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I just got back from Delhi. I started coughing as soon as I landed in the airport 4 days ago. The air is almost unbreatheable.

However, the working-class people I've come across don't seem to be worried about it from a health perspective (or they don't show it off). Infact my friend's wedding had a lot of crackers. Life as usual for them.

For a comparison, here's what Red Fort looks like at 4pm, 05-NOV-2016 (my pic is about 30hrs older than this comment): https://twitter.com/HashNuke/status/795380966109810688

And this is what it is supposed to look like:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wheresmichi/433396865/
Sadly, that doesn't allow use of shadowplay.

There are some older versions of nvidea experience floating around that still work with shadowplay without the login.
This is basically a form of Utopian thinking, that we should adopt a convention because it's "logical" rather than one that meets human needs.

> People forget how recent is the development of our whole ungainly apparatus. A century and a half ago, time zones didn’t exist.

That's true, but not because everyone was living on GMT. Time zones are somewhat arbitrary, but aligning everyone to a single time zone is even more arbitrary.
I wish they'd open things up too, but it's there prerogative, and Linux repesents a minuscule share of their market. The fact that they support it in the way they do today is surprising.
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Because Apple also manufactures accessories like keyboards and mice.
It also misses the point that laptops throttle more when on battery. I plug mine in at home to get less throttling when doing something intensive.

Yet another way that Apple don't care about people that use their stuff, and why i'm buying a Chromebook to replace my Macbook Pro where i'll SSH to servers instead of compiling locally.
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So 2pm Earth Time for me in North America means afternoon but it means night for Asia?

This might make sense if Earth's communication with extraterrestrial localities significantly outweighed communication across Earth.

But it doesn't.

So, no.

But upvote to the OP for posting an interesting idea. :)
Yes, you're right: Approximately none of these people have a ticket.
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Being able to use USB-C battery packs is a huge benefit.
India definitely has its problems, no doubt about it. But to say it is a failed state is overstating it. Libya is a failed state. Broken apart, no government with capability to rule and brewing civil war. India is not like that.
Have you taken public transit in Germany? I've never experienced a late or dirty train.
The real inefficiencies stem from daylight savings, and the fact that (in some places) time zones change for political reasons.
The alternative is low density housing and everyone having to commute to the same few square miles in the middle of nowhere with no services culture or energy..
China has one time zone, Beijing time. It could have 5 timezones:

UTC+5 on its Western border with Afghanistan
UTC+9 on its Eastern border with Russia (Harbin province)

http://www.worldtimezone.com/
This is a shot in the dark but some nasty hibernation bugs are fixed in 4.8[1]. It's probably worth booting a kernel from that series to see if it helps.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/701639/
We need midday to be roughly the average of when the sun is at its highest across the year. I think that corresponds to permanent standard time.

If that leaves people working later in the day than they'd like, then we also need different working hours in the winter.
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I did that a while back. My current version of experience has decided that, upon opening it, I will either upgrade or do nothing.

For now I have shadowplay set up correctly, but any changes aren't gonna be happening it seems.
It will be difficult for all the countries to agree to dump time zones. If they agree then adjustment of computer systems will bring time similar to Y2K effect.
This hits the nail on the head. Abandoning time zones would only make sense if there were no more need for time translation. But you'd still need to translate for the sake of biological clocks, and without time zones it would become more challenging to communicate that translation.

I would be in favor of doing away with DST and also eschewing AM/PM in favor of a 24-hour clock. I'm surprised this article didn't mention that.
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That's a good question. I'm not sure at this point if you could deploy enough of them to make a dent.

Even if you could magically ban all polluting industry tomorrow unless scrubbers were installed within 30 days and all cars were burning natgas I don't know if it would be enough. At some point real soon I imagine water is going to start reaching toxic levels from rain pulling all the toxins out of the sky. And then ecosystems starting to collapse.
You are right I think, at the end of the day they could just handle the packet sending/receiving themselves to support distribution outside of Steam. But if there is a barrier in the SteamWorks API to prevent that somehow (which is unlikely I guess though my memory of the API is hazy), then Steam would be to blame.

Assuming there isn't a barrier, then really it is Activision's fault for not integrating the network code properly so Steam and non-Steam players can play together. in either case, I fail to see how this is the Windows Store's fault.
and yet again, it looks like i didn't have all the archives when i did this. only some of them. I'm going to attempt to do this again with all the files from the torrent but i suspect github won't take such a large archive.
In 1995 I went to downtown LA. The air looked like your picture of the Red Fort. In LA at the time I could not see more than 2/3 of a mile. The air burned the back of my throath when breathing.
That's not even close to an explanation.

If 1kg of water descends 1m the most power you can hope to extract from that is U = m x g x h or 1 * 1 * 9.8 ~ 10 J (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_energy)

If you can extract 90% of that, it's 9J. If you can double that efficiency, it's 18J. Which would make the "over unity" generator folks on YouTube pretty happy, but the universe generally says you can't really do.

So which is it? Is hydro 90% efficient, or can you get double the power output if you want mechanical energy? You can't have both.
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It's basically a rephrasing of Jon Postel's dictum. "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send."
Manual transmissions are not cheaper than a single fixed ratio power-train.

The comparison is not between an automatic and a manual transmission. It is between _any_ transmission and "no" transmission.
IIRC the users who switched back to 14.04 also had to downgrade Xorg [1]

[1] https://askubuntu.com/a/815592
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Unless Apple does a complete refresh of their line at the same time, they're going to have a period of time when there is a mismatch between accessories and Macs.

And there's going to be existing accessories and Macs that won't be compatible with those that are currently sold, regardless if Apple refreshes the entire line simultaneously.

That's what adapters and new cables are for. Inconvenient, yes. What would be more reasonable in your eyes? How would you propose handling the transition?
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GMT doesn't change throughout the year. Birtain uses GMT during winter and BST(UTC+1) during summer though.

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/gmt-utc-time.html
Except to make that kind of statement you need to back it up with evidence. From one of the other articles it looks like they now use TLS so you'll need your own MITM cert and Wireshark.
At least the USB-C MacBook (not pro) happily charges from phone chargers, battery packs, etc.

Sure, it is slower than the charger that came with the device, but if you only charge overnight, it doesn't matter much
The government doesn't really rule in India. It's a circus show.
They can't solve the rape problems, poverty, crime, pollution. They lack any power to enforce any laws on the people when the cops are constantly on the take for bribes, no one trusts the police, you're laughed at by the police when filing a report or they refuse to take the report.

Again I'm not sure that anything is keeping the country afloat other than the good nature of the people to simply survive.
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To which I'd respond: Why? Why is a technology expert more trustworthy than a politician?

Because you can challenge them to defend their position, and evaluate their answers objectively.

Try that at a political rally, or even at an organized debate.
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Living in a place that doesn't have the concept of daylight saving time, I positively hate the dance that we have to do twice a year with our interstate and overseas brethren to arrange meetings etc.

Having been a commercial pilot, I also appreciate the concept of 'Zulu time' where EVERYONE is on the same page as to when an aircraft will depart or reach a particular waypoint. No need to wonder if it is during morning, noon or evening, if a crew member said they would be at a particular location at 0421, we all knew how many minutes ahead or behind we were, no matter where we are in the world. After all, everyone who cares about that reference is already awake and working at that time.

Currently, I work with a widely distributed remote team across the world. Yes, arranging meetings is hard in order to ensure that it fits with working schedules and awake times, but at the end of the day, I usually also clarify the meeting times in UTC times, just to ensure that everyone can double check in their local timezones.

This means using only one fixed datum for checking rather than figuring out if the remote timezone & daylight saving, and trying to work back to your local timezone accordingly. For instance, I am in Australia and you are in the US, you have to figure out the subset timezone each is in before working out. I have no idea what zone Kalamazoo is in off the top of my head, and I bet you have no clue what timezone Darwin is in?!?

In our web apps, we always set our servers to the default UTC timezone, and try and use humanised time displays all over the app (i.e. "Updated 34 minutes ago") or use local browser timezones to display actual time. This way, it doesn't matter if someone in the Ukraine or in Alaska enters a record, it is always "x minutes from a fixed datum" no matter what your local time is, and it seems to make more sense to the users.
Why is it definitely a good idea?
> Everyone waking up and going to bed at different times is an utterly ridiculous concept.

For most of us who don't travel or communicate internationally much, sure. But for government ambassadors, military officers, and business executives? A single agreed-upon "Earth time" (even just between such people) would really help to keep track of how many hours they have until their next international flight or conference call. I could see things like stock markets and Network Operations Centres also requiring all communications be specified relative to "Earth time."

Of course, what I'm talking about here isn't so much a clock to keep track of waking/sleeping hours; it's a way of keeping track of successive twenty-four-hour periods of monotonic time, that continue to tick at the same rate regardless of where you happen to be on Earth. It makes sense, I think—if you are a person with a "globe-trotting" profession—to care more about monotonic time than local time.
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For over 20 years, I've kept a clock near my computer desk that shows time in both my local time zone as well as UTC.

I started doing it because I was pretty active in ham radio. I'm not now (and haven't been for many, many years) but I still use UTC several times a week. It's very handy when dealing with people/events/servers/etc. in different/multiple time zones. (Then again, I use 24 hour time everywhere so maybe I'm just weird.)
It will be difficult for the countries to agree to dump time zones. If they agree then adjustment of computer systems will need effort similar to Y2K effect.
He earned more from 'changing the world' itself than he ever did from PayPal or Zip2.

It's also important to note that his goals with x.com - the company he merged with PayPal - were to create online banking. The impact the company had might've been much greater had things gone differently.
> I know I'm in the habit of keeping my laptop plugged in as much as possible for those times when I do need to rely on the battery.

I do this too. But also for another reason, I try to reduce battery usage to increase the lifetime of the battery. I should probably research whether this is something I should actually be concerned about (anyone any ideas?)
Servers ARE outside of the US. All in EU.
Without Standard Time, it would have been dark out until 7:40am today here in SF. That's really tough on people (or children) who have to be at work/school by 9 or even 8. By mid-December, sunrise wouldn't be until almost 8:30. In Seattle, it would be dark outside until 9am.

Losing an hour of sleep in the spring is rough, but I'd rather do that (and get an extra hour in the fall) than have to get ready in the dark all winter.
Planechase is getting an Anthology release and the Commander decks are having their yearly release, both this month.

The latest block set introduced a new mechanic that substantially expands the design space and the set just before that, Conspiracy: Take the Crown is a mix of drafting complexity and a substantial amount of multiplayer complexity.

All I hear is that Magic introduced a stack system in 1999 and apparently that dumbed it down to unplayability.

The past two releases and the next two this month are huge recent evidence to the contrary. It's the same with getting rid of Mana Burn, removing it reduce complexity and made some archetypes useless. But the mental space it previously occupied was filled with the opportunity to expand there design space and make it a more varied game.

A new Archenemy set is due next year too. So with just the releases over a year you'd be able to play Archenemy Planechase Conspiracy (or at least the draft cards, god knows how to combine those with EDH though, probably just cube?) EDH. Anyone who'd think that shirks complexity is wrong.
A bit disappointed that pretty much all of them seem to be investment/finance related (with 2 being general history).

I would expected to see much more general philosophy books on that list.
If they had somehow packed what was in 15" model into a 13" model, then it would be a great machine. This, it's not appealing to me the way it is.
Farmers don't give a good goddamn about daylight savings; I wish this myth would die. Source: I grew up on a farm in a farming area.
The latter is how I remember it at dusk two years ago ween I visited it. Wow.

I hope you enjoyed the place as much as I did even with the pollution!

I think most there don't really understand the health hazard or how bad it is for them because it's all they know. Put them in Kansas City for a week and send them back and I promise you'll see some people freaking out heh.
Ehhm, Nope, they can't. Two real life examples.

"The selection process is open to candidates with a PhD who meet the following criteria: Be in possession a PhD, awarded no later than three years"

"You can't apply if you are over 30 years old"

Enough said.

If airplane pilots where scientists, they would lose their pilot licenses after three years, without possibility to renew it of course (unless they start again and wait for four or five years). Isn't science superfunny?

And it seems that nobody though on this.
If you want a different perspective, "Softwar" is a good read. The author (Matthew Symonds) worked directly with Ellison to write the book (as opposed to other books which were written based on third party accounts and public information). He made a deal with Ellison that neither would alter the words of the other. Instead, Ellison could provide a reply or commentary wherever he disagreeed with Symonds. And Ellison did that, throughout the book.
I'm surprised there isn't a Node binding for libav/ffmpeg yet.

I have the same problem with lots of other open source video tools. I wish it was easier to use ffmpeg via library and then more people might do it.
Yes, but it should take some pressure off less dense housing.

Unless it replaces parking, in which case less dense housing gets WAY cheaper but also much less useful.
A single agreed-upon Earth time already exists. UTC. It's used successfully in many domains, including those you list.
I've never been to the US. Wow, that is 2 decades ago. Does LA still have such issues? If not, how did they improve the air quality?
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Often it's worth reading something you disagree with just to understand the thought process behind it, if nothing else than not to make the same mistake if you are utterly against it.
I spent most of last week using 2-8 megabit LTE as my only network connection. Bandwidth is not always cheap.
Someone should design a bacteria that can eat pollution.
When it comes to dating, simple gender ratios might not paint the complete picture because it's not just any man:any woman. Frequently, the prospective partner has to have a similar socioeconomic background: I'm not in the Valley so I don't know if that ratio is in the ball park of 1.14:1 for the "goes to Silicon Valley" male archetype
> Maybe I just need to learn to type with a lighter touch.

This. Typing fast doesn't require you to beat the keys into submission.
The problem with Instant Runoff is called "Favourite Betrayal", where placing a party second can lead to them being eliminated before your vote for them can be counted.

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

>a candidate can still be elected despite not being approved or preferred by a majority.

Only if there are no candidates preferred by a majority, in which case no voting system can produce a result people are happy with. The only way a ranked system could avoid this is by forcing people to choose between options they hate, and calling that a majority, which doesn't seem much better than letting someone with 30% approval win because it was the most. In fact, there's no reason you couldn't add a majority victory criterion to approval voting.
So removing MagSafe is a feature? Laptops have diferent power profiles when they are plugged in than on battery.

Again, this: "You don't need to plug in your laptop all the time" works for the regular MacBook, but we are talking about the 'Pro' line here, MagSafe should be standard.
How would that "Earth Time" be different from the already existing UTC? When scheduling meetings with remote colleagues we always communicate the meeting time in UTC.
Certainly, but there are two confounding factors.

First, even if the Keynesians are correct, for which I have low confidence, it is not clear that the small benefit to the economy of not having a government-supported stable or deflationary store of value outweighs the personal benefit to me of choosing to use a deflationary store of value anyway.

Second, even if it's slightly better for everyone to only hold money in inflationary assets, the Nash equilibrium is for everyone to choose to hold deflationary assets anyway, because any one person can defect and improve their own situation by choosing not to hold inflationary assets.

The government will try to maintain the (alleged) Pareto optimum by discouraging/outlawing the use of non-fiat assets for trade, which has the convenient side effect of (among other things) giving them the control necessary to implement negative interest rates and gradually get rid of hard cash, but that's a whole 'nother story.
I think it builds on a lot of those older ideas, but is a bit more explicit and tuned towards what modern web apps have evolved into. Pjax and Turbolinks were direct inspirations.
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He basically did their QA work for them, not to mention a part of the work the developer should have put into thinking about security. It does seem like a minor vulnerability, but it could still be used to harass someone significantly. He definitely generated something of value, and he should be compensated. (Speaking as a veteran dev who knows that good QA can sometimes be the secret sauce that makes a coding shop into an awesome coding shop.)
No. Blockchains are horribly inefficient. The only reason to use a blockchain is if you don't have a trusted third party. If you have a trusted third party you get the same functionality for a lot less cost. Because the government is already the final arbiter of who is a citizen we may as well just let them publish the ledger.

Blockchains are useful in financial systems because there are strong incentives to cheat, and hence it is much more difficult to find a trusted third party to keep the ledger.

It should also be noted that blockchains only protect their direct participants. Secondary actors can still be cheated every bit as easily as they can in traditional financial systems. And even the direct participants are not fully protected. Bitcoin is by far the biggest blockchain in terms of mining capacity, and well over 50% of that capacity is in China. If the Chinese government wanted to attack the Bitcoin network it very likely would succeed.
Yes.

I like Netrunner because I feel you're less constrained by your draws. You can run aggressively with an empty board, forcing the corp to spend money on their defenses. You can spend actions digging for cards you need.

Draws still matter, of course, but it's less common for me to feel like I'm trying to top-deck answers in Netrunner.
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> error-prone is a compiler plugin

Can you provide more information on how this is achieved? As far as I know there is no official, supported, portable API for Java compilers. The only thing I'm aware of is APT and anything beyond that would require significant rearchitecture of the existing compilers.
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I have a bunch of cards from the 90s but haven't played in decades. What's a good way to figure out which ones are valuable? I had a few beta cards, but mostly the series after that (name escapes me).

Also, where's a good place to sell? Online or in-person?
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I don't read him as arguing that removing MagSafe is a feature. Just that the tradeoff is more understandable now given battery life than it would have been earlier. It's definitely fair to disagree with the tradeoff. I'm pretty ambivalent about it, myself. I'd like to see something like the Griffin BreakSafe supplied by Apple.
Alphabet (Larry Page and Sergey Brin) is doing a lot of things. From what I understand they're the most advanced when it comes to ML and self driving technology. They tend not to ship so they don't get much credit.

Jeff Bezos is in many markets as well though he seems more focused on making money than directing the course of humanity.

All in all I'd say Google has had a much bigger impact on our lives than either Amazon or Tesla / SpaceX has had thus far.
Yeah, the parent comment seems like something a person who enjoys spending all their time in front of a screen might say.

For anyone who's in to any (most?) outdoor activities, the extra evening daylight is likely appreciated. Where I live we can be rock climbing till 8pm on a week night all through December and January.