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> I get the impression that Pidgin, Trillian and the other one I can't really just gave up at some point.

> I'm using Pidgin, mostly out of nostalgia, but the default configuration basically can't connect to any mainstream messenger these days (Facebook, WhatsApp, Hangouts, Skype or Viber). Plus the UI is so dated, especially regarding emojis.

Pidgin supports Telegram and Facebook. Well, it did support Facebook, Facebook is constantly changing their API to prevent that.

Someone also wrote a WhatsApp backend.

WhatsApp forced GitHub to take down the code, and sued the dev.

In this modern world, open chat software is impossible.
Yes, because it was too expensive, but it has always been a significant dietary compenent. Most people historically have eaten meat when they could get it, and for most of them the slaughtering of the animals was very few degrees of separation from them. Either they did it themselves, someone in their family did it, someone they directly employed did it or they bought or traded for it directly from someone who did it.
The number of FB comments must be multiple orders of magnitude larger than SO comments; the average user's education and comment quality much lower, so easier said than done.
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>> This will be easy to fix when Trump is replaced

I think it will be entrenched by then. Wasn't it narrowly defeated under Obama (remember when all the sites went black at once)?

Serious (perhaps dumb) question, can the end of NN really be fixed with encryption?

My intuition says no, because China seems really good at blocking everything
As of about 5:30 GMT it looks like the addon was automatically removed from my browser. I know I saw it a couple hours ago.
Yup. It drives me nuts that people are so selfish. I recently painted "Get off your phone, cunt" on my helmet. A little abrasive, but it gets the message across.

Regarding e-bikes: Not a chance. You'll have to pry my v-twin out of my dead hands hahaha. I suspect many others feel the same way about their motorcycles too.
The point is that Bitcoin doesn't scale well enough for Amazon. If Amazon chooses a lesser known cryptocurrency or creates their own, Bitcoin will suffer.
If you actually believe that, I have two pieces of advice for you:

1) Stop reading Breitbart / Dailymail.

2) Go travel a bit.
The difference being that as a PM you have to do it without organizational power over anyone on your team...very much unlike a classic manager!
Mechanical breakdowns that cause an accident are extremely rare today. The technology in your breaks are amazing. If you can also still steer, you have everything you need.

In the future-present however, with computers running everything, I wouldn't be surprised if this changed < break systems getting "confused" and over-ridding user input.
There's no insurance company that would write a blanked insurance policy for BTC. It is the other side of the "We are BTC! We are special! Rules of finance do not apply to us!" coin.
Neat idea & implementation... however the pricing is offputing.IMO consumption based pricing with some hard limits set by the user would be much more appealing.
Sure, but let me change it a bit: american way of life has its appeals.
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Were you a new user? It takes time to go through bank verification and fraud checks.
If only it were that easy. I had planned to hold BTC long term after gathering a significant amount in 2010~2011, and stupidly got caught in the MtGox implosion. I've totally lost my will to live at this point and have come to the conclusion that I'll simply never be happy again.

I hold both envy and respect for you.
No, the bitcoin futures were my point. Of course they can re-invest in principle but the trust is tgat they won't invest them into something that is an obvious risk.

And no, they can't: In many countries there are regulations forbidding high-risk investments with regular savings accounts for exactly that reason.
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Thanks, I did watch the video but I just don’t see it being any better outright. I’m only in a phone right now so I guess it will have to be a test drive to really see it.
For me, it's not the shitty things I said. It's the things that I thought were eloquent and insightful and informative and good, that now cause me to cringe. Kind of like looking at some old code, wondering what illiterate chimpanzee produced that mess, and realizing it was you...

That said, the first messages from my wife to me still make me smile, and I'm sure that my responses that make me cringe would make her smile.
Most shield studies are opt-out: https://www.jeffersonscher.com/sumo/shield.php (filter by "extensions").
What it bugs me is not that Mozilla pushed and extension into my/their browser but the behavior of the extension itself. It literally broke some pages, disrupting my use experience more than it was supposed to do (or at least I hope it was not intended).
Peoples who complain about Mozilla pushing this just failed to check the basic browser options and should blame themselves instead.
Anyway Mozilla seem to have rised quite a lot of attention about the secuirity and the privacy of their own browser with this stunt, so... it was a success, I guess?
A friend from my early years was just hit and died from a car. Crossing the street at night.

He was a musician and "the one to potentially make it" so it extra stings for everyone who knew him.

I'm more alert as I walk my neighborhood daily. A bit more cautious. Cars and other drivers simply do not care about you as much as you care for yourself.
The technology isn't there yet (or more to the point, the technology is burdened by unreasonable regulatory requirements). The government has been pretty insistent that white space devices protect all incumbents on existing channels, but that's very hard to do. Imagine, for example, that you've got a TV receiver between you and the TV tower. You might be too far away to hear the TV tower, but the receiver might be in range. If you decide that frequency is empty, your transmission might interference with the receiver's. (And TV receivers are pretty dumb devices that aren't very resistant to interference.)

For white space to work well, you've got to kick off the incumbents and force all devices to follow certain very basic rules. (Think the rules you have to follow to drive on the road.) See: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=5C9.... This is a political impossibility.
I've been trying to log into my account for over 3 weeks with no response from Coinbase. They need to handle their own support issue better if they want consumer trust.
I don't think it's unreasonable to think that they might using the cash influx from newer users to cover cash outs for older users. Which I suppose is fine if they keep balanced books, but not if they're not delivering advertised service to the new users, which they aren't. They took my money, gave me nothing, then went absolutely silent.
> What do you mean "non-emacs users have a tough time contributing to documents"?

If I use org-mode files for anything more than markup such as org-babel, ditaa, properties, spreadsheets, scheduling, etc it requires all of the org-mode baggage that only exists in emacs but is what makes org-mode more useful than markdown.

But even some of the more advanced org-mode features have to be manually managed if you're trying to contribute to an org-document project and are using something other than Emacs.
Regarding telemetry, take a look at the settings in about:config. There are several toolkit.telemetry.Ping settings which are set to true by default. In the spirit of charity I'm going to assume that those phone home pings - on startup, shutdown, update - are not enabled unless telemetry is enabled. But I have not checked...
Very neat! I like how you aggregate the points with larger objects -- sort of a 3D contour plot.

Do you have an online demo handy?
At that point you're not writing JSON though. Once you start bolting on non-standard bells and whistles, why not recognize that JSON was never meant to be used for config files, and switch to something that was, like TOML [0]?

0: https://npf.io/2014/08/intro-to-toml/
It was initially only available in commercial versions, with enterprise level prices, similarly like Ada.

Think Rational Rose, Together, Enterprise Architect, Visual Studio Ultimate kind of prices.

Eiffel is a great language, proper OOP, value types, generics, contracts, MI, non nullable types, nice IDE, JIT and AOT compilation via native or C/C++ compilers.

But the price made it out of reach for most developers and the open source variants were a poor replication of the whole experience.

Nowdays there is a free license for open source projects, but it is too late for widespread adoption.
FYI this is identical to what happened on Mt Gox. It was easy to send money in, but getting more than 0.5 BTC out became quite difficult.

That said, it seems closer to the truth to say that they're simply under load. But it's hard not to wonder. There's no way to know there's a problem until it's too late.

It's a good reminder to keep your coins off Coinbase.
I just had this vision of aliens finding us and thinking in their own way "they have some sort of laser mesh defense system..."
I wish I could be omniscient for a few minutes just to know what happened to all the people I've A/S/L'd during childhood. Or maybe I don't want to know - I imagine some of them probably died from old age.
Wow. That's a good guess because that's pretty much what happened to me. Someone hit me turning right while I was in a crosswalk. Because drivers are so car centric, all she did was check that there were no cars coming from her left and immediately started her right turn even though I was in the crossroad already. She had a yield, which she failed to do. (They later made that an actual stop sign. Probably because too many pedestrians were getting hit?)

Know what the craziest part of the experience? The car wasn't even moving that fast but because cars had so much mass there was an enormous transfer of energy that resulted in a "bumper fracture" for me and pushed me so hard that my foot ripped through the top sole of my running shoes.

I've largely recovered but I've never been able to run as fast I used to. Up until day I was breaking various personal best times in running and had actually finished third in my age group in a local 10km race earlier that year. That was the peak of my running ability and it's been a struggle to get back to it ever since.
You're aware that the recoverable reserves of lithium are determined by the price, yes? So if the price of lithium rises, it becomes economic to mine lithium which is known but is currently not worth extracting.

Quote from Appendix C of the government report pointed at by [2]: https://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/mcs/2015/mcsapp2015....

> Reserves may be considered a working inventory of mining
companies’ supply of an economically extractable mineral commodity. As such, the magnitude of that inventory is necessarily limited by many considerations, including cost of drilling, taxes, price of the mineral commodity being mined, and the demand for it. Reserves will be developed to the point of business needs and geologic limitations of
economic ore grade and tonnage. For example, in 1970, identified and undiscovered world copper resources were estimated to contain 1.6 billion metric tons of copper, with reserves of about 280 million metric tons of copper. Since then, almost 480 million metric tons of copper have been
produced worldwide, but world copper reserves in 2014
were estimated to be 700 million metric tons of copper,
more than double those in 1970, despite the depletion by mining of more than the original estimated reserves.
Let me introduce you this amazing concept called "Maintenance Window"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maintenance_window
Just 1 Billion so far.
If you have a statement on your site saying you will deposit x coins in y days, you should do that. If you don't for a lot of people, then something is wrong with your business and no, people should not trust you.

> in exchange for you sending them funds that you have months to dispute and reverse

and here we see the limits of crypto currency and the legitimate concerns people have with it.
This article is pretty light on content and doesn’t answer the question of why Amazon would want to adopt cryptocurrency.

I would expect that they will adopt a large number all at once and accept whatever the customer wants to pay with. They currently support dozens of currencies so a few dozen more is really just a case of customer demand.

As soon as customers want to pay with a cryptocurrecy, Amazon will roll out.

What would be really surprising is if they make their own cryptocurrency for use on Fire devices or something that would reduce their credit card processing fees.
Take a look at the existing studies: https://www.jeffersonscher.com/sumo/shield.php
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Interesting tidbits: they advise to never carry cellphones in your pocket, and that cell phones can lead to increased risk for brain cancer, low sperm count, headaches, impaired memory.
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Thank you for this great explanation. I'm finally getting it.
Gatsby is a great tool for documentation as well. In fact, some of our open source projects use Gatsby (e.g., reactjs.org). We feel that Docusaurus serves a bit of a different audience. Docusaurus is focused on the fastest way to document a project. We wanted to provide a really quick way to get a site running with certain core functionality that folks might find useful. We can see Gatsby and Docusaurus possibly collaborating on some features. In fact, we could see integrating/adopting parts of Gatsby into Docusaurus under the hood. That is something that is worth exploring moving forward.
Because the administration is targeting Obama era rules. It's a government of vindiction. There is no other logic
Haha, this isn't my concern that much anymore (it kinda used to be). Idk, this sentiment just kinda disappeared? I guess I realized that I can be really productive in this formalism. You are right, porting things is annoying but it's one of the things that each gram is super valuable so you might not need to do it as much.
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I have more ISP choices than grocery store choices.
I've never had a single problem with Coinbase either. Most complaints seem to be from brand new signups getting delayed, people failing the AML/KYC checks.

My USD withdrawals always show up in my bank account 2 days later.
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You will have the blockchain slowly.

Frankly, I don't see much use in blockchains besides public verifiable high-importance transactions where a significant number of parties does not trust each other, and some may be actively subversive. That is, a public ledger.

For less public cases, mere encryption could suffice, which is much faster. Most communications are between only two parties; they can check each other's key fingerprint via phone or a third party they both trust, if they even bother.
Maybe you should handle your own password management issue better if you want Coinbase to provide good support.
From reading the source, that setting is not exposed anywhere; about:config seems to be the only way to turn it on.
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Do you work on a browser engine? I do (WebKit). Your claim that browsers actually implement W3C DOM 4.1 is just totally wrong. We don't even read it.

The person who ultimately fixed this problem in the DOM Living Standard is Anne Van Kesteren, who was not even remotely new to WHATWG at the time. The person who filed this issue (Philip) is also a WHATWG old timer.
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Agreed, heck, I still lament low latency dial-up shell access. Even at 9600 baud it was still more responsive and felt like using a computer in the same room. Chatting with somebody like that, in talk/ytalk/etc, where you could see their every keystroke was a totally different experience because you could even get a vague sense of their thinking process through their pauses and edits.
Sounds like Apple computers just aren't for you then and you should switch to some other hardware.

Personally I love my 2017 MBP, the keyboard, trackpad, and USB-C ports.
Mozilla bought Pocket a while ago.
This solves the problem by reducing it to a trusted random number generator (the hat). At that point you may as well skip a step and draw individual outcomes from the hat.
Thank you for the link. What a fantastic talk!
In that particular case, no.
The decreased propagation time through air vs glass likely wouldn't yield latency improvement in relevant orders of magnitude. The primary benefit is cost reduction. Erecting a few towers with optical relays over high points in terrain would be cheaper overall to install & maintain than either aerial or trenched fiber. If a 3rd party builds something in your way, just relocate the tower whose line of sight becomes obscured (on the assumption tower sites are solar-powered and self-standing).
Doesn't bother me at all - I am fully acclimated to the idea that the browser and other applications do run arbitrary A/B test and other code all the time.
Unless the law has changed since I got my California license, pedestrians have the right of way at all crosswalks regardless of what the lights say. Also, every intersection has crosswalks at it, even if they haven't been painted on the street.
It seems to be. It can be "cold" when the lambda hasn't run at all in a while and the first instance starts, or "cold" when due to increase in load, or for whatever reason that you're not supposed to know or care about, instances are running but it runs on a new instance.
If you're interested, there's a very nice talk on how Swift's generics compile. It's different to Rust in some key ways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctS8FzqcRug
To some extent, the line between code in the browser core and code in an add-on coming from Mozilla is arbitrary. However, it's a line that Mozilla themselves have drawn. We've been trained to be vigilant when choosing and installing add-ons, to read the list of permissions the add-on is asking for and judge whether we want to take the risk. The implicit messaging to users has been that if you let through a bad add-on that degrades the browser in some way, it's your fault. (Indeed, we're supposed to sympathise with Mozilla when 'badly-written' add-ons slow down the browser and make Mozilla look bad.)

Mozilla have presented "add-ons" as a line where users are supposed to be responsible for what to "trust", over and above the choice to install the browser in the first place. They can expect those users to be watching that line carefully.

(Incidentally, I would still dislike this functionality - moreso even - if it was in the browser core.)
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So do I. Not sure why people dislike it so much.
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> Even if it is cultural, it still disputes the feminist argument that the disparity is due to sexism in tech.

This sentence contradicts itself. If it is cultural, then it'd be most likely based on sexist stereotypes that we force on our kids from an early age (mind you, when I say sexist I don't mean in the "actively nasty towards a gender" way, but in the "you define people by their gender even before you know them" way.)

If that's the case, then that sexist behavior permeates the culture, which means tech companies are not going to be devoid of it. Which would make the disparity based on sexism in tech (and everywhere else.)

I think people get overly defensive about being called "sexist" because they perceive it as an attack on them. It is not. The moment you realize that, it's so much easier to get out of the "them vs. us" mentality and actually take constructive criticism better.
The major problem is that they installed an add-on without properly communicating what it was. A somewhat smaller problem but still a big problem is that was an utterly frivolous add-on that shouldn't have been pushed to people who didn't explicitly want it. But the biggest problem is that Mozilla seems to have trouble understanding why any of those two would be a problem, I want my browser vendor to be serious and not play silly games that can so easily backfire.

Yeah, add-ons from Mozilla merits the same trust as the browser. But this cuts both ways, this stuff undermines my and probably more people's trust in the browser.
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> anyone who remembers true analog telephony knows what we have left behind in terms of synchronicity and natural flow of dialogue.

You mean yelling into the phone really loud and than also knowing your paying $0.29 a minute? The technology was bad and the quality was bad unless you were calling locally. I think what your missing is people not talking to you and not being distracted by the internet or some other diversion?
In Orange County, on average one person a week dies from getting hit as a cyclist. Knowing that, it's the true road warriors who risk riding on the main roads. I use the beach boardwalk which is pedestrian only and it goes 30 miles roundtrip. That's plenty.
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Why can't I see the "install and run studies" option? Is it because I'm using Finnish language Firefox?
Unfortunately the most important person involved didn't get to review the plugin before it was installed on my computer. Me.
But how is that different to any other resource? In the same vein you could say new companies cannot pay the premium for fast servers, big databases, expensive marketing, top talent...
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> I wonder if there are any linear algebra books out there that follow this approach of "build the world, one axiom at a time".

Basically any math book—so most textbooks don't qualify as math books—will do things this way. SUMS (http://www.springer.com/series/3423) and most MAA publications (https://www.maa.org/press/books/book-series) are good places to look. I didn't see one in a glance at the MAA series, but SUMS has Further Linear Algebra (http://www.springer.com/us/book/9781852334253). I haven't used it personally, but it looks like it has a chance of being the sort of thing you want.
Bugs will always be found in code in the future as it has been since the inception of code. This does not mean we should stay stagnant in tech.
Sounds a lot like the simplifications I made to be able to process 3D Kinect data at near full speed on an ARM CPU with no FPU.

Instead of trying to segment objects, remove backgrounds, do skeleton tracking, etc., just count pixels that fall within a 3D bounding volume.

Simple solutions are sometimes underappreciated. It helps, as you allude to after "let's be clear," to know what problem you really are trying to solve.
> I think everyone that has played a game of Catan has, at some point, questioned the fairness of the dice.

This is why a lot of people play with a set of 36 cards (one 2, two 3's, three 4's...one 12). There really aren't that many rolls in a game, and there's a lot of variation that may result in a 5 never coming up, which adds more chance to the game than I like. Cards mean that while the order is random, you get each number in the deck eventually.
Remembers 90's when I would hooked on AIM to chat and make friends....make me cry