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I am not a pro-developer, but I do enjoy programming and all its associated activities and by trade I'm a Windows Enterprise Architect, as such I need to run Windows as my primary machine(s), but looking a the list of VMs I have running on my Hyper-V servers, I have an equal smattering of Windows Servers and Linux Servers.

So it's purely horses-for-courses. If my career had been built up designing Linux solutions then my viewpoint would be the complete opposite. I really don't understand the hate that Windows gets. Yes, it's not open-source. Yes, it's controlled by a massive organisation. Yes, it can cost quite a lot if you want to develop on it... but you know what, a lot of people (and organisations) don't care. They happily run Windows because they always have, it comes with support options, and it kinda always works (within reason) for what they need to do with it.

Telling people to 'just run Linux' or 'Windows is Better!' is akin to pushing your religion or your choice of diet at everyone you meet. If are an atheist and have issues with organised religion, or if you are an omnivore and get irritated every time someone says 'I'm Vegan, you should be too!' then maybe, just maybe, it's time to rethink your position with regard to the OS wars.

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P.S. The Amiga was better than the Atari ST, and the Commodore 64 pwned the ZX Spectrum. /s
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It sounds like you just want to talk until they accept the data collection, as opposed to listen to them on why they might think it is a bad thing and be given an opportunity to opt-out of it.
This praised Ruby code in article is crap. It abuses side effects(unnecessary 3 invokes of printing) and needs to resort to using helper (@printed = "Fizz"). I would never let something like this through code review.

Like you can't simply first generate data and then print it...
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Namecoin, Tor / I2P, CJDNS, whatever. It's still possible to be reached as long as you have internet connectivity.
Landed orbital rocket boosters are all alike; every unlanded orbital rocket boosters is unlanded in its own way.
Do they actually have that ability, though? There's a big difference between "the authentication mechanism has access to this API when you're authenticating" and "everything always has access to this API at all times". I haven't seen any indication that this will be generally available on-demand to applications, and Apple's track record on this stuff isn't terrible (largely because Apple isn't existentially dependent on advertising like some other vendors of mobile tech).
Gnome 3.26 won't have status icons by default
Taxing on revenue is simpler but utterly non-sensical.

If selling a phone that cost $800 to make for $805 incurs an 80x tax liability compared to selling hammer that cost $5 to make for $10, then the modern economy of long supply chains and specialization grinds to a halt.

Another way to think about it: a single year in which the tax on revenue is higher than profit would require the business to be go into debt or be sold to pay the tax man; except then what's the value of that business to a creditor / acquirer if it has that threat hanging over its head?
This is awesome! I didn't see it quickly but is there a way to play it or see it being played?
And next Apple or Amazon leaving the EU?
Doesn't matter how long you've been using a GNU/Linux shell, you'll always learn something new every day.
Thanks for this.
$40 keychain could accurately detect food allergens
Equifax was breached using a two month old vulnerability
So, with Face ID, can you prevent someone trying to compel you to unlock your device by simply closing your eyes or looking away?
There’s a comment from the author below to say she specifically requested no photo.
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You can form a monoid with almost everything. It'S not a very interesting concept that requires more attention than maybe reading the definition. These blogposts are pointless in my opinion. The title makes as much sense as "Overthinking cooking with edibles".
Driverless cars won't do this... at least until we teach neutral networks frustration.
I don't think Apple would allow that in their platform but could certainly give ad tech firms ideas.
I used Arch Linux around 4 years back. I did a routine upgrade and it broke my system.

What is this rolling release fiasco? Even Ubuntu, which I use now has a "release" (technically an pt-get upgrade), almost every other day. But I've never had it break my system. If you keep your Ubuntu updated a dist-upgrade works just fine.

I might try Arch again, but for now I'm sticking to Ubuntu.
I think the big problem is that most cryptocurrency proponents are anarcho-capitalists, and most people here don't agree with that ideology. If for one am fascinated with the technology, did some trading and some programming stuff, but I'm afraid of cryptocurrencies allowing rich people screwing normal people even more than now.
The problem with blenders UI isn't that it's bad as such, it just does everything different to other programs.

It's worth the effort to learn though, it's a hugely productive UI once you get used to it.
I tried WSL a few times but for real world every day development it's just not usable at all. The file mount performance is crippling slow. A Rails app takes 30+ seconds to see changes vs nearly instant on native Linux.

If anyone is interested in running Linux on Windows in a way that's suitable for full time development then check out this screencast / blog post: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/create-an-awesome-linux-devel...

I've been using this set up for many years.

The pros of the above method are:

- It's free

- It's as fast as native Linux

- It's actually Linux from end to end

- You get independent floating Linux windows (graphical apps work)

- You can still run your Windows apps

- Works flawlessly with dual monitors

- No need to dual boot

- Takes about 15-20 minutes to set up your first time
> Decentralized social networks aren't working for now because they reinvent their own protocol each time which creates fragmentation and incompatibilities between the platforms.

Recall that all computing problems are solved by adding more abstraction ( ;) ) and not all problems yield to a direct attack with the current tools. Maybe the point of maximum leverage here is actually the problem that interoperation between different protocols is too difficult?
>> This is retaliation for Kaspersky showing the middle finger to CIA backdoors, as was reported in multiple non-western news outlets over the past week.

Yes, comrade! They did the same to FSB backdoors, no?

On a different note, do you have open offices, free sodas etc https://www.engadget.com/2015/03/27/interview-russian-troll-... ?
In addition to trying CrossOver, as was suggested, I heard SoftMaker Office having great compatibility with office documents[1], but I can't personally vouch for that.

1 - http://www.softmaker.com/en/softmaker-office-linux
Although sometimes the performance when interpreted before warm-up is important.

Testing with CompilerControl.Mode.EXCLUDE in JMH is still more reliable than testing manually, when you don't know if it got compiled or not.

Interpreted code is a case where method handles should be much faster than the generated accessor classes used by reflection - lambdas and method references are faster than an inner class implementing a functional interface before jit compilation. Afterwards, performance tends to be sameish.
I think the point is that if you're right you shouldn't have to play dirty with rhetoric to prove your point.
And if you're smart, rich and lucky, you learn enough before the funding runs out. :)
I have been an arch user for more than 10 years now and three things make the difference for me:

- a very mature community of users. The arch docs and forums are really good. If you ever have a problem, you'll find a solution in no more than a few clicks

- an extremely tidy package manager. The choice of packages is huge and - more importantly - creating and maintaining a package is extremely easy. Way easier than making .debs or .rpms

- it just works. I've used arch for more than a decade on all my machines, including servers. I never had major issues. Annoyances coming from upstream are unavoidable of course, but the distro is well organised that identify the problem and rolling back is super easy.
Headlights and DRLs are not the same.

Most OEMs just make the headlights (and the headlights only, not the tail lights) always on in markets where DRLs are mandatory. The latter is what you get when you do what Canada did and require DRLs and don't require them to also be poor at being headlights.

Pretty much any time when you want to signal the intention of not going anywhere is a darn good time to have your headlights off. Cars actually have parking lights for exactly this reason. They also work great for creeping around your own driveway without throwing too much light on the windows of houses in the very early AM.
> Edit: I'm hoping that the first manned ship on Mars will be "The Ends of Invention".... ;-)

Problem with Mars landings is the high turnaround time - while you can see what failed and fix it in a matter of days to weeks on Earth, with Mars you're looking at months to years of having another attempt.

Wonder how they'll get it done - practice on Moon first?
I fell in love with Arch about 5 years ago. I use it every day as my daily work machine: One of the best things about arch is its documentation - specifically its wiki. Arch lets you start off with a fairly simple installation, but you always have the option of moving off the beaten path and doing something different.

It's that flexibility which allows people to create arch installs with a very low memory footprint, or crazy-fast boot times, or bleeding-edge software.

Another part of Arch's allure is its overall simplicity: it is possible to learn how to administer the entire system within a day or two. The wiki makes it easy to read up and learn about how to configure a portion of your system should you want to, and the installation covers of your system covers most of the fundamentals anyway!

Pacman (and pacaur!) are great, and having the latest packages is also great (I've only needed to reinstall my Arch setup once in the 5+ years I've used it, by the way), but these days we have Docker and VMs which are fast and usable enough on commodity hardware that they can be used to safely compile and run custom packages if you really need them, so it's not quite as cool as it was back then, but having it integrated into your package management system (and getting updates from AUR maintainers on packages based on git clones!) is still very useful.
The camera and the sensors can be available but I'm certain the auth mechanism itself won't be accessible. AFAIK they have a dedicated chip for this like Touch ID and what software can is limited.
Oh, is this like the "abstinence based sex education" that increases teenage pregnancy and STD rates?
If you're on Linux (maybe macOS supports this too?) you can open the keyboard settings and turn one of several keys into the Compose/Multi key (I picked CapsLock because I rarely hit it on accident and don't use it). Then you can type all kinds of weird combinations:

https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/libX11/i18n/compose/e...

For example, em dash is Compose+minus+minus+minus, en dash is Compose+minus+minus+period.

It's also useful for foreign glyphs like Compose+a+a for the Nordic å, Compose+s+s for German ß (with Shift it becomes ẞ, which the new German orthography rules officially recognise!), Compose+quote+<vowel> for the various umlauts and Compose+i+period for the dotless ı (with Shift it becomes the dotted İ).
That was the way it was described in the Keynote
It already happens for quite some time. China and Russia has their own copy cat versions of most western software/services. It's even moving to hardware level as both of these countries are working on their own CPU and infrastructure equipment.
This Never happened to me in 5 years of arch. I always considered this a hoax. How did Arch break?
I doubt there is any actual fundamental barrier, rather the reason is simply that the primary workload that Linus himself runs benefits greatly from faster metadata lookups, and therefore every nook and cranny of it has been optimized to as fast as possible.

In contrast, while metadata performance is sluggish in NTFS, at least a few years ago there were ways to get better large transaction async file performance than ext4 if you knew what you were doing -- clearly that workload was something that customers had asked for.
This is a novel method of monetisation. Instead of a paywall users could have the option to mine for the duration of their use of the content.
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>This is not what a solution should look like.

I'm not necessarily a supporter of suboxone / methadone / whatever , but this NIMBY rhetoric isn't helpful, either.

It's rare for the down-turn of an area to have one extraordinary cause.

I guess that the suggestion is that methadone clinics create crime where there otherwise wasn't -- but I don't see it that way in my community.

What I see these clinics provide is a centralization of potentially bad actors for authorities to keep tabs on while they seek guidance or pay court-ordered time to the system otherwise.

What's the alternative here? Cease these communal style clinics? If one believes in these treatment options whatsoever then it must be realized that cessation of these clinics would take that care option away from many people who may find legitimate use.

I don't have alternatives to the clinics , but I do have insight into what one should pay attention to when an area begins to struggle:

Income, education, and general upward mobility within society.
> (sales to Irish customers - Irish costs) and in Germany, the equavelent (sales to German customers - German costs).

The way companies deal with this is to create artificial costs. For instance have the German part pay big patent license fees (loan interest is another option) to the Irish part. Then German sales - German costs = 0.
I use the default German keyboard layout. Even with dead keys I wouldn't have Nordic characters or the Turkish dotless i and dotted I. I love the Compose key. It's actually making me consider using the US layout because the lack of German glyphs was what was keeping me back.
Show HN: Waveform – Take Your Programmer Art to the Next Level
Waveform is a 3d Model Editor designed to be easy to use from the outset. It does not require any artistic skills to create something that looks good. It enables developers to create functional 3d models quickly, so they can prototype out ideas fast, or even use the models in a commercial product.
The tool is capable of creating geometry, UV's for texturing, automatic rigging, animation, and hooking up physics rigid bodies. You can then export as OBJ or FBX, and the physics information is also exported to a separate .ragdoll file.

A Unity editor script is additionally provided to hook the physics up to rigid bodies and colliders for you, when importing the model as an FBX. The script can be found in the Unity Sample Project.

Site: http://www.waveform3d.com/

(the menu bar along the top provides access to the downloads page, as well as links to the tutorials)

V1.1 has recently been released, which adds 3d tools to the viewport, improves performance, adds a low poly modifier, and comes with a new streamlined installation process.

As part of the update, I have also created a tutorial video going over how to build a Tank using the tool:

Video Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpgiu5YUEmg

Text/GIFs Tutorial: https://imgur.com/t/software/3zpXf

Happy to answer any questions, and any feedback is welcome. Thanks for reading.
!!! UPDATE !!!

The Node's Code of Conduct was originally copied from:

https://www.contributor-covenant.org/

which has FEMINIST colors and explicitly link to extreme FEMINIST website: the so called Geek Feminism wiki, that fights to introduce 50% women (of course feminists) to every software project, NOT BASED ON SKILLS which is explicitly stated on the website.

If you read more closely you will not only see obvious links to FEMINISM but also to MARXISM. At this point it should be no surprise that they are fighting with "white men" that they hate using their own made-up language like cisheteronormative bias etc.

ONE OF THE FEMINISTS FROM NODE WERE ACCUSED OF MUCH WORST VIOLATIONS THAN ROD VAGG AND THEY ARE ALREADY MAKING EXCUSES:

>>> Multiple CoC violations by Node.js board member Ashley Williams
https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/6whs2e/multiple_coc_v...

WARNING: there is RASIST and SEXIST language quoted in the tweets written by Ashley Williams, promoting GENOCIDE and forced CASTRATION but apparently that is nothing compared to an innocent tweet by Rod Vagg.

Now DON'T BE SURPRISED!

FEMINISM is like MARXISM (and in fact there are very strong links between the two).

This is CLASS CONFLICT. Like MARXISTS don't want EQUAL RIGHTS for the CAPITALIST - they just want to TAKE OVER what they achieved. THE SAME IS HERE.

So PEOPLE!!! Don't be surprised if you let those FEMINIST "CODE OF CONDUCTS" into your projects!!!
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Given it's a safety feature the main reason not to do it would be if somehow it made things worse. Even if the effect is almost negligible you're still going to save a couple of lives per year.

Once LED lights are more standard and there's less issue of replacing bulbs or wasting electricity it seems a no brainer.
VAT is a tax paid by the "last" link in the chain, the user, not by the supplier.

Quick example, you are into the business of making - say - lemonade.

Set aside the machinery involved, you buy lemons, water and sugar.

The BOM for 100 glass or lemonade is:

- 100 lemons 15 € + 0.6 € (VAT is 4 % on lemons)

- 25 liters bottled mineral water 10 € + 2.2 € (VAT is 22% on mineral water)

- 0.5 Kg sugar 0.70 € + 0.07 (VAT is 10% on sugar)

So you have spent ( given to the supplier) 15+10+0.70=25.70 € + 0.6+2.2+0.07=2.87 VAT

Then you sell the 100 glasses of lemonade and get at 1 € each 100 € (included VAT).

The rate is 22% so you are actually getting 81.97 € + 18.03 VAT.

Since you already spent 2.87 € VAT when you bought the ingredients, you owe the government 18.03-2.87=15.16 € for VAT.

The whole idea of the VAT (or Value Added Tax) is that it applies to the differential in value.

So you have 81.97 € remaining from which you subtract the 25.70 € you spent for the ingredients, and - say - 10.30 € for other (documented) expenses, electricity, depreciation of machinery, etc., local taxes for the stand, etc.

You remain with a net income of 81.97-25.70-10.30=45.97 for which you own the government income taxes at a marginal rate of (still say) 35% 16.09 €.

Now imagine that your lemon squeezing process is covered by a patent for which you have to pay a firm in Ireland (which is also yours) 0.35 € per produced glass. (to simplify, let's say that this is exempt from VAT).

Now your income is 81.97-25.70-10.30-35.00=10.97, thus you owe the government 35% of that 3.84 €.

Meanwhile in Ireland those 35 € (without expenses) are income taxed at a rate of (say) 10% so you give the Irish government 3.50 €.

Instead of the 16.09 € in taxes, you paid 3.84+3.50=7.84 €.
What I do for these situations is do the reflection as a unit test to confirm that the hand written children() is correct.

When the unit test fails for a node type it prints what it should be and you just copy and paste that code for children() should be.

This is also nice for the case where nodes have some sort special children(). You can make the unit test ignore those.
Someone who's having a bad day is going to flip out on you for being an idiot and not paying attention (as they see it) when they have to stop short.

It'll probably happen eventually.

Looking like an oblivious idiot (which is indistinguishable from actually being one as far as other people care) who may dart out into the road at any second isn't going to make the world a better place. It will just increase the net frustration. Same goes for going the speed limit in the left lane. Roads are safer when people aren't angry.
That is a interesting thought. Would neural networks have ever had their renaissance without the constant push for better game graphics?
Yeah, I still remember when the web was only a product of Web Inc., and how long it took for independent webserver implementations to take off.

Or, before then, do you still remember when email was this walled garden where everyone had an account with Electronic Messaging Solutions Inc.? It took decades until sendmail, exim, qmail, postfix, and so on came along, largely thanks to Google's help in breaking open the former monopoly, and people could finally host their own email servers!
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Nice! Point 23 is a bit misleading though: comm only works on sorted input files. Also, "disown -h" in Point 21 works on bash but not on zsh. Also, in Point 22, "timeout" only works if the command does not trap SIGTERM (or you have to use -k).
And the US military was trusted with not murdering civilians and journalists and breached that trust.

Chelsea Manning made us aware of it by leaking documents I deem to be in the public interest.

Between the US military and Chelsea Manning, guess who I trust more?
There's https://www.bestegg.com too, they send me like 1 mailing a week and I get mailings from other very similar companies, as well as established banks, several times a week.

I do not know if it's a saturated market yet but it sure seems like it.

I currently have ~$10,000 in credit card debt at 0% interest, no I don't want to refinance that, thank you! (I got the money sitting in a CD when the interest free period runs out.)
Surely US federal agencies have to worry more about Russia spying on them than about US intelligence spying on them?
Potential maybe? This market might bring an iPhone-like revolution
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Black Mirror made a shot at this. Ads which give you a fine if you don't watch them.
so are you talking about the Mormons (LDS) or Jehovah's Witnesses? they have two very different views on how the 'world ends' and what to do about it.
I'm not talking about dividends. I made that extremely clear. A lot of companies pay zero dividends and also make it clear they have absolutely no plans of paying future dividends either so there is no expected value of future profits that peg the stock price. There is no rights of voting or any kind of classical definition of "ownership" pegged to the stock. Look at SNAP, hundreds of millions of dollars of volume is traded per day of SNAP on exchanges. If I removed the ticker name from my post, would you think I was talking about a token or stock?
This is both the great strength and great weakness of Arch. I did use it for awhile but in the end I got tired of playing sys admin on my home machine.

The nature of the system is that updates can absolutely bork the system at any time so you have to keep up to date with potential issues before doing updates. Many other distros do this work for you so you only have to worry every couple of years (or six months if you want).

Don't get me wrong, Arch is great if you're willing to keep up the effort but it does require more attention than more mainstream distros.
Feels like it's great for hobbyists and enthusiasts. I use Ubuntu LTS as my primary desktop OS for work. It sounds like my work would slow down a lot if I had to worry about this other stuff all the time. Maybe I'll install it on an extra drive at some point and tinker with it.