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> You need to build GNU binutils and GCC for the "i686-pc-elf" target.

coreboot has similar issues, and so we maintain our cross compiler building script for 10 years now[0] (although historically using i386-elf instead of i686-*-elf).
I sometimes wonder if there's value in packaging our compilers (all 8 architectures) for other users.

[0] https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/coreboot.git/tree/util/cros...
This is not true at all for 'most developers'. I have a 32" 4k display and I still use DPI scaling. I've also done development on as low as 480p without much of a hindrance. Sure big resolutions are nice, but not at all a must.
Ebay has a Craigslist competitor, too, in Germany running as ebay Kleinanzeigen.
HolyJit: A New Hope
Being drunk doesn’t make you rape someone. Being drunk drops the defenses of a person who is already more likely to rape. It shows more of their real personality.
Which only adds to the theory that we might be living in a simulated universe.
How to Create a Serverless Node.js App with DynamoDB for the First Time
Sadly too much of IT is run on childish bravado these days.

End result is that anything older than the person talking is stale and clunky code best replaced by something written in the latest bling language that "everyone" raves about...
Existence of one echo chamber doesn't disprove existence of another echo chamber.

And considering public did not see those old internal debates (there was not even a quote or reference to them in official statement about the firing), google now looks from the outside like that echo chamber.
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Oh yeah, I totally forgot about DNS66 (works in non-root phones) or AdAway (which is what I use, root required). And also there AFWall+ (and probably others) for firewall duties.
Is it unreasonable to expect a leader to put citizens of its own country first? A genuine question.
I've noticed more web companies lately are opting for much more basic emails than before, it's been a welcome change. Waiting for those image and layout heavy emails to load on a mobile device is pure irritation.

On the other end of that spectrum are the ones I get from ebay, which when the images don't load because security, actually just show as a completely empty email with the only words appearing being "Did you find this email useful?" followed by two broken images. Guess where that goes.
No tearing is a big one.
It's useful in 3D programs like Blender for navigating around the 3D space.
> I loathe iTunes with the passion of every sun in the known universe

They seem spot on
Welcome to the HN community and thank you for posting your first submission.

In cases like this, you probably want to post the link directly instead of padding it around with text :)
Because it's heavy, large, battery life sucks, breaks when dropped, might not even have a 3.5 mm jack and most of all requires me to look at its display to do anything.

I have one of those Sansa Clip players running Rockbox that I use for sport and bike commute. It costs nothing, it is virtually indestructible, has more space for music than anyone ever needs and I can operate it without ever taking it out of the pocket its in. Simple physical button presses to start, shutdown, resume last playback position, adjust volume and move forward and backwards between songs and folders.
Can't most of the results be attributed to it simply being different?

If everyone started sending marketing emails like this, then they would start looking like advertisements, they would feel less personal, spam and "promotional" filters would adapt, and you'd be back to square 1.

Plus, I very much like the "Promotional" filters for email, both as someone that receives it, and someone that has sent it.

Email spam is annoying because it's in your way, it interrupts your day, and almost "forces" you to pay attention to it, which is annoying.

The "promotional" tab in gmail (or the similar group in Inbox) fixed that problem for me. Now I go and look through it when I want, and I not only read more of them, but i've done more "action" from them (rather than get annoyed at spam, i've seen that something is on sale, or a new product is released that i was looking forward to).

If there were a way to "mark" my emails to go into that tab voluntarily as a sender, I would do it. The whole idea that you should be fighting against how the user wants to group their email seems backwards. If they don't want to see it, forcing them to see it isn't going to make them like it...
I doubt that. Any advanced civilization that is capable of interstellar travel would use highly efficient techniques to do their thing. You may say it's the gold or platinum but we just heard of the neutron stars that collided creating a lot of those materials in the process.

Why bother using humans to extract anything when there are other, more efficient, ways of harvesting? That's just "ancient aliens" conspiracy theories if you ask me.
Atlassian is on the brink of joining the $10B club
Sure - I've been using this one https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pocket-Folding-Bluetooth-Tablet-Key...

It's cheap enough so that when it inevitably breaks I won't be too concerned. It fits in the back pocket of my jeans too which is handy.
I use an app that plays mp3 files off the storage.
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Or as a barber renting a chair at a salon.
The other year I tried to implement a GC on top of an existing scripting language to handle circular dependency cases. A big problem however was the existing system for referencing objects wasn't particularly well designed for this particular case (e.g. no roots, no thread safety), and I couldn't come up with a solution I found satisfactory and fool-proof.

The fact the author had so many problems with GC bugs is somewhat reassuring. Would be interesting to see a GC-less Nim in a production use-case.
If you want to try Wayland already today, the last 3 or 4 Fedora-releases have had this as an option already. On the latest Fedora-releases enabled by default.

And yes, it's nice and smooth.
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GE buys Alstom, Airbus gets Bombardier.. it's a mess
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> I can operate it without ever taking it out of the pocket its in.

Yes! That's something so innate to my usage that I forgot to mention it.
No, by that logic, I understand why some people use pesticides to get rid of disease-carrying ticks from the lawn where their children and pets play daily.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25280366

https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/index.html
I LOVED my Cowon D2 it was the best sounding player I ever listened to and it supported ogg and flac. I jumped on EBay to look and they actually cost about twice as much on EBay than when I bought mine new 9 years ago.

My LG V20 blows it away in audio quality and power plus I can do pro-level recording. I have a $250 portable recorder and my phone has replaced it.
Most of the description that I have heard so far seem to involve power more than anything else. Usually, power gained faster or early. And it’s not everybody, so you’d need to have groups of people who became more influential than they were ready for, to have consistent issues.

If you go to conferences about ‘boring’ things, there might not invite people like this.

What worries me
In the UK the front brake is on the right.
I remember going to Walmart and they had a label on the section for Zunes "Zune iPod".
That's a bit too strong a statement to make based on a two-year-old still-open PR with an uncertain future.
https://socialworldblog.com/
I've read that "disabling" ME in the BIOS is a complete misnomer, at least on Lenovo.
Man. I had a Zune mini [0] and loved that thing. I also had their music service which gave me unlimited music for $10 / mo and 10 permanent songs per month that I could keep even if I canceled my subscription. That's a pretty darn good deal.

I never understood why the Zune never succeeded. It was a great little player.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Zune-Digital-Media-Player-Black/dp/B0...
Also, build size and volume is still a constraint in metal 3d printing these days.
Has it been greeted warmly in Canada? I certainly don't get that sense.
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One of the great things about F-Droid is that it is all free software, so anyone is free to make their own F-Droid client. If you like the old UI, please fork it and maintain it. It shouldn't be much work since the XML app index format is maintained for backwards compatibility.

For more info, see https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/issues/48
I saw this book in a book store and thought it looked interesting. It seems like it would be fun. Growing up Choose Your Own Adventure books and other print based interactive fiction games really inspired me to read. I wonder if interactive fiction will eventually be recognized in the literary community as an extension of the novel.
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That's why things like the EU are much more vital than most people realize for countries that aren't as big as the US, China etc.
> you like python3, great for you. But why do you want to kill python2 if other people are happy with it?

You can make the same argument for any software suite which moves over time. Why should Firefox 10 die, just because Firefox 57 is out in a month or so?

Well.. Duh. The new code has to live somewhere, and we don't want to spend eternity backporting fixes to the old codebase.

Please do note: You can still use Python 2 if you like. But if you rely on really old and antiquated technology, you can't expected modern OSes to ship it by default. Now it becomes your liability to instruct your users in how to obtain your antiquated dependencies for your software to work.

Maybe that is a good enough solution, or maybe some day you will find that it's more beneficial to move along with the rest of the ecosystem.

Nobody writes new code in Python 2 any more. It's the programming language equivalent of Windows XP at this point.
This is a part of an academic study. So I wonder if Uber went to the researchers with this proposal or the other way around.

And what would the researchers be studying?
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Simply because of the tragedy of the commons.

These people would have worked as taxi driver before, often with better compensation and job security.

But as soon as one person offers rates that are cheaper, all of them have to, or they won't get anything.

Uber drives competition between the employees, and as result, they all get less.

Simple economics. And also the reason that only unions and government regulation can ensure acceptable work conditions
> retrofitting them into languages which already have nulls has problems

I'm not sure I agree with that. See how MS did that in C# 7:

https://www.kenneth-truyers.net/2016/01/25/new-features-in-c...
The payment page of a Portugal carrier - without net neutrality
I've been sending plain emails to my list, because I like the ultra minimalism of it. If I've got two sentences to share with my list my email is "Hi" + two sentences + "Bye" + unsubscribe links.

Does it "convert" better than styled emails? I don't know. I don't care. Does it do well enough to meet my goals. Yes.

There's many things I'd rather be doing with my time than optimising everything for marketing goals.
How is it even possible to track the open rate without HTML? I'm not an email expert and genuinely curious.

I was under the impression that people use <img> tags for that.
It is about 4:30 am where I am. I should be asleep, but I am failing to sleep. So, I am not at my best here and most of the replies to me in this particular thread have been far from ideal. But here is my take on it:

I have spent a great many years trying to understand my own sexuality through the lens of "what is different about male and female sexuality?" Men like porn. Women like erotica. This is a gender difference.

I don't think this is a gender difference that it makes any sense to attribute to socialization. I did a ton of therapy. I have spent a lot of years dismantling whatever cultural programming I had surrounding my sexuality. It still doesn't work like male sexuality.

If a woman loses alertness that a man does not, she is more vulnerable during sex than a man is in some very important ways. So she needs to trust that man in ways he does not need to trust her. This is compounded by the average size and strength difference.

Trust gets perceived through emotion. A high degree of trust and experience of being treated especially well gets experienced as romantic love.

Women are looking for "love." I think we do this because we need to be in a safe relationship to let loose and experience orgasm. I think this is a factor in why women are so much more likely than men to have trouble reaching orgasm.

I was frigid in my youth. I have firsthand experience with overcoming that. Trusting a man was a critical ingredient. I married that man.

A lot of women wind up obsessing about things like wedding details. I think this is a symbolic representation of love and commitment.

If what you get off on is emotional bonding and trust, how do you represent that in your own mind? Porn and erotic book covers aimed at the female market face substantial challenges in determining how you represent what women want. I puzzled over it myself for a long time. Various men that I had an emotional connection to but never actually met in person helped me sort this out.

So my remarks grow out of decades of studying the topic and trying to figure out what makes my own sexuality work. I hate that loss of cognitive function. I need to really trust a man to accept it. In the absence of trust, no, I can't get off. The mental walls don't drop. Orgasm is a non starter.

Societal norms expect women to be more conservative, more "moral" and to meet tests like "save it for marriage." Societal norms are much more cavalier about casual sex being okay for men. I think there are biological differences driving these social norms. Pregnancy is one. This brain difference is another.

I don't know if that is at all clear. But I am stopping there. I need to attempt to sleep.
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I mean, besides those that might not know anything different, is there anybody that likes iTunes?
The US government underestimated solar energy installation in the US by 4,813%,
With respect to your very interesting comment (I genuinely appreciate your input), you appear to have mis-understood the comment you were replying to.

You've commented on the differences in the style of play that AlphaGo introduced, but the post you were replying to (by
aeleos) was going a step further and hypothesising about the potential for a newer, completely 'non-human' style that AlphaGo Zero may have created.

Your comments definitely contribute to the discussion but it was bugging me that there appeared to be a tangent forming about AlphaGo that was overlooking AlphaGo Zero which would be the more interesting area to explore.
The article's POM depends on spring-boot-starter-web. Here are some of the things you get with that:

* Dependency Injection (@Autowire)

* Externalized configuration (change app settings via CLI or environment variables) with profiles (think DEV,PROD)

* Out of the box logging (think log levels, configurable per logger)

* Remote administration via JMX (runtime administration)

* An ORM (Hibernate)

* A unit testing framework with mocking (JUnit, Hamcrest, Mockito)

* Remote debugging via JVM debugging port

Going beyond the simple app, you can take full advantage of the Spring Boot ecosystem of dependencies to pick and choose only the dependencies you need, while being able to do anything that a cloud app might need to do.

If you don't need all that, you can always fall back to the simple HttpServer example he gives in the article and still get a small footprint.

The article compares Java 8 to the others. I'd love to see a comparison to Java 9, where hopefully the modularization of the JVM will lead to a smaller overall runtime and memory footprint.
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Yeah I've wondered for a while about the crowing over students from Waterloo moving to the US. Would Canada be better off if there was no TN visa and companies would have to employ them in Canada? Also good point about Canada and the midwestern states being in the same boat. I'm sure Nebraska loses a decent number of software engineers to California every year.
If you mean software developers and not UX designers, that's silly. You get crisp text on 640x480 if you use bitmap fonts.
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I like plain emails much more than styled ones.

But the point with the "does it convert better" is a pretty big.

I mean, I work with people who hire marketing consultants who tell them what they need to do for better conversions. All decisions are based on that metric. So I wouldn't expect much change if there are no numbers that tell "plain converts better".
I made https://github.com/mpartel/ee-altgr-keymap
which is essentially the US layout plus
AltGr+A -> ä
AltGr+O -> ö

You could easily add å if you want.
You are correct: asking friends to upvote has always been discouraged.
I recently launched instaaa.com and have made $12K in sales
I think there is the potential for massive disruption and huge downward pressure on retail price with the transition to electric vehicles - think about the complexity of an internal combustion engine + drivetrain versus a battery, some electrics, and motors. There are also potentially huge impacts on all the allied industries i.e. fuelling, servicing, and then extending it to self-driving cars the impacts are potentially even greater - who cares about driving experience when the thing drives itself? How can the sexy aspect of speed etc. be used to sell when all cars max out at a limited speed based on the software driving them? Why own a car if you can expect an autonomous vehicle on demand? Interesting times.
Gresham's Law strikes me as far more than just about money. Mencken gives a pretty good expansion of it in his 1926 essay "Bayard vs. Lionheart", which is famous for its closing paragraph about an idiot being elected president, but in its development of why that dynamic comes into being reveals a critical truth about the interaction of complexity at population levels.

I'm still working on a fully generalised expression of Gresham's Law, but the basic form is that it operates as a complexity constraint based on the realised returns on complexity within a given market, or the differential across multiple markets.

"Bad money drives out good" is the mechanism that if, in a single market, coin of high specie content and low specie content circulate together and at the same face value, then the high-grade coin will be preferentially withheld from circulation due to its greater intrinsic value. If there's not sufficient coin for all commerce, this need not be all the high-grade coin, but it tends that way.

In multiple markets, if there is a foreign demand for the specie itself, the good coin will seek that (higher) foreign compensation and actually depart the country of issue.

In politics, as Mencken expands the idea, the problem is that within a majority system, the winner of a popular contest will be the candidate who appeals to a majority of voters. A sophisticated candidate who cannot be understood by the common voter is at a marked disadvantage.

In manufacturing and entertainment, assuming a mass market and either winner-take-all or economies-of-scale dynamics, again, you'll find that the offering which is simple enough to be accepted and understood by more (perhaps with a boost from advertising) will do so. There are other dynamics, including the "Market for Lemons" (Ackerlof) which can enter into that -- Mencken pressages that with his mention of David Harum in his essay -- Harum is the title character and horse-trader of a novel and film of the same name, from which the concept "horse trading" entered the vocabulary. (In a pre-industrial time, "horse trader" occupied very nearly the same occupational niche as "used-car salesman", for much the same reasons.)

And, again to government, given multiple jurisdictions, and a potential range of laws graded by strictness, so long as the individual is free to choose the relevant jurisdiction, then a race-to-the-bottom dynamic results where the least-strict regulatory environment dominates, absent any corrective influence. This noted in divorce laws (Nevada, later Alabama, ultimately no-fault in most states), environmental and labour regulations, company incorporation, and international ship registries ("flags of convenience") being typical examples.

(Also thanks for the spelling fix on Mencken. I always forget the 'c'.)

http://amomai.blogspot.com/2008/10/hl-mencken-bayard-vs-lion...
> Text is plenty crisp at 1080.

It looks so much better at 2000. Of course you can get by with 1080 - hell, there've been times when I got by with 600 - but when you can see more code and read it more easily, it's easier to get on with development.
That's pretty neat, actually - what do you use? (And for which device?)
We actually did a lot of work to make sure that the new UI fit into the design guidelines and actual UI practice. Indeed, we tried to make it feel more natural for more users. Of course, its a big change from the old UI, so that's a big change. Plus its free software, so people who like the old UI can maintain it.

If you are interested in learning more about our design process, you can see it in our issue tracker:
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/issues?milestone_titl...
In my experience, it's "shut or find yourself another engineer".
Most of the designed emails have images which will be blocked by the client(thunderbird), which looks really horrible. So I will have to be very interested to actually allow images to be downloaded.
In QFT, renormalization is a way of mapping the behavior of a QFT at one distance scale onto its behavior at a different distance scale. Long story short, there's an equivalence between changing distance scales and changing the coupling constants in the theory. Once you get this mapping right, you discover the infinities present in the naive computations have vanished. (There is actually a quantity which has its normalization reset in this mapping, but that's actually the least interesting part of the story. It's somewhat odd that it's become the name for the whole mapping.)
I don't really understand what the downsides are, given the choices are "phone" or "phone + music player". Is "music player only" actually a feasible option for anyony (besides the case of runners, where you are temporarily without your phone)?

Like how is "the music player battery lasts for 5 days, and phone battery lasts 1.5 days" a pro-music-player argument: it means the options are "charge every day" and "charge every day, and additionally a second thing every 5 days", right?
We're doing staged rollouts, so first alpha testers, next current users, last new users.
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I loved the irony of the virtual citizens of a polis travelling physically to another star system and the first creatures they encounter are inside the "natural" simulation hosted by the chemical evolution of the Wang carpets.
> I'm ready to accept compose keys are usable, but it clearly seems to encourage incorrect spelling when you use a language with a lot of accentuated characters in a sentence

I don't think it's at all clear, because most people don't have a compose key - only linux does that.

> vim. I really don't see myself fighting to remap my habits and workflows, given what I perceive as very few benefits switching layout would provide

Being able to use a default vim is very useful, and the default vim is qwerty-oriented. (It took me a long time to learn to use hjkl on Dvorak).
It seems a bit more mature, at least in terms of package management and available libraries (https://pursuit.purescript.org). I'm not very impressed with the editor/IDE support though.
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