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>If you don't mind going a little deeper on this

Sure.

>what program do you use to run your VM?

I use VirtualBox. I want to try VMWare, but I'm doubtful the difference will be very significant. I tried VMWare to host a Windows guest back when Linux was the host OS in hopes it would run DxO fast enough. While it was faster in some things that Virtualbox did slowly, it also did things slowly that Virtualbox had no trouble with, making it a net neutral, and not worth the license cost. If VMWare had full DX11 acceleration, it would've been different.

You can do raw-disk passthrough with VBox by creating the appropriate files with VBoxManage. Must be careful with this, as there is a risk that you can destroy the data on the original drives. I do this so that I can switch back to Linux as the host OS without hassle, should the need arise.

>Do you only access your VM via SSH?*

I primarily access it via SSH, but the VirtualBox windows are on a secondary workspace and I can switch over and start an X server and have my full desktop environment should I need it. I try to avoid the need, but I have done this a handful of times since switching in order to access or run graphical programs.

I've found that VirtualBox's 3D acceleration doesn't work properly. It was a pain to get it to work properly on my Linux system (which runs Arch) in the first place, but once I did get vboxvideo loading and glxinfo reporting Chromium as the renderer on a semi-consistent basis, the desktop environment would suffer corrupted draws that make it useless. I turned off 3d acceleration in the VM settings.

>What kind of development do you do?

Kind of all over the board. I maintain applications in Python, Ruby, and Java. I scratch my itch with other software which leads to occasional C or C++ development. I administer many servers and make use of Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and other devops stuff.

>Do you have an internal IP for your VM or do you just redirect the ports?

I have it configured as bridged network and it has an internal IP and acts like a separate machine on the network. This was important because many things in my home environment are dependent on my workstation and have that IP hard-coded (DNS is not justified for my house yet).

I have a Samba server running in the VM and exporting the frequently-used local filesystems, including my home directory and some btrfs storage (bulk storage goes on a separate Synology NAS, so I access that directly from Windows through its own smb server). My past experience with VBox's Shared Folders is that it's pretty unpredictable, and that it's usually just better to use smbd.

>Do you think you could replace your VM with Bash on Windows?

I wanted to try Bash on Windows, but it said I had to be part of the developer preview program, which I didn't want to do since it apparently involves registering with Microsoft and a bunch of similar stuff.

I am optimistic that Bash on Windows may be able to take some functions out of the VM, but I don't think it will be able to eliminate the need for it. It would be nice if it could replace Cygwin.
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"Han"? Does that exist?
The article itself is whataboutism. Prescient today is black men being murdered in the US by US police, the bloodshed happening in Honduras due to US military aid and such.

Also if this so-called "genocide" is so "terrible" as you say, why did the US force Taiwan out of the UNSC in the 1970s and the PRC onto it?

It's a strange dynamic to shake hands with someone, empower them, then decades later shake your head in moral indignation because of some propaganda that you had been announcing before the big handshake. The US is built on a land stolen from a people killed by genocide, it's a laugh to see Americans raised their hand and calling a crop failure in China a genocide (yet not calling previous crop failures in China genocides, pre-PRC, not calling famines in Ireland or India under English rule genocides etc.)
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i'm running arch linux without a window manager and still want to use slack.
Most of the bad loans made and securitized during the crisis were made to others than those you describe [0]. Loans from that time period to minorities and other disadvantaged performed about as well/poorly as they always had.

[0] http://ritholtz.com/2016/06/no-cra-not-cause-financial-crisi...
Hi, loadfocus looks very good. We currently use loader.io and browserstack.

Quick question: does your load testing support websockets?
The experience of 80% of credit card readers being defective is so statistically anomalous that the only reasonable thing to do if someone claims it is to disbelieve them. Unless they have hard evidence, you are perfectly justified to say, you know what, that's just too absurdly far-fetched to give it credit. Same thing if someone says literally zero taxis they have ever used have been in clean condition. That's a many-standard-deviations-from-the-mean event and I don't believe it. The more likely hypothesis is that you're being hyperbolic out of frustration with my other points.

It may indeed be rude for me to directly point it out, but given the way others are treating me in the thread, I won't lose any sleep over it. I don't think I'm making cutting remarks, only remarks that are consistent with basic, universal experiences, not just of me, but everywhere.

Others seem to seek to take these basic, universal experiences and try to claim they aren't universal, and that instead their experiences of crazy statistical outlier events (e.g. zero clean taxis ever) somehow are the common and universal experiences, and that I am being presumptuous or rude for disbelieving that they actually experienced some exceedingly rare event that shouldn't be believed.

It's completely unreasonable to believe that saying 80% of card readers are broken and there are zero clean taxis deserves to be compared in the same breath as a claim like almost every time I rode in a taxi it was just a normal functioning car and nothing stood out as functionally broken or meaningfully substandard in quality.

The two things are not the same kind of claim, even categorically, no matter how much people in the thread don't like it.
Netflix is down?
Tried logging in and they say they are having problems.
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Yes, the PRC has been run so incompetently by the standing committee of the Politburo of the CPC it has become by some measures the largest economy in the world.

How about when they were so eager to increase production that they failed to prevent wind erosion, causing massive crop failure, starvation, and I guess that means its OK to call it a genocide? Oh yaa, that was in the USA, 19 years before this happened. Where are the article on the Dust Bowl GENOCIDE ? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl )
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I actually find RSS more valuable for sites that do not update often. You know, that one blog from an incredible guy who posts five times a year, or from a friend of yours who post a project update even now and then.

I also subscribe for sites that update very often, such as Hack a Day, so I can scan the headlines and sort very fast what I want to save for later (GTD style). For this, I use newsblur keyboard shortcuts.
Oh, I thought your "big ask" comment was about the technology.

Sure, you'd have to segregate away pedestrians, but there's already precedent for that with many roads (no pedestrians on the highways!), and aren't we dreaming about making new cities anyway, rather than retrofitting old ones?

"No pedestrians allowed on the lanes which are painted red, not that you'd want to cross that small spiked fence anyway. Just use the overhead walkway like everyone else."
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The difference is, the technology can change underneath you.

For example, suppose Comey succeeds in mandating encryption backdoors. Then the backdoor gets compromised and published. You suddenly have an obligation to use an encryption mechanism you know is compromised to transmit things you have an obligation to keep secret. Catch 22.

In theory a court might realize the absurdity of that situation and let you out of one of the obligations, but how do you know which one it will be? Or that they won't still demand that you do both, effectively requiring you to shut down your business until the government changes the law?
I'm really at a loss as to seeing any reply to you that I've made that is insulting, silly, or ad hominem. In re-reading them all, I don't see that.

The claims made in the thread were that something like 80% of taxis in Boston have defective card readers, and that literally only a single taxi used was clean (the rest were not of acceptable cleanliness).

These are ridiculous, exceptional claims that should be completely disregarded without evidence. When I said so, adding that my experience has been that taxis are just perfectly normal cars with functional parts, everyone tries to take my head off for it.

I even freely admitted many of the benefits to Uber you already pointed out.

Nowhere did I ever claim that taxis are better than Uber, nor that anyone should avoid Uber, nor that they should use taxis. I even stopped to reiterate that several times.

I only said that the outrageous, over-the-top degree to which people were describing the poor condition and service of taxis, in Boston, was flat out wrong and hyperbolic. That's all! Even if taxis are clean and have functioning card readers (they are and they do), someone may still feel Uber, or whatever other service, is a better value. That's 100% consistent with everything I've said in this thread.

Yet your response is basically a straw man setting it up as if I claimed that taxis were superior to other ride sharing services, or that my claims about taxis just being pretty normal cars with working parts is somehow a claim of their superiority over Uber? I really don't know why you're inferring that into what I am saying, but it's not related.
It's already been tried, apparently without success.
When a conclusion feels wrong despite being derived logically, that usually means that the definitions are flawed. In math the defintions of structures don't have to reflect anything real, it's all about starting with arbitrary rigorously stated definitions and exploring their implications. So when it feels like definitions are wrong in math, that's just a reflection of that "definitional gap".

But the virtue of always siding with the logical-but-unintuitive isn't as valuable outside of mathematics, so it's maybe not the best point to bring up in an article that's about skills math teaches that are useful in "real life". In philosophy, definitions aren't arbitrary and rigorous, they're meant to be reflections of reality. So when a conclusion feels unintuitive, that's a decent argument against the definitions it was derived from. If mathematics teaches people to just pay attention to the definitional gap, that might be useful enough, but isn't that covered by "discussing definitions"?
The odd/even parts of a function are unique, so no.

To see why they're unique, say you have two pairs of odd/even functions fo1/fe1 and fo2/fe2 that each sum to the same function. Subtract fo1 from both sides:

fo1 + fe1 = fo2 + fe2
fe1 = fo2 - fo1 + fe2

Since fe1 is even, fo2 - fo1 + fe2 must also be even. The function fo2 - fo1 is the difference of two odd functions, so it is itself an odd function. And the only way the sum of an odd function (fo2 - fo1) and an even function (fe2) can be even is if the odd function is everywhere zero [1]. In other words, fo2 - fo1 = 0, which means fo2 = fo1. Substituting this into the overall equation, that means fe1 = fe2 as well.

[1] the sum is even when

odd(x) + even(x) = odd(-x) + even(-x)
= -odd(x) + even(x)
odd(x) = -odd(x)

and the only number which is its own negative is zero.
Honestly, the sort of True Believer who classifies Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, Pot's Cambodia, Castro's Cuba, etc, as all "true Scotsman" communism isn't worth talking to about communism anyway.

Rare is the person who is willing to describe some randomly selected totalitarian dictatorship as a "capitalist" regime.
I suspect self-selection: Right now, Linux is the most popular Unix. If you're going to another system, there's probably a reason, either technical or ideological. But to know enough to know why you might want to move already requires a lot of technical knowlege. And the will to actually do it, stick it out, and learn the different ways the system works requires a certain willingness to learn (although the excellent docs DO help).

It's not so much that you can't use the system if you're a casual consumer, it's that if you're a casual consumer, you won't bother.

Also, it's not a bias: We're trying to root-cause why the freeBSD community is so knowledgable. if it's because only the most knowlegable are capable of using it, that isn't a bias, it's just a result.

/nitpick
Even if it's completely inorganic, plants (or algae cultures, etc) are a necessary comparison for anything like this, but that never seems to come up. It's like announcing the invention of the motor car without comparing it to a horse.
Email me. I might be able to help. :)
Well you should be fine. Don't get discouraged that you have to start off with low pay. Everybody has to start somewhere.
When people have pumps on their property that drain a common aquifer, it is a tragedy of the commons situation, not a free market one.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/05/28/west-coast-drought-why-califo...

Doesn't look like a free market to me.
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I dont know how much they differ but planting trees has lots of cost. I estimate the cost of planting is something like $3 per surviving tree. (Cause you usually over plant assuming many will die).
> as usual, the PR is excessive

I think articles that over hype lab results make it to the top of HN because there is no downvote button and flagging them doesn't seem appropriate. I wish there was a "meh" option.
> America’s brainiac class has generally regarded cities with fear and distaste.

> If the automobile caused us to disperse, the information age seems, paradoxically, to be drawing us back together.

Is the author suggesting that technology will encourage the intellectual elite back towards cities? I'm a little confused as to how the introduction ties to the rest of the article.
> Stalin's body count

Most of these claims are from before WWII. The US and UK massively armed Stalin right after this period.

> Pol Pot might hold the record for rate of mass killing, wiping out over 2 million people in six weeks

After these claims (there was no census in Cambodia between 1963 and 1980, so how these numbers are arrived at is a mystery, but anyhow...) the US began arming Pol Pot in the 1980s, as was covered by the New York Times, ABC News etc. Also the US fought for them to keep the Cambodian seat in the UN, successfully.

It's an odd dynamic. Americans accuse people of genocide when political winds blow one way, then they arm and back them when winds blow the other way, then they hold up their finger in indignation when winds blow the other way again.

Which isn't even getting into the body count the pontificating, moralizing western capitalists have piled up worldwide...
It's a form of fetish.

You see it in programming cirlces too. Obfuscated C program contests, etc.

You're really into something and can't get enough of it. You explore it from any angle. You make up angles. You extrapolate.
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The american government never claimed control over people's decision to farm that land. Certainly never did by force.
Also, I've said it elsewhere in this thread, but it bears repeating: No amount of whataboutism changes what happened here.
Funny how this doesn't account for night time. Any math on that? Edit: I mean with reference to heat retained over time.
I don't have any feelings myself at all about whether everyone should learn to code, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to remember this anecdote next time someone brings it up.
It's bias in a meaning that the cause is not BSD making their users somehow knowledgeable, but only users having enough motivation and knowledge to become power-users continue to use BSD. So if you approach it as a new user evaluating whether to use BSD, saying "BSD users are very knowledgeable" may mislead you as to the reason why.
Counterpoint 1: Christian Crusades. There were seven major ones and a bunch of minor ones. All of them resulted in untold amounts of death and misery, all in the name of religion.

Counterpoint 2: On the side of Islam, there were an equal amount of major wars conducted in the name of religion, both against polytheists but also other monotheists. The Ottoman Empire by itself conquered large parts of three continents in the name of Islam and subjugated tens of millions of people.

Mao, Stalin, Lenin and Pol Pot may have killed a greater number of people at the aggregate, but that's only because the world's population was a lot larger by that point and there were more people to kill. That doesn't mean that religion is somehow a pacifying factor against violence.
Yes, since Mao's death and the complete reversal of his economic policies and embracing of capitalism by Deng Xiaoping, whom Mao disgraced for his unorthodoxy, the economy of China has rapidly developed. There is a reason this article lays the blame for the senseless waste of life at Mao's feet and not the CCP leadership as a whole.

Comparing the Dust Bowl to the Great Leap Forward is... questionable. How many people died due to the Dust Bowl? Did the US government of the time respond to it by doubling down on an absurd economic plan in the furtherance of a political ideology?
Thanks for the comment!

I agree! The newer interface includes an "Illegal sexpression" messages, but still uses the sickly green color. I need to fix this--any suggestions? :)
Much like our current adventures in Syria where we play both sides.
Whataboutism refers to an appeal to hypocrisy, which this article is not. Your comments are pretty much the textbook example "And you are lynching Blacks!" that used to be the Soviet retort to American criticism of their society, which don't change the truth about those criticisms. America being terrible does not factor into the equation of whether or not this was genocide.
Basically, I think you may be right, and there is a lot to criticize from both societies, and the important thing is to keep doing it, and keep calling a spade a spade.
To require critics themselves to be blameless distracts us from the issue.
I was not proposing such legislation, but condemning it on the grounds that such laws amounted to social engineering, an overreach that preempted and violated individual decision making. I am well aware of the inevitable consequences of such a law.

I was criticizing the position stated in the top comment of this thread which stated:

>There is a large and (warranted) initiative to bank minorities and other disadvantaged communities. Until the government created huge incentives to do this it didn't happen.
I've always wondered if you could combine corporate income taxes with a law against "passing on" those taxes. As in—by law, the company would have to do its accounting and business model analysis as if it wasn't paying that tax. The individual employees would be fully aware that the company is days away from bankruptcy, but by law they wouldn't be allowed to charge more, because—in the magical legal-fiction alternate reality that the board of directors would, by charter, have to think in terms of—the company wouldn't be days away from bankruptcy. (Even as it was going into bankruptcy, and purchased by a private-equity firm, that firm wouldn't be allowed to raise prices to save it, because that would still be acknowledging the effect of the tax.)
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Sadly I think this is true for any environment. Java is a mess. Python is a mess. .Net is a mess.

Way too hard to really get going, but maybe it's an OK patience screener.
Can you share what it looks like? The github screenshots link is broken
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Here is the pastebin of what I follow

http://pastebin.com/hc6yby4h

It is.... ummmm.....well rounded?
Sure, but there is a big gap between "we can see a path to getting there with mass production" and "sure would be nice, wink"
Let me rephrase that: I'm positive the CIA has in the past and will continue to make people disappear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_site
Visual Studio Code now has IntelliSense for C#[1]. I'm just starting with Python. Code supports it as well[2].

[1]https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/csharp

[2]https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/python?utm_expi...
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While I find the idea of killing unprofitable commodity suppliers by taxing them to death aesthetically pleasing, it's probably not good for GDP.
Because the entity that is selling it is not the same as the one rating it.
I remember reading this when I was first learning web development. Highly recommend this book for anyone learning Ruby on Rails.
Two questions about the Poverty Equilibrium:

1. Are the majority of the evil extractors (a)regional powers that impose uniform rents or are they (b)targeted extractors that specifically exploit low educated/frail-minded individuals?

2. Does a subset of the latter group of wealth extractors (b) benefit from high mobility in any way? I don't know the full range of extraction schemes which is why I'm asking.

PS. There is a lot of overlap between a&b (see: Ferguson PD and private prisons) but the questions still stand.
Tom Keating did this with a few of his forgeries -- took the location of a known painting and then mentally turned 90 or 180 degrees.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyA8fkMJcDE
Bankers don't mark bonds as AAA. The ratings agencies do.
> where 'efficient' ends and 'dishonest' starts

Companies don't know from 'dishonest.' The only question is where 'efficient' ends and illegal starts. Other than that, companies don't care.

(...and even then, in countries with corporate liability protection and simple fines for most corporate crimes, "illegal" is just another name for an economic cost going into the efficiency calculus.)
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If you spend a lot of your time coding, you are preferring an activity that also others can do to something that only you can do.

For some reason this sentence took a while to make sense
I tried using FreeBSD for my web dev environment once. It was nice, I just hated the fact that I didn't have Dropbox and some node packages (like node-webkit) didn't quite work as expected.
Moonlight is 0.00 watts per square meter. It's almost a million times dimmer than sunlight.
> arguably, Slack is lending its voice to the conversation via our assertion that chat is the future of work communication.

> at many companies, more than three-quarters of an employee’s day is spent communicating with colleagues.

To do my best work, I mostly need people to stop talking at me and let me concentrate. It's getting harder to find opportunities to do this, and never getting into the zone is my idea of hell.

I think the author's observations about current trends are correct, but I don't see them making software better.
Those aren't string types, they're buffers for platform-dependent system interoperation. When used, the goal is to convert them to String as soon as possible.

If one considers those to be string types, then Vec<u8>, Vec<16>, and Vec<32> would be considered string types as well (in addition to both fixed-size arrays and unsafe pointers to the same).
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