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The xinput gamepad is a pervasive standard, with plenty of third party hardware implementations and wide software support across operating systems. Heck, even Chrome and Firefox have JS apis to access xbox controller input.

Eventually it will be surpassed, but it's far more available and supported than whatever they were doing before, and its simple enough to be easy to continue to manufacture.

Also, do we really think the military couldn't find someone to contract with to continue making them if they needed to? Knock offs are $20 on Amazon, they're very simple devices.
Solar panels get less efficient as voltage increases, hitting zero at a reasonable point. This is very convenient, since all you need is a buck converter in the battery charger and any unused power can be ignored.

The power still exists, of course. It just ends up heating the panels, which are fine with that.
He is interested in self-promotion, and moneys. And he is a liar (see my second comment). I call him a "Lennart Poettering of the crypto world." Both are good at smooth talking, and throwing clever worded verbal bile at opponents, reminiscent of prominent 4chan.com "thoughtleaders"

>"make mass surveillance impossible for the world we live in, not a fantasy land inhabited only by cryptonerds and moralists (...) to produce technology that is privacy preserving but feels just like everything else people already use, not somehow convince everyone to fundamentally change their workflow and their expectations.",

Aha, like making loading a web page over a broken TLS/SSL connection to make it "more convenient" for a user. He is advocating for this.
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Analyzing One Million Robots.txt Files
DMCA has no reach outside of USA.
Surprised to see that of all motorcycles only HD Electra Glide made it to the top 250 vehicles.
Kiwi.com Adds Travel Content and Maps in Cooperation with Sygic Travel
Viewed the http headers and counted?

Which you can do with curl, Chrome/Safari/FF dev tools, and lots of other tools besides.
Correct, a bandits cult with good marketing/gamification (ideology).
Instead of drugs, I think we could ban fried chicken and watermelon exceeding a diameter of three inches. It would be more effective for the goals the government has in mind. Fried chicken is well, fried, and a large watermelon can be used to hit someone and cause head injury.
Before you dismiss a board that simulates Keyboards, Joysticks, Mice over USB and that works with sensors, motors, displays and radios as having little functionality, you should probably take a look at the project's tutorials site[1] for a better idea of it's goals.

Yes a 555 blinky board can do plenty but it falls apart the minute you want to teach people how to do something more complex without them already understanding a lot of background, and a 555's no good for teaching coding.

A USB Morse keyboard sketch[2] released today by a member of the community is worth a look, especially in combination with the Morse code tutorials[3] used to teach coding.

For an idea of what's possible, the clock project[4] is a good starting point. The point of it isn't to create yet another clock, but to introduce USB control, and sensors for people to create and customize their own version that does what they want to do, instead of what a manufacturer tells them it should be. The documentation is coming out later this year, but will be a step by step guide for people to follow, much in the style of the docs site.

[1] - https://docs.hidiot.com/

[2] - https://pastebin.com/wXkQKkRm

[3] - https://docs.hidiot.com/exploring_morse_code/index/

[4] - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2072712581/the-hidiot-c...
this case is a bit unusual. It wasn't a normal accidental death.

He modified his bike which made it illegal to use on English roads.

He had a pattern of dangerous riding.

He blamed the victim, and he lied about the accident and her afterwards.

It's a pretty toxic combination.
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Those bloody drongos should switch to pre-paid then. The unattended stations are all pre-paid…
If you're not familiar, you should also check out Google Blocks: https://vr.google.com/blocks/
there is no magstripe fallback on chip and pin, there is offline mode fallback tho
If you're switching from WhatsApp to Telegram, you're actually going backwards in terms of privacy, so if that's what you were led to believe, you've been misled.
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No, one Android phone, two computers.
Does the book really present evidence that a raw diet is worse for human health than cooked food? From the table of content and introduction it seems to present a strong case that cooking affected human evolution. But that does not mean that it made humans healthier. For example, cooking could have made long-term health worse, but other benefits coming from increased food availability and shortening time to get it outweighed that.
This is for generating test data?
The main reference is a page giving guidelines for what sort of equipment is required for connecting a solar system to the grid for net metering.

Of course there will be some requirements for that, and most systems that use the grid for "storage" aren't setup to power the house when the grid is down. Thus the system that isn't capable of powering the house without the grid is off when the grid is off.

The question of whether one can operate a house with solar+battery when the grid is down is not really answered by the article.
Raising rabbits for food was a thing in my grandparents' time (Depression era farmers in rural NY).
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It's probably also worth comparing to the cost of a bespoke solution. If it takes two engineers six months to design and test, you'll have spent more on their salaries alone than on your projected lifetime buy (which itself doesn't even account for any bulk discount).
You're not considering how much activity was displaced by the Olympics. Many people just went on holiday. Traffic is already lower in summer because of holidays, as well as reduced school runs.

My own commute times nearly doubled with the Olympic lanes. It would have been intolerable permanently.
Do you understand why large companies can't do the same things that small companies do? I expect that the two problems will share many of the same structures.
That's the first link I found and it says nothing about a benchmark, what's being benchmarked, what languages were used and what the timings were.

Do you actually have anything to show to back up your claim? Anything at all?
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I've seen it pop up a fair amount recently as well and a new book is out that looked quite extensive (Ashok might be the author).
An old school Casio is a great choice. I've had a F91W for ages and the battery last years. Cheap too.

https://www.amazon.com/Casio-F91W-1-Classic-Resin-Digital/dp...

It has an hourly beep and an alarm but no reminders.
Did the SNES controller become a de facto standard? Because the xbox 360 controller is one. There are plenty of xinput compatible gamepads from different manufacturers, the largest right now is Logitech. Xinput became pervasive because of PC gaming, it had really good support within windows, and support has been implemented now in Linux and directly in Chrome and Firefox. It's also really popular in the robotics world for exactly the reasons the navy outlined, a group I worked with used 3rd party xbox controllers almost exclusively. The tooling support is there as well, labview has built in xbox 360 controller support, and idk about other competing software but it probably does as well.
I don't think so: as they're generated randomly, there's no structure you can "deep learn". (You might recover password rules that are imposed by the password manager, such as at least one number, one capital letter, etc. But that doesn't give you that much).

The point is that humans are quite bad at generating "random" strings, and you can extract regularities there.
It is however legitimate to ensure that you're not going to electrocute nearby power workers who aren't even on your property.
Drugs were not made illegal because they're bad for your health and they don't remain illegal because they're bad for your health. Poisons are generally not illegal. Drugs are illegal because they make people feel good or make them happy which offends the Protestant Work Ethic. The Protestant Work Ethic says that the only legitimate route to happiness is through physically difficult labor which causes you to suffer. The greater the suffering, the greater the virtue and the greater the happiness you 'deserve' as consequence. The PWE is not openly advocated or consciously held much any longer, but it was a large part of US history and its effects stick with us.

Aside from just the people who have bought into the scaremongering about drugs, there is a significant contingent of people who see it as 'unfair' that anyone could use a drug and get even temporary happiness. Nothing offends Americans (I simply don't know how prevalent this is in other countries) more than the idea that someone else might be having an easier time than themselves. It's why many would prefer companies to go without substantive punishment for harming many people over having one person receive a large punitive judgement in court cases. The McDonald's coffee lawsuit is usually the canonical example. If McDonald's had only paid the lady actual damages, they would have simply continued their practices and harmed more people. But that is preferable to the situation where that one lady got a 'payday'. Apparently nothing is worse than the feeling that someone else has had it easier than one has had it ones self.
LLRB: LLVM-Based JIT Compiler for Ruby
Similar experience with typescript, the win is not having to make room in headspace for things the machine can handle.
That's the plan. Break the old nonsense, like the one they mentioned: refs and refcount. Everybody should switch to Hack, it's a much better and safer language.
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Yes

Xinput is a pervasive standard at this point, to where there is a large market of third party controllers and software support in various linux distros as well as a JS api to access it in Chrome and Firefox.
PV panels are not damaged by no-load conditions.
As the other reply says, it's quite possible to power electronics from the cells (but not directly). What you need to look for are the types of regulators and batteries used in caravans. Of course you cannot connect such a system directly to the grid.
Don't you think it's priced at 3 cents because they only collect the full amount 3% of the time?
GovWifi: ready to make more connections
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Florida has strong "castle doctrine" and "stand your ground" laws. If you can convince a jury you were afraid, you can do pretty much anything you want on your own property.
Also there are a LOT of third party xbox controllers out there - I'm sure they don't mind if it's an official controller or not.
The comment was about underwhelming _sales_ of VR, not the opinion of current VR as an experience. To that point, I completely agree that PSVR is underwhelming and a complete vomit comet. Spend a few hours with the Rift or Vive playing quality content and based on my experience theres a high chance you'll change your mind. I show VR to a lot of new people, gamers and non-gamers alike, and very rarely do people come away with anything but utter awe. Its not uncommon to show somebody an experience like Tilt Brush have them spend 30 mins+ exploring it.
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As far as I know the historical justification for legitimate government rule is social contract theory -- hand over some of your rights to protect the remainder of them.

There is some debate about how this should play out in the real world. Technically, solar panels, batteries, ovens, etc all can catch on fire and cause my neighbors to as well. Should we ban all of them?

Sometimes what we do is to try to protect rights through a heavy handed authority (outlaw something), and sometimes through the court system (sue for damages).

Anyways, what seems to be clear is that if there is no potential in one harming another's rights, there's no legitimate reason for government to get involved.
Really ? I've found it to be the simplest language ever. It is just defined with 12 rules and that's all.
I miss that lovely animal.
People simply do business on a different day to cycle takeovers.
Alright, alright, alright

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Casio's g-shock line of watches should have something that matches your needs. Or perhaps a Casio Protrek PRW 2500. These watches also have solar cells so the batteries last for ages.
>>If you want to read up on the modern advances in Socialist economy, I'd recommend looking at Paul W. Cockshott's Towards a New Socialism; to dismiss it without doing this research reeks of laziness or worse dishonesty.

Not really. I'm sure Socialism looks great in book form, but the implementation has never worked. I'm more interested in the reality than the theory.
As the other replies allude to, the USA is extremely slow to adopt "new" things like chip&pin, and so in many, many places they still use swipe.

In so many ways going from Canada to the USA feels like going back in time, and swiping a credit card is always one of them.
Been working on a mail.ru pet projects in my teens (Moikrug), people were telling that PGP/GPG adoption was at around 8-9% in Russia in 2006.

Among corporate users, there are some rather big companies with 100% adoption. How they achieve it? With a simple policy "anybody sending unencrypted email is fired," and training to make sure that even least technically literate people on the company get it (a person is not let to handle anything until he is examined by a specialist).
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> a language that has a working == operator

== has always been working in PHP. I know maybe that optional type coercition trips up some noobs occasionally before they made any effort to learn the language (hint === doesn't coerce types for equality), but how low effort does a complaint have to be?

Type coercition is actually pretty cool when you're not really sure what the browser or client is about to http at you and you just want it to work. It's much better than crashing at runtime because '12' isn't a number. If you're input isn't sane, throw an exception or use a validation library.

Now if we're talking about a good type system that can be enforced at compile time like rust, Scala, etc. Sign me up. But if it's run time, it's run time, we gotta keep going.
Doesn't look significantly worse than the American power grid ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If - Rudyard Kipling https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42891/stopping-by-woo...

Emily Dickinson!

Here is one

I’m Nobody! Who are you?

I’m Nobody! Who are you?

Are you – Nobody – too?

Then there’s a pair of us!

Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!

How public – like a Frog –

To tell one’s name – the livelong June –

To an admiring Bog!
You are not downloading the right type releases.

WRT movies:

WEBDL is usually 4-5GB

720p Bluray: 6GB

1080p: 8GB and up.
The only thing? What about computer software?

Maybe you meant to type 'the only thing I care about'.
In the article they mention that this probably wouldn't happen, and only became an issue because the utility forced homeowners to connect to the grid.

In Australia lots of people have off-grid systems. You just switch b/w the two.
Firefighters would like to ensure that your house does not catch fire, risking their lives.
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In 2015 about 10% of Hawaii's residential customers had solar installations (0.5% is the national average). Such a large intermittent source of electricity caused problems for the utility companies and led to limitation on buying back electricity from these solar installations. Naturally, this has slowed installation of additional residential solar in Hawaii. See [1] and [2].

Hawaii has a goal of 40% renewable by 2030 but they have a number of technical hurdles to get over.

[1] http://e360.yale.edu/features/will_new_obstacles_dim_hawaiis...

[2] http://www.utilitydive.com/news/hawaiian-electric-opens-20-m...
This makes me wonder: is it possible to iterate through the generated outputs of a GAN rather than generate random outputs?
So cool idea!!
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply it's always a problem, or even in this specific case. Just that it can be, something for people to think about.

The problem comes when you start going through 3 a year, but then say 5 years down the road you start going through 15 a year. There could be a premature wear issue, some bug, an update from a related system, whatever. But you can't always plan for those, and it can come back to bite you. And whomever has the inventory at that time can have quite a markup.

For what it's worth, I think this controller idea is excellent.
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I have seen nothing that impresses me yet. That is, "best" doesn't mean a lot if nothing is "good enough".
Only for installations that are connected to the grid, which pays taxes (the so called "sun tax"). AFAIK installations not connected to the grid are legal and don't have to pay taxes.

The difference seems to be that in Florida you can't live in a house that is not connected to the grid.
Not exactly accurate. My Dad has a 7kw array grid-tie no battery system in FL.

It has a single emergency outlet that will provide up 1500w when the grid is down. With the power being down last week from Irma it was able to output at least a 1000w load even with heavy overcast. It will off course shut off if it can't provide the attached load.

If you have a solar system for home its going to have an inverter, but most likely no batteries, some inverters can provide emergency power without them.

Batteries obviously work much better for that scenario allowing them to buffer energy. But nearly all grid tie systems installed do not have batteries due to extra cost and maintenance.
Actually the only Assembler I got disappointed with bare macros support is gas.

I never used FASM, being an old MS-DOS grey beard, but tasm/masm macros were quite powerful, specially after MASM 6.0.

So I never got the idea they were like cpp macros.

Regarding the educational purpose with macros, are you aware that TI has some CPUs with an Assembler that looks like C--, or that AS/400 Assembly supports objects?
You’re not wrong, but neither is the parent. The way LBO works is you pick a juicy target with a lot of cash. Then you raise equity from others in your still-worthless company. Then you take out a loan for up to said company’s cash reserves plus the cash you’ve raised. Guaranteed win for sleazy VC and bank. Company is screwed, but their CEO probably got a nice bonus for negotiating the buyout plus a hefty separation package.
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> Technically, solar panels, batteries, ovens, etc all can catch on fire and cause my neighbors to as well. Should we ban all of them?

Maybe not, but there are lots of regulations on how they have to be made and installed and I think that's quite reasonable.

> But I think what we can see here is that if there is no potential in one harming another's rights, there's no legitimate reason for government to get involved.

I don't think it's that simple. A lot of things you can do would just be unsafe for the occupants of the home, but since it is likely you are not the only person who will ever live in the home it is harmful to an unwitting next resident if you are doing a bunch of work that is not up to code. And that's before we consider that a lot of work will be done by contractors for people who, let's face it, don't have any idea how to judge whether work is safe. Whether or not this particular regulation is reasonable, I think the government does have a compelling interest in regulating what you do with your home in this way.
First question: If the size of the (known) dictionary is n words and the number of words in your passphrase is k, and if the choice of each word is made by a random number generator, then the entropy of the passphrase is k x log2(n). So for example a passphrase with 8 words from a dictionary containing 200,000 words has entropy 8 x log2(200000)=140.9 bits, which is very secure.

If you don't choose the words randomly, the security may decrease drastically, but I doubt it will be less for a passphrase of 8 words than a non-randomly chosen short 'password'. Generally, XKCD's advice is sound, as long as people are aware that dedicated attackers can and probably will guess common phrases and book codes (passages from a book).

Second question: Yes, any restrictions on password length or allowed characters drastically reduces password security. For example, 8 characters of random Latin1 is too short, it only has an entropy of 56.87 bit. Things get way worse once passords are not randomly generated. A user-chosen password limited to 8 characters of Latin1 is ridiculous and anyone can crack it.

Generally speaking, humanly generated passphrases are no longer secure.
Heh, a bit like Firefox Focus on Android. That's a great idea.
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> The mental gymnastics required to read these functions and understand how they work is not negligible, it adds up.

While I agree with avoiding unnecessary complication, partial application is no more complicated than object construction, something you've presumably been doing all your life. Every time you create an object whose only initialization logic is to set some internal variables, you are effectively partially applying a function whose arguments are (0) the constructor's arguments, and (1) a method selector. No mental gymnastics are required to understand this. (And this doesn't take into account open recursion, which makes object construction more complicated in ways that mere partial application isn't.)
It's true that at the margin, increasing supply and making it easier to obtain drugs will lower the price, and cause some number of users to try drugs that didn't before.

Another feasible description of the world is that this marginal effect is very small, and almost everyone who wants to do drugs does already.

We don't need to speculate on how significant these factors are; we can look at places like Portugal that fully decriminalized drugs, and extrapolate from there.

> It's just one of those things - some people can handle their drugs - most people can't and fall down the slippery slide.

I sympathize with your point about losing friends to drugs; however I'd suggest that "most" isn't the right quantifier to describe the proportion of individuals that "fall down the slippery side". Some people are susceptible to mental health issues, and drugs can trigger episodes that might not otherwise happen. But the harms those individuals would experience from a general increase in prevalence of drug use are dwarfed by the harms that are currently inflicted on the drug users who do not abuse or otherwise have problems with drugs.

(And note that if we didn't spend as much money incarcerating drug users, we'd have a lot more money available for helping individuals with mental health/addiction problems.)

While would be nice to wave a wand and do away with all of the harms discussed here, the current drug policy proves that attempting to reduce drug usage through prohibition adds more harm elsewhere in the system than the harms that it attempts to prevent.