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The palette tools feel very clunky and primitive. I'd expect there to be a very simple way to add the current color to a palette, but I can't figure out how. More importantly, I expect that modifying a color in the palette would also affect all the pixels that use said palette entry! Instead, they retain their old color. Also, it would really help if I could freely arrange palettes all in their own windows, like this:

https://i.imgur.com/UHtBlbk.gif

https://i.imgur.com/LYbZagv.gif

https://i.imgur.com/oOaR6x5.gif

Unfortunately a pixel graphics editor that has lackluster palette tools is a non-starter for me so I didn't even bother with looking at the rest of the features...
One of thing that I learned the hard way about "Japanese companies" - despite western conceptions, every company in Japan has its own unique culture (and takes pride in having its own culture!). What's more, often departments and division inside the same companies work in very different way.

Why am I saying that? Because in some of the Japanese companies I've worked with were the exact opposite of that. To be sure, lip service was duly paid to the aforementioned "commitment to excellence", and every release procedure had its own operational manual, sometimes 300 steps long. Repeated manually for every server. Out of 100-200.

Configuration updates? Sure, let's log in to every server and vi the config file. How do we keep excellence? Just diff with prev and verify (with your eyes that is) that the result is the same as in your manual. After every "cd" you had to do a pwd and make sure that you moved to the directory you meant to. After every cp you diffed to the original file to make.

Releases obviously took all day or often all night, and engineers were stressed and fatigued by Sisyphean manual with its 300 steps of red tape. They invariably made silly mistake, because this is what you get when you use human beings as glorified tty+diff. We had release issues and service outages all the time.

We've fortunately managed to move away to modern DevOps practices with a lot of top down effort. But please don't tell me every Japanese company magically delivers top quality. Some of them do, some of them don't, even in the same industry. Insane levels of bureaucracy could be found all across the board, but whether that bureaucracy actually encourages or deters quality is an entirely different story.
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> I'm not sure to what extent the SC can pass judgments / make rulings without being prompted by a lawsuit, though at the very least it seems to me that the ACLU at least keeps the important stuff on their radar ;)

They can't at all. Ours is an adversarial legal system and therefore the rule of law depends on dogged opposition willing to make challenges to unjust laws. That's why the ACLU is so critically important.

It's also one of the big problems with secret laws and warrantless surveillance: if you don't know your rights are being violated, how do you prove a violation occurred (which is a requirement to be granted standing in court)?
32bit bitcode. You can't go from LLVM bitcode to both 32bit and 64bit as far as I understand. You need "bit-specific" (architecture-specific) bitcode.
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> So you agree that Germany (and the URSS, only later) had much more influence than UK in the war, which is clearly the point of the comment you're answering to.

I agree. The UK still had significant indirect influence in that Churchill convinced France an other European powers to not support the Republic. That support might have diminished the URSS influence, or maybe just started WWII earlier, or prevented it... all that is political fiction of course, the truth is that Germany and (later) the URSS were the only significant international powers in action.

> About revisionism... there was blood in both sides' hands. To mention just the most obvious fact: the spark that ignited the war was the assasination of the opposition's leader. That happened in downtown Madrid with total impunity. Do you really believe that can happen in a normal situation? That's terribly one-sided.

I agree that the situation was not specially peaceful before the war (I did not imply that in my parent comment). Still, documentation says that the coup was planned before the leader of the opposition was killed. But as another comment says, there are many forces into play and it is hard to quantify the impact of particular events... It is also hard to discuss the war without entering into moral positions (i.e. what justifies what.).

I don't need to go further into analyzing this... I am happy that we agreed on the influence of Germany and URSS.

Btw, last year I read "Homage to Catalonia" by Orwell, in which he talks about his experience during the war. Of course it is a very one-sided account (he fought for the republic) but nontheless interesting from a literary and anecdotal point of view, and it might appeal the english-speaking crowd here.
the article talks about the early modern period - that period would end with the 19th century; They certainly weren't too sober in London town - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_Craze

But at this point in time Britain had a rather high standard of living (compared with the rest of the world), so go figure.

https://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/users/Allen/unpublished/econin...
I don't even need to configure Visual Studio, and it's been around for 20 years.
A dishonest analysis: There are more tech firms than Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple.

> Thousands of other companies accounted for the remaining 557,062 labor filings.

And most of them are IT firms.
> So in other words, out of 5 backup/replication techniques deployed, none are working reliably or set up in the first place.
Atom has a nice package with that feature.
https://atom.io/packages/Hydrogen
Agreed ! Even when they screw things up, they make people benefit from it! Kudos for such a good spirit and dedication to your customers.

Everybody screw up from time to time in our industry. And when this happens, you have 2 types of guy : those who try to hide it, and those like Giltlab team who communicate as fast as they can because they respect their customers. Paradoxically, to me, it creates more trust than it damages it !
They're betting that a certificate with "stanford" on it is better than a certificate with "udacity" or "coursera", or "I read a bunch of web pages and books", "heres my kaggle ranking" or "look at this stuff I did on github and corresponding blog posts". [naturally people breaking into the field need not pick just one].

Depending on hiring filters, that might be true. If an application ever gets to an engineer though I'd bet on the last one or two winning.

I think a sensible organisation should skip the usual hiring filters in new fields, because [edit](my experience is in security) you can scoop up really good people who happen to have "unconventional" backgrounds if you have competent people evaluating them.

Regular HR people tend to do a really bad job with career switchers and the self taught since they mostly work off "signalling value". But in newer or very fast moving fields, the oddballs can be majority of decent applicants.

My limited experience is that very technical positions are not actually overwhelmed with applicants, and that it's not hard to evaluate if people have the right stuff because in these areas it's not difficult to devise quite objective challenges without resorting to shibboleths (guess what the interviewer is thinking or, do you come from the same technical culture as me).

Arguably ML positions should be the easiest to algorithmically hire for (at least for industry, not hard core research). Just put an automated judge with a fairly low bar on a business relevant objective function between your careers and your "submit job application" page :p

Personally I find this a little bit funny, because ML driven competence evaluation in "hard" (reasonably concrete objectives) fields should eventually render credentialism and signalling obsolete. But here we are, the $20k "certificate".

All these things said, a structured course of study is super useful for the undisciplined (certainly including me) and dropping "new car money" on something has a way of focusing the mind :)
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In a perfect world, everyone would be a citizen of everywhere. In this world, people are deprived of citizenship to protect the interests of current citizens. A question would be, which is more likely, that a billionaire investor adds or subtracts from your society.

There seems to be more economic residencies and citizenships available now than ever, I assume those nations with said programs have decided wealthy people are net positive.
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But it also costs more than a mid-range computer.
Solid? That shit's fucking fantastic, proper rubber dinghy rapids bro.
I agree, so let's yell at EA and get them to update the app. I suppose they have no interest because they now have a "free" version in the App Store...
You want highly-paid people who could live anywhere they wanted in the world to move to Mexico? How many people that get paid bay area salaries but work remotely do you think live in Mexico?
yes, I'm the same (15" MBP). I think it's the nicest laptop I've ever owned. It's thin, light, incredible battery life, very powerful. I really like the keyboard, the travel once you get used to it makes other keyboards feel heavy. Trying to use the touchbar but maybe it will become useful as time goes by. I use it for swift coding and I can't fault it.
Yeah maybe. But I don't do any web, email or social media on my phone anyway (I used to, heavily, but it wasn't a positive thing in my life so I cut it out. That's a separate issue).

Re dog photos, as others have said, falsifying anything is a very bad idea.
Along the same lines as https://xkcd.com/1053/, I believe so.
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Indeed, I'm talking about DisplayLink.

I wish I could plug my 2 screens and the ethernet cable directly into the macbook. However, since Apple decided 2 USB-C port is enough, I'm left with a pretty crappy dock that don't even send power through the port. Hell, I can't even plug a tv screen into the laptop without a dongle (no HDMI).

This is absolutely infuriating. Don't buy this crap.
Btw, I think OP meant Gueze / Gueuze lambic which is quite different from Gose though similar in many ways too.
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A correction to what you said: Bill C-6 (which undoes the damage done by the conservatives) has been stuck in the senate for many months. I followed it closely, and it was a bit disheartening. Checkout the forums of the website canadavisa.com to see people's frustrations.

I'm a Canadian and I am very worried about the future of our country. Due to various factors, new laws affecting large swathes of the population can get effected very quickly. What starts off as reasonable laws can get co-opted into something very crazy (any student of history should know this well). I echo the concern made by a few others that we are one election away from craziness. Not sure how things are going to go at this point. As a visible minority, I am scared.
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At my current project we have components which are literally called `duct-tape` and `glue`.
Trump literally asked for a "Muslim ban" https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/the-fix/wp/2017/...

The other countries aren't banned because he has business interests there: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/01/29/poli...

"The list does not include Muslim-majority countries where the Trump Organization does business, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. In financial disclosure forms during the presidential campaign, he listed two companies with dealings in Egypt and eight with business in Saudi Arabia. And in the UAE, the Trump Organization is partnering with a local billionaire to develop two golf courses in Dubai."
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But the complete understanding isn't essential. Sure, surgens may be vital, doesn't mean everyone may cut up people.
I really feel for everyone involved. Knowing Gitlab, they'll learn and become better for it.

I've been using the PS1 trick they mention for the last couple of years and I've found it to be a really good visual check (red=prod, yellow=staging, green=dev). We then also apply the colorscheme to the header in our admin pages too. Those of us that are jumping between environments are a big risk to data :-)
It's not just the tech stack, but a combination of the technical choices made and with the human procedures behind them. We're actively pushing towards getting everybody to focus on scalability, but there's still a lot of debt to take care of.
Agreed, though sometimes "the man with a hammer" has just run out of ideas and then DL gives you an inefficient and expensive half-solution (which is better than nothing). Same thing happened with genetic algorithms etc., nothing new under the sun.
I just wish big companies were more willing to remove this scar tissue.
Anyone have any examples of a "seminal" iOS app which is still 32 bit?
Unfortunately not, the largest individual objects are ~10 m in size and these images have a spatial resolution of 550 m, so they can't be resolved (at least in this orbit). The particles range between 1 cm to 10 m, but what's interesting is that it's possible to measure these sizes without actually directly imaging them. The sizes can be inferred from how much of different radio transmissions get absorbed as they pass from Cassini, through the rings, and then to a receiver station on Earth. The basic principle is that a 1 cm wavelength radio transmission will get absorbed by all particles equal to or larger than 1 cm in size. With transmissions at 1, 4, and 13 cm, rings with different compositions can be distinguished.

This method of radio occultation can be used to make very accurate physical models of the ring systems. See this comparison image [1], and this helpful description of the method from NASA [2].

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.orgthru/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Satu...

[2] http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07872
this look s ok but i don't see a section on pdb integration - i'd say thats key. I'm still looking for a sensible description of how to develop python in emacs. I'm amazed that there doesn't seem to be a de facto way to do it..
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Exactly the right response. You're not going to make that same mistake again, but if you were fired, your replacement very well might.
> the rights of religious business owners to act according to their conscience

Honest question: which right would that be? I've never heard about that before.
How would you resolve a production data replication issue in an environment other than production, or without access to the system?
Lack of fragmentation is a good thing.

As others have said important software will be made available.
Apple has the luxury of a dedicated userbase and can afford to make these calls.
Correct, I'm based in Europe/Amsterdam so this happened mostly during the evening.
You might want to check your Time Machine backups by hand from time to time using the tmutil[1] tool.

My Time Machine backups in the past have been missing gigabytes of data, without me telling anything about it. And not just volatile data, like temp files or caches, but photos, music and documents.

[1]: http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/21/compare-time-machine-backups-...
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It has been pointed out to me that literally has been used for emphasis since at least around the time Shakespeare was thrashing it out with a quill.

The two dictionaries I have at hand both list some variation of in effect; in substance; very nearly; virtually as one definition of literally.
It seems you solved the problem, but for the next time: You can add a U.S. address in your Amazon account (any random address will do) and set it as the primary address. Then buy the book, and right after switch the account back to your real address. I think I have even seen Amazon recommend this solution.
Assuming the neo-nazis are there just to eat and not to stir up a fight, I would say yes. But I'm not sure it's legal to walk around in Nazi uniforms.
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Not really, the iPhone 5C was sold worldwide up until September 2015 and was sold in India until February 2016 so anyone still using it will be stuck.
https://memegenerator.net/instance/75228340
I thought it made sense.

I know lots of non technically inclined people who use software every day. Most of them have no idea what free software is. If you asked them, they say it's software they don't have to pay for.

If you explained it to them, they wouldn't care. They neither care about not want the control and freedom granted by free software, nor are they going to start wanting it even if we spell out for them why it would benefit them. They'll take it if it means no effort or sacrifice on their part, but they're not going to ask for it or advocate for it or fight for it in any way.

What the grandparent was saying is that the vast majority of people neither care about nor want the additional control they'd have in a free software ecosystem. And I think he or she is correct.
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If only Bitcon had a high enough block size limit to allow more than 1.67 KB/s of transaction data per second. It could be a cryptocurrency, but it can't be Bitcoin.
Can't someone working for the company I bank with accidentally delete my debt and its backups? :P
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At work I have been given the task to study log aggregation tooling for an e-commerce platform.

Current situation:

- logs are stored locally on each server, preproduction, staging and production
- no log replication whatsoever
- no aggregation, no monitoring on errors
- volumetry is 'quite high' but I have not been able to stat is precisely yet

Goals:

- monitor application logs, not performance
- Self-hosted preferably, open source
- Remote log replication
- Real-time reporting, ability to "see" production errors quickly
- Alerting (Slack, mail...)

I have been studying different solutions but it seems none is absolutely perfect and here are the main pitfalls as I understand them:

Logs > ELK - Logstash is the bottleneck, a cluster of 5 servers seems to be recommended

Logs > MQ > InfluxDB > Grafana - no clustering in free version of InfluxDB

Logs > New Relic (free version) - No data retention (3 days), no deployment tracking

Logs > Syslog > rsyslog > syslog-ng > logz.io

Sentry?

----

I would appreciate any feedback on the matter. Thank you!
> We spent much more time than we expected on compatibility
We similarly had to spend more time on memory usage due to it being a bigger concern than expected

What did they expect anyway for starting from scratch instead of improving on existing solid implementations.
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Thanks for the kind words. I'm sorry for letting our users down. We'll ask the the 5 why's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys We need to go from the initial mistake (wrong machine, solve by better hostname display and colors), to the second (not having a recent backup), to the third (not testing backups), to the fourth (not having a script for backup restores), to the fifth (nobody in charge of data durability and no written plan). The solutions above are just guesses at this point, we'll dive into this in the coming days and will communicate what we will do in a blog post.
I think a sensible organisation should skip the usual hiring filters in new fields, because much like security you can scoop up really good people who happen to have "unconventional" backgrounds if you have competent people evaluating them.

Sometimes it's quite sensible to travel in the opposite direction to everybody else.
> Work is interrupted due to this, and due to spam/high load on GitLab.com

This is why spam should be illegal. The advertisers, the ISPs harboring them or their country should be taken on for damages. This not only prevented Gitlab from doing business, but also people who depend on them from doing business. It's criminal.
I did this program. I can say it was literally a waste of money. I planned on joining a member company (so I could complete the degree remotely) at some point but meh none were interesting enough to join. You can get all the value in this program for free by reading a couple textbooks.
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I stepped into someone's magsafe cable a few days ago and disconnected it. I don't know if I would have dropped the mac to the floor because it prevented us from discovering it :-)

I'm much more careful at placing my HP power cable on the ground and up to the desk and never got my pc pulled to the ground.
Oh yeah, ok, found this comment.

No, among the DoJ's jobs, the task to represent the USG before the judiciary is literally and explicitly given.

There's a special role in the DoJ dedicated to representing the government before the Supreme Court (Solicitor General), but other employees of the DoJ represent the executive branch before other courts.

See Executive Order 6166 (from FDR) [0], Section 5, which states in part "the functions of prosecuting in the courts of the United States claims and demands by, and offsenses against, the Government of the United States, and of defending claims and demands against the Government [...] are transferred to the Department of Justice."

From my reading, the act of Congress that created the Department of Justice in 1870 [1] had a similar purpose, and FDR's order was primarily to remove ambiguity and centralize, not to substantially change the DoJ's function. But I'm neither a lawyer nor a legal historian, so I could definitely be wrong about that.

In any case, yes, the thing that former acting AG Yates did does directly interfere with the DoJ's actual and real legal obligations to represent the executive branch. She instructed all DoJ attorneys to stop preparing/presenting legal defenses for Mr. Trump's Executive Order.

My reading of Sessions' line of questioning is a "Do you think you'd be able to function in a scenario when you need to tell the President that he is wrong", not "Are you prepared to assume for yourself the functions of the judiciary to satisfy your personal, ethereal sense of justice when a legal challenge against the president's orders is filed?"

[0] https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/execu...
[1] http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=01...
Google wins ‘right to be forgotten’ battle in Japan
I read the adult version as a teenager. Awesome book.
I have learned to control anxiety, and even fear, by simply pushing it from the chest down into the belly where it gets consumed. This was the phrasing someone used that I picked it up from, and it feels just like that. What I believe is really happening is really a realignment of breathing, just like you describe. It works.
I keep an eye on David Smith’s published iOS version stats[0] which say around 23% of his users are running a 32bit CPU. This includes iPhone 5/5C and older iPads.

https://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/
Can't name any site that uses <map> still other than http://www.teamfortress.com
To this I would add: always pass "-i" to any interactive use of mv. This has also helped me prevent data loss a few times.
> Attachments are literally always unnecessary.

Why? Are you dropping support to search through them?
Completely agree. This is 1000x better than the typical cooperate PR response that says nothing which we'll usually get. Kudos for their honesty and openness, even in a somewhat embarrassing situation such as that.