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No, because design lifetime is distinct from failure rate. Failure rate is just that: a predicted rate of failure (not lifetime) in aggregate for a model within design lifetime. Beyond lifetime, all bets are off. Think of this MTBF as saying “your two drives probably won’t fail within lifetime. A significant number of your 10,000 will.”

Regarding longevity, often the predicted lifetime of a drive is close to its warranty. You will sometimes experience no issues exceeding design lifetime, and sometimes drives immediately explode. I’ve seen both, from four-year lifetime drives entering year 13 in continuous service to other drives buying the farm one day after lifetime and SMART wear indicator is fired.

As drives age, mechanical disruption becomes a much bigger deal. That rack of 13-year drives is probably one earthquake or heavy walker away from completely dead in every U. Even power loss, including from regular shutdown, will probably permanently end the drive when they’re far beyond lifetime. That’s the danger in a 24x7 server setting if you’re not monitoring SMART wear indicators (even if you are, really); power cycling your rack can, and does, trigger multiple hardware failures. All the time. If all the drives in it were from the same batch, installed at the same time, and an equal amount past lifetime, it’s very possible for the whole rack to fail when cycled — I have actually heard of this happening, once.

MTBF is unexpected failure. Design lifetime is expected failure.
They're not for single drive applications. They belong in object storage arrays.
Haven't got a mbed to test, but if it does work, it's a game changer! There are many potentially benefited applications (e.g. medical imaging in remote area) where speed is not essential.

Good work guys!
Jon Bentley, author of Programming Pearls, which is the clearest explanation of solving the actual problem needed; when I say "software engineering", PP is what I mean.

William Kent, author of Data & Reality https://mdhughes.tech/2017/07/19/data-and-reality-william-ke...

Kent Beck, author of Extreme Programming Explained, for making good engineering practices "go to 11".
Ridiculous puff piece & PR job. There is not a single piece of data in that entire article.

The way this works is:

1/ Google crunches some data

2/ The company leadership looks at that data, twists it to leave out "inconvenient" facts, and tells whatever narratives they want to tell (internally and to the NYT)

3/ No data or any empirical results are ever released (even internally)
Siberia gets warm in the summer as in it can hit 100+f, and you need a lot of insulation minimal heating even at 50f. So, not really.
We should be in a future of three-day weekends...
It is, but not more than a landing page. The project is hosted elsewhere for now.
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I feel like this was written because it solved someone's problem, but I can't quite figure out what, or if it would solve any of my problems.

What is this for? Talking to a REST API? Serializing and de-serializing data? Acting as an in-memory DB? What library does it compete with?
Not yet. I’m not due for a hardware refresh for about a year yet. I’ll probably head in the direction of Lenovo then.
If new devices don’t give you anything new you want, maybe you should just keep using your phone as long as it keeps working?
As I understand it they had a contract with Levandowski saying that disputes had to be settled by arbitration.
These two wiki explain well what this number mean.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_engineering
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_analysis
> It would be even fun to constantly fall;

You wouldn't go far, though. There is more information to gain in exploring the environment than on perpetually falling.
The CA in question is the German government itself (which happens to be trusted in all browsers).

They're almost exclusively used for digital ID servives (and, according to some sources, MitM), and are in browsers anyway. CT won't help with that.
Hey,

I have a score for a choir in musescore and want to create practicing files. For example in the soprano file the soprano voice should be louder than the others. Do you know of an automated way to achieve this? Maybe via midi then ardour? I looked at some other tools like timidity but none seem to have the required api.

Thanks :-)
Holy cow, an F767. I thought the 'I' postfixes were for somewhere around 512K-1M, though? Anyways, I guess you'd want a nice chip for this sort of thing, but could this also work on a cheaper F303CC?

Edit: Oh, 256KB RAM. Nevermind, although 2Mb RAM modules are pretty cheap and have as little as 32 pins...
Avago isn’t even that clear cut. Avago sold SSD assets to Seagate, and then a bunch of other networking stuff as LSI/Axxia/Infineon to Intel. Then they picked up PLX and Emulex along the way.

Broadcom had also acquired Netlogic/RMI before that, so it is consolidation all the way down.
If you take some initiative, you can also learn a lot working in industry. It’s important to avoid being a code monkey stuck in a cubicle, only doing what you’re told and collecting a paycheck. Instead, be curious and enthusiastic about all aspects of the business and chat up all of your colleagues in different departments. Express interest and “help out” a little on your own time for projects out of your area of responsibility that appeal to you and that you want to learn more about. Assist someone by offering to do some research or putting together a slide deck for them. Offer to present it to their team. Offer your help in meetings. Get noticed, take more responsibility, and work cross-functionally. You’ll be amazed at the doors that open to you.
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It varies a lot by country and field (if they do classes or not). I didn't have to do classes when I did my PhD.
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Most PhD programs involve some classes at the beginning - especially programs which don't require a master's degree first. The classes are graduate-level progressions from similar undergraduate classes. Typically, PhD research goes on more slowly during the first year or two of the program while classes are taken, and the dissertation research topic is not completely fixed. For example, a PhD student planning to research programming languages would take the most advanced language classes available, plus math and optimization classes, for at least a year while doing preliminary research before choosing a dissertation subject.
Some of the NATO plans for a Soviet attack were pretty crazy. They had plans where they would not start any real defensive action until the enemy reached the Rhine, hoping to trade almost all of West Germany for time so that US reinforcements could cross the Atlantic and deploy.

Major bridges and railway lines in Germany were designed with ways to block or destroy them to deny then to the enemy. Even the smaller roads near the border had holes in them for explosive charges (sometimes allegedly even pre-placed to save time). I grew up at the Czech border and have seen these. All of this was done to slow any invasion force that might enter the country from the east. After the fall of the iron curtain all of this was removed.

Also, Germany until 1990 was hardly in a political position to deny its western Allies the stationing of more troops if they had really wanted. Formally, provisions from the WW2 surrender were still in place that would have allowed the disbanding of the West German government and placement under allied control (this finally ended with the 2 plus 4 treaties).

Thankfully, the defense plan never needed to be tested, so there is no telling if it would have worked.
Did not mean to sound negative, but what is the use-case of saving web pages as PDFs? I understand building in the functionality in something else, but here it sounds like you manually type/paste in URLs on a regular basis.

Edit, I see now that I replied to the wrong comment. It was meant to they who made an alias to it.
The Google Chrome store, unfortunately, doesn't render on mobile screens. This YouTube video explains the add-on usage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSDXfdo3JVU&list=PLIO7o3VwD0...
Basically what I find Koa does for me: http://koajs.com
Reinventing plantuml and dot I guess. Go have a look at those as well, they have their uses and are awesome.
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There's also option 1.5: You start at a grad school in a PhD program (so that you have support and do not pile up debt), and you leave with a Masters as quickly as you can.

I managed to get my MS in CS back in the early 90s in one calendar year. I had full support via a fellowship since I was one of the top students, so I did not have to be an RA or TA, and could take additional classes. I finished all but my MS Thesis requirement in 2 semesters and owed nothing thanks to the fellowship. I then decided I was leaving with an MS, and paid for my MS Thesis credits over the summer.

This cost me only a year, and it happened immediately after undergrad when I was really good at studying anyhow. I am far enough into my career to realize that it strengthened my resume early on, and I think it has really helped my long-term career earnings.

The funny thing is that I didn't intend to be so mercenary. My original intent was to get my requirements out the way early to leave more time for research the second year. I realized part-way through the year that I was not as enamored with the topic that I wanted to study as I thought I was, and I hadn't hit it off with the only logical choice for an advisor in that topic, so I wanted to get out something totally different.
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The New York Times also started to write clickbait head lines. That's exactly what the world needs: more clickbait.

The article is just another glorification of data for nothing but attention and branding of the religion called Google.

Gamification of the work place where it is tracked with how many people you have had lunch sounds like a dystopia straight from Black Mirror.

It appears that Google's employee force seems to consist out of easily offended weak individuals with lots of social problems. Visit a tech talk with Google employees present, wait for one of them to ask a question and observe their behavior.

Just like the pan-sexual squirrel oriented 0.001% of the world these weird people try to convince the rest of the world that what they are doing is normal in such publications.

It's not normal; it's sick. We used to lock these people up such that the people upholding and paying for the fabric of society wouldn't be bothered by these mentally ill people.

Tech companies found a way to extract value out of some of these mentally ill people and as such a cost reduction results for governments as well as a tax increase. The downside is for their co-workers which need to cope with literally, crazy people.
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This is awesome! Creating tikz diagrams by hand is a pain.
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I made a mistake. It turns out that there are actually 9 articles as part of that series, so I have to make a correction:

There is not a single piece of useful data in any of those 9 articles.
The above should count as tax avoidance and interest rates can be decided by the parties involved. Tax evasion is illegal. Tax avoidance is legal.

Consult a qualified tax professional and legal council.
I don't know PlantUML or dot very well, but it seems to me neither of them are visual editors? Also, tikz diagrams are used a lot in mathematics writing and presentations, which seems to be a very different use case.
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Like a modern version control system?
I like the takeaways, but the no VC seems to be quite an exaggeration.

They invested temporary resources (design, frontend) and a full-time salary (mine) into Snipcart, our developer-first e-commerce platform.
Disregarding the article, there is plenty of open and available research for this have a look here http://cci.mit.edu/mciresearchpage.html
How much does it cost? Usually if a website does not reveal the price or even offer a range I just close it and move on.

"If I have to ask, I can't afford it"
If Amazon does shenanigans to hide money you and I couldn't hide from the taxman, then that might still be true.
Hey downvoters, I find that a reasonable request. The comments here and in the old thread do not seem to recommend to read it, so if someone already read it, please be so kind to summarize it for the rest of us.
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Wrong comparison. In this case making money is enough of a motivation. But in case of open source contributions its more of a sacrifice.
Google wanted to optimize teams. Couldn't find any patterns that show why one team does better than another. Saw psychology report indicating that having people free to express themselves is important for team performance, as if this is a major revelation. Rest of the paper focuses on a single anecdote that is supposed to show this.
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It's not the first time I think Github should have something other than stars or issues. When I want to thank someone I don't want to open an "Issue" and a github star isn't at all what I want to accomplish here.
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I have to disagree. However well intended, It sets up an unnecessary expectation, similar to your birthday.

If you’ve ever gone through a birthday where nobody wished you, I don’t think you would want a maintainer to ever feel that.
I am in the Koa boat as well, does Express have anything that Koa does not? (not trying to start a framework flamewar, honestly!)
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Alternative proof:

From Fermat's little theorem: n^5 ≡ n (mod 5).

Therefore (n^5 - n) is divisibe by 5.

(n^5 - n) is always even, so it's also divisble by 10.
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This is that conversation.

spa.mnesty.com asks people to send it the spam emails; & try to reply from a auto-script & waste spammer's time/resourses.
This particular thread resulted in whopping 1794 messages; although spamnasty stopped after few conversations but it is clear from the beginning that the other side was also a bot :)
Please no F2P for WoW Classic! Just let me pay two bags of coffee a month to enjoy my nostalgia without being pressed to buy more.
Not answering the concert regarding CT (I concur).

But the obvious answer for truly secure connections is your own CA root or a self-signed cert you manually install/enforce.

You don't want to pass through another CA if your service is private. You actually don't need to. In fact, you'd want to manually enforce a single root or distrust system certificates entirely when doing so to avoid the problem you describe.

Most decently-written software that supports SSL/TLS allows you do that.

The CA system is for services that you intend to make public.
TL;DR:

"…the good teams all had high ‘‘average social sensitivity’’ — a fancy way of saying they were skilled at intuiting how others felt based on their tone of voice, their expressions and other nonverbal cues. One of the easiest ways to gauge social sensitivity is to show someone photos of people’s eyes and ask him or her to describe what the people are thinking or feeling — an exam known as the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test. People on the more successful teams in Woolley’s experiment scored above average on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test. They seemed to know when someone was feeling upset or left out. People on the ineffective teams, in contrast, scored below average. They seemed, as a group, to have less sensitivity toward their colleagues."

"When Rozovsky and her Google colleagues encountered the concept of psychological safety in academic papers, it was as if everything suddenly fell into place. One engineer, for instance, had told researchers that his team leader was ‘‘direct and straightforward, which creates a safe space for you to take risks.’’ That team, researchers estimated, was among Google’s accomplished groups. By contrast, another engineer had told the researchers that his ‘‘team leader has poor emotional control.’’ He added: ‘‘He panics over small issues and keeps trying to grab control. I would hate to be driving with him being in the passenger seat, because he would keep trying to grab the steering wheel and crash the car.’’ That team, researchers presumed, did not perform well."

The weasel-wording around "researchers estimated' and "researchers presumed" doesn't exactly inspire confidence. Though that may be just the NYT article, not the study itself (what's the actual data?).

I can only imagine this well-intentioned research was the seed of some internal directives, which eventually turned into a cargo-cult dogma, leading to things like the James Damore fiasco. The road to hell paved with good intentions and all that.
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IBM gave me an original plugboard as seen in the foto.
Well they learned the perfect team should be composed of the best breed of white males, between 25 and 45, and that they should be sufficient, arrogant, and leaning to the far-right when possible - but using progressive rhetorics.

Lol.
I've stopped believing in NYT's "integrity" since a few years ago. It's even worse for political news.

As an example, just yesterday I heard about Donna Brazile's admissions that Hillary rigged the primary election by controlling even who the DNC got to hire and how she essentially laundered huge donations to her campaign through the DNC. Sounds like the story of the day, considering Donna Brazile was the former DNC chair, right? (even if only for a few months)

But if I searched for "Donna Brazile New York Times" on Google, all I get to see is a story on how Hillary Clinton won an award and "shed tears" in the same day.

NYT's political bias is palpable. That's why so many people believe Trump when he says mainstream media is "fake news". No, I'm not a Trump supporter at all, just pointing out that this sort of blatant bias in mainstream media makes it so much easier to believe even someone like Trump when he points it out, because it's ringing true to people.
To actually detonate a nuke it pretty much has to be armed and intentionally dropped. That said, there's a much lower barrier for scattering nuclear material all over the countryside.

As an example, an implosion type bomb needs to be detonated at several places around the bomb simultaneously. It's designed such that if you don't have detonation of the explosives all at the exact same time then the pit won't make a nuclear blast.

They're very safe in terms of accidental nuclear detonation, but still, if the explosives are detonated it's going to make quite a mess to say the least.
Do you work at Google, or what are you basing these bold assertions on?

FTR, I'm a manager at Google. I don't feel qualified to comment on the research or the specifics of this article, but I can assure you Google takes building effective teams pretty darn seriously.
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Oh, this piece is from 2016... it's funny how one more year can transform something from a visionary piece into a pile of bullshit.
As an aside, I am familiar with and critical of the psychology report [1] they reference in this article. The paper had a psychologist break people into groups and then perform tasks like plan a shopping trip. The psychologist's data indicated that the sum of the measured aptitudes of the teams did not correlate against their performance, so they then jumps from that to suggesting that therefore individual aptitude does not affect team performance.

I find that a stretch. Even more so as the paper makes 0 effort to falsify its own conclusion. E.g. if this is true then you should be able to find a team where each person is a highly skilled shopping trip planner (and how that was measured was not defined in the paper) against a team full of people who are less skilled. But some other trait, presumably some sort of empathy, makes the individually weaker team perform better. I would expect in nearly all cases the team of better performers at the given skill will outperform the team of weaker performers at the given skill. What she arguably showed is that whatever measure she was using for cognitive capability does not strongly correlate against skill at things like planning shopping trips, whereas the test she used for the 'other' trait, the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" test, does.

[1] - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ab/Salon/research/Woolley_et_al_Scien...
One common explanation is that there simply wasn't enough money in digital photography to sustain a company like Kodak, because people didn't need supplies like film anymore. Meanwhile the computing revolution expanded the market for IBM's products and the amount they could charge for them, at least in the short term.
Thanks, those posts say it all in a nutshell.
To be clear, I'm not knocking my parents here, more pointing out how much the culture has changed
The LG V30 teardown is pretty impressive too. I watched it first, a couple weeks ago, so the iPhoneX teardown didn't do much for me. If I had watched them in a different order, maybe I'd find the iPhone one more impressive.

Though most impressive ever for me was a Panasonic cassette player (walkman style) in the 90's. The thing was barely larger than a cassette itself. My young mind was blown out.
Koa was created by the very same person as Express itself [https://github.com/tj] TJ Holowaychuk.

The initial idea is to do the next level express framework using back-then generator functions. What is missing ( for me ) is the smaller community and popularity. So it makes it tough to argue about the business impact between choosing koa over express.

Honestly, being a nodeJS freelancer for the last decade there was not a single project, where koa was in use. Mostly I've seen express or sailsjs [http://sailsjs.com] which is quite a full-blown MVC Rails style solution.