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Funny--the app being shut down is announced in a series of tweets, the last one being:

"Stay tuned for more later, including details on how you can hire the best mobile/social talent in the business."

(presumably their own mobile app development talent...)
I think the balance lies in between. I find it insulting to hear that it is all in my head because the pain is real: It is even more insulting to tell me this without doing any sort of testing whatsoever. If, after medical testing, they still don't know what it is - or if my ailment is often stress related - I don't mind trying different things, including mental health options - to take care of it all.

After all, this is why a competent mental health professional will do medical testing and MRI's and other such things so that they can rule out a physical reason for a psychological problem. Depression and anxiety can be caused by hormones, after all, and psychosis of different sorts can be a tumor.
Since when did writing a driver become the kernel maintainers' problem?

I don't think the AMDGPU driver not being mainlined really affects Linux. On the other hand, AMD will really benefit from it.
Max was already an adult at the time of the apocalypse.
That is the subject of the article, yes. Why do people who are not compelled to work a job continue to work a job?
There are computer science pros that only care about Swift and Objective-C programming, not UNIX.
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> The term "fake news" has exploded in just under a month

That's a rather normal phenomenon, sometimes when someone coins a new term, everybody else jumps on the bandwagon.Sometimes the term makes it into the fixed inventory of the language, sometimes the fad goes away. That's as true for "fake news" as it is for "abso-fucking-lutely" or "glashole".

> Mainstream outlets move in lockstep with each other and these are the final, desperate death throes of an outdated and superfluous institution.

What an utter nonsense! You must have been brainwashed by social media and shitty blogs that sell opinions as news.

There is a fairly good reason why mainstream outlets "move in lockstep with each other": They let one and the same reality dictate their news rather than making it up like the online trolls from St. Petersburg. I'd be rather worried if they didn't "move in lockstep" and each of them was reporting something else as news...
It'll probably be easier to go from Vim to Emacs (since Emacs has a really good Vim emulation plugin) than the other way around.
The OS puts Candy Crush in your menu and it's installed on demand. So to users it will seem like it's always been installed.

All the pre-installed software is my big pet peeve for Windows 10. I don't want weather, or contacts, or xbox, or 3d builder, or email, or alarms, or skype, or office, or calendar, or groove, or money, or news, etc... I've deleted them and they just come back because of some provisioning setting.
A desktop would be very uncomfortable to use from the couch, or my bed, or my living room table, or kitchen table, or any of the many other places in the house I enjoy being able to sit down when I fel like it... It's about being "luggable". I might very well look for an 18" or bigger next time.

Regarding the 11" I sort of agree - it's for note taking in meetings and the occasional use on trains etc., not for anything that requires very frequent use. I only went that small exactly because I don't need to use it very often. If I did more meetings, I might have used a somewhat bigger one.
Seems to me this doesn't work with rightwing nuts in the US - see life expectancy or the imprisonment rate as examples.
Without numbers to put this into context it's a fairly meaningless claim.
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Yes, capitalism views humans (and horses) as resources. But capitalism does not control the creation of new humans which makes humans different from horses.
That is a common phrase in ergonomics. I myself don't speak any Latin apart from a handful of phrases, like et al, et ceterea, pecunia non olet... - the usual stuff that I think most people have been exposed to. And "ceteris paribus" is THE phrase in economics. It of course applies to all models, but in that field it's actually being used in everyday speech, and always and immediately (when starting to study anything "economics"). I'm not even an economics person, only learned a little bit of it on the side (didn't find it interesting enough).

So it is NOT a stretch at all to assume that someone who wants to debunk a statement made on the basis of the boring standard subject of economics, the supply and demand relationship, has heard about it! If not, it would be even worse for his statement.
If git is failing due to a system-wide file limit, that would explain why other programs are also failing. Perhaps some process has gone mad with creating files and if you find and delete those it will help things recover. (I agree with your general point -- just trying to be helpful in getting your computer back working.)
title and a salary i would imagine
> "by (...) using software that makes undoing most vandalism far easier than doing it, the participation goes through the roof"

The bitter irony is that this cause of wikipedia's early success is the seed of its current rot: one person's contribution is another person's vandalism; if undoing a contribution is always less effort than making it, participation must decrease.

Ah, well; everyone who's ever sneered at the list of fictional starfish back in the day have what they wanted now, I guess.
While keto seems promising in the short term, there isn't much data to validate whether it would be best for "most people". There is a definite concern long term with organ failure associated with ketoacidosis.
That's very similar to what I used to have pre-Surface Book. But I found that the Surface Book was small and light enough to replace the 11", but powerful enough to replace the 17" (I have a Surface Dock for the "home office" part - leave stuff connected to the dock (which could include a big screen, though I haven't found the need yet - the 13.5" screen is high-resolution and very clear, so it ends up being more readable than the larger screen it replaced), but take the laptop itself travelling when need be). The tablet form is a bit clunky, but close enough that the convenience of a single device outweighs having a lighter dedicated tablet (in fairness I was on a 10" tablet, and I have a 6"+ phone that probably displaces some 8" use cases).

I don't think we'll ever see a single form factor dominate as such, but a single device that can shift between form factors simplifies things a lot, I think that's the future.
Mainly, because that's where you go, if you're a bandit.

The first movie showed a relatively normal city, bordered by a no-mans land. Max + family vacationed on the coast. The last scene, before Max drives out into the desert is basically in a forest. Max's job was to keep the bandits out of the relatively normal area of civilization.

The third movie showed a paradise hidden from most people, cut off by a lifeless desert. It was only by using a plane that they were able to get to a former city with enough resources to build families, again.

It sounds like there's islands of habitable land, and difficult if almost impossible distances between them. No one knows what's happening outside their sphere, except rumors.
Well, they would say that, wouldn't they?
Is this one of those situations where someone uses a proxy metric for something that is itself easily measured? "We must protect verifiability, non-notable articles aren't easily verified, therefore non-notable articles should be banned"?

Is there a name for this? I've been noticing (and being frustrated by) it a lot.
I think anti dongle people look at using a dongle as a failure. Like you should be able to live your computer life without ever having to touch one. Vs. I use a usb-C to usb dongle every single day. I'm just used to dongle life. It's no big deal. I have best of both worlds. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzfYo2fVIAANV8F.jpg
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Interesting expressions usually use local variables. JVM, CLR etc. despite being nominally stack-oriented, use local variable slots by index rather than shuffling the stack for anything much more complicated than eager expression evaluation.

This gets the best of both worlds in practice.
"Eat the same few meals" - This would make life very sad and boring.
The truck only autonomously drove on a limited access highway. A human driver actually made the delivery.
wow a wiki fork is amazing. its been needed for a while too.
I check the news roughly once a day just to get a feel for the headlines. I check the left-leaning sources and right-leaning sources and don't read any of the articles.

I don't get sucked in, and also just get an idea of what people think is important that day/week. Usually it is just noise but it can be at least helpful to know when things have happened. The headlines are enough for me.
Darwin didn't "discover" evolution. He just happened to collect evidence to support a popular theory.

It's been awhile since I read Darwin's book, but he gave a lot of credit to his father at the beginning. From what I remember, evolution was more of his father's theory and Charles was young enough to make the trip, and lucky enough to have a father with deep pockets to pay for it.
Exactly. Record numbers could mean 100 people.
> what scientists have been saying out loud since the mid 90ies

Maybe when they speak privately, but every scientist has a huge fear of branded a crackpot if they said something even remotely like, "I'm researching the possibility that we can make immortal cells".

To take one concrete example, Geron, a company that is/was very active in this area was always careful to say that they are investigating telomerase to control cancers, etc. They never even hint that they might possibly be interested in the Holy Grail result of solving ageing.
I am one of them.
If this were a conversation about a statistics paper or textbook, or a particular ML algorithm, you might have a point.

But we're not discussing statistics. We're discussing the social impact of ML algorithms.

> Why risk such confusion when we can just use two different words for two different concepts?

The problem with this is that we'll always have that confusion because most people aren't statistics experts.

So it's up to the domain experts to know when one meaning or the other is intended. That's true in every domain.

> However, you are also wrong about the vernacular sense, at least if the dictionary is to be believed

Dictionary definitions don't fully capture the vernacular meaning of words -- especially politically charged words such as "bias".

> This are just informal versions of the statistical term.

But when real people use the term bias in real conversations, they aren't typically approximating the statistical meaning. Rather, they are typically referring to some a priori ethical limitations on decision making.

For example, most people would say that taking skin color into account when approving a housing loan is a form of bias. But they don't mean that in any particularly technical way. There absolutely is moral and political content in the term "bias".

For example, when equal lending laws were passed, an unbiased algorithm definitely would've considered race when choosing the outcome of a loan application. African Americans were systematically discriminated against in employment decisions, and often the first to be let go when hard times hit. So a completely unbiased loan officer could come to the statistically valid conclusion that people of color were far more likely to default. None-the-less, a vase majority of people today would agree that the loan officer was exhibiting racial bias. And they're not coming to that conclusion due to innumeracy or some vacuous personal preference. They're perceiving a vast network of causal relationships between decisions that reinforce a systematic bias, even when many of those decisions aren't locally statistically biased

> I don't think we should use the term "warm" to reference "feelings in my heart".

And I agree, but I agree because non-experts know and understand the difference. And because the term "global warming" with the alternative meaning isn't already in wide-spread vernacular use.
> We talked idealistically about how Wikipedia could become an encyclopedia of specialist encyclopedias, the superset of encyclopedias. "would you expect to see a Bulbasaur article in a Pokemon encyclopedia? yes? then let’s have a Bulbasaur article". The potential was that Wikipedia would be the summary of the Internet and books/media. Instead of punching in a keyword to a search engine and getting 100 pages dealing with tiny fragments of the topic (in however much detail), you would get a coherent overview summarizing everything worth knowing about the topic, for almost all topics.

That sounds much cooler than what we've actually ended up with.
Win10 is ok, but there are two things that have turned me off:

1. The "Start" menu (tiles) have ads in them by default. I do not like this.
2. Connected Standby is still in development. To view advanced power management settings, set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\CSEnabled to 0. If you are having connectivity issues on a Surface device, make this reg change, then reboot and uncheck "Allow the operating system to turn off" under the "Power Management" tab in the Marvell wifi adapter.
I didn't find any evidence of Rsync in the Cloud Storage edit history, but there is evidence that Rsync was added to the Comparison of Online Backup Services article on November 11, 2015.

It was reverted less than an hour later with the comment "Thanks for the addition, but as wikipedia is not a directory, please limit the list to services with wikipedia articles." So it's at least plausible that he tried to create an article for Rsync.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_onl...

Edit: I initially thought you couldn't search for deletions older than a year. I was mistaken.
> at rest data shouldn't be modified

If your data is kept in a SQLite database or any other type of compound storage scheme it's entirely possible to lose data that wasn't being modified, due to corruption of the metadata that governs the layout of the file (actually I don't have experience with SQLite file format specifically, but I ruined my startup's launch a decade ago with almost identical reasoning--thousands of pressed CD-ROMs in the garbage).
They were 100.000.

Now they are 200.000.

100% increase -- record rates. But totally inconsequential.

(Numbers out of my ass, but without specifics, they are as good as the claim).
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Beside the number of restaurants, did you guys look at the competition in the US? What would make you guys successful here? Who are the big players in that space in the US? Seems like a lot of companies have already covered that space.
It's amazing. I used to hate Microsoft. I wasn't a programmer or even that technical but I still kept trying to use linux in college, I jumped on the reboot of Netscape/Firebird/Firefox, and I wrote a long essay comparing Bill Gates to a Robber Baron.

But this past couple of years they've just improved their offerings, particularly those for devs, incessantly. I was kind of on the fence about VSC vs Atom a year and a half ago. Now it's not only far faster but also a significant boost in productivity. Ubuntu tools are available from inside Windows. Office, the very program I most used to love to hate, is killing it.

I still have a macbook, but it's been gathering dust. The iMac 27" was my favorite computer I've owned but the Surface Studio has leapfrogged beyond it. Especially as a creative dev, it's hard to justify staying with Apple at this point.
I'm one of the people that switched from a MacBook Pro to the new Surface Book.

The ENTIRE experience was dreadful for me.

The day I went into the Microsoft store to purchase it (Black Friday), their credit card system was down, so I had to wait around for nearly 2 hours until they finally figured things out. That wouldn't typically upset me, but my brother-in-law went through something similar just 2 weeks prior. Aside from that, the reps in the store were constantly trying to up-sell me on different items and get me to purchase other things throughout the store. This is something that is extremely irritating to me and something that I appreciated the reps at the Apple Store not doing.

As far as the actual product goes - I found the trackpad to be lacking. It just FELT a bit buggy and non-responsive at times. I have yet to find a trackpad as solid as the ones that Apple ship. This became more apparent of time after using the product. Aside from the trackpad I don't have too many complaints, except for things that are of personal preference (I can't say I like the design / functionality of the snake hinge). I also realized, as mainly a pro user, that I don't have much use / need for the touch screen or tablet portion of the device.

Needless to say, I ended up returning the device and buying the new touch-bar 15" MBP a few days ago. Aside from how annoying it is to locate / use the touch-based Esc key, it's a really solid device.
Requirements analysis in UML blows a lot of my clients away, it lets them see the world in a different way for the first time. I don't think I'm great at it, shows how rarely this is really done for large institutional customers.
I find honesty gets misunderstood pretty often, like I must still have some angle but they just can't figure out what it is.
>> It is realistic to believe that at least some people would switch platforms.

I know "Post-PC" is the more popular buzzword, but "Post-OS" is probably a good one to use.

So much stuff is in the cloud these days that a lot of non-developers and non-creatives can probably use any OS these days without too much pain.

I switched to Windows from Mac a couple of years ago, and honestly, I don't miss it much. I did have to write off a pile of Mac software purchases, but I found reasonably priced alternatives that work as well.

If I get sick of Windows, I can easily transition to something else. Outside of some platform specific games, I can do just about everything I do now on another OS.
Not really. There are definitely scenarios (likely to more probable one) where the nuclear war is not "USA vs Russia/China nuking the entire planet".

The article itself suggest a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan would result in 2 billion death (supposedly mostly around India/Pakistan), which means the majority of the worlds population will survive.
No, your TLDR is not accurate. You're getting mislead by the common journalistic technique of adding a "human interest" angle to a story.

However, the "outer wrapper" is not the main story nor is it the TLDR.

Instead of journalists just presenting it like this:

<main story about research or science>

, they (or their editors) end up structuring articles like this:

<human-interest as color prologue>
<main story about research or science>
<human-interest as color epilogue>

Yes, the "<human-interest>" is Keith[2], but the main story is not about Keith. It's mostly a story built around Jamie Traeger-Muney[3] and her observations. There are also other observations from Timothy Judge's meta-analysis and professor Brooke Harrington.

I do concede that if your only takeaway was "Keith's story", it's possible that imprint was deliberate by the editors. (In other words, they know that psychologically, most audiences will remember a character's struggles and triumphs more than the abstract facts & figures.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_interest_story

[2] and also mentions Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Karen Gorden

[3] http://www.wealthlegacygroup.net/wlg-about/documentation/jam...
Incidentially, the articles argument alignes with what UBI proponents say: Most people won't stop working. They'll just go for more rewarding work while taking a pay-cut or demanding increased pay for shitty work.
I've become intrigued recently by this technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification and its potential applications in the energy/cleantech space. From what I can tell, at least in the US, people equate it to "burning trash" and frown upon it, but it seems like a great technology space we should be investing more into because no matter what we do, we will always have trash to process/deal with.

It would be cool to see some startups attack this space. But maybe it's a high cost of entry space to work in which deters startups?
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Sorry, I should have qualified, £1m is for an average house inside London. Outside of course it's barmy money.
But presumably you wouldn't even know to search YouTube for "Venice riots" if you hadn't been consuming any news?
At the local mall if you go to the Microsoft store you might find 15 people in there, very empty feeling. Meanwhile, there are probably 3-400 in the Apple store.

>> More people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before. Our trade-in program for MacBooks was our best ever

You could trade-up with up to $650 credit for your working MacBook Pro or Air. I'm assuming they were giving similar values as you would with Gazelle or another service.
If you really want to reap the value your code creates start an internet-like business with the code that you write. All the value is yours! :)
UT was better than Q3 - wider variety of weapons, more fun game types, better maps.

But Q3:TeamArena was massively overlooked. It added megatexture to Q3, had massive maps, cooler weapons, and a better aesthetic.
So why the clear, blue skies, George Miller? Perhaps the once smoke-filled air in Max’s world has already cleared.

I'm not sure which Fury Road the author saw, but there are many scenes where there is little daylight coming through, for a variety of environmental reasons.
Maybe an "active" flag in the search results would be useful? It would be based on the frequency of commits and the date of the last commit.
For those who are curious: Here's Sagan's original prediction.[1] I'd also recommend reading the Gulf War section of wikipedia's article on nuclear winter.[2]

Sagan later admitted he was wrong, but only because smoke from the oil fires didn't reach the stratosphere.

1. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-01-23/news/1991023131_...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter#Kuwait_wells_in...
The problem with that - and also the reason why for example Mozilla is for the most part not doing that either - is that it takes away pretty much all incentive for webpage developers to support your browser.
"caffeine (withdrawal symptoms),"

Do you mean that the caffeine itself doesn't bother you (above its expected effect), but that the withdrawal is pretty rough?

I'm curious, because I also have celiac, and I've also ended up dropping caffeine because it was getting to be too much of a pain to manage it whenever I had to do without for some reason (travel mostly). I've noticed I have no grace with it; if I drink a 20oz Coke Zero right now, which is actually pretty low in caffeine (or, at most depending on your standards, "medium"), in 36 hours I will have a withdrawal headache.

But I can't tell if this is "celiac", or just generally how people respond to caffeine. Most people don't pay attention that much.

(As long as we're comparing notes: I've also noticed that alcohol has little appeal to me, because it mostly just makes me tired and gives me vague muscle pain before I'm "buzzed". In fact I can't say I've ever been "pleasantly buzzed" the way some people seem to describe.)

(Also, before someone comes along and complains about "anecdotes" being used, I do try to keep up with the celiac science, but generally speaking what we're talking about here is way beyond the current science frontier. Science may be the slow-and-steady that wins the race, but in the meantime, we can't wait for science to figure out the perfect way to live with it and/or cure it in 30-50 years... we have it now.)