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16-bit applications can't run in long mode (i.e. a 64-bit OS), so you'll need a 32-bit OS to run these apps in WINE. WINE is just a shim and a library reimplementation, not an emulator, so it just passes the instructions on to the CPU, and you're limited by what the CPU can do.

Hmm... I wonder if you can run 16-bit applications in WINE on a 32-bit VirtualBox VM running on a 64-bit Linux system. That sounds like overkill, though. Might as well just use PCem or DOSbox, depending on your use case (PCem: cycle-accurate emulation of a whole PC, including specific hardware models and running any OS a real PC could; DOSbox: playing some old games for fun).

TBH, I'm not sure what win3mu's point is, either: it probably won't be open-source, and right now the only reason to not use PCem or DOSbox is if you don't own a legitimate copy of Win3.1 and you're not willing to pirate it. An open-source clone of Windows 3.1 that can run any Win16 program in long mode (by interpreting the instructions like an actual emulator) would be a great idea, but this isn't it.
FYI, I can't remember which way round it is, but only some of the UK 3-pronged adapters are actually earthed (as I discovered after having this problem myself).

I think it's the extension cord that is properly earthed, whereas just the plug attachment that goes directly into the power brick is not. You can tell by looking up into the adapter (the part that plugs into the power brick) and seeing if it's metal or plastic...
It's also horrific because you can use that to brute-force guess someone's password, because the robot will tell you when you have the wrong digit, so you can work your way through all 10 phone keys for each digit, noting each time whether the robot kicks you out, until you guess the entire thing.
Maybe it should be that way, however in practice it doesn't work. The ACA specifically requires free preventive services because research has shown that when patients have to pay they often skip it. And when they skip preventive care that causes the spread of infectious diseases, and allows small problems to turn into serious problems that are more difficult and expensive to treat. So this is important from a public health standpoint regardless of concerns over economic efficiency or personal responsibility.

https://www.healthcare.gov/coverage/preventive-care-benefits...
The front page does a terrible job of explaining exactly what this product does.
Crazy times. A null pointer reference used to cause a full computer reboot. You had to read your printf logs to find where approximately the program stopped.

I spent a sizeable amount of my scholarship money on Microsoft Systems Journals, Charles Petzolds "Programming Windows" and "Undocumented Windows". The latter would teach you tricks like saving the Window position in an INI file so you could make it reappear in the same place where it was closed...
I think the problem I have more is that most of this business hinders communication by trying to establish rules that are orthogonal to the language -- usually with some kind of prestige agenda towards Romanticizing English. Hyphens to compound words were simply a convenience and clarification mark for a time before we used spaces. We use spaces now, hence we don't need hyphens anymore to compound words.

What we do need is a more reasonable set of conventions that are well harmonized with the mechanics of the language.

e.g. Shall we use "login" as a verb? Then we're going to get verb tenses like "logined" and "logining". Are we, collectively, okay with that? Then fine, we'll use that.

If we don't like that then we won't compound the words in the verb usage and continue on with "logged in" and "logging in".

But then we'll have this weird case where the verb "log" almost always means "to keep a record of", except when followed by "in" or "out". But languages tend to not like this kind of exceptionalism and we'll probably be in a state where we keep evaluating just compounding them and applying the existing tensing rules.
A certain vintage of Apple adapters have plastic posts where the ground would otherwise attach. This image is iPad 10W adapters, but the same follows for some older iBook/MacBook chargers:

https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-05fa7f5f0e6ce0dc43bf8c...
> It's good to see that Americans are starting to wake up about wedding culture, but I'm anticipating that it will take a few generations for most people to rid themselves of it.

Don't worry, there's always another advertising campaign to push us something we won't need. Trust me. "If you can't afford to take a year off and travel with your future partner, then your relationship won't be able to sustain the trials of everyday life."
If you believe the sky to be green, someone may walk you outside and you will see the sky is blue. You do not choose at that moment to change your belief. You do not change your mind, your mind changes. There is no free will necessary here because updating your belief in response to evidence is not a conscious choice.

(Just explaining, personally I consider the question of free will to be a non-question.)
My understanding is that India's new rules on the high denomination notes was intended to curtail corruption. This was a major topic of discussion in my workplace as we have many Indian developers. Most of them were very proud that this action was taken. So it was a surprise to me to read the significantly negative tone in the BBC article. As a check, I googled "accuracy of BBC articles on India" and encountered the following : https://www.quora.com/Why-does-BBC-publish-more-negative-new...

"It is true that channels like BBC and CNN have long tradition of editorializing many issues of third world countries. So when any major development happens in countries like India, Pakistan or China, they go on with their usual views on the subject rather than looking at it through fresh lenses."
It was a long time ago, but iirc it was relative to the nearest available metal object, which I think was the metal frame of a desk. It wasn't a super rigorous test. :P
> For instance, a prison can't be too nice, lest it turns into a free vocational school and people will find committing crimes and getting caught to be an excellent way to get education.

That particular problem seems technically easy to solve (politically is another matter, of course). Just let people volunteer to go to prison without actually committing a crime, and make sure they are informed of other options at that interview. We could use the rate at which people do this as a measure of other poverty assistance efforts, and the reasons for doing it to design new efforts.

> Or another example - you can't really make prisoners do useful work for the society (as opposed to just rotting in their cells), because it disrupts the market economy and becomes a powerful force for administrators to threaten their local communities ("do X, or else I unleash my 300+ strong force of unpaid workers and drive you out of market").

You can if you can arrange for the prisoners to be paid at market rate for such things -- though I not only admit, but want to emphasize that this is easier said than done.
Trump's win means almost nothing in most areas, like Obama's win didn't stop police brutality against blacks.

There are tons of private and aggregate interests at play in policy making, and the President is just a single, and not even the most interesting, influence point, just the one that is most visible.
I have one I'd love to use but it's no longer usable even under a VM. It's an audio mixing game called "No World Order" put out by Todd Rundgren back in 1993. It was a Windows 3.1 app, but remarkably worked up until I switched to Windows 7 64-bit. Even then, I could get it to work reasonably well with Windows XP in a VMware VM. Sound and graphics compatibility have never been a big priority for VMware, and the most recent VMware Workstation update seems to have broken the audio to a degree that I can't play the game anymore. I'm going to try VirtualBox at some point, but it's increasingly difficult to get a new Windows XP system up and running.
This is potentially deadly advice. A neutral/grounding fault will energize all your home devices with live potential; same with a live/neutral swap (unlikely but possible with Indian wiring standards).
Well that explains what the weird feeling I used to feel when touching a 2015 Macbook I was using last year. It felt exactly like that (as though the surface was bumpy) though I never got far enough into debugging it to figure out that it was actual charge leakage onto the case and that I was feeling the AC current. That's a bit scary.

Question: aren't laptops powered off DC (there's a rectifier/transformer combo in the power brick) so how would AC get to the case of the laptop?
So that's what it is! I assumed the source of that effect is some micro vibrations from fans, or because of some weird electromagnetic effects from parts placement. It happens both a on an HP ZBook and an older Macbook Air. Thanks for solving this mystery - moving to a better connector helped.
>It's deeply ingrained in Western culture.

It's only "deeply ingrained" in the US. In most of the Western Europe etc it's negligible.

And from what I've read it wasn't some deep rooted tradition in the US either -- it took a lot of advertising from diamond companies to instill it...

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/how...
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> This is a description of sexual assault

A fuller quote is "they let you do it. You can do anything.", so no, it isn't clear that this is a description of sexual.

I'm not American, but I'm not sad many Americans don't buy into "rape culture" as a descriptions of American norms.
Just giving it a shot, but I'm stuck on 'initializing'. Android 6 (marshmallow) using chrome.

I am curious about your 'making radio relevant again'. Is the target market radio listeners?

I'm thinking a more 'forward looking' appeal may be around podcasts. But without being able to use the app, I can't really judge. Just my 2c, I think radio has already been dead for a long-time, how many people born after 2000 have ever owned or been active radio listeners?
> Women love to look at other women's rings and chat about it. If she is open to the idea, just remember that she's the one being brave and breaking out of the mold more so than you.

This is a great description that captures the social pressure aspect quite well. Guys aren't the ones wearing the ring everywhere!
Right, but even still, you don't think Apple's commanding actual profit from them? They're up to $90...
I've never seen an ISP use TCP resets against any traffic other than BitTorrent, but I suppose it could be done by a particularly aggressive operator.
>There was no alternative before this article.

There was always the alternative: I don't care about rings and diamonds and such BS, I care about us being together.

Which is not that uncommon (even in the US) as people here make it out to be. Not everybody goes for a big wedding either -- or even a wedding at all.

Also, as another commenter pointed out, "non negotiable" (as in: I want my diamond ring or we're not getting married") and "no alternative" (as in: we both want to buy the ring, and don't care for it being expensive, but there's no good replacement for a real diamond) is a different thing.
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That's pretty cool that the executable will run on Windows 10 today. I have respect for Windows, but that is really impressive.
You might buy an outlet tester and see if your hot/neutral are reversed or if ground isn't connected. If it all checks out you can use a multimeter* to check potential between neutral and ground. If your apartment is wired correctly there should be almost no voltage between the two.

At the breaker box the neutral and ground are supposed to be bonded together. That means only minor induced charges inside the building wiring would show up between the two. If there is any significant voltage then something is leaking on one of the lines or ground might not be bonded... it could even be floating if they didn't bother driving the grounding stake deep enough and the soil dried out a bit.
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I had the same problem in Australia. I thought it was just me being over-sensitive to static electricity
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They don't include them anymore in the 2016 MacBooks
Ok, I got it to play, I had to hit the 'skip' button, so it looks like you may have a bug. It sat at initializing for a few minutes doing nothing.

Now that I've heard it - I listened for about 10 seconds - I think this is not usable. I wouldn't want to listen to the automated voice for any more than I did, and it seems it was just giving me headlines. I wouldn't want it to read me an article in that voice.
I've been there and went inside.
I had this in my iPod touch. It feels "bumpy" when plugged into the wall. I thought I was going crazy.
I think that's a false assumption. Especially in 2016.

Unless something changed dramatically at GitHub they're a 100% solid-state fleet since 2012 when they started down the "building their datacenter cages" journey.

Whilst you could say as the 500lb gorilla in the market they can afford that luxury, there are other examples, i.e. DigitalOcean, where SSD is a core part of their product and it is offered inexpensively ($5/mo).

Even if you're looking at 3-way replication of your data, meaning you're buying 768TB of storage, the SSD should only tot up to $200-300k for Intel S3510 (or similar).

There's a non-trivial amount of additional effort involved in any kind of "multi-layered" storage (c.f. data on 7200rpm, NVMe cache) over and above just making all of your storage moderately performant in IOPS terms. That has cost too.
That might be true, but your Indian colleagues are probably well off with much of their transactions happening in plastic/electronic anyways, so this will have very little effect on their day to day lives. Since much of the Indian economy is cash based, there is a lot of frustration in the working class and there is a serious cash (as in bank notes) crunch.
Could just be a reference to the Drake album
This is interesting, I have been doing a little reading on it. Nothing particularly technical, but I would be interested to know whether you went to a boarding school.
There has been some research on the matter, and I can see the relation (boarding school in several countries from 6+).
I have a disturbingly high proportion of the symptoms mentioned on the following page[1].
I'm pretty sure that I have friends, but I don't know if it's true, so I never ask people for anything. I also have a tendency to push people away.

[1] http://www.ibblaw.co.uk/insights/blog/boarding-school-syndro...
In many years it will be interesting to read what the effect of social medias have had on humanity. I'm suspecting not so good as initially thought.
Totally agree with you. I have read couple of BBC articles, they show same negativity
Quite the opposite. I ask them what they know and then let them loose on a paid project based on what they tell me.

For more senior devs I usually talk about code, design/architecture and get them to talk me through some issues they recently faced and how they dealt with them. All high level stuff. If they can explain technical stuff clearly and concisely I'll skip the coding test and put them straight into probation period. Works well for so far. All creases are easily ironed out in code reviews and are mostly due to style guidelines.
> she values a diamond, he doesn't

You are conflating moral values with financial value.
I'm vegan too. My reason for being vegan is entirely on the basis of sustainability. If lab meat is produced in a sustainable fashion then I'll be all for eating it.
Playing Zork using git
Relevant: http://githubengineering.com/introducing-dgit/
I got the zaps. I live in the Uk where we have good quality mains power, and my mains power and all the sockets are tested once a year.
Seems like what you're saying is, we're damned if we do and damned if we don't. If we allow hospitals to build out as much as they want, they'll be underutilized and will have to raise prices to cover their capital costs; if we restrict them with CON laws, lack of competition will allow them to raise prices anyway.

Given that, I don't see how CON laws are either the problem or the solution. The problem seems to be more that patients just have no leverage to negotiate with providers.
I do accept this fact. Is there better option? I am quite sure this decision was taken after discussing with lot of people who might have done PhDs in Economics and serving for Govt.
Well, Hillary received more votes than Trump either way.
Economies of scale. I think the product will become financially viable faster if it has wide-spread vegan support.
Ahhh... the days... I remember fumbling through something very similar to this and the time I spent in MainWndProc once the application became significantly complex could be awfully frightening for a noob like me.
In windows 8/10 can you still use the 'glass' blur in overlays? I wrote a similar thing on top of XNA a few years ago and remember there existing a flags/clear color combination which made the background of the frameless window look like the blurry aero glass.

The start menu in W10 has that effect, so there must be still a way to do it?
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For those of you who don't have access to proper grounding (because, for example, the wiring lacks PE or it's faulty): a plain separation transformer (1:1) between mains and your laptop might be able do the trick. Unfortunately if you have a larger setup (speakers, monitor, etc.) you have to connect everything to the separation transformer, otherwise you'll create leakage a path to mains some other way (say, through the audio jack).

Caveat emptor: If you decide to go that route, make sure you can return the transformer if it doesn't to the job.
I had the same happen to me while using a cheap ebay charger. Never happened with a genuine one.

There's an interesting post about the internals: http://www.righto.com/2015/11/macbook-charger-teardown-surpr...
> God forbid people will have to start running emulators on emulators when the best emulator for a certain platform stops being compatible with modern operating systems.

Sadly, this is already happening. bZSNES is actually a thing now, since so many popular SNES romhacks will only run in ZSNES (i.e. not on real hardware, and not on a more accurate emulator like Snes9X or Higan), but ZSNES is written in 32-bit x86 assembly and contains a massive security hole that's been known for a while but hasn't been fixed.

It's even described as "a portable ZSNES emulator".
Well, that's all a bit depressing. What would your advice be for me? I'm 26 and my SO wants three children as soon as I'm willing to have them.
Isn't this what's happening even in the US though? Look at the 2016 US election and how it was reported. Hardly impartial or rational. I mean where are the people cheering for Trump and their view points?
Although it does support permanent brain injury in football players.
There should be an option to flip the image somewhere though, to be the right way around.
Degrees don't guarantee anything. People hire based on what you can do and how well they get along with you. I think it's more important that you know what kind of work you want to do and then learn everything about it. Deep understanding of a marketable skill (networking, SQL, design, system software, containers, product development, etc) is very valuable. And universities don't have a monopoly on knowledge. You can work through all the textbooks and talk to engineers doing hard things without stepping foot in a school.

Having said that, schools are good at helping you navigate an endless body of knowledge. They have knowledgeable people to answer your questions and systems in place to verify your learning. Unfortunately, in many cases, you won't be interested in what you're learning until you understand the benefits in the real world. From personal experience, I was never interested in networking and databases until I had to build a back-end server for work (16 years after graduation). Now, I wish I had taken those classes or paid more attention because it would really help now. And I don't always have the discipline and energy to work through a textbook or open courseware now that I'm full-time employed and married.

Since you are already doing work you like, I would probably put more time into work and either go part time at school or suspend my enrollment for a year or two. After a couple years (or decades) you will probably figure out what you want out of school and be in a better place to take advantage of what a formal education has to offer. Never be afraid to put off school. It will always be there.
> This is potentially deadly advice. A neutral/grounding fault will energize all your home devices with live potential; same with a live/neutral swap (unlikely but possible with Indian wiring standards).

You are wrong. In the US the NEC requires this. If you bother to look inside your breaker panel you will find the neutral and ground wires are literally screwed down to the same bus bar.

Any path your body (or the soil outside) can provide back to the generator pales in comparison to the neutral tap provided by the transformer. Grounding to dirt is about static electrical discharge, not the voltage provided by the generating station.

The safety of providing a grounding wire is that metal parts of appliances must be connected to that ground. The ground wire itself is both bonded to neutral and connected to a metal grounding rod driven into the dirt. If any part of the appliance's internal works becomes energized and touches the metal casing the direct path to ground is designed to create a short circuit and trip the breaker immediately, rather than sitting there waiting for a human to come along and complete the circuit.

If ground weren't bonded and the ground dried out or the grounding rod weren't properly installed then the scenario you describe would occur. A single faulty appliance would back-feed voltage onto every grounded appliance in the building. So in fact bonding is what creates safety, not the other way around.
I kinda disagree, see my other comment on logistical models, this isn't 5000+ system scale or even 500+ system scale.

There's non-trivial cost involved in simply being staffed to accommodate the model you propose, all of the ODM's have some "sharp edges" and you need to be prepared to invest engineering effort into RFP/RFQ processes, tooling and dealing with firmware glitches, etc.

Remember that 500-rack (per buy) scale is table stakes for "those cloud providers", it is their business, whereas GitLab is a software company. Play to your strengths.
"As if you suddenly sense the whole of nature and suddenly say: yes … this is not tenderheartedness, but simply joy … what’s most frightening is that it’s so terribly clear, and there’s such joy. If it were to last longer than five seconds—the soul could not endure it and would vanish."

This is quite true, I have epilepsy myself, I can feel what he feels, the seconds when brain is purely clear about the world around, incredible. I love all his books, and his biography.

He had 102 seizures during 1860-1881, that's about one seizure every 2-3 months, this is the frequency I have seizure too, it's all grand mal seizure. It have been big problem from early centuries, and now, it's still a big problem in modern society.

I want to help those people with epilepsy someday with some kinds of technology somehow, I know they are all leading a hard life in this world, inclulding myself.
Actually, for things with a non-conductive casing (think cheap nightlights, or those apple wall warts) there's no need for a ground. If anything, it's another part and more cost, thus it isn't included.

In highly sensitive A/V systems, an isolation transformer is often used as well, neglecting a ground.