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This is the second article I am reading today that draws parallels between Windows 1.0 and the current state of Web Design.

The first article at https://blog.plan99.net/its-time-to-kill-the-web-974a9fe80c8... though predicts the death of the web as a platform
Or in some cases they weren’t, and civilizations collapsed.
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> Just saying "Yes" here is highly misleading.

FWIW, the page also compares the number of reference clock drivers. chrony does not have any HW-specific drivers, but there is an interface which other programs can use to provide the timing data. The most commonly used reference clocks these days are GPS receivers, which are well supported by gpsd.
I am hoping it’s gonna be ARM based and that it will be easyish to install Linux on it. ARMs, at least apples cores, finally seem to have gotten fast enough to be powering my main/Dev machine and if I could get the screen, look n feel, ram and disk that’s high-end enough I am jumping at it. I am really hoping for something to be replacing the x86 with something more open, more secure and more battery friendly.
> The ideas were certainly interesting, but had no real provable basis, and just seemed to be the reasoned expression of one author's individual sense of alienation - more like artistic expression than any real solution to the dilemma of civilization or consciousness.

Why do you think all ideas that need to be taken seriously should be provable, provide solutions, or, indeed anything other than the author's own sense of alienation? This isn't science and doesn't purport to be. Those are works of literature, intended, like all literature, to give one an interesting perspective on life and the world. Shakespeare is taken very seriously in academia, and he provides nothing more than an artistic expression.

If anything, I think that the problem is that laypeople and academics speak different languages, and laypeople misunderstand exactly how academics view this literature. In short, they do not consider it to be in the same genre as Newton's law and the same kind of applicability to physical reality.
Increasing unsustainability leads to price increases, which encourages the development of cheaper alternatives, and then they become unprofitable.

The development of synthetic rubber was a direct result of high prices and inability to increase natural rubber production.
Org Mode has a lot more functionality than Markdown. A document that only uses features present in Markdown seems to me just as readable in either format.
Yes. I should have waited until my employer had spent money on travel and fees for me to attend a boring conference.
I'm not quite sure I believe that a lot of people use the X primitives. The alternative to Gtk and Qt is most often not raw Xlib. There are alternative toolkits such as Motif, Xt. And then graphics abstractions such as SDL. Obviously all of these (including Gtk and Qt) use at least some of the X primitives in their rendering or themeing engines, but direct use of Xlib primitives is quite rare. And I think the whole point of the argument is that the commonly used primitives today are things like XRENDER, which aren't really primitives since they are an extension. Precisely the point being made.

Basically, name me an app that uses solely X11 primitives without the use of any extensions and no overlying library over libX11 (and no, xclock doesn't count)
And now you're back to trying to manage the infrastructure, over which you only have very indirect control.

We've come full circle, no?
Not so much once you don't put the distinction at "owns at least one share and owns nothing". If you plot the amount of ownership, there are very clear clusters.
Yes, I know. My reference was to them saying they'd moved to Audible and were no longer using podcasts. Audible provides episodic prerecorded media, basically a podcast by a different name.

I probably could have been more clear. In my case, I do the same - except I don't use a client and nothing is automated or from any one particular service.

Yeah, I could have been much more clear.
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The American Red Cross might be.

The Red Cross/Red Crescent in the rest of the world is a very important humanitarian response organisation.
Lots of large enterprises don't even allow the use of Gmail, let alone a device made by Google.
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This is exactly what I was looking! I was working today on my product landing page - https://techevents.co/ and started by looking for examples to get some inspiration. And you just combined all together in one place. Very useful, great job!
The international Red Cross....
> I think the difference is mostly between shows made by companies, or by individuals and non-profits. Gotta pay those investors.

Basically, the same situation as with videos and websites.
On all my browsers here it animates smoothly enough (good frame rate), but every time it renders changing parts of a frame there’s some flashing effect, and as a result when the car is moving fast looking at the background is pretty unpleasant, especially skinny high-contrast elements like the trees and posts against a white background

Maybe that’s just inevitable when using the canvas for painting?
By your reading, no theory can ever be known to be well founded, as there is always the possibility of another discovery finding phenomena that aren't explained by the theory. I believe that most people would view science (in the wide sense, not limited only to disciplines that apply the scientific method) as a continuous process of abstraction and refinement. Newtonian mechanics is pretty accurate if you limit yourself to objects of a certain size and a certain speed, a limitation which is reasonable considering those are the sides and speeds we encounter most often in our senses.
The whole point of postmodern thought is to be a reaction to and an exploration of the inadequacies of scientific, modernist approaches. That said, most of the people critiquing that sort of thing are at least a couple decades behind the current state of academia.
But that's how you do it with push-based statsd setups, too.
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"enterprise" is not that easy as there are a lot of financial /creative / inhouse apps requiring .net, windows, ms office and adobe stuff which will be too hard to run on pixelbook. it could be best if google targeted the startup/SV crowd with a high end, linux-installable workstation just for PR. I think of macbook pro or thinkpad killer. but when it comes to hardware google underwhelms recently.
> The point I was making is that nobody uses XHTML

I don't disagree here.

> The fact that the html5 spec does not permit self-closing CDATA elements

The HTML spec does permit self-closing <script>: in the XHTML syntax.

The HTML5 specification defines two "concrete syntaxes" for HTML: HTML, and XHTML. The latter supports self-closing <script> tags perfectly fine.

The former (the HTML syntax), only allows self-closing tags in two contexts: void tags (of which <script> is not), and foreign tags (e.g., SVG, and XML-like stuff). Now, perhaps you can argue that they should just have allowed it on all elements, such as <script>; frankly, I feel like the reason the standard permits it on void elements at all is just to handle the legions of webdevs out there who think they're writing XHTML but only ever use the syntax for <br/> and are incorrectly serving the resulting soup with text/html.

But, if you're writing the HTML syntax, just write the HTML syntax. Some elements require the end tag, some don't. Typically, it is simple enough to tell, simply by asking "could this element have content?" (if yes: end tag, else: no end tag) If you want more consistent parsing rules, that's what the XHTML syntax is for. (Though I agree, it doesn't seem to see much real-world use.)

(Frankly, I greatly prefer the gentle fallback of the HTML syntax compared to the hard error of the XHTML syntax, which is considerably user unfriendly.)
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Agreed.

Sometimes imitation is the best way to learn. So if there are some great resources for source codes being derived from papers, it will help people how to read papers and create code out of it.
For me the takeaway was getting familiar with the various licensing systems. Going forward, I think I would be giving heed to the license a particular OSS carries with it before using it for production level development.
Sounds like you should just quit and let that lab flounder.
> easier and faster

It also need not be correct. If you're only ever doing "SELECT * FROM $table WHERE id = ?", you're fine, but a lot of real-world queries will use RDBMS-specific syntax. For example, from the top of my head, the function "greatest()" in Postgres is called "max()" in SQLite. How is it called in your mock?

Mocking out tables with in-memory lists adds a huge amount of extra code that's specific to the test (the part that parses and executes SQL on the lists). C# has this part built in via LINQ, but most other languages don't.

By the way, I see no practical difference between "in-memory lists" and SQLite, which is what I'm currently using for tests of RDBMS-using components, except for the fact that SQLite is much more well tested than $random_SQL_mocking_library (except, maybe, LINQ).
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Await works the same way as BEAM, no?

In theory their performance and behavior should be the same. BEAM and other N:M green thread systems being maybe faster if they can efficiently use multiple threads. But since they use message passing anyway (needed for isolation), they are again almost equivalent to running multiple Node/reactive request handlers.

N:M is probably useful for desktop apps. But for that single thread is (should be) always enough, so same behavior.
Except, and this is really the fundamental catch, it's not so much "enhance" as it is "project a believable substitute/interpretation".

You fundamentally can't get back information that has been destroyed/or never captured in the first place.

What you can do is fill in the gaps/information with plausible values.

I don't know whether this sounds like I'm splitting hairs, but it's really important that the general public not think we're extracting information in these procedures, we're interpolating or projecting information that is not there.

Very useful for artificially generating skins for each shoe on a shoe rack in a computer game or simulation, potentially disastrous if the general public starts to think it's applicable to security camera footage or admissible as evidence...
>Some of the wealthiest countries are deprived of natural resources (Israel, Singapore, Monaco, and others)

Not exactly great examples. All three contain excellent natural resources, ports on major trading routes, that drive or drove their economy.
You're actually agreeing with him because your point is also a bureaucracy issue.
Companies don't buy Dell or Lenovo because there devices are easily repearable.

They buy it because Dell and Lenovo replace/repair a device in 24 hours.
Couldn't it simply replace eficheck and not worry about anything else?
Would the missile be in the atmosphere at the time it passes over Russia, or would it still be in space? I hit up Google and it wasn't helpful in answering this question.

If it is still in space, I'm not sure that Russia really has much ground to stand in, with regards to complaining.
Approaches like these are hallucinating the high resolution images though--not something that we'd ever want being used for police work. That said, I wonder if it would perform better than eyewitness testimony...
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This is why I try to stay away from laptops at work in general. A stationary computer of normal size I can easily get spareparts from the store nextdoors. In most cases I already have spareparts from old computers. For a laptop I need to do research on how to open up the thing, order parts and wait several days.

The users however do not want to drag around stationary computers for some reason so we mostly have laptops of different brands, even some mac's since salespeople refuse to use anything else... :-)
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It's a website that's for personal use (a dashboard), I don't update it that often.
Sometimes US justice system seems very "approximate". So why not convict people based on interpolated evidence?

- I'm joking of course :) hehe
About halfway through the video the caption says that he works a "4-8 shift", meaning s/he works from 4-8am and 4-8pm (according to the video). Why is it done this way?
We don't buy Lenovo because of the 24 hour service, we don't buy Lenovo because once we did and apparently it was full of adware already on first boot...
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Your question was asked many times on Quora, and ML celebrity-scientist Andrew Ng himself contributed some answers.

See all of his answers here: https://www.quora.com/profile/Andrew-Ng

I like this one of his answers: for people with intermediate skills, read an ML paper and try to reproduce it, or use it with different/your own datasets.
This is completely underrated.

I for one want to do this more.
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I think the problem is that elections are this ridiculous zero-sum game that is able to consume ever increasing amount of resources, where almost entire contribution of one party goes to cancel out the contribution of another party.
> So, this is an honest question, not an attempt to be cruel: How exactly do you get that to happen?

The other answer is way better than mine, but I will add what I also said elsewhere in this thread: In 99% of cases, Pulse just works. In 1% of cases, it fails in catastrophic, bizarre and utterly undebuggable ways. I have the luck of being in the 99%.

I just installed and started Avahi and selected "Make network sound devices available locally" (or whatever the option is called) in paprefs.

That's for the client part. For the server part, see https://github.com/majewsky/system-configuration/blob/master... (that's for Arch Linux, package names etc. might differ between distributions).
So is there an analagous process that would apply to audio I wonder?
To give specific examples from their test data, it added stubble to people who didn't have stubble, gave them a different shape of glasses, changed the color of cats, changed the color and brand of sport shoe.

And even then, I'm a little suspicious of how close some of the images got to original without being given color information.

It appears that info was either hidden in the original in a way not apparent to humans or was implicit in their data set in some way that would make it fail on photos of people with different skin tones.
You could e.g. ostensibly produce valid license plates, which could be further reduced by matching the car color and model, to produce a small set of calid records.
No, but think of these blurred images as a "hash" - in an ideal situation, you only have one value that encodes to a certain hash value, right? So If you are given a hash X you technically can work out that it was derived from value Y - you're not getting back information that was lost - in a way it was merely encoded into the blurred image, and it should be possible to produce a real image which, when blurred, will match what you have.

Don't get me wrong, I think we're still far far far off situation where we can get those reliably, but I can see how you could get the actual face out of a blurred image.
Or even Chrome.

We have customers where it is considered breaking security if one somehow gets it installed.
How do you plan on keeping it sane over time? Even disregarding paring down the number of times managed major providers appear on the list (which is super sensible imo), won't it start to get quite crowded with all the open source competitors appearing?
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If the chromebooks are fully cloud-sync'ed, couldn't the IT department just have a few extra sitting around to replace broken ones.

In fact, do you even care that you get back the same machine?
> Problem is only Chrome allows tuning FFT precision now.

This is plain wrong.

Source: I maintain the Web Audio API in Firefox.
Sure, but if we go by how the police works now, they will take a plate produced by the computer as 100% given and arrest/shoot the owner of that plate because "computer said so".
I am yet to work at any company that doesn't make use of custom images.
Because in a better world, the "top salary" would go to those doing "something groudbreaking". As it is, the pay structures in society are totally inverted compared to social value they provide. In particular, the system is set up to give highest rewards to those who work on scamming other people.
The EU is not most jurisdictions and have put pretty hard rules in place. What you are saying is that you think that it is OK for a lowly judge to force all companies that deal in personal data to choose to either operate in the EU or in the USA.

That is clearly not an optimal situation and will clearly have to be resolved, either by one side changing their rules or by a common agreement that voids GDPR for American courts.
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To my understanding, neither US nor EU law give a crap about the data's geography. And rightly so, because data doesn't have geography. EU privacy laws apply to all EU citizens, and US warrants apply to all US persons capable of facilitating them.

The exception for US-owned databases in European datacenters was a bizarre, short-lived loophole created by case law which maps poorly onto the realities of the situations.

I'd say it's the companies which have twisted themselves into knots to take advantage of this loophole, and expected that to be an enduring investment, which are having a problem.
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Delivery start-ups appear to be built to race to IPO, much like music start-ups. There is no intent to make profit.
Ask: How much of the cryptocurrency ecosystem is a Keynesian Beauty Contest?
I continue to see more versions of Keynesian beauty contest [0] analogy in the real world, especially in cryptocurrencies where opinions lay the foundations on other's opinions.

This way of think can be harmful and success can be decoupled from the real underlying merits of a technology.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
I've never read the original comics while Pepe as meme is spammed through chats at compsci uni (because it's fun), it's very popular as meme.

The majority of racist and sexist memes are used as way to ridicule virtue-signaling of positive discrimination for people of color, women, etc.
"..much bigger than what we have seen on the surface"

no pun intended? :)
But sometimes there will be border cutting concerns. The case in OP is a clear example of this.
Have you ever taken apart a hard drive? I did and was shocked to find the platters were so strong that I had a hard time bending them with two hands.
I guess technically you don't have to use dynamic layouts. All toolkits and designers I've seen do allow absolute positioning. It's just discouraged.

But yes, these days, people do expect windows to be always resizable and that does add some complexity.
> you only have one value that encodes to a certain hash value, right?

Errr wrong. A perfect hash, yes. But they're never perfect. You have a collision domain and you hope that you don't have enough inputs to trigger a birthday paradox.

Look at the pictures on the article. It's an outline of the shoe. That's your hash. ANY shoe with that general outline resolves to that same hash.

If your input is objects found in the Oxford English Dictionary, you'll have low collisions. An elephant doesn't hash to that outline. But if your inputs is the Kohl's catalog, you'll have an unacceptable collision rate.

Hashes are attempts at creating a _truncated_ "unique" representation of an input. They throw away data they hope isn't necessary to uniquely identify between possible inputs (bits). A perfect hash for all possible 32 bit values is 32 bits. You can't even have a collision free 31 bit hash.

So back to the blurry security camera footage of a license plate or a face. Sure, that "hash" can reliably tell you that it wasn't a sasquatch that committed the robbery, but it literally doesn't contain the data necessary to _ever_ prove it was the suspect in question, even if the techs _can_ prove that the suspect hashes to the image in the footage.
>disregard for law and regulation around the world

The same laws and regulations that just so happen to keep disadvantaged populations from moving up the social strata. How convenient. Uber might suck, but the regulations that deny poor people access to transport are much worse.
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Very clever. I wonder if something like this could be used for other forms of sensor data as well?
Could be a great alternative to Lanyrd. I feel like Lanyrd abandoned and there are a lot of spammy content now.

@zaiste I created https://techevents.co/ - an aggregator for tech events and will be launching it next week. I would like to integrate it with eventil.com once it finished. Are you planning to have some basic public API?
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Isn't London full of other (=non-Uber) private hire companies and drivers?
Well, sarcasm aside, I made a point about having brain cycles to spare.

Don't you ever find yourself in situations in which the task at hand only captures a small fraction of your cognitive resources, and you're otherwise getting bored out of your mind? 2048 is the kind of game that's good at engaging the remaining brain capacity, the part that's not used to focus on a meeting.