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What a whiny article.

My 2013 MBP is still working great, and I'm in no hurry for new ones to come out. I use mine mostly for my photography (RAW editing, catalog management, etc.) and it handles the 36 megapixel images from my camera just fine - I drag sliders and the changes show up in real time. I keep all of my RAW files on an external HD, so if I really needed things faster my first step would be to buy a faster one (SSD).

I also occasionally use it for development, and I don't have any problems there, either.

The most true statement in the article is that my next laptop may not be an Apple, but that has a lot more to do with Apple's crappy software quality lately, and the fact the photo software I use also works on Windows.
So you want to squash the tiny amount of competition there is in the online advertising space?

I think it would be fantastic to have a credible alternative to Google adsense, but there isn't one at the moment.

Technically, a better approach would be for Google to block the advertisement or even the ad network. Blocking the website publisher is just bullying tactics.
Nice work you people are doing. I have no opinion on features and stuff ATM except to say that VPN's plus high usability and open source is a category I like seeing expand. Far as this list, I think what keeps you off is this:

"ZeroTier endpoint nodes form a peer to peer network and use a set of pre-configured nodes called root servers (currently run by us, federation is planned) as stable anchor points for near-instantaneous zero-configuration peer location and connection setup."

Still centralized. Solve that then you might get on the list.
The blog post raises several distinct issues. Heroku's poor configuration is the most significant issue, but it's also concerning that Postgres is insecure by default, and supports several different options to sslmode with confusingly-similar names, only one of which is secure under normal circumstances. That's a recipe for developers and database administrators to shoot themselves in the foot. If Postgres had been secure by default, it might have saved Heroku from making this mistake.
Thanks, glad you liked it!
Is zero-rating pertinent outside of metered mobile bandwidth?
yeah, because that's a totally neutral take on what happened.
So because there's scope for bad people to do bad things or cut corners, it's not an option? That basically rules out any form of power generation.

For instance, wind power: http://i.imgur.com/xHyOoc9.jpg

This picture was taken just prior to these two engineers jumping to their deaths rather than being burnt alive. I assume the turbine spontaneously catching fire is not an intentional design feature, but rather the result of inadequate quality control during manufacturing?
> Everyone has their own strategy of how to place items onto the line to slow down the cashier at just the right moment.

I am German and and I've never heard of this ^^. You just put the items on the belt in the order that they should go in the bag, then you can pack very quickly.
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I think the point is more that it's completely under your control. The application build would be done however best suits your infrastructure and requirements.

Using npm doesn't demonstrate repeatability, but you could just as easily build a given application from fixed, verified source in this step.
The target audience of these kind of emails is not the people who are fired, it's the people who are staying.
same here. Mine is 2012 and if they don't offer something decent this fall, I will just add in an SSD to replace the HDD. That ought to hold the perf for a while longer.
Republicans Push to Expand FBI Surveillance Powers After Orlando
It reads to me like the opening steps to a classic "Death March." They even talk about "busting ass" and "staying late."

BTDT. I'd be out by the end of the day if I got that email.
Do you negotiate this when you join the company?
Biggest US coal company funded dozens of groups questioning climate change
McDonald's has some healthy options, wraps, salads, etc. They are a lot less popular though.
Languages are tools for communication. Online, we have a much larger community to communicate with, so network effects apply for languages as well.

I don't think it's troubling that languages rise and fall, and many die out. Rather, it's the intangible heritage of humanity and particular cultures in danger that should attract our attention. Language is an element of this, but more important is the substance of their stories, their oral and written traditions, their values, and their way of live. We should work on preserving this heritage possibly at the expense of their language, if that's our only viable method.
Renewable energy is usually only framed in terms of electrical power generation, but taking a wider perspective is sensible.

Primary energy is 3704 TWh[0], so 3% jives with the numbers I gave (so you were off by a factor of 3). 27% of that is heating, 39% transportation. The key to reducing those is gains in efficiency, ie. things like insulation, combined heat and power, renewable heat on the one hand, more efficient cars and more public transportation on the other hand.

[0] https://www.bmwi.de/BMWi/Redaktion/PDF/E/energiestatistiken-...
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You can hang out at McDonalds for a while and have room to stretch, not true at sit-down establishments.
It only makes any sense in a metered or capped plan, and its currently only an issue in metered mobile plans (although it could in principal also be used with capped fixed-location plans, as well.)
We work less than people did during the industrial revolution, yes. But not less than before the industrial revolution.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_w...
That actually didn't work. I forced that list to update just in case, but it doesn't make a difference. I also wasn't getting the usual reader mode prompt in the address bar.

Safari Develop -> Disable Javascript works fine, though.
No sponsored content would mention the likelihood of readers sneering at the sponsor in the headline.

The Guardian is a reputable paper, although, barring the views of a few commentators like Aditya Chakrabortty, it tends to have a complacent middle-class outlook on things.
My favourite part was 'we have reset our relationships with our key stakeholders'. This kind of implies there is a button he can press and everything is ok. Personally I wouldn't send mails with such unsubstantiated nonsense, but there you go.
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This is the cost to the government and NGOs. Basically, this leads to a lifetime of consuming drugs which often need to be subsidized by the government and other orgs. Naturally, it also increases the probability of more people getting infected. The costs are hard to estimate but add up to a very large sum and consumes a lot of global aid money that could be better used if these babies weren't born with HIV.

Thanks for pointing that out. While the average estimated number is easily into the thousands of $$, there is not enough evidence to say that it is hundreds of thousands.
Economist Who Predicted the Crash Says China's Hard Landing Began Last Year
https://map.what3words.com/pretty.code.running => right where my office is located (for real). Couldn't be happier about that.
> It's not the be-all or end-all, but if you're consuming less than you use, you'll lose weight.

I'm not really weighing in on one side or the other in terms of the overall argument, but unfortunately metabolisms are rather sneaky. Calories in < calories out = weight loss sounds nice, but unfortunately calories out is a moving target in that your metabolism will ratchet down and be more efficient and/or consume muscle if calories in is insufficient.
Firefox 46 on Ubuntu 16.04. Broken both with and without AdBlock (it's many time the source of pain points).
You can choose from the whole palette of Nicotine Replacement Therapy devices: Adhesive patches, chewing gums, lozenges, nose sprays, and inhalers. :)
How is something like this even economical?

All those servers to keep up with that request rate and all that bandwidth spent. Even as costs go down, I don't see how anyone can break even on this. The tiny fraction of a penny earned on this ad is surely outweighed by the cost to display it.

And also the follow-on costs of increasing bounce rates and less time-on-site. Publishers have to be seeing less value in these kinds of ads that perform this way.

It doesn't make any kind of economical sense!
I can't select 10 px font sizes with the slider on some fonts like "Space Mono." I can with others, and then can click the "Apply to all specimens" to update even the fonts I can't adjust with the slider control.

I'm using Firefox 47.0.
In the article it seems like most people go for the coffee. Is their coffee as bad as their food, healthwise?
Does that mean dog treats are super sweet and salty?
The equivalent of SIGSEGV/SIGBUS on Mach is handled in basically the way he describes. On an access violation, it suspends the thread and delivers a message to the registered port. The thing listening on the port (in a different thread or even different process) receives the message, does whatever it needs to do, and then sends a response, after which the original thread is woken back up. From the perspective of the violating thread it was handled synchronously, but the actual implementation was an async message queue.
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There appears to be no similarity better domestic and foreign McDonalds.
Foreign McDonalds have much fresher better tasting food. They can't cut corners like they do in the US.
There are also longer texts that you see if you change "Sentence" to "Paragraph". I don't know if they're from elsewhere in the same works or not.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/09/18/who-r...

One issue with talking about United States social services in this manner is that there is a clear bias towards the elderly and the disabled (about 3/4 of recipients) instead of merely the impoverished (about 1/4 of recipients). Of the assistance to the impoverished, I'd wager that a huge chunk of that 25% is Medicaid.

If there is indeed a problem with our social benefit programs, it has very little to do with these poor neighborhoods with McDonalds community centers. Instead, it will have everything to do with a society that is rapidly aging (mainly due to the demographics of the "baby boom"), the pay-as-you-go setup of Social Security, and perhaps our unwillingness to control medical costs that might strangle Medicare and Medicaid.
The WARN act applies everywhere in the US. Some states (including CA) have stricter versions.
> in the order that they should go in the bag

That's one of them. Even that is something that you don't usually do outside Germany. To get to the next level I recommend to put weighted produce to the end or just after items that are not straightforward to pack.
This kind of pointless drivel is why those threads need to be nuked.
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*Credit Cards. They have accepted Debit Cards for several years at least.
What to do you do, if mother leaves her baby at the clinic?
Pyscho- or sociopaths, no. However I've come to theorize that it's a common defensive reaction in many people to go slightly (or majorly) "numb" when they find themselves involved in actions in which others are also likely to be hurt in some significant way -- even if their role is entirely passive, and/or the action is necessary and basically unavoidable.

Which would explain a lot of the vapid e-mail announcements about layoffs / firings, as well as the tone of most rejection letters these days ("We think you suck, basically, and/or we didn't really bother to read your resume before contacting you and gobbling up all your time with our dorky interview process. Or if we did read your resume, we didn't really think about what we read or whether you'd fit the position. But either way, we hope you have a great weekend!")
Ads will never disappear entirely, because at a basic level, they are really just packets of information. Some are more obnoxious, targeted, and/or dangerous than others, but seeing as how the internet was created to facilitate the distribution and dissemination of information, selfish ads will always find a way to latch into and ride along on more useful and/or altruistic information.

I'd rather live in a world where billboards/TV commercials serve as clearly delineated frames for ads to exist in, rather than the world we are moving towards, where essays and "news" articles hide behind a facade of objectivity while subtly promoting some sponsor's content.

But submarines/native content is the logical end of all freely-published syndicated content on the web, given the arms race between ad blockers and ad networks. What could be more user-friendly than an ad disguised as an article?

Time to start paying for good content - the free ride for us common consumers is over.
>The area after the scanner is very small and takes only few items so you have to move fast.

What's the logic behind only having a very small space for scanned items. Aldi in Denmark normally have packing tables, but still, you can't even get your stuff in the basket quickly enough. Interestingly Lidl (another German supermarket), decided to go with normal longer areas after the scanner, because the Danes expect that.

I don't feel like Aldi has ever properly justified the almost non-existing area for scanned items.
I don't think fab tech will become that commoditized. If anything, the end of differentiation on process node size alone will drive differentiation in other areas, such as new types of transistors(tri gate has already become somewhat popular). More complicated and expensive manufacturing technologies that are currently too expensive relative to the performance gain such as SOI technologies might take off as well. There is still a lot of room for innovation in the process other than just shrinking the features, shrinking has just generally been the cheapest way to improve performance until now.
Occasionally they incorporate the barcode into the artwork a little too, like on this hair shampoo: http://imgur.com/jx5COyD (There's another longer barcode segment on the other side as well.)
In a sane world, there would already be a very clear legal lever for forcing ISPs into peering agreements.

You can't sell 50Mbit to a thousand people and then only provide a 100Mbit backbone, just as an electrical utility can't sell you a 300A hookup and only wire up 30AWG, or have voltage drop to half when people in your neighborhood happen to turn on their dryer.

The ISP world right now is the fucking wild west, selling "up to 50Mbits" only to have 10 arrive (just based on line attenuation!), overselling capacity of shared networks like cable 100 times over causing consistent, measurable and repeatable drop at peak times, modifying network traffic to insert "supercookies" (can you imagine USPS opening all mail) and configuring default DNS servers that hijack NXDOMAIN for malware infected websites to make a quick buck.
A simple tool that finds you opportunities to simplify your language
It feels like a lot of Microsoft software has a very "eh, fuck it, whatever" kind of attitude, especially when it comes to troubleshooting. Lots of good intentions that just never get finished.

Case in point, the "Do you want Windows to search for a solution?" Since the day this feature was added I've never once had Windows figure anything out; I always get "Windows was unable…". In the Win2K/XP days, you could right-click on a network adapter and choose 'repair' to do all the standard stuff (flush DNS, release/renew DHCP lease, etc.) which would solve most problems. They took that out in Vista in favour of the "idk man" wizard, and now you have to do it by hand.

Windows is also full of catch-all error messages, where it says "We couldn't copy the file. Check file permissions, make sure there's free space, and if it's a network drive make sure you're still on the network", as if those weren't things that the computer couldn't check for me in milliseconds.

When people say that macOS is falling behind Windows, it seems to be, at best, a superficial judgement from people who don't use both of them for productive work. Windows 10 has a lot of polish, but it also has two separate control panels for changing settings, apps which don't seem to know what kind of apps they are, and more and more new APIs and features that only store apps can use, in exchange for extremely limited access to the system.

Windows is great for playing games, but for any serious work the overhead of making it work and keeping it working is just ridiculous.
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I think this is a reasonable way to view things. Although I think there is a lot of unexplored potential in fission. We're basically using tech developed in the 60s. And just a little nit pick: fusion is a form of nuclear power generation.
That's still The condition for me to view ads: no third party servers, no third party JS.

This means no tracking, which in turn means the advertiser has to trust the publisher completely.

This is entirely possible - it's however not going to work through an opaque network of auctions. The publisher will have to sell the advertising space to advertisers themselves, just like print and TV, and trust the impression statistics, just like print and TV. Advertisers can't just drop $10k at the doorstep of some as network and sit back and expect statistics. They will have to drop more money, and spend even more on the surveys they have to perform to figure out whether their advertising is working.

This would be the death of the "online ad industry" as we know it, and also the death of large parts of the web as we know it. I'm not sure it's a bad thing.
>Depressants will make those symptoms worse.

Ketamine is used in a very small dose. There's plenty of research showing some beneficial effect.
After getting mild food poisoning from a McDonalds, I would not return. Bad experience aside, the food is gross, unhealthy and not as cheap as a local restaurant that serves real food.

However, foreign McDonalds are very very different. I would visit one of those again, sure. The quality is a world away different.
It is the bureaucracy that amazed me about the Sikh community - or should I say lack of it. As long as you obey a few simple rules (essentially just no alcohol, tobacco, or being under the influence, cover hair, no shoes) you pretty much what you will.

Notably with the Sikh's the langar hall (where langar, a free meal, is always served) is the hub of a Gurdwara - seemingly food is the great social leveller!
I think it is just because my kids are so young. I am hoping eating out will get more pleasant as they get older.
> Being a parent, I now have a profound respect and appreciation for my parents (especially my mother). Things weren't always great, but they did the best they could.

Dude, I was growing up in the dying days of the Soviet Union, with empty shelves and lines and ration cards, and growing vegetables on a little private plot to make it through the winter without vitamin deficiency. I know very well what it's like to try to provide the best you can for your family when the circumstances don't allow you to provide much at all.

But there's an enormous difference between going to a fast food place because the kids are hungry and the fridge is empty and that's the place which is open and nearby and affordable, and regularly bringing kids to a fast food place just because I like the ambience.

And as a general principle, if I am not open to criticism and judgment of others, I am hobbling my ability improve. In any aspect of life. Work or scholarship or raising a child.
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> I love McDonalds and I think their hamburger is the best hamburger, their french fries are the best and all the other menu options have this typical McDonalds design--everything, every single piece and ingredient is meticulously thought through and the final dish has a perfect taste. The taste you get for the carb in-take is unmatched.

Really? That's surprising. I've always assumed people went to McDonald's because it's everywhere and it's just damn easy to order there, and you won't get any surprises. It's the "lazy option" for me.

Their food is subpar and their hamburgers are mediocre. Note I'm not comparing their food with gourmet food, but with hamburgers from smaller, non-franchise restaurants. I love well-made burgers; once you've tasted one that wasn't made out of a frozen patty, you can never go back. As for the actual restaurant -- the place, I mean -- all the McDonald's I know are garish, clownish, hideous places designed as if they wanted you out of there as soon as possible. Which I guess makes sense in a fast-food joint.

I'm not from the US but I know for a fact you can get awesome burgers there. Why anyone not in a hurry would stop at McDonald's is puzzling to me.
Kind of akin to https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/eurion.pdf (representing a machine-readable pattern as a graphic element in artwork).

Edit: more details at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
Many (bad) build systems will download stuff from the net and you may not even know it. I've discovered plenty of software like this because I used GNU Guix to build them, which does not allow network access to builds for which the checksum is not known in advance.

It's absolutely essential that a package manager constrain the environment in which builds are performed. Without it, the packages are doomed to be built in a nondeterministic manner and potentially tampered with.
Not really a lot of times this can be a "last moment" highly time sensitive decision based on who exactly is identified at the strike target.

Allot of people are involved in the decision making, various heads of agencies, the joint chiefs, cabinet members, the president, the vice president, members of congress, the speaker of the house etc. all can be involved depending on the strike.

You also have variables that can change for example a large than expected number of non-combatants or an unexpected high value target and when those parameters change the mission planners and operators usually have to refer up to notify people like the Secretary of State and have them make a decision to proceed, abort, change mission parameters (e.g. from survey to kill, or from kill to capture) etc.

Like it or not from all aspects these aren't decisions that can be open to lengthy debate this isn't how combat works, and having to make a time sensitive decision is something that people at those levels of government and the military have to do all the time.
So sorry I don't see how the fact that a cellphone has been used is some how makes it look worse than what it already is, it's just a tool like anything else.
Legally? Yes.
I think it's mostly that they are transient. So not yet enough to build an entirely new business model around. Possibly it acts as a minor incentive for coal plants to invest in upgrades to let them ramp down faster, or for industries to sign up for demand response, as they can make money by both increasing or decreasing demand when asked by the grid.
Another one you might want to try: Buffalo Wild Wings. We have 3 little kids and it's so loud in there that when they act up, nobody notices. Kids meals are probably no worse than McDonalds.

Oh, and free Android tablets! You can really bask in the judgement of others :)