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> the web has moved beyond the point where its reasonable to expect websites to have JS fallbacks

For people with powerful smartphones and reliable internet, this may be true.

Let me point you to: https://danluu.com/web-bloat/
(discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13601451 )
But inequality arguably leads to unfairness though - is it "fair" that someone who is successful can get better chances for their kids through better environment, schooling and connections?

I'd argue that inequality pretty much always leads to unfairness.

Edit: And I say that as someone who pays for their kids to be privately educated at a prestigious private school because it is obvious that doing so gives them an unfair advantage.
Cannot agree. I have 5 machines on Arch (a notebook, a desktop, three servers), and the administrative cost is pretty much negligible (unless, of course, I decide to install a new application or something like that). Maybe 3 minutes a day total for interacting with the guided auto-update cronjob and reading the system health report.
The problem is that there is also zero evidence in this document she leaked. No evidence of vote tampering, no evidence of Trump participating in anything, no evidence of Trump trying to cover it up, nothing at all to actually sink Trump.

She only sunk herself and gave ammo to critics of government leaks because now it seems that the NSA can't even investigate espionage incidents without somebody leaking to the press just to add fuel to some ongoing drama.
I don't think a lot of these tests are that "CISC-y". They're just incredibly synthetic.

Both CPU's are entirely CISC. The Intel CPU just have way more of... well, everything. That's the primary reason for the TDP gap.

It's really hard to say anything about the benchmarks without the assembly for both architectures, though. Is the Intel memory copy a simple "rep mov", or a mov using all xmm registers? Is the ARM AES benchmark using AES extensions?
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Publisher's platform relied on asciidoc so I didn't really have much of a choice :-)

The simple things were easy enough to get to grips with but some of the more 'complex' stuff was a pain, and the markup got in the way of the writing for me.

(I'm slightly dyslexic so I don't know if the markup was actually making the text harder for me to read)
> You can use something called Openkeychain on Android. It uses NFC Yubikeys for both PGP and SSH.

Okay, but open-keychain does not provide GUI to just sign or authenticate a user (you can sign as part of encryption process) so I was wondering if the parent was mentioning some application that interfaces with open Keychain (like k9mail or conversations.im) that gives just that: user authentication.
It's 2017. All modern browsers support JS and it's no longer reasonable to expect all websites to work very well without it.
I'm the opposite, and when rationalizing it to myself I'm thinking that our traditional black-on-white writing has more to do with the fact that it's easier to stain light paper with dark ink/coal/etc than dark paper and light writing.

This is no longer the case with displays, so we can choose ourselves, and light on dark is much easier on my eyes (at least it feels like that).
That depends on whether one loaf (my example was slice, which is maybe a bit more evocative) is the bare minimum to survive or enough to be fully satiated. At that level, it (and wealth inequality) can be viewed as an absolute metric. I absolutely care if my neighbour has 100 loaves if I'm emaciated and unable to think about anything but hunger, even if I'm eating enough to survive.

My argument is, for the bottom 40% of Americans, it is at that level. The fact that the top 20% holds a vastly disproportionate share of the wealth isn't bad because the 40% are losing a dick-measuring contest, it's bad because the lack of wealth of the 40% has a real effect on their happiness.
Does Vectr have vector networks, components and constraints, real-time collaboration?
Absolutely. It's not easy being on minimum wage. But most people don't know what they are talking about. A good example: https://twitter.com/gwynethpaltrow/status/586168041576116224...
Huh? Size of the system is one of the defining constraints of "mobile". I guess you are saying the chip is small enough you don't think size of the CPU will be the limiting factor for setting the size of the system? True that other components are larger, but not true that the CPU is insignificant!
I prefer the dark themes myself.

But it is astounding easier to read black on white in bright settings, like as a passenger in a car. So sometimes I'll use it (black on white) for readability.
I don't know why this was done years ago instead of that web platform push.
Yeah. Except you need to do Ajax and fetch doesn't cut it. So new lib. And manipulate the dom with something better then the browser API or you loose your mind. So new lib. Then normalize browser events. Oh wait, you can do that manually. But you are writing a new lib. Eventually the code will grow to be the size of jQuery anyway. Only not as well tested, documented and cached.
But that would be possible for a photo. But typically you would print some text. I wouldn't expect any dithering / half-tone in a text document.
And what, exactly, is the LLVM test?
> There is 4096 bit support with Yubikey 4 which unfortunately isn't offered with NFC.

Yes, but OTG adapters work pretty well here or one can use Yubikey 4C if the phone has USB-C input.
The Stasi would've likely loved these tools, but I'm not sure they're necessary. The point of the Stasi behavior was to instill fear in the masses, to turn neighbor against neighbor. The fact that the average citizen today is hardly even aware of things like printer dots means it's serving a different purpose.
You know men get talked over by women too?
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You don't need to set up your clients with IPv6 more than you need with IPv4. Your router will do DHCP in just the same way. To me this is only a minor inconvenience.
because we can't even yet justify forcing parents to abort downs babies due to the freedoms we allow our peoples. At least wait for this topic until we've managed that.
>With IPv4 the router will just fix up NAT. With IPv6 you now have to deal with significantly more complexity.

How so?

In a multihomed environment, you'd still be PAT'ing to unique addresses on the WAN side (unless a FHRP is in use, which would be rare) - if one of those links go down, so too does all of the flows associated with address of the link. If no dynamic routing protocol or redirects are in use, the gateway with the down link will also eat half (assuming two gateways) of all egress traffic.

IPv6 should be easier as no NAT/PAT is in use, therefore you have no challenges with statefulness or routing symmetry.
I turned off JavaScript and Cookies for all sites a few months ago and only whitelist (or open in another Chrome profile) when they refuse to display or need an authenticated session.

There are some sites that require JS to render, but the great thing is that majority of pages I visit work just fine as plain html/css. In general I feel less distraction from popups, overlays, ads, etc.
We could just sell "tracking dotted white paper", with 150 different patterns on it..
Or just release a pdf that has them embedded so you can print that first.
Not that I don't support this move but doesn't this violate the Constitution ("No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation")?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_Clause
Re [0], note that Google Maps on the other hand seems to handle lack of JS very well. I guess it can be blamed on different teams in the same big company.
That's interesting! Do you know if it is possible to access this data from an extension? I would love an extension that crawls through the website and combines the data for all pages.
Yes that exists, but you are wrong about the permission requirement. CLVisit is meant to be a lower power alternative to always tracking, but still requires the same “always” permission: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corelocation/getti...
In the UK I can confirm vodafone doesn't do IPv6
I'd guess they could have kept the acronym to mean Mozilla Documentation Nexus.
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That was about Geekbench 3, the previous version. The new version doesn't have those problems, and also it uses the exact same workload between desktops and mobile devices.

In those same forums there are comments by Linus about the new Geekbench 4 and they are much more positive.
http://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=159853&curposti...
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The verdict comments on this page are golden. I especially like the NYTimes verdict:

> Verdict: Failing… to not work. Sad!

Delicious.
US Constitution. Article 1, Section 10.
Journalists definitely like to hear themselves talk, even when formulating questions while moderating a discussion. But if he, as a relative layperson in science, felt that comfortable interrupting Dr. Hubeny and riffing off of her area of expertise, imagine what he's like in a topic in which he doesn't think himself a relative amateur.
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As is oblio's.
Artificial intelligence is beating humanity at its own games
still, if the result is a "fingerprint" of a printer, it'd be interesting to know, because it can be used by law enforcement too
How much would Harvard cost if you had to keep students from escaping?
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Because 'your' printer, and its manufacturer, are hostile to you.

Edit:

> Finish your sentence, please :)

OK: Because 'your' printer, and its manufacturer, [and the NSA/Erdogan/multinational corp.] are hostile to you [printing illegal protest posters/exposing corporate crimes/spreading dissent/whistleblowing].

And yes, preventing individuals from breaking the law is hostile to those individuals, even if all laws were just. And they are not.
> it is understandable that you want to be in phonebook but also that you dont want somebody random to enter, use your resources and copy everything because of some other interests.

It's not that simple: Google has used scraped content in the past to build competing products to the sites it was from. Examples: reviews from shopping sites for Google Shopping, Yelp reviews for Google Places.

Google can do it because it basically owns your front door. Everyone else can't.

> at this point i have the whole aws ip range blocked.

From past experience: this will likely block some apps, possibly services like Alexa from accessing your site.
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Is there a notice/agreement tells customers there are tracking dots before buying? If there isn't, how is this not illegal?
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It took them enough self-inflicted pain to come around.
Title should probably mention the "Intel platform" is 5 years old.
there are more sheer cliffs, there are taller mountains, and there are harder routes, for sure. but what makes a cliff, a mountain, or a specific route inspiring is harder to define than its physical countours. there's a mountain in Argentina called Cerro Torre that is seen my many alpinists as the holy grail of mountaineering. it's about 11,000 feet tall, and has a neighbor to the north called Fitz Roy that is even taller and has more terrain on it. but Cerro Torre is steeped in history of climbers making their own attempts on it, and has features peculiar to it that make it seem impossible.

on the other hand, within the alpinism/rock climbing community, Everest isn't actually even seen as the Mt Everest of climbing. if you read Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air", he elaborates on this. the commercialism associated with the mountain, the way it is treated by guided parties, and the way it is seen as a bucket list item that anyone with the means to hire guides can haul themselves up, all serve to detract from the appeal of the mountain to the "true" adventure mountaineer. I say that a little toungue-in-cheek, though. if any alpinist had the opportunity to climb everest far from the crowds and without the $50k price tag, they would probably leap at it immediately. the point is, even Everest's stature has fallen in prominence among many alpinists, in favor of more technical peaks (though exceptions are readily available). it's been this way since the 60's and 70's.

the 60's and 70's were the time that yosemite climbing began to really take off. warren harding climbed the nose (the most prominent and popular route on el capitan) in 1958, royal robbins climbed the sheer northwest face of half dome in 1957. from then on, legends like chuck pratt, yvon chouinard, john long, jim bridwell, john bachar, peter croft, ron kauk, and lynn hill, all made their impact on the cliffs of yosemite. many of them went on to climb in the greater ranges of the world. yosemite for a time was a melting pot of the finest pratitioners of the sport--until you could no longer spend an entire summer in camp 4 because of overcrowding.

fast forward to modern day, it's still the proving ground for so many rock climbers and alpinists around the world. to climb the most prominent cliff in the most historically meaningful place still has power that captivates. some of it is its accessibility, some of it is the beauty of the mountain, and some of it is the difficulty, but much of it is simply legend.
Any extra love and attention given to what I'd consider to be one of the greatest resources out there for web developers is great news to me.
> Only occasionally. And that does not justify raising children in a difficult environment!

You and I both know neither of us have enough information to assert how often it happens. I am merely stating it DOES as a counter weight to effectively killing off poor geniuses or rather poor "good enoughs".

> However many countries did a lot of effective work to prevent unplanned parenthood, including education and access to contraceptives and abortion rather than sterilization or punishment.

Yes! This is the available path to us which we should take.

> This sounds like the world need enough desperate people to accept exploitative jobs or go to war and so on? I hope humanity can do better than that.

That's a very extreme way of interpreting my words. Many of these children will become construction workers, carpenters, plumbers, administrative types, catering workers, chefs, musicians, entertainers, IT admins, etc, etc, etc.
I am suggesting that my parent post is underestimating the reach of some of these children and falling for the gutter-press focus on the worst case examples. Many of these people will become good enough citizens.
I live in a vaguely deprived area and the kid across from me isn't educated and is definitely working class but he's learnt from his tough upbringing and has a pretty good head on his shoulders. For every worst-case example there are tons of kids like this. Baby => bathwater.
Driver updates can usually modify the firmware in modern devices. I don't see a real dichotomy here...
As a side note, the data in the graph "Number of applicants and startups accepted into Y Combinator", evidences two things:

1) the number of applicants is increasing (which is what the graph was evidently made for)

2) the percentage of successful applicants is declining steadily actually halving from (roughly) around 3-4% until 2012 to (still roughly) 1,50-2,00 later

This may be IMHO due to two factors (or a combination of both):

1) Too many startups lately apply without having a sound enough project or not original enough ideas

2) Y Combinator has become more picky when choosing who to accept

Surely it is not as easy to be accepted (in the actual YC financing program) as it may sound, I thought that the success rate was higher than that.
I think the basic problem there is the few devices that support it, and their price.
Are they really saying that the iPad has 30% more memory bandwidth?
Agree with this.

Illegal immigration, especially in America, is modern day slavery that has been co-opted by the left for their own political gain.
> desktop workloads (high-end gaming, databases, compilers, video encoding, AI computation, etc.) and we will see a bit of a different picture.

Well that still matters. A lot of desktop user even in enterprise are not doing any of that and 5 year old machine is perfectly good enough. We are talking 10's of thousands of desktop in each large company have become matched in power by the latest smartphone and tablet.

So that could mean the end of the general user gravy train for Intel and AMD. That could mean your next MBP is going to cost even more than the next best tablet for a smaller but still significant enough performance difference.
Yeah sure, but isn't it the action of being in the country that you refer to as illegal? A person cannot be illegal, that makes no sense.

I guess they are but even if my country has one of the softest immigration policies we also have undocumented people that are here illegally. However, I want my government to remove these people in my country from my country since they are breaking the law by being here.

I understand if there's people in the US that think the same way. Altough you have much, much stricter immigration rules than we do.
Wait, can Uber see my name and where I am all the time? Can any app do this?
You might prefer this one, as I find it much more relevant.
http://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/compare/3036382?baseline...

That is a Core-i5 Kaby Lake Y. Same approximately TDP, both fanless. Thats the CPU in the new Kaby Lake MacBooks that Apple just upgraded too.

It still loses to the A10X it seems in multicore, very similar single core performance.
I generally don't use websites that require JS. But I'm probably in a minority.
Do you believe that it is as common? Do you believe that the person you are replying to doesn't believe that it ever happens? Does excluding a full disclaimer invalidate his thoughts about trying not to talk over women or dominating conversations?

I don't believe it is always necessary to counter-exemplify what you experience as a general trend.
I see a lot of comments wondering why someone would take such risks, why it's irresponsible etc...

It makes me wonder how responsible it is to sit in a chair and program all day, distorting your body into a twisted fat shadow of itself.

I think our profession also comes with physical risks, and they sure aren't as rewarding as rock-climbing is.
Still hand calculations, a brain and two hands are not gdp (or cpu)-dependent. Engineering works are. My point is Apple is cretinising the world and its brightest minds, neither a novel nor a popular point, I know, but more and more poignant.
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What's really interesting is that the author only became 'boiling' with rage when this socially-unaware moderator talked over the woman on the panel, not when he talked over the other men.

This kind of behavior is extremely common in STEM, and happens to everyone. If you don't talk with confidence, purpose, and animation, you're going to get talked over by the alpha nerd of the group. Man, woman, or purple elephant. Problem? Yes. Sexism? No.
The glorious leader of Russia's people himself said that patriotism is a good enough reason for Russian hackers to exist (and I guess Russia does motivate patriotism with money):

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/06/putin-patriotic-rus...
I'm not a 'rocket scientist', but this article seems as if the person who wrote it is neither and most of the arguments tend to feel like arguments from ignorance - 'I don't get it so it must be scam'.
People should realise that most sites today aren't websites, they're web applications. HTML is just the template/output language.
Without JS you would have to download an even crappier, probably Windows only desktop app since it wouldn't be possible to implement the logic.
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Arm socs throttle aggressively and reaching x86 level of sustained performance will lead to more power consumption so the geekbench scores can be misleading.

Having said that the performance of some of the newer Arm socs are encouraging. For instance you can now get a tiny 4k htpc for as little as $50-80 making the use of expensive and power hungry x86 parts redundant.

Gigabit routers, nas, htpc devices and even some chromebooks now perform adequately with arm socs while sipping power.
I started working as a programmer the day I turned 16 in the early 90's, at $50/hr. Freelancing is a good idea... I would focus on small organizations, possibly non-profits. Learn about what organizations do and talk to people there about ideas you have and/or your ability to implement their ideas. Basically, you need to learn sales.

A few decades later I still rely on the approach I learned back then. While many of my peers have a mentality that they are at the mercy of the job market, and need people to create & define work for them, I can create customers wherever I meet people. I have a number of small business customers who would likely never have done development if I hadn't sought them out.

While this isn't the top way to earn a lot of money as a software developer, I continue to work heavily with small businesses because I like it, and because it eliminates a lot of the factors that others seem to dislike about a programming career. Regardless it's a great way to get your foot in the door... companies who can't afford $80,000 programmer salaries -- or the contract equivalent -- can't afford to be prejudiced against your youth and inexperience.
Thanks so much for this. Our team recently did a Lynda course on ITIL problem management strategies and this technique was universally misunderstood. This article was much clearer.
Well, akhchtually!
rep mov is pretty fast these days (on Ivy Bridge onwards).

On the other hand XMM registers are pretty old, we have YMM and ZMM now.
Ship a file with your app bundle (could be JSON, whatever you want) with all of the strings you'd want to be dynamic. Then on each app launch, check if it exists in the Documents directory, and if not, copy it to the Documents directory.

Place the same file somewhere web-accessible (an s3 bucket, for example) at a stable URL you can hard-code into your app. On each app launch, attempt to download this file and replace the existing one on disk with it. You could set a reasonable minimum time threshold before checking again (such as once per 24 hours), but this probably won't be an issue.

After you've got that set up, change every hard-coded string in your app to read from this file you've downloaded. This works like localization, where each string has a key to identify it regardless of language.
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