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I think you missed the point being made by the person you replied to. The only 10.04 install you should encounter exists due to ignorance and not due to upgrade cost as with a non-open OS. XP/Vista/7/8/10 don't get upgraded due to them being proprietary and having a single point of support (concerning OS level exploits).

So, 1. because there is a community outside of a major corp who are active, so it isn't a burden on Canonical.
2. yes? see 1.

Should any IT professional not have upgraded from 10.04? No. It's free to upgrade, unlike Win which, remember, isn't a single upgrade, licensing is per user.
RPi corrupting SD cards, how did you confirm it was RPi the one at fault?
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I'm an artist. I've been doing art since I was a child: I started oil painting when I was 8 or something, and remember drawing and coloring being one of my favorite activities as a young child (before kindergarten). I can't properly explain how I see things the way I do. I can't really explain why I choose some colors in non-realistic pieces other than "they look good", although I know that learning color theory from the color wheel helps explain that and helps folks learn. It took me some time to learn to explain this stuff to others. I'm not autistic, though I likely have a mild case of dyslexia.

I always imagine that skilled mathematicians are somewhat the same. It isn't that it only works for someone that already knows, it is more that they are writing the books for folks whose mind simply has that sort of slant to it.

If we change all the books to help someone like me - I generally did poorly in algebra, trig, and calculus but found geometry fairly straighforward - that's going to let the other folks down because their mind's logic simply doesn't work on the same wavelength. This isn't autism, but simply human variation.
Meanwhile, phones are getting bigger.

Could it be that this is the reason for the decline in tablet sales?
I think the original statement was accurate. And it's not working.
Uber will have a rough awakening.
Frankly, Schedule 7 stops need to be eliminated, since they only seem to be used to harass and intimidate minorities.
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Why talk about the US? It's only one market of many.
In many other countries Uber has been banned.
I don't remember even seeing doors that were more than a privacy shield before 9/11. Sometimes it was just a curtain, and sometimes, it stayed opened during flight.
Fair enough, I got hung up on the lack of guarantees to distribute code alongside compiled applications.

Would you say compiled MIT programs are still "free software" when they don't come with the source code?
We're not at that juncture, and, I wouldn't assume there isn't a way around it. You could still obfuscate information in your brain such that it's hard to decode.
I understand your point, and in the big picture you are correct. The issue is only 12% of employers offer any kind of paid parental leave, so these companies are still pro-women even if they aren't perfect. If you criticize them they have the option of going back to nothing for everyone, fairer but significantly worse.
I just think that this will take possibly a very long time. Lyft wants to stay in the US and just partner with services in other countries. So new ones need to pop up and not suck (I tried a local South African one, besides no available drivers where I was, the app was absolutely horrible) AND manage to survive long enough to actually be a relevant service compared to uber.
Depresses me that Apple is trying to force real computers to stop being a thing just to try and make the iPad the true revolution that they still believe it is.

I feel Jobs saw the value in real computers even if a bit more locked down than self built they were still real computers. Compared to Cook who doesn't seem to understand or even like computers and thinks the future is in devices.

I just don't see why Apple can't accept that iPads might be great for kids, people who purely use machines for consumption and my parents but iPads are worthless to some of us who need to actually use the full potential of computers.
I think Waymo doesn't want to have Uber as a competitor. They want to shut them out of the market. A market that Uber needs to have a future.
I'm not sure, I only learned to manage services when I was already on Windows 7.
>I use an iPad4 as a radio and the podcast app is a miserable laggy and unresponsive experience.

So what about the other 10+ podcast apps out there?
Maybe their math is correct, but the presentation here doesn't seem right. "Not so — there is no focal ‘point’ here but a focal line. As we move through and past 550 AU, we take advantage of the fact that the focal line extends to infinity."

Light is reversible, even if the space is curved. If all light from the "focal line" gathers at the focal point on the other side of the star, where does it go in reverse?
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No, that's all Trump. He interviews terribly, which is part of what makes him appealing to people fed up with what they perceive to be the failings of professional politicians - whatever else he may be, he certainly is not that.
Also many common problems like targeting the correct Jdk, customize start parameters and classpath, shipping agents, selecting native libraries etc. are nowadays better solved by using capsule for packaging.

It gets you a single jar without classloader interference or onejar-zipping madness

It even supports automatic download of dependencies like the clojure runtime and sharing those between apps.

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When the vendor does that, everyone complains about forced updates. And the vendor's patch is likely to be better than a grey-hat hack, by virtue of having perfect knowledge of the systems they're patching.
Machos go to whatever gets them social status. They will move from math to physics when physics becomes important and then to programming when that one becomes cool. If art would be cool, machos would go back to writing poems.
I'm flying significantly less, you could try that?
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The difference is you need to have a phone and contract, so might as well buy a new and have it subsidized, whereas you (generally) don't need to have a tablet and contract.

Most iPads sold I'd guess are just wifi models.
Yes. Mixins are a particularly handy and slightly less dangerous form of multiple inheritance than multiple inheritance from two fully-fledged and usable classes (which IME causes more problems than it solves). I didn't intend to imply they weren't multiple inheritance. Would it have been clearer to have said "with" instead of "and"?
We engrave all sorts of things that didn't exist before, like phones and tablets.
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Yeh, in my experience UberLUX cars in London have all been chauffeurs picking up Uber work between booked chauffeur jobs.
We need to be careful with the scope here, I think. "War on general-purpose computing" is already abstract enough most people just roll their eyes and move on; expanding that to "war on freedom" guarantees that almost nobody will care.

I have mixed feelings about what to do. On the one hand, there would be merit in requiring a professional license for programmers like in other engineering fields - a lot of the mess in our industry could be removed if at least some jobs would require a license, which would give both a recognized right to refuse work based on ethical issues (backed by professional association) and the liability in case you fucked up badly and people died.

On the other hand, I fear the day when Turing-complete systems will get regulated and require a (probably expensive) license to use. Like many others here, I benefited a lot from being able to tinker with computers and programming languages in my teenage years, before I had access to formal education on the topic. I would like my children to have the same chance.

In a way, my feelings are reflected on a smaller scale in the way I feel about sandboxing. On the one hand, I appreciate the idea of isolation and don't like user-hostile software to be able to do whatever it wants on my system. On the other hand, I'd love to have the right to breach the sandbox myself and mess with software running on it. On Windows I still can alter GUI elements of running applications; try that on unrooted Android.

If it was just about security vs. freedom, then the problem would be relatively easy; some compromise could be reached (e.g. expanded definition of "life-critical" systems which would require licenses, and also hopefully licenses for jobs requiring use of personally identifiable information). As it is, there are other selfish/malicious actors in play - like music/movie industry pushing for DRM, corporations fighting for their walled gardens, etc. It'll be hard to navigate this problem space.
They're not the only ones in this situation. Statistically speaking, very few journalists come from backgrounds where they really met any poor people:

https://www.nuj.org.uk/news/elitist-journalism/

> 54 per cent of the 'top hundred media professionals' had been educated at private schools, as opposed to 7 per cent of the population.

There are many studies for stuff like this. And this is an example where the writer still isn't too divorced from the lower rungs of society. Contrast to:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/13/privil...

> Indeed, British journalists, the supposed tribunes of the people, now hail from wealthier backgrounds than, er, bankers

There is a definite disconnect here, and the effects are pretty easily seen in the papers and online news sites.
You could use Git-LFS for managing huge data blobs with Git?
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Anything with an Amlogic S905, cheap and popular in China, will decode H265 in hardware at 4K. I like the Xiaomi Hezi 3.

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>Also, iPads serve mostly three purposes

Check mail, social media (Facebook etc), read books and browse in bed relaxed, etc.

And those are just the main uses for everybody. There are tons of niche uses so that most people, if they have any kind of hobbies/interests outside of web/movies, end up having one or two.
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I'd disagree, the 22 year old in every case to me.
The exploit was released in April. Microsoft patched it in March. How did Wikileaks play any role in the problem getting fixed?
Exactly. First of all, I'd like to be in control of sandboxing. Secondly, and this is just my dream, I'd love sandboxing to be designed to allow me as a user to easily pierce it, so that I could e.g. augment a sandboxed app with my own code if I don't like how it does something.

Unfortunately, the nature of the world is such that if you allow users to control sandboxing, the next wave of attacks will come from applications that kindly ask users to disable the sandbox because of $reasons.
> Yes, Tim Cook says he does all of his work on an iPad

That may be a reason why mac OS X has become so unstable in the past couple of years. My system crashes once a week with random slowdowns once a day. I also feel that Apple is completely out of touch with what people actually want on a mac and that would explain it too.
I've been dabbling with re-purposing second-hand thin clients for years (NSLU, various Wyse, Neoware and HP clients).

My current favourite is HP t520 (dual core AMD embedded apu, fanless, M2 SSD drive, a miniPCIe slot, gbit ethernet, USB 3.0 and low power consumption). I haven't measured it but HP states 7W for normal operation. More info at http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/hp/t520/ & in the quick specs www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04303956.pdf

You can have one second-hand for about $60-70, and prices are bound to go down.

edit: the linked article mentions that mini-pcie can be used for an SSD. This is usually not true, as mSATA while sharing the same physical connector needs to be wired differently. You can see e.g. pcengines doing that on their apu2 boards. Even the aliexpress page mentions "NOTE:this is msata , can not use in mini pcie or wifi interface" in bold red letters
Nonsense. Most people on the spectrum are not good at math (lacking abstract thinking for example) and most mathematiciens are perfectly within normal spectrum. While it is cool and fun to read about mathematiciens or programmers on the spectrum, the majority is nowhere near.

Moreover, mathematiciens are trained to remove things like motivation and intuition from scientific papers and when they communicate among themselves. You get punished when you dont. The training (which is perfectly sensible for given field) is much simpler explanation then attempts diagnoze people.
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I disagree computers were much simpler. If you wanted to play games, you had to struggle with IRQ, DMA, extended memory mode, smartdrive, config.sys, autoexec.bat, commandline ARJ, zip, rar, floppies or tapes, and so on. If you had Linux, you also had to regularly recompile kernel to make something work (for example a device driver).

My pet hypothesis is that puzzle and turn-based strategy games were much more popular back then because average computer user was much nerdier. Age of Wonders III came out in recent years, and while it has very good production qualities and is a much more advanced strategy than Heroes of Might and Magic or first Civilization games, it never reached its popularity.

But back to programming. Monthly magazines were BIG before internet, and some of them taught programming. For example there would be a game or another interactive program written in BASIC in every issue. When you had the entire source code printed in front of you, it was fairly easy to tinker with it to grant extra lives, etc.
The thing that scares me most is that while this has been a public facing issue, many of these computers at Telefonica, the NHS, and others, have been silently accesible via the exploit for a while.

Nobody seems to be talking about this, but we can only guess that a lot of stuff has been compromised and still is.

What really worries me is the huge amount of non-patched computers that have not fallen with this specific WannaCry issue and are sitting idly waiting for their glory day.
Books, and using your brain. I still hardly ever use Stack Overflow (never asked a question, might check out the answer if it comes up in Google results, but usually it's not very useful).
I got a T620 plus for $100 repurposed as a pfsense router (added an intel NIC card). It's neat.
Then you remember that the VMware hypervisor was broken recently...
Honestly, though, updates breaking things are quite rare. Sure, I know of "a friend of a friend of a friend" who had something break, but honestly, aside from patch installations sometimes being started at inopportune times, I haven't personally encountered things breaking on any of my systems or those of friends or family. More things get broken because people hear that there are problems and try to stop the updates.
Thanks a lot! This is exactly what I need, this will ease my arguments when I need to port/bring some "Matlab" code/models into a GUI tremendously.

Now, /me is dreaming of a cross-platform WPF with Python as language and integrated in the IDE like C#/VB.net. I am using PyQT but this is not the best on Windows.

On a side note, just comparing Visual Studio today and Visual Studio of my first real work days in VC++/MFC (something like 20 years ago), I must say that it really makes me ship good software faster and better. Thank you!
And how would that liability work, exactly?
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Probably a silly question, but how do you know they're not active on Twitter? I mean, outside of well known elected officials here (like the US president, UK prime minister, mayors, etc) I'm not sure there's much of a reason for people to state they work for the government on social media sites.

Might be a fair few government employees who just don't tie their social media presence to their real identity for one reason or another. If I get a role in the UK civil service I'm certainly not putting a job description in my Twitter profile, but that doesn't mean I work for MI5.
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This article on book publishing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14334845 is tagged with "blockchain" only. Any idea why?
There was an update in 2015 for defined term contracts.

It requires the non competes clause to define duration, geographical scope and explanation why the interests of the employee require it.

Not sure it was altogether thrown away.
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> culture

Yes, I think you are right. I offer a free Linear Algebra book that appears on the first page of a Google search. The book's approach is to give a lot of explanation and motivation, so I often get emails from folks about this topic. From students often the mails say something like, "I couldn't understand my prof but by using your book as a supplement .." while from the prof I get (much less often) "way too chatty."

So I agree that a lot of it is a question of culture and taste.

On my first day in grad school a prof who I admire a great deal told me what he liked best about Differential Equations is that you don't have to say how you found the answer. You just state the answer and verify it satisfies the equation. I think that's the taste of people who enter the field.

(I also think that is the taste of the moderators of MO, which is why questions like this have been closed over time.)
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It's a very good book for people of a technical background to get a taste of theoretical physics (probable the only one) but let's not exaggerate, it's not a math book.
I'd point at the SaaS model to be the death blow. Instead of running computation on our data, we put our data in third party control so that they can run their computation on what's now really their data. Chromebooks & stuff is just an extension of that in a world where SaaS is the dominant model of regular user's interaction with computers.
And "impossible" means "difficult". I believe this feature of natural language is called hyperbole, and its study is part of the Linguistics subfield of Pragmatics.
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Not just this, but interfacing with browser APIs and the DOM from WebAssembly is also not very performant at the moment.

I don't understand compilers and VMs enough know whether it's practical or even possible to expose the existing JavaScript GC in WebAssembly. Can somebody who works with browser internals shed some light on this?
Microsoft had enough resources in the 90s and 2000s to get a safe language like ocaml running at least their network services.
Last time (actually, the first time ...) a blog post on my website went to the front page of Hacker News WordPress with proper caching enabled (using WP Super Cache with pretty much the default settings) worked just fine.
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So why do they allow banner ads to look like download buttons anyway? I mean, there's no real reason you should be able to pass an ad off as a download link, so wouldn't the obvious answer just be to ban ads that look like that?

Heck, you could probably even automate that process with Google's technology. If OCR technology can identify captchas, it can probably identify button shapes in images or text that looks like program information.
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Any ideas how to use a mobile phone for a home server? (At least mobile phones don't have fan noise.)
Needing $200k to not be constantly worried about money seems excessive to me. You may want to revisit your budgeting.

I haven't been worried about money day to day or month to month since my salary hit $60k. Nor have I had any difficulty saving 15% or more of my salary every year. And I live in NYC, which was until a couple years ago the most expensive housing market in the country and is still one of the highest taxed locales.

What are you spending on that you think you need $200k/yr to get by comfortably?
As has already been pointed out, there are in fact plenty of charities serving the needs of men. Is there enough? Maybe not, but I suspect the same is true of women's refuges too.

However, I'd like to highlight that women's refuges and most men's homeless shelters are actually dealing with very different problems. The problems faced by the average homeless shelter that principally serves men includes addiction and mental illnesses like you describe. Women's refuges don't tend to have either of those problems to the same extent, but schooling and former partners require their own set of skills. Equally, because the problems are so different, it makes sense to keep them separate (you don't want to put a six year old next to a meth addict, for instance).

Could we do more for both of these groups? Heck yes. Ironically, some US cities have shown that the cheapest way of dealing with homeless men may be to... give them somewhere to live.

Note: I lived in a women's refuge for a while when I was a kid.
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Probably the codes were simple check-digit systems. Sometimes all zeroes or all ones works: http://opensourcerules.info/oem_key.html

For a while I had a Win95 product key memorised, for the frequent reinstalls that were a feature of pre-7 Windows.
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The solution is based on a premise that drowsiness implies closed eyes and the alarm is sound after something like 3 to 4 seconds.

First, a lot can happen in 3 seconds. In 100kph this gives you roughly 90 to 120 meters you can still sleep through.

Second I doubt the premise based on personal experience. I was driving after an exhausting day. I started to fall asleep and drift into the opposite lane, however I had realized neither at the time but I still clearly had eyes on the road, just unable to react until I realized I am dangerously close to the other lane and woke.

Its cool proof of concept but I'm afraid it still has a long way to go. Especially in rigorous research on the premises it can be based on. I guess its better than nothing but false sense of security can also be a problem.
There are many alternatives for Mac suggested here, but I'd like to share an alternative for Win too, Windowgroomer: https://github.com/aarmea/WindowGroomer

It's stale but works perfectly on win10, has just what I want from it. Secretly, I'm suggesting it here kind of hoping someone around here likes it as much as I and feels like contributing (since I'm not very good at the Windows stuff). A great contribution would be to be able to use keyboard to set the grid, not just the mouse. That said, I've been using it a long time and it works great.