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Northern Germany? Same here in the south (Bavaria).

For example, the small river that runs to and through Nuremberg is quite disgusting, lots of algae - the wrong kind, and visibly bad water quality. There is a lake in the east of the city where it runs into before going out the other end and continue through the inner city. That water is disgusting. It's quite obvious there is lots of agricultural runoff, before getting to the city the river passes mostly through farmland.

Despite disgusting, sometimes stinking water right in the city I have yet to see anyone complain or even raise the issue.

I'm from East Germany, and we had an even more polluted river (Saale), my grand parents told me people used to bath in it - I never saw anyone even touch the water. After reunification polluting industry was removed and all was cleaned up, now the water is wonderful, the right kind of algae grow, lots of fish, the water is clear and a pleasure to behold.

So Germany can do it, I have no idea why nobody cares about such a highly visible problem, after all, millions of inhabitants and visitors to the city see it every year. It stinks, literally. And sometimes it foams.

There also has just been an article in a major German paper (Spiegel) about concerningly high levels of nitrates in drinking water in many places. Still within official limits, but if you know something about those limits, their main component is "what is (technologically and financially) feasible", not "what is desirable". Also, they only test for compounds they know about already, there are thousands of compounds nobody even tests for because we have no idea how they work - especially not in combination with others. It is hardly even researched because it is too hard (not even lots of money can really help, the complexity problem is huge).
Yes and no.

The project wasn't killed specifically because "you have technical debt". It was killed because there was no way for anyone to be effective with the combination of poor undocumented code.

"We need to change the email message that goes out when someone registers". This took a team of (4?) people 5 calendar days to change. As a contractor, I had to vpn in to one system, then remote desktop over another vpn to another system. Building web apps, these dev systems were not allowed to talk to the internet at all, so things like pulling external dependencies (security libraries, templating libraries, etc) was impossible - pretty much everything was handrolled, largely due to this restriction.

The last big killer was that the system was not passing accessibility audits. Trying to determine where to make a change to any single element would take minutes to hours, vs seconds to minutes you'd normally expect. Much of the 'templates' used were the result of a SQL statement joining 12 tables (html_meta, html_form, html_link, html_grid, etc) and complex concat()s, so adding a page or making a change might take an hour to track down the appropriate collection of tables, then figure out a SQL script to run, then send it to the person who had permissions to make updates to the SQL, then wait and see.

Did the technical debt itself kill the project? Technically no, but the inability to do anything productive in a reasonable amount of time forced the project to shut down.
The desire for a Norway-style agreement was voiced frequently before and after the referendum by various Leave politicians (e.g. Hannan and Boris). Since Leave isn't a party, it didn't and doesn't have any policies.
The left is in disarray, the only threats to May are from the further right in her party and outside (mainly UKIP). Since they're the only threats they're the only groups worth appeasing to maintain her job.
The audio was done well too, gave a real sense of atmosphere. I find their latest installment with all the fancy graphics, high quality models, cutscenes and so on just not as fun to play. They just don't capture the same atmosphere.
> Facebook is where your relatives are

This is what happens to all social media platforms in time. Young people don't want to be where their parents are. Then the parents arrive. Then the young people leave. It's a constant cycle.
I think Americans tend to over-estimate the tax rate in Europe.

California's top marginal rate (including state and payroll taxes) comes out to about 47%. It looks like Sweden tops out at 56%. But for that extra 9%, you get lots of services (health care, education, etc). I'd guess most Americans would take the tax hike to not worry about insurance, school loans, etc.
On the leadership of the party I concede, strictly, your point. We don't vote for a PM, although clearly people knew who they were voting to be the PM.

But the government was elected with a manifesto commitment to protect our interests in Europe and hold a referendum. It was not, to my knowledge, invested with a mandate to act on that referendum in the way that it is doing.
I think he means that machine learning is not really AI.
"Thirty students will meet with Facebook every week to make the world a better place (or that’s how I think about it)."

Fantastic neutral reporting here from TechCrunch. Not at all just a recycled press release.
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To me a referendum is a clearer mandate than any general election (especially using a First Past the Post system) as it's more focused on a single topic and is (partially) free of the baggage of party alliegance.

Given the percentage of the electorate who supported the current government at the last general election, it doesn't seem likely that you'd get a clearer mandate from a new one.

It seems to me that Mrs May didn't have a lot of choice here, a large portion of the exit vote (which won) was predicated on "control the borders" and the only way that can be delivered is by leaving the single market, anything else is evidently not delivering the will of the majority.

(before you assuming I'm a brexiter, I'm not, personally I think it's a terrible idea, however we live in a democracy and the exit vote won, simple as that)
I will add that there are two current legal challenges and I suspect there will be more.
In threads about the EU/Brexit, I've seen repeated arguments about how the EU can't function like the United States because of how much more unified Americans are now and historically. It all quite laughably ignores how all of our stability has only come from increased federal authority whenever we've had similar crises. I guess Europeans are as ignorant of American history as we are of their's.
I ~~have been~~ was a consultant in the EU for about 3 years w/ clients in 7 different countries. All I (additionally) had to do was mark a checkbox on my income tax statements.

If that checkbox was all that held me from "full freedom", then I concede your point.
It is taken down by github now. Opera will be taking legal step.

There is mirror at https://bitbucket.org/prestocore-fan/presto/
>What lessons can this teach to the rest of us, who don't have the infrastructure or user-base to do the kind of testing that they do?

Probably a lot. I've worked with embarrassingly bad looking websites that were making millions of dollars in revenue, only to see it drop off a cliff after a "modern" redesign. The truth is that the general public sees a much different thing as they browse the web than we do. Things like legibility, simplicity, and speed are far more important than advanced features.
I mean, the East India Company is still a going concern. It's worrying on numerous levels.
It is unfortunate that the spotlight is in the UK, and that the EU is not able to bring across the benefits and compromises that membership has and implies.

I fear that this failure of communicating clearly to EU citizens (and the rest) what the EU project is, what benefits it has, why we need to compromise in certain areas, is having a strong negative impact in how it is perceived, and can bring about its own demise.

For decades the EU bashers have been attributing all kinds of problems to the EU, while very seldom anybody, not even the member states which benefit from membership, have ever taken the chance to praise the role that EU is playing in lots of different areas.

May has made her case quite eloquently, offering the UK's view of the negotiations, but of course without recognizing something extremely obvious: whenever May talks about a UK strength, which can and will be used in negotiation, she omits mentioning that the other side, the EU, has a similar strength, often much bigger.

And she keeps on pretending that the EU is trying to punish the UK for leaving the block, when nothing is further from the truth. The EU is simply not willing to dilute the value of EU membership by allowing the UK to have "its cake and eat it". May repeats and repeats that there is nothing bad in allowing the UK a very favorable access to the EU common market, but I guess that she does not allow her neighbors to enter at their will into her house: being member of a Club has some benefits, but implies following some rules. Put bluntly: giving access to the common market means the end of the EU. As long as that is not the goal of the EU26, we can not accept that.

Finally, the UK has proven to be an extremely unreliable partner, and a very selfish one. After decades of special treatment, the UK is prepared (quite literally, as we see with the threats of becoming a tax heaven) to stab the EU in the back. This, from my point of view, has three consequences:

- the UK can not be trusted again to work together with the EU. Any deal we make with the UK must be done taking into account that the UK can and will break it whenever it wishes

- there is no rolling back: sorry for the remain voters, but it is unthinkable for us EU citizens to get you back on board. Even in case that your leaders rethink their position, I would say that option is not anymore on the table. Brexit it is.

- any other country or economic block making trade agreements with the UK are by now aware of how selfish and unreliable the UK has become. I would say this will have consequences in the kind of deals that the UK will able to secure.

May and the brexiteers have been talking for months about trade deals as if those would never carry any kind of compromises attached. Any deal means a compromise, securing something in exchange of something else. You had an agreement with the EU (as EU member) which is being terminated because you did not like the strings attached. You will now get zick new agreements with other areas, all of them with strings attached. Will you blame those agreements for your future failures?
Apple is full of it. 5/7 years ago it was cheaper to fly to New York from Paris, buy a Macbook Pro there and come back since the dollar was pretty low. And you still had money left! Of course they don't care about the exchange rates when they can charge the same price NUMBER in Euro and in Dollars despite the difference. They also overcharge for UK, the "localisation cost" excuse doesn't fly here.

I'm glad time have changed and there is less fanboism from Apple evangelists online. Their arguments were just obnoxious.
Cabal would be a false cognate, as the two words are not linguistically related in any way. Chaebol (재벌) is "chae-" (wealth) and "-bol" (clan). Zaibatsu (財閥) is "zai-" (financial) and "-batsu" (clique). Cabal is ultimately from the Hebrew "kabbalah" (קַבָּלָה‎‎), which has to do with receiving, and has come to be its own word related to mystic tradition.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabala
I check the group polices every once in a while (mainly cause I want to see what all the fuss was about) Do I do it on a fire walled machine first? Nope do it on my main gaming machine (Because that's my main windows machine) but I do keep an eye on the traffic that leaves that machine. Just ran a pending update for Windows 10 on that machine so it's now on build 15007.1 (been putting it off as for about a week as insider builds take a while to update) and all my GP's has been maintained, no reinstall of Get Office/Skype Preview though I do have Skype already installed on that install for gaming.

I expect MS to abide by the law and respect the privacy settings set in my Windows install just as I expect every other OS/Distro to do the same.
It adds an element of professionalism to a presentation. You can hook up your lappy to the projector. Once things are tested, you black the screen while you wait for people to file in. This way the introducer can have the audience's full attention before your talk.

Also, it can be a powerful tool when you want the audience to pay attention to you and not the slides (if you need to go off-script for example).
I understand there are a few arcane rules concerning the BoE not being allowed to purchase govt bonds directly from the govt. But that's not what most people would understand by control of monetary policy.

Similarly with fiscal policy, whilst the UK is supposed to "endeavour" to follow the Stability and Growth Pact rules on keeping deficits down, it can and does cheerfully ignore those rules without risk of penalty.
This has been in the works for a long time (via gegl), if funding the devs via patreon can only help here.
What does the back button do that you didn't expect? When I click on a different page it takes me to that page, when I click back I go back.

From what I understand, breaking the back button would mean only the URL changes when you move pages, and back takes you off the domain entirely.
I have seen a product getting killed by trying to resolve technical debt. The refactor took nine months and in the end didn't work better.

I am a big fan of constant refactoring on a small scale but I am very skeptical of large refactoring of a whole project. You may end up with something that's just different but not really better.
So it's hearsay then?
If you firmly believe that people are choosing to go against their best interests, it's not a far stretch to think that going even further from their best interests would snap them out of it, make them learn their lesson. It's winter here right now and I'll admit to seeing my neighbor's sidewalk covered in snow and ice and thinking "well when someone falls and sues them, they'll finally learn to clean it".

So if the parent believes that Apple is overcharging but consumers just aren't seeing it properly, maybe if they overcharge even more, consumers will finally realize they've been bamboozled the whole time.
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It has been taken down, but there is a mirror in Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/prestocore-fan/presto/
Absolutely true.
I have changed and changed and changed, and keep changing my world view over time.
Some of my core principles though (honesty, fairness, empathy, strong family ties, etc.) remain; and hopefully will stay this way forever :).
That's not how it works. Instead of 1L of strong broad-spectrum herbicide you use 1L of strong narrow herbicide for weed A, 1L of strong narrow herbicide for weeds B & C, etc. None of the narrow herbicides are weak, they are just more specific in their target because you need something that kills the weeds dead but does not kill the plant you want to stick around and grow.
Thanks for posting this! That knowledge is power is not in doubt. We in the West would be fools to hamstring our own intelligence services in their mission to defend national security.

Is privacy important - absolutely - but the correct mechanism to protect not just privacy but against abuse is not to reduce the agencies intel capabilities but strengthen our democratic means of oversight.
The talk of older processors not needing heatsinks/fans reminded me of my first (and thankfully last) lesson on this matter back around 2001-ish.

In the past I'd assembled several PCs and my less-than-rigorous setup process typically involved slotting the CPU, RAM, and other cards, then plugging it into a monitor and powering up to run through a quick POST just to make sure nothing was misaligned or improperly seated. Then I'd power off, put down some thermal paste, mount the heatsink/fan, and connect any remaining cables for drives, etc.

Well, in the past, this was fine. Sure, I wouldn't want to run things without at least the crappy little Intel or AMD CPU fan but 5 or 10 seconds was no big deal. But this time I was building for a friend who had me order one of those fancy new 1GHz Athlon chips. I was psyched as well because the small markup I'd added for my time helped me afford my own fancy 1GHz CPU and new motherboard for my own PC.

So I followed my usual procedure and slotted everything for the initial POST (nothing worse than getting everything connected in one of those old PC cases with IDE cables and wires everywhere just to have to unhook it all because something wasn't seated properly) and powered on.

Blink.

Nothing.

Hmm...Did I not get the CPU seated properly? Let's pop it out and reseat it. OWW! Burned the crap out of my finger and got a blister!

Uh oh. It sorta smells like the magic smoke even though I don't see any. Well, eventually I realized what had happened and learned that even a few seconds without a heatsink/fan had been enough to fry that brand new 1GHz Athlon.

Thankfully I had the one I'd ordered for myself and I was able to finish the build that my friend had paid for. But it was a rather expensive (for me at the time at least) lesson in the need for proper cooling on these modern CPUs.
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However the majority of the people who voted (and remember here that the turnout was higher than most UK elections) voted to exit which clearly included border controls.

Border controls cannot be achieved without leaving the single market, so if we're honouring the democratic process this is the only possible path.
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While I doubt this could be spun into a usable browser - legal issues aside, a lot has changed on the modern web, and the opera devs probably abandoned the old engine for a reason - I still greatly enjoy this leak. Even just out of defiance. I am a very defiant person ;-). I also long for the days where a browser fit on a floppy, and a small team could implement one from scratch.
It's worth reporting these as bugs.
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> You don't have to hate brown people to understand that a system that gives benefits to people who have never contributed to it is not sustainable in the long term

Of course
Not when in 30+ countries with different modifications made in each country
"Swedes have much weaker bonds ... to their religious institutions"

Most nordic people would call this progress.
For videos it's possible to get even better results using pixel information from adjacent frames:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kaI_qr0pFA

https://people.csail.mit.edu/celiu/CVPR2011/default.html
What about APM visibility into legacy applications?
Really? Exactly when was that the case?

I know that dollars = pounds/euros is usually how it works, but the disparity is never quite as large when you consider both the currency valuations and the fact that the price never includes tax.
This book is good

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Technical debt is not a thing that kills products. Shit-ass management kills products. Technical debt may or may not be a symptom of shit-ass management.
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The browser part I don't care. I want the mail client natively on linux from it :)
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/index.html

Postgres has an excellent manual. It has an internal scripting language called PL/pgSQL which is (to put it politely) not intuitive at all. The manual was enough to help me write a query to implement a binary tree search.
'Soil degradation' - is that a thing? See, with the advent of spray-on fertilizers the state of the soil is nearly irrelevant to crop yield. The best corn grows on eroded clay hillsides at present (because it doesn't saturate and has better sun). Soil is just a medium for holding the roots at present. Look at hydroponic farms -they grow plants in a gravel medium.
Not the same.

While on the surface this is correct, Cameron subsequently ran as the face of the party in a general election before assuming office, thereby receiving a public mandate (albeit a weak one first time round due to the hung parliament).

May did not.
video link in the article is dead
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And, in fact, the talk the past few days from Phillip Hammond/the leaks is that there will be a collapse in the economy ("short term" is a euphemism that can cover just about anything. Short term, the sun will expand and melt the earth).
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...or, just sign out of Snapchat before turning airplane mode off. At least that's how it used to work.
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> we should be TERRIFIED that fewer than 1 in 100 Americans actually knows how to grow enough food to feed a family or more.

This seems rather besides the point. If we all had to live in economically and technologically isolated families the amount of people that can be sustained by the earth would be allot lower ... and the quality of life of each of those families will likely be worse than any person living today.
It boils down to property rights and contracts.

The decided to buy the car, they decided to operate it, they decided where to go and when.
So is the solution: (a) Fix the VAT registration rules to make them simpler. (b) Leave the European Union.
I'm not sure it's true, I would also like to see the sources.

As for the 'tech', yes the Russians have a long and pretty good history with rocketry but SpaceX has technological edges as well.
The video link is broken. Here is (what seems to be) the same video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dhp_20j0Ys
> ...Apple’s price increase is greater than the pound’s loss in value...

It's 5% more than the pound's loss in value next to the Dollar. But bear in mind that for the last 6 months Apple has simply swallowed a 20% reduction in their (and developers) UK App Store revenue. Look at it that way and we in the UK have enjoyed subsidized prices for most of the last year.
Yahoo Finance would be a good example, one more improvement and that site will be near unusable.
Marginal tax rates mean nothing unless you know what the actual income brackets are.

The US's hughest tax brackets kick in at almost $400K. If Sweden's kicks in at $100K, the tax burden is MuCH higher.
I would suggest that a large percentage of that 52% voted based on "control the borders" rhetoric.

That (AFAIK) cannot be delivered while remaining in the single market, so the UK government is taking the only possible path to satisfy that requirement which was voted for by the UK population in a referendum...

Now I'd agree that if you actually spelled out the reality of "hard brexit" people might be given pause and really they should have listened to "project fear" as it was dubbed by the brexit crew, but the fact remains that the brexit campaign was on border control and to deliver this the UK has to leave the single market
Almost all of them. It becomes cheaper to buy someone else's product than to continue development. Because the NIH product has its costs spread over all the buyers.
GTK literally means the Gimp ToolKit. It's not based on, it's the toolkit that started it all.
It's a less radical conclusion to assume that of the 52% of the leave voters there were at least some who didn't intend for this hard of a split, versus assuming that every last voter did.

Also, you and I both know very well a lot of people that voted had no clue what it meant to leave.

Or in some cases, what the EU even is, frighteningly.
GIMP has met my needs for photo editing for at least 10 or 15 years. Nothing to add but a big thank you to the team!