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> The thing with desktop applications is that an "industrial-strength" one needs to look native

I don't think this is the case for every application. It's definitely true for mobile apps, and it's probably true for desktop apps that are relatively small and/or use mainly standard OS GUI functionality.

But for things like Photoshop, or Office, or Unity/Unreal, too much of the UI is application-specific for it to really matter, and I think they benefit from a consistent cross-platform codebase and appearance.
> I don't think that's true for a beginner who can't really tell the difference

Yup. My first (and only!) guitar is an Ibanez Gio. I paid $55 for it and a practice amp. The amp sounded like garbage, but piped through a $100 Peavey Vyper or through Rocksmith and it sounds pretty good.

But I'm an extreme noob. I imagine an experienced player could pick up on all the shitty sounds it produces. The only time I ever notice it sounding bad is when the strings need replacing and the pitch of a note wobbles all over the place and they go out of tune in 15 minutes of playing.
Can they claim a tax credit for supporting that bandwidth usage and handling abuse?
I'm sitting here chuckling to myself about the "why not both?" possibilities.
My understanding was that was what she was seeing in the candidate pools for jobs when she was a hiring manager, not the overall percentage of women in computing.
Personally, I would prefer the option for 23 dongles (most of which I will never use, or buy) to a multitude of ports on my laptop (most of which I will never use). The first seems like it provides me options, the second seems like it adds unnecessary failure points and openings to a delicate machine.
yup, synapse is heavy (as the rest of the thread says). this is mainly due to the DB schema being a bit naive, and it caching everything in RAM to speed things up. There are also some operations it does which spike RAM usage (which is then never reclaimed, thanks to Python2's malloc being a bit dumb). As others have said, Synapse is doing a lot more than something like Prosody. Dendrite on the other hand should be good for running on an RPi - we should have an idea this week, where the first monolithic Dendrite binary is due to land.
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Fixed the headline:
U.S. judge says LinkedIn cannot block startup from public profile data; the judge will personally pay for the gazillion servers and man hours needed now that scrappers cannot be blocked.
> “We will continue to fight to protect our members’ ability to control the information they make available on LinkedIn.”

LinkedIn has full control over this, it's their site. What they are fighting for is the ability to choose who gets public access to various pieces of information; which its member do not get control over.
>Dilution of merit.

Well, my question was rhetorical, but your answer underscores my point: when a man performs poorly, the "merit" of other men is not "diluted".

And, it certainly doesn't lead to the risk of other "genuinely amazing" men going undiscovered, which doesn't seem to be a problem in the first-place. In fact, it would be silly to make any of these assertions about men.

Such statements only apply to women and other "out-groups". By uttering them, the author is making the argument against her own case.
Wow, those are two very big issues, that affect two very large industries, not to mention the implications and precedent for both free speech and workers' rights.
Are these types of cases based on contingency?
The reason is that they have to pay a $4000 rent for a 1 bedroom, while reimbursing their tuition for the MIT.
You get that I was joking, right?

(If for no other reason than the wild anachronism; Khan was born in 1162).
You should move to the Columbia Basin, try Richland, WA. I lived in the area for a few years and I had a great garden, along with many of my friends and colleagues. Land is inexpensive, we had 1/2 acre, you could easily get 2-3 on the edge of town for a few 100k. There were minimal deer in the desert. The odd squirrel would take some fruit. If you were closer to the mountains you might have to deal with elk in the winter. Lavender grew like weeds and never disappeared. Water was super cheap from the river and most houses have timed irrigation so you don't need to remember to water. Also, tons of sunshine during the long growing season.

We had more mulberries than we could possibly eat, passersby would frequently "steal" them from our tree.

Was it a lot of work, yes, did it pay for itself, no probably not, considering the low price of excellent produce at the farmers market, was it a fun and rewarding/learning experience, yes.
It matters if you are in places with windows and/or tend to take breaks from your computer - in general, you'd want the "white" on your computer to be comparable to white materials in your surroundings, or the colors will be weird. There's no point making your computer already "red" if your room is lit by sunlight.
I recently did an email cleanup and appreciate that it seems like ConstantContact did that.

I wish mailman would. Does anyone know if the maintainer would be willing to accept a patch?
This really doesn't seem like something Apple would do. It's not in their DNA, would be very tough to do while keeping their pro-privacy stance, and isn't how they like to make money. I'd be very disappointed if they went down this road.
I've tried it for a couple of weeks in different ratios: 1/1, 1/2 and 1/4 if I recall correctly, also with different types of L-Theanine. Didn't notice any effects.
The Justice Department is demanding info on visitors to an anti-Trump website
> Banning hate speech (no matter how abhorrent) is a slippery slope.

We already ban some kinds of speech, and I've never heard anyone complain about it. For instance, you can't stand on a street corner and try to recruit people to join ISIS. You can't threaten to hurt or kill someone. You can't show pornography to minors, or show anyone pornography that contains minors.

These are all very popular restrictions on free speech.
There's a reason for this: Lifezette and similar are a shill media company of political operative Laura Ingraham, which operate under the aegis of doing legitimate reporting.

This is about as reputable as something you would find on the Huffington Post or Drudge Report.
> Maybe there just isn't enough space in a door lock to do it properly.

Doubtful, dead simple OTA with recovery requires a 2x allocation of space. $2 or so of parts covers it for 99% of embedded scenarios, and if the product doesn't have enough storage to do a recovery OTA then the product wasn't spec'd properly. More clever but just as robust systems can get away with less (however much a recovery partition takes up, if doing WiFi that can be a lot).

> If a system can go back the last working version if the latest fails to work, even a bad version shouldn't brick the device.

Knowing when the current version has failed can be hard. If the system comes up 99% of the way but one driver fails, that can be hard to determine programmatically. Obviously the manufacturer here didn't have that robust of tests running at startup to determine if there was a need to rollback.

To be fair, most software updates don't have that level of rigor. Pre-release testing catches the majority of issues, as it should. Now days, phased rollouts to opt-in beta testers is standard to try and catch any remaining issues.
The reason is very simple : after the Falklands war the Royal Navy adopted a design rule which states that all surface ships must have two islands. You can see it in the 45, 23 and 26.

My guess is that this is because of the fires which took Sheffield out of combat, the initial damage from the Exocet warhead was substantial, but what killed Sheffield and Coventry was the fire afterwards. The investigations afterwards showed that a split superstructure would have allowed continued operation including withdrawal from the combat space and low allocation of rescue resources.

I think/guess that this would have been critical should aggressor forces been slightly more substantial; it would have been very easy to get into a situation where the capability to manage the rescue and recovery of struck ships would have been lost, and this would have led to a substantial escalation in casualties and probable collapse of the fighting capability of the formation - hence to a strategic opportunity for aggressor forces.
I doubt anything but nukes kept the US and Russia from going to war. Hell, aside from a few screwups, we almost went to war despite the nukes in 1963.
Yes. My Garmin Fenix 3 HR isn't perfect but it consistently connects via Bluetooth faster than any other device I own. It has an "indistinguishable from magic" feel to it.
The only reason someone would stick with a 32-bit browser is for performance reasons. 64-bit applications have a larger memory footprint from all the 64-bit code and pointers. We didn't see much performance difference when testing 2 GB Windows machines hands on, but Firefox telemetry analysis showed that user retention and crash rates were worse for users with <= 2GB than for > 2GB. Only about 1% of Firefox Windows users have < 2GB and about 5% have exactly 2GB.

Users with <= 2GB can still install 64-bit Firefox if they really want to by downloading the 64-bit full installer instead of the "stub installer" (a tiny downloader that detects 32- and 64-bit OS and downloads the appropriate full installer). Likewise users with > 2GB can download the 32-bit full installer, too. We wanted the Firefox installer's default to provide the best user experience, but still give users the option to run the (32- or 64-bit) application of their choice.

For comparison, 64-bit Chrome's minimum memory requirement is >= 4GB.
I'd like to hear your reasoning that the ship isn't sinking. My reasoning is their burn rate, unit economics, the writedowns, and VC's taking some controversial hardball steps to protect downside risk. Since they're private, there's not much real data to be had, but that's a lot of smoke for no fire.

Anecdotally, I have seen up close what it looks like when suit-and-tie MBA types start looking for the emergency exit, and this smells right.

BUT

What I don't know would fill volumes-- whaddya got?
Not needed. Cost of doing business.
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Apparently it's about this code: https://www.malwaretech.com/2015/01/inline-hooking-for-progr...

This is function hooking code. It's useful when you need to change the behaviour of an application, by redirecting a function call to your own function.

Like any piece of code it has both legitimate and nefarious uses. However, function hooking is very basic stuff.

Anyone who has ever tried to learn how things work under the hood will have written function hooking code before.
Right. This is a flow battery/fuel cell; you change the liquids rather than recharging it in place. The new feature is that this doesn't use a membrane to separate the two liquids. They're immiscible and one is denser, so they stay separate, in layers. Why this doesn't short out at the liquid interface isn't clear.

There are commercial flow batteries that use membranes.[1] One uses zinc-iron. The energy storage capacity is limited only by tank capacity, so you can fill big tanks using solar power or wind and draw it out later. Typical system is 288 kW/960 kWh, and occupies 6 shipping containers.

[1] https://www.viznenergy.com/product-gs200/
Is Mindfulness Meditation Bullshit?
The paper very carefully does not say single units were recorded: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-08078-8 unless i'm totally missing it.

Spike sorting was done with this project, which i have used and found to be quite good: https://github.com/cortex-lab/KiloSort

19 kHz sampling rate gives you a maximum temporal precision of ~50 ms, which is pretty good.
After skimming the document for a bit, hiQ's argument looks really flaky. Especially grasping at straws like "Free Speech". They argue that LinkedIn is like a public mall and denying them access to the mall is denying them "Free Speech"? I don't see how this can be the case if they had no intent to "speak" at all in this place. Their data collection via scraping seems more like people-watching in the mall, if you go along with their analogy.
they are recruiting him.
Only if you know ALL of Perl.

I used to carry around a Perl program of my own on a printout to take to VLSI interviews. That way when I got the "Do you know Perl?" question I could bring it out and force the interviewer into MY stupid subset of Perl rather than being stuck in his stupid subset of Perl.

That's not a compliment to the language.
>To first order, iPhone owners spend money. Android owners don't. This is because your average iPhone user cares more about what phone they're using and simply uses it more.

More like, is willing to spend $700 on a phone.

The problem with android is that even the "high end" android phones (in the US anyway) are still just wrappers around the snapdragon 8xx SOCs. They're all exactly the same and feel almost as closed as the iphone.
In the US prosecutorial system, conspiracy charges are regularly used as a tool to leverage and encourage plea negotiations because conspiracy is so broad and allows for broad interpretations of seemingly innocuous actions and trifling intents. As I've said elsewhere, this smells more like an intelligence operation than a criminal investigation.

Reading through the indictment [1], the conspiracy charge does not allege anything that isn't in the other charges. For the most part, the other charges allege "knowledge" that the software can be used for some purpose rather than actual use.

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/986606/downlo...
Slightly, but not exactly. Any remote code execution could lead to "example.com/run_this.txt" being filled with "evil_hacker.sh". However if "run_this.txt" were somehow signed and verified prior to downloading (with signing keys kept off the distribution box) then it's much safer.

Practically, there are tons of instances where executing code downloaded from URL's is how software is updated, but again most of those instances are human-driven, not automated.
No, but this one was.
This isn't new. And with schools like this, they say "good job" or tech job, but they mean "any job" (that pays over 50k). I've had friends screwed by this before.

If you can't get hired because you went to a "dev bootcamp" or just aren't good enough with code after spending all that time in school, they'll come after your for that car mechanic pay check.
FWIW I recently bought a $30 waterproof bluetooth speaker that goes on my bike. Paired it once on first power up, it Just Works (tm) since.
It gets into the incredibly murky water of how the web works. You're just issuing a request and getting things back. Sometimes in a web browser, sometimes not. But the content itself may still be copyright. You can't just take it, even though for now, the publisher/server is allowing you to view it for free.

But what if you only chose to view some of the content (e.g. block ads). What if you apply your own styles to change the way that information is displayed? You're just changing the way the browser represents that data. You're not redistributing it as your own at this point. What if you store that data, but don't republish it; just used it in some each algorithms?

There are a whole lot of interesting grey areas here, but many that already have precedents that side more with the copyright holders.
I've never (to my knowledge) had any issues re: legal requests about my site, but I can say that I've been a happy customer of Dreamhost for many years now. Support is quick, friendly, and knowledgeable, and the pricepoint for the product (shared server, web-hosting and domain renewal, unlimited bandwidth and storage) is a no-brainer for me. I'm not surprised to see that the host advocates for its users when it can.
> No this isn't false equivalence, either all speech is free or no speech is free.

To quote another thread:

We already ban some kinds of speech, and I've never heard anyone complain about it. For instance, you can't stand on a street corner and try to recruit people to join ISIS. You can't threaten to hurt or kill someone. You can't show pornography to minors, or show anyone pornography that contains minors.

These are all very popular restrictions on free speech.
If a website puts something on the public internet, it should not even be aware if it is being accessed by a scraper or a human.

Maybe we should just ban User Agent strings and be done with it.
>In the US, Youth (11 and under) soccer leagues have already banned heading the ball. In those leagues, it's the same as hitting the ball with your hand.

This must be new. I refereed youth soccer around 2003 and this was def. not the case then.

Edit: It looks like this change was made November 2015: http://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2015/11/09/22/57/151109-usso...

>I would guess it will always be a part of professional play, but college level and under probably should do away with it.

Wat. I played youth and highschool Soccer and was never injured or saw someone injured by contact with the call when heading ball... (it was always due to mistaken player contact).

Reading this it might be real... Bizarre. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/1...
...except those games and other pieces of code that were machine language "disguised" as a BASIC loader with an almost literal ton of DATA statement to POKE in all the machine code.

You'd sit there for hours, typing page-after-mind-numbing-page of DATA statements - numbers and commas would blur together.

Then - once you had it all typed in (largest one I typed in had to have been around 16K of text - took up around 10 or so pages in the magazine) - you were smart to save it to disk or tape (actually, the smart thing was to save it incrementally as you worked, and break up the task over a few sessions).

If you didn't and you ran it and it had a bug - CRASH - computer would give you a visual (sometimes audio) "lightshow" if you were lucky, but usually, the computer would just hang or reboot - and all the code would be lost.

The fun was just beginning!

Now, if you still had the code saved - you could load it back up, and start the arduous process of comparing the code to what the magazine printed. You'd hope like hell that the magazine wasn't misprinted, or hadn't left a section out, or that the printing wasn't illegible (and you confused things - seriously, wasn't that one of the charms of those days - the listings were printed off a cheap 9-pin dot matrix printer then lithographed for printing - causing all sorts of artifacts to confuse the typist?)...

Some magazines printed next to each line a checksum, which you could run a program to type the lines in and use to compare with the number (it would calculate it on the fly) - but as a kid, I was too stupid to know what it was for, and it seemed pointless.

I probably should've read the fine print on that one, but I probably couldn't - because it was too schmeared by the cheap printing...
There are not that many judges on the Northern District of California

https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/judges

and cases involving Silicon Valley companies are very often filed here, so quite a lot of the high-profile industry matters end up getting heard by the same judges!
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That's simply not true
If you have to remember to use arbitrary bangs to get specific results then DDG has already failed as a search engine. Coding a query yourself is obviously the most powerful way to search documents, but the key to useful software is to do the hard work for you.
Yeah those leather ties also go before anything else, haha.

My experience is that if oiled (I like mink oil, though some say it's too heavy) any reasonable grade of leather glove, stored indoors, will last at least a decade of occasional use. My Ken Griffey Jr. glove (Wilson? Rawlings? I forget) has lived such a life. I think I bought for around $40 in 2001; I remember it being roughly one tier up from the cheapest glove you could buy. I've admittedly not played a ton of ball with it, but the leather's in great shape, no cracking anywhere... this thing might outlive me unless I get off my butt and join an old man's league every summer.

Recently threw out some gloves I owned as a kid in the 80s. The leather was dry but not cracked; I was tempted to oil them just to see if they could be brought back to life.

What's your experience been?

Not saying you do this, but I think a lot of people store their gloves in their garages or some other place where they bake in the summer and freeze in the winter. That'll kill a glove for sure and while ultra-high-quality leather will surely survive this kind of treatment longer than cheap leather, it's no way to treat a glove of any kind.

I'm sure that inexpensive gloves that see plenty of honest use (2, 3, 4+ practices or games a week) don't live forever either.
I tried the Windows 10 built-in product, called Night Light, and switched back to f.lux because the Windows 10 solution doesn't do scheduling correctly.

I had it set to switch the colors at sunset in my location, which it detected to be at 7:56p. While using my computer late one evening, I wondered why everything was still so bright and obviously not using the appropriate yellow and orange hues. I checked on the Windows settings, it told me Night Light was "off until sunset (7:56 PM)", even though it was 8:52p. So it didn't realize that 7:56 < 8:52, and that it should have already turned on Night Light. f.lux just works, Windows 10's solution does not.
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> - Use an acoustic, you don't want to have to carry an amp around with you.

Considering I want to learn how to play Avenged Sevenfold, Judas Priest, Offspring, Rise Against, etc., this is not useful advice.
Only 2 to 3 GB are usable by the application, out of the 4GB addressable space. The rest is reserved.