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HEADLINE: Streamlined terminal window size and positioning

DESCRIPTION: As a developer, I spent most of my time in the terminal. Having ctrl-alt-t to open a terminal is super helpful, but the default positioning is less than ideal because there is a lot of wasted space with the default terminal size, and a lot of overlapping for a large size. I used to use x-tile in Ubuntu 14.04 and its "quad-<something>" option, but it is broken in Ubuntu 16.10 at least for me (dual monitor). I now use ctrl-alt-<numpad keys> to organize the windows, but still feel there has to be something better than that.
if you want something complicated to study, here is my old DaemonShape, dynamic shaper.. https://github.com/daemonna/bashtools/blob/master/daemon_sha... ..should be self-explanatory when you run with help.
On the Nexus 5X/6P and some other new phones, there's a separate /vendor partition for proprietary blobs that can be updated separately from your Android distro (which is at /system). Granted, the Nexus is Google-related and I'm not sure if that's the case on other devices…

By the way, the upstream Linux kernel supports the Nexus 5X! http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.9...

And the bootloaders are based on fastboot pretty much everywhere I think? At least that was the case with the non-Google-related HTC phone I've had.
related: https://www.axios.com/computer-programmers-may-no-longer-be-...
>You don't really seem to think your religion's tenets are "ethereal and inconsequential".

Surely I do. Religion deals with the tangible only indirectly. It is focused on the supernatural. Religious condemnation, to the extent it occurs, is not material in reality.

If one truly believed they were doomed, they would want to live as long as possible and put off the anticipated divine punishment.

>Then I encourage you to read more about the phenomenon.

As you say, "shame is indeed what this is all about". The assumption that one is an ignoramus based on their disagreement with a popular belief is an attempt to humiliate people into silence.

I know the argument well. They are always variations of "the Church told me not to do something that I wanted to do. I told them that I couldn't help it, so I was going to do it anyway, and they said, 'Sorry, it's still against the rules.' This caused me untold anxiety and has made me suicidal." I'm not ignorant to such arguments; I simply do not find them credible.
You could get similar performance with a C or C++ extension, or by using Cython. 99% of your application is probably not generating simplex noise or doing anything CPU-bounded like that.
This is likely because the gpu has specific hardware for drawing the cursor on top of the current framebuffer, which can be turned off quicker than the character can be drawn to the framebuffer
Wait, what? Can you clarify?

Obviously SSN is treated as secret when it isn't. I've heard noises about re-issuing SSNs from deceased people, but didn't think it had happened. But is it not unique among living citizens? That's huge and I've never heard of it.
I was thinking about this the other day looking at a billboard, talking about how Alive/Bob/Carol wasa winner! at the local casino, with a tiny 'play responsibly' box huddled in the corner. I don't have a strong opinion about gambling but I do care about externalities, and I was amused by the idea that some percentage of billboards (reflective of the incidence of problematic gambling) should feature Alive, Bob and Carol losing everything to their great despair, but with the same logo and typesetting choices as the positive advertising.

More seriously, I think first amendment protections for commercial speech are too generous. Game theory tells us that perverse incentives will often win out, and while it's tempting to fall back on caveat emptor it's also a cop out. The reality is that the huge and increasing information asymmetry between organizations and individuals leads inevitably to inequitable outcomes; further, it's entirely predictable that by swamping the recipient of a contract with reading material they'll just go ahead and agree to it because it's not obvious that it will be worth the effort of analysis. I can't remember the last time I read a EULA, and I like reading contracts and legal documents.

Free business idea: a fiduciary AI that parses contracts, simplifies contractual terms for maximum clarity, and rates contracts on their adherence to/deviation from industry norms.
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Having grown up in a lower-middle class neighborhood and lived among people who the OP was speaking about, I can assure you that they were not "unbanked" or "underbanked" because of any sort of risk profile attached to banking.

They didn't have checking accounts because they were generally unable to attain one.
The article explains why the search algorithm is valid. But it doesn't explain why the tree should be built up in the way described.

Is there some rationale? And can it be extended to non-integer metrics?
In Belgium we receive a national ID chip card which can be used as a PIN-protected client certificate on websites, including all government sites. Identity theft is pretty much impossible unless someone physically steals your ID.

I never understood the privacy concern that americans have about a national ID card when the government knows all the same things about them, and can abuse it in all the same ways. It's like having all the downsides of a national ID, without the upside of being protected against identity theft.
The medical community just needs to have better crispr systems than the few nefarious actors.

It does seem likely that an arms race will likely occur.
You still need all of these things. An x64 Intel Processor manufactured in 2017 still boots into real mode at startup exactly like the original did 30 years ago. Complete with segmented mode without memory protection, multitasking, or code privilege levels, just as AT/AT compatible as the day it was born.
Yes. Lots of private individuals as well as fleets will pre-order trucks to get the exact options they want.
Yes and no. Google could rework Android such that it would be easier for companies to apply their own UX without doing deep code changes.

Also, they could isolate the Java VM layer further such that it could be updated independently of the Linux kernel and related userland.
Cheap flights to Rome from Athens
Oh, I meant the prepaid cash-like Visa or Mastercard cards that you can pick up in supermarkets. Not a debit card from a bank.
#2 is the right way to do it and how we do it.

#1 isn't an option for us because we don't take upfront payment, or really any money directly, from our clients. Tons of companies try this and it's expensive and doesn't convert well for everyone. In certain kinds of sales pipelines this works, but many times it's just people searching for a coupon code online and you don't get accurate information about what converted.
Credentialism and Corruption: Medical Coding and Symbol Manipulators
It's a pretty common narrative. And it's an easy one to exploit. Hitler used anti-semitism to make it an even more poignant narrative. Instead of a distant foreigner, the Nazis got to point at foreigners who were living amongst them: Jews. And that, in particular, was a very, very old narrative that the Jewish people had been forced to suffer many times before.

One of the most interesting classes I took as an undergrad was a history course that focused on the challenges that faced Jews during and after the diaspora, and how they met those challenges while somehow managing to preserve their culture, faith, and a shared sense of identity over the course of--literally--millennia as a minority group inside other cultures and empires. Maristella Botticini's The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 is one of a few rather fascinating books on the subject.
somewhat cynical if not necessarily unfounded
> people are often behind NAT

Today, yes. But back in those days? I'm not so sure. IIRC, almost everyone had a public IP.
That seems to be pretty weak evidence of verification not being through TLS. There could easily be an additional connectivity check that is http-based (that was blocked by the captive portal) before proceeding onto a standard TLS handshake.

As 'klodolph mentions, there's a lot of layers of verification for software updates. Before install proceeds, the verification requires a cryptographic signature from an Apple authorization server in response to submitted device ID + hashes of the package to be installed. Then at boot time, the signature is verified again by the standard boot process (burnt-into-silicon Apple root CA pubkey verifies the bootloader integrity, which then verifies the iOS kernel integrity, which then re-hashes the update package and re-verifies the signatures to make sure there's not a rootkit or MITM interfering with hashing and verification). Only then is an update actually allowed to be installed.
Ford sells 6.5 million cars a year, and only 12,000 of them in Sweden. Ford already makes an electric car, and 12K cars is 3-4 weeks of production from one production line in one of their factories.
Sadly, suing for the harms caused by someone else's presumption of guilt flips the responsibility around - now you have to do the expensive work of proving they acted harmfully and illegally.

Probably what they did was legal, but even if not it would be the work of months or years and many thousands of dollars to get any kind of compensation.
Thanks, I was wondering how you get that "Build/Passing" thing on the GitHub.

I'm also not sure if Apache is outdated, like I should really move to NGINX or Node/Amazon, I have yet to configure overflow handling (forwarding traffic in the event of a server not being able to handle it all) I was looking at public cloud before, kind of interesting, said something like $0.010/ or maybe $0.10/GB not sure if that was storage or bandwidth but yeah. I also wonder how hard/how you should create quick "copies" or "images" of your application and then be able to forward traffic to that.
It's always hard to tell who would win a court case, but it seems to me like she would have lost that case. In general, it's hard to recover damages from honest mistakes, and doubly so when there was a procedure in place, and that procedure was followed.

In addition, driving in the US is a privilege rather than a right, so despite the fact that the majority of the US needs to drive to work, the burden of proof for revoking or suspending a drivers license is relatively low.
"This announcement contains inside information."

That single line at the end of the document means that any buying or selling of Apple or Imagination shares could be considered insider trading.

Is this legal black magic to void trades that have hammered their stock price?
What is this "fuck sea" you're talking about and how do I sail in it?
No because there's no information traveling between the two particles. The particle that gets measured 'first' still has a random state. Also forcing one of the particles into a particular state to try to send a message breaks entanglement.
I think the American use of "liberal" comes from social liberalism [1], which is certainly to the left of classical liberalism. In Europe "liberal" is more traditionally use to mean classical liberalism, hence the discrepancy. But both usages seem proper to me.

That said, we've been hearing about social liberalism quite a lot over the last few months in France. The left tends to brand itself as socialist, so "social democrat" and "social liberal" are rather foreign to our traditional political scene. But it is changing fast: the current president, Hollande, is now usually depicted as a social democrat by the media, and the soon to become president (according to the current polls [2]) Macron is usually depicted as a social liberal.

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

[2] At this point in time it seems hard to imagine that he would not win. But of course things can change very quickly:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_de_sondages_sur_l%27%C3%...
Also if they get to repatriate their overseas money that would allow them more ability to acquire companies important to their business.
Why wouldn't you blame a parent for having a child (assuming consensual sex between people who understand where babies come from) when said adult is not capable of caring for it?
Teaching a robot to cook by watching YouTube videos [pdf]
I think OP was referring to young Earth creationism
Still, the place name could well have retained its deceptive power for hundreds of years, coloring people's expectations.

For hundreds of years, Viking real estate agents had a field day thanks to the name, I suspect. Every minute a new sucker is born, among Viking's too.

Also, the Vikings wanting to get the hell out of Greenland would continue to have an incentive to lie to the ones who had never been there: like to be able to sell them their assets that are fixed or that they don't intend to take.

Had Erik called it "Frozen Wasteland", that would have been it. No hundreds of years of settlement, nothing. The few lunatics would continue to have a hard time convincing anyone else to join them.
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That's why people put pressure on the administrators of pension funds to invest or divest in accordance with political goals.
Another interesting but less talked about tree is the Bkd tree.

https://medium.com/@nickgerleman/the-bkd-tree-da19cf9493fb
" The response latency of the real world is zero. When you pick up an object, your fingers and the object move in lockstep."

This is a misleading and mostly false statement.

The human consciousness requires time for discrete data to be combined by the brain into what we perceive.

It is NOT instantaneous in real life. There is multiple forms of biological latency from the maximum speed of electrical impulse propagation through neurons to the "compile time" of the brain to assemble and modify information into a cohesive output for internal human consumption.

It may seem pointless to point this out, but many sources indicate that the delay between real life and perception is ~80 miliseconds, around 1/10th of a second.

These are speeds which are highly relevant to the discussion of software lag, as a program running 60 times per second updates several times during the "brain lag" of 80ms.

(Oh and the reason why you can overcome the 1/10th of a second lag and have your hand move in lockstep with reality is a variety of compensation mechanisms, like proprioception, which allow you to estimate where your hand will be in relation to reality and achieve it successfully).

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/time-on-th...
Tangentially relevant, but I've been part of several communities that have discovered a lot of interesting things about some video games using high-speed cameras.

Super Smash Bros. Melee: A game where input lag really matters a lot, the reason we still play using CRTs, not only has several frames of input lag, but it's not a constant number of frames of lag. It can range from 2 to 5 frames of input lag.

Tetris the Grandmaster series: Another game where input lag has a huge impact not only has several frames of input lag (and people have resorted to all sorts of ways to reduce it, including AHK scripts that constantly move the mouse on Windows XP) but the first two games of the series don't run at 60Hz. TGM1 runs at a slightly lower rate, not really significant, but TGM2+ runs at 62.68Hz, which is quite significant and makes some of the challenges a tad harder.

Both of these communities took the measuring test a few steps further than what can be done with isitsnappy. They connected LEDs to the buttons so it was easier to know precisely in what frame the button was pressed.

Someone in the Melee community also placed photoresistors close to the screen and used an oscilloscope to know exactly when the brightness changed.

Not exactly the most relevant anecdotes, but I felt like sharing.
Certain foodstuffs are also more expensive on Caribbean Islands (not as high as remote Alaskan towns, but more expensive than the continental US). Brand names are also way more expensive there (for the most part) than off brands. Lots of Ultra Pasteurized products for sale as well.
There are a small number of known advantageous mutations already present in a small number of humans that could be introduced to larger numbers via CRISPR, brought to the clinic as a somatic gene therapy for adults. This is an enormous market in comparison to "merely" curing all genetic disease, as near every adult human would be able to benefit.

Not much movement in getting that into the clinic yet, however, for reasons that are entirely cultural. The first company to get one of these working via medical tourism will make a lot of money. CRISPR makes that goal pretty easy in comparison to the past.

These changes include things like extra follistatin or knocking out myostatin to gain greater muscle growth and less fat tissue, or removing or disabling ANGPTL4 to reduce heart attack risk by 50%. There are others along the same lines and more are being discovered as sequencing becomes ever cheaper.

The comparative lack of effort to make enhancement gene therapies a reality is nothing short of crazy, given the observed benefits in the few humans lucky enough to already have these variants or loss of function mutations.
It's insane. That's exactly what I was told. Working as hard as I can in off hours to change my situation.
I'm curious? Why are electronic forms inferior. I mean what's the alternative? I've never considered that before.
It is half-responsible, but MS did the necessary thing to achieve their capability to independently update the OS (and deliver it as binaries, instead of letting phone vendors built it from source, which MS do not want to distribute to anybody): they specified a common plateforme for ARM phones, that is, IIRC, basically ARM + ACPI.

Then they mandated secure boot with keys that cannot be controlled by the user, so that other systems can not leverage the platform on W10M hw :p . (That's in the spirit of what BG wanted for ACPI: something somehow incompatible with other OSes -- MS eventually managed to do this with a sidestep, but well, this did not really help their market share :P )
> make clear the person saying them is a deranged crank or troll with nothing valuable to contribute.

Clearly you don't know who tptacek is if you think he fits that bill.
I dunno. Enthusiasts may track the versions coming out of Google HQ. But for most updating is a hassle rather than something they look forward to. This because it means downtime for their device, and if the update fails it may leave them with a bricked device (chance is small, but it is still in the back of their mind).

For most people a computer, a phone, or a tablet is an appliance.
>If they launch an Uber clone as well (which they have implied they might)

Lol. Yes, the second most unprofitable tech company in the world should clone the first most unprofitable tech company. Why not.
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College degrees still mostly have a good ROI. The huge lie is the ROI on pedigree, prestige, whatever you want to call it. Kids are still being told to apply to expensive small private schools and to worry about the financial aid process later. Kids are told to find the right fit.

None of that really matters. The big ROI is just getting a degree or the type of degree. There are few elite schools that have a much better ROI but they tend to be very generous with financial aid anyway.

Also, community colleges are a great resource. As long as community colleges exist, we shouldn't even allow student loans for the freshman and junior year. You can do your first two years while working part time to pay the very minor tuition. Then you can transfer to another school. Every flagship state school takes tons of transfers. My buddy transferred from a podunk community college to Stanford.

And when you transfer you should go to a cheap school. Unless you get a great college scholarship, it should be your state's flaghship public school.

Nortwestern is a great school, but not 150k better than UIUC (and for engineering its not better period). If you get a nice financial aid award, great, but otherwise don't go. My college counselor in high school was telling people to pay full price for DePaul instead of UIUC just because they wanted a "city experience." No, that's not worth it.
Ever since the influence of Edward Bernays, advertisers and consumers don't live in reality, and big companies make more money than before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
Tesla is _priced_ as if they are already building vans, pickups, and semis.
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Unfortunately, US politics are really weird and unlikely to get better without at least a constitutional amendment or two. We're stuck unable (unwilling...) to avoid all kinds of awful things necessary for participation in a modern economy, but able to squash any government-related approaches to mitigate the awfulness. This includes simple stuff like national ID.

We must have something like unique individual IDs, but a significant faction of political actors don't want it, so nothing official exists. Instead we get terrible, insecure, miserable-to-deal-with, ad hoc, de facto national IDs of various kinds. It's the worst of both worlds—no actual extra freedom, lots of pointless inconvenience, expense, risk, and anxiety. If that last list looks like what our health care system produces, too, that's not an accident—this is the kind of situation our government (and their private partners) excel at creating.
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