enforcement, or our government to do anything but what is politically expedient and beneficial to them at the moment.

While the wording of this ruling is about one phone and a particular method the FBI has laid out, it appears to set precedent that law enforcement can compel a product company create a non-existent product (no matter how trivial) in order to exploit a known security vulnerability in one of their products. This is what concerns me and many others, because it brings us very short steps away from "make us a version that works against the Secure Enclave" to "make it work as an OTA update over WiFi" to then "make it work as an OTA update over cellular" and subsequently "make a version we can incorporate into a StingRay" and forward. None of these would be illogical steps to take in abject pursuit of stamping out terrorism and might even applauded by parts of society, but taken as what some perceive as an inevitable whole they paint a dim picture for personal privacy.

It's an improbable coincidence that the FBI has elected this particular charged case in which to stake their flag. Given their pleas with technology companies for cooperation over bypassing cryptography in recent months, this appears to be a logical continuation of that campaign.

In conclusion, we likely disagree, specifically due to my cynicism and your seeming lack thereof.
> If you're sitting on your butt cause the inspiration for your novel hasn't come along because it isn't time yet

I'm not a writer, but I assume that a writer can simply go on with his life, doing other useful things, and postpone writing that novel until true/natural inspiration comes to him/her. I've read enough crappy writings imbibed with the stench of "synthetic/forced-through-work inspiration" that the only advice I could give to writers is: wait until you have something to truly write about, and wait until you actually get the right perspective of things, and the "inspiration", and only then go and work hard to inflict your literary masterpiece upon the world.

The world is full of "forced art", "forced architecture" and "forced industrial design" made through "working hard enough" instead of actually exploring around until you bump into a "good perspective".

And about:

> If you want to be lazy, you have to accept that you won't have opportunities non-lazy people will have

In the real world things don't work like this at all. Maybe all I want is to sit around in my hut in the rainforest... maybe I'm even content and at peace with the fact the only one of my two children is statistically likely to reach adulthood because malaria or whatever... and being ok with this I just do the bare minimum hunting and enjoy living in nature... until some "hard workers" show up with chainsaws or mining equipment. I'm not a lazy person, but I sympathize with the people that just want to "live their life in their own natural rhythm", but end up being forced out of it by some who worked hard enough to buy the property of the land underneath them, or worked hard enough to make the money to fully "buy off" the government of their peaceful tropical country and then start exploiting it.

As an engineer I love hard work. But when it comes to art or politics I think we need less of it. Less bad art and literature. Less dehumanizing enterprises.
He's ALWAYS been a crank, this generations mad genius, doesn't mean he's wrong though. Just means our world is about to explode as AI starts infiltrating EVERYTHING. But he's contributed PLENTY to the future -- AI needs to be able to "see" and "hear" and understand what it sees and hears, and he created OCR technology AND voice to speech -- both of which had to come before Super AI's could ever be conceived. So he definitely knows what he's doing and is helping push us towards that means.