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> It's massive staffing issues. There are way too few people employed at the public service desks, and it's easier to hide this by blaming IT. This was the case years ago, and it still is.

Thank you for confirming my suspicions, fellow Munich-dweller.

While the mayor's office even publicly admit that the staffing situation is atrocious, they probably can't resist to pass at least some of the blame.
I had been asking myself this since I started following IndieHackers a couple of months ago. And now this article has brought up that issue more intensely. Point is, how can we really trust any article from the website if no minimal check is happening on the interviews ?
I don't think "in-rules" and "aggressive" are mutually exclusive.

It's fair to call blitzing the QB an aggressive move in American football.
I just don't think there are enough people in America right now with any extra money to spend on articles. The middle class has to worry about paying for food and necessities. Millennials can't afford cable, and people think they will pay for internet articles they are used to getting for free? That business model is doomed from day one.
Anything you read from S3 is, so yes.

The best way to prevent eventual consistency issues in s3 is to use immutable files. Then you have consistency-now.

They don't have explicit SLAs on this, unfortunately, but I've heard rumored that internal pagers start firing with consistency behind on the order of hours.
It can. I have a demo deployed on Heroku for this app (https://github.com/JangoSteve/websockets-demo), and I've seen it handle maybe about 40 or 50 clients at a time on a single dyno before (and each client streaming a bunch of events), even though it's intentionally implemented in the simplest (i.e. inefficient) fashion possible. The request overhead for normal HTTP request/response goes away, since you only need the request headers and handshakes once at the beginning for a persistent connection.
Anything that humans can do is a priori possible. :)

It is merely unlikely to happen while there is anything else left which we can't automate...
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I just started doing something myself. [0] RC2014 is a solid base, but doing the hardware yourself adds even more fun. I am currently waiting for my PCBs and then will start to assemble and program the thing.

[0] https://github.com/jhbruhn/CPD-80
If the laser gun is not part of the race, it's cheating (at best). I don't understand this nitpicking. Of course a gun is an aggressive tool. "Aggressive" and "competitive" are not mutually exclusive.
You are looking for anticipatory repudiation [1]. The Uniform Commercial Code in the U.S. regulates this and says the seller can collect damages as you'd expect. I think if a company tried to say "you can only cancel this contract if you personally serve it to our CEO who by the way is on vacation in the Caribbean so you'll have to fly down there" - that is, making it difficult to notify the seller of repudiation, then the court would probably find that unconscionable. I think as to what forms of notice are appropriate, it's probably instructive to look at related things like due process requirements for notice [2]. As I think about it, the mail system is probably the most standard system for entities (corporations, people, state governments, etc.) to notify each other about things, so just intuitively I would find it hard to believe that a company could get away with refusing a mailed repudiation of contract. I don't think for example you could send your repudiation through Twitter and expect it to be legally binding however. The important part is you put the other party on notice that you have repudiated the contract, and the due process example is interesting because satisfying due process doesn't require "actual notice" [3].

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_v._Flowers

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actual_notice
>This may be true but the actions of the Trump administration have many allies questioning how reliable the US is.

As compared to the actions of the previous administrations, like bombing in eastern Europe, invading several countries, and royally fucking up Middle East etc, while constantly pushing Russia in the corner in cold war like rhetoric (for doing 1/10 of what they did, and in its actual bordering countries after) all in the span of 20 years?
The question is, what you need 50k for.

For a office? Do it at home.
For people? 50k is nothing. You get half an engineere for a year.

50-100k can mean that you have friends working with you, or it can be that you moved back to your parents to work fulltime on it.

It is such a small number in the business world, its strange that someone thinks that 100k can make a real difference.
I think that generalizations on fats in diets don't work for analyzing different diets because of other factors like how much processed foods, sugar, and meat are in a person's diet.

My wife does well eating lots of butter and more meat. I do well by eating lots of vegetables. The only thing our diets really have in common is the avoidance of packaged/processed foods. It is some work, but people need to pay attention to how eating different foods make them feel, and over a long period of time.
In case of a World War, military alliances are going to happen whether you want it or not, with the difference that weaker countries will be up for grabs, like Czechoslovakia in WWII. And even Poland actually, UK declaring war after Poland's invasion being sort of a surprise for Hitler.
Have you noticed this in a statistically significant way or is there a reasonable chance this is just variance?
To add on to point 1 here, those sentence fragments should be links (and visually distinguished as them). Currently they're not, there's just the read more link - and if you go there and ctrl-f for any of the fragments (say "purpose", "frameworks and" or "basic website" you'll get nothing. So it's impossible to go from "that part of that chapter sounds good" to reading about it unless you know enough about the topic to ctrl-f a different term.
Since my mother faced this, I feel a bit sorry for the parents whose children died of SIDS before the cause was identified. Can you imagine the piled up guilt of knowing that you could have easily prevented the death of your child?

Frankly, it's a topic I avoid with her anymore.
"payment in Bitcoin." For the win!
That's as bad for compairing as giving file sizes in bytes, kilobytes and megabytes in the same listing.
> I am deeply suspicious of the motives here...

Munich native here.

Not even the mayor's office denies that the entire public service organisation is woefully understaffed.

While I've heard disconcerting things about the quality of especially their bespoke applications, it feels like they are looking for scapegoats.
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Just like the US bailed out Europe during the "external" migrant crisis, caused by inadequate US foreign policy in the Middle East?
I think it's really good. I often wonder how people learn to make websites these days - I made my first 20 years ago when it was all a lot more straightforward. Even a basic site needs a huge amount groundwork now.

The only comments I have is that it's technically "web design" rather than "web development", and there's nothing about taking the work the user has done and putting it on a server somewhere so other people can see it. It'd be a shame for someone to work through the whole thing and not have a working website at the end.

Awesome work.
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Really nice readable design that gets out of the way. And I can know from the URL that the page I'm going to will have really nice readable design that gets out of the way. It shouldn't be hard, but so many sites manage to get it wrong.
I keep thinking China could take the opportunity here to open up its own political system and really start competing against the US as a desired landing spot for US/EU tech/science grads, and other capable/interested young talent. In a play for "world dominance", this could be a prudent non-military move. It would force The West to reconsider the direction it's heading too.
You are correct. It seems they really should double-check their implementation for producing meaningful results before running bechmarks on it...
They require lots of very specific applications. From what one hears (Munich native here), many of them are pretty bad.

Now, being bespoke apps, they'd probably just as horrible if they if they were Windows apps, but it just gets rolled into the Linux blame.
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PHP is the bomb.
On the web, size matters
I think Mathologer's take is much more intuitive:

https://youtu.be/-dhHrg-KbJ0
>Now the threat is gone

Ukrainians, Georgians, Chechens and many others would disagree.
Like or hate the Cadillac Escalade, you have to admit the thin vertical taillights from the bumper almost to the roof certainly evoke their cars from the "tailfin" era, like the 1969 Eldorado.
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> That encourages dice rolling.

I wish more people saw it this way. Many seem to equate the actions of Trump with "shaking things up" and don't realize the potential implications or increased likelihood of conflict due to the ambiguity of the Trump foreign policy.

It's unlikely to impact most Americans or Europeans that are not in the military but good luck if you live in a potential flashpoint.
You are thinking on the wrong scale.

The main spillway has been running at 100000 cubic feet per second. To carry that in 3 foot pipes (7 square foot cross section), you'd need hundreds or thousands of them (so a few just wouldn't do much of anything).

Same with trying to bypass the water to somewhere else. To make a difference the bypass needs to be at a similar scale to the spillway, carrying tens of thousands of cubic feet per second.
Not sure why you are grayed out. From what i can tell you are absolutely right. Before that america was usually discussed as some "crazy big brother" kind of position, especially since they started bombing and droning civils it went more to "evil big brother" but still a big brother. From what i can tell the public view changed since the election and the U.S. is seen as some kind of possible threat for our society and economy.
The history of my country (Poland) tells me that military alliances are worth shit when someone decides to call the bluff. The Second World War started with France and Britain failing to fulfil their obligations when Hitler invaded Poland. Somehow I don't expect NATO troops to show up if Russian forces cross the Polish-Ukrainian border.
>The reluctance comes from what I expect to be some chaos as the world shifts to a multi-polar world.

As a fellow taxpayer, I just want to point out that another way to look at ROI on our military industrial complex is global stability safe for commerce which leads to things like being the world's reserve currency, having our debt viewed as the safest global asset class, etc. It strikes me as foolhardy to want to give this up, even if nothing lasts forever.

Edit/addition/afterthought: There are other ways to pare back military (and all special interest) spending and influence- which is a worthy effort- without abdicating a global leadership role.
For those already keen on understanding these kinds of relationships, sure. I spend more time concerned with the large swathes of people who think that the machinations of a trans-national fascist alliance are a return to "populism" and "individual sovereignty."
FireHOL is a language (and a program to run it) which builds secure, stateful firewalls from easy to understand, human-readable configurations. The configurations stay readable even for very complex setups.

FireHOL Home: http://firehol.org/
the configuration they provide is wrong on many things

1/ it says "An nginx config for your first million users",

but:	worker_connections 768;

2/ html5-sse.conf:

proxy_buffering off;

bad idea for a loaded server / backend

proxy_cache off;

will enable proxy_cache, which is not defined anywhere, so this will actually fail to validate - and proxy_cache is already disabled when you're doing proxy_buffering off;

3/ https.conf:

resolver 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 valid=300s;

bad idea to trust anything but a local resolver, why do you trust internet to tell you IP addresses where you will go for ssl stapling info?
Or write in a way that's light, friendly, and engaging. Not everyone wants something that's "fast and efficient" and information-dense, perhaps especially not people taking a beginner's course on HTML and CSS.
We seriously need self destructing time based keys.

Once a device does not have a password in a time defined by the user - all of it is wiped.

It goes without saying that this should be off by default but definitely a good feature.
The advice is to put the child to sleep on their back, not to keep them on their back all night.

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I don't think they'd want to make significant changes to their political system. The Chinese middle class is already larger than the US middle class (and growing), so they're already going to be the culturally dominant force over the next century.

Edit: "they" above being those in power. Obvs there are people in China who want reform.
You need to compute king - man + woman, since, in a well learned model, the king - queen vector is similar to the man - woman vector.

These gender-based vector differences can be explained as capturing syntactic rather than semantic information, but semantic relations (Rome:Italy -> Paris:France) can also work.
On the subject of discs, I just realised I can't actually remember the last time I used CD / rotational optical media of some kind, I honestly can't! If I had to guess what the reason for it might have been I'd probably go with some obscure band (music) that only had physical distribution - but generally in those cases (no pun intended) I'd most likely but the CD to support the artist then check on what.cd (R.I.P) (pun slightly intended) and saved myself the pain of finding an optical drive and ripping it into my collection. It's likely it would have been something like that I think.

Sorry for being a bit off-topic there but it was a bit of a 'oh, wow!' moment.
Isn't Ukraine to blame for derailing the NATO membership?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%E2%80%93NATO_relations

We are talking about a key component of the former Soviet Union, with a big chunk of their population being pro-Russia, as they share much of their history with Russia, so even before the soviets they were part of the Russian Empire and of the Kievan Rus' state. Don't get me wrong, I've very sympathetic towards Ukraine's citizens that are pro-EU, however if I'm seeing any country having problems in joining NATO, it's definitely them.
For me it's all about how you frame the question of why you're building things.

The first tune I built something it wasn't with a big vision to be the next Facebook (Facebook didn't exist then actually :)) but it was something I needed, and I figured I'd just see if other people needed it too.

Other times, I've built things purely as a learning exercise, so you can't fail if you launch, you've actually succeeded just because you launch, what comes later doesn't matter.

Once I'd launched a couple of times, the fear factor didn't really come into mind anymore.
Is there a clear sharp line where e.g. Estonia is a "real" US interest and Crimea isn't? I mean NATO membership is a line, but it's not feeling as solid as it used to.
If you want to get into the details of Calculus

Professor Leonard https://www.youtube.com/user/professorleonard57

Herbert Gross MIT Calculus Revisited: Multivariable Calculus https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1C22D4DED943EF7B

Herbert Gross MIT Calculus Revisited: Calculus of Complex Variables https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD971E94905A70448

Herbert Gross MIT Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3B08AE665AB9002A

MIT 18.02 Multivariable Calculus, Fall 2007 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4C4C8A7D06566F38

MIT 18.02SC: Homework Help for Multivariable Calculus https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF07555F3CC669D01

MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2006 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL590CCC2BC5AF3BC1

MIT 18.01SC: Homework Help for Single Variable Calculus https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL21BCE50ABFF029F1
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I agree, but it would take more than political reform to make China an attractive landing spot. Pollution and food safety are also big problems, for example, to the extent that my spouse (who is Chinese) and I have discussed and rejected the idea of raising our children in China, independent of qualms about the political system.
Well, that was an interesting read. Judging by the received SMS people, for example, register Whatsapp accounts with those numbers!
In most of those benchmarks rust is slower because it lacks SIMD support, not because of compiler optimizations.
fascinated by the shinny colorful reflection of CDs

And then later on even more fascinated with the production of all black cd's etc. To be honest, I like those as well, probably just beacuse it's something different.

And yes there's something to say for the sturdyness of MD and the 'openness' (almost open-source like lol) of tape.
I think You have it the wrong way around - CHina will tell the west how to organize itself, and many people are going to find it hard to argue, especially when the crop of leaders in the west become more unpredictable, less inclined to follow science or systems.

the political and citizen class are currently sufficiently satisfied with their arrangement, that they will do what they can to maintain the system.
"is currently fighting in and occupying a European country."
If Russia were fighting Ukraine, the war would be over in 1 week.
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Short of world dominion, you're never going to eliminate threats. The best one can manage is to manage them.
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I think a little chaos from the transition won't be nearly as bad as the bizarre paternalistic "we know best" puppet master horseshit that the USA is known for. Not to mention the mountains of bodies created in the process.

I just hope people start questioning whatever institutions they are part of more and more, government, private or other. Trump is not on your team, neither is Facebook, neither is your employer, neither is your school. Stop looking for meaning there.
> • Fix the display for code that indents with tabs. It still defaults to 8 columns

God made the ASR-33 with 8-column tabs for a reason. ;-)

As for style, it is relatively easy to make a browser plugin that overrides the default styles of a site. While working for Canonical, I did one for Launchpad:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/launchpad-tweaks/p...
http://bugs.python.org/
I suppose it's like with regular file systems -- don't have too many files in a directory.

In your use case, consider `/path/to/big-dir/AA/AABB/AABBCC` or similar?
Binney is currently saying mostly the right things. That isn't to say that his story is especially believable. His team of heroes developed a system that "would have worked", had it been used. Yet he also tells us it has been used quite a bit since then, only with all the human rights protections stripped out. It seems as though "terrorism" still happens? Also, in future, we ought to build fewer super-powerful surveillance machines with "To Violate the Constitution, Press This" buttons.
A next field of conflict is Belarus, which tries to distance itself from Russia. It's not NATO, it's not a country with a security guarantee like the Ukraine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...) , it's not trying to connect itself to the EU (like the Ukraine), but still it could be a next conflict.

Then there are European countries not in NATO, but cooperating with NATO, like Sweden and Finland. Both have a border with Russia.
There are literally huge debates about minor things like this in car magazine reviews, followed by tens of thousands of comments on various automotive forums debating the finer aesthetics of different head or tail light designs. It can get downright vitriolic: one person's beautiful is another's fugly.

A couple years ago I drove a car with very distinctive tail lights (the Mercedes CLA AMG: http://images.caricos.com/m/mercedes-benz/2014_mercedes-benz...

I found the tail lights to be the first thing anyone spoke of when talking about the car - in person most people said they loved them, online many people hated them except for the base of customers that loved the car. And no amount of performance data would convince them to drive the car - the tail lights were THE deal breaker.

I've had similar debates over he colour of mud flaps I had on my old Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution (they were red, on a metallic orange car). Again, people online in enthusiast forums felt I was mentally ill and they would never drive such a monstrosity, it was just a personal preference for me. The colour for them was the deal breaker. http://www.zercustoms.com/news/images/Mitsubishi/Lancer-Evol...

Just like some won't drive a green car even if it has amazing stats.

The moral is: Most people don't think like engineers, for better or worse.
> These precisely cancel each other, and the "light density" stays the same.

This is very useful for a photographer! Want to correctly expose some small part of a scene? You can walk right up to that thing, use your light meter (either the one in your camera or a handheld) to set the exposure, and then walk away, recompose, change your lens... and still get the correct exposure.

Until I understood this, I didn't really "get" how a hand-held light meter could be useful.

There are two caveats to this. Make sure you don't cast a shadow over the subject when you're metering it; and if the subject is emitting light or has specular reflections, then it might not emit equally in all directions.

On this latter point, an interesting question is why the moon appears as a disk of constant brightness, but the sun is darker around the edges (BUT DON'T LOOK AT THE SUN WITHOUT PROPER PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT, obviously)
> Losing weight, especially fat does wonders for insulin sensitivity, though.

Agreed.

> The low carb group lost 6.2 kg of fat. That is a lot. I do wonder what happens if you look at insulin sensitivity when weight and fat mass remains mostly neutral. I do not know if there are studies done on that (in humans). I will have a look around.

Sure, but if it's purely weight dependant, then high fat isn't a factor. And if it's not, why did it increase sensitivity?

I'm not trying to say that fat is the one solution to everything, but I'm definitely saying it's not the one cause for everything. I can cite multiple studies showing the various detriments of carbs, and likewise the pitfalls of fat, but when the circumstances are key, then isn't that simply the answer?

Don't be afraid of butter and eggs, don't be afraid of rice and carrots. Eat everything in moderation. Maybe stay away from sugar and deep fried treats?
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Current Storage vs Capacity Levels:

https://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/dee79515

The overflow lasted for 45 hours.
> Frankly, it's a topic I avoid with her anymore.

Couldn't you just stop haunting her from beyond the grave entirely?
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